Woah... you still have to the engine-tilt deal on a Grand Prix? Thought maybe they would have changed that by now... I remember that on my old '88 before it crashed... "Step 1. Remove torque stabilizer bars. 2. Remove air intake. 3. Insert prybar and rotate engine forward."
This is why I now have a Jeep Cherokee. Simple enough inline-6 engine, AW4 auto transmission that you *can't kill*, everything is accessible, as long as you have metric sockets. Only two computers, and they don't talk to each other. It just works.
Actually, I was just looking into Palm messaging clients last night...
Through T-Mobile you can log into AIM and send/receive messages over SMS. Now I haven't been able to verify this, and somebody correct me if I'm wrong, but I think the built-in AIM clients on Nokia 3390/Samsumg R225m/etc use the same mechanism. Has anybody seen a PalmOS program (possibly working on a Treo 180? =] ) that'll take advantage of this, instead of the GPRS link?
[stupid no-credit, can't get GPRS from ANYBODY for a while]
Almost sounds like an Asante FriendlyNet PDS card... had several in the LC3's in high school. Never worked very well, but the origin of the cards was somewhat dubious to begin with.
Lesson I recently learned from Dell... their e-mail tech support is a lot less hassle than the phone version. Both are still mostly based overseas, judging from the names on the e-mails, but the techs that handle the e-mail support seem to be a bit more knowledgeable than their phone counterparts. Of course, for all I know, it's the same people.
Anecdotal evidence, sure, but it's worked on personal and work laptops about 8-9 times in the past month or two so far... Use the PremierSupport website, click the link on the left navbar called "Request Support," explain in normal terms what the problem is and the standard procedure you used to diagnose it, and you'll get a response back, generally within a couple hours, saying which parts will be replaced and to expect a technician to call you about the best time to come and fix it. As long as you use the usual magic words: "problem follows part", you escape 99% of the useless scripted "reboot and call us back" diagnosis.
One time when I said "Battery will not hold a charge" in somewhat vague terms, it wasn't a part replacement right away but they e-mailed back with a full and nicely detailed procedure of things to check, some of which I hadn't thought of.
Of course, most of this probably wouldn't work for the usual clueless user, but for us geeks here who know what we're doing, it'll save a lot of time.
[Yes, I am aware Premier Support is for the business/edu/govt customers, but they replaced most of the internals and the screen hinges on my personal Inspiron 4100 without a problem. Last time I checked, it didn't check any personal info when you registered.]
Would something like this (a rack-mount power strip with 15-foot cord) be what you're looking for?
(Pay no attention to prices, Blackbox is just the first pro-stuff vendor with an online catalog that came to mind; I'm sure you can find something elsewhere for [much] cheaper.)
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This is what Netware has been doing for a long time now. VERY useful... it's one of the only things I can think of that's missing from Linux as a server. The good old SALVAGE tool (and underlying filesystem support, I assume) has fixed things more times than I can remember.
One word: Crestron. Programmable touchscreen, wired or wireless, back-end processors and modules to control just about everything and then some. I don't even WANT to know how much some of that stuff costs.
I'm not entirely sure... the transposition and random addition of certain characters is somewhat unique, as is the failure to fully convert certain words into the common dialect, but I believe this is the message:
Dear Representatives of the European Union:
Software patents are, in the technological community, considered a dangerous and misdirected restriction of the rights of all free-thinking parties involved. I respectfully request that you decline any legislative measure giving force to ideas of legal protection for implementations of common software designs.
They did, it's called W32/Nachi. Useless, just as destructive as the first one. Completely flooded out the network at the local Comm College here, we were sending out 20Mbit worth of random ICMP traffic Tuesday morning within about 15 minutes of the usual work-start-time before we caught it. Still working on getting rid of it internally... (no I'm not the sysadmin, just helpdesk)
TRS-80 basic would do the same thing.... at least on the model 3's. Model I's without the level 2 upgrade were limited to just 26 variables - A through Z.
Ehh... all that for $300? Sign me up... I don't think you can even buy those kind of parts separately for $300. And if it plays PC games, it can't be too far from a normal PC hardware/software-wise (unlike Xbox)
Don't have any relationship with them except as a member, but Fairwinds Credit Union seems to have no problem with any SSL-equipped browser accessing their online banking systems. I've used Mozilla, Konqueror and even old Netscapes and they all work fine.
Well, now that I'm about 5 generations behind, I'm seriously considering buying a Ti4200-8x to replace my $39-special GF2 MX200.... $120 and not too far behind the newest generation, if those benchmarks are any indication. Thoughts?
Kinda offtopic, but would you happen to know why a Dazzle Firewire DV Bridge would refuse to work with an NTSC signal from the PC? I can flip Premiere over to PAL mode and it'll output fine (for a PAL signal anyway, it at least tries to output), but NTSC just confuses it... doesn't even switch to D-to-A mode now.
Well... maybe not in the real order, but we'll give you honorary FP anyway. =]
And while I'm posting... I think I speak for all of us loyal Slack users everywhere in thanking you for your hard work in making yet another fine release. Slackware forever!
Yeah, DOS 5 runs on an 8088 just fine. =] (I have two - IBM XT and a Tandy 1000... both still in working order, the Tandy with its original screen. What is that, 20 years?)
Ya know, ftp.slackware.com had JUST quieted down enough for the -current mirrors to rsync to a reasonably-recent version. At least I grabbed everything up to when Patrick threw in the Sendmail fix....
Slashdot Mirror
Woah... you still have to the engine-tilt deal on a Grand Prix? Thought maybe they would have changed that by now... I remember that on my old '88 before it crashed... "Step 1. Remove torque stabilizer bars. 2. Remove air intake. 3. Insert prybar and rotate engine forward."
