NT is NOT "based" on VMS. David Cutler lead the design of both and they are sure to share similarities because of it, but one is not BASED on the other and to say that NT is some "clone" of VMS is flat wrong.
Don't forget the OS/2 history in NT. And I don't just mean the execution support for OS/2 1.2 libraries. Take a look at the kernel APIs, and compare them with OS/2--someone went through with a HUGE search-and-replace to change all the names in OS/2's "Control Program" library. (In OS/2, all those routines started with Dos... Can you see OS/2's history here?) The other change was to return a value and have the error status returned by a function (GetLastError or something, it's been 4 years); OS/2 returned the error and the API result was in a by-reference argument.
There's a reason why there wasn't an NT 1 or an NT 2... and why OS/2 Warp 3 and Warp 4 have internal versions of 2.3 and 2.4.
If you do it with a splitter, you may not have enough signal left after a couple of splits. The splitters are like little transformers, so 10 dB in and you get 2 x 5 dB out. Or 4 x 2.5 dB out.
The cable company can't automatically boost, because it only sees a single load (those are little matching transformers, so the impedance remains constant.)
What you need to do is spring the extra $10 for the amplified splitter. Cable 2-13 probably won't matter much, but A-Z and higher will suffer if your inbound signal is too weak. (This is empirical.)
And they've got bi-di amplified splitters so you can hang a cablemodem off them now, which you then needs to be hooked up to a NAT router.
Presentssssss. Gives the extra discs away as presentsssss.
Saved me a bundle, got my Mom a cheap Apex DVD player (needed something without MacroVision so it could run through the VCR to her ancient TV). Then pulled some of the dupes and "not-special editions" I thought she'd like off my shelves. (And a bunch of "ugh, I don't remember that being that dull" films.)
They were all opened, but hey, just tell the person you give them to that they've been tested!
Of course there's a solution. Don't make standard editions anymore, and release the special edition on the normal release date.
The few things I've gone to the trouble of ordering from Japan have handled special editions the other way around.
First comes out the special edition, with a limited pressing. When that runs out, you get the normal one.
Of course, that does mean you have to hold up the normal edition until all the extras are ready for the special edition. On the other hand, "collectors edition" actually means something. (And doesn't cost more, at least in the cases I'm thinking of.)
One thing that can help, while retaining the QWERTY layout, is removing the "tilt" from the keys that was to originally accomodate the mechanical linkages to the type-bars.
Unfortunately, I've only seen this from one maker, DataDesk SmartBoard. (All the other boards I've seen that drop the "slant" are the "contoured" boards, such as the Kinesis Ergo ones.)
I find the most important thing in a keyboard is the switch mechanism. If you put a bad switch in any layout, you'll still have wrist problems. I just can't type on those "rubber dome" keyboards everyone makes today; after an hour or so, my wrists are on fire. But I can go all day on a buckling-spring switch; or any other switch that "fires" before the bottom of the keystroke. (That's what I'm used to, from the ferrite-bead-through-circuit board on the ICON, the wedge-and-fingers on the Amiga, to the buckling spring on the IBM RS/6000 (and all their other systems up to the mid-late 90s).)
I've mounted WebDAV filesystems with my iBook, served by a Solaris machine with Apache and subversion. Even mounts under/Volumes, so programs don't even need to be aware of it; the XP "redirector" would fill this same role. (UNIX people can think "virtual filesystem switch" when you hear "redirector".)
If you just want a DAV filesystem, see mod_dav_fs in any recent Apache. (Which DOES run on Windows, for everyone who wants to toss the OS out with the webserver. Not that I'm a fan of Windows for anything, but you can run non-MS servers on the thing.)
I have friends (well, acquaintences really) who have no end of trouble with their Macs. This is because instaed of calling me (or another Mac & UNIX user), they call their Windows-using friends for help with their Mac.
Some of these guys have very... interesting System Folders now. (Friends smart enough to upgrade to OS X don't ask for help. They ask where to find out so they can help themselves.)
