Re: Will it run Wordperfect 8?
Tried the old WP-linux links as mentioned a coupla yeras ago.
Perhaps, due to your encouragement, I'll try them again - this time on Ubuntu 1710..
Thanx.
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As well, Canada's Minister of Defense is a Sikh, and a Sikh is now the leader of Canad'a New Democratic Party.
But sadly also, Sikhs were responsible for the worst piece of Aircraft terrorism in history. No one ever seems to remember that, as unlike the Lockerbie "incident", most of the passengers were Canadian and somewhat darker-skinned.
BTW, It is not well known that the "golden disk" aboard Voyager actually started out in 1980 as a cylinder! (as did most record disks in the early 1900s)
But the Fitzgerald Contraction is now starting to have its way. -
There once was a fencer named Fisk,
Whose speed was incredibly brisk.
So fast was his action,
The Fitzgerald contraction,
Foreshortended his foil to a disk.
Well perhaps back in 1980 it was a cylinder and not a golden disk originally.
As Voyager approaches the speed of light, something called the Fitzgerald contraction becomes effective.
There once was a fencer named Fisk,
Whose speed was incredibly brisk.
So fast was his action,
The Fitzgerald contraction,
Foreshortended his foil to a disk.
And I have a trustworthy Huawei phone! They would never do this!
Why, just read the following reassuring article from a few years ago!
CBC now alerts you to the following GRAVE CANADIAN CONCERNS!
But I AM wondering where I can quickly sell my small supply of Plutonium and my bump-stocked AK-47...
(Sorry, I suppose this reply shd have pointed to the OP)
I have to inform you that Ol' Bill has been out of Microsoft for several years, and (probably) only shows up for board meetings. He and Warren Buffett are too busy trying to eradicate Malaria than to be much concerned with MS.
Good news! Even Steve Ballmer is not around much any more. And the office furniture is now in much better shape.
Your news of the world seems dated. I bet you're even using XP, right? Or did you finally upgrade to Windows-7?
I would say that Bill, and Warren are well on their way to a Nobel Prize. Heck, if Bobby (only women bleed) Dylin' can win one, almost anyone can.
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And stop being so defeatist!
If the windmills are inefficient, well, just turn them around - facing backward! (or is it forward?)
Periodically, the plane could do a steep dive, and thus use air-breaking to recharge its batteries. The same way electric cars do going down hills.
Sooner or later we'll solve this perpetual energy problem! Only a matter of time.
I say power these things with simple AA batteries- thousands of them.
As each set of batteries go dead, you jettison (no pun intended) them, and the plane thus becomes lighter and more efficient!
Insecure passengers could bring thir own pile of batteries in their carry-on and receive a badly needed discount on this ripoff-charge.
If you wanna use rechargeable ones, pay people on the ground- kids or homeless people - a nickel for each AA turned in. They can combine it with their empty beer-can pickup.
And it will get these unhealthy city people out in the countryside! It's WIN-WIN!
Or are you all using Edge on your trusty Win-7 system? Or perhaps XP?
I know! You've ported Edge to Linux, right?
Just 2 or 3 years ago, I remarked in various threads here that Win-10 was a great OS, and would only get better, WOW! I got a whole shitload (Hundreds?) of down-votes from all the users that said they would ABSOLUTELY NEVER use it!
"You'll have to PRY XP out of my cold dead hands!"
"Win-10 SUX! In two years time, we will have all upgraded to LINUX!"
Am I in some sort of alternate universe here?
- OK, before you leave this message, don't forget to click the Downvote button at the bottom.
You're right on that one.
So many times I would recommend a non-IBM piece of software or hardware, whereupon IBM-blue suits would walk in, not even look at me, and take the head of a dept or a VP out to lunch, or (better) on a junket to Las Vegas.
And strangely a few days/weeks later, we went with the inferior IBM product.
If you were thinking of the IBM 3330, they held about 100 MB each and weighed about 10 lb .
As I recall, unlike those fancy new SUVs where one kicks under the tailgate to open it, you had to actually MANUALLY open the disk drive cover when replacing the diskdrive.
So about 4000 of these big cakeboxes could probably replace one of these micro-SD.
Understandably, direct-access would be somewhat slow, depending on how motivated the computer operator was. From my experience, the female access mechanism was generally faster, unless her nail polish was drying.
On the other hand, the older 2311 and 2314 held 7MB and ~30 MB respectively, Sadly, they were permanently nailed into their ersatz washing machine. So unlike the 3330, there was no "low-speed" direct addressing, except on the same drive.
