test-drb March 2002

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by mythtech＠mac.com

>crap this should have gone direct to Chris. Crap... and my reply should have gone straight to you. (I didn't even look that it was actually addressed to the group) Sorry again! -chris <http://www.mythtech.net>

23 years, 1 month

Fwd: FS: oscope [Tektronics]

by doc＠mdrconsult.com

From: "Kaboozel" <kaboozel(a)localhost.com> Subject: FS: oscope Newsgroups: austin.forsale Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2002 02:54:16 GMT Tektronics 453. 50MHz with 1 good 10x probe. It's not pretty but it works perfectly. $100 obo. send email to ctilbury (at) austin (dot) rr (dot) com

23 years, 1 month

list changes & RFC on archives & rack chassis

by ajp166＠bellatlantic.net

From: Ethan Dicks <erd_6502(a)yahoo.com> >I know that some people (very few) have technological impediments that >force them into HTML (Outlook, etc., I think). This is bunk! Outlook can and does post without html, it's easy to turn off. Please, NO HTML and No IMAGES. The latter was part of a few spams we got! Allison

23 years, 1 month

list changes & RFC on archives & rack chassis

by DAW＠yalepress3.unipress.yale.edu

> From: Dave McGuire > > On March 20, Ethan Dicks wrote: > > In theory, I support this, but if it's possible to filter them down > > to their textual content on the way through, that might be good, also. > > I know that some people (very few) have technological impediments that > > force them into HTML (Outlook, etc., I think). > > Nope. Even LookOut Express can be told not to HTMLize messages. Some > people use webmail services which spew huge amounts of HTML...but > quite frankly, there are plenty of such services that don't...and > anyone who chooses one that does should probably be suspended by their > toenails and pummeled into unconsciousness with an organically-grown > cucumber. > > In short...there is *no* excuse for sending HTML email other than > inexperience or stupidity. > > -Dave > > -- > Dave - what/where are the web mail services that don't send html mail? Or even a service I can telnet/ssh into for e-mail... I'm going to be switching to a new ISP for home (Comcast cable), so this is a good time to really start some SPAM prevention measures... --- David A Woyciesjes --- C & IS Support Specialist --- Yale University Press --- mailto:david.woyciesjes@yale.edu --- (203) 432-0953 --- ICQ # - 905818 Mac OS X 10.1.2 - Darwin Kernel Version 5.2: Fri Dec 7 21:39:35 PST 2001 Running since 01/22/2002 without a crash

23 years, 1 month

Ultrix' /etc/crontab as a time-bomb [short joke].

by gunther＠aurora.regenstrief.org

Hihi, our little training in risk-assessment tonight is the following sippet of a crontab entry, scheduled to run dayly around midnight: (cd /usr/preserve ; find . -mtime +7 -a -exec rm -f {} \;) why is this a bad idea and what happened to me last night as I was playing with my VAX6460? Answer: the /usr/preserve was a symlink to /usr/var/preserve which didn't exist. What happened next? All files that were not accessed for more than 7 days were being deleted (and I basically installed this system 3 days ago but had fast forwarded my system time from 1976 to 2002 the day before. :-) -- Gunther Schadow, M.D., Ph.D. gschadow(a)regenstrief.org Medical Information Scientist Regenstrief Institute for Health Care Adjunct Assistant Professor Indiana University School of Medicine tel:1(317)630-7960 http://aurora.regenstrief.org

23 years, 1 month

Vintage hardware trivia quiz [funny]

