I can choose to only see those articles that other readers moderated to my threshold (and by doing so demonstrate my trust in their opinions), or I can choose to see everything.
Laziness on the part of the reader doesn't constitute censorship by/.
I can choose not to read even-numbered pages in my newspaper, but that doesn't mean it's being censored by the sub-ed who lays out the articles.
I've just read through most of the reponses here, and people don't seem to get it.
The ADA are not making an issue about web site design, the web browser or the OS.
Their point is that the PROPRIETARY AOL inferface is so badly designed that it doesn't support "accessability" options, even if they're built in to the OS.
How ever much you may hate MS, the current OSs support a variety of "accessability" options (high contrast colour schemes, huge fonts, "stickey" Alt and Ctrl, text-to-speech) which mean that every app written properly will be usable by our less-than-able brethren. Even most web sites are OK, as these benfits filter down through the browser (even Netscape).
..as long as the broadband carrier is a REAL ISP (like the incompentent cretins at RedConnect, and not like AOL) you'll be able to get access to whatever bits of the Internet you want, and ignore any proprietry(sp?) content that might be provided.
There is no reason that the broadband providers shouldn't be able to recover their costs of installation, as long as they don't TIE you to their own content.
Remember, an ISP is an INTERNET Service Provider. Don't pay for content you don't want/need.
(Ok so I had a crap week at work, and I'm on my second LARGE V&O - I'm still allowed to rant)
The SID is nothing to do with the CD key. Nor is it anything to do with licensing.
The SID is generated/created/synthesised by the install process, and used to uniquely identify the machine to the domain controller's security database.
Multiple identical ID's in a DB that expects uniqueness is BAD.
If you're not using NT Domain security, then you won't notice anything.
Administrators whom are worth their salt know that you don't know what you're talking about.
...that the usual/. perspicacity flies out of the window (pun unintended) as soon as M$ appears.
The SID - Security Identifier - is a 128-but GUID created during the install of NT to uniquely identify that machine to the domain that it will become a member of.
Therefore, if you GHOST one install to another machine, both will have the same SID, and unpredictable behaviour will arise.
If your not using NTs domain security, then it doesn't matter.
(It also doesn't matter if you install from the same CD, or from a server copy of the CD, as the SID is created on the fly).
The underlying problem is giving "techs" the job of installing NT who don't actually understand it. Apparently this happens with Linux too...
If you're in that area on a Saturday, check out the computer fair just off TCR. It's held in a hotel on the first side street to the right, just up from the Oxford Street/TCR junction. (Can't be more accurate 'cos it's 18 months since I was there last)
Good range and prices, and one set of guys who test all memory in front of you before you take it away.
IIRC, there has been lots of reference to this recently. If a company holds a trademark and don't pursue _every_ "alleged unlawful" use of it, then they can't pursue _any_ of them . . .
Especially when ones personally appearance is at odds with accepted norms.
Two feet of ponytail and 4 inches of beard combined with formal evening wear (DJ/tux) really "freaks out the squares" - especially combined with a pair of hi-tops.
I attended my companys Xmas party at the London Hilton Hotel like this...
Just what we need to fragment the market a little further...another bloody CPU mounting standard.
Can't the DoJ do something useful like limiting Intel's ability to define a standard CPU connector, then deny other manufacturers the ability to use it?
And anyway, if the Intel CPUs work in either a Slot1 or Socket370, why is it that the AMD Socket version of SlotA (which is physically identical to the Slot1) needs 423?
I bought a dual Slot1 mobo from SuperMicro (P6DBS) and a P2-400 18 months ago. It is now very happily running with 2 PPGA Celeron 300a's in MSI slot one adapters - at 450Mhz each.
As long as Intel don't dick with the SMP-enablement pin on the PPGA's, you should be good for a while yet.
That said, NVidia have signed a deal with ALi to integrate TNT graphics into the ALi motherboards.
Also, given how badly Matrox and 3dfx suck at OpenGL drivers (and drivers in general) I don't see NVidia departing the field of battle for a while yet...
All the TNT card makers base their drivers on the NVidia reference, and many do nothing more that change a couple of the string resources before releasing them.
It's true that Hercules sometimes went the "extra mile" by bundling an overclocking utility, but existing (and the few future) owners of Hercules' TNT boards will be well catered for by the NVidia reference drivers and any one of the umpty-dozen 3rd-party O/C tools.
