I finally had to give up my Palm Treo a year or two ago because the
battery wouldn't stay seated for some reason and it kept turning itself
off and on. It seemed pretty much indestructible other than that, and
it is still sitting here on my desk plugged in so I can do stuff with it
occasional
On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 3:15 PM, Curly McLain via Mercedes <
mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote:
>
> Can you imagine a world without smartphones?
>
The only thing I liked about working at Broadcom (that wasn't a paycheck)
was that I could always walk around outside and think, "my company has
literally
Curly McLain via Mercedes wrote:
Now I am one of the trogs that insists on using a (once again trendy)
flip phone. I did break down and accept a used iphone 4 for christmas.
I intend to use it as an ipod touch and for things like the automotive
apps. The voice quality is so much better on
> > OKDon wrote:
> >
> > I thought there was some video editing capability on the Amiga
> > before the Toaster came along. Amiga was indeed the best
> > platform of it's day - I wish they had made it
> Curt wrote:
>
> There might have been, IIRC the 3000 had a composite port. It
> would have been
> OK wrote:
>
> I thought there was some video editing capability on the Amiga
> before the Toaster came along.
There were a number of "gen-lock" boards that would allow the
computer graphics to replace, overlay, or key over video passing
through. That's isn't video editing. I knew it as CG (ch
:36 PM
Subject: Re: [MBZ] Ubuntu question
I thought there was some video editing capability on the Amiga before the
Toaster came along. Amiga was indeed the best platform of it's day - I wish
they had made it - -
On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 10:57 AM, Curly McLain via Mercedes <
mercedes@okieb
I thought there was some video editing capability on the Amiga before the
Toaster came along. Amiga was indeed the best platform of it's day - I wish
they had made it - -
On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 10:57 AM, Curly McLain via Mercedes <
mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote:
Yep it was toaster. semantics. it
Philip sez: Have
you ever tried to add a word to the beginning of a type written
page? I may gripe about some of the consequences of our technology
- but I also _really_ enjoy some of the benefits!!
Can you imagine a world without smartphones?
7 years and a few days ago, Steve Jobs introduc
I prefer a Blender.
On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 11:17 AM, Curt Raymond via Mercedes <
mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote:
> For video editing you're talking about Toaster,
>
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Then I had 1000 copies mailed. Then I got laid-off, the 1000 copies got thrown
away.
-Curt
From: fmiser via Mercedes
To: mercedes@okiebenz.com
Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2015 2:41 PM
Subject: Re: [MBZ] Ubuntu question
> Curt wrote:
>
&
> Curt wrote:
>
> In reel to reel video editing you were forced to start at the
> beginning and edit to the end. The only way you could change
> something in the middle was to overwrite, there was no ability to
> cut and splice.
Not entirely true.
That's true with 1 inch "type C" - but with the
to the middle,
way easier than video.
-Curt
From: Curly McLain via Mercedes
To: Mercedes Discussion List
Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2015 11:57 AM
Subject: Re: [MBZ] Ubuntu question
>For video editing you're talking about Toaster, the Amiga was the
>platform for the Toast
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Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2015 12:10 PM
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>The amusing thing to me was when the Toaster was the 'big thing'
>and there was all this whining about "but I want Toaster for the
>PC, I don't want to get an Am
The amusing thing to me was when the Toaster was the 'big thing'
and there was all this whining about "but I want Toaster for the
PC, I don't want to get an Amiga", and Toaster was finally available
for the PC. If you looked inside, you found an Amiga blade! The
'problem' was that the Toaster in
The amusing thing to me was when the Toaster was the 'big thing'
and there was all this whining about "but I want Toaster for the
PC, I don't want to get an Amiga", and Toaster was finally available
for the PC. If you looked inside, you found an Amiga blade! The
'problem' was that the Toaster in
For video editing you're talking about Toaster, the Amiga was the
platform for the Toaster hardware and software.
