Oh, yes. We have lots of DOS games here. All the Commander Keens. Crystal Cave. Several of the Star Wars games. SimCity 2000. Etc. They're on an old Pentium-200 running OS/2 Warp v3.0 -- I've found OS/2's DOS emulation is much better than Windows' for running games, and allow me maximum low memory for best performance -- more so than even running MS-DOS striaght up with third-party memory managers. The machine also runs an nntp server for my home network, so multitasking is needed anyway.
My old 486DX33 from 1993 is also still in continuous use. I upgraded it to AMD 5x86/133 several years ago, and maxed out the memory to 32MB. It now runs NetBSD and functions as the DHCP server, samba authentication server and backup DNS for my home network. It also hosts a DLT-III tape drive for network backups. All SCSI as well, running off an AHA-1522b HBA. I did get a nice VLB SCSI HBA for it, but it refused to boot when it was installed. The MB apparently didn't like the card trying to do bus mastering or something. Whatever.
I also have an old Pentium-200 fished out of the dumpster running as the gateway/NAT machine and primary DNS for my home network. It was pretty bare to start with -- no HD, memory, video, etc. I picked up 128MB of RAM on eBay, a used 23GB full-height HD and AHA-2940 HBA to get it going. It also runs NetBSD. Pretty, it ain't, but it gets the job done.
Did I miss something, or did McLaughlin manage to avoid discussing any of the issues ICANN raised in their demand to take down Sitefinder? Instead, he just gives a tiresome "ad hominem" attack on ICANN and its motives. As if that's supposed to build sympathy for his cause...
Bunuel and Dali worked together on two films: Un chien andalou (1929), in which a sheep's eye is dramatically sliced open to appear like a human's eye being sliced, and Age d'or, (1930) .
I already pay for my email account. Why should I have to put up with unsolicited commercial email? Make email advertizing mandatory "opt-in" and I'll agree with you.
This thread dwells on the worry that the Taliban may declare a "jihad" against the USA. On this side of the fence, I notice that President Bush has declared his response to the WTC terrorist attack to be a "crusade." Isn't a "crusade" almost the same thing as a "jihad?" A religiously motivated war, just different religions. I think we have to be careful here...
Hmmm. Must be nice. I work in a hospital, not in IT but doing hands-on patient care, etc. When I'm on call I need to carry a pager, be available to work within 20min of a page, etc. For this, I get the princely wage of US$2/hour while on call. Somehow priorities seem a little backwards here. The people who are call to service machines get a decent compensation, but those who get called in to deal with mere people in emergencies get $2/hour for their on call time. It's not as if I do unskilled work, either. I have two college degrees, professional license, etc. Most of the IT staff is lucky to have a 2 year technical college degree.
-John
If we need a new production airframe and the Mig-33 is as capable as you describe, why don't we just buy some Mig-33's from them instead of re-inventing the wheel? Think about it: it would give us the airframe you say we need, bolster the Russian economy and increase their ties to us. I see it as a win-win situation.
Yes, IBM did include voice dictation and navigation with Warp v4 (1996) and yes, it didn't go too far, but at least part of the problem was that for it to function well it needed a pretty hefty machine for those times. IIRC, a P-100 with 32MB was the official minimum requirement, but most people agreed that at least twice the Mhz and RAM were really need to make it acceptable. But Microsoft managed to kill off OS/2 long before entry-level hardware met these requirements.
This research sounds a lot like Sidney Fox's work on self-organizing membrane structures from abiotic components done in the 1970's and 80's. His work dealt with self-organization in plausible primordial earth conditions, but it's interesting to see that it works in deep space conditions as well. One of the Creationist objections to Fox's work was that they felt it required an implausible confluence of conditions in order to work (despite the fact that it can be done in a high-school science lab at room temperture and pressure). That it can happen under deep-space conditions can only be seen as further support for abiogenesis.
