Really want to keep it? Backup to an external drive. Like someone said not cutting edge. Backup to DVD. Quality is up to you and repeat this one as often as possible. Backup to a tape drive.
Then take 2 of the above off-site.
I use old DDS4 tape drives i got off ebay to match the unit in the office server. The 20G tape drives and a SCSI card are usually under $100. Windows backup is probably good enough for a simply backup. I store the office tapes at home in exchange for keeping my tapes at the office:)
Good idea to store a reader off-site with media for worst case scenarios.
Just watch for changes in O/S support. Like the old Travan tapes not longer (easily, i did make it work) supported under WinXP
"So costs get set to a already high amount. 5 years when the production cost of item drops to 1/5th of what it was before, they will still be paying the same amount that they did before."
Dude, not everything is electronic ya know. In fact very little of what is paid by medicare/insurance is. Some procedures may involve some electronics but they pay for the doctor. Unfortunately, the costs stay the same for rubber, plastic and paper items which have costs going thru the roof at the moment......
I am just glad you acknowledge we exist at all.....
ok, haven't actually DONE anything in a couple years but log in a newbie for an hour or two now and then:( Most awesome game ever tho.
The low level stuff goes by so fast now even if you try and go slow you can't to a fraction of it;( Hell the newbie armor is better than what i wore for the 1st year, maybe 2!
lol, have that one on my shelf still sealed like that too. Totally amazed i remembered the name to google....
Are the ones that need to be a specific direction a lot more moves? The Pacman cube i have is a killer cause all the little ghosts and stuff started out upright 20? years ago and have been laying down sideways ever since:(
I just finished rebuilding a 386 laptop to use for home inventory as well as add to my collection of working vintage. Soldered up a new CMOS battery and built a new battery pack. Hopefully destroying the 'equalizer' battery (a stack of 10 button cells soldered together, connector on MB is shot) won't cause any long-time problems. The floppy drive is seperate but the computer is smaller than my real laptop and runs forever. Complete with original DOS 6 and Windows 3.1:)
Always wanted one of those RS buggers to play with but no joy....
"Yet no one seems to be overly concerned about swimming pools or bad motorists."
lol, bad timing. They are adding plywood to the fences around the city pools, eight months before they close em down permanently and replace them. Apparently you can climb the cyclone fencing to get in....not that anyone actually has mind you....
sigh
tried to link but apparently our newspaper is now a pay site:(
What is unique here? Looks like another FPS to me. Has custom charcters, is that like HL mods from 10 years ago?
I wouldn't call 16 people Massively Multiplayer either. Massive at least needs more people than can plug into my hub....
Didn't read far enough to find the catch tho.....
Dang we get the worst summaries/headlines around here. Turning into a cheap advertising showcase. Be nice if at least the submitter and/or editor RTFA:(
Our credit card processor overcharges the sales tax on the monthly charge by $.01 every month...i think someone has beat you to it in most cases...
Kinda worried actually because either: 1. Someone messed with the computer and is stealing a penny each month. 2. They can't calculate the percentage correctly?!? This is all they do is figure percentages of things!!
The percent shown for tax is correct and there is nothing to round off so no rounding error. No, they don't give a damn even afteer they find out...still the same 6 months later:(
I have a stack (almost 2 now, in fact) of game boxes that stretch from the floor to the ceiling:) Probably a couple hundred total retail games by now stretching back to the XT. Microprose in monochrome memories:)
1st true PC game was a nethack port that came with our clone XT. Transfered to newer systems but it been awhile since i played. 1st retail i suspect was F-19 stealth fighter cause microprose did monochrome well.
Do i have to order my next laptop as Left or Right, how about Small, Medium, or Large?
Didn't get far enough to see if it is just a generic hand print or custom ($$$) But my hand print won't work if they use my dad for an impression and vice-versa.
