The 8088 was actually released before the 8086, but as the article states the 8086 was developed first.
No, the 8086 did come out first. It had a full 16 bit bus. The 8088 came out later with an 8 bit bus (I think the memory bus, but I am not sure about that) because manufactures were finding it was to expensive to make motherboards based on the 16 bit bus.
My wife, being an environmentalist, listed her requirements: electric, zero emissions, and mulching.
Just because a {Mower, Car, Bus, anything that moves without Animal power} is electric does not mean it is zero emissions. The power has to come from somewhere. It may not be produced in your back yard, but it is most likely produced in someone's back yard and it does pollute in some fashion. It may not pollute as much, but the only zero emission power plants I know of are hydro and wind.
A note on Hydro: just because it does not pollute does not mean it is environmentally friendly. Just ask any fish if they can get back up stream to spawn.
(Are there any other major commercial Linux companies left?)
Slackware (www.slackware.com) is (as far as I know) the only commercial Linux distribution to always make a profit. They have been around since the early 1990's.
It is fairly easy to transfer sills from one version of UNIX to another.
Plus, it is greate for the resume. When you get tired of this job, get fired, laid off, or transfered you will find it much easier to find another job.
Some of the differences between different versions of UNIX include:
BSD or AT&T based Disk tools Adminstrative interfaces and GUIs (SAM, SMIT, etc) Startup / Shutdown scripts (rc.d vs init.d) User management Included tools ("top" is a big one) Backup and recovery (hp includes fbackup / frestore) X-Windows (CDE, VUE, etc.)
Some if the similarities include:
user land tools (ps, ls, find, etc) Directory structures are slowing becoming the same
pvcs from merant did a decent job for us on a variety of different file types. It is not cheap, but it works good. It is made by merant (www.merant.com).
Real Player: Real Player assumes that you want their "service" running at times. It assumes that you want it to be your default media player. You try and turn some of these off via there options screen. Sometimes it works, Sometimes it does not.
Weather Bug: This is another one. It just starts running and does not give an option to turn it off. I had to hack the registry to get rid of it.
Oh well... I am slowly converting to completly Linux...
The client I am currently at does use Lotus Notes. The email client has to be the worst that I have ever used. It is so bad that I am wishing for Microsoft Outlook.
Always allow the user to pick the data directory. For example in Internet Exploder, (mis spelling intentional) the user can not choose where the bookmarks are saved, so when you reload Windows, you lose all of your bookmarls / favorites.
Never ever assume that the user wants your program to run all of the time. Example: Real Audio
Always allow the user to disable the program if he or she does not want it to run at startup.
Do not make the user upgrade and do not assume that we want to be notified of upgrades.
Do not just assume that your program will be the default program.
I personally have the model with temperature, altimeter, compass, and barometric pressure. It also has the more mundane functions such as time, alarm, stop watch, etc.
I have not researched this in years, but a while back (mid - late 80's) there were clocks with serial outputs that would sync to the US Governments "Atomic Clock" radio signal. So, the clock syncs to the radio signal then the computer syncs to the clock via the serial interface.
Slashdot Mirror
The 8088 was actually released before the 8086, but as the article states the 8086 was developed first.
No, the 8086 did come out first. It had a full 16 bit bus. The 8088 came out later with an 8 bit bus (I think the memory bus, but I am not sure about that) because manufactures were finding it was to expensive to make motherboards based on the 16 bit bus.
...but what other 20 year old platform is so dear to our hearts?
Commodore VIC 20, 64, and 128.
Decent graphics and good sound for the times.
No, the ISP will not change the firewall rules.
Not to state the obvious answer here, but get a new ISP and be done with it.
sex
oh wait... I am married
My wife, being an environmentalist, listed her requirements: electric, zero emissions, and mulching.
Just because a {Mower, Car, Bus, anything that moves without Animal power} is electric does not mean it is zero emissions. The power has to come from somewhere. It may not be produced in your back yard, but it is most likely produced in someone's back yard and it does pollute in some fashion. It may not pollute as much, but the only zero emission power plants I know of are hydro and wind.
