The best thing Apple did was put SCSI in the mac plus. Suddenly you could add hard drives, cd roms, scanners, tape drives, ethernet adapters, serial port adapters.
I used to put my Syquest and DAT tape drive on a mac, PC, and Sun. I still use the DAT drive I bought in 1993. How many 10 year old peripherals do you use?
If PCs had gone to SCSI instead of IDE (remember MFM?) we'd all have cheap SCSI drives we could use on any platform. There'd be more innovation in SCSI.
Instead, I get IDE in my Ultra 5, Macintosh, and PC. Only 2 devices unless you want speed issues. It can only really be internal devices.
And I still need SCSI for my tape drive or other external media.
... no one had sufficiently brute forced the process that the existing methods shouldn't work. They use a bunch of 'cheating' techniques to make this managable during the screen saver timescale....
The essence of engineering when the math can't be done to completion. When I went to college (84-88, Mechanical Engineering) we had VAXen (11/785) and PCs. The 8MHz AT was just coming out. The 386 wasn't widespread until later.
Here's the scene: You need to design an airplane wing. You have an equation to solve for harmonic vibration. You bring it to the math guys. They tell you it's an unsolveable differential equation. It's in this group of unsolveable ODEs. So, you can solve this. Meanwhile, you still have to design the wing and you have to make sure it doesn't vibrate off the plane from harmonic vibration like the Galloping Gurtie bridge did.
So, you cheat. You might make the wing heavier and stiffer then it needs to be. In the 80's you reduced the calculus to those boxes to figure out the area under the curve. You make the boxes smaller & smaller until the answer is "close enough".
Engineering doesn't solve everything to all decimal places. You round off. The moon shot only used 4 decimal places; much of it was done with slide rules.
The trick with engineering is know when you "cheat" and aproximate and when you can't
The battery in my motorcycle is a Yusa (Yuasa?) from Japan:-) Most motocycles use this brand. I don't know if that's a deliberate attempt to sound like a "USA" batt. or not.
The average joe doesn't care about the quality if it's good enough.
Albums have better sound then CDs if you listen. CDs are more convienent. And the marketing machine said they sound better. (then a dirty, dusty album)
Heck, MP3s don't match the quality of CDs, but they're good enough for the average joe. With everyone talking about them the last few years, they've become cool too.
In high school I played Wizardry I and didn't go on to solve it. After college (Clarkson, right near Sir-Tek's HQ), I found Wizardry V for the PC. I found version 1-3 for the PC too. A few years later, Wizardry 7.
Now, I've got Wizardry Archives. All for DOS 1-7. Lots of walk throughs, maps, cheats, etc. Cool.
I've played with the Apple ][ emulators and the apple versions. Now, I run the archive versions under DOSemu.
btw - Anyone got an RPM for a Linux Apple ][ emulator? I'd rather that then run ApplePC under DOSemu. Yep, it's faster & more machine then my old Apple ][+. Too bad I forgot most of the commands for the apple:-(
I used to do my resume in LaTeX. Originally, I had it on VMS (and lab reports in college). Then DTSS, MS-DOS (on a Z-100, not PC compatible, 768k ram), Macintosh, OS/2, Windows, Linux and various other Unixen.
Actually, I ran it on DOS before Linux existed.
TeX was originally on SAIL. There are numerous free and commercial ports for various OS of the TeX family.
I distrust the science of most environmental groups. Most of them are more committed to thier ideology then science.
Here's an interesting investigation: http://www.sacbee.com/static/archi ve/news/projects/environment/index02.htmlhttp://www.sacbee.com/sta tic/archive/news/projects/environment/index02.html
Also, there's the lynx fur planted in the wild to try to close acres of land: http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/local news/13 4384915_lynx30m.html http://www.csmonitor.com/200 2/0110/p2s2-uspo.html http://www.ncpa.org/iss/env /2002/pd030702b.html
Another good thing to have is DoS tools to use on the asshole next door when he plays his lame-ass MP3s on his "look at me I'm so fucking hip" subwoofer system.
That guy lived next to me my freshman year (1984). Of course, it was a stereo. We'd call his phone. He'd turn the stereo down, answer the phone, then we'd hang up. Typically, he didn't turn it back up again. We also called at random to keep him guessing. Hey, he was an asshole for other reasons too.
Of course, this was pre callerID. Stereo & TV remotes were almost non existant. I think the phones were dial too. Ok, I'm feeling old....
