A domain name for some apps which can start the screensaver and close all your open apps? Come on, ain't worth it. He probably discovered Xcode and was fooling around;)
Same here, iBook G4 (late 2004) with Leopard, sleeps and wakes up always as it should. Heck, sleep/wake up even works in openSuse 10.3 PPC on this little thing!
On the other hand, standby/wakeup worked most of the time ok on my 2004-ish Sempron desktop with XP SP2. Now, I've installed SP3 and it won't enter standby because of the NIC driver - obviously the same one which was ok in SP2.
"The device driver for the 'Intel(R) PRO/100B PCI Adapter (TX)' device is preventing the machine from entering standby. Please close all applications and try again. If the problem persists, you may need to update this driver."
So now I have to disable the NIC before standby. Go figure.
Never mind, I'll switch my desktop to opensuse 11 as soon as it's out, and boot XP only when I have no other choice. So I won't have problems with standby, because it simply won't work in Linux. Which is mostly because of nvidia's driver in my case, it seems to manage to standby/wakeup without it...
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1. Go to a page with many links to different servers, such as slashdot.org
2. Open several links in new tabs
3. ????
4. Profit..... no, wait! Mod parrent Funny!
because MS-Office 7 is so silly, *almost* replaced that with Open Office (the 3.0 betas are out, and can handle the new extensions.) Wow, I've used MS-Office 7 (aka "95") on Windows 95 on my 486. It's high time to replace it.
Actually it's not the RPMs that are "dangerous", it's those huge heads flying at an altitude of some nanometers above the platters and those fine mechanics that move the heads with micrometer precision... if you think about it, it's a miracle that they as reliable as they are:)
That could actually be good, if you think about the privacy side.
I mean: it failed, it is in warranty, you return it, you get a new one. And you don't have to worry about who and where recovers what of you private stuff from your failed HDD.
Oh, and of course I suppose that you have a backup.
My first ever HD was a 335 MB Fujitsu (bought with a 486 back in '95), failed after 2 years.
Then came a 2 GB Quantum Fireball, ran about 4 years with no problem, then I sold it. Those were the best hard disks of their age I think.
Then I went with Western Digital: first a 20 GB, failed after 2 years. Got a 40 GB replacement, it's still working (~4 years old), but rarely used.
This including, now I have 6 WD (5 desktop + 1 notebook) drives, with no problems yet: 160 GB (~3.5 yrs), 200 GB (~2 yrs), 250 GB (~1.5 yrs), 500 GB (3 months) and 120 GB notebook drive (~1 month:).
I tend to believe that WD drives are quite reliable. I check SMART attributes often, no signs of problems yet. Btw, the SMART warning saved my data from that failing 20 GB WD.
You don't even have to use apple-firmware in your ipod. There's an upgrade-firmware that makes itunes totally obsolete. You don't even need warranty on your iPod.
Well what I experienced were: files/directories with non-ascii characters in their names do not show up, vmware doesn't seem to work with the vm stored on ntfs3g partitions, funny permissions in windows on files/dirs created with ntfs3g...
There are solutions of course http://www.ntfs-3g.org/support.html , but it takes a little tweaking around.
Don't get me wrong, ntfs3g is a nice piece of software, taking into account that AFAIK, MS doesn't make the NTFS specifications public.
Anyway the the best way to go is to get rid of your ntfs partitions if you make the switch to Linux;)
For me, XP is gonna be the last Windows I ever use, at least for personal stuff. If my employer will switch to Vista, that's their problem. But my next computer will be a Mac, and if I were not that lazy, I would have switched to Linux my home desktop long time ago (those huge amounts of data on ntfs partitions are one of the reasons - and no, ntfs3g is not perfect). The one Windows-only app I really need is IE (stupid internet-banking site...) which can run perfectly inside a VM.
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A domain name for some apps which can start the screensaver and close all your open apps? Come on, ain't worth it. He probably discovered Xcode and was fooling around ;)
On the other hand, standby/wakeup worked most of the time ok on my 2004-ish Sempron desktop with XP SP2. Now, I've installed SP3 and it won't enter standby because of the NIC driver - obviously the same one which was ok in SP2.
"The device driver for the 'Intel(R) PRO/100B PCI Adapter (TX)' device is preventing the machine from entering standby. Please close all applications and try again. If the problem persists, you may need to update this driver."
So now I have to disable the NIC before standby. Go figure.
Never mind, I'll switch my desktop to opensuse 11 as soon as it's out, and boot XP only when I have no other choice. So I won't have problems with standby, because it simply won't work in Linux. Which is mostly because of nvidia's driver in my case, it seems to manage to standby/wakeup without it...
1. Go to a page with many links to different servers, such as slashdot.org
2. Open several links in new tabs
3. ????
4. Profit..... no, wait!
Mod parrent Funny!
And how about the customs officer using the undelete tool? On the image taken off your drive, of course.
Obama bin Laden must orgasm every single night at how
My vote for the typo of the day!They can still ask you to take out your hard drive and make a copy of it.
That's why I'm waiting for OpenSuse 11.
twitter forgot to switch accounts?
Actually it's not the RPMs that are "dangerous", it's those huge heads flying at an altitude of some nanometers above the platters and those fine mechanics that move the heads with micrometer precision... if you think about it, it's a miracle that they as reliable as they are :)
I mean: it failed, it is in warranty, you return it, you get a new one. And you don't have to worry about who and where recovers what of you private stuff from your failed HDD.
Oh, and of course I suppose that you have a backup.
Bingo. You've just stated the point of this whole thread ;)
Or at least the year of Linux on the UMPC ;)
I for one (not native English either) did know the term POS.
Anything, just not white background please. People who have eye floaters know why. :|
Then came a 2 GB Quantum Fireball, ran about 4 years with no problem, then I sold it. Those were the best hard disks of their age I think.
Then I went with Western Digital: first a 20 GB, failed after 2 years. Got a 40 GB replacement, it's still working (~4 years old), but rarely used.
This including, now I have 6 WD (5 desktop + 1 notebook) drives, with no problems yet: 160 GB (~3.5 yrs), 200 GB (~2 yrs), 250 GB (~1.5 yrs), 500 GB (3 months) and 120 GB notebook drive (~1 month :).
I tend to believe that WD drives are quite reliable. I check SMART attributes often, no signs of problems yet. Btw, the SMART warning saved my data from that failing 20 GB WD.
You don't even need warranty on your iPod.
You mean weird because he bought a laptop preinstalled with Vista, not weird because he wiped it and installed XP, right? ;)
In answer to which, MS would launch the Vistatron...
But I don't play Tetris, you insensitive clod!
Well what I experienced were: files/directories with non-ascii characters in their names do not show up, vmware doesn't seem to work with the vm stored on ntfs3g partitions, funny permissions in windows on files/dirs created with ntfs3g... There are solutions of course http://www.ntfs-3g.org/support.html , but it takes a little tweaking around. ;)
Don't get me wrong, ntfs3g is a nice piece of software, taking into account that AFAIK, MS doesn't make the NTFS specifications public.
Anyway the the best way to go is to get rid of your ntfs partitions if you make the switch to Linux
I did mention my laziness, didn't I? :)
For me, XP is gonna be the last Windows I ever use, at least for personal stuff. If my employer will switch to Vista, that's their problem. But my next computer will be a Mac, and if I were not that lazy, I would have switched to Linux my home desktop long time ago (those huge amounts of data on ntfs partitions are one of the reasons - and no, ntfs3g is not perfect). The one Windows-only app I really need is IE (stupid internet-banking site...) which can run perfectly inside a VM.
Does anybody need Vista anyway?