I still have my manual for that beast (which I bought for CP/M way back in '84.) Now I have to see if they have the Turbo Toolbox and Turbo Tutor companion programs. Remember, Frank Borland is sorta like J.R. "Bob" Dobbs. --
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Remember that their lawyers are bigger and badder than any lawyers you could ever dream of. In New York, they go to the city, who would make mincemeat out of the small-town hick lawyers we can afford out here. It's not about how right you are, it's about how your lawyer can sell the argument. This doesn't stop us from badmouthing the companies shipping shoddy software. --
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Do you hear that great sucking sound? That's the sound of open source programmers fleeing to Canada and other countries. Maybe the only people left programming will be those stringently licensed (so they understand all the laws regulating their behavior) and whoring themselves out to MicroSloppy and Adobe. --
In western New York, a community the size of Jamestown, NY (home of the crescent wrench, Lucille Ball, 10,000 Maniacs, voting machines and quality furniture) with a population of about 40k, has three Web development firms, one of which does additional software development. But not for Linux, though. With low real estate (somewhat dampened by higher taxes), cheap municipal electric power of less than 4 cents/kWH, Chautauqua Institution right around the corner, it makes an ideal spot for raising your family. Schools and libraries are all equipped with Internet access in these parts. (Your school taxes are higher here, but a lot of the money is being spent on producing more capable children.) No matter where you live, look for the cultural gems that make your community unique. Look hard enough and you will find them. As far as the snow goes, I prefer snow to oppressive heat, earthquakes, hurricanes or flooding. I'll stick with western NY as long as possible. --
The only parts I found sufficiently funny were the Amish.net stuff. And that's only because I live just outside of Amish country. BTW, our Amish community isn't as bad as the stereotype suggests. It's possible they would get a mild chuckle out of what outsiders think of them. It would make my day if I could say something to Amish folks and get them to crack up. --
If what you say about housing in Colorado Springs is so high, what do the poor soldiers assigned to Fort Carson do if their rank is too low to qualify for on-post housing? I was out there from 1984 to mid-1985 and knew that folks were paying quite a bit. Had I been married, I would have immediately qualified for on-post housing by virtue of completing a "hardship tour" in Korea. Fortunately, staying in the barracks had its advantages, mainly having enough money to buy stuff for the computer, but that's another story. --
...it looks like another ploy by those socialist UN hacks still living in the '60s who spooge their trousers with glee every time they dream up another way to spend other people's money. --
Are people so caught up in the thrill of online grocery shopping that they forget that stuff costs more that way? Where I live, there's an Aldi discount grocery store (you bag 'em yourself) which saves up to 60% compared to mainline grocery stores. The types of things I buy are readily available there. The nearby Wal-Mart is open 24 hours, where I can get cat food when one of my finicky kitties runs out of food. But I do try to plan ahead far enough to not let that happen. Are the prices in the "high rent districts" like Seattle, San Francisco, Raleigh and New York (city) so bleedin' high that these places make financial sense? Or are their lives so hectic that they can't plan ahead long enough to shop in a store sensibly? --
There is a Dunkirk (without the extra letters which seem to be needed to decrease written signal-to-noise ratio) in New York, too, right in Chautauqua County. --
Actually, battery overheating leads to ALKALI burns, not acid burns. Potassium hydroxide is the wrong electrolyte at the wrong end of the pH scale. Nevertheless, alkali burns also are the path to the Dark Side. --
The stations I tend to listen to for "classic rock" are locally programmed during the day. (There probably is a satellite feed at night and for some of the weekend time.) They tend to play too many local acts and make too many remote appearances at their primary sponsors.
Besides, local radio stations give something very useful. It's called WEATHER. In an area like southwestern New York, with nasties like lake effect snow in the winter, you want to know Real Soon if a weather watch or warning is posted.
It is also fair to mention that those who write their own open source code may have a greater sense of self-motivation and initiative. There is no initiative of getting a paycheck for your efforts, but it does show you are capable of working on your own.
If these schools are running such old machines, it makes it all the more of a target for Linux. Teach real programming with real command lines. Then, and only then, after they have cut their teeth on the command line, intrduce them to GUI methods. (The business students are an exception, as they have to be taught how to USE a computer, not program one.)
