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What's Your Best Pest Control Tip?
Last night, I sat with my family as they cracked open blue crabs on a newspaper-covered picnic table. As things got messier and messier, the flies started coming. My cousin lamented having forgotten his electronic bug swatter, and our conversation turned to creative and effective pest control.
As we talked, I had flashes of the Japanese beetle traps my mom used to hang by our pool (effective and gross) and the fluorescent-lit hanging bug zapper that one of my dad's friends kept at his lake house (effective and eerily noisy).
In the conversation I mentioned how my husband and I had taken care of a major fly problem in our backyard with multiple reusable traps. My cousin countered by saying he knows a restaurant that keeps a bag filled with water and a few pennies tacked to a wall as a fly deterrent. (One explanation for potential success with this latter method is that the flies' many eyes are hypersensitive to the light refracted by the bag.)
I had never heard of the bag method, and I realized there are probably many other tips I'm not clued in on. The links below contain compilations of tricks for banishing bugs, but what has worked best for you?
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for fruit flies, I put a piece of orange in a tupperware, wrap saran wrap tightly over the top and poke a few holes with a fork. within hours 90% of the flies will have crawled in and gotten stuck inside! I then empty and rebuild it for the remainder. within a day or two the problem is gone
That's a fantastic fruit flies tip. I"m trying it today. thanks
We have a major mosquito problem in SC. We've keep them down (but not eliminated) with lemongrass plants surrounding our patio. Flies are our real problem! I'm going to try the bag with water and pennies.
I do this for fruit flies and it works wonders. It's like a fruit fly massacre.
The tupperware/bowl with holed saran wrap is the same thing I do, but instead put in Apple Cider Vinegar and a drop of dish soap (to break the surface tension). They crawl in and die from the vinegar. And they can't even tell their friends it's a trap! Sometimes you don't even need the saran wrap. The smell attracts them so fast.
For fruit flies I fill a small container less than halfway with apple cider vinegar and a single drop of dish soap. Then cover with plastic wrap and poke some holes. They are attracted to the scent of the vinegar and when they fly in and try to land on it they drown because the dish soap negates the surface tension on the vinegar. If they don't land and just try to fly out most of them can't because of the wrap.
It works like a champ but I'm going to give CaseyinTO's orange trick a try too. At least it would smell better!
I love that you are showcasing chemical-free pest control!!
The plastic bag trick works best when hung in a doorway. It keep flies from going inside and remember it will also keep the ones inside from flying back out.
More Tips:
-To keep bees away from a picnic keep mint around the food, maybe a vase or two.
Apparently bees don't like mint at all...It works great!
-To help the slug problem in your garden put a small amount of beer in a shallow dish in in the garden bed. They can't resist beer and will drown.
I have an issue with flies landing on people using the swimming pool. I guess they want the moisture on your skin? Any hints on how to get rid of them without using the smelly, standard fly trap would be welcome. I'm going to try the penny method today.
Jose De La O has produced a nice development on the traditional water bag deterrent- http://www.josedelao.info/Jose_de_la_O/anti-fly.html
Spiders. I had a fascinating discussion with a former room mate who was an Epidemiologist (studies disease). He was doing work in Central Africa and at first was disgusted by some of the spiders who he shared a room. That is until he talked to a local resident who said that the spiders were saving his village from Malaria.
The water-filled plastic bag thing works. We lay them on the tables at family picnics. The caveat is that they do have to be out in full sun to be effective. When a cloud blocks the sun, or shade moves over the tables, the flies return.
@Duane: Most spiders are fine, but if you live in an area with a lot of venomous ones, it's probably better to eradicate them. I grew up in an area with a lot of brown recluses and black widows, so if I see something that looks like one of those, I typically kill it on sight. If I don't want to get close enough to hit it, a vacuum cleaner usually does the trick. Also, I read somewhere that spraying your baseboards with a combination of lemon and tea tree oils in water with a little soap helps keep general pests at bay, including spiders. If you don't want to kill them, trapping them in a tupperware container or a jar as you encounter them and letting them loose outside works fine.
Another way to deter spiders like brown recluses is to cut down on clutter. I always shake out garments from my floordrobe or that have been in storage for awhile, and when I visit my parents, I always shake out the sheets they leave on my bed. Similarly, I usually reach inside boots and shoes with a pair of gloves on to make sure nobody's set up house. This may seem paranoid, but the number of times I've pulled out a stowaway are enough to keep me doing it.
Then there are those spiders that are the size of small dogs. Those I'm never quite sure what to do with, ha. I haven't seen one of those in my apartment since I got my landlord to put up a screen in the window in my bedroom, though--after the first wolf spider in my shower, I put my foot down (not on the spider, though, thank god).
The apple cider vinegar works like a charm. I had a peach that had just started to turn and they knew about it and told all their friends. There were SO many!
