Good operation there Lumpy! Now, when people ask me to fix their Windows box I just set their old drive to slave and pop in a 160GB drive with Ubuntu. (I have a nice stack of 160s from an old job.) If they ask about the difference I just tell them it the latest upgrade:) If they try to run smiles.exe or whatever they got online and it doesn't work I tell them the virus detection is working. They can always get their old data off the windows mount and as long as they can surf, d/l music/vids and burn them, they have all they really want. Most like the upgrade to just one chat program (pigeon) and none have ever complained about Open Office.
Granted, none of these people are gamers. But (caution: car analogy) I figure that if they want to run a hot rod they better know how to get under the hood.
I remember changing the Microsoft BASIC copyright to Micro$oft when I burned a new EPROM for my Commodore SX-64. (Wanted to change the default screen colors and put my name on the boot screen. I also burned a new character EPROM so I could tell the difference between 0,O,6 and 8.)
I never did the FORTRAN stuff (I guess that you may be just a few years older than me.) but I did load M$ BASIC from paper tape and cassette using "Kansas City format" onto SWTPCs, IMSAIs, and Altairs.
One guy in our computer club (back in '74ish) would always include the line:
10 M$="Copyright (c)1974 Apple Core Computer Club"
Which would always later get removed because it chewed up too much RAM. For you youngins, with only 4 or 8k of RAM one learned how to "byte tight."
DirecTV will supply you with a flat cable (even for HD) that can run through a closed slider or window. Get the service plan as they don't last forever, esp. if you have kids. (or slip the installer $10 for a handful.)
Ford's motto back in the day was "Works like a truck, rides like a car." But yeah, get an old Crown Vic if you want a good ride. Why do you think cops and taxi drivers love them. And a Town Car is a Vic with buttons.
Good thing we elected a Harvard Constitutional Law professor and lawyer for President this time. It's nice to see someone in the job that gives a flying fuck about it.
We then hope that the other 2.5 (fourth estate) branches of the USA government grows a pair. That was how it was designed to work and I'm still trying to figure out WTF happened the last 7 years and what we need to do to fix it. And I don't think some "new boss, same as the old boss" is the answer. Maybe a ban on bible school drop-outs given government administrative positions. At least require them to pass a civil service test or something.
Sounds like a nice chip. WTF does it have to do with parrots unless you are saying that parrots have this chip in them? This would explain a parrots ability to mimic speech and sounds. What else in in a parrot that will allow it to digitize audio, store it, and play it back for up to 80 years existing literally on bird feed?
So as to not waste your time the above link goes to: "Biblical Correctness Ministries"
Giving scientific evidence to prove a literal six-day creation, Dr. Kent Hovind refutes evolution's proposition that the earth has evolved over billions of years.
I have an African Grey and a heavy duty Kenmore vacuum. I know of what you speak. We acquired this bird by agreeing to babysit it for 3 days.. that was 20 months ago. He is now part of the family of 3 humans, 5 cats (don't ask) and two goldfish. He has learned every fsckin' ringtone he's ever heard, how to count to five and appropriate use of the terms:
Want more.
Good shit Maynard. (when he really like what you just gave him)
Good morning.
Night Night little buddy.
See ya later (when I put on my coat)
Whatcha doin? (When a cat comes near)
a human laugh.
a human meow.
a cat meow (different depending on the cat he's talking to and matching that cat's voice.)
three of the cats names. (One of the cats is named Michelle and he's called her "Shell-bird" a few times which shows that he is able to work with language a bit. We call him Smokey-bird and hey-bird and he seems to think that "bird" is a compliment.)
He likes to play making phone calls. He'll do a ring tone, say hello, and then wait and say things like "ok", "Sure". "Uh-huh". "Yeah," say numbers (he likes the sound of "zero-six-zero") and then say "Ok, bye" and then beep (sound of the phone hanging up.)
