Does anybody know how to find it? It is quite easy to look up such thing on Polish Parlament WWW and I am used to it but European Parlament seems to be less open.
First it is history. My machines: about 1981 - HP 25, then ZX 81, ZX Spectrum, PC XT with DOS. On some i386 I started to use DesqView (with Remote Access BBS and ka9q - a system of itself and with DOS window in foreground for other lusers). Windows were out of question at this time - to primitive. In 1992 ka9q was really something elegant and convenient. I had access to some Suns but did not know that they are similar to ka9q..., or reverse, or even better. I started to use Usenet and installed Linux. Unfortunately it did not have DOS emulator yet so I had to stay with DesqView and play with Internet connected SCO, then with SunOS and CrayOS. At the end of 1992 I finally could set up a Linux-only machine and start to learn it by installing all kinds of software. That was it! Just Unix - at this time I knew what it was.
In 1995-1997 I was working for one of the first Polish providers and had to install Internet software on Windows and Macintosh. I learned Windows 95 a little and it was not a nice experience. We have made software packages but installing them still needed a lot of clicking, configuring even more + reboots. Macintosh was even worse. I had to use it as a terminal for some time before but still installing Internet programs by myself was a tedious task. Fortunately my customer (BTW an American) was patient enough.
I was using Slackware, switched to RedHat after a half year break in security patches, tried Debian but the installer was too complicated. I did not consider switching to Windows seriously (once at the beginning we - that provider - were talking about SCO but they stopped when I said that in such case I would go away). Maybe it would be possible to run a server with several modems, terminals, e-mail, WWW, FTP, UUCP etc. on Windows but I did not try. I do not think it was a mistake.
> You do realize that ATA-133 has essentially 0
> advantage over ATA-100 don't you.
With ATA-100 only 128 GB are available. BTW: could anybody post list of disk sizes limits like this. I will get z 3.2 GB array soon and got to know that UFS below Solaris v. 0.9 can handle only 1 TB partitions/files. Newer versions - 16 TB partitions, 1 TB files. There is also some old Wide SCSI limit maybe, I am not sure yet.
VoA is not the only station people can listen to on HF. There is A LOT of
English language stations. And in may other languges too. Just now I listen to
Radio Liberty in Russian, see www.svoboda.org. It is one of the best
stations I can find anywhere. Polish Section of RFE would be quite good too but
unfortunatley it was the only section of RFE/RL (www.rferl.org) which completely ceased
operation in 1996. In Radio Liberty I have a lot of information about politics
and culture in the world and in Russia. Not much about my country but I am
interested anyway and Russia is a very important and interesting country for
me. Svoboda gives unbiased news e.g. about Chechnia in a style far from black
propaganda of Radio Moscow. On the UHF in Warsaw there are practically only
music stations. Some stations have few hours of political news sometimes,
usually still mixed with music. When I randomly switch Svoboda on I have much
over 50% chance to find something interesting. It would a pity to have Liberty
jammed again, today by some PLC. I tested one PLC solution recently. It would
be difficult or impossible to listen do Radio Liberty in a building where
somebody uses such connections. They use Internet for their broadcasts too but
it is not practical for many listeners.
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Does anybody know how to find it? It is quite easy to look up such thing on Polish Parlament WWW and I am used to it but European Parlament seems to be less open.
First it is history. My machines: about 1981 - HP 25, then ZX 81, ZX Spectrum, PC XT with DOS. On some i386 I started to use DesqView (with Remote Access BBS and ka9q - a system of itself and with DOS window in foreground for other lusers). Windows were out of question at this time - to primitive. In 1992 ka9q was really something elegant and convenient. I had access to some Suns but did not know that they are similar to ka9q..., or reverse, or even better. I started to use Usenet and installed Linux. Unfortunately it did not have DOS emulator yet so I had to stay with DesqView and play with Internet connected SCO, then with SunOS and CrayOS. At the end of 1992 I finally could set up a Linux-only machine and start to learn it by installing all kinds of software. That was it! Just Unix - at this time I knew what it was.
In 1995-1997 I was working for one of the first Polish providers and had to install Internet software on Windows and Macintosh. I learned Windows 95 a little and it was not a nice experience. We have made software packages but installing them still needed a lot of clicking, configuring even more + reboots. Macintosh was even worse. I had to use it as a terminal for some time before but still installing Internet programs by myself was a tedious task. Fortunately my customer (BTW an American) was patient enough.
I was using Slackware, switched to RedHat after a half year break in security patches, tried Debian but the installer was too complicated. I did not consider switching to Windows seriously (once at the beginning we - that provider - were talking about SCO but they stopped when I said that in such case I would go away). Maybe it would be possible to run a server with several modems, terminals, e-mail, WWW, FTP, UUCP etc. on Windows but I did not try. I do not think it was a mistake.
> You do realize that ATA-133 has essentially 0 > advantage over ATA-100 don't you. With ATA-100 only 128 GB are available. BTW: could anybody post list of disk sizes limits like this. I will get z 3.2 GB array soon and got to know that UFS below Solaris v. 0.9 can handle only 1 TB partitions/files. Newer versions - 16 TB partitions, 1 TB files. There is also some old Wide SCSI limit maybe, I am not sure yet.
VoA is not the only station people can listen to on HF. There is A LOT of English language stations. And in may other languges too. Just now I listen to Radio Liberty in Russian, see www.svoboda.org. It is one of the best stations I can find anywhere. Polish Section of RFE would be quite good too but unfortunatley it was the only section of RFE/RL (www.rferl.org) which completely ceased operation in 1996. In Radio Liberty I have a lot of information about politics and culture in the world and in Russia. Not much about my country but I am interested anyway and Russia is a very important and interesting country for me. Svoboda gives unbiased news e.g. about Chechnia in a style far from black propaganda of Radio Moscow. On the UHF in Warsaw there are practically only music stations. Some stations have few hours of political news sometimes, usually still mixed with music. When I randomly switch Svoboda on I have much over 50% chance to find something interesting. It would a pity to have Liberty jammed again, today by some PLC. I tested one PLC solution recently. It would be difficult or impossible to listen do Radio Liberty in a building where somebody uses such connections. They use Internet for their broadcasts too but it is not practical for many listeners.