Actually, TWO (except I didn't have any problems getting on the internet or opening documents with mine). It is possible a few more people might have bought them too...
location = Beginning;
move watch to player;
"You step onto the landing ramp leading down toward the surface of the legendary lost planet of Magrathea. ~Announcement, announcement. This is Eddie (the shipboard computer). Someone is leaving the ship on a strange planet without wrapping up all nice and warm. It'll all end in tears, I just know it...~ The voice fades behind you.^^Ramp^The wind moans. Dust drifts across the surface of the alien world. Zaphod, Ford, and Trillian appear and urge you forward.
^^
Slowly, nervously, you step downwards, the cold thin air rasping in your lungs. You set one single foot on the ancient dust -- and almost instantly the most incredible adventure starts which you'll have to buy the next game to find out about.
^^You also remember something about a causal relationship between your taking the toothbrush and the tree collapsing.
^^
As you awake, these thoughts fade like as if they never existed, and you are not sure what they mean.";
];
The scenario:
You wake up in August, 1995 in the parking lot of a Virginia shopping center, where there is a major event going on at the local Egghead computer store. Checking a local newspaper, you discover that Microsoft has bought out Sirius Cybernetics Corporation to acquire their Genuine People Personality (GPP) technology. Your guide now features Marvin, the paranoid office assistant, as well as a lot of self-satisfied windows. If you can unlock the filing cabinet in the unused lavatory, you can get the "next game" which will allow you to escape the Earth before the Universe explodes for your pleasure (TM). Slartibartfast informs you that the Restaurant at the End of the Universe did not apply the DST patch to their servers, so the space-time continuum is not merely bent, but in fact actually broken.
When you start up Sub-Ethernet explorer to download the patch, you the the following message:
When I saw the alert, I applied the patch to my remaining XP machine at home. Then as a safeguard, I disabled the "server" service and installed ssh for my file sharing needs. All I need now is to replace the explorer/IE shell with KDE.
I remember back in 1985, we had professional grade Sony BVU 800 3/4 inch VTRs. Completely mil-spec, these were better than the ones the local TV station had. Ten years later, I got a flat screen CRT from best buy that was totally sweet.
That was the last time I got anything good from Sony. A few years later, I bought another one of their monitors for my wife, which promptly fried. At work, we also bought Sony monitors which also all fried (or "crackled" in my case). Then of course, there is the root-kit disaster.
Oracle runs just fine in user space... except on Windows. In fact, on *every* operating system except Windows, it is *required* to run as an unprivileged user (you can't run it as root). Even in Windows, you can just extract the tarball and go. The only thing is, it needs to create services, set up the registry and shit like that. You don't need those admin related things on other operating systems.
I know I am in the minority here, but I actually kind of *LIKE* the Awesome bar. I type the first few characters of the website I want and usually it appears on the list. I also use things like tab file expansion in BASH, so it is an interface I am very comfortable with. I do agree that you should be able to turn it off.
At work, we recently "upgraded" from Win2k to XP, and I got my first experience with the dog. We deployed a release to production which had a bug in it, and I needed to find all references to the broken routine *FAST*. So I called up the handy-dandy search screen with the cute little mutt and put in the text I wanted to find in the files. No matches. WTF? Did I spell it wrong? No. There was 1 file I knew had it, so I opened it, found the text and than ran the same search again against that 1 file. Still didn't find it. OK, so search for text within files doesn't work.
I later found out that the search for text with in a file only works with.TXT files (I mean, no-one would ever want to search another type of file, right?). You can get it to work with the following, easy procedure:
"To configure Windows XP to search all files no matter what the file type, obtain the latest service pack for Windows XP and then turn on the Index file types with unknown extensions option.
If you use this method, Windows XP searches all file types for the text that you specify. This can affect the performance of the search functionality. To do this:
1. Click Start, and then click Search (or point to Search, and then click For Files or Folders).
2. Click Change preferences, and then click With Indexing Service (for faster local searches).
3. Click Change Indexing Service Settings (Advanced). Note that you do not have to turn on the Index service.
4. On the toolbar, click Show/Hide Console Tree.
5. In the left pane, right-click Indexing Service on Local Machine, and then click Properties.
6. On the Generation tab, click to select the Index files with unknown extensions check box, and then click OK.
7. Close the Indexing Service console.
Important This section, method, or task contains steps that tell you how to modify the registry. However, serious problems might occur if you modify the registry incorrectly. Therefore, make sure that you follow these steps carefully. For added protection, back up the registry before you modify it. Then, you can restore the registry if a problem occurs. For more information about how to back up and restore the registry, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
322756 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/322756/ ) How to back up and restore the registry in Windows
Network administrators can configure this setting by modifying the registry. To do this, set the FilterFilesWithUnknownExtensions DWORD value to 1 in the following registry key:
I have posted from Moscow, Mexico City, Barbados and Ciudad Juárez. Not exactly the best, and not exactly the worst. But some pretty scary shit never the less.
