When you say external do you mean in another box sitting right next to the first box or somewhere that will still be in good and working shape after a fire has destroyed everything in the room where the frst box is now a slag heap, or a tornado has moved that room and the building of which it was part down the street a few hundred yards?
On the IBM PC-XT the ISA slot farthest to the right when viewed from the front (closest to the keyboard socket and the power supply) is wired a little differently from the others. A connection that is undefined on the other slots is, on slot 8, called "card selected", and if not activated by the card in slot 8, system board drivers ignore that slot. One of the uses for that slot was a card that allowed connecting an expansion chassis, which was sort of like another computer case with a motherboard that only had more ISA slots. If a regular card isn't specifically designed to work in slot 8 (usually needs a jumper setting changed), the card won't work 'cause the computer won't get the signal to connect slot 8 to the ISA bus. Most hardcards (an ISA card with a hard drive mounted right on the card along with controller circuitry) weren't designed with the extra circuitry needed to work in slot 8, so they wouldn't work there, so it would be unlikely that he would have left his hardcard in that slot:-)
You aren't quoting God there, you're quoting Paul. The guy who had so many "issues" with sex that he thought you shouldn't even do it with the person to whom you're married.
Check the quillmouse.com link in the article. There's a picture of both kinds, left and right. In fact, the left hand one is in the front of the picture and had me thinking for a moment that one had to click the buttons with one's knuckles until I realised it was a photo of two different models. Perhaps they need to stamp a big "L" or "R" on them for folks like you and me.
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"Of course, it's madness that neither CDs or DVDs come in cartridges."
Amen, brother. Imagine how short the career of the 3.5 floppy would have been if they hadn't put them in those plastic things with the sliding shutter but just gave you the oxide coated doughnut. Imagine how much less of a pain to use CDs would be if they came enclosed in something along those lines. You could print the cover art right on them, you could accomodate increased densities and backwards compatibility with various notches and sliders, etc. But of course the CD started with the record industry (RIAA) and the idea of saving you from having to buy another copy of something because the first one got scratched is nothing short of the most heretical blasphemy to them.
If the local paper won't run your ad you're free to start your own paper, and if enough consumers consider your paper more worthy of their purchase than the other you'll have the satisfaction of having run them out of business. Publishing your newspaper won't use any limited public resources in such a way as to prevent anybody else from publishing their newspaper. A community can have as many newspapers as it can financially support, just as it can have as many plumbers, lawyers, private music instructors, CPAs, hardware stores, used car lots, etc.
But that's newspapers and such. This is a municipal franchise granted to a cable company, and apparently as long as they hold it nobody else can operate a cable company in the same geographical area. This means that, unlike a newspaper, they have a monopoly. The city council or whoever that granted them that monopoly should have taken steps to prevent them from abusing that monopoly but if they didn't make provision to review the granting of that franchise until 14 years from now they're likely inept or corrupt or both.
Oh be kind to your webfooted friends, for a duck may be somebody's mother She lives in a creek by a swamp, where the weather is very, very damp Now you make think that this is the end, but it isn't for there is another chorus...
'Twas midnight on the ocean, not a streetcar was in sight The sun was shining brightly in the middle of the night A barefoot boy with shoes on stood sitting in a tree, And as I put my glasses on I heard this melody
Oh be kind to your webfooted friends, for a duck may be somebody's mother She lives in a creek by a swamp, where the weather is very, very damp Now you make think that this is the end, Well it is!
Little "c" communism may or may not allow or even be connected with a church or churches. Some early Christian groups were communist in the sense of living communally. The very idea "To each according to his needs, from each according to his abilities" is fairly compatible with principles of Christian charity, although human nature is always the fly in the ointment that neccesitates the force of the state to make everybody take only what they need and not slack off on what they contribute.
Big "C" Communism included a belief in the non-existance of God no matter what you call him (or her), but went even further, not only because religion is often used by those who control resources and means of production to keep the workers from getting too "uppity", but because under big "C" Communism the state (that is, the party) was the church and the religion. The idea that they were going to bring about paradise on earth once they had the entire world on board is how they justified the exploitation and/or slaughter of non-believers, insufficiently worshipful believers, or anyone else who was handy or inconvenient.
My personal philosophy is that any God that needs followers to handle the dirty work of killing the non-believers instead of doing it himself is obviously not powerful enough to really be God, and any God (including a non-God God such as the Marxist-Leninist state) that can't achieve a monopoly on followers just by being obviously superior to any alternatives instead of needing to have the faithful use force to convert the non-believers has too many flaws to really be God.
That's because the dust left in it has been embedded into a bunch of dark little places inot which you can't see, like inside floppy and CD drives, into bus slots and RAM sockets, etc.
If you reverse mount the fan so that it blows outside air into the case so as to raise the air pressure inside the case relative to the air pressure outside, that'll help to keep dust from entering the case anywhere except at the fan's intake. Put a good filter in front of that intake. Clean or replace it frequently. If your case has provision for an extra fan that can be mounted to blow air in from the outside with a (regularly cleaned or replaced) filter mounted in front of its intake, do that as well because your power supply fan is now having to work harder sucking in outside air through its filter which means a reduction in its airflow which means less cooling than before.