Hopefully, with all this Universal Service Fund money coming in, schools can update their computing infrastructure to something other than the products from Uncle Billy's Evil Software Empire.
One can find the tarball "rsynth-2.0.tgz" at the Metalab Linux archives in the directory apps/sound/speech. It "tries" to speak through your existing sound card. I say "tries" because I'm getting buffer overruns that the program isn't accounting for. Those with the Cheapbytes Linux Archive CD set for Winter 1999, the tarball is on the second disk under the same directory.
For those with the DECtalk card, one might consider "emacspeak" available from the Debian or Slackware distributions.
My intent here is not to advocate fraudulent sales from remarking, but couldn't the marking come off with acetone?
I say that because I used this acrylic "glop" (best term for it) as a liquid gasket to repair a leaky fuel pump on a small engine. I got some of the glop on my hands. Water, kerosene or alcohol wouldn't dissolve it. Acetone did. Stung my hands pretty good too.
There should be a all-purpose Package Tracker for UPS, FedEx, Airborne and all the others at http://www.mta-ic.com/trakker.htm, the official web site of the newsgroup misc.transport.air-industry.cargo. Let me say that that web site SHOULD work.
Sounds like the fine folks at Corcraft, the New York prison industries. (I wonder if they develop open-source software for pennies on the dollar compared to private sector.)
I say IBM should port REXX and Pipelines to Linux. You folks think piping commands in sh/csh/bash/tcsh is fun, try juggling multiple pipelines, selective fanin/fanout with labeled streams, all more powerful than the 'tee' command. One can write a powerful script much like Perl with one pipe.
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I still have my manual for that beast (which I bought for CP/M way back in '84.)
Now I have to see if they have the Turbo Toolbox and Turbo Tutor companion programs.
Remember, Frank Borland is sorta like J.R. "Bob" Dobbs.
--
Remember that their lawyers are bigger and badder than any lawyers you could ever dream of. In New York, they go to the city, who would make mincemeat out of the small-town hick lawyers we can afford out here.
It's not about how right you are, it's about how your lawyer can sell the argument.
This doesn't stop us from badmouthing the companies shipping shoddy software.
--
Do you hear that great sucking sound?
That's the sound of open source programmers fleeing to Canada and other countries.
Maybe the only people left programming will be those stringently licensed (so they understand all the laws regulating their behavior) and whoring themselves out to MicroSloppy and Adobe.
--
In western New York, a community the size of Jamestown, NY (home of the crescent wrench, Lucille Ball, 10,000 Maniacs, voting machines and quality furniture) with a population of about 40k, has three Web development firms, one of which does additional software development. But not for Linux, though.
With low real estate (somewhat dampened by higher taxes), cheap municipal electric power of less than 4 cents/kWH, Chautauqua Institution right around the corner, it makes an ideal spot for raising your family. Schools and libraries are all equipped with Internet access in these parts. (Your school taxes are higher here, but a lot of the money is being spent on producing more capable children.)
No matter where you live, look for the cultural gems that make your community unique. Look hard enough and you will find them.
As far as the snow goes, I prefer snow to oppressive heat, earthquakes, hurricanes or flooding. I'll stick with western NY as long as possible.
--
The only parts I found sufficiently funny were the Amish.net stuff. And that's only because I live just outside of Amish country. BTW, our Amish community isn't as bad as the stereotype suggests. It's possible they would get a mild chuckle out of what outsiders think of them.
It would make my day if I could say something to Amish folks and get them to crack up.
--
If what you say about housing in Colorado Springs is so high, what do the poor soldiers assigned to Fort Carson do if their rank is too low to qualify for on-post housing? I was out there from 1984 to mid-1985 and knew that folks were paying quite a bit. Had I been married, I would have immediately qualified for on-post housing by virtue of completing a "hardship tour" in Korea.
Fortunately, staying in the barracks had its advantages, mainly having enough money to buy stuff for the computer, but that's another story.
--
...it looks like another ploy by those socialist UN hacks still living in the '60s who spooge their trousers with glee every time they dream up another way to spend other people's money.
