You have point set game and match there bub....
35 years in IT.
Experience with Mainframe, Min-computers, PCs Macs, Other (C=64, Apple II, every S-100 beast built, etc etc). 15 Years in PC support. Familiar with almost every operating system from CP/M through many Linux distros, every Win and all MacOS. Long long time PC user. Current OS of choice? Mac OS X 10.3.6 because it is just......better. If it can impress an old dog like me, it must turn younger heads fairly well..
well actually.... the Noah legend is preceded by the Ush-tu-pesh-tu story (the Sumerian Noah). and, some recent geologic studies seem to suggest that there might be a sliver of truth to it: Basically t he idea is that the Bosporus (the place where Asia meets Europe at the mouth of the Black Sea, was a ridge line separating the waters of the Mediterranean from the inland valley plain with a large lake on what is now the sea bed of the Black Sea. One earthquake and a whole Neolithic culture gets a really bad hair day... See James Pritchard: "Near Eastern Texts Related to the Bible" for info on the Sumerian myths and an article in Nature about 2 years ago (sorry, forgot the citation) on the earthquake theory
Apple has had a command line since the beginning: CALL -151 to drop to the monitor,
3D0G to get back.
Of course in GS/OS one must launch Basic.System to drop to the prompt. Terminal? pish posh! ProDOS rulz!:)
120 miles to Starbucks, 210 miles to Frys. Your neighbor in the cubicle next door keeps grousing about Sorgum Prices (whatever that is) and their dating prospects at the next Grange dance. The big local news is the John Deere dealership is expanding, and Billy Joe Bob's sister (yeah the one with THOSE teeth) is makin moon eyes at you when she visits at lunch.
Makes me want to point my pickup truck towards Cupertino and GET OUT OF THERE!
I would but this is a NEW TWIST(tm) on AOHELL billing: they are NOT charging a credit card but rather DIRECTLY TO THE PHONE BILL. What I did was call QWEST my provider and told them that charge was in dispute. This phone bill thing is the latest in weasel tactics from a company that seems to have a hard time with straight forward compition. Must have been taking seminars at SCO...
Recently I got a little note in my landline phone bill: "Hi! This is AOL. Per your request, we will be billing you for our monthly service via the telephone company. Thanks for choosing AOL" I have DSL service from [major phone provider] and an IP from [local mom and pop ISP] I NEVER REQUESTED NO STINKIN AOL!!!!
So I called Beautiful downtown Bangalore via the AOL 800 number and after a pleasant wait of forever on really stupid hold music and advertisements, I got some guy named "Bill" who spoke far better English then I. He must have; after all a World class company had hired him to speak to me...I explained the issue which he..did not understand.
Again it must be me; a fine company like AOHell would never hire people who could not understand their potential customers. "Bill" passed me to "Sheila" who also was very difficult to understand. Feeling even more the Dumb American I explained the problem again and she Asked why I disliked the service and wished to cancel. I yet again explained I had never signed up for the service IN THE FIRST PLACE! She then said she would pass me to someone who would help me. Funny, I thought all the other people I had been speaking to were there to help me, silly presumption on my part... I at this point lost my temper and described the circumstance again. precisely, with name, number, dates and other data, and ended with: "If this is not dealt with correctly, litigious redress is always a possibility". Two months later: A bill for $56.80 for 2 months of AOL service. At this point postal workers came to mind... I called AOL, said "Lets cut to the chase; give me your supervisor.." After yelling a bit I got a person who spoke American. The bottom line of this call was a promise to remove the charge and the AOL billing. I will wait a week and try calling again or. In the mean time I have already sent a pleasant note to my State Attorneys General Office complementing AOL on their shrewd marketing techniques.
Has Microsoft cleared all the bugs from that Beta Windows 3.0 yet? Last time I looked the current offering seemed to have more, but maybe that is just me...
