Posts by Mike Hebel 20 publicly visible posts • joined 6 Feb 2007
I have, though I have to do some circuit diagnosis for it since the last move, a Decwriter III.
Almost indestructible. And I even have fresh ribbons for it. (Though they could likely use a spray of WD40 by now even after being sealed in the plastic.)
I'm planning on repairing it this fall and use up some greenbar doing ascii graphics. :-)
I just got let go literally yesterday - "Your position has been eliminated."
The only saving grace of all this is that cashing my 401k should get rid of all of our personal debt and allow us to have just the house as a monetary responsibility. So I don't have to find a high paying job just ANY job.
Usually though the biggest thing those figures don't cover is people who no longer are looking for work. Once you cease to be on unemployment you fall off of a lot of lists.
It's almost like being an unperson in some ways.
...but it appears to be a nifty little box. I wonder if you could put Ubuntu or something on it.
(On the heels of the Snow Leopard article I also have to wonder if it's got hardware that would support an EFI dongle and OSX.)
This looks like the perfect wall-mounted media center PC. Nice and thin, touch screen, and with added ram would have more than enough oomph to display at least standard definition video out the VGA port.
So ya
Thought ya
Might like to
Go to the site.
To feel that warm thrill of animation,
That flash filled delight.
I've got some bad news for you sunshine,
This site isn't well, it's a virus laden hell
And I refuse to allow you a pass to animeland
We need to find out where these sites really stand!
Are there any Brits in the browser bar tonight?
Block them in the firewall!
There's one about Spotlight, it doesn't look right to me,
Block it in the firewall!
That one's Druidish!
And that one slams Zune!
Who let all of this riff-raff into the room?
There's one hacking PowerPoint,
And another XBox!
If I had my way,
I'd have all of you blocked!
*grabs coat before he's thrown out*
While it may be available to you wonderful people in Europe us people stuck in the Republic of Amerika are still unable to legally unlock our phones after the two and a half year contract is up. At least to my knowledge that is. And that isn't just for the iPhone it's for _most_ phones.
So when will this "freedom" be coming to the US? A good portion of us iPhone users would dearly love to get away from the money-sucking tractor beams of the Death Star.
Don't knock what you have...
It's just Vista re-hashed so I see no reason to load it on any system. (Both my wife and my daughter use XP at home. I don't use Windows at all.)
Microsoft will try EOLing XP again and their customers will force them to extend the deadline again. I can only hope that all this spurs the business I/T guys to look at other platforms for desktops and servers.
I'm going to keep recommending XP as long as people are physically able to buy a copy.
I can't believe this Powerbook was not included in the lineup. I used one for years without fail and even rebuilt the batteries myself. I still have the thing and fully intend to keep using it for my workshop system for the foreseeable future.
A wonderful system and I still prefer the keyboard on it to the chicklet keyboard of my Macbook.
Thing is - when an electric car is sitting still it is using no energy. Well not unless the radio or lights are turned on. Lights, wipers, and radio would likely be the biggest draw on a stationary electric car.
And if they ever figure out how to do proper LED based headlights you'll only have two current draws left to deal with when stopped in traffic.
I have always used PayPal since close to it's founding date and the one thing that people forget about PayPal is that it is NOT a bank. It never has been and I don't give a tw@t hair about where it's being incorporated as a bank.
It's. Still. Not. A. Bank.
What it DOES do passably well is work as a money transfer service. I think of them as the exchange broker that takes a cut any way they can but still gets the money to the other person. Of course recently their track record of doing just that is rather poor.
My PayPal account almost always has a zero balance in it. As soon as money comes in I take it out using the debit card and put it in my proper bank account. On the reverse I have it set to pull money from a separate checking account not my main one. This prevents freezing my main checking and prevents lost money in the PayPal account because there's nothing in there.
Paris because she knows all about proper servicing.
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