So how much will it cost to drive on the highways in Boston after the Big Dig is completed? And why did everyone else in the country have to pay for something that will potentially not be free to drive on?
There are a few problems with those old Pentium cards for the PCI Macs. First off, the maximum amount of RAM the cards can handle is 72MB. Second, the processor was soldered onto the card (No upgrading here). Next, the hardware really was only designed to approximate an x86 PC. Consequently, the card uses special drivers and to the best of my knoweldge you can only run Windows 95 and maybe Windows 3.1. I don't think you are able to run Linux or anything else. This would have been excusable, but in Win 95 the drivers only run in 16 bit mode. It gets worse the MacOS drivers for the card rely on a bug in the PCI driver layer in the MacOS that was fixed in MacOS 8.5 and later, making the card unusable in MacOS 8.5 and later with the Apple drivers. A company later came in and released updated drivers for the card that let the card run in MacOS 8.5, 8.6, 9.0, 9.1, and 9.2. I think this update also provided 32 bit protected mode drivers for Win 95.
Actually if you read the press release Rare does not have the rights to Perfect Dark, Banjo Kazooie, or Conker. Nintendo got to keep all of the IP rights to all of the games developed by Rare. So really MS just paid $375 million for a few developers and the name "Rare."
The articles, "Pterosaur skull suggests sex and violence" and "Oldest fossilised vomit pile uncovered", linked to from that Newscientist.com article seem not too far from the toilet too. I kind of wonder if that is intentional.
Every PCI Powermac with IDE i.e. the 6400/ 6360 and later has been able to do DMA and uses DMA if the drive supports it. You can't disable DMA if it is enabled and you are using the MacOS. Granted until the Blue & White G3 the kind of DMA used is Multiword DMA. Any of the problems you may have heard about Multiword DMA are only compatability problems in Win 95. Multiword DMA works perfectly fine in the MacOS.
The Fireball CX and Fireball EX drives are pieces of shit. I don't know which x86 PCs have these drives, but if you have a Mac and its a Blue and White G3, a "Yikes"(PCI) G4 or a Sawtooth(AGP) G4, and you have a 6GB or 10GB drive check to see if you have a Fireball CX or a Fireball EX drive and replace it now if you do. Almost every Sawtooth that I troubleshooted that had a problem, and one of these drives, regardless of the problem the solution was replacing the drive. Well just about every problem short of wacky video output, but still don't wait for it to become a problem because recovering data can be very expensive especially if you ignore the early signs.
Why would I want to trade files with 4MB CMOS ICs when I can always trade files with those 640MB MO drives that everyone has? I mean come on I have three of those drives.
Well if you are feeling insane, buy a Keyspan USB-ADB adaptor and buy an old Apple Extended Keyboard II. Yes this does work in Windows and Linux.. You should be able to find one of these keyboards at any old used Mac store or at say www.midwestmac.com. Both the Northgate and the Apple keyboard use the same Alps keyswitches, though the Apple keyboard has rubber inserts on the plunger which makes typing quieter. They are both constructed similarly in which keyswiches are soldered onto a stiff PCB and a metal plate is screwed onto the PCB. I own both types of keyboards, and while I don't use the Northgate too much the two keyboards feel resonably similar. The Apple Extended Keyboard II has all of the keys that a pre-Win95 PC keyboard has and more. Of course if you want one of the goofy Northgates with the control key below the tab key the Apple keyboard can't be remapped this way as the caps key locks into place.
I remember in middle school there was an old VHS VCR that had a shuttle knob which stayed in place while in use and played audio too. So one could play the tape slightly faster or slower than normal speed or in reverse causing the audio to do interesting things which was sort of amusing to do. The VCR also had interesting dire warnings about how recording TV shows might be illegal.
Yes, and the publisher of X-Plane, which is coming out with a combat version of X-Plane asks the question: "Want to put a 200,000 lb GPS-guided bomb in the cargo bay of the Space-Shuttle and deploy it during re-entry? Be our guest."
