I made my own desktop. Two epoxy-glued layers of 3/4 inch plywood, covered and edged with off-white formica. It is supported by 2-drawer file cabinets. Size is 8 ft wide and 3 ft deep. I have 2x4 reinforcements underneath the top. Holes in the back for cables. It is a solid thing you can jump on. From Amazon I got a pull-out drawer unit for pencils, and some other bric-a-brac. I have a keyboard hutch, and the monitor used to be on top of the hutch, but now is on an arm from the wall. I like this desktop, rugged, custom and ample enough to do work, including soldering up things from time to time. www.xalaska.com Nome, Alaska, USA
You could put them in a bag, tie them to the chain, but you would need to buy some pulleys to get the right amount of pull. Then, you take the routers, tie them to the hook and, voila, the door opens. Simple. To close the door, remove the bag. You might need an 800 ft tower for the upper pulley.
Guns, no guns. This is usually a case of east coast liberals vs westerners. I am of the westerner type, and if some black kid tries to hold me up with a knife, he's gonna find out real quick the meaning of "don't bring a knife to a gun fight." My little.380 auto will take care of him. Dead, of course; less chance of having him tell a different story. Trump 2020.
The problem with voice mail is that people leave messages. Carriers have it backwards. What I want is an OUTGOING message: "I am vacationing in Tehran until June 22, please call back after that." Then, click, hang up. But no carrier has OGM service, only tied with incoming. What I ended up doing is have the carrier disable voice mail. You call, it rings and rings if I am not around to answer.
The other problem with Voice Mail is that it frustrates the caller: "You have reached the voice mail service of TWO... ONE... TWO... NINE... FOUR... SEVEN... FIVE... FIVE TWO... EIGHT, the person is not in right now. You may leave a message after the tone, or select the following options.... " AD NAUSEAM. In many cases that baloney precedes what you want to say, and no way to disable it. I used to have "Leave message." (nothing else), but again, see paragraph above. Then the carrier started adding that crap, so it reinforced my desire to cancel voice mail.
Fortran II on an IBM 6020, puched cards; then IBM 7044 also punched cards. On microcomputers, Altair 8800, I used 8080 Assembler, Z80 Assembler, Altair Mits BASIC (by Bill Gates), then dBase II under cp/m 1.4 and 2.2. Those were the days, noisy machines, teletypes, chain printers (scary!), and *lots* of blinking lights: incandescents too, not LED's like later. Today I use mostly Bash Scripting with extensions for hardware manipulation.
A quick comment on BASIC. The disadvantage of Basic is sphagetti code due to GOTO's. The Advantage of Basic is that it *has* GOTO statements. If you want to try some real sphagetti code, try 8080 assembler! But both *can* be elegant.
Mine was an Altair 8800 (no letter suffix), in 1979, with three 8" disk drives. I later added a 64K Static RAM card that allowed disabling sections of RAM, added a card for EPROM (uv erase), with custom boot loader. In later years I added an S-100 floppy controller for 5" drives; and I built an interface for 5 MB mfm hard drive. My best mod was to to take out the 8080 cpu card and put in a Cromemco Z80 card, running the cpu at 4 mhz (otherwise the data coming off double density drives exceeded the capacity of the cpu to handle the move from floppy to buffer). I used the MITS basic very little and instead booted CP/M
Initial console was a teletype machine at 110 cps, then a teletype 43 at 300 cps, and finally a CRT terminal 80 x 25. I used a variety of printers, including the teletype 4, but my best was to use an IBM selectric typewriter as a printer with an add-in serial interface.
Still have that computer, in storage, as well as one or two more 8800 Altairs and an IMSAI 8080. I became quite adept at programing in 8080 and Z80 assembler. My best purchased software was dBase II -- a heck of a program! I never did games on this computer.
My next ones were a CCS Z80 (also S-100), and then a TRS-80-IV, both with CP/M and hard drives.
