My Vintage Dream PC

[Archimedes' Lever]

And where, on which media, are these previous day's backups being
kept? Are you suggesting that each be kept on its' own separate 1.5TB
HDD?

The method we were discussing before you decided to interlope without
even reading the thread, was a multi-drive method, idiot. Had you read
the discussion a bit, you would not be in the idiot barrel.

 

[Archimedes' Lever]

Oh my.

You're a goddamned retard.

I didn't mean to get your dander up so high and so fast,
little boy.

You're an immature little pussy as well, boy.

I am aware of the dangers of uncontrolled, elevated blood
pressure,

I doubt it. The only thing you seem to be aware of is the bullshit you
make up here. It is also your downfall.

especially on members of the black race, so I would never
purposely wish to cause you to react as you have done here.

What is 'the black race', you retarded piece of sub-human shit?
Just so you know, I am not anything a retard like you thinks. You
couldn't be more incorrect, boy.

Just look
at all of the vulgar terms and phrases you uttered in such a short
reply.

You are what is vulgar here. That will never change. Your behavior is
far more vulgar than any insult I ever fired at anyone. You claiming to
be a member of the human race is quite vulgar, in fact.

And you go to all this trouble just to avoid answering
anything about your prior claim of celibacy and your refusal to
attempt solving the number puzzle.

"All this trouble"? You're an idiot. I deride you because I am telling
the world about the retard that is Richard Cranium. Nothing more. I
ignore you because you do not deserve a response. All you qualify for is
an announcement of your attributes. Thatis also what pisses you off the
most. You epitomize how hilariously stupid someone can be by choice. You
are RichTard.

You are so transparent Archie. I
almost feel bad pointing out this obvious ploy of yours.

Calling you the piece of shit you are came way before your little
"challenge" ploy. The ploy is yours, dumbfuck. It changes nothing about
the level of immaturity you sport.

I want to go
take an Archie, but I'll be back soon to reply to what I am sure will
be more of your hysterical rantings.

I hope you have a myocardial infarction.

Until then, please remember:

I snip retarded cracks from stalking, criminal retards like you,
Richtard. You see, that is the very essence of you immaturity, and hence
your retardation by choice. That is why you will never mature beyond the
age of ten mentally speaking, in our civil society. You are scum.

My fingernail scrapings have more character than an immature little
bastard like you does.

snipped immature, retarded baby bullshit posted by the immature
retarded Usenet twit named Richard Cranium.

 

[Patrick Scheible]

Should be that much, NTP should be one of the earliest starting
components. Part of the IPL/Boot process really. Long before
starting multi-user interactive operation.

So you think that it should be impossible to boot a computer at all if
the network connection is not working? This does not seem like a good
idea to me.

-- Patrick

 

[Richard Cranium]

On Sun, 07 Jun 2009 18:06:18 -0700, Archimedes' Lever


<<<<<Snip>>>>>


There you go again Archie - screaming vulgarities in the hope that you
may be able to divert the readers' attention from the fact that you
still haven't explained your statement of celibacy and your fear of
the puzzle challenge. Both of these facts will follow you on Usenet
because you are a dishonest, boorish little squirt who has no social
skills whatsoever. Your fascination with the word 'retard' and its
derivatives is testimony to your severely limited intellectual scope.
It probably dates back to your daddy abusing you as a youngster and
how those events launched you on your homosexual trip through life in
the closet. It is unfortunate that the black race has so much disdain
for the faggots amongst them, but it is what it is. And you are
testimony to the strange result of the sperm that fertilized the egg
that became you actually beating out thousands of others. Sort of the
winner actually being the loser.

Your feeble try at avoiding my questions by stating that you choose to
ignore my non-derogatory, totally civil posts because some of my prior
messages were more aggressive and hurt your feelings, well, that's
just stupid. Would you want everyone you try to talk to on Usenet to
cite your earlier posts that were nasty? C'mon Archie. You've been
calling people retards since you started that crap here in 2007. It's
a really lame excuse, so get over it.

Now I could end this message by calling you a fucking moron, but I do
not want to be responsible for sending your blood pressure up again.
I will, therefore, request nicely that you please explain your claim
of celibacy and accept my challenge to attempt to solve the number
puzzle. Thank you.









You're ugly, your dick is small, and everybody fucked your mother.

 

[Joe Pfeiffer]

So you think that it should be impossible to boot a computer at all if
the network connection is not working? This does not seem like a good
idea to me.

Depends on your environment -- if all the user files are on an NFS
server, it really doesn't matter if a machine can boot without the
network, it's useless anyway.

