The there are many old Macs that are great well designed machines and others that are so poorly designed that they are almost total crap. One that is really bad that comes to mind is the PB 5300. Of course there are some that aren't as well known, but are just as bad. Like the PowerMac 5200 series. Go here if you want to read about some really bad old Macs: http://www.lowendmac.net/roadapples/index.shtml
This is nothing new, the MacOS have been able to use 2 TB volumes since mid-1995 with the release of PCI Macs or any Macs that came with System 7.5.2 or newer. Of course using 7.5.2 and HFS the Allocation Block Size would be a little over 32 MB. So if there was a text file that only consisted of a new line character, the file would be 32MB. Sort of pointless for anyone with lots of small files. Of course this has been fixed by HFS+. And yes, in MacOS 9.0 files are limited to 2 TB and not 2GB.
I kind of wonder if Lucas didn't release DVD because it didn't look that much worse than the digital film for theaters that Lucas was saying he was going to foist on us. That probably is being paranoid of me.
As an aside there is a VideoCD (VCD) version of TPM. I have not seen it. However people who have reviewed the VCD have said that it isn't as good as a DVD would have been, but it still was better than a VHS tape.
Where have I heard that name before. Oh yeah they were famous in the early part of the twentieth century for strike breaking and union busting. They were probably also responsible for several riots. Well I guess this is just a continuation of the great Pinkerton legacy.
I don't know, I'm sort of depressed. I am user # 11893. I mean I am relatively close to being under 10K, but what can I do? Since I almost never post and lurk instead, I cannot remember why I registered an account. It may have been for the ability to save the the comment display settings or for Slashboxes. I don't know.
The middle men and the brick and mortar store also tack on to the cost too. For instance if you have ever tried to buy computer equipment or anything else in an electronics "superstore" and compare it to the cost at a store online, you might notice that the brick and mortar store charges much more. For instance I was pricing a null modem cable from the local Best Buy and comparing the cost to a similar item from Buy.com. The cable at Best Buy was $20 and $4 at Buy.com. Now I imagine that most new CD's are sold at brick and mortar stores and the mark ups for a CD aren't extreme as for cables. Much of the cost of a CD is in markups along the way though. I mean how many items not on clearance do you think you could find for less $5 at a Best Buy or a similar store? For that matter without rebates how many things are there at a Best Buy that have the same cost as a store online? Getting back to CDs though, what amazes me is that supposedly the record labels can still lose money on an album. Don't ask me how though.
I left a magnet from the thing that moves the heads a hard drive, which is a pretty strong magnet, overnight on a Zip 250 disk. The disk didn't get damaged.
Hey it is not that bad of an idea, I mean can anyone else think of a better misuse of an iBook? For that matter what about making a "830\VULF CLU573R" of Digital Cameras or a router?
One of the problems with early CD-ROM titles was "shovelware". This was where the developer had a huge, at the time, amount of space. The developer would sometimes feel that the whole CD-ROM needed to be filled up and generally ended up filling the CD up with useless crap. This might end up being a problem with these disks.
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> A Pentium 166 runs MacOS 6 apps like a Mac IIfx under DOS. Think of what it'd be like on a PIII equivalent.
I'm sort of confused by this. Does this mean that your P166 ran like a IIfx running DOS apps? I vaguely remember running SoftDOS on a Mac LC several years ago, it was about as slow as a glacier. Now a IIfx is a couple times faster than a LC. Now I think that a IIfx running DOS apps would be about as slow as warm tar. So did your P166 run about as fast as warm tar? If so why didn't you just save yourself the trouble and throw your P166 into warm tar?
Or does this mean that on a PIII, Executor would be as fast as a Quadra 650 under _System_ 6? In other words, does this just mean that a PIII would be able to run apps that I would never want to use at a slower speed than my PowerMac 6500?
