I've got an ADM3A terminal with a moldy monitor. I'm also allergic to penicillin and get hay fever symptoms when the mold count is high. The night I found it, I had a light ear infection. The next morning my ear was fine, but I had hives all over. Apparently the mold in the monitor was related to penicillin and I got an antibotic reaction from it! Later messing with it didn't give me an allergic reaction, though.
Unfortunately the ADM3A doesn't work. It's got raster, but those hundreds of TTL chips just don't want to do anything other than display the cursor. But the first two kinds of terminals I ever used were ADM3A's and DecWriter II's, so I still want to hold on to it for now.
You're right about Zmodem. However there was one little trick that usually worked. It was called "leech Zmodem", and it took advantage of loopholes to keep your download ratio good. When it received the last block of a file correctly, instead of acknowledging it, it would NAK and request a re-transmit from near the beginning of the file, then abort the download.
Poorly written BBS software would only remember the last block downloaded as an indicator of how much you downloaded.
Well, it does sort of help to have the hard drive interface. If you look at an official PS2 network adapter, you'll notice there's already an IDE and power connector on the back of it, ready to attach a hard drive to. The only other things missing are a mounting frame/rails for the hard drive, and the Linux disc itself.
The real question should be: is there any way to get this to work with the network adapter and a generic hard drive, but WITHOUT Sony's Linux disc?
The thing to watch out for is overscan. This is the part of the picture that you can't see (and most people don't even know they're missing!) off the edge of the screen. It's usually 5% on each side. Which, if used as a computer monitor, can be really annoying. In particular, the Mac menu bar and the Windows task bar will be completely off-screen.
Better TV sets can have their overscan adjusted somewhat via the service menu, but the service menu is no place to be playing around if you don't know what you're doing, because there are options in there that can seriously damage or reduce the life of the TV if set to the wrong values.
Since I had seen so little news on the Plano apartment fire, and it seemed a bit off the debris track, I just now did a google search and found this and this.
Apparently the fire may have coincidentally happened at the same time as the shuttle breakup, and may not be related after all.
Just to check, where did the battery life in "DAYS" come from?
If you're doing TCP over Firewire, and you've got it plugged into a proper 6-pin Firewire port (not one of those wussy iLink things), it's not even using the battery. Days? How about months?
So, what use can be made from a Linux system with 5 control buttons, a dial control and a locking switch as input and a low-res mono display and audio as output?
Then came along a DoS attack and they lost a lot of hosts who couldn't or didn't want to offer the bandwide used. I assume that filesharing is an other bandwide hog and as such they stopped offering this specific functionality.
Do you even have the tiniest idea of how file sharing works on IRC? All the "bandwide" was used in client-to-client connections. Although there is some extra bandwidth used in file lists sent via @msg, the files themselves never touch the IRC network.
If they really want to trade their juarezzzzz that bad, then they can go to some other IRC network, or even start their own. Since when was DALnet the only IRC network in the world?
Besides, trad^H^H^H^Hleeching files via IRC can be a real bitch. Spending 24 hours in a queue to get the latest anime fansub release at a plunderful 4800 bps is not my idea of fun. This new bittorrent thing is a cool idea, has an OS X version, and is a perfect match for the kind of files I want (new fansub releases).
When I was in grade school, the thing was spitwads launched from a Bic pen shaft. Much easier to hide, too. If you were really serious, you tied a bunch of threads around the end of a striaght pin to make a little dart.
What drugs are you taking, and where can I get some? The low-end iMacs are $800 and the low-end eMacs are $1100. And the reason to buy a Mac with only 128M of RAM is that you can add more cheaper via mail-order.
As long as we're on a "my Mac is older than yours" DSW, I should point out that my Power Computing Power Tower Pro (originally a 225 604e), which now has a 400 G3, 360MB RAM, and a Radeon PCI, is happily running 10.2.3. I think it even runs better now under 10.2.3 than it did under 9.1!
Will the portables that let you burn to a Memory Stick let you burn to a regular one or (as I expect) only a "Magic Gate" version? Why do I ask? Because "Magic Gate" is the DRM version of the Memory Stick.
This is not the same basic attitude as Apple. Sony doesn't want you to be able to copy the ripped files at all. Apple only makes it difficult, but not impossible, if you decide to store them on an iPod.
That would be easy to say if they were producing music worth listening to any more. As it is, few people over 30 (RTFA) care about the crap they're churning out these days. It's not even worth the effort for me to pirate RIAA music. I'll buy the next Wierd Al album, but the rest of my music is JASRAC, not RIAA. And I don't think you're going to find too many CDs from See-Saw, GO!GO!7188, Matsuura Aya, etc. in Best Buy any time soon.
Linux uses several concepts from the System V design, not the least of which is the Linux init system which is a direct take off of the System V method.
<PEDANTIC>Linux is just the kernel. Linux does not use the System V init; though various distrubtions do.</PEDANTIC> In particular, Slackware does not use the SysV init, though it has a compatibility program available.
Also, OS X does not use SysV init; it has its own method which I presume was inherited from NeXT, and is much closer to the old Mac OS startup, with the SysV-style start/stop parameter added.
They clearly circumvented the copy-protection mechanisms by placing code from the original cat into an egg cell. This is an outright violation of the DMCA.
Fortunately, they missed the second layer of copy-protection, and the copy failed. We are now offering this technology to the RIAA and MPAA for (finger on mouth) one MILLION dollars. (whisper whisper whisper) I mean one TRILLION dollars.
