I have a Silicon Graphics (yes, before they were SGI) branded Sony GDM-20D11 20" monitor I found at a junk store for $45. It has a decent picture, and when I connect it to my Silicon Graphics Indigo2 (1993 vintage, R4400 MIPS CPU) it really heats the office well.
I also have a 20" Sun monitor hooked up to a Sparcstation 20. I do my work on them instead of the newer boxes when it gets really cold.
Anyway, I did an experiment once and measured my electric meter with them both off and then with them on. I calculated it would cost an extra $20 per month to run them both continuously*. Needless to say, it's not worth $240 a year to have them running all the time. The Indigo2 actually heats the floor nicely b/c of its downward facing front fan exhaust.
The moral is, check your power bill. You might be wasting enough in several months to buy a new, more efficient monitor.
*This is pretty easy to do. Meters have a conversion value listed that allows you to convert the number of turns of the little dial to kilowatt hours.
This is just one more thing to make America less competitive in IT.
Now all of our programming jobs will be outsourced to non-Frontseat-Computing-Ban countries like India, where carpooling engineers can get in than extra hour of programming each day.
I've found that tea has fewer negative affects than coffee, such as abdominal cramping. Tea seems to be less of a diuretic, meaning you don't end up as dehydrated and "hung over" a the end of the day after drinking tea. In addition, black teas supposedly have antioxidants which are actually beneficial, though I'm not sure how thoroughly evaluated these claims are.
If you decide to go with tea, make sure to do it right. Nothing will turn you off from tea faster than a crappy bag of Lipton in a cup of lukewarm water, as most restaurants in the US serve it. Read the late Douglas Adams' treatise on how to brew a cup of tea properly.
Also, pick a good brand. I have found none better than Taylor's of Harrogate* (made in the UK but available at fancy us grocery stores) Earl Grey**. I think the Starbucks brand (Tazo) is too bitter and astringent. Get the loose leaf variety of Taylor's (not teabags) and add 1.5-2 teaspoons per cup to a warmed french press. Pour in nearly boiling water and let sit for about 3-4 minutes. Serve in a warmed teacup with a wedge of lemon or lime***.
You'll end up with something that gives you an entirely different feeling than coffee -- mellow, yet envigorating.
* I don't work for or represent Taylor's of Harrogate, just a customer.
**Try the Lapsang Souchong flavor, which is smoked tea. Great for the wintertime.
***You will find it is vastly superior to the Earl Grey with lemon most replicators produce.
I'm really glad this question came up. You see, I've got the opposite problem.
Before Sun started making computers they manufactured personal stereos. These were the precursor to the early Walkman. However, there was one problem: they used the old Sun Model 411 style data cartridges (1/4"), which are large and never really caught on.
Anyway, it's getting nearly impossible to find new releases on 1/4" cartridge, and I lost my 1/4" audio tape deck at Comdex '93, so I need to be able to record my mp3 collection to tape using the Sun Model 411 tape drive.
If I can't get this figured out, I'll have to start relying on my old Sinclair Vinyl Discman (TM), which is even more bulky and skips even when I'm standing still.
It looks like the public outcry about Diebold and other voting equipment manufacturers has been heard, at least in a very major market for these machines in the US. It should be very difficult for other states to not follow suit.
Will Diebold voting machines should now carry warnings that state, "This voting machine contains technology known by the State of California to be harmful to Democracy"?
The schools teach revisionist history.. the schools teach idiocy..
Perhaps where you went to school. Don't be so quick to label everyone else's education though. My 12th grade American Government teacher gave us the dirt on what goes on behind government: lobbying, press reporting, campaign finance. This put us on the road to critical thinking and I am grateful for this.
Another teacher consistently took us to national championships in Lincoln Douglas debate -- a competition requiring sharp reasoning skills.
Mind you, this was an urban public school in a poor, "backward" state.
There are some excellent teachers out there, and they deserve positive recognition.
Forget the lawn mowing robots, we should be genetically engineering new breeds of animals to take care of these chores for us.
Imagine birds that are instinctively programmed to pick up trash. We have plenty of squirrels around, so why not enlist them to rake our yards? Don't get me started on the rodents (think giant turbines).
Animals in cities have way too much time on their hands and are always causing problems by flying|crapping|shitting on everyone else. It's high time they started pulling their own weight in the world.
If things get out of hand and the animals evolve beyond our ability to control them, *then* we can start thinking about robot exterminators.
Does anyone know which Alpha machines can actually run OpenVMS? I have searched for this information on the 'net and in the VMS faq, but I can't find a conclusive list of what will and won't run it.
