I recently had a 250GB reiserfs partition corrupt itself. reiserfsck claimed it was a hardware problem and that the disc was failing. I had all the data backed up elsewhere (of course), and just for kicks I formatted it with ext3 and restored the data to it. It's been running beautifully for about 4 months now doing exactly what it was doing before, no problems. (the partition is used to serve ~200GB of data mostly for videogame production)
Wow...apparently PJ lives in the same building as my brother's french teacher whose computer I maintain. I never would have thought. Next thing I know I'll find out Linus is renting the house nextdoor...
Nevermind, I just read about how wrong I was....although this does make me wonder what it was I was trying to buy at the time that was an FC drive array.
I'd have an A1000 but the shipping costs are...prohibitive. And then I'd have to get FC drives to fill it with...And an FC card to run it with...And FC cables... But I would probably be a happier person afterwards. O well, for now I've got a pair of 250GB IDE drives on IDE to SCSI bridges running off an Antares UW/SE SCSI card for mass storage on my Ultra2. The drives are annoyingly silent, but the cases they're in have nice loud fans! And if I'm lucky those drives won't fail anytime soon.
I can't sleep at night without my Sun Ultra 2 and it's 3 10000RPM scsi drives (one's external) roaring in the background....I'd go insane if all I had were macs.
It's $1060, 323.255.8638 323.841.5033 are apparently his phone numbers. jeffyjimmy@earthlink.net jeffyjimmy@hot mail.com are 2 of his many email addresses and if you need to know anything else email my spambox: ibtim13@aol.com
I'm not positive, as I'm not really familiar with LA. But it'd be great if you could drop a tip to the cops. The most important thing I'd want to know is if that address really exists and if it's really his address. I got a contact from a guy in Chicago who was also recently ripped off by Mr. Bellisimo for $1070, we're considering a lawsuit at the moment. He's been reported to the IFCC, which is supposed to inform local law enforcement, but it seems pretty slow.
I've used ebay and paypal to buy and sell a lot of things, and never had any problems whatsoever. Then one day my brother decided to buy a computer on ebay (which I do regularly). He found a good system for a good price, looked entirely legit, plenty of positive feedbacks for the same or similar computers, my friend built a similar system for himself for around that same price. So it looked legit, but my bro is now out $1060 with no computer and the guy has disappeared, and the weirdest part is, the guy contacted my brother 2 months later, after fraud charges had long been filed with paypal, ebay, and the IFCC, and told him that he was embarrassed by this and promised to ship the computer the next day, which of course he did not. But WHY would he do that? He didn't ask for more money or try to sell anything else, he just promised to ship it after we'd already done everything we could think of to get him.
On that note, don't ever buy anything from StudentCompSolutions.com, Jeff Bellisimo, or jeffyjimmy@*.* And if anyone lives near 5150 Argus Dr. in LA, and would like to pay Jeff a visit for me I'd be much obliged.
It's not the number of bits, it's the fact that windows 98 is a 16bit OS trying to be a 32bit OS. There is instability caused by the incomplete implementation of 32bit windows on a 16bit dos core. win2k was also an implementation of 32bit windows but on a likewise 32bit NT core. There was no confusion and no switching between 16 and 32 bit mode in win2k, everything was 32-bit.
Windows XP is stable for gaming, far more stable that win98(SE) and slightly more stable than win2k. WinXP does have an "expert mode" and if you knew what you were talking about you wouldn't be talking. There is nothing about WinXP that holds you back any further than win2k does (that is to say not at all in terms of windows) In fact you can run WinXP as if it were win2k for the most part (Home has lame networking and no SMP support, Pro has semi-lame networking but far better than Home). There is just no possible way that you know what you're talking about && have actually used winXP && think 98SE is more stable or superior in any way for playing games and surfing the net. WinXP is THE most stable windows OS for playing games bar none, and that my friend is an uncontestable fact. I'm not sure what you were doing in the 80's and 90's with your networks and servers but if you can't tell that WinXP is more stable than Win98(SE) it couldn't have been good (barring the possibility that you actually have not used winXP and are therefore talking out of your ass).
