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I wonder if welsh sheep are any better than American sheep? maybe Griff knows.......
........but do you need to step away from the keyboard again?
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DaveAuld wrote: ........but do you need to step away from the keyboard again?
No. I'm happily getting my Sunday night beer. Half way through my fortnight off work. Or at least away from the contract work and just doing my other customrs and alcohol.
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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Well enjoy your beer! I am almost half way through my slightly longer 30 day offshore stint, then I can enjoy some myself........ 
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Michael Martin wrote: I used to use that inferior American Legos and Sheeps, but the helmets provided absolutely no protection.
I see the problem. Ewe should have used rams. 
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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sounds like one of those chines mobs that's picked up a euro name to sound like "quality."
Their t-shirts would probably be OK (cheap / throwaway) but I'm not sure I'd buy something from them to protect my head from high speed impact.
DaveAuld wrote: but background research is coming up light
Little info, any reviews (and don't think they aren't above paying a mob to write user reviews on websites, I mean proper reviews by reputable magazines even though those can be bought too - i.e. cnet.)
Don't do it.
You can always earn more money,
but you only ever get 1 brain.
- please just pay more for the known brand.
Another way of putting it: Hindsight really sucks when choosing life saving gear.
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Yep that was my view...
Hence bought a known brand instead. Gave up trying to find anything about them.
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should add: be careful on them quads, they love to roll (in any direction) on steep hills
but OTOH a hell of a lot of fun ...that is when not rolling over.
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Dean Roddey wrote: It's some of the most insane musicianship and composition
It certainly has the merit.
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100. Satisfy... (5)
101. ...initial gesture - (4)
102. (that woman has energy)! (4)
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100: solve
101: wave
102: watt joule
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No.
But I think I love you
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Tim Deveaux wrote: I think I love you
Tim,
What you are experiencing isn't love... it's called addiction. You should have asked the man at the airport for the blue car.
Best Wishes,
-David Delaune
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Google ‘thanos’ and press the hand.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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it's all gone! 
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Even works on Dutch Google 
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Press it again after it completes the removal cycle!
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity -
RAH
I'm old. I know stuff - JSOP
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Check this out,
Dmitry Grinberg has Linux booting on an ATmega644a. He says it takes over 2 hours to boot. 
Best Wishes,
-David Delaune
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I have been working on a basic 16 bit IDE port for my old computer. It's not much more than a 24 bit parallel port in bit mode. It takes the 8 bit processor several output instructions to emulate the signals on the IDE port and then several input instructions for each 16 bit word of the 'sector' that is being read from a device. At that rate it would take about four days to read a DVD without doing anything with all that data.
A PIC microcontroller to handle the IDE protocols would speed things up dramatically, some more microcontrollers as DMA and interrupt controllers would almost reduce it to the minimum time to transfer the contents of the sector buffers to and from memory, if you neglect the overhead to handle the interrupts.
So yes, you can teach even the oldest dog new tricks, but there are always limits. Tinkering with that sort of things still is much more interesting than simply buying my next little toy or yawning over the JavaScript network of the hour.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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Back in the '90s, I had a friend who wanted to emulate an 80386 with a old PC-XT (8088 processor + 500 MB of disk space). He abandoned the effort when he realized how slow it would be...
This sort of emulator is more a tour de force than a practical project.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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I was in school before the IBM PC came out. Back then the school had a few big Control Data mainframes. They were 36-bit machines with a huge hard drive in a vat of oil. I wrote huge because of its physical size, not its capacity that was just a few megabytes. My friends told me that once they were messing around with the HD drivers and because of a bug they introduced, the drive started seeking back and forth so hard the oil started boiling. They shut it down before it was damaged and fixed the bug.
A few years after I was out of school, the AT was finally released. Those friends decided to write an emulator for the old CD mainframe. Their emulator was written in C and ran on a 8MHz 80826 in MS-DOS. They found some old programs they had written for the CD and were able run them on their emulator. The amusing thing was their emulator on the AT ran faster than the same programs did on the CD natively.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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Rick York wrote: My friends told me that once they were messing around with the HD drivers and because of a bug they introduced, the drive started seeking back and forth so hard the oil started boiling. They shut it down before it was damaged and fixed the bug.
There is an old story (I first read it in a "History of Computing Conference" proceedings) about that program who put the computer on fire, in another (but not too different) way:
This program and its data was a little too big to fit in the machine. But the machine had a tape drive, which could address the tape block by block. So the programmers decided to swap out some of the data to tape, and bring it in when needed - sort of similar to a paging system, but realized in software.
When the program was run, it ended up with fetching the same block from the tape again and again, thousands of times. Even a highly polished magnetic head gives some friction, and friction causes heat. The more or less constant spinning back and forth of the same short piece of magnetic tape heated it so much that the tape caught fire, causing severe damage to the entire data room, destroying the tape station completely.
I have seen this incident referred to several places; at least one claimed that the tape was made from nitrocellulose, just like photographic film until the "safety film" arrived on the market in the 1950s. Nitrate film was still in use in professional environments in the late 50s. Maybe an old roll of nitate tape was laying around in this computer center several years later - the problem with nitrocellulose is that as it ages, it becomes gradually chemically unstable, and may actually explode. It makes the story of a devastating fire more probable.
I don't have any web reference to this story (yet it might be true...). If anyone has a link and more details, I'd be curious!
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Now imagine Windows 10.
We'd probably need a new time measurement unit.
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dandy72 wrote: Now imagine Windows 10.
We'd probably need a new time measurement unit.
Windows 8 through Windows 10 with Fast Startup enabled should boot faster than all of the major Linux Desktop distributions.
Anyone complaining that a Desktop Linux distro is booting faster than a fresh Windows 10 installation is probably dual booting with the grub boot loader which will cause Windows 10 to boot with the legacy startup mode.
I can think of some other third-party software that could cause delay within the boot process. If your Antivirus software has implemented an ELAM that scans during the boot process. I guess other third-party device drivers could also influence the startup speed.
Best Wishes,
-David Delaune
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