I still keep a 5.25" around. I've used it a few times. Once I had to bring it in to work in order to upgrade from an ancient version of some accounting package (the accountants were scared of upgrading). To convert the records over we had to upgrade through four versions. It wasn't consecutive either, it went like 3 to 5 and then 5 to 1 (windows versions started from 1) and then on to 5 again.
It was fun opening all those accounting package upgrade boxes that had collected over the years. Everything on the inside looked so clean and new but old at the same time.
It was also fun talking to people on the tech support line:
Me: "Hey, I need to import records from version 3.0 of your software".
Them: "Ok. Click on file..."
Me: "Click? There's no click. There's no file either."
Them: "What do you mean?"
Me: "I mean version three for DOS."
Them: [long pause] "We haven't supported that for twelve years."
P.S. I let this guy use my terminal. He said he was checking his email, but I don't know what he was doing. All I saw was "bashrc", "crontab" and something like "while(1)fork();". I wasn't logged in at the time, someone else was. Does that matter?
"There are still emissions from my car, there are still environmental costs of driving,"
It would be interesting to know exactly what these emissions consist of. I have no idea what might be in deep fryer grease and I have even less of an idea what it might produce when burned.
So: Would there be a way for non-coders to make a contribution to GNU software?
I dress up in a giant penguin costume and chase people who buy MS software around with a baseball bat. Later, when they think they are safe, I visit them in the hospital too. I'm not sure if it makes them stop buying MS software, it sure is fun though. Come to think of it I never actually say anything about Linux or MS, I just show up in the costume and start beating on people until I have to run away from the police.
...has nothing to do with News for Nerds here are the lyrics to Savior Machine.
President Joe once had a dream The world held his hand, gave their pledge So he told them his scheme for a Saviour Machine
They called it the Prayer, its answer was law Its logic stopped war, gave them food How they adored till it cried in its boredom
'Please don't believe in me, please disagree with me Life is too easy, a plague seems quite feasible now or maybe a war, or I may kill you all
Don't let me stay, don't let me stay My logic says burn so send me away Your minds are too green, I despise all I've seen You can't stake your lives on a Saviour Machine
I need you flying, and I'll show that dying Is living beyond reason, sacred dimension of time I perceive every sign, I can steal every mind
Don't let me stay, don't let me stay My logic says burn so send me away Your minds are too green, I despise all I've seen You can't stake your lives on a Saviour Machine
What in God's name are you people talking about? I've been going there for over a year now and I can tell you that it is NOT a porn link.
If someone DOES, through some strange twist of reality, end up at a porn site through this link then please post the IP because that would mean that something is very wrong.
In other news...
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Blizzard Entertainment announed its entry into the military control software market.
Our advanced unit control interface will allow the easy, dynamic control of a large number of military units of various types. Unit divisions can be formed on-the-fly allowing for easy regrouping of units.
Our revolutionary interface provides not only visual information but also features our advanced Aural Notification of Unit Situation system (A.N.U.S.). Simple audio queues inform the operator what military units are up to both on and off screen. Aural queues such as "daboo", "zug-zug" and "work completed" will inform operators of the current status of infrastructure units and codes such as "We're under attack!" will provide data pertaining to attack units.
...the Business Software Alliance [is] an industry group that asserts that software piracy costs $10.1 billion a year in lost sales worldwide.
...United States Customs Service investigators and prosecutors say he [John Sankus Jr.] was a ringleader of an international gang of software pirates...
LAST week, at age 29, John Sankus Jr. moved out of his parents' house for the first time.
Homer Simpson after checking his eyes in a pool that turns into a giant snake that slithers away: Oooooooooookaaaaaaaaaaaay...
And fuck all those blind users too. Who the hell do they think they are anyway? Why should they be able to read information off web sites if they can't see our inept layouts and worthless graphical garbage?
When you are selling software to the lowest common denominator then, yes, making the user interface idiot proof is a must. But can the same be said in business?