The difference is that with 10-digit dialing, all the local area codes are reserved and not used as exchange codes (the second three of the ten digits) in those area codes. Then it looks at the first three numbers you dial, and if they are not one of the local area codes, it does 7-digit dialing.
Why 11 vs 10 digits? I can only think of two reasons. Either there are enough area codes in the local area that they don't want to waste the exchange codes, or they need a new area code and don't want to force the people who have it as their exchange to change their 7-digit number.
And now that I've gone all through this, the sometimes-10, sometimes-7 digit dialing that IIRC is used in the Dallas Metroplex area vs always-10 digits still doesn't make a case for needing the 1 in front. In fact, without the 1, 7-digit dialing could still be assumed. So I'm still just as confused as you are.
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Unfortunately the ADM3A doesn't work. It's got raster, but those hundreds of TTL chips just don't want to do anything other than display the cursor. But the first two kinds of terminals I ever used were ADM3A's and DecWriter II's, so I still want to hold on to it for now.
It is interesting to note the eight of the current top ten hits are people telling you to make this search.
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Poorly written BBS software would only remember the last block downloaded as an indicator of how much you downloaded.
The real question should be: is there any way to get this to work with the network adapter and a generic hard drive, but WITHOUT Sony's Linux disc?
You also don't want your CPU heatsink to fall off, thus causing your CPU to splat its guts out the side.
The thing to watch out for is overscan. This is the part of the picture that you can't see (and most people don't even know they're missing!) off the edge of the screen. It's usually 5% on each side. Which, if used as a computer monitor, can be really annoying. In particular, the Mac menu bar and the Windows task bar will be completely off-screen.
Better TV sets can have their overscan adjusted somewhat via the service menu, but the service menu is no place to be playing around if you don't know what you're doing, because there are options in there that can seriously damage or reduce the life of the TV if set to the wrong values.
Apparently the fire may have coincidentally happened at the same time as the shuttle breakup, and may not be related after all.
Or you could just simply get a USB floppy drive.
I hear they have this amzing new invention: floppy disk drives that plug into USB ports. Maybe you should try one of them.
Back in the day, "back in the day" jokes were older than the Model T.
If you're doing TCP over Firewire, and you've got it plugged into a proper 6-pin Firewire port (not one of those wussy iLink things), it's not even using the battery. Days? How about months?
You port Doom to it, of course.
Before long they'll be duping stories even before they've been posted the first time!
Do you even have the tiniest idea of how file sharing works on IRC? All the "bandwide" was used in client-to-client connections. Although there is some extra bandwidth used in file lists sent via @msg, the files themselves never touch the IRC network.
If they really want to trade their juarezzzzz that bad, then they can go to some other IRC network, or even start their own. Since when was DALnet the only IRC network in the world?
Besides, trad^H^H^H^Hleeching files via IRC can be a real bitch. Spending 24 hours in a queue to get the latest anime fansub release at a plunderful 4800 bps is not my idea of fun. This new bittorrent thing is a cool idea, has an OS X version, and is a perfect match for the kind of files I want (new fansub releases).
Starts at $799. Not $1200.
When I was in grade school, the thing was spitwads launched from a Bic pen shaft. Much easier to hide, too. If you were really serious, you tied a bunch of threads around the end of a striaght pin to make a little dart.
Hasn't there been talk about him secretly buying aluminum tubes? Maybe Saddam got confused with the difference between "Scud" and "Spud".
What drugs are you taking, and where can I get some? The low-end iMacs are $800 and the low-end eMacs are $1100. And the reason to buy a Mac with only 128M of RAM is that you can add more cheaper via mail-order.
As long as we're on a "my Mac is older than yours" DSW, I should point out that my Power Computing Power Tower Pro (originally a 225 604e), which now has a 400 G3, 360MB RAM, and a Radeon PCI, is happily running 10.2.3. I think it even runs better now under 10.2.3 than it did under 9.1!
This is not the same basic attitude as Apple. Sony doesn't want you to be able to copy the ripped files at all. Apple only makes it difficult, but not impossible, if you decide to store them on an iPod.
That would be easy to say if they were producing music worth listening to any more. As it is, few people over 30 (RTFA) care about the crap they're churning out these days. It's not even worth the effort for me to pirate RIAA music. I'll buy the next Wierd Al album, but the rest of my music is JASRAC, not RIAA. And I don't think you're going to find too many CDs from See-Saw, GO!GO!7188, Matsuura Aya, etc. in Best Buy any time soon.
<PEDANTIC>Linux is just the kernel. Linux does not use the System V init; though various distrubtions do.</PEDANTIC> In particular, Slackware does not use the SysV init, though it has a compatibility program available.
Also, OS X does not use SysV init; it has its own method which I presume was inherited from NeXT, and is much closer to the old Mac OS startup, with the SysV-style start/stop parameter added.
Fortunately, they missed the second layer of copy-protection, and the copy failed. We are now offering this technology to the RIAA and MPAA for (finger on mouth) one MILLION dollars. (whisper whisper whisper) I mean one TRILLION dollars.
Why 11 vs 10 digits? I can only think of two reasons. Either there are enough area codes in the local area that they don't want to waste the exchange codes, or they need a new area code and don't want to force the people who have it as their exchange to change their 7-digit number.
And now that I've gone all through this, the sometimes-10, sometimes-7 digit dialing that IIRC is used in the Dallas Metroplex area vs always-10 digits still doesn't make a case for needing the 1 in front. In fact, without the 1, 7-digit dialing could still be assumed. So I'm still just as confused as you are.