The people who 'won' aren't preening about and engaging in dominance poses. They're proud of their accomplishment and busy working at the task of the mission.
The people 'copping the attitude' are just a group of spectators who have nothing to do with the accomplishment. At most they paid some tax dollars toward the cost of the mission.
I've run CPUs without heatsinks for decades. In fact, I once attached a heatsink to the Z80 processor on my BigBoard CP/M machine, hoping that would make it stop crashing. It didn't. I had to actually put a fan in a case (actually, first I had to put the BigBoard in a case!) and have air circulating over the entire board before it became stable.
It wasn't an AMD or Intel CPU, tho, so I suppose I should just step out of the way of the fragging here.
For many of us 'networking' has to do with a lot more than a networked machine running Apache.
Furthermore, if you connect to the site without a slashdot referrer, you have no problem. So who is the 'bumbling incompetent'? Someone who has their site filter on referrer, or someone who apparently doesn't even understand that's what happened?
On the other hand, looking at the 'Toms' page, it looks like another gear-review site. Fine enough, but there's more to networking than that.
You copied that from blurb text of the brochure you got in the mail when you sent in the 'Find a Career In The Legal Profession' matchbook cover, didn't you?
Reminds me of the old 'Get Rich Doing TV Repair' back cover ads on Popular Mechanics magazine.
Did you know that a high % of the cost of a ladder has to do with payouts and insurance because a few oafs climb high and lean out and fall off?
That must be why stepladders are plastered with so many warning labels and 'stupid stickers' that they are more stickered up than the average NASCAR race car.
I peeled all the stickers off on my stepladder. In case anybody here is 'working' their way through law school, come on over and fall off it. It's right out there in the back yard. The fact that I removed the stickers probably means some scum is entitled to boat payments from suing me.
Apparently there was even an empty cup holder right in reach that she wasn't using.
Perhaps she was confused and thought it was an ejected CD-ROM tray from the 'Computer Training' she'd had at a public library course, where they'd told her to NEVER use that thing for a cup holder.
It just goes to show that there's no reason to offer those 'Computer Literacy' courses at the library to litigious biddies.
I suppose it depends on what kind of 'standup arcade game fan' you are. Some of us find joy in keeping old game hardware running, intact, with original circuitry. It becomes a matter, of course, of keeping a stock of ttl chips and old SRAM parts and whatnot around, and having a good oscilloscope and docs, but isn't this a nerd website, and not just another gamer salon?
My solution was eBay. All the kids have their Christmas dollars right now to spend, so I listed both of our Playstations on eBay. I shopped one of them out today, am still awaiting payment for the other. If you have a good portfolio of games, it helps to 'bundle' a few good ones with each console you list.
I took this to mean that "all" we have to do is beef up WINE support
One of the reasons OS/2 slowly lost market share and died was that they had near-perfect Win16 'emulation' built in. In some ways it was far superior to regular Windows 3 running on DOS. Because of this, few third party vendors spent any time at all producing native ports of their product for OS/2.
When Windows 95 came along OS/2 was broadsided by the fact that none of the 'new' Win32 apps would run on it, and it had no portfolio of 'native' 32 bit apps. I remember working around whole cubicle farms full of Software engineers whose work involved Embedded OS/2, so they still had OS/2 on the desktop. The only word processor and spreadsheet they had available to them was ancient Word 6 and Excel 5, from the days of Windows 3.11. This was in 1999-2000. They were NOT happy people.
Linux should never settle for having a compatability layer to run Windows apps.
And I haven't logged even an attempt to access my machines from the outside world in well over 6 months, its simply not open to the network, not even on port 80. But its there, 24/7/365... I'll give you the exersize of finding it.
I'll tell you what: I'll even give you the IP address of my Minix box. It's running Straight Minix 2.0 from the CD on the back cover of Tannenbaum's book so it should be trivial to hack it. You go ahead and have fun, 'kay?
