FYI - Iridium is back online. $500 bucks gets you a refurbished Motorola 9500 phone and it's only $1.40 per min.Alos $20 a month for the Sim card. I think they can do 1200 baud, and they will have a service that will get you a faked 9600 baud (It's compressed) internet connection. Of couse they ream you for the data kit ~ $300. As for the finnancial viability of the new Iridium - it looks good, they got everyhing for pennys and have a large US CIA/NSA/Spook contract.
I second that - the Promise Raid controller has a bit of a BIOS hack that allows it to work with MS-DOS. Of couse, that BIOS hack is being run by your main processor. After the initial boot, the Promise Raid just becomes a slightly weird Promise IDE controller, and needs drivers in your operating system in order to do it's Raid bit. Check out 3Ware if you need hardware IDE Raid. Because it's hardware - you don't have the driver problems.
Ummm, can you name any modern Windows application that still runs MDI?
Yep - Microsofts Access XP is pure amature MDI. You would think that the user interfce for Access would be decent, considering they diden't spend any time on the database part of it.
I humbley disagree, as there are some hidious behaviours that the Windows GUI exhibits:
A lot of useres resize the task-bar into a one pixel high task-bar, or accidently move it to somewhere where they don't want it.
The whole MDI (Mutiple Document Interface) - Baby application windows inside the parent application window. A good exaple of it done correctly is the Gimp.
If you click on the time application on the task-bar, you don't get a calander to browse though. You get a calander to set the current date. Considering you only need to set the date once, this dose't make sense.
Press Start to Shutdown?
Shutdown to log-off?
They fixed this in WindowsXP but - you can't switch running destops for different users.
No mutiple desktops.
We have a lot to learn from legacy GUI's like Windows, but cretainly we shoulden't blindly mimic them, as they have a lot of cruft they can't get rid of.
I have my own honeypot on a firewall - it's an OpenBSD system with a Samba share that looks like drive C: on a Windows box:
Theres a file there called LotsOfPorn.Zip.Exe , that when dowloaded (it's padded to be large) - scans the hard-drive for unlocked files and renames them. After the Samba share has been probed, Samba causes a script to run that waits fifteen minuits (enough time for the file to be downloaded) then pulls down the ethernet connection on the Cisco router and brings it back up - the firewalls IP address changes due to our ISP's DHCP server. It took about a day for me to get everything working right (I was a bit over my head as far as the script was concerned) , but the two or three downloads a month that I see in the logs makes it all worthwile.
Its been my experience (as a web development instructor with a private post-secondary school) that teens these days, despite the stereotypes, actually posess less computer literacy than geeks of my generation.
I've noticed the same things as well - but I attribute it to somthing else: In the 'Good-Old Days' every computer came with it's own development environment - maby it was a BASIC interpreter or a full fledged compiler. Now a days - the mainstream desktop environments don't come with any development tools worth mentioning. So imagin yourself as a curious lad of 13 years on a Windows box - there is no easy way to program the things. Either you have to download and install somthing or you have to buy somthing. For us, because we have the knowledge, thats no barrier at all, but to a 13 year old it's quite a hurdle.
Let me restate your post: KWord doesn't support tables, so nobody needs them anyway.
You havent restated my post correctly, as KWord 1.1 RC1 supports tables just fine. If you need help installing it, I'm sure your administartor will be happy to assist you. You might want to check out your local bookstore as well - they have all sort of books that can inform you on the use of your computer. Check out the books published by IDG - I'm sure they are on your level. Good luck!
Here's the weird bit: Owners of Propriatary software are just about able to practice complete price-descrimination: where they charge rich people more and poor people less - to maximise profits. Using a.NET style of rental and authentication - they can tie in data about you to determine the maximum price you would pay to rent their software. And that leads us to the phrase "From each according to their means." Half of the old saw. Combined with a Nanny-state that gives money to everybody according to their 'needs', well be in the Marxist 'paradise' yet.
I'll respong to the lack of robust table support in KWord:
For the vast majority of secratary-produced documents, tabs and tab stops are easier to use and easier to teach. I don't want them spending hours noodling with table setting and grid lines. I want them to get the damn document out the door.
If one needs documents of a lenghty nature - MS Word is not the answer. LaTeX is. You can have the secrataries enter the text, and have professionals do the layout.
Once the few bugs get worked out - The whole Mandrake 8.1 sytem is really a Windows desktop replacement. I'm really excited to wipe out a secratary's Windows computer, replace it with Mandrake and watch what happens. My hunch is, after explaining to her that the Start button is now a "K" - and MS.Word is now called KWord, then she will turn to me and say "OK." And proceed to work as if nothing has happened. After a few hours , I bet she'll say :
"Wow, this new version of Windows sure has a lot of cool card games, Thanks!"
