I can speak as a hardware technician that works on laptops every day that toshiba laptops are certainly NOT the worst laptops out there! I would definitely have to say that hands down nec versa and ready laptops are the worst built least reliable currently. I am not a really big fan of hp either, they have major parts and engineering problems. Compaq has problems too just ask someone who works with them. Some gateway laptops are not too bad but I certainly wouldn't buy one myself. Personally I just switched from a Compaq Armada to a Toshiba Portege 7020CT it works great with linux. My Armada worked great as well just not fast enough.
Electro-Mechanical machines are very interesting... Chances are if the game is blowing a fuse you have one of the 16 or so solenoid coils that pull in the relays, (should be two rows) that are going bad. The contacts on the "score motor run" (the timed bank of contacts with the motor) are very rarely known to blow fuses as they essentially have little power to them. If something quits working without blowing fuses then the contacts on the score motor run are the first ones to check.
Well you hit my expertise button! I am also into pinball's. My dad and I bought tons of games throughout my lifetime. We bought em restored em, and sold em... I have had a blast with pinball, it is probably my second favorite thing beyond computers.
If you have an apex ad-600a with the loopholes menu would you not be able to disable the css and have the movie play? Or is there something else I am missing?
I think it may have something to do with the fact that the player is sony. I have one of the apex ad-600a dvd players,and I can skip past any of these annoying fbi warnings, and previews...
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Hmmm, the company I contracted to until recently was still running banyan and also only recently switched from beyond mail to HP Openmail and will be soon switching everything over to M$.
Your eyes tend to hurt only if you have your refresh rate too low, or you have a cheap monitor. Ideally sometime lcd screens will be cheap enough to have on most pc's. I would rather use a laptop with a tft display than a 21" crt...
I think this idea is a crock. Computers are not the equivalent of a tv for a lot of reasons. One, there are a good deal of educational type uses. Two, how many people here have started using linux or a unix operating system without learning anything. I think that it is amazing how much you can learn when you like the subject that you are studying. It is only going to help those kids who have a natural interest in the field. Or so it seems.
Yeah considering these benchmarks wouldn't mean anything in the real world. You can't compare sparc/x86 using some pathetic test like that. You have a lot bigger issues than your cpu, like bus, i/o throughput, etc...
A sparc10 has quite a bit of power actually. The 10 was originally built in I believe 92'? Lets see we had 2/386's? hmmm, you can put 2 dual hypersparc mbus modules in a 10 giving it 4 cpu's at if I recall somewhere around 150Mhz each... 4x150Mhz... That seems like an awful lot of power to me. I have a sun server with a dual hypersparc 125Mhz module in it and I can tell you it will blow any of my pc's away. So yeah older sun hardware even in the factory config still rocks. Go buy a ss10mp with dual sm51's and tell me that for two 50Mhz cpu's it isn't fast. 1MB cache per cpu is pretty damn good. Trust me!
They can do what IBM did with OS/2 Warp 4 and put an icon on the desktop to download the browser. Of course ibm used webexplorer to download netscape for OS/2 since it wasn't released in time to put it on the cd. M$ can do the same.
I swear how many viruses came out that have taken advantage of this.vbs prob? It has only taken M$ two years or so to fix the prob. Or at least that is what they "say". Until someone finds the next bug in outlook, or some key component of windows. How do companies and the government continually put up with being beaten by these? I guess somebody needs to tell them to get a clue. Anybody have any ideas how to make them understand that these problems are only on the micro$oft platforms? Someday if we are luck they will get it.
The site has changed a lot since last time I was there about 3 months ago or so... But here is some of the info. Unfortunately they are trying to change their image to make it appear that they really are "the good guys" which is bs. The site used to say that ripping mp3's was not permitted regardless if you distributed them or not. Essentially they said that a digital copy was not legal. They have of course realized apparently that they can't spread fud like that any more...
No one is requiring you to own multiple copies of a CD for home/office use. If you own the recording at home, then your MP3s are legal for work. Have you no clue regarding intellectual property? Actually you are wrong, according to the riaa they interpret the law to say that you have no right to duplicate a cd at all. The riaa is even trying to take away your right to fair use backup copies! Check out the riaa's page if you don't believe me. The stuff on their page is disgusting!
They said before on beta.slashdot.org what the boxes, are. They ARE va linux boxes and there are four of them. And they said that it is STILL LINUX! Check your facts.
