I ran a multiline Waffle BBS offering Usenet and email in 91/92 on an 8 Meg 386-40 running OS/2, while at the same time using the computer to type my essays in Word Perfect (being a starving university student at the time and not being able to afford a second computer.)
I remember between trying to decide between OS/2 and SCO Xenix (I was previously a SCO tech-support weenie, and had several installations from a VAR that went out of business).
OS/2 won because I could play Duke Nukem -- the original 2D Duke Nukem! Plus OS/2 just plain looked cool.
When Linux came out I ditched it. Long live Yggdrassil!
Simply yank the HD when it's full, copy important files to a new HD so you'll still have access to them, and use the new HD as your work drive, putting the old drive in storage.
This way you don't have to worry about the drive failing of old age, because you're always using a new drive.
At the same time, keep a USB drive handy for instant backups of important work.
I have a cabinet full of (SCSI, and then IDE) drives going back to '96 stuffed with video and music from when I owned a recording studio (I now run a video production co.) Important data is saved twice to two different drives. Just. In. Case.**
This, alongside your archives to optical, should ensure that your data is useful for years to come. I've never had any problem retrieving old data from drives that are now almost 10 years old.
**I should also store a copy of materials off-site, but if my studio burns down I intend to be inside it.
When we played (admittedly a long long time ago), we used these things called "words" and "imagination".
Nobody drew maps unless it was absolutely necessary (which was rare).
Nobody collected figurines (that was considered "gay" using the lingo of the time) -- the character sheet was enough.
We would get completely lost in our imaginations for a few hours. Turning D&D into a boardgame would ruin this, and vastly reduce the complexity (which, come to think of it, is probably why it's done).
The OS is irrelevent. In the future software will be on a layer above the OS. Any OS. Just look at the vast number of very sophisticated web applications which not only exist, but work together in unimaginable ways (like this.)
And this is just the beginning.
This is why Microsoft makes their browser noncompliant -- if it followed standards, they'd be fucked! The more confusion they can create in the minds of consumers, the greater the chance they can keep their market share. After all, why should people start using FireFox if most websites are designed for IE? The standard is what the majority is using, and right now the standard is Microsoft.
The future isn't in building hardware or writing software. Prices will be so cheap for over-powered systems that they'll for all intents and purposes be commodity items. Software will be provided by open-source. One age in the evolution of computing is ending, and a new one is beginning.
In the future the big money is in providing services.
And Microsoft missed out. They stumbled, and are racing to catch up, but it's probably too late. The decline has begun.
COWBOYNEAL: Circulation Of Worthless Broadcasts Over Your Nearest External Authentication Location - this is a special extension to the voice-over-IP standard allowing fast delivery of esoteric technological news to compliant devices. It also has the convenient property of always being last on selection fields in the user interface.
The problem with this protocol is that after you receive the call, you get the same call AGAIN a few days (or weeks, or sometimes months) later.
Sometimes you get tiresome feedback from Soviet Russia, for unknown reasons.
and yours could potentially be harmful to someone with an email address you randomly generate.
Statistically possible, but highly unlikely.
Besides, when someone's been pushed over the edge and goes postal, they're not exactly thinking of the innocent co-workers who get in the way of their bullets...
You don't need IP phones for every line. Any POTS phone will work. How much is a plain POTS "business" phone? $30 in bulk? Less? In his diagram there are three channel-banks, giving 72 POTS lines.
Asterisk ties the branches together using VOIP or whatever's available, but each phone doesn't need to be capable of VOIP.
Late night hacking in a ratty townhouse near downtown Kingston. Debugging 8086 assembly on a blazing 286-12 (envy of my classmates).*
Flipping through radio stations and finding CBC alternatic classical with thrash or Industrial. Somehow it fit, and I was turned onto an entire new type of music when they started playing Ministry's "Thieves" (which had just come out).
**wipes away tear**
*I ran SCO XENIX 286, which powered two dumb-terminals and a way-too-fast (and big) DEC lineprinter/teletypewriter I scavenged out of garbage bins. Nerd heaven in those days...
The other day I moved the DVD player from the bedroom TFT TV (Samsung) to the kitchen TV, and was very surprised at how good the old TV was. And for months I was thinking that DVDs were getting worse and worse in encoding quality.
The same with watching DVDs on the PC through a monitor -- you'd think that the quality would be best of all, but even from a distance you can see encoding and scaling problems.
I think tube TVs will be around for a long time for affictionados -- kinda like record players.
Slashdot Mirror
Soon we'll have Internet-over-IP!
And while we're at it, lets get rid of this stupid "theory" of gravity. I'm tired of being stuck to this planet and would rather float around.
I ran a multiline Waffle BBS offering Usenet and email in 91/92 on an 8 Meg 386-40 running OS/2, while at the same time using the computer to type my essays in Word Perfect (being a starving university student at the time and not being able to afford a second computer.)
I remember between trying to decide between OS/2 and SCO Xenix (I was previously a SCO tech-support weenie, and had several installations from a VAR that went out of business).
OS/2 won because I could play Duke Nukem -- the original 2D Duke Nukem! Plus OS/2 just plain looked cool.
When Linux came out I ditched it. Long live Yggdrassil!
