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I think not.. I have been using Open Office to read Excel spreadsheets on Win and FreeBSD all day, and Adobe's Acroreader runs fine on my FreeBSD desktop - it may not be open, but its free as in beer!
Last year, we upgraded to a Lexmark T620. It died three days after the warantee expired, so we got the 3d back off the shelf, and its still going fine.
I still use pc-file version 1.0 (C) 1986 for the family address book. Being written for a 4.7MHz pc, its very fast on my "modern" 120 MHz laptop!
I also play "Colossal Cave" on my FreeBSD machine.While the version I run was probably compiled a few months ago, the game itself dates from the 1960's, and was reputedly the second ever computer game ("Lunar Landings" being the first).
I heard it while driving around in France - that made it even better. Its ten times wierder listening to a wierd English thing on a car radio in France.
I would have liked more variety in the voices though. They all seemed to similar.
I had an 11/70 - it ran of three phase 415 volts, and took 20amps - more if you spun up several disks at once (not recommnded). Even the 11/60 needed 3-phase.
The big deal about GCC wasnt having a free/cheap C compiler - I am pretty sure we had free C compilers more than 20 years ago - or nearly free, or even open-source, as Decus membership provided access to this kind of thing. The big deal about GCC is portability and GPL.
For those who dont know - Decus - the DEC user group, circulated source code of software developed by members. Almost all software was distributed as source before Microsoft. You compiled it for your own hardware. The Decus code ranged from the original computer games - Colossal Cave, and Lunar Landings, to complete operating systems, and compilers. I personally used a Decus Pascal compiler, and I vaguely remember trying a C compiler. This was pre-VAX.
You paid for Decus membership, and you paid for the tapes. Most code was free.
Decus provided unofficial patches for DEC operating systems and device drivers, many of which were ESSENTIAL.
When SCO CEO Darl McBride wrote his open letter last week, he seemed to indicate a hope there could be a viable future partnership between his company and Linux.
There is: The Linux community sticks a picture of Darl to the toilet wall, and throw darts at it. That's a partnership isn't it? (Maybe not Darl's idea of a partnership, but it hard to tell, given his approach to date.)
A high IQ is obviously no help in solving problems.
The energy from a base station is limited to around 100W IF ALL CHANNELS ARE AT MAXIMUM POWER. This is a highly improbable senario. Typical power, AS MEASURED IN REAL LIFE is about 0.1W. Since microwaves are similar to those from a bar fire - the effect on a bystander is approx 1/1000 that of a bar fire at a similar distance. Think of how close you normally sit to a bar fire in winter. (assuming you live in a country which has winter - if not, the sun definitely delivers more power at the same wavelength for much of the day.)
Dont even bother. UK driving laws are largely about extracting cash from motorists so the govt can squander it.
Pandering to their contol mania is just an extra bonus.
Yes I was stopped for driving in a bus lane because I crossed the bus lane to buy fuel at a Texaco station! (But they dropped the charges when they realised Texaco might actually pay my defence costs).
DOnt bother trying - the technology was in use in the 1970s, for audio tape. In fact it was patented by Tandberg Data A/S (Dansk, I think). It was such a success, that Ampex (USA) copied it and got sued. I believe that. Leevers-Rich (Schweiss) also used the technology under licence AFAICR. I believe it was also used for data recording, but cannot name any companies doing it.
In my family - and I live in the UK and shop at Tescos (sometimes), its normal for one person to push the trolley op the main aisle carrying a shopping list, while another - or possibly several kids - goes to the shelves and collectsd individual items. It is not normal to BUY Gillette blade however - they are so expensive that no normal person would buy them - hardly surprising that the majority are shoplifted!
Maybe if they dropped the price, they would get more sales and less theft! - and it would save the cost of all those RFID tags and video cameras. Technology wont fix a flawed business plan.
Gillette blades are highly valued because being clean shaven is clear evidence that you do not support Bin Laden and are not a Muslim Extremeist.
Obviously, by using the RFID/Video technology, the FBI will be able to compile a database of all the clean-cut Americans that are not Muslim extremeists.
So get down to Tescos and have your picture taken NOW, or you may be extradited to Guantanamo Bay in real quick time!
If it were up to me, Id say skip the investigation, and just shoot them.
Anyway how is this going to affect Spammers in Sierra Leone of other places were far more hideous crimes happen on a daily basis? Some people's priorities are very dubious as well as their methods misguided.
While the Monty Python sketch may have inspired the use of the term, the Monty Python usage was in fact a rehash of a sketch by Peter Sellers, dating back to the 1950's which referred to the wartime situation where Cafe's often had fancy things on the Menu, but when you came to order, the item in question was not available.
