I am right handed. Started cycling when I was 10 or so. Our coach, Story Redford, I think, taught us to jump off our left foot. That half-stroke advantage could be the difference in a breakaway. We were also capable of responding to a jump with either foot. Also became a better left-wing in soccer then right cause I could control that foot better (and less competition for the position). In my 50's now and I notice I can start nuts and screws or wrench with either hand equally well. Start practicing young, I guess.
I started coding bal360 outta college in about 1985. We had Abend Aid installed to format the dumps a little. I heard the stories from all the old timers writing COBOL of unformatted core dumps and thanked my good fortune and modern times.
I'm seeing a plethora of 6, 5 and even 4 digit userids post here for this one. Good to see we ain't dead yet...
WDD1100 jumpers, ABit dual CPU mobos w/ peltior plates. My Yellow card, Abend Aid was an amazing help when looking at 40Meg bal360 dumps. Trips over to the data center to nail down the last couple slashes for some JCL Late afternoon games of snipes on Novell 2.15 networks Using that 3270 terminal/XT PC in my cubical farm nest - SNA and IPX/SPX programming the Gigi keyboards to mess with others in the college computer labs replacing miles of coax with Cat5 as a sign of the change of times.
Now I get to sit on the porch here in sunny south Georgia and chat with other old timers. TV studio eng, Packet radio guy, and so many others. The poor kids of today don't really understand how good we had it.
Nope. I wake sans an alarm, 05:00 near every day. Get up, turn on the coffee and feed the kats. Then sit and write about yesterday or surf a little bit. Emails can wait, Nothing is more important than a bit of serenity first thing. The kits usually want a little lovin'. No comparison between the outside world and soft, purring warmth early in the morning.
1/2 hr, 40 minutes in, then I can face the world. Bring it on!!
A few years ago I wrote a package to help a fellow managing a boatyard. Put an Easter Egg in there. There are 3 dates affecting a boat that comes into the yard on one of the screens. Haul date (when it got there), Maybe date (when it might relaunch) and Launch date (when it actually relaunched). If you click on the 'L' in the Launch date prompt, a betting pool pops up to allow folks to bet on the number of days between Maybe and Launch dates. Yard owner I wrote the package for loved the idea.
Oh boy, what a mess Winders is. In the last few months, I've been able to introduce folks to Linux in the form of Ubuntu 12 & 13. They bring me their winders laptops and I dual boot them to win/Ubuntu. Now, this audience is special. These are boaters - liveaboard boaters. All we really need is Navigation (OpenCPN) w/ a GPS, weather (Ugrib & zygrib), Skype, a photo cataloger (Shotwell is ok) and an external Wifi setup (Ubiquity Bullitt HP2 w/ ~8dbi antenna mounted high on the mast). They are all laptops. On all these flavors(XP, Vista, 7 & 8) I've been successful, mostly. 1st 2 w/ Ubuntu 12.? and Win7 w/ Ubuntu 13.?. Haven't got the last one working yet. (In fact we went back to da Geek Squad and got it replaced for other problems today...) In all cases I load the NOAA charts and store the GIRB files on the Win partition so both sides use the same data. Win looses the GPS and always have to load drivers for the Wifi. Ubuntu just works. Loaded LibreOffice on a couple machines, both sides and it just works, too.
What I see on the Winders side is a slide into hell for the interface. W/ the loaded bloatware they don't know to get off, multiple wierd toolbars everywhere, the taskbar on the bottom, and goofy locations for libs and such. Even a.doc is megs where an.odt is a few k for the same essay or article.
Now these folks are playing with both systems whilst they're in the boat yard here. They're tellin' me that Ubuntu is so much easier to use. And these are older folks, already set in their ways. These folks just don't believe they can learn a new OS but none of them like Winders for all the reasons listed in these comments and see no alternative except Apple (Too expensive, exclusive aura, lack of Nav and weather s/w, etc but never about the DRM. (Oddly, many folks here have iphones but never sync anything.)) And as we all sit around on the porch (after a days work or sitting around on the porch) and chat about these things, the word is carrying.. Showing them is working. I refuse to work on winders machines. I will help them get connected to our boatyard Wifi and I'll take a look but I rarely fix anything... Now that they know, actually see and feel the alternative, they're interested and getting others to see.
Now the nightmare is with this last computer. It's a new Dell w/ Win8 and this Uefi(sp?) bios thingy. Won't even see the USB stick to boot from with a BIOS fiddle. And the icons on the start screen! Eeeek! that's a real mess. Bland, oversized, and uninformative. At least Win-E still works... Even the local Winders guy here can't understand Win8. He's been exclusively Win since Win95. (My best advertising for a different and better way?)
for me, I've used one flavor or another of linux since '98. I even remember install fests every Wednesday night at the local Make shop (though we didn't call them that then). Even got YellowDog to run on the 1st G4 to come to Atlanta (except the sound). Why would Iuse anything else? Just last week I needed to take some chicken scratched electronic schematics and turn them into drawings of some sort. Install a couple CAD packages professing to be good for this and try them. 30 hrs later I had finished diagrams using eeschema. Learned the package and made the drawings in that time. Ever tried doing that with something like AutoCAD?( I remember writing printer drivers for v2.1 in Lisp back in the late '80s). And it didn't cost me anything. (But I'll send 'em a check if I use it much more.) RhythmBox is falling over on me but I've found a couple alternatives I'm liking better. See, choices are available under linux. And the UI is simple and easy to learn. Things are in fairly logical places.
