Haven't had that problem. I do occasionally have the window decorations go on vacation, though, and take the effects with them. I expect that's a Beryl problem.
I've gotten the ATI drivers to install on my old Athlon XP box (9600XT), and Beryl worked for a while, but then after an update it didn't anymore and it stopped accelerating 3D. Nvidia's drivers Just Work, and so did the Intel 3D accel on my old laptop with 830 chipset.
I/like/ my Model Ms, and I'm too cheap to spend $70 each on a new USB model, or $30 each on converters. Also, sometimes BIOSes have buggy real-mode support for USB keyboards, such that you can't use grub's boot menu.
Re the parallel port, that's how I print to my Color Laserjet 2550. Wife uses the USB port since she prints more often, and I don't print enough to care about the relative speed.
That said, yeah, I'd wish for more motherboards with fewer legacy ports. One PS/2 port for sure, and maybe with a header and included expansion thingy for parallel and 9-pin serial. It's been long enough that we shouldn't have to worry about game ports.:-) And drop VGA for DVI-I already!
As others have said, don't bother with BTX. Go with some form of ATX, or DTX since it's case-compatible with ATX designs.
I feel your pain, though. I was on Socket A for four years and finally just had to buy new everything except case and power supply (and peripherals), and the latter I had to get a 20-24 pin adapter for.
That's not true in my experience. In my experience, Encyclopedia Britannica salesmen used high-pressure tactics to sell encyclopedias to poor, uneducated people by telling them that their children needed an encyclopedia to become educated. Educated people knew it was better to go to the library.
My name is Nimey, and I'm a nerd. Back in my preteen-to-teenage years I would pull out a volume of my World Book encyclopedia and just read articles at random (or sequentially) for fun. 'Twas a good way to learn stuff.
FTM, I'm so nerdy that I was known to pull out my Webster's Collegiate Dictionary and look at a few pages' worth of words and their meanings.
Try Damn Small Linux or maybe BasicLinux, depending on how much RAM your 486s have.
For that matter, you can get on the web using a full install of FreeDOS 1.0, since it includes a TCP/IP stack, some network drivers, and the Arachne browser. If your network card's driver isn't included, check the maker's website, since many of them still produce DOS drivers for some reason.
You probably won't run into many MS-DOS viruses these days, but F-Prot for DOS is still available free for non-commercial use. It's not under development, but signatures are still being released.
I've run FF in DSL on a Pentium-90 with 64MB of RAM and a Voodoo3, and it works surprisingly well. It's slow, of course, but once it's loaded the only delay I really noticed was from redrawing.
Yes. GP's company needs to figure out how to get all their apps to talk to an LDAP database, then have just one username/password for everything, and a single complexity requirement &c. And a policy that involves a righteous LARTing if a luser writes user/pass on a sticky.
And FFS, don't put stupid things like how much a given user is being paid into the LDAP; that's just asking for trouble.
Ah, relax, the "we're the persecuted minority" is the new racist/religious/sexist/whatever bigotry propaganda. Saying "dammit, I want to have an advantage of group X" doesn't gain much traction in this day and age, so the way it _invariably_ gets presented is, "auugh, they're persecuting us by not staying our slaves! we're the oppressed minority! help! Someone stop group X now!"
Ayuh. I was arguing with a fundie a couple months ago about gay rights. He kept arguing that his kind should be able to pursue their moral agenda because it was legal to do so, and removing their legal rights to force their morals on others was essentially persecution. My arguments simply bounced off his moral certainty.
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I imagine it'd be about equally hard, since they were forked from the same tree and share the Gecko engine.
Once you've had Eris, you'll never go back.
Haven't had that problem. I do occasionally have the window decorations go on vacation, though, and take the effects with them. I expect that's a Beryl problem.
How is parent a troll?
I've gotten the ATI drivers to install on my old Athlon XP box (9600XT), and Beryl worked for a while, but then after an update it didn't anymore and it stopped accelerating 3D. Nvidia's drivers Just Work, and so did the Intel 3D accel on my old laptop with 830 chipset.