"After a month wrapped in saran wrap, if you don't notice a drastic decrease in dust..."(or at least a lot more people approaching you for kinky stuff...)
You won't be able to notice any change in dust level because the humidity in your exhaled breath will condense on the inside of the wrap and obscure your vision.
Electromotive force is roughly (very roughly) analogous to water pressure and the current flow is (again, roughly) analogous to the flow of water (like gallons per minute instead of Coulombs per second). However the force which causes the electrical current to flow is not the same thing as the electromagnetic field generated by that current flow.
Voltage applied across a conductive path forces electrons into one end of the path and attracts them out of the other end. An individual electron may very well travel from one end to the other at a lot slower rate than lightspeed but the effect of one electron entering the path and pushing away another due to the repulsion of like charges, and that one pushing another one which pushes another one..., that effect, combined with the attraction of an opposite charge at the other end, causes this "ripple" to move from one end of the conductive path to the other at a rate close to lightspeed.
If you had some magical superconductive wire that would let enough current flow through 186,000 miles of it to light a flashlight bulb off of a flashlight battery, hooking up the battery in series with a switch and a bulb and that long long wire (spread out in as big a circle as possible when you bring the 2 ends close together) and then turning on the switch should cause the bulb to light up in just a little over a second.
If the telco's equipment has been sitting in your company's property all this time, has it been hooked up to your company's electrical system? Has your company been paying for the electricity to run it all this time? If the telco has a seperate meter and service enterance, is this allowed under local electrical codes? What happens when you have an electrical fire, pull your meter to disconnect the building from the grid, and a fireman gets electrocuted by the phone company's connection to the grid? Will your company's liability insurance cover the lawsuit?
Your company's lawyer needs to have a word with the telco. A very nasty word.
Sprint bought a big chunk of Earthlink stock back around '98, and some more later on I think, but about 2 weeks ago Earthlink started buying back about half of Sprint's holdings and apparently has more money set aside for further buybacks, although I'm not sure if it will be from Sprint or just on the open market.
Just when I was thinking that Earhtlink (which swallowed up my local dial-up a few months ago) might put some pressure on Sprint (which swallowed up Carolina Tel. and Tel. a few years back) to finally offer DSL here where I live only 2 blocks from a recently built telco switching station. But then again, since the only ISP not owned by AOL Time Warner available over local cable monopoly Time Warner is Earthlink, maybe Earthlink was afraid of being bumped off of the cable system if they tried to get DSL available around here. Aren't monopolies great?
Doesn't that mean that when you leave the house you either have to leave the cell phone there or if you take it with you the wired phones in the house are now either paperweights or at best an intercom with no way to connect to the rest of the world?
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When you say external do you mean in another box sitting right next to the first box or somewhere that will still be in good and working shape after a fire has destroyed everything in the room where the frst box is now a slag heap, or a tornado has moved that room and the building of which it was part down the street a few hundred yards?
Isn't there also a part of London, England known as Soho?
On the IBM PC-XT the ISA slot farthest to the right when viewed from the front (closest to the keyboard socket and the power supply) is wired a little differently from the others. A connection that is undefined on the other slots is, on slot 8, called "card selected", and if not activated by the card in slot 8, system board drivers ignore that slot. One of the uses for that slot was a card that allowed connecting an expansion chassis, which was sort of like another computer case with a motherboard that only had more ISA slots. If a regular card isn't specifically designed to work in slot 8 (usually needs a jumper setting changed), the card won't work 'cause the computer won't get the signal to connect slot 8 to the ISA bus. Most hardcards (an ISA card with a hard drive mounted right on the card along with controller circuitry) weren't designed with the extra circuitry needed to work in slot 8, so they wouldn't work there, so it would be unlikely that he would have left his hardcard in that slot :-)
And, were I a lesser person, I'd speculate as to what you might have been doing with that left hand to cause that poor vision :-)
Well, when I see the initials I.E., I naturally think of the tendency of Internet Explorer to randomly self-destruct.
You aren't quoting God there, you're quoting Paul. The guy who had so many "issues" with sex that he thought you shouldn't even do it with the person to whom you're married.
Check the quillmouse.com link in the article. There's a picture of both kinds, left and right. In fact, the left hand one is in the front of the picture and had me thinking for a moment that one had to click the buttons with one's knuckles until I realised it was a photo of two different models. Perhaps they need to stamp a big "L" or "R" on them for folks like you and me.
Perhaps you unknowingly spoke truth.
Amen, brother. Imagine how short the career of the 3.5 floppy would have been if they hadn't put them in those plastic things with the sliding shutter but just gave you the oxide coated doughnut. Imagine how much less of a pain to use CDs would be if they came enclosed in something along those lines. You could print the cover art right on them, you could accomodate increased densities and backwards compatibility with various notches and sliders, etc. But of course the CD started with the record industry (RIAA) and the idea of saving you from having to buy another copy of something because the first one got scratched is nothing short of the most heretical blasphemy to them.