He constantly makes various sounds of water, microwave beeps, and fart/burp noises (again, don't ask) and complex whistle noises. He's also damn good doing whistle riffs to blues and Grateful Dead. We have a DirecTV basic box without a TV on it connected to computer speakers so he can listen to rock in the living room where his cage is (XM Deep Tracks.) He's blessed with a nice view of Tulilip Bay and lots of wildlife.
I'm working now on trying to teach him Morse code;)
These are very smart animals. About what you would expect from a three year old human... and about the same emotional development. They are a lot of maintenance though. You have to keep getting them new toys and new tastes to experience. You have to spend at least 5 hours a day with them in physical/mental activity. They do show love and loyalty but can be fickle as hell. They know when they are fucking with you and seem to enjoy it (actually using an evil laugh. My wife says it's my laugh but I don't think I sound like that.)
I need to research more on training/teaching him but the details are scarce on-line. I enjoy my time with Smokey and do feel love for him. I hope that I find a good home for him one day as he should outlive me by a few decades. If any other slashdotters have Greys, please email me with tips/stories/support. My email addy is in the clear above.
In early 1982, Franklin released the Franklin Ace 100, and in March of the same year, the Franklin Ace 1000; they were very close copies of the Apple II and II+ computers, respectively. The motherboard design is nearly identical and Franklin also copied Apple's ROMs. Two months later, Apple Computer sued Franklin for copyright violation. Franklin initially won. (See Apple Computer, Inc. v. Franklin Computer Corp..)
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Good operation there Lumpy! Now, when people ask me to fix their Windows box I just set their old drive to slave and pop in a 160GB drive with Ubuntu. (I have a nice stack of 160s from an old job.) If they ask about the difference I just tell them it the latest upgrade :)
If they try to run smiles.exe or whatever they got online and it doesn't work I tell them the virus detection is working. They can always get their old data off the windows mount and as long as they can surf, d/l music/vids and burn them, they have all they really want. Most like the upgrade to just one chat program (pigeon) and none have ever complained about Open Office.
Granted, none of these people are gamers. But (caution: car analogy) I figure that if they want to run a hot rod they better know how to get under the hood.
I just got to the point that I don't do Windows. http://nethead.org/dilbert-unix.png
I remember changing the Microsoft BASIC copyright to Micro$oft when I burned a new EPROM for my Commodore SX-64. (Wanted to change the default screen colors and put my name on the boot screen. I also burned a new character EPROM so I could tell the difference between 0,O,6 and 8.)
I never did the FORTRAN stuff (I guess that you may be just a few years older than me.) but I did load M$ BASIC from paper tape and cassette using "Kansas City format" onto SWTPCs, IMSAIs, and Altairs.
One guy in our computer club (back in '74ish) would always include the line:
10 M$="Copyright (c)1974 Apple Core Computer Club"
Which would always later get removed because it chewed up too much RAM. For you youngins, with only 4 or 8k of RAM one learned how to "byte tight."
DirecTV will supply you with a flat cable (even for HD) that can run through a closed slider or window. Get the service plan as they don't last forever, esp. if you have kids. (or slip the installer $10 for a handful.)
No, us four digit folks are taking over. Thanks for alerting us to your presence, we will be contacting you.
There has been, often inverse.
The bumper-sticker on my truck (next to the ham plates): Ham radio; no infrastructure required.
73 de w7com
But when you're 5'3" like me, you always have the steering wheel in your chest just to work the clutch.
Ford's motto back in the day was "Works like a truck, rides like a car." But yeah, get an old Crown Vic if you want a good ride. Why do you think cops and taxi drivers love them. And a Town Car is a Vic with buttons.
There's one jacked up Bronco in my area that is painted up pink camo. And yeah, it's a mom with one kid.
WTF is this a troll? I'm damn proud of my country being able to do that.
Good thing we elected a Harvard Constitutional Law professor and lawyer for President this time. It's nice to see someone in the job that gives a flying fuck about it.
Amen, brother! (since I don't have mod points at this moment and /. only allows 20 friends a year if you been around as long as we have.)