Try linux. No, seriously, this isn't a joke or a crazy linux zealot trying to push something on you. If you are using win98 and you can't afford 2k, you're better off using linux. There is no reason anyone on earth should be forced to use the intense migraine that is windows 98
Um...win2k plays games not only as well as win98SE, but better. XP is better than 98 and 2k at everything except some networking things where 2k can do things XP Pro can't, but that's where 2003 server comes in. I use gentoo for everything, including gaming, but I know my way around windows's better than essentially 99.99% of windows users...and this is proven time and time again when people say things like 98 (or 98SE) is better for ANYTHING (excluding crashing) than 2k or XP. These are the same people who think they're 1337 because they've used dos and/or brag about linux and have never made it past an install, much less used it. If you think win98(SE) is better than win2k or winXP, you are wrong, and that is a fact, not an opinion.
Windows 98 was a 16 bit OS that had delusions of being a 32bit OS. Win2k was a real 32bit OS, and although I don't prefer or use either, it is truly an insult to win2k to compare it to win98. Also, win98 was not a stable OS for anything. Win2k is a far better OS than win98 for everything, including gaming. Even Linux/wineX is better/more stable for gaming than win98 ever was.
Yeap, I did have someone cosign, my father, the one who trusts me (that being the whole point of this discussion). Yea I am at RPI on a scholarship, several actually. Getting a mortgage, getting permits, and doing the work were not all that difficult. You should try getting a building permit in Troy, it's beyond easy, in fact for most things they'll tell you you don't need one. It doesn't take a full time job to get the money to survive. I have a 4 bedroom house, I am renting 3 of the rooms, each for $300 a month, this has allowed me to not only keep up with the mortgage payments, but also taxes AND utilities (which my tenants really really like). I have a lot of money saved from working during highschool (and investing a lot of money in corel for a short time (yes, that was care of my parent's as well, as I could not trade stocks myself at the time, but it was my money, my research, my profit)). And, while I do seem to have a knack for contracting, I'd rather code. I'll still do some contracting-type work. With the way this worked out I may go after a few more houses in Troy.
Yeap, I'm going to RPI. I got a 4 bedroom, 2 bath house less than a block from campus on 13th street. It was $59,600. I spent $9,000 in materials ($5,000 of which was a grant from RPI for improving the neighborhood around campus) and did all the work myself over this past summer to rebuild it. Troy may be in New England, but most of it's a dump and can be had for between $30,000 and $60,000, in fact this house was a bit on the pricier side. This house was 100 years old...and so was the wiring, everything was knob-and-tube, and all one circuit...and so was the plumbing, everything leaked as if it handn't been fastened together to begin with...and the plaster walls were cracked and falling and covered with wood paneling by the previous owner. O yea, and the house had no insulation, none, zip, zero, nada. (just in case you're wondering, insulation IS necessary here in Troy, NY, it gets down to -15 in the winter). I also thought it might be interesting to note that I recently met someone who lives 3 blocks up from me on 16th who has done exactly the same thing I have. I'm sure there are more as well. Anyways, almost all that is left of the original house is the outer shell, everything inside is brand new, walls are in different places, bathrooms are in different places, bedrooms grew at the expense of a weird angled wall in the hallway on the 2nd floor, kitchen grew at the expense of a chimney thru the center of the house for the old wood cookstove that used to reside here.
