On Jan 4, 11:45, Richard Erlacher wrote:
> If the period took up as much space as another character, that would be
> true, but with mail readers that perform kerning as though they were
trying
> to prepare text for publication, the period gets short-schrift, so to
speak,
> and often is nearly invisible. The practice of inserting two spaces was
> inherited from the requirement for it in the printing/publishing
industry.
Actually, it has long been normal to use the same space between sentences
as between words in printing.
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On Jan 4, 10:39, Ethan Dicks wrote:
> Besides the 1000 x 1024 method, the moniker "1.44Mb" has an additional
> marketing advantage - it's a simple multiple of 720K (which is really
> a 1Mb raw floppy, formatted to 737,280 bytes under DOS, or 1024 x 720).
> It's easier to conceptualize that a "1.44Mb" floppy holds twice as much
> as a "720K" floppy. If you called it a "1.47Mb" floppy, I think there
> would be even more confused newbies than there are now.
My nitpick is that it's "MB" (megabytes) not "Mb" (megabits). And *of
course* it's 1.40625MB, or 1.4MB for short :-)
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On Jan 4, 12:49, David Woyciesjes wrote:
> ! From: Richard Erlacher
> !
> ! It's never safe to open an attachment to an otherwise undefined email.
> !
> ! I'd suspect only two or three on this list will be foolish
> ! enough to open
> ! this one.
> !
> ! Dick
>
> Huh? What attachment?
I think Dick is referring to the fact that Dan's posts appear on many
systems as an empty message with a single attachment of raw data. It's
actually typed "multipart/signed", and it ought to appear as a text
attachment (or a text main part) with an attached signature block, but on
software that doesn't intrinsically understand multipart/signed (like mine,
and apparently Dick's), it doesn't. Probably something to do with the fact
that "multipart/signed" is not one of the original MIME types. Maybe Dan
could turn off the PGP signature for the list? I thought we'd agreed that
multipart posts were inappropriate, or was that just
"multipart/alternative"?
However, since it's correctly typed it would seem fairly safe to open --
especially for those of us using a Unix machine to read mail :-)
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University of York
Something like these?
http://www.smokeyamps.com/popups/smokeypop.htm
They sell for about $25.
1/4" headphone in/out plugs, and they last quite a while on a 9-volt.
Regards,
Chris
Christopher Smith, Perl Developer
Amdocs - Champaign, IL
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kent Borg [mailto:kentborg@borg.org]
> In olden days I would go to Radio Shack, but that doesn't work
> anymore, so I though I would ask here.
> Anyone know where I could find a small, cheap, low power, amplified,
> battery powered speaker? Back when I would have bought a "telephone
> amplifier", but in 2002 I can't immedaitely find such a thing.
Hi,
I'm ripping my hair out over VMS (as usual). I have a little
magic file that I need to transfer from PC to VAX. And
kermit on both ends. I thought I knew how to use kermit,
but no matter what I do, the file will never work as an
executable on the VAX. It always complains about a corrupt
descriptor block and it comes up too long. The file is
exactly 2048 bytes long and when I send it it comes up as
5/6 blocks with DIR/SIZE=ALL. That is one block too many,
isn't it?
The funny thing is, when I do a round trip with kermit
PC -put-> VAX -get-> PC, I get two identical files on the
PC. But when I do VAX -get-> PC -put-> VAX of a working
.EXE file on the VAX, I end up with a broken copy (same
error.) So, what can I do?
I have SET FILE TYPE BINARY on both sides.
I'm so sorry for bothering you with my VMS ignorance, I
greatly appreciate your patience and help.
regards
-Gunther
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Medical Information Scientist Regenstrief Institute for Health Care
Adjunct Assistant Professor Indiana University School of Medicine
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I have a PDP 11/23 (M8186 CPU with floating point and MMU options)
in a 4 slot BA11-MA box that at some point in its life was an 11/03. It
had an M8044-DF 32k memory module, which I'm trying to replace with a 128k
M8059-KJ. The system works fine with the 32k module, but won't do anything
with the 128k module. I'm not familiar with PDP-11's, but it seems like
my backplane is only 18-bit, while the new memory module is 22-bit. I've
also read that the M8186 board is only 22-bit compatible after revision
C. I can't find any mark on the board showing what revision it is. Is
there another way to tell?
