I am not the poster you've responded to, but I did want to point out that even in 1914 there were electric cars with 100 mile range, and charging stations all over NYC. They were considered "women's cars" so they didn't sell well with the biggest market which was mostly men. That isn't an attempt to virtue signal... those cars were legitimately marketed toward women with cabins that looked like comfortable parlors, and they were billed as quiet and clean to operate. I do realize that in 1914 there was less safety gear to haul around, and the average top speed was much lower, but imagine the progress that might have been had. Those were with the old Edison batteries as well, which could be refilled with electrolytes (what your body needs), and you're back to running around.
Cool info, thanks AC! Maybe someone will view it since I quoted it. Sigh.
As a kid in the late 70s, for a couple of years I attended a small private school. Being a nerd I knew the science teacher and helped him with stuff. He had several racks of original Edison cells that still worked perfectly. He had them powering the campus telephone system, emergency lighting, and synchronized wall clocks (and who knows what else).
I used to do a lot of shopping through eBay. One day PayPal froze my account. No idea why. I lost several hundred dollars in it. They made it so difficult to activate I just gave up and stopped using eBay altogether. I haven't shopped there for years.
I had a somewhat similar experience, but in the end it was a good thing. I'm a pretty tenacious person at times. I called ebay, paypal, my bank, Visa, each many times and nobody would tell me squat. I got a VP of IT at the bank to dig into their server records (I told you I'm tenacious) and he figured out that ebay (maybe FBI too?) had flagged the seller as criminal and automatically blocked the transaction, but did not want to tip off anyone who might work for the criminal and try to test the system. The flag triggered freezes on the PayPal, Visa debit, and tiny bank account I use for online purchases. To fix it I had to call yet another entity: a mysterious security company and answer a bunch of questions and they reactivated the accounts. I was glad for the protection, but not the hassles and non-communication about it.
This is happening more and more, and in light of recent articles about SIM card hacking, personal info database leaks, and all forms of "identity theft", it brings up a very important question: how can someone verify that you are who you say you are? I don't care how many factors of authentication you use, someone will find a way to get in- through or around.
Yeah, my biggest problem with ebay is the search itself. They disallowed wildcards years ago. I wrote and called and nobody would explain why. I told them they were being greedy and stupid- that in the short-term they might spark more sales, but in the long term, buyers will tire of not finding things. I even mentioned Amazon twice- the first time the ebay rep. said "ouch, that wasn't nice". The second time (different rep) just hung up on me.
So now I have the almost opposite problem: I enter an exact search, and I get items that do not have that search term in the title. I don't want seller's "keywords" - I want my exact search terms from the titles ONLY. Oh, gee, craigslist lets me do that.
Also, if I want to find an item, I don't want all of the accessories. If I search for "laptop", I'll get "laptop power adapter". I have to use dozens of tedious and tiring minus terms. And maybe someone has "laptop with power adapter" but "laptop -power -adapter" search will exclude that laptop that I might otherwise bid on. Stupid.
So I use ebay less and less.
If ebay can fix their search, they might turn the tide.
Have you all seen the goddamn fees to use ebay? It's a disgrace.
Maybe people are using it less? I try to avoid selling on there absolutely as much as possible. (Note: Australian here, being scammed on ebay seems far less likely than in the US)
The rapid proliferation of rampant fees is one of the many downsides of "free market" economics. It's suddenly everywhere in the US- airlines, any travel really, car repair, restaurants, concert tickets, the list goes on and on. I'm sure someone somewhere has a "fee processing fee".
I wasn't attacking you. You've misunderstood my wording- I'm not a wordsmith. Because of the horrible climate here on/. I rarely contribute. People don't seem too resilient or forgiving here. Misunderstandings are replied to with attacks and defensiveness. It's certainly not you- the whole place stinks, so nobody can tell who farted.
I just meant that things have changed since that statement was made. It seems obvious, to me, that those kinds of statements make the originator look a bit foolish, which is what I think you were trying to say?
Would that be the same 120 year old trillion dollar auto industry which said it was impossible to design and develop an electric car that people would actually buy?
