Or a fat partition at the end of the drive, especially with other partitions in between that DOS (including win9x) couldn't recognize. This was a bug for many years in DOS that hopefully is cured now that DOS is gone.
When installing win9x alongside OS/2 it always disabled the IBM Bootmanager and announced that you could never use OS/2 again as it was gone. Simple fix was to start fdisk and set the Bootmanager partition active. Win2k when first out changed something in the Bootmanager partition making it unusable. Service pack 1 fixed it and the Win2k install actually finally said to reactivate the Bootmanager partition after install. I hate to think how many OS/2 installs were lost by MSes practices.
So you are agreeing that it is the US running the blood for oil program. I guess they do have the experience, supplying Saddam with weapons to extract the blood. Promising to back up the Kurds, Dissidents etc if they revolt. And now setting up a horrible civil war in Iraq.
Actually I think being a pedophile is legal most places. It just becomes illegal if you act on those urges. At that with the USAs freedom of speech it must be fine to talk about molesting kids or dressing up young looking adults as sexy children. Speech is Speech whether talking hate or sex.
We didn't trust them back then. They voted Reagan in which is close to being on par with voting Bush in. They were alsways involved in little wars proping up some dictator while going on about democracy and freedom. They had a neverending war on drugs that let them side step most rights including those in the US constition. Their voting methods were very suspect. Really not much has changed in the USA, even the people in power are basically the same besides the figure head
The Linux version is getting there. As far as I know the main thing still missing is multithreading support so no xlib yet. Fine for text mode though. Also it does not link with GCC produced shared libs so libs have to be built with OW. Its still got away to go I guess and at this point you have to build it and most likely a daily tarball would be best. One thing about OW is it is fast compared to GCC. As for OSX, I doubt there is any support besides the PPC support. Also I see it now supports Alpha and MIPS.
I don't think there is much chance that OpenWatcom will die out as Scitech depends on it for their graphic drivers. Scitech has a pretty good business supplying video drivers for older OSes. At that I don't know if you remember back in the DOS days when you often needed a VESA driver to play games Display Doctor was considered the best. See http://www.scitechsoft.com/products/product_downlo ad.html for some of their products. Watcom at one time was considered the best compiler for gaming due to its speed and being cross platform. All the old DOS games that used dos4gw were compiled with Watcom with DOOM being perhaps the most famous. DOOM ran pretty good on a 33Mhz 386. Also here on OS/2 the GCC porter is now using wlink to link OMF object files and soon the debugger and profiler will also be working Anyways it shouldn't be too hard to have your program compiling with Watcom and GCC. I use several libraries that have been compiled by their porter with Open Watcom eg Cairo and SDL and with one or two header ifdefs they compile fine under GCC as well. And I routinely link Watcom and GCC with the biggest program being Mozilla apps. Anyways be good if you can leave the wmakefiles working and just add the gmakefiles or go with the auto tools
However, because it's a university setting, I'm free to basically do what I want with it (my job is to "make it work with a modern compiler (i.e., without Watcom since they're out of business)")... so I'm porting it back to UNIX as I go! : )
Wouldn't it be better to help with the Linux and BSD ports of Watcom (now Open Watcom, http://openwatcom.org? At least when Watcom went out of business they open sourced their code and released it. And it is still a pretty good compiler that is being brought up to todays standards.
The difference is that it is easy to avoid Sony. At that in 45 yrs I've never given Sony any of my money and don't own one Sony product with the possible exception of a used CD or 2. Whereas Microsoft has gotten too much of my money over the years even though the last MS product I bought intentionally was their Z80 card for the Apple II. Still even MS hasn't gotten any of my money for close to 10 yrs.
I take it you are talking about the USA, a country that in parts of the Judges (and I think the prosecuters) are elected. Electing judges can't help but lead to corruption. First you get judges more worried about giving a verdict based on getting reelected instead of just based on the evidence. Second you get judges who have to worry about coming up with money to get (re)elected. As you say your system sees more prosecutions then the UK and I think most other countries and also more convictions (based on your inmate population). There is something corrupt about a country that brags about its freedoms yet throws millions into jail.