Despite that the impression seems reasonable if only marginally useful. Putting sensors in it seems dumb tho. I don't want to HAVE to hold it that way. Not to mention, aren't most of these small computers really cheap? Adding a bevy of sensors seems counter-productive to that....and now i know why noone wants to RTFA...ugh
Seems odd that getting people indoctrinated into MS culture is so much more valuable than the hit to your reputation from a shitty user experience. Face it, while it might run XP, trying to run a program and XP must totally suck on that little thing.
They are quite confident of their monopoly it would seem.
There will be (hopefully) a million kids growing up thinking 'Windows is sooooo sloooow'
If i was in charge i don't think i would let windows only versions ship as then they think the same about you.
Nothing as interesting as the crash on our old mini-computer ages ago either. One of those 12" drives with 4-5 platters had a head crash and repurposed itself into a metal lathe quick nicely one weekend. At least it didnt burn down the building but it left several pounds of aluminum confetti all over the computer room after it blew out the filters on the drive. It seems you just can't filter air by the pound:( One head crashes and causes a chain reaction after the aluminum shavings clog the filters or interfer with the others. Luckily the software forced you to backup on the removeable platter each day. Only loss was a couple software mods (that the writer had a copy of) cause the system platter backup was kinda old, had to added back in.
Needless to say, that had a zero chance of recovery. Only time a insanely overpriced maintainence agreement ever paid off...Drive was almost $20k to replace plus cleanup and setup on 200lb drive.
Only other one that might have required a recovery service turned out to be electronic issue only and i sacificed a matching computer for the HD circuit board to repair the 'server' from a remote warehouse. Only some memos and spreadsheets and stuff and not worth the huge quote for recovery so i got to try it and fixed it the next day:)
PS. always found it interesting the the edge speed was the same as current drives at around 105mph. The head hit a platter going between 50 and 105 mph.
I had much better luck recovering my 360k media than the other disks...90% or so. The higher up the density chain the lower the return rate:(
Got data stored on old tapes? XP doesn't do floppy and parallel interface tape drives very happily (altho it is possible with enough random drivers loaded)
Nor does XP want to do 360k drives:(
Think the OP is bad, i have a basic game stored on a 10MB Wang removable platter i would like to move...... 300lb of equipment and 2000w to play battleship anyone? Playable online if i ship ya a terminal and 300 baud modem. At least i have the drive/computer just not the power to turn it all on:O
"but they've STILL not done anything about that even after I specifically highlighted (no pun intended) it last year.."
Which goes to show the parent poster was right you aren't using it for the 'intended' purposes that is just a nice side effect. If that is what they intended it for then you would have lighting, right?
As long as you are not in the 5% whose premiums go up $12000 per year to make up for giving everyone else their $600 discount. A reverse lottery where losers go bankrupt?!?
(quickie math, feel free to fix if you are so inclined )
Obviously that means most of those people will not be insured for it, even if anyone is even willing to at any price. They will be the charitable cases that hospitals cover by overcharging those with insurance so your insurance goes up $50 to cover the increased costs.....
Slashdot Mirror
:)
Really want to keep it?
Backup to an external drive. Like someone said not cutting edge.
Backup to DVD. Quality is up to you and repeat this one as often as possible.
Backup to a tape drive.
Then take 2 of the above off-site.
I use old DDS4 tape drives i got off ebay to match the unit in the office server. The 20G tape drives and a SCSI card are usually under $100. Windows backup is probably good enough for a simply backup. I store the office tapes at home in exchange for keeping my tapes at the office :)
Good idea to store a reader off-site with media for worst case scenarios.
Just watch for changes in O/S support. Like the old Travan tapes not longer (easily, i did make it work) supported under WinXP
"So costs get set to a already high amount. 5 years when the production cost of item drops to 1/5th of what it was before, they will still be paying the same amount that they did before."
Dude, not everything is electronic ya know. In fact very little of what is paid by medicare/insurance is. Some procedures may involve some electronics but they pay for the doctor. Unfortunately, the costs stay the same for rubber, plastic and paper items which have costs going thru the roof at the moment......
