I had a '72 Impala. Fits a 2000 Impala in the trunk, and another in the back seat.
Just *how* bad were the Aerodynamics on a '72?
The air conditioning was out. If I opened the driver's window on the freeway, I didn't get airflow. I had to remember to open the rear passenger window before I left.
Even so, picking up the car in a silicon valley parking lot, my shirts would come unpressed in the 10-15 minute drive to work . . .
(*sigh* those were the days of 99 cent freon cans, and I had now idea what a $20 flush would have done)
But don't take thi, is as a post saying that I fit it--I don't.
It's a 2006, which is the year it got a touch bigger--enough so that I can drive it with the top down and roof down--my head hits the bars with the roof down.
Fortunately, I live in Las Vegas, where th top only needs to go up a couple of days a year (high winds in winter; never for cold).
About twenty years ago, a friend of mine excitedly told me about a project to send movies over standard phone lines. The "inventor" was looking for investors, since he'd "solved" the problem . . . these were to be full quality movies. Note that 56k modems weren't available yet . . .
I explained to him that that person couldn't possibly be doing what he was doing, given the theoretical limits based upon the way the US phone system worked, but he insisted.
Several months later, I saw the news article on the arrest of someone in that city for a scam to get people to invest in a phony movies over telephone line.
Today, sure, but at the time, a 14.4k was still "fast" and expensive . . .
>Still, I am quite certain that blind people already do this without thinking about it.
Not quite without thinking about it. However, my uncle (and no doubt many, many more) have been teaching the blind to do this with the taps of their cane for (at least) decades.
Why would anyone smart enough to get a Ph.D. even suspect that, after working on classified information, he shouldn't disclose that information to a student hand-selected to study with him by a totalitarian government with a history of using its military to take over others, repress dissent, and threaten other nations?
To be a civil rights violation, the official doesn't have to have been wrong, but the act must have been clearly illegal. This is because off the difference between simply being wrong, and *willfully* using the power of the state to take away people's rights.
When an issue is legally "up in the air," officials would otherwise be in "damned if you do, damned if you don't" situations.
Right now, actual synchronization tends to be entirely manual, with scp of subdirectories and possibly a tar -c | tar -x combo to not overwrite newer copies.
I decided to work on data integrity first--but then I have client info to consider.
I have a 3x1.5T zraid array using full disks on the main machine, and an external 1.5T for backup (I'll grab another, so I can have two alternating backups). These will stay disconnected when not backing up, and in two other rooms of the house. I'll probably copy zfs snapshots of/home, probably filtered for any/cache/ and so forth. I also have offsite backup that i haven't gotten around to enabling ):
I'm planning on actually figuring out rsync, and from there specifying the parts of/home/* that get synchronized (possibly to an nfs mount off the main machine?)
>What exactly do you mean by "permanent puppyhood - domestic dogs don't >become adults, we've bred that out of them somehow"?
Current theory says that domestication is in part an acquired arrested development, in which full adulthood is not reached. You can look it up, but among the traits are the lack of full wariness of humans, fire, etc., and the observation that domestic cats & dogs have heads closer in shape to the pups than adults of their nearest wild counterparts.
It's fascinating stuff, but I can't recall much more at the moment.
Some years, I do heavy computational programming. No so much number crunching, as bashing them into submission.
I can do this *much* faster in a modern Fortran (90 or later) than in C. Not because C can't do the same things, and not because an optimized C can't get to the same results.
The difference is that I can sit down and simply enter near algorithms of matrix math into Fortran, and the optimizer will go to town and give me near perfect code, which will be faster than what I would get with C (which would also take significantly longer to code). A skilled C coder could do a better job, and ultimately get roughly the same performance as I got from Fortran.
This isn't because "Fortran is better than C," but because Fortran is designed and optimized by people who do this kind of stuff *to* do this kind of stuff. It can make very strong assumptions that C can't (and much of the hand-optimizing of C is essentially replicating these assumptions).
OTHO, writing a modern operating system in Fortran *could* be done, but it would be painful, would take far longer to code, and would probably have atrocious performance.
note: I believe that Pr1mos was largely written in FORTRAN IV.
