Farley, like the dog on "Fraggle Rock", or Farley as in Chris Farley the dead fat guy, or Farley as in Farley Mowat?
You could imprison any of them in a bamboo cage fer chrissakes.:)
OTOH, a device remarkably like the one you described exists. It's called a "Faraday Cage", and is named for British Physicist Michael Faraday, the God Father of Electromagnetism.
You can even buy "instant cages" made of mu-copper foil -- the Army has a bunch. These cages are slowly replacing the Aluminium Foil Deflector Beanies that the crazy nutbags out there are wearing as countermeasure for the government's mind control rays. Do a google for HAARP if you're in for a good laugh.
It's theoretically possible that you could be using the wrong TAP number, and occasionally getting traffic due to "lucky" TNPP routing. Bell Mobility has a LOT of TAP numbers.
What region are you in? Or rather, what region is your pager subscribed in? What number is qpage dialing?
In my experience, Bell Mobility paging has been near 100% reliable (caveat: haven't tested extensively in several years)
If you send the message as an e-mail, the evil telcos won't have to pay the evil CMG gateway people their ridiculous SMPP gateway fee! So, you save money for the provider that is almost certainly screwing you!
16 elements which are either present, or not present in the glass.
Sounds like 16 bits of storage to me.
That means it should be able to mix 65,536 drinks. Well, 65,535 if you don't count "empty glass" as a drink.
Naming them, OTOH, might be somewhat more complicated; although possibly entertaining.
Maybe you could name them after famous computer numbers? For the old school hacker: drink 53280 would be a "C64 Screen Border". For the new school hacker: drink 31337 would simply be called "leet". Windows guys could drink a BSOD: drink #13; w4rez d00Dz could drink HTTPs and FTPs (80, 21). Managers could drink a "Biff" - drink # 512.
We could serve the ladies drinks 42, 513, and 517 -- in hopes that they might be in the mood for a 79 or maybe even a quick 513. Heck, some of the ladies might even like drink #587.
> You can use the DIN on the back of the machine for a TV output on channel 3 or 4.
Make that, the RCA plug next to the two DIN plugs.
Also, IIRC, the 2nd, 3rd pins on the left of that DIN (as the user faces the computer) are chroma and luma; the second last one is audio, the sheild is ground.
If you just hook up luma, you'll get a B&W monitor picture.
Be careful probing looking for the audio, you can blow the audio output of the SID-II chip if you're not careful. The rest of the machine will still work, though.
I have a couple of those, but I don't want to give them up.
You can use the DIN on the back of the machine for a TV output on channel 3 or 4.
If you are using a commodore monitor, you should be able to find the pinouts easily if not [post back otherwise, I may still have them at home].
Otherwise, you might want to make a DIN->SVideo cable. I've never tried it (SVideo didn't exist in those days) but I don't see why it wouldn't work. The chroma and luma are separate on that port; audio is there as well.
Oh, you can use the C=64 DIN->composite monitor as well. I did this back in the 80s. Take a small germanium diode (resistance ~500 ohm) and wire it so the chroma goes through the diode and into the luma. There's probably a better (proper!) way, but that's how I did it; I needed to use an Apple ][/VIC-20 monitor on my C=64.
Finally, those 5-pin DIN connectors used to be standard stock at Radio Shack; I think they are the same as some european stereo standard from the 70s.
"Portable C64" -> SX64, aka "Executive 64" Apple IIp -> You mean Apple IIc, I think -- floppy on the right, big white brick powersupply.
2.88 meg hard drive in a PS/2? Do you mean 3.5" floppy?
Have you found the drives on your TRS-80s seizing the disk rotation motor? If so, spray the brush area down (don't need to open the motor) with car ignition anti-seize, and turn them by hand a few times. Then squirt in some liquid wrench.
Not only that, but when you install a package with the sun pkgadd tool (like RPM, only not for use by the unwashed masses), it drops package checksums into your spool directory. You can verify checksums of every damn file you've ever installed with pkgchk -c....
