You can! There are several HP (as well as other makes) emulators available in the Google app store. The HP25 app I use looks and behaves *exactly* like its physical counterpart, including programmability.
Agreed. As a tech support specialist for an environment of around 2,000 PCs and laptops, this tool is the most valuable thing I have at my disposal. The one I have handles IDE (not much need for this anymore) and SATA. It has saved my bacon many times over the years and has more than paid for itself.
The machine itself was not the problem-- it was the seller that led to its downfall.
Fresh out of high school in 1978, I was hired by a local RS specifically to become an expert sales rep for the TRS-80, due primarily to my modest knowledge of computers and programming. But about the time I had to embarassingly ask for a customer's name and address for a 69-cent battery purchase for the umpteenth time, I realized it was a lost cause. Never sold a single computer. And I eventually quit pestering customers for their info and started filling in names and addresses selected randomly from the phone book after the customers left the store. Even that was not enough to contain my disgust and I quit. The upside was my experience with RS led directly to going to college. Never did retail again.
Some PCs (e.g., Dell Optiplex GX280) no longer have PS2 ports; they require USB keyboards and mice. There is probably a way around this, but simply disabling all USB ports would not work for us.
I provide user support in a medium-sized goverment enterprise. My users expect me to provide support for all things electrical, up to and including electric staplers, pencil sharpeners and personal space heaters! (Always fun to find those plugged into the same surge protector as their CPU...)
Jack of all trades indeed.
I provide end user support to a government enterprise running about 1800 PCs. We have a mix of roughly 50/50 Dells and Gateways. I have spent WAY more time on the phone with Dell getting replacement parts, and I have to prove that I have tried everything on their scripts before they will send the parts. Gateway sends out replacements on pretty much a "no questions asked" basis, but I have only had to do that a couple times in two years. I have no idea how our management's purchasing decisions are made, but once the boxes are onsite I would much rather see Gateway.
Five years ago the sky was falling over Y2K. Of course that turned out to be one of the biggest non-events in history. Why would anyone pay attention to Chicken Little about this?
I worked, briefly, for the Shack in the 70s. We got punished if we turned in too many slips w/o names and addys. I got sick of asking on the little sales, so I resorted to pulling random names from the phone book after the customers' departure. No one ever caught on.
Later, when I was just a customer, I used to give a different name everytime but always the same address: Radio Shack Corporate HQ in Fort Worth.
In the list of reasons why people download, let's not discount availability of some material. Yeah, I have downloaded a few current songs, but by far most of what I seek is stuff from my "golden age." OK, by that I mean the 70s. I can just imagine the reaction I would get from the Big 5 if I asked them to sell me a copy of "Heartbreaker" by Nantucket. But it must have taken me all of 10 minutes to acquire it on Napster.
Does anybody know what would happen if you simply "invited" Microsoft (or any other software supplier, for that matter)to get the hell off your property should they attempt to audit? I mean, what kind of teeth do they have?
Although I do not support the activities of these people, calling them "terrorists" only feeds into mainstream media paranoia. Most of these supposed terrorist groups take great pains to inflict their mayhem only on unmanned, unoccupied, inanimate objects. Irritating? Sure, but terrifying? Hardly.
When was "Matewan" set? The Twenties? Thirties?
There are a tremendous number of state and federal protections for workers now in place that simply did not exist back then. All unions do is protect the weak and stupid. Let's let the market rule!
I'm gonna sue because, after thousands of hours playing violent video games, I DIDN'T turn into a homicidal maniac. Clearly these products are defective...
>>Napster and RIAA both operate on one principal, and that is GREED.
Pardon me, but I don't see how that can be said about Napster. I dowloaded it for free and have used it several times (both directions) and have never paid, nor have I even been asked to pay, one red cent. The proposed access fee was implemented only in response to the RIAA threats.
My usual stratgey is to just set the phone down and walk away during their initial pitch. I go hang it up when I hear the off-hook alarm ringing.
This runs up their phone bill and, hopefully, makes the caller feel stupid.
On the contrary, giving a kid an outdated PC is likely to have the exact opposite effect of what you are claiming. Think about it: what is more likely to produce incentive to climb out of the ghetto, a free taste of interesting but outdated technology, or a handout of the most current technology?
How many of us got started in IT through having access to the best technology available? No doubt most of us got a taste of it through such activities as playing around with someone else's junk or even taking apart old clock radios just to see how they worked.
We here in OR have gone to vote-by-mail for all elections, including this one. Ballots arrive two or three weeks before election day and they are simple color-in-the-spaces documents. They are due at 8:00 PM election day and postmarks don't count. State law prohibits any counting before 8:00 but clerks can get them organized prior to feeding them into the counting machines.
The problems our state experienced were due entirely to the closeness of this election, as well as the presence of 26(!) ballot measures on this ballot. Thousands of people swarmed their county elections offices just before closing and this overwhelmed the process temporarily. Past elections were conducted much more smoothly.
The key to our success is the 8:00PM drop dead time. This business of allowing postmarks to determine timeliness is ridiculous. Washington state had well over one half million absentee ballots and it will be several more weeks for them to be counted, leaving their Senate race hanging.
My guess is that the problem you describe is likely due to incompatibility among drives. I'd bet the disk would read fine in the drive from which it was formatted and/or written. I have run into this problem many times over the years.
On a related note, I wonder if the market for 3.5" disks has gone up in the last few years now that AOHell has shifted to CDs. There was a period in there when I never had to buy any disks because free ones kept arriving in the mail!
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You can! There are several HP (as well as other makes) emulators available in the Google app store. The HP25 app I use looks and behaves *exactly* like its physical counterpart, including programmability.
