It's just too plain obvious that will happen next; in every 'charity' call, they will try and sell you stuff you don't want, and will 'donate' $1 to a charatiy, by that making it a 'charity' call.
So they will still call, telling you that they focus on they charity, trying to sell you stuff you do not want/need.
The rules are plain to unclear from my point of view...
As overhere in Europe, a lot of the car license platse use the same country codes, I expect that if their 'codes' becom a valid 'standard' that you have to pay for, that would also mean they will receive money for quite a lot of countries !!
Mandrake : [SNIP].. Duvel beer seems to be the best fit here, with the light golden appearance of a pilsner disguising the complex aromas and the kick of a 9% ABV beer...
WRONG !!!! Duvel is not 9% ABV but 8.5%. Source: The bottle on my table
Oww, website down, but translation from Dutch-site
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Tulip to Relaunch C64
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The Tulip website mentioned in the article, does not seem to offer a lot more then just a front page...
Just to give a small (translated) impression in English what is says under the 'goodwill' part at the bottom: (For those unable to read/comprehend Dutch)
Goodwill
Even if the for years troubled Tulip would go bankrupt, Boogaard & Schmit [the main owners] will not see it as an extreme problem for their Tulip Distribution International Holding. Schmit: "In the unlikely case of a chapter 11 of Tulip Inc., we can still go on. The goodwill has been taken care off. In the world of computers everyone knows Tulip, it has a good name that never has to disappear again."
There was more detail, but I removed it.. So, if you are a company, why would you advertise a possible bankrupcy ?? Because it's going so well ?? Nah.... Looks like another firm trying to make a buck from lawsuits to me.
Some hardware can handle things better than other, and in some situations a little hardware abuse is sometimes the solution.
For a customer there was a service engineer that did 'vibration monitoring' with some dedicated hardware. Measuremtnes were stored on a laptop (toshiba satelite). But in ome cases the vibrations were so large, the hardware just gave up (harddrive especially).
One solution for it is a little more robust hardware, something like this helps quite a bit.
But.. Sometimes it is even needed to 'abuse' hardware to get it back to work. When people have a crashed disk, and want I sometimes resort to rude methods to get it going again for a while. A big rubber hammer for hitting the disk has temporarily revived some of the disked that refused to go for a while just long enough to get most of the important data off. And some more 'abuse' that has helped many times is putting the drive in a zip-lock bag, and placing it in the refrigorator for an hour or so to completely coll off before the next attempt to get a few extra files off the disk.
I've done that (refridgerator/rubber hammer) with somthing like 6 crashed disks, with Novell formatteds disks, ext 2 disks and FAT-32 disks. From 5 of those I could get all data back.
What is in your links are all notebooks, not 'desktops'. Quite different in my opinion
For some tasks, DOS is the perfect tool.
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MS-DOS 1981-2002 RIP
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I've been around in computers long enough to have seen quite a bit of IT. Started with DOS on 2.11 or so, and then quickly it moved to DOS 3.1(1) and on and on and on.. (Yes the "new-and-improved"-thing always has always been that way)
DOS is still (for some tasks) the perfect OS. I've developed a POS-system for cafes (touch screen, water tight, no harddisk, no fan, networking, standalone operation etc) and it all had to fit in 1.44 Mb (standard size of early flash disks). With bartenders turning it off when done..
For some task like that, DOS was/is the perfect tool. Why should you use an bigger tool then the job requires ??
For what I read as the comments, a lot of things are just incorrect...
Some claim DOS has no networking.. Wrong ! Novell, SMB, UUCICO, even TCP/IP can be made to work.
In DOS you can only use 640K.. Wrong ! DOS extender, you can use all you want. Even more, remember LIM (Lotus-Intel-Microsoft) drivers for dos (also known als Expanded, paged or EMS)? Extended memory also work in DOS with the DOS extender (DOOM used it for example). Also check out UMBPCI if you have low memory hungry DOS applications ! (even works in Windos 9x)
DOS can not be used to script.. Wrong ! You can do almost everything you want in scripting in DOS.. Well I must agree not everything is so easy that anyone can do it, but that I see more as a problem of someones knowledge of DOS, not of DOS.
No taskswitching in DOS ? Wrong ! Never heard of Dosshell, sidekick and the likes ?
And there's tons of more things that can be done in DOS.. You'd really be amazed what you can do with it...(Codepages, ANSIS.SYS, Extreme cool memory stuff, DOSKEY, DEBUG, EDLIN etc)
If one would take the time to look into DOS, if can be a very valueable tool for some problems! Nwer doesn;t make the older things less good for a job. And DOS itself NEVER crashed on me!
Hm, this is what they do: "Through implementing our own patent-pending technology".
Well, are some P2P networks not using technology (protocols and/or source) that is in the GPL ??
Who checks out these guys that what they use is not just a heavily modified GPL P2P client ??
There sure is no 'download GPL software' link on their site !
I've been working in IT departments for a lot of years, seen it happen everywhere.. As the number of 'services/servers' groes, eveyone of them gets them a new (and often different) username. Those people often use the samepassword everywhere..
At the manufacturing company I now provide support services, the password is usually left blank. Tried to change it so not allow blank password, then whole hell broke loose !! So now it's back to empty passwords...
