how many small aircraft pilots have actually practiced a ditched landing without any engine power?
I have. I'm not a licensed pilot, but at one time I was training to be one. In 1996, my instructor and I were flying about in the '59 Cessna 150, and the engine died. Instead of taking over, the instructor told me to pick a spot and land there. The landing was a little bouncy, but otherwise uneventful. Of course, being in flat, rural Oklahoma helped immensely.
I would have said 'IANALP' above, but the LISP programmer in me had some strange reservations about that.
I guess this means Lisp is a power tool for those who have learned how to use it. But it is difficult to learn, and unfortunately, a widely-used and widely-understood (more or less) language needs to appeal more to the lowest common denominator rather than only to those that get it.
Well, one thing's for sure: you're either a Windows user or a hypocrite.
No shit; I'm a CS major, and I just got a divorce. Life is now looking much sweeter.
I wouldn't recommend the knocking-her-up part. I mean, do that, but make sure that there won't be repercussions. That makes it easier to disconnect yourself from the collective when you realize your life sucks.
Try The Shockwave Rider by John Brunner. It's been a while since I've read it, but I think that it featured a worldwide network where things could be bought.
In my opinion, the cleanest way to dual-boot with an NT-ish Windoze is to write a set of boot sectors that do nothing but load the boot sector of a specific drive and execute it. For instance, here is a boot sector that boots from the first hard drive (BIOS drive number 0x80):
;; BIOS drive number to load from
%define DRIVE 0x80
;; I hate "jmp short"
%macro jmps 1
jmp short %1
%endmacro
;; Jump to real boot sector
mov dl, DRIVE
jmp 0x7C00
;; In case of error, print msg and lock up
error: mov si, errmsg
call print
jmps lockup
;; print ;; prints the zero-terminated string pointed to by SI.
print: push ax
push bx
mov ah, 0x0E
xor bx, bx
.char: lodsb
or al, al
jz.done
int 0x10
jmps.char
.done: pop bx
pop ax
ret
;; lockup ;; Locks the machine way up.
lockup:
hlt
jmps lockup
;; ;; DATA ;;
;; Error message
errmsg: db 'Error reading boot sector. System halted.', 0
;; Zero-padding to 512 bytes
pad: times 510-($-$$) db 0x00
;; Magic boot sector number
magic: dw 0xAA55
This was rather pretty code, but you see what is left after HTML-ization and pleasing the lameness filter. You might want to double-check that this works, but it looks good to me. Save this to bootsect.asm. Get NASM and use it to assemble bootsect.asm into whatever boot-sector you need. Make sure to change the definition of DRIVE to match the BIOS drive number you want the boot sector to boot from. Assemble with this command:
nasmw -f bin bootsect.asm -o bootsect.hd0
The final step is updating NT's boot.ini file. Here is a sample one; you figure it out.
[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT="Windows 2000"/fastdetect
C:\bootsect.hd0="Boot from hard drive 0"
C:\bootsect.hd1="Boot from hard drive 1"
C:\bootsect.hd2="Boot from hard drive 2"
C:\bootsect.hd3="Boot from hard drive 3"
C:\bootsect.fd0="Boot from floppy drive 0"
C:\bootsect.fd1="Boot from floppy drive 1"
Until we invent computers with an infinite amount of memory, I don't think it will be possible to track all of Visual SourceSafe's bugs. You might want to think of another solution to your problem.
Sorry, I'm feeling ornery today and I could not resist!
PayPal is not a bank. Hear it straight from the horse's mouth:
(i) PayPal is not a bank and the Service is a payment processing service rather than a banking service, and (ii) PayPal is not acting as a trustee, fiduciary or escrow with respect to your funds, but is acting only as an agent and custodian.
Just do a quick check on eBAY for the number of auctions that only accept payment through paypal.
Indeed. In my auctions, I accept payment via PayPal and money orders. Of the several hundred auctions I have run this year, I've had about 10 people pay with a money order. The rest paid with PayPal.