To be fair, please acknowledge the context: mainly battery, motor, and controller technology available at the time. We now have LiON, very efficient power switching transistors to control the motor, neodymium permanent magnets and switched reluctance motors. An electric car of 20 years ago would have far less power and range, still be expensive, and only a few would buy it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors_EV1
"One way of understanding her is to realize that she is unfinished with conflicts that occurred in her childhood."
Another way to understand her is that she is constantly recreating conflicts that occurred in her childhood with people who had nothing to do with those childhood conflicts.
I'm not a psychologist but it's often fascinating. So extrapolating, do people do this to practice fighting and hopefully winning battles they lost as children?... possibly gearing up for finally winning that battle?
Fail. You make assumptions, leaps of logic, and your result is failure.
I conditionally agree that if an engineer knowingly designs/makes something faulty, they should be held accountable. But we engineers do not knowingly produce faulty stuff. All designs have to be tested to find things that nobody could anticipate. That testing costs time/money. I don't have the power to force a company to do testing- that's up to bean counters and management. Get it?
It doesn't sound like you work in corporate America, nor have much concept of how it works. If/when an engineer has a job, they generally have to show up where and when management tells them to. You are paid to be there and do what they tell you. If you try to do a better job, point out potential flaws, etc., you're generally labeled a complainer and hindrance to PROFIT. Read "Dilbert" a bit.
And yes, I'm speaking from direct experience, not conjecture and imagination. Being all big-shot tough-guy AC on/. isn't going to help anything. Go study the Challenger disaster. Learn about what is _actually_ happening, maybe go do some good somewhere and stop talking out of your A$$.
Yeah, again, I completely agree and if you look at my first post 20 years ago, you'll see I've felt that way for a long time. I guess I've softened slightly, but I could live without javascript. Main reason I hate it: almost all malware needs it as the main mechanism of action.
Thanks, good info, and I mostly agree. You should get a userID here.
PAE support in most cases has nothing to do with more than 4GB of RAM
I'm a bit confused. Maybe I've missed something, or made some incorrect connections. As I understand it, PAE refers to the 4 extra address outputs on most Intel CPUs Pentium Pro and newer.
In Linux kernel config (make menuconfig) the help available when choosing CPU "High Memory Support" explains that PAE gets turned on for supporting 4-64 GB RAM.
Yeah, I know some people who love Win2k too. I never liked it. I'm probably rare in that I actually compare things evenly. In those days I was running Win98SE, tuned and optimized. Win2k on the exact same hardware was a turtle and crashed more frequently. I did finally get one guy's laptop running 2k well, but only after uninstalling Symantec AV and extreme tuning and fat-cutting. One thing for sure: Win2k was (is?) a RAM hog.
I still have several machines running XP, highly optimized, tuned, and updated. MS just released 3 updates a few days ago, so don't cry about me running an "ancient insecure unsupported" OS. I run malware scans and I've never been hit by anything unexpected, IE: a few suspicious downloaded utilities had some unwanted payload that I found before running them.
Again, on the same hardware, tuned XP is (and feels) significantly faster than a highly tuned Win7.
I've heard from several true experts, including a CIO of a fairly major bank, that Win8 is much faster than 7. Maybe someday I'll try it...
If PAE mode is enabled in a kernel, then that kernel will only boot on PAE CPUs.
Most CPUs since Pentium Pro, certainly all P-III, have PAE: 36 address I/O bits. There are few exceptions.
A CPU having PAE capability does not mean an OS has to use PAE. You only need PAE if you have more than 4 GB RAM and you want to use more than 4 GB in your kernel.
For many many years motherboards used PAE CPUs, but the motherboard (maybe even chipset) did not "support" (make use of) more than 4 GB RAM. Some supported only 1 or 2 GB RAM, even though the CPU could address 36-bits (64 GB RAM).
I'm looking at a (live, running webserver) CentOS 6 elrepo 4.17.2-1 32-bit kernel config file and PAE is turned OFF. In fact the default kernel config optimizes for Pentium Pro (I might just have to recompile...) So it will boot on almost any PC hardware and use up to 4 GB RAM.
