I just restored an antique oscope, fully tube type, no IC's at all, not one.
My dad was a TV/Radio repairman in the 50's and 60's and his tools were my toys when I was little.
I remember going with him to Rat Shack to buy tubes. I also remember his angst when Rat Shack quit selling tubes.
About two weeks ago I went to Rat Shack to buy some IC's and other small parts to repair something. The moron punk had no clue what I was talking about. I could have been speaking Martian to him for all it was worth. After much complaining I got him to dig in the back for the parts. He brought out a 1 cubic foot cardboard box, it contained the last remnants of MY era of experimenting. A small handfull of basic IC's, a few perfboards, some IC sockets.
Thou shalt not repair thy electronics for it is an abomination in the eyes of the Holy Stockholders. Thou shalt throw away all that is broken and replace it with new, more costly and less repairable products.
Remember thy bottom line and hold it Holy... Amen...
SBC. Nope, not gonna hook up with those ass pirates.
M$. Nope, not gonna use anything touched by them either.
Try again. I will never, ever hook up a wire to my house or business if SBC has anything to do with it. I grew weary of the constant raping they gave me from 1994 to 2001...
The fact is, QWERTY works and it works quite well.
Indeed.. I failed typing class miserably, back in 1974 because being class clown was much more fun than typing. And that was on a real typewriter with blank keys. Computers weren't available then to anyone other than banks, labs, etc..
When I did gain access to computers just a few years later in high school they were 10cps TTY terminals running on a baudot dialup, I taught myself to type.
Now, I can sustain 50+ wpm all day long with a very low error rate. And after a pot of coffee in the morning or a few Red Bulls, I can burst out around 80 wpm for an hour or two.
I tried one of those natural keyboards for a few years and it was pretty decent, I think I may have even picked up a few wpm. But I've gone back to the "old fashioned" straight type.
But to say the qwerty keyboard is not a good design is poop. It's just that a LOT of people are not qualified to operate a pencil sharpener, you know the sort, the two finger hunt-n-peck people. God how I hate to go in somewhere and have to wait for someone to type something up like that. I can type an entire page in the time they take to type a single line.
On a related note, sort of, when my son was in high school he had to take "Keyboarding".. Not "Typing" but "Keyboarding"... We went around and around over that, I argued with my son over the terminology, I complained to the school that it was ignorant of them to use that term as the name of a class. You do not "keyboard" a document, you TYPE a document. You go to class to learn to TYPE, not to "keyboard".. And the class taught nothing at all about computers or any particular programs, it was a typing class using some generic learn-to-type software, not word processors.
Just to clarify. The CRT's I use are high end. Not Best buy crap, but special order types. Iiyama for one, Sony's and a few other brands. They are in the $3,000+ price range. So, you get what you pay for. LCD can not compare to these things, at all. I also do a fair amount of video processing, (editing and DVD mastering of training videos) and motion blur on LCD is unacceptable. I am fortunate that I have the choice of LCD or CRT. I do not like LCD displays for TV or computer use and will never buy one for any reason. On my laptops I hook them into a Rose KVM and route them to a CRT. That also allows me to stand the laptops on their edges on a shelf.
Watch a video with a lot of motion, like a sports event on a LCD and a CRT side by side and you'll see what I mean. And I set the refresh rate high so I don't see flicker. That's not an issue at all.
I still say that people rush out to buy LCD's just to be trendy. Anyone that says LCD is better than CRT simply doesn't have the experience to know different.
I use only 22" CRT's. (I own about 100 or so of them) Yeah, they're BIG, heavy, hot, power suckers, etc.. But, there is no way possible an LCD display can rival them, not no way, not no how.
LCD is for neophytes that want to be trendy. In some cases they are called for, like space restricted areas or where you need a lot of them up at the same time, etc..
But, if you spend serious time (14-18 hours a day) looking at screens, you need top of the line CRT's. CAD, DTP, video production, etc.. Even hard core gamers will tell you that CRT is the only way.
I wish there was something for Linux that would allow me to select a range of pictures and print them catalog style. I remember a M$ prog called Thumbsplus that would do that, I think they called them "Contact Sheets" or something like that.