My wife has a winmodem on a win98 system. I had to wipe the drive & reinstall everything. Guess what? I can't find drivers. Well, I can, but they don't install. It's a USR 3595 winmodem.
So, I installed an external modem on com2. It works great.
Sometimes winmodems don't work on the OS they're intended on too.
The point is that my 3' wide trail, after 4 years of non use, doesn't exist anymore.
Again, I mention that this is off road use.
Developing the land destroys the trail. Many of us who ride motorcycles off road hate it when ATVs go on the trail because they widen it.
If you're a long time skier, you'll remember how the mogul runs chang with heavy snowboard use. It's no longer the same terrain.
If you hike in New England, you should know that many (most?) of the trails you hike on were probably created by motorcyclists.
All of the older trails in Bear Brook (NH) state park (except some logging roads) were created by motorcyclists. Now, they're only allowed in for 1 event a year (MVTR raised $75,000 for Cystic Fibrosis this year).
I guess the answer is that motorcyclists get banned from the trails.
I call myself a conservationist. I enjoy the outdoors. I go to audobon society preserves with my wife who enjoys bird watching. When we vacation in Florida, we always visit various parks & nature areas, not Disney. I grew up with 20 acres of my parent property in NH as my backyard. I often explored this property (and further) for the 1st 25 years of my life.
I also ride motorcycles off road. I started when I was 9 years old. I created trails in those 20 acres and maintained them for 10 years.
I knew these woods very well as I rode and walked the 4 miles of trails I had once a week during the riding season.
If you know anything about off road riding, you know how wide the trail is. If a tree/sapling was over 3" in diameter, I went around it. I prefered to leave logs lying in the trail to add to the challenge. My trails were 2-3 feet wide (hey, the handlebars were 34" wide).
When I went to college, I stopped riding the trails. 4 years later, I went to find them. I could barely find them.
But the environmental movement tells me riding my motorcycle off road causes irreperable harm?> Bullshit! I know that's not true from personal, intimate experience.
I used to ride alot in MA in the state parks. They used to be open. Now, they're closed because of opinion & I have to go up to NH to ride.
One of the few areas is going to be closed down. It seems a land swap was made. 300 acres to an industrial park in return for 1200 (?) acres for a preserve that I, as a tax payer, cannot use. The 300 acres will be paved over, mostly. Certainly there won't be anymore wildlife there. How is that better then the 3' wide trails that used to be there?
I had to port a 1500 line csh script from Ultrix to SunOS, Solaris, Dec OSF, HP-UX, and SGI Irix.
After getting it to work on Ultrix and SunOS, I tried to get it going on Solaris. csh wasn't even portable from SunOS to Solaris!
The solution was to use/bin/sh. It is portable. I bet that code would work on bash too.
The environment is not what they're interested in
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The very 1st thing to realize about these enviromental groups is that
THEY ARE NOT INTERESTED IN THE ENVIRONMENT
The groups that spike trees, burn research lab tree stands, burn car dealerships, and conspire to keep people out of responsible use of public land are interested in: Being Political (whatever that means) and power.
They are using "The Environment" to justify thier actions w/o really thinking about what really makes a difference to the environment.
I find MH works well. Plain old text in seperate files. I use exmh as my wrapper. Use procmail to sort incoming messages. Use ifile to automatically sort the rest (it watches you move messages & will start doing it for you.).
Then I use glimpse to index everything. I'll admit I'd like a better search engine, but it works well enough and exmh has a nice interface.
I had a script that would go though a folder & refile into new sub folders based on year and month too.
All I need to make it perfect is a text wrapper for MH that can navigate subfolders so I can have reasonable speed & usability over a remote link.
Slashdot Mirror
Also
Batman: The Long Halloween, Dark Victory
For others:
any Astro City - Kurt Busiek
Watchman - Alan Moore
The Preacher series
Hellblazer series
I went to the switch site & saw nothing. I tried to download the Quicktime applet and one wasn't offered for Linux.
So, Apple must not want us linux users to switch.
The best thing Apple did was put SCSI in the mac plus. Suddenly you could add hard drives, cd roms, scanners, tape drives, ethernet adapters, serial port adapters.
I used to put my Syquest and DAT tape drive on a mac, PC, and Sun. I still use the DAT drive I bought in 1993. How many 10 year old peripherals do you use?
If PCs had gone to SCSI instead of IDE (remember MFM?) we'd all have cheap SCSI drives we could use on any platform. There'd be more innovation in SCSI.
