Working sub-4Gig hard drives are not hard to come by. For that matter, Win98 boxen complete with valid licenses are hardly rare. What exactly does this do that someone who understands the concept couldn't put together themselves?
Dynamism sourced mine. US$159 included shipping to Australia.
The product is okay. I'm using it at the moment because it works under XP SP2 and my Margi PCMCIA adapter does not. Screen updates are quite slow at 1024x768x16bit (the highest res/colours it does). When I say slow, I mean that you can see it drawing down the screen, at least on my laptop with the hookup described above. (There may be a driver problem, because areas of flat colour I would expect to be filled in hardware are visibly filled line by line.) However, there are no artifacts, no corruption and if you're willing to drop to 640x480x8bit you get a much better response rate. If you just want to do basic stuff, no games and no video, it's enough. Just.
I don't think there are any Linux drivers, but if you're running Windows the initial install process is: Install software, reboot, plug-in, reboot, works. After that, it's pretty much plug and play.
most windows software nodays is per machine/per user/per cpu
I looked into this and it appears to only relate to terminal services and external devices connecting to a PC. Technically, a second monitor/keyboard/mouse set is not any more an external device than the first set and doesn't trip over anything in the EULA that forces you to purchase extra licenses.
However, if you're doing this with BeTwin and you use the bonus terminal services session that it includes you just broke your "contract" with Microsoft.
Remember that you're not breaking copyright directly by running Office twice on the one PC (particularly since the DLLs are shared so there isn't more than one copy of much of the code in RAM no matter how many people are using it at once), you're only breaking the contract Microsoft forced on you in order for you to install the software in the first place. This (the crappy licensing junk) is, as it happens, the main reason why I'm exploring Linux on the desktop at work. Unless Microsoft lightens up on multi-CPU, multi-user installs I'm going to continue investigating Linux as both a server and desktop replacement.
My Fujitsu Windows laptop has a single 4-pin firewire port. Can't say I had much choice in that. To get this new device working I would have to buy a powered firewire hub (such as the renamed Hubzilla, whatever it's called now) or a PCMCIA card something like this which appears to have a 6-pin port that's either powered through the PCMCIA port or via a PS/2 port tap that's listed in the box contents.
I'd say that this was all way too clumsy for anyone to do, but the week before last I bought a USB2 hub specifically because the USB2VGA adapter I was trying to get working off a PCMCIA USB2 adapter was drawing too much power. Of course, if I'd bought a USB2 PCMCIA adapter with any sort of external power option, rather than the cheapest one I could find, then I wouldn't have needed the hub.
Seriously, anyone who cares about specific emulators for a given platform, are already reading DC Emulation, AtariAge, Zophar's Domain or something else that covers these events earlier and in more depth than/.
It's not like this was the first Atari ST emulator ever. It's a port for crying out loud.
My computer is barely eleven months old. It cannot boot from USB
You got shafted my friend. I bought a mini-ITX motherboard back on 2003.06.04 and it boots off pretty much anything. I installed Windows XP using an ASUS SCB-1608-D external USB2/Firewire DVD-ROM/CDRW drive. Plug in, boot up.
Not saying I haven't needed to plug an external USB Floppy drive into on occasion, but a PC less than a year old that can't boot off USB is pretty crappy.
I've specifically been unable to get this working with our new Dells. Admittedly, we did in fact pay extra to retain the floppy drive, but I wouldn't have thought the BIOS would actively prevent booting from USB if a floppy drive was installed. Has anyone got a guide for setting up a Dell Optiplex (270 I think) to boot from USB? If we can't get it working, we're going to find another supplier for the next batch of PCs.
I was sending a standard definition digital TV picture (PC tuner card, 800x600 video mode) to a Phillips Matchline 68cm (PAL) TV via S-Video a little while back and someone asked me if it was a high definition picture. Somehow I think it's going to be pretty difficult to justify the purchase of an HDTV purely on picture quality for TV shows and movies.
