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Okay Zac, are you ready for this? I've reverted your changes on Fibonacci Number, not because they're false, or vandalism, but because of WP:VERIFY, and WP:MOS. I think there's a great opportunity to grow here for you, so that's why I'm doing it this way. If you have any questions, feel free to ask :) McKay 06:11, 29 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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Thank you! A minor point, but it's valuable to be complete in these things. Jeh (talk) 20:48, 25 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Doesnt OS4 still have separate Kickstart and Workbench? You load Kickstart files from the disk and then you can boot into Workbench or boot without WB. Xorxos (talk) 17:02, 27 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Well, the section is titled 'ROM' and that part is different for AOS4. Without ever having seen OS4 in action, I presume it uses U-boot to boot the Kickstart image from HDD and then continues pretty similar to OS3- (Workbench scheme). The main difference is that Kickstart is booted and the firmware is for hardware initialization, POST and booting only. Found some details on [1] which seem to support this theory. Of course there's also OS4 for Classic, but that's (probably) a two staged startup process; either way, ROM Kickstart isn't used later on. Zac67 (talk) 17:31, 27 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

On Amiga 1000 you had to load Kickstart separately from the disk. But I am ok with it as it is now. Xorxos (talk) 20:36, 27 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Good point. Early A3000s use a 1.4 beta as boot ROM - I guess the section needs an entire rewrite as there are many variants of the general scheme. Zac67 (talk) 21:24, 27 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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Hello Zac67. I am just letting you know that I have converted the speedy deletion tag that you placed on WinAPIOverride32 to a proposed deletion tag, because I do not believe CSD applies to the page in question. Thank you. — Malik Shabazz ^Talk/_Stalk 20:24, 8 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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You're welcome, thank you! Zac67 (talk) 06:36, 4 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Zello Zac67,

Not sure this is the right place for answering, anyway let s see if it works. I worked out the infos I added about Akiko by comparting the CD32 schematics with the A1200 schematics (http://www.amigawiki.org/doku.php?id=en:service:schematics). It seems to me that Akiko was C='s attempt to cut down the Amiga line production costs by integrating into a single VLSI chip all that logics that historically had been scattered around multilpe chips due to the limitations on the max number of gates per chip of the '80s era. However, I woinder if Akiko included all the functionalities of Gayle and teh CIAs or just a subset thereof. For example, did Akiko contained the logic to drive IDE discs and floppys ? I guess this would be an interesting topic that deserves further investigations. Attilio.fiandrotti 17:00, 13 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Hello! Can you please clarify what was meant in this edit?

Here is how I'm seeing it:

• Forward error correction covers error correction / Data redundancy as engineering action
• Replication (computing) covers management tasks (where users protect/save data)
• Denormalization covered separately from databases
• Database normalization in databases has it's own topic

What else left? As you can see, this list is not small and "Data redundancy" was already covered by most of the articles.

I suggest to convert Data redundancy to disabig because there so few statements and they are far better covered somewhere else IMO.

What do you think? Ushkin N (talk) 21:27, 30 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

(Discussion move over to Talk:Data redundancy#Convert it to disambiguation please)

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Thanks for noticing the reference using what looks like a fake paper in the Ethernet article! Seems to me that there should be a worse word than plagiarism when the actual paper doesn't make sense together!

I am wondering if the whole college is fake, but decided to send a note to a dean about it.

I will tell you if I get any replies.

