hahaha.
As I was reading the page I was scrolling and my eyes played tricks on me and I read the title as: Microsoft Loses Taco since CmdrTaco's name is right next to it.
Not that I disagree with you, but do you have anything documented that shows information about counties that had lines all day and not everyone got to vote? If this is the case, then you're right, they need to add more voting polls as every deserves a fair single oppourtunity to vote, but so far I haven't heard of any documented cases of this actually happening. I've heard of areas where the polls flooded later in the day but nothing all day long.
A cute little *nix variant with a 4 button keyboard.
Up, Down, Forward, Back.
You move the cursor to your choice and hit Forward. At the end you review your choices. Select any that you want to change and finish.
A green light appears on the desk of the silly little election monitor guys table. He waits for that person to leave and allows the next person to enter the booth and hits a button to accept the next poll after the person has been verified. Any person without proper ID or if they don't make it within the voting time period does not get to vote. They can go cry a river somewhere.
The point is that the old processors used a fraction of the power that new ones do and why start using an expensive (relatively) duron when you could get a 486 for a couple bucks.
If you're using a duron for something that could be processed on a 486 then they had better release seti for the embedded device or that's a lot of wasted processing power... Oh wait, even with Seti it's a lot of wasted processing power.
I haven't examined the script yet but Perl will run under windows. Not sure how you'd give it control of.ida though.
You know what would be really useful?
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Linux 2.4.8 is Out
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· Score: 4, Interesting
Included in the news clip it would be really useful if there was a link for newbies that explained how to compile. I'm not just talking about pointing to the how-to's, it needs to either be a direct link or a step by step guide.
If linux ever is to become main stream on the PC for average joe user, we really need to step up the help for newbies. Education is the solution to ignorance.
Someone should post the IP addresses.
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Code Red III
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· Score: 2
At first I strongly disagreed with writing an anti-virus that would spread the same way disabling the holes, but shoot after the third edition of this virus, I say post the IPs and let everyone have fun with the servers.
I make sure my pages run in Opera 5.12, IE5+, and Konquerer.
I know IE is loose with html decoding, but I am strict when writing it.
There are certain things that are broke in the new Netscape.
Don't believe me? Load up www.Bridge.com in Netscape 4.72, no problems... Load it up in 6+... Oops!
We spent a whole lot of manpower trying to keep it compatible with 4 to 4.72 and every single freaking release changed the specs and things broke. Granted we were taxing dhtml to the maximum capability it still should have worked fine and it does in NS4.72 and IE4+. Opera still has some problems but I'm working with their developers on fixing them.
It's important to some of us.
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Rhythms Flatlines
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· Score: 1, Redundant
This isn't just about a company dying, it's about SDSL dying because none of these companies can get their act together.
You know what... You might be onto something!
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Rhythms Flatlines
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Bridge Information also had free sodas and fruit snacks and also went under.
I don't think Rhythms and northpoint were in the consumer aDSL market as much as they were into the business SDSL market.
They had plans above and beyond small $40/month circuits.
It would seem to me that they should have been able to charge anything shfot of the price of a T1 and make money because it was the only "low-cost" high speed business internet connection available to my knowledge.
Northpoint shut down in St. Louis not too long ago.
I highly recommend Savvis. They have some products that are more expensive but have superior quality and their network delay guarantees are the fastest in the world.
They have awesome uptime guarantees also. You dial the tech support number and you get a live person who usually isn't a tech support clown and actually has some knowledge about what is going on in this world.
I ended up going with a T1 from them. Had local loop fees from swbell been cheaper ($550) it would have been the cheapest T1 in existence ($995 full T1)
Disclaimer: Yes, I am a stockholder (ouch!), yes I am affiliated with the company as a customer, plus I used to work for Bridge before I went out on my own doing web development and hosting. However, in my honest opinion, I still think they have a superior service and pricing for what you get.
I thought they said they were done with browsers?
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Netscape 6.1
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· Score: 5, Funny
Didn't they have a press release about two months ago that said they weren't going to release any more browsers?
Web developers rejoiced across the world on that day.