As it stands now, there are some good viewers, I like GQview which is an included extra with most distros. It's really handy. Not perfect for for general viewing it does the job. Complaints: no printing ability, extremely limited image manipulation ability, but as a simple viewer, very good..
If I want to print multiple photos on a single page I have to import them into OO which is not on my list of fun things to do...
go out of business for making TRASH.. I have a 120g I bough last year that sounds like a 767 is cranking up for takeoff. I've padded the case with felt pads to absorb some of the noise but it's still intolerable.
I've also had a LOT of problems with WD drives going into a power on/off cycle, 'clunking' on and off rapidly and of course trashing data.. I've owned about 20 WD drives over the past few years and now they sit in my drawer, trashed, because they were just cheaply made crap.
I'll NEVER buy another WD again, I won't even take one if it's offered to me free of charge.
I've installed several Maxtor's for people and they are damn near silent, the PS fan is usually louder than the drive. In most cases I have to pick the drive up and feel it gyro in my hand (during initial install) to be sure it's working!
Well, if this is going to be a slow year for them, they can lower prices to move inventory. I would like to stock up on a few big Maxtor's this year. I also hope blank DVD prices come down too.. Gotta back those bad boys up ya know!
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I just restored an antique oscope, fully tube type, no IC's at all, not one.
My dad was a TV/Radio repairman in the 50's and 60's and his tools were my toys when I was little.
I remember going with him to Rat Shack to buy tubes. I also remember his angst when Rat Shack quit selling tubes.
About two weeks ago I went to Rat Shack to buy some IC's and other small parts to repair something. The moron punk had no clue what I was talking about. I could have been speaking Martian to him for all it was worth. After much complaining I got him to dig in the back for the parts. He brought out a 1 cubic foot cardboard box, it contained the last remnants of MY era of experimenting. A small handfull of basic IC's, a few perfboards, some IC sockets.
Thou shalt not repair thy electronics for it is an abomination in the eyes of the Holy Stockholders. Thou shalt throw away all that is broken and replace it with new, more costly and less repairable products.
Remember thy bottom line and hold it Holy...
Amen...
"In other news... Boy George really looks scary these days."
Boy George was the TARGET of the recent HAARP test. Two mysteries solved..
while I cook the sky..
I prefer the alternative system I have developed, I call it "KMFA"..
It gives me ultimate security rights and control over my machines..
I see that it appears to be a eurocentric device and winders compatible.
Now that Linux is supported, will the Olympia be usable with Linux and in the USSA???
if you want rock solid reliability and ease of installation and configuration.
Works out of the box.
9.2 is quirky....
If anyone ever actually read those EULA's, word for word they would NOT click agree...
I wish they would include a "Go get fucked" button on those EULA's...
SBC. Nope, not gonna hook up with those ass pirates.
M$. Nope, not gonna use anything touched by them either.
Try again. I will never, ever hook up a wire to my house or business if SBC has anything to do with it. I grew weary of the constant raping they gave me from 1994 to 2001...
The fact is, QWERTY works and it works quite well.
Indeed.. I failed typing class miserably, back in 1974 because being class clown was much more fun than typing. And that was on a real typewriter with blank keys. Computers weren't available then to anyone other than banks, labs, etc..
When I did gain access to computers just a few years later in high school they were 10cps TTY terminals running on a baudot dialup, I taught myself to type.
Now, I can sustain 50+ wpm all day long with a very low error rate. And after a pot of coffee in the morning or a few Red Bulls, I can burst out around 80 wpm for an hour or two.
I tried one of those natural keyboards for a few years and it was pretty decent, I think I may have even picked up a few wpm. But I've gone back to the "old fashioned" straight type.
But to say the qwerty keyboard is not a good design is poop. It's just that a LOT of people are not qualified to operate a pencil sharpener, you know the sort, the two finger hunt-n-peck people. God how I hate to go in somewhere and have to wait for someone to type something up like that. I can type an entire page in the time they take to type a single line.
On a related note, sort of, when my son was in high school he had to take "Keyboarding"..
Not "Typing" but "Keyboarding"...
We went around and around over that, I argued with my son over the terminology, I complained to the school that it was ignorant of them to use that term as the name of a class.