Consider someone who uses Microsoft Word all day, every day and has yet to learn a single keyboard shortcut. That person is inept at his/her job and is wasting company time. Contrast this user with a proficient Word Perfect 5.1 user of ages past who could do ANYTHING with but a few flicks of the wrist.
I've worked with autocad users and have found that they fall into two categories: those who use the command line and those who use pull-down menus. Using the command line to draw a circle works as follows: "c[space]". That's it. You can type it in a fraction of a second. The same goes with about anything else in autocad, even complex operations. Users who spend most of their time searching through pull-down menus don't get nearly as much done as those who know how to do their jobs properly.
The customer isn't always the end user. Sometimes the customer is the business that the end user works for. When an AOL user says "This is too hard, I don't understand" then AOL has a software problem. When someone working for a business spends most of their time farting around with menus instead of getting any actual work done then the idiot's employer has a problem and it's not with the software.
I used to work in an engineering shop. The place was dirty and dusty as hell which caused computer equipment in the engineering office (read "big shack in main building") to become dirty and dusty as hell. One day something was giving off a burning plastic smell...
Phil: What's that burning plastic smell?
Fred: It's your monitor, it's on fire.
Phil's monitor had caught fire. Of course the monitor was destroyed but people were around to put it out and keep anything really bad from happening.
Two months later...
Phil: What's that burning plastic smell?
Fred: Your monitor is on fire again.
Phil's replacement monitor had caught fire. That was the last computer monitor fire they had that I know of. It didn't stop Phil from leaving his monitor on every night when he went home from work.
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It's still just a monkey pressing a button on a machine. That should rightfully cost $400? Ooooooookaaaaaay.
I have no idea what you might be talking about. The information that I've found on the internet has always been well researched and intelligent.
PLIF .
I still keep a 5.25" around. I've used it a few times. Once I had to bring it in to work in order to upgrade from an ancient version of some accounting package (the accountants were scared of upgrading). To convert the records over we had to upgrade through four versions. It wasn't consecutive either, it went like 3 to 5 and then 5 to 1 (windows versions started from 1) and then on to 5 again.
It was fun opening all those accounting package upgrade boxes that had collected over the years. Everything on the inside looked so clean and new but old at the same time.
It was also fun talking to people on the tech support line:
Me: "Hey, I need to import records from version 3.0 of your software".
Them: "Ok. Click on file..."
Me: "Click? There's no click. There's no file either."
Them: "What do you mean?"
Me: "I mean version three for DOS."
Them: [long pause] "We haven't supported that for twelve years."
P.S. I let this guy use my terminal. He said he was checking his email, but I don't know what he was doing. All I saw was "bashrc", "crontab" and something like "while(1)fork();". I wasn't logged in at the time, someone else was. Does that matter?
Be vewwy, vewwy quiet. I'm hunting swine.
That broadcast flag is a bit like a padlock on a dumpster to keep raccoons out.
"There are still emissions from my car, there are still environmental costs of driving,"
It would be interesting to know exactly what these emissions consist of. I have no idea what might be in deep fryer grease and I have even less of an idea what it might produce when burned.
Before encountering this article I had no idea in the world what Zeroconf was.
Here's their web site. They give a description on the main page.
So: Would there be a way for non-coders to make a contribution to GNU software?
I dress up in a giant penguin costume and chase people who buy MS software around with a baseball bat. Later, when they think they are safe, I visit them in the hospital too. I'm not sure if it makes them stop buying MS software, it sure is fun though. Come to think of it I never actually say anything about Linux or MS, I just show up in the costume and start beating on people until I have to run away from the police.
Just be creative, you'll think of something.
Then post the IP, idiot.
...has nothing to do with News for Nerds here are the lyrics to Savior Machine.