I just filled a mason jar with it and a couple drops of vinegar, I didn't bother with the saran wrap. They were all gone within an hour.
I had a massive ant invasion coming through my window that immediately turned around & retreated when I ground pepper over the windowsill
love all the fruit fly remedies! I do normal vinegar or a bit of coke in a water bottle with paper rolled funnel. They are attracted to the sweet smell, walk down the funnel and cant fly back out. I love it because after the massacre. I just take the funnel off and screw back on the water bottle cap and toss.
We had annual ant infestations every spring in Switzerland (too chilly outside, so they came in) and cleared them up with a liquid elixir made of borax, powdered sugar and water put on flat pieces of plastic or bottle caps. Within a few minutes, they'd all be drinking at the trough, pushing each other to get their share. And soon enough, there were no more...
So I don't know if I have really smart fruit flies or if I am just not all that smart -- but to get rid of my ff, I tried the apple cider vinegar method, soap method, fruit-in-container-plastic-wrap-holes method, and pretty much every other method touted on the internet.
After weeks of epic battles (in which I was defeated -- every time), I finally perfected my method:
Raid fly glue traps + super cheap, super sweet wine (thankfully, there's a correlation).
The Raid fly glue trap sticks have these wonderful little plastic cup thingies on each end. I poured the crappy wine into the cup thingies and overnight there was just a ff massacre. I must have caught at least 50 of those guys.
Since then, no problem.
For mosquitoes, it's true that having potted geraniums outside the windows works, it's not 100% effective though.
When I had a massive ant infestation and tried everything from spraying ground pepper, cinnamon and I can't remember what else to no avail, the Internet Gods recommended Orange Guard as a pet-safe, organic pest repellent, and it worked like magic. It smells a bit strongly of orange and geranium, be warned.
If you have no pets, Borax or Chinese chalk (which I believe is made of Borax, not sure) work very well, too.
I also found a super fun implement to get rid off spiders and the occasional cricket, the Bugzooka http://www.bugzooka.com/
You need bug cooperation to use it, i.e. it shouldn't move very fast, but it's really a harmless way to catch bugs and release them outside.
I've heard that the bag full of water trick is supposed to work when there's a penny inside, because it creates an irregular shape that seems to be in constant movement; so colored glass inside the bag would seem to work just as well, but having a vessel made of stained glass, and full of water probably wouldn't, because it lacks the optical illusion properties of the shape being distorted by the varying depths of water around it.
My Grandma does the water-n-pennies-in-a-bag trick and she doesn't have a fly one in her house. I personally don't like the aesthetics of it so I have not tried it and will stick to my fly-swatter wielding husband for those pests LOL. FF are a problem, but only when I have a turning piece of food. I leave out the ACV and dishsoap in a pretty container that I got just for that job and remove the turning food to the outside trash IMMEDIATELY... most of the FF follow it outside. Success rate with the ACV is 100%. I also clean with natural cleaners, that have ingredients that the bugs don't like, like vinegar and tea tree oil castile soap!
You'd be amazed at how well a fan keeps the bugs away. The moving air not only blows the bugs away, but blows away your scent that attracts the bugs in the first place.
We found a relatively inexpensive outdoor oscillating fan last year on Amazon ($89, but that was vs. the $300+ most models were). It is rated for outdoor use and can remain on an uncovered deck or patio even through the rain.
This past year we built a roofed porch and installed a ceiling fan. It keeps the air moving, cooling us off and shooing away bugs. We haven't needed to use citronella candles (questionable efficacy anyway) or spray ourselves with OFF at all this year.
Wow.. it got cheaper. Here is the fan we purchased for outdoor use:
a line of cinnamon will stop ants in their tracks. To get rid of roaches, mix borax and sugar and put in small dishes in as many places as you can hide it away! worked wonders in my last place with a pest problem!
To stop whitefly attacking your plants (especially your tomatoes) wrap bright yellow gaff or plumbers tape around the top inch or so of your stakes. Smear the stakes with petroleum jelly. You've just made your some DIY fly paper.
For mosquitoes:
I love Spider-man but hate to have spider at my home. I always try to control spider at my home. I follow the following steps to do so. You can try them,
• Eliminate food sources
• Remove webs
• Replace outdoor light bulbs
• Eliminate clutter
For wasps: You tie a light coloured towel into a cone shape (messy, not too tidy) and wrap around it a string long enough to have a long tail on top (the widest part). It has to look like a wasp nest.
Then hang it over a central area that wasps can see it (it can be high up, I did this over the patio seating area) and they won't come around or try to nest as wasps never nest close to each other.
A place called LULU's in Gulf Shores have water bags hanging from the ceilings, no flys. Lucy Buffet owns it, Jimmy Buffet's sister. Great place.