It's $109, not $100. And noone who lists them for that has them at the moment. As far as I can tell, the only one who has *any* in stock is frys.com, at $129.
But two are sitting on my couch waiting for the case to arrive on Monday.
(Upgrade got out of control. By the time I was done, instead of upgrading to a tri-core (from five year old nearly a ghz athlon with plain ddr), I have Phenom II 955, the new AM3 MSI motherboard, low latency 1600 DDR3--but no video on board, and my old card won't fit in the new slots; then the old atx power connectors won't fit, and . ..) I still have my old power cord to the wall, dvd writer, mouse, and keyboard . . . and one of the old PATA disks will stay to boot XP natively for gaming, if I can get the bios to hide the triple 1.5T ZFS array from it . . .
Oh, and I have two of the 4770's from frys.com.
OK, I didn't *need* to replace the screen, but there was a one-day sweetheart deal on a decent 20" at frys last weekend, and the 4770 does drive two screens, after all . . .
Dosbox is fantastic for those times when you want to relive the moments when you first got into pc games (at least for anyone born before say 1984 or thereabouts).
Oh, good. I want to play Appletrek!:)
hawk, who actually has a couple of apple ]['s in the attick waiting to play appletrek (the only startrek variant he ever found in which you could trick klingons into firing at one another).
But for crying out loud, blinking/animation isn't just calling attention to itself, it's distracting!
(And I need to acknowledge some bias due to having seen 486's brought to their knees servicing the blinking gifs on a single page . . )
I'd even be willing to have a setting in my browser that says, "non-pornographic, still ads, without cookies accepted". No, I won't accept a site-by-site cookie for this.
Of course, the F antenna input on the living room television is broken, but maybe in the back room . . .
***
On the 2600, there is an internal modulator, to which is soldered the cable delivering RF. I was thinking of resoldering that cable to the input of the modulator, to give me composite video. But I suppose I'd have to trace back to before the audio got mixed in, or cut the trace delivering the audio subcarrier . . .
My remaining 68k macs are too old for NetBSD! (An original Mac, a backlit MacPortable, and a Classic). None have the memory management needed in hardware.
Now, my Powerbook 180 *could* run NetBSD, if I managed to find it and fix it, but afaik, they never did get the keyboard & mouse working (and so, long ago, I turned down $400 for the broken thing, expecting it to be usable "soon" with MacBSD).
I'm still trying to figure out whether I can simply connect the video cable to the input rather than the output of the RF modulator. I have a 2600 with about 30 cartridges waiting to fire back up . . . hmm, and how will I get the sound out, given that the only input I have on these things are separate R/L/V connections?
And while we're at it on apple's, I want a pre-rev 7 emulator for the ][, so that I get the purplish tint (Rev 7 killed the color subcarier in text mode). Hmm, and and adjustable *frtz* to deal with the color trap killing color partially or entirely on so many televisions of the era:) [But I'm serious about getting the purple tint.]
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>2000 Impala
Ewwwe! Yuck.
>my boat of an Impala
hah.
I had a '72 Impala. Fits a 2000 Impala in the trunk, and another in the back seat.
Just *how* bad were the Aerodynamics on a '72?
The air conditioning was out. If I opened the driver's window on the freeway, I didn't get airflow. I had to remember to open the rear passenger window before I left.
Even so, picking up the car in a silicon valley parking lot, my shirts would come unpressed in the 10-15 minute drive to work . . .
(*sigh* those were the days of 99 cent freon cans, and I had now idea what a $20 flush would have done)
hawk
I'm only 6'2", and my daily car is a Miata.
But don't take thi, is as a post saying that I fit it--I don't.
It's a 2006, which is the year it got a touch bigger--enough so that I can drive it with the top down and roof down--my head hits the bars with the roof down.
Fortunately, I live in Las Vegas, where th top only needs to go up a couple of days a year (high winds in winter; never for cold).
hawk,more at home in his '72 Eldorado convertible
>Not everyone out there is two meters tall, but those of us who
>are try to stay out of the back of volkswagens
hee-hee.
