You're more or less right, it was beta quality though it seems I have seen the part number and it did include GA, meaning general availability. I think IBM was playing the MS game, if it compiles, ship it. OS/2 ver 4 shipped pretty broken too IIRC
That would be crazy. You would get judges making decisions based on having to find a scapegoat so they can get reelected instead of decisions based on nothing more then the facts.
This is one of the sad things about MS business practices. They do all kinds of weird things, often illegal or at least skirting legality while most of the time they could of sat back and let the opposition self destruct. MCA is a good example. Netscape is another, and there are lots more.
Well Marijuana is one. Just its usefulness as an antinausea medicine could eat into a lot of profits. When my dad was dieing from cancer the cost of the anti-nausea pills was $1000 for 20. And this is in Canada where drugs are cheap. For cancer patients etc marijuana is much cheaper then the drug store drugs. Of course hemp was illegalized due to it threatening the pulp paper market.
This is a configuration problem. The enviromental variable MOZ_NO_REMOTE is for this. eg MOZ_NO_REMOTE=1 export MOZ_NO_REMOTE firefox should stop this behaviour.
WordPerfect 8 runs fine under Ubuntu here. Just had to apt-get xlib5 and libc5 IIRC. That is the tarball version. The deb version wanted something like xlib5g which conflicted with too many things so I didn't bother
In Canada it is basically the same and we have a lot of time zones. Legally results can't be announced until all polls close and back east they close at 08:00 PM and here in BC they close at 07:00 PM. (all times local) Also with the time zones vote counting is close to over back east when the polls close and results start coming in right away. Usually the winner is known pretty quick
Well according to their press release http://www.telusmobility.com/about/press_room/rele ases/20051114_EVDO_network.html it is high speed wireless. To quote Broadband data speeds Wireless High Speed offers clients the broadband data access they've become accustomed to on their desktops, but now they can take that speed on the road. With typical download speeds of 400 to 700 kilobits per second, and possible speeds of more than 2 megabits per second, TELUS Mobility's Wireless High Speed network offers clients the speed they need for powerful mobile computing applications.
Here (Greater Vancouver area) the radio is constantly airing Telus ads about their high speed wireless. Highest speed ever, 5 times faster then Rogers, at least according to the ads
BTW, Microsoft was the first to ship a componentized internet browser that could be used by other apps, years before Apple, BTW. Apple ripped off the task bar from Microsoft.
1994 OS/2 shipped with a small binary, explore.exe and a huge DLL webexwin.dll which was documented and meant to be (and was) used by other apps. Plus it was designed that it could be replaced by another browser quite easily. Also note the name Web Explorer which MS basically copied.
You do know that at one time OS/2 had 10 Million+ users. Many more then the Amiga which was heavily targeted by virus writers. One big advantage was the stock install had no services running and things like sharing used stock netbios (not netbios over tcpip) so unroutable and secure. Also OS/2 runs quite well on todays hardware eg nice 2 core AMD64 though only in 32 bit mode
Who cares if the MB recognises the HD? Just make sure the bootable partition is at the beginning. Up till lately I had a 80 GB drive in a AMD 300k2. Had to jumper it to 32 GB so the bios didn't crash but OS/2 saw and used all 80 GBs. I spent days trying to build a Linux kernel that saw all 80 GBs before succeeding. Older Ubuntu thought it was 128 GB, newest did work
xcopy/h/o/t/s/e/r/v c:\* d:\* will copy everything but the swapfile. Once d: is moved to c: it should boot. If not run sysintx.com. Of course if it up to date just use LVM to switch c: and d: around. Also check out dfsee (dfsee.com)
You do realize that OS/2 runs on everything upto AMD64s? The driver for 2 core is currently in beta but I hear it works pretty good. Pretty well all video cards are supported by scitech (only 2d though). Sound by a port of alsa, usb by IBM drivers and better HD support then most other systems Only thing really missing is good wireless support
Never having done anything besides reading the odd journal, I just now went to my home directory, clicked on journal and there was a link to write in journal. Clicking this seems to allow creation of new journal entries. Other then that I know nothing else about it.
