Why in the hell is the SysRq key even on the keyboard anymore? In the 19 years I have had a PC, I have only seen ONE application that could do anything with SysRq, and that was DesqView 2.4. (anyone remember DesqView? It was COOL!!!) Even then, it didn't work correctly. I seem to remember SysRq doing something in Xenix also... can anybody confirm/deny that?
This isn't too far off in some cases. There are 4 class C networks for which I know the IP of _every_ device connected by heart. Then again, that's probably because I run them... but it's invaluable from time to time to be able to get around freely even though DNS is broken on either end, or something similar.
It's "unfortunate" because MS chat is the worst possible imagined interface to IRC. Have you ever tried entering a room with more than 3 people in it using that godforsaken comic-book interface? Tis truly impossible to use.
Is it safe to assume that the lawsuit against MP3.com about Beam-it didn't pan out? Or is it still going on, and mp3.com is just pretending not to worry about it?
I guess I won't write off Cyrix entirely yet. However, I will absolutely NOT buy any system with a Cyrix-made chip in it until I see some evidence that they made a chip that does not suck.
In my book, they (Cyrix) has a bad reputation: 486DX4 = Compatibility problems 5x86 = Sucked 6x86 = Sucked 6x86L = Sucked HARD, it overheated all the damn time! MII = Never played with one, but I hear it sucked.
So, I'll be taking the good ol' "wait and see" with the forthcoming Joshua chip. Who's with me?
I wouldn't worry myself with a Cyrix icon too much, considering that Cyrix doesn't exactly exist anymore.... correct? (at least, I hope they don't, I have never enjoyed dealing with slow-half-broken-overheating Cyrix cpus)
That ad was awesome! Incidentally, that was the _only_ part of the superbowl that I saw at all, because it was on in front of the treadmill I was running on earlier.
I wonder how many Slashdotters care (or don't) about the superbowl, other than the great ads.... just a thought.
I also run a MSI 6120 motherboard, and I have had it for a little more than a year ago (I think), with absolutely no problems. MSI recently put out a new bios for it that fixed ACPI problems, and windows 2000 likes it even better now (although now that the beta is over I may revert to Linux on this box).
Stability is great, amazing actually, consindering that I have a pair of overclocked P2-350's (running at 392mhz), and I commonly have uptimes of a month or more in windows 2000, which is truly mind boggling.
of course, my hacked-together linux box with an overclocked P150 currently has 120 days of uptime... so I guess it's not so amazing...
Personally I'm waiting for a port of linux (is there one?) to my r4400-based WinCE handheld, and I will convince Wolfram (who happens to be in my town) to compile Mathematica for linux to it for me, and I will have the Most Powerful Graphing Calculator In The World(tm) thank you very much. Am I totally dreaming?
Might I suggest that you find a HP 32Sii for those tests that prevent you from using a graphing calculator? I carry my 48gx at all times, and keep the 32Sii as a backup because it is also RPN, and programmable, and similar enough in structure to the 48gx that I can actually use it.
This is easy enough. May I suggest we post this somewhere conspicuous so all linux-newbies read it? The cut 'n paste question gets asked constantly!
First, set a mark.
Tap button#1 once to set a left-hand mark at a character point and set drag type to chars.
Tap button#1 twice to set a left-hand mark at a whole word and set drag type to words. Also, puts that word in cut buffer.
Tap button#1 thrice to set a left-hand mark at an entire word and set drag type to lines. Also, puts that line in cut buffer.
To grow your cut buffer:
Next, you may now start dragging the point device to grab up chars, words, or lines, depending on initial tap count -or-
you may now tap button#3 to mark right-hand character, word, or line, depending on initial tap count.
(Make sure your ~/.Xdefaults contains the following, without a newline: xterm*vt100.charClass: 33:48,35:48,37:48,43:48,45-47:48,64:48,95:48,126:4 8,35:48,58:48
if you want cool words.)
Finally, tap button#2 to paste whatever is in your cut buffer. Cut and paste works fine. It's easy.
I recall a few years back seeing a beta version of Microsoft Site Server somethingrather that had a site visualization tool which looked _extremely_ similar to the sitemap device used at inxight.com. I'm not sure if MS licensed it from them, or they licensed it from MS, or if it's just a nifty public-domain idea, but that is not the only place I've seen it.
The 30-second Flash Intro on fox.com makes more sense if you consider it this way: Watch TV for a while. The TV format has 30-second intros (basically). It seems to work pretty well, considering the number of people that continue to watch TV. Now when you get done watching your couple hours of television, notice at the end of some show a reference to a web address: www.fox.com. Hmm, why not? Go over to your computer, fire up www.fox.com, watch another 30-second intro just like you've been watching for the past few hours on the television, and lapse back into advertisement land and learn all about Ally McBeal on your new favourite website.
Or something like that.
Generally speaking, all of this requires that you _not_ be the average slashdot reader, but I think you can see what I'm talking about anyway.
Is it even POSSIBLE to edit a plain text file in wordperfect, and then save it as a plain text file without WP reformatting the whole thing, breaking shell scripts, etc?
