Some time ago someone posted on Usenet that they had been allocated blocks of them, and had spares to give away. I requested a block, and use them when I replace the NVRAM in Sparc Boxes.
There are mega-powerful rare earth magnets in those hard drives too. Don't put them on your refrigerator, as you'll scratch the hell out of it trying to get them off.
Since the majority of CDs are read-only media, many become 'obsolete' the moment there's no use for the data on them. As such, you don't have to wait for the CD medium itself to become obsolete. Just visit your local Post Office and pick up a free case of AOL CDs off the counter. ( Where they're sitting in the way interfering with use of the counter, BTW. grrr.)
Part of the appeal of NetBSD for me is that it more closely follows the arrangement documented in the O'Reilly manuals. In particular, X configuration (I have all eight volumes of the O'Reilly X set). I am old fashioned that way, but I have all the docs for what I want to do. I even scraped up a full BSD 4.3 Manual set on eBay awhile back.
The modern meaning doesn't detract from the older defintions.
People here are just playing sematic games because they don't want to be associated with stealing.
Oh, and you're not 'copying some music' if we're going to get all fancy and go back to original meanings. You're just copying recordings of somebody performing some music. The distinction is, you're being a lazy slob, compared to someone who copies sheet music and then plays it themselves on a musical instrument, or sings it. Kinda like loafing on the couch while your mom makes dinner.
And yet the software to process the problem's data is always at least a generation older and less optimal than the hardware it runs on.
And generally, the hardware is obsolete by the time (if ever) code generating tools are in common use that take advantage of it.
Let's face it, for most purposes, we still live in a 'faster, better 80386' world of software. And how many of us actually write optimal protected mode code?
The bloat continues. It's necessary, so that stupider and stupider people can use computers, i.e. so the markets can expand.
at the Merriam Webster site the third defintion fits the 'modern' meaning: "3 : the unauthorized use of another's production, invention, or conception especially in infringement of a copyright"
I don't remember anybody saying Linux would never, never, never come to servers.
It's been used extensively in that role for over half a decade now in many organizations.
I think there's substance to the people who say there are Linux problems with the desktop, and it's hand-waving to say 'they said the same thing about servers...' It just isn't so.
RFC stands for 'Request For Comments' and if I am not mistaken, that wording is a very significant indicator of the consensus-based standards on the Internet.
Nobody can 'bust' you for not abiding by a Request for Comments. Perhaps some people would like to comment on this. heh
I had a stereo made out of a cardboard box back when I was an angry anti-establishent 'Punk' and all that stuff. Back in about 1979. Now I am 'sold' out like everybody else. It's called 'growing up.'
I got over it. You'll get over what ever shitty music you listen to. Believe me, you'll not want your kids ever knowing what you look like now, when they are teenagers.
Apple has a history of satirical code names and sayings. They had all those failed next-generation OS projects floating about in the 90's. Can't even remember the names of all of them. One was switched to butthead-astronomer after a hemp-head opposed them using his name.
Rumor has it that the 'Merglewelp' code name (Klingon for 'we are fucked now') used for that final abortive attempt at a 'New OS,' was what pissed Steve Jobs off and convinced him he needed to bring back NeXT's OS. He knew they'd given up and it would be easy to take it all back.
And thank goodness. The old MacOS was starting to make even ardent Mac zealots feel embarassed, and they'd nearly run out of fuel for the 'Next Generation OS Coming Real-soon-now' hype machine.
I don't think the 15c was a later model. They were both available in the same lineup, the 15 was just more expensive. I certainly couldn't afford one back when I bought my 11c in 1983.
HP's Corvalis group (the Calculator team) designed the first two HP Omnibook portable PCs (I have an Omnibook 300), which reflect the same tight design as the calculator line. Then the 'Omnibook' brand was stolen off to HP's shit-oriented PeeCee branch.
Some of the first computers I programmed on in High School were Hewlett Packard timesharing minicomputers. Built to the same quality standards as the H-P instrument line.
Some day someone technically oriented is going to disembowel and then slowly strangle Carly to death.
I've had an HP-11c since about 1983 that I still dote on. And a HP-15c (the 11c's big brother, identical except with more memory) that I got at a swapmeet for ten bucks. For years I ran it on these smaller around but the same thickness hearing aid batteries I got as free samples at work.
It unnerves me how much people are willing to pay for 11s and 15s on eBay.
I got four Sun 16" monitors at an auction site (real world auction house, not online) for $2 after walking in late and noticing nobody had bid on them at all. Two of them were the fixed-frequency dogs (still okay on SparcStations not heavily used) but two of them are the latest Sun multisyncs. Really really nice monitors, and might even be cable-convertable to a PeeCee...
Workstation monitors are (were?) built like they cost the megabucks some institution pays for them.
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If you're running a server that matters for anything important, why are you only reaching lower-tier tech support when there are problems?
Not paying enough for your connectivity, eh?
I own a block of 256 ethernet addresses, though.
Some time ago someone posted on Usenet that they had been allocated blocks of them, and had spares to give away. I requested a block, and use them when I replace the NVRAM in Sparc Boxes.
Not the same, thing I know.
There are mega-powerful rare earth magnets in those hard drives too. Don't put them on your refrigerator, as you'll scratch the hell out of it trying to get them off.
Why would Apple Computer buy NeXT?
(what happened to all the cute code-named 'Next Generation MacOS' projects they sunk hundreds of millions into?)
