in addition, the IT admins for our 2000+ high school didnt know what puTTY was and kept removing it from my personal storage folder out of fear of what it was.
That's amusing, that's the first thing I make my students download. I haven't found a better Windows term emulator.
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Don't block the exit doors, the smarter employees will need out somehow.
So you're saying it's okay to block the exit doors, right?
Integrated NICs may work fine when they work, but again - I've seen many a blown NIC card due to power surges/spikes. I'd rather swap a card and have a fully functional machine again than have a dead port permanently soldered onto the back of my computer....
In a computer lab where I teach, we had 25 Toshiba Equiums with integrated NICs, and in the two years we had them in that lab, we probably sent back 4 or 5 motherboards with fried integrated NICs. Sometimes we could get them to limp along with an ISA or PCI NIC, but other times Windows would refuse to remember that we'd disabled the dead integrated NIC, so on restart it would try to reinstall the drivers.
To be on-topic, I don't think this is likely to happen with intergrated wireless; I just question its inclusion at a time when people can't secure their own wireless access points.
The only ones left will be the big giant OEMs, like Compaq, and IBM who last I checked, still made their own BIOS.
Dell also makes their own BIOS, but it's pretty light on features and kind of strange to configure. One Dell Optiplex will have a completely different BIOS from a slightly different model Optiplex (i.e., the Optiplex GX1 vs. the G1). They can also have some problems accepting new IDE hardware being added to the system - I get the "Press F1 to configure or F2 to continue" warnings all the time, even after configuring a new drive in the BIOS.
As for IBM.... it varies from machine to machine, but I typically find their BIOS to be much less forgiving to hardware changes, and it also takes forever to finish loading (compared to Phoenix/Award BIOSes). You often can't change the boot devices to allow for a CD-ROM to boot, and sometimes settings won't save. I had a bunch of IBM Netvistas whose batteries died while not being used over the summer, and even after replacing the battery and changing the boot order in the BIOS to boot from a floppy (so we could wipe the hard drive), it would still skip the floppy drive and go straight to the hard drive. I had to set it to do the extended startup test just to boot from the floppy.
For Netfinity servers, I can understand the need for the IBM BIOS features, but for workstations and laptops, I've been less than impressed. If Phoenix goes away from a BIOS, I'm sure some competitor will step up and eclipse them. I'm sure some of us thought that based on their market share in the mid-90's, Iomega would own the removable storage market, but now they're just barely hanging on. This could happen to Phoenix if they're not careful.
Also, if you're going to buy the dual 1.8 GHz Mac, BUY IT NOW. You'll be happier this way. See, if the worst time to buy is just before a revision comes out, then you get further and further from that to the happiest point just after a revision comes out.
Unfortunately, whenever Apple releases a new model, it always takes so long for them to meet demand that you're already halfway to the next revision before your machine even arrives. Unless you're obsessed with owning only the newest and fastest shiny things, your best bang for the your buck is to buy the previous version immediately after the new revision is released - you don't have to worry about delivery times, and you get a nice discount on good machine.
The trick though would be to not kill backwards compatibility. I think a toggle for the ram/bus would be in order [e.g. set bit to get "advanced plus" mode].
This sounds a lot like real mode vs. protected mode. Protected mode (and extended memory) helped extend the DOS lifespan by many, many years, so I don't see why it wouldn't work with the GBA. They'd just have to maintain backward compatibility as they have been.
Oh yeah - and add two more buttons! How can the GBA release SNES remakes with only A & B?
Glad to see this is finally being made. Hopefully it'll be as good as Alien and Aliens or Predator and Predator II and not suck like Alien or Alien Resurrection.
The featurette points out that AVP is being written and directed by Paul Anderson, the man who both gave us the timeless game-to-movie adaptation of Resident Evil and directed Mortal Kombat. If you're looking for something that won't suck, you might want to look elsewhere. Maybe this guy needs to try something besides movie adaptations of video games.
It seems somehow fitting that SCO would link to FUD in the jargon file, since the previous entry in the jargon file is "fuck me harder". After all, isn't that what SCO is doing to their shareholders?
Actually, there are mobos that have two bioses, and recover from screwed-up flashes. It could be argued that they should all do this.
Redundant drives, redundant drive controllers, redundant power supplies, redundant servers, why not redundnant firmware? Better yet, as another poster pointed out, make one of them read-only so it can never be overwritten. If the device fails at startup because of a BIOS checksum error, flip over to the known-good default ROM.