 

[Joe Pfeiffer]

Maybe, after it's booted, you can troubleshoot the network
connections.

Special cases will result in special procedures.

 

[Archimedes' Lever]

<<<<<Snip>>>>>

Plonk

 

[UltimatePatriot]

On Jun 7, 10:47 pm, [email protected] (Richard Cranium) wrote:

Hello Richard Cranium:

Why don't you two get together? I am sure two retards could both stalk
me better than one retard could.

You're wasting your time with this asshole.

Stop talking about your assholes. This group is about electronics.

He's not going to tell
you about his celibate claim

Show me where I made such a claim.

because he's a closet faggot who's
ashamed that he lusts after a man's hairy ass crack.

Since you know nothing of me, your claims detail more about you than I.

He's one of
those boys who uses a boy blow-up doll as his personal seat cushion.

What is a "blow up doll"?

I agree that his daddy must have ass-fucked him into oblivion and in
doing so, whet his appetite for fudgepacking.

Again you declare your own life experiences as being that of others.
You should seek help for this personal problem you obviously have.

Whatever name Archie
tries to hide behind,

They are not names, dumbfuck. They are called nyms, and they are the
norm in Usenet, a place where retarded fucks like you and Cranium
malinger.

his true nature always seems to come shining
through as a closet faggot boy-whore.

No. Your stupidity shines through, as does the other retard's.
That is what has a burr under your saddle, boy. You two are the only
one's spewing forth about gays. Me thinks thou doth protesteth too much.
Bwuahahahahah!

Can't you just picture his acne-
laced upper body, oversized mid-section and morbidly obese lower
body? Picture him jerking his gherkin to muscle magazines - and doing
it without being able to see his dick. What a loser! What a fucking
loser! Hey Archie - Eat shit and choke on the bones!

Nice fantasy you have there, Choward. That is where your true
retardedness comes in, boy.

You see, you do not know a goddamned thing about me. Nor do you or
this group see me making posts about gays, as you seem to always do. That
makes all your spew above more indicative of you than me. That makes you
more likely to be gay than I.

Your mother should be jailed for the felony crime of not flushing you
the moment the retarded bitch shat you.

 

[jmfbahciv]

Don't let AlwaysWrong rattle you.

I'm not. I've even stopped trying to think of a way to use
his inane posts as a teaching opportunity. (A game I play
to amuse myself.)

Better still just ignore the
wrongness.

I was using his post to try to turn the snot into something
useful. I also wanted to see if it was still possible to
the exercise on today's gear. Apparently, none of those
kiddies had enough curiosity to try it.

/BAH

 

[jmfbahciv]

John Larkin wrote:


I was interested in discussing (this is a discussion group) what
future OSs might look like, and how multicore chips (which are
absolutely on the silicon peoples' roadmaps) would affect OS and
systems design.

Not many people seem to want to think about that.
<snip>

What you are asking is the equivalent to asking what a wheel will look
like in 20 years. No matter what kind of pretty crepe paper you thread
through the spokes, a wheel's specification will remain the same...
because its function is a _wheel_!

/BAH
Now that was an insightful commentary on OS design.

That is what a monitor is. Period.

/BAH
How big was the TOPS-10 monitor?

I'll take that answer in words, since bytes hadn't been invented back
then.

Don't know. It depended on what the customer needed.

/BAH

Is the size of the monitor the size on disk,
never.

the minimum resident
portion, the average resident portion or the maximum resident portion,
the time averaged resident portion or what?[/QUOTE]

It's the size of the code plus the data.

The size on disk could be arbitrarily smaller than the resident portion
due to tables and so forth.

The size of disk depended on how the monitor was built. If you had
RAn0 disks, 3 extra modules of code had to be included. If you had
3 different kinds of controllers, the code would be included. If you
had two kinds of network protocols, those would have to be included.
Go read a MONGEN and you'll see all the different choices any
customer had to make. There were also software pieces that could
be included or excluded. LOGMAX (the number of jobs that could
be logged in at the same time) was also a factor. DECNET had
huge amounts of code that had to be included. ANF-10 had less.
Any peripherals such as line printer, plotter, card reader/punch,
and DECtapes would require more code.

/BAH

 

[jmfbahciv]

No offense (well, not much) it's surprising that you seem to have no
idea how big the monitor might be.

Go read a MONGEN doc. Each question determined how much code and/or
data was to be included in the monitor.