Mmm, dropping a 200,000 lb bomb from the Space Shuttle
There is a bug in a timing loop that causes any computer that is faster than 400 MHz to not be ablle to run Win 95. Yes there is a patch from Microsoft that fixes the problem.
> On that note i hate being a paladin..nothing is more boring than being lawful good.
Oh you've never had fun with being a paladin. Once as a paladin, I tried to convince the other group members that we really should leave the lich in the swamp alone. I mean who aside from the lich wants any part of a swamp. The lich's minions only attacked the people who trespassed into his well defined, domain with stable borders. The lich wasn't trying to take over the world, he just wanted to be left alone. Why was it necessary for our group to go in and destroy him?
Mmm, you've never tried to uninstall XFree86 on MacOS X. For some goddamn reason whenever I have tried to install XFree86 it never works right. Compiling it from source Xdarwin never gets put together properly and never works. Using the precompiled binaries for Xdarwin from Fink, Xdarwin appears to try to start up, but dies part way through. Using the Apple Xdarwin binaries Xdarwin stays up, but an xterm has to be started up and startkde has to be run from it to get a window manager to start up. I tried erasing Xdarwin.app and/usr/X11R6/ and reinstalling, but it doesn't work.
There are three kinds of moon rocks. Those that were brought back by the Apollo missions. There were also some brought back by a lander sent by the Soviet Union. The third type is moon rocks where a meteorite landed on the moon, blasted out some rock, which made it into orbit and the rock then landed on Earth. The first type US citizens cannot own. The second type I think that maybe one or two samples are on the open market. The third type anyone can own. The only problem is that most moon rocks are basalt, which is common on the Earth, the moon, and in one class of asteroids. The only way to tell the difference between them is to date them using isotopic methods, which is expensive. Also the only places to get them are in Antartica, potentially Greenland and maybe in the middle of some large glaciers.
> To double the CD's bandwidth (or any multiple speed increase,) we could place more IR pickups in parallel next to each other. This would read multiple groves during each pass. You can reassemble digitally, or just use the cheap quartz delay line hack like the VCR's use.
This is just like the Kenwood Multibeam technology. There are seven beams and the drive itself runs at a slower rotational speed. The drives go up to 72X. I have an old 52X drive from Kenwood and it is much quieter than an old 24X Sony CD-ROM drive that I use now. However, there are some issues with it; it doesn't like working with MacOS X for some odd reason. Kenwood seems to show no inclination to fix this which is too bad because otherwise they are fine drives.
Do you have a beige G3 and a Sonnet G4 upgrade and are you having trouble before or after you install OS X? If you do, what ever you do don't use the Startup Disk control panel. To get my beige G3 with a Sonnet upgrade to boot from the install CD I had to press the "C" key after restarting it to install OS X. Don't reset the PRAM after this. To use OS 9 press the option key while restarting the computer. As I said before don't ever use the Startup Disk control panel or its for that matter its counterpart in OS X unless you want to set OS 9 to the default OS. If you do this to set the default OS back to OS X you will need to use the OS X install CD and monkey around with Open Firmware variables. That is beyond the scope of this post. Also to enable the cache in OS X, go to the Powerlogix website and download their Cache Control software which works with Sonnet upgades. The Sonnet OS X software is useless.
Well I am pretty sure that modern commercial airplanes are all fly-by-wire. They have several redundant backup systems and I do not recall hearing of any airplane crashes that occured because of a massive failure in the control system. While I would not expect a dive-by-wire car to have as many backup systems as an airplane, I would expect due to paranoia, that this car would have enough backup systems to make it safer than a standard car in the event of a catastrophic accident.
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So how much will it cost to drive on the highways in Boston after the Big Dig is completed? And why did everyone else in the country have to pay for something that will potentially not be free to drive on?
Actually Darwin/MacOS X is based off of Mach 3.0.
