You could do a bit better and get a 486DX-50. The problem was finding a motherboard and memory that could run fast enough for the processor's front side bus. They were also quite a bit more expensive.
Quite possibly true. Also, car radiators are intended to work better on a moving car, in order to transfer the heat to the air that flows through it. Unless you dropped it from a tall building, a PC would have a hard time reaching the same speeds.
However, part of me is a bit saddened by seeing the Cray name attached to X86s. Yes, I felt the same thing with SGI, DEC, and Sun. Yes, I need to get over it and move on.:-)
A breakfast-making game console would've been a real possibility had Microsoft used an Athlon XP instead of a Pentium III. Why, you can cook eggs on them!
And the blind users tell what the randomized order is... how?
Through Braille, of course. I'm sure you have noticed that nearly all ATMs nowadays have Braille etched on the keypads. It'd probably be confusing at first, but they have to touch the keypad to enter their PIN anyway, so they'd figure it out sooner or later.
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New York, New Jersey, Mass., Connecticut, and perhaps all of the other Northeastern states have enacted emissions regulations based on the California Air Resource Board regulations. New cars sold there are thus equipped with so-called California emissions, in those cases where the manufacturer differentiates between CARB and Federal emissions; some manufacturers sell the same model across all 50 states, and just make sure that all of them comply with CARB emissions. I bought my current car in New Jersey late last year, and later discovered that its "CA emissions package" adds a second light-off catalytic converter upstream of the standard converter, which robs the car of 2 HP and makes upgrades to the exhaust system a PITA, since it's illegal to remove the cats; also, most aftermarket intake/exhaust parts are designed for Federal (single-cat) emissions cars, or don't have the necessary CARB testing necessary to obtain authorisation (an EO number) in order to legally use the parts on the road.
Just beware of the current drain when you power that monster on. Causes my UPS to switch on every time.
Maybe your UPS is different, but every UPS that I've seen has warning labels instructing the user to not plug laser printers into them for that very reason. Even the rather large APC Back-UPS 2200 that I used at my previous job discouraged it.
A friend of mine is the webmaster of PhilaPhans.com, and was also affected by Allan Carlson's activities. He pointed me to this little note (scroll down to "Elysian Valley, Burbank"), where the guy's name pops up again:
Virginia de la Torre found a hate message in Aug. tucked inside a frozen chicken dinner. Robert Kennedy, a Long Beach lawyer representing the California Grocers Association says that since 1992, there have been more than 800 incidents of hate messages found inside products sold in stores in Ventura, Los Angeles and Orange counties. "You name the store, you name the product, and they've been hit," he said. "The slurs are against Jews and blacks and Hispanics. It's an ongoing problem." A Los Angeles Superior Court judge issued an injunction against Allan Eric Carlson of Glendale, prohibiting him from putting such pamphlets into packages in any of the 1,100 stores in the three-county area that are members of the grocers association. Carlson had been arrested and is on probation for two similar incidents; in one he vandalized notebooks and books with WAR [White Aryan Resistance] stickers and stamps; in a second, he assaulted a school custodian after being caught stuffing flyers into student lockers in Simi Valley.
So there you have it. Like McSpew said, he's a crank and a racist.
AltGr ("alternate graphic," although it should really be "alternate glyph") is used for entering extended characters beyond what the standard keyboard layout supports. It's equivalent to the X keysym Mode_switch. When you use the "US International" keyboard layout in Windows, the right Alt key becomes AltGr, which when pressed along with other keys produces various extended characters, including accented letters, special punctuation marks, and other fancy stuff without having to type in the ASCII value on the numeric keypad while holding the Alt key. On non-US keyboards, like the ISO Spanish keyboard on my Mac, some keys have extra characters printed on the key caps, indicating which character they generate while pressing AltGr.
... This year I've decided to sell the boss on using the network as a storage medium. I casually drop a couple of remarks until the boss decides to channel his massive intelligence away from tying his shoelaces and onto the matter at hand.
"It's simplicity itself!" I cry "We've got these Gigabit Ethernet switches all around the place that we just aren't using! Instead of letting them go to waste we could be sending data continuously around them until it's needed which would actually cut down on the amount of physical disk storage we would need! And just think of the time we would save with read and write latency when the data's already on the net!" ...