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What basis do people have to say that the first century started on 1 A.D.? The most common reason I have heard is that there was no concept of zero when the calender, so the first year was 1 A.D. This brings up questions for me. Does our calender count elapsed time from a starting point or does it count time as an ordinal number? For instance one day after the starting point would mathemeticians from the middle ages have said that it was day one or year one, day one? would a year from the starting point would have been year one or year two. If our calender is elaped time then 12/31/199 is the last day of the millenium. However if the calender is counted in ordinal time then 12/31/2000 is the last day of the millenium. So what is it? Anyone have any idea.
I don't think anyone else has suggested this, but to make you program even more unmaintainable use special characters. For instance MrC on a Mac will allow you to use one special character instead of two like opt-equal for not equal, opt-comma for less than or equal, or opt-period for greater than or equal. Now if you were to use this randomly, if someone else ever tried to port the program to a different platform using a compiler that didn't support these characters, it would be unpleasent to say the least. If you've done your job a maintainer would have to look at a bizzare character and guess what the correct symbol would be. Of course eventually a maintainer could figure out what character meant what. Even better depending on how the program was translated the symbol for less than or equal could be turned into just less than, making for a fun time debugging when things hit boundry conditions.
> Its been shown that Volcanic activitis relase a large amount of Hydrocarbons.
I would like to know where this volcano is. If it was lava from say Iceland or Hawaii, I might find some credence in this hypothesis of non-biological petroleum because this lava is more or less from the mantle and would have no organic matter. However if this lava was from say the Western US or Japan I would be sort of suspect, this lava almost certainly had a former life at the bottom of an oceanic trench with plenty of decayed orgainc matter. This rock was then subducted down under the continental plate and the top layers of the ocean crust melted to send magma to the continent. Whatever hydrocarbons you find now are probably from organic matter.
Now this kind of lava generally becomes granite, probably much like the oil producing granite in Sweden. Hmm, now ordinarly the temperature and pressures associated with melting of the crust should cause whatever oil in the rocks to turn into methane and disappear. However any oil you find in granite could come from underlying sedimentary rocks with oil. The oil could have risen and been trapped by a very impermeable layer of granite. Presto, oil in granite.
At the University of Minnesota-Duluth (UMD), where I go, I am using Computer Organization and Design. for my my Computer Organization class. However for the introductory ECE class that CS majors have to take I used another book, Digital Logic Circuit Analysis & Design by Victor Nelson et al. With only skimming over the web version of Contemporary Logic Design and comparing it to Digital Logic Circuit Analysis & Design the two books seem to cover the same main topics near the beginning. However, DLCA&D goes into more detail with boolean algebra but CLD seems to discuss topics in the last chapter that DLCA&D does not. But DLCA&D seems to cover many more topics that CLD does not seem to even touch. In the last chapters DLCA&D seems to focus on Progammable Logic Devices and testing of circuits. Has anyone else had any experience with Digital Logic Circuit Analysis & Design and could perhaps correct anything I might have missed or misstated?
> This is true ASSUMING you can get the machine to > run for more than 10 minutes on a battery.;-)
I have a Powerbook Duo 2300 that has a 603e at 100Mhz that lasts about 3 miniutes on its battery. Granted it is a Type I battery that was manufactured in 1992 and that type of battery that is not supposed to work very long in the 2300 anyway.
Another way to destroy hardware is to find some way to put the power cable for a hard drive upside down. There is something about 12 Volts that 5 Volt components just don't like one bit. What's also great about this is that the hard drive won't spin up and one might wonder if the power cable wasn't put in properly. Oh yeah and the smell isn't too pleasent either.:)
I've also done some really stupid things in my life like adjusting a potentiometer with a metal screwdriver on a monitor with the case off and the monitor on.
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What about my Macintosh 6500? I would assume that since the Developer releases didn't support the 6500 that it won't be supported. I suppose I could install LinuxPPC now that I finally bought an external modem and got rid of that stupid internal modem.
This bill from Arizona also would possibly also make many recent Texas Instruments graphing calculators with Flash ROMs illegal. Somewhere in my TI-89 there is a serial number embedded in it. I'm not exactly sure how it is implemented though. Granted these calculators aren't exactly common, yet.
