I can see using PDF if you need to include diagrams of a carburetor with the instructions on how to rebuild the carburetor, but unless you have to include screen shots, why shouldn't a list of command line interface commands and a brief explanation of what they are and what they do, (and please, please, please, an explanation of how they got named whatever name they have) be just a simple text file?
"All cables run in PVC-tubes about 50 cm below ground. A few main-tubes are absolutely full with cables, so unfortunately it isn't possible to install more cables in them..."
The only thing better than having more than enough conduit installed before the area where you are installing the conduit is covered over and made next to impossible to get to is to have way, way more than enough conduit installed.
When you say CD buffer do you mean something that temporarily stores bits and bytes, or something that physically abrades the surface of the underside of the disc?
So let me see if I've got this straight. The RIAA, hardware makers, and Congress conspiring together to hijack your wallet and an open source answer to MS Office deserve to be buried in a Slashback with something about web surfing from a bathroom?
Isn't that rather like saying that you believe abortion should be legal, but that no one should actually perform any because if some lunatic bombs them the people in the building next door might get hurt?
But if you enter the address (2312 West Farwell Drive) given in the NYT article into MapQuest's search box, it returns a map showing a location about 1500 ft. east of St Joseph's Hospital (no doubt the place where they invented baby aspirin).
Ah, mimeograph fluid. Long before we were old enough to realize that "getting high" had nothing to do with aviation, the next best thing to Weekly Reader day was taking a deep breath as the handouts went 'round.:-)
Filming and selling aren't necessarily all that separate. Harry Rheems got paid like $100 for a day's work asan actor on Deep Throat filmed out in California or somewhere, never got any royalties or per centage of the box office anywhere or a cut of the video tape sales, in other words he was basically a day laborer.
About 10 years later he's hauled into court (federal, I think) in Memphis or around there, even though he'd never been anywhere near there in his life, to stand trial for violating community standards.
Never heard how it turned out or if he ever recovered from the crushing legal bills, but wherever there's an ambitious prosecutor don't assume the existance of very many legal protections. Remember the old saying about a DA being able to get a Grand Jury to indict a ham sandwich.
Wasn't Microsoft one of those companies that used to address some bugs in their software by saying that it would be fixed in the next release? In other words, if SuperPackage Version 2.0 that you spent a lot of money for doesn't work right or if you upgraded to 2.3 to fix it and that broke something else, you should rush out and spend more money as soon as SuperPackage 3.0 hits the shelves in order to correct the problem 'cause you done got all the tender lovin' care you're gonna out of us 'til we get some more of your money.
It just occurred to me that a few suggestions on how to clear land mines could be the choices for the next Slashdot poll. I vote for the cowpoke. If he was involved in trying to fix Slashdot's server problems a while back, he already knows how to navigate a minefield.
On second thought, maybe the last choice in the list should be Anne Tomlinson.
I don't want MicroMachines. I want the regular size Hot Wheels. Well, actually, I don't want the cars, we're drowning in them, I want track. The 2 lane grey type that comes with the "Hot Wheels World" playsets. I need a lot more straight pieces, but Mattel doesn't sell that kind of track separately, you have to buy a set with some stupid building and there's always too many curves and not enough straights. And definitely not enough 45 and 30 degree curves and 4 way intersections and overpass supports and stuff like that. I want better buildings too. I guess what I really want is the facilities to manufacture my own plastic stuff. This is what happens when you have a nephew who thinks that you exist primarily to be one of his main playmates, your own childhood comes back to repossess you. And you get G.I. Joes and those Dragon brand cop figures for Christmas and your birthday. Have to keep all those at his house 'cause ours is full of Hot Wheels.
Yes I know all this is ridiculously off-topic, but maybe somebody knows where I can get some of that track. (Or a cheap injection molding system, with complete instructions.)
Please email me so that I can provide you with the URL of a site frequented by TV techs so that you can post this problem and see what theories they might have as to the cause. I'd very much like to see what they have to say. I prefer not to post the URL here because the last thing the site needs is a bunch of adolescent trolls from Slashdot.
You wouldn't happen to be able to post the model number of that RCA, would you? Did you remove the tape and get the set to respond to commands from the remote?
I was under the impression that the 4 partition limit was because they only allowed 2 bits for the partition number (0-3), though I don't know if that's an IDE thing or a BIOS thing or some of both, but it's about as appropriate these days as a 1Mb ceiling on RAM. And don't even get me started on the whole cylinder, head, sector thing, and all the hoops you have to jump through to get around those limitations.
I really hadn't planned to send you money via Paypal, carrier pigeon, or any other method, but it is an interesting link and worth checking out by anyone having any dealings with them, including contemplating getting in on their upcoming IPO (although I do think there may be some short term money to be made there).
"But please, don't toss your old computers into a landfill. Give them to me!"
Where do you think I get my stuff? (Hey, I've got a PC-XT and an Apple II I'm still planning to find uses for.)
But seriously, if you have a perfectly good Compaq case and power supply holding a 486 board and you find a good deal on a Gateway Socket 7 (or the other way around brand wise), it's really annoying that one's got the video jack where the other has the keyboard and mouse or vise versa and IBM, Dell, and HP also seem to play the almost but not quite compatible game as well, which means a lot of otherwise usable stuff doesn't make it to the end of it's working life before somebody gets tired of trying to pound square pegs into round holes and sets it aside to gather dust and goes out and spends more money. Even if you find what you need on eBay the addition of shipping costs run the price up to where you might as well buy something new from a local store where you can return it if it breaks.
I probably included PCI because of all the suffering I've done with Plug and Pray and the IRQ shuffle on PCI slots as well.