Toaster wasn't actually an editor at all, it was a switcher that
could do effects, you had 2 or 3 tape decks that all ran to the
Toaster and you switched between them. With 3 decks y
Curt Raymond ; Mercedes Discussion List
Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2015 11:55 AM
Subject: Re: [MBZ] Ubuntu question
The amusing thing to me was when the Toaster was the 'big thing'
and there was all this whining about "but I want Toaster for the
PC, I don't want to get a
The amusing thing to me was when the Toaster was the 'big thing'
and there was all this whining about "but I want Toaster for the
PC, I don't want to get an Amiga", and Toaster was finally available
for the PC. If you looked inside, you found an Amiga blade! The
'problem' was that the Toaster in
M
Subject: Re: [MBZ] Ubuntu question
Great explanation!
Thinking back to the mainframe and punchcard days, it makes sense.
My experience with the word shell came from the days when #1 son was
learning first the amiga OS on an A 500 and later doing sophisticated
video editing on an A3000. The
M
Subject: Re: [MBZ] Ubuntu question
Great explanation!
Thinking back to the mainframe and punchcard days, it makes sense.
My experience with the word shell came from the days when #1 son was
learning first the amiga OS on an A 500 and later doing sophisticated
video editing on an A3000. The
Great explanation!
Thinking back to the mainframe and punchcard days, it makes sense.
My experience with the word shell came from the days when #1 son was
learning first the amiga OS on an A 500 and later doing sophisticated
video editing on an A3000. The term used by the amigaphiles was to
There's a whole lot of conflation of terms. The _terminal_
is the thing running the window, that maps ASCII character
streams to things you can see. Named after the physical
device you once had to purchase to do this job. The program
_generating_ the ASCII stream is, initially at least as the
s
Thanks Your explanation is very helpful and clear. I will try that again.
>
I think I've just been bashed.
THis was intended to be funny, playing on the bash that the linux
jockeys always refer to. I always wondered why they kept talking
about bash. I did figger out yesterday that t
>
> I think I just been bashed.
Heh. Maybe. Sorry. *smiles* In reading some of your later
posts, I see you are trying to access a Win drive from Linux. I
misunderstood. Oops.
If you are actually using a Linux shell (bash, dash, zsh) you
should be able to use "tab complete". This is the am
> Curly wrote:
Is it possible to navigate to C:/windows/system32 in FILE then
launch a terminal in the system 32 directory? I thought there
might be a way. Rt click does not bring it up in the menu.
Alternately, I need to know the commands to get to
c:\windows\system32 in the terminal
> Curly wrote:
>
> Is it possible to navigate to C:/windows/system32 in FILE then
> launch a terminal in the system 32 directory? I thought there
> might be a way. Rt click does not bring it up in the menu.
>
> Alternately, I need to know the commands to get to
> c:\windows\system32 in the te
Windows Ultimate Boot CD will do that easily. Google is your friend for
instructions on how to use it. Beak in to XP and all earlier versions,
last I used it.
On Jan 12, 2015 5:20 PM, "Curly McLain via Mercedes"
wrote:
>
>
> Yes, I am trying to blank the password of a winders installation on a
a Mercedes
To: Craig ; Mercedes Discussion List
Sent: Monday, January 12, 2015 5:06 PM
Subject: Re: [MBZ] Ubuntu question
>On Mon, 12 Jan 2015 15:23:10 -0600 Curly McLain via Mercedes
> wrote:
>
>> Is it possible to navigate to C:/windows/system32 in FILE then launch
&
There are 2 drives in the box, each with a different install of XP.
I booted it into the other xp and changed the drive to xppro, a much
more unix friendly name. will see if I can get into the
winders\system32 directory now.
The XP Pro drive would mount, but I could not naviagte to it in term
On Mon, 12 Jan 2015 15:23:10 -0600 Curly McLain via Mercedes
wrote:
Is it possible to navigate to C:/windows/system32 in FILE then launch
a terminal in the system 32 directory? I thought there might be a
way. Rt click does not bring it up in the menu.
Alternately, I need to know the com
On Mon, 12 Jan 2015 15:23:10 -0600 Curly McLain via Mercedes
wrote:
> Is it possible to navigate to C:/windows/system32 in FILE then launch
> a terminal in the system 32 directory? I thought there might be a
> way. Rt click does not bring it up in the menu.
>
> Alternately, I need to know t
Is it possible to navigate to C:/windows/system32 in FILE then launch
a terminal in the system 32 directory? I thought there might be a
way. Rt click does not bring it up in the menu.
Alternately, I need to know the commands to get to
c:\windows\system32 in the terminal window. Thanks
Ye
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