I have a Power Mac 8600/300, they did exist. For the time, they were very good machines and could run MacOS X with software hacks. Besides taking up to 1GB of RAM (something the later beige G3 couldn't do), the motherboard used a CPU daughter card that could be swapped out for a G3 or G4. The case also had tons of room for hard disks and featured two on-board SCSI buses (one 5MB/sec which included the external port, one 10MB/sec).
The old thru-hole capacitors are usually fine. Its the first generation SMD capacitors that are causing problems with older electronics. The Macintosh SE/30 and Portable are notorious for failing capacitor problems.
Windows ME was more unstable for some reason. Random crashes above and beyond what Windows 98SE normally did. The lack of "Exit to DOS" and being able to load device drivers in config.sys and autoexec.bat was a problem for some customers too. OEM machines that only came with Windows ME are actually quite rare. Most OEMs continued shipping 98SE or offered the option between it or ME until XP came out. The only useful feature that ME added was driver support for USB Storage Class devices which someone back ported to 98SE anyway. The other upgrades were OS based hibernate support and the introduction of System Restore, both of which never seemed to work right due to driver problems and bugs. The GUI was just refreshed to look like Windows 2000.
One big reason why I run an ad-blocker is this. They would need to remove the ability to run ANY code and/or the ability to call any plug-ins before I would re-enable ads.
On top of that, who the hell pays with cash anymore? The true universally accepted currency is the one sitting behind that piece of plastic you keep swiping everywhere. If that happens to be dollars, pesos, or rupees, it doesn't really matter, because the conversion all happens in the background at your bank. Because of this, there is little or no reason BTC couldn't start up their own credit card and BECOME as universally accepted as anything else. The only thing stopping this is the current "magically universally accepted currency" and all the corruption behind it.
There are many small businesses around here that don't take credit/debit cards at all. Add in the ones that have a $10-15 minimum purchase on credit/debit cards (now legal in the USA thanks to Dodd-Frank) too. Also some small businesses that do take credit cards without a minimum purchase amount will give you a cash discount simply because they don't have to pay swipe fees.
The B-II tape speed that doubled the recording time of a L500 tape to two hours didn't appear in machines until the late 70s. The longer length L750 tapes followed. Once LP and EP speed VHS machines and longer length tapes appeared, Betamax couldn't compete with recording time. The cassettes were physically smaller and couldn't hold as much tape as a VHS cassette could.
It should be noted that 7/14/2015 is the end of extended support date for Windows Server 2003. MSE isn't any better than the popular commercial AV/endpoint products. The malware usually steamrollers over installed AV software anyway. It is quite comical reading support forums of major AV vendors. There are tons of paying customers complaining the latest malware threat wasn't stopped or detected at all by their products.
The Cree TW series is supposed to have improved color rendition, but unless you live in California (where they sell single packs), you can only buy them in 6-packs via special order.
They need to have a leveling control in the EU, but it does not need to be automatic. Many low end models have manual controls. The problem is cars in the US do not require any leveling system at all on HID equipped cars.
What model is it? HP generally doesn't make full TWAIN drivers available for their older scanners, but a generic WIA driver is usually available on either HP's site or via Windows Update. The scanner interface is very basic compared to the full TWAIN driver, but usually gets the job done. If you need a full function driver, VueScan is a good alternative.
Does the software work on Windows 7 or Vista with audio? Windows 8 really didn't change much in the audio stack compared to 7. Vista is where most of that stuff broke with the move away from hardware accelerated DirectSound. I have one of those problem apps too and would love to know what API they used for sound output. The program doesn't appear on the mixer at all on Windows 7. The first revision of the program came out in 2004 and was a 2000/XP only program, so I can only assume it uses something related to DirectSound. I haven't encountered any problems with much older software that uses DirectSound or even WinMM.
EMV Chip cards are being issued in the US now. The major processors are pushing to move liability of charges to the retailer starting in 2015 for mag stripe transactions. The only problem is that US based processors aren't going for the full "chip and PIN", but "chip and signature". The EMV terminals will have a PIN pad, so hopefully card issuers will give the option of PIN security to those that want it.
My work computer has been cursed with this problem. Eventually it started locking up every patch Tuesday, so I just killed automatic updates..... problem solved. Something with the Dell OEM XP install is clearly fubared with regards to the actual patch service as manually installing an update causes the machine to lock up too. Rebooting causes an evil "We had to shut your machine down to protect its hardware" blue screen until I go into safe mode once and reboot again. IT will get around to it eventually. I think they are just waiting for a new machine to become available to swap it out.
The local governments will spend the new found wealth like drunken sailors. When the oil dries up, they will be left with a giant deficient on the balance sheet and cry for help.
Good luck with that, although some NJ districts aren't as influenced by the NJEA as others. I always thought the teacher's union was a conflict of interest. By their very nature, they put "teachers first" and not "students first" as it should be in education.
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I have a Power Mac 8600/300, they did exist. For the time, they were very good machines and could run MacOS X with software hacks. Besides taking up to 1GB of RAM (something the later beige G3 couldn't do), the motherboard used a CPU daughter card that could be swapped out for a G3 or G4. The case also had tons of room for hard disks and featured two on-board SCSI buses (one 5MB/sec which included the external port, one 10MB/sec).
