DriveSpace (initially known as DoubleSpace) is a disk compression utility supplied with MS-DOS starting from version 6.0. The purpose of DriveSpace is to increase the amount of data the user could store on disks, by transparently compressing and decompressing data on-the-fly. It is primarily intended for use with hard drives, but use for floppy disks is also supported.
I've been using 4GB for the last seven years since I last rebuilt my PC for Windows Vista. Now that I'm re-building my PC to replace aging components, 8GB has become the new 4GB. The new motherboard I'm planning to get will max out at 32GB. We will see what the next seven years bring.
I was handed a blotched print server migration project and the server tech told me I needed to use the GUI wizard to verify that all 1,000+ printers actually work. Adding a printer with the GUI wizard takes five minute. I wrote a PowerShell that adds a printer every 30 seconds. The server tech was astonished that I completed the three-month assignment within one month.
A company I worked at implemented that policy. This was just when PDA's with colored screens and WiFi became popular in the early 2000's. It just so happened that company next door had an open WiFi access point. Many of my coworkers got new PDA's to browse the Internet.
I worked on one company that required us to document our hours to justify hiring more workers because we were too busy trying to justify our hours to hire more workers. A vicious cycle that resulted in more people leaving than being hired.
One company I worked for implemented monitoring software to allow supervisors to keep closer tabs on their workers. On the very first day, my supervisor came running over to my cube to tell me that I shouldn't be browsing Amazon on company time or I would be written up. Except for one small problem: I had a breakfast burrito from the roach coach in hand as I was on my break. According to company policy, I can browse the Internet on my breaks. So I told him to bugger off.
After reading the MOO2 wikis, perhaps it was 32 Doom Stars against the enemy fleet that brought the computer to its virtual knees. Once the enemy fleets were annihilated, my roommate annihilated the planets one by one. Since I haven't played the game in years, my recollection might be faulty.
For the record, I only got a Doom Star once or twice when I played MOO2 in my misbegotten youth.
I'm pretty sure thats a myth. You can only do that once per fight with one 'Doom Star' and it ends the fight.
My roommate was disabled and spent years playing MOO2 (his favorite game). One Doom Star was enough to kill a planet. But he was good enough with his resources to build Doom Stars on a regular basis to use 32 Doom Stars per planetary kill for maximum overkill.
Earth doesn't need humans to survive. Just ask the dinosaurs. Earth will continue on for another four-billion-years until the sun expand into a red giant and makes Jupiter the new Mercury. The Milky Way galaxy and the Andromeda galaxy will start merging together at that time.
I used to have a roommate who played Master of Orion 2 on his PC with an Intel Pentium 133MHz processor. His style of game play was to keep the A.I. at bay, gather significant resources, and build 32 Death Stars to systematically eliminate every planet. Every time 32 Death Stars fired upon a planet, the computer is brought to its virtual knees.
Let's stop spending money on unnecessary wars and rebuilding other nations to fix our crumbling infrastructure at home. A little consistent funding for NASA wouldn't hurt either.
iRobot's lawn mower beacons fall in that category, and the stake design required a waiver from the FCC, which was opposed by the National Radio Astronomy Observatory, stating that the lawn mowers would interfere with its telescopes.
These upside-down drones will be cutting grass under the stars while astronomers are hard at work smoking grass?
When I became a lead tester at Atari (formerly Infogrames) in 2001, I specialized in Nintendo Gameboy Advanced and GameCube titles for the job security, as none of the other lead testers would touch Nintendo. No wonder. Microsoft and Sony have published standards, but you pretty much have to guess the Nintendo standards as that info was proprietary. It was a constant game of cat-and-mouse in figuring out what Nintendo wanted. I was very good at it. Nine out of the ten titles I tested over three years were Nintendo.
When I briefly worked inventory in 2008, Google management was thinking of abandoning Lenovo laptops as they kept finding backdoors for Chinese hackers in the BIOS. Not sure if they ever did. On the few contract assignments I've done for Google since then, everyone I worked with had a MacBook Pro laptop.
A planet might have existed where the asteroid belt is between Mars and Jupiter. James P. Hogan did a series of novels of a planetary war that broke up the planet and the survivors colonized Earth. Nothing worse than being stuck between the king of gods and the god of war.
Silicon Valley is a very small world. I still run into him from time to time. He's always polite in person, but never asks why I don't respond to his emails. It's easier to shake my head and delete the email.
Beats me. I learned every flavor of Java when I went back to school to learn computer programming as the school couldn't afford the Microsoft Visual Studio site license for C++. The last thing I wanted to become was another Java programmer. That was ten years ago. I picked up Python when I worked at Google for a little while in 2008. This is my everyday programming language.
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DriveSpace (initially known as DoubleSpace) is a disk compression utility supplied with MS-DOS starting from version 6.0. The purpose of DriveSpace is to increase the amount of data the user could store on disks, by transparently compressing and decompressing data on-the-fly. It is primarily intended for use with hard drives, but use for floppy disks is also supported.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DriveSpace
I've been using 4GB for the last seven years since I last rebuilt my PC for Windows Vista. Now that I'm re-building my PC to replace aging components, 8GB has become the new 4GB. The new motherboard I'm planning to get will max out at 32GB. We will see what the next seven years bring.
