A friend of mine was banned for life from Best Buy for trying this.
For some reason a threat like that just doesn't faze me. Where do I sign up to be 'banned' too?
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As a side-note, Don Lancaster sells stuff on eBay these days. I got some righteously cheap surplus circuit boards from him for PIC controllers. I mean on the order of 30 cents each.
He sells a lot of cool tech surplus. I think you can get autographed copies of some of his classic books, too.
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Most people here can't even grasp what Woz was about back then.
Simplifying logic designs to use as few TTL gates as possible is great fun, and an interesting challenge. Ane Woz was a master at it.
That kind of stuff still goes on, of course. Do I do it with a 20 cent PIC controller, or should I use a 2 cent dual op-amp, a few resistors and a capacitor? The eternal challenge to drive cost down, down, down and make it as simple as possible.
Re:Revisionist history
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I feel sorry for anybody who trys to build anything of significance from the build-yer-own section at Frys. The resistors and capacitors are scant and expensive. They only sell some of the most expensive brands of perfboards. The IC selection is pitiful. And everything is overpriced.
But that's why Digikey is your friend.
Or did you mean the phillips screwdriver crowd? (the only 'tool' you need to build a 'Pee Cee' from scratch is a phillips screwdriver, but that's just assembling modules, not 'build from scratch' by any stretch of the imagination)
Re:"Apple Inc -- creator of the personal computer"
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You would be surprised at all the silly peripheral junk you could buy as an add-on to the TRS-80 machines.
Not so much to the first generation models being discussed here (the TRS-80 Model 1) but the later TRS-80 Color Computer had voice synthesizer plugins, music synthesizers, etc. I don't know if anybody ever produced a sound-in module for it. I am sure they were made by hobbyists.
Re:Like Woz didn't move on a LONG time ago?
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To use it, similar to with an iPod or iPhone, it needs to be registered and synced at least one time to a PC running iTunes. There is a MacOS 10 and a Windows version of iTunes (none for Linux, NetBSD, Solaris X86, BeOS, etc.) Basically, that's how you register it and establish your 'account' on iTunes. Even any 'App' that you download for free using the device itself by going to the 'on-device' App Store gets registered and invoiced through Apples store. You get a little invoice in email that you 'bought' another zero-dollar App.
Syncing to a PC is absolutely required only one time, though syncing is the easiest way to transfer music, video, etc. to the iPxx device.
I kind of figured this out. A few screens up when you de-cloaked I said to myself 'there is no way this dud is a counselor or care-giver at a social service agency.'
So you're basically one of the janitors. The information janitor. Your resentment has an interesting way of surfacing.
So this 'restraining order' is how the mom got on the kid's Facebook Account? She only got access because he happened to leave his account in a logged on state on her computer.
That's an interesting new definition of a Restraining Order.
Yes, but was there in 1970? I've looked at the 'Duck Tape' advertising campaign, and it looks a lot to me like a company trying to convert 'the public meme' over from a generic term (duct Tape) to something they've trademarked.
That said, I've actually used duct tape to seal off a duct.
I bought my first 'new retail' Apple product about a month ago. An iPod Touch. It's nice, though there are constraints. I find most of what I want to use with it for free in the Apps Store, and it's got new enough firmware that it's not jailbreakable yet. The multimeda features are integrated enough that I can use it as a carry-around here at home to listen to Web Radio with no additional apps needed, though there are hucksters in the App Store ready to provide fancy apps to make it, supposedly, easier. Last night I walked out to the backyard and the only interruption to my web radio listening was when my access point connection dropped out and I had to reconnect to the neighbor's instead. I probably can set it up to automatically roam to theirs if I want, somehow.
I bought QuickOffice for my iPod Touch just last weekend. I bought the cheap $9.99 version. It connects to my desktop over Wi-Fi through what I think is a pretty neat method. The QuickOffice app runs a small web server. When you enable it, it gives you a URL that you connect to the iPod with any web browser, with an HTML form set up so you can upload or download to the iPod.
That said, I didn't buy the $14.99 version, which is set up for connecting to Google Docs and the other 'cloud' stuff.
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No, you are contractually obligated to run Apple OSes on 'Apple Branded hardware.'
When I bought my iPod Touch, it came with several Apple stickers in the box that solve that problem. Apple has been putting those Apple Stickers in the box with their products for decades. I think I have some from the 90's Mac era.
