Nice to see someone else who knows about Major Armstrong and that it wasn't just Farnsworth that got screwed over by "General" Sarnoff. A good biography of Armstrong (if you haven't read it yet and can find an old copy somewhere) is "Man of High Fidelity" by Lawrence Lessing.
Your spalling (v. tr. To break up into chips or fragments., v. intr. To chip or crumble.) probably doesn't need any work but your spelling might be able to stand some improvement.
They're basically the same thing as the terminators for 10Base2 except that they're "F" connectors instead of BNC and 75 Ohm instead of 50. Don't pay more than $1 apiece. Radio Shack or anyplace that sells do it yourself cable stuff (splitters, coax, etc) should have them. You can install them when you go up there to adjust the thermostat on your attic fan to make it come on at a lower temp. (I'm in Eastern NC, I'll see your heat and raise you humidity:-) )
Think of coax as the capacitor and the inductor and a series resistance, and then get yourself some 75 ohm terminators for those unused taps. Even the ones from Radio Shack work.
Why didn't he report it to the local police? I'm sure this counts as receipt of stolen goods, not to mention qualifying as stealing the goods in the first place. If somebody stole my credit card info I'd have no problem whatever seeing them checked into the crossbar hotel.
Of all the books that I've read and avoided re-reading Arslan ranks right up there with Catcher in the Rye and (Ballard's) Crash.
I seem to remember the name M. J. Engh in relation to some other book that I liked, but can't remember what it was. Maybe I'm confusing that name with Dean Ing, who wrote an interesting novel/how-to about post-nuclear war survival (pulling through, muddling through, something like that).
I'm not sure which makes me feel older, the ignorance of the past displayed by this post, the ignorance of the past diplayed by whoever moderated it as informative, or the fact that I remember when the Accutron first came out.
Somewhere back in the '80s Radio-Electronics had an article about making a satellite antenna out of plywood. I'm relying on rusty memeory here, but as I recall it was made out of concentric square or rectangular rings. I think I rememeber the article saying it could have been made out of circular ones but the woodworking would have been a lot more hassle. Maybe you could make one and tell the authorities that it's garden sculpture or something.
So instead go up there with a small tape recorder rigged to throw a puff of smoke and a tape with Carly saying "Should you or any of your team be captured of killed, the board of directors will disavow any knowledge of your actions.".
"Are they going to try to arrest all of these people?"
Perhaps you've noticed the recent discussion of modifying a certain Reconstruction-era law in order to allow the military to be used domestically for certain police functions?
Perhaps that was the long term reason for naming the internet browser the same as the file manager, so you'd think it was only the browser phoning home.
"...and my wife is too cheap to let me get a UPS..."
Is she to cheap to let you get life insurance? Medical? Comprehensive on the car? If not, explain to her that protection from data loss or not having to reboot after a power failure or glitch is just a fringe benefit, the real reason for the UPS is that it protects your expensive-to-replace electronic equipment from damage due to the electrical, thermal, and mechanical shock caused by glitchy power.
You can probably convince her that you need a second one for the TV and VCR.
For a moment I misread that as Internet Explorer having created a nonexistent file, and as I'm constantly mistaking IE for (File) Explorer (giving two different programs the same name may not be Gate's greatest sin, but it's right up near the top of the list) it came as no suprise to me that such a thing could happen.
I suggest that you go to the page I referenced and ask him yourself. How much are you paying for blank chips?
This guy sells programmed BIOS chips
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Congratulations on not feeding the landfill. To look into replacing the BIOS chip for about $20 go to http://www.tuxshield.com/BIOS_order.htm and use the email at the bottom of the page to contact the guy. This assumes that you don't have a flashable bios chip and replacement is the only way to go. Of course you could be like me and have an old Zeos 486 board that has a flashable bios but they went out of business before writing an updated bios that'll recognize anything over 528. Bummer.
It sounds as though you're trying to load the Linux CDs on a big hard drive, hook that drive up to the computer temporarily and load Linux on the machine's hard drive from the bigger drive instead of from a CD-ROM drive which you say the machine doesn't have. Consider temporarily installing a CD drive from some other machine and installing from that or temporarily installing a NIC from some other machine and installing via network.
If I can help you with hard drive questions, get in touch.
I got here a week or two before the Halloween papers came out (it was the weekend of the "JWZ is dead" backlash), and my ID is about one-fourth of you guys so that must have been about the time that Slashdot's audience size began burgeoning.
Just think, I enjoyed two or three pre Jon Katz weeks here. Of course it wasn't 'til Columbine that he really started bringing in the jerks.