Suppose I wanted to buy a single-processor Alpha 67 or 7 or 79 motherboard or box. Can anybody post what would be the lowest price? HP makes it pretty hard to look up. TIA
I don't think HP has any channels by which an individual can purchase a single Alpha system. They are mostly interested in large bids by corporations or other entities, and they conduct these through contacts with a sales team.
This is one shortcoming DEC had also that really limited the ability of the Alpha to even approach mainstream use. You could not just call DEC and buy an Alpha -- it wasn't possible.
Makes you wonder about a company that doesn't seem like it even wants to sell its own products.
Seriously though, LA used to be a big source of booze for underage Mississippians. You could drive across the line and buy hooch at age 18. Lousiana eventually changed the law, something about federal highway funds.
Calling all homebrewers, moonshiners, and old men who sit out front of the drugstore. Damn the rev'nooers, it's time to come together for a good old fashioned bootleggin'!
I've got a teal colored SGI Indigo2 with Irix 6.5 that I use for an X terminal. The monitor is 20", so it does nicely.
I also have an Amiga 2000 that I use quite often, and a 486 DX266 that functions as my NAT router and firewall.
One of the other tasks the article metions Joy working on is a long awaited rewrite of vi to include a slick Java Swing GUI interface and the migration away from moded operation to Ctrl key sequences.
According to Joy, "The Control key wasn't available when I wrote vi in the 70's. Back then it was the cent symbol key (you know, that little "c" with the line through it?). So we had to go with this kludgy insert mode thing that just, well, rather sucks."
but when I had lots of harrassing calls for another person at my new home phone number, I set up a voicemail tree which said, "Press 1 for [other person], press 2 for [me]". They usually end up pressing 1 b/c they aren't interested in me, and 1 gives them a message explaining that the person they are calling is no longer at this number but does not allow them to leave a message.
When I did get messages from them, I called the phone number, explained that I am not who they think, and threatened to sue them under the TCPA if they called again. This pissed them off, but the calls stopped.
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I have a Silicon Graphics (yes, before they were SGI) branded Sony GDM-20D11 20" monitor I found at a junk store for $45. It has a decent picture, and when I connect it to my Silicon Graphics Indigo2 (1993 vintage, R4400 MIPS CPU) it really heats the office well.
I also have a 20" Sun monitor hooked up to a Sparcstation 20. I do my work on them instead of the newer boxes when it gets really cold.
Anyway, I did an experiment once and measured my electric meter with them both off and then with them on. I calculated it would cost an extra $20 per month to run them both continuously*. Needless to say, it's not worth $240 a year to have them running all the time. The Indigo2 actually heats the floor nicely b/c of its downward facing front fan exhaust.
The moral is, check your power bill. You might be wasting enough in several months to buy a new, more efficient monitor.
*This is pretty easy to do. Meters have a conversion value listed that allows you to convert the number of turns of the little dial to kilowatt hours.
This is just one more thing to make America less competitive in IT.
Now all of our programming jobs will be outsourced to non-Frontseat-Computing-Ban countries like India, where carpooling engineers can get in than extra hour of programming each day.
I've found that tea has fewer negative affects than coffee, such as abdominal cramping. Tea seems to be less of a diuretic, meaning you don't end up as dehydrated and "hung over" a the end of the day after drinking tea. In addition, black teas supposedly have antioxidants which are actually beneficial, though I'm not sure how thoroughly evaluated these claims are.
If you decide to go with tea, make sure to do it right. Nothing will turn you off from tea faster than a crappy bag of Lipton in a cup of lukewarm water, as most restaurants in the US serve it. Read the late Douglas Adams' treatise on how to brew a cup of tea properly.
Also, pick a good brand. I have found none better than Taylor's of Harrogate* (made in the UK but available at fancy us grocery stores) Earl Grey**. I think the Starbucks brand (Tazo) is too bitter and astringent. Get the loose leaf variety of Taylor's (not teabags) and add 1.5-2 teaspoons per cup to a warmed french press. Pour in nearly boiling water and let sit for about 3-4 minutes. Serve in a warmed teacup with a wedge of lemon or lime***.
You'll end up with something that gives you an entirely different feeling than coffee -- mellow, yet envigorating.
* I don't work for or represent Taylor's of Harrogate, just a customer.
**Try the Lapsang Souchong flavor, which is smoked tea. Great for the wintertime.
***You will find it is vastly superior to the Earl Grey with lemon most replicators produce.
I'm really glad this question came up. You see, I've got the opposite problem.
Before Sun started making computers they manufactured personal stereos. These were the precursor to the early Walkman. However, there was one problem: they used the old Sun Model 411 style data cartridges (1/4"), which are large and never really caught on.
