Yes, but if he buys trendy wi-fi gear, it'll be obsolete in two years and he can sell it on eBay for enough money to buy a collectable ashtray with the positive balance in his paypal account.
I always went out of my way to throw any tyvek envelopes I encountered into the recycling. It's best to hide the tyvek deep inside othe paper, i.e. slip it inside a folded newspaper.
Tyvek really really fucks up a recycling operation. It doesn't shred well, and it's completely insoluble in the toxic chemical mess they use to do their 'green' recycling.
I've got a Harmon-Kardon 'Award Series' 400 integrated amp.
The biggest problem with it is that the phono preamp and the power amp are so low-noise that it's hard to judge how loud the volume is set. You can crank it all the way and there's no hiss or hum. But if you then set the tone-arm on the record, the incidental 'rumble' practially throws you across the room.
Good old solid-state 'hiss' noise- it's still with us except for the most expensive gear.
The more poignant question is: will the huge mass of discarded rechargable battery packs in the landfill have a bigger impact on the environment than the old carbon copy forms (and that strip-off tractor ribbon on the edge) had?
There are, and there always will be, issues with 'digital authentication' that make it not practical for everything. The degree of additional intrusion into our privacy by 'the system' needed is one example.
Probably the reason any negative comments about the Mac are modded low fast is that on a discussion site featuring a significant number of Macintosh enthusiasts/fanatics, saying anything negative about the Macintosh or Apple is indeed flamebait. The problem is, all too often the person flaming is the problem, not the person who posted the comment that provoked the flame.
So the 'moderation system' corrects against any controversial comments on the topic of the Mac, and people learn to pull their punches on any negative comments about the Mac.
Gee, Apple Enthusiasts: You sure know how to paricipate as adults in a discussion!
Comparing it to the '286 of the day is incorrect. Few people had '286 PCs in the day of the original Mac. Everybody had cheap XT clones. Which were far cheaper than Macs, and sported features like hard drives. Though a lot of us used XT clones without hard drives for years as well (making them even that much cheaper than a Mac).
Any changes that matter can be easily rolled into a BSD Unix. Even if it's GPL'd code, it can be studied and re-implemented.
Lack of change IS a virtue. Read again what I said: A solid, reliable OS converges, instead of just forking all over the place. It slowly continues to get better. The hardware ports of NetBSD are getting to be amazing. I *like* being able to roll out and run the same exact source tarballs (kernel AND userland) on all the weird hardware I collect.
The same reason I run NetBSD on my Mac SE/30 (16 MHz 68030). In fact the same reason I ran the the machine steady for hours this morning compiling Bochs on it (so I can get an MS-DOS prompt in an Xterm on an SE/30!)
Likely not a single person who was given a Linux CD at the event will ever use it. They either already have a Linux system running or they're not likely to. It was a political gesture and nothing more.
There's nothing at all wrong with that sort of political gesture, but it's essentially the equivalent of the pig blood you speak of.
Warranties are for the kind of people who sidle into the repair shop with their plastic waving frantically.
I specifically look for 'distressed' items and equipment when I am at the auction, because I know how to repair most of it and there are always the usual tards there who can't, so I get things for almost free often enough.
I'm trying to build Bochs right now, on a Mac SE/30 running NetBSD (basically, it's a 68030 machine running at 16 MHz with 32 megs of RAM) because I got all inspired and decided it would be cool to try running MS-DOS on it. Er, well, anyway. You talkinga bout old 100 MHz Pentiums made me want to blurt this out.
It's building really, really slow. I think if I decide to run emacs on that box I'll download the binary build.
Huh? Part of the reason I switched over to NetBSD from Linux years ago (for the most part, there are still times when a quick-and-dirty Slackware box does a special trick or two) was because NetBSD (and FreeBSD is very similar) was FAR easier. There's a learning curve involved, but there's 'one way' that things are done and it's the classic Unix way. You can pick up an O'Reilly book from 1993 and the info in it closely applies. Linux, on the other hand, is a big snarl of forks, each distro doing each task and configuration in it's own way, everybody contending that THEIR way is BEST, and as a consequence, no clear straight-forward anything, except gui buttons in places where GUI buttons aren't needed.
Learn how to configure the/etc/ files on a NetBSD box is a converging process. You learn more and more as you work with it, and it doesn't change when Johnny volunteer coder at Distro X learns Python and gets tricky with pretty buttons on a control panel.
