...is why doesn't the `Y' hook it's treadmills up to generators? I have seen fat cows walking on them all day - the energy they produce is just lost as waste heat. It would be far better to redirect it into the grid.
My next-door neighbour is a Master Electrician on staff at the local university (a very progressive employer). He is expected to keep his certification up to date, purchase new code books, etc., to keep ticket his valid. Additionally, he is responsible for the fire alarms and has to re-certify every 3 years (and this year was a MAJOR change). The university pays for his fire alarm certification test, but he is expected to study on his own time (and he spent, by my estimate, 20 hours a week for 3 weeks doing so).
A lot of non-executive computer guys -- network administrators, system operators, repair technicians -- seem to think they are different from the other trades because they work on computers. That's BS! That's like claiming patentability of X because you added "on the internet".
Tar over serial is fine -- hint, man stty -- but I disagree about hitting the whole-disk image before a filesystem dump.
If you are unlucky and hit a bad sector in an used section of disk, your house of cards could come down on you as the disk starts clicking. Instead, do a filesystem back up first, in order of most-to-least-interesting directories.
A new Oracle instance takes up about a half a meg for control files and probably 30 megs for system tables et al. At least it did with version 8. I can't see version 11 having bloated to 10 GB, that's truly insane.
You're right about it not scaling down, though, and you missed the key resource: dollars. You can't put an Oracle db on a powerful webserver (at least not on Solaris) to say, serve up a few hundred web accounts for anything less a bajillion dollars. Unless they have changed licensing in the last few years, which is entirely possible.
It also requires more human resources to set up and plan - a real DBA - whereas your typical web monkey is plenty for MySQL.
> writing every day in the Marquis De Sade school of writing known as BBS networks > (Fight-O-Net) hanging out in the debate oriented message bases. I can also credit > the local BBSes that had things like "The Never Ending Story."
HA! I have been crediting BBSes for my writing skills for years, as well. I never took a single post-secondary writing course, but when I have to do yucky paperwork (proposals, documentation, etc.) I express myself at a level significantly above my peers. And when it's time to write a pissed-off "business e-mail", I can dial the flame-thrower to *just the right temperature*.
> If I recall correctly, the drive I/O on the C-64 is a stripped down version > of an older interface which was actually a parallel 8-bit interface
Yes, the old IEEE-488 drives on the PET machines. I have a Batteries Included Bus Master ][ which lets me run IEEE-488 drives on a C64. Quite a bit faster than even a 1541 with a FastLoad cartridge.
You got any idea if you can run it effectively with those little Sun things? Geez, I forget what they're called, but you normally have to run special software on a sun server....
SunRays!
Any idea if LTSP supports SunRays?
It might be nice to buy a few and stick 'em around the house, have a central server in the garage somewhere.
No, for (;condition;) is a while, not a do..while.
As I said up higher in this thread, the middle argument is a LOOP INVARIANT. This means that it is always true for the inside of the loop block, unless you change it, in which case the loop will terminate when the propulsion statement is evaluated.
Reminds me of a similar experience; I was writing.. something.. in assembly language that had a very subtle hiesenbug that only came up after rigourous testing.
I figured -- if *I* can't find it, the TA sure as hell isn't going to.
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No, thanks, I will continue to use my GNU Lynx without support for that fancy X-Windows systems of yours, THANK YOU very much!
If you had taken more than one CS class, you would have understood that it's not about Pascal -- it's about what you're writing WITH pascal.
Did you really think that say, trees in pascal are completely different from trees in C?
...is why doesn't the `Y' hook it's treadmills up to generators? I have seen fat cows walking on them all day - the energy they produce is just lost as waste heat. It would be far better to redirect it into the grid.
I dunno - if both sides of those seams can be electrically connected to the phone when it is assembled, I suspect it might make a fair WiFi antenna.
My next-door neighbour is a Master Electrician on staff at the local university (a very progressive employer). He is expected to keep his certification up to date, purchase new code books, etc., to keep ticket his valid. Additionally, he is responsible for the fire alarms and has to re-certify every 3 years (and this year was a MAJOR change). The university pays for his fire alarm certification test, but he is expected to study on his own time (and he spent, by my estimate, 20 hours a week for 3 weeks doing so).
A lot of non-executive computer guys -- network administrators, system operators, repair technicians -- seem to think they are different from the other trades because they work on computers. That's BS! That's like claiming patentability of X because you added "on the internet".
I hope pythons are endangered
Nothing else would fit! :D
You know, those new 3D solids printers that have been in the /. news lately could probably be tweaked to output collagen-based scaffolds....
