There were third party fans available for Macs in the Mac Plus era. The one I used to have was a little unit that fit neatly in the handhold on top of the case. It made the old Mac Plus more reliable (it no longer siezed up for no known reason).
Maybe it's sacriledge, but they did make the machine more reliable, if a bit noisier.
The Soviet Union broke up in part because of the power of fax machines to break through and allow people nationwide to communicate. It's wrong to assume technology didn't have a leading role in overthrowing the tyrrany there.
I mean, if Fidel were to suddenly wage an all out war against a country who didn't attack Cuba because Fidel wanted better control of its resources and was afraid, wetting his pants with fear... would Cubans care then? Would they?
He did. As a Soviet client, Cuba provided large numbers of mercenaries to conflicts in southern Africa, mostly Angola. It was a very, very unpopular project with the Cuban public.
(Not that uncommon around here. We should stick to science and tech. stories and stay out of politics and culture.)
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If you think Gates has any political ambitions, think again.
"I'm sorry that we have to have a Washington presence. We thrived during our first 16 years without any of this. I never made a political visit to Washington and we had no people here. It wasn't on our radar screen. We were just making great software."
(Bill Gates, chairman of Microsoft, December 1995)
Gates has thumbed his nose at the political classes in America in ways that the rest of us only dream of being able to do. Part of the reason for the rage and fury of the DOJ case. Many other IT luminaries (i.e. Ellision and Jobs) line up for their blowjobs from politicians regularly.
The company has only recently produced a workable operating system
Tell that to the millions of users in the early 90's who refused to switch to Windows 95 because what they had (Windows 3.11) was working fine.
Bill Gates has donated a few dozen billion to charity. And not as a tax dodge. Looking at it from outside, it seems like he got to feeling pretty awkward about having that much, and he doesn't believe in leaving a silver spoon in his childrens' mouths, so he's giving it away.
I'm sure in Gates' mind, the money is a side effect of winning, anyways, as he's an overmotivated nut about winning and success.
Yes, I wish sometimes that I could take a passenger train, particularly over the line that runs on our land. The old train station is in town, less than a mile from here, but it's the home of a Historical Society now, not a railroad stop. At least they didn't tear the structure down...
You stretch the truth all over the place in your arguements.
For one example: you won't find many, if any, computer systems that come bundled with Microsoft Office at no additional cost.
Really, you're hating the general public, not Microsoft, when you make broad claims that the problem is Windows' popularity. But you blur that distinction so you can 'blame Microsoft.'
I have a whole box of those SCSI/ethernet adaptors and tested each of them recently on my Powerbook 165c. They work great. I haven't figured out where to peddle them yet, but there is Linux support for them, I find, in some of the Amiga code.
Executor is pretty good, though it doesn't run the 'ew fancy schmancy' System 7 stuff. It runs a lot of things really well, including the Apple port of Wolfenstein 3D, Gremlins. And it reads/writes Macintosh floppies and CDs in your regular PC.
I kept looking at the pages as the project moved foward for when he was going to install the small color VGA monitor, but he never did. Lame project. To be cool he needed to incorporate the screen of the Mac, not just use it as a crummy plastic clone case that required an external monitor.
You forgot to mention that we all need to keep spare alternative-alternative identities on hand, too, in case they catch up with us and snatch our identities and our alternative identities at the same time.
They're watching, and it's important to keep ahead of them.
What info of mine did they sell out? They turned me in as unpatriotic because I buy generic store-brand cola (it's not as super-sweet and I've come to like it) instead of good All American Coca-Cola?
I know of all kinds of people who've filled out fake info when getting those cards. Often you can either carry a card or put a keytag on your keyring. The thing is, they will also use the keyring tag to return your keys if you lose them. Some of the tags actually say that. If you register with false info and put the tag on your key ring, as some people I know have done, you can kiss your keys goodbye if you lose them, and somebody helpfully returns them to the store.
We own a few hundred feet of railroad bed here. Including the second track bed that was the interurban line south from Indianapolis. It was ceded back to the former owner of this property when the line was abandoned and now it's ours. Can't really 'claim' the other railbed that stock rolls across multiple times a day, but technically it's ours. Supposedly it's a bad thing having the railroad run across your land, but I like the sound of trains.
