Just thought I'd add to the discussion that panix.com will still sell you a shell-only account for $100/year, with mail and news, so that you can use your preferred older UNIX shell-based newsreaders, and they are committed news admins who are not going to discontinue/degrade their feeds. Steve

... those things in Fortran? I wrote a hardware driver for RS232c ports for equipment control, I still use commercially - in Fortran F77. I wrote a network processing application (message switching to use mainframes as if local, between offices on three continents, for a large Oil company) - in Fortran IV. I still sell my text processing software written in Fortran, (first F77 then F90 for Windows). I wrote a TUI (sorry not GUI) ...

On Mon, 28 Jul 2008 11:14:32 +0100, Halla <halla@drunkenbastards.spam.com> wrote: I'm going to go with a 'dunno' here as well. Having had a look at the Dyson site today (goodness they have a lot of vacuum cleaners these days), they are up to DC25 now but they are still selling the DC07. They don't seem to do one like my old DC02 any more. Its particular advantage is that it sits well on the stairs.

...dunno' here as well. Having had a look at the Dyson site today (goodness they have a lot of vacuum cleaners these days), they are up to DC25 now but they are still selling the DC07. Are they? Doesn't surprise me ... it's a damn reliable beast ... and yes, I've now confirmed it *is* a DC07 :) I'm wondering if any of ...

... available, that I'm aware of. Yeah...there have been some neat little single-board PPC systems, but they've all been pretty short-lived, though I think Genesi might still sell one. I did a quick web search, and it looks like there might be some small MIPS systems. And ARM is sorta RISC-like (I think), and of course there ...

...had been removed and all he can now do is add credit to Oyster cards, or sell weekly etc. tickets on Oyster. This is an outrageous scam by T.F....on Oyster? Are you sure it is TFL making the decision, the tfl website says that ticket shops can still sell 1 day travelcards (http:// ticketlocator.tfl.gov.uk/ticket_stop.asp). Maybe the newsagent doesn't want to sell them anymore due to lack of demand. I don't know whether the ticket ...

... have you contacted the manufacturer of said laptop directly to see if they sell it with Windows XP (many vendors are still selling computers with Windows XP at this time.)? - Have you contacted the manufacturer of said laptop directly to see ... is why I asked if perhaps you responded to the wrong posting - as I still cannot connect what you are saying to the original question nor my ...

...have you contacted the manufacturer of said laptop directly to see if they sell it with Windows XP (many vendors are still selling computers with Windows XP at this time.)? - Have you contacted the manufacturer of said laptop directly to ... why I asked if perhaps you responded to the wrong posting - as I still cannot connect what you are saying to the original question nor my ...

... have you contacted the manufacturer of said laptop directly to see if they sell it with Windows XP (many vendors are still selling computers with Windows XP at this time.)? - Have you contacted the manufacturer of said laptop directly to see ... is why I asked if perhaps you responded to the wrong posting - as I still cannot connect what you are saying to the original question nor my ...

...have you contacted the manufacturer of said laptop directly to see if they sell it with Windows XP (many vendors are still selling computers with Windows XP at this time.)? - Have you contacted the manufacturer of said laptop directly to see... why I asked if perhaps you responded to the wrong posting - as I still cannot connect what you are saying to the original question nor my initial...