I remember when I was in high school back in the 70's that "the coming global ice age" was a big deal for a while. It was in the newspapers at the time, some people were writing books and studies about it and so on.
I don't think it was ever quite as hysterical (for want of a better description) as the current global warming carry-on, but global cooling was being promoted by several apparently prominent people in much the same was that global warming is being promoted now.
Have you ever even heard of someone [other than a FreeDos developer] actually leaving their FreeDos partition permanently on their machine and using it as anything other than a launching point for installing another OS and/or claiming HW support from Dell?
Yer damn tootin', toots!
I have a few FreeDOS machines running programs 24/7, thank you very much. They do things like control monitoring.
I've heard of tiny "one-chip" type motherboards that can run DOS for this sort of thing, but have never seen one myself live and in-person.
But anything can run DOS, and that's great for a lot of stuff.
I saw a guy a short while ago whose actual email included "NOSPAM", as in "joeblowNOSPAM@example.com". You have to include the NOSPAM in his address because that's really part of it. I thought it was a very clever idea; he told me that he gets very little spam.
The alternative is that they'll clamp down, pull the feature, and release nothing.
Don't they have an obligation to release the required source code to their customers who have purchased the current version, regardless of whether they keep or remove any features in future versions?
Until the dev team can come back and prove "it just doesn't work like that",,br> Even if it did work like that, don't the people who already have the current version of this software have a right to obtain the source code for THAT version?
And before you say, "Awww, poor widdle things, find something important to worry about instead", consider that the "feeling" is a large part of why many people contribute code to (L)GPL projects. Stature, fun, good times all around.
Hurting those feelings dis-incentivizes the contributors who make this stuff go in the first place.
Around here some people used to call them a "titless teller". That's the only slang term I can recall hearing, though.
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Some how the phone company tells me this creates more numbers. I'm note quite sure how.
Because you are required to use no less than 10 digits, there can be less overlap and more numbers become available.
Assume that we want to use 123 as an area code.
Dial 123-4567. Now, are we done dialing yet? Do you want to talk to 123-4567, or are you about to enter 7890 as well and call 123-4567-7890?
If we know that you are required to enter a certain number of digits for a phone number, then we don't have to worry about what happens if you enter less digits -- the number is incomplete. We can tell when you are done entering numbers and start ringing the phone.
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Within the same exchange, you could dial 3-4567.
Argh. That should be 4567.
It makes more sense that way.
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In Saskatchewan, up until about the mid-80's, everyone had a 7-digit phone number with an initial 306 at the front.
306-123-4567
306 was (and is) Saskatchewan. 123 was the town (exchange), and 4567 was your individual phone number.
Within the same exchange, you could dial 3-4567.
Then they change it so you had to dial the last digit of your exchange, so you dialed 3-4567.
Now, for the past 20 years or so, you have to dial all 7 digits even when you are in the same exchange:
Only small, single line BBSs synced once a day, at night.
Observing NMH (National Mail Hour) was a requirement to be a "real" FidoNet node. 3am to 4am local time, here, every night. No users; mail processing only on at least one incoming line for each node. Anyway, the system worked so much better than modern email. No spam. No HTML. No flamewars (took too long!). Just plain old text.
I own a movie theatre. My exhibition contracts with the studios and distributors specifically prohibit the interruption of a film for any reason other than technical problems or an emergency.
(What's an emergency? Well, I've had the police show up to arrest someone in my theatre, I've had a fire right in front of my door, and that kind of thing. Other than that sort of stuff, and power failures and break-downs, the show must go on.)
According to their webpage, the ISP doesn't actually buy anything from anyone. The magic box is provided free of charge and the revenue is split between the ISP and the box supplier. I assume the box folks also provide the ad stream, though that's not entirely clear from their write-up.
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Microsoft needs to just understand that OSS will sooner or later out develop them.
Sooner or later?
Look around a bit. It's already happened.
Hence the desperation, and all that.
No, I'm not kidding. I haven't used MS software in 8 years and I'm not missing out on anything other than viruses, security problems and headaches.
Sooner or later, indeed.... Sheesh.
That depends. The proper way to do this on Fedora is through console.perms
with a RFC 2606-compliant sample address
Isn't "example.com" the generally accepted and valid sample domain name that one is supposed to use for purposes like this?
I remember when I was in high school back in the 70's that "the coming global ice age" was a big deal for a while. It was in the newspapers at the time, some people were writing books and studies about it and so on.
I don't think it was ever quite as hysterical (for want of a better description) as the current global warming carry-on, but global cooling was being promoted by several apparently prominent people in much the same was that global warming is being promoted now.
Have you ever even heard of someone [other than a FreeDos developer] actually leaving their FreeDos partition permanently on their machine and using it as anything other than a launching point for installing another OS and/or claiming HW support from Dell?