You do not "keyboard" a document, you TYPE a document. You go to class to learn to TYPE, not to "keyboard".. And the class taught nothing at all about computers or any particular programs, it was a typing class using some generic learn-to-type software, not word processors.
God I hate the ignorance of people..
idiot running things, progress will not happen.
2,000 years and still some people are stuck with their Voo-Doo beliefs..
Just to clarify. The CRT's I use are high end. Not Best buy crap, but special order types. Iiyama for one, Sony's and a few other brands. They are in the $3,000+ price range. So, you get what you pay for. LCD can not compare to these things, at all. I also do a fair amount of video processing, (editing and DVD mastering of training videos) and motion blur on LCD is unacceptable. I am fortunate that I have the choice of LCD or CRT. I do not like LCD displays for TV or computer use and will never buy one for any reason. On my laptops I hook them into a Rose KVM and route them to a CRT. That also allows me to stand the laptops on their edges on a shelf.
Watch a video with a lot of motion, like a sports event on a LCD and a CRT side by side and you'll see what I mean. And I set the refresh rate high so I don't see flicker. That's not an issue at all.
I still say that people rush out to buy LCD's just to be trendy. Anyone that says LCD is better than CRT simply doesn't have the experience to know different.
Flame away, I don't care.
the goatse guy that MAY be a clue that you've been f*cked...
I use only 22" CRT's. (I own about 100 or so of them)
Yeah, they're BIG, heavy, hot, power suckers, etc.. But, there is no way possible an LCD display can rival them, not no way, not no how.
LCD is for neophytes that want to be trendy.
In some cases they are called for, like space restricted areas or where you need a lot of them up at the same time, etc..
But, if you spend serious time (14-18 hours a day) looking at screens, you need top of the line CRT's. CAD, DTP, video production, etc..
Even hard core gamers will tell you that CRT is the only way.
(ONE time fee!) you can get an entire OS and Kontact
DNA encryption and carrier pigeons...
"No word on whether or not this will affect the Korean release."
We don't need no steenking Korean release, we got bittorrent release!
I wish there was something for Linux that would allow me to select a range of pictures and print them catalog style. I remember a M$ prog called Thumbsplus that would do that, I think they called them "Contact Sheets" or something like that.
As it stands now, there are some good viewers, I like GQview which is an included extra with most distros.
It's really handy. Not perfect for for general viewing it does the job. Complaints: no printing ability, extremely limited image manipulation ability, but as a simple viewer, very good..
If I want to print multiple photos on a single page I have to import them into OO which is not on my list of fun things to do...
a plane crash kills 300 people.
800 deaths goes beyond tragedy. This will really entice terrorists...
I just don't like this concept. I'll stay on the ground, thanks..
Hasn't this boy heard of torrents?
He can watch the movie at home the night it opens..
Doh!
"20!? If I had any more than 3 from the same manufacturer fail I'd have looked elsewhere"
I doubt you own or deal with the quantity of systems that I do.. Most of them were came from bulk purchases.
At this very moment, I have 10 systems running, within arms reach of my desk and 100+ systems in the other room.
You deal with what you have.
go out of business for making TRASH..
I have a 120g I bough last year that sounds like a 767 is cranking up for takeoff. I've padded the case with felt pads to absorb some of the noise but it's still intolerable.
I've also had a LOT of problems with WD drives going into a power on/off cycle, 'clunking' on and off rapidly and of course trashing data..
I've owned about 20 WD drives over the past few years and now they sit in my drawer, trashed, because they were just cheaply made crap.
I'll NEVER buy another WD again, I won't even take one if it's offered to me free of charge.
I've installed several Maxtor's for people and they are damn near silent, the PS fan is usually louder than the drive. In most cases I have to pick the drive up and feel it gyro in my hand (during initial install) to be sure it's working!
Well, if this is going to be a slow year for them, they can lower prices to move inventory.
I would like to stock up on a few big Maxtor's this year. I also hope blank DVD prices come down too.. Gotta back those bad boys up ya know!
Open Source it or give it abandonware status?
That would be fun!
but still, it's not like you can just put it in your PC and start reading your neighour's mail.
No, you need one of these..
http://www.systemrecycler.com/shomiti/
That would explain those wireless headsets they wear.
And if you see a Ronald McDonald talking into his sleeve, it's a god chance he's an undercover RM..