I recently moved into a new apartment. I like it a lot but there is a slight pest problem. This article was very helpful and had a lot of good tips. I will have to try them out!
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I love these pest control tips so much! I used a similar method for fruit fly control. They're so tiny and numerous that it was driving me crazy. I'm grateful that I don't have any major problems in my house, though. My sister's house is pretty much infested with tons of pests. I wonder if she'll hire a pest control service. Hopefully she finds a good one if she does. Thanks for the post and tips! http://www.pestcontrolnorthcarolina.com/pest-control.html


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When Nike releases its new Lunar TR1 Week Zero collection on August 27, eight different schools will have shoes featuring their logos and colors, and UGA will be included among those schools.
The shoe (pictured above) is adorned with Georgia's red, black and grey colors, with the famed Georgia "G" on the shoe's tongue, and the word "Dawgs" inscribed on the side of the sole.
Along with UGA, Nike will be releasing shoes featuring Texas, Michigan State, Oregon, Florida State, Alabama, Ohio State and Oklahoma as part of the Week Zero launch, with the shoes becoming available the day before the college football season begins.
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Nike invented the cross-training category born out of a drive to meet the otherworldly needs of multisport athletes. Twenty-seven years later, Nike unveils new state-of-the-art performance training footwear – the Nike Lunar TR1. It is a shoe for the next generation of world-class athletes.
The shoes will have a retail price of $120, and will be available at Nike.com as well as other authorized Nike retailers.
The Lunar TR1 is an excellent training shoe, and if you are serious about your workouts and your Dawgs, then this shoe is a must-have in your locker.
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A large amount of paper is typically wasted at meetings because of extra copies and discarded handouts. Technology can aid your green efforts by helping to reduce the use of paper and thus conserve natural resources. Distribute meeting materials electronically rather than printing them. Display agendas and meeting information electronically and at kiosks. The use of web conferencing can also help participants attending remotely to follow along.
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Meetings can be stressful and sometimes taxing on our mental and physical health. Have you considered adding wellness activities to the agenda to decrease stress and increase energy? Think about it: adding physical activities is an easy way to incorporate health in the meeting plans.
If food will be served during your meeting, try to offer nutritious choices. Your participants will be pleasantly surprised to find something other than donuts at the table! Keep in mind that various aspects of the food preparation and serving should also be planned carefully. The dishware and utensils should be reusable, and waste management should include recycling and even composting, if possible.
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NYC is under a federal mandate to improve water quality by reducing the negative impact of the city's combined sewer overflows (CSO) on its water bodies. In 2010, the city released the NYC Green Infrastructure Plan based on a determination that, in many instances, its return on investment in "green" infrastructure, such as swales and green roofs, would be greater than an alternate investment in traditional "grey" infrastructure.
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The Dodgers have announced their active 25-man roster for the 2014 regular season. The club also officially announced the placement of Clayton Kershaw on the 15-day DL, and the optioning of reliever Jose Dominguez to Albuquerque. The Dodgers will go with 12 pitchers, and 13 position players, with six players on the disabled list to start the season. Remember with Matt Kemp nearing a return to action, and Josh Beckett's fifth spot in the rotation not needed until late April, means the roster is bound to change between now and then. In the meantime take a look at how the roster breaks down.
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Since first taking these meatballs to various social events a few years ago, I've shared the recipe many times. Sweet apple jelly provides a nice contrast to the tangy barbecue sauce. - Kay Townsend, Obion, Tennessee.
10 Servings
Prep: 45 min. Bake: 30 min.
1 egg
2 tablespoons butter, melted
1/4 cup crushed seasoned stuffing
1 envelope onion soup mix
2-1/2 pounds
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1 jar (12 ounces) apple jelly
1 can (8 ounces) tomato sauce
In a large bowl, combine the first four ingredients. Crumble beef
over mixture and mix well. Shape into 1-in. balls.
In a large skillet, brown the meatballs; drain. Transfer to a greased
3-qt. baking dish. In a large saucepan, combine the sauce
ingredients; bring to a boil. Reduce heat; simmer for 10 minutes.
Pour over meatballs.
Cover and bake at 325° for 30 minutes or until meat is no longer
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No cancel that, I like them but I loathe the tossers they seem to attract.
Every pissing year it's the same.
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it's very sad that it's only 8am and i'm already over this day.
Thanksgiving is suppose to be happy/fun with family. well my only so called "family" left is from my step dads side … I already don't like him, and now his horribly hick nasty family is here too. I never could imagine that it could get worse. where everyone sits on there fat butts, while my mom (who refuses for me to help with anything BUT the pies) slaves over the stove all day for these people, that even she doesn't like.