Far did I come; right now my desktop is an IBM/Lenovo M93p i7 processor and all SSD drives. Only game is solitaire and minesweeper. Not much of a gamer. And my favorite programming language is Bash Script with some additions to add hardware manipulation. I am 72 years old.
That username is associated with child pornography. Proof: See the 4,269 FBI indictments against him. Its the ADDRESS that is elusive. Everywhere the FBI goes "He just moved out, or he hacked into my WiFi !"
Ivan Boesky did. 300 million as I recall. It was transferred to his wife, divorced, she kept it. He serves a year in jail, gets out, wife gifts him most of it back.
"First, the U.S. government needs probable cause..." Yes, for a legal wiretap of which the recording is going to be used in court of law. But, if all you want to do is to listen, record and then LEAK what you heard, then anything goes. Specially POLITICAL wiretaps. The title of this piece should have been "How LEGAL wiretaps work."
Because, sir, a robot cannot piss on the moon or Mars. Only people can do that.
Its like my friend's dog. It is a life support system for a stomach. Similarly, the Lunar vehicles etc are just a system for getting a toilet to the Moon. Or, if you are a low tech Luddite, a pissing stick. See how high you can "mark" it.
Or the greenies, the do gooders, the democrats, the pro-welfare state. To go space exploring will take BALLS, and there will be setbacks, loss of life, etc. Today with modern materials, computers, Bigelows and the like, we can make the whole lander/capsule etc at a fraction of the weight, and if we use the same safety standards we did in 1968, probably a fraction of the price as well. And there are LOTS of volunteers with "the right stuff."
This reminds me of little games I like to play with the local schoolteachers.
I say: "The earth is flat. I want YOU to prove me otherwise!" Teacher: "Easy, I can take you out to earth orbit and you can see the earth is round." Me: "Ok, lets go!"
You are in a foreign country. Upload your data to a foreign server. I recommend a one-time key for encryption. Erase it from your phone. Enter the U.S.A. Retrieve the data. Erase it from server. End of problem. Avoids border hassles. All perfectly legal.
You got to whip it out and take a piss on it before you can claim to having been there. All we've ever done is to leave some footprints and tire tracks. We need to go there and set up a base. Reusable rockets launched from orbit, and shuttle to the moon over the years. Just gas them up in orbit - earth or moon orbit. And how can you guys claim "there is nothing up there." We know for a fact a monolith was found in 2001, there could be lots up there. Diamonds, Gold, Helium-3. Lets put the golden arches up there! Better than wasting money enriching insurance companies with Obamacare. -- Late term abortion should be legal until age 8
There are few to none Linux desktops out there, forcing us to install Linux on a formerly windows machine. Sometimes the results are not pretty. I had good luck with Lenovo (in my case M93p, NVIDIA graphics, Small Form Factor -not tiny although that one works too). Still would be good if you could find in your Super Duper computer store the rig you want, and choose Windows and/or Linux, AND PAY ACCORDINGLY.
Free health care; Late term abortion legal until age 8; Generous guaranteed income; Allow widespread use of killer robots by military; Tax arab oil as it comes out of the ground over THERE; (see above if they don't want to pay the tax); Split the justice into PENAL and CORRECTIONS; Allow dueling; Allow for hunting of a rival IF you serve 5 years' first (but the rival can kill you anytime); If you are military, government worker; or on an entitlement, such as Welfare, Food Stamps, etc. you don't get to VOTE until you are off the system for, say, 5 years. (law enforcement exempted, and military after 4 years in service); A single woman can have an abortion, but if father does not agree, then there is no child support due; Illegal immigrants that are deported and then return, should be executed; All 2nd and up DUI's: Car is forfeit. Too bad if you have it financed or borrowed from a friend; but, Any person with a DUI, their license picture has a red background; You kill someone while DUI, you get death penalty; You sell a class A drug to a minor; death penalty; All citizens (those that can vote), are required to have gun training; Same sex unions are ok, and legally binding, but should NOT be called "marriage"; If you sue someone, and lose, you pay yours and THEIR's legal bill. There should be a national sales or consumption tax, NOT an income tax; A person 65 or over would not owe property tax on his primary residence; An illegal alien needing health care is deported at the end of their care; Companies hiring H1B workers need to put the job out for "bid" to make sure the H1B person is needed and there is no alternative; Companies owning factories overseas must pay a hefty import duty; NAFTA and TPP need to be revised; Trump's "wall" needs to have electrified wires, dogs, and autonomous machine guns. Vultures become a protected species;
Does that mean that NSA, FBI, IRS, etc. would not "attack my server?" This is the most idiotic idea that anyone ever not thought through. Its a total non-starter. I thought even Clintonite Democrats from Washington and California were smarter than that.