4.7Gig is so yesterday. It's all 8.5Gig (actually, around 8 real Gig) now. So, when are you planning to upgrade your single layer DVD burner to a double layer DVD burner?
Every USB Flash drive I've ever bought comes with a short length of cable to sort out those problems.
BTW: If you've only got two USB ports, why aren't you using PS/2 ports for the mouse and keyboard? Motherboards these days have 6-8 USB ports. Even my 2.5 year old laptop has 3 built-in USB ports. (Plus it now has two USB2 ports using up one PCMCIA slot. Funnily enough, I've got an Imation SuperDisk 240MB / FD32MB floppy drive plugged into one port.)
Lossy video compression dodges the physics problem because it allows collisions. What you get out isn't what you put in.
A 'high quality' Xvid of a 42 minute TV show is usually around 350MB. 8.3MB/min. 139k/s. It's not modem speeds, but it's a lot better than MPEG2. The trick is compressing it real time.
If you maintained a library of all the installation packages you've ever downloaded (assuming space is not an issue), a network installer could just look through your library, check hashes on matching filenames and download the smallest available new diff that can be used to build the desired new installation package. Then it doesn't even matter what's been installed or compiled, just what you've downloaded. Kind of like a cross between a cache and a progressive JPEG.
I'm a 'DBA' (roughly 4.5 years of database development across two jobs) and it really isn't that big a deal. Sure, it's nice if staff spell the same street the same way, and know where the suburb boundaries are, but it isn't fatal if things aren't perfect -- because no matter how hard you try they never will be, and every time you try and enforce some sort of structure someone will find a legitimate peice of data that doesn't fit.
How hard would it be to code for all countries? Five boxes: Country, state/region/prefecture, suburb/town/city, Zip/Postcode, Street name. Say hello to your neighbours.
I have an external aerial connection coming into my bedroom, but the reception of a TV further up the house sucks. I'd love to be able to stream a TV signal over WiFi to save the installation of another outdoor aerial, but I wouldn't want anything with fans running while I'm trying to sleep. Is there some sort of appliance solution to streaming a TV signal? Ideally, they'd be a similarly quiet and easy to use receiver option.
Oh, and it needs to suit Australian broadcasts. Digital or analogue, either's fine.
I've been using my new Asus A716 mostly to stream news over my home wireless connection. That and play NetHack. I use it every day and it doesn't look like I'll be dumping it any time soon (unlike my poor old TRGpro) -- so these few functions appear to be more than enough.
Also, back when I bought my Actius 150, the Japanese lineup was called "Möbius" -- had the one-sided loop as the wallpaper and everything. Can we assume that "Mebius" is a translation error?
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Working sub-4Gig hard drives are not hard to come by. For that matter, Win98 boxen complete with valid licenses are hardly rare. What exactly does this do that someone who understands the concept couldn't put together themselves?
The product is okay. I'm using it at the moment because it works under XP SP2 and my Margi PCMCIA adapter does not. Screen updates are quite slow at 1024x768x16bit (the highest res/colours it does). When I say slow, I mean that you can see it drawing down the screen, at least on my laptop with the hookup described above. (There may be a driver problem, because areas of flat colour I would expect to be filled in hardware are visibly filled line by line.) However, there are no artifacts, no corruption and if you're willing to drop to 640x480x8bit you get a much better response rate. If you just want to do basic stuff, no games and no video, it's enough. Just.
I don't think there are any Linux drivers, but if you're running Windows the initial install process is: Install software, reboot, plug-in, reboot, works. After that, it's pretty much plug and play.
However, if you're doing this with BeTwin and you use the bonus terminal services session that it includes you just broke your "contract" with Microsoft.
Remember that you're not breaking copyright directly by running Office twice on the one PC (particularly since the DLLs are shared so there isn't more than one copy of much of the code in RAM no matter how many people are using it at once), you're only breaking the contract Microsoft forced on you in order for you to install the software in the first place. This (the crappy licensing junk) is, as it happens, the main reason why I'm exploring Linux on the desktop at work. Unless Microsoft lightens up on multi-CPU, multi-user installs I'm going to continue investigating Linux as both a server and desktop replacement.
