Babbage did complete sizeable parts of both his Engines, and helped with the Swedish Engine that the British Goverment bought in the end.
The Science Museum in London does have some of the punchcards attributed to Babbage and Lovelace, there are more owned by various trusts.
As for Countess Lovelaces short life, well the excess of her parents probally bore just as much blame as Babbage...
Sir
After due consideration with my collegues, i decided to forward you this proposal.
Due to the tremendous value of the pound sterling of great britain against the detrimental value of the dollar united states, i would like to make an investment of one of your superior laptops. I am sure you could aquire one of these laptops my late father edward george, govenor of the bank of england had told me about on his deathbed before dying of neglect when the goverment of her majesty elizabeth the second, but only the first of scotland, refused him his own american united states laptop. The shame of my mother, her sister, my siblings and my late fathers parrot of winston churchill fame suffered with the underpower european laptop was unbearable for him.
Because united states of america department stores will not accept my credit card without an honest american address for snail mail i will trust you to make the deposit and arrange shipping of such great laptop. I in turn will deposit several hundred great british pounds into a paypal account of your chosing. I fully understand if you wish to donate your share of the excess to a charity as all great united states americans must do.
God save the queen and all who sail in her. May your president never get caught.
Yours,
Edward edward george, son of edward george(tm)
Firewalls with anti-virus software so dumb that they send out messages to people who's email address has been hijacked to hide the real address where the virus originated. Its just stupid we know which viri fake the sender, why cause more hassle?
Been using mine non-stop for a year, not had any problems with the screen at all. (If I had I'm sure I'd have plugged it into the 21" monitor by now.) As for speed a P3-600 is adequate for what I want to use a laptop for, (office, html, ftp, email & chat), and the extra peripherals don't slow it down. For added sillyness, turn the digitiser to graphic tablet, and plug two USB mice in and have mouse wars with 5 pointing devices!)
The Transnote does have two problems both surmountable;
(1) The second battery to power the digitiser independantly are now at the end of operating life, but the maintence manual is easily found online.
(2) The cpu fan may not turn on when it should, but a competant solderer can either put it on permantly or add a switch.
IBM brought out an incredible machine a few years back that has a bit of a cult following.
Review
Best of all it can digitise whatever is drawn on the A4/8.5" x 11" pad too!
It's 10.4" screen may seem small nowadays, but it has a keyboard underneath, so you can use it as laptop, tablet or writing pad.
...and it runs XP Tablet Edition if you have a MSDN subscription handy.
-Roy current auctions
The BBC didn't name Kelly. His name was leaked by the Goverment. He was subjected to Goverment's Foreign Affairs Committee on the 15th of July 2003, 24 hours later at the Goverments intelligence and Security Committee, the next day he was found dead.
As for media attention it was a major part of his day to day life, there is plenty of evidence that Dr David Kelly met with a variety of journalists. "I have been involved with the press for ten to 12 years" - Dr David Kelly, FAC transcript
Evidence from the Hutton Enquiry is here, with the report appearing at lunchtime in the UK.
http://www.the-hutton-inquiry.org.uk/
The BBC didn't sex up the dossier. They accused the UK Goverment of doing so. The Hutton Report officially is released today, (28th Jan 2004), at 12:30[GMT].
One newspaper, (News International's The Sun), is claiming they have a leaked copy of said report, and according to them the BBCs reporter "Gilligan is effectively accused of LYING in a bombshell broadcast blaming Number Ten for "sexing up" a dossier on Iraqi weapons of mass destruction."
source http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2004041477,00.h tml
My two 286 Compaq Luggables both have the orange plasma screen. They are 12Mhz and have simm slots inside, but their memory is onboard. One has the ISA expansion pack, the other is my boot disk repository. Can't get into an OS, boot up the ol' luggable and create the relevant bootdisk from the images I created as I went along.
Theres been a robotic cocktail waitress in London for years, Cynthia had her own bar but is now been bought over by Club Wicked where she sits at the back looking remarkbly like Marvin the Paranoid Android in drag.
-Roy
"Dean Kamen, the Segway's inventor, says he had no qualms about enlisting his brainchild into the military."
Well considering the European Segways are produced and Marketed by Heckler & Koch owning BAe, he has already started sucking military Koch.
I always thought the Segway was Kamen's way of demonstrating and selling a better patented gyro for missiles than any real advances in personal transport.
Esp as the police box wasn't originally made for the London Metropolitan Police Force, the first police boxes were installed in Edinburgh. Several are now listed buildings.
Recently a few have become police intranet terminals for public information use, (using Microsofts Agent for IE).
Around five others are now painted maroon and are privately owned coffee booths.
"At least dead trees don't have the habit of disappearing from existence without warning."
The irony of that statement has gone right past you hasn't it?
-iRoy
Babbages Differential Engine No. 1 was gifted by Babbage to the "Kensington Musuem" after it secured the grant to build Engine No. 2
To quote Charles Babbage's autobiography "Passages from the Life of a Philosopher"
It was commenced 1823.
This portion put together 1833.
The construction abandoned 1842....
This portion was in the Exhibition 1862.
Babbage was well aware of his work and used Pascals punchcards in his designs. Ada, (another dying language!?!), programmed on these cards some of which are on public display beside the two Engines in Londons Science Museum.
-Roy
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Babbage did complete sizeable parts of both his Engines, and helped with the Swedish Engine that the British Goverment bought in the end.
The Science Museum in London does have some of the punchcards attributed to Babbage and Lovelace, there are more owned by various trusts.
As for Countess Lovelaces short life, well the excess of her parents probally bore just as much blame as Babbage...
errr
Windows 2000
Windows XP
Windows Server 2003
All released in the last five years.