If they're going to bring out new stuff that's not completely compatible with legacy stuff, then why not make a clean break with something new and completely incompatible designed from the ground up with both eyes on the future instead of one on the future and one on the past? Something that eliminates all the problems we've been fighting since '81 and trys to anticipate and avoid any new aggravations.
By the way, just what kind of old computer junk can you use? (if you weren't kidding)
Saw something a couple of days ago calling her the most powerful female executive or most powerful new executive or something along those lines and my first thought was "Yeah, look how much faster she's run HP into the ground than anyone else would have been able to do.".
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Go into your preferences and enable the "Ask Slashdot" box. A lot of interesting "Ask Slashdot" stories never make it to the main page.
I can see using PDF if you need to include diagrams of a carburetor with the instructions on how to rebuild the carburetor, but unless you have to include screen shots, why shouldn't a list of command line interface commands and a brief explanation of what they are and what they do, (and please, please, please, an explanation of how they got named whatever name they have) be just a simple text file?
And if it had done that to the links on the story itself, it would have saved a lot of mousing around to find out to what the submitter was referring.
Next time, though, perhaps you could wish that fewer, rather than less, people would redact text the way the submitter did.
So that's why Intel is planning on doing away with serial ports--to avoid competition from inexpensive devices.
The only thing better than having more than enough conduit installed before the area where you are installing the conduit is covered over and made next to impossible to get to is to have way, way more than enough conduit installed.
When you say CD buffer do you mean something that temporarily stores bits and bytes, or something that physically abrades the surface of the underside of the disc?
So let me see if I've got this straight. The RIAA, hardware makers, and Congress conspiring together to hijack your wallet and an open source answer to MS Office deserve to be buried in a Slashback with something about web surfing from a bathroom?
Universal Sexual Bus ?
All your bass are belong to us.
Isn't that rather like saying that you believe abortion should be legal, but that no one should actually perform any because if some lunatic bombs them the people in the building next door might get hurt?
But if you enter the address (2312 West Farwell Drive) given in the NYT article into MapQuest's search box, it returns a map showing a location about 1500 ft. east of St Joseph's Hospital (no doubt the place where they invented baby aspirin).
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You are obviously an infidel who does not worship at the Holy Shrine of Charts and Graphs. Heathen.
Ah, mimeograph fluid. Long before we were old enough to realize that "getting high" had nothing to do with aviation, the next best thing to Weekly Reader day was taking a deep breath as the handouts went 'round. :-)
About 10 years later he's hauled into court (federal, I think) in Memphis or around there, even though he'd never been anywhere near there in his life, to stand trial for violating community standards.
Never heard how it turned out or if he ever recovered from the crushing legal bills, but wherever there's an ambitious prosecutor don't assume the existance of very many legal protections. Remember the old saying about a DA being able to get a Grand Jury to indict a ham sandwich.
Wasn't Microsoft one of those companies that used to address some bugs in their software by saying that it would be fixed in the next release? In other words, if SuperPackage Version 2.0 that you spent a lot of money for doesn't work right or if you upgraded to 2.3 to fix it and that broke something else, you should rush out and spend more money as soon as SuperPackage 3.0 hits the shelves in order to correct the problem 'cause you done got all the tender lovin' care you're gonna out of us 'til we get some more of your money.
On second thought, maybe the last choice in the list should be Anne Tomlinson.
Yes I know all this is ridiculously off-topic, but maybe somebody knows where I can get some of that track. (Or a cheap injection molding system, with complete instructions.)
When two airbags collide, do either of them sustain injuries or do they serve as each other's airbag?
Please email me so that I can provide you with the URL of a site frequented by TV techs so that you can post this problem and see what theories they might have as to the cause. I'd very much like to see what they have to say. I prefer not to post the URL here because the last thing the site needs is a bunch of adolescent trolls from Slashdot.
You wouldn't happen to be able to post the model number of that RCA, would you? Did you remove the tape and get the set to respond to commands from the remote?
I really hadn't planned to send you money via Paypal, carrier pigeon, or any other method, but it is an interesting link and worth checking out by anyone having any dealings with them, including contemplating getting in on their upcoming IPO (although I do think there may be some short term money to be made there).
Where do you think I get my stuff? (Hey, I've got a PC-XT and an Apple II I'm still planning to find uses for.)
But seriously, if you have a perfectly good Compaq case and power supply holding a 486 board and you find a good deal on a Gateway Socket 7 (or the other way around brand wise), it's really annoying that one's got the video jack where the other has the keyboard and mouse or vise versa and IBM, Dell, and HP also seem to play the almost but not quite compatible game as well, which means a lot of otherwise usable stuff doesn't make it to the end of it's working life before somebody gets tired of trying to pound square pegs into round holes and sets it aside to gather dust and goes out and spends more money. Even if you find what you need on eBay the addition of shipping costs run the price up to where you might as well buy something new from a local store where you can return it if it breaks.
I probably included PCI because of all the suffering I've done with Plug and Pray and the IRQ shuffle on PCI slots as well.
If they're going to bring out new stuff that's not completely compatible with legacy stuff, then why not make a clean break with something new and completely incompatible designed from the ground up with both eyes on the future instead of one on the future and one on the past? Something that eliminates all the problems we've been fighting since '81 and trys to anticipate and avoid any new aggravations.
By the way, just what kind of old computer junk can you use? (if you weren't kidding)
Saw something a couple of days ago calling her the most powerful female executive or most powerful new executive or something along those lines and my first thought was "Yeah, look how much faster she's run HP into the ground than anyone else would have been able to do.".