Each location has a Xenix based server, with anywhere from 2 to 20 or so Windows '95-'98 clients (each of the Windows boxes are identically configured). The Xenix based server occasionally communicates with the home office, and downloads updates.
Each Windows machine has it's own FTPd running on it, and when there's an update, the Xenix machine ftp's the update to the Windows box, gives it an autoexec.bat that will make the update happen, then forces the machine to reboot.
Unfortunatly, that probably won't happen in our lifetimes - the system has been fixed up to work for whomever has the most money backing them, basically.
The funny thing is, in many places, there's no law requiring the people casting the electorals to even vote for anyone that the popular vote voted for. Potentially, an entire state could vote for Candidate A, and the electorals could be cast for Candidates B and C.
Though I think at least one state that that could happen in has laws that say although the electoral caster (castor?) could vote against the popular vote, they then get some jail time after it or something.
I could be wrong, I'm just spouting things out of a broken memory.
The electoral vote system wasnt used until (i don't have an exact date) I believe the late 1800's or early 1900's, when voters became disenfranchised with politics, and for the most part stopped turning out to vote.
The electoral system is not part of the constitution, and was definitely not put in place by the authors of said constitution.
Well, I'm 26 now, heading close towards 27. I have vague memories of certain people saying certain phrases, certain images in my mind, and even a couple of thoughts or two from when I was around 3 (perhaps before or after, I don't remember exactly). I'd bet that there's not too many people out there who can consciously go back much farther.
RadioShack sells a model for the Nokia 51/6100 as well, and that manufacturer makes one for the old StarTAC and MicroTAC cell phones, I think, but that's all I've been able to find.
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screensavers work fine on my RH8 boxen. I abhor konqueror - it's already a crippled version of Opera - so I can't speak for that one. I don't ahve one available to muck with the panel here. But, on point one, you're wrong. On point 2, who cares, because konqueror sucks?
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I don't think RMS has really had all that much to do with Linux. RMS happened to have written a lot of very handy tools that were good replacements for the "standard" Unix tools - The GNU tools. Rather than Linus write his own toolset, he took the free ones that RMS had offered.
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Whoa,whoa, WHOA...
I have NEVER met ANYONE who had EVER thought that Bill or Steve Case (AOL) had had anything to do with any development of the internet. Sure, they brought it ot the masses, but that has nothing to do with development.
The Internet is not for the masses. The Internet is for the Geeks.
Created by Geeks, for Geeks. That's it.
Most all development of anything involving the Internet has happened on Unix systems. Very little has actually happened on the Internet since the creation of the World Wide Web.
ahhhh yes.. now I do remember. Thank you.. I remember pushing hard for my dad to get me that extra 2MB RAM for christmas that year so that I could get OS/2. lol
Most of the sites that people have made for Sprint phones to allow you to download ringers and such for free (because Sprint started out charging for them, too) will also work with Verizon phones that have downloadable ringers. Same thing with a lot of the software that's out there, and such.
As far as the battery life goes, turn GPS Location off.
You'll also deprive yourself of probably the most reliable cellular network in the U.S., all because Mr. Fahey, who likes to think that the articles he posts on his website are fair and nonbiased, is actually some kind of religious zealot. I can't find many statements in his story that are true...
The reviews on phonescoop.com seem to be very positive. Every customer I've ever sold a 720 to has been very happy with it (except for the one guy who decided he didn't want a phone with "all the bells and whistles" so went for a v.60 instead, at double the price. lol)
I won use of a T720 free for a month, and I thought it was great. Reception was certainly a lot better than my T2260.
Only reboots I've ever had with a Motorola phone are on low battery conditions - my T2260, when the battery is excessively low, but the phone hasn't realised it yet, will receive a call, it'll ring, say "CALL" on the display, and then it'll power off, back on, and go "Searching..." "Low Battery" then power off. doh.
Apparently you're just reading into Colin's rhetoric, and not actually pulling out a phone and finding anything out. The T720 with Verizon operates just like the T720 with AT&T. Maybe you had an early software version, but the one I have here in my store, I have used to run the same programs I've run on a SprintPCS phone, and it works just fine.
There was a "major" software update for the T720 about three weeks ago, though I don't know exactly what it did, we were told that it was mandatory to be able to download and run "certain types" of programs.
You seem to be mistaken here in assuming that an admin of any system in the entire world is going to give one tiny little piece of shit about someone abusing someone else's IRC server.
It's never going to happen. identd is a useless pile of garbage, and IRC is the only service on earth that still uses it for anything, as far as I've seen. Actually, out of the last 16 years of internet usage.. I think IRC is the ONLY service that has ever used it for anything...
