So here on the eastern seaboard of Australia, lunchtime will now be at 2 a.m.,
That's why we need timezones. If I want to know what time is appropriate to call someone in London, I do the math, see that it's 6am there, and surmise that they're probably not up yet.
If you want to know what hours someone is working in another place, that would always be tantamount to a time zone calculation.
Since immortal means 'infinite lifespan' or 'living an infinite number of years', then only one person has to do that to make the average also infinite.
True, but you can never know if you've truly achieved an infinite lifespan.
Granted, I have three NIC's installed. But that's not it. I blame an old installation of a Microsoft product for delaying the boot process..NET, or an SQL Server trial, or something like that. I don't remember exactly.
I only reboot once a week. I'm running XP on a Dell workstation with SATA drives. It doesn't take too long to get to the login window. But then I have to let it sit there for a few minutes before logging in. Otherwise the TCP stack apparently hasn't fired up yet and the VPN doesn't automatically connect. Plus, the lack of disk cache after booting makes it take a long time to load Thunderbird and Firefox.
Not much. DHCP should be fast because the PC just sends out a broadcast and the server replies to that. It doesn't have to do any searching. Also, it remembers the last address so it can try that one first.
I regularly surfed wiretap.spies.com via Gopher. I don't remember exactly what the content was, but I'm sorry it's gone. I occasionally used wuarchive via NFS, but more often via FTP. University of Paderborn had a good FTP site too. My first two Internet email addresses were provided by CompuServe and Delphi. And, I was there when anon.penet.fi shut down.
I'm not sure where you live, but my night time electricity is *considerably* cheaper than my day rate.
I'm in the middle of the US, and last I checked most homes still have analog power meters that count the total usage for the month. Also, my bill shows total usage without differentiating between day and night.
Instead of wipe the CMOS, I should have said "change the BIOS setup", if that makes a difference. It's conceivable to tell the BIOS to change a setting and update the checksum accordingly (depending on which BIOS we're talking about).
Or it could have been a boot sector overwrite instead. I seem to recall the drive had been turned off in the BIOS, but I don't remember going to the trouble of fixing it. I probably would have needed to know the drive geometry anyway.
You're right about the dash, but even that doesn't allow for the removal of the spacing. Not that we couldn't have lived with the extra spaces, but it is a convenience. One that I think Microsoft eliminated when they wrote their crappy XP Recovery Console. I guess calling it crappy isn't all that fair. It's a command prompt with NTFS support. But it's extremely crippled.
I'm an old fart at 34. After ditching my Commodore 64 and 128, I bought myself a 386. It was assembled in Sioux City, South Dakota, came in a big cow-spotted cardboard box, and cost about as much as my first car. I still have the receipt. I'm not sure, but I think it was fast enough to have 1:1 disk interleaving.
Later, when I started college, it was the last year that they taught Pascal. Good riddance. But I had loads of fun learning Assembly. Once I was helping out a classmate with her project. Each time she ran it, it crashed the PC, and after rebooting, it came back with No Boot Device. Obviously she had accidentally found a way to wipe the CMOS. Really quite an accomplishment. The lab was minus a few machines that day.
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My neural interface is on backorder, and typing with the mouse is cumbersome. So yes, I use the keyboard.
So here on the eastern seaboard of Australia, lunchtime will now be at 2 a.m.,
That's why we need timezones. If I want to know what time is appropriate to call someone in London, I do the math, see that it's 6am there, and surmise that they're probably not up yet. If you want to know what hours someone is working in another place, that would always be tantamount to a time zone calculation.
But if he royally screws up the company, he likely won't be there long enough to collect his shares.
Motivation to look out for the long-term interest of the company instead of the next quarter.
Yes.
Since immortal means 'infinite lifespan' or 'living an infinite number of years', then only one person has to do that to make the average also infinite.
True, but you can never know if you've truly achieved an infinite lifespan.
lol, but -1 anyway.
