Not sure, but maybe info uses such retarded button mappings because some terminals/emulators don't process certain keystrokes properly (arrows, pgup/dn, esc, etc...) and they want to keep functionality across all platforms. I know that when I log into my redhat 8 box via putty, man doesn't like the '/' key. It's probably because I'm too lazy to figure out the best way to configure putty, but I've lost that functionality.
I got a little hot tempered while installing linux on my 486 a while back and plugged a 36x CDROM in while it was running. The CDROM doesn't work any longer and it burnt a weird little stain into the CDR that was in the drive. I had to redownload that disk.
Oh yeah, those are my thoughts too. They had all sorts of expensive ventilation systems in there as well. The windows were IMPOSSIBLE to see into as well. I remember being told that it was the presidents office or some big wig's office.
Oh, actually it was after they had been booted. I worked for a real estate virtual tour company. And the cabling in there IIRC was pretty good (good job!). I don't think they had to run too many new lines, but they had only rented about a quarter of the building (not the part with the tunnel, but rather with the ugly maroon carpet, closest to sheridan springs). I think the warehouse part of the building was bought by Yonkers or Yunkers or something (they have the building across the street as well). I am curious what the weather-stripping was for... If you know, please let me know cause I'm pretty sure I know, but maybe they had some other weird reasons...
It's a building at 201 Sheridan Springs Rd. in Lake Geneva, WI.
They had all sorts of weird shit in there, like a tunnel that looked like it belonged in the Death Star, and a bunch of weather-proofed doors (which isn't so unusual, except that they didn't lead outdoors and the rooms on the other side of the doors had seperate ventilation systems). It was a pretty creepy place all together and the carpet had some really odd stains on it.
Reminds me of a story...
My high school was the "cliquey" kind in a 99% white suburb. In my grade we were well received, well liked, etc. but the grade higher was of a different era I guess... They just hated the hell out of our little "group" for whatever reason. Many jockos and preps. Well one day we were just playing in the snow and we hear "Hey look! Faggot love!" exactly like in the movies.
So we throw a snow ball at his car and horribly miss (on purpose, I mean what the hell) so he gets out and tries to start a fight. Well, being unprepared (and weaponless) we let him have his glory. Next day there were 13 of us ready to run him over. Needless to say, most of us had some sort of weapon (chain, knife, iron bar) and were ready to get this on. The whole football team started getting out of their cars screaming stuff to the effect of "WE WILL KILL YOU!" in their mightiest football cheering voice. Cops came, patted a few people down, no fight happened. But a few months later, one of my friends was at a party and he ran into the guy we almost ran over. The guy said something like "I'm so glad we didn't fight, I was scared as shit."
Just made me realize that some of these people are just putting on a facade, just like everyone else. We meant business, and I think that guy just thought we were some spineless twerps. All you need is a spine usually and they'll leave you alone.
Disclaimer: don't try this now, god knows, I graduated the year Columbine happened and my school became a police station. If that happened a year later we all would have been expelled.
Just purposely poison your DNS records for login.oscar.aol.com to 0.0.0.0 (it was done to me and worked wonderfully). Also, firewall packets coming from inside to the real IP addresses of that site, to prevent the smart kids from getting around you, and bingo bango, no AIM.
Heh, salary == the greatest scam ever.
I was salaried once, never again. Those blood sucking leeches wanted me to work as many weekends as they could get, every time I put my foot down. My time is MY time and to hell if they don't hire enough people to do the job.
Coincidentally, in the middle of my employment there, they got a new HR guy (DUN DUN DUUUUNNNNNN!). He came around with this new "policy" (subsequently named "the policy"), and its main purpose was to basically fire me. When I didn't turn it in right away 'cause I wanted to look it over, he asked why I would need to look at it (!), and quickly xeroxed me a fresh copy to sign while he stood over me. (I do believe this was coercion). Needless to say, my reading slashdot on company time suddenly became frowned upon and within 2 days I was quickly escorted out.
This is the same guy who, even though I was salaried, and worked my ass off while I was there, complained when I took one of my breaks with lunch, and left 15 early for my other break. This made it look like I was ditching out 15 early, so he was upset that I wasn't putting in my full 8 hours. This guy single-handedly screwed the atmosphere of that company. Thank god they fired me, that was the catalyst to get me out of that area all together.
How can you guys not pick "Bart the Lover"? Or as I like to refer to it, the swear jar episode?
stolen from www.snpp.com
Maude: Todd, would you like some mixed vegetables?
