I've got a similar cable from Maplin and that Zip drive. I'm just wary bout dismantling the hard drive outer housing (it's an IBM Thinkpad) as the machine isn't mine.
Anyways, I have the CD drive (but not bootable) but I don't have the floppy...
I have an old laptop with CDROM but no floppy disc. The operating system installation (98) is so badly fscked you can't do anything with it, and the bloody thing can't boot from CD - there is no BIOS option to enable it.
I've yet to work out how I'm going to resurrect it...
Doohan didn't invent the Klingon Language, that was Marc Okrand.
The spoken Klingon in ST:TMP were random grunts. Okrand did the job of not only inventing a language, but backfitting it to those grunts such that people who understood the language could actually understand those grunts.
This is, of course, not to detract on Doohan's achievements - his star is very well deserved.
I use an IDE CD burner (and DVD burner) through an external USB to IDE adaptor - item A25AT at www.maplin.co.uk. It works an absolute treat, and as far as cdrecord (I use the Mandrake patches) is concerned, it's a SCSI drive since USB Mass Storage is implemented as SCSI over USB, no messing around with the varying ATA mechanisms.
losetup and its -o (offset) option may well be considerably faster than trying to keep cutting it up with dd - once you have found the right offset (this could even be scripted), you then know what you can trim using dd.
It doesn't help that the only consumer-level 3G service in the UK, Three, only offer a walled garden of content, and don't even permit data calls. No data calls? Even my old Cellnet PAYG SIM allowed me to do that (at a price).
I'm on Orange UK, with an old, ringfenced tariff (Everyday 50 - 50 minutes a day offpeak every day). On that, WAP costs 5p/min daytime, and inclusive then 5p/min offpeak. Or on GPRS without a bundle it's £3.00/Mb.
I've just added the 3Mb GPRS bundle for £4 (this covers both GPRS WAP and GPRS internet access) - and when my bill arrived, I found out it even included 4 hours of dial-up WAP access. I think I'll use the dial-up WAP and leave my GPRS bundle for the internet access!
You missed the point. The original quoter was not incorrect by attributing it to Khan, contrary to the AC's response. I wasn't stating it should/only/ be attributed to the latest source, just refuting AC's assertion that Khan didn't quote it.
Another problem that could occur... imagine if said transplantee were involved in an accident, and he got hurt, was unconscious. The first thing the rescuers would do would be to look for a pulse. On not finding one, would probably pronounce the victim dead at the scene and make no attempt to rescue him and get proper medical attention.
They're probably too scared of being sued, or seeing the share price fall through the floor.
Unlike the food example, where bad food could kill you, a computer virus in your home machine won't, so they think its best to cover it up and not admit to anything, by which time the user is more concerned with getting rid of the virus than working out where it came from.
I keep my cellphone number private, only family and close friends have it. Any organisation that wants a mobile phone number gets one I got from Second Number - the voice calls get connected, but these Second Numbers don't support SMS forwarding:-)
Not entirely true. Call18866 offer calls to UK landlines (from within the UK) at 0.5p/min any time (that's under US$0.01/minute), and most of Western Europe, USA and Canada at 1p/minute. That's without hefty connection charges or monthly service charges. Or, if you don't want to sign up to anything, Telediscount and Telestunt are well worth checking out. My gf is American, and the Telediscount service has saved me a small fortune in phone bills.
Situation is slightly different in UK - we don't pay for incoming calls on our cellphones. I have two phones, one with monthly inclusive minutes, and one (from Virgin Mobile) with no inclusive anything, but no line rental. It therefore costs me nothing to have it, only to phone out on it. I get a paper bill, and can therefore expense any work related calls. I don't use the one with inclusive mins for work calls since the bill lists the calls as zero rated if they were inclusive.
I got myself one of those re-pointable "personal numbers", and on the occasion that I was asked for my mobile number (since I had to be out unexpectedly, and they wouldn't give me a company mobile phone) I gave them the "personal" number instead. Depending on how I have it set, the call may get to me, it may get to an answerphone, it may get a recording saying the line is not accepting incoming calls. It might even go to a colleague. The number I got from Second Number doesn't cost me anything to have, or to receive calls on. And, it can't be texted so it's immune to SMS spam!
I'm in the UK, and got myself a second phone number for my cellphone from Second Number. It sometimes points to my cellphone, it sometimes routes to an answerphone. And it costs me nothing to have or use.:)
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I've got a similar cable from Maplin and that Zip drive. I'm just wary bout dismantling the hard drive outer housing (it's an IBM Thinkpad) as the machine isn't mine.
Anyways, I have the CD drive (but not bootable) but I don't have the floppy...
In Wales, it probably is.
I have an old laptop with CDROM but no floppy disc. The operating system installation (98) is so badly fscked you can't do anything with it, and the bloody thing can't boot from CD - there is no BIOS option to enable it.