Seems to me that NASA/JPL should have anticipated this, and come up with a solution BEFORE they sent this guy out. Lots of solutions have been proposed here, technical, legal, etc., but really the one that should pitch in is this particular employer.
I was 20 and in college, and I did not think too much on it. I regretted Gus Grissom, he was kind of a hero, before he got immolated. At the time -- and I still do -- that going to space was very dangerous, risky and absolutely romantic. Look what it did to NASA: they have become a do-nothing bureacracy that have put so many safety rules and protocols that nothing gets done. They were absolutely astounded when so many people applied for the one-way trip to Mars.
Only California. Look the election results. As for the rest of your comments, I fear you are one of those Democrats that just cannot get over the fact they lost the election. Get over it.
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I made my own desktop. Two epoxy-glued layers of 3/4 inch plywood, covered and edged with off-white formica. It is supported by 2-drawer file cabinets. Size is 8 ft wide and 3 ft deep. I have 2x4 reinforcements underneath the top. Holes in the back for cables. It is a solid thing you can jump on. From Amazon I got a pull-out drawer unit for pencils, and some other bric-a-brac. I have a keyboard hutch, and the monitor used to be on top of the hutch, but now is on an arm from the wall. I like this desktop, rugged, custom and ample enough to do work, including soldering up things from time to time. www.xalaska.com Nome, Alaska, USA
You could put them in a bag, tie them to the chain, but you would need to buy some pulleys to get the right
amount of pull. Then, you take the routers, tie them to the hook and, voila, the door opens. Simple. To
close the door, remove the bag. You might need an 800 ft tower for the upper pulley.
> "What is some white kid who tries to hold you up with a knife going to find out?"
What I've found out is that black, white, yellow ... they all bleed red!
This is all a #FakeNews method of flooding the internet with anti-Trump stuff. Bet you CNN has a stake in this method!
Guns, no guns. This is usually a case of east coast liberals vs westerners. I am of the westerner type, and if .380 auto will take care of him. Dead, of course; less chance of having him tell
some black kid tries to hold me up with a knife, he's gonna find out real quick the meaning of "don't bring a
knife to a gun fight." My little
a different story. Trump 2020.
The problem with voice mail is that people leave messages. Carriers have it backwards. What I want is
an OUTGOING message: "I am vacationing in Tehran until June 22, please call back after that." Then,
click, hang up. But no carrier has OGM service, only tied with incoming. What I ended up doing is have
the carrier disable voice mail. You call, it rings and rings if I am not around to answer.
The other problem with Voice Mail is that it frustrates the caller: ... ONE ... TWO ... NINE ... FOUR ... SEVEN ... FIVE ... FIVE ... EIGHT, the person is not in right now. You may leave a message after the tone, or select the following .... " AD NAUSEAM. In many cases that baloney precedes what you want to say, and no way to
"You have reached the voice mail service of TWO
TWO
options
disable it. I used to have "Leave message." (nothing else), but again, see paragraph above. Then the carrier
started adding that crap, so it reinforced my desire to cancel voice mail.