Methinks today we'll get on a Lindenberg 26 and go for a ride. Boat I've been on many races. I'm 250 so I get the main. Roy is old but his boat and he steers. Now for Gina on the bow and we're off! The Cumberland Sound is 4' - 5' and if we can make it out the jettys we'll have a bang-up day.
Never faced Ice. I don't like hard water; that's why I'm down here. Bouncing off chunks of boat breakers ain't my kind of fun. I just bought my 1st pair of long pants in 2 years last week. They chafe and are hot. And long sleeves get wet and sticky. Bah!
When we wear 'foulies' we put on our oldest t-shirt, shorts and sneakers. Many of them can be stowed in the dry bag. Save the good stuff for the bar....
Thanks for the perspective, Lumpy (where'd that come ffrom?). I appreciate where I am so much more.
FWIW... I'm tied to a dock on the GA/FL border. In a boat. With no motor. Sparrow is a sailboat who has weathered far worse than this. We, my 2 cats and I, have weeks of food and full water tanks. Winds here are getting up to 20 knots or so and quite gusty. Am I worried? no. We had a hardy home and sufficient supplies. As I write this, we're rolling around a bit and wind is making the rigging sing. We are warm, fed and safe. I'll put on foulies in a bit and wander the docks to see if all the other boats are ok. Maybe a line has chaffed through or a fender has gunched up. S'ok, these are things easily repaired. And then shed the foulies and enjoy a warm cuppa in my nest...
I remember putting the fist Win '95 desktops for a bunch of guys used to Concurrent DOS at a trucking company in about '95 or '96. 25 or so machines replaced, with innertubes! These folks played about for the 1st month or so and really pissed off management. But I warned 'em in advance. Told them then to let things ride for the 1st month or so and then see what happens. After a month of looking at game scores and porn and shopping sites the folks settled down and actually started doing their work. Worked out just fine and I got a good laugh out of it. I guess the users figgered out what sites to go to (there weren't many back then...) and once bookmarked, got back to business.
Are there any old Mindspring folks here who have access to some of the f.sharpe's call logs? I worked in the NOC '98 thru '02 or so and heard about her a lot. After all these years I remember tales of her calls to the CSV guys. Remind and entertain me again, guys. TIA
I say good on ya, AZ. I don't get into the dinghy without my drivers license, at least. Always, I carry some sort of identification. In my case, I live on a boat on a mooring. IF I should succumb to the water around me, I want someone to be able to tell (my few) family and friends that I'm no longer able to attend their parties.
I may not surrender this document upon request; that's situational, but I always have some sort of identity on me. I can't see why this should be a problem for anyone else. Got a pocket? Make a packet of what you are required by law and common sense to carry.
I carry a little waterproof bag with wallet, knife, Fischer pen, cell phone, keys to the USPS box and storage, chap stick, cigs and lighter(s) with me always. This pouch is attached to me until I get ashore. Then I transfer some of the stuff to pockets and carry on.
As for 'undocumented aliens' being here, get the legal paperwork, folks, or get the hell out of my country! It isn't hard to get legal status. Jumping the border is illegal. This is a constitutional republic; that's how it works here. Get legal and then keep yer head down.
Bah! I'm going fishing. Ya'll care about those other things....
What a dangerous clause. Who is supposed to force whom to do something? So you want some larger authority (our beloved government, in this case?) to force the debit card companies to spend their money, manpower, and advertising space with no compensation; nay to cause harm to their own business model? Are there not enough warnings out there about the dangers of debit cards already? Weren't you already aware that these cards are not safe? Your... somebody should do something... comes from your own frustration at shown to be an idiot, doesn't it? Hurts, don't it?
Don't trust corporations or government. Use cash and/or 'credit' cards. Have you learned these lessons now? I think not. You've already started up another 'debit' card account with the same rules that applied last time. Sheesh!
I, for one consumer, already have. I don't buy Apple products because of the DRM. Creative Zen MP3 player, Dell, and Fujitsu laptops, and Samsung i760 cellphone. My ex uses a Mac Mini. My best friend sweears by his iPhone and a couple Macs. Nice machines! Apple looks like a good OS but this danged DRM is the showstopper.
Bah! Come on Apple, lighten up. You seem to think all yer customers are sneaks and thieves, like Sam's or Best Buy.