I'd say that this was all way too clumsy for anyone to do, but the week before last I bought a USB2 hub specifically because the USB2VGA adapter I was trying to get working off a PCMCIA USB2 adapter was drawing too much power. Of course, if I'd bought a USB2 PCMCIA adapter with any sort of external power option, rather than the cheapest one I could find, then I wouldn't have needed the hub.
It's not like this was the first Atari ST emulator ever. It's a port for crying out loud.
("This exact comment has already been posted. Try to be more original..." - Wow, that's a new one.)
Not saying I haven't needed to plug an external USB Floppy drive into on occasion, but a PC less than a year old that can't boot off USB is pretty crappy.
I've specifically been unable to get this working with our new Dells. Admittedly, we did in fact pay extra to retain the floppy drive, but I wouldn't have thought the BIOS would actively prevent booting from USB if a floppy drive was installed. Has anyone got a guide for setting up a Dell Optiplex (270 I think) to boot from USB? If we can't get it working, we're going to find another supplier for the next batch of PCs.
I agree.
I was sending a standard definition digital TV picture (PC tuner card, 800x600 video mode) to a Phillips Matchline 68cm (PAL) TV via S-Video a little while back and someone asked me if it was a high definition picture. Somehow I think it's going to be pretty difficult to justify the purchase of an HDTV purely on picture quality for TV shows and movies.
4.7Gig is so yesterday. It's all 8.5Gig (actually, around 8 real Gig) now. So, when are you planning to upgrade your single layer DVD burner to a double layer DVD burner?
BTW: If you've only got two USB ports, why aren't you using PS/2 ports for the mouse and keyboard? Motherboards these days have 6-8 USB ports. Even my 2.5 year old laptop has 3 built-in USB ports. (Plus it now has two USB2 ports using up one PCMCIA slot. Funnily enough, I've got an Imation SuperDisk 240MB / FD32MB floppy drive plugged into one port.)
Can someone mod you down for not knowing the difference between "your" and "you're"?
A 'high quality' Xvid of a 42 minute TV show is usually around 350MB. 8.3MB/min. 139k/s. It's not modem speeds, but it's a lot better than MPEG2. The trick is compressing it real time.
If you maintained a library of all the installation packages you've ever downloaded (assuming space is not an issue), a network installer could just look through your library, check hashes on matching filenames and download the smallest available new diff that can be used to build the desired new installation package. Then it doesn't even matter what's been installed or compiled, just what you've downloaded. Kind of like a cross between a cache and a progressive JPEG.
I'm a 'DBA' (roughly 4.5 years of database development across two jobs) and it really isn't that big a deal. Sure, it's nice if staff spell the same street the same way, and know where the suburb boundaries are, but it isn't fatal if things aren't perfect -- because no matter how hard you try they never will be, and every time you try and enforce some sort of structure someone will find a legitimate peice of data that doesn't fit.
If someone's too stupid to be able to spell their own address correctly, maybe I don't want to know them.
How hard would it be to code for all countries? Five boxes: Country, state/region/prefecture, suburb/town/city, Zip/Postcode, Street name. Say hello to your neighbours.
still a clumsy interface
Oh, and it needs to suit Australian broadcasts. Digital or analogue, either's fine.
I've been using my new Asus A716 mostly to stream news over my home wireless connection. That and play NetHack. I use it every day and it doesn't look like I'll be dumping it any time soon (unlike my poor old TRGpro) -- so these few functions appear to be more than enough.
I prefer this one as an insight into why Acclaim ran into problems.
For fun, if anyone's got the old multimedia encyclopedia that came with the Sound Blaster Pro and/or creative CD drive, play the reading of "Möbius".
Also, back when I bought my Actius 150, the Japanese lineup was called "Möbius" -- had the one-sided loop as the wallpaper and everything. Can we assume that "Mebius" is a translation error?
I've just finished gutting an SE/30 case for someone interested in a Mac Aquarium here in Perth.