My little brother was already 6'4" at the time I learned to drive my volkswagen--with him in the back seat!
My father neglected to mention the part about putting the clutch back in when you *stop* as well as when shifting gears . . . :)
hawk
About twenty years ago, a friend of mine excitedly told me about a project to send movies over standard phone lines. The "inventor" was looking for investors, since he'd "solved" the problem . . . these were to be full quality movies. Note that 56k modems weren't available yet . . .
I explained to him that that person couldn't possibly be doing what he was doing, given the theoretical limits based upon the way the US phone system worked, but he insisted.
Several months later, I saw the news article on the arrest of someone in that city for a scam to get people to invest in a phony movies over telephone line.
Today, sure, but at the time, a 14.4k was still "fast" and expensive . . .
hawk
>Still, I am quite certain that blind people already do this without thinking about it.
Not quite without thinking about it. However, my uncle (and no doubt many, many more) have been teaching the blind to do this with the taps of their cane for (at least) decades.
hawk
>everything I see says only stripping drives
*sigh*
computer porn is everywhere, now :(
hawk
>If you're using Vista or above,
Yes, as a matter of fact I do use FreeBSD.
hawk
Oh, you cynic.
Why would anyone smart enough to get a Ph.D. even suspect that, after working on classified information, he shouldn't disclose that information to a student hand-selected to study with him by a totalitarian government with a history of using its military to take over others, repress dissent, and threaten other nations?
hawk
I've long agreed that McDonald's has the least flavor of its competitors, but if you can buy shoes, too, this explains a lot . . .
hawk
To be a civil rights violation, the official doesn't have to have been wrong, but the act must have been clearly illegal. This is because off the difference between simply being wrong, and *willfully* using the power of the state to take away people's rights.
When an issue is legally "up in the air," officials would otherwise be in "damned if you do, damned if you don't" situations.
hawk, esq.
>Now, if only the administrators were actually held liable for their stupid decisions.
This ruling is in a civil suit to do exactly that--it is the final appeal of the motion to dismiss.
hawk, esq.
Right now, actual synchronization tends to be entirely manual, with scp of subdirectories and possibly a tar -c | tar -x combo to not overwrite newer copies.
I decided to work on data integrity first--but then I have client info to consider.
I have a 3x1.5T zraid array using full disks on the main machine, and an external 1.5T for backup (I'll grab another, so I can have two alternating backups). These will stay disconnected when not backing up, and in two other rooms of the house. I'll probably copy zfs snapshots of /home, probably filtered for any /cache/ and so forth. I also have offsite backup that i haven't gotten around to enabling ):
I'm planning on actually figuring out rsync, and from there specifying the parts of /home/* that get synchronized (possibly to an nfs mount off the main machine?)
hawk
>Ah, he must have gone to the same charm school as Ulrich Drepper.
Theo's? :)
hawkj
>What exactly do you mean by "permanent puppyhood - domestic dogs don't
>become adults, we've bred that out of them somehow"?
Current theory says that domestication is in part an acquired arrested development, in which full adulthood is not reached. You can look it up, but among the traits are the lack of full wariness of humans, fire, etc., and the observation that domestic cats & dogs have heads closer in shape to the pups than adults of their nearest wild counterparts.
It's fascinating stuff, but I can't recall much more at the moment.
hawk
>Our first wolf/dog "cross" (wolf/shepherd)
That's not even a cross.
The domestic dog was reclassified as a subspecies of wolf a couple of years ago; they're the same species to start with.
hawk
It's about using the right tool for the job.
Some years, I do heavy computational programming. No so much number crunching, as bashing them into submission.
I can do this *much* faster in a modern Fortran (90 or later) than in C. Not because C can't do the same things, and not because an optimized C can't get to the same results.
The difference is that I can sit down and simply enter near algorithms of matrix math into Fortran, and the optimizer will go to town and give me near perfect code, which will be faster than what I would get with C (which would also take significantly longer to code). A skilled C coder could do a better job, and ultimately get roughly the same performance as I got from Fortran.