And if that's not enough they think it's funny to "race" me to the only bathroom in the house. and then tease me about getting there first, I swear if it happens one more time, I might end up in jail because I won't be bullied by these nasty people.
So therefore I guess I'll lock myself in my room, watch the parade and scroll on here all day.
what a life.
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When I was first diagnosed with my Digestive Disorder
I admit
That so many times
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I ate because…I was hungry
I ate because…it was a habit
I ate because…I couldn't accept my illness
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But yet
Not satisfied
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My digestive disorder?
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First thing he said was "i see why drs scratch their heads at me"
… Stupid freaking Lynchburg didn't even send my disc of procedures … So with my physical exam today plus blood work and once he sees those results, he'll order the proper test he wants done.
" Im just disappointed that it wasn't like Dr: i think its _______ so this is the procedure or meds i want to do"
it wasn't an "i don't know" or anything, just a wanting to investigate more. so I cant be too upset.
i'm extremely nervous :/ and i gotta leave at 4am …
gonna be loads of fun …
I've honestly been having a very had time lately, i really just feel like giving up. I'm always the one to help cheer up someone, but when i need cheering up … where are all those people who said they'd be here????
Having IBD alone is a huge thing to deal with, but this month i've learned that 1) I have mono, that relapsed from a case of bronchitis 2) i'm slowing going blind in my left eye, thanks for the huge amounts of vitamin diff. i have 3) my GI "washed" his hands of me, and im suppose to be going to Duke … but i havent heard anything at all.
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Just got 20 veils of blood taken, like a champ! :)
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The Phoenix Coyotes continued their frustrating play Friday night against the Chicago Blackhaws, but in a good way.
Confusing? So is this team.
After a disappointing loss to a middling Dallas Stars team Tuesday, the Coyotes continued their up-and-down ways with a solid win over Chicago.
For most of the game, the Coyotes and Blackhawks both failed to seize control of the game and looked listless, especially in the second period. However, Phoenix made very few mistakes and did a great job shutting down a talented Chicago team.
When the final whistle blew, the Coyotes emerged the victors. More importantly, they also moved themselves back into the playoffs.
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With the win, the Coyotes leapfrogged the Vancouver Canucks for the eighth and final spot in the Western Conference playoffs. They are currently one point clear of their Pacific Division foes.
Goaltender Mike Smith, who is finally looking settled between the pipes, posted his second shutout of the season. He made 30 saves on the night, including a beauty that made Blackhawks forward Patrick Sharp stop, stare and slowly skate away.
Center Antoine Vermette continues to terrify NHL goalies. He extended his point streak to nine straight games with an assist on the Coyotes' first goal of the night. He currently has the longest active point streak in the league. In that streak, he's posted 8-4-12.
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Defenseman Keith Yandle likes the power play. A lot. He tallied his 21st point on the man advantage Friday with an assist on Radim Vrbata's goal. He's tied for eighth-highest in the league.
The Blackhawks had not been shutout in 127 regulation games, dating back to February 2012 when the Los Angeles Kings managed to blank them. That streak was snuffed out Friday.
The Coyotes paid homage to the gold-medal winning 1980 men's Olympic hockey team on Friday with a pregame ceremony and press conference. Ten players from the Miracle on Ice team, including captain Mike Eruzione, were in attendance and received a standing ovation and a rising "USA" chant during the ceremony.
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Dr Antony Antoniou: Brief CV
Higher Education
1987-90 BSc, Biochemistry, Warwick University
1990-94 PhD, Clinical Research Centre, Harrow, Transplantation Biology
Research Career (to date)
1995-1999, Postdoctoral Research Assistant (Prof. Colin Watts)
1999-2003, Postdoctoral Research Assistant (Dr. Simon Powis)
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I gasped for breath as I racewalked, running at stop lights with eyes on the ever counting of sidewalk clocks (NYC asks a lot of you), while consistently risking my life in front the fast and furious yellow cabs, precariously pushing off the ice paved sidewalk, and keeping up with breathing on the streets of New York, my mind was racing, but my body was about to give out under.
So in those my moments, instead of focusing on the content of the next meeting, my mind wondered off to the philosophical, and asked the question, "Is this what it takes?"
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Bill Gates: Yes, Ctrl-Alt-Del salute was a MISTAKE
Microsoft supremo Bill Gates has claimed that the ctrl-alt-del keystroke - once a way of admitting defeat in the face of crashing software - was a mistake all along. Anyone with a passing knowledge of PCs will remember hammering those three keys to forcefully reboot the computer as code locked up. Some people even called the …
"Microsoft. We're so confident that you'll need to reboot, we want a DEDICATED KEY for it."
We Unix people laughed and laughed when one of the most vaunted features of Windows 2000 was that it would go *so long* without rebooting -- like *30 days* -- that they built in a special "reboot at a regular interval" feature.