Went to your journal to leave a comment about autism and got This discussion has been archived. No new comments can be posted. Also have to agree with what you wrote above
The reason for deorbiting the Hubble is that it is big enough to make it all the way down. The idea is to bring it down somewhere safer like the middle of the Pacific
No, MS wanted to move the video drivers into kernel space in ver 1.3 (maybe 1.4?). IBM flat out refused as IBM was interested in stability whereas MS was interested in speed.(and IBM was paying the bills) So the drivers stayed in user space until ver 4. MS ended up keeping the video drivers in user space thru 3.51 then moved them into kernel space with ver 4.0 and now their amazing idea with ver 6? (Vista) is to move them into user space. All hail MS the great innovaters. Personally I'm using ver 2.45
Yes, but that was under IBMs direction and also IBM rewrote most of it for Ver 2+. Also the most innovative feature, the WPS was designed by OS/2. Funny enough one of the causes of the divorce was MS insisting on moving the graphic drivers into kernel space which naturally IBM refused
A similar foolishness runs through the media with the term "allegedly". Yes, they don't want to make a false accusation. But when you have a headline such as "Cops Arrest Man for Allegedly Smoking Crack", it's stupid. Allegedly smoking crack is not a crime and would not be a cause for arrest; smoking crack would be.
Perhaps its not actually crack. What if someone liked smoking plastic, especially plastic that looked like crack? You have to prove that it actually crack they are smoking. I know myself I've had all my spices confiscated by the RCMP because they thought I was a pot smoker and I had these baggies full of things like bulk oregano. No charges were ever laid but I did make the local paper as alleged to have been caught with pot.
OS/2 supports lots of modern Hardware. Its true that your v3 and v4 won't install out of the box. V4.5+ will install on most hardware and with a fairly new kernel even the fastest P4s and 64 bit AMds (in 32 bit mode). Pretty well all display drivers are supported (by scitech), even under winos2, though only 2D. IBM paid for ALSA to be ported so pretty well all sound cards supported under Linux work under OS/2. USB support is pretty good as well. Same with Printers, pretty well if they work with Linux they'll probably work on OS/2. Basically if hardware works on Linux it'll run under OS/2.
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You're more or less right, it was beta quality though it seems I have seen the part number and it did include GA, meaning general availability.
I think IBM was playing the MS game, if it compiles, ship it.
OS/2 ver 4 shipped pretty broken too IIRC
IBM did ship the PPC version of OS/2 in Dec '95. Here is a page of someone running it. http://pages.prodigy.net/michaln/history/os2ppc/in dex.html
That would be crazy. You would get judges making decisions based on having to find a scapegoat so they can get reelected instead of decisions based on nothing more then the facts.
This is one of the sad things about MS business practices. They do all kinds of weird things, often illegal or at least skirting legality while most of the time they could of sat back and let the opposition self destruct. MCA is a good example. Netscape is another, and there are lots more.
Well Marijuana is one. Just its usefulness as an antinausea medicine could eat into a lot of profits. When my dad was dieing from cancer the cost of the anti-nausea pills was $1000 for 20. And this is in Canada where drugs are cheap.
For cancer patients etc marijuana is much cheaper then the drug store drugs.
Of course hemp was illegalized due to it threatening the pulp paper market.
This is a configuration problem. The enviromental variable MOZ_NO_REMOTE is for this. eg
MOZ_NO_REMOTE=1
export MOZ_NO_REMOTE
firefox
should stop this behaviour.
WordPerfect 8 runs fine under Ubuntu here. Just had to apt-get xlib5 and libc5 IIRC. That is the tarball version. The deb version wanted something like xlib5g which conflicted with too many things so I didn't bother
In Canada it is basically the same and we have a lot of time zones. Legally results can't be announced until all polls close and back east they close at 08:00 PM and here in BC they close at 07:00 PM. (all times local)
Also with the time zones vote counting is close to over back east when the polls close and results start coming in right away. Usually the winner is known pretty quick
Well according to their press release http://www.telusmobility.com/about/press_room/rele ases/20051114_EVDO_network.html it is high speed wireless. To quote
Broadband data speeds
Wireless High Speed offers clients the broadband data access they've become accustomed to on their desktops, but now they can take that speed on the road. With typical download speeds of 400 to 700 kilobits per second, and possible speeds of more than 2 megabits per second, TELUS Mobility's Wireless High Speed network offers clients the speed they need for powerful mobile computing applications.
Here (Greater Vancouver area) the radio is constantly airing Telus ads about their high speed wireless. Highest speed ever, 5 times faster then Rogers, at least according to the ads
Well now that we have Harper...