This isn't because "Fortran is better than C," but because Fortran is designed and optimized by people who do this kind of stuff *to* do this kind of stuff. It can make very strong assumptions that C can't (and much of the hand-optimizing of C is essentially replicating these assumptions).
OTHO, writing a modern operating system in Fortran *could* be done, but it would be painful, would take far longer to code, and would probably have atrocious performance.
note: I believe that Pr1mos was largely written in FORTRAN IV.
hawk
The trick is just *finding* a 4770 at the moment.
It's $109, not $100. And noone who lists them for that has them at the moment. As far as I can tell, the only one who has *any* in stock is frys.com, at $129.
But two are sitting on my couch waiting for the case to arrive on Monday.
(Upgrade got out of control. By the time I was done, instead of upgrading to a tri-core (from five year old nearly a ghz athlon with plain ddr), I have Phenom II 955, the new AM3 MSI motherboard, low latency 1600 DDR3--but no video on board, and my old card won't fit in the new slots; then the old atx power connectors won't fit, and . . .) I still have my old power cord to the wall, dvd writer, mouse, and keyboard . . . and one of the old PATA disks will stay to boot XP natively for gaming, if I can get the bios to hide the triple 1.5T ZFS array from it . . .
Oh, and I have two of the 4770's from frys.com.
OK, I didn't *need* to replace the screen, but there was a one-day sweetheart deal on a decent 20" at frys last weekend, and the 4770 does drive two screens, after all . . .
hawk
But he says he's not done with it!
hawk
This is getting udderly ridiculous.
Just how far are you guys going to milk this cheesy joke?
hawk
Bah, another one of those dazzled by color games.
Color on a video game is properly attained with cellophane strips on the screen! :)
hawk
Dosbox is fantastic for those times when you want to relive the moments when you first got into pc games (at least for anyone born before say 1984 or thereabouts).
Oh, good. I want to play Appletrek! :)
hawk, who actually has a couple of apple ]['s in the attick waiting to play appletrek (the only startrek variant he ever found in which you could trick klingons into firing at one another).
I do block things that stall a load, yes.
But the biggie for me is *)(^$# blinking!
I don't mind ads.
I understand why they're there.
I use them myself.
But for crying out loud, blinking/animation isn't just calling attention to itself, it's distracting!
(And I need to acknowledge some bias due to having seen 486's brought to their knees servicing the blinking gifs on a single page . . )
I'd even be willing to have a setting in my browser that says, "non-pornographic, still ads, without cookies accepted". No, I won't accept a site-by-site cookie for this.
But one scrap of blink, and I block.
hawk
Hmm, that's a possibility.
Of course, the F antenna input on the living room television is broken, but maybe in the back room . . .
***
On the 2600, there is an internal modulator, to which is soldered the cable delivering RF. I was thinking of resoldering that cable to the input of the modulator, to give me composite video. But I suppose I'd have to trace back to before the audio got mixed in, or cut the trace delivering the audio subcarrier . . .
hawk
My remaining 68k macs are too old for NetBSD! (An original Mac, a backlit MacPortable, and a Classic). None have the memory management needed in hardware.
Now, my Powerbook 180 *could* run NetBSD, if I managed to find it and fix it, but afaik, they never did get the keyboard & mouse working (and so, long ago, I turned down $400 for the broken thing, expecting it to be usable "soon" with MacBSD).
hawk, off to chase the kids from his grass
That's a few steps ahead of me.
I'm still trying to figure out whether I can simply connect the video cable to the input rather than the output of the RF modulator. I have a 2600 with about 30 cartridges waiting to fire back up . . . hmm, and how will I get the sound out, given that the only input I have on these things are separate R/L/V connections?
And while we're at it on apple's, I want a pre-rev 7 emulator for the ][, so that I get the purplish tint (Rev 7 killed the color subcarier in text mode). Hmm, and and adjustable *frtz* to deal with the color trap killing color partially or entirely on so many televisions of the era :) [But I'm serious about getting the purple tint.]
hawk