Which, of course, we would have called "cron". If we thought that it was a good idea in the first place.
Re: WAT
Yes a nearly crash proof OS was 1970s technology (sure someone will point out even earlier probably) but Billy still can buy any yacht he wants.
Re: WAT
Yes, just not everybody could afford a Unix machine then, and its very expensive applications, and most Unix users worked on system they didn't pay for, but their universities and companies did. Thus most people were happy with cheaper machines although sometimes you needed a reboot....
Re: WAT
MS-DOS and early versions of Windows were designed for a processor without protection domains. You couldn't do anything to protect the OS against a crashing process. In Windows you not only couldn't protect the OS but you had to rely on third-party hardware providers writing good drivers.
I guess to the extent that Microsoft deserve criticism, it's not transitioning their OS fast enough as the x86 architecture matured. With computer sales growing exponentially throughout the 80s and early 90s that made legacy software compatibility much more of a problem than it needed to be. But probably they genuinely believed OS/2 would happen.
Re: to the extent that Microsoft deserve criticism?
There is no "extent." There is no limit to the criticism that Microsoft deserves, especially for those dreadful "Early" versions (say up to W2K) each of which it expected us to pay to escape.
Re: to the extent that Microsoft deserve criticism?
Well, at least MS had the excuse that the processors it ran on 8086 and 8088 didn't have mem protection. Apple COULD have wired in protection for the 68000 (Mac onward) but elected not to due to cost. OS/2 used mem protection from the 286 onwards. NT, based on the 386 did too.
The consumer OS's didn't. Because:
1. RAM was expensive, and the memory protected OS's (OS/2 and NT) both needed more of it.
2. Many apps didn't respect process boundaries and crashed anyway, e.g. directly accessed interrupt tables to hook stuff. So, to keep compatible you couldn't protect memory.
But, rewrite history all you like?
Re: WAT
1. Early Unix machines also lacked protected memory, as did early versions of Minix. Both were more stable than MS-DOS before 6.2.
2. OS/2 did happen, in a technical sense at least, and it ran Windows applications better and more reliably than Windows did.
But can he win the America's cup?
Re: to the extent that Microsoft deserve criticism? (@Tinker Tailor Soldier)
I'm unclear who you think is rewriting history — essentially both the PC and the Mac came from companies that understood protected memory and MMUs perfectly but choose to omit the hardware for cost purposes. There was an MMU in the Lisa, there wasn't in the Mac. There was one in any number of IBM machines going back decades, there wasn't in the PC.
The history of Apple's multiple subsequent internal OS development screw-ups is interesting but quite distinct from Microsoft's errors. The stories start similarly but Apple get to the point between 6 and 7 where the resources were such that they could have afforded just to run multiple instances of 6 simultaneously and preemptively to multitasking properly with memory protection on those devices with MMUs, but instead they double down on cooperative multitasking and spend the newly spare resources on rewriting a bunch of things in C. After the PowerPC move they have a full preemptive, protected memory handling nano-kernel which is used to run the existing OS. For quite a while large parts of the stack remained in 68000 code and just ran through an emulator — they spent engineering time getting the emulator down small enough to fit entirely within the processor cache because it was a more effective way to transition than dealing with the OS proper.
Re: to the extent that Microsoft deserve criticism?
Why just the dreadful early versions ? True, w2k was good - by MS standards, that is - but anything before that was crap and anything after it was bloatware, with the notable exceptions of Windows Me, Vista and 8, which are crap (latter two being both bloated crap).
Re: WAT
Windows NT4 was quite capable of going 30 days without reboot, w2k could go far longer. I am not aware of any "reboot at a regular interval feature" unless someone created their own scheduler job. It's certainly not built in functionality.
At around the time of NT4, I had a pretty good Sun Sparc UNIX workstation on my desk, it cost around £10k, at the company I worked for at the time we could get fully licensed NT4 Servers running on Compaq proliant hardware for half that price. They were good servers, too. Consequently UNIX servers started their inexorable departure from the datacentre. Proprietary RISC Unix doesn't deliver the bang for buck of either Windows or Linux on Intel. What's the point of being able to stay up for years on end, if no-one can afford it and the alternatives are good enough, particularly with modern clustering.
Re: to the extent that Microsoft deserve criticism?
@Thad - I think you're re-writing history there - Windows was the software that allowed people to break the stranglehold of Big Iron Unix on the datacentre. At the time there was simply no need to use Unix for many tasks, it was over engineered, but it took Windows (and to a lesser extend OS/2 and Netware) to break into the datacentre and do those commodity tasks at commodity prices.
Re: WAT
The Interdata 7/32 was a very early Unix platform (the first non-AT&T according to K&R Ed 1!)
It certainly had memory protection and used user and system level interrupts to process things. Processes were isolated from each other.
