Westwood Chiropractic
4711 Mission Rd. - Westwood, KS (sub. of Kansas City), Tel: (913) 432-5678
Good enough for a lot of professional athletes, and they straightened me up after my car wreck.
It would be if you bought the card for the express purpose of using the VRAM that way. When I saw this, I had a flashback. When I was using DOS 5/6, with the then-revolutionary ability to remap memory into Upper Memory Blocks between the ROMs and VRAM, I ran into a problem using that memory.
Most of the drivers and TSRs that I wanted to load in the space originally allocated for monochrome video (a 32K block between B0000 and B7FFF) required more space to load than to run so I came up with the solution of 'borrowing' some VRAM and wrote the Video Hole package to do just that. I used a BIOS call to change the display page from 0 to 6 (for reasons I never quite understood, 7 didn't work on my old Trident 8900) and 'borrowed' 24000 bytes (6 pages of VRAM) from the VRAM to allow a program (say MSCDEX?) to fit in there, then 'recalled' the loan, changing back to page 0. That extra 24K more than took care of the transient portion of a lot of programs that otherwise couldn't use the Video Hole.
I don't know if anyone else ever used the darned thing (nobody ever sent me the $5 shareware fee for doing so) but it got uploaded to a bunch of BBSes and works in the real mode phase of Win95 and 98 - if you have hardware with real mode drivers that don't know how to load low and relocate the resident portion high, it will do the job fine.
I've been waiting for this technology since I saw Arnold Schwarzenegger's apartment on Mars in Total Recall. This is what convergence is all about, and it's why BG started buying up the rights to digital reproductions of art works a few years back.
My first impression of the website is the contradiction inherent in this blurb:
Old MN web site info
[available soon]
I am forced to ask the questions:
When, and why, did it become 'unavailable'?
What's taking them so long to make it available again? (Or won't HiveCache work for them to retrieve their old files?)
Seriously, people, If you want to revamp your entire website, you just
cp index.html oldsite.html
before you start editing it, and set up all your new stuff in a separate directory hierarchy (like www.mojonation.net/hivecache/*). That way all the old URLs still work.
The only reason I can think of why any of the old stuff is unavailable is that they're still trying to figure out what they want to keep that way.
Is it just me who believes that philosophy is completely irrelevant to Linux?
Probably not just you, but anyone who believes that doesn't get it.
The philosophies of Linux are not only relevant, but essential:
Open Source. Whether you're a purist like RMS or not, the ability to [have someone working for you] see and occasionally modify source code is central to the value that Linux offers. It makes it possible to optimize the OS and core applications for specific hardware and purpose of the machine, customize the system to completely remove unused components for security reasons, etc.
Open Protocols. Even when we don't have access to source code, we have well-established open standards for how programs providing certain services should communicate with other programs. This philosophy grew out of, and simultaneously made possible a corollary *nix tenet...
Open Data Formats - Text Files. The configuration info for a program is held in an.rc or.conf file that can be accessed just like any other file, not buried under layers of misdirection of GUIDs like {02468ACE-3F57-11AF-B579-08002D30DEFD} within a database stored in a proprietary format. This in turn makes possible another facet of the philosophy...
Interchangeable Parts. Don't like EMACS? Fine. Use vi, or a thousand other editors. They all manipulate text files, and once the file is created, your compiler, interpreter, or whatever really doesn't care. And this fits into another *nix philosophy...
Small, Sharp Tools, or Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combination. Most of the work to be done on a *nix system can be accomplished by combining specific tools in a shell script. Metaphors such as piping and command substitution make it unecessary to compile a custom application to do what can be accomplished via
fubar `snafu -z` | sort +3 | less
Without these philosophies, there would be no reason to prefer Linux to any other OS
Knowing that drivers go on green and stop on red, somebody who engineers a traffic light system that can be easily re-programmed by "the wrong crowd" to leave all lights green should be able to reasonably forsee this sort of security breach leading to deaths.
Just a few words too many. At the hardware level, far below where any programming can be done, a traffic light should not have any possible states in which green lighted drivers' paths cross. That means
When the light is green or yellow for north/south traffic, it must be red for east/west, and vice versa.
When there is a green or yellow left-turn arrow for traffic going one way, there must be a red light for non-turning traffic going the opposite way and all traffic at right angles.
The system must be designed so that failure to resolve conflicting green/yellow privileges fails to an all-red or all-off (to be interpreted as a 4-way stop sign) condition rather than all-green. It should be flat impossible to send any command to a traffic light to give a green light to cause collisions.
