The article reads that you can't create *new* documents, not that you can't continue working on and reading existing ones (which would be real annoying, maybe even a little bit too annoying for a Microsoft Product. However, after Clippy the Paperclip you can never be sure: they might as well pull off this one!)
So supposedly, if you create 100 empty documents (or containing just some bogus text) you can continue using/editing those?
Which is exactly why the company I'm working for is already getting ready to switch to Linux, first partly, if it works out they'll continue migrating to Linux (also for the Desktop!)
We have used NT servers for some years, they work fine (most of the time) but they cost a lot of money! Not to mention Win98+Office 2000 etc. etc.
Now we're already running Linux or FreeBSD on most servers, and documentation will be written in HTML instead of Word-documents. Add a word->HTML converter to be able to read Word documents sent by costumers via e-mail (in this case it usually does not really matter whether the layout exactly matches the original), and you're done.
The big reason why I'll be allowed to use Linux on my desktop? Licensing money!
What I'm wondering: has anybody tried to install Linux on the Cube? I mean, it looks very cool and I've heard they're pretty fast too....
Anyway, I see it runs on the G4. Has anyone tried how fast and stable they 'feel' compared to Intel-based computers? I'm wondering this, because I like the design of both G4 and Cube very much but don't like MacOS:-)
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Since this post is obviously missing up till now:
'Can I have a beowulf cluster of those?'
Yeah, and when it is standing idle it could calculate the purpose of life or even better, SETI@home or distributed.net blocks:-)
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Yeah, but I don't think this is exactly the point. It can go where normal people can't, and even if it can't determine whether a person is dead or not, it can at least keep itself safe so you don't have to build new ones all the time.
And if it can take pictures all around the place, that's real cool.
I am living in Enschede, a city in the Netherlands where a fireworks bunker exploded half a year ago. This robot could have been usefull to fly over the (possible very dangerous) site to take pictures and determine the situation, without the risks of loosing even more peoples lifes.
And it can be real handy for the police afterwards, to determine how things actually happened (like 'hey, that container full of fireworks wasn't supposed to be standing there!')
I don't think it has to do with SMP. I'm running Mozilla M18/nightly builds on both Windows 2000 (single processor) and a dual celeron (Slackware Linux), and have had no problems in a long time. Except when trying really weird things, but almost never when just doing my everyday browsing.
The Mozilla session that I'm now using to type this message has been up for 2 days or somethings like that.
Maybe you should try to erase old Mozilla registry files (~/.mozilla on Linux, I don't know where exactly on windows, probably the registry?)
Some links to companies producing these kind of devices/disks:
Imation sells disks that hold 120 MB, have the same dimensions as regular 3,5" disks, and the drive can also read old (1.44MB) disks. These things rock. The drive will cost you about $75-$100 or something.
Castlewood manufactures 2.2 GB portable disks that cost $30 each (the drive is a little expensive though) IOMega sells 100 and 250 MB disks for around $10 or so
I'd advise you to try the Imation drive, then decide for yourself whether you like it. I sure did.
Just something everyone has been waiting for: as if X isn't enough hassle to set up right (OK, so modern distro's have solved this problem for the most of it), add in another, seperate library that does about the same things!
I mean, what can SVGALib do that X can't? If you find something, implement it in X, tadah, it supports many SVGA cards at once!
I used to play the SVGALib version of Koules, that game sure was a lot of fun:-)
However, it was quite hard to get SVGALib to work at all.
Ah, you are right in that they are different data streams. However, if I open, say, Napster on my cable modem, within minutes there are probably 10-20 users downloaden from my box.
Then, when I try to browse the net, read/. or do other usefull things:-) my HTTP-requests (upstream) do not get through, or at least very slow (like, it takes 10 seconds to reach even my local ISPs page). Same goes for request/ACK/whatever-packets that are sent, also while downloading! This will slow down your download quite a bit.
So while you are theoretically correct, it doesn't entirely work that way.
Ruin filesharing? They've already done that, and not only for non-ms platforms!
