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Bruce In Bangkok March 22nd 09 01:49 AM

OT but very useful...
 
On Sat, 21 Mar 2009 10:22:56 -0700, "Capt. JG"
wrote:

"thunder" wrote in message
et...
On Sat, 21 Mar 2009 07:58:04 -0600, Vic Smith wrote:


I think there is something called Boot Camp that allows Apple PCs to run
Windows apps.


It's my understanding that Boot Camp allows Apple PCs to run the Windows
OS, and along with it, Windows apps. Apples, at least some of them, are
now Intel based, but, apparently, run a different BIOS that Windows
doesn't support. Boot Camp just allows you to dual boot. There is also
Parallels, which will run Windows inside a virtual machine, so you can
run the Mac OS and Windows at the same time.



Yep... you have to reboot to use it. But, there are plenty of emulators out
there that work side-by-side with MacOS.


The problem is that none of the emulators allow you to run ALL of the
other guy's software. Wine, for example allows Linux machines to run
some Windows software as does the Apple emulator. Any foreign software
that directly accesses hardware, use a dongle, or any other fancy anti
theft devices, won't run under the emulator.

Cheers,

Bruce
(bruceinbangkokatgmaildotcom)

Bruce In Bangkok March 22nd 09 01:53 AM

OT but very useful...
 
On Sat, 21 Mar 2009 10:21:41 -0700, "Capt. JG"
wrote:

"Bruce In Bangkok" wrote in message
.. .
On Fri, 20 Mar 2009 11:14:19 -0700, "Capt. JG"
wrote:
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I just downloaded a free app that works like a level. I get the NY Times
pushed to the phone every hour. I can also use it like a touch screen for
my
computer instead of the mouse. Sure... lots of "cuteness" but some of it
is
very cool tool.


The push stuff is nice. I wish I could get that here.

Cuteness or cool depends on the user I think.
I seldom text but in Singapore you see kids hanging on a strap in the
subway, talking with their friends and typing text messages with their
thumb faster then I can type with both hands.

Cheers,

Bruce
(bruceinbangkokatgmaildotcom)



I also just downloaded TideApp which is the TideTool equiv. for the phone.
Nice.



You are seriously ****ing me off! If I buy another new handphone my
wife is going to kill me.....

Cheers,

Bruce
(bruceinbangkokatgmaildotcom)

Larry March 22nd 09 02:29 AM

OT but very useful...
 
Bruce In Bangkok wrote in
:

The problem is that none of the emulators allow you to run ALL of the
other guy's software. Wine, for example allows Linux machines to run
some Windows software as does the Apple emulator. Any foreign software
that directly accesses hardware, use a dongle, or any other fancy anti
theft devices, won't run under the emulator.

Cheers,

Bruce
(bruceinbangkokatgmaildotcom)



The other emulator problem is INPUT and OUTPUT.....something always doesn't
work just right.....ports, audio, video, etc.....


Capt. JG March 22nd 09 04:17 AM

OT but very useful...
 
"Bruce In Bangkok" wrote in message
...
On Sat, 21 Mar 2009 10:21:41 -0700, "Capt. JG"
wrote:

"Bruce In Bangkok" wrote in message
. ..
On Fri, 20 Mar 2009 11:14:19 -0700, "Capt. JG"
wrote:
snipped



I just downloaded a free app that works like a level. I get the NY Times
pushed to the phone every hour. I can also use it like a touch screen
for
my
computer instead of the mouse. Sure... lots of "cuteness" but some of it
is
very cool tool.

The push stuff is nice. I wish I could get that here.

Cuteness or cool depends on the user I think.
I seldom text but in Singapore you see kids hanging on a strap in the
subway, talking with their friends and typing text messages with their
thumb faster then I can type with both hands.

Cheers,

Bruce
(bruceinbangkokatgmaildotcom)



I also just downloaded TideApp which is the TideTool equiv. for the phone.
Nice.



You are seriously ****ing me off! If I buy another new handphone my
wife is going to kill me.....