While everything you say is true, NAFTA has still been more advantageous for America. Just look at the softwood lumber dispute (http://www.for.gov.bc.ca/HET/Softwood/). Basiclly America stole $5billion through illegal tarifs on lumber and even with losing court case after court case refused to be honourable. They have finally decide to give back a couple of billion but it still leaves a bad taste about America and how they honour treaties. Also there are very few large Canadian firms anymore as they all have been bought out by American firms. What I really laugh at are the poor Australians who even after seeing how America keeps its word went and signed a free trade agreement.
I thought that the United Kingdom is in that list? Also Canada is not moving very fast in that direction. Last provincial election here (BC) we did get a referendum on it but since only 58% were in favour it didn't happen. We do get another referendum in 2009 though
What are you talking about. Firefox (named Phoenix IIRC) was a fork from the Mozilla project. Sopposed to be a lighter web browser. Then Mozilla decided to adopt the fork and abandon their browser. Now there is another fork maintaining the old Mozilla code renamed as Seamonkey. Funny enough now Seamonkey feels quicker and lighter as well as having more features
You do realize that if the grandparent poster is Canadian then it is not piracy as it is perfectly legal to DL music and every time I (or any Canadian) buy a CDrom, blank tape etc Sarah gets a cut (in theory).
Actually the few times I have considered buying Windows was due to IE. As the internet became more unusable with NS4.61 (the newest for my OS) more then once I considered buying Windows. Same thing with Windows media player, as more and more content is unreachable without media player. Luckily there are now alternatives that can use the WIndows codecs and work good enough.
Actually if you do your research, you'll find that hemp was banned to protect the pulp paper industry which was pretty well monopolized by Hearst (who also controlled the news etc). Also hemp threatened the new plastics industry and nylon (Du pont) Do a google on hemp pulp paper hearst
How did Microsoft financially benefit from Internet Explorer's dominance? IE is and always has been a free product.
Huh? IE is a $200 product, sure it comes with an OS which I personally don't like. Lots of the time browsing the web I've come across sites that don't work without IE therefore trying to force me to purchase IE
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Or a fat partition at the end of the drive, especially with other partitions in between that DOS (including win9x) couldn't recognize. This was a bug for many years in DOS that hopefully is cured now that DOS is gone.
When installing win9x alongside OS/2 it always disabled the IBM Bootmanager and announced that you could never use OS/2 again as it was gone.
Simple fix was to start fdisk and set the Bootmanager partition active.
Win2k when first out changed something in the Bootmanager partition making it unusable. Service pack 1 fixed it and the Win2k install actually finally said to reactivate the Bootmanager partition after install.
I hate to think how many OS/2 installs were lost by MSes practices.
Well I do hear that Exxon etc are making record profits.
So you are agreeing that it is the US running the blood for oil program.
I guess they do have the experience, supplying Saddam with weapons to extract the blood. Promising to back up the Kurds, Dissidents etc if they revolt. And now setting up a horrible civil war in Iraq.
Obviously you've never been by a fountain on a hot day.
Actually I think being a pedophile is legal most places. It just becomes illegal if you act on those urges.
At that with the USAs freedom of speech it must be fine to talk about molesting kids or dressing up young looking adults as sexy children.
Speech is Speech whether talking hate or sex.
How do you know? Seems your election procedures are not open lately.
We didn't trust them back then. They voted Reagan in which is close to being on par with voting Bush in. They were alsways involved in little wars proping up some dictator while going on about democracy and freedom. They had a neverending war on drugs that let them side step most rights including those in the US constition. Their voting methods were very suspect.
Really not much has changed in the USA, even the people in power are basically the same besides the figure head
The Linux version is getting there. As far as I know the main thing still missing is multithreading support so no xlib yet. Fine for text mode though.
Also it does not link with GCC produced shared libs so libs have to be built with OW. Its still got away to go I guess and at this point you have to build it and most likely a daily tarball would be best.
One thing about OW is it is fast compared to GCC.
As for OSX, I doubt there is any support besides the PPC support. Also I see it now supports Alpha and MIPS.
I don't think there is much chance that OpenWatcom will die out as Scitech depends on it for their graphic drivers.o ad.html for some of their products.
Scitech has a pretty good business supplying video drivers for older OSes. At that I don't know if you remember back in the DOS days when you often needed a VESA driver to play games Display Doctor was considered the best. See http://www.scitechsoft.com/products/product_downl
Watcom at one time was considered the best compiler for gaming due to its speed and being cross platform. All the old DOS games that used dos4gw were compiled with Watcom with DOOM being perhaps the most famous. DOOM ran pretty good on a 33Mhz 386.