I have yet to see a root kit which modifies this checksum [although it could happen], but going to the master checksums is certainly not hard, and pkgchk -c is so nice and easy.
I took one look at the Picobird series when the first came out -- 1996? -- and say, "uh-uh. my Fujitsu days are over, these look *cheap*". I'm glad I did, they certainly weren't the most reliable drive from day one.
My 9-year old Fujitsu drive actually looks like it came from a different design team/plant entirely. Big surprise, it still works.
> My five year old Fujitsu 4.5GB SCSI-2 > HD is still going strong.
I bought a 1.054 GB SCSI-2 Fujitsu in 1993. It cost about a grand US. It still works.:)
It actually performs decently, too -- 5400 RPM, 10.5 ms access time, 512 KB cache. Not bad for a piece of 9-year old hardware to still perform about as well as entry-level current stuff.
The freaky thing about that drive, is that you can use one corner of it (where the arm pivots, presumably) to pick up quarters. It will hold four if you're patient.
Instead of laying the cable in a straight line, you lay it in S-shapes. Big S-shapes. That way, there's LOTS of slack, say 500% slack, for the ice sheet movement.
Of course, you have to use a fairly flexible conduit -- copper piping should do nicely, as long as you can figure out how to make sure it doesn't kink too badly on compression. The S-shapes, again, would help, but a better material would be even better. Maybe copper line with a thick kevlar braid, along the lines of the braid used in a Chinese finger puzzle/trap.
The Canadian Armed Forces has to recalibrate their microwave dishes every eight years or so up north for CFS Alert on Elsmere Island, because the ice moves. That gets expensive in the long run (Snowcats, helicopters, men), and would be MUCH worse for Antarctica.
And finally, finding a break in the fiber wouldn't be too hard, ever heard of a time-delay reflectometer?
The "guy in Canada" is named Percy Schmeiser, and he's still in court on appeal, after getting squashed by Montsanto the first time. Read about it here [percyschmeiser.com]
IIRC, Sun is doing this with their E10K servers. They are advertising it as a bonus -- easy processor upgrades! But I have been told -- in fact, by Sun Tech Support guys -- that this was because Sun couldn't get the bus density up to where they wanted it by socketing the CPUs on the motherboard. So they just soldered 'em on, and make you pay for them when you want them.
I have also heard -- from less reputable sources -- that Linux/Sparc will use all of the CPUs on an E10K, regardless of what you've paid for.
..if your car runs like shit, start it in the parking lot, let it idle until the fan comes on, and shut it off. Do this twice. Now take it for a drive, like you usually would drive the vehicle.
That should reset the ECM FI map (it's sort of a neural net with some node weights pre-programmed) that you probably wiped out by disconnecting the battery.
All they'd have to do is cancel their $850/month contact with IBM and wait for the thing to die. That's what the city of Wilkes-Barre PA did. Now, they are manually re-entering their data, and can massage it any way they see fit.
Governor Reagan would never have let that happen. Hell, if the state was hurting for money, he'd probably just sell some guns and stuff to the Nicaraguans again.
The file will still be there, only it will be called/dev/null, and you won't have a/dev/null special file anymore, which can break a LOT of stuff. (mmap(/dev/null, bunch_o_bytes) is a common way to allocate memory, for example). If you DO blow away your/dev/null, you need to know the maj/min numbers for that device and recreated it with mknod.
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Farley, like the dog on "Fraggle Rock", or Farley as in Chris Farley the dead fat guy, or Farley as in Farley Mowat?
:)
You could imprison any of them in a bamboo cage fer chrissakes.
OTOH, a device remarkably like the one you described exists. It's called a "Faraday Cage", and is named for British Physicist Michael Faraday, the God Father of Electromagnetism.
You can even buy "instant cages" made of mu-copper foil -- the Army has a bunch. These cages are slowly replacing the Aluminium Foil Deflector Beanies that the crazy nutbags out there are wearing as countermeasure for the government's mind control rays. Do a google for HAARP if you're in for a good laugh.
