I remember messing around with that ages ago. I wonder if any of the contributors ended up working with VMS Software on the port. It looks, from their site, like they are getting close.
Sounds similar to my life for the past 10 odd years. Then one day, I woke up with that headache and blurry eyes, and said I can't do this again. I'll still have a drink a few times a year, for special occasions, but enough was enough. Hah. I quit drinking three years ago.
Agreed on the repetition. I tried using my Powerbook G3 in class, and there was no way to keep up. I would carry a colored folder for each subject, each with its own yellow note pad, for quickly taking down lectures. I never went digital, but would meticulously transfer the notes into those green, gridded, National 33-209 spiral notebooks :) A few years ago I bought a couple 33-209s on Amazon and was really disappointed to find the quality had taken a nose dive. Those were a darn good spiral notebook!
I felt the same way about my livejournal account from college. I was just really worried at the time, it could be an issue, when just entering the workforce.
I use facebook now, much the same way I used livejournal, keeping track of links, photos, and things I'm working on. At the time I started, search was pretty terrible. But I figured it would improve, which it has. Still, every once and a while, I'll be working on something and go, "Ah man, I had that written down in the livejournal!" Oops.
Despite my parents being computer illiterate, I'm glad they were pretty understanding. I never had any IBM experience but I had spent plenty of time on MicroVAX, HP 9000 and later with Sun. I did a number of local pickups (ahh the memories of trying to shuffle a HP9000/835 down Columbia tower and into a dodge caravan) of hardware and knew a person who worked with Sun in Seattle who would sell me old demo stock for a $1. I spent years trying to get rid of it all, no one would take it even for free, and unfortunately had to recycle most of it. Although the Paul Allen museum bought some of DEC Alpha stuff. It just cost too much electricity to even play with.
What other systems did they build similar to the PALM?
I remember as a young kid buying a quite large (~3ftx4ftx3ft) IBM minicomputer that was just filled with those modules at a local thrift shop during the late 80s.
No keyboard or screen, although I seem to remember it had an 8in floppy drive.
Its been so long I can hardly remember it, but I distinctly remember those cards with the square metal cans, many of them socketed. It had a really nice set of schematics and service manual inside the case also.
edit: After some google digging, it must have been something like a 3274 terminal controller.
Ah the memories of a Novell NetWare high school. I still remember gleaning the librarians password over his shoulder. Low and behold, his regular login had been granted full permission to the tree! It took them four years, but I almost got expelled, weeks from graduation.
Smartest decision I ever made was backing up all my old childhood 68k and PPC Macintosh systems to QIC using a friends SCSI drive. Later I bought a ClubMac (haha remember them) drive for nothing on eBay. A couple years ago I was able to restore some old old systems from the attic, nostalgia city ! I think I had some Mac specific BBS software in there somewhere, TeleFinder and FirstClass I remember. There was another GUI based one, I think NovaTerm. I sure wish I would have imaged some of the Apple IIgs software though before all the floppies went bad.
I agree. I just recently signed up for the very first time, simply because news stories seem to break on twitter first. I can't see why I would bother with personal followers. Seems to work great, like you said, as a central place to receive updates for You Tube channels, journalists and industry experts.
My friend who takes Kratom for his severe anxiety also suffers from the same amplification effect during withdrawal. From his discription, "unbearable agitation and electric bolts".
I'm taking 1tsp/6hr daily but will typically stop taking it entirely when I can get the inflammation in my back down and the pain subsides. I've never really experienced more than a couple of days of what I would describe as mild agitation and unsettled feeling.
I can' t even compare it with my opiate withdrawal symptoms of years past: 14 days of electric body, vomiting bile, uncontrolled bowls, violent chills and spending half the day in the tub and the other half in bed with a high fever, and etc.
So you're not alone in your experience, and I always wrote it off as Kratom's actual metabolic action not being really well understood, and why I always think the comparison to Tramadol is better than other opiates.
I use Kratom to manage lower back pain. It is about as effective as Tramadol with less side effects and contraindications for me.
I'd give it a 1/10 on my addiction scale (with 1 - THC to 10 - A Year of Liquid Opium Poppy Daily Dose), and a 5/10 on my analgesic scale (1-Aspirin to 10-Opium Poppy).
I don't think the mechanisms are well understood. It definitely wipes out opiate withdrawal symptoms within hours of taking a small dose. And I've never had any physical symptoms from even month long cessation. I like to say 'my' scale, because efficacy and addictive properties of opiates and opiate analogs like Tramadol and Kratom vary pretty wildly. Tramadol is known to have and Kratom also seems to havem some strong SSRI actions also, not found in the other opiate analogs, Oxycodone, Hydrocodone, or nartural opiates.
I still have all my Sony Magic Cap [1] stuff which came out around CodeWarrior 6 I think. Some type of Metrowerks MPW environment and a software emulator which crashed if you breathed on it!
I am one of those people who does not have a smartphone and tablet. It is very frustrating as ISPs move to that assumption, but I understand I am in the minority.
I've never encountered this sentiment regarding usenet. Or maybe I'm misinterpreting your comment? Do you mean that knowledge of, and participation on usenet is elite/special? I find it fascinating if that is what you mean. I was born in the 80s and never really had that feeling from anyone in my circle of friends; more like, "Hello! What is wrong with you? We have forums on the web now."
Somewhere I have DATs with like 1GB of custom Marathon levels and texture designs. Including a complete model of our Junior High School a friend of mine made. I'm not sure how I missed the announcement they open-sourced them.
Sorry. Just to mention it is going to give me nightmares about big AUI media converters sticking out, loose, not fitting right, falling off, ahahhaa. Novell Netware. Tree. Booting from floppy disks. ISA Cards!