On 01/31/2012 07:14 PM, Ben Scott wrote:
On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 6:44 PM, Jon maddog Hall mad...@li.org wrote:
I started looking into this more today, and quickly rediscovered how
much of a giant pile of kludges the IBM-PC is.
The IBM PC was released in 1981. You expected something other
On 30 Jan 2012 15:57:48 -0500
kevin_d_cl...@comcast.net (Kevin D. Clark) wrote:
M D L writes:
Attempting to update Fedora 15 I've been having errors:
ERROR with rpm_check_debug vs depsolve:
libibus-1.0.so.0()(64bit) is needed by eekboard-1.0.5-1.fc15.x86_64
libibus-1.0.so.0()(64bit)
On 01/31/2012 08:38 PM, Michael ODonnell wrote:
Anything old will have its share of historical accidents, to be
sure. But there's reasonable design failings, and then there's
design by the infinite monkey method.
You have insulted an infinite number of monkeys. IBM used to
publish the
On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 7:46 AM, M D L 41mag...@liberty.eprci.com wrote:
On 30 Jan 2012 15:57:48 -0500
kevin_d_cl...@comcast.net (Kevin D. Clark) wrote:
M D L writes:
Attempting to update Fedora 15 I've been having errors:
ERROR with rpm_check_debug vs depsolve:
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On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 7:42 AM, Jerry Feldman g...@blu.org wrote:
On 01/31/2012 07:14 PM, Ben Scott wrote:
On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 6:44 PM, Jon maddog Hall mad...@li.org
wrote:
I started looking into this more today, and quickly rediscovered how
much of a giant pile of kludges the
Sorry for dragging up a month old thread, but I was looking into this for
something at work and found this blog post that documents how to use the
scp protocol pretty nicely:
http://blogs.oracle.com/janp/entry/how_the_scp_protocol_works
- Chris
On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 4:25 PM, John Abreau
On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 8:38 PM, Michael ODonnell
michael.odonn...@comcast.net wrote:
Anything old will have its share of historical accidents, to be
sure. But there's reasonable design failings, and then there's
design by the infinite monkey method.
You have insulted an infinite number of
On 02/01/2012 11:55 AM, Ben Scott wrote:
On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 8:38 PM, Michael ODonnell
michael.odonn...@comcast.net wrote:
Anything old will have its share of historical accidents, to be
sure. But there's reasonable design failings, and then there's
design by the infinite monkey method.
Jerry,
I agree with you:
even the visionaries who envisioned the Internet (such as Vint Cerf and
J. C. R. Licklider and a few others) designed the Internet with 8-bit IP
addresses.
It is easy to be a visionary when you are looking via the rear-view
mirror.
Warmest regards,
md
On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 1:32 PM, Jerry Feldman g...@blu.org wrote:
Though I do think a little more foresight on the part of IBM and
Microsoft both would have saved us all a lot of trouble down the road.
At the time, (1) IBM was Big Iron and (2) the desktop computer market
was tiny with only
On 02/01/2012 10:15 AM, Tom Buskey wrote:
On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 7:42 AM, Jerry Feldman g...@blu.org
mailto:g...@blu.org wrote:
On 01/31/2012 07:14 PM, Ben Scott wrote:
On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 6:44 PM, Jon maddog Hall
mad...@li.org mailto:mad...@li.org wrote:
I started
On 02/01/2012 01:56 PM, Jon maddog Hall wrote:
Jerry,
I agree with you:
even the visionaries who envisioned the Internet (such as Vint Cerf and
J. C. R. Licklider and a few others) designed the Internet with 8-bit IP
addresses.
It is easy to be a visionary when you are looking via the
On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 2:24 PM, Jerry Feldman g...@blu.org wrote:
On 02/01/2012 10:15 AM, Tom Buskey wrote:
On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 7:42 AM, Jerry Feldman g...@blu.org
mailto:g...@blu.org wrote:
On 01/31/2012 07:14 PM, Ben Scott wrote:
On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 6:44 PM, Jon maddog
On 02/01/2012 02:09 PM, Ben Scott wrote:
Then again, at $WORK we're currently trying to figure out the
atrocity known as Unified Extensible Firmware Interface, so maybe it's
just the fact that everything to do with a computer always sucks. :-)
Maybe we all need Watson :-)
--
Jerry Feldman
This thread is a trip down memory lane although the retrievable part
is getting shorter or at least spottier every year. I believe I have
some Elephant floppies in the box somewhere in the attic along with the
OSI computer. Wonder how many others downloaded files via a 300 baud
acoustic modem
On Feb 1, 2012, at 10:15 AM, Tom Buskey wrote:
On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 7:42 AM, Jerry Feldman g...@blu.org wrote:
Actually, the IBM-PC was following the Apple ][. Jobs hadn't
gotten into his control everything mode yet and Woz put the full
schematics and ROM in the back of the user
On Wed, 1 Feb 2012 16:17:52 -0500
Bill Freeman ke1g...@gmail.com wrote:
If I recall correctly, the Apple ][ bus gave us ROM on the I/O card to
bring the driver with the hardware, but addressing was controlled by
which slot you put the card in, and the signalling was closer to buffered
6502
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