Probably more likely 60% of the PC hardware out there. I remember the old Compaq Deskpros in the 286 era.
Any hardware that's old enough probably has a case on it more expensive than an entire machine these days. My most quiet running hard drive EVER was an old Shugard 5-1/4" full height 5 meg hard drive. Because it had an $8000 price tag (when new, I bought it surplus) it probably had $3000 worth of mechanical engineering in it. Plus the fucking MBAs hadn't taken over the hardware biz and 'shaved' every dollar out of production costs. (if a machine lasts more than 30% longer than warranty, an MBA will tell you that it was overbuilt and cost cutting measures need to be implemented).
Gee, that's not the Geek Way. I would recommend carefully disassembling it and trying some mild alcohol cleaning. Never, ever just replace it. Certainly not before completely disassembling it and checking the whole thing out.
But then, I am the guy who probably digs 'prefectly good' parts out of office wastebasket after the 'tool' IT drones roll on through. On desktop keyboards there's usually a perfectly good microcontroller and a crystal or ceramic resonator, plus the LEDs, etc. in need of a good home.
Some would argue that all research and development of Free Software that is funded by a government grant should be public domain as well. That would preclude the possibility of it being GPL'd, of course.
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DDT, if judiciously used, is also effective and useful. The problem is, it was intially used widely and without controls placed on it's use.
Then it was totally banned, for political reasons, and due to the hysteria that had been whipped up against it.
Malaria kills over one million people, mainly children, in the tropics each year, and DDT remains one of the few affordable, effective tools against the mosquitoes that transmit the disease. Attaran et al. explain that the scientific literature on the need to withdraw DDT is unpersuasive, and the benefits of DDT in saving lives from malaria are well worth the risks.
That's a site with a political agenda, though, and only environmentalists are permitted to mix a political agenda with their science.
Ah, so you'd be happy if you could freely copy precompiled binaries? As long as you can get your warez it doesn't matter if you have the source?
When is Stallman starting up the GNU/disassembler project. He'll need it if copyright law crumbles in a way that, as you say 'makes the GPL irrelevant in a good way.'
'One man, one vote, one time' countries like Chile and Nicaragua did not have a democratic government to overthrow. The gears were turning for them to become another Cuban 'democracy.' The Soviet advisors were already there, etc.
'War Crimes' used to mean things like making and deploying nerve gas on civillians and political prisoners. Somehow now chemical and biological warfare are justified if your 'race' is disenfranchised.
We know why 'they hate the US'. It's because US journalists hate the US, so they report it that way.
Americans are somewhat self-absorbed and don't look for themselves, so they believe the kind of shit journalists claim. Sadly this means some buy into the myth that the rest of the world 'hates the US.'
Surprisingly, we have to put guards at our border to keep out people who want to live here.
FUCK I can't wait for this copyright nonesense to sort itself out.
Either can a whole bunch of businessmen. You see, they're looking forward to all that GPL code. It will form the basis of a lot of good, strong commercial products when all this 'copyright nonsense' has been deal with.
Yep. Everything is relative. In the context of 1936 Germany, the local people had a RIGHT to persecute jews, and gypsies, and homosexuals, because, you see, there is no right or wrong, only localized expressions of power to back a particular ideology.
We have no right to condemn the people who persecuted the jew, the gypsies, and the homosexuals.
"piracy" is generally a copyright violation of some current work (there are some exceptions when people pass around out of print work). It's like someone stripped all the copyright information out of Linux and redistributed it as 'Commercial UNIX Clone K' without the source code.
Yes. The (#) means which volume of the manual it comes out of. I have a set of the BSD 4.3 manuals over on my bookshelf, and it corresponds to which physical volume the man pages are in. That seperation of sections can also be seen if you run Xman and look at how things are divided into sections, although in a lot of recent Linux versions it's pretty fubared.
I learned that the US economy is the primary drag on the global economy, and only a handful of nations have sufficient internal growth to thrive when the US is stagnating.
Read differently, that makes it sound like the US economy is the primary engine of the global economy.