Also, is possible to modify the 18-bit bus and make it 22-bit, or
maybe by swapping out the backplane?
I also noticed that on some used PDP-11 web sites that the BA11-M
sells for much more than the BA11-S, which I thought had 5 more slots.
Is there some reason for this?
Thanks,
Tom
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Eric Chomko [mailto:vze2wsvr@verizon.net]
> > It's especially egregious, because even IBM, who use
> 1024000 for Megabyte
> > for disks, uses 1048576 for memory. Thus, an IBM megabyte
> of disk storage
> > will not hold the content of an IBM megabyte of memory!
> Seems like you have lots of energy on this Fred. 1000 1K
> blocks. Is that a
> reason
> to fly off the handle?
Well, you're right that he's probably a little too sensitive on this, but it
is a stupid way to count a megabyte -- not even self-consistent. :)
Personally I prefer the 1024*1024 method. It makes the most sense to me.
Regards,
Chris
Christopher Smith, Perl Developer
Amdocs - Champaign, IL
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I'm probably going to pickup one of these in the near future, and while I run
VMS on my 4000/VLC, I would like to to run a *nix on on this one. Since NetBSD
and company don't have a working X server, that limits things a bit.
Anyone have a copy they'd be willing to sell?
Thanks,
William
I can't wait to get up to the in-laws vacation house in central VT
to do some riding!!!
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! -----Original Message-----
! From: Lawrence Walker [mailto:lgwalker@mts.net]
! Sent: Friday, January 04, 2002 4:36 PM
! To: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org
! Subject: Re: Crescent wrenches (was: Nomenclature (was: NEXT Color
! Printer find
!
!
! Well where I'm living now is prime snowmobile territory.
! They're as obligatory
! as pick-up trucks and more common than motorcycles. When I
! grew up out
! here in the 40's the multi-passenger ones were called
! "Bombadeers" from
! the name of the company who made them, Bombardier, and who later
! introduced "Ski-Doos" the motorcycle of snowmobiles. I was
! surprised to find
! when I returned that locals still call the larger models Bombadeers.
!
! Lawrence
!
! > Whoa, can't let that one by: we know what a snowmobile is
! up here (c'mon,
! > fellow Canucks, back me up on this one!); mind you, if you
! asked ME what
! > a snowmobile is, I would indeed look at ya kind of funny
! (oops, funnily, for the
! > language police), since apparently YOU don't know what it
! is or you wouldn't be
! > asking...
! >
! > But a snow sled??? Who calls it that? Sounds like the
! SkiDoo trailer.
! >
! > Anyway, one of us invented the thing, so we can call it
! what we like!
! >
! > So there!
! >
! > :)
! >
! > -----------------Original Message------------------
! > From: Roger Merchberger <zmerch(a)30below.com>
! >
! > [snippage]
! >
! > [more snippage (pronounced snippahdge up here, not snippedge :)]
! >
! > And as it's winter, and we *finally* have snow here, talk
! to some Western
! > Ontario Canadians and ask them what a "snowmobile" or "snow
! sled" is -
! > they'll most likely look at you funny, at least for a few
! seconds until it sinks
! > in. They go "skidooing" in the wintertime.
! >
! >
!
!
!
! Reply to:
! lgwalker(a)mts.net
!
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sellam Ismail [mailto:foo@siconic.com]
> On Fri, 4 Jan 2002, Christopher Smith wrote:
>
> > Well, if you use the "modern" definition of poetry, sure
> they are. ;)
> > ... and given the "modern" definition of art, the people who paint
> > lines down the middle of the street are "artists." According to the
> > "modern" definition of music, one can talk over top of some
[snip]
> It's a good thing this metaphor does not extend to "Modern
> Programmers".
> We'd all be out of work.
Ahh -- but it does. Have you seen the latest stock of MS "certified" monkeys?
Regards,
Chris
Christopher Smith, Perl Developer
Amdocs - Champaign, IL
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