Also here on OS/2 the GCC porter is now using wlink to link OMF object files and soon the debugger and profiler will also be working
Anyways it shouldn't be too hard to have your program compiling with Watcom and GCC. I use several libraries that have been compiled by their porter with Open Watcom eg Cairo and SDL and with one or two header ifdefs they compile fine under GCC as well. And I routinely link Watcom and GCC with the biggest program being Mozilla apps.
Anyways be good if you can leave the wmakefiles working and just add the gmakefiles or go with the auto tools
However, because it's a university setting, I'm free to basically do what I want with it (my job is to "make it work with a modern compiler (i.e., without Watcom since they're out of business)")... so I'm porting it back to UNIX as I go! : )
Wouldn't it be better to help with the Linux and BSD ports of Watcom (now Open Watcom, http://openwatcom.org?
At least when Watcom went out of business they open sourced their code and released it. And it is still a pretty good compiler that is being brought up to todays standards.
The difference is that it is easy to avoid Sony. At that in 45 yrs I've never given Sony any of my money and don't own one Sony product with the possible exception of a used CD or 2.
Whereas Microsoft has gotten too much of my money over the years even though the last MS product I bought intentionally was their Z80 card for the Apple II.
Still even MS hasn't gotten any of my money for close to 10 yrs.
Hey, at least they'll say that they're married first
Because in Canada the people have the right to copy your copyrighted work (just not to distribute it).
I take it you are talking about the USA, a country that in parts of the Judges (and I think the prosecuters) are elected. Electing judges can't help but lead to corruption.
First you get judges more worried about giving a verdict based on getting reelected instead of just based on the evidence.
Second you get judges who have to worry about coming up with money to get (re)elected.
As you say your system sees more prosecutions then the UK and I think most other countries and also more convictions (based on your inmate population).
There is something corrupt about a country that brags about its freedoms yet throws millions into jail.
While everything you say is true, NAFTA has still been more advantageous for America. Just look at the softwood lumber dispute (http://www.for.gov.bc.ca/HET/Softwood/). Basiclly America stole $5billion through illegal tarifs on lumber and even with losing court case after court case refused to be honourable. They have finally decide to give back a couple of billion but it still leaves a bad taste about America and how they honour treaties.
Also there are very few large Canadian firms anymore as they all have been bought out by American firms.
What I really laugh at are the poor Australians who even after seeing how America keeps its word went and signed a free trade agreement.
Think about it. The Iraqi people had lots of guns before the Americans showed up. Why did they not over throw Sadam?
And it's also legal to shoot a half-grizzly, even though shooting grizzlies is illegal?
Shooting grizzlies is legal if you have a tag, just not many tags sold a year.
I thought that the United Kingdom is in that list?
Also Canada is not moving very fast in that direction. Last provincial election here (BC) we did get a referendum on it but since only 58% were in favour it didn't happen. We do get another referendum in 2009 though
What are you talking about. Firefox (named Phoenix IIRC) was a fork from the Mozilla project. Sopposed to be a lighter web browser. Then Mozilla decided to adopt the fork and abandon their browser. Now there is another fork maintaining the old Mozilla code renamed as Seamonkey.
Funny enough now Seamonkey feels quicker and lighter as well as having more features
You do realize that if the grandparent poster is Canadian then it is not piracy as it is perfectly legal to DL music and every time I (or any Canadian) buy a CDrom, blank tape etc Sarah gets a cut (in theory).
Actually the few times I have considered buying Windows was due to IE. As the internet became more unusable with NS4.61 (the newest for my OS) more then once I considered buying Windows.
Same thing with Windows media player, as more and more content is unreachable without media player. Luckily there are now alternatives that can use the WIndows codecs and work good enough.
He electrocuted an elephant too, http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/americas/3083029.stm
Actually if you do your research, you'll find that hemp was banned to protect the pulp paper industry which was pretty well monopolized by Hearst (who also controlled the news etc). Also hemp threatened the new plastics industry and nylon (Du pont)
Do a google on hemp pulp paper hearst
How did Microsoft financially benefit from Internet Explorer's dominance? IE is and always has been a free product.
Huh? IE is a $200 product, sure it comes with an OS which I personally don't like.
Lots of the time browsing the web I've come across sites that don't work without IE therefore trying to force me to purchase IE