(admission time: there weren't any 7/32s around when I joined the company, but there were the slightly newer 8/32's!)
@ThomH: You were doing ok
until that very last statement. Their dealings with IBM on OS/2 even more than their dealings with Lotus 1-2-3 forever cemented the "Microshaft" nickname.
Re: WAT
30 days? C'mon, where'd you get that? I had a Windows 2000 laptop that ran for 14 months before the battery died during a winter power outage.
Re: But, rewrite history all you like?
I wouldn't say rewriting. That's your interpretation.
As far as your point #2 goes, Apps didn't respect the boundary because they didn't HAVE to. If they'd been forced to respect it, we'd probably all be better off now.
And yes, I recall when memory was super-expensive. I also recall being sorely disappointed when having finally plopped down a huge wad so I could buy enough to have a proper RAM disk to speed up my system, it turned out the VESA local bus disk controller I had already installed made its addition barely noticeable.
Re: WAT
Many computers were like that. They added MMUs and all sorts of things later.
But adding protection and things to stop the machine crashing almost parallels safety protections on cars. It just resulted in worse coding just like a safer car results in worse driving.
Of course now we're glad of mem protection because of malware and keeping that in check.
Re: @ThomH: You were doing ok (@Tom 13)
I buy the version where the surprise success of Windows gave Microsoft the idea to renege — they stabbed their partner in the back as soon as an opportunity arose but had not expected or been planning for the opportunity.
I can't think of another reason why they'd create the multitasking, new executable DOS 4, barely license it and then push all its code off into OS/2, subsequently picking up DOS from the version 3 code base.
Re: WAT
"Microsoft. We're so confident that you'll need to reboot, we want a DEDICATED KEY for it."
Uhm, no.
BillG talked about a dedicated key to produce the _login_ screen. I.e. Windows NT, not 16-bit Windows or DOS.
Re: WAT
Even systems like Minix, AmigaOS (on the 68000) and MacOS (68000) implemented a 3 fingered salute for those when a rogue process stomped on the kernel and rendered the whole machine unresponsive.
The issue is not the OS but the CPU's lack of memory protection.
Reboot Jockeys
Where I worked we called the windows "sys admins" reboot jockeys. A name that they fully deserved. It was not uncommon, at the end of the day, to see them drop a windows machine from the load balancer, reboot and then put it back in again and then work their way through all of them like this in the hope that they would last overnight. The idea of investigating why something went wrong never entered their head.
A dozen years later and things have improved significantly. Most of them now look to perform a reboot as a last resort rather than a first and they will actually investigate the cause when something goes wrong.
Re: WAT
I've seen many UNIX/Linux machines over my career with uptimes of 1000+ days.
I even ran a mailserver on an old 386/FreeBSD that had 200+ days of uptime until a power snafu happened.
But my favourite "uptime" story is the (possibly apocryphal) one about the Novell Netware box that nobody could find. It worked, responded to pings etc, but nobody had any clue where exactly it was. It was finally discovered, amongst other "old" kit behind a wall that contractors had put in about 5 years earlier.
Re: WAT
(a) you are full of sh1t
(b) you never did any kind of update
(c) you never ran any software or
(d) you never plugged it into a network
My money is on all 4
"Oops. Did hitting that mess something up for you?"
And I would like to add that asking for a single dedicated "BORK YOUR COMPUTER" key on a computer keyboard may be the single stupidest thing I have ever heard a multizillionaire brag about.
Re: "Oops. Did hitting that mess something up for you?"
There's already such a key and it is the PC power switch! (I know Ctrl+Alt+Del performs a soft reboot...)
Anyway a single key to reboot a PC would have been really very, very dangerous - and silly. The IBM guy did a good work selecting a combination you can't use by mistake.
Re: "Oops. Did hitting that mess something up for you?"
would have been really very, very dangerous ???? You mean like that key that you hit and it ignores everything else until it goes to sleep - ten seconds after you hit the power switch so when you power up again whatever was running needs a re-install.
A Windows keyboard - smells less than pouring your beer into the fan but not as nice.
Re: "Oops. Did hitting that mess something up for you?"
The BBC micro's BREAK key basically was what Gates was asking for.
Although you could intercept the call and stop it from performing the reset.
Re: "Oops. Did hitting that mess something up for you?"
Reset button was usually right there on the chasis.
Re: "Oops. Did hitting that mess something up for you?"
A Windows keyboard - smells less than pouring your beer into the fan but not as nice.
Power buttons on the keyboard is something Apple Macs had first. It's just as fucking annoying on them, too. Think different? Yeah, right.
Amusingly, the keyboard I'm using thankfully has no such retardedness on it. Model? Microsoft Wireless Keyboard 800.
Re: "Oops. Did hitting that mess something up for you?"
