Hahaha, good one! I was puzzled by the motive for the hoax, but that explains it. What devious minds some people have :)
Thanks for the bit on "resources." I have often wondered the limit, but have never reached 10%. I start to get wary at 30%, but have never had a "low resources" error unless I had a runaway program. Roger ======================================================= I wish the buck stopped here. I sure could use a few... . ----- Original Message ----- From: "Hugh Vandervoort" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, December 18, 2004 4:32 PM Subject: RE: PCWorks: 1954 Computer hoax > This was my post to Harold concerning the Hoax, with a link to Snopes. > I had seen this debunked on Boing Boing a fewe days before. > Oddly enough the only formal computer course I ever took was Fortran I, in > 1970. > > For Clint: The JS Loop "virus" is a well known bug in First Page 2000, the > best HTML editor ever (Well, it's the only one I like). > > Happy holidays, Howard. > The picture is actually a hoax-I believe it's the control room of a > submarine, and someone doctored it up to fool the unwary. > You can read about it here: > http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/hoaxes/computer.asp > You need both the "Load Power Profile" entries. > All your entrieds look valid to me, and the resource use seems normal as > well. Theoretically, you can get down to 10% before you have a problem. I've > seen some computers do this easily, and others will choke long before 10%. > If you don't use the keyboard features, you can delete that line. > Time for that new Dell! > ************************************************ > I don't know why someone would think this a hoax, but maybe it > is - what is the evidence of such? Fortran was a well know > language used in scientific circles as it was developed for > mathematical formulations early on. It might be fun to see if it > really is a hoax or someone just thinks it is. :) ============= PCWorks Mailing List ================= Don't see your post? Check our posting guidelines & make sure you've followed proper posting procedures, http://pcworkers.com/rules.htm Contact list owner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unsubscribing and other changes: http://pcworkers.com =====================================================