Simply yank the HD when it's full, copy important files to a new HD so you'll still have access to them, and use the new HD as your work drive, putting the old drive in storage.
This way you don't have to worry about the drive failing of old age, because you're always using a new drive.
At the same time, keep a USB drive handy for instant backups of important work.
I have a cabinet full of (SCSI, and then IDE) drives going back to '96 stuffed with video and music from when I owned a recording studio (I now run a video production co.) Important data is saved twice to two different drives. Just. In. Case.**
This, alongside your archives to optical, should ensure that your data is useful for years to come. I've never had any problem retrieving old data from drives that are now almost 10 years old.
**I should also store a copy of materials off-site, but if my studio burns down I intend to be inside it.
Steve Austin had this in the seventies!!!11!!
You can't say FTL, warped-space, or interdimensional travel is impossible, because there isn't a unified theory "of everything" yet.
Once there is, then you can all start up your bonfires and start burning geeks, but until then give us a break, eh?
Olivine is olive-green.
(I knew that geology elective would come in handy someday.)
It'll be the big movie producers who lose, after the minors are able to start showing their movies on TV and reap the big-bucks.
Hmmmm... The installation process no longer works -- download directory now requires a login. Why?
While the crack is a bad thing, remember back when astronauts had balls?
There's always going to be risks associated with space travel. America doesn't want to pay the price -- but I bet China and India will.
China and India will reap the benefits too, leaving America behind.
But thank baby Jesus at least American astronauts will be safe! (on the ground)
When we played (admittedly a long long time ago), we used these things called "words" and "imagination".
Nobody drew maps unless it was absolutely necessary (which was rare).
Nobody collected figurines (that was considered "gay" using the lingo of the time) -- the character sheet was enough.
We would get completely lost in our imaginations for a few hours. Turning D&D into a boardgame would ruin this, and vastly reduce the complexity (which, come to think of it, is probably why it's done).
Young 'uns these days. Harumph!
Vegas. I believe the latest version supports HDV, and it's fast and amazingly powerful given its simplicity.
Image quality is excellent. It's ideal if you're mixing various formats (especially photographs -- subpixel rendering!)
Best of all, it's rock-solid.
Vegas is no-bullshit Get Work Done software.
As for forums, check out creativecow.net. They cover all editors.
Jesus H. Christ. Would you just let it DIE!!!!
Better yet, spend the money on assassins for Braga and Berman.
The OS is irrelevent. In the future software will be on a layer above the OS. Any OS. Just look at the vast number of very sophisticated web applications which not only exist, but work together in unimaginable ways (like this.)
And this is just the beginning.
This is why Microsoft makes their browser noncompliant -- if it followed standards, they'd be fucked! The more confusion they can create in the minds of consumers, the greater the chance they can keep their market share. After all, why should people start using FireFox if most websites are designed for IE? The standard is what the majority is using, and right now the standard is Microsoft.
The future isn't in building hardware or writing software. Prices will be so cheap for over-powered systems that they'll for all intents and purposes be commodity items. Software will be provided by open-source. One age in the evolution of computing is ending, and a new one is beginning.
In the future the big money is in providing services.
And Microsoft missed out. They stumbled, and are racing to catch up, but it's probably too late. The decline has begun.
We'll know in ten years or so.
Sometimes you get tiresome feedback from Soviet Russia, for unknown reasons.
Maybe it uses cold-fusion?
Don't you think this correlates to the number of available television channels?
Maybe if they had more choice and freedom in what they wanted to watch, the level of licence-abuse (which is what this is) would drop.
The same could be applied to anything that's "pirated".
But nerds LIKE a pale shadow.
Why waste time going to Japan to eat noodle soup, when you can eat it in your basement (for it's life-sustaining value only) and keep hacking?
...would they have a "German Federation of the Pornographic Industry".
Come on, admit it. You saw that too.
Besides, when someone's been pushed over the edge and goes postal, they're not exactly thinking of the innocent co-workers who get in the way of their bullets...
You don't need IP phones for every line. Any POTS phone will work. How much is a plain POTS "business" phone? $30 in bulk? Less? In his diagram there are three channel-banks, giving 72 POTS lines.
Asterisk ties the branches together using VOIP or whatever's available, but each phone doesn't need to be capable of VOIP.
Asterisk "simply" (ha!) replaces the PBX.
Is it GNU/Linuxy?
Ahhh memories...
Late night hacking in a ratty townhouse near downtown Kingston. Debugging 8086 assembly on a blazing 286-12 (envy of my classmates).*
Flipping through radio stations and finding CBC alternatic classical with thrash or Industrial. Somehow it fit, and I was turned onto an entire new type of music when they started playing Ministry's "Thieves" (which had just come out).
**wipes away tear**
*I ran SCO XENIX 286, which powered two dumb-terminals and a way-too-fast (and big) DEC lineprinter/teletypewriter I scavenged out of garbage bins. Nerd heaven in those days...
The other day I moved the DVD player from the bedroom TFT TV (Samsung) to the kitchen TV, and was very surprised at how good the old TV was. And for months I was thinking that DVDs were getting worse and worse in encoding quality.
The same with watching DVDs on the PC through a monitor -- you'd think that the quality would be best of all, but even from a distance you can see encoding and scaling problems.
I think tube TVs will be around for a long time for affictionados -- kinda like record players.