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    From MICHAEL LOO@1:123/140 to SEAN DENNIS on Saturday, September 21, 2019 10:58:54
    Sez U!
    Voice of experience. :D

    Speaking of which, Lilli's printer quit working, so she
    worked on it all day and got it to work, but the Internet
    got knocked out. Now, after working a couple hours, she
    got the Internet back, plus she could get the printer and
    her phone to talk to each other, but no other computer on
    the network (3 of them) can see the printer, including the
    one that is wired to it.

    P.S. She read somewhere that she had to uninstall the printer
    driver and reinstall it, so she deleted it, and guess what, she
    doesn't have the install disk any more ... or Internet, either.

    P.P.S. The intermediate state is achieved, with Internet and a
    connection between the phone and the printer.

    These are solid-state (votevver dot minns)?
    That means that there's no moving parts in the drive and it uses flash memory instead of a moving magnetic disk for storage.

    And I hear Stephen had one of these crap out on him. How
    does that happen, if there are no moving parts?

    Could you do some sort of DOSBox-like simulation?
    No. The Pi uses a different type of processor than your standard PC
    does
    and they're not exactly compatible with each other.

    I was thinking if the instruction sets could get
    translated using some kind of table, someone might make
    such a simulator. Question - why aren't all instruction
    sets the same or at least backward compatible?

    Bob Hope (and Benny Hill) would be proud.
    Both of whom would have rockets unleashed against
    them in the current day and age.
    Indeed. I saw a recent interview with Mel Brooks who opined that he couldn't make movies in today's environment.

    I am all in favor of cultural sensitivity, but I'm also in
    favor of a sense of humor and not taking things too seriously.
    And as Andrew Yang noted, comedy should be judged differently,
    up to a point at least.

    I can't frittata my life away like that.
    Eggsactly.

    We should be quiched out of the echo for these puns.

    Speaking of being corny and corn bread, here's a recipe I'd try:
    Title: Hominy Corn Bread

    Interesting on several levels.

    Combine hominy, shortening, eggs, and milk. Add corn-meal, salt, and

    So I was wondering about the texture and if there would be big
    chewy blobs in the finished loaf, so I went on Google to try to
    find pictures, and guess what, all the citations were irrelevant,
    probably because of some halfwit in California deciding that
    hominy and cornmeal were synonymous.

    baking powder. Let stand 5 minutes. Add 1 tablespoon more of milk if
    desirable. Pour into well-oiled pan and bake in hot oven (425 F) 35
    minutes or until a rich golden brown. 6 servings. Florence Taft

    And likewise I wondered how 35 minutes would do for the stuff,
    unless the recipe writer was thinking of grits, so why didn't
    she say GREE-YUTS?

    Eaton, Concord, MA.

    And then why was someone from Concord MA using hominy anyhow in
    the first place? Or Colorado, for that matter?

    Hominy pie
    categories: casserole, doubtful
    servings: 4 to 6

    1 1/2 lb ground beef
    1 Tb flour
    16 oz diced tomatoes
    1 ts chili powder
    2 1/2 c hominy, drained

    Brown the ground beef. Add flour, tomatoes and seasonings.
    Add the hominy and onion and place in a casserole dish
    sprayed with vegetable cooking spray. Sprinkle with cheese.
    Bake for about 30 min at 350F.

    The Grange Cookbook via Toni in Colorado, food.com

    Hominy pies must a pie eater eat, before you can call him a man?
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  • From Sean Dennis@1:18/200 to Michael Loo on Saturday, September 21, 2019 23:58:04
    MICHAEL LOO wrote to SEAN DENNIS <=-

    P.P.S. The intermediate state is achieved, with Internet and a
    connection between the phone and the printer.

    Email me with the make and model of the printer. I can get you the self-installing drivers. You just copy them to a USB stick and run the drivers from her computer.

    And I hear Stephen had one of these crap out on him. How
    does that happen, if there are no moving parts?

