Re:It's Akamai's fault
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Telnet to www.segway.com, port 80, and type:
GET / HTTP/1.1
Host: www.segway.com
Then press Enter twice, and you'll see the HTML come streaming in. It's a copy of IE's error page. Someone copied the HTML from IE's error page and is serving it up.
I've found Windows XP to be less than 100% compatible with games. For the home user, compatability and useability rules.
Compatibility isn't really an issue. Sure, there are some poorly-written titles that won't run on XP, but the vast, vast majority of titles will run just fine. Some might require that Compatibility Mode is enabled for them, but that's a checkbox in the item's shortcut.
I've found Windows XP to be easy to use, but has some serious issues with a few games.
See above.
These issues often require software developer issued patches to correct the issue. That's a lot of work for the casual non-technical home user.
Not really, since Windows XP will warn the user about most known-broken software upon installation, and if the user fscks something up by clicking Continue Anyway, they can just restore the system to the restore point created the moment they clicked Continue Anyway. Patches aren't that difficult to find and apply for anyone with basic Web-navigation skills. Go to game's website, click Downloads or Support, look around for the XP patch, click it, run it.
Why not stick with Win98? It is fairly stable, plays games like a champ, has much greater driver support, and is easily obtained.
Windows 98 is absolute garbage in comparison to XP. Drivers regularly bring down 98 machines, and if you're playing games, every game you install seems to install a slightly different flavour of DirectX (which, because of its tight integration into Windows, causes all sorts of havoc).
It may play games like a champ, but even your casual non-technical home user gets fed up with bluescreens after seeing one or more per day, sometimes while working on something important.
If taking licensing into account, a new copy of Win98 or Me is practically just as expensive as XP, so there's certainly no money saved by going with anything less than XP.
Like the article stated, the average geek isn't going to like reactivating XP every time the change 6 components. There certainly could have been a better way to do it.
How often do you change 6 of the monitored components? Did you know that the counter resets itself to zero after 120 days anyway? I'm about as hardcore as they come, and *I* don't even change out that many within that time frame!
Plus, geeks who want XP will get the no-activation-required Open License RTM ISO floating around the net if they're so worried about activation!
It's just not the preferred OS in anybody's house.
It's the preferred OS in mine for my desktop, thank you very much.
I've found Windows XP to be less than 100% compatible with games. For the home user, compatability and useability rules.
Compatibility isn't really an issue. Sure, there are some poorly-written titles that won't run on XP, but the vast, vast majority of titles will run just fine. Some might require that Compatibility Mode is enabled for them, but that's a checkbox in the item's shortcut.
I've found Windows XP to be easy to use, but has some serious issues with a few games.
See above.
These issues often require software developer issued patches to correct the issue. That's a lot of work for the casual non-technical home user.
Not really, since Windows XP will warn the user about most known-broken software upon installation, and if the user fscks XP by clicking Continue Anyway, they can just restore the system to the restore point created the moment they clicked Continue Anyway. Patches aren't that difficult to find and apply for anyone with basic Web-navigation skills. Go to game's website, click Downloads or Support, look around for the XP patch, click it, run it.
Why not stick with Win98? It is fairly stable, plays games like a champ, has much greater driver support, and is easily obtained.
Windows 98 is absolute garbage in comparison to XP. Drivers regularly bring down 98 machines, and if you're playing games, every game you install seems to install a slightly different flavour of DirectX (which, because of its tight integration into Windows, causes all sorts of havoc).
It may play games like a champ, but even your casual non-technical home user gets fed up with bluescreens after seeing one or more per day, sometimes while working on something important.
If taking licensing into account, a new copy of Win98 or Me is practically just as expensive as XP, so there's certainly no money saved by going with anything less than XP.
Like the article stated, the average geek isn't going to like reactivating XP every time the change 6 components. There certainly could have been a better way to do it.
How often do you change 6 of the monitored components? Did you know that the counter resets itself to zero after 120 days anyway? I'm about as hardcore as they come, and *I* don't even change out that many within that time frame!
Plus, geeks who want XP will get the no-activation-required Open License RTM ISO floating around the net if they're so worried about activation!
It's just not the preferred OS in anybody's house.
It's the preferred OS in mine for my desktop, thank you very much.
They're marketing it as an unbeatable technology that works on EVERY SINGLE COMPUTER IN THE WORLD (that is, every one that's running Windows).
Well, as far as the greater public knows, due in no small part to Microsoft's relentless advertising, every single computer in the world is running Windows...
Why do the Abit doesn't seem to have USB ports? Or is it rather the PS/2 ports that are missing?
The USB ports are indeed missing.
Again on the Abit, on the bottom left, there's a PLCC (or another Quad side package) that's empty. Do any of you know if they usually show working motherboards, or rather engineering samples that may do nothing?
That's almost certainly the socket for the flash part containing the BIOS.
