By default all versions of Windows since 3.0 use swapping. You can shut it off if you don't like it.
I'm not a big fan of Vista however you can get it to run acceptably with 1GB if you turn off all the eye candy and use classic mode. Again the user does not have to accept the default settings.
I'd hate to see what your Linux installation looks like if you can't be bothered to change the default settings.
I know you're trolling but that was the dumbest post I've seen in a long time that wasn't typed in ALL CAPS.
I agree with everything in your post except I don't think it will sell all that well.
Mainly because the screen is too small to be a replacement for my living room TV (yes, I'm basing my analysis on what I want). It might be useful in the den or the workroom however as you point out there are other and better alternatives.
If they doubled the size of the screen I might consider it otherwise it's just a gadget for people with more money than common sense.
If someone is hosting your images for free then you're going to find that the web host may have a different set of artistic and/or moral values. And they might not like pictures of children smoking because it's, uh, icky.
It's not that difficult to find a web host that could care less about what you post online so long as you pay your bills on time. Of course this means you have to register your domain and do a few other adminstrative things but now it's your domain and you can post pretty much whatever you like.
Free image hosting does not equal a right to free speech.
There are only probably two episodes I'd watch a second time. I'd certainly rewatch the episode where they blow up the Enterprise five times - stuck in another chronological anomoly.
Normally I dislike people shilling their wares here but it got me to thinking that it might be interesting if there was one thread where that was *all* that people posted. Everyone has a pet project or knows of one that could use some exposure.
From the summary: "Define both acceptable and unacceptable behavior. For example, spending a lot of time surfing the web and downloading videos off the net are both generally unacceptable."
Acceptable behavior in the workplace should certainly be codified but by and large it is not a security issue. Gawking at YouTube videos all day is counter productive and probably not what your employers had in mind when they hired you. But it is not a security issue, it's a peformance issue and should be dealt with accordingly.
Dark matter and cosmic inflation may prove to be incorrect theories but to say they're illogical demonstrates a complete lack of understanding of these two theories.
The argument for dark matter, in its simpliest form, states that owing to the gravitational effects we observe in the universe there must be a lot of matter we can't measure. There's nothing "magical" about that.
Atari wasn't the sole offender of this anti-piracy gimmick. A lot of PC games had the same, lame copy protection as well.
The adhesive tape method only worked if your reflexes and timing were perfect. Also sometimes there was validation code hidden in disk sctor 0. Even though the disk had 128 sectors the Atari OS was only aware of 127. This is because the disk drive controller started counting sectors at zero while the OS started counting the sectors at one.
There were easier ways to copy a protected disk on the Atari platform. None of which I'll discuss without my lawyer being present;-)
Good point and oddly enough, that's about the only way you can get MS Vista, XP, and W2K to share resources on a home network.
The only problem is that you have to boot up your computers so that they grab the correct IP addresses via DHCP. Or you use static IP addresses to get around that.
Scheeze, I just want to connect a couple computers. It shouldn't be this difficult.
I thought the film adequately expressd the paranoia. The film was about the Orange County police in the 1960's and the mentality behind their behavior. It was about control. Archer wasn't paranoid by nature however the system forced him to become paranoid.
There's no "stoner humor" in the film or the book. I still don't see where you get that impression.
I was going to argue with you about "Minority Report". Then I realized that there are a lot of plot holes in the film version. If someone hasn't read the short story or knows its background (PDK wrote it in opposition to the death penalty in California) then the movie is disjointed and ultimately pointless.
I will nitpick a bit about "A Scanner Darkly". The dialog is almost verbatim from the novel. If there's any "stoner humor" in the movie PKD is to blame. The rotoscoping was a good idea, the implementation was inconsistent. In some places it's quite effective, other times it's simply annoying.
Your comments on "Blade Runner" and "Paycheck" are spot in IMHO.
You're still confusing language with its implementation.
I don't disagree that bad programming is bad but you never resopnded to my assertion that BASIC was designed as an *introduction* to programming. BASIC does not, as you assert, promote bad programming practices. It's just a language, a set of tools. Your argument runs along the lines that "You can kill someone with a salad fork". Well, yeah, you can but, Hollywood excepted, who would do such a thing?
And isn't getting your knickers in a twist over BASIC pointless? Who uses it for enterprise projects? Who even uses BASIC except as an educational tool or a point of reference?
Your knowledge of BASIC also seems flawed. You appear not to be aware that MS strongly promoted it's own version of BASIC as a development platform for a number of years.
Yeah, I'm old. And damned proud of it. Now get off my lawn;-)
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Apparently I was too subtle.
Just to be clear, you can shut off the swap file if you like. It's a usually a bad idea but you can do it.
Also, if the poster is running Linux, obviously without any fine tuning, then they are using a swap file whether they realize it or not.
Therefore the posted argument that Linux runs better than Windows because it doesn't use a swap file fails.
But that's just my opinion.
You're confusing system RAM with the Windows swap file.
Oh wait, you're trolling.
Nevermind.
By default all versions of Windows since 3.0 use swapping. You can shut it off if you don't like it.
I'm not a big fan of Vista however you can get it to run acceptably with 1GB if you turn off all the eye candy and use classic mode. Again the user does not have to accept the default settings.
I'd hate to see what your Linux installation looks like if you can't be bothered to change the default settings.