Absolutely lovely. All those toys and no regard to specific make or model. I'd heard of ultrasonic memory but have never seen it before. The early cores were cool to look at. I see several machines turned on or at least lit up; this is unusual.
And he has a train set in there, too!?!There are no pics of this (nor his bedroom, either...) and only the one reference. Must be quite a guy to know. Old time geek! From when they used to find real bugs (moths and such) and carry around a stylus with oil in it in their breast pocket.
Wonder if he can use this old IBM 128 console? How many times have I sent jobs to the print spooler and visualized a lazy little elf just chucking it on the stack while it went to sleep... Now I see the real thing - AND IT's NOT AN ELF! Another delusion shattered.
And the last photo, of his office door plates... My 1st php project was to write a kinda ticketing system. On the output, I had to use the company directory to find the recipient's manager's email and add it to the tkt. Accidentally wrote the output heading for this datum as 'Mangaler'. In 3 years of daily use (600k tkts), only 3 folks commented on it (shows how much people actually see) and only 1 change request to get it fixed (never completed).
ahhhh. thank you for the trip down core memory lane. This may be worth the price to go visit.
I'm 49, and been playing with computers since 1982. Back then we used punch cards and walked to work up hill both directions. I agree that my mind is not so good at remembering specific facts as it used to be; never has been. So I compensate. I'm far enough the ladder that understanding the processes and the what can happen is more useful than how to code in the latest style and language. What I am good for is my experience, all the many years I've been doing the same sort of things. In my given areas of proficiency, I can usually see what to do and how to do it. Very little is a surprise anymore. The youngsters are much faster at seeing parts of a project or applying solutions without understanding the possible exceptions that will occur. I've already seen a lot of those exceptions.
Don't get me wrong and thing that work is not fun or is a grind. It is still fun to work on solutions to problems. Today, those problems are different, usually more complex and require more sharply honed instincts to get to solutions faster and cheaper.
And 2nd, I write lists now. Never more than what I need from the grocer today or the calls and appointments I have for today. 10 items on any list are a couple too many. I keep a pack of 3" * 3" PostIts and a pen handy. One page, tear it off and stick it on my phone or inside my wallet. (stick a love note to your other half's hair spray or some such in the cabinet, too, sometime.)
Thanks for the article idea. This isn't something I think about often, but am consious of and miss it when it isn't in my pocket. Even to just go outside to the car I feel to make sure it's there. In a crowd, I check on it often, almost unconsiously. Would I be lost somehow if it's goes away (again)? No, not really, but I would be inconvenienced. The most valuable thing in it is the pic of Cassius but I have another somewhere around here. Getting another drivers license isn't musch of a hassle 'cause I leave a spare state ID card on my boat.
I've had my nylon wallet for over 30 years now. It's been stolen twice, the cover is rubbed through, the inner latex is stained and thin, the velcro doesn't anymore. It has 5 pockets. Big one has money (~$100 a week) ordered lowest to highest from outside in then reciepts. One pocket has credit (2) and ins. cards and drivers license. Another pocket has club cards (Caribou coffee, Subway, Circuit City, Sam's, Costco, MARTA pass at the moment). One inner pocket has my business cards and the other has a laminated photo of my grandfather and a Kroger value card (No idea whose but it works). I like to keep the contents to a minnimum so that it's not a lump in my back pocket.
And I'd drop it in a trash can right now (emptied, of course) if I could find a new one with the same configuration and size. Been looking for a new one for years and still haven't found it. Maybe this article will produce some links to wallets.
Thankfully, I can write this via a keyboard because my handwriting is also rather poor. All I use a pen for anymore is postits and my PDA. My sponsor and I argue about using a pen or keyboard to keep a journal. I prefer a keyboard but he says that the 'emotion' doesn't come through. Huh? Read a copy of Tolstoy's stuff lately? Tell me there's no emotion in the very typeset words.
A couple of paragraphs is all I can write until I get wrist cramps. Writing is no longer a natural activity. Thoughts get to the 'paper' faster via keyboard than pen. And there's no backspace key, or spellchecker. These arguments don't phase him.
So, practise, practise, practise. Writing slowly and precisely, using a gradeschool guide that you've already ridiculed is where I'm starting. My postit's still look a mess but my journal is getting better.
No specs at all that I can find but at the bottom of their FAQ is this:
Why does the low battery indicator come on after I put in fresh batteries and use them for only a short time?
Depending on the type and brand of battery, the low battery indicator may come on while there are still hours of battery life left. You can continue to use the ZVUE until the batteries actually run down. You should also be aware, that when the batteries are low, the ZVUE may not operate properly.
We recently sailed out to Ft Jefferson in the Dry Tortugas. We read where the soldiers would heat cannonballs to red hot and shoot them at enemy ships. They even made an oven with 4 magazines in it for the job. They used layers of wet and dry padding between the poweder and ball in the cannons. My pics don't say what size balls but they were one of 12, 18, or 32 lbs.