Do ya think cancelling the daily stormper contract will cut into Bob's love of shooting elephants and big boob websites promoting them 427" American macho circular car racing?
Gee.. probably not.
Well.. even if so, fellow billionaire Robert Mugabe will pick up the slack. Hey- what's another $45 / year?
You are possibly thinking of Adm. Grace Hopper, who with her staff of calculating ladies, programmed the ENIAC back in the '40s..
Pleased with this, she then went on to develop COBOL, and thus lost all credibility, the poor thing. So all they could do was make her an admiral. But sadly COBOL was out of the bag and managed to survive.
After all, the world is oh so much simpler to comprehend when there's a scary bogeyman on which to rally against and apportion blame.
Thank goodness we KNOW that this isn't the case with Hillary! She is indeed a servant of the anti-christ, and, with her husband, is amassing a great fortune through the the crooked Clinton Foundation that soon will be turned over to Satan; perhaps with a goodly portion going to Vladimir Putin.
Why is she still running free? LOCK HER UP, Donald! Before it's too late!
Yes, I have one of those old big beige boxes that has seen a multitude of mainboards, processors (usually AMD) and more than one PS that has burned out.
No one would ever steal it- they'd sniff "Ha! This old geezer is still running Win 3.1!" as they went for my 48"TV set. Mind you, the big LED screens might be a giveaway...
But hey! I'm still current! Running Ubuntu 17.04 and Win-10 (fast) Build 16199, which both work great!
So... what's all this nonsense about telephones turning to jelly and frying?
You mean I can run Windows-10 on my rotary-dial phone now? Wow! This IoT thing has really got outa hand!
Sorry, but 300 dollars is 300 dollars. Australian, Canadian or USA.
I have currently half a bitcoin. I think it's now worth about $400. I haven't checked lately
You probably mean 300 BITCOINS, = Ƀ300, not $300. There is no ASCII character for the bitcoin symbol yet. Nor likely will be!
Ƀ is a proposed symbol (see http://www.bitcoinsymbol.org/ )
But that's OK.. you're an amateur, right?
Following is from a disgruntled friend about to retire: And thenhe's gonna provide Bitcoin services/knowledge to people who have never heard of bitcoin, but suddenly need it for some strange reason.. ;-)
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Executives, and in this case Doctors (remember XXXXXs), are the reason IT backs down and drops their pants and leaves the door ajar for hackers. I see it all the time here at work. Screaming executives demand their f’n new toy or phone gets 100% access on our network NOW before their big meeting (or just before you get fired), or even board members cry to IT directors, who then order guys like me to “open er up”. We have no real power in IT.
The Russians KGB types now type all documents on typewriters, and lock them up in real vaults. In security circles in the USSR, nothing is on a computer.
So when Putin screams in your face, you open the vault, not the network firewall or switch ACLs. Then you’re poisoned or shot.
I'm retired. And have a lot of spare time.
Where can I find this "Modern" Fortran compiler and DL for free?
Heck, in the old days I used to translate Fortran's object code (IBM 360) into BAL to make it go faster.
Ahhh... the good ol' disassembly days! Apparently you go to jail for than now.
Well, I'm neither bearded, young or a hipster (though I did play bongos briefly about 55 years ago, whilst smoking strange tobaccos)
And I run Win-10 In.Preview 16170 (the Redstone-3) on this desktop as well as the "standard" Win-10 on a laptop.
As well as Android x86-64 on this machine - but only to run a couple of apps that are sadly available only on Android and iCrap.
However, posting this from Ubuntu Mate 16.10 just to kick its tyres. Ugh.
Think I'll switch this partition back to Gnome! Mate is for old ladies. Indeed I WOULD recommend it to some "older" person who was wondering what to replace their XP with. Highly recommended to you folks here!
But- I spend most of my time on this machine in Win-10. I DO NOT see what all the fuss is about with all you old fuddy-duddies. OK, The Win-10 UI is SLIGHTLY different from XP or Win-7. So? Learn to navigate.
You geezers obviously have difficulties with anything "new". Still running Netscape 4.7?
Confession: As an elderly (semi-indigent) retiree, I have lots of time to fool around with OSs.
Wake me up when Linux replaces Windows on everyones' desktops/laptops. But be advised -I may not wake up- I don't have many years left.
And let me know when the dislike on this post hits 100. It's been so long!