First off, microsoft most definitely can not be credited for making computers easier for everyone to use. particularly single handed! They have bought virtually all of their technology, in fact the only thing I recall that actually originated in redmond was word, sort of ie, and some of windows although even that is debated. I am getting so tired of hearing everyone saying that they were a great company and brought us all of these great things. As somebody on/.'s sig said for a while, (can't remember who or I would give credit). Microsoft didn't raise the pc's usability it just lowered the standards. What other system out today does an application crash and the user just accepts it? If you are on your way to work and your car just stalls for no reason do you just start it up again without thinking about it? I doubt it. But yet ms users do, as far as their pc's are concerned. Hell 90+% of windows problems are diagnosed starting with "well did you reboot?" Hmmm, if the os was dsigned well you wouldn't have to! This whole concept is rediculous!
If I am not mistaken we already have this in virtually every unix operating system. If you use linux then you can switch from xfree to metrox, or you could use kde, instead of gnome. Or you could use csh instead of bash, the possibilities are endless, I thought this was one of the main reasons most of us love unix, linux os's?
Who really cares that much about HDTV? I know I won't be spending that kind of cash for a higher quality picture on my tv. I just got done spending too much on my 52" rear projection, why would I want to have to throw out my expensive tv because it doesn't look quite as good as the hd's? I watch dvd's on it every weekend and it looks great to me. The question is how good is good enough?
I don't know about everybody else but I work at an international company and we are currently replacing our pentium 166, pII 300's, and some others with pIII 500's w/256MB so I don't think that "businesses" really need 700+Mhz laptops. Anybody else care to share what the fast desktops in your work are?
I have recently order an abit BP6 and bought 2 celeron 466's to slap in it. My question is how fast would you run these w/o worrying too much about HUGE fans and that sort of additional cooling? Does anyone have any tips for this setup? I support NT at work so I am used to system crashes:(
OH MY GOD You MUST be KIDDING! IE does not run faster than netscape on solaris! IE chokes on solaris, it even changes your mouse pointer in solaris to a windows pointer and hourglass when it is hovering over top of the ie window. IE may be an ok browser for win platforms but NOT UNIX!
Actually if you read on the mandrake site somewhere(I don't remember where) when the cd boots to the lilo prompt you can type linux text and it will boot into the old text installer like rh6 and before.
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I can speak as a hardware technician that works on laptops every day that toshiba laptops are certainly NOT the worst laptops out there! I would definitely have to say that hands down nec versa and ready laptops are the worst built least reliable currently. I am not a really big fan of hp either, they have major parts and engineering problems. Compaq has problems too just ask someone who works with them. Some gateway laptops are not too bad but I certainly wouldn't buy one myself. Personally I just switched from a Compaq Armada to a Toshiba Portege 7020CT it works great with linux. My Armada worked great as well just not fast enough.
I think that any government site would beat real.com
Electro-Mechanical machines are very interesting... Chances are if the game is blowing a fuse you have one of the 16 or so solenoid coils that pull in the relays, (should be two rows) that are going bad. The contacts on the "score motor run" (the timed bank of contacts with the motor) are very rarely known to blow fuses as they essentially have little power to them. If something quits working without blowing fuses then the contacts on the score motor run are the first ones to check.
Well you hit my expertise button! I am also into pinball's. My dad and I bought tons of games throughout my lifetime. We bought em restored em, and sold em... I have had a blast with pinball, it is probably my second favorite thing beyond computers.
If you have an apex ad-600a with the loopholes menu would you not be able to disable the css and have the movie play? Or is there something else I am missing?
This is on k5 also. K5
I think it may have something to do with the fact that the player is sony. I have one of the apex ad-600a dvd players,and I can skip past any of these annoying fbi warnings, and previews...
Hmmm, the company I contracted to until recently was still running banyan and also only recently switched from beyond mail to HP Openmail and will be soon switching everything over to M$.
Your eyes tend to hurt only if you have your refresh rate too low, or you have a cheap monitor. Ideally sometime lcd screens will be cheap enough to have on most pc's. I would rather use a laptop with a tft display than a 21" crt...
I think this idea is a crock. Computers are not the equivalent of a tv for a lot of reasons. One, there are a good deal of educational type uses. Two, how many people here have started using linux or a unix operating system without learning anything. I think that it is amazing how much you can learn when you like the subject that you are studying. It is only going to help those kids who have a natural interest in the field. Or so it seems.
There is a good reason for the sprint issue. Overland Park (k.c.) is the world headquarters for sprint.
Yeah considering these benchmarks wouldn't mean anything in the real world. You can't compare sparc/x86 using some pathetic test like that. You have a lot bigger issues than your cpu, like bus, i/o throughput, etc...