I disagree;
Tar over serial is fine -- hint, man stty -- but I disagree about hitting the whole-disk image before a filesystem dump.
If you are unlucky and hit a bad sector in an used section of disk, your house of cards could come down on you as the disk starts clicking. Instead, do a filesystem back up first, in order of most-to-least-interesting directories.
> As I recall, IDE drives first appeared with about 200MB of capacity.
Not so, I have a Western Digital Caviar 280 around here somewhere (I may have just thrown it out, actually) -- that's an 80MB IDE disk.
I also remember 40MB IDE drives quite clearly.
I may even remember 10MB "XT-IDE" drivers. These weren't ATAPI, they were IDE for PC-XT machines.
Sorry, you meant g=c800:5, I'm pretty sure.
Mind you, it's been... awhile.
1990 for me?
> Alternatively, he could uuencode all the data, cat it to tty, take photos
> of the monitor and then OCR it
Wouldn't it be funny if he posted it to youtube, and it looked exactly like a Russian Cat?
A new Oracle instance takes up about a half a meg for control files and probably 30 megs for system tables et al. At least it did with version 8. I can't see version 11 having bloated to 10 GB, that's truly insane.
You're right about it not scaling down, though, and you missed the key resource: dollars. You can't put an Oracle db on a powerful webserver (at least not on Solaris) to say, serve up a few hundred web accounts for anything less a bajillion dollars. Unless they have changed licensing in the last few years, which is entirely possible.
It also requires more human resources to set up and plan - a real DBA - whereas your typical web monkey is plenty for MySQL.
> writing every day in the Marquis De Sade school of writing known as BBS networks
> (Fight-O-Net) hanging out in the debate oriented message bases. I can also credit
> the local BBSes that had things like "The Never Ending Story."
HA! I have been crediting BBSes for my writing skills for years, as well. I never took a single post-secondary writing course, but when I have to do yucky paperwork (proposals, documentation, etc.) I express myself at a level significantly above my peers. And when it's time to write a pissed-off "business e-mail", I can dial the flame-thrower to *just the right temperature*.
So, thanks, Tom Jennings, wherever you are!
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Lance Corporal is the Army rank traditionally identified by one right-side-up chevron.
No telling what other crazy things will happen if your Army chooses to to sew their insignia on upside-down.
(I kid - the chevron was originally worn point-up; the word chevron comes from the french word for rafters)
When you make your stew without beef, do not complain that it is not filling.
The book you're thinking of was by Abacus, The Anatomy of the 1541 Disk Drive. And, holy crap, it's online now!
http://www.scribd.com/doc/15985046/The-Anatomy-of-the-1541-Disk-Drive
> If I recall correctly, the drive I/O on the C-64 is a stripped down version
> of an older interface which was actually a parallel 8-bit interface
Yes, the old IEEE-488 drives on the PET machines. I have a Batteries Included Bus Master ][ which lets me run IEEE-488 drives on a C64. Quite a bit faster than even a 1541 with a FastLoad cartridge.
Please, for the love of God, somebody come along and write a test suite for my project. I'm sick of breaking code by accident! ;)
You probably should have gone into the BIOS and set the ISA bus speed down as low as possible. I'm pretty sure the ST-506 would run at 8MHz though.
A PC-XT MFM controller like the ST-506 will work just fine in a 486, and most 486s came with a few ISA slots.
Hell, you can probably find Pentium-III machines with ISA slots at the local flea market.
You got any idea if you can run it effectively with those little Sun things? Geez, I forget what they're called, but you normally have to run special software on a sun server....
SunRays!
Any idea if LTSP supports SunRays?
It might be nice to buy a few and stick 'em around the house, have a central server in the garage somewhere.
> I really cannot understand why they're designing them so bloody thick
> just to accommodate the projector chip.
Complete WAG -- maybe the DLP chips need a bright light source behind them?
No, for (;condition;) is a while, not a do..while.
As I said up higher in this thread, the middle argument is a LOOP INVARIANT. This means that it is always true for the inside of the loop block, unless you change it, in which case the loop will terminate when the propulsion statement is evaluated.
Reminds me of a similar experience; I was writing .. something .. in assembly language that had a very subtle hiesenbug that only came up after rigourous testing.
I figured -- if *I* can't find it, the TA sure as hell isn't going to.
I was right.
You are absolutely correct, of course.
The for-loop (in C) is actually the embodiment of the computer science loop concept:
Anybody who does not understand this does should have their CS degree taken away.
The OP's moronic cow-irker clearly only understands the FOR..NEXT loop from BASIC.