Agreed. As a tech support specialist for an environment of around 2,000 PCs and laptops, this tool is the most valuable thing I have at my disposal. The one I have handles IDE (not much need for this anymore) and SATA. It has saved my bacon many times over the years and has more than paid for itself.
The machine itself was not the problem-- it was the seller that led to its downfall.
Fresh out of high school in 1978, I was hired by a local RS specifically to become an expert sales rep for the TRS-80, due primarily to my modest knowledge of computers and programming. But about the time I had to embarassingly ask for a customer's name and address for a 69-cent battery purchase for the umpteenth time, I realized it was a lost cause. Never sold a single computer. And I eventually quit pestering customers for their info and started filling in names and addresses selected randomly from the phone book after the customers left the store. Even that was not enough to contain my disgust and I quit. The upside was my experience with RS led directly to going to college. Never did retail again.
Some PCs (e.g., Dell Optiplex GX280) no longer have PS2 ports; they require USB keyboards and mice. There is probably a way around this, but simply disabling all USB ports would not work for us.
I provide user support in a medium-sized goverment enterprise. My users expect me to provide support for all things electrical, up to and including electric staplers, pencil sharpeners and personal space heaters! (Always fun to find those plugged into the same surge protector as their CPU...) Jack of all trades indeed.
I bought my first LP in 1974 and I still have it. I still have almost every LP and CD I bought between then and now.
How many Maroon 5 downloads will still be around in 2040?
They probably had the lights on at the time as well. Better send her the light bulbs too.
I provide end user support to a government enterprise running about 1800 PCs. We have a mix of roughly 50/50 Dells and Gateways. I have spent WAY more time on the phone with Dell getting replacement parts, and I have to prove that I have tried everything on their scripts before they will send the parts. Gateway sends out replacements on pretty much a "no questions asked" basis, but I have only had to do that a couple times in two years. I have no idea how our management's purchasing decisions are made, but once the boxes are onsite I would much rather see Gateway.
"According to this, you *DO* want fries with that."
Five years ago the sky was falling over Y2K. Of course that turned out to be one of the biggest non-events in history. Why would anyone pay attention to Chicken Little about this?
Mark your stuff, too. Record serials and scratch an identifier in a semi-inconspicuous place. Most PDs keep databases of recovered stuff.
I worked, briefly, for the Shack in the 70s. We got punished if we turned in too many slips w/o names and addys. I got sick of asking on the little sales, so I resorted to pulling random names from the phone book after the customers' departure. No one ever caught on.
Later, when I was just a customer, I used to give a different name everytime but always the same address: Radio Shack Corporate HQ in Fort Worth.
Hope he waterproofed it, too!
In the list of reasons why people download, let's not discount availability of some material. Yeah, I have downloaded a few current songs, but by far most of what I seek is stuff from my "golden age." OK, by that I mean the 70s. I can just imagine the reaction I would get from the Big 5 if I asked them to sell me a copy of "Heartbreaker" by Nantucket. But it must have taken me all of 10 minutes to acquire it on Napster.
Does anybody know what would happen if you simply "invited" Microsoft (or any other software supplier, for that matter)to get the hell off your property should they attempt to audit? I mean, what kind of teeth do they have?
Although I do not support the activities of these people, calling them "terrorists" only feeds into mainstream media paranoia. Most of these supposed terrorist groups take great pains to inflict their mayhem only on unmanned, unoccupied, inanimate objects. Irritating? Sure, but terrifying? Hardly.
When was "Matewan" set? The Twenties? Thirties? There are a tremendous number of state and federal protections for workers now in place that simply did not exist back then. All unions do is protect the weak and stupid. Let's let the market rule!
I'm gonna sue because, after thousands of hours playing violent video games, I DIDN'T turn into a homicidal maniac. Clearly these products are defective...
I believe deleting a folder called "Actors" accomplishes the same thing.
>>Napster and RIAA both operate on one principal, and that is GREED.
Pardon me, but I don't see how that can be said about Napster. I dowloaded it for free and have used it several times (both directions) and have never paid, nor have I even been asked to pay, one red cent. The proposed access fee was implemented only in response to the RIAA threats.
My usual stratgey is to just set the phone down and walk away during their initial pitch. I go hang it up when I hear the off-hook alarm ringing. This runs up their phone bill and, hopefully, makes the caller feel stupid.
On the contrary, giving a kid an outdated PC is likely to have the exact opposite effect of what you are claiming. Think about it: what is more likely to produce incentive to climb out of the ghetto, a free taste of interesting but outdated technology, or a handout of the most current technology? How many of us got started in IT through having access to the best technology available? No doubt most of us got a taste of it through such activities as playing around with someone else's junk or even taking apart old clock radios just to see how they worked.
We here in OR have gone to vote-by-mail for all elections, including this one. Ballots arrive two or three weeks before election day and they are simple color-in-the-spaces documents. They are due at 8:00 PM election day and postmarks don't count. State law prohibits any counting before 8:00 but clerks can get them organized prior to feeding them into the counting machines. The problems our state experienced were due entirely to the closeness of this election, as well as the presence of 26(!) ballot measures on this ballot. Thousands of people swarmed their county elections offices just before closing and this overwhelmed the process temporarily. Past elections were conducted much more smoothly. The key to our success is the 8:00PM drop dead time. This business of allowing postmarks to determine timeliness is ridiculous. Washington state had well over one half million absentee ballots and it will be several more weeks for them to be counted, leaving their Senate race hanging.
My guess is that the problem you describe is likely due to incompatibility among drives. I'd bet the disk would read fine in the drive from which it was formatted and/or written. I have run into this problem many times over the years.
On a related note, I wonder if the market for 3.5" disks has gone up in the last few years now that AOHell has shifted to CDs. There was a period in there when I never had to buy any disks because free ones kept arriving in the mail!