you have a point, that does seem a bit off. I'm wrong about something here. It was 94, so I guess I was 10, not 11. And there may have been a newer version of AOL, but I used a 1.0 disk I got from my grandfather. I did get DSL quite early. Before I went to highschool. it was in 98. I lived within spitting distance of the largest telephone switch on the east coast, my dsl speeds were usually around 1.5Mb, even from the beginning (the service was only supposed to be 768Kb)
When I was younger (age 11 thru 17) and still lived with my parents, they didn't have rules about the internet. I was the one who signed us up for an internet connection with my dad's credit card at age 11 (AOL 1.0...what a mistake that turned out to be...). Prior to that I had used the internet on my grandfather's 286 clone with dos and a 1200baud modem (seperate modems for data and fax). I was the one who from age 11 to age 13 kept upgrading my parents computer and modem. I have had several computers in my room since I was 9. I built my first computer, a 486, when I was 10 in 1994. I have built every computer I, my parents, my siblings, or most of my reletives have had since then. I convinced my parents at age 14 to get (non-AOL) dsl. I bought all the network equipment. I built the router (a bunch of garbage, quite literally, running linux) that ran continuously without any downtime whatsoever from then until I left for college 4 years later and bought my parents a wireless router as a parting gift. It was me, at age 14 running cat5 all over my house. It way my parents house, and their connection, but It was MY router and MY network and MY computers that they were were using. I read the logs, I knew where everyone went. And they had no idea, nor did they really care because my parents trust me, and guess what, I'm perfectly fine. I'm 19 now. I bought a house. (it was 100 years old, I gutted and rebuilt the entire thing myself, plumbing, electric, carpentry, sheetrocking, trim, everything, in 3 months). And now I have MY house, MY connection, MY network, and MY router and MY computers, and you know what? It's no different from when I lived at home. I'm independent, I'm halfway done with a BS in computer science at Renselaer Polytechnic Institute. I'm doing great, and I'm "only" 19. And the best part? It wasn't hard at all. I think it's total bull that a "kid" at 15 shouldn't be expected to be able to deal with the real world. I think it's a crock that people must be sheltered from reality for the first 18 years of their lives. If you don't expect responsibilty from a person who is 17, or even 13 or 14, why the hell should you expect it when they turn 18? There's no magic that happens between the last day of being 17 and the first day of being 18. It's not being 18 that makes you an adult. It's responsibility that makes you an adult. There are plenty of people who are legal "adults" who are most definitely not adults. I think people need to realize that humans are not equations and that numbers don't necessarily mean a damn thing. I'm sorry if I sound like I'm bragging at all in this, but I'm no super-genius or rich-beyond-the-need-for-intelligence guy. I'm just another "kid". I wasn't the top of my class in highschool, nor the second or even third (etc), and I damn sure ain't the top of my class in college (tho I'm not far). My father's a fireman, and my mom doesn't work, and I've got 3 (not so)little bro's. I consider myself average, and from that baseline I'm shocked at how few parent's trust their children, and even more shocked at how many children seriously don't deserve their parent's trust. The things people do to their children/parents/each other piss me off to no end. Ok, I guess I could probably go on for hours, but I have projects to be working on, so I'll leave you with that and this: In my opinion one should be expected to act and be responsible for themselves as an adult at age 13. I think the only reason this isn't currently the case is that not much is currently expected from parents or children, and that is a sad, almost sickening, reality.
Ok, now, I'm not sure about Star Office (apparently it's fancier, but it costs $$) But OpenOffice.org is solid when it comes to interoperability with MS OfficeXP. I am a compsci student, I use 2 pieces of an office suite for pretty much all of my classes. The word processor and powerpoint (or clone thereof) to read my professors' lecture notes and assignments. I have both windowsXP pro and Gentoo 1.4 (a linux source distro) on my laptop (an IBM T-30). I have found that I can use either OpenOffice or OfficeXp reliably and interchangeably for reading word files and powerpoint slides. I will admit that I use linux most of the time, but that is largely because I find writing programs with Nedit to be far easier than with VisualStudio.NET (which I also have). I also have to say that I usually use Konqueror for web-browsing, it's extremely fast and simple and works for most things. For the things it does not support I use either Opera or Mozilla (one of those things is my school's online submission system, which will refuse your connection if you don't have IE, but opera fixes that). I'm not sure about mozilla's speed because I rarely use it and when I do I'm usually not concerned with how fast it's going, although everything loads pretty much instantaneously on my machine. My biggest problem with windows is that from power-on to ready-to-go is almost 7 minutes, while with linux (including KDE) it's under a minute. When I'm in a hurry to get a project done (which is always, including right now, I'm procrastinating at the moment because my current project is hurting my brain) I can't deal with waiting for windows to do all of those little things I didn't ask it to do. Ok, back to work
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I recently had a 250GB reiserfs partition corrupt itself. reiserfsck claimed it was a hardware problem and that the disc was failing. I had all the data backed up elsewhere (of course), and just for kicks I formatted it with ext3 and restored the data to it. It's been running beautifully for about 4 months now doing exactly what it was doing before, no problems. (the partition is used to serve ~200GB of data mostly for videogame production)
Wow...apparently PJ lives in the same building as my brother's french teacher whose computer I maintain. I never would have thought. Next thing I know I'll find out Linus is renting the house nextdoor...