There are a few problems with those old Pentium cards for the PCI Macs. First off, the maximum amount of RAM the cards can handle is 72MB. Second, the processor was soldered onto the card (No upgrading here). Next, the hardware really was only designed to approximate an x86 PC. Consequently, the card uses special drivers and to the best of my knoweldge you can only run Windows 95 and maybe Windows 3.1. I don't think you are able to run Linux or anything else. This would have been excusable, but in Win 95 the drivers only run in 16 bit mode. It gets worse the MacOS drivers for the card rely on a bug in the PCI driver layer in the MacOS that was fixed in MacOS 8.5 and later, making the card unusable in MacOS 8.5 and later with the Apple drivers. A company later came in and released updated drivers for the card that let the card run in MacOS 8.5, 8.6, 9.0, 9.1, and 9.2. I think this update also provided 32 bit protected mode drivers for Win 95.
Actually if you read the press release Rare does not have the rights to Perfect Dark, Banjo Kazooie, or Conker. Nintendo got to keep all of the IP rights to all of the games developed by Rare. So really MS just paid $375 million for a few developers and the name "Rare."
Well that's what transformers are for.
The articles, "Pterosaur skull suggests sex and violence" and "Oldest fossilised vomit pile uncovered", linked to from that Newscientist.com article seem not too far from the toilet too. I kind of wonder if that is intentional.
Every PCI Powermac with IDE i.e. the 6400/ 6360 and later has been able to do DMA and uses DMA if the drive supports it. You can't disable DMA if it is enabled and you are using the MacOS. Granted until the Blue & White G3 the kind of DMA used is Multiword DMA. Any of the problems you may have heard about Multiword DMA are only compatability problems in Win 95. Multiword DMA works perfectly fine in the MacOS.
Yeah, but you still need an Apple "approved" box according to the licence for MacOS X and MacOS 9.
Which is still nothing.
The Fireball CX and Fireball EX drives are pieces of shit. I don't know which x86 PCs have these drives, but if you have a Mac and its a Blue and White G3, a "Yikes"(PCI) G4 or a Sawtooth(AGP) G4, and you have a 6GB or 10GB drive check to see if you have a Fireball CX or a Fireball EX drive and replace it now if you do. Almost every Sawtooth that I troubleshooted that had a problem, and one of these drives, regardless of the problem the solution was replacing the drive. Well just about every problem short of wacky video output, but still don't wait for it to become a problem because recovering data can be very expensive especially if you ignore the early signs.
No actually while you are at it destroy all of your floppies, CD-ROMs, DVDs, and Zips. Then you should burn all of your books too.
Why would I want to trade files with 4MB CMOS ICs when I can always trade files with those 640MB MO drives that everyone has? I mean come on I have three of those drives.
Well I guess sugar in the gas tank is kind of bad for the car, but not for the reason you think. Read this link.
Well if you are feeling insane, buy a Keyspan USB-ADB adaptor and buy an old Apple Extended Keyboard II. Yes this does work in Windows and Linux.. You should be able to find one of these keyboards at any old used Mac store or at say www.midwestmac.com. Both the Northgate and the Apple keyboard use the same Alps keyswitches, though the Apple keyboard has rubber inserts on the plunger which makes typing quieter. They are both constructed similarly in which keyswiches are soldered onto a stiff PCB and a metal plate is screwed onto the PCB. I own both types of keyboards, and while I don't use the Northgate too much the two keyboards feel resonably similar. The Apple Extended Keyboard II has all of the keys that a pre-Win95 PC keyboard has and more. Of course if you want one of the goofy Northgates with the control key below the tab key the Apple keyboard can't be remapped this way as the caps key locks into place.
I remember in middle school there was an old VHS VCR that had a shuttle knob which stayed in place while in use and played audio too. So one could play the tape slightly faster or slower than normal speed or in reverse causing the audio to do interesting things which was sort of amusing to do. The VCR also had interesting dire warnings about how recording TV shows might be illegal.
