That's sort of a problem. I have one of the Negativland Videocassetes, and they showed a lot of live performance footage on it. The guy hand backing the tape samples on the reel to reel, and other interesting stuff.
In an all electronic 'no moving parts' show what are they gonna do? Put a clear window in the hard drive enclosure and let people look through windows in the case at the EPROMs??
How do I fit an ATX motherboard into my SYM-1 single board computer? It's just a bare board with hex pad and six digit LED display. Or my Bigboard II. It's a bare circuit board too.
Oh, that's right. Those are REAL retro computers, not the plastic-cased mass-market junk that came afterwards.
Also, unless you're playing to a mausoleum, or a goth crowd who has finally taken that final plunge to their Nirvana, there's gonna be peripheral noise. Crowd noise, what-have-you, etc. People make it when they're packed in densely enough.
Prentice-Hall O'Reilly and Associates Addison-Wesley Singer-Verlag
Scanning down the spines of the books in my bookcase that matter, that contain information relevant year after year, those are the ones I see on the shelf.
Avoid anything that has a software version number in the title. Avoid anything that has logos from Magazine Publishers (i.e. 'PC Magazine recommends') on the cover. Avoid anything that has recommendations on the cover from the coffee-stain boys who write columns in the Ziff-Davis/Byte/PC Mag grade of magazines.
Thumb through the book. If it's more than 5% screen shots, avoid it like the plague.
If it looks like it was typeset with LaTeX, it's probably a good bet.
I know some of these are prejudices, and that there are exceptions to all the rules above, but it works for me.
That's market-speak. Pie-in-a-sky is always the way that flavor of suit speaks.
I would say, however, that much of what was really promised by Microsoft ten years ago has been delivered (in W2K.) Then they plowed further ahead and wrecked it, with XP, of course.
The irony of the NYTimes publishing the article does glare out, to be certain.
It also strikes me that the Slashdot community is contradicting themselves. When OUR paranoids find a reason for something that 'infringes on our privacy' the big rolls of tinfoil come out, the self-appointed pundits start ranting. There's a whole section of Slashdot devoted to this kind of nattering.
When the NYTimes makes a similar suggestion, even goes to the extent of picking on Our Google the wagons are circled and we lash out at the Times.
Actually, the way it's been lately, I wonder if Apple is the one with their eyes on Slashdot. It sure seems, with all the new sections and topics, like the boys in the Compound are courting Apple.
One of the problems that I see with OSS websites, both news and content-based is that the independent sites were all swallowed up. SourceForge for what it's worth is a big honking single entity. I go to links for all sorts of coding projects from old tarballs and they all head from independent sites to the big leviathan.
If SourceForge were to close down, all those projects would be scattered. Hopefully all the viable ones would find new hosts.
The same is true of sites like slashdot. It's now a captive dependent of VA.
In a way it's a crying shame, but we will see, things could improve.
Unfortunately Darwin isn't a BSD. It's a parody of a BSD, brought to you by Apple. It can die just as fast as MkLinux did. As soon as it becomes less in vogue to hype having 'Unix origins,' it can be absorbed into MacOS like water into the desert sand.
Then your insurance company runs a check to see how often you were over the speed limit of the area you were driving in. If you do so on a semi regular basis, your premiums go up.
Insurance companies base their rates on actuarial data. They would notice that every policy holder was driving above the limit as you describe. No adjustment would be made to your rate.
I find an open relay and send out 300,000 spam advertisements claiming to come from Red Hat Linux. I am not affiliated with Red Hat Linux, in fact I actively oppose them as a company. This is the whole reason I sent out the spam.
Red Hat Linux is forced to absorb a penalty for my actions?
The processor core's speed doubles, in certain architectures. The data is still pushed around at the same sub-microwave frequencies of yesterday, in most instances. Memory and I/O bandwidth and speed has only gradually increased.
Well, I feel 'geeks' are authority figures in some settings.
Often enough, I try to actively deflate that authority, by suggesting to somebody publicly that they have a mechanic install grease fittings on their hard drive, or similar such nonsense.