I mean, I'm sure it is possible to do, but it does seem ridiculous. *chuckling* I am imagining trying to use wordperfect to edit/etc/password or something of the sort.
I have here an ALR 6proc Pentium Pro motherboard that supports up to 4 gig of ram. I don't know if the full 4 gig works... but I know it works with 2 gig on it!
I have one of these on a shelf in my basement (this product has been around for about 8 years) and while it's an interesting novelty, I find it completely unusable. The problem is that it has a metal ball instead of a more grippy rubber one. This forces you to push down REALLY hard in order to make it work properly, which causes wrist pain after less than an hour.
I absolutely adore my pen. I have a Wacom Artpad II tablet, and I just keep the pen in my left hand all the time, even while typing. It works quite well, and there is absolutely no matching it for accuracy at doing design work and drawing. On the other hand, I do have my mouse hooked up too, because pens just aren't as usable for applications like word processing where you don't use them much. And they are absolutely IMPOSSIBLE to use in fps games! Try it sometime, get into q3demo and try mousing around with a pen. It goes insane!
Has Computer Shopper reduced its size since I last saw it? I used to grab a copy now and then, and it was at least 900 pages long, as big as a copy of the Wall Street Journal and five times thicker. Probably 90 to 95% of it was ads. I thought that was the whole point though... all sorts of small-ish shops put their listings in there, and I could search through it and find what I was after almost all of the time.
I see the parallels... however I also see the contrasts. The difference is that we are not planning for the world to end, we are expecting to experience a few "glitches" in all of our automated magic. There are enough level-headed people now to keep the ball rolling through the new year.
.... and all the rest of the TV news media as well. They seem to enjoy promoting paranoia in every form. Every news segment about the Internet is inevitably a paranoia bit. Better not let your children anywhere the net, it's all pornography and pedophilia. This Y2K thing is WAY past the buzzword stage, but they keep insisting on rubbing our noses in it, as though we might be made MORE aware of it. Admittedly, there may be a few, probably small, problems related to the calendar rollover, but I doubt that it will be near-apocalypse as this feature will almost certainly predict.
It seems more than a little odd to me that Linux/BSD/opensource community didn't have any space on the main show floor. After all the time spent trying to get Linux/etc into the mainstream, why do they make a move like this and so blatantly separate the Linux crowd from the rest of the mainstream businesses? It doesn't make much sense to me.
Unless you are dialing into AOL or some other evil conglomerate, I recommend trying to befriend your friendly local ISP administrator. HE has the T1 in your area... and if he's a decent citizen he'll do you a small favor and let you download your 53mb onto a zip disk in his office!
I think the latest application paperwork actually says you have to be _21_ to get into the show! Of course, if you are dressed in "business attire" (I generally wore a tie and sportcoat to comdex) NOBODY will bother you, even if you look like you're 16. They just don't want kids who aren't interested in buying anything there.
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Why in the hell is the SysRq key even on the keyboard anymore? In the 19 years I have had a PC, I have only seen ONE application that could do anything with SysRq, and that was DesqView 2.4. (anyone remember DesqView? It was COOL!!!) Even then, it didn't work correctly. I seem to remember SysRq doing something in Xenix also... can anybody confirm/deny that?
This isn't too far off in some cases. There are 4 class C networks for which I know the IP of _every_ device connected by heart. Then again, that's probably because I run them... but it's invaluable from time to time to be able to get around freely even though DNS is broken on either end, or something similar.
It's "unfortunate" because MS chat is the worst possible imagined interface to IRC. Have you ever tried entering a room with more than 3 people in it using that godforsaken comic-book interface? Tis truly impossible to use.
Is it safe to assume that the lawsuit against MP3.com about Beam-it didn't pan out? Or is it still going on, and mp3.com is just pretending not to worry about it?
I guess I won't write off Cyrix entirely yet. However, I will absolutely NOT buy any system with a Cyrix-made chip in it until I see some evidence that they made a chip that does not suck.
In my book, they (Cyrix) has a bad reputation:
486DX4 = Compatibility problems
5x86 = Sucked
6x86 = Sucked
6x86L = Sucked HARD, it overheated all the damn time!
MII = Never played with one, but I hear it sucked.
So, I'll be taking the good ol' "wait and see" with the forthcoming Joshua chip. Who's with me?
I wouldn't worry myself with a Cyrix icon too much, considering that Cyrix doesn't exactly exist anymore.... correct? (at least, I hope they don't, I have never enjoyed dealing with slow-half-broken-overheating Cyrix cpus)
That ad was awesome! Incidentally, that was the _only_ part of the superbowl that I saw at all, because it was on in front of the treadmill I was running on earlier.
I wonder how many Slashdotters care (or don't) about the superbowl, other than the great ads.... just a thought.
I also run a MSI 6120 motherboard, and I have had it for a little more than a year ago (I think), with absolutely no problems. MSI recently put out a new bios for it that fixed ACPI problems, and windows 2000 likes it even better now (although now that the beta is over I may revert to Linux on this box).