PayPal's a great service. A while back, I bought 1K plat of Everquest money on eBay. Thanks to PayPal and the fact that the goods were deliverable online, the entire transaction from auction close to delivery of goods took 38 minutes.
I for one am very happy to see fuel cell technology being made available to the consumer. I'm guessing that the cost per kilowatt-hour of juice generated by one of these fuel cells would be less than that of juice from the electric company. Am I right?
I hope so, because I've got a big VAX in the garage. It turns me on, and I'd like to do the same for it. A fuel cell seems like it would be cleaner solution on many levels as opposed to having the electric company bring in a three-phase industrial power feed.
One of these routes will cost you $1000+, the other will cost you $0.00+
Indeed. People get so caught up in the free-as-in-speech aspect of OSS/FS that they tend to forget about the implications of the free-as-in-beer aspect. Because such qulity software is available at no charge, I am open to educational opportunities that otherwise would be out of my financial reach.
An interesting note: when I submitted the article, my last sentence was "Please, no Microsoft 'technologies'.". While I'm quite pleased that my article got accepted, I find it somewhat ironic that this part was censored by people who speak out against censorship.
Well, if all this is happening, then I can kiss my beloved Robotech bye-bye. Why, in one episode alone ("Force of Arms"), the death toll is in the tens or hundreds of billions. In that episode, both Earth and the Zentraedi Main Fleet (4.8 million ships) are destroyed. How this can inspire terrorism is beyond me, but now I'm waiting for the shit to hit the fan...
I live in Oklahoma, so I guess that I'm a hillbilly by your reasoning. What must be very embarassing to you is that I have better English skills! For instance, had I written your comment (i.e., had your comment been written in correct Engish), it would have looked like this:
News for Hillbillies. Stuff That's Inbred.
Note the following:
1. correct spelling and pluralization of "hillbillies";
2. the use of the contraction "that's", meaning "that is", instead of "thats", which at best can be viewed as a pluralization of "that", which, of course, makes no sense;
3. correct capitalization, as the text is a subtitle and therefore deserves capitalization to match.
I hope this experience has been an educational one for you. I'm just glad I could help.
With the Slashdot Effect you've now brought upon the classic computer market, the market will soon be gone thanks to everyone selling and no one buying. Thank you Slashdot.
I'm a FreeBSD nut. When a new release comes out, they always make an ISO image of the first CD (the only one that most people use) in the set available for download. If my target machine has a fast connection to the net, I just install by FTP. If not, I download and burn the ISO image and install from it.
A week or two later, the CD set arrives in the mail. I've got a subscription set up where they automatically bill me and send me a CD set when a new release comes out. This serves to get money donated to people who help FreeBSD.
Just one small bit of advice to you little neo-yuppie punks who think that when you mutilate and destroy a classic computer to build a fish tank, refrigerator, submarine, petting zoo, etc...
You're not creating a historic or collectable item; you're destroying one. If you find yourself talking to a classic computer collector, *do*not* brag about your penchant for destruction. It may cost you your life. IOW, we don't really like you people!
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how many small aircraft pilots have actually practiced a ditched landing without any engine power?
I have. I'm not a licensed pilot, but at one time I was training to be one. In 1996, my instructor and I were flying about in the '59 Cessna 150, and the engine died. Instead of taking over, the instructor told me to pick a spot and land there. The landing was a little bouncy, but otherwise uneventful. Of course, being in flat, rural Oklahoma helped immensely.
I would have said 'IANALP' above, but the LISP programmer in me had some strange reservations about that.
Snort! Thank you for the comic strip link. It rocked my uncannily Dilberty world! Now, please excuse me while I try to stop rolling on the floor. :)
1. It is legal for MS to be a monopoly.
No, I don't think so. I seem to recall them being found guilty of it, which would make it a crime.
got some latitude in my paradigms
Yeah, I bet it really helped you to leverage your synergy to grow your productivity.