But this guy went to J-school. Of course he'll slant it the other way.
HP's inkjets stopped being viable after the end of the '500' series. The Deskjet 500 is one of the finest 300dpi inkjets ever made, it has the old solid base; they last forever. The 560 is a good color printer. All the later Deskjet printers are flimsy plastic junk.
The cool thing about the 'Gillette razor blade handle' story is that they've established so much lock-in now that every manufacturer has their own brand of handle, and they're all crap.
I noticed not long ago after some years of suffering with disposable plastic razor handles that a few places (WalMart for one) still sell the old fashioned double-edge razor blades. WalMart has them at $1.67 for ten blades, definitely the cheapest option there is for a quality shave. But nobody, anywhere, sells new handles anymore.
So I went and bought the nicest vintage razor handle they had at an antique store for $6. And I splurged and bought twenty bucks worth of the blades and am set for awhile.
I have a whole pile of notebooks over on the shelf. But that means I have to leaf through the pages and write it all out myself.
Seriously, why are you guys so much in love with the battery manufacturers? My paper books and literature will be around in twenty years when I want to enjoy them again. My O'Reilly computer books (i.e. the X series, the books on stuff like NFS, Sed/AWK, etc.) are already (in some instances) almost ten years old. If they had used 'the latest online digital technology' back then they'd be in a landfill right now.
I guess if your idea of culture and knowledge is something that 'blip' goes out when the battery is dead, that's your choice.
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Probably more likely 60% of the PC hardware out there. I remember the old Compaq Deskpros in the 286 era.
Any hardware that's old enough probably has a case on it more expensive than an entire machine these days. My most quiet running hard drive EVER was an old Shugard 5-1/4" full height 5 meg hard drive. Because it had an $8000 price tag (when new, I bought it surplus) it probably had $3000 worth of mechanical engineering in it. Plus the fucking MBAs hadn't taken over the hardware biz and 'shaved' every dollar out of production costs. (if a machine lasts more than 30% longer than warranty, an MBA will tell you that it was overbuilt and cost cutting measures need to be implemented).
Gee, that's not the Geek Way. I would recommend carefully disassembling it and trying some mild alcohol cleaning. Never, ever just replace it. Certainly not before completely disassembling it and checking the whole thing out.
But then, I am the guy who probably digs 'prefectly good' parts out of office wastebasket after the 'tool' IT drones roll on through. On desktop keyboards there's usually a perfectly good microcontroller and a crystal or ceramic resonator, plus the LEDs, etc. in need of a good home.
Hardware Rescue, maaaan.
Bring over your laptop and your car and we'd demo it. heh
This isn't really a 'horror story' or an example of extreme risk, but it's interesting.
The way to circumvent the NVRAM password on a SparcStation is:
1. Power up the machine to the first firmware prompt.
2. Unplug the NVRAM chip.
3. Enter the firmware's config menu (normally the NVRAM password would jump in at this point and prevent this).
4. Hotplug the NVRAM chip back in. (don't do this one to your company's $30,000 server, tho)
5. In the config menu turn off the password protection or change the password to something you know.
I have used this procedure to get into SparcStations that I've bought used on eBay.
The NVRAM in question is a 28 pin 'built in battery' CMOS RAM/Clock chip similar to that on a lot of PC Motherboards.
Compressed with MP3, that would make a nice box set of DVD-ROMs.
Some would argue that all research and development of Free Software that is funded by a government grant should be public domain as well. That would preclude the possibility of it being GPL'd, of course.
Then it was totally banned, for political reasons, and due to the hysteria that had been whipped up against it.
As it says on this site:
That's a site with a political agenda, though, and only environmentalists are permitted to mix a political agenda with their science.
Ah, so you'd be happy if you could freely copy precompiled binaries? As long as you can get your warez it doesn't matter if you have the source?
When is Stallman starting up the GNU/disassembler project. He'll need it if copyright law crumbles in a way that, as you say 'makes the GPL irrelevant in a good way.'