These balls would skip along the saltwater and bury themselves in the ships at waterline level where the seamen couldn't get to them. The balls would then burn through the boats hull, hopefully starting a fire.
See, there were even geeks back then with a lot of time and resources on their hands. This must have taken a lot of practice.
Also visited Fort Pulaski outside of Savannah GA. These 2 forts were designed to be very similiar in so many aspects. But there is no mention here of this kind of ball skipping. Where Ft Jefferson is surrounded by water, though, Ft Pulaski only has it near in a 45degree arc, and that's more than a 1/4 mile away. The ships channel is out of cannonball range these days; maybe it wasn't back then.
I used to overclock a couple Celery 300s on an ABIT BP6 mobo. I used peltier plates between the CPU and heatsinks. Once in awhile I'd do something that required me to slow the thing down to see if that was the problem. A couple times I left it slow (actually at normal speed) and it 'grew' unstable and then stopped. Both times I looked inside and saw mold/algea growing around the CPUs!. When I left the plates turned on and the CPUs slow there wasn't enough heat to remove and the dew point was reached. Condensation would form and then mold would grow. I did this twice in 1 1/2 years until I retired the mobo, still serving files.
To clean them, I used toothpaste and an old brush on the CPU. Got the pins nice and shiny. And used a dry toothbrush on the mobo after drying it for ~10mins with a hairdryer.
Garmin comes from the GPS side of this. They're not known for PDAs. I can't see where all 3 would be useful in situations where the GPS is used a lot. And the description doesn't mention water resistance. Makes any GPS useless for real world usage, IMHO.
As for no networking, my Garmin 76S has a 4 wire conn to my laptop. Serial, true, but plenty fast enough to load maps and routes into it's 24meg. I've never looked into it to see how that part works.I can load maps into it at the nav station and then take it up to the wheel. In the car, it's even easier. Laptop sits on an unoccupied seat and the GPS is against the windshield.
As for the 32meg, I get 4 books, nav s/w, games, etc on my 8meg Visor Edge. Plenty and it's at least somewhat water resistent. (Haven't dropped in the drink, but rain hasn't drowned it... yet) Colour screen would be nice. Reading a book on the GPS would be easier to read than the Edge, me thinks...
As for the MP3 player, I've got a stereo on the boat and in the car. When I'm walking/hiking, I like the sounds around me better. Then again, I'm not a big music-on-the-go buff.
Nice toy for somebody else, I guess. But with $589 I could get a good set of......
At the moment, I'm reading the 3rd book in the Honor series on my palm. On this boat, there's plenty of electricity to charge my Handspring Edge but no weight allowance for books. Books melt in this hot, wet weather, anyway...
I can read the palm anywhere, anytime. It's 1-handed, readable in the dark and automatically keeps my place. Always gotta hang onto something and the paper versions of these books are rather thick. In the dark of the bunk or on deck (but not when steering:) the internal light lasts at least all night. It automatically starts back where I shut it off
I've d/led at least 7 of the books onto the laptop before we left shore. I can load 3 on the Edge at a time easily. There's still room in there for the CelestNav s/w and a running log.Oh yea, and ShinsenSho.I will mention the.prc versions of the Baen books have a lot of imbedded html that took getting used to. I wonder if I d/led them incorrectly, somehow.
Don't ever intend to buy the books; I learned about the series at the local public library.
My initial reaction to this article was a bit different than those I've seen in the comments.
Way back when... there were only ~25 lines on the screen and we got 1 compile a day (none at the end of the month), we printed all our source on z-fold greenbar paper and desk checked it. When we had something that was beginning to work, we'd hang the code on the wall and step back. If the pattern of the black ink flowed well; the indents and breaks were orderly, the code always seemed to work well. Where we saw disorder, there was the problem. We coded in COBOL, PL/1, basic, db3/Clipper, and 360bal. This worked for all of them.
With the advent of X, we can now see 100 or more lines and modularity is much more popular. I haven't seen source printed with any regularity in years. Ah, practises change with the times and hardware.
Coincident but unrelated to the timing of this article, I found an old Panasonic dot matrix printer yesterday. I've been telling the youngsters here about this method so we're gonna hook this antique up and see if that practise can still work.
- The rich feller earned that money. His choice what he does with it. This is really the bottom line.
- He can buy stuff and give it away (to famine areas, etc) which does nothing for him, except deplete his supply. How many rich despots tyrant over destitute countries? Example: Look at Palistinian "refugee camps" and look that Arafat,et al. never sweat.
Or he can use his money to build an industry and get richer. In the process, many people will be employed and they prosper for lifetimes. This is how Apple, Walmart, etc all are today.
- There are 2 kinds of folks jealous at those with money. One hates what the rich man has and works to take it away. The other one wants what the rich man has and works his tail off until he gets it.
- Our feelings should be the result of what we do. Feelings should not be a motive for actions.