Anyway, it's getting nearly impossible to find new releases on 1/4" cartridge, and I lost my 1/4" audio tape deck at Comdex '93, so I need to be able to record my mp3 collection to tape using the Sun Model 411 tape drive.
If I can't get this figured out, I'll have to start relying on my old Sinclair Vinyl Discman (TM), which is even more bulky and skips even when I'm standing still.
Thanks!
They are also working on a TI Calculator emulator for the new O/S. It will allow you to emulate a TI calculator right on your own calculator!
In a machine this old the Liquor to CPU bus will be a serious bottleneck.
Will Diebold voting machines should now carry warnings that state, "This voting machine contains technology known by the State of California to be harmful to Democracy"?
A membership in the Jam of the Month Club. Give the gift that keeps on giving!
Perhaps where you went to school. Don't be so quick to label everyone else's education though. My 12th grade American Government teacher gave us the dirt on what goes on behind government: lobbying, press reporting, campaign finance. This put us on the road to critical thinking and I am grateful for this.
Another teacher consistently took us to national championships in Lincoln Douglas debate -- a competition requiring sharp reasoning skills.
Mind you, this was an urban public school in a poor, "backward" state. There are some excellent teachers out there, and they deserve positive recognition.
[/someone please thank the teachers rant]
Forget the lawn mowing robots, we should be genetically engineering new breeds of animals to take care of these chores for us.
Imagine birds that are instinctively programmed to pick up trash. We have plenty of squirrels around, so why not enlist them to rake our yards? Don't get me started on the rodents (think giant turbines).
Animals in cities have way too much time on their hands and are always causing problems by flying|crapping|shitting on everyone else. It's high time they started pulling their own weight in the world.
If things get out of hand and the animals evolve beyond our ability to control them, *then* we can start thinking about robot exterminators.
We must enact strict legilation to protect American citizens from this threat.
Does anyone know which Alpha machines can actually run OpenVMS? I have searched for this information on the 'net and in the VMS faq, but I can't find a conclusive list of what will and won't run it.
I don't think HP has any channels by which an individual can purchase a single Alpha system. They are mostly interested in large bids by corporations or other entities, and they conduct these through contacts with a sales team.
This is one shortcoming DEC had also that really limited the ability of the Alpha to even approach mainstream use. You could not just call DEC and buy an Alpha -- it wasn't possible.
Makes you wonder about a company that doesn't seem like it even wants to sell its own products.
Seriously though, LA used to be a big source of booze for underage Mississippians. You could drive across the line and buy hooch at age 18. Lousiana eventually changed the law, something about federal highway funds.
Calling all homebrewers, moonshiners, and old men who sit out front of the drugstore. Damn the rev'nooers, it's time to come together for a good old fashioned bootleggin'!
By gar it's been awhile!
The defendants are asking for donations to recover attorney's fees.
New Business Plan:
1. Get sued by spammer.
2. ???
3. Win case.
4. Solicit donations from Internet to cover legal fees.
5. Profit!
I for one welcome our Chinese overlords. Let's all hope they don't set us up the bomb while they're up there.
I've got a teal colored SGI Indigo2 with Irix 6.5 that I use for an X terminal. The monitor is 20", so it does nicely. I also have an Amiga 2000 that I use quite often, and a 486 DX266 that functions as my NAT router and firewall.
This is my fault. I am running 13,999 virtual linux processes on an IBM S/390.
I also have an old copy of Slackware running on a 386SX-25, which I'm thinking about upgrading with a math coprocessor.
One of the other tasks the article metions Joy working on is a long awaited rewrite of vi to include a slick Java Swing GUI interface and the migration away from moded operation to Ctrl key sequences.
According to Joy, "The Control key wasn't available when I wrote vi in the 70's. Back then it was the cent symbol key (you know, that little "c" with the line through it?). So we had to go with this kludgy insert mode thing that just, well, rather sucks."
Internet Explorer is written in Algol but is compiled in Perl and linked in Smalltalk.
I'm disabling ssh and using telnet until the patches come out. Just try and crack my box now you stupid ha%$&$#*^%$^&*
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but when I had lots of harrassing calls for another person at my new home phone number, I set up a voicemail tree which said, "Press 1 for [other person], press 2 for [me]". They usually end up pressing 1 b/c they aren't interested in me, and 1 gives them a message explaining that the person they are calling is no longer at this number but does not allow them to leave a message.
When I did get messages from them, I called the phone number, explained that I am not who they think, and threatened to sue them under the TCPA if they called again. This pissed them off, but the calls stopped.
- Apple Computer bites into worm
- Apple hits sour note with lawsuit
- In Soviet Russia, Apple eat YOU!
*With a dry cool wit like that, Slashdot editors could be action heroes