Posts by bob, mon! 196 publicly visible posts • joined 27 Sep 2007
Do you know the machines will run Win7? If not, get in touch with someone there, if necessary talk 'em through the Control Panel -> System window and find out what processor and memory you're facing. Also, what brand/model of computers.
Most likely, if it's feasible at all, you'll want to pack in some more memory at a minimum. A brush and a couple cans of compressed air would be good, too.
Good luck, and do report back on the exercise.
Around 1995 Hobbit wrote "netcat", a useful little telnet/web-broswer substitute. It contained delightful comments, including this:
/* I really want to strangle the twit who dreamed up all these sockaddr and
hostent abstractions, and then forced them all to be incompatible with
each other so you *HAVE* to do all this ridiculous casting back and forth.
If that wasn't bad enough, all the doc insists on referring to local ports
and addresses as "names", which makes NO sense down at the bare metal.
What an absolutely horrid paradigm, and to think of all the people who
have been wasting significant amounts of time fighting with this stupid
deliberate obfuscation over the last 10 years... then again, I like
languages wherein a pointer is a pointer, what you put there is your own
business, the compiler stays out of your face, and sheep are nervous.
Maybe that's why my C code reads like assembler half the time... */
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.
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Then there's this little gem:
/* some systems, notably linux, crap into their select timers on return, so
we create a expendable copy and give *that* to select. *Fuck* me ... */
if (timer1)
memcpy (timer2, timer1, sizeof (struct timeval));
rr = select (16, ding2, 0, 0, timer2); /* here it is, kiddies */
if (rr < 0) {
if (errno != EINTR) { /* might have gotten ^Zed, etc ?*/
holler ("select fuxored");
close (fd);
return (1);
}
} /* select fuckup */
Just like Star Trek movies... Every Other One Isn't Crap. But my skip list looks more like
Win 3.11
- skip Win95
WinNT
- skip Win2K, Win98/ME
WinXP
- skip Vista
Win7
- skip Win8
...
(Posted from a Vista-licensed machine running Kubuntu with XP in a VM and Win7 networked.)
I'd have to say my first processor was whatever powered my HP-29c programmable calculator. From there I've seen the 6502 (OSI), 6520 (C-64), 8088/8087 (Zenith z150), NEC v-20, 80386 (before it became the i386) w/ 80387, i486, i487, ... then Pentiums and successors. Oh,and680x0 descendants in PDAs, ARM in my smartphone, ??? in HP tablet. Typing this on a Core 2 Duo.
Could be from lots of machines. I have a bank of these, from a PDP-8. Slightly chopped up so I could take detail photos.
First picture: Memory bank from some machine. Univac, maybe?
Picture 5: Google/ Cnet shows the image this was chopped out of.
Picture 9: closeup of my final project for a digital design lab? Although most of the board had a wider variety of colors (sorry, "colours").
Picture 11: ah, the fun you can have with a band printer in a self-serve computer lab :-) From artistic (dancing printers) to pornographic (feelthy peectures for real) to simply destructive (paper jam! at 5 pages/second!)
[where's the rusty old codger icon?]
It runs the Kindle app quite well, so far. So I have a large-screen, backlit, color Kindle with 10 times the storage, for $150US. An excellent deal.
And the browser works *much* better than Kindle's little foray into that field. Haven't even bothered to try the email, I just don't care. I have better things to read.
SWMBO wants one too, if we can snag one of those "final-run" units.
I supposed this was a UK-only thing at first --- I put in "edinboro" for a location, to see what it would do, and it *found* Edinboro, Pennsylvania (abut 400 miles from me). So then I put in my town of Bloomsburg, all 12,000 of us, and it found us too. Turns out the Mars Spirit rover could just about get out of town, but it went the wrong way to come to my house.
Funny you should mention jelly donuts --- as we should all remember from physics (or maybe cooking) class, 1 jelly donut gives about 1 megaJoule, thus about 6e15 GeV.
So you'd need around 1.2 trillion anti-bottomed beauties to get that jelly into that donut.
My conclusion: the LHC is not as effective as a stationary bicycle for weight loss.
I wonder --- suppose something snags the pin on one of those grenades, and it goes off close by the fuel cell. The shrapnel could rupture the cell, leaking methanol, which might then ignite. This could indeed lead to a hazardous situation!
Mine's the teflon one with the kevlar inserts.
ISP - Verizon (buncha scumbagz)
DNS resolvers - 71.242.0.39, 71.242.0.36
Doxpara and DNS-OARC basically agree that my ISP's DNS servers are okay, but my local NAT router isn't randomizing the source ports very well.
My router is a re-imaged Linksys - guess I better get around to updating it :-(
(Icon? "Proceed with this nonsense at flank speed!")
My ancestors, teetotalers every one, left Scotland 300 years ago (chased out, but sobriety was only part of it).
Figuring about eight generations between John Paisley and me, I think I need to knock back about 32 units a day to restore the family honor.
Fill 'er up again, please.
Iapetus is indeed tidelocked to Saturn, but that means that there is a constant leading edge to get covered with impact debris. So equal solar input on all sides will have more effect on the darkened leading edge.
Add in the possibility that reflected light from Saturn contributes to the warming --- but only on (part of) the leading edge.
Turns out the New Scientist has something to say:
"...we can calculate that 1 UK = 8 Belgiums. Owing to an oversight, Wales isn't mentioned. Other sources for the value of Wales put it at almost exactly a Burma and a touch under an El Salvador. However, a Wales is bigger than a Slovenia."
Know thyself --- if you need help, call the CIA.
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