I am not really suggesting RAMDISK, btw - I just think that you can compile your OS / programs with option like "I have massive memory so use it lavishly and don't touch that drive."
You might want to consider the -pipe option in GCC; it runs the FE and BE in parallel connected by pipes instead of temp files. The objects will still go to disk, however, it doesn't pipe everything into the linker.
You can always resurrect that "slot peering" trick used for the ISA->PCI switch, where one case knockout would have both a PCI and an ISA connector. There's a reason PCI cards are "upside down" compared with ISA cards, so the 3GIO cards can go back to the same side of the case bracket as the ISA cards were on.
If you don't have a newer Apple keyboard with an eject key, hammer on F12 instead. You have to hold it a moment, so you don't unmount and eject all your removables with a single misplaced finger.
I didn't have the monitor catch fire, but (wavy lines) way back when I was learning C, and making lots of stupid errors, I had finally fixed what I hoped was the last one in a particular program. (hello-something-or-other, IIRC).
So I called out, "Here we GO!" and hammered on the return key.
All the lights went out. All the computers went out. All the other students in the lab turned around and said, "what did you do THIS time?!" Turned out we were normally running 14.9A on a 15A fuse, and a full lab of students had put it over the line. We plugged some of the boxes into a different circuit after that.
But no-one believed that was the real cause. They all blamed me.
What on earth has "security problems" got to do with "word processor"? I realize the macro facility in Word & friends has some potential for abuse, but that is a very unique feature of those products. Remember when we told everyone that virus warnings about word processor files or e-mail were scams and to just ignore them? It wasn't very long ago.
If the Claris Works 3 that came with my 7-year-old Mac does what I need, I don't need to upgrade. No security issues, nothing. Legacy systems don't _have_ modern security issues because they don't have the "integration" with "duh internet". Heck, if it isn't on the net, what security issues are there? (Besides, Macs didn't used to have listening ports by default.)
Still like PaperClip on the old 8-bit micros? What possible security issues could there be? You're not going to get 0wn3d through a 300 bps originate-only modem.
I know Office is a whole other problem security-wise, but I take offense at the blanket statement that ALL old software should just die.
I don't recall ever needed configuration floppies on an RS/6000 for the MCA bus. The operating system and bring-up hardware would manage interrupts and memory allocation. If the adapter had any specific customization, you did it through "smit chdev" or just chdev -l tr0 -a ring_speed=16 oops what's that still doing in my brain....
I couldn't remember if I had issues with "int" on a 64-bit platform because it wasn't the "natural word size" of the platform
Kids these days....:-)
I remember the fight between one compiler vendor who had sizeof(int)==2 and another who had sizeof(int)==4 on the same CPU, the same OS. The first one argued that the external data bus was 16 bits, so it was a 16 bit machine, 16 bit ints. The other said the register file is 32 bits wide, so 32 bit machine.
They're both bust and people use GCC now, but sizeof(int) isn't a new problem for C.
This time people thought about compatibility a lot more. And several compilers have flags to warn you about 32-64 portability issues when compiling on 32 bit, so the core-dump isn't as big a surprise.
Thus, a new quote is born:
Porn is in the eye of the beholder.
Uhhh, any Tom Lerher fans out there?
...
For filth, I'm glad to say,
is in the mind of the beholder
When correctly viewed, everything is lewd!
I can tell you things about Peter Pan
and the Wizard of Oz, there's a dirty old man!
...
Any idea how to reject messages that have bogus domains in the Received: headers?
You're going to have trouble with any mail that passes through non-routable hosts inside a firewall. All my mail will have something like "Received:... by gateway.localdomain (10.0.0.1)".
It will be even worse for mail that travels though something other than SMTP for a bit.
Hmmm... the ATI Radeon 7500 (32MB) in my 14" iBook very happily does dual-display. But you need to type in a little bit of Forth in OpenFirmware to get it.
