Try 500 to 1000 km for the true north. We used to call the Hydro systems U boat power as most settlements and villages powered by NCPC consisted of WWII german U boat diesels.
Solar panels? Someone has never worked the high arctic. There are 2 seasons, day and night. In July at the top of Baffin Island there is 24 hour sunshine and in November you have 24 hour nights.
Then depending on location there is the task of anchoring anything you set up. In Pangirtung on Baffin, the airport is secured with steel cables anchored to the baserock. In the 70's watched a DC3 while taxing get airborne as the wind caught it. The wind across the Davis Straits can put a basic hurricane to shame.
Since ATI has been swallowed by AMD, ATI has gone downhil. Paper launches of products and mssed shp dates Wha makes you thin ATI will make an effort or do the even have the means to do do it?
DEC Rainbow was one I remember cutting my teeth on. Then there was the ICL series.... a networkable series of PC's running CPM back in 1977-78.
Also notably Missing the forerunners of the Laptop.. The Osborne running CPM and the Hypersion. The Hyperion came with a DBMS and Lotus 123 and was a mainstay in many financial depts.
IN my various battles with Bell, Rodgers and videotron over the years, I have found that a call to the CRTC sometimes solves the problem. Mind you Internet is not under CRTC's purview, but Telephone service is. Telus I believe got whapped over thier services by the CRTC a while ago. Nothing to loose and its a local or an 800 number.
Even better... why not Boycott ALL Sony products. That will drive the message home even louder. Class action lawsuits only benefit the lawfirms... Just my 2 cents
without mentioning names I have also worked on several airline systems on a contract basis. Two years ago I was asked to look at a problem with flight ops and was shown a 486 DX2/80 running Novel 2.11. I was told to just patch it till they could look at replacing the system. I did and a few months ago I was in the same office and was asked to look at the flight ops server that was "burping". They had upgraded to a P2-400 and still runnig Novel 2.11.
I was told this was a major upgrade. Some things never change.
I support a few legacy systems as I call them for a few local clients. One system is a Xerox Z80 CPM based system still running CPM and Peachtree Mailing List Manager for a local non-profit. This unit is the last of 3 systems that have been canabalized.
As for DOS, I support a few local doctors and a major hospital that run a DOS program. The newer windows version is a POS and for what is involved the doctors stay with the old and tried program that interfaces with a DEC at the provincial health ministry. Access to the health ministry is thru Bell Canada Data Pac at 2400 baud. It has taken a while to find external modems that will connect to the data pac none of the new PCI modems seem to want to connect.
The reason the doctors use this DOS program is it submits their billing claims to the "regie" as well as showing their billing available and hours let in the monthly quotas. The alternative is to use commercial billing services which enter the data and then submit it to the "regie". Doing it themselves the $$ are turned around faster and fewer submission errors occur.
As for Old Hardware, my s/o thinks I should open a museum. I have a working Hyperion Lugable... a souvenier of my time at Hyperion as well as a few old worling 386 sx systems.
Universal, home to Canadian artists Shania Twain, Remy Shand and the Tragically Hip, will institute a $14.98 maximum suggested list price on virtually all of its top line CDs and a $9.99 price tag for developing new artists.
OK... Since I am on the Quebec side of the river, I will flush harder to send the water over to Ottawa...
Seriously...at times like this.. I got to admit that Hydro Quebec being a crown corporation makes me feel better. The admins sidestepped the surge and at least Quebec is powered up.
Its not how you fill it up, but for how long you hope to keep the drive running..... buried on the bottom of the press release is a little gotcha.....Effective Oct 1, 2002 Maxtor Drives only have a 1 Read One year warranty.
Bryan Adams doesnt count as a Canadian according to the CRTC... he is no longer a Canadian as it seems he used a US recording studio and a US backup band for the last record. Sooooo thats why we hear so little Bryan Adams on Canadian Radio..... he is now considered a non Canadian artist as far as the Canadian Content rules go....
Thud... Sound of falling over....I rember doing contract work for Bell Canada in Toronto in 76 on glass Fibre. But when was it implemented?
I live in a Montreal suburb. The 2nd largest City in Canada. With the Bell monopoly we had large areas of Montreal still cant have ASDL.
I got tired of waiting for Ma Bell telling me to wait till 02 and ended up going with (Sound of Vomit> Videotron. The company that hired all the CIS service rep rejects.
Now i dont know about out west or other areas of Canada, but in Montreal Bell has been dragging their heels still insisting that i use DataPac for my computer comm needs. Funny in Vermont where my cottage is i have had Fibre for 7 years, out in the boonies.
Better go back and check the Corel PR page and the Intel PPR page.
Corel is disowning the story as is Intel. Here is a clarification from Corel.