SO if i opt out of the gripe-line newletter the other 393473 infoworld divisions won't be affected......
wait...what was the gripe again?
ok, not really a problem with them but it does make a nice example
Thank You
:( Most awesome game ever tho.
;( Hell the newbie armor is better than what i wore for the 1st year, maybe 2!
I am just glad you acknowledge we exist at all.....
ok, haven't actually DONE anything in a couple years but log in a newbie for an hour or two now and then
The low level stuff goes by so fast now even if you try and go slow you can't to a fraction of it
One is easy
:(
http://www.puzzle-shop.de/aggie-cube.html
lol, have that one on my shelf still sealed like that too. Totally amazed i remembered the name to google....
Are the ones that need to be a specific direction a lot more moves? The Pacman cube i have is a killer cause all the little ghosts and stuff started out upright 20? years ago and have been laying down sideways ever since
lol
:)
I just finished rebuilding a 386 laptop to use for home inventory as well as add to my collection of working vintage. Soldered up a new CMOS battery and built a new battery pack. Hopefully destroying the 'equalizer' battery (a stack of 10 button cells soldered together, connector on MB is shot) won't cause any long-time problems.
The floppy drive is seperate but the computer is smaller than my real laptop and runs forever. Complete with original DOS 6 and Windows 3.1
Always wanted one of those RS buggers to play with but no joy....
You should have read the instructions closer....it says not to use a comcast address !
:(
And this camera idea is even funnier
Talk about useless...oh wait, we are...
No only that but they have to censor it, which wouldn't be free either.
:(
;)
Didn't Pax discover there wasn't much of a market for a safe ISP. I suppose that would be aided by the free part....
hehe yup, PAX (paxway.com) gave up and refers you to someone else that only offers a filtered dial-up for $16.95+up per month.
Still don't see how one would actually run it for free. Would have to be saturated with ads i imagine
Altho if you filter the porn and presumably the stolen content maybe you don't need more than 56k to see what's left anyways
"Yet no one seems to be overly concerned about swimming pools or bad motorists."
:(
lol, bad timing. They are adding plywood to the fences around the city pools, eight months before they close em down permanently and replace them. Apparently you can climb the cyclone fencing to get in....not that anyone actually has mind you....
sigh
tried to link but apparently our newspaper is now a pay site
What is unique here? Looks like another FPS to me. Has custom charcters, is that like HL mods from 10 years ago?
:(
I wouldn't call 16 people Massively Multiplayer either. Massive at least needs more people than can plug into my hub....
Didn't read far enough to find the catch tho.....
Dang we get the worst summaries/headlines around here. Turning into a cheap advertising showcase. Be nice if at least the submitter and/or editor RTFA
Our credit card processor overcharges the sales tax on the monthly charge by $.01 every month...i think someone has beat you to it in most cases...
:(
Kinda worried actually because either:
1. Someone messed with the computer and is stealing a penny each month.
2. They can't calculate the percentage correctly?!? This is all they do is figure percentages of things!!
The percent shown for tax is correct and there is nothing to round off so no rounding error. No, they don't give a damn even afteer they find out...still the same 6 months later
hmm, a microprose game i need to check out ;)
:) Probably a couple hundred total retail games by now stretching back to the XT. Microprose in monochrome memories :)
I have a stack (almost 2 now, in fact) of game boxes that stretch from the floor to the ceiling
1st true PC game was a nethack port that came with our clone XT. Transfered to newer systems but it been awhile since i played. 1st retail i suspect was F-19 stealth fighter cause microprose did monochrome well.
So true. We only need a minimal computer for the office tasks...however it takes a 3GHZ HT computer to do them at the same time as AV/Firewall :(
:(
The terminal emulator runs slow on anything less
Heck with physics processors and GPU, i need an AV card and i could go back to Pentium 3...
Whereas hitting a tree head-on with a current motorcycle just throws you into the tree head-first.... Six of one vs half-dozen of the other?
