Interesting that you should ask. The last software purchase I made at Office Max was about 2 years ago. It was a late-night emergency and I needed a full-up Win95se disk. I bought one at Office Max that turned out to be an oddball version that was incompatible with all the Win98se upgrade disks that I was using.
So no, I don't buy Windows software or Windows at Office Max.
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Read my reply to Penguinboy.
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Let's read up?
I've spent the last 25 fsking years designing controllers and adapter cards. I designed a NIC for a fsking PCjr.
I had a PDF of that NIC's controller chip data sheet on my hard drive for over a year. I know it and I know there's no frickin way *THAT* adapter can force the CPU to run code. I'm not saying other adapters can't. They can only if they are designed to.
"Obviously it wouldn't be impossible for a NIC to rewrite your boot sector"
Obviously you didn't even bother to read a few posts before yours...
The NIC can't run anything. There's no flash or EPROM on it. There's no way for it to force the CPU to execute code. I't can't do a damn thing but perform I/O instructions.
Perhaps you're confusing a piece of hardware with driver software.
The NIC did not eat your boot sector. I'm very familiar with the design that appears on the web page you posted and there's no way that the NIC could have done it. It has NO way of storing executable code onboard unless there's a flash or EPROM chip installed.
I don't know how your boot sector got trashed, but it wasn't the NIC hardware.
Most quakes are over with before you could find any shelter. Usually just a heave or a jolt.
The USGS has a great web site where you can fill out
a survey that assigns a Richter value to what you felt then add the value to a dynamic "shake map"
Even the pixels themselves are smaller, five of them could fit in the diameter of a human hair, allowing them to detect more light and generate a higher quality image."
Wouldn't making the pixels smaller make the device detect less light?
My two favorites are Surplus Stuff in Sacramento and Mike Quinn's in San Leandro.
I've been trading at Mike Quinn's since 1972. It is an icon of East Bay electronics. Mike Quinn passed away about 20 years ago, but the torch has been carried by his daughter and Jay.
About a month ago Jay sold me a 1hp 3-phase motor, brand new, for my lathe. Cost - $10. Retail price - $288.00.
First of all, I am not a lawyer and this is not legal advise.
If I received an email complaint, I would respond with a form message advising the sender that no action will be taken until the complaint is submitted by fax or hardcopy.
I've worked at LLNL, both with a Q clearance and before it was granted. I've been escorted by guards, but never did they touch their weapon nor behaved in anything like a threating or paranoid way. Mostly they found a comfortable chair and relaxed.
The whole point of free software is to share and give something back to the community. Why do I get the feeling that so many of these requests are people simply looking for 'free as in beer' solutions?
I, for one, don't like cell phones. I carry one or call one only when I have to.
I live in a college town and most of the college kids take them everywhere. I'm sick of hearing people take calls and talk on them at plays, movies and restaraunts. A student at the college told me that cell phones have destroyed the community atmosphere as the students are only interested in getting out of the class and getting on their cell phones.
I think by and large we'd be better off without them.
Yeah, they get used, mostly in foreign countries. As a merchant who got stiffed for $1700 on one of those uses, I'm not inclined to discuss how it was done on Slashdot.
I agree. Years ago I worked in the semiconductor maskmaking industry. We had both conventional and electron beam microscopes. The conventional ones were always called light microscopes when there was any ambiguity.
First of all, they call it an optical microscope. But I couldn't find any optics. Besides, an electron microscope does have optics. So if they want to call it something, shouldn't it be a light microscope?
Secondly, the whole context of the article was that this would let you 'see' as in with light, what something would look like. Reading the article, we find out that the photons are emitted from the sample in some way that might not at all correspond with what the thing might 'look' like.
I guess this opens up the whole question of what something *might* look like when you are imaging it at a resolution far beyond the traditional resolution of light.
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So no, I don't buy Windows software or Windows at Office Max.
They won't be carrying Redhat Linux any more.
Read my reply to Penguinboy.
I've spent the last 25 fsking years designing controllers and adapter cards. I designed a NIC for a fsking PCjr.
I had a PDF of that NIC's controller chip data sheet on my hard drive for over a year. I know it and I know there's no frickin way *THAT* adapter can force the CPU to run code. I'm not saying other adapters can't. They can only if they are designed to.
Obviously you didn't even bother to read a few posts before yours...
The NIC can't run anything. There's no flash or EPROM on it. There's no way for it to force the CPU to execute code. I't can't do a damn thing but perform I/O instructions.
Perhaps you're confusing a piece of hardware with driver software.
Of course there is. It's the IEEE. I know because I shelled out 1600 hard earned dollars for 2^24 MAC numbers. Need their URL?
Way sure. The chip is a Realtek RTL8139. You can see the data sheet at www.realtek.com.tw
I don't want to post a full url because they are dogmeat slow under best of conditions.
I don't know how your boot sector got trashed, but it wasn't the NIC hardware.
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As long as the record companies are perceived as the thieving bastards that they are, people will feel no guilt about sharing a few tunes.
No we're not.
The USGS has a great web site where you can fill out a survey that assigns a Richter value to what you felt then add the value to a dynamic "shake map"
Wouldn't making the pixels smaller make the device detect less light?
Ali is the Man. One of the nicest surplus merchants that I've ever known
My two favorites are Surplus Stuff in Sacramento and Mike Quinn's in San Leandro. I've been trading at Mike Quinn's since 1972. It is an icon of East Bay electronics. Mike Quinn passed away about 20 years ago, but the torch has been carried by his daughter and Jay. About a month ago Jay sold me a 1hp 3-phase motor, brand new, for my lathe. Cost - $10. Retail price - $288.00.
If I received an email complaint, I would respond with a form message advising the sender that no action will be taken until the complaint is submitted by fax or hardcopy.
I've worked at LLNL, both with a Q clearance and before it was granted. I've been escorted by guards, but never did they touch their weapon nor behaved in anything like a threating or paranoid way. Mostly they found a comfortable chair and relaxed.
http://www.folsom.com/ Check out the BlendPro
The whole point of free software is to share and give something back to the community. Why do I get the feeling that so many of these requests are people simply looking for 'free as in beer' solutions?
Oh, you mean like Microsoft server products?
I live in a college town and most of the college kids take them everywhere. I'm sick of hearing people take calls and talk on them at plays, movies and restaraunts. A student at the college told me that cell phones have destroyed the community atmosphere as the students are only interested in getting out of the class and getting on their cell phones.
I think by and large we'd be better off without them.
Now right it 10 times on the blackboard.
No offense.
I agree. Years ago I worked in the semiconductor maskmaking industry. We had both conventional and electron beam microscopes. The conventional ones were always called light microscopes when there was any ambiguity.
Secondly, the whole context of the article was that this would let you 'see' as in with light, what something would look like. Reading the article, we find out that the photons are emitted from the sample in some way that might not at all correspond with what the thing might 'look' like.
I guess this opens up the whole question of what something *might* look like when you are imaging it at a resolution far beyond the traditional resolution of light.