Stability is great, amazing actually, consindering that I have a pair of overclocked P2-350's (running at 392mhz), and I commonly have uptimes of a month or more in windows 2000, which is truly mind boggling.
of course, my hacked-together linux box with an overclocked P150 currently has 120 days of uptime... so I guess it's not so amazing...
Goddamn! Is there going to be any news today that _doesn't_ involve someone suing over patent doodoo???
Personally I'm waiting for a port of linux (is there one?) to my r4400-based WinCE handheld, and I will convince Wolfram (who happens to be in my town) to compile Mathematica for linux to it for me, and I will have the Most Powerful Graphing Calculator In The World(tm) thank you very much. Am I totally dreaming?
Might I suggest that you find a HP 32Sii for those tests that prevent you from using a graphing calculator? I carry my 48gx at all times, and keep the 32Sii as a backup because it is also RPN, and programmable, and similar enough in structure to the 48gx that I can actually use it.
I like my email service, personally... www.zoiks.net.
It's nice and reliable, high uptime, filters, no spam, folders, etc, the works.
if you want cool words.)
Finally, tap button#2 to paste whatever is in your cut buffer. Cut and paste works fine. It's easy.
I recall a few years back seeing a beta version of Microsoft Site Server somethingrather that had a site visualization tool which looked _extremely_ similar to the sitemap device used at inxight.com. I'm not sure if MS licensed it from them, or they licensed it from MS, or if it's just a nifty public-domain idea, but that is not the only place I've seen it.
Has anybody else seen this elsewhere?
The 30-second Flash Intro on fox.com makes more sense if you consider it this way:
Watch TV for a while. The TV format has 30-second intros (basically). It seems to work pretty well, considering the number of people that continue to watch TV.
Now when you get done watching your couple hours of television, notice at the end of some show a reference to a web address: www.fox.com. Hmm, why not? Go over to your computer, fire up www.fox.com, watch another 30-second intro just like you've been watching for the past few hours on the television, and lapse back into advertisement land and learn all about Ally McBeal on your new favourite website.
Or something like that.
Generally speaking, all of this requires that you _not_ be the average slashdot reader, but I think you can see what I'm talking about anyway.
Is it even POSSIBLE to edit a plain text file in wordperfect, and then save it as a plain text file without WP reformatting the whole thing, breaking shell scripts, etc?
/etc/password or something of the sort.
I mean, I'm sure it is possible to do, but it does seem ridiculous. *chuckling* I am imagining trying to use wordperfect to edit
I have here an ALR 6proc Pentium Pro motherboard that supports up to 4 gig of ram. I don't know if the full 4 gig works... but I know it works with 2 gig on it!
I have one of these on a shelf in my basement (this product has been around for about 8 years) and while it's an interesting novelty, I find it completely unusable. The problem is that it has a metal ball instead of a more grippy rubber one. This forces you to push down REALLY hard in order to make it work properly, which causes wrist pain after less than an hour.
I absolutely adore my pen. I have a Wacom Artpad II tablet, and I just keep the pen in my left hand all the time, even while typing. It works quite well, and there is absolutely no matching it for accuracy at doing design work and drawing.
On the other hand, I do have my mouse hooked up too, because pens just aren't as usable for applications like word processing where you don't use them much. And they are absolutely IMPOSSIBLE to use in fps games! Try it sometime, get into q3demo and try mousing around with a pen. It goes insane!
Has Computer Shopper reduced its size since I last saw it? I used to grab a copy now and then, and it was at least 900 pages long, as big as a copy of the Wall Street Journal and five times thicker. Probably 90 to 95% of it was ads. I thought that was the whole point though... all sorts of small-ish shops put their listings in there, and I could search through it and find what I was after almost all of the time.
I see the parallels... however I also see the contrasts. The difference is that we are not planning for the world to end, we are expecting to experience a few "glitches" in all of our automated magic. There are enough level-headed people now to keep the ball rolling through the new year.
.... and all the rest of the TV news media as well. They seem to enjoy promoting paranoia in every form. Every news segment about the Internet is inevitably a paranoia bit. Better not let your children anywhere the net, it's all pornography and pedophilia. This Y2K thing is WAY past the buzzword stage, but they keep insisting on rubbing our noses in it, as though we might be made MORE aware of it. Admittedly, there may be a few, probably small, problems related to the calendar rollover, but I doubt that it will be near-apocalypse as this feature will almost certainly predict.
It seems more than a little odd to me that Linux/BSD/opensource community didn't have any space on the main show floor. After all the time spent trying to get Linux/etc into the mainstream, why do they make a move like this and so blatantly separate the Linux crowd from the rest of the mainstream businesses? It doesn't make much sense to me.
Unless you are dialing into AOL or some other evil conglomerate, I recommend trying to befriend your friendly local ISP administrator. HE has the T1 in your area... and if he's a decent citizen he'll do you a small favor and let you download your 53mb onto a zip disk in his office!
I think the latest application paperwork actually says you have to be _21_ to get into the show! Of course, if you are dressed in "business attire" (I generally wore a tie and sportcoat to comdex) NOBODY will bother you, even if you look like you're 16. They just don't want kids who aren't interested in buying anything there.