Comment Re:Better Idea (Score 1) 64
It works best if to "Scan" they are actually faxing it to a Fax-PDF number, to ensure the lowest of quality possible.
It works best if to "Scan" they are actually faxing it to a Fax-PDF number, to ensure the lowest of quality possible.
Of all technologies I have ever used across all time, floppies are one of the few that I've been thankful to say good riddance to, and hope it stays in the dustbin of history. CLI, modems, dot matrix printers, CRT's, they all have something charming about them, but not floppies.
About a year ago was the first time I had to use a floppy in years. It supposedly had the backup copy of an important program for work (and as far as I knew, the only copy that ever existed). Someone had overwritten the disk with something else, but eventually I did find a copy of the software on another floppy. The time before that I was trying to write a boot floppy to bootstrap an install off a CD-ROM (BIOS couldn't boot from CD). It took 5 disks to get a working one.
Since I first used floppies 25 years ago they sucked, and they still suck. The number of people I saw that kept the only copy of all their schoolwork on a floppy, only to have it rendered unreadable is heart breaking. They were always slow, small, and unreliable, but for some reason people were told they were more reliable than HDD (which may have been true for early HDD, but not in the 90's). How many times have you copied something, with a nice consistent *tick-tick-tick-tick-tick-tick-whir-whir-tick-tick-tick-tick*, only to get to 97 Percent and *whir-whir, whir-whir, whir-whir, whir-whir* "NOT READY READING DRIVE A:"
Even dealing with retro-computing there's better options. I use Sewell's FastLynx. It's like an updated version of Interlink (and you can buy it with the Serial and Parallel cables). You can connect to DOS machines, and a Windows NT4/9X/XP/7/8 machine with null modem serial or parallel cable (your modern machine must have a real LPT port, you can't use a serial converter) to transfer files. It can write the software on the remote PC over a serial link so you don't even need a floppy for the original install. The speed over Parallel is surprisingly fast.
You can slipstream SATA / SCSI drivers onto the install CD using Nlite.
You can also take a Youtube URL (with the exception of VEVO), And enter it into VLC: Media->Open Network stream
Where it will play without ads.
As a side benefit, since VLC wasn't coded using garbage, like Adobe Flash is, the video won't stutter and stall on older PCs.
uTorrent IS malware these days.
Sadly true. I recently switched to qBittorrent and and though it lacks a few of the bells and whistles, I have not looked back.
Agreed. I made the switch this year. F---ing conduit search malware. Ninite dropped uTorrent in preference for qBittorent as well.
One feature I like about qBittorrent is it remembers recent download folder selections, making organizing TV torrents a breeze.
Yes, because the US cheats and uses 220 split-phase to provide 110 power. Most everywhere else that needs high power uses 3-phase, as it's smoother, easier to produce and rectify, and just as safe to transmit.
3 phase makes electric motors more efficient, and that's it. Technically, you could have as many phases as you could imagine having... each making the motor a tad more efficient. But they are not "smoother" and don't improve transmission.
3-Phase AC produces a smoother (considerably less ripple) DC current pattern when rectified than single or split-phase AC.
I've seen 3 phase 700V+ DC drives at over 1000kW that are very harmonic rich. Over 100% THD. Not smooth AT ALL.
3 phase requires the return by code. Technically however, you are correct. That's just for safety and I often question if it makes any sense myself.
In an industrial settings I deal with a lot of loads that are three phase L1, L2, L3 + safety ground only (shield on cable, chassis on machine). No Neutral. Even 4160V loads. Unbalanced loads are brought back through L1, L2, L3.
Oh, great, it's hard enough to replace obsolete equipment as it is. Once management sees this, they'll wonder why we can't keep that old Dell server going a few more years - after all, other companies are buying the same server for this guy. IT will never get another upgrade approved ever again if this gets out. Forget the cost savings of lower-power equipment, and the massive throughput increases in newer drives.
Lucky you getting to keep that old Dell server... We have to keep that old 1983 PDP-11 going.
Wait, there are updates for Windows?
Uh-oh.
That's why I just use Windows XP. I haven't been bugged for updates in a while.
When Macs didnt just needed a restart every 24 hours (like windows did) but would outright ruin there system install every other week?
You MUST be confusing MacOS and Windows.
I have been using Macs since they were called Lisas (yeah, yeah, I know. Different OS (sort of)), and using Windows since at least version 3.1, and in all those years, I have only had to resort to an OS Reinstall ONCE on a Mac (68k or PPC). I cannot even begin to count the times I had to do a reinstall on Windows. That stuff didn't even BEGIN to abate until Windows 2000.
As far as having to restart, both OSes had their fair share of memory leaks. But when it comes to "outright ruin there[sic] system install[ation]", there is simply no comparison.
I've very rarely had to *reinstall* any OS (none I can think of except a hard drive failure), but from a Stability point of view, Mac OS was junk until OSX, Windows was complete feces until W95, and Junk until W2000. This is from an end user point of view. NT was relative stable before 2000, but it wasn't end user friendly.
I bet Google DOES use some moderate amount of assembly. I once worked for an audio-recognition company and we did indeed use about 100 lines of x64 assembly to perform the inner loop, which was some complex audio signal processing routine. Similar to an FFT.
This was easily 10x faster than the C version, which we had for reference purposes, even when using the Intel compiker with all optimizations turned on.
So, just because you never saw a Tapir in your life, does not mean they can't exist because their dick is longer than you can imagine.
Maybe you shouldn't have been using an AMD processor:
(Intel has been slammed for their compiler creating code that directs non-Intel CPUs to completely unoptimized code, not taking advantage of SSE, etc, even when present in the non-Intel processor)
http://www.agner.org/optimize/...
Section 2.3 of this:
http://download.intel.com/pres...
You still fail to count properly because the non-NT kernels don't get counted into numbering.
NT->3.5 Because it looked like Windows 3.5
2K-> 4
XP->5
Vista->7
Windos 7 -> 7
Windows 8 -> 8
etc...
You Failed to count properly
NT 3.1
NT 3.5
NT 3.51
NT 4
NT 5.0 (Windows 2000)
NT 5.1 (WindowsXP)
NT 5.2 (Sever 2003 & XP 64)
NT 6.0 (Vista)
NT 6.1 (Seven)
NT 6.2 (Eight)
The spare parts stores at our manufacturing plant uses a keypad like this too.
Turns out you can do this - their nameservers are at
nf1.no-ip.com
nf2.no-ip.com
nf3.no-ip.com
nf4.no-ip.com
nf5.no-ip.com
so
nslookup <your domain> nf1.no-ip.com
should give you your IP.
Mod parent and grandparent up!
Though I only got a response from nf3.no-ip.com.
The only thing they ever had going for them was the unique 'b' shaped plastic. They are like a Louis Vuitton bag - not particularly functional or even attractive, but they cost a lot of money and celebutards like them so owning them buys you a tiny slice of that lifestyle.
While I don't own or like their headphones, the one other thing they have going for them is their success at ambush marketing. You see, as much as I hate their headphones, I hate the draconian advertising regulations that surround events like the Olympics and World Cup even more:
http://www.thenational.ae/busi...
http://www.theguardian.com/med...
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