--
Are people so caught up in the thrill of online grocery shopping that they forget that stuff costs more that way?
Where I live, there's an Aldi discount grocery store (you bag 'em yourself) which saves up to 60% compared to mainline grocery stores. The types of things I buy are readily available there. The nearby Wal-Mart is open 24 hours, where I can get cat food when one of my finicky kitties runs out of food. But I do try to plan ahead far enough to not let that happen.
Are the prices in the "high rent districts" like Seattle, San Francisco, Raleigh and New York (city) so bleedin' high that these places make financial sense? Or are their lives so hectic that they can't plan ahead long enough to shop in a store sensibly?
--
There is a Dunkirk (without the extra letters which seem to be needed to decrease written signal-to-noise ratio) in New York, too, right in Chautauqua County.
--
Actually, battery overheating leads to ALKALI burns, not acid burns. Potassium hydroxide is the wrong electrolyte at the wrong end of the pH scale. Nevertheless, alkali burns also are the path to the Dark Side.
--
The stations I tend to listen to for "classic rock" are locally programmed during the day. (There probably is a satellite feed at night and for some of the weekend time.) They tend to play too many local acts and make too many remote appearances at their primary sponsors.
Besides, local radio stations give something very useful. It's called WEATHER. In an area like southwestern New York, with nasties like lake effect snow in the winter, you want to know Real Soon if a weather watch or warning is posted.
It is also fair to mention that those who write their own open source code may have a greater sense of self-motivation and initiative. There is no initiative of getting a paycheck for your efforts, but it does show you are capable of working on your own.
That is something worth thinking about.
If these schools are running such old machines, it makes it all the more of a target for Linux. Teach real programming with real command lines. Then, and only then, after they have cut their teeth on the command line, intrduce them to GUI methods. (The business students are an exception, as they have to be taught how to USE a computer, not program one.)
Hopefully, with all this Universal Service Fund money coming in, schools can update their computing infrastructure to something other than the products from Uncle Billy's Evil Software Empire.
I'm embarrased to say I'm only 36 and I know how to use a slide rule!
(Being in the army where some things required the use of a slide rule helped a little, but I was taught how to use them when I was young.)
When it's 10 p.m., just shove it in your mouth. It's food; you eat it.
One expression I have heard is "You are not just selling the steak, you are selling the sizzle".
Red Hat is selling a complete package with value added in things like support and a spattering of commercial licenses.
One can find the tarball "rsynth-2.0.tgz" at the Metalab Linux archives in the directory apps/sound/speech. It "tries" to speak through your existing sound card. I say "tries" because I'm getting buffer overruns that the program isn't accounting for. Those with the Cheapbytes Linux Archive CD set for Winter 1999, the tarball is on the second disk under the same directory.
For those with the DECtalk card, one might consider "emacspeak" available from the Debian or Slackware distributions.
Bob? as in J.R. "Bob" Dobbs, maybe? :-)
I'd say things are looking really good right now. CmdrTaco can have all the time he needs to effect all the changes, if I had my way.
My intent here is not to advocate fraudulent sales from remarking, but couldn't the marking come off with acetone?
I say that because I used this acrylic "glop" (best term for it) as a liquid gasket to repair a leaky fuel pump on a small engine. I got some of the glop on my hands. Water, kerosene or alcohol wouldn't dissolve it. Acetone did. Stung my hands pretty good too.
There should be a all-purpose Package Tracker for UPS, FedEx, Airborne and all the others at http://www.mta-ic.com/trakker.htm, the official web site of the newsgroup misc.transport.air-industry.cargo. Let me say that that web site SHOULD work.
Sounds like the fine folks at Corcraft, the New York prison industries. (I wonder if they develop open-source software for pennies on the dollar compared to private sector.)
See http://www.corcraft.gov/ for more.
Folks must not remember the read-only VAX CPUID register which was used to track software usage. The concept is not new.
I say IBM should port REXX and Pipelines to Linux. You folks think piping commands in sh/csh/bash/tcsh is fun, try juggling multiple pipelines, selective fanin/fanout with labeled streams, all more powerful than the 'tee' command. One can write a powerful script much like Perl with one pipe.