The lack of knowledge on any subject on which they report is an old truism of journalism. Look through the classic movies at your local Video ram and find any of the makes, re-makes, or re-re-re-makes of a play titled: "The Front Page". One in particular that is well acted and a good view is the Cary Grant/ Rosalind Russell production "My Girl Friday" from the 40s. The plot centers around an escaped death row felon who probably did nothing wrong to begin with. The characters are a crook Mayor, Crook Governor, Political Hack Chief of police, and the reporters.. Ah the reporters. Russell finds the escapee and hides him to "Get the scoop" To heck with human feelings, to heck with truth, and to heck with any ethics. The Scoop is All. I would HIGHLY recommend any of the version of "The Front Page" as a accurate portrayal of the average "Journalist's" behavior and "balance".
I am a retro computist. There are several of us out here who have fun playing with older machines. Bit ROt is a known issue in the Really Really Old computers game. A good example would be the Apple II Mouse Card. This is an 8bit Apple II slot card. It is usually installed in an Apple ][+ or Apple//e in slot #4. Back int he old days before IRQs and other dodges, the way you kept the BUS from going crazy was to associate specific devices with specific slots. On an Apple II the litany was:
Slot 1 Printer, Slot 2 Modem, Slot 3 video, Slot 4 mouse, Slot 5 3.5 floppy, Slot 6 5.25 floppy, Slot 7 netowrk or hard drive controller. Anyway, the card logic was handled by firmware in a ROM or EPROM. Over time, and we are talking since 1982 or even 1978 in some card's cases) this firmware ceases to work. Fortunately for those of us interested, there are some brave folks who backed up *.bin fiels of these chips so we can sometimes "refresh" the firmware and return the card to use. Problem is that the chip itself may be bad in which case you need to find the same chip, a copy of the bin and someone with an old C=64, Apple or (didn't someone make an x86?) EPROM burner to resurect it. The process is very similar to flashing firmware on modern beasts only slower and more prone to errors.
Can someone please explain to me the quandry: Why are all the engineering jobs going to Bangalore, and all the Lawyers staying here? Am I living on the wrong continent?
All such tests are subjective, based on the tester's bias and experience and lacking in real world useful stuff. I bet there is not even one section on the proper way to format a Jobcard and JCL for a FORTRAN run on a IBM OS/360. Harrumph! Never get a job at NASA that way....
They do TOO know English. English is the ONLY common language of the Indian subcontinent!
Unfortunately it is their own local varriation that is as difficult for an American to follow as is London Cockney. The fact that so MANY of those Americans used to have jobs that are now filled by folsk with Indian accents does not help either..
He can recall about 8000 books so he should be well grounded for other uses.
NASA's next project is to have him generate an unending supply of position papers, mission statements, focus group study documentation, and other totally meaningless paperwork to account for all the $800 toilet seats. Peak is flushed with anticipation at the prospect...
Did not the cockroach predate the dinosaur? And, from what I recall, some nuclear reactors have a cockroach infestation issue INSIDE THE REACTION VESSEL! Some insects will be here long after the family mammalia has run their course...
I have bought a new CD! I was at Wallyworld and saw a $5.99 discount bin record of the greatest hits of a 1970s folky singer I liked, and it had 2 songs of his I did not have. Sure I could probably have picked them up at ITNS and saved 3 bucks but I figured there might be some other good stuff on the CD (there wasn't. Lame B side is not just a 2000s phenomena). That was a whim purchase and, it was my 1st music purchase of ANY KIND since the 1980s. Modern "music"....stinks. Frankly, Sturgeon's Law: "90% of everything is crud" is in full force this decade
No matter how much they sue me, it will not increase my music purchases.
Actually, I do not work in government, do not want any of that stuff, and do not think such an atitude is crazy. As to your assertions: Roads? toll. Military? mercenaries. Cops? contractors. Anything government does the market can and has throughout history done better, more economically, and with less paperwork. The idea that only "The Gub' mint" can do it is a lie. Government worker is the greatest contradiction in terms since well one: virgin birth. though, the later is far more possible...