AFAIK, only the kernel cares about PAE. Most distros provide the kernel config file, so if you're up for it, you could pretty easily recompile a kernel with PAE turned off. Of course you need a running Linux system to do this. Or search for optional kernels for your distro.
Also, the Linux kernel accepts command-line options, but I'm not sure if you can turn PAE off by command-line.
I know this is overly generalizing, but my hunch is that most 32-bit kernels are non-PAE. Choose CentOS 6 32-bit, add elrepo-kernel (and others), choose ml kernels (4.17.2 currently), and you're good to go.
You're sounding like my very first posts here on/. 20 years ago. Yep, I'm gonna say it: "nobody every listens to me".
I understand art and tricky artistic and "interactive" "content". In other words, I see some value in javascript. I could argue that most of the functionality should be in html / css, but sometimes a programming language like javascript is the best and maybe only way to get some things done.
My main gripe is with browsers and what they're allowing javascript and WebAssembly to do in and to our computers.
And of course OSes which allow evil to happen.
And now we can't trust hardware.
Web browsers need to be run in small, disposable containers.
Preferably on dedicated computers that can be re-imaged frequently.
Thank you. A quick review of "megol's" posts reveals mostly personal attacks and insults. Hopefully someone will downmod.
Back to the topic: I don't care if some want to use systemd; my complaint is that systemd is default in too many major distributions and difficult to remove.
100% valid answer, I do use those tools but they're not browsers.
I think that's obvious. The point is: if everyone would adhere to the actual standards, much less testing, kludging, and wheel-spinning would be needed and we'd all be more productive.
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I am not the poster you've responded to, but I did want to point out that even in 1914 there were electric cars with 100 mile range, and charging stations all over NYC. They were considered "women's cars" so they didn't sell well with the biggest market which was mostly men. That isn't an attempt to virtue signal... those cars were legitimately marketed toward women with cabins that looked like comfortable parlors, and they were billed as quiet and clean to operate. I do realize that in 1914 there was less safety gear to haul around, and the average top speed was much lower, but imagine the progress that might have been had. Those were with the old Edison batteries as well, which could be refilled with electrolytes (what your body needs), and you're back to running around.
Cool info, thanks AC! Maybe someone will view it since I quoted it. Sigh.
As a kid in the late 70s, for a couple of years I attended a small private school. Being a nerd I knew the science teacher and helped him with stuff. He had several racks of original Edison cells that still worked perfectly. He had them powering the campus telephone system, emergency lighting, and synchronized wall clocks (and who knows what else).
I used to do a lot of shopping through eBay. One day PayPal froze my account. No idea why. I lost several hundred dollars in it. They made it so difficult to activate I just gave up and stopped using eBay altogether. I haven't shopped there for years.
I had a somewhat similar experience, but in the end it was a good thing. I'm a pretty tenacious person at times. I called ebay, paypal, my bank, Visa, each many times and nobody would tell me squat. I got a VP of IT at the bank to dig into their server records (I told you I'm tenacious) and he figured out that ebay (maybe FBI too?) had flagged the seller as criminal and automatically blocked the transaction, but did not want to tip off anyone who might work for the criminal and try to test the system. The flag triggered freezes on the PayPal, Visa debit, and tiny bank account I use for online purchases. To fix it I had to call yet another entity: a mysterious security company and answer a bunch of questions and they reactivated the accounts. I was glad for the protection, but not the hassles and non-communication about it.
This is happening more and more, and in light of recent articles about SIM card hacking, personal info database leaks, and all forms of "identity theft", it brings up a very important question: how can someone verify that you are who you say you are? I don't care how many factors of authentication you use, someone will find a way to get in- through or around.
Yeah, my biggest problem with ebay is the search itself. They disallowed wildcards years ago. I wrote and called and nobody would explain why. I told them they were being greedy and stupid- that in the short-term they might spark more sales, but in the long term, buyers will tire of not finding things. I even mentioned Amazon twice- the first time the ebay rep. said "ouch, that wasn't nice". The second time (different rep) just hung up on me.