Fortran II on an IBM 6020, puched cards; then IBM 7044 also punched cards. On microcomputers, Altair 8800, I used
8080 Assembler, Z80 Assembler, Altair Mits BASIC (by Bill Gates), then dBase II under cp/m 1.4 and 2.2. Those
were the days, noisy machines, teletypes, chain printers (scary!), and *lots* of blinking lights: incandescents too,
not LED's like later. Today I use mostly Bash Scripting with extensions for hardware manipulation.
A quick comment on BASIC. The disadvantage of Basic is sphagetti code due to GOTO's. The Advantage of
Basic is that it *has* GOTO statements. If you want to try some real sphagetti code, try 8080 assembler! But
both *can* be elegant.
Mine was an Altair 8800 (no letter suffix), in 1979, with three 8" disk drives. I later added a 64K Static RAM card that allowed
disabling sections of RAM, added a card for EPROM (uv erase), with custom boot loader. In later years I added an
S-100 floppy controller for 5" drives; and I built an interface for 5 MB mfm hard drive. My best mod was to to take out the
8080 cpu card and put in a Cromemco Z80 card, running the cpu at 4 mhz (otherwise the data coming off double density
drives exceeded the capacity of the cpu to handle the move from floppy to buffer). I used the MITS basic very little and
instead booted CP/M
Initial console was a teletype machine at 110 cps, then a teletype 43 at 300 cps, and finally a CRT terminal 80 x 25.
I used a variety of printers, including the teletype 4, but my best was to use an IBM selectric typewriter as a printer with
an add-in serial interface.
Still have that computer, in storage, as well as one or two more 8800 Altairs and an IMSAI 8080. I became quite adept
at programing in 8080 and Z80 assembler. My best purchased software was dBase II -- a heck of a program! I never
did games on this computer.
My next ones were a CCS Z80 (also S-100), and then a TRS-80-IV, both with CP/M and hard drives.
Far did I come; right now my desktop is an IBM/Lenovo M93p i7 processor and all SSD drives. Only game is
solitaire and minesweeper. Not much of a gamer. And my favorite programming language is Bash Script with some
additions to add hardware manipulation. I am 72 years old.
That username is associated with child pornography. Proof: See the 4,269 FBI indictments against
him. Its the ADDRESS that is elusive. Everywhere the FBI goes "He just moved out, or he hacked
into my WiFi !"
Ivan Boesky did. 300 million as I recall. It was transferred to his wife, divorced, she kept it.
He serves a year in jail, gets out, wife gifts him most of it back.
"First, the U.S. government needs probable cause..." Yes, for a legal wiretap of which the recording is going to be used in court of law.
But, if all you want to do is to listen, record and then LEAK what you heard, then anything goes. Specially POLITICAL wiretaps. The
title of this piece should have been "How LEGAL wiretaps work."
Never mind the X-prize. Lets do the P-Prize. $100 million to the first person to piss on the moon.
Because, sir, a robot cannot piss on the moon or Mars. Only people can do that.
Its like my friend's dog. It is a life support system for a stomach.
Similarly, the Lunar vehicles etc are just a system for getting a toilet to the Moon.
Or, if you are a low tech Luddite, a pissing stick. See how high you can "mark" it.
Or the greenies, the do gooders, the democrats, the pro-welfare state. To go space exploring will take BALLS, and there will be setbacks, loss of life, etc.
Today with modern materials, computers, Bigelows and the like, we can make the whole lander/capsule etc at a fraction of the weight, and if we use the
same safety standards we did in 1968, probably a fraction of the price as well. And there are LOTS of volunteers with "the right stuff."
This reminds me of little games I like to play with the local schoolteachers.
I say: "The earth is flat. I want YOU to prove me otherwise!"
Teacher: "Easy, I can take you out to earth orbit and you can see the earth is round."
Me: "Ok, lets go!"
But I bet you voted Clinton too.
