From: ibuprofin@painkiller.example.tld.invalid   
      
   On Sat, 27 Apr 2013, in the Usenet newsgroup alt.os.linux.mandriva, in article   
   , Jim Beard wrote:   
      
   >Moe Trin wrote:   
      
   >Bear in mind, this is Government (National Archives and Records   
   >Administration), and not the sort of thing there is a lot of   
   >demand for.  Digitizing costs money, that NARA probably would not   
   >be recover from sales.   
      
   True, but the cost of duplicating the film has to be considered.  One   
   would hope they're not selling copies created 10-20 years ago and   
   kept in a warehouse somewhere since then.   
      
   >Writing was an intellectual activity in those days, and in many   
   >instances was deliberately used to display the creativity and   
   >artistic persona of the writer.  Attack it as if a monoalphabetic   
   >substitution cypher, and you have a toe-hold.   
      
   Plus it being a manual effort rather than a machine, there will be   
   considerable variation.   I suspect you can remember the pictures of   
   those beautifully scripted letters across the top of the black-board   
   in first grade - and the teacher "Mrs. Grundy" looking at your   
   attempts to copy them and saying "try it again".   Ah, yes.   
      
   >Many of the images had 15 to 20 percent of the names so badly   
   >transcribed that you could not look at the transcribed name and   
   >guess what the original was with any hope of accuracy.   
      
   At least the enumerator probably spoke the same language.  The butchery   
   of names at Castle Garden and Ellis Island was even greater.   
      
   >>> Actually, it is interaction between the hardware, kernel, java   
   >>> (IcedTea has sometimes worked, but not often), and genealogy   
   >>> indexing software.   
      
   >> No experience, but that sounds more like a library problem than a   
   >> kernel.   
      
   >Possible.  I simply try to make things work, but will not try to   
   >identify the bugs or determine where they are.   
      
   Most of the web content I need doesn't require Java, and I've got it   
   turned off.a  I'm generally using  the OpenJDK stuff.   
      
   >The ad I noticed simply said downgraded to Win 7.  My suspicion   
   >is that the machines came with Win 7 and had been in stock for a   
   >while (which would be compatible with my hazy memory that the cpu   
   >was an i5, as i7's in laptops are fairly recent) , but the seller   
   >decided that Win 7 could be a selling poing.   
      
   For some people, that was truly the case.  I've noticed people   
   wanting Vista when win7 came out.  Some of it is not wanting to change,   
   but it's also not wanting the early versions of a "new" product.   
      
           Old guy   
      
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