That means we'll have to open the box and examine the quality of construction inside. A lot of the cheap 'consumer grade' computer hardware from the early days didn't even have fiberglass circuit boards. Cheap 'phenolic' circuit boards crumble with time, and crack easily when subjected to mechanical shock. The Atari ST that I opened had a terrible circuit board that I recall as not even having plated through holes. That's the kind of 'quality' one expects from cheap Taiwanese consumer electronics like those $6 transistor radios Radio Shack used to sell.
The PC Junior was still terribly crippled by the fact that it didn't have a DMA controller. That 'cost saving' measure by IBM meant that the system couldn't 'surrender the bus' to the floppy disk controller for fast data transfers. Every byte of I/O to or from the floppy disk controller had to be transferred, with painful slowness, through the registers of the CPU.
The PC Junior has the distinct honor of having a Norton SI rating of 0.7 (the PC XT was the 1.0 'standard' and any other IBM-compat. hardware ANYWHERE was at least in parity with it). And the Disk I/O on the Junior was significantly worse than a.7 rating (Disk I/O wasn't part of the Norton SI benchmark).
Equating the persecution of the Jews in 20th century Europe to a measure to issue red license plates to confirmed repeat drunk driving offenders is ridiculous.
Red plates isn't about 'teaching them.' It's no different than putting hazard signs at dangerous spots on the road.
If you're going to escalate it to 'everybody wearing red jumpsuits.' You'll find people will stop taking your comments seriously.
Yeah, but when Jimmy Carter was President the doctrine was interpreted as meaning 'sending in platoons of hammer-wielding non-carpenters to build low-income housing.'
Which, of course, any sensible body of people being 'invaded' as such should repel by any means possible.
Many ISP's provide a 'DSL Modem' or 'Cable Modem' that has NAT built right into it. The crap one we have here from our ISP has a NAT layer built in that is hard-coded to supply an IP with DHCP to one single host machine (go figure, eh?). I, of course, stuck a second hardware NAT router behind it that's the only 'machine' it talks to directly. Tons of machines live behind that box, but none of them are accessable from outside. I fought the firmware in the ISP-supplied 'Modem' for awhile before giving up, and it's nice to just have that dumb box down there acting as the NAT server. I used an old machine with NetBSD for awhile but it was far noisier, etc.
Umm, the IBM PC 'even today' is just a box made by one of the many clone vendors. IBM lost 'ownership' of the IBM PC decades ago now. They tried to recapture that market with the PS/2 and Microchannel Architecture. They failed.
As to how you can claim it lacks the level of quality of the Amiga and Atari ST.... have you opened up one of those plastic-cased wonders? I have.
And it was the kind of 'good faith gesture' that kept Apple alive and viable. An endorsement from Microsoft (that is what it was) got others on board and was critical in bringing Apple Computer around.
It irritates Microsoft-haters to admit, but that how things work in business.
Apple was the 'market leader' in computers for a narrow window of time. This was because Visicalc, the first spreadsheet, was only available on one machine when it first came out: The Apple II. Businessmen of the time would go into a 'Personal Computer Store' (a new phenomenon at the time) and say 'I want a Visicalc.' By necessity the salesman would sell them an Apple II. When Visicalc, and other spreadsheets became widely available on other hardware, particularly the IBM PC, Apple sales to that market segment declined.
There wasn't any 'insanely great' thing that Apple did aside from getting Visicalc early.
The value in getting 'click throughs' on that kind of promotion goes well beyond the intial sale. When Joe Knuckledragger buys a WizzoXM device because he clicked through on the popup, his name on their marketing list is solid gold. He's a proven idiot who they can then market all sorts of other crap to. That's why all the crappy low-budget ads on TV do well. It isn't landing the first sale for that crappy kitchen gadget. It's selling item after item to the moron customer base they build up.
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The people who 'won' aren't preening about and engaging in dominance poses. They're proud of their accomplishment and busy working at the task of the mission.
The people 'copping the attitude' are just a group of spectators who have nothing to do with the accomplishment. At most they paid some tax dollars toward the cost of the mission.