The solution is twofold.
A: Microsoft needs to release more secure OS/Web servers.
B: People need to patch their system themselves or take it off the net.
I was a former northpoint customer. I thought Northpoints network/service was superior to covads but still covad has a good network.
They have a ton of customers, why aren't they making money?
It's extremely sad to see a product that is far superior to 56k dialup vanish relatively quickly.
Is no one managing these companies? Instead of slowly going out of business, why don't they budget and create a plan that will put them in the green?
To me it's simple, if you're not making enough at $40/customer to pay your employees and cover all the rest of the expenses, get rid of worthless employees and raise your prices to a profitable rate.
I've upgraded to T1 but it costs a bundle! Had I not been forced to upgrade, I certainly would have kept using SDSL.
I recently purchased their virus scanner after a trial version expired and it wouldn't install correctly. But they wanted to charge me $2.95/minute to figure out the problem.
I couldn't even get a real person to yell at about their crappy support.
I for one will never buy another one of their products. Especially with this new crazy patent.
I agree. I've got a slightly older Vaio and it is great. PCG-933A. It wasn't the lightest or the fastest available but it was the best bang for the buck. A good balance of quality hardware and cheap pricing.
Minus one dead pixel out of the box I haven't had a single problem in an entire year.
I didn't see Unreal at all. I haven't had much experience with quake and half life but Unreal and Unreal Tournament were pretty awesome games in my opinion. The first unreal inspired me to buy a voodoo2 and UT inspired me to buy an athlon and a GeForce and a T1.
It was a decent game but if you look at some of the limited hardware the others had to work with, I'd say they outrank it. FF3 and Tetris should have been much higher IMHO.
Besides, where are Mighty Bomb Jack and Star Voyager?
I wish there was a place I could download all the old games that are no longer in print.
Slashdot Mirror
hahaha.
As I was reading the page I was scrolling and my eyes played tricks on me and I read the title as: Microsoft Loses Taco since CmdrTaco's name is right next to it.
Got a good laugh. It would be a funny story.
Not that I disagree with you, but do you have anything documented that shows information about counties that had lines all day and not everyone got to vote? If this is the case, then you're right, they need to add more voting polls as every deserves a fair single oppourtunity to vote, but so far I haven't heard of any documented cases of this actually happening. I've heard of areas where the polls flooded later in the day but nothing all day long.
A cute little *nix variant with a 4 button keyboard.
Up, Down, Forward, Back.
You move the cursor to your choice and hit Forward. At the end you review your choices. Select any that you want to change and finish.
A green light appears on the desk of the silly little election monitor guys table. He waits for that person to leave and allows the next person to enter the booth and hits a button to accept the next poll after the person has been verified. Any person without proper ID or if they don't make it within the voting time period does not get to vote. They can go cry a river somewhere.
The point is that the old processors used a fraction of the power that new ones do and why start using an expensive (relatively) duron when you could get a 486 for a couple bucks.
If you're using a duron for something that could be processed on a 486 then they had better release seti for the embedded device or that's a lot of wasted processing power... Oh wait, even with Seti it's a lot of wasted processing power.
And what version of SuSE were you using?
Fired right up with my GeForce.
I've tried all the distros except Mandrake and SuSE is the best as far as getting setup and running smoothly.
I haven't examined the script yet but Perl will run under windows. Not sure how you'd give it control of .ida though.
Included in the news clip it would be really useful if there was a link for newbies that explained how to compile. I'm not just talking about pointing to the how-to's, it needs to either be a direct link or a step by step guide.
If linux ever is to become main stream on the PC for average joe user, we really need to step up the help for newbies. Education is the solution to ignorance.
At first I strongly disagreed with writing an anti-virus that would spread the same way disabling the holes, but shoot after the third edition of this virus, I say post the IPs and let everyone have fun with the servers.
I make sure my pages run in Opera 5.12, IE5+, and Konquerer.
I know IE is loose with html decoding, but I am strict when writing it.
There are certain things that are broke in the new Netscape.
Don't believe me? Load up www.Bridge.com in Netscape 4.72, no problems... Load it up in 6+... Oops!