I personally want the SuperDrive, which isn't available on an iBook
[Some] SuperDrives are just Pioneer DVR-A01 through DVR-A05 units. I've hooked my DVR-A05 up (via a recycled LaCie FireWire-IDE bridge box) to both my iBook and my old iMac DV (what a misnomer). Apple's iDVD2 requires a G4, but Sizzle and MediaPipe don't care... though encoding framerates vary. Toast and cdrecord both work with DVD-R on the G3. (And the same DVD-R/RW drive works well with IDE-SCSI in the Linux box at work.)
I'm actually not sure if the "G4 required" for iDVD is a marketing requirement or if there really is only G4 code in the binaries. I'm not going to buy iLife to find out, though; I can live without DVD menus. For now. (Desktop G4 in the future, I think.)
I have bought 3 Logitech optical mice in the past year. They are all USB, however they all came with a converter so you could use them on a PS/2 port.
That is simply a plug converter for a "bi-protocol" mouse (or keyboard). The device figures out if it should run in USB or PS/2 mode and behaves accordingly.
The widgets to convert a PS/2 keyboard or mouse to a USB HID are slightly more complex, and run $45 or so.
Every time I need to use a GUI-based Java program, I have to play X roulette to find a combination of X server, X library and window manager that will work with it.
And it's different based on where the JVM is running: Solaris, AIX, Linux or HP-UX. At one point I had to VNC to a Windows machine, use an Exceed session to a Solaris X terminal server and then use DISPLAY to send the Java GUI to the Exceed screen.
Normally I can get away with a VNC X server on Solaris or Linux. Sun's JVM is only happy with an X server running on Solaris.
But that's still pretty ridiculous. The only other X programs I've seen with this kind of problem are from Rational or IBM.
(Scroll bars that don't work, buttons you can't press, colours that get scrambled, clip region 40x20 in a 600x300 window, and so on.)
I like the Java language, but the libraries and.class file implementation just make me want to throw up.
What's really important is the possibility of follow-through. If you are used to a key which "fires" before end-of-stroke, you cannot type on a keyboard which "fires" at end-of-stroke. Attempting to push the key too far will severely strain your hands. (You get the same problem when a pianist switches to synth keyboards.)
I'm not sure if this sort of thing is really RSI, or just expected results from improper use of a switch-at-end keyboard, such as the pervasive rubber membrane. (I have a similar problem, so I make sure to only use buckling-spring keyboards and others which fire before end-of-stroke, like the really weird finger-and-wedge affair on my old Amigas.)
Sadly, left-shift is sticking on my Datadesk board. Time to drag the old IBM monster back out of the basement.
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Don't forget the OS/2 history in NT. And I don't just mean the execution support for OS/2 1.2 libraries. Take a look at the kernel APIs, and compare them with OS/2--someone went through with a HUGE search-and-replace to change all the names in OS/2's "Control Program" library. (In OS/2, all those routines started with Dos... Can you see OS/2's history here?) The other change was to return a value and have the error status returned by a function (GetLastError or something, it's been 4 years); OS/2 returned the error and the API result was in a by-reference argument.
There's a reason why there wasn't an NT 1 or an NT 2... and why OS/2 Warp 3 and Warp 4 have internal versions of 2.3 and 2.4.
The cable company can't automatically boost, because it only sees a single load (those are little matching transformers, so the impedance remains constant.)
What you need to do is spring the extra $10 for the amplified splitter. Cable 2-13 probably won't matter much, but A-Z and higher will suffer if your inbound signal is too weak. (This is empirical.)
And they've got bi-di amplified splitters so you can hang a cablemodem off them now, which you then needs to be hooked up to a NAT router.
Presentssssss. Gives the extra discs away as presentsssss.
Saved me a bundle, got my Mom a cheap Apex DVD player (needed something without MacroVision so it could run through the VCR to her ancient TV). Then pulled some of the dupes and "not-special editions" I thought she'd like off my shelves. (And a bunch of "ugh, I don't remember that being that dull" films.)
They were all opened, but hey, just tell the person you give them to that they've been tested!