Dish Network has the NASA channel even with the meagre 50 channel package that I subscribe to for $39 a month.
In the 'golden days of railroad' that the grandparent comment referred to, it was ALL private.
So much for your rant about 'privatization' or whatever.
I've run CPUs without heatsinks for decades. In fact, I once attached a heatsink to the Z80 processor on my BigBoard CP/M machine, hoping that would make it stop crashing. It didn't. I had to actually put a fan in a case (actually, first I had to put the BigBoard in a case!) and have air circulating over the entire board before it became stable.
It wasn't an AMD or Intel CPU, tho, so I suppose I should just step out of the way of the fragging here.
For many of us 'networking' has to do with a lot more than a networked machine running Apache.
Furthermore, if you connect to the site without a slashdot referrer, you have no problem. So who is the 'bumbling incompetent'? Someone who has their site filter on referrer, or someone who apparently doesn't even understand that's what happened?
On the other hand, looking at the 'Toms' page, it looks like another gear-review site. Fine enough, but there's more to networking than that.
You copied that from blurb text of the brochure you got in the mail when you sent in the 'Find a Career In The Legal Profession' matchbook cover, didn't you?
Reminds me of the old 'Get Rich Doing TV Repair' back cover ads on Popular Mechanics magazine.
Did you know that a high % of the cost of a ladder has to do with payouts and insurance because a few oafs climb high and lean out and fall off?
That must be why stepladders are plastered with so many warning labels and 'stupid stickers' that they are more stickered up than the average NASCAR race car.
I peeled all the stickers off on my stepladder. In case anybody here is 'working' their way through law school, come on over and fall off it. It's right out there in the back yard. The fact that I removed the stickers probably means some scum is entitled to boat payments from suing me.
'Profit' is one of those 'liberal code words' for 'money that we sure hope some Robin Hood type character will show up to take away.'
It's eeeeevile!
Apparently there was even an empty cup holder right in reach that she wasn't using.
Perhaps she was confused and thought it was an ejected CD-ROM tray from the 'Computer Training' she'd had at a public library course, where they'd told her to NEVER use that thing for a cup holder.
It just goes to show that there's no reason to offer those 'Computer Literacy' courses at the library to litigious biddies.
So you're going to sue slashdot to get their IP logs and track down this feller to sue him?
Wow! That's gonna really help you build your cred in this community.
I suppose it depends on what kind of 'standup arcade game fan' you are. Some of us find joy in keeping old game hardware running, intact, with original circuitry. It becomes a matter, of course, of keeping a stock of ttl chips and old SRAM parts and whatnot around, and having a good oscilloscope and docs, but isn't this a nerd website, and not just another gamer salon?
My solution was eBay. All the kids have their Christmas dollars right now to spend, so I listed both of our Playstations on eBay. I shopped one of them out today, am still awaiting payment for the other. If you have a good portfolio of games, it helps to 'bundle' a few good ones with each console you list.
Problem solved.
I took this to mean that "all" we have to do is beef up WINE support
One of the reasons OS/2 slowly lost market share and died was that they had near-perfect Win16 'emulation' built in. In some ways it was far superior to regular Windows 3 running on DOS. Because of this, few third party vendors spent any time at all producing native ports of their product for OS/2.
When Windows 95 came along OS/2 was broadsided by the fact that none of the 'new' Win32 apps would run on it, and it had no portfolio of 'native' 32 bit apps. I remember working around whole cubicle farms full of Software engineers whose work involved Embedded OS/2, so they still had OS/2 on the desktop. The only word processor and spreadsheet they had available to them was ancient Word 6 and Excel 5, from the days of Windows 3.11. This was in 1999-2000. They were NOT happy people.
Linux should never settle for having a compatability layer to run Windows apps.
I'll tell you what: I'll even give you the IP address of my Minix box. It's running Straight Minix 2.0 from the CD on the back cover of Tannenbaum's book so it should be trivial to hack it. You go ahead and have fun, 'kay?
The IP Address is: 192.168.0.25
Have at it!