Why didn't they do this years ago, before Chernobyl/CIH-spacefiller? That thing wiped out our school's engineering lab and cost us thousands of dollars to resolve.
echo "your monitor's radiation shield has failed, please evacuate to minimum safe distance" |smbclient -M luserbox doesn't get them every time, but when it does...
Back in the mid-90's, I was an education student at a mid-size university, and I worked at the education lab (which was, of course, all Macs). I got a friend of mine a job there, and he ended up getting the job I wanted (tech support for the school of education), while I sat there in the lab and helped people print out their papers or work on their Hypercard projects. I was often very bored, so one night I decided to install Radiation & Trigger, a Mac app/extension combo that allowed you to display any error message on a target computer that had the Radiation extension, on every machine in the lab. I was really bored that night.
Anyway, my friend was working early one morning before the lab was open, so I fired up Trigger and sent the default error message to all the Macs in the lab:
"The radiation shield on your monitor has failed. Please step back 5 feet."
Figuring that would crack my friend up, I called a couple minutes later to check out the damage. Unfortunately, he wasn't even there - he was off fixing some professor's computer, and my boss answered the phone instead. I asked where Andy was, and she asked me if I knew anything about a radiation shield, because she had opened the lab early that day so the graduate students could work on their theses.
I quit less than a week later to avoid being fired.
I'm interested to see how badly it trashes Norton Systemworks on the iMac. biggest mistake of my life to buy that.
You should definitely give up on Norton Utilities/Systemworks for Macintosh - it's had problems since they introduced CrashGuard (aka "CrashHard") and HFS+ support. I still have a soft spot in my heart for Norton Utilities 3.1, which saved my ass many years ago when I was using my dad's powerbook 180c while he was out of town (without his knowledge) and somehow screwed up his hard drive. A quick trip to CompUSA, and a couple of hours later, everything was fine. Of course, that's before a disk utility program had to do everything under the sun instead of just focusing on what it's meant to do.
Instead, I highly recommend Alsoft DiskWarrior, which has saved my Macs several times (running 8.x up through OS X 10.2.x). It does what it's supposed to, and it does it well. No idea if it's 10.3-compatible, though; it says on their site that the current version of the CD won't boot G5s. Since the latest version supports the journalized filesystem, it should be fine.
Re:Give Joseph Black his due credit!
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There should also be some credit given to Henry Mosely, the British scientist who arranged the periodic table not only by chemical properties, but by atomic number (number of protons) as well.
Unfortunately for Mosely, he was volunteered for the British army in World War I and was killed in action when he was 27.
Funny how they still sell so many CD-burners and blank media though, isn't it?
Yeah, and their blank media is crap. I was in a pinch and ran out of Mistui silver's, so I bought a spindle of 50 at Staples, and approximately 1 out of every 5 ended up being coasters at 24x. They were certified 48x, and I couldn't get them to burn reliably at 24x using a 52x burner, so I had to knock the speed down to 8x, otherwise I ended up with failure after failure. Sony shouldn't be angry, they should stop making crap media.
You forget how Congress decided to fund the costs for administering this list: telemarketers.
Yes, they have to pay for the noose around their own necks, and for the hangman, and for the guy tying the knot, and for the disposal of their corpse, and for...
The telemarketing industry can complain all they want, but if they hadn't been so annoying in the first place, and if they had played by the rules already in place (i.e., not harassing or hanging up on someone when they ask to be put on that company's do-not-call list), then it's very likely this national do-not-call list would never have happened.
The lower FX budget would keep them from going overboard on spectacle (you don't want to black out the sky with dragons- that distracts from the sheer power just one of those beasts should represent)
I haven't read the original Dragonlance trilogy in years, but doesn't the third book have flying citadels and dragons blacking out the sky? Besides, even the SciFi network would have plenty of budget to do the CG for a 9-part Dragonlance series, considering the popularity of the series and the potential increased interest due to LotR. The hard part would be to find exactly the right person to play Raistlin. Hell, The Rock could play Caramon...
The Supreme Court is always most willing to hear cases when they involve political speech and voting, and this involves both.
Yes, but with a conservative majority that has already shown it is willing to disenfranchise thousands of voters in a presidential election, I doubt the Supreme Court would be very kind to blackboxvoting.org, especially considering linking to Diebold's voting system source code with respect to the DMCA.
Any real geek could have a Dual Optical Mouse. Also available at Thinkgeek. That is definately my favorite mouse.