Am I the only one that runs into many problems with filesharing using Win2K? I have problems all the time: users that connect from Win98/95/ME have to enter passwords while I did not set any (yes, I do have the guest-account enabled, screw security!)
Then, sometimes it works without a password, then it asks for a not-existing password, then it does not work at all.
Since I put Linux+samba in between to do all this stuff I haven't had any problems whatsoever.
So, am I the only one experiencing this kind of problem?
(I know this is a bit - or actually a lot - offtopic - sorry about that!)
You are right, people reading slashdot generally like anything non-M$ over Micro$oft products.
Has been like that since Slashdot started. However, what you are saying about hotmail switching to Win2K has been covered here. Again, it may be biased (take the title of that article, for example:) but it certainly is covered.
So please check first before making statements about/. next time.
Did you know that computers like this use real much power? Like, *real* much?!
In Amsterdam (the Netherlands), no more computer-centers (e.g. co-locations where you can put your servers with a fast net connection) can be built because there is not enough power for them! Level 3 Communications has a co-location building there which is about 10.000 meters square (this is not as big as it sounds, it's just 100x100 m), filled up with ISPs servers and the like. This single building is actually using more energy than Schiphol airport (which is rather big - many trans-athlantic flights go through Schiphol. If you've ever been in the Netherlands you'll know)
They also have a diesel power generator that can power the entiry building in case of a blackout - it burns around 1000 liters (about 250 gallons or so) a day.
It may not be a major blow, as more and more companies are using Intel processors in their servers (whether this is a good idea is another matter:-)
Can't blame them, since they're generally cheaper...
So it does not say anything about Linux usage, more about Sparc not being a competitive offer (I think/guess)
It is a pity however, the more platforms supported the better, ofcourse!
A programming language, originally designed for Dartmouth's experimental timesharing system in the early 1960s, which for many years was the leading cause of brain damage in proto-hackers. Edsger W. Dijkstra observed in "Selected Writings on Computing: A Personal Perspective" that "It is practically impossible to teach good programming style to students that have had prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration." This is another case (like Pascal) of the cascading lossage that happens when a language deliberately designed as an educational toy gets taken too seriously. A novice can write short BASIC programs (on the order of 10-20 lines) very easily; writing anything longer (a) is very painful, and (b) encourages bad habits that will make it harder to use more powerful languages well. This wouldn't be so bad if historical accidents hadn't made BASIC so common on low-end micros in the 1980s. As it is, it probably ruined tens of thousands of potential wizards.
Okay, I'm sorry. So it is really them being stupid, not me:-)
Why don't you go create yourself an account so your posts start at karma 1? I usually don't even read ACs, let alone reply. It was just because I had a question and you had an interesting point that I replied.
You're an Anonymous Coward so I'm not sure whether you'll ever read this. However, I thought I was being stupid too, but please take the time to actually look at the article:
Can someone explain to me the difference between the stocker symbols INTL and INTC? I thought INTC was for Intel Corporation, but then what does INTL stand for (more than plain 'Intel') and why are there two of them?
Now they can't shut down Napster completely, they are sending letters to large universities (whose campuses, let's face it, are usually big warez networks) trying to let them shut it down.
Because, if the large universities ban napster, many large nodes of the Napster network are gone. It might then well be a network of slow dialup connections and cable-modems (which generally have low upstreams), hence making the network uninteresting because it is too slow.
Which is not going to work, hopefully, since they will need to sue the actual users, which is not the university itself.
WAP just isn't for me, as it brings back the pay-per-online-time horror which I am so happy I could leave behind(cable-modem rules!)
And then consider it's much higher cost, and lower speed than your normal modem.
I think i-Mode's packet switched, always online network with a pre-determined price per month sounds much more attractive. And then I'm not even talking about the extra graphics possibilities!
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The article reads that you can't create *new* documents, not that you can't continue working on and reading existing ones (which would be real annoying, maybe even a little bit too annoying for a Microsoft Product. However, after Clippy the Paperclip you can never be sure: they might as well pull off this one!)