New York City Subway ticket machines give change in $1 coins.
Nevermind, I just read about how wrong I was....although this does make me wonder what it was I was trying to buy at the time that was an FC drive array.
Is it? I thought D1000 was HVD.
I'd have an A1000 but the shipping costs are...prohibitive. And then I'd have to get FC drives to fill it with...And an FC card to run it with...And FC cables... But I would probably be a happier person afterwards. O well, for now I've got a pair of 250GB IDE drives on IDE to SCSI bridges running off an Antares UW/SE SCSI card for mass storage on my Ultra2. The drives are annoyingly silent, but the cases they're in have nice loud fans! And if I'm lucky those drives won't fail anytime soon.
I can't sleep at night without my Sun Ultra 2 and it's 3 10000RPM scsi drives (one's external) roaring in the background....I'd go insane if all I had were macs.
Criticism? I don't see any criticism.
But then again, you can't really criticize a show you didn't watch now can you?
Did you just call firefly boring? ...Guess that's why you posted anonymously
It's $1060,t mail.com
323.255.8638
323.841.5033
are apparently his phone numbers.
jeffyjimmy@earthlink.net
jeffyjimmy@ho
are 2 of his many email addresses
and if you need to know anything else
email my spambox: ibtim13@aol.com
Thanks
I'm not positive, as I'm not really familiar with LA. But it'd be great if you could drop a tip to the cops. The most important thing I'd want to know is if that address really exists and if it's really his address. I got a contact from a guy in Chicago who was also recently ripped off by Mr. Bellisimo for $1070, we're considering a lawsuit at the moment. He's been reported to the IFCC, which is supposed to inform local law enforcement, but it seems pretty slow.
I've used ebay and paypal to buy and sell a lot of things, and never had any problems whatsoever. Then one day my brother decided to buy a computer on ebay (which I do regularly). He found a good system for a good price, looked entirely legit, plenty of positive feedbacks for the same or similar computers, my friend built a similar system for himself for around that same price. So it looked legit, but my bro is now out $1060 with no computer and the guy has disappeared, and the weirdest part is, the guy contacted my brother 2 months later, after fraud charges had long been filed with paypal, ebay, and the IFCC, and told him that he was embarrassed by this and promised to ship the computer the next day, which of course he did not. But WHY would he do that? He didn't ask for more money or try to sell anything else, he just promised to ship it after we'd already done everything we could think of to get him.
On that note, don't ever buy anything from StudentCompSolutions.com, Jeff Bellisimo, or jeffyjimmy@*.*
And if anyone lives near 5150 Argus Dr. in LA, and would like to pay Jeff a visit for me I'd be much obliged.
Dealing with multimedia.
It's not the number of bits, it's the fact that windows 98 is a 16bit OS trying to be a 32bit OS. There is instability caused by the incomplete implementation of 32bit windows on a 16bit dos core. win2k was also an implementation of 32bit windows but on a likewise 32bit NT core. There was no confusion and no switching between 16 and 32 bit mode in win2k, everything was 32-bit.
Windows XP is stable for gaming, far more stable that win98(SE) and slightly more stable than win2k.
WinXP does have an "expert mode" and if you knew what you were talking about you wouldn't be talking.
There is nothing about WinXP that holds you back any further than win2k does (that is to say not at all in terms of windows) In fact you can run WinXP as if it were win2k for the most part (Home has lame networking and no SMP support, Pro has semi-lame networking but far better than Home). There is just no possible way that you know what you're talking about && have actually used winXP && think 98SE is more stable or superior in any way for playing games and surfing the net. WinXP is THE most stable windows OS for playing games bar none, and that my friend is an uncontestable fact. I'm not sure what you were doing in the 80's and 90's with your networks and servers but if you can't tell that WinXP is more stable than Win98(SE) it couldn't have been good (barring the possibility that you actually have not used winXP and are therefore talking out of your ass).