Todd: Hell, no!
Ned+Maude+Rod: [gasp!]
Maude: What did you say?
Todd: I said I didn't want any damn vegetables.
Ned: All right, that's it, young man. No Bible stories for you tonight!
Todd: [leaves, crying]
Maude: [to Ned] Weren't you a little hard on him?
Ned: Well, you knew I had a temper when you married me.
Dude, DC makes your muscles contract while AC will end up pushing you away. Wrap you hand around a bare wire of 100V DC and 100V AC and tell me which you can't let go of cause the electricity if forcing you to hang on to it.
Yeah, this is totally true. In Illinois we have this idiot "Use Tax", where anything you bring over the border (whether it be from Africa, or Wisconsin) you have to pay a certain percentage to Illinois. No one does, unless it's really big and they can catch you doing it (for example, I read an article in the Chicago Tribune where this was the case, and the author had to pay about $300 in tax).Too bad I can't find the article online, and even if I did, the ChiTrib would make me pay a few dollars to even read it.
>>>>the coolant used is not water on these though iirc it's some sort of nonconducting liquid.
>>I'm pretty sure that was fluorinert.
Yup, here's Cray's Online System Installation Manual
A quote: "Cray computer systems use dielectric coolant (Fluorinert(TM) liquid) to cool the mainframe chassis (MFC)."
That's doesn't necessarily make it so. At 85 mph I go a lower RPM than at 55mph (At 85 my engine sits at 1500 while at 55 my car sits at 1700). This would be even more dramatic for any performace vehicle with many gears. Your car isn't like a weed whacker, busting out all of its power at once. The transmission keeps things in a range. Now from 55 to 65 you may experience a change in RPM of about 500-800 (higher if heavy load or driving into a headwind, lower if you have a larger engine.) But if you are not using your highest gear (which in many cars 55mph won't utilize the highest gear) then you are probably operating at a higher RPM than at some higher speed, in a higher gear (not necessarily so, as you may have to go 2000RPM to enter gear 4, while at 55 in gear 3 you may go 1200RPM, but different cars have different needs). Now, another poster mentioned that cars are optimized for 55 and this is true. Your gear ratios are usually tuned so that getting to 55 and staying there is extremely efficient. But we could also make it extremely efficient to go to 100. It's a chicken and egg syndrome...
There was an article some time ago, in a magazine my father used to receive (in the late 80's/early 90's) that had a quote from Microsoft (or possibly Bill Gates himself) where it was stated that "Nine out of ten copies of DOS are pirated, forcing us to charge ten times more for it".
Now, this is why I feel it necessary to only purchase 1/10th of Microsoft products that I use. They have already calculated that into the equation...
You do realize that AMD has been around for about 30 years...
They make more than just processors, check their website and see. It would be a huge problem for them if their microprocessor business went south, for sure, but honestly, they are in no risk of going out of business.
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Put any non circular CD into a slot-loading iMac, and you will see an effectively useless mac. Or watch as the memory kills itself because it's right next to the processor cage, or the analog board dies because you move the thing. Of when the power button needed to be sanded because the plastic they used wasn't finished properly.
For the amount of sales that macs have versus PC's, we had to fix an awful lot of iMacs...
They do it in Chicago too, but they are distributors for the cigarette companies. They usually hand out like 2 packs to whoever wants them. The carry around big bags. My buddy calls them "Santa Claus" and always goes and hunts them down. "Where's Santa?", he'll say.
I'd say using the W3C's Specification for HTML would be the best way to solve sloppiness problems. They state exactly and in very clear phrasing what is required and what is not for a tag to work and what is to be expected of client agents (browsers). All my beginning HTML/CSS work has been done via that page. No stupid tutorials that some other guy who wasn't a part of the consortium wrote, because he probably has bad habits, just as all of us do.
That said, I like programming Perl using the Texinfo page, Windows coding with the API Docs right next to me, and so on. Basically, information that's unadulterated is the best, in my eyes, for writing efficient/correct code. I read a book a while back called LaFores Windows Programming Made Easy. It had many good examples, but as I learned more about how to code for windows, I realized that many of the examples in the book were "dumbed down" significantly, and they had left out many things that are essential to writing effective and efficient code for windows.
Shortcuts usually end up being long-cuts. Like the Simpson's quote while heading for Itchy and Scratchy Land: "Let's never speak of the short-cut again...". I feel similarly, that short-cuts will, in time, become festering problems.
