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Transition of platforms in british education 3200
posted something that included: Most of them use generators to recharge their batteries. If they have a cash register, it's run off an inverter. Amish are NOT Luddites. They don't fear electricity, nor do...
Transition of platforms in british education 3201
On Thu, 06 Apr 2006 07:31:04 -0400, Donald Tees TWIAVBP You don't need electricity in order to have refrigeration. There are at least 17 different plain...
Transition of platforms in british education 3202
Just asked a local (Amish) farmer about his milking operation. The cows are milked using a pneumatic system driven by an electrical air compressor. The bulk tank is refridgerated (also using electricity) and...
Transition of platforms in british education 3203
that included: Which union? I've never heard of cows, farmer owners or milking machines being unionized. These weren't supposed to keep light out. They...
Transition of platforms in british education 3204
The "UHT-pasteurized" stuff or some such? Yes, well, it isn't too bad if it's kept refrigerated, and if it's used less...
Transition of platforms in british education 3205
My uncle who has a long career as a country physician1 sums up his view of milk products to adults as "health in every drop, and contagion in every liter". The ideal milk product...
Transition of platforms in british education 3206
Indirectly, I use one half the year. It is in our sailboat, which can have onboard 12V power generated in a number of ways. We have two, actually; sailboats are notorious for...
Transition of platforms in british education 3207
On Wed, 26 Apr 2006 04:31:43 GMT in alt.folklore.computers, Roland Most grains are grown in cooler regions where brewing was invented. Warmer regions turned to viniculture and invented distillation. The popularity of lager...
Transition of platforms in british education 3208
I'm finally reading about this. I'm currently in the war years 1914-1920ish. I am not understanding most of it. So far, this wasn't an administration blunder but a badly written law that allowed...
Transition of platforms in british education 3209
I got that smell. The alligator swamp, I picked to tread in, is suddenly in the middle of a bigger and deeper alligator swamp. Yes, I know enough to understand this. I'll just have...
Transition of platforms in british education 3210
Planes used by joiners and cabinet makers for fabricating wooden moldings. (My unintentional use of the British spelling "moulding" must have come about because I've spent much of the past two...
Transition of platforms in british education 3211
And the reserve requirement. The dutch found out about this in the tulip boom, and subsequent bust, severeal...
Transition of platforms in british education 3212
A look at the article header would show you where. I happen to live in Carrboro NC US. How about them big fireplaces, indirect sub floor...
Barbaras minirant
Dave Cartwright the base pascal-vs implementation on vm used approx. 3090 processor getting 44kbytes-sec thruput. i added rfc 1044 support to the base ... and in some...
Old PCsenvironmental hazard
The New York Times had an article on the environmental hazards present in desktop PCs and the problems of disposing of old machines. See: One thing that...
The greatest man ever 3215
you're starting to sound like your butt buddy richard kiwi. Christmas Gifts A young man wanted to purchase a gift for his new...
It's official: "nuke" infected Windows PCs instead of fixing them
David DeLaney Almost. The plant was designed with hydrolic gates that were in a normal "closed" position ... IE...
It's official: "nuke" infected Windows PCs instead of fixing them. 3217
Yes, yes, we agree about this, but what does that have to do with a claim that Unix doesn't work for people who are both system users and system managers? Again .... Well, based on discussion...
It's official: "nuke" infected Windows PCs instead of fixing them. 3218
There is also a point about Unix not being the user interface. There is nothing much beyond writing basic text files in the Unix core system. All the actual...
It's official: "nuke" infected Windows PCs instead of fixing them. 3219
for a long time the one shipped with turbo pascal was extremely popular ... including a lot of tweaks and features down by internal workers (available internal from one of the IBMPC forums). i...
It's official: "nuke" infected Windows PCs instead of fixing them. 3220
snip-- exactly. i have sometimes recommended 1)deactivate boot flag on windows parbreastion(s) 2)install another disk drive 3)install verified opensource OS and...
Nice Site On Communist Era Hardware in Hungary 3221
On 7 Apr 2006 11:15:24 -0700 in alt.folklore.computers, Quoting from site: "Sometimes unrelated machines were labelled as TPAs, too. Big VAX machines...
Hungarian Notation
I think the current applications (e.g. lpszFirstName) of Hungarian notation are abominations. Merely echoing in the variable's name its storage clbutt and prototype adds no information. Reading the...
Nice Site On Communist Era Hardware in Hungary 3223
wrote, in part: I was just noting that I recognized the Monty Python reference... but, as it happens, on...
Over my head in a JES exit 3225
Anne & Lynn Wheeler another problem JES2 had internally was is use of source maintenance. both cp67 (and later vm370) and hasp shipped...
PDP610 monitor datesversions
OK, inspired by Mark's questions I've dug out my "PDP-6 monitor sources". These were given to me several years back by Paul and I've been pretty much sitting on them...
Old PCsenvironmental hazard 3227
Actually, what *is* gained is the ability to run current software. If you would like to go into a store and buy a copy of the latest game that everyone is talking about... or even...