Yer damn tootin', toots!
I have a few FreeDOS machines running programs 24/7, thank you very much. They do things like control monitoring.
I've heard of tiny "one-chip" type motherboards that can run DOS for this sort of thing, but have never seen one myself live and in-person.
But anything can run DOS, and that's great for a lot of stuff.
I saw a guy a short while ago whose actual email included "NOSPAM", as in "joeblowNOSPAM@example.com". You have to include the NOSPAM in his address because that's really part of it. I thought it was a very clever idea; he told me that he gets very little spam.
Galileo.
Note that I'm in no way endorsing this current chap's claims. But the answer to your question was too obvious to pass up.
a very reliable printer that won't chew up the document. Unless you're a filthy dirty pirate, of course.
What about printing it on this?
The alternative is that they'll clamp down, pull the feature, and release nothing.
Don't they have an obligation to release the required source code to their customers who have purchased the current version, regardless of whether they keep or remove any features in future versions?
Until the dev team can come back and prove "it just doesn't work like that", ,br>
Even if it did work like that, don't the people who already have the current version of this software have a right to obtain the source code for THAT version?
So how are they being hurt?
At the moment, their feelings are being hurt.
And before you say, "Awww, poor widdle things, find something important to worry about instead", consider that the "feeling" is a large part of why many people contribute code to (L)GPL projects. Stature, fun, good times all around.
Hurting those feelings dis-incentivizes the contributors who make this stuff go in the first place.
And that is a problem.
See?
I believe that the CPU would return to its original state after being powered down and back up.
You didn't mention that part, but it's worth noting.
It could bring down your box, but it wouldn't brick the hardware.
Still not a Martha Stewart "good thing", though.
What, were you serving X11?
Something wrong with that?
Around here some people used to call them a "titless teller". That's the only slang term I can recall hearing, though.
Some how the phone company tells me this creates more numbers. I'm note quite sure how.
Because you are required to use no less than 10 digits, there can be less overlap and more numbers become available.
Assume that we want to use 123 as an area code.
Dial 123-4567. Now, are we done dialing yet? Do you want to talk to 123-4567, or are you about to enter 7890 as well and call 123-4567-7890?
If we know that you are required to enter a certain number of digits for a phone number, then we don't have to worry about what happens if you enter less digits -- the number is incomplete. We can tell when you are done entering numbers and start ringing the phone.
Within the same exchange, you could dial 3-4567.
Argh. That should be 4567.
It makes more sense that way.
In Saskatchewan, up until about the mid-80's, everyone had a 7-digit phone number with an initial 306 at the front.
306-123-4567
306 was (and is) Saskatchewan. 123 was the town (exchange), and 4567 was your individual phone number.
Within the same exchange, you could dial 3-4567.
Then they change it so you had to dial the last digit of your exchange, so you dialed 3-4567.
Now, for the past 20 years or so, you have to dial all 7 digits even when you are in the same exchange:
123-4567
My toaster,
Mmmm... fresh toast ready when I get up in the morning, the moment I switch the faucet off in the bathroom.
the urinal down at the truck stop,
Automatic flush after use!
the FUCKING flood gates to a damn!
Every dam thing!
Sorry, had to be done! *tee hee*
"and counting"...
So that means they still haven't issued a cheque?
Is there anything in particular that's holding up the parade?
Only small, single line BBSs synced once a day, at night.
Observing NMH (National Mail Hour) was a requirement to be a "real" FidoNet node. 3am to 4am local time, here, every night. No users; mail processing only on at least one incoming line for each node.
Anyway, the system worked so much better than modern email. No spam. No HTML. No flamewars (took too long!). Just plain old text.
I always enjoyed the Tech echo, myself.
Adblock Plus does it's job. I'm often surprised to see that somebody has ads on pages which I didn't explicitly allowed to display them.
Isn't this contradictory? Adblock is doing the job but I'm often surprised by seeing ads?
I've never used Adblock Plus, but I have used Privoxy (and Squid) for years on all of my computer and they work very well indeed.
I own a movie theatre. My exhibition contracts with the studios and distributors specifically prohibit the interruption of a film for any reason other than technical problems or an emergency.
(What's an emergency? Well, I've had the police show up to arrest someone in my theatre, I've had a fire right in front of my door, and that kind of thing. Other than that sort of stuff, and power failures and break-downs, the show must go on.)
According to their webpage, the ISP doesn't actually buy anything from anyone. The magic box is provided free of charge and the revenue is split between the ISP and the box supplier. I assume the box folks also provide the ad stream, though that's not entirely clear from their write-up.
"Your computer is now stoned."
What if you don't put a return address on the envelope?