A sparc10 has quite a bit of power actually. The 10 was originally built in I believe 92'? Lets see we had 2/386's? hmmm, you can put 2 dual hypersparc mbus modules in a 10 giving it 4 cpu's at if I recall somewhere around 150Mhz each... 4x150Mhz... That seems like an awful lot of power to me. I have a sun server with a dual hypersparc 125Mhz module in it and I can tell you it will blow any of my pc's away. So yeah older sun hardware even in the factory config still rocks. Go buy a ss10mp with dual sm51's and tell me that for two 50Mhz cpu's it isn't fast. 1MB cache per cpu is pretty damn good. Trust me!
They can do what IBM did with OS/2 Warp 4 and put an icon on the desktop to download the browser. Of course ibm used webexplorer to download netscape for OS/2 since it wasn't released in time to put it on the cd. M$ can do the same.
I swear how many viruses came out that have taken advantage of this .vbs prob? It has only taken M$ two years or so to fix the prob. Or at least that is what they "say". Until someone finds the next bug in outlook, or some key component of windows. How do companies and the government continually put up with being beaten by these? I guess somebody needs to tell them to get a clue. Anybody have any ideas how to make them understand that these problems are only on the micro$oft platforms? Someday if we are luck they will get it.
The site has changed a lot since last time I was there about 3 months ago or so... But here is some of the info. Unfortunately they are trying to change their image to make it appear that they really are "the good guys" which is bs. The site used to say that ripping mp3's was not permitted regardless if you distributed them or not. Essentially they said that a digital copy was not legal. They have of course realized apparently that they can't spread fud like that any more...
No one is requiring you to own multiple copies of a CD for home/office use. If you own the recording at home, then your MP3s are legal for work. Have you no clue regarding intellectual property? Actually you are wrong, according to the riaa they interpret the law to say that you have no right to duplicate a cd at all. The riaa is even trying to take away your right to fair use backup copies! Check out the riaa's page if you don't believe me. The stuff on their page is disgusting!
They said before on beta.slashdot.org what the boxes, are. They ARE va linux boxes and there are four of them. And they said that it is STILL LINUX! Check your facts.
First off, microsoft most definitely can not be credited for making computers easier for everyone to use. particularly single handed! They have bought virtually all of their technology, in fact the only thing I recall that actually originated in redmond was word, sort of ie, and some of windows although even that is debated. I am getting so tired of hearing everyone saying that they were a great company and brought us all of these great things. As somebody on /.'s sig said for a while, (can't remember who or I would give credit). Microsoft didn't raise the pc's usability it just lowered the standards. What other system out today does an application crash and the user just accepts it? If you are on your way to work and your car just stalls for no reason do you just start it up again without thinking about it? I doubt it. But yet ms users do, as far as their pc's are concerned. Hell 90+% of windows problems are diagnosed starting with "well did you reboot?" Hmmm, if the os was dsigned well you wouldn't have to! This whole concept is rediculous!
If I am not mistaken we already have this in virtually every unix operating system. If you use linux then you can switch from xfree to metrox, or you could use kde, instead of gnome. Or you could use csh instead of bash, the possibilities are endless, I thought this was one of the main reasons most of us love unix, linux os's?
Who really cares that much about HDTV? I know I won't be spending that kind of cash for a higher quality picture on my tv. I just got done spending too much on my 52" rear projection, why would I want to have to throw out my expensive tv because it doesn't look quite as good as the hd's? I watch dvd's on it every weekend and it looks great to me. The question is how good is good enough?
I don't know about everybody else but I work at an international company and we are currently replacing our pentium 166, pII 300's, and some others with pIII 500's w/256MB so I don't think that "businesses" really need 700+Mhz laptops. Anybody else care to share what the fast desktops in your work are?
I have recently order an abit BP6 and bought 2 celeron 466's to slap in it. My question is how fast would you run these w/o worrying too much about HUGE fans and that sort of additional cooling? Does anyone have any tips for this setup? I support NT at work so I am used to system crashes :(
OH MY GOD You MUST be KIDDING! IE does not run faster than netscape on solaris! IE chokes on solaris, it even changes your mouse pointer in solaris to a windows pointer and hourglass when it is hovering over top of the ie window. IE may be an ok browser for win platforms but NOT UNIX!
Actually if you read on the mandrake site somewhere(I don't remember where) when the cd boots to the lilo prompt you can type linux text and it will boot into the old text installer like rh6 and before.