This has been done before. There used to be a site called Six Degrees, which was a social network that showed your contacts at various distances.
Well, they've already gone apeshit with the version numbers anyway. I favor removing the number before it gets to 100.0.
Granted, I have three NIC's installed. But that's not it. I blame an old installation of a Microsoft product for delaying the boot process. .NET, or an SQL Server trial, or something like that. I don't remember exactly.
I only reboot once a week. I'm running XP on a Dell workstation with SATA drives. It doesn't take too long to get to the login window. But then I have to let it sit there for a few minutes before logging in. Otherwise the TCP stack apparently hasn't fired up yet and the VPN doesn't automatically connect. Plus, the lack of disk cache after booting makes it take a long time to load Thunderbird and Firefox.
Not much. DHCP should be fast because the PC just sends out a broadcast and the server replies to that. It doesn't have to do any searching. Also, it remembers the last address so it can try that one first.
I hate that. What's the advantage of selling a crippled piece of hardware? It costs the same to make, and it sells for less.
100 years is better than 20 years.
Yes, it is. In 100 years, we really should either be living on another planet, or able to replicate any element we want from subatomic particles.
I regularly surfed wiretap.spies.com via Gopher. I don't remember exactly what the content was, but I'm sorry it's gone. I occasionally used wuarchive via NFS, but more often via FTP. University of Paderborn had a good FTP site too. My first two Internet email addresses were provided by CompuServe and Delphi. And, I was there when anon.penet.fi shut down.
Our gas meters do have the radios now. They're battery powered, though, so I guess they still need a crew.
What? You can have any kind of contact you want with former students.
I'm not sure where you live, but my night time electricity is *considerably* cheaper than my day rate.
I'm in the middle of the US, and last I checked most homes still have analog power meters that count the total usage for the month. Also, my bill shows total usage without differentiating between day and night.
Instead of wipe the CMOS, I should have said "change the BIOS setup", if that makes a difference. It's conceivable to tell the BIOS to change a setting and update the checksum accordingly (depending on which BIOS we're talking about).
Or it could have been a boot sector overwrite instead. I seem to recall the drive had been turned off in the BIOS, but I don't remember going to the trouble of fixing it. I probably would have needed to know the drive geometry anyway.
But that was over 10 years ago.
You're right about the dash, but even that doesn't allow for the removal of the spacing. Not that we couldn't have lived with the extra spaces, but it is a convenience. One that I think Microsoft eliminated when they wrote their crappy XP Recovery Console. I guess calling it crappy isn't all that fair. It's a command prompt with NTFS support. But it's extremely crippled.
Also, remember the old DOS mantra: Restore is NOT the opposite of Backup.
The backslash actually makes parsing slightly more flexible. For example, dir/s is a valid command in DOS, but it would be ambiguous in Linux.
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Also, by giving the blackslash a real purpose, you make sure it appears on all keyboards, so it can also be used for ASCII art.
I'm an old fart at 34. After ditching my Commodore 64 and 128, I bought myself a 386. It was assembled in Sioux City, South Dakota, came in a big cow-spotted cardboard box, and cost about as much as my first car. I still have the receipt. I'm not sure, but I think it was fast enough to have 1:1 disk interleaving.
Later, when I started college, it was the last year that they taught Pascal. Good riddance. But I had loads of fun learning Assembly. Once I was helping out a classmate with her project. Each time she ran it, it crashed the PC, and after rebooting, it came back with No Boot Device. Obviously she had accidentally found a way to wipe the CMOS. Really quite an accomplishment. The lab was minus a few machines that day.
"An appropriate balance of NAND, DRAM, and an HDD yields superior performance per dollar to a simple DRAM/HDD system,"
That statement can be simplified to read "NAND performs better than HDD". Duh.
TAP alpha paging. It's the closest thing there is to SMS. It was around well before 2000, and even in two-way form at some point.
all we really need is maybe a metal detector, and on the other side, a couple of bomb sniffing dogs
Yep. That worked real well in 2001.