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#191
10-01-2007, 08:37 PM
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Re: Obsolete Skills
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[ QUOTE ] I still know a ton of DOS commands that will never be used again (at least by me). [/ QUOTE ] I was gonna post this. [/ QUOTE ] The command line still comes in handy once in awhile. I've had a few occasions when I was trying to copy a directory tree with Explorer, and got an error on one file, which would terminate the copy before it finished. There's a switch for xcopy that will continue after an error, so you can do the copy, then figure out what the problem is with that one file, and fix it. 
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#192
10-01-2007, 11:06 PM
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Re: Obsolete Skills
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[ QUOTE ] Another obscure mathematical curiosity that I discovered (and since have found out is of course very well known, but I had never known it before and so constructed it myself) is that pi ~ 355/113. This might not seem impressive, but it's accurate to 8.5 millionths of 1%. [/ QUOTE ] One of the simple expansions of pi converges to 3, 22/7, and this, in the first 3 or four terms. I think just a few more terms of that expansion (I wish I could remember what it was) can give you dozens of digits. [/ QUOTE ] I believe it's 4-(4/3)+(4/5)-(4/7)+(4/9)-(4/11)...
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#195
10-02-2007, 01:14 PM
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Re: Obsolete Skills
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Figuring out how to configure your DOS machine so that you can play Doom, run Win31, some older games that rely on your first 640k, and still have sound and CDROM. The good old days... [/ QUOTE ] Good one, good one.
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#196
10-02-2007, 01:16 PM
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Re: Obsolete Skills
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anyone still cooking popcorn in a pan on the stove? [/ QUOTE ] Popcorn from the pan, microwave popcorn, air popped popcorn, movie theater popcorn. Four different tastes, I still use them all.
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#197
10-02-2007, 01:52 PM
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Re: Obsolete Skills
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[ QUOTE ] I used to be able to tap-dial any number on a rotary dial phone. Useful for stealing calls when there was a padlock on the dial. [/ QUOTE ] I know what you're talking about, but i bet 90% of the people who read your post will have no idea. I can't remember the last time I even saw a rotary dial phone. [/ QUOTE ] A friend of mine has a rotary in his living room. He calls it the "age test". Its pretty much a fool-proof indicator if someone was born after 1980 when they go to make a call, pick up the receiver, then stare at it blankly for about a minute. Oh, and I do popcorn on the stove top.
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#199
10-04-2007, 04:12 AM
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Re: Obsolete Skills
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[ QUOTE ] [ QUOTE ] I used to be able to tap-dial any number on a rotary dial phone. Useful for stealing calls when there was a padlock on the dial. [/ QUOTE ] I know what you're talking about, but i bet 90% of the people who read your post will have no idea. I can't remember the last time I even saw a rotary dial phone. [/ QUOTE ] A friend of mine has a rotary in his living room. He calls it the "age test". Its pretty much a fool-proof indicator if someone was born after 1980 when they go to make a call, pick up the receiver, then stare at it blankly for about a minute. Oh, and I do popcorn on the stove top. [/ QUOTE ] Heh. The 'obsolete skill' went from tap dialing to using a rotary phone at all. (I'm only 22 so I had to Google the tap dialing thing as well)
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