You'll also notice the buzzer in that corner still has its sticker covering the opening to prevent solvent or solder from getting inside, which is always removed before the board is shipped.
There's no battery in the socket, which again is added before shipping.
There are solder pads for a PQFP part in that corner, which may or may not be populated in the release version.
My guess is that photo is of an engineering sample, and not a terribly useful one at that.:)
I'm an APC authorized reseller, so I know all about the virtues of the RM units. I didn't pay much attention to the rack itself -- my eyes bugged out at the garbage on the bottom shelf and I instantly clicked Reply.;)
If you spend (for example) $200 on 2 ounces of gold, but six months later the price of gold has risen from $100/ounce to $300/ounce, you'll still have that 2 ounces of gold -- but it'll now be worth $600. Pretty nice, eh?
If you spend (for example) $200 on 2 ounces of gold, but six months later the price of gold has fallen from $100/ounce to $50/ounce, you'll still have that 2 ounces of gold -- but it'll now be worth $100. Pretty nice, eh?
For those of you who don't know--almost everybody which is exactly why this was so ridiculous--Moncton is the third biggest town in the Canadian province of New Brunswick
... which is the third-smallest province in Canada.;)
It's really quite simple: a fully-x86-compatible processor that, clock for clock, blows the "original and best" x86 processor out of the water performance-wise.
If that isn't News for Nerds, I don't know what is...
Anyone curious about the hard drive like I am?
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Telnet to www.segway.com, port 80, and type:
GET / HTTP/1.1
Host: www.segway.com
Then press Enter twice, and you'll see the HTML come streaming in. It's a copy of IE's error page. Someone copied the HTML from IE's error page and is serving it up.
To compare, it would take a person more than 15,000 years to turn a light switch on and off a trillion times.
Wow! That really puts things into perspective...
I've found Windows XP to be less than 100% compatible with games. For the home user, compatability and useability rules.
Compatibility isn't really an issue. Sure, there are some poorly-written titles that won't run on XP, but the vast, vast majority of titles will run just fine. Some might require that Compatibility Mode is enabled for them, but that's a checkbox in the item's shortcut.
I've found Windows XP to be easy to use, but has some serious issues with a few games.
See above.
These issues often require software developer issued patches to correct the issue. That's a lot of work for the casual non-technical home user.
Not really, since Windows XP will warn the user about most known-broken software upon installation, and if the user fscks something up by clicking Continue Anyway, they can just restore the system to the restore point created the moment they clicked Continue Anyway. Patches aren't that difficult to find and apply for anyone with basic Web-navigation skills. Go to game's website, click Downloads or Support, look around for the XP patch, click it, run it.
Why not stick with Win98? It is fairly stable, plays games like a champ, has much greater driver support, and is easily obtained.
Windows 98 is absolute garbage in comparison to XP. Drivers regularly bring down 98 machines, and if you're playing games, every game you install seems to install a slightly different flavour of DirectX (which, because of its tight integration into Windows, causes all sorts of havoc).
It may play games like a champ, but even your casual non-technical home user gets fed up with bluescreens after seeing one or more per day, sometimes while working on something important.
If taking licensing into account, a new copy of Win98 or Me is practically just as expensive as XP, so there's certainly no money saved by going with anything less than XP.
Like the article stated, the average geek isn't going to like reactivating XP every time the change 6 components. There certainly could have been a better way to do it.
How often do you change 6 of the monitored components? Did you know that the counter resets itself to zero after 120 days anyway? I'm about as hardcore as they come, and *I* don't even change out that many within that time frame!
Plus, geeks who want XP will get the no-activation-required Open License RTM ISO floating around the net if they're so worried about activation!
It's just not the preferred OS in anybody's house.
It's the preferred OS in mine for my desktop, thank you very much.
I've found Windows XP to be less than 100% compatible with games. For the home user, compatability and useability rules.
Compatibility isn't really an issue. Sure, there are some poorly-written titles that won't run on XP, but the vast, vast majority of titles will run just fine. Some might require that Compatibility Mode is enabled for them, but that's a checkbox in the item's shortcut.
I've found Windows XP to be easy to use, but has some serious issues with a few games.
See above.
These issues often require software developer issued patches to correct the issue. That's a lot of work for the casual non-technical home user.
Not really, since Windows XP will warn the user about most known-broken software upon installation, and if the user fscks XP by clicking Continue Anyway, they can just restore the system to the restore point created the moment they clicked Continue Anyway. Patches aren't that difficult to find and apply for anyone with basic Web-navigation skills. Go to game's website, click Downloads or Support, look around for the XP patch, click it, run it.
Why not stick with Win98? It is fairly stable, plays games like a champ, has much greater driver support, and is easily obtained.
Windows 98 is absolute garbage in comparison to XP. Drivers regularly bring down 98 machines, and if you're playing games, every game you install seems to install a slightly different flavour of DirectX (which, because of its tight integration into Windows, causes all sorts of havoc).