It didn't work on its own though only as a key combination. (With either shift or control).
Re: "Oops. Did hitting that mess something up for you?"
IIRC, BREAK was more like CtrlC than the CtlAltDel
Re: "Oops. Did hitting that mess something up for you?"
Esc stopped the programme (error 17, easy to stop) Break did a "soft" reset, ctrl+break did a "hard" reset IIRC.
The Amiga had a similar one I think - was it ctrl+amiga+amiga?
Re: the PC power switch!
I've seen a server downed by a foolish knee movement, but generally, one's finger wandering doesn't extend off the keyboard to the case itself. Not unless one is really kinky.
Re: "Oops. Did hitting that mess something up for you?"
The original Apple ][ and ][+ had a "RESET" key on the top right of the keyboard, right above the Return (i.e. Enter) key. It was very easy to hit it by mistake and lose all your work. Many users would make it harder to hit RESET by putting rubber washers under the keycap or using various other tricks. Eventually, someone at Apple realized that single-key RESET was NOT a good idea, and from the Apple //e onwards the design was changed so you had to press Ctrl+RESET to do a reset.
Bill & Co used to write stuff for the Apple... guess he forgot about this!
Can't believe I remember that - was one of the ways to annoy BASIC programmers. Ctrl+Break did the trick :)
Re: "Oops. Did hitting that mess something up for you?"
And I would like to add that asking for a single dedicated "BORK YOUR COMPUTER" key on a computer keyboard may be the single stupidest thing I have ever heard a multizillionaire brag about.
Around the time MS-DOS was appearing there were computers with single key "resets" - e.g. the BBC Micro had the "Break" button which was "conveniently" sitting at the top right of the keyboard right next to keys that you would use in normal usage. This meant it was quite possible to press it by mistake .... think as a result a market developed for plastic covers which sat over the break key preventing it being pressed.
I always though that having to press 3 keys (and 3 keys that needed both hands on most keyboards) was an eminently sensible idea to make it clear you were really meaning to reset the PC. Later when C-A-D became the way to bring up the login menu in later versions of windows was probaly more problematic as (a) you wanted to login in - what else where you going to do at that point and (b) using a key combination that was (at least subconciously) associated with "help, my PC has gone wrong" with an action that said "I've just turned my PC on, lets get started" seemed counter intuitive.
Re: "Oops. Did hitting that mess something up for you?"
Reset button was usually right there on the chassis.
I remember a MAC with the reset button at "mouse height". The number of people in my lab who accidentally ran their mouse into it. Disbelief, cold sweat, realisation, anger, and finally the search for something like a rubber (1) to sit in front of it.
(1) No, John Doe: that's a pencil eraser
Re: *KEY 10 "OLD|MRUN|M"
Of course the BBC Master had a "Break Lock" which could physically prevent you from pressing the Break key.
Re: the PC power switch!
In the early days of PCs, the power switch sometimes protruded proud of the case. Back then it was a hard mains switch, not a soft switch. I've seen major damage caused by pushing the keyboard back against the idiot-designed case. Later, the power switch (and reset button) were always recessed. Ease-of-use is not always a good thing. Big red switches ought to come with Mollyguards. Needing three fingers for C/A/D was definitely good design not bad. It's pretty much impossible to C/A/D by any kind of mistake.
The PC KEYBOARD power switch
Soooo.... Nobody here remembers the retarded keyboards from the mid-00's with the awful "shutdown" key? Especially the ones that had a row of "shutdown, suspend, sleep" keys right below the "insert, delete, hone/end" keys. So you could be trying to press End, but press the cursed shutdown key, which would send an unstoppable shutdown command to Windows! Weeeeee!!
I usually had an unsaved Notepad session somewhere, so that I could click Cancel on the save dialog to stop the process. Though if you took too long, all the other apps would have been killed by the OS anyway... :(
Re: The PC KEYBOARD power switch
Oh gods, yes. I had one of those fucking things. Most ridiculous idea for a keyboard. I ended up removing those three keys physically after one unintended power-cycle too many.
Ignore the obvious choice
"Guy who did IBM keyboard design didn't want to give us our single button."
Was there something wrong with using the SysRq (System Request) key? It was the obvious choice, and that key has been around since the PC/AT days.
Re: Ignore the obvious choice
I think Gates wanted a single, dedicated, button because it would make the keyboards different. Great branding strategy, kind of dumb from systems design standpoint though. Computers, by default, are the great reuse kings of everything. Building single use, most anything, into a computer is kind of dumb. It goes against everything a computer represents.
Re: Ignore the obvious choice
That's used under Windows though.
Pause/Break on the other hand... "Hello, IT" "My computer has broken / paused. Fix it" "Just push the Pause / Break button" "Many thanks good sir"
Re: Ignore the obvious choice
Or used the PrntScrn button instead. They could have made some big time partnerships with ink manufacturers at the same time.
