Oh, perhaps you mean Teletype Corp ASR33? Man, we had one of those in our machine room, and, yeah, they could create quite a racket. I hope you don't try to sleep in there!
Heh, well, It's a KSR33 (No punch/reader at the side). And no, I do not attempt to leave it on while sleeping. But it would not create a significant noise problem, as I already have several workstations heating up my room. I actually find the hum (not disk-whine, but fan-whoosh) quite soothing.:)
Being the retrogeek I am, I feel obliged to point out that there never was a Burroughs Mark II. However, I am going to assume that you are referring to the Harvard Mark II, designed by Aiken. Its memory was actually not relay-based, but it was mercury-delay-line-based (Sound was passed through a tube of mercury, and looped back).
Oh, and by the friggin' way. I know what noise is. I have a model 33 in my room without the cover on.
this could make intercontinental travel anything up to twice as fast, through making civilian supersonic jets politically acceptable. the greatest gains would be had in overland transcontinental travel, where no airliner has yet been allowed to remain supersonic because of their booms.
They are politically acceptable, just not economically acceptable. Supersonic jets using afterburners use ungodly amounts of fuel. I've heard the Concorde made slightly less noise than a 747-400 or something like that.
Well, the reason it was unprofitable was (IANAAerospace Engineer) that to achieve supersonic flight, one would have to use afterburners, which burn up shahuntloads of fuel. There was a Soviet equivalent project that never really took off (pun not intended) by Antonov, but that was basically a clone of the Concorde anyway.
And if we do develop an economical supersonic passenger plane, then we still have a larger problem with the noise these jet engines make in the first place.
Call me a dirty pinko hippie, but how is this fun for geeks? How will this help mankind? This is just another piece in the war machine puzzle that really won't do anyone any good. What we should try to do with the defense money is research that would benefit mankind, like medical research and things like that. It worked for ARPA.
I do not intend to celebrate that the US war machine just got one notch more deadly, and is estimated to kill up to 20% more people.
This won't solve anything. This won't make anything better for anyone.
I think the grandparent meant that this is tech research money and brilliant minds wasted on killing people instead of doing viable useful research on things that would benefit mankind and improve lives instead of taking them.
Well, I and the poster I was shamelessly stealing from, assumed that you already have a proxy server (The network I'm on, a Skolelinux system (I'm a translator/tester) uses a proxy on the gateway) Other uses for the HTTP proxy is apt-get caches and so on.
I completely agree that there is no point in setting up a proxy for this purpose.
O, helo. Thee engleesh langweech is ful of theese. It is wan of the most foneticly confusing langwidge s evur.
That still makes it a deviation from the standard (UK English, which you brought by boat) to spell it "analog" and "color" etc. Yes, they are redundant, but I'm sure 50% of all the letters are as well.
I have a similar problem. I can lay in bed staring at the roof 'till about 4AM, and then sleep and not be able to get out of bed until after 12. I also suffer from energy lack. I'm going to try to track down some melatonin, but we (Norwayistan) have an extremely restrictive FDA...
Haha, here in Norway I found one in a similar recycling bin that stinked profusely of indian food. I just washed it with some horrible detergents and now it smells Lemon Fresh(tm)!
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b) You can't assume that bash will be in/bin
Heck, SGIs put it in/usr/local/gnu/bin/bash or something equally rediculous.
BTW, this was in a computer oriented "high-school" education. He should really have known better.:-)
This is a disgruntled high-school pupil talking, but education don't mean shit. According to one recent study, one in five US high-school seniors believes Germany was our ally in World War II.
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All well and good, but, er, wouldn't your car reek of sulfide for the rest of its life?
Oh, perhaps you mean Teletype Corp ASR33? Man, we had one of those in our machine room, and, yeah, they could create quite a racket. I hope you don't try to sleep in there!
:)
Heh, well, It's a KSR33 (No punch/reader at the side). And no, I do not attempt to leave it on while sleeping. But it would not create a significant noise problem, as I already have several workstations heating up my room. I actually find the hum (not disk-whine, but fan-whoosh) quite soothing.
Hehe, but you are mistaken!!
