>This sounds interesting. I'm surprised the cat didn't kill the hamster
>playing with it.
I think if I hadn't gotten to the cat fast enough, she would have...
fortuantly, the cage makes a LOT of noise when the cat would pop it open,
and after the 2nd time, I started using the water bottle.
I can't blame her, I got her as a stray, so rodents were probably her
main source of food (that and it seems Wendy's french fries since she
will claw your eyes out to get to them). I just wish she would start
catching the damn mice... its getting cold out, I don't want to have to
keep pissing on the outside of the house to lower the mouse input (yes,
that actually works, I realized that the spray I was using was simply fox
pee, so I decided one day to try MY pee, and it works just as well, just
doesn't last quite as long since it isn't cut with oil to help it
stick... saves me the $10 a bottle, but I have to re-"spray" every few
days instead of every week or so... side effect, my wife's flower bed has
never looked better!)
and now this has moved WAY off topic.
-c
> > My recollection from one of her presentations some years ago was that
> > she claimed to have found the first computer bug in the Eniac - a moth
> > IIRC - and debugged it by removing said moth.
> >
> > She was a pretty level headed and down to earth lady.
>
> ...in spite of the whole COBOL thing. 8-|
Crass
Obnoxious
Bullsh*t-
Oriented
Language
-dq
On December 12, Chris wrote:
> catching the damn mice... its getting cold out, I don't want to have to
> keep pissing on the outside of the house to lower the mouse input (yes,
> that actually works, I realized that the spray I was using was simply fox
> pee, so I decided one day to try MY pee, and it works just as well, just
> doesn't last quite as long since it isn't cut with oil to help it
> stick... saves me the $10 a bottle, but I have to re-"spray" every few
> days instead of every week or so... side effect, my wife's flower bed has
> never looked better!)
Admit it, Chris...you just like peeing outside. ;)
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Dave McGuire
St. Petersburg, FL
On December 12, Ken Seefried wrote:
> Perhaps slightly off-topic (other than being a resonably old part), but
> would anyone around here have a datasheet (or, at least, a pin-out) for an
> HP HDSP-2490? This is an odd, 4-digit, 5x7 led matrix display. It's in a
> 28-pin dip, and looks to have some intellegence built in.
>
> The answer from HP (nee Agilent) is "long since obsolete, we know nothing".
Yeah, after all, NOBODY uses displays anymore.
GOD I hate suits.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
St. Petersburg, FL
On December 12, Don Maslin wrote:
> > > If you're talking about the terms, that was Rr. Adm. Grace Hopper.
> >
> > She coined "debug"; the the use of the word "bug" to denote
> > a flaw in a design was in common use in Edison's time; some
> > claim it was coined by early telegraphers.
>
> My recollection from one of her presentations some years ago was that
> she claimed to have found the first computer bug in the Eniac - a moth
> IIRC - and debugged it by removing said moth.
>
> She was a pretty level headed and down to earth lady.
...in spite of the whole COBOL thing. 8-|
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
St. Petersburg, FL
> On December 11, jpero(a)sympatico.ca wrote:
> > Look to /.
> >
> > This is one whom coined the bug and debugging I think. :-)
>
> If you're talking about the terms, that was Rr. Adm. Grace Hopper.
She coined "debug"; the the use of the word "bug" to denote
a flaw in a design was in common use in Edison's time; some
claim it was coined by early telegraphers.
-dq
! From: Chris [mailto:mythtech@Mac.com]
!
!
! >Ok, I give up -- how do you train a cat? :)
!
! Water spray bottle works wonders. 3 spritz later and one of
! my cats has
! stopped popping the hampster cage open and carrying the
! hampster around
! the house.
!
! Some people say tape works well to keep them off things
! (sticky side up),
! but both my cats seem to rather like it, and I find they stand on it
! padding at the tape purring happily.
They lick the adhesive too?
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>>! Some people say tape works well to keep them off things
>>! (sticky side up),
>>! but both my cats seem to rather like it, and I find they stand on it
>>! padding at the tape purring happily.
>
>They lick the adhesive too?
Not that I have ever seen, they just step and press their paws against it
over and over... kind of like when they are pressing down a pillow to
sit, or in the case of one of mine, when he is hungry, he jumps on my
lap, and presses his paws into my sternum over and over until I am
annoyed (or in enough pain as he does it pretty hard), to get up and feed
him.
-c
On December 12, Douglas Quebbeman wrote:
> I assume these Mentec PDP-11s aren' available at PC prices,
> given they likely aren't produced in PC quantities...
Of course not. But then, they're also not PCs, and they're not
targeted at the desktop game-playing market.
> Any info on the web?
http://www.mentec.com. Nice stuff.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
St. Petersburg, FL
I found somebody who has a Model I with some other peripheral things for
sale. He has an X-10 controller, hi-resolution joystick interface, maybe
some other things too. Whoever's interested, email me off-list and I'll give
you his phone number (he's not on the internet).
Thanks,
Owen