What cannot be art? I mean, if the Cadillac Ranch (near Amarillo, TX) is considered art...
Don't you mean 'cracker test'?
(Woot, now my
multiples of that offered by PCI
I sure hope that the multiples are real numbers greater than or equal to 2. I don't know if I could cope with (2+i) * PCI speed or -22/7 * PCI speed.
I guess this means Lisp is a power tool for those who have learned how to use it. But it is difficult to learn, and unfortunately, a widely-used and widely-understood (more or less) language needs to appeal more to the lowest common denominator rather than only to those that get it.
Well, one thing's for sure: you're either a Windows user or a hypocrite.
No shit; I'm a CS major, and I just got a divorce. Life is now looking much sweeter.
I wouldn't recommend the knocking-her-up part. I mean, do that, but make sure that there won't be repercussions. That makes it easier to disconnect yourself from the collective when you realize your life sucks.
Try The Shockwave Rider by John Brunner. It's been a while since I've read it, but I think that it featured a worldwide network where things could be bought.
They've finally invented my favorite circuit... the Maybe gate
Good... Hopefully this will let us design computers with much less Bill gates.
In my opinion, the cleanest way to dual-boot with an NT-ish Windoze is to write a set of boot sectors that do nothing but load the boot sector of a specific drive and execute it. For instance, here is a boot sector that boots from the first hard drive (BIOS drive number 0x80):
;; BIOS drive number to load from
;; I hate "jmp short"
;; Where we want to be
;;
;; CODE
;;
;; Setup stack, move code somewhere else, and jump there
;; Reset drive
;; Load real boot sector
;; Jump to real boot sector
;; In case of error, print msg and lock up
;; print
;; prints the zero-terminated string pointed to by SI.
.char: lodsb .done .char
.done: pop bx
;; lockup
;; Locks the machine way up.
;;
;; DATA
;;
;; Error message
;; Zero-padding to 512 bytes
;; Magic boot sector number
s 2000" /fastdetect
%define DRIVE 0x80
%macro jmps 1
jmp short %1
%endmacro
org 0x7E00
cli
xor ax, ax
mov ds, ax
mov es, ax
mov ss, ax
mov sp, 0x7C00
mov si, sp
mov di, 0x7E00
mov cx, 0x0100
cld
rep
movsw
jmp moved + 0x200
moved: sti
mov dl, DRIVE
int 0x13
jc error
mov ax, 0x0201
mov bx, 0x7C00
mov cx, 0x0001
mov dh, ch
mov dl, DRIVE
int 0x13
jc error
mov dl, DRIVE
jmp 0x7C00
error: mov si, errmsg
call print
jmps lockup
print: push ax
push bx
mov ah, 0x0E
xor bx, bx
or al, al
jz
int 0x10
jmps
pop ax
ret
lockup:
hlt
jmps lockup
errmsg: db 'Error reading boot sector. System halted.', 0
pad: times 510-($-$$) db 0x00
magic: dw 0xAA55
This was rather pretty code, but you see what is left after HTML-ization and pleasing the lameness filter. You might want to double-check that this works, but it looks good to me. Save this to bootsect.asm. Get NASM and use it to assemble bootsect.asm into whatever boot-sector you need. Make sure to change the definition of DRIVE to match the BIOS drive number you want the boot sector to boot from. Assemble with this command:
nasmw -f bin bootsect.asm -o bootsect.hd0
The final step is updating NT's boot.ini file. Here is a sample one; you figure it out.
[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT="Window
C:\bootsect.hd0="Boot from hard drive 0"
C:\bootsect.hd1="Boot from hard drive 1"
C:\bootsect.hd2="Boot from hard drive 2"
C:\bootsect.hd3="Boot from hard drive 3"
C:\bootsect.fd0="Boot from floppy drive 0"
C:\bootsect.fd1="Boot from floppy drive 1"
Hope that helps someone out there.
Until we invent computers with an infinite amount of memory, I don't think it will be possible to track all of Visual SourceSafe's bugs. You might want to think of another solution to your problem.