If you disagree, remind yourself by looking at the UI organization in Mozilla and/or OpenOffice. It almost EXACTLY mirrors the organization of Windows and Mac apps
Oh, but I agree wholeheartedly. The greatest thing about the Mac UI is the consistency: Once you know how to run one Mac app, you know the basics of all - the unique features of an app are such a small subset of the total UI that the adjustments are simple enough to make. Once you've learned a half-dozen Mac apps, there's damned little that you haven't seen.
For a while, the PC world had some UI standards that MS and IBM worked out. Things like F1 is always Help, etc. It was great. Then, as they so often do, MS changed the standards ever so gradually, to where things like Ctrl-Tab to cycle through child windows rarely works anymore, at least on MS apps. In case it isn't obvious from these examples, I hate meeces to pieces - give me consistent keyboard commands for everything, and I'll be content.
To use the automobile analogy/cliché, it's as if some cars have joysticks instead of steering wheels, buttons on the dashboard to select gears (anyone remember those?), and a speed dial instead of accelerator pedal.
There are two different unit systems - MKS and GGS (Meter/Kilogram/Second and Centimeter/Gram/Second) but both use the second, and there are 86,400 of them in a non-leap day. It would be intriguing to try getting at least one of the subunits done decimally. You could try dividing the day into 100 units of 864 seconds, or 864 units of 100 seconds.... You really aren't likely to get the average person to work with time units that go against the 24-hours-per-day system.
So that leaves us with subdividing the hour into either 36 units of 100 seconds, but that's not something people can really wrap their brains around. Or...
Once upon a time I worked in a place with a timeclock that showed decimal hours. (Instead of saying 12:15 it would say 12.25 etc.) The clock made an audible 'click' sound every 36 seconds, and everyone called this unit of time the 'click'. That would be confusing, given the slang 'klick' for 'kilometer' popular with military types, so we'd probably just call it a 'centihour' This would soon be pronounced "Centaur", but that wouldn't be quite as confusing.
You're right. For reasons I can't explain, after changing the Registry back, it did indeed perform as you say. But I swear I tried this before, and it didn't work.
And you can hack the interval, too.
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A few more moments perusing the Registry reveals that you can also set the interval between syncs:
The value '3840' there is hex for 14400, the number of seconds in 4 hours. Note that setting the key won't affect the next, but the one after that will read this value to determine the time for the one after that.
This allowed me to set my own choice of NTP server, and then synced from it. Like many other MS 'features', the default can be changed, if you know how...
They may not be bleeding edge, but what's important about this is that the House is making a commitment to open data formats. Even where we don't get open source code, this guar- antees that we don't get the most virulent form of 'vendor lock-in', where failure to pay the latest rent increase means we can't even access our own data anymore.
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Your example above would be askng too much for gramma to type in so she can save her recipies she typed in.
Of course it is. That's why I'm suggesting that the install script do it. I thought that was so obvious I didn't need to spell it out the first time 'round.
The review says that there's an icon labelled "C:" that actually opens up/home. So there's a more than decent chance that it is already a separate partition. Whether/usr/local should be a filesystem of its own (eliminating the need for such a command in the script), or sym- linked to a subdirectory of/home, isn't nearly asimportant as the idea that there are direct- ories that belong to the distro, others that don't. The default behavior of an install/restore script should be to leave those other directories alone; putting them on a filesystem separate from / makes it very easy to do that.
The 'recoverablilty' that bothered me, if it's true, was this:
A plague from the Windows world has now apparently made its way into Lindows: a rescue CD. If you have a problem, pop in the disk and return your machine to fresh-from-the-factory perfection. And, by the way, all your data will be gone
If the filesystems are set up so that/home is a separate partition, then there's no reason why the rescue disk should kill your data (at least without asking you if you want to do that). And it's not really difficult to do
ln -s/home/programs/usr/local/bin
or whatever (although it would probably be better to have an entirely different partition for that, too) to make reformatting the root partition reasonably kind to installed packages.
How is this different from the issues surrounding snailmail?