Yeah, I work in the old TSR building in Lake Geneva.
One of the hallways looks like it's from the set of the Death Star, and the presidents office has weather-stripping all over the doors (note that these doors don't lead outside...) It's a very odd place. I think they acted like one of those internet companies, where fun comes before work and they just flushed themselves down the toilet.
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Did you ever get all 500 points in that game? Damned hardest game to totally finish.
The Maxtor Bigfoot 5.25" drives they used to throw in the Compaq 5700s (8.4 GB I believe) were the most failure-prone drives I have ever seen. They would be the point of failure for at LEAST 50% of the Compaqs we got in the shop.
Also, my parents had a HP Pavilion from 1996 or so with a Maxtor 1.2GB disk in it. Died within 2 years. Got a Western Digital, and it hasn't skipped a beat. In fact the ONLY 2 WD Drives I've seen go totally bad, were One I had that I was given because it was bad, and one where they tech who was working on it let the traces on the drive touch the case and powered it on (there's a way to get a new drive, hehe).
Maybe I'm being unfair and they have gotten better, but I as well as many coworkers from that tech shop won't touch the things ever again.
I do the exact same thing (about the swordsman). In starcraft, I'd have one marine left from a horrific battle because the infantry hit the target before the battle cruisers got there, and he would be hurt real bad (before brood war, mind you, no healing). He would have like 6 or 7 kills and I would build a transport, just for him, to bring him back as sort of a "hero".
Or those damned heatsinks that need 40+ lbs of force to get the clip on. I jammed my screwdriver into the mobo traces about 5 times. The last stab did it in though, so I got a KR7A-RAID. At least that mobo has no traces on that layer of board, and the other side has some film over the traces.
Oh well...
Scouting has it's own psychopaths...
I remember the first time a new scoutmaster came in he asked "Who's in charge of the alcohol?".
Aaaah memories....
I looked hard into these for a while. Too dangerous. They condense the water in the air around them and that's no good for electrical components. There are kits, but if you drown your system, you are down that much money. They aren't that expensive (I think like $20-$40 for a 50+W junction) but 50W of cooling is behemoth compared to the ~ 70W MAX heat dissapation of the Athlon TBird.
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Not sure, but maybe info uses such retarded button mappings because some terminals/emulators don't process certain keystrokes properly (arrows, pgup/dn, esc, etc...) and they want to keep functionality across all platforms. I know that when I log into my redhat 8 box via putty, man doesn't like the '/' key. It's probably because I'm too lazy to figure out the best way to configure putty, but I've lost that functionality.
I got a little hot tempered while installing linux on my 486 a while back and plugged a 36x CDROM in while it was running. The CDROM doesn't work any longer and it burnt a weird little stain into the CDR that was in the drive. I had to redownload that disk.
Oh yeah, those are my thoughts too. They had all sorts of expensive ventilation systems in there as well. The windows were IMPOSSIBLE to see into as well. I remember being told that it was the presidents office or some big wig's office.
Oh, actually it was after they had been booted. I worked for a real estate virtual tour company. And the cabling in there IIRC was pretty good (good job!). I don't think they had to run too many new lines, but they had only rented about a quarter of the building (not the part with the tunnel, but rather with the ugly maroon carpet, closest to sheridan springs).
I think the warehouse part of the building was bought by Yonkers or Yunkers or something (they have the building across the street as well). I am curious what the weather-stripping was for... If you know, please let me know cause I'm pretty sure I know, but maybe they had some other weird reasons...
It's a building at 201 Sheridan Springs Rd. in Lake Geneva, WI.
They had all sorts of weird shit in there, like a tunnel that looked like it belonged in the Death Star, and a bunch of weather-proofed doors (which isn't so unusual, except that they didn't lead outdoors and the rooms on the other side of the doors had seperate ventilation systems). It was a pretty creepy place all together and the carpet had some really odd stains on it.
Reminds me of a story...
My high school was the "cliquey" kind in a 99% white suburb. In my grade we were well received, well liked, etc. but the grade higher was of a different era I guess... They just hated the hell out of our little "group" for whatever reason. Many jockos and preps. Well one day we were just playing in the snow and we hear "Hey look! Faggot love!" exactly like in the movies.