I have a Tandy 1000SL and a Tandy Sensation ][ that were both in a house that was completely destroyed by fire, except for the bathroom. The computers were not in said bathroom. The casings, I threw away, but the computers themselves work just fine. I've played a lot of old DOS games on the 1000SL (Many games back in the day supported "CGA" or "Tandy CGA" which the SL has... 16 color CGA, basically.. almost as good as a C= 64... but not quite. ) and the Sensation is my LAN's web/email/mp3 server and router. The monitor that came with the Sensation was so fucked up with smoke that it took me almost a month of every day spraying the thing with "Scrubbing Bubbles" and Windex, but I was finally able to use it. i ended up making it headless, and throwing out the Tandy VGM monitor that the previous owner supplied. The casing of the monitor was so tarnished, that even after applying "Bleche-White" (a tire bleaching chemical) for months, it didn't turn anything but dull yellow.
The computers themselves, have never really been cleaned. The motherboards are still smoked black. it's been probably 8-10 years now, and they all still operate just fine. So what's your issue?
One of the many products that I sell in the place I work in, is high-speed internet. We hardly sell any in the area that I'm located in - it's a poor side of town, and most of my customers really don't have computers.
Since Friday, we've hooked up 5 customers (who don't own computers) with high-speed access.
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Apparently the Xbox has a standard Cat 5 ethernet jack on it, and by default it simply requests a DHCP lease, though there are configuration options for other systems. At least, that's what I've been told, since I deal in high speed internet services, and have already had several customers who are getting said internet access solely for their Xbox's.. most of them don't even HAVE PC's.
Really the best thing about it, is that in tons of cases of the Guru errors, you could just ignore it, and keep right on using the system.
I remember one time my brother had a good 30-40 guru meditation errors stacked up, and once he finally started clicking them down, is when things started going nuts. heh
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Each location has a Xenix based server, with anywhere from 2 to 20 or so Windows '95-'98 clients (each of the Windows boxes are identically configured). The Xenix based server occasionally communicates with the home office, and downloads updates.
Each Windows machine has it's own FTPd running on it, and when there's an update, the Xenix machine ftp's the update to the Windows box, gives it an autoexec.bat that will make the update happen, then forces the machine to reboot.
Unfortunatly, that probably won't happen in our lifetimes - the system has been fixed up to work for whomever has the most money backing them, basically.
The funny thing is, in many places, there's no law requiring the people casting the electorals to even vote for anyone that the popular vote voted for. Potentially, an entire state could vote for Candidate A, and the electorals could be cast for Candidates B and C.
Though I think at least one state that that could happen in has laws that say although the electoral caster (castor?) could vote against the popular vote, they then get some jail time after it or something.
I could be wrong, I'm just spouting things out of a broken memory.
The electoral vote system wasnt used until (i don't have an exact date) I believe the late 1800's or early 1900's, when voters became disenfranchised with politics, and for the most part stopped turning out to vote.
The electoral system is not part of the constitution, and was definitely not put in place by the authors of said constitution.
George Washington was appointed President.
Well, I'm 26 now, heading close towards 27. I have vague memories of certain people saying certain phrases, certain images in my mind, and even a couple of thoughts or two from when I was around 3 (perhaps before or after, I don't remember exactly). I'd bet that there's not too many people out there who can consciously go back much farther.
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RadioShack sells a model for the Nokia 51/6100 as well, and that manufacturer makes one for the old StarTAC and MicroTAC cell phones, I think, but that's all I've been able to find.
screensavers work fine on my RH8 boxen. I abhor konqueror - it's already a crippled version of Opera - so I can't speak for that one. I don't ahve one available to muck with the panel here. But, on point one, you're wrong. On point 2, who cares, because konqueror sucks?
I don't think RMS has really had all that much to do with Linux. RMS happened to have written a lot of very handy tools that were good replacements for the "standard" Unix tools - The GNU tools. Rather than Linus write his own toolset, he took the free ones that RMS had offered.
Whoa,whoa, WHOA...
I have NEVER met ANYONE who had EVER thought that Bill or Steve Case (AOL) had had anything to do with any development of the internet. Sure, they brought it ot the masses, but that has nothing to do with development.
The Internet is not for the masses. The Internet is for the Geeks.
Created by Geeks, for Geeks. That's it.
Most all development of anything involving the Internet has happened on Unix systems. Very little has actually happened on the Internet since the creation of the World Wide Web.
ahhhh yes.. now I do remember. Thank you.. I remember pushing hard for my dad to get me that extra 2MB RAM for christmas that year so that I could get OS/2. lol
Has it occured to anyone else reading this thread that Wal-Mart and Home Depot aren't even close to being in the same retail sector?