Being the retrogeek I am, I feel obliged to point out that there never was a Burroughs Mark II. However, I am going to assume that you are referring to the Harvard Mark II, designed by Aiken. Its memory was actually not relay-based, but it was mercury-delay-line-based (Sound was passed through a tube of mercury, and looped back).
Oh, and by the friggin' way. I know what noise is. I have a model 33 in my room without the cover on.
That, my friend, is noise.
...although I don't think I dress funny...
Uh, suuure you don't.
Okay, I'll bite.
I couldn't use any of the games...immediately took the disk out, rebooted, and did some real work in Windows.
Hee.
this could make intercontinental travel anything up to twice as fast, through making civilian supersonic jets politically acceptable. the greatest gains would be had in overland transcontinental travel, where no airliner has yet been allowed to remain supersonic because of their booms.
They are politically acceptable, just not economically acceptable. Supersonic jets using afterburners use ungodly amounts of fuel. I've heard the Concorde made slightly less noise than a 747-400 or something like that.
Replying to all the posters to my post:
This was based on the fact that supersonic passenger flight (at least with current technology) is unprofitable.
With space flight noise isn't really an issue.
Well, the reason it was unprofitable was (IANAAerospace Engineer) that to achieve supersonic flight, one would have to use afterburners, which burn up shahuntloads of fuel. There was a Soviet equivalent project that never really took off (pun not intended) by Antonov, but that was basically a clone of the Concorde anyway.
And if we do develop an economical supersonic passenger plane, then we still have a larger problem with the noise these jet engines make in the first place.
Very true. This is more a symptom than a diagnosis.
Yes, but this is something that exclusively benefits stealth killing. Electricity can kill people, but I'm still glad it was discovered and utilized.
Hell, the Internet came from defense R&D, but this is exclusively of use for defense. Supersonic passenger carriers have been proved unprofitable.
Call me a dirty pinko hippie, but how is this fun for geeks? How will this help mankind? This is just another piece in the war machine puzzle that really won't do anyone any good. What we should try to do with the defense money is research that would benefit mankind, like medical research and things like that. It worked for ARPA.
I do not intend to celebrate that the US war machine just got one notch more deadly, and is estimated to kill up to 20% more people.
This won't solve anything. This won't make anything better for anyone.
I think the grandparent meant that this is tech research money and brilliant minds wasted on killing people instead of doing viable useful research on things that would benefit mankind and improve lives instead of taking them.
No, it's on a 1970s Tandem mainframe, with PDP-11/34 terminals. No, I kid not :)
Well, I and the poster I was shamelessly stealing from, assumed that you already have a proxy server (The network I'm on, a Skolelinux system (I'm a translator/tester) uses a proxy on the gateway)
Other uses for the HTTP proxy is apt-get caches and so on.
I completely agree that there is no point in setting up a proxy for this purpose.
O, helo. Thee engleesh langweech is ful of theese. It is wan of the most foneticly confusing langwidge s evur.
That still makes it a deviation from the standard (UK English, which you brought by boat) to spell it "analog" and "color" etc. Yes, they are redundant, but I'm sure 50% of all the letters are as well.
I have a similar problem. I can lay in bed staring at the roof 'till about 4AM, and then sleep and not be able to get out of bed until after 12. I also suffer from energy lack. I'm going to try to track down some melatonin, but we (Norwayistan) have an extremely restrictive FDA...
Heck, my K6-II actually runs GNOME without hitches. GNOME is fast and sexy. (the machine has 256 MB, btw)
Takk så meget.
My faith in BT has yet again been confirmed.
I wonder, why can't kernel.org user torrents?
Haha, here in Norway I found one in a similar recycling bin that stinked profusely of indian food. I just washed it with some horrible detergents and now it smells Lemon Fresh(tm)!
b) You can't assume that bash will be in /bin
/usr/local/gnu/bin/bash or something equally rediculous.
Heck, SGIs put it in
3. used my C64 as a fotball. it *STILL* works. (they made good shit in the old days)
That might be. I also have very good experiences with the computers they also made back then.
Yes, it's water. Pure demineralized water.
BTW, this was in a computer oriented "high-school" education. He should really have known better. :-)
This is a disgruntled high-school pupil talking, but education don't mean shit. According to one recent study, one in five US high-school seniors believes Germany was our ally in World War II.