Are you hiring?
It's theoretically possible that you could be using the wrong TAP number, and occasionally getting traffic due to "lucky" TNPP routing. Bell Mobility has a LOT of TAP numbers.
What region are you in? Or rather, what region is your pager subscribed in? What number is qpage dialing?
In my experience, Bell Mobility paging has been near 100% reliable (caveat: haven't tested extensively in several years)
If you send the message as an e-mail, the evil telcos won't have to pay the evil CMG gateway people their ridiculous SMPP gateway fee! So, you save money for the provider that is almost certainly screwing you!
Something must be wrong.
16 elements which are either present, or not present in the glass.
Sounds like 16 bits of storage to me.
That means it should be able to mix 65,536 drinks. Well, 65,535 if you don't count "empty glass" as a drink.
Naming them, OTOH, might be somewhat more complicated; although possibly entertaining.
Maybe you could name them after famous computer numbers? For the old school hacker: drink 53280 would be a "C64 Screen Border". For the new school hacker: drink 31337 would simply be called "leet". Windows guys could drink a BSOD: drink #13; w4rez d00Dz could drink HTTPs and FTPs (80, 21). Managers could drink a "Biff" - drink # 512.
We could serve the ladies drinks 42, 513, and 517 -- in hopes that they might be in the mood for a 79 or maybe even a quick 513. Heck, some of the ladies might even like drink #587.
"Sorry I'm late, Boss -- my watch crashed again"
> You can use the DIN on the back of the machine for a TV output on channel 3 or 4.
Make that, the RCA plug next to the two DIN plugs.
Also, IIRC, the 2nd, 3rd pins on the left of that DIN (as the user faces the computer) are chroma and luma; the second last one is audio, the sheild is ground.
If you just hook up luma, you'll get a B&W monitor picture.
Be careful probing looking for the audio, you can blow the audio output of the SID-II chip if you're not careful. The rest of the machine will still work, though.
I have a couple of those, but I don't want to give them up.
You can use the DIN on the back of the machine for a TV output on channel 3 or 4.
If you are using a commodore monitor, you should be able to find the pinouts easily if not [post back otherwise, I may still have them at home].
Otherwise, you might want to make a DIN->SVideo cable. I've never tried it (SVideo didn't exist in those days) but I don't see why it wouldn't work. The chroma and luma are separate on that port; audio is there as well.
Oh, you can use the C=64 DIN->composite monitor as well. I did this back in the 80s. Take a small germanium diode (resistance ~500 ohm) and wire it so the chroma goes through the diode and into the luma. There's probably a better (proper!) way, but that's how I did it; I needed to use an Apple ][/VIC-20 monitor on my C=64.
Finally, those 5-pin DIN connectors used to be standard stock at Radio Shack; I think they are the same as some european stereo standard from the 70s.
"Portable C64" -> SX64, aka "Executive 64"
Apple IIp -> You mean Apple IIc, I think -- floppy on the right, big white brick powersupply.
2.88 meg hard drive in a PS/2? Do you mean 3.5" floppy?
Have you found the drives on your TRS-80s seizing the disk rotation motor? If so, spray the brush area down (don't need to open the motor) with car ignition anti-seize, and turn them by hand a few times. Then squirt in some liquid wrench.
> What would a Beowolf cluster of Jesuses do in Soviet Russia,
> where all your base are belong to us?
Pour a LOT of hot borscht down Natalie Portman's pants?
Not only that, but when you install a package with the sun pkgadd tool (like RPM, only not for use by the unwashed masses), it drops package checksums into your spool directory. You can verify checksums of every damn file you've ever installed with pkgchk -c....
I have yet to see a root kit which modifies this checksum [although it could happen], but going to the master checksums is certainly not hard, and pkgchk -c is so nice and easy.