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Oh, yes. We have lots of DOS games here. All the Commander Keens. Crystal Cave. Several of the Star Wars games. SimCity 2000. Etc. They're on an old Pentium-200 running OS/2 Warp v3.0 -- I've found OS/2's DOS emulation is much better than Windows' for running games, and allow me maximum low memory for best performance -- more so than even running MS-DOS striaght up with third-party memory managers. The machine also runs an nntp server for my home network, so multitasking is needed anyway.
My old 486DX33 from 1993 is also still in continuous use. I upgraded it to AMD 5x86/133 several years ago, and maxed out the memory to 32MB. It now runs NetBSD and functions as the DHCP server, samba authentication server and backup DNS for my home network. It also hosts a DLT-III tape drive for network backups. All SCSI as well, running off an AHA-1522b HBA. I did get a nice VLB SCSI HBA for it, but it refused to boot when it was installed. The MB apparently didn't like the card trying to do bus mastering or something. Whatever.
I also have an old Pentium-200 fished out of the dumpster running as the gateway/NAT machine and primary DNS for my home network. It was pretty bare to start with -- no HD, memory, video, etc. I picked up 128MB of RAM on eBay, a used 23GB full-height HD and AHA-2940 HBA to get it going. It also runs NetBSD. Pretty, it ain't, but it gets the job done.
Did I miss something, or did McLaughlin manage to avoid discussing any of the issues ICANN raised in their demand to take down Sitefinder? Instead, he just gives a tiresome "ad hominem" attack on ICANN and its motives. As if that's supposed to build sympathy for his cause...
Bunuel and Dali worked together on two films: Un chien andalou (1929), in which a sheep's eye is dramatically sliced open to appear like a human's eye being sliced, and Age d'or, (1930) .
I already pay for my email account. Why should I have to put up with unsolicited commercial email? Make email advertizing mandatory "opt-in" and I'll agree with you.
Social Software? Isn't that what "Microsoft Bob" was supposed to be?
'Nuff said....
I work in a hospital. We never close. Ever. I work every other holiday and every third weekend. Its part of the job.
"Budweiser: it's not just for killing slugs anymore!"
This thread dwells on the worry that the Taliban may declare a "jihad" against the USA. On this side of the fence, I notice that President Bush has declared his response to the WTC terrorist attack to be a "crusade." Isn't a "crusade" almost the same thing as a "jihad?" A religiously motivated war, just different religions. I think we have to be careful here...
-John
I'd like to see the URL just so I can stick it in my Junkbuster blocklist.
-John
Hmmm. Must be nice. I work in a hospital, not in IT but doing hands-on patient care, etc. When I'm on call I need to carry a pager, be available to work within 20min of a page, etc. For this, I get the princely wage of US$2/hour while on call. Somehow priorities seem a little backwards here. The people who are call to service machines get a decent compensation, but those who get called in to deal with mere people in emergencies get $2/hour for their on call time. It's not as if I do unskilled work, either. I have two college degrees, professional license, etc. Most of the IT staff is lucky to have a 2 year technical college degree. -John
If we need a new production airframe and the Mig-33 is as capable as you describe, why don't we just buy some Mig-33's from them instead of re-inventing the wheel? Think about it: it would give us the airframe you say we need, bolster the Russian economy and increase their ties to us. I see it as a win-win situation.
-John
Yes, IBM did include voice dictation and navigation with Warp v4 (1996) and yes, it didn't go too far, but at least part of the problem was that for it to function well it needed a pretty hefty machine for those times. IIRC, a P-100 with 32MB was the official minimum requirement, but most people agreed that at least twice the Mhz and RAM were really need to make it acceptable. But Microsoft managed to kill off OS/2 long before entry-level hardware met these requirements.
Bummer.
This research sounds a lot like Sidney Fox's work on self-organizing membrane structures from abiotic components done in the 1970's and 80's. His work dealt with self-organization in plausible primordial earth conditions, but it's interesting to see that it works in deep space conditions as well. One of the Creationist objections to Fox's work was that they felt it required an implausible confluence of conditions in order to work (despite the fact that it can be done in a high-school science lab at room temperture and pressure). That it can happen under deep-space conditions can only be seen as further support for abiogenesis.