This is a wonderful idea -- I would also want the reject stories to be discussions like posted stories are. Otherwise it would just be a sea of links...
Wow... Thinking of my own situation, I haven't touched Slackware since the "Slackware '96" days... Are they still without a package manager? (I'm just joking! This used to be flamebait of yore... I'm waxing nostalgic here!)
The shells on the new 12" and 17" models are made of anodized aluminum, a scratch-resistant metal. The neat thing about anodizing is that Apple could make them any color, but they probably chose grey to make them similar to the titanium shells. Aluminum is also cheaper to purchase. That's not to say that titanium isn't awesome though -- much lighter, stronger, etc. etc... If I had my druthers, and if cost were no object, I'd actually want a beryllium shell on my laptop, as it would be incredibly light.
Another NES console-to-arcade transition is SuperC, the sequel to Contra... The original Contra may have been in arcades first, but I don't remember seeing it there...
It's a good thing that my parents only have the regular IBM 17" monitor, the one that has an annoyingly loud 16-19 kHz whine when left on for too long. They may go deaf, but at least their house won't burn down in the process...
Story 1: My first IBM-compatible PC had a 120 GB Western Digital Caviar hard drive... This drive went through everything. I used to ride my bike places with the hard drive on my lap, just to share files with people. No problems. The machine with the WD drive eventually ended up at a friend's house. A year or two later, lightning struck the house... Destroyed their TV, stereo, the computer I gave him, etc. etc., but the Western Digital drive survived! I think it might still work to this day (but then again, it might be in a dumpster by now).
Story 2 (posted earlier): I had a 730 MB Western Digital drive on the primary IDE channel, and a 2.1 GB Seagate Barracuda 7200 RPM drive on the secondary channel. While taking a nap, I heard a loud clack sound -- enough to wake me up. I quickly turned on the monitor and noticed that Linux was still working fine on the 730 MB drive, while the 2.1 GB drive was toast. The system ran fine until I went to shut down and Linux tried unmounting the 2.1 GB drive -- it couldn't, and refused to shut down at that point. Although the drive was toast, Linux held up nicely!
Story 3: A couple friends and I were building a computer for a friend, when we noticed that the CPU fan didn't fit because of large capacitors right next to the CPU. The only way we could get the fan to fit was to saw down the edge of the fan's casing with a Leatherman. Worked like a charm!
Story 4: A friend's cat spilled a glass of milk into her iBook. The hard drive was toast, but the rest of the system booted up fine. She shipped it to Apple, and got it back with a new hard drive for free.
Story 5: Just a couple months ago, I dropped my Powerbook G4 from about a 1m height onto hard ground (not intentionally, of course). It survived with a tiny dent on one of its corners, but everything still works on it perfectly.
Same thing here... I had a 730 MB Western Digital drive on the primary IDE channel, and a 2.1 GB Seagate Barracuda 7200 RPM drive on the secondary channel. While taking a nap, I heard a loud clack sound -- enough to wake me up. I quickly turned on the monitor and noticed that Linux was still working fine on the 730 MB drive, while the 2.1 GB drive was toast. The system ran fine until I went to shut down and Linux tried unmounting the 2.1 GB drive -- it couldn't, and refused to shut down at that point. Although the drive was toast, Linux held up nicely!
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It's a good thing you caught that -- otherwise, the myriad anonymous cowards and "-1 by default" posters would crawl out of the woodwork and plague you about it until slashdot disabled posting on the article.
It means "or best offer"... Basically that if you make them an offer (that is less than their asking price), and your it is the highest among those who are showing interest in the item, you will get the car at your bid price rather than the asking price.
For the definitive guide to purchasing, please the Harry the Haggler scene from Monty Python's Life of Brian.
He bought the Gateway laptop a month ago, and it has been in the shop for three weeks because of a defective fan problem. Who would pay $1,700 for that? In comparison, my Powerbook has ran flawlessly since it arrived.
[A Mac] also remains a viable computer twice as long (or longer) and in the long run provides a fraction of the aggravation that comes with dealing with computer problems).
How true that is. I tried convincing a friend into buying a 15" Powerbook G4 for $2,200, but he instead opted for a Gateway 400XL laptop that was $1,700. He has had nothing but trouble with the fan on it -- even after having the fan replaced, it is still incredibly loud and whiny. Yet another lesson in "getting what you pay for", I guess.:^)
In response to my own post, I actually found the tiny DOS terminal program I used on the floppy... It is called Lync 2.0, a 43k executable that has menu support, X/Y/Z-modem transfer, etc. etc.. Ironically, the documentation for the program is larger than the program itself! Using an executable compressor, it should be possible to get the size down even smaller (it doesn't appear that this was done to it already)...
This article sums up what happened nicely. Stacker was always so much better than Double/Drivespace was... I was able to fit DOS 6 boot files, Windows 3.1, a tiny DOS terminal program and a DOS text editor on a 1.44MB bootable floppy using Stacker! Fitting Windows on it took many hours of randomly removing DLL files from the SYSTEM directory, but in the end it actually fit and would load up Program Manager! Not surprisingly, there wasn't room for any other Windows programs when I was done though.
I don't know why, but it seems like these lyrics fit the style of many songs by "The Who"... Almost like you could take the lyrics out of a Who song, drop these in, and the new lyrics would fit just as well with the music itself.
Coming up with a chess program to beat Kasparov mercilessly just isn't fun anymore. I say we put more research into writing a chess program that will make him cry while beating him mercilessly
Yes! Then maybe we can make Kasparov's head explode!