OS/2 Warp 3.0 came out, I want to say around Februrary of 1995. I first picked it up on a store shelf in March or April of 1995.
Warp 4.0 came out shortly before the end of '96, if I remember correctly.
If it weren't for the serious hardware driver issues and lack of coherent multimedia ANYTHING in OS/2 2.xx, I think OS/2 might've stood a chance.
Actually, OS/2 came out before Windows 1. Windows was originally to be "OS/2-lite", a way to transition users from DOS to OS/2.
This was of course, when it was called "Microsoft OS/2"
Most of the sites that people have made for Sprint phones to allow you to download ringers and such for free (because Sprint started out charging for them, too) will also work with Verizon phones that have downloadable ringers. Same thing with a lot of the software that's out there, and such.
As far as the battery life goes, turn GPS Location off.
You'll also deprive yourself of probably the most reliable cellular network in the U.S., all because Mr. Fahey, who likes to think that the articles he posts on his website are fair and nonbiased, is actually some kind of religious zealot. I can't find many statements in his story that are true...
The reviews on phonescoop.com seem to be very positive. Every customer I've ever sold a 720 to has been very happy with it (except for the one guy who decided he didn't want a phone with "all the bells and whistles" so went for a v.60 instead, at double the price. lol)
I won use of a T720 free for a month, and I thought it was great. Reception was certainly a lot better than my T2260.
Only reboots I've ever had with a Motorola phone are on low battery conditions - my T2260, when the battery is excessively low, but the phone hasn't realised it yet, will receive a call, it'll ring, say "CALL" on the display, and then it'll power off, back on, and go "Searching..." "Low Battery" then power off. doh.
Apparently you're just reading into Colin's rhetoric, and not actually pulling out a phone and finding anything out. The T720 with Verizon operates just like the T720 with AT&T. Maybe you had an early software version, but the one I have here in my store, I have used to run the same programs I've run on a SprintPCS phone, and it works just fine.
There was a "major" software update for the T720 about three weeks ago, though I don't know exactly what it did, we were told that it was mandatory to be able to download and run "certain types" of programs.
You seem to be mistaken here in assuming that an admin of any system in the entire world is going to give one tiny little piece of shit about someone abusing someone else's IRC server.
It's never going to happen. identd is a useless pile of garbage, and IRC is the only service on earth that still uses it for anything, as far as I've seen. Actually, out of the last 16 years of internet usage.. I think IRC is the ONLY service that has ever used it for anything...
I have a Tandy 1000SL and a Tandy Sensation ][ that were both in a house that was completely destroyed by fire, except for the bathroom. The computers were not in said bathroom. The casings, I threw away, but the computers themselves work just fine. I've played a lot of old DOS games on the 1000SL (Many games back in the day supported "CGA" or "Tandy CGA" which the SL has... 16 color CGA, basically.. almost as good as a C= 64... but not quite. ) and the Sensation is my LAN's web/email/mp3 server and router. The monitor that came with the Sensation was so fucked up with smoke that it took me almost a month of every day spraying the thing with "Scrubbing Bubbles" and Windex, but I was finally able to use it. i ended up making it headless, and throwing out the Tandy VGM monitor that the previous owner supplied. The casing of the monitor was so tarnished, that even after applying "Bleche-White" (a tire bleaching chemical) for months, it didn't turn anything but dull yellow.
The computers themselves, have never really been cleaned. The motherboards are still smoked black. it's been probably 8-10 years now, and they all still operate just fine. So what's your issue?
I bought one of those (single disc cleaner automatic) about 15 years ago at a stereo shop. They really aren't very good, though.
One of the many products that I sell in the place I work in, is high-speed internet. We hardly sell any in the area that I'm located in - it's a poor side of town, and most of my customers really don't have computers.
Since Friday, we've hooked up 5 customers (who don't own computers) with high-speed access.
Apparently the Xbox has a standard Cat 5 ethernet jack on it, and by default it simply requests a DHCP lease, though there are configuration options for other systems. At least, that's what I've been told, since I deal in high speed internet services, and have already had several customers who are getting said internet access solely for their Xbox's.. most of them don't even HAVE PC's.
Now if only I could find someplace somewhere somehow to get ahold of it... *sigh*
many RadioShack stores still have the ones with 20 some odd Activision games built into a PS1 style controller..
Really the best thing about it, is that in tons of cases of the Guru errors, you could just ignore it, and keep right on using the system.
I remember one time my brother had a good 30-40 guru meditation errors stacked up, and once he finally started clicking them down, is when things started going nuts. heh