Instead, I get IDE in my Ultra 5, Macintosh, and PC. Only 2 devices unless you want speed issues. It can only really be internal devices.
And I still need SCSI for my tape drive or other external media.
Err, you can't solve it. Damn typos...
... no one had sufficiently brute forced the process that the existing methods shouldn't work. They use a bunch of 'cheating' techniques to make this managable during the screen saver timescale....
The essence of engineering when the math can't be done to completion. When I went to college (84-88, Mechanical Engineering) we had VAXen (11/785) and PCs. The 8MHz AT was just coming out. The 386 wasn't widespread until later.
Here's the scene: You need to design an airplane wing. You have an equation to solve for harmonic vibration. You bring it to the math guys. They tell you it's an unsolveable differential equation. It's in this group of unsolveable ODEs. So, you can solve this. Meanwhile, you still have to design the wing and you have to make sure it doesn't vibrate off the plane from harmonic vibration like the Galloping Gurtie bridge did.
So, you cheat. You might make the wing heavier and stiffer then it needs to be. In the 80's you reduced the calculus to those boxes to figure out the area under the curve. You make the boxes smaller & smaller until the answer is "close enough".
Engineering doesn't solve everything to all decimal places. You round off. The moon shot only used 4 decimal places; much of it was done with slide rules.
The trick with engineering is know when you "cheat" and aproximate and when you can't
The battery in my motorcycle is a Yusa (Yuasa?) from Japan :-) Most motocycles use this brand. I don't know if that's a deliberate attempt to sound like a "USA" batt. or not.
Plain and simple it's like a car, the ability to top out at 300 mph is usless when the speed limit is 55.
:-)
Yeah, but you get to 55 much faster! That's the point
If the new format is cool (marketig wise) it'll get joe average. If enough of them adopt, it's there. Didn't happen with laser discs. It did with DVDs
The average joe doesn't care about the quality if it's good enough.
Albums have better sound then CDs if you listen. CDs are more convienent. And the marketing machine said they sound better. (then a dirty, dusty album)
Heck, MP3s don't match the quality of CDs, but they're good enough for the average joe. With everyone talking about them the last few years, they've become cool too.
What if they price DVD-music at the price they said CDs were going to come down to?
Yeah, it's not going to happen, but look at VHS. It's cheaper to produce a disc then a tape....
In high school I played Wizardry I and didn't go on to solve it. After college (Clarkson, right near Sir-Tek's HQ), I found Wizardry V for the PC. I found version 1-3 for the PC too. A few years later, Wizardry 7.
:-(
Now, I've got Wizardry Archives. All for DOS 1-7. Lots of walk throughs, maps, cheats, etc. Cool.
I've played with the Apple ][ emulators and the apple versions. Now, I run the archive versions under DOSemu.
btw - Anyone got an RPM for a Linux Apple ][ emulator? I'd rather that then run ApplePC under DOSemu. Yep, it's faster & more machine then my old Apple ][+. Too bad I forgot most of the commands for the apple
It's easier to support only one kind of system. That's why some car shops only work on domestic or foreign.
I used to do my resume in LaTeX. Originally, I had it on VMS (and lab reports in college). Then DTSS, MS-DOS (on a Z-100, not PC compatible, 768k ram), Macintosh, OS/2, Windows, Linux and various other Unixen.
Actually, I ran it on DOS before Linux existed.
TeX was originally on SAIL. There are numerous free and commercial ports for various OS of the TeX family.
Somewhere, there's a WP4.2 -> LaTeX translator.
I distrust the science of most environmental groups. Most of them are more committed to thier ideology then science.
i ve/news/projects /environment/index02.htmlhttp://www.sacbee.com/sta tic/archive/news/projects/environment/index02.html
l news/13 4384915_lynx30m.html0 2/0110/p2s2-uspo.htmlv /2002/pd030702b.html
Here's an interesting investigation:
http://www.sacbee.com/static/arch
Also, there's the lynx fur planted in the wild to try to close acres of land:
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/loca
http://www.csmonitor.com/20
http://www.ncpa.org/iss/en
The pilot has 1-8MB of RAM, 160x160 screen, 68000 CPU, and a serial port.
The Apple ][+ had 64kb, 140kb floppy, no serial port.
There's a basic available for the palm that runs faster then the one on the Apple ][+
extension cords, phones (not cordless), extra outlets, posters, music, things to hang posters, tape, rug, food, hooks & shelves, lamps, laundry sack, spiral bound notebooks, pens/pencils, organizers, cold medicine, asprin, hangers
Nice to have
mini fridge, printer, tools (hammer, screwdrivers, knife, etc), spackle (ever kick a hole in the wall?), stereo, toaster oven, PDA
How about a Home Depot gift card? Staples? Walmart?