Anyway, harumph. BSD is NOT less user-friendly. Perhaps it has a smaller userbase, but if you're reading and commenting on this article, you're capable of working with it.
It runs at, oh, say, about 0.00 MHz on the hardware being used for the reference test system, but we can pull a 'special olympics' thing and at least let it try.
Better yet would be to line the various OSes up on some 'neutral hardware' that isn't commonly native for any of them. Maybe a Macintosh SE/30, which is a 16 MHz 68030 system. I have one that runs NetBSD.
Of course NetBSD would then win the competition. The other OSes would just sit there on their respective CD-ROM media wondering what to do.
Naw. Just keep a 6-32 and an 8-24 tap on hand. Any screw is either going to be a 6-32, or bigger or smaller. If it's a 6-32, put in your 6-32 screw. If it's smaller retap the hole with the 6-32 tap. If it's larger, retap the hole with the 8-24 tap.
Yes, but knowing CyberGuys, the USB interface on the assortment bin will still be USB 1, and everybody knows you want your fancy screw assortment bin to be USB 2.0 compliant.
Yes, but he wants the special computer screws that you can't get at any hardware store. I think he needs to order them from the repair parts depot at Apple Computer, if he can manage to get them to tell him the actual part number. Alternatively, order them through ThinkGeek.
A good third source is SGI. I imagine you can get a sales rep at SGI to spec you the SGI part numbers on some screws and put your order through. Of course, you'd better be a big company who already does business with SGI...
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Yes, but if he buys trendy wi-fi gear, it'll be obsolete in two years and he can sell it on eBay for enough money to buy a collectable ashtray with the positive balance in his paypal account.
Yes, but I bought a townhome for $70K and sold it for $120 less than three years later.
I guess you can get hosed if you buy real estate too close to the ocean. My townhouse was in Minnesota.
The digital readout is for the calendar function and/or for those occasions when you want a stopwatch.
I always went out of my way to throw any tyvek envelopes I encountered into the recycling. It's best to hide the tyvek deep inside othe paper, i.e. slip it inside a folded newspaper.
Tyvek really really fucks up a recycling operation. It doesn't shred well, and it's completely insoluble in the toxic chemical mess they use to do their 'green' recycling.
I've got a Harmon-Kardon 'Award Series' 400 integrated amp.
The biggest problem with it is that the phono preamp and the power amp are so low-noise that it's hard to judge how loud the volume is set. You can crank it all the way and there's no hiss or hum. But if you then set the tone-arm on the record, the incidental 'rumble' practially throws you across the room.
Good old solid-state 'hiss' noise- it's still with us except for the most expensive gear.
The more poignant question is: will the huge mass of discarded rechargable battery packs in the landfill have a bigger impact on the environment than the old carbon copy forms (and that strip-off tractor ribbon on the edge) had?
There are, and there always will be, issues with 'digital authentication' that make it not practical for everything. The degree of additional intrusion into our privacy by 'the system' needed is one example.
Probably the reason any negative comments about the Mac are modded low fast is that on a discussion site featuring a significant number of Macintosh enthusiasts/fanatics, saying anything negative about the Macintosh or Apple is indeed flamebait. The problem is, all too often the person flaming is the problem, not the person who posted the comment that provoked the flame.
So the 'moderation system' corrects against any controversial comments on the topic of the Mac, and people learn to pull their punches on any negative comments about the Mac.
Gee, Apple Enthusiasts: You sure know how to paricipate as adults in a discussion!
Comparing it to the '286 of the day is incorrect. Few people had '286 PCs in the day of the original Mac. Everybody had cheap XT clones. Which were far cheaper than Macs, and sported features like hard drives. Though a lot of us used XT clones without hard drives for years as well (making them even that much cheaper than a Mac).
I worked at my first 'IT' job as an operator mounting 9 track tapes on COM recorders in 1979. The computers were PDP-8 minicomputers.
I don't 'do' IT anymore.
If it sets a (bad) precedent, then every state and locality will start pulling this crap.
Any changes that matter can be easily rolled into a BSD Unix. Even if it's GPL'd code, it can be studied and re-implemented.
Lack of change IS a virtue. Read again what I said: A solid, reliable OS converges, instead of just forking all over the place. It slowly continues to get better. The hardware ports of NetBSD are getting to be amazing. I *like* being able to roll out and run the same exact source tarballs (kernel AND userland) on all the weird hardware I collect.