Re: Ignore the obvious choice
Er, yes, but the PC/AT wasn't around in the PC days. The PC-101 keyboard came out several years after the original PC.
Re: Ignore the obvious choice
IIRC, SysRq was used by OS/2, and it is still used by Linux.
Of course modern OSs are more complex than DOS, and you don't want to shut them down without stopping all the processes and syching all the disks. So hold down Ctrl-Alt-SyqRq and type (slowly)
r - Put the keyboard into a sensible mode
s - Sync the disks
e - Terminate all processes
i - In case some processes are hung ignoring signals, kill them all with a big axe.
s - Sync the disks again, to be sure, to be sure.
u - Unmount all disks
b - Reboot (or o to switch off).
Raising Skinny Elephants Is Sometimes Utterly Boring
Re: Ignore the obvious choice
Joe User : Was there something wrong with using the SysRq (System Request) key? It was the obvious choice, and that key has been around since the PC/AT days.
jaywin: That's used under Windows though.
This was 1981. Windows did not exist. DOS ruled. The dreadful first release of the Windows operating environment (i.e., a type of DOS application) came along just before 1986, and it did not become truly usable and widely popular until v 3.1 in 1992 - 11 years after the standard IBM keyboard was first manufactured.
Re: Ignore the obvious choice
"The dreadful first release of the Windows operating environment (i.e., a type of DOS application) came along just before 1986, and it did not become truly usable and widely popular until v 3.1 in 1992 - 11 years after the standard IBM keyboard was first manufactured."
And still being co-operativemulti-tasking, like the Archimedes IIRC, but without MS being very honest about it one rogue application could still hang your computer.
Thanks Microsoft.
Re: Ignore the obvious choice
"Er, yes, but the PC/AT wasn't around in the PC days. The PC-101 keyboard came out several years after the original PC."
Read. History. Carefully.
The original PC (the 5150) came out in late '81, with an 83-key keyboard. It was superseded in 1983 by the PC/XT (the 5160) which used the same keyboard.
The PC/AT (the 5170) came out in 1984, using an 84-key keyboard, the 84th key being SysRq. The keyboard connection was not compatible in either direction with the PC / PC/XT keyboard connection, except that many third-party keyboards had converter switches.
The 101/102-key layouts reached us in 1987 with the arrival of the PS/2s.
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Marines grant honorable discharge to gay man as dying wish
NPR: The US Marine Corps has granted an honorable discharge to a terminally ill man who was kicked out of the service in the 1950s for being gay.
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Could Garth Brooks' Ireland Shows Still Happen?
Ticketmaster has delayed the refund process for Garth Brooks' five Ireland shows, giving lots of fans hope that something could change and the country singer will still perform as planned.
Ticketmaster has delayed the refund process for Garth Brooks' five Ireland shows, giving lots of fans hope that something could change and the country singer will still perform as planned.
Garth Brooks has been all the talk in country music this week, from the cancelation of his five shows in Ireland to his announcement Thursday (July 10) of going digital and kicking off a new record deal. Naturally, fans are taking to Facebook to talk about the big news.
Journalists from Ireland traveled to Nashville to ask Garth Brooks questions about the five canceled Dublin shows, and the singer didn't hold back. Putting the blame squarely on government officials, Brooks said "The problem isn't here."
Garth Brooks' music will be going digital. The singer made the stunning announcement during a press conference on Thursday (July 10).
During his press conference Thursday (July 10), Garth Brooks will reportedly be announcing a major tour and a new album to be released with promotional help from Sony Nashville.
Garth Brooks' impact is massive, and his fanbase spreads worldwide. A young Norwegian boy, Jørgen Dahl Moe, is living proof of the country star's draw. He sings 'If Tomorrow Never Comes' while playing the acoustic guitar, and although his voice is different than Brooks' (after all, he was only in grade school!), they both have one thing in common: obvious talent.
All five of Garth Brooks' scheduled comeback concerts in Dublin, Ireland have been canceled after negotiations were unsuccessful. The Dublin city council threatened to cancel two of the five shows, to which Brooks decided that it was all or nothing.
Garth Brooks fans expecting a big announcement on Monday morning are going to have to wait a few more days. Instead of big news, the singer revealed an official press conference scheduled for Thursday (July 10).
The Dublin city council has refused to give permission for two of the five Garth Brooks concerts planned for this month at Croke Park in Ireland.
Garth Brooks says "the wait is over," but what does it mean? The superstar teased a big announcement on his website this week, leaving many to speculate that he'll announce a full-scale comeback.
Garth Brooks' highly anticipated comeback in Ireland is just around the corner, and despite threats of legal action against the five-night concert series at Croke Park, the shows will go on!
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