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dandy7228-Mar-23 7:11

dandy72

28-Mar-23 7:11

jschell wrote:
But what really amazed me was that there was a network card that would work.

Doom was a DOS game, and worked over LANs. It should come as no surprise that some NICs worked under DOS.

Peter Adam28-Mar-23 21:47

Peter Adam

28-Mar-23 21:47

I think he wondered that a current generation NIC has DOS driver.

dandy7230-Mar-23 3:47

dandy72

30-Mar-23 3:47

Right. That comes as a bit of a surprise. Who would bother?

jschell30-Mar-23 5:35

jschell

30-Mar-23 5:35

Back then there were a number of competing network protocols.

This is communicating with the current internet. So the card must use IP and it must connect to some router. And, presumably, plug into a slot in the computer itself.

honey the codewitch28-Mar-23 16:26

honey the codewitch

28-Mar-23 16:26

I used to run a 10baseT 3com NIC in a dos machine back in the day. 486DX2/66 IIRC.

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jschell30-Mar-23 5:36

jschell

30-Mar-23 5:36

honey the codewitch wrote:
10baseT 3com NIC

Yes but could you plug it into your current router now?

honey the codewitch30-Mar-23 5:47

honey the codewitch

30-Mar-23 5:47

I don't know. I'm not sure if they support 10baseT, but I imagine you could bridge something like that with a middleman device.

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jschell3-Apr-23 5:50

jschell

3-Apr-23 5:50

Perhaps but again that goes back to my original post in that the article does not address how that was done at all. Suggesting that it just worked that way without any additional work.

Getting a new roll

OriginalGriff28-Mar-23 4:42

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28-Mar-23 4:42

It's Bacon, Lettuce, and Tomato.

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den2k8828-Mar-23 5:05

den2k88

28-Mar-23 5:05

I knew someone would have made the roll pun. I just knew it.

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Nelek28-Mar-23 12:00

28-Mar-23 12:00

den2k88 wrote:
I knew someone would have made the roll pun. I just knew it.

It was not a question of "IF", more a question of "when" Laugh | :laugh:

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PIEBALDconsult28-Mar-23 5:08

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28-Mar-23 5:08

Argh! It's way over there under the sink!

Mike Hankey28-Mar-23 5:26

Mike Hankey

28-Mar-23 5:26

I was thinking more along the lines of a Danish.

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obermd28-Mar-23 6:27

obermd

28-Mar-23 6:27

You had me at bacon.

jmaida28-Mar-23 16:03

jmaida

28-Mar-23 16:03

Kolaches are a Czech tradition here in TX. They are buns stuffed with just about everything, fruit, meat, vegetables so a BLT in a bun is not far fetched.

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Speaking of rolls

Roger Wright29-Mar-23 6:39

Roger Wright

29-Mar-23 6:39

Around here, it's more a case of, "found a roll pin. Time to build another AR." Which reminds me, I've still got one to finish. With a carbon fiber barrel and a lower receiver with a rainbow and a unicorn on it, it should be a nice one!

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Nelek28-Mar-23 4:17

28-Mar-23 4:17

From tomorrow on I'll be system architect (together with a colleague), trying to bring order into the chaos of non existant processes and a lot of different solutions for similar problems in our division, and on the same time trying to reduce complexity, make everything a bit more robust and less "manual" while bringing us into the future.

Whish me luck

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CPallini28-Mar-23 4:24

CPallini

28-Mar-23 4:24

Best of luck! Thumbs Up | :thumbsup:

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Nelek28-Mar-23 11:40

28-Mar-23 11:40

Thanks Carlo

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Matthew Dennis28-Mar-23 4:31

Matthew Dennis

28-Mar-23 4:31

Don't try and do everything all at once. One bite at a time.

Pick some low-hanging fruit to start to
- get some quick successes and impress the higher ups
- test and fine tune YOUR processes

Involve the people that will be using your solutions.
If you can steer them to the 'correct' solution and make them think it was their idea, you will get buy-in a lot faster.

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den2k8828-Mar-23 5:05

den2k88

28-Mar-23 5:05

Chris is reading, you know?

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Matthew Dennis28-Mar-23 6:05

Matthew Dennis

28-Mar-23 6:05

He knows. He calls it "Managing Up" Smile | :)

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Nelek28-Mar-23 11:47

28-Mar-23 11:47

Matthew Dennis wrote:
Don't try and do everything all at once. One bite at a time.

Yeah, Luckily I already learned this (the hard way). I hope to not repeat the same error.

#1 - Get knowledge about the current status quo, there is a lot of variance and I don't know every permutation
#2 - Trying to get a good feedback from management about which direction do they want to take
#3 - Organize things in "can die a natural death", "it needs a double tap", "we need this and we have to take it with us"
#4 - Once the system has been cleaned up from zombies and not needed stuff, start working out how to improve it
#5 - We'll see when we come there...

Matthew Dennis wrote:
Involve the people that will be using your solutions.

That's something I have always tried when programming PLCs for others, nobody know the machine better that the one using it everyday.

Matthew Dennis wrote:
If you can steer them to the 'correct' solution and make them think it was their idea, you will get buy-in a lot faster.

That's something I know, but that I don't master (yet)

Thanks for the tips, Matthew Smile | :)

M.D.V.

Mike Hankey28-Mar-23 4:36

Mike Hankey

28-Mar-23 4:36

Good luck!

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Nelek28-Mar-23 11:49