We spent a whole lot of manpower trying to keep it compatible with 4 to 4.72 and every single freaking release changed the specs and things broke. Granted we were taxing dhtml to the maximum capability it still should have worked fine and it does in NS4.72 and IE4+. Opera still has some problems but I'm working with their developers on fixing them.
This isn't just about a company dying, it's about SDSL dying because none of these companies can get their act together.
Bridge Information also had free sodas and fruit snacks and also went under.
Reuters bought them.
I don't think Rhythms and northpoint were in the consumer aDSL market as much as they were into the business SDSL market.
They had plans above and beyond small $40/month circuits.
It would seem to me that they should have been able to charge anything shfot of the price of a T1 and make money because it was the only "low-cost" high speed business internet connection available to my knowledge.
Rhythms could have been providing the line and another ISP could have been providing the service.
Northpoint shut down in St. Louis not too long ago.
I highly recommend Savvis. They have some products that are more expensive but have superior quality and their network delay guarantees are the fastest in the world.
They have awesome uptime guarantees also. You dial the tech support number and you get a live person who usually isn't a tech support clown and actually has some knowledge about what is going on in this world.
I ended up going with a T1 from them. Had local loop fees from swbell been cheaper ($550) it would have been the cheapest T1 in existence ($995 full T1)
Disclaimer: Yes, I am a stockholder (ouch!), yes I am affiliated with the company as a customer, plus I used to work for Bridge before I went out on my own doing web development and hosting. However, in my honest opinion, I still think they have a superior service and pricing for what you get.
Didn't they have a press release about two months ago that said they weren't going to release any more browsers?
Web developers rejoiced across the world on that day.
Find infected machines and popup a warning Window on each machine telling them they're infected.
I don't agree with doing it whatsoever, but that would wake up a lot of sysadmins.
The solution is twofold.
A: Microsoft needs to release more secure OS/Web servers.
B: People need to patch their system themselves or take it off the net.
I was a former northpoint customer. I thought Northpoints network/service was superior to covads but still covad has a good network.
They have a ton of customers, why aren't they making money?
It's extremely sad to see a product that is far superior to 56k dialup vanish relatively quickly.
Is no one managing these companies? Instead of slowly going out of business, why don't they budget and create a plan that will put them in the green?
To me it's simple, if you're not making enough at $40/customer to pay your employees and cover all the rest of the expenses, get rid of worthless employees and raise your prices to a profitable rate.
I've upgraded to T1 but it costs a bundle! Had I not been forced to upgrade, I certainly would have kept using SDSL.
I recently purchased their virus scanner after a trial version expired and it wouldn't install correctly. But they wanted to charge me $2.95/minute to figure out the problem.
I couldn't even get a real person to yell at about their crappy support.
I for one will never buy another one of their products. Especially with this new crazy patent.
So that basically means we won't be able to access windows drives over the network without using FTP?
Does anyone write a 3rd party samba driver?
I agree. I've got a slightly older Vaio and it is great. PCG-933A. It wasn't the lightest or the fastest available but it was the best bang for the buck. A good balance of quality hardware and cheap pricing.
Minus one dead pixel out of the box I haven't had a single problem in an entire year.
If I had to sit down and choose between a Diablo and Zelda. I'd pick Zelda in a heartbeat.
At least the first three Zelda's. I never got into the new n64 zeldas. They were too slow paced for me. Maybe I just never gave them a chance.
Somewhere on the net there is even a 3rd quest rendition someone did by hacking the original NES rom. They did a good job too. It's really fun.
I didn't see Unreal at all. I haven't had much experience with quake and half life but Unreal and Unreal Tournament were pretty awesome games in my opinion. The first unreal inspired me to buy a voodoo2 and UT inspired me to buy an athlon and a GeForce and a T1.
It was a decent game but if you look at some of the limited hardware the others had to work with, I'd say they outrank it. FF3 and Tetris should have been much higher IMHO.
Besides, where are Mighty Bomb Jack and Star Voyager?
I wish there was a place I could download all the old games that are no longer in print.