Anyway, the ease with which a person can get these games to run under Win2k (Overlord was the same way, minus needing dbghelp.dll) makes one wonder why it's not supported directly out of the box. It's more effort for the developers to ensure compatibility. If they don't have to bother with an arguably obsolete OS, that saves both time and money, especially if there are in fact workarounds that need to be implemented just for Windows 2000,/especially/ if those workarounds degrade performance on newer versions of Windows.
2000 was never meant as a home/gaming OS anyway, so you were lucky to get what you did.
Yeah. If you don't teach sex ed, you'll start getting more unwed teenage mothers &c, because believe me, kids can be really naive about that stuff, especially if there's an older kid who likes to sleep around.
My previous job sure didn't! I emailed them my resume in a.zip that included HTML and PDF versions. HR drone mails me back and requested a Word document, since he can't read those others.
This was in '04, but everyone could read those two in '04 as well.
You might have to buy Office twice, if you buy a copy as a freshman and a new version comes out your junior year, and you've got some pinhead professor who wants to do examples/use features in the new version.
You can't just configure the problems away. You can give the luser a non-admin account, but then they'll bleat about not being able to install anything. You can install anti-virus and anti-spyware, but they can have failure modes with not being updated or (less often) just not have the trojan in the definitions. A determined luser can still run a Trojan if they're using Firefox.
You could install MS's shared computer toolkit (whatever it's called now) but IIRC to be "secure" it has to be configured to revert all changes after reboot. More bleating about not being able to keep their screensavers.
You could do a "browser appliance" VM but that can have licensing problems if it's a Windows host and guest. If it's a Windows host and a Linux guest, you guessed it, bleating about how they can't download Weatherbug.
Basically, real security is a problem of education. Educate them about the dangers of the Innernet, give them proper software, and they'll/probably/ be happy. Failing that, move in with 'em and be their computer-repair bitch, or get a job doing same, and then you can enforce the limited-user accounts by fiat.
Bet they will still want the $$$, especially if it's out of warranty.
I was lucky enough to get proper restore CDs for this Gateway tablet a few months ago, but it was still under warranty and the tech *really* didn't want to give them to me.
Rant: the tablet (M275) had been physically and softwarily abused by its luser, and needed re-imaged before going to a new owner. I told the HD recovery partition (hate those damn things) to do its thing, but it failed fairly quickly. Tried using the partition from the other one we had, and it failed too. Pinhead GW tech wanted me to back up the other tablet's data, re-image, then ghost the drive onto the one I was working on. No way, says I, and after several minutes of arguing she sent me the recovery CDs, which worked.
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2000 was never meant as a home/gaming OS anyway, so you were lucky to get what you did.
The Voyagers are traveling at a higher velocity.
How many times have "experts" predicted the imminent death of the Internet?
Johnson's Great Society programs?
They wouldn't win.
What would you say to an Orthodox Messianic Jew, i.e. one who's otherwise an ortho-jew but also believes in the whole Jesus thing?
Just wondering because there's at least one family in my hometown who believes that.
The last update of Appleworks was so that it doesn't require Classic. It's /that/ neglected.
Yeah. If you don't teach sex ed, you'll start getting more unwed teenage mothers &c, because believe me, kids can be really naive about that stuff, especially if there's an older kid who likes to sleep around.
My previous job sure didn't! I emailed them my resume in a .zip that included HTML and PDF versions. HR drone mails me back and requested a Word document, since he can't read those others.
This was in '04, but everyone could read those two in '04 as well.
Mind you, there are a couple things on said women that are really nice when they're hard. OK, /three/ things.
And nice red uniforms.
It doesn't /beg/ the question, damn it. It /raises/ it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Begging_the_question
You might have to buy Office twice, if you buy a copy as a freshman and a new version comes out your junior year, and you've got some pinhead professor who wants to do examples/use features in the new version.
Warning, sexist joke ahead.
/her/.
If the girl's attractive (smart & nice looking), we'll have no problem giving the hard stuff to
You can't just configure the problems away. You can give the luser a non-admin account, but then they'll bleat about not being able to install anything. You can install anti-virus and anti-spyware, but they can have failure modes with not being updated or (less often) just not have the trojan in the definitions. A determined luser can still run a Trojan if they're using Firefox.
/probably/ be happy. Failing that, move in with 'em and be their computer-repair bitch, or get a job doing same, and then you can enforce the limited-user accounts by fiat.
You could install MS's shared computer toolkit (whatever it's called now) but IIRC to be "secure" it has to be configured to revert all changes after reboot. More bleating about not being able to keep their screensavers.
You could do a "browser appliance" VM but that can have licensing problems if it's a Windows host and guest. If it's a Windows host and a Linux guest, you guessed it, bleating about how they can't download Weatherbug.
Basically, real security is a problem of education. Educate them about the dangers of the Innernet, give them proper software, and they'll
Bet they will still want the $$$, especially if it's out of warranty.
I was lucky enough to get proper restore CDs for this Gateway tablet a few months ago, but it was still under warranty and the tech *really* didn't want to give them to me.
Rant: the tablet (M275) had been physically and softwarily abused by its luser, and needed re-imaged before going to a new owner. I told the HD recovery partition (hate those damn things) to do its thing, but it failed fairly quickly. Tried using the partition from the other one we had, and it failed too. Pinhead GW tech wanted me to back up the other tablet's data, re-image, then ghost the drive onto the one I was working on. No way, says I, and after several minutes of arguing she sent me the recovery CDs, which worked.
That's why I normally don't buy Gateway.
What does that say about you?
If you get root on the next box, you should be a BOFH and let nobody but yourself and one or two trusted people have root access via sudo.
Why the hell did he have root anyway? Only people with /need/ should have root, and then they should just use sudo anyway.
Your server was poorly administered.
If they're clueless enough to use Word to write Web pages, that's evidence that they may be clueless enough to not properly secure their web server.
Believe it or not, I've made an HTML page that was Lynx-only. It would display with e.g. Mozilla or Opera but would look like poorly-formatted shite.
Lynx supports a tag of the form <tab indent="90" id="t1"> and then later you can set up a pseudo-table using <tab to="t1"> or arbitrary tabs.
Obviously this would only work with a fixed-width font anyway.
hmm... the Lynx documentation says that the tab tag is from HTML 3.0.
I mean to imply that you haven't got an ostrich.
I'd sacrifice my *virginity*. ...except it's been gone for years.
Are you Steve Gibson? You write sort of like he does.
Non ex transverso sed deorsum.
I thought s/Datsun/Nissan/ because Datsuns had a poor reputation for quality.