I'm wondering if they were broken up if they could do underhanded things between companies? I think they probably can and would. At least right now they are know quanity but if they were broke up what would their potential be? I'm sure sure which is better, a large lumbering giant or three smaller ones that might try to tag-team you. I think that either way we need some type of watchdogs in place internally to keep Microsoft in check. If they are forced to play by the rules then the market will chose the winners and I don't think it will be Microsoft unless they make some big changes.
NT doesn't have the ability to drop to DOS like the Win9x's because It doesn't have DOS in it. Sure it does have a command prompt but running a DOS program can be touch and go. The GUI is all part of the kernel(bonehead move) and when the video goes down so does the kernel.
I'm not sure if you were just trolling but in case you aren't I thought this might be helpful. I realize some people haven't had much exposure to multi-OS evironments. Everyone should try it at least once. Nothing like complicating your life by throwing in an AS/400 or running a mixed environment.
That isn't even the same thing. What kind of logic is this? "If I had a gun and want to close my eyes and shoot it randomly........"
Closer would be "If I have bat and loan it to you then you can use it as much as you want. If you loan it out while you are borrowing it you can't charge anyone for it but feel free to let anyone use it who wants to." If you want to sell/rent a bat then go get your own bat!!
My local ISP wants to experiment with a wireless connection. I'm looking for something with a 3 or 4 mile range. Does anyone know of any good solutions for under a grand?
I love both BSD and Linux. I use Open BSD on my firewall and Mandrake 7.0 on my desktop(not too bad so far).
My biggest concern is the BSD license because you can hide it away for commercial use. Microsoft could take BSD and write a Windows/BSD with DirectX, OpenGL, Office, Visual Whatever, etc. That is sort of what Apple is doing with OS X. Of course the OpenGL support would be "terrible" and eventually brought up to "not bad" a couple versions later(3 or 4 years). They could make Linux compatiblity with Windows ease of use then start breaking the compatability a piece at a time.
I'm generally not looking for trolls under every corner but Microsoft has me wondering about their plans are. They released IE for *nix and now Windows Media Player. Is this the beginning?
What about the usual "Now that we have this I finally can get rid of my Windows partition"?
I liked having all MS stuff on one partition and Linux on the other. I don't care if we get down to only one partition (or more. you know what I mean)with Linux if Bill is going to come visit here too.
Cyrix was purchased by VIA and they are now coming out with new CPU in March called "Joshua"(They may change it at the release). It is supposed to be compatible with celeron ppga's and cost the same or less.
I have Pentium II LX mb I wanted to upgrade. I was going to replace the P2 233Mhz with a Celeron 466 or 500 ppga but think I will hold off to see what happens. It's my fourth computer anyway. I use it for R&D.
I remember reading about a Russian comany that had built a tube based computer. It was variable speed and ran as fast as an Alpha 500 (2 years ago) when it was at 1/4 of the total speed. Someone decided to turn it up and blew the tubes which where very specialized and put the project on hold until they could get some more. It was nicknamed the "Pentubium" processor. I hadn't heard or even thought about this until just now.
Does anyone know if this is the same company or not?
and you can take 18 of your favorite buddies in style. It can fly New York to Tokyo non-stop(6200 nautical miles) because it has a range of 6500 nautical miles. It has been considered one of the best private jets availible by many people. I'd be happy to sell you one for 100 million then I'd go out and buy one of my own. They are availible used and the Gulfstream G4 is almost as nice for less money.
I heartily agree with NFS III. I still play it when I'm not playing Unreal Tournament. It does seem a little slow when compared to Pod Racer but you can finesse your Ferarri around the corners and fly. I'd love to see any of the Command & Conquer series especially Red Alert. I love Tiberian Sun but I think that Red Alert is the best of the series so far. Now that EA owns Westwood, I could be really happy or really sad depending on if they are willing or not. We need to support wine as much as possible so we can play in the meantime while the game developers are making up their minds. Or especially because ones that have decided "definitely not". I think Dell will be selling Athlons before Blizzard ports to Linux. I could be wrong on both counts(fine with me).
I played I, II and III on the Apple IIe and later got the enhanced versions for my IIgs. I wonder if I still have some character disks. The gs is still running at my mom's house (I did get her over to a PC finally). I found a good emulator for the Apple IIe and having been playing it again for time to time. Anyone ever play Wings of Fury from Broderbund? Ah the good ole days.
I heartily agree. My brother-in-law is running Lightwave 5.6 and Maya 2.5 on his NT box because the SGI/IRIX boxes were too expensive. Both packages are great (credit to the software not NT). He used to be a diehard MAC fan but now uses whatever works best for the money. The SGI boxes they used to demo Maya are great but I don't that kind of cash at this moment. SGI is a great company and I believe they are/will be a great asset to the Linux community.
trolldot.org where you get moderated down for posting with your account. News articles are about Natalie Portman, trolls, hot grits and Don Knotts. It would be great as long as they don't try posting it all here too.