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I am right handed. Started cycling when I was 10 or so. Our coach, Story Redford, I think, taught us to jump off our left foot. That half-stroke advantage could be the difference in a breakaway. We were also capable of responding to a jump with either foot. Also became a better left-wing in soccer then right cause I could control that foot better (and less competition for the position). In my 50's now and I notice I can start nuts and screws or wrench with either hand equally well. Start practicing young, I guess.
I started coding bal360 outta college in about 1985. We had Abend Aid installed to format the dumps a little. I heard the stories from all the old timers writing COBOL of unformatted core dumps and thanked my good fortune and modern times.
I'm seeing a plethora of 6, 5 and even 4 digit userids post here for this one. Good to see we ain't dead yet...
WDD1100 jumpers, ABit dual CPU mobos w/ peltior plates.
My Yellow card, Abend Aid was an amazing help when looking at 40Meg bal360 dumps.
Trips over to the data center to nail down the last couple slashes for some JCL
Late afternoon games of snipes on Novell 2.15 networks
Using that 3270 terminal/XT PC in my cubical farm nest - SNA and IPX/SPX
programming the Gigi keyboards to mess with others in the college computer labs
replacing miles of coax with Cat5 as a sign of the change of times.
Now I get to sit on the porch here in sunny south Georgia and chat with other old timers. TV studio eng, Packet radio guy,
and so many others. The poor kids of today don't really understand how good we had it.
Nope. I wake sans an alarm, 05:00 near every day. Get up, turn on the coffee and feed the kats. Then sit and write about yesterday or surf a little bit. Emails can wait, Nothing is more important than a bit of serenity first thing. The kits usually want a little lovin'. No comparison between the outside world and soft, purring warmth early in the morning.
1/2 hr, 40 minutes in, then I can face the world. Bring it on!!
A few years ago I wrote a package to help a fellow managing a boatyard. Put an Easter Egg in there. There are 3 dates affecting a boat that comes into the yard on one of the screens. Haul date (when it got there), Maybe date (when it might relaunch) and Launch date (when it actually relaunched). If you click on the 'L' in the Launch date prompt, a betting pool pops up to allow folks to bet on the number of days between Maybe and Launch dates. Yard owner I wrote the package for loved the idea.
Oh boy, what a mess Winders is. In the last few months, I've been able to introduce folks to Linux in the form of Ubuntu 12 & 13. They bring me their winders laptops and I dual boot them to win/Ubuntu. Now, this audience is special. These are boaters - liveaboard boaters. All we really need is Navigation (OpenCPN) w/ a GPS, weather (Ugrib & zygrib), Skype, a photo cataloger (Shotwell is ok) and an external Wifi setup (Ubiquity Bullitt HP2 w/ ~8dbi antenna mounted high on the mast). They are all laptops. On all these flavors(XP, Vista, 7 & 8) I've been successful, mostly. 1st 2 w/ Ubuntu 12.? and Win7 w/ Ubuntu 13.?. Haven't got the last one working yet. (In fact we went back to da Geek Squad and got it replaced for other problems today...) In all cases I load the NOAA charts and store the GIRB files on the Win partition so both sides use the same data. Win looses the GPS and always have to load drivers for the Wifi. Ubuntu just works. Loaded LibreOffice on a couple machines, both sides and it just works, too.
What I see on the Winders side is a slide into hell for the interface. W/ the loaded bloatware they don't know to get off, multiple wierd toolbars everywhere, the taskbar on the bottom, and goofy locations for libs and such. Even a .doc is megs where an .odt is a few k for the same essay or article.
Now these folks are playing with both systems whilst they're in the boat yard here. They're tellin' me that Ubuntu is so much easier to use. And these are older folks, already set in their ways. These folks just don't believe they can learn a new OS but none of them like Winders for all the reasons listed in these comments and see no alternative except Apple (Too expensive, exclusive aura, lack of Nav and weather s/w, etc but never about the DRM. (Oddly, many folks here have iphones but never sync anything.)) And as we all sit around on the porch (after a days work or sitting around on the porch) and chat about these things, the word is carrying.. Showing them is working. I refuse to work on winders machines. I will help them get connected to our boatyard Wifi and I'll take a look but I rarely fix anything... Now that they know, actually see and feel the alternative, they're interested and getting others to see.
Now the nightmare is with this last computer. It's a new Dell w/ Win8 and this Uefi(sp?) bios thingy. Won't even see the USB stick to boot from with a BIOS fiddle. And the icons on the start screen! Eeeek! that's a real mess. Bland, oversized, and uninformative. At least Win-E still works... Even the local Winders guy here can't understand Win8. He's been exclusively Win since Win95. (My best advertising for a different and better way?)
for me, I've used one flavor or another of linux since '98. I even remember install fests every Wednesday night at the local Make shop (though we didn't call them that then). Even got YellowDog to run on the 1st G4 to come to Atlanta (except the sound). Why would Iuse anything else? Just last week I needed to take some chicken scratched electronic schematics and turn them into drawings of some sort. Install a couple CAD packages professing to be good for this and try them. 30 hrs later I had finished diagrams using eeschema. Learned the package and made the drawings in that time. Ever tried doing that with something like AutoCAD?( I remember writing printer drivers for v2.1 in Lisp back in the late '80s). And it didn't cost me anything. (But I'll send 'em a check if I use it much more.) RhythmBox is falling over on me but I've found a couple alternatives I'm liking better. See, choices are available under linux. And the UI is simple and easy to learn. Things are in fairly logical places.