I'm not sure if the Halloween papers should be on the timeline or not. They were a big deal at the time, but they aren't strictly any part of the development of Linux, just the reaction to it.
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Nice to see someone else who knows about Major Armstrong and that it wasn't just Farnsworth that got screwed over by "General" Sarnoff. A good biography of Armstrong (if you haven't read it yet and can find an old copy somewhere) is "Man of High Fidelity" by Lawrence Lessing.
See, you should have posted as DC.
If the commercials on cable are better where you are, broadcast in your area must be truly horrid.
Your spalling (v. tr. To break up into chips or fragments., v. intr. To chip or crumble.) probably doesn't need any work but your spelling might be able to stand some improvement.
They're basically the same thing as the terminators for 10Base2 except that they're "F" connectors instead of BNC and 75 Ohm instead of 50. Don't pay more than $1 apiece. Radio Shack or anyplace that sells do it yourself cable stuff (splitters, coax, etc) should have them. You can install them when you go up there to adjust the thermostat on your attic fan to make it come on at a lower temp. (I'm in Eastern NC, I'll see your heat and raise you humidity :-) )
Think of coax as the capacitor and the inductor and a series resistance, and then get yourself some 75 ohm terminators for those unused taps. Even the ones from Radio Shack work.
Why didn't he report it to the local police? I'm sure this counts as receipt of stolen goods, not to mention qualifying as stealing the goods in the first place. If somebody stole my credit card info I'd have no problem whatever seeing them checked into the crossbar hotel.
No, Atlas Shrugged qualifies as a very bad comic book script.
I seem to remember the name M. J. Engh in relation to some other book that I liked, but can't remember what it was. Maybe I'm confusing that name with Dean Ing, who wrote an interesting novel/how-to about post-nuclear war survival (pulling through, muddling through, something like that).
Anything by Tim Powers is worth reading.
I'm not sure which makes me feel older, the ignorance of the past displayed by this post, the ignorance of the past diplayed by whoever moderated it as informative, or the fact that I remember when the Accutron first came out.
Somewhere back in the '80s Radio-Electronics had an article about making a satellite antenna out of plywood. I'm relying on rusty memeory here, but as I recall it was made out of concentric square or rectangular rings. I think I rememeber the article saying it could have been made out of circular ones but the woodworking would have been a lot more hassle. Maybe you could make one and tell the authorities that it's garden sculpture or something.
If it's floppy it doesn't matter much that it's 8 inches, does it?
Nowadays shareholders own companies about like people own commercial software. You bought it, but someone else controls it.
So instead go up there with a small tape recorder rigged to throw a puff of smoke and a tape with Carly saying "Should you or any of your team be captured of killed, the board of directors will disavow any knowledge of your actions.".
Perhaps you've noticed the recent discussion of modifying a certain Reconstruction-era law in order to allow the military to be used domestically for certain police functions?
Perhaps that was the long term reason for naming the internet browser the same as the file manager, so you'd think it was only the browser phoning home.
Not according to the license.
And therein, some would say, lies the problem.
I don't mind copy con once in a while, but most always I much prefer browse to type. You cna probably find a copy on an old mouse driver disk.
Is she to cheap to let you get life insurance? Medical? Comprehensive on the car? If not, explain to her that protection from data loss or not having to reboot after a power failure or glitch is just a fringe benefit, the real reason for the UPS is that it protects your expensive-to-replace electronic equipment from damage due to the electrical, thermal, and mechanical shock caused by glitchy power.
You can probably convince her that you need a second one for the TV and VCR.
For a moment I misread that as Internet Explorer having created a nonexistent file, and as I'm constantly mistaking IE for (File) Explorer (giving two different programs the same name may not be Gate's greatest sin, but it's right up near the top of the list) it came as no suprise to me that such a thing could happen.
Apparently one man's irony is another man's flamebait.
I suggest that you go to the page I referenced and ask him yourself. How much are you paying for blank chips?
It sounds as though you're trying to load the Linux CDs on a big hard drive, hook that drive up to the computer temporarily and load Linux on the machine's hard drive from the bigger drive instead of from a CD-ROM drive which you say the machine doesn't have. Consider temporarily installing a CD drive from some other machine and installing from that or temporarily installing a NIC from some other machine and installing via network.
If I can help you with hard drive questions, get in touch.
Just think, I enjoyed two or three pre Jon Katz weeks here. Of course it wasn't 'til Columbine that he really started bringing in the jerks.
I'm not sure if the Halloween papers should be on the timeline or not. They were a big deal at the time, but they aren't strictly any part of the development of Linux, just the reaction to it.