> Fujitsu drives quickly started getting ungood
I took one look at the Picobird series when the first came out -- 1996? -- and say, "uh-uh. my Fujitsu days are over, these look *cheap*". I'm glad I did, they certainly weren't the most reliable drive from day one.
My 9-year old Fujitsu drive actually looks like it came from a different design team/plant entirely. Big surprise, it still works.
> My five year old Fujitsu 4.5GB SCSI-2
:)
> HD is still going strong.
I bought a 1.054 GB SCSI-2 Fujitsu in 1993. It cost about a grand US. It still works.
It actually performs decently, too -- 5400 RPM, 10.5 ms access time, 512 KB cache. Not bad for a piece of 9-year old hardware to still perform about as well as entry-level current stuff.
The freaky thing about that drive, is that you can use one corner of it (where the arm pivots, presumably) to pick up quarters. It will hold four if you're patient.
Don't feel bad, my mother took Latin in highschool instead of typing.
Instead of laying the cable in a straight line, you lay it in S-shapes. Big S-shapes. That way, there's LOTS of slack, say 500% slack, for the ice sheet movement.
Of course, you have to use a fairly flexible conduit -- copper piping should do nicely, as long as you can figure out how to make sure it doesn't kink too badly on compression. The S-shapes, again, would help, but a better material would be even better. Maybe copper line with a thick kevlar braid, along the lines of the braid used in a Chinese finger puzzle/trap.
The Canadian Armed Forces has to recalibrate their microwave dishes every eight years or so up north for CFS Alert on Elsmere Island, because the ice moves. That gets expensive in the long run (Snowcats, helicopters, men), and would be MUCH worse for Antarctica.
And finally, finding a break in the fiber wouldn't be too hard, ever heard of a time-delay reflectometer?
The "guy in Canada" is named Percy Schmeiser, and he's still in court on appeal, after getting squashed by Montsanto the first time. Read about it here [percyschmeiser.com]
IIRC, Sun is doing this with their E10K servers. They are advertising it as a bonus -- easy processor upgrades! But I have been told -- in fact, by Sun Tech Support guys -- that this was because Sun couldn't get the bus density up to where they wanted it by socketing the CPUs on the motherboard. So they just soldered 'em on, and make you pay for them when you want them.
I have also heard -- from less reputable sources -- that Linux/Sparc will use all of the CPUs on an E10K, regardless of what you've paid for.
Klez doesn't read your addressbook, it just snoops the network interface. Far more effective.
..if that were the case, turning it off and on every day like that might actually make it work [i]better[/i].
..if your car runs like shit, start it in the parking lot, let it idle until the fan comes on, and shut it off. Do this twice. Now take it for a drive, like you usually would drive the vehicle.
That should reset the ECM FI map (it's sort of a neural net with some node weights pre-programmed) that you probably wiped out by disconnecting the battery.
Also, your stereo might get angry, too.
Actually, the guy lives closer to Napanee, and (believe it or not) splits wood for a living.
Man, I can see, and I don't like chain saws.. buddy must be a brave mofo.
1. Usually, yeah. devfsadm on some SYSV (e.g Solaris 8) will too.
/dev/lpr on my BSDI 2.0.1 box. (long time ago ;-)
2. If it's available
3. Don't ask me about the time I forgot I was root and blew away
> Shouldn't they be burning their backup tapes?
All they'd have to do is cancel their $850/month contact with IBM and wait for the thing to die. That's what the city of Wilkes-Barre PA did. Now, they are manually re-entering their data, and can massage it any way they see fit.
Governor Reagan would never have let that happen. Hell, if the state was hurting for money, he'd probably just sell some guns and stuff to the Nicaraguans again.
> I just mv it to dev/null.
/dev/null, and you won't have a /dev/null special file anymore, which can break a LOT of stuff. (mmap(/dev/null, bunch_o_bytes) is a common way to allocate memory, for example). If you DO blow away your /dev/null, you need to know the maj/min numbers for that device and recreated it with mknod.
The file will still be there, only it will be called