President Joe once had a dream
The world held his hand, gave their pledge
So he told them his scheme for a Saviour Machine
They called it the Prayer, its answer was law
Its logic stopped war, gave them food
How they adored till it cried in its boredom
'Please don't believe in me, please disagree with me
Life is too easy, a plague seems quite feasible now
or maybe a war, or I may kill you all
Don't let me stay, don't let me stay
My logic says burn so send me away
Your minds are too green, I despise all I've seen
You can't stake your lives on a Saviour Machine
I need you flying, and I'll show that dying
Is living beyond reason, sacred dimension of time
I perceive every sign, I can steal every mind
Don't let me stay, don't let me stay
My logic says burn so send me away
Your minds are too green, I despise all I've seen
You can't stake your lives on a Saviour Machine
What in God's name are you people talking about? I've been going there for over a year now and I can tell you that it is NOT a porn link.
If someone DOES, through some strange twist of reality, end up at a porn site through this link then please post the IP because that would mean that something is very wrong.
Lots of lyrics and song info here:
www.teenagewildlife.com
Blizzard Entertainment announed its entry into the military control software market.
Our advanced unit control interface will allow the easy, dynamic control of a large number of military units of various types. Unit divisions can be formed on-the-fly allowing for easy regrouping of units.
Our revolutionary interface provides not only visual information but also features our advanced Aural Notification of Unit Situation system (A.N.U.S.). Simple audio queues inform the operator what military units are up to both on and off screen. Aural queues such as "daboo", "zug-zug" and "work completed" will inform operators of the current status of infrastructure units and codes such as "We're under attack!" will provide data pertaining to attack units.
LAST week, at age 29, John Sankus Jr. moved out of his parents' house for the first time.
Homer Simpson after checking his eyes in a pool that turns into a giant snake that slithers away: Oooooooooookaaaaaaaaaaaay...
And fuck all those blind users too. Who the hell do they think they are anyway? Why should they be able to read information off web sites if they can't see our inept layouts and worthless graphical garbage?
[cough]
When you are selling software to the lowest common denominator then, yes, making the user interface idiot proof is a must. But can the same be said in business?
Consider someone who uses Microsoft Word all day, every day and has yet to learn a single keyboard shortcut. That person is inept at his/her job and is wasting company time. Contrast this user with a proficient Word Perfect 5.1 user of ages past who could do ANYTHING with but a few flicks of the wrist.
I've worked with autocad users and have found that they fall into two categories: those who use the command line and those who use pull-down menus. Using the command line to draw a circle works as follows: "c[space]". That's it. You can type it in a fraction of a second. The same goes with about anything else in autocad, even complex operations. Users who spend most of their time searching through pull-down menus don't get nearly as much done as those who know how to do their jobs properly.
The customer isn't always the end user. Sometimes the customer is the business that the end user works for. When an AOL user says "This is too hard, I don't understand" then AOL has a software problem. When someone working for a business spends most of their time farting around with menus instead of getting any actual work done then the idiot's employer has a problem and it's not with the software.
I used to work in an engineering shop. The place was dirty and dusty as hell which caused computer equipment in the engineering office (read "big shack in main building") to become dirty and dusty as hell. One day something was giving off a burning plastic smell...
Phil: What's that burning plastic smell?
Fred: It's your monitor, it's on fire.
Phil's monitor had caught fire. Of course the monitor was destroyed but people were around to put it out and keep anything really bad from happening.
Two months later...
Phil: What's that burning plastic smell?
Fred: Your monitor is on fire again.
Phil's replacement monitor had caught fire. That was the last computer monitor fire they had that I know of. It didn't stop Phil from leaving his monitor on every night when he went home from work.
Just dump your junk mail in your local outgoing mail box.
It's nice that the door swings both ways when it comes to snail mail.
I can take it down the street and dump it in the mail box on the corner. If it's crap from some list I'm on I write "RETURN TO SENDER" on it first.
You want to litter in my mail box? Well I can litter in yours.
I wish everyone would do this. I wonder how long it would take them to get the message if half the mail they had to sort through was just trash.