I would bet that, if you did a survey of everyday computer users, you would find that they all simply assume that the underpinning of the Internet (and all the nice sites and services they use there) is built upon Microsoft products.
Personally, I would bet that if you asked the average computer/internet user their thoughts about the infrastructure of the internet, you'd find that a lot of them don't realize it's just made up of more computers.
They hear about all the computers that make up the internet, but to them, this just means the computers of the other people like them, browsing, downloading pr0n, etc. Server machines, and the software that runs on them, are so far outside their perception of what the internet is that I doubt it's even occured to most of them.
When you buy something in person, you pay taxes. When you buy it on the net, you should also pay taxes.
No. When I buy something via a mail order catalog, I only pay taxes if the seller is also in California. If this is not the case, I do not pay sales tax on that purchase. On-line purchases should follow the same model.
Here are the simple instructions for upgrading WinNT hardware:
Replace HDD? Reinstall WinNT...
Well yes, if you're replacing the drive the OS is on, of course you'll be reinstalling. Otherwise you won't.
Replace Motherboard? Reinstall...
Not necessarily. I've replaced motherboards in NT boxes (both server and workstation) on three occasions - two of them included new processors as well - and I haven't had to reinstall the OS because of it. Granted, the boards/processors were similar to what I had previously. If you're making a major change, YMMV.
Replace Video Card? Reinstall..
I'm really not trying to sound like an NT advocate here, but that's just silly. You're doing something seriously wrong if you have to reinstall the OS because of a change in video hardware/drivers.
Installed new software that modified any networking or display settings? Reapply service pack X.
Display settings? You're joking, of course. The only time you have to reinstall a service pack is if you need to take files off the original NT installation CD, ie: reinstall networking or something.
In theory, NT+SP4 should support AGP as well, but I was unable to get it to work. I was told it was because I'm running a non-Intel processor (AMD), but I don't know how accurate that is.
At the risk of being redundant, UUNET suffered a major backbone outage earlier today. According to their system status monitor, everything is back online now.
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I would bet that, if you did a survey of everyday computer users, you would find that they all simply assume that the underpinning of the Internet (and all the nice sites and services they use there) is built upon Microsoft products.
Personally, I would bet that if you asked the average computer/internet user their thoughts about the infrastructure of the internet, you'd find that a lot of them don't realize it's just made up of more computers.
They hear about all the computers that make up the internet, but to them, this just means the computers of the other people like them, browsing, downloading pr0n, etc. Server machines, and the software that runs on them, are so far outside their perception of what the internet is that I doubt it's even occured to most of them.
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When you buy something in person, you pay taxes. When you buy it on the net, you should also pay taxes.
No. When I buy something via a mail order catalog, I only pay taxes if the seller is also in California. If this is not the case, I do not pay sales tax on that purchase. On-line purchases should follow the same model.
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The current version is HTML 4.01
Or you can glance at the previous version, HTML 4.0
Not quite. The current W3C recommendation is XHTML 1.0, which is very similar.
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My mac has been able to talk since about 1995, anything i type i can have my computer say, including Linux ;-)
But how does it pronounce it? :)
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I own a couple of .com's. I also own the .org and .net of each one.
So which is it? You're a commercial group, a network provider, or a non-profit organization? All three?
Now I'm going to have to buy more TLD's to avoid cybersquatters?
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Where are the TLD police? Can't they troll the internet for misused TLD's?
I'm not attacking you personally, but I love the irony of this.
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Here are the simple instructions for upgrading WinNT hardware:
Replace HDD? Reinstall WinNT...
Well yes, if you're replacing the drive the OS is on, of course you'll be reinstalling. Otherwise you won't.
Replace Motherboard? Reinstall...
Not necessarily. I've replaced motherboards in NT boxes (both server and workstation) on three occasions - two of them included new processors as well - and I haven't had to reinstall the OS because of it. Granted, the boards/processors were similar to what I had previously. If you're making a major change, YMMV.
Replace Video Card? Reinstall..
I'm really not trying to sound like an NT advocate here, but that's just silly. You're doing something seriously wrong if you have to reinstall the OS because of a change in video hardware/drivers.
Installed new software that modified any networking or display settings? Reapply service pack X.
Display settings? You're joking, of course. The only time you have to reinstall a service pack is if you need to take files off the original NT installation CD, ie: reinstall networking or something.
In theory, NT+SP4 should support AGP as well, but I was unable to get it to work. I was told it was because I'm running a non-Intel processor (AMD), but I don't know how accurate that is.
Turn on, log in, burn out...
At the risk of being redundant, UUNET suffered a major backbone outage earlier today. According to their system status monitor, everything is back online now.
Turn on, log in, burn out...
It's accurate. UUNET was having major backbone problems earlier this evening. I'm at work at $MAJOR_ISP and we were all too aware of it.
According to their system status monitor, everything is back online at this time.
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