Gah4 (talk) 22:58, 20 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I guess the authors just wanted to write some "important" paper without actually having much knowledge on the topics and resorted to stealing from here. Melissa Highton must've been looking for sources by search engine and stumbled onto this – important to check the dates though! You're right, the paper doesn't make any sense – the process mentioned in the abstract isn't detailed at all, just some topics thrown together. --Zac67 (talk) 23:25, 20 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Reminds me of Sokal affair, but I suspect that it is closer to what you say. Is it possible to build a whole college on fake paper writing? I suspect that I might sometimes add references based on the title, but I don't think I have been quite this fooled. Gah4 (talk) 23:51, 20 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Seems the colors of the input and output pins are swapped in the legend of the PCIe pin out diagram on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PCI_Express. Input should be pink and output should be purple in the legend to match the pin names in the diagram. HSI pins are inputs that receive data and HSO pins are outputs that transmit data. The legend colors are backwards from the rest of the diagram. I figured it was just a typo and swapped them. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 137.201.242.130 (talk) 23:08, 24 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

The colors were correct, check the legend: the 'Input' and 'Output' directions are from the perspective of the add-in card while the descriptions' 'Receive' and 'Transmit' are from the perspective of the motherboard/chipset. This is somewhat counterintuitive and should be made smarter. --Zac67 (talk) 11:02, 25 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

(Changing an article often results in a fast response, discussion pages rarely. ;-) ) Is there a source for this? (proprofs may have copied the info from WP.) The T10 documents are for "members only". I have never heard of such a setup, but I have seen devices that were supposed to have this, turning out to have two busses with a Y-adapter. Have there ever been devices for 2x50pin (IDC50 or HD50) split bus? If not, stating this would be useful. --Mopskatze (talk) 23:37, 31 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

You're right, this should be sourced but I can't find anything. I've got the SPI-5 standard which doesn't seem to mention it. However, I've seen twin Narrow C50 cables for (very early) Wide SCSI in action (1995?) and (later on) twin Wide cabling for 32-bit SCSI offered by a vendor. The latter may have been a dual bus setup in reality but it did say "32-bit SCSI" (between server and storage enclosure in a set). Possibly, these setups were not by standard at all or only by an older SPI version but they did exist. --Zac67 (talk) 08:14, 1 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Zac67. I see that you have taken it upon yourself to try to keep the Power over Ethernet page up to date. This may encroach on being against the wikipedia rules but I'm curious who you are. I am the chair of 802.3bt (and was also on the staff for 802.3af and 802.3at) and I'd like to help you make this page 100% accurate. You can find my contact information easily via a simple google search. please reach out to me via email.

or don't contact me if you feel i've crossed a line, the choice is yours.

in either case, feel free to delete this section. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2001:420:C0C4:1007:0:0:0:2D9 (talk) 15:11, 12 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Not at all, I'd be delighted to get more solid information – email sent, hope I got the right address. --Zac67 (talk) 17:34, 12 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

searching for enclosure (server) , i find (less so,Blade server) Disk enclosure rack unit 19-inch rack Rack rail Server Rack could any of these potentially encompass the meaning of 'enclosure' in this context, e.g. enclosure (server) -> ... rack rail ? server rack ? MfortyoneA (talk) 13:29, 24 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

The paragraph is about desktop switches as opposed to rack switches – 19-inch rack probably best describes what is meant by "enclosure". --Zac67 (talk) 13:43, 24 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi there,

i've seen that you undo my change at the article Autobahn.

I see i've made a mistake with:

It is unlawful to stop for any reason on the autobahn, except for emergencies and when unavoidable, like traffic jams or being involved in an accident. This includes stopping on emergency corridors[...]

But that makes clear why ive changed the following:

* In a traffic jam, drivers must form an emergency corridor (Rettungsgasse) to allow emergency services to reach the scene of an accident. This improvised alley is to be created on the dividing line between the two leftmost lanes. [...]

In Germany we see an slightly differnce either its the emergency lane or as you said Stopping lane is correct. (the free lane @ https://www.ruhrnachrichten.de/Bilder/Die-A57-Richtung-Koeln-Bei-Stau-kann-auf-diesem-939020.jpg)

or the emergency corridor (the corridor @ https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rettungsgasse#/media/File:BAB_659_traffic_jam_100_2386.jpg).

So if you have no objection on the first, the emergency corridor, then I would redo this one but kept the emergency lane as you have done it.

Regards, --Aatwork (talk) 12:50, 19 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]