Try linux.
No, seriously, this isn't a joke or a crazy linux zealot trying to push something on you.
If you are using win98 and you can't afford 2k, you're better off using linux.
There is no reason anyone on earth should be forced to use the intense migraine that is windows 98
Um...win2k plays games not only as well as win98SE, but better. XP is better than 98 and 2k at everything except some networking things where 2k can do things XP Pro can't, but that's where 2003 server comes in. I use gentoo for everything, including gaming, but I know my way around windows's better than essentially 99.99% of windows users...and this is proven time and time again when people say things like 98 (or 98SE) is better for ANYTHING (excluding crashing) than 2k or XP. These are the same people who think they're 1337 because they've used dos and/or brag about linux and have never made it past an install, much less used it. If you think win98(SE) is better than win2k or winXP, you are wrong, and that is a fact, not an opinion.
Windows 98 was a 16 bit OS that had delusions of being a 32bit OS. Win2k was a real 32bit OS, and although I don't prefer or use either, it is truly an insult to win2k to compare it to win98.
Also, win98 was not a stable OS for anything. Win2k is a far better OS than win98 for everything, including gaming. Even Linux/wineX is better/more stable for gaming than win98 ever was.
Yeap, I did have someone cosign, my father, the one who trusts me (that being the whole point of this discussion). Yea I am at RPI on a scholarship, several actually. Getting a mortgage, getting permits, and doing the work were not all that difficult. You should try getting a building permit in Troy, it's beyond easy, in fact for most things they'll tell you you don't need one. It doesn't take a full time job to get the money to survive. I have a 4 bedroom house, I am renting 3 of the rooms, each for $300 a month, this has allowed me to not only keep up with the mortgage payments, but also taxes AND utilities (which my tenants really really like). I have a lot of money saved from working during highschool (and investing a lot of money in corel for a short time (yes, that was care of my parent's as well, as I could not trade stocks myself at the time, but it was my money, my research, my profit)). And, while I do seem to have a knack for contracting, I'd rather code. I'll still do some contracting-type work. With the way this worked out I may go after a few more houses in Troy.
Yeap, I'm going to RPI. I got a 4 bedroom, 2 bath house less than a block from campus on 13th street. It was $59,600. I spent $9,000 in materials ($5,000 of which was a grant from RPI for improving the neighborhood around campus) and did all the work myself over this past summer to rebuild it. Troy may be in New England, but most of it's a dump and can be had for between $30,000 and $60,000, in fact this house was a bit on the pricier side. This house was 100 years old...and so was the wiring, everything was knob-and-tube, and all one circuit...and so was the plumbing, everything leaked as if it handn't been fastened together to begin with...and the plaster walls were cracked and falling and covered with wood paneling by the previous owner. O yea, and the house had no insulation, none, zip, zero, nada. (just in case you're wondering, insulation IS necessary here in Troy, NY, it gets down to -15 in the winter). I also thought it might be interesting to note that I recently met someone who lives 3 blocks up from me on 16th who has done exactly the same thing I have. I'm sure there are more as well. Anyways, almost all that is left of the original house is the outer shell, everything inside is brand new, walls are in different places, bathrooms are in different places, bedrooms grew at the expense of a weird angled wall in the hallway on the 2nd floor, kitchen grew at the expense of a chimney thru the center of the house for the old wood cookstove that used to reside here.
you have a point, that does seem a bit off. I'm wrong about something here. It was 94, so I guess I was 10, not 11. And there may have been a newer version of AOL, but I used a 1.0 disk I got from my grandfather. I did get DSL quite early. Before I went to highschool. it was in 98. I lived within spitting distance of the largest telephone switch on the east coast, my dsl speeds were usually around 1.5Mb, even from the beginning (the service was only supposed to be 768Kb)
A mortgage on a $60,000 house (which is what is was) is under $300 a month, that's how I bought said house. It's actually cheaper than renting.
