Re:One Hundred 4004s on eBay! 9.99 is high for 1
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Intel 4004 Turns 30
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You are bidding on one Intel brand P4004 CPU...looks like he has 100, but you are paying 9.99 for 1 to me. You want old parts cheap, go to bgmicro (they have a web site at www.bgmicro.com). I have used them for years (even before they did the internet thing, they are quick reliable and only subtitute if you confirm they can, and can get most things that are not in stock in 2 days or so. I have repaired and built things with very old type parts for cheap. Most notable are their power supplies, etc...its a geek-techno-hobbists home. Also try various other sites...like digikey...they are good too, I think they have a web site at http://www.digikey.com, and they have and awesome catalog.
it stayed in the shop from the first week. Compaq could never fix it, I traded it for a lesser toshiba model. Now I have a TFT 8000 that has problems (bottom quarter of screen goes out after a while until you turn it off and let it cool), compaq again cant fix it. AVOID compaq crap.
Just about a month ago, I was sitting there wondering what had happened the 25 or so slack linux boxes that we have running at the local isp I helped start and consult for, I had not heard from them for weeks, they had all but disappeared. I went home and sure enough all my boxes seemed like they had disappeared to...it was scary.
I located one of my boxes by touch then installed Redhat on one of my boxes to see if it would be visible, and SuSE on another. Sure enough they both bitched and wined and were not even slightly faded. I worked on the SuSE box and basically edited the files and made it more like its slackware roots (after all SuSE was a product of building on slackware, so its the "package manager slack" you nuts all dream about)...and it too faded away. The Redhat box however still bitched and moaned and crashed until I reinstalled slackware and that box disappeared also.
On a more serious note, You see we Slackware users (I have used it since 1.2.8) are proud of Slackware. We all avoided autoslack and it was NEVER wanted or needed in Slackware as slack users have a clue what Slackware is and we all gave the author of autoslack a good cursing from time to time and are all glad he failed in his silly attempt to redhatize Slackware, if we want that kind of shit, we will run SuSE! Autoslack was a piece of crap no real Slackware user wanted or needed anyway. Slackware users would just as soon use the source to build things we use, and use ldd or README and INSTALL texts to check to see what we need. If we need a package we can install rpms just fine, as slackware comes with rpm package manager, using the nodeps flag fixes that problem.
Well the difference is, windows tends to crash, and was my document still in memory or hdd or both or gone. An embedded system designed just to do the data shuffle would be most likely around 100% reliable, something no user os can truthfully boast.
The difference is the ones that really worry about the distinction probably watched way to many hacker movies and feel as if the term matters. Real hackers (not the cracker type, though most hackers do reverse engineer and break security measures to figure out things) have more important things to worry about like food, sleep and hacking on their systems.
And it is not a variant of windows, it is totally different and in fact is not outdated technology in any respect, its still years ahead of microsoft (microsoft terminal server...or citrix winframe are just now able to do what X or X Window has been capable of for many years.
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You are bidding on one Intel brand P4004 CPU...looks like he has 100, but you are paying 9.99 for 1 to me. You want old parts cheap, go to bgmicro (they have a web site at www.bgmicro.com). I have used them for years (even before they did the internet thing, they are quick reliable and only subtitute if you confirm they can, and can get most things that are not in stock in 2 days or so. I have repaired and built things with very old type parts for cheap. Most notable are their power supplies, etc...its a geek-techno-hobbists home. Also try various other sites...like digikey...they are good too, I think they have a web site at http://www.digikey.com, and they have and awesome catalog.
it stayed in the shop from the first week. Compaq could never fix it, I traded it for a lesser toshiba model. Now I have a TFT 8000 that has problems (bottom quarter of screen goes out after a while until you turn it off and let it cool), compaq again cant fix it. AVOID compaq crap.
Just about a month ago, I was sitting there wondering what had happened the 25 or so slack linux boxes that we have running at the local isp I helped start and consult for, I had not heard from them for weeks, they had all but disappeared. I went home and sure enough all my boxes seemed like they had disappeared to...it was scary.
I located one of my boxes by touch then installed Redhat on one of my boxes to see if it would be visible, and SuSE on another. Sure enough they both bitched and wined and were not even slightly faded. I worked on the SuSE box and basically edited the files and made it more like its slackware roots (after all SuSE was a product of building on slackware, so its the "package manager slack" you nuts all dream about)...and it too faded away. The Redhat box however still bitched and moaned and crashed until I reinstalled slackware and that box disappeared also.
On a more serious note, You see we Slackware users (I have used it since 1.2.8) are proud of Slackware. We all avoided autoslack and it was NEVER wanted or needed in Slackware as slack users have a clue what Slackware is and we all gave the author of autoslack a good cursing from time to time and are all glad he failed in his silly attempt to redhatize Slackware, if we want that kind of shit, we will run SuSE! Autoslack was a piece of crap no real Slackware user wanted or needed anyway. Slackware users would just as soon use the source to build things we use, and use ldd or README and INSTALL texts to check to see what we need. If we need a package we can install rpms just fine, as slackware comes with rpm package manager, using the nodeps flag fixes that problem.
Well the difference is, windows tends to crash, and was my document still in memory or hdd or both or gone. An embedded system designed just to do the data shuffle would be most likely around 100% reliable, something no user os can truthfully boast.
The difference is the ones that really worry about the distinction probably watched way to many hacker movies and feel as if the term matters. Real hackers (not the cracker type, though most hackers do reverse engineer and break security measures to figure out things) have more important things to worry about like food, sleep and hacking on their systems.
Dead men can sue, CIA has the ability to make you um disappear permanently...and they just decided to unhook their leash.
which is something ms is good at, half ass solutions.
And it is not a variant of windows, it is totally different and in fact is not outdated technology in any respect, its still years ahead of microsoft (microsoft terminal server...or citrix winframe are just now able to do what X or X Window has been capable of for many years.
Since its LinuxDA, shouldn't you have said. Can I run daGimp on daPalm with daLinux?