The rest of the post will come within the hour. Or maybe next week. My thoughts exactly. I can imagine that by 'next week' the spam would be out of date and the links already dead.
Whereas imagine e-mail being a train car, and TCP/IP (i.e. internet) being the railroad tracks. That's confusing. Can you rewrite that as a car analogy?
Bruce "Who's on the phone?" Beryl "It's the Fucking Australian Fucking Space Fucking Agency again. They want to sell us some raffle tickets. They need $5000 to buy some hydrogen." Bruce "What for?" Beryl "I dunno!" Bruce "Tell them to take a walk."
Sure. I'm with you, but I'm very pessimistic about getting our act together and actually doing it. 90% of our highly trained tech/science/computer grads and other highly skilled, get snapped up overseas. Who's going to do it? Sounds like a promise that's hard to keep. I hope I'm proved wrong though.
Accelerating at 1g to close to the speed of light then slowing down at 1g to be able to orbit the planet does take time as well. Probably double time for the trip to Alpha Centauri. I don't have the math to work it out though.
If the upstream providers had a service agreement that disallowed the use of their network for illegal activities, they can pull the plug any time.
Be careful what you say there. 'Illegal activities' can also mean a whole pile of other things we take for granted, like P2P copyright. I bet the RIAA and equivalent orgs around the world are taking notice. If an upstream provider can shut the door on an isp for spamming abuse because of a complaint, then they are likely targets for governments and media execs.
Viagra! Damn it... I knew I should have bought an extra months worth. I'm about to meet my Russian bride-to-be (still waiting for an email), and my Nigerian friend is going to send me some info regarding a business proposition. Not to mention that I've got to re-register with Paypal as there has been a security breech and my bank wants to confirm my password too. I know! I'll forward this on to all my friends. They can pass it on too and maybe I'll get lucky.
--- consort banana security boat incongruous athletics opportunity several thousand ants incorporated
Your Isis 225 MDS sounds interesting. Probably as useful as my RS Mk II without any drives except a cassette port. I have a lot of docs/software stored under the house, as well as old equipment stored in other locations not at my house. They are hard to get to though. I really need to get rid of the wife and kids - they use up too much space and take up too much of my time. Some I remember having include a perspex boxed original Multiplan (Apple//), original IBM PC with about 4 manuals. CP/M - yes but I'm not sure if we are talking the same thing here - Zilog Z80 manual anyone? Woz 'Sweet 16' docs, a metric tonne of hardware including a massive daisy-wheel that for some reason I've kept. It came with a Siemens built mini-computer which I trashed for parts as it only worked for 20 mins before overheating. Most of it is of pack-rat interest and of value to me personally - maybe to others as well. My idea was that I'd have everything up and running one day. LOL - that's not going to happen soon. Maybe that Geek Retirement home will give me the time and opportunity?
Time to stoke that Olivetti 8086, raise a bit of steam and do some real word processing (cough, hack, spit).
You should see my collection! One day I'll photograph it and stick it up on a webpage.
Bill Kotaska's site mentioned 'chip collectors'. I didn't think they rated. Learn something every day I suppose. I've got a few too. I've got a eeprom burner (16 pin) that I should fire up one day....
I wonder if there is a special retirement home for people like us? Not only should they give me a room, but a workshop and storage facilities as well.
They've fixed that. The bad caps affected many other manufacturers at the time. Evidently a Japanese researcher wanted to make a few bucks and sold info on a new cap design that was bought by the Chinese who went out and made millions. Unfortunately they didn't realise that it needed a special dialectric coolant and so many electronics died months later. As far as Asrock - they still make 487 P4 boards and are common replacements for systems still running that processor. Occasionally, XP has kernel problems (kernel running at 100%) for no reason during 99% system idle. In my experience it's a memory timing issue and the BIOS should be set on Auto memory timing which sorts it. Otherwise they are fine.
Exactly! But in the history of/. you've had the Darwinists, the Creationists and the Revisionists and none would give a nanometre away. Most of the time it resulted in anger, but as a minor fictional sci-fi character once said: "Anger is the first sign of doubt, and doubt it the first sign of belief, and you my friend are angry!"
Maybe. If your drive cannot be seen in the bios, I would first re-seat the drive (pull it out and push it back in). Or try the drive on another system. You can get mini-ide to IDE or SATA cables/boxes if you want to go that far. There is a trick you can try that works with the old 20gb ipods. Sometimes these ipods (with toshiba drives), wouldn't boot. The trick was to drop the ipod (about 30cm on a desk & not concrete). This would often dislodge the parked arm that got stuck for some reason. As you can access the drive, I would tap the side sharply with a screwdriver handle. Does the same thing. If you have the drvice out, then you can tap it on the edge of the desk, reinsert it and try again. If it boots, then get everything off it you need and toss it away.
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A.R.S.E. = Australian
A.S.S. = US
Get your regional settings right.
Who knows? They may be interested in a Russian wife.
The rest of the post will come within the hour. Or maybe next week.
My thoughts exactly. I can imagine that by 'next week' the spam would be out of date and the links already dead.
Whereas imagine e-mail being a train car, and TCP/IP (i.e. internet) being the railroad tracks.
That's confusing. Can you rewrite that as a car analogy?
Close... Try FAFSFA
Bruce "Who's on the phone?"