I know you're trolling but that was the dumbest post I've seen in a long time that wasn't typed in ALL CAPS.
Windows isn't fragmenting your files, it's sharing them with otherwise unoccupied sectors on your hard drive.
Another legitimate use of file sharing in my opinion.
I agree with everything in your post except I don't think it will sell all that well.
Mainly because the screen is too small to be a replacement for my living room TV (yes, I'm basing my analysis on what I want). It might be useful in the den or the workroom however as you point out there are other and better alternatives.
If they doubled the size of the screen I might consider it otherwise it's just a gadget for people with more money than common sense.
Bear pong?
Squirrel pong, sure; monkey pong, any day; but bear pong? That's where I draw the line.
If someone is hosting your images for free then you're going to find that the web host may have a different set of artistic and/or moral values. And they might not like pictures of children smoking because it's, uh, icky.
It's not that difficult to find a web host that could care less about what you post online so long as you pay your bills on time. Of course this means you have to register your domain and do a few other adminstrative things but now it's your domain and you can post pretty much whatever you like.
Free image hosting does not equal a right to free speech.
And that's a bad thing?
There are only probably two episodes I'd watch a second time. I'd certainly rewatch the episode where they blow up the Enterprise five times - stuck in another chronological anomoly.
Yeah, off topic, mod me into oblivion.
You're not related to Electra Complex are you? Because she was hot.
I was going to call her back but, well it's kind of complicated.
Thank gawd my real name is "Broken Yer Toys, Jr".
Normally I dislike people shilling their wares here but it got me to thinking that it might be interesting if there was one thread where that was *all* that people posted. Everyone has a pet project or knows of one that could use some exposure.
Best of luck to ya.
Is that you?
You'd better get back here or Uncle Owen is going to have a fit.
A: Slow moving vegetarians.
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From the summary:
"Define both acceptable and unacceptable behavior. For example, spending a lot of time surfing the web and downloading videos off the net are both generally unacceptable."
Acceptable behavior in the workplace should certainly be codified but by and large it is not a security issue. Gawking at YouTube videos all day is counter productive and probably not what your employers had in mind when they hired you. But it is not a security issue, it's a peformance issue and should be dealt with accordingly.
Microsoft filed law suits against 21 software pirates?
I knew there were a lot of pirates out there, I just didn't realize there were so many.
Yeah, this will put an end to software piracy.
"...The agreement does not cover currency fraud..."
So that's still OK because it's not a copyright violation.
If spell checking were a requirement, 98% of the Internet would be shut donw.
Dark matter and cosmic inflation may prove to be incorrect theories but to say they're illogical demonstrates a complete lack of understanding of these two theories.
The argument for dark matter, in its simpliest form, states that owing to the gravitational effects we observe in the universe there must be a lot of matter we can't measure. There's nothing "magical" about that.
Atari wasn't the sole offender of this anti-piracy gimmick. A lot of PC games had the same, lame copy protection as well.
;-)
The adhesive tape method only worked if your reflexes and timing were perfect. Also sometimes there was validation code hidden in disk sctor 0. Even though the disk had 128 sectors the Atari OS was only aware of 127. This is because the disk drive controller started counting sectors at zero while the OS started counting the sectors at one.
There were easier ways to copy a protected disk on the Atari platform. None of which I'll discuss without my lawyer being present
You owe me a new computer monitor.
Good point and oddly enough, that's about the only way you can get MS Vista, XP, and W2K to share resources on a home network.
The only problem is that you have to boot up your computers so that they grab the correct IP addresses via DHCP. Or you use static IP addresses to get around that.
Scheeze, I just want to connect a couple computers. It shouldn't be this difficult.
See, here's where we disagree.
I thought the film adequately expressd the paranoia. The film was about the Orange County police in the 1960's and the mentality behind their behavior. It was about control. Archer wasn't paranoid by nature however the system forced him to become paranoid.
There's no "stoner humor" in the film or the book. I still don't see where you get that impression.
I was going to argue with you about "Minority Report". Then I realized that there are a lot of plot holes in the film version. If someone hasn't read the short story or knows its background (PDK wrote it in opposition to the death penalty in California) then the movie is disjointed and ultimately pointless.
I will nitpick a bit about "A Scanner Darkly". The dialog is almost verbatim from the novel. If there's any "stoner humor" in the movie PKD is to blame. The rotoscoping was a good idea, the implementation was inconsistent. In some places it's quite effective, other times it's simply annoying.
Your comments on "Blade Runner" and "Paycheck" are spot in IMHO.
You're still confusing language with its implementation.
;-)
I don't disagree that bad programming is bad but you never resopnded to my assertion that BASIC was designed as an *introduction* to programming. BASIC does not, as you assert, promote bad programming practices. It's just a language, a set of tools. Your argument runs along the lines that "You can kill someone with a salad fork". Well, yeah, you can but, Hollywood excepted, who would do such a thing?
And isn't getting your knickers in a twist over BASIC pointless? Who uses it for enterprise projects? Who even uses BASIC except as an educational tool or a point of reference?
Your knowledge of BASIC also seems flawed. You appear not to be aware that MS strongly promoted it's own version of BASIC as a development platform for a number of years.
Yeah, I'm old. And damned proud of it. Now get off my lawn