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Getting legacy pre internet programs accessing the internet without recompiling or modifying source code, Cobol, Basic, DOS etc.

This is a hack, also known as rerouting legacy file system calls to an internet server. If you don't have the source code available for a program but need it to access the network where it otherwise would access files, this can be done provided you know the file formats of the data your program your interested in and simultaneous access to these files from multiple sources isn't neccessary. A typical DOS program which might make use of this technology would be to let a legacy point of sales till update a webshop stock & maybe even able to handle new products uploaded to the webshop. The till would need to the DOS program restarted at set idle times like teatimes, lunch break & overnight to sync with the web server as regularly as possible. File access is exclusive to one program at the time, no concurrency. In DOS you'd do it this way in  DOSBox , Modify the DOS/BIOS/kernel( e.g. Linux) or the emulator code ( e.g. DOSBox ), the emulator code would be easier to ...

Why carpool website and apps have failed & the need for a carpool protocol ITEF RFC standard

I hope this page becomes a landing spot where carpool developers and people interested in carpooling leave contact details and more details in comments so that a serious carpool protocol development can be established. If someone has a server and is willing to start a carpool protocol mailing list that would be great. Ever since Uber shares were bought up by Google, shooting Ubers net worth the several billion, a lot of young developers are trying to make the next Uber. This has resulted in there being around 250 Android carpooling apps on the  Google Play Appstore & at least  48 open source carpool apps & websites & programs including my own attempt  TravelSmart  currently being maintained by a nice young gentleman from Florida called Chuk. I went to Odessa Ukraine to meet a Olga in 2002, a lovely lady, I met on a Russian Romance website, &, was stunned about how readily people hiched lifts & carpooled there & most drivers would give on...

Great Lowcost/Free Engineering software & resources

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It looks like finally you can design the space shuttle with free tools have a look at the treasure trove here. What I'm missing is chemistry and gene editing simulations and general medical and biology knowledge if people can recommend serious stuff they've used and been impressed with please leave info in comments. Pure Hardware Development Resources Predictable Designs  Great advice for beginners & experts on designing stuff from this mailing list and blog. Digital Fundamentals by Floyd  a true lowdown on how Digital Electronics work. Xilinx Student Edition   in it's current incarnation go at this if you want to become a digital hardware engineer. Learn VHDL/Verilog. LTSpice for Linux   this is an powerful free open source electronics simulator LTSpice with loads of electronic device models it is designed to run on Windows & runs on Ubuntu via a windows emulator called Wine, install pSpice &  Oregano if you want to stay open source pure....

Great Physics Books & Links

New Theories of Everything  what can I say all books by a distant cousin John D. Barrow are fantastic, the man has a golden pen  The Constants Of Nature  will convince you, if not bellieve in God, at least believe in the  Anthropic Principle  another book of Johns which I'll let you amazon yourself or order from your local bookstore. Feynmans Lectures On Physics  the books that they will be teaching in high school in the 25th centuary & they were written in 1965! Q is for Quantum  a fantastic book by John Gribbin, &, probably not his best seller, but should be, he used by a friend on facebook, but alas, he moved on I suspect because of my religious views ( he's at least agnostic if not athiest ), &, couldn't handle me insulting & bullying him about  Buddy Holly  music, &, telling him he should listen to Eddie Van Halen & Diamond Dave  instead my immaturity knows no bounds, 49 and not grown up yet!, like m...

Tai Lopez, &, the Bitcoin Gold Rush

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Tai Lopez, is an advertiser on YouTube, who, has no problem putting one hour advertisments up. He was honest enough to admit that the reason he drives a Lamborghini is to get teenage boys to listen to him, he is interesting, but, I like the guy, but in this case I suspect a dangerous man to listen to... I advised my friends to sell their Bitcoins at $10,000, they had made enough money. the price of Tulips went mad in the Netherlands in the 1700's and that speculation bubble burst too, I've no idea why, this is where the expression "You Tulip" comes from. Bitcoin's value unlike money, being backed by Gold, (which is not the case in the U.S. for a few decades now,  it's backed by $650 Billion of Weapons Budget spent by the U.S. each year to force the World to accept the dollar as a "Gold Backed" currency. This is why the U.S. is 20 odd Trillion in debt & basics is the rest of the world like college education & medicare is so expensive....

What is Consciousness & views on Horticulture & modern medicine

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Firstly for fantastic herbal medical advice go to  The-lost-remedies.com/book The views in this article are not necessarily generally accepted, they are an opinion. Consciousness the Universe's way of observing itself..., musing over it's Patterns... ( Science, Behaviour of Humans and other Species, &  Esotheric Science as Rudolf_Steiner  calls it ( Astrology, Talking to Spirits/Angels/God/Angels/Ghosts, Knowing because you know )). One might call Esotheric Science quackery, but, most people who follow their horoscopes believe they are accurate. Man has been spotting patterns for thousands of years, &, just because man can now observe the very small why should a tiny invisible Virus have more effect on the fortune of a man than the Stars. Anyone who ever hung around with Lunatics know the effects of the full Moon on some mentally ill people. As Goethe said, "Man spends his whole life seeking pleasure, while trying to avoid displeasure." As Eoin just ...