The sketch is to be found on the album "The Bset of Sellers" - probably released in about 1958, and which also features the nursery rhyme
"Up on the chair behind the door,
hey diddle, diddle,
Hear comes Poppa
so up with the chopper
and split 'im down the middle
And "Balham, gateway to the South" a spoof of the travalogue films that often apepared in the cenema at the time.
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I think not .. I have been using Open Office to read Excel spreadsheets on Win and FreeBSD all day, and Adobe's Acroreader runs fine on my FreeBSD desktop - it may not be open, but its free as in beer!
Mr Elmer FUD you are wong about them wabbits.
It was probably a container loaded with CDs going by truck.
Last year, we upgraded to a Lexmark T620. It died three days after the warantee expired, so we got the 3d back off the shelf, and its still going fine.
We also have a Laserjet 5M.
Darn these new fangled, pesky critters
I also play "Colossal Cave" on my FreeBSD machine.While the version I run was probably compiled a few months ago, the game itself dates from the 1960's, and was reputedly the second ever computer game ("Lunar Landings" being the first).
The answer is well known -
Windows can expand at least as fast as hard drives, and
almost every GPL'd app now depends on all the other software ever released under GPL.This also leads to exponential increases in HD requirements.
I heard it while driving around in France - that made it even better. Its ten times wierder listening to a wierd English thing on a car radio in France.
I would have liked more variety in the voices though. They all seemed to similar.
If you ever find the answer to this, mail it to me on the back of a $50 bill
And 11/23, on the other hand ...
The big deal about GCC wasnt having a free/cheap C compiler - I am pretty sure we had free C compilers more than 20 years ago - or nearly free, or even open-source, as Decus membership provided access to this kind of thing. The big deal about GCC is portability and GPL.
For those who dont know - Decus - the DEC user group, circulated source code of software developed by members. Almost all software was distributed as source before Microsoft. You compiled it for your own hardware. The Decus code ranged from the original computer games - Colossal Cave, and Lunar Landings, to complete operating systems, and compilers. I personally used a Decus Pascal compiler, and I vaguely remember trying a C compiler. This was pre-VAX.
You paid for Decus membership, and you paid for the tapes. Most code was free.
Decus provided unofficial patches for DEC operating systems and device drivers, many of which were ESSENTIAL.
There is: The Linux community sticks a picture of Darl to the toilet wall, and throw darts at it. That's a partnership isn't it? (Maybe not Darl's idea of a partnership, but it hard to tell, given his approach to date.)
The energy from a base station is limited to around 100W IF ALL CHANNELS ARE AT MAXIMUM POWER. This is a highly improbable senario. Typical power, AS MEASURED IN REAL LIFE is about 0.1W. Since microwaves are similar to those from a bar fire - the effect on a bystander is approx 1/1000 that of a bar fire at a similar distance. Think of how close you normally sit to a bar fire in winter. (assuming you live in a country which has winter - if not, the sun definitely delivers more power at the same wavelength for much of the day.)
Not if Blair can avoid it.
I bet he has a copy of "Attilla the Hun's management techniques" on his desk AND another in the loo.
Pandering to their contol mania is just an extra bonus.
Yes I was stopped for driving in a bus lane because I crossed the bus lane to buy fuel at a Texaco station! (But they dropped the charges when they realised Texaco might actually pay my defence costs).
If it can be made, it can be faked.
However, prople may be more willing to believe an electronic fake than an analogue one - so watch out for the new generation of mega-scams(TM)
Maybe if they dropped the price, they would get more sales and less theft! - and it would save the cost of all those RFID tags and video cameras. Technology wont fix a flawed business plan.
Obviously, by using the RFID/Video technology, the FBI will be able to compile a database of all the clean-cut Americans that are not Muslim extremeists.
So get down to Tescos and have your picture taken NOW, or you may be extradited to Guantanamo Bay in real quick time!
Spammers need to be declared to be in league with Bin Laden, and splatted.
OTOH, have you ever tried to get support from MS?
Reformat the HD, and reinstall Windows - that will cure it
or from our corporate supplier of IT kit
After a while, Window wears out, and you have to install a new version
If it were up to me, Id say skip the investigation, and just shoot them.
Anyway how is this going to affect Spammers in Sierra Leone of other places were far more hideous crimes happen on a daily basis? Some people's priorities are very dubious as well as their methods misguided.
The sketch is to be found on the album "The Bset of Sellers" - probably released in about 1958, and which also features the nursery rhyme
"Up on the chair behind the door,
hey diddle, diddle,
Hear comes Poppa
so up with the chopper
and split 'im down the middle
And "Balham, gateway to the South" a spoof of the travalogue films that often apepared in the cenema at the time.