Imagine the horror that I had when a client wanted me to hook up a bunch of G3's toghether - I had to fake it as best as I could as I had *no* Mac experience. I intended to scew around for a few hours and tell the clinet that he needed a "Dicombobulator-XVS-Pro" in order for it to work. Then I would leave, studdy up, and return with a set the network up. Instead, I plugged in some Cat-5, poked around in the controll-panell-thingy, I rebooted just in case. They started working. I have no idea, to this day, what network protocall they were using - probably Appletalk and TCP/IP over Ethernet, how they provisiouned themselves in that protocall. It just started to work. It was kinda fun really.
I think it's important because Linux is a community supported software. It truly is software that blongs to you and me - we have all the rights we need to use it in almost any way. Windows is not *our* software - we rent it from Bill. Linus, Alan, Richard and countless others have rolled out a red carpet and have welcomed us - they have given us more than software, but have given us freedom to use our computer in the way we see fit. I'm gratfull to them and people like them - and I like to see what they are up to.
I friend and I made a small video game, and being the better programer than me - my frind made a bit of code that estimated the speed of the computer and added a delay loop to the game to slow it down.
Fast forward to Today
We lost the complete source code, and our computers are so darn fast that the bit of code that estimates the speed of the computer over-runs it's 16 bit Int slot. The game now hangs hangs.
So we are forced to run our game in Windows to slow it down. It works half the time - it depends on the time slicing. Recently our computers are getting a bit to fast for even that - so we might have to move to an emulator.
The smart thing to do would be to fire up the hex editor and edit the cose, but that would be *cheating*
Enough of the Politically Correct Fat-Chunk Police:
The vast majority of fat chicks don't have a medical condition: They can't keep the god-damn fork out of their mouths and they sit around all day on the sofa poping chocolates. They are lazy gluttons. They are not disabled. A disabled person is a Combat Vet with his leg blown off or a person born blind. Not a self-pitying food monster.
There are very few fat people where the population has to work hard for survival (Africa). There are very few fat people where people walk a lot (Europe). There are very few fat people where they eat properly (Japan). And if you find a large peoson there - they are usally are big and strong, not frail and blubbery.
America's standard of living has gone down the toilit 'cause every where you look you can't get away for viewing the SUV-owining-glutton-blubber-beasts .
Just a theory about the partition table - a lot of 486s and early Pentium boxes had a bit of software on the MBR that faked the BIOS into using large hard drives - even though most computers could handle the hard drives, WD and Seagate both shipped their drives with the software and a lot of people used it. If you don't actually use the drive to boot up, the drive looks like it dosen't work - basically the partition table and everything else is shifted by the size of the bios-fooling software. Maby this was the case?
As a longtime member of the OSDN/Slashtot community, I'm proud of the premium content that's available to me 24 hours a day on my Friendly-Easy-To-Use(tm) Slashdot.
Unlike some other web sites - I can trust that Hemos^h^h^h^h^h the Slashdot editors will alway strike a carefully balance between editorial honesty and bad spelling.
Actually, they dident need to bug the typewriters at all. They just needed an audio feed of people doing the typing on the old "ball" stye of IBM Selectric typewriters. The Selectrics had a round ball that had all the type one it and it returned home after each key press. The KGB was able to determin the what letter the typist pressed buy measuring the amount of time between a key-press and the 'thunk' of the ball hitting the ribbon and paper.
He only claims to have gotten a Korn shell on his Audrey running off of QNX . He dosen't claim to have changed the OS from QNX to Linux.
http://www.sowbug.com/audrey/hack.html
Why do these poor fools bother. Linux will be completely dead in a couple of months.
Once XP ships, Linux tanks for the last time.
Ok. I'll bite, Mr. Troll. Linuix and other GPL/BSD based operating-systems and programs have been 'tanking' for the last 15 years. And gaining more market share all the way.
On second though, maby you just confused the word 'tanking' with the word that means: gaining market share day by day and having fun doing it.
Assume that you have a finite ammount of money and that you need to do typical "office type" stuff:
Adding memory gets you more bang for the buck than havving a processesor that's maginally better than it's overpiced cousin. Additionally, having an IDE hard-drive that has a spindle speed of 7200 Rpm adds a vast improvment in responsivness than a slower 5400 Rpm drive - considering the usuall $30 differance.
