> > I have heard that 1 or 2 dozen White Castle burgers is
> another substitute.
>
> White Castle. Ugh, filthy things. I was introduced to them by
> my WC-munchin' pa when I visited family in Ohio, and they were
> positively nasty. :-P
<oft-repeated scene:>
"Woa, these things are *nasty*. Another sack of ten, please..."
-dq
>On Thu, 31 Aug 2000, Eric Smith wrote:
> > > Digging in a huge tangle of wires today I found an odd looking
Honeywell
> > > mouse. Instead of a ball, it has two wheels on the bottom angled so
that
> > > one turns on x axis and the other y axis movements. Otherwise it looks
like
> > > an old PC serial mouse, is it?
> >
> > Dunno, but Doug Englebart's original rodentia were made in this
fashion...
>
> The Honeywell mouse is not the same. It's wheels are nearly parallel to
> the bottom surface of the mouse, rather than perpendicular. But they
> are tilted slightly, one on each axis. The idea is to keep crud from
> being pulled into the mouse. Some other vendors OEM'd these or licensed
> the design, for instance some DEC hockeypuck mice work this way.
Ah... I'll have to keep my eyes open for one of these!
-dq
>No, the SID (as I recall from my guilty little store of NT data) is
>generated off hardware to prevent someone from simply putting the name
of a
>trusted host on an NT machine and entering it into the NT domain. If the
>SID doesn't match, the machine isn't granted entrance. Therefore, it
would
>have to be have been assigned *before* it is connected to the network,
and
>according to our local MCSE, it's totally intrinsic to the machine's
hardware.
Simple solution is to rename the machine, reboot then go the primary
domain
controller and delete the server then reenter it. go back to the first
and
change the domain and tada it's a domain member. If you want it to be
in a trusted do main thas easier. All this hinges off SID and more
importantly
that NT native networking is netbios(netbeui) even if your running TCP/IP
as it simple does netbios over that.
>Windows networking is just *weird* :-P
Not really once you accept the fact that it's netbeui based from it's
legacy
of lanman and DOS. Thats where the domain sillyness comes from.
Until I sorted all that our I found NT to be very secure. ;)
I couldn't get anything to talk to anything even though they were
in the same IP adress range and all. Wierd, yes... very.
Allison
My little system here is only 5 pcs two running NT and the TLZ04 DDS1
does
fine for that.
Work I have the two NT4 boxen that are only pIII/550s 9gb mirrored pair
for data
and 4.3 gb for system stuff. Each has HP T20 and thats a good match.
The remaining three servers backup to a 500$ quantum 10gb snap drive and
that
cascade copies to a P133 server that has a T20 on it. This is good for a
business
as the clients that do back up do it to the servers so they have live
data for the
next day. Simple ripple backup scheme with multiple copies of the same
data
for safety.
KISS is still the operative mode word.
Allison
From: Richard Erlacher <richard(a)idcomm.com>
>ANY Win9x-based utility that actually would provide a no-nonsense backup
>procedure, one that would recognize that it formatted the tape, one that
>would follow its own schedule and would recognize the same tape each
time it
>was in the drive. I'd like it to start within 1 minute of when it's
invoked
>when running on a 150 MHz machine, and that wouldn't ask me more than
once
>if REALLY want to do what I just typed. I'd like it to go ahead and
back up
Replica isn't too bad along those lines. ran is for a year on a P133
(not mmx even!)
off a AHA5142 on a HPt20 under NT3.51. The only thing it would not do is
back up
network drives.
>open. When I'm using a 20-tape library, I'd prefer it NOT ask for
>permission to use the next tape, and, having gotten that perimssion, I'd
>prefer it not ask again before overwriting the tape. I'd prefer it be
able
>to read the backup it wrote yesterday, and I'd be happy if it could
>recognize the tape it just formatted.
I though of getting a Quantum DLT but the cost was high. The Replica
software plays well with it though. It can be preset to overwrite if
needed.
>If you know of such a device that works with 4 or 8mm SCSI devices, 100
>percent of the time, preferably unattended, and will actually utilize
the
Replica worked fine with my TLZ04 (4mm DDS1).
>bandwidth of the tape device (80MB/sec, in bursts, 90 MB/min,
>continuous/aggregate) please share the info with us. The NT stuff is
the
I have nothing to push tape that hard.
>only OS-resident software I've encountered that actually works. The
backup
>that comes with Win9x works with the picotapes that work on the floppy
>ports, but they can't handle an adult's device.
wrong tool.
>What really PISSES ME OFF about all this software, again, with the
exception
>of the NT stuff, is that it doesn't know about SCSI-1 devices, and
doesn't
>work one bit better on high-speed large-capacity disk drives than on
tapes.
W9x drivers are poor at best and ok only for desktop. NT is the only
thing
I'd consider other thn *nix for something server class.
>backups of the whole system over the LAN every day, assuming there's
enough
>bandwidth on its 100Mb channel, I'd use it. I've bought a half dozen
>different vendors' offerings, and half of them don't even run, let alone
>perform backups.
I don't like lan backup as they suck up all the bandwidth and leave the
'net useless for their run time. A 100mb channel is only good for maybe
20mb/s
and even then I'd only expect half that, thats SCSI-1 perfomance at best.