So we throw a snow ball at his car and horribly miss (on purpose, I mean what the hell) so he gets out and tries to start a fight. Well, being unprepared (and weaponless) we let him have his glory. Next day there were 13 of us ready to run him over. Needless to say, most of us had some sort of weapon (chain, knife, iron bar) and were ready to get this on. The whole football team started getting out of their cars screaming stuff to the effect of "WE WILL KILL YOU!" in their mightiest football cheering voice. Cops came, patted a few people down, no fight happened. But a few months later, one of my friends was at a party and he ran into the guy we almost ran over. The guy said something like "I'm so glad we didn't fight, I was scared as shit."
Just made me realize that some of these people are just putting on a facade, just like everyone else. We meant business, and I think that guy just thought we were some spineless twerps. All you need is a spine usually and they'll leave you alone.
Disclaimer: don't try this now, god knows, I graduated the year Columbine happened and my school became a police station. If that happened a year later we all would have been expelled.
Just purposely poison your DNS records for login.oscar.aol.com to 0.0.0.0 (it was done to me and worked wonderfully). Also, firewall packets coming from inside to the real IP addresses of that site, to prevent the smart kids from getting around you, and bingo bango, no AIM.
Heh, salary == the greatest scam ever.
I was salaried once, never again. Those blood sucking leeches wanted me to work as many weekends as they could get, every time I put my foot down. My time is MY time and to hell if they don't hire enough people to do the job.
Coincidentally, in the middle of my employment there, they got a new HR guy (DUN DUN DUUUUNNNNNN!). He came around with this new "policy" (subsequently named "the policy"), and its main purpose was to basically fire me. When I didn't turn it in right away 'cause I wanted to look it over, he asked why I would need to look at it (!), and quickly xeroxed me a fresh copy to sign while he stood over me. (I do believe this was coercion). Needless to say, my reading slashdot on company time suddenly became frowned upon and within 2 days I was quickly escorted out.
This is the same guy who, even though I was salaried, and worked my ass off while I was there, complained when I took one of my breaks with lunch, and left 15 early for my other break. This made it look like I was ditching out 15 early, so he was upset that I wasn't putting in my full 8 hours. This guy single-handedly screwed the atmosphere of that company. Thank god they fired me, that was the catalyst to get me out of that area all together.
How can you guys not pick "Bart the Lover"? Or as I like to refer to it, the swear jar episode?
stolen from www.snpp.com
Maude: Todd, would you like some mixed vegetables?
Todd: Hell, no!
Ned+Maude+Rod: [gasp!]
Maude: What did you say?
Todd: I said I didn't want any damn vegetables.
Ned: All right, that's it, young man. No Bible stories for you tonight!
Todd: [leaves, crying]
Maude: [to Ned] Weren't you a little hard on him?
Ned: Well, you knew I had a temper when you married me.
a classic...
Dude, DC makes your muscles contract while AC will end up pushing you away. Wrap you hand around a bare wire of 100V DC and 100V AC and tell me which you can't let go of cause the electricity if forcing you to hang on to it.
Yeah, this is totally true. In Illinois we have this idiot "Use Tax", where anything you bring over the border (whether it be from Africa, or Wisconsin) you have to pay a certain percentage to Illinois. No one does, unless it's really big and they can catch you doing it (for example, I read an article in the Chicago Tribune where this was the case, and the author had to pay about $300 in tax).Too bad I can't find the article online, and even if I did, the ChiTrib would make me pay a few dollars to even read it.
>>>>the coolant used is not water on these though iirc it's some sort of nonconducting liquid.
>>I'm pretty sure that was fluorinert.
Yup, here's Cray's Online System Installation Manual
A quote: "Cray computer systems use dielectric coolant (Fluorinert(TM) liquid) to cool the mainframe chassis (MFC)."
That's doesn't necessarily make it so. At 85 mph I go a lower RPM than at 55mph (At 85 my engine sits at 1500 while at 55 my car sits at 1700). This would be even more dramatic for any performace vehicle with many gears. Your car isn't like a weed whacker, busting out all of its power at once. The transmission keeps things in a range. Now from 55 to 65 you may experience a change in RPM of about 500-800 (higher if heavy load or driving into a headwind, lower if you have a larger engine.) But if you are not using your highest gear (which in many cars 55mph won't utilize the highest gear) then you are probably operating at a higher RPM than at some higher speed, in a higher gear (not necessarily so, as you may have to go 2000RPM to enter gear 4, while at 55 in gear 3 you may go 1200RPM, but different cars have different needs). Now, another poster mentioned that cars are optimized for 55 and this is true. Your gear ratios are usually tuned so that getting to 55 and staying there is extremely efficient. But we could also make it extremely efficient to go to 100. It's a chicken and egg syndrome...
