I have noscript on and yes, it affects a lot of sites, but if I want, I can always enable the scripts for a particular site, but it sill helps not having them on by default.
They still make SCSI tape drives, right? And new servers only have PCIe, so there will be PCIe SCSI cards at least as long as SCSI tape drives are made.Alternatively maybe there exists some SCSI-SAS adapter like the IDE-SATA adapters. Does SAS have an external version?
"we no longer sell the non-ad printer ink, and our chip tech won't let you refill your old cartridges generically."
My printer (HP Professional Series Color 2500CM) had ink cartridges that can be easily refilled and while they do have chips in them to protect against refills and to force an expiration date, the printer needs that the driver supports those functions (don't know how it's supposed to work). The driver from HP site does, and refuses to print with my cartridges that were supposed to expire in 2004, but the driver that WinXP comes with does not have this "feature". Linux can print to this printer too without problems.
Oh, and the printer has a network connection, so it I really wanted to print something while I was away from home, I could connect to my network using VPN and print.
We have a Canon Pixma MP550 in the office, connected to a linux PC. Canon even provides drivers for it (as opposed to hunting for third party drivers, though for 32bit only, but the PC has less than 4GB of RAM) and everything seems to work.
However, that applies only to interactive content (games, software). Non-interactive content like music or movies can be pulled trough the analog hole and there is no way the manufacturer can both allow me to listen to the song I bought and prevent me from recording the song to a different device using a microphone (assuming it is somehow possible to prevent me from connecting the wires directly).
Yea, I tried the exploit code and link too, but it did not work on Windows XP SP3 with IE6 (don't use it, so why would I update it?) or Windows 2003 with IE7.
I bought a used LTO2 tape drive for ~$175 (prior to that I used a LTO1 drive that I bought for the same price but a few years earlier).I don't have any problems with it, I can find blank tapes locally or on ebay and the 30MB/s read/write speed is enough for me as is the 200GB capacity. I also have a DDS4 drive for when I need to back up a very slow hard drive or when there are a bunch of small files that need to be backed up (like on a system disk) and the hard drive is too slow to keep up with LTO tape.
Ok, let's say that it costs $10M for your company to upgrade. How soon the company would be able to get that money back because of the upgrade benefits (increased productivity or whatever)?
While I agree with most of what you said, I still think that you could make a good movie out of most of the good adventure games. No, you do not have to show each and every detail so the viewer can deduce the end while watching the middle, but leave enough of them in so the end is not totally unexpected.
For example - Still Life or any of the Sherlock Holmes games could make good detective movies. Syberia would make a good movie too.
Not all cars have the "remaining range left" indicators. My car doesn't, however, I know that on a full tank of LPG I can go about 325km and on full tank of gasoline (the fuel can be switched to another type if one type runs out) I can go 600-700km. I reset the rip odometer after each fill up of LPG and then know approximately how far I can go (the gauge for LPG is on the tank itself which is in the trunk, the gauge on the dashboard displays the level of gasoline only). I usually go until LPG runs out, switch to gasoline and look for a gas station that has LPG.
So, when you turn on the PC, it loads BIOS, then it loads EFI which then loads the OS...
Hmm, I have a better idea - how about Booting a PC into BIOS, then EFI, then a limited version of Windows (kinda like XPe, limited app support), which then runs VMware, which (emulating BIOS) goes trough POST again and finally loads the OS (which can be Windows, Linux or whatever). You can have several layers of VMware if the PC is too fast for you.
So, with this UEFI, will I still be able to write a assembler program to the first sector of a floppy disk and have it boot or will I need to compile the asm code to java and then.NET which would make a "Hello World" program not fit in a floppy not to mention a sector of one?
And BIOS just looks for the 55AA signature of the first sector of the boot hard or floppy drive, loads that sector to memory and jmp's to it, from there, the program that is in that sector can do whatever it wants, for example, write "Non-system disk" to the screen or load more sectors from that or other drive to memory and jump there.
BIOS does not care whether the partition table is in the MBR or in LBA 200-300 of the hard drive and in XML, the program in LBA0 cares, but that program is not burned to the disk, it can be replaced.
But, but then the computer would boot those few seconds longer! Nobody would buy a motherboard that boots so slowly.
On older computers that usually go trough POST so fast my monitor cannot sync to the video signal I usually disable quick boot, that causes the bios to test RAM and prolongs the POST by about 5 seconds (or longer). A couple of other computers I have (one old server and one PC with a workstation m/b) allow me to specify an additional boot delay in seconds, I have set it to 5s on both.
Well, if I ever have to use Win7 (a new laptop that does not have xp drivers), you can be sure I'll customize it to look just like 2000 (start menu included). I don't like the flashy graphics and changes just for the point of having changes.
So, I don't see a problem with compatibility mode here, the last thing I want is a windows 7 control panel style BIOS. Normal BIOS usually has at most 3 levels of menus, I don't really need to go UEFI->Configure the PC -> Configure Hardware -> Boot process -> Boot capable drives -> (my hdd) -> Use this drive as primary boot device.
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Or just use a phone that has a modem, most of new ones do, IIRC you can get a few kilobits with it.
I have noscript on and yes, it affects a lot of sites, but if I want, I can always enable the scripts for a particular site, but it sill helps not having them on by default.
Now that you mention it, the drivers are quite bloated.
I was talking about the 68pin version.
What's wrong with CRTs? If I have enough space on my desk I can happily use a CRT monitor and enjoy multiple resolution support.
and unlike RS232, I have not seen a microcontroller with USB support or a USB-RS232 chip that does not need additional drivers installed to the OS.