Maybe we need to hold a 'Wireless Mouse Refund Day' rally, and DEMAND that the vendors not force us to buy an un-needed mouse when we just want a keyboard. Demand a refund for the un-needed mouse. Stand up for your rights.
Solaris isn't any harder. It's just closed source and there isn't anywhere near as much free software avaiable for it. There certainly aren't as many 'guide for the clueless' websites as there are for Linux, needless to say. That can sometimes be a positive thing. To run free software packages, you can try to coerce the Zoularis thing and build software from the NetBSD pkgsrc tree on it, I guess. The interface between 'free software' and Solaris just has a lot more rough edges, in my experience, than running a Free OS on it from the start. I run Solaris on my SS10sx, because there's no free-software X Server for it that supports 24 bit color on it's dual cgfourteen framebuffer, but other than the ability to 'boast' about running Solaris at home, there's not much other reason to run it. I guess that's a status thing, or something.
I started wearing an analog mechanical Timex watch over a decade ago. The whole 'digital' bit gets tiresome, and who wants to do decimal math to figure out how soon before some deadline when you can just glance at the hands on a dial and count the tickmarks?
I wouldn't want to go back to having a watch that needed to be winded daily, though.
I can do cool things with my cheap timex like put my gaussmeter's probe (it's a very sensitive gaussmeter) up against the watch back and measure the strength of the magnetic force of the solenoid when the watch ticks, so I don't think it's necessarily un-geek to wear a cheap mechanical Timex.
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Actually, 2/10th of a second is for Kids whose Mom only lets them have one Pee Cee in their 'room.'
The rest of us don't 'dual boot' anything. Get a KVM switch and join the 21st century.
There were third party fans available for Macs in the Mac Plus era. The one I used to have was a little unit that fit neatly in the handhold on top of the case. It made the old Mac Plus more reliable (it no longer siezed up for no known reason).
Maybe it's sacriledge, but they did make the machine more reliable, if a bit noisier.
The Soviet Union broke up in part because of the power of fax machines to break through and allow people nationwide to communicate. It's wrong to assume technology didn't have a leading role in overthrowing the tyrrany there.
I mean, if Fidel were to suddenly wage an all out war against a country who didn't attack Cuba because Fidel wanted better control of its resources and was afraid, wetting his pants with fear... would Cubans care then? Would they?
He did. As a Soviet client, Cuba provided large numbers of mercenaries to conflicts in southern Africa, mostly Angola. It was a very, very unpopular project with the Cuban public.
You're mistaken.
(Not that uncommon around here. We should stick to science and tech. stories and stay out of politics and culture.)
Cite (scroll down).
Gates has thumbed his nose at the political classes in America in ways that the rest of us only dream of being able to do. Part of the reason for the rage and fury of the DOJ case. Many other IT luminaries (i.e. Ellision and Jobs) line up for their blowjobs from politicians regularly.
The company has only recently produced a workable operating system
Tell that to the millions of users in the early 90's who refused to switch to Windows 95 because what they had (Windows 3.11) was working fine.
Bill Gates has donated a few dozen billion to charity. And not as a tax dodge. Looking at it from outside, it seems like he got to feeling pretty awkward about having that much, and he doesn't believe in leaving a silver spoon in his childrens' mouths, so he's giving it away.
I'm sure in Gates' mind, the money is a side effect of winning, anyways, as he's an overmotivated nut about winning and success.
Before labeling people as 'morrons' (sp) perhaps you should work on your spelling and punctuation.
Knighting Steve Jobs would be about the same.
He's the marketing dude.
I think you might be mixing him up with Steve Wozniak.
Spam isn't any worse, and is actually far better, than some of the scary crap people eat and assume is 'meat.'
Buy a can of Spam sometime and give it a try. It's better than most of the filler they put in hotdog casings.
Yes, I wish sometimes that I could take a passenger train, particularly over the line that runs on our land. The old train station is in town, less than a mile from here, but it's the home of a Historical Society now, not a railroad stop. At least they didn't tear the structure down...
You stretch the truth all over the place in your arguements.