I agree completely. I was using a Kensington ADB 4-button mouse on my G3 Mac for ProTools when one of the buttons decided to die, and I had heard good things about the Logitech Dual Optical, so I picked one up and I couldn't be happier. The two things I dislike about most optical mice are 1) the (lack of) mass and 2) the width. Kensington and Microsoft optical mice are a little too wide and flat for my preferences; I like how Logitech mice are shaped a little higher.
The best thing about the Logitech Dual Optical, though, is how massive (heavy) it is compared to most other optical mice. The components of optical mice are, by their very nature, lighter than the traditional ball mice, and from years of shoving around heavier mice, I can't handle those flimsy plastic things. The Dual Optical has some meat on its bones, and it tracks more smoothly than any other optical I've used. Great mouse!
When you've got a billion dollars, you don't care about dropping $15 for the new N'Sync album (or heck, just calling them up and inviting them to perform at your bar-b-que).
I occasionally do tech work for a guy (brother-in-law of my dad's best friend) who started a drive-through oil-change place that eventually grew into a chain and years later, sold out to Jiffy Lube. The guy is a multi-millionaire, and he has a Mac G4 in his office and his two teenage kids have iMacs in their rooms, all connected through Airport. The very first time I went down there, it was to help his son set up and use his CD burner. Why? His son had discovered Napster.
So, there's an example of a multi-millionaire's family, with more money than most of us will ever see, using Napster because it was fun and convenient. Millionaires aren't the only ones we wouldn't expect; I think one of the reasons a lot of musicians are silent about the whole mp3 debate is because they, as music lovers with disposable incomes, probably download music just as much as anyone else.
Some people want to see Bush's daughters get caught using P2P apps to download mp3s. I would rather see James Hetfield get busted doing it. At least that would spare us from hearing any more Metallica albums.
RIAA will probably make more out of lawsuit settlements than through their music;) What's the lifetime value of a consumer to RIAA? I imagine it is less than $12000...
Yes, but I want to know what their long-term sales (and losses) will be like when people like me, who used to buy music regularly, decide never to buy it again. For example, Jane's Addiction's new album came out yesterday and even though I have three of their previous albums (all legit), I have no intention of buying this one simply because it was put out by a member of the RIAA. It's painfully clear that music purchases support a draconian industry with utter contempt for its customers more than they feed "starving artists".
As the RIAA starts suing individuals for even minor infractions, it won't be a stretch for them to be perceived by regular customers as 'evil', and when you attack and alienate customers, your overall business model is doomed. You can't tell me that every one of those people sharing mp3s has stopped buying music completely, and once they're sued, you know all their family & friends are going to stop buying music too.
It's really too bad that it would be impossible to figure out how many people have stopped buying music because of the actions of the RIAA. Any poll on Slashdot would be heavily slanted. Maybe at a concert they should ask people as they're standing in line whether or not they plan on buying music in the future if the RIAA will sue them for sharing 10 mp3s over p2p.
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win. -- Gandhi
I went to this site, and I wondered - what in the world does Florence Henderson have to do with the earth being flat? The mystery is almost too much to bear.
More information on the Flat Earth Society is available here, at a.org address no less.
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win. -- Gandhi
I think "ridicularize" is a portuguese conjugation of to ridicule, and the parent appears to be from Brazil, so that might explain the unusual word. Does that make it Brenglish?
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win. -- Gandhi
When you say a company should do anything within their power to make their software as widespread as possible, do you include illegal things? Maybe a campaign of assassinating prominant open source developers until nobody is willing to work on Linux.
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That's amusing, that's the first thing I make my students download. I haven't found a better Windows term emulator.
So you're saying it's okay to block the exit doors, right?
In a computer lab where I teach, we had 25 Toshiba Equiums with integrated NICs, and in the two years we had them in that lab, we probably sent back 4 or 5 motherboards with fried integrated NICs. Sometimes we could get them to limp along with an ISA or PCI NIC, but other times Windows would refuse to remember that we'd disabled the dead integrated NIC, so on restart it would try to reinstall the drivers.
To be on-topic, I don't think this is likely to happen with intergrated wireless; I just question its inclusion at a time when people can't secure their own wireless access points.
Dell also makes their own BIOS, but it's pretty light on features and kind of strange to configure. One Dell Optiplex will have a completely different BIOS from a slightly different model Optiplex (i.e., the Optiplex GX1 vs. the G1). They can also have some problems accepting new IDE hardware being added to the system - I get the "Press F1 to configure or F2 to continue" warnings all the time, even after configuring a new drive in the BIOS.