People think that because you're capable of fixing the muckup in their PC, that you're some sort of authoritah.
The microchannel code in the PS/2 line is probably protected. Judging from how long it took the kernal hackers to get Linux to run on the microchannel machines, I would say so, but haven't checked on it closely.
Is there anywhere that the Mod Chip source code can be downloaded? I know that most of these mod chips are a PIC embedded controller. And that there's a code-protect bit that is set on the chips sold by most Mod chip vendors.
Has anybody cracked it and extracted the code? I'd love to set up a Cheapbytes-type operation selling the mod chips for, say half of what the mod chip vendors are selling them for, and also offering the downloadable code free to anybody who wanted it.
Would the Mod Chip vendors sue me? Would I cry a fucking river about their IP rights?
Something to do with the fact that this guy was providing a unique service that nobody else seemed to be providing, that he was doing well at it in sort of an underground market.... gee, maybe it seemed strange to him that so many people were coming to him for their deals, rather than going to, say, WalMart or Target?
Naw, there's just no way he could have figured out what he was doing was illegal. It's buried deep in that 1500 page law book, and only a lawyer making $150 an hour could figure it out.
Slashdot Mirror
That's sort of a problem. I have one of the Negativland Videocassetes, and they showed a lot of live performance footage on it. The guy hand backing the tape samples on the reel to reel, and other interesting stuff.
In an all electronic 'no moving parts' show what are they gonna do? Put a clear window in the hard drive enclosure and let people look through windows in the case at the EPROMs??
How do I fit an ATX motherboard into my SYM-1 single board computer? It's just a bare board with hex pad and six digit LED display. Or my Bigboard II. It's a bare circuit board too.
Oh, that's right. Those are REAL retro computers, not the plastic-cased mass-market junk that came afterwards.
A good radio DJ has the phone ringing regularly.
Also, and it's an aside: does anybody else get disturbed at the image of some guy in a booth 'programming their night' for them?
Also, unless you're playing to a mausoleum, or a goth crowd who has finally taken that final plunge to their Nirvana, there's gonna be peripheral noise. Crowd noise, what-have-you, etc. People make it when they're packed in densely enough.
From David Bowie's 'Lodger' album:
"I am the DJ. I am what I play."
(I think there was at least a twinge of irony intended)
I would start by looking at the publisher:
Prentice-Hall
O'Reilly and Associates
Addison-Wesley
Singer-Verlag
Scanning down the spines of the books in my bookcase that matter, that contain information relevant year after year, those are the ones I see on the shelf.
Avoid anything that has a software version number in the title. Avoid anything that has logos from Magazine Publishers (i.e. 'PC Magazine recommends') on the cover. Avoid anything that has recommendations on the cover from the coffee-stain boys who write columns in the Ziff-Davis/Byte/PC Mag grade of magazines.
Thumb through the book. If it's more than 5% screen shots, avoid it like the plague.
If it looks like it was typeset with LaTeX, it's probably a good bet.
I know some of these are prejudices, and that there are exceptions to all the rules above, but it works for me.
often it's cheaper to buy 10 commercial units and have 8 of them break.
Sucks to be in combat and have one of those 8 units, though.
In other words: get real.
That's market-speak. Pie-in-a-sky is always the way that flavor of suit speaks.
I would say, however, that much of what was really promised by Microsoft ten years ago has been delivered (in W2K.) Then they plowed further ahead and wrecked it, with XP, of course.
The irony of the NYTimes publishing the article does glare out, to be certain.
It also strikes me that the Slashdot community is contradicting themselves. When OUR paranoids find a reason for something that 'infringes on our privacy' the big rolls of tinfoil come out, the self-appointed pundits start ranting. There's a whole section of Slashdot devoted to this kind of nattering.
When the NYTimes makes a similar suggestion, even goes to the extent of picking on Our Google the wagons are circled and we lash out at the Times.
There's no irony in a 'Linux is dying' troll.
It just doesn't work, on any level.
Trolls leer away from reality like you wouldn't believe.
Of course I'm contradicting all of this by making this post.