There was an article some time ago, in a magazine my father used to receive (in the late 80's/early 90's) that had a quote from Microsoft (or possibly Bill Gates himself) where it was stated that "Nine out of ten copies of DOS are pirated, forcing us to charge ten times more for it".
Now, this is why I feel it necessary to only purchase 1/10th of Microsoft products that I use. They have already calculated that into the equation...
You do realize that AMD has been around for about 30 years...
They make more than just processors, check their website and see. It would be a huge problem for them if their microprocessor business went south, for sure, but honestly, they are in no risk of going out of business.
Put any non circular CD into a slot-loading iMac, and you will see an effectively useless mac. Or watch as the memory kills itself because it's right next to the processor cage, or the analog board dies because you move the thing. Of when the power button needed to be sanded because the plastic they used wasn't finished properly.
For the amount of sales that macs have versus PC's, we had to fix an awful lot of iMacs...
They do it in Chicago too, but they are distributors for the cigarette companies. They usually hand out like 2 packs to whoever wants them. The carry around big bags. My buddy calls them "Santa Claus" and always goes and hunts them down.
"Where's Santa?", he'll say.
I'd say using the W3C's Specification for HTML would be the best way to solve sloppiness problems. They state exactly and in very clear phrasing what is required and what is not for a tag to work and what is to be expected of client agents (browsers). All my beginning HTML/CSS work has been done via that page. No stupid tutorials that some other guy who wasn't a part of the consortium wrote, because he probably has bad habits, just as all of us do.
That said, I like programming Perl using the Texinfo page, Windows coding with the API Docs right next to me, and so on. Basically, information that's unadulterated is the best, in my eyes, for writing efficient/correct code. I read a book a while back called LaFores Windows Programming Made Easy. It had many good examples, but as I learned more about how to code for windows, I realized that many of the examples in the book were "dumbed down" significantly, and they had left out many things that are essential to writing effective and efficient code for windows.
Shortcuts usually end up being long-cuts. Like the Simpson's quote while heading for Itchy and Scratchy Land: "Let's never speak of the short-cut again...". I feel similarly, that short-cuts will, in time, become festering problems.
Yeah, I work in the old TSR building in Lake Geneva.
One of the hallways looks like it's from the set of the Death Star, and the presidents office has weather-stripping all over the doors (note that these doors don't lead outside...) It's a very odd place. I think they acted like one of those internet companies, where fun comes before work and they just flushed themselves down the toilet.
Did you ever get all 500 points in that game? Damned hardest game to totally finish.
The Maxtor Bigfoot 5.25" drives they used to throw in the Compaq 5700s (8.4 GB I believe) were the most failure-prone drives I have ever seen. They would be the point of failure for at LEAST 50% of the Compaqs we got in the shop.
Also, my parents had a HP Pavilion from 1996 or so with a Maxtor 1.2GB disk in it. Died within 2 years. Got a Western Digital, and it hasn't skipped a beat. In fact the ONLY 2 WD Drives I've seen go totally bad, were One I had that I was given because it was bad, and one where they tech who was working on it let the traces on the drive touch the case and powered it on (there's a way to get a new drive, hehe).
Maybe I'm being unfair and they have gotten better, but I as well as many coworkers from that tech shop won't touch the things ever again.
I do the exact same thing (about the swordsman).
In starcraft, I'd have one marine left from a horrific battle because the infantry hit the target before the battle cruisers got there, and he would be hurt real bad (before brood war, mind you, no healing). He would have like 6 or 7 kills and I would build a transport, just for him, to bring him back as sort of a "hero".
Or those damned heatsinks that need 40+ lbs of force to get the clip on. I jammed my screwdriver into the mobo traces about 5 times. The last stab did it in though, so I got a KR7A-RAID. At least that mobo has no traces on that layer of board, and the other side has some film over the traces.
Oh well...
Scouting has it's own psychopaths...
I remember the first time a new scoutmaster came in he asked "Who's in charge of the alcohol?".
Aaaah memories....
I looked hard into these for a while. Too dangerous. They condense the water in the air around them and that's no good for electrical components. There are kits, but if you drown your system, you are down that much money. They aren't that expensive (I think like $20-$40 for a 50+W junction) but 50W of cooling is behemoth compared to the ~ 70W MAX heat dissapation of the Athlon TBird.