Of course I just added another 24 hours of wait time for this new website.
Still, I think it is a good thing that the source code is released. One less thing for AC's to whine about and might get some improvements too. Let's see if all you guys saying what you could do with the source are blowing smoke or not.
If you are as tired of the new "Don Knotts movie" Then why don't you get in touch with the author who seems to not have enough guts to post as more than AC.
Yes, sound card support should be free but what are you going to do if the manufacture isn't doing it? A third party stepping up and writing drivers deserve to be compensated for their work. Even the groups that are doing it for free deserve to be rewarded for their efforts (ie WORK) even though they make you pay for it (kudos to them).
If I had you come over and clean the leaves out of my gutter you would expect to be paid and probably paid well. Is you time more valuable than theirs?
Take it for what it's worth. I'm happy to finally have some drivers for my MX300. I bought the pre-order bundle with the Monster Fusion (banshee) and soon after bought my first Linux (RH5.2). The MX300 is in my pure Windows Athlon gamer rig. I can finally have a couple Linux gaming rigs now.
It's a mixed bag if you start censoring content. I'm not sure how much value there is in hot grits and petrification but I have read some posts that are way offtopic that I laughed my butt off. Laughing does have some value to me. Where would be without the 3 billy goats gruff and the troll?
If AC's were banned then you would have to be more responsible on your postings. I don't care if you are offtopic sometimes if you aren't being an ass.
Linus just got himself fragged while running Linux on a Crusoe CPU. He was playing Dave (didn't catch his last name) from ID. Dave had a P3 667 and Windows.
I agree completely. I'll probably get torched for this one but....
If you run beyond clock/bus speed and whine about instability then you need a big kick in the padded area. It is not a successful overclock if it is not stable. I don't care how many people have overclocked the same chip, it doesn't mean yours will be as stable on your system. I know Windows is a ways away from perfect but I believe (Opinion here) that a large amount of Win9x crashes come back to overclocking and/or low grade/faulty hardware.
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Actually my hobby is tinkering with alternate OS's. That's why I have Windows 2000 RC2, BeOS and several Linux and BSD distributions.
If you can't find any software then maybe you aren't looking close enough. There are a lot considering it's only a couple years old and the way the OS market has exploded.
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You've never run more than one OS on a partition before?? Even Remond products are capable of going 2 or 3 on a partition if you are so inclined so why not *nix-ish derivatives?
If BeOS is superior (which it may or may not be, I don't want to get into that discussion), why is Linux more popular? Could it be because Linux is Open Source?
Why is Win9x more popular than Linux? Could be because it is closed source? Great logic here.
Open source is a godsend but it isn't the end-all be-all. Why is everything "when it goes open source"? Companies are far more agressive about developing a product if they can make some money off than if they are going to give it away. Let face it, big corporations are spending a lot more time and money on development than most open projects could even hope for. Let's let them push then envelope and move forward.
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I'm wondering if they were broken up if they could do underhanded things between companies? I think they probably can and would.
At least right now they are know quanity but if they were broke up what would their potential be?
I'm sure sure which is better, a large lumbering giant or three smaller ones that might try to tag-team you.
I think that either way we need some type of watchdogs in place internally to keep Microsoft in check. If they are forced to play by the rules then the market will chose the winners and I don't think it will be Microsoft unless they make some big changes.
I'm not sure if you were just trolling but in case you aren't I thought this might be helpful. I realize some people haven't had much exposure to multi-OS evironments. Everyone should try it at least once. Nothing like complicating your life by throwing in an AS/400 or running a mixed environment.
That isn't even the same thing. What kind of logic is this? "If I had a gun and want to close my eyes and shoot it randomly........"
Closer would be "If I have bat and loan it to you then you can use it as much as you want. If you loan it out while you are borrowing it you can't charge anyone for it but feel free to let anyone use it who wants to." If you want to sell/rent a bat then go get your own bat!!
My local ISP wants to experiment with a wireless connection. I'm looking for something with a 3 or 4 mile range. Does anyone know of any good solutions for under a grand?
My biggest concern is the BSD license because you can hide it away for commercial use. Microsoft could take BSD and write a Windows/BSD with DirectX, OpenGL, Office, Visual Whatever, etc. That is sort of what Apple is doing with OS X. Of course the OpenGL support would be "terrible" and eventually brought up to "not bad" a couple versions later(3 or 4 years). They could make Linux compatiblity with Windows ease of use then start breaking the compatability a piece at a time.
I'm generally not looking for trolls under every corner but Microsoft has me wondering about their plans are. They released IE for *nix and now Windows Media Player. Is this the beginning?
I liked having all MS stuff on one partition and Linux on the other. I don't care if we get down to only one partition (or more. you know what I mean)with Linux if Bill is going to come visit here too.
First they have to figure out what facts are are before they can protect them. I guess I shouldn't have used Congress and facts in the same sentence.