Here, I'll cancel some of the contradiction out by posting it without clicking 'Post Anonymous'. No +1, though, so be nice, boys....
Actually, the way it's been lately, I wonder if Apple is the one with their eyes on Slashdot. It sure seems, with all the new sections and topics, like the boys in the Compound are courting Apple.
One of the problems that I see with OSS websites, both news and content-based is that the independent sites were all swallowed up. SourceForge for what it's worth is a big honking single entity. I go to links for all sorts of coding projects from old tarballs and they all head from independent sites to the big leviathan.
If SourceForge were to close down, all those projects would be scattered. Hopefully all the viable ones would find new hosts.
The same is true of sites like slashdot. It's now a captive dependent of VA.
In a way it's a crying shame, but we will see, things could improve.
Unfortunately Darwin isn't a BSD. It's a parody of a BSD, brought to you by Apple. It can die just as fast as MkLinux did. As soon as it becomes less in vogue to hype having 'Unix origins,' it can be absorbed into MacOS like water into the desert sand.
Then your insurance company runs a check to see how often you were over the speed limit of the area you were driving in. If you do so on a semi regular basis, your premiums go up.
Insurance companies base their rates on actuarial data. They would notice that every policy holder was driving above the limit as you describe. No adjustment would be made to your rate.
Fact: I am not a stupid klutz with poor driving habits. I don't get in accidents that I cause. I get in accidents that OTHER people cause.
Fact: My insurance rates will go down.
Fact: Stupid Klutz's insurance rates will go UP.
It sounds like technology for better holding people to account. Doesn't seem like a bad thing at all. I guess it will to S.K.
The problem with what you propose:
I find an open relay and send out 300,000 spam advertisements claiming to come from Red Hat Linux. I am not affiliated with Red Hat Linux, in fact I actively oppose them as a company. This is the whole reason I sent out the spam.
Red Hat Linux is forced to absorb a penalty for my actions?
They don't.
The processor core's speed doubles, in certain architectures. The data is still pushed around at the same sub-microwave frequencies of yesterday, in most instances. Memory and I/O bandwidth and speed has only gradually increased.
Ya know, you've got your first, your second, your third derivative and all that....
Well, I feel 'geeks' are authority figures in some settings.
Often enough, I try to actively deflate that authority, by suggesting to somebody publicly that they have a mechanic install grease fittings on their hard drive, or similar such nonsense.
People think that because you're capable of fixing the muckup in their PC, that you're some sort of authoritah.
The microchannel code in the PS/2 line is probably protected. Judging from how long it took the kernal hackers to get Linux to run on the microchannel machines, I would say so, but haven't checked on it closely.
Perhaps they could have an "editor" on duty whose job it is to "edit"?
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They have emacs, and vi. Malda is working on a Lisp module for emacs to do the job better, but honestly, he's just a perl slinger. .
I just moved to an area of the country where Krispy Kreme doughnuts are available.
They suck. They're light flaky things with sticky goo glaze coating them. I like a doughnut that has some weight to it.
Is there anywhere that the Mod Chip source code can be downloaded? I know that most of these mod chips are a PIC embedded controller. And that there's a code-protect bit that is set on the chips sold by most Mod chip vendors.
Has anybody cracked it and extracted the code? I'd love to set up a Cheapbytes-type operation selling the mod chips for, say half of what the mod chip vendors are selling them for, and also offering the downloadable code free to anybody who wanted it.
Would the Mod Chip vendors sue me? Would I cry a fucking river about their IP rights?
Something to do with the fact that this guy was providing a unique service that nobody else seemed to be providing, that he was doing well at it in sort of an underground market.... gee, maybe it seemed strange to him that so many people were coming to him for their deals, rather than going to, say, WalMart or Target?
Naw, there's just no way he could have figured out what he was doing was illegal. It's buried deep in that 1500 page law book, and only a lawyer making $150 an hour could figure it out.
Goodness gracious.
$20 is kinda stiff. Can I download the BIOS image from him and burn it myself on the ol' Needham programmer I have here?