RE: [expert] a stooooooooopid question

2002-09-06 Thread Mike Settle
Oh, for sure - Computers were just plain *FUN* back then !!! Now, they're just a *^%in' job. We had two different ways of generating computer 'music' back then - One, was to turn to a really low band on one of those new-fangled Japanese transistor radios and set it on top of the CPU. The

RE: [expert] a stooooooooopid question

2002-09-06 Thread Mike Settle
Not only was there discrepancies with the 'signed' zero, but IBM used to do a core dump and bring production to a screeching halt because of a 'divide by zero' error. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Wolfgang Bornath Sent: Friday,

RE: [expert] Travan Tape drives

2002-07-10 Thread Mike Settle
I always found Travans to be more trouble than they're worth. I didn't start out this way intentionally - But, I've been using all those old 2 3 GB drives leftover from days gone by as backups. Hard drives are so cheap now, I'm thinking about putting one of those removable caddy's in one of my

RE: [expert] Why is disk fragmentation a must in windows and not in Linux

2002-07-10 Thread Mike Settle
Randy/Roberto, Microsoft used to say that disks using the NTFS file system didn't get fragmented - However, like most of Microsoft's statements it was wishful thinking. Several after-market 'defrag' programs appeared to take care of this for NT3.51 and NT4. With NT5 (Win2000), Microsoft