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The there are many old Macs that are great well designed machines and others that are so poorly designed that they are almost total crap. One that is really bad that comes to mind is the PB 5300. Of course there are some that aren't as well known, but are just as bad. Like the PowerMac 5200 series.
Go here if you want to read about some really bad old Macs:
http://www.lowendmac.net/roadapples/index.shtml
This is nothing new, the MacOS have been able to use 2 TB volumes since mid-1995 with the release of PCI Macs or any Macs that came with System 7.5.2 or newer. Of course using 7.5.2 and HFS the Allocation Block Size would be a little over 32 MB. So if there was a text file that only consisted of a new line character, the file would be 32MB. Sort of pointless for anyone with lots of small files. Of course this has been fixed by HFS+. And yes, in MacOS 9.0 files are limited to 2 TB and not 2GB.
I kind of wonder if Lucas didn't release DVD because it didn't look that much worse than the digital film for theaters that Lucas was saying he was going to foist on us. That probably is being paranoid of me.
As an aside there is a VideoCD (VCD) version of TPM. I have not seen it. However people who have reviewed the VCD have said that it isn't as good as a DVD would have been, but it still was better than a VHS tape.
Pinkerton...
Pinkerton...
Where have I heard that name before. Oh yeah they were famous in the early part of the twentieth century for strike breaking and union busting. They were probably also responsible for several riots. Well I guess this is just a continuation of the great Pinkerton legacy.
I don't know, I'm sort of depressed. I am user # 11893. I mean I am relatively close to being under 10K, but what can I do? Since I almost never post and lurk instead, I cannot remember why I registered an account. It may have been for the ability to save the the comment display settings or for Slashboxes. I don't know.
The middle men and the brick and mortar store also tack on to the cost too. For instance if you have ever tried to buy computer equipment or anything else in an electronics "superstore" and compare it to the cost at a store online, you might notice that the brick and mortar store charges much more. For instance I was pricing a null modem cable from the local Best Buy and comparing the cost to a similar item from Buy.com. The cable at Best Buy was $20 and $4 at Buy.com. Now I imagine that most new CD's are sold at brick and mortar stores and the mark ups for a CD aren't extreme as for cables. Much of the cost of a CD is in markups along the way though. I mean how many items not on clearance do you think you could find for less $5 at a Best Buy or a similar store? For that matter without rebates how many things are there at a Best Buy that have the same cost as a store online?
Getting back to CDs though, what amazes me is that supposedly the record labels can still lose money on an album. Don't ask me how though.
I left a magnet from the thing that moves the heads a hard drive, which is a pretty strong magnet, overnight on a Zip 250 disk. The disk didn't get damaged.
> -WH04 D00D 1 \V4N7 4 830\VULF CLU573R 0F 1B00KZ
Hey it is not that bad of an idea, I mean can anyone else think of a better misuse of an iBook?
For that matter what about making a "830\VULF CLU573R" of Digital Cameras or a router?
One of the problems with early CD-ROM titles was "shovelware". This was where the developer had a huge, at the time, amount of space. The developer would sometimes feel that the whole CD-ROM needed to be filled up and generally ended up filling the CD up with useless crap. This might end up being a problem with these disks.
> A Pentium 166 runs MacOS 6 apps like a Mac IIfx under DOS. Think of what it'd be like on a PIII equivalent.
I'm sort of confused by this. Does this mean that your P166 ran like a IIfx running DOS apps? I vaguely remember running SoftDOS on a Mac LC several years ago, it was about as slow as a glacier. Now a IIfx is a couple times faster than a LC. Now I think that a IIfx running DOS apps would be about as slow as warm tar. So did your P166 run about as fast as warm tar? If so why didn't you just save yourself the trouble and throw your P166 into warm tar?
Or does this mean that on a PIII, Executor would be as fast as a Quadra 650 under _System_ 6? In other words, does this just mean that a PIII would be able to run apps that I would never want to use at a slower speed than my PowerMac 6500?