Methinks today we'll get on a Lindenberg 26 and go for a ride. Boat I've been on many races. I'm 250 so I get the main. Roy is old but his boat and he steers. Now for Gina on the bow and we're off! The Cumberland Sound is 4' - 5' and if we can make it out the jettys we'll have a bang-up day.
Never faced Ice. I don't like hard water; that's why I'm down here. Bouncing off chunks of boat breakers ain't my kind of fun. I just bought my 1st pair of long pants in 2 years last week. They chafe and are hot. And long sleeves get wet and sticky. Bah!
When we wear 'foulies' we put on our oldest t-shirt, shorts and sneakers. Many of them can be stowed in the dry bag. Save the good stuff for the bar....
Thanks for the perspective, Lumpy (where'd that come ffrom?). I appreciate where I am so much more.
FWIW... I'm tied to a dock on the GA/FL border. In a boat. With no motor. Sparrow is a sailboat who has weathered far worse than this. We, my 2 cats and I, have weeks of food and full water tanks. Winds here are getting up to 20 knots or so and quite gusty. Am I worried? no. We had a hardy home and sufficient supplies. As I write this, we're rolling around a bit and wind is making the rigging sing. We are warm, fed and safe. I'll put on foulies in a bit and wander the docks to see if all the other boats are ok. Maybe a line has chaffed through or a fender has gunched up. S'ok, these are things easily repaired. And then shed the foulies and enjoy a warm cuppa in my nest...
I remember putting the fist Win '95 desktops for a bunch of guys used to Concurrent DOS at a trucking company in about '95 or '96. 25 or so machines replaced, with innertubes! These folks played about for the 1st month or so and really pissed off management. But I warned 'em in advance. Told them then to let things ride for the 1st month or so and then see what happens. After a month of looking at game scores and porn and shopping sites the folks settled down and actually started doing their work. Worked out just fine and I got a good laugh out of it. I guess the users figgered out what sites to go to (there weren't many back then...) and once bookmarked, got back to business.
Are there any old Mindspring folks here who have access to some of the f.sharpe's call logs? I worked in the NOC '98 thru '02 or so and heard about her a lot. After all these years I remember tales of her calls to the CSV guys. Remind and entertain me again, guys. TIA
I say good on ya, AZ. I don't get into the dinghy without my drivers license, at least. Always, I carry some sort of identification. In my case, I live on a boat on a mooring. IF I should succumb to the water around me, I want someone to be able to tell (my few) family and friends that I'm no longer able to attend their parties.
I may not surrender this document upon request; that's situational, but I always have some sort of identity on me. I can't see why this should be a problem for anyone else. Got a pocket? Make a packet of what you are required by law and common sense to carry.
I carry a little waterproof bag with wallet, knife, Fischer pen, cell phone, keys to the USPS box and storage, chap stick, cigs and lighter(s) with me always. This pouch is attached to me until I get ashore. Then I transfer some of the stuff to pockets and carry on.
As for 'undocumented aliens' being here, get the legal paperwork, folks, or get the hell out of my country! It isn't hard to get legal status. Jumping the border is illegal. This is a constitutional republic; that's how it works here. Get legal and then keep yer head down.
Bah! I'm going fishing. Ya'll care about those other things....
What a dangerous clause. Who is supposed to force whom to do something? So you want some larger authority (our beloved government, in this case?) to force the debit card companies to spend their money, manpower, and advertising space with no compensation; nay to cause harm to their own business model? Are there not enough warnings out there about the dangers of debit cards already? Weren't you already aware that these cards are not safe? Your ... somebody should do something... comes from your own frustration at shown to be an idiot, doesn't it? Hurts, don't it?
Don't trust corporations or government. Use cash and/or 'credit' cards. Have you learned these lessons now? I think not. You've already started up another 'debit' card account with the same rules that applied last time. Sheesh!
I, for one consumer, already have. I don't buy Apple products because of the DRM. Creative Zen MP3 player, Dell, and Fujitsu laptops, and Samsung i760 cellphone. My ex uses a Mac Mini. My best friend sweears by his iPhone and a couple Macs. Nice machines! Apple looks like a good OS but this danged DRM is the showstopper.
Bah! Come on Apple, lighten up. You seem to think all yer customers are sneaks and thieves, like Sam's or Best Buy.
Absolutely lovely. All those toys and no regard to specific make or model. I'd heard of ultrasonic memory but have never seen it before. The early cores were cool to look at. I see several machines turned on or at least lit up; this is unusual.