That means we'll have to open the box and examine the quality of construction inside. A lot of the cheap 'consumer grade' computer hardware from the early days didn't even have fiberglass circuit boards. Cheap 'phenolic' circuit boards crumble with time, and crack easily when subjected to mechanical shock. The Atari ST that I opened had a terrible circuit board that I recall as not even having plated through holes. That's the kind of 'quality' one expects from cheap Taiwanese consumer electronics like those $6 transistor radios Radio Shack used to sell.
The PC Junior was still terribly crippled by the fact that it didn't have a DMA controller. That 'cost saving' measure by IBM meant that the system couldn't 'surrender the bus' to the floppy disk controller for fast data transfers. Every byte of I/O to or from the floppy disk controller had to be transferred, with painful slowness, through the registers of the CPU.
.7 rating (Disk I/O wasn't part of the Norton SI benchmark).
The PC Junior has the distinct honor of having a Norton SI rating of 0.7 (the PC XT was the 1.0 'standard' and any other IBM-compat. hardware ANYWHERE was at least in parity with it). And the Disk I/O on the Junior was significantly worse than a
Equating the persecution of the Jews in 20th century Europe to a measure to issue red license plates to confirmed repeat drunk driving offenders is ridiculous.
Red plates isn't about 'teaching them.' It's no different than putting hazard signs at dangerous spots on the road.
If you're going to escalate it to 'everybody wearing red jumpsuits.' You'll find people will stop taking your comments seriously.
Yeah, but when Jimmy Carter was President the doctrine was interpreted as meaning 'sending in platoons of hammer-wielding non-carpenters to build low-income housing.'
Which, of course, any sensible body of people being 'invaded' as such should repel by any means possible.
Further, is nmap a browser? It can make a heck of a lot of connections in a short period of time.
Many ISP's provide a 'DSL Modem' or 'Cable Modem' that has NAT built right into it. The crap one we have here from our ISP has a NAT layer built in that is hard-coded to supply an IP with DHCP to one single host machine (go figure, eh?). I, of course, stuck a second hardware NAT router behind it that's the only 'machine' it talks to directly. Tons of machines live behind that box, but none of them are accessable from outside. I fought the firmware in the ISP-supplied 'Modem' for awhile before giving up, and it's nice to just have that dumb box down there acting as the NAT server. I used an old machine with NetBSD for awhile but it was far noisier, etc.
Well, they failed in that they didn't get to jettision the old Apple staff after the 'takeover.'
Second, the IBM PC even today...
Umm, the IBM PC 'even today' is just a box made by one of the many clone vendors. IBM lost 'ownership' of the IBM PC decades ago now. They tried to recapture that market with the PS/2 and Microchannel Architecture. They failed.
As to how you can claim it lacks the level of quality of the Amiga and Atari ST.... have you opened up one of those plastic-cased wonders? I have.
It was a good faith jesture,
And it was the kind of 'good faith gesture' that kept Apple alive and viable. An endorsement from Microsoft (that is what it was) got others on board and was critical in bringing Apple Computer around.
It irritates Microsoft-haters to admit, but that how things work in business.
Apple was the 'market leader' in computers for a narrow window of time. This was because Visicalc, the first spreadsheet, was only available on one machine when it first came out: The Apple II. Businessmen of the time would go into a 'Personal Computer Store' (a new phenomenon at the time) and say 'I want a Visicalc.' By necessity the salesman would sell them an Apple II. When Visicalc, and other spreadsheets became widely available on other hardware, particularly the IBM PC, Apple sales to that market segment declined.
There wasn't any 'insanely great' thing that Apple did aside from getting Visicalc early.
The value in getting 'click throughs' on that kind of promotion goes well beyond the intial sale. When Joe Knuckledragger buys a WizzoXM device because he clicked through on the popup, his name on their marketing list is solid gold . He's a proven idiot who they can then market all sorts of other crap to. That's why all the crappy low-budget ads on TV do well. It isn't landing the first sale for that crappy kitchen gadget. It's selling item after item to the moron customer base they build up.