What basis do people have to say that the first century started on 1 A.D.? The most common reason I have heard is that there was no concept of zero when the calender, so the first year was 1 A.D. This brings up questions for me. Does our calender count elapsed time from a starting point or does it count time as an ordinal number? For instance one day after the starting point would mathemeticians from the middle ages have said that it was day one or year one, day one? would a year from the starting point would have been year one or year two. If our calender is elaped time then 12/31/199 is the last day of the millenium. However if the calender is counted in ordinal time then 12/31/2000 is the last day of the millenium. So what is it? Anyone have any idea.
I don't think anyone else has suggested this, but to make you program even more unmaintainable use special characters.
For instance MrC on a Mac will allow you to use one special character instead of two like opt-equal for not equal, opt-comma for less than or equal, or opt-period for greater than or equal. Now if you were to use this randomly, if someone else ever tried to port the program to a different platform using a compiler that didn't support these characters, it would be unpleasent to say the least. If you've done your job a maintainer would have to look at a bizzare character and guess what the correct symbol would be. Of course eventually a maintainer could figure out what character meant what. Even better depending on how the program was translated the symbol for less than or equal could be turned into just less than, making for a fun time debugging when things hit boundry conditions.
> Its been shown that Volcanic activitis relase a large amount of Hydrocarbons.
I would like to know where this volcano is. If it was lava from say Iceland or Hawaii, I might find some credence in this hypothesis of non-biological petroleum because this lava is more or less from the mantle and would have no organic matter.
However if this lava was from say the Western US or Japan I would be sort of suspect, this lava almost certainly had a former life at the bottom of an oceanic trench with plenty of decayed orgainc matter. This rock was then subducted down under the continental plate and the top layers of the ocean crust melted to send magma to the continent. Whatever hydrocarbons you find now are probably from organic matter.
Now this kind of lava generally becomes granite, probably much like the oil producing granite in Sweden. Hmm, now ordinarly the temperature and pressures associated with melting of the crust should cause whatever oil in the rocks to turn into methane and disappear. However any oil you find in granite could come from underlying sedimentary rocks with oil. The oil could have risen and been trapped by a very impermeable layer of granite. Presto, oil in granite.
Hey no one is going to do that to me!
At the University of Minnesota-Duluth (UMD), where I go, I am using Computer Organization and Design. for my my Computer Organization class. However for the introductory ECE class that CS majors have to take I used another book, Digital Logic Circuit Analysis & Design by Victor Nelson et al. With only skimming over the web version of Contemporary Logic Design and comparing it to Digital Logic Circuit Analysis & Design the two books seem to cover the same main topics near the beginning. However, DLCA&D goes into more detail with boolean algebra but CLD seems to discuss topics in the last chapter that DLCA&D does not. But DLCA&D seems to cover many more topics that CLD does not seem to even touch. In the last chapters DLCA&D seems to focus on Progammable Logic Devices and testing of circuits. Has anyone else had any experience with Digital Logic Circuit Analysis & Design and could perhaps correct anything I might have missed or misstated?
> This is true ASSUMING you can get the machine to ;-)
> run for more than 10 minutes on a battery.
I have a Powerbook Duo 2300 that has a 603e at 100Mhz that lasts about 3 miniutes on its battery. Granted it is a Type I battery that was manufactured in 1992 and that type of battery that is not supposed to work very long in the 2300 anyway.
Another way to destroy hardware is to find some way to put the power cable for a hard drive upside down. There is something about 12 Volts that 5 Volt components just don't like one bit. What's also great about this is that the hard drive won't spin up and one might wonder if the power cable wasn't put in properly. Oh yeah and the smell isn't too pleasent either. :)
I've also done some really stupid things in my life like adjusting a potentiometer with a metal screwdriver on a monitor with the case off and the monitor on.
What about my Macintosh 6500? I would assume that since the Developer releases didn't support the 6500 that it won't be supported. I suppose I could install LinuxPPC now that I finally bought an external modem and got rid of that stupid internal modem.
This bill from Arizona also would possibly also make many recent Texas Instruments graphing calculators with Flash ROMs illegal. Somewhere in my TI-89 there is a serial number embedded in it. I'm not exactly sure how it is implemented though. Granted these calculators aren't exactly common, yet.