Posts by Alan Esworthy 362 publicly visible posts • joined 24 Apr 2007
Can any of you claim truthfully to have even seen Windows Version 1? No? Close your eyes and imagine...text-based windowing. That's right, it ran in text mode, not graphics. It, um, didn't go over very well as it was not only ugly, but slower than a three-legged sow.
WfW 3.11 has been useful for networks of very dumb DOS machines running a dedicated app. You had to add the Windows for Workgroups Add-On for MS-DOS to the app boxes.
And CPM? Anyone remember CPM?
Anyone in any organization that handles data pertaining to clients or customers, especially financial and medical establishments, who transfers unencrypted data is an ignoramus or a fool. And that goes as well for at least one level up in chain of command.
Oh, yes, regarding "...bank has promised to transfer data electronically, where possible, rather than depending on the transport of physical media..." can you say "Hannaford" boys and girls?
Skull and crossed bones because Pirates is Everywharrrrr. Arrrr.
This photo is not what it appears to be. Look closely and you will see that what seems to be a candelabrum is instead a viewing stand for three aliens who are warping space and our minds. They look like the artist's models for the brooding Easter Island buried statues. See how they nullify local gravity by raising the feet of the bed clear of the floor. See how they bend light waves, making the "wand" in the Dominatrix's hand appear to be straight while the mirror image clearly shows it to be an upwardly curving shaft with a knob on the end. See how they cloud our minds by making a double bed appear innocently normal even though it has a completely counter-purposeful crevice down the middle. No! You dirty person - not *that* kind of crevice!
Why is the dog not barking? Eh? Eh?
I have found the best keyboard cleaning solvent to be ETOH (ethyl alcohol) at 40% concentration by volume with water, produced from fermented wheat, distilled in a copper kettle, and filtered through charcoal. Hold the keyboard upside down and spray the ETOH sparingly up into the keys. When the drips become clear, you are done. Note that ETOH is highly hygroscopic and will absorb water from the air and become diluted and useless after its original packaging seal is broken. Also, the fumes can be troublesome if the remainder is not kept well chilled. A convenient way to dispose of the unused portion is by ingesting it in refrigerated 40 ml glass beakers. HTH!
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