Probably that whole resting on the 7th day instead grinding out a couple more levels :(
Do i have to order my next laptop as Left or Right, how about Small, Medium, or Large?
...and now i know why noone wants to RTFA...ugh
Didn't get far enough to see if it is just a generic hand print or custom ($$$) But my hand print won't work if they use my dad for an impression and vice-versa.
Despite that the impression seems reasonable if only marginally useful. Putting sensors in it seems dumb tho. I don't want to HAVE to hold it that way. Not to mention, aren't most of these small computers really cheap? Adding a bevy of sensors seems counter-productive to that.
Seems odd that getting people indoctrinated into MS culture is so much more valuable than the hit to your reputation from a shitty user experience. Face it, while it might run XP, trying to run a program and XP must totally suck on that little thing.
They are quite confident of their monopoly it would seem.
There will be (hopefully) a million kids growing up thinking 'Windows is sooooo sloooow'
If i was in charge i don't think i would let windows only versions ship as then they think the same about you.
Bigger SD card
XO has 1 Gig and needs a 1 Gig SD card to run XP. I assume to add another OS you would need a 2 Gig card instead as XP has sucked up all your storage.
No idea what you could actually RUN on it or where you store apps to try and run on it but.....
They are too busy fixing the ones they already built.......
I'll believe it when i see it....oh wait..i mean don't see it
A little light on content as others mentioned :(
:( One head crashes and causes a chain reaction after the aluminum shavings clog the filters or interfer with the others. Luckily the software forced you to backup on the removeable platter each day. Only loss was a couple software mods (that the writer had a copy of) cause the system platter backup was kinda old, had to added back in.
:)
Nothing as interesting as the crash on our old mini-computer ages ago either. One of those 12" drives with 4-5 platters had a head crash and repurposed itself into a metal lathe quick nicely one weekend. At least it didnt burn down the building but it left several pounds of aluminum confetti all over the computer room after it blew out the filters on the drive. It seems you just can't filter air by the pound
Needless to say, that had a zero chance of recovery. Only time a insanely overpriced maintainence agreement ever paid off...Drive was almost $20k to replace plus cleanup and setup on 200lb drive.
Only other one that might have required a recovery service turned out to be electronic issue only and i sacificed a matching computer for the HD circuit board to repair the 'server' from a remote warehouse. Only some memos and spreadsheets and stuff and not worth the huge quote for recovery so i got to try it and fixed it the next day
PS. always found it interesting the the edge speed was the same as current drives at around 105mph. The head hit a platter going between 50 and 105 mph.
I had much better luck recovering my 360k media than the other disks...90% or so. The higher up the density chain the lower the return rate :(
:(
:O
Got data stored on old tapes? XP doesn't do floppy and parallel interface tape drives very happily (altho it is possible with enough random drivers loaded)
Nor does XP want to do 360k drives
Think the OP is bad, i have a basic game stored on a 10MB Wang removable platter i would like to move...... 300lb of equipment and 2000w to play battleship anyone? Playable online if i ship ya a terminal and 300 baud modem. At least i have the drive/computer just not the power to turn it all on
Sounds interesting, good luck.
It is just the new anti-terrorism program in action.
:(
Give the major suspects a computer and a WoW account and they won't have time to design bombs....
And talk about no meat to the article
"but they've STILL not done anything about that even after I specifically highlighted (no pun intended) it last year.."
Which goes to show the parent poster was right you aren't using it for the 'intended' purposes that is just a nice side effect. If that is what they intended it for then you would have lighting, right?
As long as you are not in the 5% whose premiums go up $12000 per year to make up for giving everyone else their $600 discount. A reverse lottery where losers go bankrupt?!?
(quickie math, feel free to fix if you are so inclined )
Obviously that means most of those people will not be insured for it, even if anyone is even willing to at any price. They will be the charitable cases that hospitals cover by overcharging those with insurance so your insurance goes up $50 to cover the increased costs.....
So that means Knight Rider was picked up as a series?