So supposedly, if you create 100 empty documents (or containing just some bogus text) you can continue using/editing those?
Oh yes, IT departments do get tired of this.
Which is exactly why the company I'm working for is already getting ready to switch to Linux, first partly, if it works out they'll continue migrating to Linux (also for the Desktop!)
We have used NT servers for some years, they work fine (most of the time) but they cost a lot of money! Not to mention Win98+Office 2000 etc. etc.
Now we're already running Linux or FreeBSD on most servers, and documentation will be written in HTML instead of Word-documents. Add a word->HTML converter to be able to read Word documents sent by costumers via e-mail (in this case it usually does not really matter whether the layout exactly matches the original), and you're done.
The big reason why I'll be allowed to use Linux on my desktop? Licensing money!
What I'm wondering: has anybody tried to install Linux on the Cube? I mean, it looks very cool and I've heard they're pretty fast too....
:-)
Anyway, I see it runs on the G4. Has anyone tried how fast and stable they 'feel' compared to Intel-based computers? I'm wondering this, because I like the design of both G4 and Cube very much but don't like MacOS
Since this post is obviously missing up till now:
:-)
'Can I have a beowulf cluster of those?'
Yeah, and when it is standing idle it could calculate the purpose of life or even better, SETI@home or distributed.net blocks
[Browse at -1 to read this post. At least, that is where I think it should be]
Yeah, but I don't think this is exactly the point. It can go where normal people can't, and even if it can't determine whether a person is dead or not, it can at least keep itself safe so you don't have to build new ones all the time.
And if it can take pictures all around the place, that's real cool.
I am living in Enschede, a city in the Netherlands where a fireworks bunker exploded half a year ago. This robot could have been usefull to fly over the (possible very dangerous) site to take pictures and determine the situation, without the risks of loosing even more peoples lifes.
And it can be real handy for the police afterwards, to determine how things actually happened (like 'hey, that container full of fireworks wasn't supposed to be standing there!')
Does it also filter first posts?
I don't think it has to do with SMP. I'm running Mozilla M18/nightly builds on both Windows 2000 (single processor) and a dual celeron (Slackware Linux), and have had no problems in a long time. Except when trying really weird things, but almost never when just doing my everyday browsing.
The Mozilla session that I'm now using to type this message has been up for 2 days or somethings like that.
Maybe you should try to erase old Mozilla registry files (~/.mozilla on Linux, I don't know where exactly on windows, probably the registry?)
Imation sells disks that hold 120 MB, have the same dimensions as regular 3,5" disks, and the drive can also read old (1.44MB) disks. These things rock. The drive will cost you about $75-$100 or something.
Castlewood manufactures 2.2 GB portable disks that cost $30 each (the drive is a little expensive though)
IOMega sells 100 and 250 MB disks for around $10 or so
I'd advise you to try the Imation drive, then decide for yourself whether you like it. I sure did.
Just something everyone has been waiting for: as if X isn't enough hassle to set up right (OK, so modern distro's have solved this problem for the most of it), add in another, seperate library that does about the same things!
:-)
I mean, what can SVGALib do that X can't? If you find something, implement it in X, tadah, it supports many SVGA cards at once!
I used to play the SVGALib version of Koules, that game sure was a lot of fun
However, it was quite hard to get SVGALib to work at all.
Yes, I really, really do
Just couldn't resist
Ah, you are right in that they are different data streams. However, if I open, say, Napster on my cable modem, within minutes there are probably 10-20 users downloaden from my box.
/. or do other usefull things :-) my HTTP-requests (upstream) do not get through, or at least very slow (like, it takes 10 seconds to reach even my local ISPs page). Same goes for request/ACK/whatever-packets that are sent, also while downloading! This will slow down your download quite a bit.
Then, when I try to browse the net, read
So while you are theoretically correct, it doesn't entirely work that way.
Ruin filesharing? They've already done that, and not only for non-ms platforms!
