Nope, not in the 1959 edition. (1971 printing) Did they revise it for you whippersnappers?
"The Hardy Boys Detective Handbook" does however give a very detailed explanation of the basics of fingerprinting. Which probably has not changed much since then.
No one ever had 56K, no one. If you got over 50, you were doing good.
Real crappy ISDN? Mine rocked! Two rock solid, honest to goodness, true 64K connections. Of course the overhead was on a separate 'B' channel, but it was most certainly over 50K:)
Now true dial-up I agree with you, mid 40s was the best I ever got and that was rare.
Have not done so myself, have read of this technique being used to "upgrade" a late beta version to the final release.
As long as only a few files have changed it should work.
Personally, I'd recommend buying your own rather than waiting for your father's.
Buy tools he does not already have and share!
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Yes, while I disagree with someone up thread that wanted to see who had moderated them. I would like to be able to give a reason for a mod (both up or down) that could perhaps be seen by them. Especially would like it to be viewable by by the metamoderators. As an option rather than automatically.
This would be of great help for me on those borderline cases. Always seem to get one that takes more time than the other nine combined. Instead of trying to guess their reason from inadequate context, wasting tons of time finding it in the original discussion or skipping the metamod alltogether. Just click on 'explanation' read the short sentence, decide 'fair' or 'unfair' and move on to the next one.
So, can we has 'explanation' field?:)
Seconded, two rock solid 56Ks back-to-back even on crappy wires. However, not only do the service, second phone line, and the (not mentioned by sales weasels) charge for the B channel all add up. ISDN modems are surprisingly expensive!
One other possibility I have not seen mentioned is replacing the phone wires. When we first built our house, we were the 'last pig on the sow'. Over a thousand feet of the flat black twin-lead from the last big wire to us. Later after another house was built past us, most of it was replaced with round 25 twisted pair cable. (Back on straight dial up at the time) We saw an immediate jump from high 30K to mid 40K speed.
LE 2007? I'm pretty sure that 2005 was the only Mandriva to be labled "L"imited "E"dition. I think because it was the first one designated by year and the last one under the original ~six month development cycle. Chewy Mandriva 2005LE on the outside, crunchy Mandrake 10.2 on the inside:)
10.1 - 2005LE - 2006 - 2007 - 2007.1
Not only not enforce it, they removed the warning from the cards! I'm old enough that my SS card has "For Social Security And Tax Purposes - Not For Identification" printed on the front.
and you have to be a commenter to have enough karma to even moderate,
Not true. I had mod points before I ever made a comment. A still occasionally receive them despite no additional karma from my tiny hand full of posts.
The system is not broke. True it is not perfect and never will be, but it is not broken. Any changes I can think of that might benefit me would quickly be abused by others. Or just make things so complacated no one would moderate at all.
Recycling Class (7) refers to post consumer waste and is a catch all for many diffrent plastics. Clean pre-consumer poly carbonate regrind is worth more than most other common plastics. Obviously ground up CDs full of bits of foil and labels would not be clean or valuable...
Regret I never got around to dropping a handfull of ground CDs in the machine I once ran. Always wondered if the foil bits would still sparkle afterwards.
After customs inspectors have wasted two or three days opening crates of various products with tough molded Lexan housings, they'll forget the whole silly business.
Possibly, but most other products made with poly carbonate do not have the other chemical smells associated with CDs. Oh, and since I made them for five years please add baby bottles to the list.
Instead the telcos of old did the only sane thing: expanded the switching capability until the odds of the system reaching its capacity were so small as not to impede its normal use.
And lobby for laws preventing radio stations from running promotions such as "tenth caller wins ten grand". I can remember those contests bringing entire metro areas phone systems down for several minutes.
But certainly, I'd cut it off at about 1986 or so- almost everything since then has been Windows, Mac, or Linux, the choice in platforms as far as hardware is concerned is almost dead.
Please don't. I have a Magnavox Headstart 300 from 1990. True it runs on DOS, but at least it is not Windows.
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Nope, not in the 1959 edition. (1971 printing) Did they revise it for you whippersnappers? "The Hardy Boys Detective Handbook" does however give a very detailed explanation of the basics of fingerprinting. Which probably has not changed much since then.