As for VGA - as long as I can have some sort of converter to VGA I'm OK with that.
Why is it terrible? The X-Fi card I have seems to work OK (and I am not using onboard because it is either 4 channels out or line-in and I need both).
Thanks, I'll look for a PCI-X PCI-e card or box, maybe it will be cheaper than a PCIe SCSI card.
They still make SCSI tape drives, right? And new servers only have PCIe, so there will be PCIe SCSI cards at least as long as SCSI tape drives are made.Alternatively maybe there exists some SCSI-SAS adapter like the IDE-SATA adapters. Does SAS have an external version?
MIDI is probably supposed to be device independent, but for some reason it can be very different depending on the sound card used.
And if you use a RADIUS server and certificates instead of PSK, would it be even harder to crack or the same?
"we no longer sell the non-ad printer ink, and our chip tech won't let you refill your old cartridges generically."
My printer (HP Professional Series Color 2500CM) had ink cartridges that can be easily refilled and while they do have chips in them to protect against refills and to force an expiration date, the printer needs that the driver supports those functions (don't know how it's supposed to work). The driver from HP site does, and refuses to print with my cartridges that were supposed to expire in 2004, but the driver that WinXP comes with does not have this "feature". Linux can print to this printer too without problems.
Oh, and the printer has a network connection, so it I really wanted to print something while I was away from home, I could connect to my network using VPN and print.
We have a Canon Pixma MP550 in the office, connected to a linux PC. Canon even provides drivers for it (as opposed to hunting for third party drivers, though for 32bit only, but the PC has less than 4GB of RAM) and everything seems to work.
However, that applies only to interactive content (games, software). Non-interactive content like music or movies can be pulled trough the analog hole and there is no way the manufacturer can both allow me to listen to the song I bought and prevent me from recording the song to a different device using a microphone (assuming it is somehow possible to prevent me from connecting the wires directly).
Yea, I tried the exploit code and link too, but it did not work on Windows XP SP3 with IE6 (don't use it, so why would I update it?) or Windows 2003 with IE7.
I bought a used LTO2 tape drive for ~$175 (prior to that I used a LTO1 drive that I bought for the same price but a few years earlier).I don't have any problems with it, I can find blank tapes locally or on ebay and the 30MB/s read/write speed is enough for me as is the 200GB capacity. I also have a DDS4 drive for when I need to back up a very slow hard drive or when there are a bunch of small files that need to be backed up (like on a system disk) and the hard drive is too slow to keep up with LTO tape.
Ok, let's say that it costs $10M for your company to upgrade. How soon the company would be able to get that money back because of the upgrade benefits (increased productivity or whatever)?
While I agree with most of what you said, I still think that you could make a good movie out of most of the good adventure games. No, you do not have to show each and every detail so the viewer can deduce the end while watching the middle, but leave enough of them in so the end is not totally unexpected.
For example - Still Life or any of the Sherlock Holmes games could make good detective movies. Syberia would make a good movie too.
They forget that nobody likes watching somebody else play a video game. Unless they're drunk.
I think Let's Plays are watched enough, otherwise there would not be so many of them on various video sites.
Not all cars have the "remaining range left" indicators. My car doesn't, however, I know that on a full tank of LPG I can go about 325km and on full tank of gasoline (the fuel can be switched to another type if one type runs out) I can go 600-700km. I reset the rip odometer after each fill up of LPG and then know approximately how far I can go (the gauge for LPG is on the tank itself which is in the trunk, the gauge on the dashboard displays the level of gasoline only). I usually go until LPG runs out, switch to gasoline and look for a gas station that has LPG.
So, when you turn on the PC, it loads BIOS, then it loads EFI which then loads the OS...
Hmm, I have a better idea - how about Booting a PC into BIOS, then EFI, then a limited version of Windows (kinda like XPe, limited app support), which then runs VMware, which (emulating BIOS) goes trough POST again and finally loads the OS (which can be Windows, Linux or whatever). You can have several layers of VMware if the PC is too fast for you.
So, with this UEFI, will I still be able to write a assembler program to the first sector of a floppy disk and have it boot or will I need to compile the asm code to java and then .NET which would make a "Hello World" program not fit in a floppy not to mention a sector of one?
And BIOS just looks for the 55AA signature of the first sector of the boot hard or floppy drive, loads that sector to memory and jmp's to it, from there, the program that is in that sector can do whatever it wants, for example, write "Non-system disk" to the screen or load more sectors from that or other drive to memory and jump there.
BIOS does not care whether the partition table is in the MBR or in LBA 200-300 of the hard drive and in XML, the program in LBA0 cares, but that program is not burned to the disk, it can be replaced.
But, but then the computer would boot those few seconds longer! Nobody would buy a motherboard that boots so slowly.
On older computers that usually go trough POST so fast my monitor cannot sync to the video signal I usually disable quick boot, that causes the bios to test RAM and prolongs the POST by about 5 seconds (or longer). A couple of other computers I have (one old server and one PC with a workstation m/b) allow me to specify an additional boot delay in seconds, I have set it to 5s on both.
Well, if I ever have to use Win7 (a new laptop that does not have xp drivers), you can be sure I'll customize it to look just like 2000 (start menu included). I don't like the flashy graphics and changes just for the point of having changes.
So, I don't see a problem with compatibility mode here, the last thing I want is a windows 7 control panel style BIOS. Normal BIOS usually has at most 3 levels of menus, I don't really need to go UEFI->Configure the PC -> Configure Hardware -> Boot process -> Boot capable drives -> (my hdd) -> Use this drive as primary boot device.