I'm from upstate NY origintally, and I always said "Root 90" when I meant Interstate Route 90.
After I became a unix guy I deliberately started saying "Rowte" when I meant route to avoid confusion with the word that is spelled "root", as in root account. I now find myself saying that even when I am talking about roads rather than computer networks.
And for the record I say "Jif" like the peanut butter. Don't know why. Like many words, I read it hundreds of times before I heard another human pronounce it.
All the posters agree, the spec is "almost" there, but not there yet. I guess ical is the best hope. Is it the only hope ? Are there any other efforts under way ?
Well, Verizon just had some contractors pour a slab at the end of my road, with some conduits from there to a nearby pole which already had a cutdown box on it.
Now are they going put in a remote terminal and give us all DSL before Comcast rolls out cable modems ? (this is a town that ATT wired 27 months ago with fiber and then walked away from when the Comcast deal got started)
Or are they just doing this to service a new development that's being built a couple miles down the road.
I bawled some Hong Kong based guy out and reported him to his provider because I got some spam, and rarity of rarities, the return address wasn't spoofed.
It turns out a legit customer of his typoed his email address, using my domain instead of his similar domain.
Ok, so he's got this huge radiator on the thing, but it's *inside* the case !
How about putting a small one inside the case to pick up the heat from the non-water-cooled components, and then plumb the water lines through the case to a fan-cooled radiator outside the case.
Then just seal the case up and presto, no more dust bunnies.
With a few extra yards of hose, you could put the fans off somewhere where you wouldn't hear their noise so much.
I've been using an IBM model M keyboard too for the last year or so. P/N 1391401, dated 1984 (?) The date must be wrong, they didn't have ps-2 jacks back then did they ?
I love the clickyness. On mine the right arrow has lost it's click though.. I'm going to have to find another one.
I was pissed when the VT100 came out and I couln't use my VT52 any more because it didn't support all the screen controls new software was using. The VT52's keyboard was great. Light, but clicky. And I've dropped them four feet onto a hard floor and had them still work once I snapped the plastic case back together.
This is just too strange, and I have to suspect that it's a joke.
But I should point out that not only are tubes used in guitar amps (like the 2 12AX7s and 4 6L6s in my '61 black-face Showman), they are also used in some of the big-buck microphone preamps.
If you buy a $5,000 austrian or german condenser mic, it's like to have a tube *inside* it too.
Love my VW GTI. With both back seats down, I've put ungodly amounts of gear in there. 3 17" monitors in boxes plus 3 Gateway ALR towers and accoutrements. You just have to make sure nothing can slide over the tops of the front seats and brain you. I used to keep chunks of medium density foam around to stuff under and between things.
And yes, it always pays to spend 10 minutes reseating cpus and pci cards after a trip like that.
I move my spam to the "spam" folder on my imap server. So it never even wastes bandwidth coming down to my workstation (over a dialup).
Then I use this script to fire it all off to spamcop once a day:
#!/usr/local/bin/perl $reporting_addr = 'submit.yourspamcopidhere@spam.spamcop.net'; $/ = undef; #slurp mode $buf = < #slurp @spams = split(/\nFrom/,$buf); # split on message header for ($i=1; $i<=$#spams; $i++) {
open (MAILER,"| mail $reporting_addr");
$msg = "From " . $spams[$i];
print MAILER $msg;
close MAILER; }
Not perfect, and you still have to visit the spamcop site to finish the reporting thing, but it's semi-automated at least. And forgive my clunky perl idioms.
We had those puppies for swap disks on what was probably the most tricked-out pdp-11/70 ever at DEC back in 1980. Forget what they were called.
R?02 ?
It was a RSTS/E timesharing machine with racks and racks of DH-11 20ma current-loop interfaces. Over 200 terminal lines IIRC. It's name was R08 if anyone remembers.
A little late to the party, but you're right, if you threatened them, they would call the police.
So, the right thing to do is blow them away in your living room. Just make sure they fall in the house or the doorway. In most states you wouldn't even have to stand trial.
Although if my kids were home I would have to use a larger wooden persuader instead. And I wouldn't threaten. I'd go for the collarbones first. That's a multi-year recovery if you're lucky.
And yes, there's a little repressed anger there. Have you read some of the stories on xenu.net ?
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I'm from upstate NY origintally, and I always said "Root 90" when I meant Interstate Route 90.
After I became a unix guy I deliberately started saying "Rowte" when I meant route to avoid confusion with the word that is spelled "root", as in root account. I now find myself saying that even when I am talking about roads rather than computer networks.
And for the record I say "Jif" like the peanut butter. Don't know why. Like many words, I read it hundreds of times before I heard another human pronounce it.
Icap seems dead, and mcal languishing..
Well, Verizon just had some contractors pour a slab at the end of my road, with some conduits from there to a nearby pole which already had a cutdown box on it.