The old thru-hole capacitors are usually fine. Its the first generation SMD capacitors that are causing problems with older electronics. The Macintosh SE/30 and Portable are notorious for failing capacitor problems.
Windows ME was more unstable for some reason. Random crashes above and beyond what Windows 98SE normally did. The lack of "Exit to DOS" and being able to load device drivers in config.sys and autoexec.bat was a problem for some customers too. OEM machines that only came with Windows ME are actually quite rare. Most OEMs continued shipping 98SE or offered the option between it or ME until XP came out. The only useful feature that ME added was driver support for USB Storage Class devices which someone back ported to 98SE anyway. The other upgrades were OS based hibernate support and the introduction of System Restore, both of which never seemed to work right due to driver problems and bugs. The GUI was just refreshed to look like Windows 2000.
Once upon a time, Google used to only serve up text based ads. They weren't annoying and didn't try to infect machines with malware.
One big reason why I run an ad-blocker is this. They would need to remove the ability to run ANY code and/or the ability to call any plug-ins before I would re-enable ads.
On top of that, who the hell pays with cash anymore? The true universally accepted currency is the one sitting behind that piece of plastic you keep swiping everywhere. If that happens to be dollars, pesos, or rupees, it doesn't really matter, because the conversion all happens in the background at your bank. Because of this, there is little or no reason BTC couldn't start up their own credit card and BECOME as universally accepted as anything else. The only thing stopping this is the current "magically universally accepted currency" and all the corruption behind it.
There are many small businesses around here that don't take credit/debit cards at all. Add in the ones that have a $10-15 minimum purchase on credit/debit cards (now legal in the USA thanks to Dodd-Frank) too. Also some small businesses that do take credit cards without a minimum purchase amount will give you a cash discount simply because they don't have to pay swipe fees.
The B-II tape speed that doubled the recording time of a L500 tape to two hours didn't appear in machines until the late 70s. The longer length L750 tapes followed. Once LP and EP speed VHS machines and longer length tapes appeared, Betamax couldn't compete with recording time. The cassettes were physically smaller and couldn't hold as much tape as a VHS cassette could.
It should be noted that 7/14/2015 is the end of extended support date for Windows Server 2003. MSE isn't any better than the popular commercial AV/endpoint products. The malware usually steamrollers over installed AV software anyway. It is quite comical reading support forums of major AV vendors. There are tons of paying customers complaining the latest malware threat wasn't stopped or detected at all by their products.
One must wonder if the HDCP master key that was leaked was really a backdoor provision for spying on leaking signals.
The Cree TW series is supposed to have improved color rendition, but unless you live in California (where they sell single packs), you can only buy them in 6-packs via special order.
A few people are stuck on 10.6 because they have PowerPC applications that won't ever be updated to x86.
Macs never came standard with a parallel port. Printers used serial (din-8 port) for communication before USB came about.
"Everybody Lies" -- Dr. Greg House
The beam cutoff is slightly different in the US since the lights have to meet FMVSS Part 108 lighting standards.
They need to have a leveling control in the EU, but it does not need to be automatic. Many low end models have manual controls. The problem is cars in the US do not require any leveling system at all on HID equipped cars.
What model is it? HP generally doesn't make full TWAIN drivers available for their older scanners, but a generic WIA driver is usually available on either HP's site or via Windows Update. The scanner interface is very basic compared to the full TWAIN driver, but usually gets the job done. If you need a full function driver, VueScan is a good alternative.
Does the software work on Windows 7 or Vista with audio? Windows 8 really didn't change much in the audio stack compared to 7. Vista is where most of that stuff broke with the move away from hardware accelerated DirectSound. I have one of those problem apps too and would love to know what API they used for sound output. The program doesn't appear on the mixer at all on Windows 7. The first revision of the program came out in 2004 and was a 2000/XP only program, so I can only assume it uses something related to DirectSound. I haven't encountered any problems with much older software that uses DirectSound or even WinMM.
Most tablets are used to play games from what I've observed.
They also swallowed up MetroPCS in the process (mostly for their spectrum).
EMV Chip cards are being issued in the US now. The major processors are pushing to move liability of charges to the retailer starting in 2015 for mag stripe transactions. The only problem is that US based processors aren't going for the full "chip and PIN", but "chip and signature". The EMV terminals will have a PIN pad, so hopefully card issuers will give the option of PIN security to those that want it.
While they are at it, release a SP2 for Windows 7, because its going to be around for a while.
My work computer has been cursed with this problem. Eventually it started locking up every patch Tuesday, so I just killed automatic updates..... problem solved. Something with the Dell OEM XP install is clearly fubared with regards to the actual patch service as manually installing an update causes the machine to lock up too. Rebooting causes an evil "We had to shut your machine down to protect its hardware" blue screen until I go into safe mode once and reboot again. IT will get around to it eventually. I think they are just waiting for a new machine to become available to swap it out.
Recommended reading, has a whole section on how choropleth maps can be manipulated to suit an agenda: http://www.amazon.com/How-Lie-Maps-2nd-Edition/dp/0226534219
The local governments will spend the new found wealth like drunken sailors. When the oil dries up, they will be left with a giant deficient on the balance sheet and cry for help.
Good luck with that, although some NJ districts aren't as influenced by the NJEA as others. I always thought the teacher's union was a conflict of interest. By their very nature, they put "teachers first" and not "students first" as it should be in education.