For one example: you won't find many, if any, computer systems that come bundled with Microsoft Office at no additional cost.
Really, you're hating the general public, not Microsoft, when you make broad claims that the problem is Windows' popularity. But you blur that distinction so you can 'blame Microsoft.'
Sorry. That just won't do.
I have a whole box of those SCSI/ethernet adaptors and tested each of them recently on my Powerbook 165c. They work great. I haven't figured out where to peddle them yet, but there is Linux support for them, I find, in some of the Amiga code.
No, it's wrong to gut an SE/30 for that sort of project. The SE/30 is still a useful machine and can run NetBSD.
X11 on a 1-bit tiny screen isn't that wonderful, but with the Tab Window Manager you can play GNU Chess and some other things.
Executor is pretty good, though it doesn't run the 'ew fancy schmancy' System 7 stuff. It runs a lot of things really well, including the Apple port of Wolfenstein 3D, Gremlins. And it reads/writes Macintosh floppies and CDs in your regular PC.
I kept looking at the pages as the project moved foward for when he was going to install the small color VGA monitor, but he never did. Lame project. To be cool he needed to incorporate the screen of the Mac, not just use it as a crummy plastic clone case that required an external monitor.
My SE/30 thumbs it's nose at the whole mess.
You forgot to mention that we all need to keep spare alternative-alternative identities on hand, too, in case they catch up with us and snatch our identities and our alternative identities at the same time.
They're watching, and it's important to keep ahead of them.
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What info of mine did they sell out? They turned me in as unpatriotic because I buy generic store-brand cola (it's not as super-sweet and I've come to like it) instead of good All American Coca-Cola?
I know of all kinds of people who've filled out fake info when getting those cards. Often you can either carry a card or put a keytag on your keyring. The thing is, they will also use the keyring tag to return your keys if you lose them. Some of the tags actually say that. If you register with false info and put the tag on your key ring, as some people I know have done, you can kiss your keys goodbye if you lose them, and somebody helpfully returns them to the store.
All I see is how much I'd pay if I was a privacy-nut and refused on principle to make up fake info and get a card.
We own a few hundred feet of railroad bed here. Including the second track bed that was the interurban line south from Indianapolis. It was ceded back to the former owner of this property when the line was abandoned and now it's ours. Can't really 'claim' the other railbed that stock rolls across multiple times a day, but technically it's ours. Supposedly it's a bad thing having the railroad run across your land, but I like the sound of trains.
Maybe we need to hold a 'Wireless Mouse Refund Day' rally, and DEMAND that the vendors not force us to buy an un-needed mouse when we just want a keyboard. Demand a refund for the un-needed mouse. Stand up for your rights.
Should we get the DOJ involved?
Solaris isn't any harder. It's just closed source and there isn't anywhere near as much free software avaiable for it. There certainly aren't as many 'guide for the clueless' websites as there are for Linux, needless to say. That can sometimes be a positive thing. To run free software packages, you can try to coerce the Zoularis thing and build software from the NetBSD pkgsrc tree on it, I guess. The interface between 'free software' and Solaris just has a lot more rough edges, in my experience, than running a Free OS on it from the start. I run Solaris on my SS10sx, because there's no free-software X Server for it that supports 24 bit color on it's dual cgfourteen framebuffer, but other than the ability to 'boast' about running Solaris at home, there's not much other reason to run it. I guess that's a status thing, or something.
Hell with that. Get an old Westclox 'Bulls Eye' pocket watch. They used to be called 'A Dollar Watch' back when that's what they cost.
They still put watch pockets on a lot of jeans, after all...
I started wearing an analog mechanical Timex watch over a decade ago. The whole 'digital' bit gets tiresome, and who wants to do decimal math to figure out how soon before some deadline when you can just glance at the hands on a dial and count the tickmarks?
I wouldn't want to go back to having a watch that needed to be winded daily, though.
I can do cool things with my cheap timex like put my gaussmeter's probe (it's a very sensitive gaussmeter) up against the watch back and measure the strength of the magnetic force of the solenoid when the watch ticks, so I don't think it's necessarily un-geek to wear a cheap mechanical Timex.