Try the Rex 6000 - it a dinky PDA that syncs by slipping into a PCMCIA slot. It has a touchscreen and decent resolution but no backlight. Data entry sucks due to it's size - but for general PDA stuff it works great. You can also make your own applications for it.
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FYI - Iridium is back online. $500 bucks gets you a refurbished Motorola 9500 phone and it's only $1.40 per min .Alos $20 a month for the Sim card. I think they can do 1200 baud, and they will have a service that will get you a faked 9600 baud (It's compressed) internet connection. Of couse they ream you for the data kit ~ $300. As for the finnancial viability of the new Iridium - it looks good, they got everyhing for pennys and have a large US CIA/NSA/Spook contract.
I second that - the Promise Raid controller has a bit of a BIOS hack that allows it to work with MS-DOS. Of couse, that BIOS hack is being run by your main processor. After the initial boot, the Promise Raid just becomes a slightly weird Promise IDE controller, and needs drivers in your operating system in order to do it's Raid bit. Check out 3Ware if you need hardware IDE Raid. Because it's hardware - you don't have the driver problems.
Yep - Microsofts Access XP is pure amature MDI. You would think that the user interfce for Access would be decent, considering they diden't spend any time on the database part of it.
A lot of useres resize the task-bar into a one pixel high task-bar, or accidently move it to somewhere where they don't want it.
The whole MDI (Mutiple Document Interface) - Baby application windows inside the parent application window. A good exaple of it done correctly is the Gimp.
If you click on the time application on the task-bar, you don't get a calander to browse though. You get a calander to set the current date. Considering you only need to set the date once, this dose't make sense.
Press Start to Shutdown?
Shutdown to log-off?
They fixed this in WindowsXP but - you can't switch running destops for different users.
No mutiple desktops.
We have a lot to learn from legacy GUI's like Windows, but cretainly we shoulden't blindly mimic them, as they have a lot of cruft they can't get rid of.
They have to start out at Mars; If they jumped directly to Spaceballs on Uranus, it would scare the US Taxpayer into calling their congress-critter.
Theres a file there called LotsOfPorn.Zip.Exe , that when dowloaded (it's padded to be large) - scans the hard-drive for unlocked files and renames them. After the Samba share has been probed, Samba causes a script to run that waits fifteen minuits (enough time for the file to be downloaded) then pulls down the ethernet connection on the Cisco router and brings it back up - the firewalls IP address changes due to our ISP's DHCP server. It took about a day for me to get everything working right (I was a bit over my head as far as the script was concerned) , but the two or three downloads a month that I see in the logs makes it all worthwile.
I know I'm evil, but it's fun.
Its been my experience (as a web development instructor with a private post-secondary school) that teens these days, despite the stereotypes, actually posess less computer literacy than geeks of my generation.
I've noticed the same things as well - but I attribute it to somthing else: In the 'Good-Old Days' every computer came with it's own development environment - maby it was a BASIC interpreter or a full fledged compiler. Now a days - the mainstream desktop environments don't come with any development tools worth mentioning. So imagin yourself as a curious lad of 13 years on a Windows box - there is no easy way to program the things. Either you have to download and install somthing or you have to buy somthing. For us, because we have the knowledge, thats no barrier at all, but to a 13 year old it's quite a hurdle.
You havent restated my post correctly, as KWord 1.1 RC1 supports tables just fine. If you need help installing it, I'm sure your administartor will be happy to assist you. You might want to check out your local bookstore as well - they have all sort of books that can inform you on the use of your computer. Check out the books published by IDG - I'm sure they are on your level. Good luck!
Here's the weird bit: Owners of Propriatary software are just about able to practice complete price-descrimination: where they charge rich people more and poor people less - to maximise profits. Using a .NET style of rental and authentication - they can tie in data about you to determine the maximum price you would pay to rent their software. And that leads us to the phrase "From each according to their means." Half of the old saw. Combined with a Nanny-state that gives money to everybody according to their 'needs', well be in the Marxist 'paradise' yet.
For the vast majority of secratary-produced documents, tabs and tab stops are easier to use and easier to teach. I don't want them spending hours noodling with table setting and grid lines. I want them to get the damn document out the door.
If one needs documents of a lenghty nature - MS Word is not the answer. LaTeX is. You can have the secrataries enter the text, and have professionals do the layout.