Thank diety that he only got a minority
BTW, Microsoft was the first to ship a componentized internet browser that could be used by other apps, years before Apple, BTW.
Apple ripped off the task bar from Microsoft.
1994 OS/2 shipped with a small binary, explore.exe and a huge DLL webexwin.dll which was documented and meant to be (and was) used by other apps. Plus it was designed that it could be replaced by another browser quite easily.
Also note the name Web Explorer which MS basically copied.
You do know that at one time OS/2 had 10 Million+ users. Many more then the Amiga which was heavily targeted by virus writers.
One big advantage was the stock install had no services running and things like sharing used stock netbios (not netbios over tcpip) so unroutable and secure.
Also OS/2 runs quite well on todays hardware eg nice 2 core AMD64 though only in 32 bit mode
Who cares if the MB recognises the HD? Just make sure the bootable partition is at the beginning.
Up till lately I had a 80 GB drive in a AMD 300k2. Had to jumper it to 32 GB so the bios didn't crash but OS/2 saw and used all 80 GBs.
I spent days trying to build a Linux kernel that saw all 80 GBs before succeeding. Older Ubuntu thought it was 128 GB, newest did work
xcopy /h /o /t /s /e /r /v c:\* d:\* will copy everything but the swapfile. Once d: is moved to c: it should boot. If not run sysintx.com.
Of course if it up to date just use LVM to switch c: and d: around.
Also check out dfsee (dfsee.com)
You do realize that OS/2 runs on everything upto AMD64s? The driver for 2 core is currently in beta but I hear it works pretty good.
Pretty well all video cards are supported by scitech (only 2d though). Sound by a port of alsa, usb by IBM drivers and better HD support then most other systems
Only thing really missing is good wireless support
Should of waited another year. NS 2.02 (with the 3.x backend so it could do everything that 3.x could) showed up in late 96 or early 97.
Yea, this old browser I'm using
Mozilla/5.0 (OS/2; U; Warp 4.5; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20060210 SeaMonkey/1.5a.
Never having done anything besides reading the odd journal, I just now went to my home directory, clicked on journal and there was a link to write in journal. Clicking this seems to allow creation of new journal entries.
Other then that I know nothing else about it.
Went to your journal to leave a comment about autism and got This discussion has been archived. No new comments can be posted.
Also have to agree with what you wrote above
The reason for deorbiting the Hubble is that it is big enough to make it all the way down.
The idea is to bring it down somewhere safer like the middle of the Pacific
No, MS wanted to move the video drivers into kernel space in ver 1.3 (maybe 1.4?). IBM flat out refused as IBM was interested in stability whereas MS was interested in speed.(and IBM was paying the bills) So the drivers stayed in user space until ver 4.
MS ended up keeping the video drivers in user space thru 3.51 then moved them into kernel space with ver 4.0 and now their amazing idea with ver 6? (Vista) is to move them into user space.
All hail MS the great innovaters.
Personally I'm using ver 2.45
Yes, but that was under IBMs direction and also IBM rewrote most of it for Ver 2+. Also the most innovative feature, the WPS was designed by OS/2.
Funny enough one of the causes of the divorce was MS insisting on moving the graphic drivers into kernel space which naturally IBM refused
A similar foolishness runs through the media with the term "allegedly". Yes, they don't want to make a false accusation. But when you have a headline such as "Cops Arrest Man for Allegedly Smoking Crack", it's stupid. Allegedly smoking crack is not a crime and would not be a cause for arrest; smoking crack would be.
Perhaps its not actually crack. What if someone liked smoking plastic, especially plastic that looked like crack? You have to prove that it actually crack they are smoking.
I know myself I've had all my spices confiscated by the RCMP because they thought I was a pot smoker and I had these baggies full of things like bulk oregano.
No charges were ever laid but I did make the local paper as alleged to have been caught with pot.
OS/2 supports lots of modern Hardware. Its true that your v3 and v4 won't install out of the box. V4.5+ will install on most hardware and with a fairly new kernel even the fastest P4s and 64 bit AMds (in 32 bit mode). Pretty well all display drivers are supported (by scitech), even under winos2, though only 2D. IBM paid for ALSA to be ported so pretty well all sound cards supported under Linux work under OS/2. USB support is pretty good as well.
Same with Printers, pretty well if they work with Linux they'll probably work on OS/2.
Basically if hardware works on Linux it'll run under OS/2.