... what is taught today ...
Your electronic gear is no longer repairable. Just toss it out for the latest and greatest. Stay calm and carry on.
I was handed a blotched print server migration project and the server tech told me I needed to use the GUI wizard to verify that all 1,000+ printers actually work. Adding a printer with the GUI wizard takes five minute. I wrote a PowerShell that adds a printer every 30 seconds. The server tech was astonished that I completed the three-month assignment within one month.
A company I worked at implemented that policy. This was just when PDA's with colored screens and WiFi became popular in the early 2000's. It just so happened that company next door had an open WiFi access point. Many of my coworkers got new PDA's to browse the Internet.
I worked on one company that required us to document our hours to justify hiring more workers because we were too busy trying to justify our hours to hire more workers. A vicious cycle that resulted in more people leaving than being hired.
One company I worked for implemented monitoring software to allow supervisors to keep closer tabs on their workers. On the very first day, my supervisor came running over to my cube to tell me that I shouldn't be browsing Amazon on company time or I would be written up. Except for one small problem: I had a breakfast burrito from the roach coach in hand as I was on my break. According to company policy, I can browse the Internet on my breaks. So I told him to bugger off.
After reading the MOO2 wikis, perhaps it was 32 Doom Stars against the enemy fleet that brought the computer to its virtual knees. Once the enemy fleets were annihilated, my roommate annihilated the planets one by one. Since I haven't played the game in years, my recollection might be faulty.
For the record, I only got a Doom Star once or twice when I played MOO2 in my misbegotten youth.
I'm pretty sure thats a myth. You can only do that once per fight with one 'Doom Star' and it ends the fight.
My roommate was disabled and spent years playing MOO2 (his favorite game). One Doom Star was enough to kill a planet. But he was good enough with his resources to build Doom Stars on a regular basis to use 32 Doom Stars per planetary kill for maximum overkill.
Earth doesn't need humans to survive. Just ask the dinosaurs. Earth will continue on for another four-billion-years until the sun expand into a red giant and makes Jupiter the new Mercury. The Milky Way galaxy and the Andromeda galaxy will start merging together at that time.
I used to have a roommate who played Master of Orion 2 on his PC with an Intel Pentium 133MHz processor. His style of game play was to keep the A.I. at bay, gather significant resources, and build 32 Death Stars to systematically eliminate every planet. Every time 32 Death Stars fired upon a planet, the computer is brought to its virtual knees.
Let's stop spending money on unnecessary wars and rebuilding other nations to fix our crumbling infrastructure at home. A little consistent funding for NASA wouldn't hurt either.
I was under the impression that Python was replacing Java as a teaching language in the community colleges, ensuring a monopoly of Python programmers.
iRobot's lawn mower beacons fall in that category, and the stake design required a waiver from the FCC, which was opposed by the National Radio Astronomy Observatory, stating that the lawn mowers would interfere with its telescopes.
These upside-down drones will be cutting grass under the stars while astronomers are hard at work smoking grass?
When I became a lead tester at Atari (formerly Infogrames) in 2001, I specialized in Nintendo Gameboy Advanced and GameCube titles for the job security, as none of the other lead testers would touch Nintendo. No wonder. Microsoft and Sony have published standards, but you pretty much have to guess the Nintendo standards as that info was proprietary. It was a constant game of cat-and-mouse in figuring out what Nintendo wanted. I was very good at it. Nine out of the ten titles I tested over three years were Nintendo.
The third rule of Nintendo Club is:
Everything is proprietary to Nintendo.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/07/29/lenovo_accused_backdoors_intel_ban/
When I briefly worked inventory in 2008, Google management was thinking of abandoning Lenovo laptops as they kept finding backdoors for Chinese hackers in the BIOS. Not sure if they ever did. On the few contract assignments I've done for Google since then, everyone I worked with had a MacBook Pro laptop.
A planet might have existed where the asteroid belt is between Mars and Jupiter. James P. Hogan did a series of novels of a planetary war that broke up the planet and the survivors colonized Earth. Nothing worse than being stuck between the king of gods and the god of war.
Silicon Valley is a very small world. I still run into him from time to time. He's always polite in person, but never asks why I don't respond to his emails. It's easier to shake my head and delete the email.
A former roommate still replies to the emails that I wrote 15 years ago, still angry and unwilling to let go of the past.
The original Xbox was just a PC. I loved how the documentation explained that the A: and B: drives — ye olde floppies — were hidden.
As long as Microsoft leaves the naughty bits behind...
Beats me. I learned every flavor of Java when I went back to school to learn computer programming as the school couldn't afford the Microsoft Visual Studio site license for C++. The last thing I wanted to become was another Java programmer. That was ten years ago. I picked up Python when I worked at Google for a little while in 2008. This is my everyday programming language.
Go Python!