The only reason Pournelle requested white text instead of yellow is because white-on-blue was the default colour scheme for many DOS-based word processors and text editors. He wasn't a programmer, so he probably didn't spend much time using the Borland IDE on DOS. WordPerfect, DOS Edit, and IBM's E and TEDIT come to mind.
I doubt there's any other software out there that has single-handedly extended the life of so many rickety old computers (including XT clones), attracted countless technophobes to computers, and triggered the mass extinction of another tool (the typewriter) from most offices all at the same time the way that WP5.1 did. In hindsight, word processors haven't improved much since then; WYSIWYG gets only half credit, since WP had a WYSIWYG preview mode if your graphics hardware supported it.
Yes, in order to make sendmail even more convoluted, I recommend it be rewritten in perl.
I'd have suggested rewriting Sendmail in Sendmail. A self-compiling mail transfer agent would be uber-1337, indeed. The.cf file for that would scare the living shit out of me, though.
I've heard both/skoh/ and/ess-cee-oh/, the former by older sysadmins, the latter by relative newbies./skoh/ sounds pretty jarring when you're not used to it, though, so I imagine it's on the decline.
Gentoo uses devfs by default, but only half-assedly. The default devfsd configuration has it generate symlinks to emulate the old device names (i.e.,/dev/hda,/dev/tty1, etc.), defeating the purpose of having devfs in the first place. There are a few apps in Gentoo that use the old names, starting with sysvinit (the default inittab uses/dev/tty[1-6]).
What'cha mean, Weebl and Bob are going to use it too? I can imagine it already: turn the device on and it blurts "want pie now!" out loud, then it stops working until you bring a pie. Or a donkey.
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You could do a bit better and get a 486DX-50. The problem was finding a motherboard and memory that could run fast enough for the processor's front side bus. They were also quite a bit more expensive.
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Quite possibly true. Also, car radiators are intended to work better on a moving car, in order to transfer the heat to the air that flows through it. Unless you dropped it from a tall building, a PC would have a hard time reaching the same speeds.
However, part of me is a bit saddened by seeing the Cray name attached to X86s. Yes, I felt the same thing with SGI, DEC, and Sun. Yes, I need to get over it and move on. :-)
No need to worry -- if you want a Cray vector processor-based supercomputer, you can still buy one. You can also source the parts for your own Earth Simulator from Cray, as well.
A breakfast-making game console would've been a real possibility had Microsoft used an Athlon XP instead of a Pentium III. Why, you can cook eggs on them!
I'm gonna go hide now...
Really, now? For a while there I thought that Bill The Cat had a hand in it.
222.173.190.239
Yeah, it's taken.
/dead beef
Fortunately, an IBM Model M keyboard is also a handy weapon in case of emergency.
And the blind users tell what the randomized order is... how?
Through Braille, of course. I'm sure you have noticed that nearly all ATMs nowadays have Braille etched on the keypads. It'd probably be confusing at first, but they have to touch the keypad to enter their PIN anyway, so they'd figure it out sooner or later.
New York, New Jersey, Mass., Connecticut, and perhaps all of the other Northeastern states have enacted emissions regulations based on the California Air Resource Board regulations. New cars sold there are thus equipped with so-called California emissions, in those cases where the manufacturer differentiates between CARB and Federal emissions; some manufacturers sell the same model across all 50 states, and just make sure that all of them comply with CARB emissions. I bought my current car in New Jersey late last year, and later discovered that its "CA emissions package" adds a second light-off catalytic converter upstream of the standard converter, which robs the car of 2 HP and makes upgrades to the exhaust system a PITA, since it's illegal to remove the cats; also, most aftermarket intake/exhaust parts are designed for Federal (single-cat) emissions cars, or don't have the necessary CARB testing necessary to obtain authorisation (an EO number) in order to legally use the parts on the road.
So now kids will start bragging about how many frames per second they get on Flashback, eh? That's just what we needed right there.
It's squant, but unfortunately you'll probably not be able to see it.
The new nickname for the 40 teraflops system is "Thor's Hammer".
Ah, curious. I guess what goes around comes around. But, shouldn't it be "Thor's Hammers"? It's got 10,368 Hammers, y'know.