Sorry, I'm feeling ornery today and I could not resist!
PayPal is not a bank. Hear it straight from the horse's mouth:
(i) PayPal is not a bank and the Service is a payment processing service rather than a banking service, and (ii) PayPal is not acting as a trustee, fiduciary or escrow with respect to your funds, but is acting only as an agent and custodian.
Just do a quick check on eBAY for the number of auctions that only accept payment through paypal.
Indeed. In my auctions, I accept payment via PayPal and money orders. Of the several hundred auctions I have run this year, I've had about 10 people pay with a money order. The rest paid with PayPal.
PayPal's a great service. A while back, I bought 1K plat of Everquest money on eBay. Thanks to PayPal and the fact that the goods were deliverable online, the entire transaction from auction close to delivery of goods took 38 minutes.
They also have plans for a 250kW unit.
I for one am very happy to see fuel cell technology being made available to the consumer. I'm guessing that the cost per kilowatt-hour of juice generated by one of these fuel cells would be less than that of juice from the electric company. Am I right?
I hope so, because I've got a big VAX in the garage. It turns me on, and I'd like to do the same for it. A fuel cell seems like it would be cleaner solution on many levels as opposed to having the electric company bring in a three-phase industrial power feed.
In the ZDNet article:
along comes a new one that substantially outperforms what went before
What the hell has he been smoking? I want some!
One of these routes will cost you $1000+, the other will cost you $0.00+
Indeed. People get so caught up in the free-as-in-speech aspect of OSS/FS that they tend to forget about the implications of the free-as-in-beer aspect. Because such qulity software is available at no charge, I am open to educational opportunities that otherwise would be out of my financial reach.
An interesting note: when I submitted the article, my last sentence was "Please, no Microsoft 'technologies'.". While I'm quite pleased that my article got accepted, I find it somewhat ironic that this part was censored by people who speak out against censorship.
Well, if all this is happening, then I can kiss my beloved Robotech bye-bye. Why, in one episode alone ("Force of Arms"), the death toll is in the tens or hundreds of billions. In that episode, both Earth and the Zentraedi Main Fleet (4.8 million ships) are destroyed. How this can inspire terrorism is beyond me, but now I'm waiting for the shit to hit the fan...
There's still a problem with using 4 digits. When the year becomes 10000 you'll need 5 digits. Oh wait, I think I'm beginning to feel enlightened...
The previous text was a special presentation by a sarcastic asshole.
I live in Oklahoma, so I guess that I'm a hillbilly by your reasoning. What must be very embarassing to you is that I have better English skills! For instance, had I written your comment (i.e., had your comment been written in correct Engish), it would have looked like this:
News for Hillbillies. Stuff That's Inbred.
Note the following:
I hope this experience has been an educational one for you. I'm just glad I could help.
http://curl.haxx.se/
With the Slashdot Effect you've now brought upon the classic computer market, the market will soon be gone thanks to everyone selling and no one buying. Thank you Slashdot.
I'm a FreeBSD nut. When a new release comes out, they always make an ISO image of the first CD (the only one that most people use) in the set available for download. If my target machine has a fast connection to the net, I just install by FTP. If not, I download and burn the ISO image and install from it.
A week or two later, the CD set arrives in the mail. I've got a subscription set up where they automatically bill me and send me a CD set when a new release comes out. This serves to get money donated to people who help FreeBSD.
In my opinion, I spend $0 on my Unix.
--
SecretAsianMan (54.5% Slashdot pure)
Fish tank macs. Clock macs. VAX bars. Ha.
Just one small bit of advice to you little neo-yuppie punks who think that when you mutilate and destroy a classic computer to build a fish tank, refrigerator, submarine, petting zoo, etc...
You're not creating a historic or collectable item; you're destroying one. If you find yourself talking to a classic computer collector, *do*not* brag about your penchant for destruction. It may cost you your life. IOW, we don't really like you people!