I can't, give that Google itself (the search engine) runs Linux. But even that doesn't really make sense as the libraries (webkit) are already available for Linux.
Funny, the first time I saw M$ about 5 years ago, it took me a while to figure it out. I have always used "Microshit", or in the case of a toastmasters speech I gave, "Microsquash".
Many years ago I was having a lot of problems with Oracle Forms GPFing all the time. So I called Oracle support and they asked me what kind of keyboard I had. I told them I were using one of those Microsoft "Natural" keyboards, and they told me it was a known issue with using Microsoft keyboards and Oracle Forms. I tried a regular on and sure enough, it worked.
A few years later, I was recounting the story to another co-worker, and the look on her face was priceless: "OMG, we used to have one developer who's forms always GPFed. We tried everything. Reinstalling forms, reinstalling Windows, even a new computer. Of course, he did have his own Microsoft Keyboard, which he always used."
A Home Depot employee: "We don't have anything like that but the True Value down the street might.". Sure enough, they did have it. They may not have more *different* products, but they have a lot of stuff that the big box stores don't carry, like:
Things like vent resisters in odd-ball sizes
More brands of paints and stains (Cabot, Flood, etc)
Hand tools - dwarfs even the largest Home Depot
Cookware - in a hardware store? WTF? Better than Walmart/Kmart
Toys - This year, a US made porcelain tea set was my 6 year olds favorite present. Try finding that in any big box store.
Home Depot and Lowes sell a lot of shit like building materials, lumber, kitchen cabinets, and appliances that True Value doesn't carry. We need both types of stores.
There is that AOL reference again, per my experience (1994-1995)
Customer signs up for an account
Begin charging credit card
The shit don't work
Customer attempts to cancel service.
Set website up so after 27 screens of "are you SURE you really want to cancel service", customer gets a 1-800 number to wait on hold for another hour
After you finally let the customer speak to an ACTUAL human and confirm that yes, they do want to quit, keep charging customers credit card until they cancel the credit card
Which is basically a movie prop - no engines, no heatshield, rejected wing design, never flown and incapable of flight due to prohibitive retrofit expense, if nothing else.
Actually, it did fly once. It just never went into space. Launched on the back of a 747, it was the first shuttle to land. I remember watching it live on TV.
I would probably be a bit more interested when it is based on a Unix architecture and runs all of my older games (including the Win9x ones) in a sandbox mode.
So that's why we are on an insignificant blue-green planet orbiting an un-regarded yellow sun in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable western spiral arm of the galaxy. Where is my towel?
Slashdot Mirror
Actually, TWO (except I didn't have any problems getting on the internet or opening documents with mine). It is possible a few more people might have bought them too...
Actual Z-Code:
location = Beginning;
move watch to player;
"You step onto the landing ramp leading down toward the surface of the legendary lost planet of Magrathea. ~Announcement, announcement. This is Eddie (the shipboard computer). Someone is leaving the ship on a strange planet without wrapping up all nice and warm. It'll all end in tears, I just know it...~ The voice fades behind you.^^Ramp^The wind moans. Dust drifts across the surface of the alien world. Zaphod, Ford, and Trillian appear and urge you forward.
^^
Slowly, nervously, you step downwards, the cold thin air rasping in your lungs. You set one single foot on the ancient dust -- and almost instantly the most incredible adventure starts which you'll have to buy the next game to find out about. ^^You also remember something about a causal relationship between your taking the toothbrush and the tree collapsing.
^^
As you awake, these thoughts fade like as if they never existed, and you are not sure what they mean."; ];
The scenario:
You wake up in August, 1995 in the parking lot of a Virginia shopping center, where there is a major event going on at the local Egghead computer store. Checking a local newspaper, you discover that Microsoft has bought out Sirius Cybernetics Corporation to acquire their Genuine People Personality (GPP) technology. Your guide now features Marvin, the paranoid office assistant, as well as a lot of self-satisfied windows. If you can unlock the filing cabinet in the unused lavatory, you can get the "next game" which will allow you to escape the Earth before the Universe explodes for your pleasure (TM). Slartibartfast informs you that the Restaurant at the End of the Universe did not apply the DST patch to their servers, so the space-time continuum is not merely bent, but in fact actually broken. When you start up Sub-Ethernet explorer to download the patch, you the the following message:
"This page cannot be displayed."
When I saw the alert, I applied the patch to my remaining XP machine at home. Then as a safeguard, I disabled the "server" service and installed ssh for my file sharing needs. All I need now is to replace the explorer/IE shell with KDE.
My Commodore 64 can boot almost instantly on a 25 year old 1Mhz machine...
