Re: english, the planetary language

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I know from flight simulators that 10,000 m is roughly 30,000 feet. In full realism mode, with all HUD displays off, you have to be able to mentally switch between nautical miles/km and feet/meters depending on the nationality of the plane you happen to be flying.

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Re: english, the planetary language

Posted on Yesterday, 20:45

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Everybody needs to start using Unix time. Nobody would ever confuse 1606780800 with 1578787200.

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Re: Can a floppy disk "platter" be replaced?

Posted on Yesterday, 19:33

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I think these things are glued shut? Totally OT, but I remember transplanting cassette tapes with broken cases into other cases.

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Re: How to retrieve the content of an old backup made of 4 rar files

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In the old days you would run echo d | debug CC12345A to see the first few bytes of the file. What's the modern equivalent of this?

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Re: My Dual Socket XP Build

Posted on Yesterday, 16:02

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Yes, a Raspberry Pi with a small host-powered USB HDD is ideal for this. Those 4TB Seagate Basic drives are nice. There's no need to have a full PC running 24/7.

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2020-11-26, 19:26

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There was an SL5TF at https://www.cpu-world.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=34784 a few months back that might not have sold. You will need to register there to see For Sale listings. I have one of those in my Inspiron 8000. Rebooting the machine with the PSU unplugged causes it to run at 700 MHz. The …

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Re: What is the loudest hard drive you have???

Posted on 2020-11-25, 20:46

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ST-412 which makes a horrible screeching sound. How do you lubricate these things?

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Re: english, the planetary language

Posted on 2020-11-24, 13:49

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YYYY-MM-DD makes sense for countries that write from left-to-right. A lot of countries don't though. Some European countries avoid this problem by using Roman numerals for the month, eg. 24 XI 2020

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Re: How to retrieve the content of an old backup made of 4 rar files

Posted on 2020-11-24, 13:37

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Did you download these files from Usenet? If so, you should use a program like HJSplit to join them up into a single file. WinRAR is not needed. https://www.afterdawn.com/guides/archive/how_ … ing_hjsplit.cfm

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Re: english, the planetary language

Posted on 2020-11-24, 13:28

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Americans write dates the way they speak them. "November the twenty-third, twenty-twenty" becomes "11/23/2020"

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Re: english, the planetary language

Posted on 2020-11-24, 11:58

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How did British engineers working on European projects do things? (e.g. Eurotunnel, Concorde, Sepcat Jaguar, Panavia Tornado) Did they use Metric or Imperial?

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Re: How to retrieve the content of an old backup made of 4 rar files

Posted on 2020-11-24, 11:49

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Am I the only person in the world who paid for WinRAR? My registration code from 20 years ago still works with the latest version.

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Re: english, the planetary language

Posted on 2020-11-23, 18:06

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Right. I immediately thought of Frank Zappa after making that post. How common is it really, though? Teenagers everywhere like to invent new ways of talking to distinguish themselves from their parents.

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Re: english, the planetary language

Posted on 2020-11-23, 16:27

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Intel486dx33 does have a point in that Californians don't seem to have a distinct regional accent. It's just generic 'American'. The east coast has several distinctive accents, as does the south and west. I can also usually tell Canadians from Americans by their accents. But there doesn't seem to be …

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Re: english, the planetary language

Posted on 2020-11-23, 15:52

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How do you say "old computer user" in other languages? In English this is an ambiguous phrase. It can mean both "old user of computers" and "user of old computers". You have to decide which meaning is correct from the context (on this forum both are probably appropriate...) In my native language, …

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Re: 8-Bit Guy video's are becoming a chore!

Posted on 2020-11-23, 12:55

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KainXVIII wrote on 2020-11-23, 12:43: 8-but guy has more fun with carrying guns in shops than making his videos. If I went to Texas and didn't see people walking around with guns I'd be totally disappointed.

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Re: english, the planetary language

Posted on 2020-11-23, 11:54

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I know a European girl/woman who learned English as a second language and who curses like a sailor when she speaks it. I have repeatedly warned her about this. But she never curses in her own language - that would be low class behavior. It's just swearing in English that's OK.

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Re: History of a dump went wrong :cry:

Posted on 2020-11-23, 10:15

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3.5" drives are much more difficult to clean than 5.25" ones. I opened one up to clean it and ended up destroying it.

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Re: 5.25" Floppy drive support.

Posted on 2020-11-23, 00:52

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computerguy08 wrote on 2020-11-22, 13:52: I have a DFI Lanparty NF4 SLI-DR, which supports dual floppy drives. It also supports drive A & B swap. OT, but if I understand correctly, you need to manually set jumpers on the board to enable/disable SLI? I've never seen this before.

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Re: english, the planetary language

Posted on 2020-11-22, 21:10

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How do you say "old computer user" in other languages? In English this is an ambiguous phrase. It can mean both "old user of computers" and "user of old computers". You have to decide which meaning is correct from the context (on this forum both are probably appropriate...)

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