And he has a train set in there, too!?!There are no pics of this (nor his bedroom, either...) and only the one reference. Must be quite a guy to know. Old time geek! From when they used to find real bugs (moths and such) and carry around a stylus with oil in it in their breast pocket.
Wonder if he can use this old IBM 128 console? How many times have I sent jobs to the print spooler and visualized a lazy little elf just chucking it on the stack while it went to sleep... Now I see the real thing - AND IT's NOT AN ELF! Another delusion shattered.
And the last photo, of his office door plates... My 1st php project was to write a kinda ticketing system. On the output, I had to use the company directory to find the recipient's manager's email and add it to the tkt. Accidentally wrote the output heading for this datum as 'Mangaler'. In 3 years of daily use (600k tkts), only 3 folks commented on it (shows how much people actually see) and only 1 change request to get it fixed (never completed).
ahhhh. thank you for the trip down core memory lane. This may be worth the price to go visit.
I'm 49, and been playing with computers since 1982. Back then we used punch cards and walked to work up hill both directions. I agree that my mind is not so good at remembering specific facts as it used to be; never has been. So I compensate. I'm far enough the ladder that understanding the processes and the what can happen is more useful than how to code in the latest style and language. What I am good for is my experience, all the many years I've been doing the same sort of things. In my given areas of proficiency, I can usually see what to do and how to do it. Very little is a surprise anymore. The youngsters are much faster at seeing parts of a project or applying solutions without understanding the possible exceptions that will occur. I've already seen a lot of those exceptions.
Don't get me wrong and thing that work is not fun or is a grind. It is still fun to work on solutions to problems. Today, those problems are different, usually more complex and require more sharply honed instincts to get to solutions faster and cheaper.
And 2nd, I write lists now. Never more than what I need from the grocer today or the calls and appointments I have for today. 10 items on any list are a couple too many. I keep a pack of 3" * 3" PostIts and a pen handy. One page, tear it off and stick it on my phone or inside my wallet. (stick a love note to your other half's hair spray or some such in the cabinet, too, sometime.)
Thanks for the article idea. This isn't something I think about often, but am consious of and miss it when it isn't in my pocket. Even to just go outside to the car I feel to make sure it's there. In a crowd, I check on it often, almost unconsiously. Would I be lost somehow if it's goes away (again)? No, not really, but I would be inconvenienced. The most valuable thing in it is the pic of Cassius but I have another somewhere around here. Getting another drivers license isn't musch of a hassle 'cause I leave a spare state ID card on my boat.
I've had my nylon wallet for over 30 years now. It's been stolen twice, the cover is rubbed through, the inner latex is stained and thin, the velcro doesn't anymore. It has 5 pockets. Big one has money (~$100 a week) ordered lowest to highest from outside in then reciepts. One pocket has credit (2) and ins. cards and drivers license. Another pocket has club cards (Caribou coffee, Subway, Circuit City, Sam's, Costco, MARTA pass at the moment). One inner pocket has my business cards and the other has a laminated photo of my grandfather and a Kroger value card (No idea whose but it works). I like to keep the contents to a minnimum so that it's not a lump in my back pocket.
And I'd drop it in a trash can right now (emptied, of course) if I could find a new one with the same configuration and size. Been looking for a new one for years and still haven't found it. Maybe this article will produce some links to wallets.
Thankfully, I can write this via a keyboard because my handwriting is also rather poor. All I use a pen for anymore is postits and my PDA. My sponsor and I argue about using a pen or keyboard to keep a journal. I prefer a keyboard but he says that the 'emotion' doesn't come through. Huh? Read a copy of Tolstoy's stuff lately? Tell me there's no emotion in the very typeset words.
A couple of paragraphs is all I can write until I get wrist cramps. Writing is no longer a natural activity. Thoughts get to the 'paper' faster via keyboard than pen. And there's no backspace key, or spellchecker. These arguments don't phase him.
So, practise, practise, practise. Writing slowly and precisely, using a gradeschool guide that you've already ridiculed is where I'm starting. My postit's still look a mess but my journal is getting better.
No specs at all that I can find but at the bottom of their FAQ is this:
Why does the low battery indicator come on after I put in fresh batteries and use them for only a short time?
Depending on the type and brand of battery, the low battery indicator may come on while there are still hours of battery life left. You can continue to use the ZVUE until the batteries actually run down. You should also be aware, that when the batteries are low, the ZVUE may not operate properly.
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We recently sailed out to Ft Jefferson in the Dry Tortugas. We read where the soldiers would heat cannonballs to red hot and shoot them at enemy ships. They even made an oven with 4 magazines in it for the job. They used layers of wet and dry padding between the poweder and ball in the cannons. My pics don't say what size balls but they were one of 12, 18, or 32 lbs.
These balls would skip along the saltwater and bury themselves in the ships at waterline level where the seamen couldn't get to them. The balls would then burn through the boats hull, hopefully starting a fire.