Folks. this is how it works: It is 90 days till the end of the budget cycle. You have $2-3 million left over, If you do NOT have a documented use for that money come Appropriation Day then your budget will be docked by this amount. Budget and the size of your department are all that matter in government land. It matters not one jot what this is spent on, it MUST be spent and it must be spent in a document able way. If the idea is hair brained, stupid, and a waste it may or may not be dredged out of the cesspool of bureaucracy and scrutinized on Slash dot or other forums (like the Congress), but in most cases it just makes another month's pay for a Beltway Bandit "Think Tank" or "Institute". Face it folks: Taxes are never levied for the benefit of those taxed, and the money gained is never spent in a worthwhile way.
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I have 2 Model 100s, one of which I have used as a Newton keyboard..but thats another story...
Retro indeed! Last night I spent tinkering with a Apple IIgs. I wanted to get the beta Marinetti MacIP TCP/IP layer (check SourceForge) working through a Mac IIci running a router so I could use the GS to access the internet without need of a ethernet card or modem. It worked too.. I got on IRC briefly and used a telnet client to contact a service. There is no such THING as an obsloete system and besides: Apple II FOREVER!
I am soooo waiting for a copy of Sponge Bob the Movie to be "released" as a Bit Torrent. I ever so wish to see this, the greatest example of intelectual Hollywood.
And to think how many copies I would have bought. Shame Shame!
Some years back the US tobacco companies dumped millions into research on a non-smoke smoke. It was just like this product when they finished. I think it was Brown and Williams that did the final package. It worked just like described except one little problem.... it tasted like sh*t. Literally! It actually tasted like you had rolled up a pasture pastry to puff on.
For some reason it never made it to market...
more flame:
AmigaOS? That hack? go for the pure and unpoluted operating system of clean goodness: Apple/// SOS.... or its great predecessor: Apple DOS 3.3 or its equally secure and goodly childern: ProDOS and GS/OS 6.0.1 Apple II FOREVER!
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You have point set game and match there bub.... 35 years in IT. Experience with Mainframe, Min-computers, PCs Macs, Other (C=64, Apple II, every S-100 beast built, etc etc). 15 Years in PC support. Familiar with almost every operating system from CP/M through many Linux distros, every Win and all MacOS. Long long time PC user. Current OS of choice? Mac OS X 10.3.6 because it is just......better. If it can impress an old dog like me, it must turn younger heads fairly well..
You think the print from a Dasiywheel is distinct? try finding an XP DRIVER!!!
Beat Ya! I just patented BNE and JSR. All Your Assemblers are belonging to us!
Indeed. It would seem the last major native and creative Disney production was....Walt's funeral..
well actually.... the Noah legend is preceded by the Ush-tu-pesh-tu story (the Sumerian Noah). and, some recent geologic studies seem to suggest that there might be a sliver of truth to it: Basically t he idea is that the Bosporus (the place where Asia meets Europe at the mouth of the Black Sea, was a ridge line separating the waters of the Mediterranean from the inland valley plain with a large lake on what is now the sea bed of the Black Sea. One earthquake and a whole Neolithic culture gets a really bad hair day... See James Pritchard: "Near Eastern Texts Related to the Bible" for info on the Sumerian myths and an article in Nature about 2 years ago (sorry, forgot the citation) on the earthquake theory
Apple has had a command line since the beginning: CALL -151 to drop to the monitor, 3D0G to get back. Of course in GS/OS one must launch Basic.System to drop to the prompt. Terminal? pish posh! ProDOS rulz! :)
120 miles to Starbucks, 210 miles to Frys. Your neighbor in the cubicle next door keeps grousing about Sorgum Prices (whatever that is) and their dating prospects at the next Grange dance. The big local news is the John Deere dealership is expanding, and Billy Joe Bob's sister (yeah the one with THOSE teeth) is makin moon eyes at you when she visits at lunch. Makes me want to point my pickup truck towards Cupertino and GET OUT OF THERE!