The same reason I run NetBSD on my Mac SE/30 (16 MHz 68030). In fact the same reason I ran the the machine steady for hours this morning compiling Bochs on it (so I can get an MS-DOS prompt in an Xterm on an SE/30!)
Definitely a 'because I can' project.
Since they got that for free anyway, no, it wasn't compensation.
How was it 'good and worthwhile to humanity'?
Likely not a single person who was given a Linux CD at the event will ever use it. They either already have a Linux system running or they're not likely to. It was a political gesture and nothing more.
There's nothing at all wrong with that sort of political gesture, but it's essentially the equivalent of the pig blood you speak of.
Warranties are for the kind of people who sidle into the repair shop with their plastic waving frantically.
I specifically look for 'distressed' items and equipment when I am at the auction, because I know how to repair most of it and there are always the usual tards there who can't, so I get things for almost free often enough.
One is a form of I/O, the other only a form of Input.
"Sit there and enjoy your 'programming' couch-sludge."
I'm trying to build Bochs right now, on a Mac SE/30 running NetBSD (basically, it's a 68030 machine running at 16 MHz with 32 megs of RAM) because I got all inspired and decided it would be cool to try running MS-DOS on it. Er, well, anyway. You talkinga bout old 100 MHz Pentiums made me want to blurt this out.
It's building really, really slow. I think if I decide to run emacs on that box I'll download the binary build.
Huh? Part of the reason I switched over to NetBSD from Linux years ago (for the most part, there are still times when a quick-and-dirty Slackware box does a special trick or two) was because NetBSD (and FreeBSD is very similar) was FAR easier. There's a learning curve involved, but there's 'one way' that things are done and it's the classic Unix way. You can pick up an O'Reilly book from 1993 and the info in it closely applies. Linux, on the other hand, is a big snarl of forks, each distro doing each task and configuration in it's own way, everybody contending that THEIR way is BEST, and as a consequence, no clear straight-forward anything, except gui buttons in places where GUI buttons aren't needed.
/etc/ files on a NetBSD box is a converging process. You learn more and more as you work with it, and it doesn't change when Johnny volunteer coder at Distro X learns Python and gets tricky with pretty buttons on a control panel.
Learn how to configure the
Anyway, harumph. BSD is NOT less user-friendly. Perhaps it has a smaller userbase, but if you're reading and commenting on this article, you're capable of working with it.
To be fair, maybe OSX should be included.
It runs at, oh, say, about 0.00 MHz on the hardware being used for the reference test system, but we can pull a 'special olympics' thing and at least let it try.
Better yet would be to line the various OSes up on some 'neutral hardware' that isn't commonly native for any of them. Maybe a Macintosh SE/30, which is a 16 MHz 68030 system. I have one that runs NetBSD.
Of course NetBSD would then win the competition. The other OSes would just sit there on their respective CD-ROM media wondering what to do.
If it feels wrong, it's wrong, don't force it.
Naw. Just keep a 6-32 and an 8-24 tap on hand. Any screw is either going to be a 6-32, or bigger or smaller. If it's a 6-32, put in your 6-32 screw. If it's smaller retap the hole with the 6-32 tap. If it's larger, retap the hole with the 8-24 tap.
Or use pop rivets.
Yes, but knowing CyberGuys, the USB interface on the assortment bin will still be USB 1, and everybody knows you want your fancy screw assortment bin to be USB 2.0 compliant.
Yes, but he wants the special computer screws that you can't get at any hardware store. I think he needs to order them from the repair parts depot at Apple Computer, if he can manage to get them to tell him the actual part number. Alternatively, order them through ThinkGeek.
A good third source is SGI. I imagine you can get a sales rep at SGI to spec you the SGI part numbers on some screws and put your order through. Of course, you'd better be a big company who already does business with SGI...
I take it these 'surveys' are conducted by people who oppose the 'slant' of FOX News, in other words, people who slant the other way.
Umm.....
more likely to believe in falsehoods about, say,
So, you're basing your opinion on direct observation of FOX News, and the American public, or are you beliving, ummm, something you've been told?
an american friend of mine (who apparently is un-american enough to be friend with a european...),
Wow. You're not showing any kind of bias there, my friend.
It's rather amusing that you promote a stereotypical view of Americans, one that characterises Americans as having a stereotypical view of Europeans.
Recursion! Cool!
Can you come up with even more elaborate handwaving and fluff rhetoric? I mean, puleese.