    It depends on a lot of things. The price point of the drive can signal whether or not it's a high quality drive though these days, nearly all
    of the memory used comes from one or two Japanese companies so it's six
    in one hand and half-dozen the other. SSDs of all types are more
    sensitive to heat than mechanical drives. There's many things that can
    cause a premature drive failure.

    I was thinking if the instruction sets could get
    translated using some kind of table, someone might make
    such a simulator. Question - why aren't all instruction
    sets the same or at least backward compatible?

    Without going too deep, it depends on the actual designed use of the processor. A RPi's processor is an ARM (the company that makes it) chip
    and it uses RISC or Reduced Instruction Set Computer.

    A good definition from:
    https://search400.techtarget.com/definition/RISC

    "RISC (reduced instruction set computer) is a microprocessor that is
    designed to perform a smaller number of types of computer instructions
    so that it can operate at a higher speed (perform more millions of instructions per second, or MIPS). Since each instruction type that a
    computer must perform requires additional transistors and circuitry, a
    larger list or set of computer instructions tends to make the
    microprocessor more complicated and slower in operation."

    There is a very thorough but easily digestible definition on that page
    and I'd recommend a quick read of it. It explains why RISC is popular.
    It also makes clear why small computers like the RPi and its ilk are
    popular. I own three RPis though they are not in use right now.

    I am all in favor of cultural sensitivity, but I'm also in
    favor of a sense of humor and not taking things too seriously.
    And as Andrew Yang noted, comedy should be judged differently,
    up to a point at least.

    If you can't make fun of yourself you can't make fun of anyone else.
    Without straying too far into political opinion or waxing poetic, I
    think we, as a society, take ourselves way too seriously these days and
    it's hurting us.

    I can't frittata my life away like that.
    Eggsactly.
    We should be quiched out of the echo for these puns.

    I have to be careful as I don't want my message to get scrambled along
    the way and take any heat for it. You know, out of the frying pan and
    into the fire.

    Speaking of being corny and corn bread, here's a recipe I'd try:
    So I was wondering about the texture and if there would be big
    chewy blobs in the finished loaf, so I went on Google to try to
    find pictures, and guess what, all the citations were irrelevant,
    probably because of some halfwit in California deciding that
    hominy and cornmeal were synonymous.

    I'd assume, as a fan of hominy, that there would be lumps.

    And likewise I wondered how 35 minutes would do for the stuff,
    unless the recipe writer was thinking of grits, so why didn't
    she say GREE-YUTS?

    I'll have to look at that and try it some day.

    And then why was someone from Concord MA using hominy anyhow in
    the first place? Or Colorado, for that matter?

    Maybe she was a transplant?

    MMMMM----- Recipe via Meal-Master (tm) v8.06

    Title: Italian Chocolate Nut Cookies
    Categories: Bakery, Italian, Cookie, Vegan, Holiday
    Yield: 1 Servings

    1/2 c Margarine
    2/3 c Cocoa, unsweetened
    2 c Light brown sugar
    1/2 c Water
    2 1/2 c Wholewheat flour
    1 1/2 ts Baking powder
    2 ts Cinnamon
    1 ts Cloves or allspice
    1 c Finely chopped almonds
    1 c Raisins

    Preheat oven to 350F.

    Combine first four ingredients in a pot. Heat slowly, stirring till
    the mixture resembles a syrup. Let cool to room temperature.

    Combine flour with baking powder & spices. Pour in chocolate syrup &
    work into a stiff batter. Add almonds & raisins.

    Form into balls no larger than 1-inch & arrange on cookie sheets.
    Bake for 12 to 15 minutes.

    Makes 4 dozen.

    Nava Atlas, "Vegetarian Celebrations" From: Mark Satterly Date: 06
    Apr 94

    MMMMM

    Later,
    Sean


    ... Would one who dislikes hominy be a antonym?
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