Once the few bugs get worked out - The whole Mandrake 8.1 sytem is really a Windows desktop replacement. I'm really excited to wipe out a secratary's Windows computer, replace it with Mandrake and watch what happens. My hunch is, after explaining to her that the Start button is now a "K" - and MS.Word is now called KWord, then she will turn to me and say "OK." And proceed to work as if nothing has happened. After a few hours , I bet she'll say :
"Wow, this new version of Windows sure has a lot of cool card games, Thanks!"
Imagine the horror that I had when a client wanted me to hook up a bunch of G3's toghether - I had to fake it as best as I could as I had *no* Mac experience. I intended to scew around for a few hours and tell the clinet that he needed a "Dicombobulator-XVS-Pro" in order for it to work. Then I would leave, studdy up, and return with a set the network up. Instead, I plugged in some Cat-5, poked around in the controll-panell-thingy, I rebooted just in case. They started working. I have no idea, to this day, what network protocall they were using - probably Appletalk and TCP/IP over Ethernet, how they provisiouned themselves in that protocall. It just started to work. It was kinda fun really.
I think it's important because Linux is a community supported software. It truly is software that blongs to you and me - we have all the rights we need to use it in almost any way. Windows is not *our* software - we rent it from Bill. Linus, Alan, Richard and countless others have rolled out a red carpet and have welcomed us - they have given us more than software, but have given us freedom to use our computer in the way we see fit. I'm gratfull to them and people like them - and I like to see what they are up to.
whatT? would Hidien tExt damage Your retinaAs embedded in youR imageEs If you diddeNt view theM under florecent lIghitiNg but insteaD when outside?
Fast forward to Today
We lost the complete source code, and our computers are so darn fast that the bit of code that estimates the speed of the computer over-runs it's 16 bit Int slot. The game now hangs hangs.
So we are forced to run our game in Windows to slow it down. It works half the time - it depends on the time slicing. Recently our computers are getting a bit to fast for even that - so we might have to move to an emulator.
The smart thing to do would be to fire up the hex editor and edit the cose, but that would be *cheating*
Enough of the Politically Correct Fat-Chunk Police:
The vast majority of fat chicks don't have a medical condition: They can't keep the god-damn fork out of their mouths and they sit around all day on the sofa poping chocolates. They are lazy gluttons. They are not disabled. A disabled person is a Combat Vet with his leg blown off or a person born blind. Not a self-pitying food monster.
There are very few fat people where the population has to work hard for survival (Africa). There are very few fat people where people walk a lot (Europe). There are very few fat people where they eat properly (Japan). And if you find a large peoson there - they are usally are big and strong, not frail and blubbery.
America's standard of living has gone down the toilit 'cause every where you look you can't get away for viewing the SUV-owining-glutton-blubber-beasts .
Just a theory about the partition table - a lot of 486s and early Pentium boxes had a bit of software on the MBR that faked the BIOS into using large hard drives - even though most computers could handle the hard drives, WD and Seagate both shipped their drives with the software and a lot of people used it. If you don't actually use the drive to boot up, the drive looks like it dosen't work - basically the partition table and everything else is shifted by the size of the bios-fooling software. Maby this was the case?
Unlike some other web sites - I can trust that Hemos^h^h^h^h^h the Slashdot editors will alway strike a carefully balance between editorial honesty and bad spelling.
Actually, they dident need to bug the typewriters at all. They just needed an audio feed of people doing the typing on the old "ball" stye of IBM Selectric typewriters. The Selectrics had a round ball that had all the type one it and it returned home after each key press. The KGB was able to determin the what letter the typist pressed buy measuring the amount of time between a key-press and the 'thunk' of the ball hitting the ribbon and paper.
Perhaps 'Good Samaritan' laws would come into effect here?
Gives all the details.
Once XP ships, Linux tanks for the last time.
Ok. I'll bite, Mr. Troll. Linuix and other GPL/BSD based operating-systems and programs have been 'tanking' for the last 15 years. And gaining more market share all the way.
On second though, maby you just confused the word 'tanking' with the word that means: gaining market share day by day and having fun doing it.
Adding memory gets you more bang for the buck than havving a processesor that's maginally better than it's overpiced cousin. Additionally, having an IDE hard-drive that has a spindle speed of 7200 Rpm adds a vast improvment in responsivness than a slower 5400 Rpm drive - considering the usuall $30 differance.
Try the Rex 6000 - it a dinky PDA that syncs by slipping into a PCMCIA slot. It has a touchscreen and decent resolution but no backlight. Data entry sucks due to it's size - but for general PDA stuff it works great. You can also make your own applications for it.
Homepage : http://www.rex.net
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Check out http://www.scambusters.org/809Scam.html if you don't know what I'm talking about.