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Re the parallel port, that's how I print to my Color Laserjet 2550. Wife uses the USB port since she prints more often, and I don't print enough to care about the relative speed.
That said, yeah, I'd wish for more motherboards with fewer legacy ports. One PS/2 port for sure, and maybe with a header and included expansion thingy for parallel and 9-pin serial. It's been long enough that we shouldn't have to worry about game ports.
Haven't you heard? They're bringing back ESDI in a serial form.
As others have said, don't bother with BTX. Go with some form of ATX, or DTX since it's case-compatible with ATX designs.
I feel your pain, though. I was on Socket A for four years and finally just had to buy new everything except case and power supply (and peripherals), and the latter I had to get a 20-24 pin adapter for.
Where can you find a 5.25" external floppy drive?
/assume/ the 5.25" part works, but I have no known-good disks to test it with. :-)
Me, I've got an old Pentium-90 DOS/Linux box with a 3.5"/5.25" dual floppy drive, which uses 3.5" floppy data & power connectors.
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My name is Nimey, and I'm a nerd. Back in my preteen-to-teenage years I would pull out a volume of my World Book encyclopedia and just read articles at random (or sequentially) for fun. 'Twas a good way to learn stuff.
FTM, I'm so nerdy that I was known to pull out my Webster's Collegiate Dictionary and look at a few pages' worth of words and their meanings.
Pretty much. GP writes at approx a junior-high level, or what jh-level should be.
More like they simply don't give a shit. And why should they? We're not holding them accountable.
You Must Be New Here(tm).
SMB/CIFS isn't encrypted (though the password usually is) and it'd be another set of ports to have open on an Internet-facing machine.
I wonder if you can use CIFS over an SSH tunnel from a Windows machine, though...
Try Damn Small Linux or maybe BasicLinux, depending on how much RAM your 486s have.
For that matter, you can get on the web using a full install of FreeDOS 1.0, since it includes a TCP/IP stack, some network drivers, and the Arachne browser. If your network card's driver isn't included, check the maker's website, since many of them still produce DOS drivers for some reason.
You probably won't run into many MS-DOS viruses these days, but F-Prot for DOS is still available free for non-commercial use. It's not under development, but signatures are still being released.
I've run FF in DSL on a Pentium-90 with 64MB of RAM and a Voodoo3, and it works surprisingly well. It's slow, of course, but once it's loaded the only delay I really noticed was from redrawing.
Yes. GP's company needs to figure out how to get all their apps to talk to an LDAP database, then have just one username/password for everything, and a single complexity requirement &c. And a policy that involves a righteous LARTing if a luser writes user/pass on a sticky.
And FFS, don't put stupid things like how much a given user is being paid into the LDAP; that's just asking for trouble.
...but part of me wants there to be a very special hell for spammers (and people who talk in the theater).
Yeah, because gods know that we need to have more Web pages that are best viewed with the writer's favorite web browser.
If I want to look at someone's page with elinks, the page should work fine. Ditto if I want to use Konqueror or Opera.
And a lot of native speakers as well.
Personally I don't understand that, since I read books a lot and am an excellent speller.
Wow. There's lonely, and then there's
I thought Scully's beauty increased with age, myself.
Every time you masturbate, Eric and Dylan kill a cheerleader. Please, think of the cheerleaders.
Agree wholeheartedly. There should be an official Slashdot category "Top Ten" that we can filter out by preference.
Of course, one could also just filter out anything posted by Zonk, since he's the major offender in that regard.
When you gratuitously BiCapitalize you look like a WanKer.
Ayuh. I was arguing with a fundie a couple months ago about gay rights. He kept arguing that his kind should be able to pursue their moral agenda because it was legal to do so, and removing their legal rights to force their morals on others was essentially persecution. My arguments simply bounced off his moral certainty.