Anybody have recent issues of Make? Somebody told me tonight that I'm
quoted, two or three issues ago, but I have no idea what that's about ....
So naturally I am feeling curious! Would appreciate if someone could look.
Thanks!
- Evan (Koblentz)
Random thought of the day....
I've seen a few CDs around where the manufacturer has deliberately included
errors on the disc to make piracy more difficult - which is a noble enough
thing to do, but a bit of a pain in the butt when you want to make a
legitimate backup copy of a disc :-(
Has anyone come across tools (Linux preferred, but I could stomach Windows if
I had to!) which can duplicate such discs and produce errors in the output at
the same block as the input? (I assume any software on such
deliberately-crippled media would check for the presence of known errors at
install / run time)
cheers
Jules
Doc Shipley <doc at mdrconsult.com> wrote:
> roosmcd at dds.nl wrote:
> > Citeren Doc Shipley <doc at mdrconsult.com>:
> >> I have one. I'd like to find hardware docs for it. SINIX/Reliant
> >> UNIX install media would be heavenly.
> >
> > I still have a RM-200c, should start that up sometime :). But I have
> > two sets of installation media, 5.43 and 5.45 IIRC. Please let me
> > know if you haven't been able to find it otherwise and I'll see what
> > I can do.
>
> So far, you're the only other person I've found that ever heard of
> these things.
> Mine seems to have an intact SINIX install on it, but it looks like I
> need boot media to get root.
> I'd also like to know a couple of other things, like what EISA and
> ISA adapters are supported, how a mouse attaches, since it has a
> single PS/2 port, and if a CD-ROM is supported, what models work. Any
> help you can provide would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Doc
Manuals for Siemens RM-Series unix based servers (most even available in English) can be found here:
http://manuals.fujitsu-siemens.com/softbooks/unix/us/rmop.htm
Had to dig up that resource mere weeks ago because the university collection received a Siemens RM600 E.
I'm eager to get some hands-on experience but alas that thing is far back on our priority list...
HTH,
--
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Mothers Day ..... how did I not realize that????
That leaves June 2/3 and 9/10. If we choose 9/10 then we give people a weekend off after Memorial Day.
But would there be more conflicts with graduations (on either of the June weekends) than with the Dayton event?
I know all about the "you can't please everyone all the time" rule but we're still trying.
All:
For those who might not have been aware, Steve Wozniak was in New York
last night for a book signing at a Barnes & Noble. I attended this
signing and I thought I'd provide a book report of sorts for those who
haven't yet been (the last one was in Philadelphia about a month ago).
I arrived not knowing what to expect and there were only about 25 people
in the gallery at 5:30 (the presentation began at 7pm). This event was
competing with the Christmas tree lighting at Rockefeller Center, so I
figured, hey, it shouldn't be too crowded. Yeah, right.
While I was waiting, I grabbed a copy of iWoz and began reading. My
report on the book itself is at the end.
There were about 150 seats and by 7pm, 175 people were there. I'd say
about 80/20 male/female ratio, from a 9 year old girl with a cello
strapped to her back to about 55. Ethnically, it was a pretty diverse
crowd.
Steve arrived on-time and after a short intro, began his speech. I don't
think he stopped to breathe. He spoke constantly for 45 minutes. In
spite of his stated shyness, he was a very gracious and engaging
speaker. You can tell that his mind is running far ahead of his mouth.
Yet, in his speech, you can hear a boyish quality that conveys such
excitement about computers and amazement as how he, as the "other Steve"
with the engineering brains, created the first color personal computer
that could be connected to the TV, and, by his accounts, lit the rocket
on the nascent personal computing industry (I think he actually said
something like "how we started the industry").
I bet that if the guy from Barnes & Noble didn't keep him to a clock, he
would have told stories until closing at 10pm.
I spent only a few minutes with Woz. He signed my Woz book, an original
instruction manual from my Apple II (which he pawed over, not having
seen one in years), and we talked momentarily about my Altair Emulator
project. There were people there who brought old computers for him to
sign (which he did). Most people just had their books signed.
Now, onto the book itself. While I was waiting for the presentation to
start, I began reading around the middle of the book and in an hour and
20 minutes time, read almost 100 pages. The book is an easy read and is
in a conversational style that after hearing Woz speak, one can easily
see how the book was created...he told the stories and Gina Smith, the
co-author, wrote them down, preserving his familiar, conversational
style. This isn't fine literature, and Steve readily admitted that he's
not much of an author. But, if you think of it more as you and Steve
sitting at a bar talking about old times, you will enjoy it.
Since I began in the middle at a random spot, I didn't read about
Steve's early years. He did allude to his childhood in his presentation,
and this is where most people will discover the "I didn't know that."
facts about Woz.
I picked-up the story around the time of Steve creating the Breakout
game for Atari. The back-half of the book is filled with common Woz
stories about Breakout, the 500 machine purchase from The Byte Shop, his
drive for elegance in design (and reduced parts count), and hacking a
Shugart floppy drive to make a very elegant floppy controller system.
There were some brief mentions of fights with Jobs, like over the number
of slots to put in the Apple ][ and the failure of the Apple ///, but
any disagreements with the other Steve were treated gingerly.
I'm sure there are kernels of rare or never-heard Woz stories in there,
but in the pages I read, I didn't really see any.
Rich
