Had a bloody great Winchester in our 286. By bloody great I mean "it took up two 5.25" slots on the front of the PC", back when drives still had front plates because you actually mounted them where you could see them. Forget what the capacity was, might have made it to 120MB or something similar. Made a great door stop in its retirement:)
My old 286 board, that used SIPP expanded memory, is long gone, alas:( Seem to remember it actually had all the base memory slots populated to actually take it up to 512KB of base memory.
My first HDD was on my Atari ST, it was 20MB and, I think, cost over £400 at the time. It was also in a case big enough to use as a monitor stand - this was mostly because it had a PSU, interface adaptor, and the actual HDD in.
I can't remember what type of drive they actually used; I think they were SCSI-1, but you needed the adaptor board because the ACSI protocol was a SCSI derivative, not actual SCSI (IDE didn't even exist at the time).
I remember the old HDDs didn't play well with the STE when it came out - my dad kludged it so it would work again (two pins needed shorting on start up, so he put a micro switch on a couple of pieces of cable on the relevant pins).
I like that people have to convince the police that they're not a fruit loop before you can get a licence. I like that anyone who doesn't have a licence is automatically commiting an offence. I also like that my licence doesn't entitle me to wander around in publc with firearms.
Hmm, infrequently I'd say. It would probably require more people to realize it's actually a stylized L:) Pre € you could of course do it with the Italian Lira symbol too ( as opposed to £).
Surprisingly few companies will actually let you telecommute - they like to see you in the office.
Some companies will pay for quality, a lot of them won't. It depends on whether the people doing the hiring actually know anything about coding. In a lot of places it's a departmental manager who has no coding experience and just sees "I can get coder A for £lots or coder B for £little". The relative experience of the two often doesn't enter in to it.
But really the only way is to change jobs - just trying to code for fun in your free time won't work. If you have a job coding for a living and it's making you fed up with coding, it just puts you off coding at all. You spend all day working on code you hate and have no interest in, the last thing you want do is spend your free time writing more code.
You can change jobs in this economy, I just did it and am somewhat happier for it. The software I work on now is actually interesting to me. I still hate having to commute to work, but you can't have everything.
The root problem with being paid to do your hobby for a living is it stops being your hobby and becomes your job.
Someone from a trusted top tier server sends out cancel messages for their posts and/or configures the server to filter their posts, so they don't filter down stream from them. It's not that much different to blithely accepting creates, really.
At least as far as I can remember. It's been a long time since I looked at how usenet worked.
I was a CoSysOp on a BBS, back in the day. I used to run as a point node off it (and a couple of others). Shamefully I can no longer remember my node numbers though. Used to use FrontDoor for grabbing my mail and doing file transfers.
I believe it's also because Mono was largely developed by Novell, who had a licensing agreement with Microsoft. I think Microsoft also saw Mono as a way of proliferating support for Silverlight outside of the Windows platform, so were fairly accepting of it anyway. Although Silverlight seem to be fairly dead - I don't think I've really sites outside of Microsoft's using it and even they seem to have stopped.
It lags significantly behind Microsoft's.NET framework. Only fairly basic programs will compile on both Microsoft's version of the framework and on Mono without modifications. A moderately complex Windows Forms application...won't.
The tendency for people to forget there's an entire section of the Framework that isn't about ASP.NET doesn't seem to be unique to Mono though.
Except for all those nice box cargo ships and tankers with their shiny ECDIS systems which require GPS to know where they are. And their AIS trancievers, which use GPS to tell other ships where they are. I'm not sure I'd want to potter around the north of Scotland in something 250m long and over 125,000 DWT with someone messing about with GPS.
Civilians aren't just people pottering about in their little pleasure boats.
Sounds like the southern end of the RARDE Waltham Abbey - it's all under a housing estate and/or commercial sites now. The north end is protected and forms the Waltham Abbey Royal Gunpowder Mills museum (awesome place to visit, especially if you can get on a walking tour of the restricted access portion)
If you asked me what industry I worked in I would say Marine Services, if you asked me more specifically I'd say Navigation. If you asked me what I actually did, I'd tell you I was a software engineer (or developer or programmer depending on what mood I was in that day).
I think it would be more accurate to say that very few become the kind of programmer they end up as out of choice.
A lot of people want to be programmers because they think of writing fun and exciting software (usually games). What they very quickly find out is that there aren't actually that many jobs in that sort of development; what most of us end up doing is the kind of software that is hidden away behind closed doors, used by only a few people for some internal business task.
Even the softwre I work on now that is used by people outside of my employer is used by a relatively small esoteric group. And I still have to work on code for internal use only.
That's a shame, because Augustine of Hippo was much more than just a saint. For a start you have to be dead to be a saint, which means all the important stuff he did was long before he was a saint. He was also a strong advocate of Just War - that people should be pacifists in their daily lives, but that this didn't extend to the defence of innocents. He was also an exponent of the bible as metaphor, not literal. He did have some pretty crap views on sex and contraception though.
Which only applies to warfare and prisoners of war. That's why your police are allowed to shoot people with hollow head rounds and the armed forces aren't.
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It's centre-right, not right wing.
Had a bloody great Winchester in our 286. By bloody great I mean "it took up two 5.25" slots on the front of the PC", back when drives still had front plates because you actually mounted them where you could see them. Forget what the capacity was, might have made it to 120MB or something similar. Made a great door stop in its retirement :)
My old 286 board, that used SIPP expanded memory, is long gone, alas :( Seem to remember it actually had all the base memory slots populated to actually take it up to 512KB of base memory.