So now I have the almost opposite problem: I enter an exact search, and I get items that do not have that search term in the title. I don't want seller's "keywords" - I want my exact search terms from the titles ONLY. Oh, gee, craigslist lets me do that.
Also, if I want to find an item, I don't want all of the accessories. If I search for "laptop", I'll get "laptop power adapter". I have to use dozens of tedious and tiring minus terms. And maybe someone has "laptop with power adapter" but "laptop -power -adapter" search will exclude that laptop that I might otherwise bid on. Stupid.
So I use ebay less and less.
If ebay can fix their search, they might turn the tide.
Have you all seen the goddamn fees to use ebay? It's a disgrace.
Maybe people are using it less? I try to avoid selling on there absolutely as much as possible.
(Note: Australian here, being scammed on ebay seems far less likely than in the US)
The rapid proliferation of rampant fees is one of the many downsides of "free market" economics. It's suddenly everywhere in the US- airlines, any travel really, car repair, restaurants, concert tickets, the list goes on and on. I'm sure someone somewhere has a "fee processing fee".
https://global.oup.com/academic/product/land-of-the-fee-9780199970162?cc=us&lang=en&
I wasn't attacking you. You've misunderstood my wording- I'm not a wordsmith. Because of the horrible climate here on /. I rarely contribute. People don't seem too resilient or forgiving here. Misunderstandings are replied to with attacks and defensiveness. It's certainly not you- the whole place stinks, so nobody can tell who farted.
I just meant that things have changed since that statement was made. It seems obvious, to me, that those kinds of statements make the originator look a bit foolish, which is what I think you were trying to say?
Would that be the same 120 year old trillion dollar auto industry which said it was impossible to design and develop an electric car that people would actually buy?
To be fair, please acknowledge the context: mainly battery, motor, and controller technology available at the time. We now have LiON, very efficient power switching transistors to control the motor, neodymium permanent magnets and switched reluctance motors. An electric car of 20 years ago would have far less power and range, still be expensive, and only a few would buy it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors_EV1
"One way of understanding her is to realize that she is unfinished with conflicts that occurred in her childhood."
Another way to understand her is that she is constantly recreating conflicts that occurred in her childhood with people who had nothing to do with those childhood conflicts.
I'm not a psychologist but it's often fascinating. So extrapolating, do people do this to practice fighting and hopefully winning battles they lost as children? ... possibly gearing up for finally winning that battle?
We need to bring back the iMac G3 colors. Also, have the phone be round like the puck mouse.
And also have no buttons!
I hadn't heard of "flexjobs.com", so thank you. I like the sine wave logo- it beckons me. :)
Fail. You make assumptions, leaps of logic, and your result is failure.
I conditionally agree that if an engineer knowingly designs/makes something faulty, they should be held accountable. But we engineers do not knowingly produce faulty stuff. All designs have to be tested to find things that nobody could anticipate. That testing costs time/money. I don't have the power to force a company to do testing- that's up to bean counters and management. Get it?
It doesn't sound like you work in corporate America, nor have much concept of how it works. If/when an engineer has a job, they generally have to show up where and when management tells them to. You are paid to be there and do what they tell you. If you try to do a better job, point out potential flaws, etc., you're generally labeled a complainer and hindrance to PROFIT. Read "Dilbert" a bit.
And yes, I'm speaking from direct experience, not conjecture and imagination. Being all big-shot tough-guy AC on /. isn't going to help anything. Go study the Challenger disaster. Learn about what is _actually_ happening, maybe go do some good somewhere and stop talking out of your A$$.
it's garbage hardware design, yes.
electrical engineers' managers have failed in their managment of design of memory and CPU.
FTFY.
Yeah, again, I completely agree and if you look at my first post 20 years ago, you'll see I've felt that way for a long time. I guess I've softened slightly, but I could live without javascript. Main reason I hate it: almost all malware needs it as the main mechanism of action.
Get all of your updates at Microsoft Update Catalog.
For XP Autopatcher.net
Lots of anti-malware available to run on XP.
Thanks, good info, and I mostly agree. You should get a userID here.