First of all, I get to address an item to go to a specific person and place. It is a tangible thing that exists in one place at a time, all along the route from when I put it in the hands of the US Snail
from which point no jurisdiction other than Federal applies - my hypothetical
neighbor can't be charged with violating the porn laws of Missouri just because the USPS truck takes the pictures over there to be sorted (as well as sordid) on the way to the state it's ultimately addressed to, unlike electronic communi- cations, which apparently are within the jurisdiction of an government that even thinks of accessing them.
until it is delivered to that recipient. If that recipient makes a photocopy of a letter and redistributes it, the copy isn't considered to be the same act of mailing.
But a blog post goes all over the place at once. It is everywhere and nowhere.
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Comparing the information highway to the steam engine highway is innacurite [sic]
Well, any analogy is flawed, but some aspects of the comparison are valid... The steam engine transformed society in ways that never could have been imagined before. It made possible industrial techniques and housing patterns that couldn't exist without it. The internal combustion engine accelerated these effects.
The biggest difference between 'cyberspace' and all previous inventions (other than, to a much lesser extent, radio and TV) is the fact that it defies geographic classification into legal jurisdictions. For example, when I post this, am I doing it in
Kansas (where my home is)
Missouri (where my ISP is, at least locally)
Virginia (where their domain is registered)
Massachussets (where Andover.net, official Registrant for slashdot.org is),
the physical location of the server(s) that the domain points to, if not any of the above
Each of the sundry locations of/. readers
All of the above, plus every single router in between
???
We laugh at the hubris of the {French|German|Dutch|*} government trying to prevent servers located in another country from carrying 'illicit' material. Until they go after DNS, routers, or other servers that are within their borders to prevent them from moving Evil Bits from those sites.
Each of these other inventions brought with them entire agencies to police the technology. It's just a matter of time before this one gets the same treatment.
But this is supposed to be convenient [from the article]:
A trial under way in Michigan, for example, allows a car pulling into the driveway to automatically arm or disarm a home's security system, turn on or off lights in the home, or adjust the home's thermostat.
Convenient for the guy who steals your car and gets your house in the bargain!
Let no one forget that on 11 Sep 2001, while the authorities were fumbling to react to what had happened at the WTC and Pentagon, common citizens used their cellphones to inform the passengers on the fourth flight, who took action to save countless other potential victims.
The First Amendment to the US Constitution codifies the idea that the free flow of information empowers free people to do good things with that information. Pity that our neighbors to the north rejected the invitation to place themselves under its jurisdiction (and that our own government seems hell-bent on neutering the entire document).
I want to know where there's a link on any page at bahn.de that indirectly gets to Radikal
A cursory examination shows that virtually every link on their site points to other links within the bahn.de domain. I'm sure someone with sufficiently Mad Skillz could whip up a bot to map out the link structure, and find the shortest number of links to follow to get there, with a description that even a dumbass judge can follow
its usually cheaper to order a proc & mobo & ram from one place, just to save on shipping..
Not only that, but it cuts way down on the finger-pointing exercises that often come with purchasing them separately (mobo guy says bad processor - processor guy says bad mobo - they both blame the RAM...) I always buy those three together.
Well, if it weren't for precedents like Manuel Noriega and Salman Rushdie, that would be all there is to it. The question of "where you are" when you're online has troubled me since I ran a BBS back in prehistoric days, (when a sysop in California could be charged with violating laws in Tennessee without ever having done a thing there.) and the best answer I've ever been able to come up with is this:
The Guardian didn't publish this information in Zimbabwe, the people who downloaded it did. By typing "http://www.guardian.co.uk..." into their browser, or clicking on a link that did it for them, those people imported the Evil Bytes into Zimbabwe's jurisdiction. Meldrum's attorney should question the police officers with respect to the chain of custody and determine definitively who actually sent the HTTP GET request to the web server, then turn to the judge and make a motion to dismiss, as by the Prosecution witnesses' own testimony someone other than his client is responsible for those bytes being in Zimbabwe.
Better yet, the manufacturers should be permanently enjoined from using the term "Compact Disc", the familiar logo form of those words, or the abbreviation "CD" anywhere on the disc or packaging, because they deliberately violate the standards specified by the owner of those Distinctive Marks... Phillips, the only big company in a position to use IP law to protect dilution of its work to fight this crap. I don't believe they have tried to do that just yet, but the company has at least made public statements that sound promising.
Slashdot Mirror
4711 Mission Rd. - Westwood, KS (sub. of Kansas City), Tel: (913) 432-5678
Good enough for a lot of professional athletes, and they straightened me up after my car wreck.
But I don't think they can fix uunet.