'One man, one vote, one time' countries like Chile and Nicaragua did not have a democratic government to overthrow. The gears were turning for them to become another Cuban 'democracy.' The Soviet advisors were already there, etc.
'War Crimes' used to mean things like making and deploying nerve gas on civillians and political prisoners. Somehow now chemical and biological warfare are justified if your 'race' is disenfranchised.
Better learn how to read and write.
Hint: use that paper. It's not just for wrapping exports in any longer.
We know why 'they hate the US'. It's because US journalists hate the US, so they report it that way.
Americans are somewhat self-absorbed and don't look for themselves, so they believe the kind of shit journalists claim. Sadly this means some buy into the myth that the rest of the world 'hates the US.'
Surprisingly, we have to put guards at our border to keep out people who want to live here.
It's interesting that one becomes a 'fucktar' for pointing out the truth. Further, one's virility, or whatever, comes into question.
You can suffer a second prosecution in the United States in some circumstances. This case isn't a second prosecution. This is a second trial.
Somehow I knew it was coming.
An actual answer to my post claiming the Nazis and the Japanese fascists and the Allies were morally equivalent.
Wow. They really did a number on you in college.
All those Japanese atrocities in China, and all those sex slave harems for the Japanese soldiers were made up, man.
Yeah. Stupidity is going to be the newest hyphenated 'protected class.'
I can see the banners already. "Protect stupid-American rights" in front of McDonalds. Lots and lots of lukewarm coffee.
FUCK I can't wait for this copyright nonesense to sort itself out.
Either can a whole bunch of businessmen. You see, they're looking forward to all that GPL code. It will form the basis of a lot of good, strong commercial products when all this 'copyright nonsense' has been deal with.
Yep. Everything is relative. In the context of 1936 Germany, the local people had a RIGHT to persecute jews, and gypsies, and homosexuals, because, you see, there is no right or wrong, only localized expressions of power to back a particular ideology.
We have no right to condemn the people who persecuted the jew, the gypsies, and the homosexuals.
Welcome to the trenches of the Kultur wars, D00d.
"piracy" is generally a copyright violation of some current work (there are some exceptions when people pass around out of print work). It's like someone stripped all the copyright information out of Linux and redistributed it as 'Commercial UNIX Clone K' without the source code.
An appeal is not a second prosecution. It's an appeal of the lower finding.
Yes. The (#) means which volume of the manual it comes out of. I have a set of the BSD 4.3 manuals over on my bookshelf, and it corresponds to which physical volume the man pages are in. That seperation of sections can also be seen if you run Xman and look at how things are divided into sections, although in a lot of recent Linux versions it's pretty fubared.
Read differently, that makes it sound like the US economy is the primary engine of the global economy.
But this guy went to J-school. Of course he'll slant it the other way.
HP's inkjets stopped being viable after the end of the '500' series. The Deskjet 500 is one of the finest 300dpi inkjets ever made, it has the old solid base; they last forever. The 560 is a good color printer. All the later Deskjet printers are flimsy plastic junk.
The cool thing about the 'Gillette razor blade handle' story is that they've established so much lock-in now that every manufacturer has their own brand of handle, and they're all crap.
I noticed not long ago after some years of suffering with disposable plastic razor handles that a few places (WalMart for one) still sell the old fashioned double-edge razor blades. WalMart has them at $1.67 for ten blades, definitely the cheapest option there is for a quality shave. But nobody, anywhere, sells new handles anymore.
So I went and bought the nicest vintage razor handle they had at an antique store for $6. And I splurged and bought twenty bucks worth of the blades and am set for awhile.
I have a whole pile of notebooks over on the shelf. But that means I have to leaf through the pages and write it all out myself.
Seriously, why are you guys so much in love with the battery manufacturers? My paper books and literature will be around in twenty years when I want to enjoy them again. My O'Reilly computer books (i.e. the X series, the books on stuff like NFS, Sed/AWK, etc.) are already (in some instances) almost ten years old. If they had used 'the latest online digital technology' back then they'd be in a landfill right now.
I guess if your idea of culture and knowledge is something that 'blip' goes out when the battery is dead, that's your choice.