"Corel has enjoyed a long standing relationship with Intel Corporation. Since 1997, Corel has optimized its software for Intel's processors. Corel has also included Intel's MMX technology in our flagship WordPerfect office and CorelDRAW graphics suites. In early 1999, we optimized our products for the Pentium III processor chip and are looking with interest to Intel's next generation of processors.
At the same time, Corel is in regular contact with major hardware manufacturers regarding bundling opportunities for Corel's award-winning applications, including Corel LINUX OS and our forthcoming WordPerfect Office for Linux. Corel CEO Michael Cowpland's remarks quoted in yesterday's Globe & Mail were in reference to these general discussions and were not related to any specific deal or ongoing discussions with any particular company.
See what happens when you have to many press releases floating around or you spend to much time doing PR instead of taking care of business.
Its only a matter of time before Corel gets bitten by an errant PR release yet again.
I dont know about the US, but in Canada the CRTC told the Cable and Telco to allow access to ISP's. (For you Yanks Read FCC for a sorta US equivalent)
The CRTC laid down the tariff to be charged which i believe..thinking back to last October at 20% below the retail price charged and gave the Cable and Bell Canada a deadline to comply to open up their access. The time limit was 90 days.
Well 6 months later The ISp's havent been able to offer cable or ASDL service yet. In the Telco's issue its a matter of Bell Canada having been a Monopoly and never upgrading their hardware till they got a rate increase its a matter of the Service not being generally widely available in newer (read under 20 year subdivision)
In cable access in Quebec at least as i dont know about the other provinces, the ISP have an agreement on pricing but there is a problem over the cable modems. Talking to a senior exec at a medium size ISP its a matter of the Cable Bandits wanting to rent the cable modems to ISP's.
So despite a ruling by the CRTC requiring open access we wait and wait and wait.
So if the FCC hasnt mandated access, IBIWISI as the legal types can drag negotiations out.
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It will always be Frobisher Bay in my mind.
Try 500 to 1000 km for the true north. We used to call the Hydro systems U boat power as most settlements and villages powered by NCPC consisted of WWII german U boat diesels.
Solar panels? Someone has never worked the high arctic. There are 2 seasons, day and night. In July at the top of Baffin Island there is 24 hour sunshine and in November you have 24 hour nights.
Then depending on location there is the task of anchoring anything you set up. In Pangirtung on Baffin, the airport is secured with steel cables anchored to the baserock. In the 70's watched a DC3 while taxing get airborne as the wind caught it. The wind across the Davis Straits can put a basic hurricane to shame.
Since ATI has been swallowed by AMD, ATI has gone downhil. Paper launches of products and mssed shp dates Wha makes you thin ATI will make an effort or do the even have the means to do do it?
DEC Rainbow was one I remember cutting my teeth on. Then there was the ICL series.... a networkable series of PC's running CPM back in 1977-78.
Also notably Missing the forerunners of the Laptop.. The Osborne running CPM and the Hypersion. The Hyperion came with a DBMS and Lotus 123 and was a mainstay in many financial depts.
IN my various battles with Bell, Rodgers and videotron over the years, I have found that a call to the CRTC sometimes solves the problem. Mind you Internet is not under CRTC's purview, but Telephone service is. Telus I believe got whapped over thier services by the CRTC a while ago. Nothing to loose and its a local or an 800 number.
Even better... why not Boycott ALL Sony products. That will drive the message home even louder. Class action lawsuits only benefit the lawfirms... Just my 2 cents
without mentioning names I have also worked on several airline systems on a contract basis. Two years ago I was asked to look at a problem with flight ops and was shown a 486 DX2/80 running Novel 2.11. I was told to just patch it till they could look at replacing the system. I did and a few months ago I was in the same office and was asked to look at the flight ops server that was "burping". They had upgraded to a P2-400 and still runnig Novel 2.11.
I was told this was a major upgrade. Some things never change.
I support a few legacy systems as I call them for a few local clients. One system is a Xerox Z80 CPM based system still running CPM and Peachtree Mailing List Manager for a local non-profit. This unit is the last of 3 systems that have been canabalized.
As for DOS, I support a few local doctors and a major hospital that run a DOS program. The newer windows version is a POS and for what is involved the doctors stay with the old and tried program that interfaces with a DEC at the provincial health ministry. Access to the health ministry is thru Bell Canada Data Pac at 2400 baud. It has taken a while to find external modems that will connect to the data pac none of the new PCI modems seem to want to connect.
The reason the doctors use this DOS program is it submits their billing claims to the "regie" as well as showing their billing available and hours let in the monthly quotas. The alternative is to use commercial billing services which enter the data and then submit it to the "regie". Doing it themselves the $$ are turned around faster and fewer submission errors occur.
As for Old Hardware, my s/o thinks I should open a museum. I have a working Hyperion Lugable... a souvenier of my time at Hyperion as well as a few old worling 386 sx systems.