Yes, and the publisher of X-Plane, which is coming out with a combat version of X-Plane asks the question: "Want to put a 200,000 lb GPS-guided bomb in the cargo bay of the Space-Shuttle and deploy it during re-entry? Be our guest."
Mmm, dropping a 200,000 lb bomb from the Space Shuttle
That's why you use signed speech. Which is where the sounds that make up the words are translated into hand gestures.
There is a bug in a timing loop that causes any computer that is faster than 400 MHz to not be ablle to run Win 95. Yes there is a patch from Microsoft that fixes the problem.
You know the really sad thing is that DOS 3.0 will run on a P4.
> On that note i hate being a paladin..nothing is more boring than being lawful good.
Oh you've never had fun with being a paladin. Once as a paladin, I tried to convince the other group members that we really should leave the lich in the swamp alone. I mean who aside from the lich wants any part of a swamp. The lich's minions only attacked the people who trespassed into his well defined, domain with stable borders. The lich wasn't trying to take over the world, he just wanted to be left alone. Why was it necessary for our group to go in and destroy him?
Mmm, you've never tried to uninstall XFree86 on MacOS X. For some goddamn reason whenever I have tried to install XFree86 it never works right. Compiling it from source Xdarwin never gets put together properly and never works. Using the precompiled binaries for Xdarwin from Fink, Xdarwin appears to try to start up, but dies part way through. Using the Apple Xdarwin binaries Xdarwin stays up, but an xterm has to be started up and startkde has to be run from it to get a window manager to start up. I tried erasing Xdarwin.app and /usr/X11R6/ and reinstalling, but it doesn't work.
There are three kinds of moon rocks. Those that were brought back by the Apollo missions. There were also some brought back by a lander sent by the Soviet Union. The third type is moon rocks where a meteorite landed on the moon, blasted out some rock, which made it into orbit and the rock then landed on Earth. The first type US citizens cannot own. The second type I think that maybe one or two samples are on the open market. The third type anyone can own. The only problem is that most moon rocks are basalt, which is common on the Earth, the moon, and in one class of asteroids. The only way to tell the difference between them is to date them using isotopic methods, which is expensive. Also the only places to get them are in Antartica, potentially Greenland and maybe in the middle of some large glaciers.
> To double the CD's bandwidth (or any multiple speed increase,) we could place more IR pickups in parallel next to each other. This would read multiple groves during each pass. You can reassemble digitally, or just use the cheap quartz delay line hack like the VCR's use.
This is just like the Kenwood Multibeam technology. There are seven beams and the drive itself runs at a slower rotational speed. The drives go up to 72X. I have an old 52X drive from Kenwood and it is much quieter than an old 24X Sony CD-ROM drive that I use now. However, there are some issues with it; it doesn't like working with MacOS X for some odd reason. Kenwood seems to show no inclination to fix this which is too bad because otherwise they are fine drives.
Do you have a beige G3 and a Sonnet G4 upgrade and are you having trouble before or after you install OS X? If you do, what ever you do don't use the Startup Disk control panel. To get my beige G3 with a Sonnet upgrade to boot from the install CD I had to press the "C" key after restarting it to install OS X. Don't reset the PRAM after this. To use OS 9 press the option key while restarting the computer. As I said before don't ever use the Startup Disk control panel or its for that matter its counterpart in OS X unless you want to set OS 9 to the default OS. If you do this to set the default OS back to OS X you will need to use the OS X install CD and monkey around with Open Firmware variables. That is beyond the scope of this post. Also to enable the cache in OS X, go to the Powerlogix website and download their Cache Control software which works with Sonnet upgades. The Sonnet OS X software is useless.
Well I am pretty sure that modern commercial airplanes are all fly-by-wire. They have several redundant backup systems and I do not recall hearing of any airplane crashes that occured because of a massive failure in the control system. While I would not expect a dive-by-wire car to have as many backup systems as an airplane, I would expect due to paranoia, that this car would have enough backup systems to make it safer than a standard car in the event of a catastrophic accident.