You are in a foreign country.
Upload your data to a foreign server.
I recommend a one-time key for encryption.
Erase it from your phone.
Enter the U.S.A.
Retrieve the data. Erase it from server.
End of problem.
Avoids border hassles.
All perfectly legal.
You got to whip it out and take a piss on it before you can claim to having been there. All we've ever done is to leave some
footprints and tire tracks. We need to go there and set up a base. Reusable rockets launched from orbit, and shuttle to the
moon over the years. Just gas them up in orbit - earth or moon orbit. And how can you guys claim "there is nothing up there."
We know for a fact a monolith was found in 2001, there could be lots up there. Diamonds, Gold, Helium-3. Lets put the
golden arches up there! Better than wasting money enriching insurance companies with Obamacare.
--
Late term abortion should be legal until age 8
There are few to none Linux desktops out there, forcing us to install Linux on a formerly windows machine. Sometimes the results are not pretty. I had good luck with Lenovo (in my case M93p, NVIDIA graphics, Small Form Factor -not tiny although that one works too). Still would be good if you could find in your Super
Duper computer store the rig you want, and choose Windows and/or Linux, AND PAY ACCORDINGLY.
Free health care;
Late term abortion legal until age 8;
Generous guaranteed income;
Allow widespread use of killer robots by military;
Tax arab oil as it comes out of the ground over THERE;
(see above if they don't want to pay the tax);
Split the justice into PENAL and CORRECTIONS;
Allow dueling;
Allow for hunting of a rival IF you serve 5 years' first (but
the rival can kill you anytime);
If you are military, government worker; or on an entitlement,
such as Welfare, Food Stamps, etc. you don't get to VOTE
until you are off the system for, say, 5 years. (law enforcement
exempted, and military after 4 years in service);
A single woman can have an abortion, but if father does not
agree, then there is no child support due;
Illegal immigrants that are deported and then return, should
be executed;
All 2nd and up DUI's: Car is forfeit. Too bad if you have it
financed or borrowed from a friend; but,
Any person with a DUI, their license picture has a red background;
You kill someone while DUI, you get death penalty;
You sell a class A drug to a minor; death penalty;
All citizens (those that can vote), are required to have gun training;
Same sex unions are ok, and legally binding, but should NOT be
called "marriage";
If you sue someone, and lose, you pay yours and THEIR's legal bill.
There should be a national sales or consumption tax, NOT an
income tax;
A person 65 or over would not owe property tax on his primary residence;
An illegal alien needing health care is deported at the end of their care;
Companies hiring H1B workers need to put the job out for "bid" to make
sure the H1B person is needed and there is no alternative;
Companies owning factories overseas must pay a hefty import duty;
NAFTA and TPP need to be revised;
Trump's "wall" needs to have electrified wires, dogs, and autonomous
machine guns. Vultures become a protected species;
Does that mean that NSA, FBI, IRS, etc. would not "attack my server?" This is the most
idiotic idea that anyone ever not thought through. Its a total non-starter. I thought even
Clintonite Democrats from Washington and California were smarter than that.
Seems to me that NASA/JPL should have anticipated this, and come up with a solution BEFORE they sent this guy out.
Lots of solutions have been proposed here, technical, legal, etc., but really the one that should pitch in is this particular
employer.
I was 20 and in college, and I did not think too much on it. I regretted Gus Grissom, he was kind of a hero, before he got immolated. At the time -- and I still do -- that going to space was very dangerous, risky and absolutely romantic. Look what it did to NASA: they have become a do-nothing bureacracy that have put so many safety rules and protocols that nothing gets done. They were absolutely astounded when so many people applied for the one-way trip to Mars.
The white space I see on my web pages comes as a result of my AdBlocker at work. Gives my eyes a rest.
Love it!
Only California. Look the election results.
As for the rest of your comments, I fear you are one of those Democrats that just cannot get over the fact they lost the election. Get over it.