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O M G! Much as I'd like to take credit, it wasn't me. I musta been my evil sub-conchosQuoting: "So for all you old geezers who want to take a trip down memory lane"
Intentional or accidental pun?
O M G! Much as I'd like to take credit, it wasn't me. I musta been my evil sub-conchosQuoting: "So for all you old geezers who want to take a trip down memory lane"
Intentional or accidental pun?
A little update. I have still been experiencing problems with the computer. New memory and new hard drive installed. Finally concluded it's a problem with the mother board, pretty sure one of the memory slots is flakey. Symptoms have been random program failures, Windows just rebooting the machine because of an error, errors on program load, etc.
But I seemed to have fixed it yesterday. I concluded that it was time for a new computer, found a nice i7 Dell on Craigslist for $200...... But what seemed to fix the problems was the phone call to the seller. The instant I hung up from that phone call, my computer quit throwing errors, and has been running fine since. Talk about AI becoming self aware.......... This is a little scarey.
Still going to buy the Dell because I need another computer for an upcoming project anyway.
Hey Jim, try running Memtest on the machine. Pro'lly memory but could be a bad hd sector that Windows finally marked off.
You already have a sweet system, and you already know the advantages. I do keep a W7 PC down on the floor, accessed via RDP or sometimes VNC via a direct GigE network cable between it and the Linux Mint box. That one is for those (now very few) apps that can only live in Windows.The only reason I have Win7 on a laptop is to be able to use my Autocad 2000.
Pierre
Even today, radiation-hardened versions of 186 are at the recovery core of satellite systems, and many still handle telemetry. All possible logical states for a 186 are mathematically testable, which is something that became impossible around the time Pentiums came along.Did some of my best firmware design/coding on DOS. Used borland C, but liked Watcom better as it would generate 186 native. I don't remember if Borland did.
Ahh yes, feeling the wrath of the truculent on the supposed slight to their choice in Operating Systems? These faithful rushing to attack any affront to their chosen religion, errr OS, I mean. It is tiring on the whole. In all frankness, I do not understand the Evangelical OS acolyte, these prodigal preachers singing the gospel of (insert OS here).Why is it every time someone disagrees with the Linux faithful they have to come out with pitchforks like someone spit on their religion?
It (Linux) is just another choice, like MacOS or Windows. Some folks use/like it, others don't. Enjoy what you like and quit trying to push your choice on everyone else who disagrees with you. Wow.
See what you started Jim?
Speaking as a Native American in the IT industry, I have to say I have never been asked nor have I ever heard of an interviewer asking about my or anyone else's beading skills as an indicator of their job skills. That does not mean it did not happen. I have been asked questions about the proper way to conduct a sweat lodge, or how an 'indian' would do something. I have been told I was the 'Token' minority at one place of employment by the HR director. I have been asked and told many things, but I have never, not once, in construction, in medicine, in any odd job, and not in my career in the IT industry, if I were a proficient 'beader'.Been away for a while. One interesting acritical I read a long time ago about core memory, they use to build them on a Navajo Indian tribe reservation. Theory was they were so good at doing bead work that they had the skills to assemble core memory modules. Don't know if that is a fact.
Ok, I think I found some reference to this but there is no mention of beading skills and it does not say it was ever actually done. So still looking :Speaking as a Native American in the IT industry, I have to say I have never been asked nor have I ever heard of an interviewer asking about my or anyone else's beading skills as an indicator of their job skills. That does not mean it did not happen. I have been asked questions about the proper way to conduct a sweat lodge, or how an 'indian' would do something. I have been told I was the 'Token' minority at one place of employment by the HR director. I have been asked and told many things, but I have never, not once, in construction, in medicine, in any odd job, and not in my career in the IT industry, if I were a proficient 'beader'.
Core Memory? I have not heard anyone even mention core memory since my days at (Software Dev Company) while discussing the history of computers with some friends who had been working on 'big iron' as much as 40 years. All I can say is this, if your memory is accurate and some computer manufacturer did choose to move a facility to the Navajo reservation on the dismally prejudiced idea that Indians are good at beading, then at least it provided some work for some people that may have gotten them out of poverty. I just cannot imagine why they would not then use the Navajo to create pottery enclosures, computer packing blankets, and also fine turquoise and silver adornment for their systems?
I need to sign off but I have to admit, you floored me but I am not offended. I will also go look this up.