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In the UK we already have a museum of computing (its at Bletchley, home of the worlds first electronic computer
http://www.tnmoc.org/[^]
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however I doubt that tech books will ever be wanted (computer OEM manuals maybe)
You cant outrun the world, but there is no harm in getting a head start
Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.
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Agree.
In Bangalore too, there's a museum which houses one of Bangalore's earliest mainframes - DEC 10. I had worked on this very system about 28 years ago, and its now a museum piece.
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attic is already full of useless "stuff"
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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Yes, its always a dilemma - what to keep, what to dispose.
I (try to) follow this rule: Keep all concept-related books (physics, math, algorithms, numerical methods); throw away all technology-related ones (especially computer languages).
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A place I worked in the 80's had a DEC VAX in the warehouse gathering dust, they replaced it with a PC despite not having paid it off yet
You cant outrun the world, but there is no harm in getting a head start
Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.
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charlieg wrote: Trying to apply the three rules of clutter relationship management:
1) Are you using it?
2) If not, is it making money?
3) If not, do you love it?
No? Time to toss it.
Marc
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Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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My wife finally persuaded me to chuck some books about hardware that can be found only in museums (mostly 80x86 and graphics cards), but she will pry my genuine IBM PC/XT Technical Reference Manual (in the original three-ring binder!) out of my cold, dead, hands!
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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charlieg wrote: have trouble letting go of books?
Trouble? No. I just don't do it. Nearly every time I part with something, I immediately want it back.
And some of my "old books" are recent acquisitions.
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I won't go snowboarding now, it's not enough snow there (even in les alpes). This season it's just too late
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That's the benefit of skiing, you don't need as much snow.
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Well i do both, but i don't like the green landcape around the piste. It just feels unnatural and the snow mostly is very (dunno the english word for "sulzig") sludgy.
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Yeah, but I wouldn't ski that low. Stay highup and you get good empty pistes, nice weather, and cheap lift passes. Yeah in the station its a bit care and gets 'slushy' late in the day.
I remember when I was there in may that time, came out of a restaurant at 9 in the evening and it was still daylight! Weird, very weird. It was damn hot in the day too, so hot it was roasting. But the skiing was still fun!
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Munchies_Matt wrote: But the skiing was still fun!
Most important part about it
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Mind you I skied once in Lermoos in jan with as little snow as that back in the late 80s!
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I always find it so weird watching webcams - I mean, here's a live streaming picture from 6 time zones away, you can see people walking about and skiing, I have no idea who they are, they have no idea they're being watched, heck, I'd never even know the place existed. I wonder what these people lives are like, where they work, where they live, what their favorite foods are, but I'll never know. Just weird.
Marc
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Marc Clifton wrote: I have no idea who they are,
People...
Marc Clifton wrote: they have no idea they're being watched
They do if they watched it by themselves
Marc Clifton wrote: Just weird.
Indeed
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thats one way to look at it
Life's like a nose, you've got to get out of it whats in it!
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Marc, here's a webcam[^] for you where you don't have to feel weird watching it. Other side-effects possible though.
/Sascha
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Hang around till Saturday midday and then you can watch me and then ask me who I ma, where I live, what my favourite food is.
But yeah, I suppose web cams are kind of funny. It makes people look like ants. Just things, doing stuff, for no apparent reason.
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Munchies_Matt wrote: Hang around till Saturday midday and then you can watch me
Will that be the person falling down all the time?
Marc
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No that's Nagy on the gin
You cant outrun the world, but there is no harm in getting a head start
Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.
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Got stuck working on the FIL's (Father In Law's) 13 year old Dell this weekend. Still had the original install of Windows XP - I hadn't touched it in over 10 years. His complaint was that it was running slow...
slow
slō
adjective
1. moving or operating, or designed to do so, only at a low speed; not quick or fast.
Doesn't even begin to describe the glacial pace of this baby.
Discovery #1 - The C drive reports that compression is ON and there is less than 1 Gb available on the 110Gb HD. Rut-roh!
Discovery #2 - There are 5 full copies of Intuit's Quickbooks for a business that is no longer being handled on this PC.
Discovery #3 - SysInternal's AutoRuns reports no less than 20 toolbars (and their related garbage) are installed for IE.
Discovery #4 - My IBIL (Idiot Brother In Law) has installed 3 separate additional anti-virus apps on top of the MSSE initially installed. One from Symantec the other 2 I'd never heard of.
Sadly, I only had about 2 hours to "fix" it. With the aid of Autoruns (HIGHLY recommended for everyone's Windows toolkit) I was able to kill off the nightmare of toolbars, updating apps and crapware. Quickbooks is gone, as are the extra AV progs (as well as they can be using the standard un-install sequence).
It runs WAY faster now and has about 7 Gb available. Lucky me, I get to go back in a few weeks for round two. Wish me luck.
Contrary to popular belief, nobody owes you anything.
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