First comes out the special edition, with a limited pressing. When that runs out, you get the normal one.
Of course, that does mean you have to hold up the normal edition until all the extras are ready for the special edition. On the other hand, "collectors edition" actually means something. (And doesn't cost more, at least in the cases I'm thinking of.)
One thing that can help, while retaining the QWERTY layout, is removing the "tilt" from the keys that was to originally accomodate the mechanical linkages to the type-bars.
Unfortunately, I've only seen this from one maker, DataDesk SmartBoard. (All the other boards I've seen that drop the "slant" are the "contoured" boards, such as the Kinesis Ergo ones.)
I find the most important thing in a keyboard is the switch mechanism. If you put a bad switch in any layout, you'll still have wrist problems. I just can't type on those "rubber dome" keyboards everyone makes today; after an hour or so, my wrists are on fire. But I can go all day on a buckling-spring switch; or any other switch that "fires" before the bottom of the keystroke. (That's what I'm used to, from the ferrite-bead-through-circuit board on the ICON, the wedge-and-fingers on the Amiga, to the buckling spring on the IBM RS/6000 (and all their other systems up to the mid-late 90s).)
Safari is using extensions instead of Content-type? If I can confirm that, it is going in the bit-bucket.
Of course, you don't have to put ISOs on CDs:
/tmp/backup.tar /whatever && cdrecord /tmp/backup.tar
/dev/scd0 or whatever to restore, which under UNIX shouldn't count as special tools.
tar cf
Then you need to tar x
I've mounted WebDAV filesystems with my iBook, served by a Solaris machine with Apache and subversion. Even mounts under /Volumes, so programs don't even need to be aware of it; the XP "redirector" would fill this same role. (UNIX people can think "virtual filesystem switch" when you hear "redirector".)
If you just want a DAV filesystem, see mod_dav_fs in any recent Apache. (Which DOES run on Windows, for everyone who wants to toss the OS out with the webserver. Not that I'm a fan of Windows for anything, but you can run non-MS servers on the thing.)
I have friends (well, acquaintences really) who have no end of trouble with their Macs. This is because instaed of calling me (or another Mac & UNIX user), they call their Windows-using friends for help with their Mac.
Some of these guys have very... interesting System Folders now. (Friends smart enough to upgrade to OS X don't ask for help. They ask where to find out so they can help themselves.)
You might want to consider the -pipe option in GCC; it runs the FE and BE in parallel connected by pipes instead of temp files. The objects will still go to disk, however, it doesn't pipe everything into the linker.
You can always resurrect that "slot peering" trick used for the ISA->PCI switch, where one case knockout would have both a PCI and an ISA connector. There's a reason PCI cards are "upside down" compared with ISA cards, so the 3GIO cards can go back to the same side of the case bracket as the ISA cards were on.
If you don't have a newer Apple keyboard with an eject key, hammer on F12 instead. You have to hold it a moment, so you don't unmount and eject all your removables with a single misplaced finger.
Looking at some friend's desktops, that's not a commonly used command. The clutter, the horrible clutter!
I didn't have the monitor catch fire, but (wavy lines) way back when I was learning C, and making lots of stupid errors, I had finally fixed what I hoped was the last one in a particular program. (hello-something-or-other, IIRC).
So I called out, "Here we GO!" and hammered on the return key.
All the lights went out. All the computers went out. All the other students in the lab turned around and said, "what did you do THIS time?!"
Turned out we were normally running 14.9A on a 15A fuse, and a full lab of students had put it over the line. We plugged some of the boxes into a different circuit after that.
But no-one believed that was the real cause. They all blamed me.
What on earth has "security problems" got to do with "word processor"? I realize the macro facility in Word & friends has some potential for abuse, but that is a very unique feature of those products. Remember when we told everyone that virus warnings about word processor files or e-mail were scams and to just ignore them? It wasn't very long ago.
If the Claris Works 3 that came with my 7-year-old Mac does what I need, I don't need to upgrade. No security issues, nothing. Legacy systems don't _have_ modern security issues because they don't have the "integration" with "duh internet". Heck, if it isn't on the net, what security issues are there? (Besides, Macs didn't used to have listening ports by default.)