Oh well, not a too big a deal in my opinion.. No internet connection, and all data is on file somewhere also, there's even no pudget to lock up the server ; it's in a publicly accesable place, anyone just can take a backuptape and look at the contents...
No need for an Infinite number of monkies anymore!
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Share The Pi!
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In statistics classes, most (that have been there) have heard the idea: An infinite number of monkeys can type a whole Sheakspearean piece...
It sounds like we don't need all those monkeys, and can find all books, past/present and future in PI!!!!!
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Or.. Should that be:
ALIANWARE == OVERRATED
It sure makes quite a difference.
It's just too plain obvious that will happen next; in every 'charity' call, they will try and sell you stuff you don't want, and will 'donate' $1 to a charatiy, by that making it a 'charity' call.
So they will still call, telling you that they focus on they charity, trying to sell you stuff you do not want/need.
The rules are plain to unclear from my point of view...
As overhere in Europe, a lot of the car license platse use the same country codes, I expect that if their 'codes' becom a valid 'standard' that you have to pay for, that would also mean they will receive money for quite a lot of countries !!
From the article:
.. Duvel beer seems to be the best fit here, with the light golden appearance of a pilsner disguising the complex aromas and the kick of a 9% ABV beer...
Mandrake : [SNIP]
WRONG !!!!
Duvel is not 9% ABV but 8.5%. Source: The bottle on my table
But when you look a little harder, you'll find the news on their Dutch site..
Just to give a small (translated) impression in English what is says under the 'goodwill' part at the bottom: (For those unable to read/comprehend Dutch)
There was more detail, but I removed it.. So, if you are a company, why would you advertise a possible bankrupcy ?? Because it's going so well ?? Nah.... Looks like another firm trying to make a buck from lawsuits to me.
Why is the article so confusing about the units ?
The rocket is 16 feet 1/2 foot high, diameter in inches, weight in pound as is the thrust..
Then they move on to the landing zone, and switch to meters for that and also where the crouwd was watching, then back again to pounds..
Confusing read..
Why can't they stick to real scientific notations, all with SI units ??
Some hardware can handle things better than other, and in some situations a little hardware abuse is sometimes the solution.
For a customer there was a service engineer that did 'vibration monitoring' with some dedicated hardware. Measuremtnes were stored on a laptop (toshiba satelite). But in ome cases the vibrations were so large, the hardware just gave up (harddrive especially).
One solution for it is a little more robust hardware, something like this helps quite a bit.
But.. Sometimes it is even needed to 'abuse' hardware to get it back to work. When people have a crashed disk, and want I sometimes resort to rude methods to get it going again for a while. A big rubber hammer for hitting the disk has temporarily revived some of the disked that refused to go for a while just long enough to get most of the important data off. And some more 'abuse' that has helped many times is putting the drive in a zip-lock bag, and placing it in the refrigorator for an hour or so to completely coll off before the next attempt to get a few extra files off the disk.
I've done that (refridgerator/rubber hammer) with somthing like 6 crashed disks, with Novell formatteds disks, ext 2 disks and FAT-32 disks. From 5 of those I could get all data back.
Sometimes a little abuse can help !
Hm.. No..
What is in your links are all notebooks, not 'desktops'. Quite different in my opinion
DOS is still (for some tasks) the perfect OS. I've developed a POS-system for cafes (touch screen, water tight, no harddisk, no fan, networking, standalone operation etc) and it all had to fit in 1.44 Mb (standard size of early flash disks). With bartenders turning it off when done..
For some task like that, DOS was/is the perfect tool. Why should you use an bigger tool then the job requires ??
For what I read as the comments, a lot of things are just incorrect...
And there's tons of more things that can be done in DOS.. You'd really be amazed what you can do with it...(Codepages, ANSIS.SYS, Extreme cool memory stuff, DOSKEY, DEBUG, EDLIN etc)
If one would take the time to look into DOS, if can be a very valueable tool for some problems! Nwer doesn;t make the older things less good for a job. And DOS itself NEVER crashed on me!
That should not be so hard to answer..
Guess there's 2 parts only: main and not main..
Hm, this is what they do: "Through implementing our own patent-pending technology".
Well, are some P2P networks not using technology (protocols and/or source) that is in the GPL ??
Who checks out these guys that what they use is not just a heavily modified GPL P2P client ??
There sure is no 'download GPL software' link on their site !
Hi,
I've been working in IT departments for a lot of years, seen it happen everywhere.. As the number of 'services/servers' groes, eveyone of them gets them a new (and often different) username. Those people often use the samepassword everywhere..
At the manufacturing company I now provide support services, the password is usually left blank. Tried to change it so not allow blank password, then whole hell broke loose !! So now it's back to empty passwords...
Oh well, not a too big a deal in my opinion.. No internet connection, and all data is on file somewhere also, there's even no pudget to lock up the server ; it's in a publicly accesable place, anyone just can take a backuptape and look at the contents...
In statistics classes, most (that have been there) have heard the idea: An infinite number of monkeys can type a whole Sheakspearean piece... It sounds like we don't need all those monkeys, and can find all books, past/present and future in PI!!!!!