Cheers,

Bruce
(bruceinbangkokatgmaildotcom)



I apologize. I'd be happy to send you screenshots of our local area tides.
lol


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Bruce In Bangkok March 22nd 09 06:23 AM

OT but very useful...
 
On Sat, 21 Mar 2009 21:17:59 -0700, "Capt. JG"
wrote:

"Bruce In Bangkok" wrote in message
.. .
On Sat, 21 Mar 2009 10:21:41 -0700, "Capt. JG"
wrote:

"Bruce In Bangkok" wrote in message
...
On Fri, 20 Mar 2009 11:14:19 -0700, "Capt. JG"
wrote:
snipped



I just downloaded a free app that works like a level. I get the NY Times
pushed to the phone every hour. I can also use it like a touch screen
for
my
computer instead of the mouse. Sure... lots of "cuteness" but some of it
is
very cool tool.

The push stuff is nice. I wish I could get that here.

Cuteness or cool depends on the user I think.
I seldom text but in Singapore you see kids hanging on a strap in the
subway, talking with their friends and typing text messages with their
thumb faster then I can type with both hands.

Cheers,

Bruce
(bruceinbangkokatgmaildotcom)


I also just downloaded TideApp which is the TideTool equiv. for the phone.
Nice.



You are seriously ****ing me off! If I buy another new handphone my
wife is going to kill me.....

Cheers,

Bruce
(bruceinbangkokatgmaildotcom)



I apologize. I'd be happy to send you screenshots of our local area tides.
lol



Might help. Or I can just look to see what time the floating docks get
way up on the piles :-)

Cheers,

Bruce
(bruceinbangkokatgmaildotcom)

Richard Casady March 22nd 09 05:16 PM

OT but very useful...
 
On Sat, 21 Mar 2009 21:12:31 -0400, Marty wrote:

Only 1 gig? "640k ought to be enough for anyone",, Lordy, when I went
to college if we had a machine with a full kilobyte we were doing well....


Iowa State built a computer from scratch, in 1948, and in 65 it was
the first box students used. It had 1k in the form of charged spots on
vacuum tube cathodes. Eight bits, one byte, per tube.

Casady

Larry March 22nd 09 09:45 PM

OT but very useful...
 
(Richard Casady) wrote in news:49c969b9.9397015
@news.east.earthlink.net:

Eight bits, one byte, per tube.


I'd love to know the physics behind how they did that. Dual triodes, such
as 12AX7, 12AT7, 12AU7, or even earlier 6SN7 were used as latching flip
flops, but they only stored one bit...0 or 1. To get 8 reliable levels
would be magic. They did use a neon counter tube that had multiple
cathodes. Perhaps that is the "tube" that did a byte.



Marc Heusser[_2_] March 22nd 09 10:13 PM

OT but very useful...
 
In article lutions,
"Capt. JG" wrote:

I also just downloaded TideApp which is the TideTool equiv. for the phone.
Nice.


There is also Tides.
Comparing with the official tide tables for Hamburg, Germany (at
www.bsh.de) though, both of them were off by quite a bit - Tides was
better but still too far off.

Marc

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Marc Heusser[_2_] March 22nd 09 10:15 PM

OT but very useful...
 
In article lutions,
"Capt. JG" wrote:


I also just downloaded TideApp which is the TideTool equiv. for the phone.
Nice.


One more thing:
Navionics Maps - eg for all around Denmark, including Kattegat,
Skagerrak - quite nice indeed even though they are not free.

Marc

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Justin C[_17_] March 22nd 09 11:15 PM

OT but very useful...
 
In article , Marc Heusser wrote:
In article lutions,
"Capt. JG" wrote:

I also just downloaded TideApp which is the TideTool equiv. for the phone.
Nice.


There is also Tides.
Comparing with the official tide tables for Hamburg, Germany (at
www.bsh.de) though, both of them were off by quite a bit - Tides was
better but still too far off.


Out of interest, how far is too far?

Justin.

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