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by danelectro 12y ago
Turns out after you have written the floppy IMG to a blank uFD or HDD, and it boots and plays the game, then you can partition the drive (I used Linux Mint), format it as FAT32 or NTFS, and use the full drive for mass storage without a conf
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by danelectro 12y ago
Good to get your message. Well, this is a time I didn't really have an opinion except maybe I like for things to take up less space for the same functionality. I was just putting up the numbers that I observed. I didn't realize t
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by danelectro 12y ago
Seems like if the "boot.asm" (actually sector 0 of the floppy) could be made relocatable away from sector0, then it could still be functional when stored in a filesystem (including on a HDD) not unlike BOOTSECT.DOS. The remainder
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by danelectro 12y ago
Well, on Android the original Flappy Bird was 894kb in size, and this Floppy Bird is only 8.7kb. Plus the 8.7kb includes enough utility code to obviate the need to load an OS for the game to run on top of, so the size ratio actually is bett
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by danelectro 12y ago
One thing's for sure, today's air-conditioning is one of the most energy-wasteful indulgences among electrical appliances. Growing up around Tampa, as a native in the old days not only did very few residences have A/C, but mo
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by danelectro 12y ago
Good primer on an important electronic sub-topic. Anyone doing audio or other sensor-handling circuitry should be well enough versed in this so that their designs come out just as well or better intuitively in at least this one respect than
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by danelectro 12y ago
>I wonder if us startup heads are just early adopters If you are in software, late to the party seems to me unless you managed to get your company going before Microsoft did. After that everyone had an example to follow. >you would w
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by danelectro 12y ago
Breathing compressed air tastes so funky sometimes, I hope it's just nitrogen causing the narcosis. Looks to me like the living chamber is pressurized to match the ambient water pressure, so realistically a free diver could enter but w
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by danelectro 12y ago
In the article Fortune refers to Hewlett & Packard as "computer whizzes". Negatory. They were electronic (vacuum tube) whizzes who staked their entrepreneurialism to advanced instrumentation. Then world war broke out again and
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by danelectro 12y ago
If you need someone who is going to be required to handle money efficiently enough to get the most out of each dollar, one of the most worthwhile traits is actual years of experience getting the most out of each dollar.
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by danelectro 12y ago
In mission-critical computing the First Priority is it must not break. Ever.
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by danelectro 12y ago
Instruments have been my life. It would be good to find out more about your efforts.
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by danelectro 12y ago
Radiotron was good for me. Nachbauer pushed outward from there also, here's an announcement page: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/rec.audio.tubes/swgQ... (his early links are long dead) Here star
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by danelectro 12y ago
Seems like you've got big data problems to solve and data scientists up the wazoo. I would think the missing element would include avant problem-solvers, regardless of (advanced) degrees or not who are as outstanding in that specialty
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by danelectro 12y ago
I look at it more like de-selecting the non-elite non-insiders.
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by danelectro 12y ago
Ask not how you can avoid recession, ask what you can do for the rest of the country to emerge from recession that they are still suffering from. Look at that GDP "Growth Rate" and of course you can clearly see as a derivative it&
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by danelectro 12y ago
In my case I was devastated by natural disaster, leaving me with challenging anti-social obligations. When I am not worse off than the homeless or domestically compromised, I still help the ones whom I am personally acquainted with, providi
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by danelectro 12y ago
IMHO the best way to bypass the middlemen is to directly put cash into the tip jars of unsigned artists performing live at locations not affiliated with BMI or ASCAP.
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by danelectro 12y ago
There are many types of ambition. Goal-focused ambition is only one type, it may be the most recognizable, maybe due to the influence of goal-seeking sports competitions. Goals are great for some games, some of which are competitive. Not e
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by danelectro 12y ago
This is the main significant conclusion to me. Simply that losing a major war can mean ultimate removal of the entire political system of the vanquished, even if it does not result in replacement by that of the victor. This is the steepest
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by danelectro 12y ago
start writing your story down now, and then reveal it later when appropriate
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by danelectro 12y ago
LNG is cooled and compressed to turn it from gas to liquid, and like the bulk cryogenic liquified "fixed gases", it is the cryogenic storage temperature which maintains the liquid state, not the pressure under which it is stored.
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by danelectro 12y ago
>how . . . did you decide I like to build laboratories, working in an institution would not be as rewarding to me unless I build it myself or it reflects my vision. >why . . . did you decide so I could do better practical (paying) wor
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by danelectro 12y ago
In the '70's a research equipment supplier named Instruments for Research & Industry (now part of Glas-Col) would not sell to the military. Company was founded in 1939, I do not know if that was their policy as far back as WWI
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by danelectro 12y ago
An electrolytic capacitor is an electro-chemical device itself. Also, like a battery, if the "electrolyte" is not without solvent then it is a liquid-state device. As opposed to a film & foil capacitor which is a solid-state d
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by danelectro 12y ago
it can be amazing what a non-institutional researcher can do
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by danelectro 12y ago
Back in the late '90's I thought lots of aspiring computer scientists were already using Windows or Linux as they VPN'd from their remote laptop back to home so they could access their personal files and full desktop through
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by danelectro 12y ago
Had the INC for my operation which was pretty good until a devastating flood. I was ruined but I kept working in the ruins as an INC until I began to recover after a few years. Then someone else started a new company with a similar name, an
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by danelectro 12y ago
Not every year.
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by danelectro 12y ago
Hey, John Henry is in my family tree!

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