As for IBM.... it varies from machine to machine, but I typically find their BIOS to be much less forgiving to hardware changes, and it also takes forever to finish loading (compared to Phoenix/Award BIOSes). You often can't change the boot devices to allow for a CD-ROM to boot, and sometimes settings won't save. I had a bunch of IBM Netvistas whose batteries died while not being used over the summer, and even after replacing the battery and changing the boot order in the BIOS to boot from a floppy (so we could wipe the hard drive), it would still skip the floppy drive and go straight to the hard drive. I had to set it to do the extended startup test just to boot from the floppy.
For Netfinity servers, I can understand the need for the IBM BIOS features, but for workstations and laptops, I've been less than impressed. If Phoenix goes away from a BIOS, I'm sure some competitor will step up and eclipse them. I'm sure some of us thought that based on their market share in the mid-90's, Iomega would own the removable storage market, but now they're just barely hanging on. This could happen to Phoenix if they're not careful.
Unfortunately, whenever Apple releases a new model, it always takes so long for them to meet demand that you're already halfway to the next revision before your machine even arrives. Unless you're obsessed with owning only the newest and fastest shiny things, your best bang for the your buck is to buy the previous version immediately after the new revision is released - you don't have to worry about delivery times, and you get a nice discount on good machine.
This sounds a lot like real mode vs. protected mode. Protected mode (and extended memory) helped extend the DOS lifespan by many, many years, so I don't see why it wouldn't work with the GBA. They'd just have to maintain backward compatibility as they have been.
Oh yeah - and add two more buttons! How can the GBA release SNES remakes with only A & B?
The featurette points out that AVP is being written and directed by Paul Anderson, the man who both gave us the timeless game-to-movie adaptation of Resident Evil and directed Mortal Kombat. If you're looking for something that won't suck, you might want to look elsewhere. Maybe this guy needs to try something besides movie adaptations of video games.
It seems somehow fitting that SCO would link to FUD in the jargon file, since the previous entry in the jargon file is "fuck me harder". After all, isn't that what SCO is doing to their shareholders?
Redundant drives, redundant drive controllers, redundant power supplies, redundant servers, why not redundnant firmware? Better yet, as another poster pointed out, make one of them read-only so it can never be overwritten. If the device fails at startup because of a BIOS checksum error, flip over to the known-good default ROM.
Why didn't they do this years ago, before Chernobyl/CIH-spacefiller? That thing wiped out our school's engineering lab and cost us thousands of dollars to resolve.
Back in the mid-90's, I was an education student at a mid-size university, and I worked at the education lab (which was, of course, all Macs). I got a friend of mine a job there, and he ended up getting the job I wanted (tech support for the school of education), while I sat there in the lab and helped people print out their papers or work on their Hypercard projects. I was often very bored, so one night I decided to install Radiation & Trigger, a Mac app/extension combo that allowed you to display any error message on a target computer that had the Radiation extension, on every machine in the lab. I was really bored that night.
Anyway, my friend was working early one morning before the lab was open, so I fired up Trigger and sent the default error message to all the Macs in the lab:
"The radiation shield on your monitor has failed. Please step back 5 feet."
Figuring that would crack my friend up, I called a couple minutes later to check out the damage. Unfortunately, he wasn't even there - he was off fixing some professor's computer, and my boss answered the phone instead. I asked where Andy was, and she asked me if I knew anything about a radiation shield, because she had opened the lab early that day so the graduate students could work on their theses.
I quit less than a week later to avoid being fired.
You should definitely give up on Norton Utilities/Systemworks for Macintosh - it's had problems since they introduced CrashGuard (aka "CrashHard") and HFS+ support. I still have a soft spot in my heart for Norton Utilities 3.1, which saved my ass many years ago when I was using my dad's powerbook 180c while he was out of town (without his knowledge) and somehow screwed up his hard drive. A quick trip to CompUSA, and a couple of hours later, everything was fine. Of course, that's before a disk utility program had to do everything under the sun instead of just focusing on what it's meant to do.
Instead, I highly recommend Alsoft DiskWarrior, which has saved my Macs several times (running 8.x up through OS X 10.2.x). It does what it's supposed to, and it does it well. No idea if it's 10.3-compatible, though; it says on their site that the current version of the CD won't boot G5s. Since the latest version supports the journalized filesystem, it should be fine.
Unfortunately for Mosely, he was volunteered for the British army in World War I and was killed in action when he was 27.