"Some of our ISP's (Bell for example) have ownership by U.S. corporations/parent companys"
Time for you to read the Globe and Mail a bit more closely.... Bell bought back its shares from the US telco.
Universal, home to Canadian artists Shania Twain, Remy Shand and the Tragically Hip, will institute a $14.98 maximum suggested list price on virtually all of its top line CDs and a $9.99 price tag for developing new artists.
OK... Since I am on the Quebec side of the river, I will flush harder to send the water over to Ottawa...
.. I got to admit that Hydro Quebec being a crown corporation makes me feel better. The admins sidestepped the surge and at least Quebec is powered up.
Seriously...at times like this
Borden .. you idiots... Like the glue
From a press release i received from Maxtor yesterday....
Effective October 1, 2002, all Maxtor desktop drives will carry a one-year standard warranty.
If they dont believe in their drives... why should I?
Its not how you fill it up, but for how long you hope to keep the drive running..... buried on the bottom of the press release is a little gotcha.....Effective Oct 1, 2002 Maxtor Drives only have a 1 Read One year warranty.
Bryan Adams doesnt count as a Canadian according to the CRTC... he is no longer a Canadian as it seems he used a US recording studio and a US backup band for the last record. Sooooo thats why we hear so little Bryan Adams on Canadian Radio..... he is now considered a non Canadian artist as far as the Canadian Content rules go....
Figures.... they cant make it work properly under W2K so they are going to improve it.
Corel has been sued several times over images in their library.
PQ in Quebec means Pack Quick
Really?
Thud... Sound of falling over....I rember doing contract work for Bell Canada in Toronto in 76 on glass Fibre. But when was it implemented?
I live in a Montreal suburb. The 2nd largest City in Canada. With the Bell monopoly we had large areas of Montreal still cant have ASDL.
I got tired of waiting for Ma Bell telling me to wait till 02 and ended up going with (Sound of Vomit> Videotron. The company that hired all the CIS service rep rejects.
Now i dont know about out west or other areas of Canada, but in Montreal Bell has been dragging their heels still insisting that i use DataPac for my computer comm needs. Funny in Vermont where my cottage is i have had Fibre for 7 years, out in the boonies.
Go figure
nope....Cnadian Authentification Quiz should go like this...
Q: you a canadian?
a: yes
Beep
A real Canadian answers all questions with an Ehhhhhhhh?
Question: Whois Douane
Answer: Whatever
And a real Canadian knows that Douane is not the name of the Guy who works for Canada Customs.
i agree with you.....
but what i want from AOL/ScmooAOL is a bloody uninstaller.
Better go back and check the Corel PR page and the Intel PPR page.
Corel is disowning the story as is Intel. Here is a clarification from Corel.
"Corel has enjoyed a long standing relationship with Intel Corporation. Since 1997, Corel has optimized its software for Intel's processors. Corel has also included Intel's MMX technology in our flagship WordPerfect office and CorelDRAW graphics suites. In early 1999, we optimized our products for the Pentium III processor chip and are looking with interest to Intel's next generation of processors.
At the same time, Corel is in regular contact with major hardware manufacturers regarding bundling opportunities for Corel's award-winning applications, including Corel LINUX OS and our forthcoming WordPerfect Office for Linux. Corel CEO Michael Cowpland's remarks quoted in yesterday's Globe & Mail were in reference to these general discussions and were not related to any specific deal or ongoing discussions with any particular company.
See what happens when you have to many press releases floating around or you spend to much time doing PR instead of taking care of business.
Its only a matter of time before Corel gets bitten by an errant PR release yet again.
.
I dont know about the US, but in Canada the CRTC told the Cable and Telco to allow access to ISP's. (For you Yanks Read FCC for a sorta US equivalent)
..thinking back to last October at 20% below the retail price charged and gave the Cable and Bell Canada a deadline to comply to open up their access. The time limit was 90 days.
The CRTC laid down the tariff to be charged which i believe
Well 6 months later The ISp's havent been able to offer cable or ASDL service yet. In the Telco's issue its a matter of Bell Canada having been a Monopoly and never upgrading their hardware till they got a rate increase its a matter of the Service not being generally widely available in newer (read under 20 year subdivision)
In cable access in Quebec at least as i dont know about the other provinces, the ISP have an agreement on pricing but there is a problem over the cable modems. Talking to a senior exec at a medium size ISP its a matter of the Cable Bandits wanting to rent the cable modems to ISP's.
So despite a ruling by the CRTC requiring open access we wait and wait and wait.
So if the FCC hasnt mandated access, IBIWISI as the legal types can drag negotiations out.
Hmmm ..... I think its time to patent the BIG RED Switch or Button.
The more i see about the US paptent office the more i shake my head and wonder.
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