Then theres the free service packs...
Think I need my vitamins G & T
"This is UNIX" not Linux. It was IRIX on SGI Indys. The 3D filesystem is still available for download.
FSN
yeah, and that 3D file system is still available to download for SGIs.
Sir After due consideration with my collegues, i decided to forward you this proposal. Due to the tremendous value of the pound sterling of great britain against the detrimental value of the dollar united states, i would like to make an investment of one of your superior laptops. I am sure you could aquire one of these laptops my late father edward george, govenor of the bank of england had told me about on his deathbed before dying of neglect when the goverment of her majesty elizabeth the second, but only the first of scotland, refused him his own american united states laptop. The shame of my mother, her sister, my siblings and my late fathers parrot of winston churchill fame suffered with the underpower european laptop was unbearable for him. Because united states of america department stores will not accept my credit card without an honest american address for snail mail i will trust you to make the deposit and arrange shipping of such great laptop. I in turn will deposit several hundred great british pounds into a paypal account of your chosing. I fully understand if you wish to donate your share of the excess to a charity as all great united states americans must do. God save the queen and all who sail in her. May your president never get caught. Yours, Edward edward george, son of edward george(tm)
Firewalls with anti-virus software so dumb that they send out messages to people who's email address has been hijacked to hide the real address where the virus originated. Its just stupid we know which viri fake the sender, why cause more hassle?
...its in my xBox
Been using mine non-stop for a year, not had any problems with the screen at all. (If I had I'm sure I'd have plugged it into the 21" monitor by now.) As for speed a P3-600 is adequate for what I want to use a laptop for, (office, html, ftp, email & chat), and the extra peripherals don't slow it down. For added sillyness, turn the digitiser to graphic tablet, and plug two USB mice in and have mouse wars with 5 pointing devices!)
The Transnote does have two problems both surmountable;
(1) The second battery to power the digitiser independantly are now at the end of operating life, but the maintence manual is easily found online.
(2) The cpu fan may not turn on when it should, but a competant solderer can either put it on permantly or add a switch.
-Roy
IBM brought out an incredible machine a few years back that has a bit of a cult following. Review
...and it runs XP Tablet Edition if you have a MSDN subscription handy.
Best of all it can digitise whatever is drawn on the A4/8.5" x 11" pad too!
It's 10.4" screen may seem small nowadays, but it has a keyboard underneath, so you can use it as laptop, tablet or writing pad.
-Roy
current auctions
The BBC didn't name Kelly. His name was leaked by the Goverment. He was subjected to Goverment's Foreign Affairs Committee on the 15th of July 2003, 24 hours later at the Goverments intelligence and Security Committee, the next day he was found dead. As for media attention it was a major part of his day to day life, there is plenty of evidence that Dr David Kelly met with a variety of journalists. "I have been involved with the press for ten to 12 years" - Dr David Kelly, FAC transcript Evidence from the Hutton Enquiry is here, with the report appearing at lunchtime in the UK. http://www.the-hutton-inquiry.org.uk/
The BBC didn't sex up the dossier. They accused the UK Goverment of doing so. The Hutton Report officially is released today, (28th Jan 2004), at 12:30[GMT]. One newspaper, (News International's The Sun), is claiming they have a leaked copy of said report, and according to them the BBCs reporter "Gilligan is effectively accused of LYING in a bombshell broadcast blaming Number Ten for "sexing up" a dossier on Iraqi weapons of mass destruction." source http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2004041477,00.h tml
Or you could just run Gauntlet2 with MAME on an xbox with four controllers.
DOH!
My two 286 Compaq Luggables both have the orange plasma screen. They are 12Mhz and have simm slots inside, but their memory is onboard. One has the ISA expansion pack, the other is my boot disk repository. Can't get into an OS, boot up the ol' luggable and create the relevant bootdisk from the images I created as I went along.
Theres been a robotic cocktail waitress in London for years, Cynthia had her own bar but is now been bought over by Club Wicked where she sits at the back looking remarkbly like Marvin the Paranoid Android in drag.
-Roy
It's gone from the mere US$6 to "4,000 - 6,000 U.S. dollars" in the space of a few days.
3rd party software, XBMP, on chipped Xboxes have been doing this for quite a while now.
"Dean Kamen, the Segway's inventor, says he had no qualms about enlisting his brainchild into the military." Well considering the European Segways are produced and Marketed by Heckler & Koch owning BAe, he has already started sucking military Koch. I always thought the Segway was Kamen's way of demonstrating and selling a better patented gyro for missiles than any real advances in personal transport.
Do cargo flights with no passengers suffer these gremlins? -Roy
Nevermind the fact that someone is illegally running Microsoft software as the Export license forbids it's use in Iraq!
Esp as the police box wasn't originally made for the London Metropolitan Police Force, the first police boxes were installed in Edinburgh. Several are now listed buildings.
Recently a few have become police intranet terminals for public information use, (using Microsofts Agent for IE).
Around five others are now painted maroon and are privately owned coffee booths.
"At least dead trees don't have the habit of disappearing from existence without warning." The irony of that statement has gone right past you hasn't it? -iRoy
Babbages Differential Engine No. 1 was gifted by Babbage to the "Kensington Musuem" after it secured the grant to build Engine No. 2 To quote Charles Babbage's autobiography "Passages from the Life of a Philosopher" It was commenced 1823. This portion put together 1833. The construction abandoned 1842. ...
This portion was in the Exhibition 1862.
Babbage was well aware of his work and used Pascals punchcards in his designs. Ada, (another dying language!?!), programmed on these cards some of which are on public display beside the two Engines in Londons Science Museum. -Roy