I'm a bit confused. Maybe I've missed something, or made some incorrect connections. As I understand it, PAE refers to the 4 extra address outputs on most Intel CPUs Pentium Pro and newer.
In Linux kernel config (make menuconfig) the help available when choosing CPU "High Memory Support" explains that PAE gets turned on for supporting 4-64 GB RAM.
Yeah, I know some people who love Win2k too. I never liked it. I'm probably rare in that I actually compare things evenly. In those days I was running Win98SE, tuned and optimized. Win2k on the exact same hardware was a turtle and crashed more frequently. I did finally get one guy's laptop running 2k well, but only after uninstalling Symantec AV and extreme tuning and fat-cutting. One thing for sure: Win2k was (is?) a RAM hog.
I still have several machines running XP, highly optimized, tuned, and updated. MS just released 3 updates a few days ago, so don't cry about me running an "ancient insecure unsupported" OS. I run malware scans and I've never been hit by anything unexpected, IE: a few suspicious downloaded utilities had some unwanted payload that I found before running them.
Again, on the same hardware, tuned XP is (and feels) significantly faster than a highly tuned Win7.
I've heard from several true experts, including a CIO of a fairly major bank, that Win8 is much faster than 7. Maybe someday I'll try it...
If PAE mode is enabled in a kernel, then that kernel will only boot on PAE CPUs.
Most CPUs since Pentium Pro, certainly all P-III, have PAE: 36 address I/O bits. There are few exceptions.
A CPU having PAE capability does not mean an OS has to use PAE. You only need PAE if you have more than 4 GB RAM and you want to use more than 4 GB in your kernel.
For many many years motherboards used PAE CPUs, but the motherboard (maybe even chipset) did not "support" (make use of) more than 4 GB RAM. Some supported only 1 or 2 GB RAM, even though the CPU could address 36-bits (64 GB RAM).
I'm looking at a (live, running webserver) CentOS 6 elrepo 4.17.2-1 32-bit kernel config file and PAE is turned OFF. In fact the default kernel config optimizes for Pentium Pro (I might just have to recompile ...) So it will boot on almost any PC hardware and use up to 4 GB RAM.
AFAIK, only the kernel cares about PAE. Most distros provide the kernel config file, so if you're up for it, you could pretty easily recompile a kernel with PAE turned off. Of course you need a running Linux system to do this. Or search for optional kernels for your distro.
Also, the Linux kernel accepts command-line options, but I'm not sure if you can turn PAE off by command-line.
I know this is overly generalizing, but my hunch is that most 32-bit kernels are non-PAE. Choose CentOS 6 32-bit, add elrepo-kernel (and others), choose ml kernels (4.17.2 currently), and you're good to go.
Easily duped is not smart.
You're sounding like my very first posts here on /. 20 years ago. Yep, I'm gonna say it: "nobody every listens to me".
I understand art and tricky artistic and "interactive" "content". In other words, I see some value in javascript. I could argue that most of the functionality should be in html / css, but sometimes a programming language like javascript is the best and maybe only way to get some things done.
My main gripe is with browsers and what they're allowing javascript and WebAssembly to do in and to our computers.
And of course OSes which allow evil to happen.
And now we can't trust hardware.
Web browsers need to be run in small, disposable containers.
Preferably on dedicated computers that can be re-imaged frequently.
And beer!
Thank you. A quick review of "megol's" posts reveals mostly personal attacks and insults. Hopefully someone will downmod.
Back to the topic: I don't care if some want to use systemd; my complaint is that systemd is default in too many major distributions and difficult to remove.
My overly optimistic reaction, without having studied the details, is that other distributions will fear legal messes and will drop systemd.
Please don't anybody burst my bubble. Sigh.
100% valid answer, I do use those tools but they're not browsers.
I think that's obvious. The point is: if everyone would adhere to the actual standards, much less testing, kludging, and wheel-spinning would be needed and we'd all be more productive.
and even then it's iffy
And which browesrs are we supposed to test with, apart from Chrome?
https://validator.w3.org/nu/
http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/
I hadn't heard that- that is awesome, thank you!