Beryl "It's the Fucking Australian Fucking Space Fucking Agency again. They want to sell us some raffle tickets. They need $5000 to buy some hydrogen."
Bruce "What for?"
Beryl "I dunno!"
Bruce "Tell them to take a walk."
Thank you for spelling 'arse' properly.
Hey! Maybe they can call it the National Australian Space Agency! That'll be real confusing.
Sure. I'm with you, but I'm very pessimistic about getting our act together and actually doing it.
90% of our highly trained tech/science/computer grads and other highly skilled, get snapped up overseas.
Who's going to do it? Sounds like a promise that's hard to keep. I hope I'm proved wrong though.
What a great pick up line: Did you know that bosons don't have antiparticle equivalents, only fermions do?
Someone try that please as I don't get out much.
You've got to accelerate and slow down.
Accelerating at 1g to close to the speed of light then slowing down at 1g to be able to orbit the planet does take time as well. Probably double time for the trip to Alpha Centauri. I don't have the math to work it out though.
It wasn't a war, it was a police action.
If the upstream providers had a service agreement that disallowed the use of their network for illegal activities, they can pull the plug any time.
Be careful what you say there. 'Illegal activities' can also mean a whole pile of other things we take for granted, like P2P copyright. I bet the RIAA and equivalent orgs around the world are taking notice.
If an upstream provider can shut the door on an isp for spamming abuse because of a complaint, then they are likely targets for governments and media execs.
Viagra! Damn it... I knew I should have bought an extra months worth. I'm about to meet my Russian bride-to-be (still waiting for an email), and my Nigerian friend is going to send me some info regarding a business proposition. Not to mention that I've got to re-register with Paypal as there has been a security breech and my bank wants to confirm my password too.
I know! I'll forward this on to all my friends. They can pass it on too and maybe I'll get lucky.
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consort banana security boat
incongruous athletics opportunity
several thousand ants incorporated
Pedantic eh?
EGOOPERORIGNOROTOTVSCVPIDITASVOLOEST is more corrector! (snigger)
Your Isis 225 MDS sounds interesting. Probably as useful as my RS Mk II without any drives except a cassette port. //), original IBM PC with about 4 manuals. CP/M - yes but I'm not sure if we are talking the same thing here - Zilog Z80 manual anyone? Woz 'Sweet 16' docs, a metric tonne of hardware including a massive daisy-wheel that for some reason I've kept. It came with a Siemens built mini-computer which I trashed for parts as it only worked for 20 mins before overheating. Most of it is of pack-rat interest and of value to me personally - maybe to others as well.
I have a lot of docs/software stored under the house, as well as old equipment stored in other locations not at my house. They are hard to get to though. I really need to get rid of the wife and kids - they use up too much space and take up too much of my time.
Some I remember having include a perspex boxed original Multiplan (Apple
My idea was that I'd have everything up and running one day. LOL - that's not going to happen soon. Maybe that Geek Retirement home will give me the time and opportunity?
Time to stoke that Olivetti 8086, raise a bit of steam and do some real word processing (cough, hack, spit).
That's going back some time.
You should see my collection! One day I'll photograph it and stick it up on a webpage.
Bill Kotaska's site mentioned 'chip collectors'. I didn't think they rated. Learn something every day I suppose.
I've got a few too. I've got a eeprom burner (16 pin) that I should fire up one day....
I wonder if there is a special retirement home for people like us? Not only should they give me a room, but a workshop and storage facilities as well.
You mean I shouldn't have thrown mine out in the trash?
EGO exspectata nostrum Romanorum vinco
There, fixed that for you.
Shouldn't that be:
EGO operor ignoro , Is est totus Cupiditas volo.
Anyway:
Romanorum vado domus.
Screw your science, that's the world I want to live in
I am intrigued by your rant and wish to subscribe to your spam.
Why?
They've fixed that. The bad caps affected many other manufacturers at the time.
Evidently a Japanese researcher wanted to make a few bucks and sold info on a new cap design that was bought by the Chinese who went out and made millions. Unfortunately they didn't realise that it needed a special dialectric coolant and so many electronics died months later.
As far as Asrock - they still make 487 P4 boards and are common replacements for systems still running that processor.
Occasionally, XP has kernel problems (kernel running at 100%) for no reason during 99% system idle. In my experience it's a memory timing issue and the BIOS should be set on Auto memory timing which sorts it. Otherwise they are fine.
Exactly! But in the history of /. you've had the Darwinists, the Creationists and the Revisionists and none would give a nanometre away.
Most of the time it resulted in anger, but as a minor fictional sci-fi character once said: "Anger is the first sign of doubt, and doubt it the first sign of belief, and you my friend are angry!"
I'm glad that science is so.
I always knew Darwin was wrong.
Good try though!
Maybe.
If your drive cannot be seen in the bios, I would first re-seat the drive (pull it out and push it back in). Or try the drive on another system. You can get mini-ide to IDE or SATA cables/boxes if you want to go that far.
There is a trick you can try that works with the old 20gb ipods. Sometimes these ipods (with toshiba drives), wouldn't boot. The trick was to drop the ipod (about 30cm on a desk & not concrete). This would often dislodge the parked arm that got stuck for some reason.
As you can access the drive, I would tap the side sharply with a screwdriver handle. Does the same thing. If you have the drvice out, then you can tap it on the edge of the desk, reinsert it and try again.
If it boots, then get everything off it you need and toss it away.