But that's newspapers and such. This is a municipal franchise granted to a cable company, and apparently as long as they hold it nobody else can operate a cable company in the same geographical area. This means that, unlike a newspaper, they have a monopoly. The city council or whoever that granted them that monopoly should have taken steps to prevent them from abusing that monopoly but if they didn't make provision to review the granting of that franchise until 14 years from now they're likely inept or corrupt or both.
for a duck may be somebody's mother
She lives in a creek by a swamp,
where the weather is very, very damp
Now you make think that this is the end,
but it isn't for there is another chorus...
'Twas midnight on the ocean, not a streetcar was in sight
The sun was shining brightly in the middle of the night
A barefoot boy with shoes on stood sitting in a tree,
And as I put my glasses on I heard this melody
Oh be kind to your webfooted friends,
for a duck may be somebody's mother
She lives in a creek by a swamp,
where the weather is very, very damp
Now you make think that this is the end,
Well it is!
Who says time spent at Boy Scout camp was wasted?
You're obviously confusing it with Darth Ashcroft.
Little "c" communism may or may not allow or even be connected with a church or churches. Some early Christian groups were communist in the sense of living communally. The very idea "To each according to his needs, from each according to his abilities" is fairly compatible with principles of Christian charity, although human nature is always the fly in the ointment that neccesitates the force of the state to make everybody take only what they need and not slack off on what they contribute.
Big "C" Communism included a belief in the non-existance of God no matter what you call him (or her), but went even further, not only because religion is often used by those who control resources and means of production to keep the workers from getting too "uppity", but because under big "C" Communism the state (that is, the party) was the church and the religion. The idea that they were going to bring about paradise on earth once they had the entire world on board is how they justified the exploitation and/or slaughter of non-believers, insufficiently worshipful believers, or anyone else who was handy or inconvenient.
My personal philosophy is that any God that needs followers to handle the dirty work of killing the non-believers instead of doing it himself is obviously not powerful enough to really be God, and any God (including a non-God God such as the Marxist-Leninist state) that can't achieve a monopoly on followers just by being obviously superior to any alternatives instead of needing to have the faithful use force to convert the non-believers has too many flaws to really be God.
After a comment like that I was expecting a different kind of link to a different kind of inspiration :-)
That's because the dust left in it has been embedded into a bunch of dark little places inot which you can't see, like inside floppy and CD drives, into bus slots and RAM sockets, etc.
Catching on to that was an exercise left for the reader.
You can power the drives with old AT power supplies which can be had a lot cheaper than ATX supplies these days.
If you reverse mount the fan so that it blows outside air into the case so as to raise the air pressure inside the case relative to the air pressure outside, that'll help to keep dust from entering the case anywhere except at the fan's intake. Put a good filter in front of that intake. Clean or replace it frequently. If your case has provision for an extra fan that can be mounted to blow air in from the outside with a (regularly cleaned or replaced) filter mounted in front of its intake, do that as well because your power supply fan is now having to work harder sucking in outside air through its filter which means a reduction in its airflow which means less cooling than before.
It also works wonders at forcing dust particles into things. Use a vacuum cleaner and a small paintbrush.
You won't be able to notice any change in dust level because the humidity in your exhaled breath will condense on the inside of the wrap and obscure your vision.
Voltage applied across a conductive path forces electrons into one end of the path and attracts them out of the other end. An individual electron may very well travel from one end to the other at a lot slower rate than lightspeed but the effect of one electron entering the path and pushing away another due to the repulsion of like charges, and that one pushing another one which pushes another one..., that effect, combined with the attraction of an opposite charge at the other end, causes this "ripple" to move from one end of the conductive path to the other at a rate close to lightspeed.
If you had some magical superconductive wire that would let enough current flow through 186,000 miles of it to light a flashlight bulb off of a flashlight battery, hooking up the battery in series with a switch and a bulb and that long long wire (spread out in as big a circle as possible when you bring the 2 ends close together) and then turning on the switch should cause the bulb to light up in just a little over a second.
I'm not sure how comfortable I'd be being still tied to a contract that was no longer the contract which I had signed.
Your company's lawyer needs to have a word with the telco. A very nasty word.
Just when I was thinking that Earhtlink (which swallowed up my local dial-up a few months ago) might put some pressure on Sprint (which swallowed up Carolina Tel. and Tel. a few years back) to finally offer DSL here where I live only 2 blocks from a recently built telco switching station. But then again, since the only ISP not owned by AOL Time Warner available over local cable monopoly Time Warner is Earthlink, maybe Earthlink was afraid of being bumped off of the cable system if they tried to get DSL available around here. Aren't monopolies great?
Doesn't that mean that when you leave the house you either have to leave the cell phone there or if you take it with you the wired phones in the house are now either paperweights or at best an intercom with no way to connect to the rest of the world?