by gunther＠aurora.regenstrief.org

Found this at http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/30/22794.html History Are you an old bastard? 7. >Clunka Clunka Clunka< is the sound you would most associate with: A. The Clothes Dryer B. A washing machine with an imbalanced load C. A flat tyre on your car D. A tape safe door shutting repeatedly on an annoying user's foot E. An imbalanced DEC RM05 Disk assembly moving around the computer room by itself during a head crash 8. You drop a screwdriver down a ventilation hole in the powersupply at the back of a VAX 11/780. You expect: A. A very careful removal process B. A powersupply failure C. A nasty >crack< noise D. Power outage to the computer room? E. Looting of the shops in the two adjacent streets after the local transformer trips out 9. The nine-track tape you're using is having problems reading some very important survey data for some critical research - only getting half-way through the tape before failing. You would: A. Clean the read heads, which probably are dirty B. Have the tape sent to a commercial data recovery centre C. A, then reduce the temperature of the computer room, and try to complete the read D. Report the failure to the user E. Just cut and repeatedly paste data from the beginning of the data file until the file's up to size 10. The greatest danger to the RA60 removable hard disk media was: A. Not being locked into the drive spindle tightly B. Not being able to be removed from the drive spindle after use C. Disk damage if the cover lock unlatched itself during use D. Dirty read heads E. A preventative maintenance by the Engineer 11. The correct combination of carefully timed disk seeks on the drives in an RA80 disk drive rack could cause: A. A 'Tune' to play B. A Small vibration C. A Large vibration D. A very large vibration E. The disk rack to run in 'horizontal' mode 12. A user has been looking through the sad remnants of their life and found a large box of several thousand punchcards of their undergraduate work, which they would like you to do something with. A good Administrator would: A. Call a Computer Museum and get them read B. Write a quick program to interface to a scanner and read them C. Give the user the Punch card hole code info so they could type them in D. Throw them in the bin and tell the user that they've been demagnetised E. Throw them at the user from a fourth-floor window Sorry, no answers, it says: -Key There is no key. There is never a key! You don't need one. Not if you're the real McCoy! Not if you can clockchip your car computer to get an extra two miles an hour out of the old Rustang before it drops it's driveshaft after the excess vibration. Not if you remember the heady days of a card punch machine that was so loud it had the pensioners down the road digging trenches and sorting out their meat rations. But we can take votes. -Gunther -- Gunther Schadow, M.D., Ph.D. gschadow(a)regenstrief.org Medical Information Scientist Regenstrief Institute for Health Care Adjunct Assistant Professor Indiana University School of Medicine tel:1(317)630-7960 http://aurora.regenstrief.org

23 years, 1 month

Cut me some slack (was Re: Spectrum makes a comeback)

by acme_ent＠bellsouth.net

I find it outrageous that Amstrad is trying to cash in on the Spectrum name, after they dumped the product line years ago. Did anyone check the fine print where it says that each game "expires" after a period of time, and in order to keep playing you must pay again? Piss on that! Here's a cheaper solution (and a better selection): go to World of Spectrum at http://www.void.jump.org/ and download an emulator. They're available for a lot of platforms including Unix, Amiga, and Win CE. (Warajevo is my personal favorite for Win9x). You now have *free* access to over 10,000 programs, which you can also download from WOS. If you happen to have a *real* Speccy (or a TS2068 with emulator cart) and a Win9x peecee, you can then download Taper, which you can use to transfer the programs to a cassette, or directly into the input of your Spec/2068. Anyone up for a run at Enduro Racer, Rainbow Islands, or Chuckie Egg? ;>) Glen 0/0 From: Sellam Ismail <foo(a)siconic.com> > On Fri, 8 Feb 2002, Gareth Knight wrote: > > > The Sinclair Spectrum is being relaunched by Amstrad as part of their email > > phone. > > http://www.amstrad.com/ams121101/emp_games.html > > That's too cool. I must have one. > > Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival

23 years, 1 month

386/BSD should be on TUHS.

by gunther＠aurora.regenstrief.org

Hi, I want to bring my first private UNIX machine, the i486/33 back into its original state running 386/BSD 0.0new or 0.1. Shouldn't these releases and the patch-kit be put up on TUHS? I'm not sure I still have backups, and a fresh install would be nice. regards -Gunther -- Gunther Schadow, M.D., Ph.D. gschadow(a)regenstrief.org Medical Information Scientist Regenstrief Institute for Health Care Adjunct Assistant Professor Indiana University School of Medicine tel:1(317)630-7960 http://aurora.regenstrief.org

23 years, 1 month

DSQD Drives (Was: RE: Diags/Boot image for Altos 580)

by acme_ent＠bellsouth.net

> From: Joe <rigdonj(a)cfl.rr.com> > For me it's easier to get the > CORRECT drive and media than it is to cobble something up that may or may > not work or be reliable! FINALLY -- the voice of reason regarding the "will this media work in that drive" questions. Match the drive and the media and avoid a hassle and a lot of lost data. Thanks Joe! Glen 0/0

23 years, 1 month

Attn: stan perkins

by rigdonj＠cfl.rr.com

Stan, I can't find your address but I thought this might interest you. Joe HP PASCAL 9000 LANGUAGE 500 REFERENCE MANUAL Item # 2011192981

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