That's not new either. You can't copyright a circuit (you can copyright artwork, like PCB layouts and schematics, and possibly patent novel designs) - so any published design that's not patent encumbered can be made and used commercially if so desired. If you publish a schematic, you can't go and put restrictions on the design like "non commercial only" because the circuit itself isn't copyrightable.
I think it's pretty easy, last time I did it was with Livna - click on the RPM on their website and install it (using the GUI, naturally), then the new packages can easily be found in the Add/Remove software GUI along with all the usual Fedora stuff. Piece of cake.
The Isle of Man is NOT sovereign (I live there). We may issue our own passports; I travel with an Isle of Man passport - but the island is still a British crown territory even though it is not in or part of the UK.
It's a shame that most of these computers probably don't run any more - it's a bit like going to an aviation museum and seeing all these planes that will never fly again - it's a little bit sad. I'd love to see a museum with as much hardware *working* as possible - where you can see the blinkenlights, type something at the console, or whatever. Unfortunately, it's probably not very practical with many of these machines.
My own interest in the retrocomputing scene is the old 8 bit systems, and for those, it's very practical to play with them. The best thing about the old 8 bits is that they are fun. Modern computers, especially the ones running Windows, are no longer much fun to work on. Everything's closed up in secret recipes, EULAs, and corporate BS, and in any case there are layers and layers and layers of abstraction before you get to the hardware. Linux or BSD is of course infinitely better, and the reason I love open source software is it gives me the freedom to tinker. However, it's still extremely complex, and it can take a lot of code just to get something simple to happen - for instance, if you're making a piece of hardware, you've got to write a device driver before you can even start experimenting with your creation.
So I still love to tinker with 8 bit systems because it's fun and you can do some surprising things with them. Like, this weekend, I did streaming video on my Sinclair Spectrum: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hf8rz0sb298 - with an ethernet card that I made for the machine.
The battery *is* the current limiting resistor. Those little coin batteries have high internal resistances, and are often used to power LEDs without resistors because of this.
Even then, limiting current needn't be done with a resistor, in fact, the last thing you want for high power LEDs is a resistor because the resistor will waste tremendous amounts of energy. Instead, for power illuminators you want a current source (as opposed to a voltage source). There are ICs available to do this, you set the current you want, and they will provide that current and let the voltage arrive at whatever it needs to be for that current to flow.
There is an aural warning. With most modern cars travelling at, say, city speeds of 30 mph, you hear the tire roar long before you hear the engine. A car that is coasting to a stop, you won't hear the engine at all - it'll be totally drowned by tire noise. It's only vehicles being accelerated hard, or large diesel engines that you get to hear before the tire roar. But even an electric car being accelerated hard will make motor noises.
Using a winch to launch gliders is a pretty popular way of launching gliders. All we need to do is make a very, very large glider winch, and then launch at least all the short haul commercial flights off a huge winch and then let them glide to their destinations!
Why is it bad for a language to have its own word for a country? It's not exactly uncommon - for example, the Spanish call the United States "los Estados Unidos", rather than its name in English, and they call Americans "estadounidenses", literally United Statesians. Pretty much every language has its own words for names of countries. And for what it's worth, we call it Spain, but the Spanish call it España.
It's not just that the economy is slowing, it's that computers, especially desktop computers, have been good enough for several years now. It is no longer the case you have to replace a computer every 2 years to keep up with the latest office software, sticking in some more RAM usually is sufficient.
I used to get a new PC every 18 months or so, since I often develop code and having fast compile times is important to me. But my current main PC? It will be 6 years old in January, and I have no intention of replacing it. The only thing I've done in the last 6 years to it is a couple of memory and disc upgrades to keep up with the inexorable size increase in software, and those have been cheap upgrades. Personally, I don't run XP, but for the majority of users XP is good enough - if they aren't getting a new PC why would they spend a large sum of money on Vista?
Hmm, I was told exactly the opposite way around - do light cardio exercise before your main activity, then after you've done, stretch while the muscles are still warm. In fact, I was warned never to stretch with cold muscles because it increases the risk of damaging them.
A better way is for the bad guys, if they want to use the internet to get their messages out, is to use spammers. Steganographically hide the message in the "hash busters" spammers have regularly inserted for years. The authorities won't even be able to tell who the actual recipients are, nor distinguish them from the mountains of normal run of the mill spam.
Wouldn't surprise me if the bad guys are already doing things like this. It would be a bit like a poor man's "numbers station" (but much harder to tell who the sender is).
finger is not useless - on multiuser machines (they still exist - I'm currently logged onto a system with 30 odd interactive users) finger will yield all sorts of useful information about friends logged into the box.
That's just the authors though. The man pages on OpenBSD are superb. OpenBSD is one OS that I've used where you don't have to search the web for a HOWTO document on doing something complex, like configuring 'pf' or what a device driver supports - the man pages are clear, concise and complete.
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That's not new either. You can't copyright a circuit (you can copyright artwork, like PCB layouts and schematics, and possibly patent novel designs) - so any published design that's not patent encumbered can be made and used commercially if so desired. If you publish a schematic, you can't go and put restrictions on the design like "non commercial only" because the circuit itself isn't copyrightable.
But that's the same with software, too - not everyone can build Linux. Doesn't mean it's not open.
That is very, very cool.