We then hope that the other 2.5 (fourth estate) branches of the USA government grows a pair. That was how it was designed to work and I'm still trying to figure out WTF happened the last 7 years and what we need to do to fix it. And I don't think some "new boss, same as the old boss" is the answer. Maybe a ban on bible school drop-outs given government administrative positions. At least require them to pass a civil service test or something.
damn I wish I had another load of mod points. I love this remark.
Sounds like a nice chip. WTF does it have to do with parrots unless you are saying that parrots have this chip in them? This would explain a parrots ability to mimic speech and sounds. What else in in a parrot that will allow it to digitize audio, store it, and play it back for up to 80 years existing literally on bird feed?
So as to not waste your time the above link goes to: "Biblical Correctness Ministries"
Giving scientific evidence to prove a literal six-day creation, Dr. Kent Hovind refutes evolution's proposition that the earth has evolved over billions of years.
'Nuf said?
I have an African Grey and a heavy duty Kenmore vacuum. I know of what you speak. We acquired this bird by agreeing to babysit it for 3 days.. that was 20 months ago. He is now part of the family of 3 humans, 5 cats (don't ask) and two goldfish. He has learned every fsckin' ringtone he's ever heard, how to count to five and appropriate use of the terms:
Want more.
Good shit Maynard. (when he really like what you just gave him)
Good morning.
Night Night little buddy.
See ya later (when I put on my coat)
Whatcha doin? (When a cat comes near)
a human laugh.
a human meow.
a cat meow (different depending on the cat he's talking to and matching that cat's voice.)
three of the cats names. (One of the cats is named Michelle and he's called her "Shell-bird" a few times which shows that he is able to work with language a bit. We call him Smokey-bird and hey-bird and he seems to think that "bird" is a compliment.)
He likes to play making phone calls. He'll do a ring tone, say hello, and then wait and say things like "ok", "Sure". "Uh-huh". "Yeah," say numbers (he likes the sound of "zero-six-zero") and then say "Ok, bye" and then beep (sound of the phone hanging up.)
He constantly makes various sounds of water, microwave beeps, and fart/burp noises (again, don't ask) and complex whistle noises. He's also damn good doing whistle riffs to blues and Grateful Dead. We have a DirecTV basic box without a TV on it connected to computer speakers so he can listen to rock in the living room where his cage is (XM Deep Tracks.) He's blessed with a nice view of Tulilip Bay and lots of wildlife.
I'm working now on trying to teach him Morse code ;)
These are very smart animals. About what you would expect from a three year old human... and about the same emotional development. They are a lot of maintenance though. You have to keep getting them new toys and new tastes to experience. You have to spend at least 5 hours a day with them in physical/mental activity. They do show love and loyalty but can be fickle as hell. They know when they are fucking with you and seem to enjoy it (actually using an evil laugh. My wife says it's my laugh but I don't think I sound like that.)
I need to research more on training/teaching him but the details are scarce on-line. I enjoy my time with Smokey and do feel love for him. I hope that I find a good home for him one day as he should outlive me by a few decades. If any other slashdotters have Greys, please email me with tips/stories/support. My email addy is in the clear above.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin_Computer
In early 1982, Franklin released the Franklin Ace 100, and in March of the same year, the Franklin Ace 1000; they were very close copies of the Apple II and II+ computers, respectively. The motherboard design is nearly identical and Franklin also copied Apple's ROMs. Two months later, Apple Computer sued Franklin for copyright violation. Franklin initially won. (See Apple Computer, Inc. v. Franklin Computer Corp..)
I thought that 20NN+1 was the year of the Linux laptop.
Well, if we leave out the "Outta-my-way-I'm-late" asshole circuit...
And that's Everett/Seattle/Bellevue/Tacoma area now.
-Joe, Tulalip
exactly. and clipping two wires is not "tricked out."
You still have csma/cd segments in your network? How quaint.
I was just going to say that!
73 de w7com
So, will my solid-state ham radio still work or will I have to dig out the vacuum tube rig?
That link points to an empty page. -Joe