Ever noticed that odd celery like smell when you open up a spindle of CDs? That's the smell of atoms leaving the area - atoms whose configuration holds your data.
Everything evaporates or sublimates, everything deteriorates.
It's often written on the outside of the case, every device on the subnet will be unique, lots of PC boxes and routers come with little peel and stick labels that already have the address, and it's consistent across all networks.
It shows up in a database all by itself, allowing me to see when it was powered on, pushes data every three hours so I can see that it's still in the building.
The first 2 octets give me the manufacturers name and I can read it with my rebuild script.
If you ever get a chance, give AppleWorks a try on an Apple ][e running 1MHz with 32KB of RAM, it was an amazing program. I don't remember ever having it crash, it integrated a word processor, spreadsheet and database well, and was easier to use than most anything I've used since.
You didn't even mention Word97 and it's wonderful macro and vb stuff, nor the CD of tech docs that Micro$oft themselves mailed to their hapless users. It had something like 10,000 documents, almost all of which were trojans.
Micro$oft has made me a lot of money, their users don't seem to have a problem shelling out bundles of money every few months for a cleanup party.
Where it has hurt is when you offer to build a mail server for a company for the cost of hardware and setting it up. They know it can't be as simple as a web page for administration, and up-time measured in years. How can a complex thing like a server run more than a month when they get a blue-screen and need to reboot their desktops at least twice a week.
That makes no sense - you seem to be saying one of the two following;
That if M$ had to pay twice as much in taxes, there wouldn't be a change in the cost of their products.
Or
That if they had to pay more in taxes I'd be willing to spend more because I would know what a wonderful, law abiding company they are.
My first computer was a Commodore 'Teachers PET' with a home made serial interface hooked to a DEC-Writer green-bar printer/keyboard. Later we hooked it up to a 300 pound cast iron teletype with roll paper and a separate paper tape punch on the kitchen counter (Mom Loved it!). I still have a few print outs of the Mona Lisa and Last Supper done as ascii art - the latter is 24" high by 72" wide and took about two hours to print.
My modem was 300 baud and my e-mail address was all numbers at compuserve when they still only allowed users to connect after 6:00pm.
I agree, optical will go much, much, much faster. And later....
Why?
C for an electron in a copper cable is about 98% of C for a photon in a glass cable. Both show losses in similar manners, both degrade with distance.
I've run GBEth on Cat5e copper in a production environment to a bit over 450 feet when a forklift caught the fiber and destroyed it. I was getting 875 MB/Sec on copper and 890 on glass when we got it replaced the next week.
What is the basis for this statement? Citation needed!
It is a laptop drive from a long time ago - I have an Everex 80386 that has a drive the exact same size, just a little smaller capacity, 6MB. When I bought that machine, I thought it had more storage than I'd ever need. It still runs, maybe I'll se if I can update the BIOS and pop in one of the new drives.
Dude! I've tried to convince others to do that exact thing, but nobody seems to get it. I'd love to see your script - here's mine http://www.joneslinux.com/wordpress/?page_id=20
Glad to see I'm not alone in this crazy place.
I don't think anyone is afraid of normal users, but I think normal users are too terrified of their PC to do any real maintenance regardless what the OS is - you argue that normal users shouldn't have to edit config files - I ask why not.
To use your example of a musician, most of them never get to the point that they replace the pads on their saxophone themselves, they take it to someone else, there are exceptions, but not many.
Would you say that a musician who doesn't break out the valves on his sax isn't a real musician?
I want my sax to 'just work', I bought it last week and it sounds like crap, why should I have to learn anything to improve that? Lessons? Learn something? No! It should 'just work'!
My local library buys books, then places them in an area comparable to "public domain", they even have a copy machine there on the premises. Should this be considered copyright infringement? I've bought more books since going to the library as a child and developing a love of knowledge (O'Reilly seems to get a quarter of my pay), and I've bought more CDs since downloading a few songs and developing a love of music.
We have burned books in the past, bridges also, neither was a good course of action.
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Ever noticed that odd celery like smell when you open up a spindle of CDs? That's the smell of atoms leaving the area - atoms whose configuration holds your data.
Everything evaporates or sublimates, everything deteriorates.