I would but this is a NEW TWIST(tm) on AOHELL billing: they are NOT charging a credit card but rather DIRECTLY TO THE PHONE BILL. What I did was call QWEST my provider and told them that charge was in dispute. This phone bill thing is the latest in weasel tactics from a company that seems to have a hard time with straight forward compition. Must have been taking seminars at SCO...
Recently I got a little note in my landline phone bill: "Hi! This is AOL. Per your request, we will be billing you for our monthly service via the telephone company. Thanks for choosing AOL"
I have DSL service from [major phone provider] and an IP from [local mom and pop ISP]
I NEVER REQUESTED NO STINKIN AOL!!!!
So I called Beautiful downtown Bangalore via the AOL 800 number and after a pleasant wait of forever on really stupid hold music and advertisements, I got some guy named "Bill" who spoke far better English then I. He must have; after all a World class company had hired him to speak to me...I explained the issue which he..did not understand.
Again it must be me; a fine company like AOHell would never hire people who could not understand their potential customers. "Bill" passed me to "Sheila" who also was very difficult to understand. Feeling even more the Dumb American I explained the problem again and she Asked why I disliked the service and wished to cancel. I yet again explained I had never signed up for the service IN THE FIRST PLACE!
She then said she would pass me to someone who would help me. Funny, I thought all the other people I had been speaking to were there to help me, silly presumption on my part... I at this point lost my temper and described the circumstance again. precisely, with name, number, dates and other data, and ended with: "If this is not dealt with correctly, litigious redress is always a possibility".
Two months later: A bill for $56.80 for 2 months of AOL service. At this point postal workers came to mind... I called AOL, said "Lets cut to the chase; give me your supervisor.." After yelling a bit I got a person who spoke American. The bottom line of this call was a promise to remove the charge and the AOL billing. I will wait a week and try calling again or. In the mean time I have already sent a pleasant note to my State Attorneys General Office complementing AOL on their shrewd marketing techniques.
Has Microsoft cleared all the bugs from that Beta Windows 3.0 yet? Last time I looked the current offering seemed to have more, but maybe that is just me...
The lack of knowledge on any subject on which they report is an old truism of journalism. Look through the classic movies at your local Video ram and find any of the makes, re-makes, or re-re-re-makes of a play titled: "The Front Page". One in particular that is well acted and a good view is the Cary Grant/ Rosalind Russell production "My Girl Friday" from the 40s. The plot centers around an escaped death row felon who probably did nothing wrong to begin with. The characters are a crook Mayor, Crook Governor, Political Hack Chief of police, and the reporters.. Ah the reporters. Russell finds the escapee and hides him to "Get the scoop" To heck with human feelings, to heck with truth, and to heck with any ethics. The Scoop is All. I would HIGHLY recommend any of the version of "The Front Page" as a accurate portrayal of the average "Journalist's" behavior and "balance".
I am a retro computist. There are several of us out here who have fun playing with older machines. Bit ROt is a known issue in the Really Really Old computers game. A good example would be the Apple II Mouse Card. This is an 8bit Apple II slot card. It is usually installed in an Apple ][+ or Apple //e in slot #4. Back int he old days before IRQs and other dodges, the way you kept the BUS from going crazy was to associate specific devices with specific slots. On an Apple II the litany was:
Slot 1 Printer, Slot 2 Modem, Slot 3 video, Slot 4 mouse, Slot 5 3.5 floppy, Slot 6 5.25 floppy, Slot 7 netowrk or hard drive controller. Anyway, the card logic was handled by firmware in a ROM or EPROM. Over time, and we are talking since 1982 or even 1978 in some card's cases) this firmware ceases to work. Fortunately for those of us interested, there are some brave folks who backed up *.bin fiels of these chips so we can sometimes "refresh" the firmware and return the card to use. Problem is that the chip itself may be bad in which case you need to find the same chip, a copy of the bin and someone with an old C=64, Apple or (didn't someone make an x86?) EPROM burner to resurect it. The process is very similar to flashing firmware on modern beasts only slower and more prone to errors.
Can someone please explain to me the quandry: Why are all the engineering jobs going to Bangalore, and all the Lawyers staying here? Am I living on the wrong continent?