Yes, I remember them... IIRC, there was a utility that would let you customize the key remappings, so that you wouldn't have to hand-code them. I don't think that the remappings worked outside of command.com, however.
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This is a wonderful idea -- I would also want the reject stories to be discussions like posted stories are. Otherwise it would just be a sea of links...
Wow... Thinking of my own situation, I haven't touched Slackware since the "Slackware '96" days... Are they still without a package manager? (I'm just joking! This used to be flamebait of yore... I'm waxing nostalgic here!)
The shells on the new 12" and 17" models are made of anodized aluminum, a scratch-resistant metal. The neat thing about anodizing is that Apple could make them any color, but they probably chose grey to make them similar to the titanium shells. Aluminum is also cheaper to purchase. That's not to say that titanium isn't awesome though -- much lighter, stronger, etc. etc... If I had my druthers, and if cost were no object, I'd actually want a beryllium shell on my laptop, as it would be incredibly light.
Another NES console-to-arcade transition is SuperC, the sequel to Contra... The original Contra may have been in arcades first, but I don't remember seeing it there...
Just joking, I use a Powerbook for most of my school work, and I'm an Industrial Engineer.
Or, just replace the "www" in the URL with "archive".
g ion/05LAPT. html
y region/05L APT.html
Before:
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/05/nyre
After:
http://archive.nytimes.com/2003/03/05/n
I believe this used to be "archives", then "partners", but now only "archive" works.
It's a good thing that my parents only have the regular IBM 17" monitor, the one that has an annoyingly loud 16-19 kHz whine when left on for too long. They may go deaf, but at least their house won't burn down in the process...
Story 1: My first IBM-compatible PC had a 120 GB Western Digital Caviar hard drive... This drive went through everything. I used to ride my bike places with the hard drive on my lap, just to share files with people. No problems. The machine with the WD drive eventually ended up at a friend's house. A year or two later, lightning struck the house... Destroyed their TV, stereo, the computer I gave him, etc. etc., but the Western Digital drive survived! I think it might still work to this day (but then again, it might be in a dumpster by now).
Story 2 (posted earlier): I had a 730 MB Western Digital drive on the primary IDE channel, and a 2.1 GB Seagate Barracuda 7200 RPM drive on the secondary channel. While taking a nap, I heard a loud clack sound -- enough to wake me up. I quickly turned on the monitor and noticed that Linux was still working fine on the 730 MB drive, while the 2.1 GB drive was toast. The system ran fine until I went to shut down and Linux tried unmounting the 2.1 GB drive -- it couldn't, and refused to shut down at that point. Although the drive was toast, Linux held up nicely!
Story 3: A couple friends and I were building a computer for a friend, when we noticed that the CPU fan didn't fit because of large capacitors right next to the CPU. The only way we could get the fan to fit was to saw down the edge of the fan's casing with a Leatherman. Worked like a charm!
Story 4: A friend's cat spilled a glass of milk into her iBook. The hard drive was toast, but the rest of the system booted up fine. She shipped it to Apple, and got it back with a new hard drive for free.
Story 5: Just a couple months ago, I dropped my Powerbook G4 from about a 1m height onto hard ground (not intentionally, of course). It survived with a tiny dent on one of its corners, but everything still works on it perfectly.
Same thing here... I had a 730 MB Western Digital drive on the primary IDE channel, and a 2.1 GB Seagate Barracuda 7200 RPM drive on the secondary channel. While taking a nap, I heard a loud clack sound -- enough to wake me up. I quickly turned on the monitor and noticed that Linux was still working fine on the 730 MB drive, while the 2.1 GB drive was toast. The system ran fine until I went to shut down and Linux tried unmounting the 2.1 GB drive -- it couldn't, and refused to shut down at that point. Although the drive was toast, Linux held up nicely!
It's a good thing you caught that -- otherwise, the myriad anonymous cowards and "-1 by default" posters would crawl out of the woodwork and plague you about it until slashdot disabled posting on the article.
Yeah, I thought we were done discussing Columbine. I'm one step closer to disabling Timothy's posts from my Slashdot preferences.
For the definitive guide to purchasing, please the Harry the Haggler scene from Monty Python's Life of Brian.
So you're saying that Microsoft has reduced all of their Office apps to just show the words "500 - Server too busy"? :^)
He bought the Gateway laptop a month ago, and it has been in the shop for three weeks because of a defective fan problem. Who would pay $1,700 for that? In comparison, my Powerbook has ran flawlessly since it arrived.
In response to my own post, I actually found the tiny DOS terminal program I used on the floppy... It is called Lync 2.0, a 43k executable that has menu support, X/Y/Z-modem transfer, etc. etc.. Ironically, the documentation for the program is larger than the program itself! Using an executable compressor, it should be possible to get the size down even smaller (it doesn't appear that this was done to it already)...
This article sums up what happened nicely. Stacker was always so much better than Double/Drivespace was... I was able to fit DOS 6 boot files, Windows 3.1, a tiny DOS terminal program and a DOS text editor on a 1.44MB bootable floppy using Stacker! Fitting Windows on it took many hours of randomly removing DLL files from the SYSTEM directory, but in the end it actually fit and would load up Program Manager! Not surprisingly, there wasn't room for any other Windows programs when I was done though.
I don't know why, but it seems like these lyrics fit the style of many songs by "The Who"... Almost like you could take the lyrics out of a Who song, drop these in, and the new lyrics would fit just as well with the music itself.
Yes, I remember them... IIRC, there was a utility that would let you customize the key remappings, so that you wouldn't have to hand-code them. I don't think that the remappings worked outside of command.com, however.