Thanks for the trip down memory lane!
Real crappy ISDN? Mine rocked! Two rock solid, honest to goodness, true 64K connections. Of course the overhead was on a separate 'B' channel, but it was most certainly over 50K:) Now true dial-up I agree with you, mid 40s was the best I ever got and that was rare.
Have not done so myself, have read of this technique being used to "upgrade" a late beta version to the final release. As long as only a few files have changed it should work.
Yes, while I disagree with someone up thread that wanted to see who had moderated them. I would like to be able to give a reason for a mod (both up or down) that could perhaps be seen by them. Especially would like it to be viewable by by the metamoderators. As an option rather than automatically. This would be of great help for me on those borderline cases. Always seem to get one that takes more time than the other nine combined. Instead of trying to guess their reason from inadequate context, wasting tons of time finding it in the original discussion or skipping the metamod alltogether. Just click on 'explanation' read the short sentence, decide 'fair' or 'unfair' and move on to the next one. So, can we has 'explanation' field? :)
Seconded, two rock solid 56Ks back-to-back even on crappy wires. However, not only do the service, second phone line, and the (not mentioned by sales weasels) charge for the B channel all add up. ISDN modems are surprisingly expensive!
One other possibility I have not seen mentioned is replacing the phone wires. When we first built our house, we were the 'last pig on the sow'. Over a thousand feet of the flat black twin-lead from the last big wire to us. Later after another house was built past us, most of it was replaced with round 25 twisted pair cable. (Back on straight dial up at the time) We saw an immediate jump from high 30K to mid 40K speed.
Yes it does. Mandriva 2007.1, Firefox 2.0.0.6. Did take clicking "Accept Hit" several times first.
LE 2007? I'm pretty sure that 2005 was the only Mandriva to be labled "L"imited "E"dition. I think because it was the first one designated by year and the last one under the original ~six month development cycle. Chewy Mandriva 2005LE on the outside, crunchy Mandrake 10.2 on the inside:) 10.1 - 2005LE - 2006 - 2007 - 2007.1
Not only not enforce it, they removed the warning from the cards! I'm old enough that my SS card has "For Social Security And Tax Purposes - Not For Identification" printed on the front.
and you have to be a commenter to have enough karma to even moderate,
Not true. I had mod points before I ever made a comment. A still occasionally receive them despite no additional karma from my tiny hand full of posts. The system is not broke. True it is not perfect and never will be, but it is not broken. Any changes I can think of that might benefit me would quickly be abused by others. Or just make things so complacated no one would moderate at all.
Recycling Class (7) refers to post consumer waste and is a catch all for many diffrent plastics. Clean pre-consumer poly carbonate regrind is worth more than most other common plastics. Obviously ground up CDs full of bits of foil and labels would not be clean or valuable...
Regret I never got around to dropping a handfull of ground CDs in the machine I once ran. Always wondered if the foil bits would still sparkle afterwards.
After customs inspectors have wasted two or three days opening crates of various products with tough molded Lexan housings, they'll forget the whole silly business.
Possibly, but most other products made with poly carbonate do not have the other chemical smells associated with CDs. Oh, and since I made them for five years please add baby bottles to the list.
Instead the telcos of old did the only sane thing: expanded the switching capability until the odds of the system reaching its capacity were so small as not to impede its normal use.
And lobby for laws preventing radio stations from running promotions such as "tenth caller wins ten grand". I can remember those contests bringing entire metro areas phone systems down for several minutes.
But certainly, I'd cut it off at about 1986 or so- almost everything since then has been Windows, Mac, or Linux, the choice in platforms as far as hardware is concerned is almost dead.
Please don't. I have a Magnavox Headstart 300 from 1990. True it runs on DOS, but at least it is not Windows.
(sniff) I want be an old geek too.
All of you need to stop talking the talk and start backing up your shit with real action.
Which means not automatically giving the command line answer to obvious newbies when a perfectly good GUI tool solution exists for their disto.
All good news, but, what happens when a new distro needs some hosting and bandwidth?
TDS again? Well old ones anyway.
http://mirrors.tds.net/
being eaten by ferocious llamas and so on and so forth.
Wasn't me, honest!