Old PCsenvironmental hazard 3228
John Savard Yes, I have been inconvenienced many times when I tell people they must save their document in Word 6 (selection on save...
Old PCsenvironmental hazard 3229
Yes, but that wasn't my point. Certainly, I agree that better backwards compatibility would be nice. I'm trying to explain why we don't have it. At one time, IBM sold 8088, 8086...
Old PCsenvironmental hazard 3230
John Savard "Can't" or "Won't"? The design and tooling of a 486 hardware and buttociated software are done. The incremental unit cost of manufacturing them in mbutt...
Old PCsenvironmental hazard 3231
KR Williams I agree on the need of reliability. But I think PCs could run much longer than 3 years before risk of crash failure becomes an issue. But I don't think a...
Old PCsenvironmental hazard 3232
They really aren't designed to last much longer than that. As I said somewhere else in this thread, the original built-like-a-tank PC1 was only "rated" for 5kPOH. Every component in...
Old PCsenvironmental hazard 3233
KR Williams Five years is better than three. It's a lot faster, easier, and cheaper to repair...
Old PCsenvironmental hazard 3234
20 years. No, it is not easier. There are still whole business in place which will do the work to replace an auto. I have to do all of the work...
Old PCsenvironmental hazard 3235
KR Williams But when you have thousands to deal with, the cost of replacing those machines adds up and becomes substantial. (Not only the purchase...
Old PCsenvironmental hazard 3236
It is far "cheaper" to replace off the shelf stuff than to have a maintenance crew babysitting thousands of machines. Why are you buttuming...
Old PCsenvironmental hazard 3237
And probably, to some degree, the oddity of the things I do with computers, I'd guess. But if so, then I must work in groups, and consult for people, who do many odd...
Old PCsenvironmental hazard 3238
One would think so; experience says it won't be. However, your administrator isn't really a "new" user. The people I was thinking about...
Old PCsenvironmental hazard
Kickstart, in the Amiga context, is the ROM-based 1 portion of AmigaOS. It's not only a bootstrap...
Old PCsenvironmental hazard 3240
there were generally two different kinds of things referred to as IPL "warm start". one...
Old PCsenvironmental hazard 3241
Anne & Lynn Wheeler Perhaps I should have been clearer in my recollection. 360 ... was to indicate IBM 360 family hardware. 360 and later generations. OS MVS ... was to indicate the operating system family. All...
Old PCsenvironmental hazard 3242
there was a concerted effort to try and get approval to make a job offer to the person (that did most of the work...
Old PCsenvironmental hazard 3243
an old email only partially related (note gold wasn't single user as speculated in the attached) To: Lynn Wheeler Lynn, love and I were involved to...
Old PCsenvironmental hazard 3244
Yes, I'm familiar with the Amiga archetecture. The connection I was trying to make (and...
Old PCsenvironmental hazard 3245
snip Yes, that's my take on it too -- that it's close enough to a "current Unix system", meaning that (as you described in another...
Old PCsenvironmental hazard 3246
Bernd Felsche Of course. I was exaggerating a bit to make a point. Perhaps the point was that "man -k" (or, equivalently, "apropos") is the first thing that one needs to...
Old PCsenvironmental hazard 3247
Bernd Felsche Thanks for the hint; perhaps I'll give that a try. This realtime-preemptable-kernel audio stuff is still conceptually largely...
Old PCsenvironmental hazard 3248
The core philosophy of Unix is that of a toolbox. A toolbox contains the tools required by a tradesman...
Old PCsenvironmental hazard 3249
This is kind of the price of progress. Shiny new stuff means the old stuff isn't so good any...
Old PCsenvironmental hazard 3250
Migration can be planned. System crashes cannot. User training??? Define "defect". Do system die? Certainly. Particularly PC clbutt junk, though software (bit rot?) is more likely. YOY does...
Old PCsenvironmental hazard 3251
you may not be able to trust the cleaners ... but i thot clean desks were for...
Security Old PCsenvironmental hazard
Charlie Gibbs For those unfamilar, Feynman broke into safes by thinking about the person and trying codes like birthdays, physical constants (ie pi and "e"), looking through peoples' desks, and looking over their...
Security
Actually, other books note that. Feynman merely noted the literature. I was in the lecture when he noted Safecracker Suite (he wrote about it really, he hated writing, he taped...
Security 3254
Eugene Miya At the time of WW II, the authorities were suspicious of communists and rightly so. After the USSR made a treaty with Germany and the show trials went on, many people...
Security 3255
To this day in fact. Better than Rhodes is the new book Engineering Communism. I think I posted some notes back when (my notes are on my laptop because...
Security 3256
What was the default factory pbuttword to the VMS SYSTEM account? ;^) Hey, the WOPR just appeared on a TV ad on speech synthesis (and by...
Security 3257
lots of past posts on shared-secret "something you know" authentication. part of the issue in static data, shared...
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