It may play games like a champ, but even your casual non-technical home user gets fed up with bluescreens after seeing one or more per day, sometimes while working on something important.
If taking licensing into account, a new copy of Win98 or Me is practically just as expensive as XP, so there's certainly no money saved by going with anything less than XP.
Like the article stated, the average geek isn't going to like reactivating XP every time the change 6 components. There certainly could have been a better way to do it.
How often do you change 6 of the monitored components? Did you know that the counter resets itself to zero after 120 days anyway? I'm about as hardcore as they come, and *I* don't even change out that many within that time frame!
Plus, geeks who want XP will get the no-activation-required Open License RTM ISO floating around the net if they're so worried about activation!
It's just not the preferred OS in anybody's house.
It's the preferred OS in mine for my desktop, thank you very much.
They're marketing it as an unbeatable technology that works on EVERY SINGLE COMPUTER IN THE WORLD (that is, every one that's running Windows).
Well, as far as the greater public knows, due in no small part to Microsoft's relentless advertising, every single computer in the world is running Windows...
systems wrongly configured with Microsoft SQL Server software
:)
I couldn't have said it better myself.
How do I transfer the domain away from NSI if I can't even login to their system?
;)
Well, take a peek at the link you've been using, and you'll be one step closer to your goal.
Very gauche to reply to my own post, I know... but a few more tidbits:
The Abit logo doesn't appear anywhere on the board.
The documentation off to the left is on letter-size (or A4) paper. It ships in a bound half-letter-size manual.
The distance between the DIMM sockets is huge. I'm not sure why this is so.
Definately an very early engineering sample of some sort...
Why do the Abit doesn't seem to have USB ports? Or is it rather the PS/2 ports that are missing?
:)
The USB ports are indeed missing.
Again on the Abit, on the bottom left, there's a PLCC (or another Quad side package) that's empty. Do any of you know if they usually show working motherboards, or rather engineering samples that may do nothing?
That's almost certainly the socket for the flash part containing the BIOS.
You'll also notice the buzzer in that corner still has its sticker covering the opening to prevent solvent or solder from getting inside, which is always removed before the board is shipped.
There's no battery in the socket, which again is added before shipping.
There are solder pads for a PQFP part in that corner, which may or may not be populated in the release version.
My guess is that photo is of an engineering sample, and not a terribly useful one at that.
A while back, a bunch of folks built a ship. It was loudly trumpeted that even Mother Nature herself couldn't sink it.
Remind me again what happened to it?
I haven't laughed so hard in quite some time. Thanks. :)
I'm an APC authorized reseller, so I know all about the virtues of the RM units. I didn't pay much attention to the rack itself -- my eyes bugged out at the garbage on the bottom shelf and I instantly clicked Reply. ;)
If you spend (for example) $200 on 2 ounces of gold, but six months later the price of gold has risen from $100/ounce to $300/ounce, you'll still have that 2 ounces of gold -- but it'll now be worth $600. Pretty nice, eh?
If you spend (for example) $200 on 2 ounces of gold, but six months later the price of gold has fallen from $100/ounce to $50/ounce, you'll still have that 2 ounces of gold -- but it'll now be worth $100. Pretty nice, eh?
Eww! Tripp-Lite?
Throw those in the garbage where they belong (but recycle the batteries!) and install something decent...
-atrowe: Card-carrying Mensa member. I have no toleranse for stupidity.
Toleranse? Wow! If I join Mensa, will I spell as well as you?
Of course, because Echelon doesn't exist, remember? *wink*
My bank uses a PIN which is a minimum of 4 digits long. I believe the maximum is 12.
:)
C'mon, at least make it challenging!
mov ayb, btu
Wouldn't that be EQU?
pre4:
- Mikael Pettersson: fix P4 boot with APIC enabled
For those of you who don't know--almost everybody which is exactly why this was so ridiculous--Moncton is the third biggest town in the Canadian province of New Brunswick
;)
... which is the third-smallest province in Canada.
It's really quite simple: a fully-x86-compatible processor that, clock for clock, blows the "original and best" x86 processor out of the water performance-wise.
If that isn't News for Nerds, I don't know what is...
The drive has a normal 44-pin notebook IDE connector, but pins 41 and 42, instead of being 5V for logic and motor, are 3.3V.
- 1.8" sized drive
- 1 Platter
- 5.007 Gigabytes
- 5mm High
- 15ms Average Seek Time
- ATA (1 - 5) Interface
- Ultra66 Supported [they seem to contradict themselves here!]
- 1024KB Buffer
- Rotational speed of 4,200rpm
- MTTF 300,000 Hours
Beautiful little unit...'Hipass'? Haha, that's priceless! :) What does the Hipass dither do?
Ouch.
The multiplicative Pozni-like "loaves and fishes" effect of squandered venture capital
I wasn't aware the Buzzword Generator had been updated to include financial jargon. Thanks for the heads-up!