Re: Anybody need 3.5 diskettes

2011-11-15 Thread Robert N. Eaton
On 11/14/2011 9:38 PM, Derek Trotter wrote: I thought floppy diskettes of any size had joined rotary dial telephones, typewriters, mechanical tv tuners, cassette tapes, car radios with pushbutton presets, vacuum tubes, and windup alarm clocks. Of course I could be wrong. On 11/14/2011 03:21

Re: Introductions and Current Status

2011-11-15 Thread Dazed_75
ROFL !!! I got my start in High School when the National Science Foundation decided to start a revolutionary thing called Computer Math for secondary schools. We started by learning how to do math in binary and then progressed to binary logic. By the middle of the 1st year we were writing

Re: Introductions and Current Status

2011-11-15 Thread Bob Elzer
$2500 for a floppy drive, kind of makes me feel better for spending $5000 for a 386 with a whopping 320MB hard drive LOL!!! On 11/15/2011 11:27 AM, Dazed_75 wrote: ROFL !!! I got my start in High School when the National Science Foundation decided to start a revolutionary thing called

RE: Introductions and Current Status

2011-11-15 Thread Lee Reynolds
Did Bill Gates chastise you for stealing that BASIC interpreter? Lee Reynolds Tech Support Analyst Sr ASU Advanced Computing Center a2c2.asu.edu http://hpc.asu.edu/ GWC-178 480.965.9460 (Office) 480.458.7434 (Mobile) From: plug-discuss-boun...@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us

Re: Anybody need 3.5 diskettes

2011-11-15 Thread Scrut Development
I still use fdd its great On Nov 14, 2011 9:38 PM, Derek Trotter expat.arizo...@gmail.com wrote: I thought floppy diskettes of any size had joined rotary dial telephones, typewriters, mechanical tv tuners, cassette tapes, car radios with pushbutton presets, vacuum tubes, and windup alarm clocks.

Re: Introductions and Current Status

2011-11-15 Thread Matt Graham
From: Nathan England nat...@paysonlinux.org I'll start it off, how about you? When did you get started with Linux, how did you find it? What are you doing with it now? In 1998, I found that students with regular user accounts could use gcc on the Solaris boxes. I thought this was really neat,

Re: Introductions and Current Status

2011-11-15 Thread Derek Trotter
Is that the same Bill Gates who got drunk, and stole a bulldozer in New Mexico? On 11/15/2011 11:35, Lee Reynolds wrote: Did Bill Gates chastise you for stealing that BASIC interpreter? Lee Reynolds Tech Support Analyst Sr ASU Advanced Computing Center a2c2.asu.edu http://hpc.asu.edu/

Re: Anybody need 3.5 diskettes

2011-11-15 Thread Derek Trotter
Whatever works for you. I gave up using them in the late 90s when I got a zip drive. I got tired of buying floppies and them only lasting a week or two. Yes I knew to keep them out of the sun and away from magnetic fields. On 11/15/2011 12:02, Scrut Development wrote: I still use fdd its

Re: Introductions and Current Status

2011-11-15 Thread Dazed_75
Nope, TDL BASIC was much more advanced than Microsoft's On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 11:35 AM, Lee Reynolds lee.reyno...@asu.edu wrote: Did Bill Gates chastise you for stealing that BASIC interpreter? ** ** ** ** Lee Reynolds Tech Support Analyst Sr ASU Advanced Computing

Brookings: CyberSecurity In the Balance - 2 New Bills

2011-11-15 Thread Lisa Kachold
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IRC clients

2011-11-15 Thread Dazed_75
What do you like as an IRC client? And why? --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss

Re: Brookings: CyberSecurity In the Balance - 2 New Bills

2011-11-15 Thread Sam Kreimeyer
It's good to see an argument against these laws from a purely technical perspective beyond reemphasizing how easy these protections are to circumvent. The implementation of these blacklists could inadvertently provide a vector to alter DNS behavior, especially if they are required to obtain and

Re: IRC clients

2011-11-15 Thread Benjamin Browning
I have not used IRC in years, but now at my new $dayjob we use it to communicate... I am using irssi, so I can screen it and get back in from anywhere with a history of what went down. ~Ben --- PLUG-discuss mailing list -

Re: IRC clients

2011-11-15 Thread Daniel Stasinski
On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 8:32 PM, Dazed_75 lthiels...@gmail.com wrote: What do you like as an IRC client? And why? I use XChat and I am also the author of the TCL scripting plugin for XChat. The interface is simple but powerful. Daniel (Mooo on Freenode) -- |

Re: IRC clients

2011-11-15 Thread Nathan England
On Tuesday, November 15, 2011 21:01:29 Daniel Stasinski wrote: On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 8:32 PM, Dazed_75 lthiels...@gmail.com wrote: What do you like as an IRC client? And why? While I hate the name, I have used BitchX since I found it on slackware years and years ago. Most of the time, I

Centurylink Modem

2011-11-15 Thread Ariel Gold
I'm moving and getting internet access through Century Link. This goog_462873096Actiontec GT724WGRhttp://www.amazon.com/Actiontec-GT724WGR-Universally-Compatible-Wireless/dp/B0018CJ9LA/ref=sr_1_3?s=electronicsie=UTF8qid=1321402085sr=1-3 looks like a better modem than the Actiontec PK5000 that

Re: Introductions and Current Status

2011-11-15 Thread Jim March
I jumped to Ubuntu 6.06 in Sept. of 2006 cold turkey after chasing a WinXP rootkit for days. I had zero *nix family experience, but I did have 17 years in IT previously with a lot of Netware and general networking experience. There was still a learning curve, but it was and is absolutely worth

Re: Introductions and Current Status

2011-11-15 Thread Michael Havens
what a resume! On 11/15/11, Jim March 1.jim.ma...@gmail.com wrote: I jumped to Ubuntu 6.06 in Sept. of 2006 cold turkey after chasing a WinXP rootkit for days. I had zero *nix family experience, but I did have 17 years in IT previously with a lot of Netware and general networking experience.

Re: Centurylink Modem

2011-11-15 Thread Nathan England
On Tuesday, November 15, 2011 17:13:27 Ariel Gold wrote: I'm moving and getting internet access through Century Link. This goog_462873096Actiontec GT724WGRhttp://www.amazon.com/Actiontec-GT724WGR-Universally-Compatible-Wir