Since the majority of CDs are read-only media, many become 'obsolete' the moment there's no use for the data on them. As such, you don't have to wait for the CD medium itself to become obsolete. Just visit your local Post Office and pick up a free case of AOL CDs off the counter. ( Where they're sitting in the way interfering with use of the counter, BTW. grrr.)
Part of the appeal of NetBSD for me is that it more closely follows the arrangement documented in the O'Reilly manuals. In particular, X configuration (I have all eight volumes of the O'Reilly X set). I am old fashioned that way, but I have all the docs for what I want to do. I even scraped up a full BSD 4.3 Manual set on eBay awhile back.
The modern meaning doesn't detract from the older defintions.
People here are just playing sematic games because they don't want to be associated with stealing.
Oh, and you're not 'copying some music' if we're going to get all fancy and go back to original meanings. You're just copying recordings of somebody performing some music. The distinction is, you're being a lazy slob, compared to someone who copies sheet music and then plays it themselves on a musical instrument, or sings it. Kinda like loafing on the couch while your mom makes dinner.
And yet the software to process the problem's data is always at least a generation older and less optimal than the hardware it runs on.
And generally, the hardware is obsolete by the time (if ever) code generating tools are in common use that take advantage of it.
Let's face it, for most purposes, we still live in a 'faster, better 80386' world of software. And how many of us actually write optimal protected mode code?
The bloat continues. It's necessary, so that stupider and stupider people can use computers, i.e. so the markets can expand.
at the Merriam Webster site the third defintion fits the 'modern' meaning: "3 : the unauthorized use of another's production, invention, or conception especially in infringement of a copyright"
This isn't the 19th century any longer. 'Car' doesn't mean what it did in the 19th century either.
I don't remember anybody saying Linux would never, never, never come to servers.
It's been used extensively in that role for over half a decade now in many organizations.
I think there's substance to the people who say there are Linux problems with the desktop, and it's hand-waving to say 'they said the same thing about servers...' It just isn't so.
RFC stands for 'Request For Comments' and if I am not mistaken, that wording is a very significant indicator of the consensus-based standards on the Internet.
Nobody can 'bust' you for not abiding by a Request for Comments. Perhaps some people would like to comment on this. heh
You're probably right. I have never seen the manual for the 15C, having bought it at a swapmeet for $10 and all...
I had a stereo made out of a cardboard box back when I was an angry anti-establishent 'Punk' and all that stuff. Back in about 1979. Now I am 'sold' out like everybody else. It's called 'growing up.'
I got over it. You'll get over what ever shitty music you listen to. Believe me, you'll not want your kids ever knowing what you look like now, when they are teenagers.
Apple has a history of satirical code names and sayings. They had all those failed next-generation OS projects floating about in the 90's. Can't even remember the names of all of them. One was switched to butthead-astronomer after a hemp-head opposed them using his name.
Rumor has it that the 'Merglewelp' code name (Klingon for 'we are fucked now') used for that final abortive attempt at a 'New OS,' was what pissed Steve Jobs off and convinced him he needed to bring back NeXT's OS. He knew they'd given up and it would be easy to take it all back.
And thank goodness. The old MacOS was starting to make even ardent Mac zealots feel embarassed, and they'd nearly run out of fuel for the 'Next Generation OS Coming Real-soon-now' hype machine.
I don't think the 15c was a later model. They were both available in the same lineup, the 15 was just more expensive. I certainly couldn't afford one back when I bought my 11c in 1983.
HP's Corvalis group (the Calculator team) designed the first two HP Omnibook portable PCs (I have an Omnibook 300), which reflect the same tight design as the calculator line. Then the 'Omnibook' brand was stolen off to HP's shit-oriented PeeCee branch.
Some of the first computers I programmed on in High School were Hewlett Packard timesharing minicomputers. Built to the same quality standards as the H-P instrument line.
Some day someone technically oriented is going to disembowel and then slowly strangle Carly to death.
I've had an HP-11c since about 1983 that I still dote on. And a HP-15c (the 11c's big brother, identical except with more memory) that I got at a swapmeet for ten bucks. For years I ran it on these smaller around but the same thickness hearing aid batteries I got as free samples at work.
It unnerves me how much people are willing to pay for 11s and 15s on eBay.
What is the scale of PacMan in real life??
Are there really 486 motherboards in the ATX form factor?
I have a sweet little 386sx. But it's baby AT. Still, it's 16 MHz of raw power.
So the Teacher's Unions and AFSCME get pay raises. Students get the same education, probably with higher tuiton. We get higher taxes.
Yeah. And politicans aren't 0wned by anybody, because they have to get re-elected.
haha
The backlights on LCDs age. Fairly rapidly, actually. I think that LCD displays aren't going to age as well as well-made CRT monitors have.
Of course, we're all only exposed to the 'good' CRT displays, when we talk about 'old displays' so the same is probably true for LCDs.
The old LCDs used in test instruments like Multimeters definitely did age, some of them, i.e. in older LCD Fluke multimeters, rather horribly.
I got four Sun 16" monitors at an auction site (real world auction house, not online) for $2 after walking in late and noticing nobody had bid on them at all. Two of them were the fixed-frequency dogs (still okay on SparcStations not heavily used) but two of them are the latest Sun multisyncs. Really really nice monitors, and might even be cable-convertable to a PeeCee...
Workstation monitors are (were?) built like they cost the megabucks some institution pays for them.
He hits (cr) promptly after the next word after his VT-100 terminal 'beeps' at column 70.