That said, I'm sorry to see them go, but what price now my old full-length 8-bit ISA Hercules mono graphics card with integrated parallel port?
Only 'cos I have real-world experience of this kit saving my arse one or twice, and saving our company several millions of dollars...
If you want to send some other eval kit that works as well, I'll sing its praises too...
Regarding hot-swap, it's the hardwares job to hide it from the OS. Example - I can walk up to our production Proliant 7K, pull one PSU and 7 drives from it, and not one of the users will notice the difference (although Data Centre security might give me a hard time). Hot-swapping a PCI network card is a litte more work, as you have to use a provided utility to down the power to the slot before you yank the card. And all this under NT too...
The only thing the OS needs to know about in the hot-swap world is the CPU's. I don't know of anything that will support CPU hot-swap...yet.
Let's see if Andover will spring for some real hardware...
I can highly recommend the Compaq Proliant 7000...hot-swap redundant PSU's hotswap RAID in hardware, hotswap PCI slots, integrated hardware monitoring and alerting . . . and a groovy LCD panel on the front...
You never realise the value of hot-swap mirrored drives until you're demoing a front office trading system to the powers-that-be in the company taking yours over (the 'lets try and keep our jobs' demo)...when a drive fails in the SQL server. One quick (and hushed) call to the DataCentre, and a new driver goes in and gets built on the fly...users never noticed a thing...
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I can choose to only see those articles that other readers moderated to my threshold (and by doing so demonstrate my trust in their opinions), or I can choose to see everything.
/.
Laziness on the part of the reader doesn't constitute censorship by
I can choose not to read even-numbered pages in my newspaper, but that doesn't mean it's being censored by the sub-ed who lays out the articles.
...it's about the crappy proprietary (closed source) AOL interface, which doesn't support the "accessability" options of the OS.
I've just read through most of the reponses here, and people don't seem to get it.
The ADA are not making an issue about web site design, the web browser or the OS.
Their point is that the PROPRIETARY AOL inferface is so badly designed that it doesn't support "accessability" options, even if they're built in to the OS.
How ever much you may hate MS, the current OSs support a variety of "accessability" options (high contrast colour schemes, huge fonts, "stickey" Alt and Ctrl, text-to-speech) which mean that every app written properly will be usable by our less-than-able brethren. Even most web sites are OK, as these benfits filter down through the browser (even Netscape).
..as long as the broadband carrier is a REAL ISP (like the incompentent cretins at RedConnect, and not like AOL) you'll be able to get access to whatever bits of the Internet you want, and ignore any proprietry(sp?) content that might be provided.
There is no reason that the broadband providers shouldn't be able to recover their costs of installation, as long as they don't TIE you to their own content.
Remember, an ISP is an INTERNET Service Provider. Don't pay for content you don't want/need.
(Ok so I had a crap week at work, and I'm on my second LARGE V&O - I'm still allowed to rant)
..the MAC and IP address can change while the "machine" itself doesn't. Therefore the security info will still apply to the "machine".
The machine is still refered to by others using the hostname/IP address, it's the security stuff that uses the SID.
Can image the grief M$ would get if you had to re-establish the domain security info after swapping out a bad NIC...
The SID is nothing to do with the CD key. Nor is it anything to do with licensing.
The SID is generated/created/synthesised by the install process, and used to uniquely identify the machine to the domain controller's security database.
Multiple identical ID's in a DB that expects uniqueness is BAD.
If you're not using NT Domain security, then you won't notice anything.
Administrators whom are worth their salt know that you don't know what you're talking about.
...that the usual /. perspicacity flies out of the window (pun unintended) as soon as M$ appears.
The SID - Security Identifier - is a 128-but GUID created during the install of NT to uniquely identify that machine to the domain that it will become a member of.
Therefore, if you GHOST one install to another machine, both will have the same SID, and unpredictable behaviour will arise.
If your not using NTs domain security, then it doesn't matter.
(It also doesn't matter if you install from the same CD, or from a server copy of the CD, as the SID is created on the fly).
The underlying problem is giving "techs" the job of installing NT who don't actually understand it. Apparently this happens with Linux too...
Nobel invented Dynamite (sawdust soaked in nytroglycerin) not TNT (tri-nitro-toluene).
...and always have.
If you're in that area on a Saturday, check out the computer fair just off TCR. It's held in a hotel on the first side street to the right, just up from the Oxford Street/TCR junction. (Can't be more accurate 'cos it's 18 months since I was there last)
Good range and prices, and one set of guys who test all memory in front of you before you take it away.
