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I just tossed a hundred pounds or so of old books last week. Almost all of them were old computer related books - some on the subject of the old DOS era programs (Lotus 123 etc etc), full sets of the manuals from Netware 3.12, stuff like that - the sort of thing. Even though I can't imagine...

I suppose some shell built-in commands might be a little... "bashful". :) Sorry - I couldn't resist.

That's the essence of it, though it would be more accurate to think of it as "Switch User DO". You can (assuming you have the authority) switch to to any user ID then "do" something. If you don't specify another user, the default is to switch to "root". We often say "superuser" when referring...

I got a decent pic of the BDE the other day and had to make a wallpaper out of it. It looked kinda dumb with the conky display on the right, so I turned that off. My icon bar -really- disappears in the grass (that's a good thing). The firefox icon is only visible because I parked the mouse on...

It's like zipping a file - you compress the data to fit more stuff into the same space. If your cpu is fast enough (and most are) the compression/decompression is transparent so it just looks like you have more RAM than you really do.

Does anyone else find it really interesting that we use some of our RAM (as buffers) to make our slow disks seem really fast (if horribly expensive) and some of our disk space (as swap) to make our RAM seem really huge (if horribly slow) and we do both of these things at the same time - and it...

Tiny Core backups are simple, too, which is a good thing since you make one at least before every reboot, but that's not quite the same since it's really just files getting backed up from the RAM disk to "persistent storage" (usually the boot device). That "backed up data" survives a reboot but...

The platters are kind of pretty and I have -bunch- of them in a box somewhere - maybe some day I'll do something artistic with them. :)

Speaking of backups, here's a prompt to get folks motivated: I'm retiring a bunch of old hard drives, since I currently don't have much use for 3.5" PATA 1 GB drives, and I'm opening them up to retrieve those really cool magnets from them. Here's a picture of one of them... But here's a...

I may be going about it the hard way or reinventing some wheel, but lately I've been fooling around with running some scripts from cron and I write the scripts to accept a command line option indicating that the script has been called from cron rather than interactively so the script can behave...

SCO Forever!!!! (just kidding) Welcome aboard.

We have 'roos like that around here. They're called "whitetail deer"! Tasty, but stupid. If one crosses the road in front of your car, don't watch where it went. Watch where it came from because they travel in groups. But watch where it went TOO because they're stupid enough to turn around...

I might have to plagiarize that page from your playbook when (if) the BDE explodes in a few weeks... though we're not really hoping for -any- monochrome pups. ;)

Cats have a different personality for each of their nine lives (*). Apparently Blackie has burned through five of his already. *) I made that up

That would be "disambuguate" - 'cause if it's on the windshield, you can't say u ate it. When driving an old Jeep at speed, keep the windshield in the "up" position,

I just pulled down two "important" updates for Windows 7 last night. Of course two others failed to download and I didn't even try for the dozen or so optional ones (which have been out there taunting me for several years). I guess MS is still looking out for us. :) Or still trying to...

-Some- commercial software is licensed on a per-CPU-core basis which, IMO, is great reason to just not do business with IBM.

My kids always seem to have an apropos image immediately on hand for whatever the current subject is, bu I was more curious about the built-in features of, for instance, the forum software or of a texting app. I try to write such that my meaning doesn't need a graphic to convey the meaning, but...

I'm keeping my eye out for the next Windows 7 update. :D

I had to say Windows 7 (Pro) since I'm actually still running it, but there's so much baggage for me in the whole question. Windows 3.x just wasn't worth having - I immediately deleted it off of my first PC compatible... Though I did upgrade to DOS 5 when that came out 95 was a great way to run...