Now are they going put in a remote terminal and give us all DSL before Comcast rolls out cable modems ? (this is a town that ATT wired 27 months ago with fiber and then walked away from when the
Comcast deal got started)
Or are they just doing this to service a new development that's being built a couple miles down the road.
I'm not holding my breath...
When I turned on SpamAssassin (4 "S"s) my un-caught spam dropped to near zero for about a month.
But now I get 3 or 4 a day that are dodging the rules effectively... Sheesh.
so your popup blocker sw needs an option to load the images in the popups, and just drop them on /dev/null...
I bawled some Hong Kong based guy out and reported him to his provider because I got some spam, and rarity of rarities, the return address wasn't spoofed.
It turns out a legit customer of his typoed his email address, using my domain instead of his similar domain.
I ended up appologizing to him and his provider..
yeah, that would suck. But at the moment I would take it.
Aaaaaaaaargh! It's 2:45AM ? No Way !
Ok, so he's got this huge radiator on the thing, but it's *inside* the case !
How about putting a small one inside the case to pick up the heat from the non-water-cooled components, and then plumb the water lines through the case to a fan-cooled radiator outside the case.
Then just seal the case up and presto, no more dust bunnies.
With a few extra yards of hose, you could put the fans off somewhere where you wouldn't hear their noise so much.
I have a copy with an autographed bookplate...
It was a rather odd but much appreciated birthday present from my wife.
I've been using an IBM model M keyboard too for the last year or so. P/N 1391401, dated 1984 (?) The date must be wrong, they didn't have ps-2 jacks back then did they ?
I love the clickyness. On mine the right arrow has lost it's click though.. I'm going to have to find another one.
I was pissed when the VT100 came out and I couln't use my VT52 any more because it didn't support all the screen controls new software was using. The VT52's keyboard was great. Light, but clicky. And I've dropped them four feet onto a hard floor and had them still work once I snapped the plastic case back together.
Don't you mean triacs ? SCRs are for DC, I think (IANAEE)
This is just too strange, and I have to suspect that it's a joke.
But I should point out that not only are tubes used in guitar amps (like the 2 12AX7s and 4 6L6s in my '61 black-face Showman), they are also used in some of the big-buck microphone preamps.
If you buy a $5,000 austrian or german condenser mic, it's like to have a tube *inside* it too.
There must be a reason for that.
Wrong. There are blinking yellow lights on MA school busses. There were 25 years ago when I rode them, and there are now when my kids ride them.
BTW, the blinking red lights come on automatically when the door is opened, unless they're overridden by another switch.
So perhaps you have a bus driver who isn't with the program... ?
I'm 18,900 wire-feet from the CO, but I can't get DSL because I have one or more "load coils" in the line.
Verizon told me that I should move, if I wanted DSL.
And don't even get me started about the MediaOne/AT&T/Comcast clusterfVK.
Love my VW GTI. With both back seats down, I've put ungodly amounts of gear in there. 3 17" monitors in boxes plus 3 Gateway ALR towers and accoutrements. You just have to make sure nothing can slide over the tops of the front seats and brain you. I used to keep chunks of medium density foam around to stuff under and between things.
And yes, it always pays to spend 10 minutes reseating cpus and pci cards after a trip like that.
yes, it's missing a semicolon. Must have stomped on it when I was munging those <s and >s.
I move my spam to the "spam" folder on my imap server. So it never even wastes bandwidth coming down to my workstation (over a dialup).
/,$buf); # split on message header
Then I use this script to fire it all off to spamcop once a day:
#!/usr/local/bin/perl
$reporting_addr = 'submit.yourspamcopidhere@spam.spamcop.net';
$/ = undef; #slurp mode
$buf = < #slurp
@spams = split(/\nFrom
for ($i=1; $i<=$#spams; $i++) {
open (MAILER,"| mail $reporting_addr");
$msg = "From " . $spams[$i];
print MAILER $msg;
close MAILER;
}
Not perfect, and you still have to visit the spamcop site to finish the reporting thing, but it's semi-automated at least. And forgive my clunky perl idioms.
illegal, immoral or not, this is BAD...
We had those puppies for swap disks on what was probably the most tricked-out pdp-11/70 ever at DEC back in 1980. Forget what they were called.
R?02 ?
It was a RSTS/E timesharing machine with racks and racks of DH-11 20ma current-loop interfaces. Over 200 terminal lines IIRC. It's name was R08 if anyone remembers.
All sharing 512KB.
Fairly bright? Like Albert Einstein ?
Direct Broadcast Satellite
And damn the 20 second rule.
A little late to the party, but you're right, if you threatened them, they would call the police.
So, the right thing to do is blow them away in your living room. Just make sure they fall in the house or the doorway. In most states you wouldn't even have to stand trial.
Although if my kids were home I would have to use a larger wooden persuader instead. And I wouldn't threaten. I'd go for the collarbones first. That's a multi-year recovery if you're lucky.
And yes, there's a little repressed anger there. Have you read some of the stories on xenu.net ?
Not a link to the studies, but some citations.