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(You are a fluke of the universe)
I think 99% of us would call 1% rare!
It's often written on the outside of the case, every device on the subnet will be unique, lots of PC boxes and routers come with little peel and stick labels that already have the address, and it's consistent across all networks. It shows up in a database all by itself, allowing me to see when it was powered on, pushes data every three hours so I can see that it's still in the building. The first 2 octets give me the manufacturers name and I can read it with my rebuild script.
If you ever get a chance, give AppleWorks a try on an Apple ][e running 1MHz with 32KB of RAM, it was an amazing program. I don't remember ever having it crash, it integrated a word processor, spreadsheet and database well, and was easier to use than most anything I've used since.
You didn't even mention Word97 and it's wonderful macro and vb stuff, nor the CD of tech docs that Micro$oft themselves mailed to their hapless users. It had something like 10,000 documents, almost all of which were trojans.
Micro$oft has made me a lot of money, their users don't seem to have a problem shelling out bundles of money every few months for a cleanup party.
Where it has hurt is when you offer to build a mail server for a company for the cost of hardware and setting it up. They know it can't be as simple as a web page for administration, and up-time measured in years. How can a complex thing like a server run more than a month when they get a blue-screen and need to reboot their desktops at least twice a week.
That makes no sense - you seem to be saying one of the two following; That if M$ had to pay twice as much in taxes, there wouldn't be a change in the cost of their products. Or That if they had to pay more in taxes I'd be willing to spend more because I would know what a wonderful, law abiding company they are.
Technically, it's called a dirigible.
My first computer was a Commodore 'Teachers PET' with a home made serial interface hooked to a DEC-Writer green-bar printer/keyboard. Later we hooked it up to a 300 pound cast iron teletype with roll paper and a separate paper tape punch on the kitchen counter (Mom Loved it!). I still have a few print outs of the Mona Lisa and Last Supper done as ascii art - the latter is 24" high by 72" wide and took about two hours to print. My modem was 300 baud and my e-mail address was all numbers at compuserve when they still only allowed users to connect after 6:00pm.
I agree, optical will go much, much, much faster. And later....
Why? C for an electron in a copper cable is about 98% of C for a photon in a glass cable. Both show losses in similar manners, both degrade with distance. I've run GBEth on Cat5e copper in a production environment to a bit over 450 feet when a forklift caught the fiber and destroyed it. I was getting 875 MB/Sec on copper and 890 on glass when we got it replaced the next week. What is the basis for this statement? Citation needed!
I still run off of a 32MB Hayes Hard Card, in a 486DX266 with Vesa bus, your 160GB drive and 8GB flash are a waste.
Educate the users? Easier to just nullify gravity.
You cannot abuse LSD, but it can surely abuse you.
Wanna sell the Toshi?
It is a laptop drive from a long time ago - I have an Everex 80386 that has a drive the exact same size, just a little smaller capacity, 6MB. When I bought that machine, I thought it had more storage than I'd ever need. It still runs, maybe I'll se if I can update the BIOS and pop in one of the new drives.
Dude! I've tried to convince others to do that exact thing, but nobody seems to get it. I'd love to see your script - here's mine http://www.joneslinux.com/wordpress/?page_id=20 Glad to see I'm not alone in this crazy place.
I don't think anyone is afraid of normal users, but I think normal users are too terrified of their PC to do any real maintenance regardless what the OS is - you argue that normal users shouldn't have to edit config files - I ask why not. To use your example of a musician, most of them never get to the point that they replace the pads on their saxophone themselves, they take it to someone else, there are exceptions, but not many. Would you say that a musician who doesn't break out the valves on his sax isn't a real musician? I want my sax to 'just work', I bought it last week and it sounds like crap, why should I have to learn anything to improve that? Lessons? Learn something? No! It should 'just work'!
Silly, you can't smoke cigarettes in space! There isn't enough oxygen.
My local library buys books, then places them in an area comparable to "public domain", they even have a copy machine there on the premises. Should this be considered copyright infringement? I've bought more books since going to the library as a child and developing a love of knowledge (O'Reilly seems to get a quarter of my pay), and I've bought more CDs since downloading a few songs and developing a love of music.
We have burned books in the past, bridges also, neither was a good course of action.