See, there were even geeks back then with a lot of time and resources on their hands. This must have taken a lot of practice.
Also visited Fort Pulaski outside of Savannah GA. These 2 forts were designed to be very similiar in so many aspects. But there is no mention here of this kind of ball skipping. Where Ft Jefferson is surrounded by water, though, Ft Pulaski only has it near in a 45degree arc, and that's more than a 1/4 mile away. The ships channel is out of cannonball range these days; maybe it wasn't back then.
I used to overclock a couple Celery 300s on an ABIT BP6 mobo. I used peltier plates between the CPU and heatsinks. Once in awhile I'd do something that required me to slow the thing down to see if that was the problem. A couple times I left it slow (actually at normal speed) and it 'grew' unstable and then stopped. Both times I looked inside and saw mold/algea growing around the CPUs!. When I left the plates turned on and the CPUs slow there wasn't enough heat to remove and the dew point was reached. Condensation would form and then mold would grow. I did this twice in 1 1/2 years until I retired the mobo, still serving files.
To clean them, I used toothpaste and an old brush on the CPU. Got the pins nice and shiny. And used a dry toothbrush on the mobo after drying it for ~10mins with a hairdryer.
Garmin comes from the GPS side of this. They're not known for PDAs. I can't see where all 3 would be useful in situations where the GPS is used a lot. And the description doesn't mention water resistance. Makes any GPS useless for real world usage, IMHO.
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As for no networking, my Garmin 76S has a 4 wire conn to my laptop. Serial, true, but plenty fast enough to load maps and routes into it's 24meg. I've never looked into it to see how that part works.I can load maps into it at the nav station and then take it up to the wheel. In the car, it's even easier. Laptop sits on an unoccupied seat and the GPS is against the windshield.
As for the 32meg, I get 4 books, nav s/w, games, etc on my 8meg Visor Edge. Plenty and it's at least somewhat water resistent. (Haven't dropped in the drink, but rain hasn't drowned it... yet) Colour screen would be nice. Reading a book on the GPS would be easier to read than the Edge, me thinks...
As for the MP3 player, I've got a stereo on the boat and in the car. When I'm walking/hiking, I like the sounds around me better. Then again, I'm not a big music-on-the-go buff.
Nice toy for somebody else, I guess. But with $589 I could get a good set of
At the moment, I'm reading the 3rd book in the Honor series on my palm. On this boat, there's plenty of electricity to charge my Handspring Edge but no weight allowance for books. Books melt in this hot, wet weather, anyway...
:) the internal light lasts at least all night. It automatically starts back where I shut it off
.prc versions of the Baen books have a lot of imbedded html that took getting used to. I wonder if I d/led them incorrectly, somehow.
I can read the palm anywhere, anytime. It's 1-handed, readable in the dark and automatically keeps my place. Always gotta hang onto something and the paper versions of these books are rather thick. In the dark of the bunk or on deck (but not when steering
I've d/led at least 7 of the books onto the laptop before we left shore. I can load 3 on the Edge at a time easily. There's still room in there for the CelestNav s/w and a running log.Oh yea, and ShinsenSho.I will mention the
Don't ever intend to buy the books; I learned about the series at the local public library.
My initial reaction to this article was a bit different than those I've seen in the comments.
Way back when... there were only ~25 lines on the screen and we got 1 compile a day (none at the end of the month), we printed all our source on z-fold greenbar paper and desk checked it. When we had something that was beginning to work, we'd hang the code on the wall and step back. If the pattern of the black ink flowed well; the indents and breaks were orderly, the code always seemed to work well. Where we saw disorder, there was the problem. We coded in COBOL, PL/1, basic, db3/Clipper, and 360bal. This worked for all of them.
With the advent of X, we can now see 100 or more lines and modularity is much more popular. I haven't seen source printed with any regularity in years. Ah, practises change with the times and hardware.
Coincident but unrelated to the timing of this article, I found an old Panasonic dot matrix printer yesterday. I've been telling the youngsters here about this method so we're gonna hook this antique up and see if that practise can still work.
- The rich feller earned that money. His choice what he does with it. This is really the bottom line.
- He can buy stuff and give it away (to famine areas, etc) which does nothing for him, except deplete his supply. How many rich despots tyrant over destitute countries? Example: Look at Palistinian "refugee camps" and look that Arafat,et al. never sweat.
Or he can use his money to build an industry and get richer. In the process, many people will be employed and they prosper for lifetimes. This is how Apple, Walmart, etc all are today.
- There are 2 kinds of folks jealous at those with money. One hates what the rich man has and works to take it away. The other one wants what the rich man has and works his tail off until he gets it.
- Our feelings should be the result of what we do. Feelings should not be a motive for actions.
Mountain Houseor or one of the other freeze dried foods producers here in the USA have had a version of a container that self heats for years. They're not cans; a foil coated paper pan with a chemical heater. (sodium and water?) Takes a couple minutes and the food is quite edible (after walking 3 days in the rain, at least).
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