Just beware of the current drain when you power that monster on. Causes my UPS to switch on every time.
Maybe your UPS is different, but every UPS that I've seen has warning labels instructing the user to not plug laser printers into them for that very reason. Even the rather large APC Back-UPS 2200 that I used at my previous job discouraged it.
A friend of mine is the webmaster of PhilaPhans.com, and was also affected by Allan Carlson's activities. He pointed me to this little note (scroll down to "Elysian Valley, Burbank"), where the guy's name pops up again:
Virginia de la Torre found a hate message in Aug. tucked inside a frozen chicken dinner. Robert Kennedy, a Long Beach lawyer representing the California Grocers Association says that since 1992, there have been more than 800 incidents of hate messages found inside products sold in stores in Ventura, Los Angeles and Orange counties. "You name the store, you name the product, and they've been hit," he said. "The slurs are against Jews and blacks and Hispanics. It's an ongoing problem." A Los Angeles Superior Court judge issued an injunction against Allan Eric Carlson of Glendale, prohibiting him from putting such pamphlets into packages in any of the 1,100 stores in the three-county area that are members of the grocers association. Carlson had been arrested and is on probation for two similar incidents; in one he vandalized notebooks and books with WAR [White Aryan Resistance] stickers and stamps; in a second, he assaulted a school custodian after being caught stuffing flyers into student lockers in Simi Valley.
So there you have it. Like McSpew said, he's a crank and a racist.
AltGr ("alternate graphic," although it should really be "alternate glyph") is used for entering extended characters beyond what the standard keyboard layout supports. It's equivalent to the X keysym Mode_switch. When you use the "US International" keyboard layout in Windows, the right Alt key becomes AltGr, which when pressed along with other keys produces various extended characters, including accented letters, special punctuation marks, and other fancy stuff without having to type in the ASCII value on the numeric keypad while holding the Alt key. On non-US keyboards, like the ISO Spanish keyboard on my Mac, some keys have extra characters printed on the key caps, indicating which character they generate while pressing AltGr.
It was 1997 when Simon the BOFH wrote about such a contraption, which won him the IT Idiot Award for Least Intelligent Supervisor.
The only reason Pournelle requested white text instead of yellow is because white-on-blue was the default colour scheme for many DOS-based word processors and text editors. He wasn't a programmer, so he probably didn't spend much time using the Borland IDE on DOS. WordPerfect, DOS Edit, and IBM's E and TEDIT come to mind.
I doubt there's any other software out there that has single-handedly extended the life of so many rickety old computers (including XT clones), attracted countless technophobes to computers, and triggered the mass extinction of another tool (the typewriter) from most offices all at the same time the way that WP5.1 did. In hindsight, word processors haven't improved much since then; WYSIWYG gets only half credit, since WP had a WYSIWYG preview mode if your graphics hardware supported it.
Yes, in order to make sendmail even more convoluted, I recommend it be rewritten in perl.
I'd have suggested rewriting Sendmail in Sendmail. A self-compiling mail transfer agent would be uber-1337, indeed. The .cf file for that would scare the living shit out of me, though.
If you think that's ridiculous, check out: 99 bottles of beer in Sendmail.
"Spam, spam, spam, spam. Lovely spam, wonderful... Ow! Ow! Stop that! Bad spam! Ow! That hurts!"
Spanish Slashdot: Barrapunto. It's been around for almost as long as Slashdot itself.
How do you pronounce "SCO?"
I've heard both /skoh/ and /ess-cee-oh/, the former by older sysadmins, the latter by relative newbies. /skoh/ sounds pretty jarring when you're not used to it, though, so I imagine it's on the decline.
Gentoo uses devfs by default, but only half-assedly. The default devfsd configuration has it generate symlinks to emulate the old device names (i.e., /dev/hda, /dev/tty1, etc.), defeating the purpose of having devfs in the first place. There are a few apps in Gentoo that use the old names, starting with sysvinit (the default inittab uses /dev/tty[1-6]).
What'cha mean, Weebl and Bob are going to use it too? I can imagine it already: turn the device on and it blurts "want pie now!" out loud, then it stops working until you bring a pie. Or a donkey.