Still like PaperClip on the old 8-bit micros? What possible security issues could there be? You're not going to get 0wn3d through a 300 bps originate-only modem.
I know Office is a whole other problem security-wise, but I take offense at the blanket statement that ALL old software should just die.
I don't recall ever needed configuration floppies on an RS/6000 for the MCA bus. The operating system and bring-up hardware would manage interrupts and memory allocation. If the adapter had any specific customization, you did it through "smit chdev" or just chdev -l tr0 -a ring_speed=16 oops what's that still doing in my brain....
Kids these days.... :-)
I remember the fight between one compiler vendor who had sizeof(int)==2 and another who had sizeof(int)==4 on the same CPU, the same OS. The first one argued that the external data bus was 16 bits, so it was a 16 bit machine, 16 bit ints. The other said the register file is 32 bits wide, so 32 bit machine.
They're both bust and people use GCC now, but sizeof(int) isn't a new problem for C.
This time people thought about compatibility a lot more. And several compilers have flags to warn you about 32-64 portability issues when compiling on 32 bit, so the core-dump isn't as big a surprise.
Thus, a new quote is born:
Porn is in the eye of the beholder.
Uhhh, any Tom Lerher fans out there?
You're going to have trouble with any mail that passes through non-routable hosts inside a firewall. All my mail will have something like "Received: ... by gateway.localdomain (10.0.0.1)".
It will be even worse for mail that travels though something other than SMTP for a bit.
Hmmm... the ATI Radeon 7500 (32MB) in my 14" iBook very happily does dual-display. But you need to type in a little bit of Forth in OpenFirmware to get it.
[Some] SuperDrives are just Pioneer DVR-A01 through DVR-A05 units. I've hooked my DVR-A05 up (via a recycled LaCie FireWire-IDE bridge box) to both my iBook and my old iMac DV (what a misnomer). Apple's iDVD2 requires a G4, but Sizzle and MediaPipe don't care... though encoding framerates vary. Toast and cdrecord both work with DVD-R on the G3. (And the same DVD-R/RW drive works well with IDE-SCSI in the Linux box at work.)
I'm actually not sure if the "G4 required" for iDVD is a marketing requirement or if there really is only G4 code in the binaries. I'm not going to buy iLife to find out, though; I can live without DVD menus. For now. (Desktop G4 in the future, I think.)
Every time I need to use a GUI-based Java program, I have to play X roulette to find a combination of X server, X library and window manager that will work with it.
.class file implementation just make me want to throw up.
And it's different based on where the JVM is running: Solaris, AIX, Linux or HP-UX. At one point I had to VNC to a Windows machine, use an Exceed session to a Solaris X terminal server and then use DISPLAY to send the Java GUI to the Exceed screen.
Normally I can get away with a VNC X server on Solaris or Linux. Sun's JVM is only happy with an X server running on Solaris.
But that's still pretty ridiculous. The only other X programs I've seen with this kind of problem are from Rational or IBM.
(Scroll bars that don't work, buttons you can't press, colours that get scrambled, clip region 40x20 in a 600x300 window, and so on.)
I like the Java language, but the libraries and
Looks like they take steering input from a front-wheel rest, but everything else from your hands.
There doesn't appear to be anything hooking up the rear wheel to the controller.
"Download manual" goes to a press release about their lights.
I'm not sure if this sort of thing is really RSI, or just expected results from improper use of a switch-at-end keyboard, such as the pervasive rubber membrane. (I have a similar problem, so I make sure to only use buckling-spring keyboards and others which fire before end-of-stroke, like the really weird finger-and-wedge affair on my old Amigas.)
Sadly, left-shift is sticking on my Datadesk board. Time to drag the old IBM monster back out of the basement.
You can have it scale images if you want. But if I get a bunch of 10px text, I want to make it 14px with font scaling, and NOT adjust the images.