Come now. It's been years since the MacOS was single tasking. They had that whole takeover of Apple by NeXT that fixed that problem. (the native Apple developers couldn't code their way out of a cardboard box when it comes to a multi-user multitasking OS- they spent millions proving that in the 90's)
Here in the United States, the big umbrulla organization is the Amateur Radio Relay League (ARRL). You can visit their website at ARRL.org. Most areas have their own local or regional organizations, too. And there are swapmeets, and get-togethers and what-not.
And the really cool thing these days is... there's so much surplus electronic everything floating around that you don't need to go to a hobby shop at all. If you're a hard-core tech ham, you fabricate your rig yourself out of parts on hand. Just visit your local library to get books to read up on it. The 'ARRL Handbook' comes out each year and many libraries keep a copy on the shelf. It's a phone-book sized manual of tech.
Re:CmdrTaco drags big brass ones along the ground
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Apple stayed out of the netbook market so everybody assumed that this was what they chose to capture those dollars instead.
And I quote now what I said above: So it's not a netbook, but it's Apple's alternative to a netbook.
Reading comprehension. Work at it.
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So basically you give all your authentication details, passwords, etc. to this one server, and trust it with everything? That's a little scary.
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Yes, there are plenty more.
My mother was a church secretary for many years. She typed the bulletin on memograph stencils every week. She typed the Newsletter on memograph stencils every month. She knows how to center justify text using a typewriter. She also knows how to right and left margin justify using a typewriter.
She does have her quirks, of course. I set her up with a copy of Microsoft Publisher at a certain point in time so she could use that to produce the newsletter. Months later, I discovered how she was doing it. Every month she would open up the Publisher file from the previous month's newsletter, and carefully backspace everything out of it to create the new newsletter....
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Only his credibility with residents of the Monastery. The rest of us figure it out without having to secretly scream 'Infidel' inside our heads.
But I do realize this is apple.slashdot.org and not the real slashdot....
A friend of mine was banned for life from Best Buy for trying this.
For some reason a threat like that just doesn't faze me. Where do I sign up to be 'banned' too?
As a side-note, Don Lancaster sells stuff on eBay these days. I got some righteously cheap surplus circuit boards from him for PIC controllers. I mean on the order of 30 cents each.
He sells a lot of cool tech surplus. I think you can get autographed copies of some of his classic books, too.
Most people here can't even grasp what Woz was about back then.
Simplifying logic designs to use as few TTL gates as possible is great fun, and an interesting challenge. Ane Woz was a master at it.
That kind of stuff still goes on, of course. Do I do it with a 20 cent PIC controller, or should I use a 2 cent dual op-amp, a few resistors and a capacitor? The eternal challenge to drive cost down, down, down and make it as simple as possible.
I feel sorry for anybody who trys to build anything of significance from the build-yer-own section at Frys. The resistors and capacitors are scant and expensive. They only sell some of the most expensive brands of perfboards. The IC selection is pitiful. And everything is overpriced.
But that's why Digikey is your friend.
Or did you mean the phillips screwdriver crowd? (the only 'tool' you need to build a 'Pee Cee' from scratch is a phillips screwdriver, but that's just assembling modules, not 'build from scratch' by any stretch of the imagination)
You would be surprised at all the silly peripheral junk you could buy as an add-on to the TRS-80 machines.
Not so much to the first generation models being discussed here (the TRS-80 Model 1) but the later TRS-80 Color Computer had voice synthesizer plugins, music synthesizers, etc. I don't know if anybody ever produced a sound-in module for it. I am sure they were made by hobbyists.
To use it, similar to with an iPod or iPhone, it needs to be registered and synced at least one time to a PC running iTunes. There is a MacOS 10 and a Windows version of iTunes (none for Linux, NetBSD, Solaris X86, BeOS, etc.) Basically, that's how you register it and establish your 'account' on iTunes. Even any 'App' that you download for free using the device itself by going to the 'on-device' App Store gets registered and invoiced through Apples store. You get a little invoice in email that you 'bought' another zero-dollar App.
Syncing to a PC is absolutely required only one time, though syncing is the easiest way to transfer music, video, etc. to the iPxx device.
And then you have to read it in Safari.
Not having to use Safari is clearly worth something.
You realize that anything in robots.txt can be overridden in a person's ~/.wgetrc file, correct?
