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Sunday, June 29, 2003Tandy Talk@ 11 am | PermaLinkToday's letter comes from New York, where Keith writes: Hi, I purchased a tandy 102 at a rummage sale yesterday. I have a ibook and a imac. I was wondering if you have been able to make your 102 talk with osX? I do have a cable that has a hook up that has a modem end that fits into the 102 and a regular phone line on the other end. I haven't had my Tandy out for a couple of years, ever since I switched to my Newton and my iBook as my primary travel companions. But the name of the game here is "Serial". Hardware 1) You'll need to get a "usb to serial" adapter. They come in a number of flavors, depending on where you want to go with this. The most straight forward would be to to get a "USB to RS-232" serial port adapter like the one that Keyspan sells: www.keyspan.com/products/usb/pdaadapter/ Then you would just need a serial cable that will fit into the USB adapter on one end and the T102 on the other. 2) A small variation would be to get a "USB to RS-422 miniDin8" adapter. (I'm noting this simply because I already have one.) www.keyspan.com/products/usb/USA28x/ Then you'll need to get an "ImageWriter I Cable" which has a standard RS-232 port at one end and an RS-422 on the other. Software So once you've got either: Mac -> USB-to-RS-232 adapter -> Serial cable -> Tandy you've got the hardware ready to go. Now you should use a term program like zTerm (although in OS X you might be able to get Terminal to do this. Try typing "man tip") to get a data connection between the two. Check out more info at: www.ordersomewherechaos.com/rosso/fetish/m102/howto.shtml
Friday, June 27, 2003Localized Suckage@ 10 pm | PermaLinkSome things suck. They suck even more when you really can't talk about them out loud. Some people suck. They suck even though you want to tell them that they in the hopes that they would stop sucking. Some computer industrial designs suck. It happens. All this suckage is localized in either time, space, or economic impact. Tomorrow will not suck, as I will be in a parade.
Saturday, June 14, 2003Google News@ 10 am | PermaLinkInteresting top story from Google news this morning: "Iraqi Townspeople say 5 Civilians Killed by US Troops" Voice of America - 30 minutes ago Iraqi witnesses say five civilians were among those killed earlier this week by US forces responding to an ambush on their patrol north of Baghdad. Then there are the follow-up headlines from other sources: "113 killed in US mopping-up operation in northern Iraq" Channel News Asia "80 Iraqis killed by American forces in one day, a fire at a main oil pipeline in Iraq" Arabic News Now, everyone knows that the VoA has a virtual directive to present the US in the best possible light. I just wish they could be more like the BBC. Previously, that same day...My Ever Changing Site@ 02 am | PermaLinkFri Jun 13, 2003 10:51 Hi, your site looks really interesting, & full of KG info. I'd really like to look at it. Only prob is, at my end, comes out in green on black, where the body text is just not readable. Prob my end? If not, you might consider changing colour slightly. Best wishes, John ========== Fri Jun 13, 2003 10:55 Oh how weird! Just returned to the site automatically after sending last msg, to find it transformed into a beautifully designed site, white background, different layout???!!! Looks great! Am looking forward to getting into it. Regards, John
Monday, June 9, 2003Journaling almost rocks@ 11 am | PermaLinkPeople seem to think that Journaling is some sort of data saviour. But the truth that journaling will never do anything to keep files from being internally corrupted. The only thing Journaling does is makes sure that the file system integrity is kept: That sectors are properly tied to files and that the files start and end at the place that the 'table of contents' says they will. Whether an application will be able to recover the file is a completely different issue, and has really only been handled properly by RDBMS's that have fully ACID (Atomic, Consistent, Isolation, Durable) transactions. [Warning: Really bad mixed metaphor ahead!] Journaling will keep your peanut butter cookies away from your chocolate ship cookies, but that doesn't keep your cookies from coming out half-baked. (Scary thought: Is this a reason why 'longhorn' will have a database-based file system? That would mean that the file system could 'roll-back' changes to a file when there's a problem.)
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