Am I the only one that runs into many problems with filesharing using Win2K? I have problems all the time: users that connect from Win98/95/ME have to enter passwords while I did not set any (yes, I do have the guest-account enabled, screw security!)
Then, sometimes it works without a password, then it asks for a not-existing password, then it does not work at all.
Since I put Linux+samba in between to do all this stuff I haven't had any problems whatsoever.
So, am I the only one experiencing this kind of problem?
(I know this is a bit - or actually a lot - offtopic - sorry about that!)
You are right, people reading slashdot generally like anything non-M$ over Micro$oft products.
:) but it certainly is covered.
/. next time.
Has been like that since Slashdot started. However, what you are saying about hotmail switching to Win2K has been covered here. Again, it may be biased (take the title of that article, for example
So please check first before making statements about
Did you know that computers like this use real much power? Like, *real* much?!
In Amsterdam (the Netherlands), no more computer-centers (e.g. co-locations where you can put your servers with a fast net connection) can be built because there is not enough power for them! Level 3 Communications has a co-location building there which is about 10.000 meters square (this is not as big as it sounds, it's just 100x100 m), filled up with ISPs servers and the like. This single building is actually using more energy than Schiphol airport (which is rather big - many trans-athlantic flights go through Schiphol. If you've ever been in the Netherlands you'll know)
They also have a diesel power generator that can power the entiry building in case of a blackout - it burns around 1000 liters (about 250 gallons or so) a day.
Yeah, and then Napster can pay income taxes for it, everybody happy, right?
Funny how everything is OK if the government gets money for it...
Like with taxes on CD-Rs. Makes you wonder...
Oh yes, and one thing I forgot:
*If* you really need Sparcs and *if* you can afford them, I don't see why you'd run Linux on them. Solaris seems to do just fine in that case!
Not that it wouldn't be fun, I'd just not do it myself (on producation machines at least).
And if you're just trying it for fun, you'd as well go through the hassle/fun of downloading/compiling it yourself anyway, why use Redhat?
It may not be a major blow, as more and more companies are using Intel processors in their servers (whether this is a good idea is another matter :-)
Can't blame them, since they're generally cheaper...
So it does not say anything about Linux usage, more about Sparc not being a competitive offer (I think/guess)
It is a pity however, the more platforms supported the better, ofcourse!
So, why do we need BASIC?
Okay, I'm sorry. So it is really them being stupid, not me :-)
Why don't you go create yourself an account so your posts start at karma 1? I usually don't even read ACs, let alone reply. It was just because I had a question and you had an interesting point that I replied.
And btw, thanks for answering my question
So, I thought they must be stupid or something? But it seems to be the difference between Common and Premium stock...
From their own homepage: Founded in 1995
2000-1995 = 5 years (okay, so maybe 4.5 or something), so what are you talking about? Maybe it's that Pentium rounding problem again...
Can someone explain to me the difference between the stocker symbols INTL and INTC? I thought INTC was for Intel Corporation, but then what does INTL stand for (more than plain 'Intel') and why are there two of them?
(this is a bit off-topic, sorry!)
I mean, just because they don't want others to use their NTFS filesystem does not have anything to do with them being a monopoly.
;)
Many companies do things like this, Micro$oft is not the first (although probably the worst
Now they can't shut down Napster completely, they are sending letters to large universities (whose campuses, let's face it, are usually big warez networks) trying to let them shut it down.
Because, if the large universities ban napster, many large nodes of the Napster network are gone. It might then well be a network of slow dialup connections and cable-modems (which generally have low upstreams), hence making the network uninteresting because it is too slow.
Which is not going to work, hopefully, since they will need to sue the actual users, which is not the university itself.
WAP just isn't for me, as it brings back the pay-per-online-time horror which I am so happy I could leave behind(cable-modem rules!)
And then consider it's much higher cost, and lower speed than your normal modem.
I think i-Mode's packet switched, always online network with a pre-determined price per month sounds much more attractive. And then I'm not even talking about the extra graphics possibilities!