Another good thing to have is DoS tools to use on the asshole next door when he plays his lame-ass MP3s on his "look at me I'm so fucking hip" subwoofer system.
That guy lived next to me my freshman year (1984). Of course, it was a stereo. We'd call his phone. He'd turn the stereo down, answer the phone, then we'd hang up. Typically, he didn't turn it back up again. We also called at random to keep him guessing. Hey, he was an asshole for other reasons too.
Of course, this was pre callerID. Stereo & TV remotes were almost non existant. I think the phones were dial too. Ok, I'm feeling old....
My wife has a winmodem on a win98 system. I had to wipe the drive & reinstall everything. Guess what? I can't find drivers. Well, I can, but they don't install. It's a USR 3595 winmodem.
So, I installed an external modem on com2. It works great.
Sometimes winmodems don't work on the OS they're intended on too.
The point is that my 3' wide trail, after 4 years of non use, doesn't exist anymore.
Again, I mention that this is off road use.
Developing the land destroys the trail. Many of us who ride motorcycles off road hate it when ATVs go on the trail because they widen it.
If you're a long time skier, you'll remember how the mogul runs chang with heavy snowboard use. It's no longer the same terrain.
If you hike in New England, you should know that many (most?) of the trails you hike on were probably created by motorcyclists.
All of the older trails in Bear Brook (NH) state park (except some logging roads) were created by motorcyclists. Now, they're only allowed in for 1 event a year (MVTR raised $75,000 for Cystic Fibrosis this year).
I guess the answer is that motorcyclists get banned from the trails.
I call myself a conservationist. I enjoy the outdoors. I go to audobon society preserves with my wife who enjoys bird watching. When we vacation in Florida, we always visit various parks & nature areas, not Disney. I grew up with 20 acres of my parent property in NH as my backyard. I often explored this property (and further) for the 1st 25 years of my life.
I also ride motorcycles off road. I started when I was 9 years old. I created trails in those 20 acres and maintained them for 10 years.
I knew these woods very well as I rode and walked the 4 miles of trails I had once a week during the riding season.
If you know anything about off road riding, you know how wide the trail is. If a tree/sapling was over 3" in diameter, I went around it. I prefered to leave logs lying in the trail to add to the challenge. My trails were 2-3 feet wide (hey, the handlebars were 34" wide).
When I went to college, I stopped riding the trails. 4 years later, I went to find them. I could barely find them.
But the environmental movement tells me riding my motorcycle off road causes irreperable harm?> Bullshit! I know that's not true from personal, intimate experience.
I used to ride alot in MA in the state parks. They used to be open. Now, they're closed because of opinion & I have to go up to NH to ride.
One of the few areas is going to be closed down. It seems a land swap was made. 300 acres to an industrial park in return for 1200 (?) acres for a preserve that I, as a tax payer, cannot use. The 300 acres will be paved over, mostly. Certainly there won't be anymore wildlife there. How is that better then the 3' wide trails that used to be there?
Larry Niven & Stephen Barnes explored parts of this in Achilles Choice.
csh isn't portable
/bin/sh. It is portable. I bet that code would work on bash too.
I had to port a 1500 line csh script from Ultrix to SunOS, Solaris, Dec OSF, HP-UX, and SGI Irix.
After getting it to work on Ultrix and SunOS, I tried to get it going on Solaris. csh wasn't even portable from SunOS to Solaris!
The solution was to use
The very 1st thing to realize about these enviromental groups is that
THEY ARE NOT INTERESTED IN THE ENVIRONMENT
The groups that spike trees, burn research lab tree stands, burn car dealerships, and conspire to keep people out of responsible use of public land are interested in: Being Political (whatever that means) and power. They are using "The Environment" to justify thier actions w/o really thinking about what really makes a difference to the environment.
I find MH works well. Plain old text in seperate files. I use exmh as my wrapper. Use procmail to sort incoming messages. Use ifile to automatically sort the rest (it watches you move messages & will start doing it for you.).
Then I use glimpse to index everything. I'll admit I'd like a better search engine, but it works well enough and exmh has a nice interface.
I had a script that would go though a folder & refile into new sub folders based on year and month too.
All I need to make it perfect is a text wrapper for MH that can navigate subfolders so I can have reasonable speed & usability over a remote link.