Put this line in your .wgetrc file:
robots=off
I also add
no_parent=on
recursive=on
Makes mirroring entire html trees a snap.
When your mother named you dmgxmichael did your father object?
IOW: you're no less anonymous than any other coward on here.
I was going to guess the one word was Facebook.
I guess I was kinda close though.
I kind of figured this out. A few screens up when you de-cloaked I said to myself 'there is no way this dud is a counselor or care-giver at a social service agency.'
So you're basically one of the janitors. The information janitor. Your resentment has an interesting way of surfacing.
So this 'restraining order' is how the mom got on the kid's Facebook Account? She only got access because he happened to leave his account in a logged on state on her computer.
That's an interesting new definition of a Restraining Order.
Are you always this angry?
Do you troll here often?
I'll be here all week. Try the fish.
Yes, but was there in 1970? I've looked at the 'Duck Tape' advertising campaign, and it looks a lot to me like a company trying to convert 'the public meme' over from a generic term (duct Tape) to something they've trademarked.
That said, I've actually used duct tape to seal off a duct.
You obviously weren't in Apple's target market, anyway.
Doesn't matter. Some of their scattershot spam still managed to hit him.
They're just waiting for their next invitation to visit Xerox PARC. Shortly thereafter they'll come out with that stuff you mentioned.
I bought my first 'new retail' Apple product about a month ago. An iPod Touch. It's nice, though there are constraints. I find most of what I want to use with it for free in the Apps Store, and it's got new enough firmware that it's not jailbreakable yet. The multimeda features are integrated enough that I can use it as a carry-around here at home to listen to Web Radio with no additional apps needed, though there are hucksters in the App Store ready to provide fancy apps to make it, supposedly, easier. Last night I walked out to the backyard and the only interruption to my web radio listening was when my access point connection dropped out and I had to reconnect to the neighbor's instead. I probably can set it up to automatically roam to theirs if I want, somehow.
I bought QuickOffice for my iPod Touch just last weekend. I bought the cheap $9.99 version. It connects to my desktop over Wi-Fi through what I think is a pretty neat method. The QuickOffice app runs a small web server. When you enable it, it gives you a URL that you connect to the iPod with any web browser, with an HTML form set up so you can upload or download to the iPod.
That said, I didn't buy the $14.99 version, which is set up for connecting to Google Docs and the other 'cloud' stuff.
No, you are contractually obligated to run Apple OSes on 'Apple Branded hardware.'
When I bought my iPod Touch, it came with several Apple stickers in the box that solve that problem. Apple has been putting those Apple Stickers in the box with their products for decades. I think I have some from the 90's Mac era.
Slap the label on your clone box. You're set!
Come now. It's been years since the MacOS was single tasking. They had that whole takeover of Apple by NeXT that fixed that problem. (the native Apple developers couldn't code their way out of a cardboard box when it comes to a multi-user multitasking OS- they spent millions proving that in the 90's)
Here in the United States, the big umbrulla organization is the Amateur Radio Relay League (ARRL). You can visit their website at ARRL.org. Most areas have their own local or regional organizations, too. And there are swapmeets, and get-togethers and what-not.
And the really cool thing these days is... there's so much surplus electronic everything floating around that you don't need to go to a hobby shop at all. If you're a hard-core tech ham, you fabricate your rig yourself out of parts on hand. Just visit your local library to get books to read up on it. The 'ARRL Handbook' comes out each year and many libraries keep a copy on the shelf. It's a phone-book sized manual of tech.
Apple stayed out of the netbook market so everybody assumed that this was what they chose to capture those dollars instead.
And I quote now what I said above: So it's not a netbook, but it's Apple's alternative to a netbook.
Reading comprehension. Work at it.
So basically you give all your authentication details, passwords, etc. to this one server, and trust it with everything? That's a little scary.
Yes, there are plenty more.
My mother was a church secretary for many years. She typed the bulletin on memograph stencils every week. She typed the Newsletter on memograph stencils every month. She knows how to center justify text using a typewriter. She also knows how to right and left margin justify using a typewriter.
She does have her quirks, of course. I set her up with a copy of Microsoft Publisher at a certain point in time so she could use that to produce the newsletter. Months later, I discovered how she was doing it. Every month she would open up the Publisher file from the previous month's newsletter, and carefully backspace everything out of it to create the new newsletter....