Most of the drivers and TSRs that I wanted to load in the space originally allocated for monochrome video (a 32K block between B0000 and B7FFF) required more space to load than to run so I came up with the solution of 'borrowing' some VRAM and wrote the Video Hole package to do just that. I used a BIOS call to change the display page from 0 to 6 (for reasons I never quite understood, 7 didn't work on my old Trident 8900) and 'borrowed' 24000 bytes (6 pages of VRAM) from the VRAM to allow a program (say MSCDEX?) to fit in there, then 'recalled' the loan, changing back to page 0. That extra 24K more than took care of the transient portion of a lot of programs that otherwise couldn't use the Video Hole.
I don't know if anyone else ever used the darned thing (nobody ever sent me the $5 shareware fee for doing so) but it got uploaded to a bunch of BBSes and works in the real mode phase of Win95 and 98 - if you have hardware with real mode drivers that don't know how to load low and relocate the resident portion high, it will do the job fine.
I've been waiting for this technology since I saw Arnold Schwarzenegger's apartment on Mars in Total Recall. This is what convergence is all about, and it's why BG started buying up the rights to digital reproductions of art works a few years back.
- When, and why, did it become 'unavailable'?
- What's taking them so long to make it available again? (Or won't HiveCache work for them to retrieve their old files?)
Seriously, people, If you want to revamp your entire website, you just before you start editing it, and set up all your new stuff in a separate directory hierarchy (like www.mojonation.net/hivecache/*). That way all the old URLs still work.The only reason I can think of why any of the old stuff is unavailable is that they're still trying to figure out what they want to keep that way.
The philosophies of Linux are not only relevant, but essential:
- Open Source. Whether you're a purist like RMS or not, the ability to [have someone working for you] see and occasionally modify source code is central to the value that Linux offers. It makes it possible to optimize the OS and core applications for specific hardware and purpose of the machine, customize the system to completely remove unused components for security reasons, etc.
- Open Protocols. Even when we don't have access to source code, we have well-established open standards for how programs providing certain services should communicate with other programs. This philosophy grew out of, and simultaneously made possible a corollary *nix tenet...
- Open Data Formats - Text Files. The configuration info for a program is held in an
.rc or .conf file that can be accessed just like any other file, not buried under layers of misdirection of GUIDs like {02468ACE-3F57-11AF-B579-08002D30DEFD} within a database stored in a proprietary format. This in turn makes possible another facet of the philosophy... - Interchangeable Parts. Don't like EMACS? Fine. Use vi, or a thousand other editors. They all manipulate text files, and once the file is created, your compiler, interpreter, or whatever really doesn't care. And this fits into another *nix philosophy...
- Small, Sharp Tools, or Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combination. Most of the work to be done on a *nix system can be accomplished by combining specific tools in a shell script. Metaphors such as piping and command substitution make it unecessary to compile a custom application to do what can be accomplished via
Without these philosophies, there would be no reason to prefer Linux to any other OSThat means
- When the light is green or yellow for north/south traffic, it must be red for east/west, and vice versa.
- When there is a green or yellow left-turn arrow for traffic going one way, there must be a red light for non-turning traffic going the opposite way and all traffic at right angles.
The system must be designed so that failure to resolve conflicting green/yellow privileges fails to an all-red or all-off (to be interpreted as a 4-way stop sign) condition rather than all-green. It should be flat impossible to send any command to a traffic light to give a green light to cause collisions.When I read the part about it using an 8-track format, I knew it was sorry.
For a while, the PC world had some UI standards that MS and IBM worked out. Things like F1 is always Help, etc. It was great. Then, as they so often do, MS changed the standards ever so gradually, to where things like Ctrl-Tab to cycle through child windows rarely works anymore, at least on MS apps. In case it isn't obvious from these examples, I hate meeces to pieces - give me consistent keyboard commands for everything, and I'll be content.
To use the automobile analogy/cliché, it's as if some cars have joysticks instead of steering wheels, buttons on the dashboard to select gears (anyone remember those?), and a speed dial instead of accelerator pedal.
So that leaves us with subdividing the hour into either 36 units of 100 seconds, but that's not something people can really wrap their brains around. Or...
Once upon a time I worked in a place with a timeclock that showed decimal hours. (Instead of saying 12:15 it would say 12.25 etc.) The clock made an audible 'click' sound every 36 seconds, and everyone called this unit of time the 'click'. That would be confusing, given the slang 'klick' for 'kilometer' popular with military types, so we'd probably just call it a 'centihour' This would soon be pronounced "Centaur", but that wouldn't be quite as confusing.