Yeah, and their blank media is crap. I was in a pinch and ran out of Mistui silver's, so I bought a spindle of 50 at Staples, and approximately 1 out of every 5 ended up being coasters at 24x. They were certified 48x, and I couldn't get them to burn reliably at 24x using a 52x burner, so I had to knock the speed down to 8x, otherwise I ended up with failure after failure. Sony shouldn't be angry, they should stop making crap media.
Yes, they have to pay for the noose around their own necks, and for the hangman, and for the guy tying the knot, and for the disposal of their corpse, and for...
The telemarketing industry can complain all they want, but if they hadn't been so annoying in the first place, and if they had played by the rules already in place (i.e., not harassing or hanging up on someone when they ask to be put on that company's do-not-call list), then it's very likely this national do-not-call list would never have happened.
As it is, it has, and good riddance.
I haven't read the original Dragonlance trilogy in years, but doesn't the third book have flying citadels and dragons blacking out the sky? Besides, even the SciFi network would have plenty of budget to do the CG for a 9-part Dragonlance series, considering the popularity of the series and the potential increased interest due to LotR. The hard part would be to find exactly the right person to play Raistlin. Hell, The Rock could play Caramon...
Yes, but with a conservative majority that has already shown it is willing to disenfranchise thousands of voters in a presidential election, I doubt the Supreme Court would be very kind to blackboxvoting.org, especially considering linking to Diebold's voting system source code with respect to the DMCA.
So you're a clone? I thought only conservatives could be clones; it explains why so many of them look the same.
I agree completely. I was using a Kensington ADB 4-button mouse on my G3 Mac for ProTools when one of the buttons decided to die, and I had heard good things about the Logitech Dual Optical, so I picked one up and I couldn't be happier. The two things I dislike about most optical mice are 1) the (lack of) mass and 2) the width. Kensington and Microsoft optical mice are a little too wide and flat for my preferences; I like how Logitech mice are shaped a little higher.
The best thing about the Logitech Dual Optical, though, is how massive (heavy) it is compared to most other optical mice. The components of optical mice are, by their very nature, lighter than the traditional ball mice, and from years of shoving around heavier mice, I can't handle those flimsy plastic things. The Dual Optical has some meat on its bones, and it tracks more smoothly than any other optical I've used. Great mouse!
I occasionally do tech work for a guy (brother-in-law of my dad's best friend) who started a drive-through oil-change place that eventually grew into a chain and years later, sold out to Jiffy Lube. The guy is a multi-millionaire, and he has a Mac G4 in his office and his two teenage kids have iMacs in their rooms, all connected through Airport. The very first time I went down there, it was to help his son set up and use his CD burner. Why? His son had discovered Napster.
So, there's an example of a multi-millionaire's family, with more money than most of us will ever see, using Napster because it was fun and convenient. Millionaires aren't the only ones we wouldn't expect; I think one of the reasons a lot of musicians are silent about the whole mp3 debate is because they, as music lovers with disposable incomes, probably download music just as much as anyone else.
Some people want to see Bush's daughters get caught using P2P apps to download mp3s. I would rather see James Hetfield get busted doing it. At least that would spare us from hearing any more Metallica albums.
Good article, here's a link.
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win. -- Gandhi
Yes, but I want to know what their long-term sales (and losses) will be like when people like me, who used to buy music regularly, decide never to buy it again. For example, Jane's Addiction's new album came out yesterday and even though I have three of their previous albums (all legit), I have no intention of buying this one simply because it was put out by a member of the RIAA. It's painfully clear that music purchases support a draconian industry with utter contempt for its customers more than they feed "starving artists".
As the RIAA starts suing individuals for even minor infractions, it won't be a stretch for them to be perceived by regular customers as 'evil', and when you attack and alienate customers, your overall business model is doomed. You can't tell me that every one of those people sharing mp3s has stopped buying music completely, and once they're sued, you know all their family & friends are going to stop buying music too.
It's really too bad that it would be impossible to figure out how many people have stopped buying music because of the actions of the RIAA. Any poll on Slashdot would be heavily slanted. Maybe at a concert they should ask people as they're standing in line whether or not they plan on buying music in the future if the RIAA will sue them for sharing 10 mp3s over p2p.
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win. -- Gandhi
I went to this site, and I wondered - what in the world does Florence Henderson have to do with the earth being flat? The mystery is almost too much to bear.
More information on the Flat Earth Society is available here, at a .org address no less.
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win. -- Gandhi
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win. -- Gandhi
Jesus, man, don't give them ideas!
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win. -- Gandhi
It's too bad moderation isn't pseudo-logarithmic, so you could get something to +6 if 10 people gave it a +1 moderation past the +5 maximum.
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win. -- Gandhi