My first HDD was on my Atari ST, it was 20MB and, I think, cost over £400 at the time. It was also in a case big enough to use as a monitor stand - this was mostly because it had a PSU, interface adaptor, and the actual HDD in.
I can't remember what type of drive they actually used; I think they were SCSI-1, but you needed the adaptor board because the ACSI protocol was a SCSI derivative, not actual SCSI (IDE didn't even exist at the time).
I remember the old HDDs didn't play well with the STE when it came out - my dad kludged it so it would work again (two pins needed shorting on start up, so he put a micro switch on a couple of pieces of cable on the relevant pins).
Foruntatly MSDN went downloads prefered some time ago. It may even be downloads required by now.
I like that people have to convince the police that they're not a fruit loop before you can get a licence. I like that anyone who doesn't have a licence is automatically commiting an offence. I also like that my licence doesn't entitle me to wander around in publc with firearms.
Hmm, infrequently I'd say. It would probably require more people to realize it's actually a stylized L :) Pre € you could of course do it with the Italian Lira symbol too ( as opposed to £).
Surprisingly few companies will actually let you telecommute - they like to see you in the office.
Some companies will pay for quality, a lot of them won't. It depends on whether the people doing the hiring actually know anything about coding. In a lot of places it's a departmental manager who has no coding experience and just sees "I can get coder A for £lots or coder B for £little". The relative experience of the two often doesn't enter in to it.
But really the only way is to change jobs - just trying to code for fun in your free time won't work. If you have a job coding for a living and it's making you fed up with coding, it just puts you off coding at all. You spend all day working on code you hate and have no interest in, the last thing you want do is spend your free time writing more code.
You can change jobs in this economy, I just did it and am somewhat happier for it. The software I work on now is actually interesting to me. I still hate having to commute to work, but you can't have everything.
The root problem with being paid to do your hobby for a living is it stops being your hobby and becomes your job.
Someone from a trusted top tier server sends out cancel messages for their posts and/or configures the server to filter their posts, so they don't filter down stream from them. It's not that much different to blithely accepting creates, really.
At least as far as I can remember. It's been a long time since I looked at how usenet worked.
That's not true. I still live in my bedroom.
Also, what do you mean "turn in to"?
I was a CoSysOp on a BBS, back in the day. I used to run as a point node off it (and a couple of others). Shamefully I can no longer remember my node numbers though. Used to use FrontDoor for grabbing my mail and doing file transfers.
I believe it's also because Mono was largely developed by Novell, who had a licensing agreement with Microsoft. I think Microsoft also saw Mono as a way of proliferating support for Silverlight outside of the Windows platform, so were fairly accepting of it anyway. Although Silverlight seem to be fairly dead - I don't think I've really sites outside of Microsoft's using it and even they seem to have stopped.
It lags significantly behind Microsoft's .NET framework. Only fairly basic programs will compile on both Microsoft's version of the framework and on Mono without modifications. A moderately complex Windows Forms application...won't.
The tendency for people to forget there's an entire section of the Framework that isn't about ASP.NET doesn't seem to be unique to Mono though.
Not according to our courts it's not. The Sexual Offences Act is explcitly framed to be neutral as to the sex of the people involved.
Except for all those nice box cargo ships and tankers with their shiny ECDIS systems which require GPS to know where they are. And their AIS trancievers, which use GPS to tell other ships where they are. I'm not sure I'd want to potter around the north of Scotland in something 250m long and over 125,000 DWT with someone messing about with GPS.
Civilians aren't just people pottering about in their little pleasure boats.
It's the civil service; they don't pay anyone but permanent secretaries decent money. Front line staff get paid peanuts.
He got given £50 personally by Churchill too. That was his entire reward for creating the bombes and other contributions.
Sounds like the southern end of the RARDE Waltham Abbey - it's all under a housing estate and/or commercial sites now. The north end is protected and forms the Waltham Abbey Royal Gunpowder Mills museum (awesome place to visit, especially if you can get on a walking tour of the restricted access portion)
Erich Maria Remarque, for example (author of "All Quiet On The Western Front").
If you asked me what industry I worked in I would say Marine Services, if you asked me more specifically I'd say Navigation. If you asked me what I actually did, I'd tell you I was a software engineer (or developer or programmer depending on what mood I was in that day).
I think it would be more accurate to say that very few become the kind of programmer they end up as out of choice.
A lot of people want to be programmers because they think of writing fun and exciting software (usually games). What they very quickly find out is that there aren't actually that many jobs in that sort of development; what most of us end up doing is the kind of software that is hidden away behind closed doors, used by only a few people for some internal business task.
Even the softwre I work on now that is used by people outside of my employer is used by a relatively small esoteric group. And I still have to work on code for internal use only.
There was only one manufacturer at the time, really, Intel. Although Cyrix did start off as a match co-processor developer, come to think of it.
That's a shame, because Augustine of Hippo was much more than just a saint. For a start you have to be dead to be a saint, which means all the important stuff he did was long before he was a saint. He was also a strong advocate of Just War - that people should be pacifists in their daily lives, but that this didn't extend to the defence of innocents. He was also an exponent of the bible as metaphor, not literal. He did have some pretty crap views on sex and contraception though.
Which only applies to warfare and prisoners of war. That's why your police are allowed to shoot people with hollow head rounds and the armed forces aren't.
Conveniently Russia and NATO subs used exactly the same docking rings on their hatches too, iirc.
heh, you know that's actually a good point.