I havent tried a lot of packages, done have a lot of $$$ to spread so
anything
free or supplied with hardware is always tried. Replica came with the
HPt20
and worked with a lot of hardware I tried fairly well. However it's not
the
firebreathing stuff you use nor have I tried it at that level. For me a
3-5gb
backup every night is easily handled with that and it runs during the
night
when our net is not in use.
Allison
Go to Compaq's website and click on the link about the new
contract they just got for a machine with 12,000 Alpha's in it!!
Kinda ticks me off, though, that while DEC did all the development
work on this architecture, came up with something unique and
technologically superior, the company that gets the credit for the
big win is the same one that has made it's fortune cloning crappy
IBM boxes and can't even make a laptop that goes three months
before it has to back to the service department AGAIN.......
Sorry. I'm the netadmin in an office where corporate policy sticks
me with Armada laptops that need to go back for some sort of
board replacement all the time. I'm on a first-name basis with the
guy from Airborne..... it's gotten to the point where I figured out how
they assign case numbers, and I can have the first six digits
already written down before they start talking.....I have at least one
a week go back. And some have gone in three or four times this
past year!
Paul Braun WD9GCO
Cygnus Productions
nerdware_nospam(a)laidbak.com
if I go through my collection....
100/140W weller soldering gun
at least two W60s my normal sword, those are the Curie effect
temperature controlled. I may convert them to electronic using
triac and PT-RTD to sense temp if the internal switch fails as they
are hard to find.
one or two ungar 42W unregulated with various tips (most very fine)
and a few blocks of copper for desoldering multiple leads at once.
12v 25W portable pencil for those field jobs.
Ungar desoldering tool, handle with heated top and squeeze bulb
for vacuum or pressure.
various torches or the propane and mapp gas types plus mapp/oxygen
rig for brazing/welding <yep I'm certified tig/mig on SS too>.
I'm considering getting a newer weller or ungar regulated iron as
the W60 Curie tips are getting very hard to find.
Allison
You can bet it's a dallas or one of the other two wire digital
components and not a simple thermister. Having opened
more than a few packs I can say it's not going to be
something that simple or easy to get data on.
Allison
-----Original Message-----
From: Rodrigo Ventura <yoda(a)isr.ist.utl.pt>
To: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org>
Date: Saturday, September 02, 2000 5:38 PM
Subject: Re: Ni-MH pack topology [semi-OT, I know, sorry...]
>
> Thanks for the replies!
>
> It cannnot obviously be a plain fuse, since it is not
>short-circuited (assuming it's still ok).
>
> I guess the most plausible idea is that it is just some kind
>of thermal-dependant component. Maybe a NTC or PTC. Still, how could I
>replace this component? I should characterize it electrically.
>
> Cheers,
>
>
>
>--
>
>*** Rodrigo Martins de Matos Ventura <yoda(a)isr.ist.utl.pt>
>*** Web page: http://www.isr.ist.utl.pt/~yoda
>*** Teaching Assistant and PhD Student at ISR:
>*** Instituto de Sistemas e Robotica, Polo de Lisboa
>*** Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisboa, PORTUGAL
>*** PGP fingerprint = 0119 AD13 9EEE 264A 3F10 31D3 89B3 C6C4 60C6 4585
>I've used a product called Ghost that will 1) make and save disk images,
2)
>allow those images to be written to a disk with different partition
sizes,
>etc. than the original, and 3) be used over a network. The only downside
>I've seen (unless they have changed their policy in the last year or so)
is
>that it is sold on a 100 user license that cost about $750 or so. I
managed
>to buy a 50 user license at half the cost after I explained that we were
>doing a one shot transfer to set up some machines. A good product!
After buying an ODBS driver from merant at $4000 for a single server CPU
(for paradox mind you) well this is not a a big problem. Actually it
would
be a single cpu thing as I want to backup the machine so if it failed I
could
clone it to the matching one of the pair in minimal time.
On a different level some PC software is really wacked pricewise.
Anyone reading this could suggest a good low cost POP3/SMTP package
for NT4 server with 40 users (not internet), contact me off list. IT
doesn't
have to forward mail to the internet as we dont have such a
connection...yet.
Allison
----Original Message-----
From: Douglas Quebbeman <dhquebbeman(a)theestopinalgroup.com>
To: 'classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org' <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org>
Date: Thursday, August 31, 2000 9:33 AM
Subject: RE: Odd Honeywell Mouse
>> Those are similar tot he round mouse (Hawley) that were used for the
early
>> VAXstations. Those were not PC compatable. I've never seen
>> a mouse on a z80 system (most didn't ahve graphics).
>
>At a local electronics trade school where I worked (as a programmer and
>teaching digital briefly), we had a bunch of Televideo TS-803 Z-80 based
>CP/M workstations; each had a mouse port, we bought only one mouse tho;
>it was an early Mouse Systems unit, optical, but requiring the dedicated
>optical mouse pad. Worked quite nicely, tho, and I wrote a rudimentary
>drawing program for it to create graphic objects for the computer-based
>simluation of our digital trainer/breadboard systems.
Never said it was never done. I said *most* didnt'. I have a triad of
Visual 1050s that have a 6502+32k for graphics so I know some did.
It was however quite rare for those to have a mouse and software
that was mouse aware.
Allison