I remember back in 1985, we had professional grade Sony BVU 800 3/4 inch VTRs. Completely mil-spec, these were better than the ones the local TV station had. Ten years later, I got a flat screen CRT from best buy that was totally sweet.
That was the last time I got anything good from Sony. A few years later, I bought another one of their monitors for my wife, which promptly fried. At work, we also bought Sony monitors which also all fried (or "crackled" in my case). Then of course, there is the root-kit disaster.
Oracle runs just fine in user space... except on Windows. In fact, on *every* operating system except Windows, it is *required* to run as an unprivileged user (you can't run it as root). Even in Windows, you can just extract the tarball and go. The only thing is, it needs to create services, set up the registry and shit like that. You don't need those admin related things on other operating systems.
Perhaps something like This?
Democrats == Tax and Spend
Republicans == Borrow and Spend
Thats no moon!
I know I am in the minority here, but I actually kind of *LIKE* the Awesome bar. I type the first few characters of the website I want and usually it appears on the list. I also use things like tab file expansion in BASH, so it is an interface I am very comfortable with. I do agree that you should be able to turn it off.
At work, we recently "upgraded" from Win2k to XP, and I got my first experience with the dog. We deployed a release to production which had a bug in it, and I needed to find all references to the broken routine *FAST*. So I called up the handy-dandy search screen with the cute little mutt and put in the text I wanted to find in the files. No matches. WTF? Did I spell it wrong? No. There was 1 file I knew had it, so I opened it, found the text and than ran the same search again against that 1 file. Still didn't find it. OK, so search for text within files doesn't work.
I later found out that the search for text with in a file only works with .TXT files (I mean, no-one would ever want to search another type of file, right?). You can get it to work with the following, easy procedure:
"To configure Windows XP to search all files no matter what the file type, obtain the latest service pack for Windows XP and then turn on the Index file types with unknown extensions option.
If you use this method, Windows XP searches all file types for the text that you specify. This can affect the performance of the search functionality. To do this:
1. Click Start, and then click Search (or point to Search, and then click For Files or Folders).
2. Click Change preferences, and then click With Indexing Service (for faster local searches).
3. Click Change Indexing Service Settings (Advanced). Note that you do not have to turn on the Index service.
4. On the toolbar, click Show/Hide Console Tree.
5. In the left pane, right-click Indexing Service on Local Machine, and then click Properties.
6. On the Generation tab, click to select the Index files with unknown extensions check box, and then click OK.
7. Close the Indexing Service console.
Important This section, method, or task contains steps that tell you how to modify the registry. However, serious problems might occur if you modify the registry incorrectly. Therefore, make sure that you follow these steps carefully. For added protection, back up the registry before you modify it. Then, you can restore the registry if a problem occurs. For more information about how to back up and restore the registry, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
322756 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/322756/ ) How to back up and restore the registry in Windows
Network administrators can configure this setting by modifying the registry. To do this, set the FilterFilesWithUnknownExtensions DWORD value to 1 in the following registry key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\ContentIndex"
I have posted from Moscow, Mexico City, Barbados and Ciudad Juárez. Not exactly the best, and not exactly the worst. But some pretty scary shit never the less.
I'm pretty sure you can upgrade to Firefox just fine.
I can't, give that Google itself (the search engine) runs Linux. But even that doesn't really make sense as the libraries (webkit) are already available for Linux.
But does it run Linux?
Funny, the first time I saw M$ about 5 years ago, it took me a while to figure it out. I have always used "Microshit", or in the case of a toastmasters speech I gave, "Microsquash".
Many years ago I was having a lot of problems with Oracle Forms GPFing all the time. So I called Oracle support and they asked me what kind of keyboard I had. I told them I were using one of those Microsoft "Natural" keyboards, and they told me it was a known issue with using Microsoft keyboards and Oracle Forms. I tried a regular on and sure enough, it worked.
A few years later, I was recounting the story to another co-worker, and the look on her face was priceless: "OMG, we used to have one developer who's forms always GPFed. We tried everything. Reinstalling forms, reinstalling Windows, even a new computer. Of course, he did have his own Microsoft Keyboard, which he always used."
Home Depot and Lowes sell a lot of shit like building materials, lumber, kitchen cabinets, and appliances that True Value doesn't carry. We need both types of stores.
@echo off
for
Actually, it did fly once. It just never went into space. Launched on the back of a 747, it was the first shuttle to land. I remember watching it live on TV.
I would probably be a bit more interested when it is based on a Unix architecture and runs all of my older games (including the Win9x ones) in a sandbox mode.
Thanks for reminding me about Magnatunes:
The list I have purchased so far:
Any more, anyone??
I bought an album from them from Amarok, but they need more Metal!
So that's why we are on an insignificant blue-green planet orbiting an un-regarded yellow sun in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable western spiral arm of the galaxy. Where is my towel?