IIRC, there has been lots of reference to this recently. If a company holds a trademark and don't pursue _every_ "alleged unlawful" use of it, then they can't pursue _any_ of them . . .
Can't remember where though...
Especially when ones personally appearance is at odds with accepted norms.
Two feet of ponytail and 4 inches of beard combined with formal evening wear (DJ/tux) really "freaks out the squares" - especially combined with a pair of hi-tops.
I attended my companys Xmas party at the London Hilton Hotel like this...
...shall have the exclusive right, throughout the world...
.orb domain names.
Right then. We all stump up some cash for a satellite and a Linux box, and start selling
Not only does their wording preclude orbital hosting, but who would they find to have juristiction so they could sue?
Just what we need to fragment the market a little further...another bloody CPU mounting standard.
Can't the DoJ do something useful like limiting Intel's ability to define a standard CPU connector, then deny other manufacturers the ability to use it?
And anyway, if the Intel CPUs work in either a Slot1 or Socket370, why is it that the AMD Socket version of SlotA (which is physically identical to the Slot1) needs 423?
And another thing (hic)...
Any form of "remote voting" requires a means of positively identifying the voter.
Postal voting requires you first send back your unique voter card, receive the unique postal registration form, then you sign it and send it in.
Any on-line method of vote registration must address not only this, but also prevent the same person voting electronically and manually.
at least IIRC...
I bought a dual Slot1 mobo from SuperMicro (P6DBS) and a P2-400 18 months ago. It is now very happily running with 2 PPGA Celeron 300a's in MSI slot one adapters - at 450Mhz each.
As long as Intel don't dick with the SMP-enablement pin on the PPGA's, you should be good for a while yet.
The NVidia site offers drivers for Win9x, NT, OS2, Linux, and BeOS!
Also, the reference drivers support ALL the "powerful features" of the chip.
Get your damn facts straight!
and so do Asus, Guillimot, LeadTek, et al.
That said, NVidia have signed a deal with ALi to integrate TNT graphics into the ALi motherboards.
Also, given how badly Matrox and 3dfx suck at OpenGL drivers (and drivers in general) I don't see NVidia departing the field of battle for a while yet...
Why is this marked down?
All the TNT card makers base their drivers on the NVidia reference, and many do nothing more that change a couple of the string resources before releasing them.
It's true that Hercules sometimes went the "extra mile" by bundling an overclocking utility, but existing (and the few future) owners of Hercules' TNT boards will be well catered for by the NVidia reference drivers and any one of the umpty-dozen 3rd-party O/C tools.
That said, I'm sorry to see them go, but what price now my old full-length 8-bit ISA Hercules mono graphics card with integrated parallel port?
you can also do FireWire (IEEE1394) on Wintel, too...
...why are you suggesting an Intel based box?
Only 'cos I have real-world experience of this kit saving my arse one or twice, and saving our company several millions of dollars...
If you want to send some other eval kit that works as well, I'll sing its praises too...
Regarding hot-swap, it's the hardwares job to hide it from the OS. Example - I can walk up to our production Proliant 7K, pull one PSU and 7 drives from it, and not one of the users will notice the difference (although Data Centre security might give me a hard time). Hot-swapping a PCI network card is a litte more work, as you have to use a provided utility to down the power to the slot before you yank the card. And all this under NT too...
The only thing the OS needs to know about in the hot-swap world is the CPU's. I don't know of anything that will support CPU hot-swap...yet.
Let's see if Andover will spring for some real hardware...
...when a drive fails in the SQL server. One quick (and hushed) call to the DataCentre, and a new driver goes in and gets built on the fly...users never noticed a thing...
I can highly recommend the Compaq Proliant 7000...hot-swap redundant PSU's hotswap RAID in hardware, hotswap PCI slots, integrated hardware monitoring and alerting . . . and a groovy LCD panel on the front...
You never realise the value of hot-swap mirrored drives until you're demoing a front office trading system to the powers-that-be in the company taking yours over (the 'lets try and keep our jobs' demo)
I think I aged 5 years in 10 minutes...
sorry
While you might not enjoy the "tabloid-esque" style, the articles are usually one or more of the following:
a) Technically accurate
b) Interesting (did you read the stuff about Fab 30?)
c) Entertaining
d) Prescient (lots of pre-release info)
And after all, you don't have to read any of it...