I've yet to work out how I'm going to resurrect it...
Doohan didn't invent the Klingon Language, that was Marc Okrand.
The spoken Klingon in ST:TMP were random grunts. Okrand did the job of not only inventing a language, but backfitting it to those grunts such that people who understood the language could actually understand those grunts.
This is, of course, not to detract on Doohan's achievements - his star is very well deserved.
I use an IDE CD burner (and DVD burner) through an external USB to IDE adaptor - item A25AT at www.maplin.co.uk. It works an absolute treat, and as far as cdrecord (I use the Mandrake patches) is concerned, it's a SCSI drive since USB Mass Storage is implemented as SCSI over USB, no messing around with the varying ATA mechanisms.
losetup and its -o (offset) option may well be considerably faster than trying to keep cutting it up with dd - once you have found the right offset (this could even be scripted), you then know what you can trim using dd.
Having had the misfortune of having passed through Sheerness, actually triggering the device might not be such a bad idea...
It doesn't help that the only consumer-level 3G service in the UK, Three, only offer a walled garden of content, and don't even permit data calls. No data calls? Even my old Cellnet PAYG SIM allowed me to do that (at a price).
I'm on Orange UK, with an old, ringfenced tariff (Everyday 50 - 50 minutes a day offpeak every day). On that, WAP costs 5p/min daytime, and inclusive then 5p/min offpeak. Or on GPRS without a bundle it's £3.00/Mb.
I've just added the 3Mb GPRS bundle for £4 (this covers both GPRS WAP and GPRS internet access) - and when my bill arrived, I found out it even included 4 hours of dial-up WAP access. I think I'll use the dial-up WAP and leave my GPRS bundle for the internet access!
And yet, the Buy Now page still refers to "Katie.com".
You missed the point. The original quoter was not incorrect by attributing it to Khan, contrary to the AC's response. I wasn't stating it should /only/ be attributed to the latest source, just refuting AC's assertion that Khan didn't quote it.
You've obviously never seen Star Trek II.
If my employer owns my thoughts, and everything I've created since joining the company, why can't I transfer my debts to them too?!
Another problem that could occur... imagine if said transplantee were involved in an accident, and he got hurt, was unconscious. The first thing the rescuers would do would be to look for a pulse. On not finding one, would probably pronounce the victim dead at the scene and make no attempt to rescue him and get proper medical attention.
Oops. That should, of course, have been ls -rt not ls -lrt. *sigh*
for X in `ls -lrt *.jpg`; do $IMG_VIEWER $X; done
How far back in UNIX history could you do this?
They're probably too scared of being sued, or seeing the share price fall through the floor.
Unlike the food example, where bad food could kill you, a computer virus in your home machine won't, so they think its best to cover it up and not admit to anything, by which time the user is more concerned with getting rid of the virus than working out where it came from.
Makes sense, really. SCO are really showing off their elfishness.
My sympathies go out to my ex-colleagues and my successor(s) in the post.
With the state of the postal system, chances are they'll never get it.
I keep my cellphone number private, only family and close friends have it. Any organisation that wants a mobile phone number gets one I got from Second Number - the voice calls get connected, but these Second Numbers don't support SMS forwarding :-)
Not entirely true. Call18866 offer calls to UK landlines (from within the UK) at 0.5p/min any time (that's under US$0.01/minute), and most of Western Europe, USA and Canada at 1p/minute. That's without hefty connection charges or monthly service charges. Or, if you don't want to sign up to anything, Telediscount and Telestunt are well worth checking out. My gf is American, and the Telediscount service has saved me a small fortune in phone bills.
Situation is slightly different in UK - we don't pay for incoming calls on our cellphones. I have two phones, one with monthly inclusive minutes, and one (from Virgin Mobile) with no inclusive anything, but no line rental. It therefore costs me nothing to have it, only to phone out on it. I get a paper bill, and can therefore expense any work related calls.
I don't use the one with inclusive mins for work calls since the bill lists the calls as zero rated if they were inclusive.
I got myself one of those re-pointable "personal numbers", and on the occasion that I was asked for my mobile number (since I had to be out unexpectedly, and they wouldn't give me a company mobile phone) I gave them the "personal" number instead. Depending on how I have it set, the call may get to me, it may get to an answerphone, it may get a recording saying the line is not accepting incoming calls. It might even go to a colleague. The number I got from Second Number doesn't cost me anything to have, or to receive calls on. And, it can't be texted so it's immune to SMS spam!
I'm in the UK, and got myself a second phone number for my cellphone from Second Number. It sometimes points to my cellphone, it sometimes routes to an answerphone. And it costs me nothing to have or use. :)
What? No GPS coordinates?
The car park is at ST 756 778 (in OSGB notation), or 51deg 29min 52sec north, 2deg 21min 7sec west.
From there, walk as per the directions on the website.