A note on Hydro: just because it does not pollute does not mean it is environmentally friendly. Just ask any fish if they can get back up stream to spawn.
(Are there any other major commercial Linux companies left?)
Slackware (www.slackware.com) is (as far as I know) the only commercial Linux distribution to always make a profit. They have been around since the early 1990's.
Zipslack (http://www.slackware.com/zipslack/) from Slackware (http://www.slackware.com/) may be a step in the right direction.
Don't forget, Al Gore invented the Internet...
It is fairly easy to transfer sills from one version of UNIX to another.
Plus, it is greate for the resume. When you get tired of this job, get fired, laid off, or transfered you will find it much easier to find another job.
Some of the differences between different versions of UNIX include:
BSD or AT&T based
Disk tools
Adminstrative interfaces and GUIs (SAM, SMIT, etc)
Startup / Shutdown scripts (rc.d vs init.d)
User management
Included tools ("top" is a big one)
Backup and recovery (hp includes fbackup / frestore)
X-Windows (CDE, VUE, etc.)
Some if the similarities include:
user land tools (ps, ls, find, etc)
Directory structures are slowing becoming the same
pvcs from merant did a decent job for us on a variety of different file types. It is not cheap, but it works good. It is made by merant (www.merant.com).
Anyone tried putting Kevin Bacon in a sets query. I would but the site is slashdotted...
While most Open Source projects are applications and utilities intended for single users
What is this AC thinking? What is timothy thinking posting this without editing it?
Gee, just off of the top of my head: samba, bind, apache, open ssh, sendmail, mysql, and postgresql.
None of those are single user applications and I think slashdot.org is using a couple of them.
It is about time...
Good-bye and good riddance.
That should read "Real Big Deal".
There is also Sorcerer at http://sorcerer.wox.org/. It is another Source based distribution.
There is also LFS at http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/ which is a Source based distribution where you type all of the commands.
Has anyone compared Rock, Gentoo, Sourcerer and LFS?
Real Player: Real Player assumes that you want their "service" running at times. It assumes that you want it to be your default media player. You try and turn some of these off via there options screen. Sometimes it works, Sometimes it does not.
Weather Bug: This is another one. It just starts running and does not give an option to turn it off. I had to hack the registry to get rid of it.
Oh well... I am slowly converting to completly Linux...
Do people still use Lotus Notes?
The client I am currently at does use Lotus Notes. The email client has to be the worst that I have ever used. It is so bad that I am wishing for Microsoft Outlook.
Lotus released the first Mac OS X beta for its Notes Domino messaging and collaboration system client.
Should read: IBM released the first Mac OS X beta for its Notes Domino messaging and collaboration system client.
I hate it when that happens.
And, as a lesson...Always make backups before doing upgrades, installs, un-installs, etc.
Always allow the user to pick the data directory. For example in Internet Exploder, (mis spelling intentional) the user can not choose where the bookmarks are saved, so when you reload Windows, you lose all of your bookmarls / favorites.
Never ever assume that the user wants your program to run all of the time. Example: Real Audio
Always allow the user to disable the program if he or she does not want it to run at startup.
Do not make the user upgrade and do not assume that we want to be notified of upgrades.
Do not just assume that your program will be the default program.
Do not hide settings deep within the registry.
Never
Apple Macintosh:
1. Nope
2. Work
3. Home
4. Work and Home
5. Cowboy Neal eating an apple. Yum.
http://www.suunto.com/
I personally have the model with temperature, altimeter, compass, and barometric pressure. It also has the more mundane functions such as time, alarm, stop watch, etc.
I have not researched this in years, but a while back (mid - late 80's) there were clocks with serial outputs that would sync to the US Governments "Atomic Clock" radio signal. So, the clock syncs to the radio signal then the computer syncs to the clock via the serial interface.
Andy
Just like Palm, it looks like Handspring missed the boat on this one.
1. Where is the color screen?
2. Way to expensive - 549 US dollars "without service activation" I kind of like my current Cellular provider.
Cincinnati Ohio USA
Cincinnati Bell Zoomtown ADSL
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Time Warner Road Runner Cable Modem
2 mbps 39.95 recently increased to 44.95