I think it's pretty easy, last time I did it was with Livna - click on the RPM on their website and install it (using the GUI, naturally), then the new packages can easily be found in the Add/Remove software GUI along with all the usual Fedora stuff. Piece of cake.
Speak for yourself. I work in base 16, you insensitive clod.
The Isle of Man is NOT sovereign (I live there). We may issue our own passports; I travel with an Isle of Man passport - but the island is still a British crown territory even though it is not in or part of the UK.
I actually had bothered (despite the site being molasses slow), and many of them weren't actual complete computers but just front panels.
It's a shame that most of these computers probably don't run any more - it's a bit like going to an aviation museum and seeing all these planes that will never fly again - it's a little bit sad. I'd love to see a museum with as much hardware *working* as possible - where you can see the blinkenlights, type something at the console, or whatever. Unfortunately, it's probably not very practical with many of these machines.
My own interest in the retrocomputing scene is the old 8 bit systems, and for those, it's very practical to play with them. The best thing about the old 8 bits is that they are fun. Modern computers, especially the ones running Windows, are no longer much fun to work on. Everything's closed up in secret recipes, EULAs, and corporate BS, and in any case there are layers and layers and layers of abstraction before you get to the hardware. Linux or BSD is of course infinitely better, and the reason I love open source software is it gives me the freedom to tinker. However, it's still extremely complex, and it can take a lot of code just to get something simple to happen - for instance, if you're making a piece of hardware, you've got to write a device driver before you can even start experimenting with your creation.
So I still love to tinker with 8 bit systems because it's fun and you can do some surprising things with them. Like, this weekend, I did streaming video on my Sinclair Spectrum: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hf8rz0sb298 - with an ethernet card that I made for the machine.
The battery *is* the current limiting resistor. Those little coin batteries have high internal resistances, and are often used to power LEDs without resistors because of this.
Even then, limiting current needn't be done with a resistor, in fact, the last thing you want for high power LEDs is a resistor because the resistor will waste tremendous amounts of energy. Instead, for power illuminators you want a current source (as opposed to a voltage source). There are ICs available to do this, you set the current you want, and they will provide that current and let the voltage arrive at whatever it needs to be for that current to flow.
No, it was marijuana.
There is an aural warning. With most modern cars travelling at, say, city speeds of 30 mph, you hear the tire roar long before you hear the engine. A car that is coasting to a stop, you won't hear the engine at all - it'll be totally drowned by tire noise. It's only vehicles being accelerated hard, or large diesel engines that you get to hear before the tire roar. But even an electric car being accelerated hard will make motor noises.
Using a winch to launch gliders is a pretty popular way of launching gliders. All we need to do is make a very, very large glider winch, and then launch at least all the short haul commercial flights off a huge winch and then let them glide to their destinations!
Here's how we launch gliders:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DrcQQWfoSM
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#define SOUL 1
#endif
You could possibly reclaim some of the minerals from what's left over of the piss after the water has been evaporated.
The solution to that is simple. Just put the lid down before you flush.
Shoot up to 28K whats at 25fps? 28 kilobytes? 28 kilopixels? Units, please!
Why is it bad for a language to have its own word for a country? It's not exactly uncommon - for example, the Spanish call the United States "los Estados Unidos", rather than its name in English, and they call Americans "estadounidenses", literally United Statesians. Pretty much every language has its own words for names of countries. And for what it's worth, we call it Spain, but the Spanish call it España.
Can you play this game yet without needing the long-out-of-production and therefore no longer legally obtainable Transport Tycoon Deluxe?
It's not just that the economy is slowing, it's that computers, especially desktop computers, have been good enough for several years now. It is no longer the case you have to replace a computer every 2 years to keep up with the latest office software, sticking in some more RAM usually is sufficient.
I used to get a new PC every 18 months or so, since I often develop code and having fast compile times is important to me. But my current main PC? It will be 6 years old in January, and I have no intention of replacing it. The only thing I've done in the last 6 years to it is a couple of memory and disc upgrades to keep up with the inexorable size increase in software, and those have been cheap upgrades. Personally, I don't run XP, but for the majority of users XP is good enough - if they aren't getting a new PC why would they spend a large sum of money on Vista?
Hmm, I was told exactly the opposite way around - do light cardio exercise before your main activity, then after you've done, stretch while the muscles are still warm. In fact, I was warned never to stretch with cold muscles because it increases the risk of damaging them.
A better way is for the bad guys, if they want to use the internet to get their messages out, is to use spammers. Steganographically hide the message in the "hash busters" spammers have regularly inserted for years. The authorities won't even be able to tell who the actual recipients are, nor distinguish them from the mountains of normal run of the mill spam.
Wouldn't surprise me if the bad guys are already doing things like this. It would be a bit like a poor man's "numbers station" (but much harder to tell who the sender is).
finger is not useless - on multiuser machines (they still exist - I'm currently logged onto a system with 30 odd interactive users) finger will yield all sorts of useful information about friends logged into the box.
That's just the authors though. The man pages on OpenBSD are superb. OpenBSD is one OS that I've used where you don't have to search the web for a HOWTO document on doing something complex, like configuring 'pf' or what a device driver supports - the man pages are clear, concise and complete.
I find an angle grinder is far quicker.
Not only are you rude and arrogant, you are almost entirely wrong in every important respect.