Plenty of hydrogen in the atmospheric sulfuric acid. Also, a Venusian day is 243 days back here on Earth; this is related to Venus being the only planet to rotate backwards compared to the other planets, probably the result of a collision long ago.
Notice that the editor who posted this is kdawson. The question then becomes "How does this editor not fail?".... Yeah, I'm still waiting for an answer too.
Wrong. The old BIOSes would support drives of up to about 500MB, and past that you'd need your disk manager utility.
You're thinking of MS-DOS 3.3 and earlier not supporting disk partitions bigger than 32MB, and before 3.3 not supporting more than one partition per drive.
What percentage of 1200XLs still function, do you think? Remember that people think "they made stuff better 100 years ago", but that's because only the stuff that was any good in the first place survived 100 years of use. Plenty of crap was made back then too, but it's not around to admire.
Heh, that'd be the fourth rehash of TIE Fighter. First was the floppy MS-DOS version, then the CD-ROM MS-DOS "Collector's Edition", and then a Windows 9x version with 3D effects.
I think X-Wing had the same number and types of re-releases.
No, really. Back then you got a "free" subscription to the service's print magazine with your membership, and one issue had information and comparisons for various free Unix-likes, and why the article's author thought you would like them.
It had (IIRC) information about Linux 1.2 (then-new), either 386BSD or FreeBSD, and Mark Williams' Coherence. I thought the whole thing sounded really neat.
Another issue had information about the Society for Creative Anachronism, which I also thought was pretty neat. Tells you a bit about the service's users back then.
Ah, the bad old days of having to pay long-distance to connect, and premium hourly rates on top of that to access the interesting part of Compu$serve (in my case, the file downloads). 14.4 Kbps was king, and I could only be on the service for 30 minutes a week.
The point being, I think, that if you feed a browser bad XHTML it won't render at all, and thus you're not relying on the web developer being clueful enough to validate their HTML.
Doesn't work well when upgrading from something rather old to the latest, which was my point; stuff is still apt to break. Canonical only supports n to n+1 updates, or LTS to LTS.
That's not how Linux works either. You can't install Ubuntu 5.10 and decide that you're going to upgrade to 9.04, because Stuff Will Break. Dependencies won't be met, packages are gone or renamed, and apt doesn't know how to handle such major changes.
Same deal if you tried to go from Debian 2.1 to 5.0, and I rather doubt that RPM-based distros are going to out-do apt.
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This is abuse, you stupid git.
the number of posters to this story who don't realize that the fine was a joke.
Plenty of hydrogen in the atmospheric sulfuric acid. Also, a Venusian day is 243 days back here on Earth; this is related to Venus being the only planet to rotate backwards compared to the other planets, probably the result of a collision long ago.
Notice that the editor who posted this is kdawson. The question then becomes "How does this editor not fail?". ...
Yeah, I'm still waiting for an answer too.
Not at all true. Plenty of installations of Office 97 and 2000 are still out there.
Wrong. The old BIOSes would support drives of up to about 500MB, and past that you'd need your disk manager utility.
You're thinking of MS-DOS 3.3 and earlier not supporting disk partitions bigger than 32MB, and before 3.3 not supporting more than one partition per drive.
Indeed, on Slashdot it is traditional to make the same retarded jokes over and over again.
New post-OS/2 ATMs have the headphone jacks. To put OS/2 on new hardware would be non-trivial.
Kill yourself.
What percentage of 1200XLs still function, do you think? Remember that people think "they made stuff better 100 years ago", but that's because only the stuff that was any good in the first place survived 100 years of use. Plenty of crap was made back then too, but it's not around to admire.
Heh, that'd be the fourth rehash of TIE Fighter. First was the floppy MS-DOS version, then the CD-ROM MS-DOS "Collector's Edition", and then a Windows 9x version with 3D effects.
I think X-Wing had the same number and types of re-releases.
Indeed. i must always be sqrt(-1), anything else will cause demons to fly out of your nose.
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=public+gopher+server
No, really. Back then you got a "free" subscription to the service's print magazine with your membership, and one issue had information and comparisons for various free Unix-likes, and why the article's author thought you would like them.
It had (IIRC) information about Linux 1.2 (then-new), either 386BSD or FreeBSD, and Mark Williams' Coherence. I thought the whole thing sounded really neat.
Another issue had information about the Society for Creative Anachronism, which I also thought was pretty neat. Tells you a bit about the service's users back then.
I tried it briefly, but at 2400 bps it took an eternity for their damn graphical screens to load. I think we had the service for all of a month.
Ah, the bad old days of having to pay long-distance to connect, and premium hourly rates on top of that to access the interesting part of Compu$serve (in my case, the file downloads). 14.4 Kbps was king, and I could only be on the service for 30 minutes a week.
The point being, I think, that if you feed a browser bad XHTML it won't render at all, and thus you're not relying on the web developer being clueful enough to validate their HTML.
LOL "editors".
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Masturbation works too.
Warcraft III and subsequent games were after the bnetd thing. I really wanted to play W3 but didn't.
God, I thought I was the only one who still remembered what douchebags Blizzard were about bnetd.
What happened to all the wankers who hooted and hollered about boycotting them after that?
Great, so what are you planning on doing when the studios don't sell DVDs anymore and all their content is on Blu-Ray?
Doesn't work well when upgrading from something rather old to the latest, which was my point; stuff is still apt to break. Canonical only supports n to n+1 updates, or LTS to LTS.
That's not how Linux works either. You can't install Ubuntu 5.10 and decide that you're going to upgrade to 9.04, because Stuff Will Break. Dependencies won't be met, packages are gone or renamed, and apt doesn't know how to handle such major changes.
Same deal if you tried to go from Debian 2.1 to 5.0, and I rather doubt that RPM-based distros are going to out-do apt.