VIA Press release about Joshua
Socket 370 pinout on P6 bus interface
Integrated 64 Kb L1 cache
Integrated mutually exclusive 256 Kb L2 cache
133 MHz Front Side Bus (FSB) support
3DNow! (TM) Technology
Enhanced dual pipelined MMX (TM) and FPU
Utilized advanced 0.18 fabrication process
I have Pentium II LX mb I wanted to upgrade. I was going to replace the P2 233Mhz with a Celeron 466 or 500 ppga but think I will hold off to see what happens. It's my fourth computer anyway. I use it for R&D.
I remember reading about a Russian comany that had built a tube based computer. It was variable speed and ran as fast as an Alpha 500 (2 years ago) when it was at 1/4 of the total speed. Someone decided to turn it up and blew the tubes which where very specialized and put the project on hold until they could get some more. It was nicknamed the "Pentubium" processor. I hadn't heard or even thought about this until just now.
Does anyone know if this is the same company or not?
and you can take 18 of your favorite buddies in style. It can fly New York to Tokyo non-stop(6200 nautical miles) because it has a range of 6500 nautical miles. It has been considered one of the best private jets availible by many people. I'd be happy to sell you one for 100 million then I'd go out and buy one of my own. They are availible used and the Gulfstream G4 is almost as nice for less money.
I heartily agree with NFS III. I still play it when I'm not playing Unreal Tournament. It does seem a little slow when compared to Pod Racer but you can finesse your Ferarri around the corners and fly. I'd love to see any of the Command & Conquer series especially Red Alert. I love Tiberian Sun but I think that Red Alert is the best of the series so far. Now that EA owns Westwood, I could be really happy or really sad depending on if they are willing or not. We need to support wine as much as possible so we can play in the meantime while the game developers are making up their minds. Or especially because ones that have decided "definitely not". I think Dell will be selling Athlons before Blizzard ports to Linux. I could be wrong on both counts(fine with me).
I played I, II and III on the Apple IIe and later got the enhanced versions for my IIgs. I wonder if I still have some character disks. The gs is still running at my mom's house (I did get her over to a PC finally). I found a good emulator for the Apple IIe and having been playing it again for time to time. Anyone ever play Wings of Fury from Broderbund? Ah the good ole days.
I heartily agree. My brother-in-law is running Lightwave 5.6 and Maya 2.5 on his NT box because the SGI/IRIX boxes were too expensive. Both packages are great (credit to the software not NT). He used to be a diehard MAC fan but now uses whatever works best for the money. The SGI boxes they used to demo Maya are great but I don't that kind of cash at this moment. SGI is a great company and I believe they are/will be a great asset to the Linux community.
trolldot.org where you get moderated down for posting with your account. News articles are about Natalie Portman, trolls, hot grits and Don Knotts. It would be great as long as they don't try posting it all here too.
Of course I just added another 24 hours of wait time for this new website.
Still, I think it is a good thing that the source code is released. One less thing for AC's to whine about and might get some improvements too. Let's see if all you guys saying what you could do with the source are blowing smoke or not.
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If I had you come over and clean the leaves out of my gutter you would expect to be paid and probably paid well. Is you time more valuable than theirs?
Take it for what it's worth. I'm happy to finally have some drivers for my MX300. I bought the pre-order bundle with the Monster Fusion (banshee) and soon after bought my first Linux (RH5.2). The MX300 is in my pure Windows Athlon gamer rig. I can finally have a couple Linux gaming rigs now.
If AC's were banned then you would have to be more responsible on your postings. I don't care if you are offtopic sometimes if you aren't being an ass.
Yeah a creator of Quake Windows nerd. What chance did this nerd who helped create Quake have against Linus(pretty good actually).
Yeah a creator of Quake Windows nerd. What chance did this nerd who helped create Quake have against Linus(pretty good actually).
Linus just got himself fragged while running Linux on a Crusoe CPU. He was playing Dave (didn't catch his last name) from ID. Dave had a P3 667 and Windows.
If you run beyond clock/bus speed and whine about instability then you need a big kick in the padded area. It is not a successful overclock if it is not stable. I don't care how many people have overclocked the same chip, it doesn't mean yours will be as stable on your system. I know Windows is a ways away from perfect but I believe (Opinion here) that a large amount of Win9x crashes come back to overclocking and/or low grade/faulty hardware.
If you can't find any software then maybe you aren't looking close enough. There are a lot considering it's only a couple years old and the way the OS market has exploded.
You've never run more than one OS on a partition before?? Even Remond products are capable of going 2 or 3 on a partition if you are so inclined so why not *nix-ish derivatives?
Why is Win9x more popular than Linux? Could be because it is closed source? Great logic here.
Open source is a godsend but it isn't the end-all be-all. Why is everything "when it goes open source"? Companies are far more agressive about developing a product if they can make some money off than if they are going to give it away. Let face it, big corporations are spending a lot more time and money on development than most open projects could even hope for. Let's let them push then envelope and move forward.