You're right. For reasons I can't explain, after changing the Registry back, it did indeed perform as you say. But I swear I tried this before, and it didn't work.
the key won't affect the next, but the one after that will read this value to determine the time
for the one after that.
- time.windows.com
- time.nist.gov
Take a wild guess which one I chose...But if you want more choices than that:
This allowed me to set my own choice of NTP server, and then synced from it. Like many other MS 'features', theThis article inspired me to do some dumpster-diving in the Registry... Import this key/value:
default can be changed, if you know how...
a commitment to open data formats. Even where we don't get open source code, this guar-
antees that we don't get the most virulent form of 'vendor lock-in', where failure to pay the
latest rent increase means we can't even access our own data anymore.
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obvious I didn't need to spell it out the first time 'round.
The review says that there's an icon labelled "C:" that actually opens up /home. So there's /usr/local should /home, isn't nearly asimportant as the idea that there are direct-
a more than decent chance that it is already a separate partition. Whether
be a filesystem of its own (eliminating the need for such a command in the script), or sym-
linked to a subdirectory of
ories that belong to the distro, others that don't. The default behavior of an install/restore
script should be to leave those other directories alone; putting them on a filesystem separate
from / makes it very easy to do that.
thing that exists in one place at a time, all along the route from when I put it in the hands
of the US Snail until it is delivered to that recipient. If that recipient makes a photocopy of a letter and
redistributes it, the copy isn't considered to be the same act of mailing. But a blog post
goes all over the place at once. It is everywhere and nowhere.
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Fight 'wide' posts - use your own page <br>eaks!
transformed society in ways that never could have been imagined before. It made possible
industrial techniques and housing patterns that couldn't exist without it. The internal combustion
engine accelerated these effects.
The biggest difference between 'cyberspace' and all previous inventions (other than, to a much
lesser extent, radio and TV) is the fact that it defies geographic classification into legal
jurisdictions. For example, when I post this, am I doing it in
- Kansas (where my home is)
- Missouri (where my ISP is, at least locally)
- Virginia (where their domain is registered)
- Massachussets (where Andover.net, official Registrant for slashdot.org is),
- the physical location of the server(s) that the domain points to, if not any of the above
- Each of the sundry locations of
/. readers - All of the above, plus every single router in between
???We laugh at the hubris of the {French|German|Dutch|*} government trying to prevent servers
located in another country from carrying 'illicit' material. Until they go after DNS, routers, or other
servers that are within their borders to prevent them from moving Evil Bits from those sites.
Each of these other inventions brought with them entire agencies to police the technology. It's just
a matter of time before this one gets the same treatment.
The First Amendment to the US Constitution codifies the idea that the free flow of information empowers free people to do good things with that information. Pity that our neighbors to the north rejected the invitation to place themselves under its jurisdiction (and that our own government seems hell-bent on neutering the entire document).
I want to know where there's a link on any page at bahn.de that indirectly gets to Radikal A cursory examination shows that virtually every link on their site points to other links within the bahn.de domain. I'm sure someone with sufficiently Mad Skillz could whip up a bot to map out the link structure, and find the shortest number of links to follow to get there, with a description that even a dumbass judge can follow
Not only that, but it cuts way down on the finger-pointing exercises that often come with purchasing them separately (mobo guy says bad processor - processor guy says bad mobo - they both blame the RAM...) I always buy those three together.
The Guardian didn't publish this information in Zimbabwe, the people who downloaded it did. By typing "http://www.guardian.co.uk..." into their browser, or clicking on a link that did it for them, those people imported the Evil Bytes into Zimbabwe's jurisdiction. Meldrum's attorney should question the police officers with respect to the chain of custody and determine definitively who actually sent the HTTP GET request to the web server, then turn to the judge and make a motion to dismiss, as by the Prosecution witnesses' own testimony someone other than his client is responsible for those bytes being in Zimbabwe.
Better yet, the manufacturers should be permanently enjoined from using the term "Compact Disc", the familiar logo form of those words, or the abbreviation "CD" anywhere on the disc or packaging, because they deliberately violate the standards specified by the owner of those Distinctive Marks ... Phillips, the only big company in a position to use IP law to protect dilution of its work to fight this crap. I don't believe they have tried to do that just yet, but the company has at least made public statements that sound promising.