Core was a precious resource in
those days. [1]

John

[1] I remember when IBM made a big deal over getting the price of core
down to $50,000 per megabyte. PDP-11 core cost about a dollar per
word.

Your question doesn't have an answer. The size depended on what
you had on the system and what kinds of software support you wanted.

/BAH

 

[FunkyPunk FieldEffectTrollsistor]

I was using his post to try to turn the snot into something
useful. I also wanted to see if it was still possible to
the exercise on today's gear. Apparently, none of those
kiddies had enough curiosity to try it.

I've got nine inches of "kiddie" to go up in your ass with, ditz.

 

[Rostyslaw J. Lewyckyj]

................ some snipping to reduce volume ................

Yes. It's more important that we have spares in boxes down the hall,
and that they are all identical, and that the drives pop right in on
the front panel.

It's also good that the boxes themselves are brutally reliable.



Hot-plug RAID may be overkill for home users. But USB hard drives, for
backup, are dirt cheap nowadays.

I just *hate* to retype files.

Well the HDD blew a chip on its controller card. (and I can't find an
identical series drive to replace the controller card.).
The JAZZ drives and cartridges were supposed to be my archive backups.
AND the file contents aren't text files. So, I couldn't even retype
them!

 

[Charles Richmond]

[snip...] [snip...] [snip...]

At a PPOE, I had spent half a day making changes to a FORTRAN program
on a Harris 800 system. Then I accidentally deleted the source
file. (When you delete using a wildcard in the filename, you can
sometimes hurt yourself.) I could get the back-up from the previous
day, but then I would lose half-a-day's work.

How do you should yourself in foot in a Unix shell?
% rm * .o
rm: cannot remove `.o': No such file or directory

I'm *not* sure what you mean here. The Harris 800 system was running the
Vulcan operating system; quite different from a Unix shell.

Now-a-says, I will do a "directory" command using the wild card to see
what files come up. Only then will I use the wild card filename to
delete files.

 

[Joe Pfeiffer]

[snip...] [snip...] [snip...]

At a PPOE, I had spent half a day making changes to a FORTRAN program
on a Harris 800 system. Then I accidentally deleted the source
file. (When you delete using a wildcard in the filename, you can
sometimes hurt yourself.) I could get the back-up from the previous
day, but then I would lose half-a-day's work.

How do you should yourself in foot in a Unix shell?
% rm * .o
rm: cannot remove `.o': No such file or directory

I'm *not* sure what you mean here. The Harris 800 system was running
the Vulcan operating system; quite different from a Unix shell.

If it had been 'rm *.o', it would have been "remove every file in the
directory ending in .o" -- in other words, all the object files. But
since it was 'rm * .o' (with a space between the * and the .o), it says
"remove every file in the directory, and the file named .o". The second
line is the system responding that there is no file named .o, which is
how you know you just shot yourself in the foot.

Now-a-says, I will do a "directory" command using the wild card to see
what files come up. Only then will I use the wild card filename to
delete files.

Subject to the same typo, unfortunately.

 

[Archimedes' Lever]

............... some snipping to reduce volume ................

Well the HDD blew a chip on its controller card. (and I can't find an
identical series drive to replace the controller card.).
The JAZZ drives and cartridges were supposed to be my archive backups.
AND the file contents aren't text files. So, I couldn't even retype
them!

The data is there. It just costs a lot more to recover it when this
occurs.

 

[Kim Enkovaara]

I assume the VCS manages its own versions and builds. Or do you use
another VCS to manage the configuration of this one?

In commercial VCSs there are releases, patches to them etc. No need
to handle that manually, I hope that the VCS is self hosted at its
manufacturer

--Kim

 

[Atsunori Tamagawa]

And IIRC that was a very good price at the time. Late enough to be
(not so?) new "square tube" type.

Hopefully, that was a trinitron tube, the one gave you good picture!
I really hated those color tubes because they charged so much
voltage inside compared to black-and-white tubes. And if you were
not careful enough, the jolt literally went through your finger,
leaving phisical traces.

Atsunori

 

[Atsunori Tamagawa]

I've used Trinitron© based monitors for over 35 years.

You know what, I have establised my personal rule about
what home appliances to buy/keep.
If I can no longer carry/move around such things safely
by myself, I don't deserve to own them.
I used to be able to carry 19" monitors that came with
several VAX Stations from room to room, but not any more.
So now I'm a happy LCD user.

Atsunori

 

[jmfbahciv]

After ragging me about my ignorance of "real" timesharing systems,
your evasions are amusing.

John

**** off. I answered your question the best I knew how.

/BAH