When I was younger (age 11 thru 17) and still lived with my parents, they didn't have rules about the internet. I was the one who signed us up for an internet connection with my dad's credit card at age 11 (AOL 1.0...what a mistake that turned out to be...). Prior to that I had used the internet on my grandfather's 286 clone with dos and a 1200baud modem (seperate modems for data and fax). I was the one who from age 11 to age 13 kept upgrading my parents computer and modem. I have had several computers in my room since I was 9. I built my first computer, a 486, when I was 10 in 1994. I have built every computer I, my parents, my siblings, or most of my reletives have had since then. I convinced my parents at age 14 to get (non-AOL) dsl. I bought all the network equipment. I built the router (a bunch of garbage, quite literally, running linux) that ran continuously without any downtime whatsoever from then until I left for college 4 years later and bought my parents a wireless router as a parting gift. It was me, at age 14 running cat5 all over my house. It way my parents house, and their connection, but It was MY router and MY network and MY computers that they were were using. I read the logs, I knew where everyone went. And they had no idea, nor did they really care because my parents trust me, and guess what, I'm perfectly fine. I'm 19 now. I bought a house. (it was 100 years old, I gutted and rebuilt the entire thing myself, plumbing, electric, carpentry, sheetrocking, trim, everything, in 3 months). And now I have MY house, MY connection, MY network, and MY router and MY computers, and you know what? It's no different from when I lived at home. I'm independent, I'm halfway done with a BS in computer science at Renselaer Polytechnic Institute. I'm doing great, and I'm "only" 19. And the best part? It wasn't hard at all. I think it's total bull that a "kid" at 15 shouldn't be expected to be able to deal with the real world. I think it's a crock that people must be sheltered from reality for the first 18 years of their lives. If you don't expect responsibilty from a person who is 17, or even 13 or 14, why the hell should you expect it when they turn 18? There's no magic that happens between the last day of being 17 and the first day of being 18. It's not being 18 that makes you an adult. It's responsibility that makes you an adult. There are plenty of people who are legal "adults" who are most definitely not adults. I think people need to realize that humans are not equations and that numbers don't necessarily mean a damn thing. I'm sorry if I sound like I'm bragging at all in this, but I'm no super-genius or rich-beyond-the-need-for-intelligence guy. I'm just another "kid". I wasn't the top of my class in highschool, nor the second or even third (etc), and I damn sure ain't the top of my class in college (tho I'm not far). My father's a fireman, and my mom doesn't work, and I've got 3 (not so)little bro's. I consider myself average, and from that baseline I'm shocked at how few parent's trust their children, and even more shocked at how many children seriously don't deserve their parent's trust. The things people do to their children/parents/each other piss me off to no end. Ok, I guess I could probably go on for hours, but I have projects to be working on, so I'll leave you with that and this: In my opinion one should be expected to act and be responsible for themselves as an adult at age 13. I think the only reason this isn't currently the case is that not much is currently expected from parents or children, and that is a sad, almost sickening, reality.
Ok, now, I'm not sure about Star Office (apparently it's fancier, but it costs $$) But OpenOffice.org is solid when it comes to interoperability with MS OfficeXP. I am a compsci student, I use 2 pieces of an office suite for pretty much all of my classes. The word processor and powerpoint (or clone thereof) to read my professors' lecture notes and assignments. I have both windowsXP pro and Gentoo 1.4 (a linux source distro) on my laptop (an IBM T-30). I have found that I can use either OpenOffice or OfficeXp reliably and interchangeably for reading word files and powerpoint slides. I will admit that I use linux most of the time, but that is largely because I find writing programs with Nedit to be far easier than with VisualStudio.NET (which I also have). I also have to say that I usually use Konqueror for web-browsing, it's extremely fast and simple and works for most things. For the things it does not support I use either Opera or Mozilla (one of those things is my school's online submission system, which will refuse your connection if you don't have IE, but opera fixes that). I'm not sure about mozilla's speed because I rarely use it and when I do I'm usually not concerned with how fast it's going, although everything loads pretty much instantaneously on my machine. My biggest problem with windows is that from power-on to ready-to-go is almost 7 minutes, while with linux (including KDE) it's under a minute. When I'm in a hurry to get a project done (which is always, including right now, I'm procrastinating at the moment because my current project is hurting my brain) I can't deal with waiting for windows to do all of those little things I didn't ask it to do.
Ok, back to work
Both, and yes, I can have them