All such tests are subjective, based on the tester's bias and experience and lacking in real world useful stuff. I bet there is not even one section on the proper way to format a Jobcard and JCL for a FORTRAN run on a IBM OS/360. Harrumph! Never get a job at NASA that way....
They do TOO know English. English is the ONLY common language of the Indian subcontinent! Unfortunately it is their own local varriation that is as difficult for an American to follow as is London Cockney. The fact that so MANY of those Americans used to have jobs that are now filled by folsk with Indian accents does not help either..
He can recall about 8000 books so he should be well grounded for other uses. NASA's next project is to have him generate an unending supply of position papers, mission statements, focus group study documentation, and other totally meaningless paperwork to account for all the $800 toilet seats. Peak is flushed with anticipation at the prospect...
Did not the cockroach predate the dinosaur? And, from what I recall, some nuclear reactors have a cockroach infestation issue INSIDE THE REACTION VESSEL! Some insects will be here long after the family mammalia has run their course...
I have bought a new CD! I was at Wallyworld and saw a $5.99 discount bin record of the greatest hits of a 1970s folky singer I liked, and it had 2 songs of his I did not have. Sure I could probably have picked them up at ITNS and saved 3 bucks but I figured there might be some other good stuff on the CD (there wasn't. Lame B side is not just a 2000s phenomena). That was a whim purchase and, it was my 1st music purchase of ANY KIND since the 1980s. Modern "music" ....stinks. Frankly, Sturgeon's Law: "90% of everything is crud" is in full force this decade
No matter how much they sue me, it will not increase my music purchases.
Actually, I do not work in government, do not want any of that stuff, and do not think such an atitude is crazy.
As to your assertions: Roads? toll. Military? mercenaries. Cops? contractors. Anything government does the market can and has throughout history done better, more economically, and with less paperwork. The idea that only "The Gub' mint" can do it is a lie. Government worker is the greatest contradiction in terms since well one: virgin birth. though, the later is far more possible...
Folks. this is how it works: It is 90 days till the end of the budget cycle. You have $2-3 million left over, If you do NOT have a documented use for that money come Appropriation Day then your budget will be docked by this amount. Budget and the size of your department are all that matter in government land. It matters not one jot what this is spent on, it MUST be spent and it must be spent in a document able way. If the idea is hair brained, stupid, and a waste it may or may not be dredged out of the cesspool of bureaucracy and scrutinized on Slash dot or other forums (like the Congress), but in most cases it just makes another month's pay for a Beltway Bandit "Think Tank" or "Institute". Face it folks: Taxes are never levied for the benefit of those taxed, and the money gained is never spent in a worthwhile way.
I have 2 Model 100s, one of which I have used as a Newton keyboard..but thats another story... Retro indeed! Last night I spent tinkering with a Apple IIgs. I wanted to get the beta Marinetti MacIP TCP/IP layer (check SourceForge) working through a Mac IIci running a router so I could use the GS to access the internet without need of a ethernet card or modem. It worked too.. I got on IRC briefly and used a telnet client to contact a service. There is no such THING as an obsloete system and besides: Apple II FOREVER!
I am soooo waiting for a copy of Sponge Bob the Movie to be "released" as a Bit Torrent. I ever so wish to see this, the greatest example of intelectual Hollywood. And to think how many copies I would have bought. Shame Shame!
Some years back the US tobacco companies dumped millions into research on a non-smoke smoke. It was just like this product when they finished. I think it was Brown and Williams that did the final package. It worked just like described except one little problem.... it tasted like sh*t. Literally! It actually tasted like you had rolled up a pasture pastry to puff on. For some reason it never made it to market...
more flame: AmigaOS? That hack? go for the pure and unpoluted operating system of clean goodness: Apple /// SOS. ... or its great predecessor: Apple DOS 3.3 or its equally secure and goodly childern: ProDOS and GS/OS 6.0.1 Apple II FOREVER!
Evolutionists were created, Creationists.....evolved.