This is why I now have a Jeep Cherokee. Simple enough inline-6 engine, AW4 auto transmission that you *can't kill*, everything is accessible, as long as you have metric sockets. Only two computers, and they don't talk to each other. It just works.
Might be easier to find/dump Mac versions of the SCSI/VGA card BIOS and flash the card with it. Worked on an old Matrox Millennium I had...
hold down shift, right-click on an EXE file.
Photoshop CS? ugh. that thing takes about 3x as long to startup on my Athlon 1800/1GB RAM than Photoshop 7 does.
Actually, I was just looking into Palm messaging clients last night...
Through T-Mobile you can log into AIM and send/receive messages over SMS. Now I haven't been able to verify this, and somebody correct me if I'm wrong, but I think the built-in AIM clients on Nokia 3390/Samsumg R225m/etc use the same mechanism. Has anybody seen a PalmOS program (possibly working on a Treo 180? =] ) that'll take advantage of this, instead of the GPRS link?
[stupid no-credit, can't get GPRS from ANYBODY for a while]
Almost sounds like an Asante FriendlyNet PDS card... had several in the LC3's in high school. Never worked very well, but the origin of the cards was somewhat dubious to begin with.
Lesson I recently learned from Dell... their e-mail tech support is a lot less hassle than the phone version. Both are still mostly based overseas, judging from the names on the e-mails, but the techs that handle the e-mail support seem to be a bit more knowledgeable than their phone counterparts. Of course, for all I know, it's the same people.
Anecdotal evidence, sure, but it's worked on personal and work laptops about 8-9 times in the past month or two so far... Use the PremierSupport website, click the link on the left navbar called "Request Support," explain in normal terms what the problem is and the standard procedure you used to diagnose it, and you'll get a response back, generally within a couple hours, saying which parts will be replaced and to expect a technician to call you about the best time to come and fix it. As long as you use the usual magic words: "problem follows part", you escape 99% of the useless scripted "reboot and call us back" diagnosis.
One time when I said "Battery will not hold a charge" in somewhat vague terms, it wasn't a part replacement right away but they e-mailed back with a full and nicely detailed procedure of things to check, some of which I hadn't thought of.
Of course, most of this probably wouldn't work for the usual clueless user, but for us geeks here who know what we're doing, it'll save a lot of time.
[Yes, I am aware Premier Support is for the business/edu/govt customers, but they replaced most of the internals and the screen hinges on my personal Inspiron 4100 without a problem. Last time I checked, it didn't check any personal info when you registered.]
Would something like this (a rack-mount power strip with 15-foot cord) be what you're looking for?
(Pay no attention to prices, Blackbox is just the first pro-stuff vendor with an online catalog that came to mind; I'm sure you can find something elsewhere for [much] cheaper.)
This is what Netware has been doing for a long time now. VERY useful... it's one of the only things I can think of that's missing from Linux as a server. The good old SALVAGE tool (and underlying filesystem support, I assume) has fixed things more times than I can remember.
And that motorized-door-opening noise that's used just about everywhere...
One word: Crestron. Programmable touchscreen, wired or wireless, back-end processors and modules to control just about everything and then some. I don't even WANT to know how much some of that stuff costs.
They did, it's called W32/Nachi. Useless, just as destructive as the first one. Completely flooded out the network at the local Comm College here, we were sending out 20Mbit worth of random ICMP traffic Tuesday morning within about 15 minutes of the usual work-start-time before we caught it. Still working on getting rid of it internally... (no I'm not the sysadmin, just helpdesk)
Also fact: System relies on file extensions to differentiate between executable and non-executable files, which in my mind is a bit worse.
TRS-80 basic would do the same thing.... at least on the model 3's. Model I's without the level 2 upgrade were limited to just 26 variables - A through Z.
The integrated heat-spreader over the actual CPU die allows the heatsink to be much more efficient, for one thing...
Ehh... all that for $300? Sign me up... I don't think you can even buy those kind of parts separately for $300. And if it plays PC games, it can't be too far from a normal PC hardware/software-wise (unlike Xbox)
Don't have any relationship with them except as a member, but Fairwinds Credit Union seems to have no problem with any SSL-equipped browser accessing their online banking systems. I've used Mozilla, Konqueror and even old Netscapes and they all work fine.
Yeah, it's worthless, but they're using the NV28 everywhere now instead of the NV25. Works the same way, same price.
Well, now that I'm about 5 generations behind, I'm seriously considering buying a Ti4200-8x to replace my $39-special GF2 MX200.... $120 and not too far behind the newest generation, if those benchmarks are any indication. Thoughts?
Kinda offtopic, but would you happen to know why a Dazzle Firewire DV Bridge would refuse to work with an NTSC signal from the PC? I can flip Premiere over to PAL mode and it'll output fine (for a PAL signal anyway, it at least tries to output), but NTSC just confuses it... doesn't even switch to D-to-A mode now.
Well... maybe not in the real order, but we'll give you honorary FP anyway. =]
And while I'm posting... I think I speak for all of us loyal Slack users everywhere in thanking you for your hard work in making yet another fine release. Slackware forever!
Since the official Slack FTP is a bit slow from everyone trying to grab it, here are a couple (unofficial) mirror lists:
;)
alphageek.dyndns.org
AbnormalPenguin.com
I've already downloaded mine, so everybody have at it.
Yeah, DOS 5 runs on an 8088 just fine. =] (I have two - IBM XT and a Tandy 1000... both still in working order, the Tandy with its original screen. What is that, 20 years?)
Ya know, ftp.slackware.com had JUST quieted down enough for the -current mirrors to rsync to a reasonably-recent version. At least I grabbed everything up to when Patrick threw in the Sendmail fix....