And you obviously don't know how to use google. The HP LaserJet 1100 has a well known, well documented paper feed issue.
HP was taken to task for it in early to mid 2001, and were forced to offer a free repair kit (which you could order off their web site). The last time I ordered a kit from them was around 2002, so I'm not sure if they still offer them now. Might be worth looking into, though.
When you download a file with internet explorer, it downloads to a temporary directory, and then copies it to the location you selected in the "Save" dialog (using Windows copy facilities). According to your logic, the file that you downloaded should not be fragmented, at all.
I recieved a quote for a WinOMS CS install in the $18,000 range last January. This was for an office of 5 people. We ended up turning it down and going with their local competitor's $15,000 offer, instead.
Also, he is not assigning a string. He is assigning a hex value 0xFFFFFFFF...
Actually, he's not assigning anything...he's comparing the number 4294967295 to the value of i. Thing is, his code is a sort of a trick. The first time into the while loop, the test will pass (because 1 is not equal to 4294967295), the statement below it will be executed, and the program will exit (return 0). With proper brackets (because slashdot is stupid and won't let you indent), the code would look like the code below. The brackets after the while statement are not necessary if only one line of code follows (as in this example), and are assumed in the parent post's code.
int main(int argc, char *argv)
{
double i=0;
while ( i++ != 0xFFFFFFFF);
{
return 0;
}
}
The technology preview is a Quakeâ compatible system that reads the Quakeâ network protocol and file formats. This is a from-scratch implementation using the Javaâ language and the Reality Interactive Simulation Containerâ. The purpose of the demo is not to demonstrate Quakeâ, but the capabilities of the Simulation Containerâ.
seriously, this is a difference between FREE SOFTWARE and VENDOR LOCK-IN. Even Brett Glass can understand what FREE means in this context.
Microsoft probably knows EXACTLY how much of a pain this is and will happily SELL you some overpriced "Windows Update Proxy Server Professional 2000.NET" to solve all your worries.
Holed up in his California cocoon, Lucas seemed to fall out of touch with post-9/11 America.
Of course, let's not forget that this film has been in production for nearly two years! To expect Lucas to dump the entire work and opt for something that seems more "touching in a post-9/11 way" is absurd.
The 9/11 attacks are entirely irrelevant. Lucas isn't making these movies to make people feel better about what happened last September...he's making them with the expectation that they'll outlive him by many years. In a decade, people will see Spider-Man for what it really is...an entertaining film with a cheap, corporatized bid for the sympathy of The American People thrown in at the end.
They were discontinued becuase they had all sorts of read problems. They couldn't read most CD-R's, they couldn't read any CD-RW's, and they didn't handle scratches very well (even the tiny, supposedly insignificant, scratches threw the drive off).
I'm not sure if this was an implementation issue, or if any drive that employed this type of technology was prone to these sorts of issues...
Oh yeah...and they cost approximately $200 a piece. Who cares if the damn thing's got seven lasers? $140 extra isn't worth the headache...
I'm sorry...I really hate to be negative, but these requirements are really stupid.
I mean, really stupid.
Let me get this straight, here...You want to develop this app on NT, test it on NT, and migrate it to Unix after all this is complete? I certainly hope this isn't doing anything important, `cause that baby's gonna crash-and-burn like a mofo. when you bring up your Unix boxes for the first time.
First...get a clue. Cross platform development for the GUI is going to fucking suck. No, I take that back...Cross platform development alone is going to fucking suck. The GUI won't help, either. You can use third-party libraries, but that's code that you haven't written (which means you know very little about it). Not good.
Second...you're a fool if you think that you can build and test this on NT, and just port it to Unix a year later. If this is going to end up on Unix boxes, then that's what it needs to be built and tested on, from the ground up.
Third...grow some balls, and tell the people that want phases 1 & 2 on NT to fuck off. The right way (and the smart way) to do this is develop the app for Unix, test on Unix, and roll out on Unix. Testing on NT, and then porting to Unix 6 months later will do two things...Make you look staggeringly stupid when it doesn't work, and help you to understand that it's a terrible idea (TM) to build and test Unix apps on NT(!).
I know I'm repeating myself, here...but the nature of the question really leads me to believe that this needs to be rammed down your throat. If it's for Unix, build it on Unix, and test it on Unix. If it's for NT, build it on NT, and test it on NT. Build two separate apps, if you have to. I guarantee that it'll be smaller, better, faster, and cheaper than the spaghetti mess that you'll end up with at the end of your proposed project.
It's also important to keep in mind that the way the drive is mounted can affect the way it works. Specifically, how tightly is it screwed in? IBM drives (believe me...I used to install and troubleshoot these things for a living) cannot be screwed down too tightly, or the voice-coil inside will become bent. When the voice-coil becomes bent, the heads stop doing what they're supposed to, leading to the "clicking" or "high pitched scratching" that many users compalin about.
It sounds ridiculous, I know, but time, and time again, I've fixed that very problem for people by slightly loosening the screws that keep the drive bolted down in the case.
Big or little...You'll never convince me that making a singularity is a good idea.
What if, in the future, they have the ability to make bigger singularities...Maybe not "star sized"...But big enough to get started on the world...what then?
Will we be held hostage by a terrorist, threatening to "eat the world?" It seems farfetched...but, christ, we're talking about black holes, here.
I've decided to install Linux on my dick. This will revolutionize the known world of penile control mechanisms, while also bringing lots of attention to the upstart OS.
It's going to be a bit hard, I imagine. A custom kernal should help smoothe things out, though.
Somebody call Slashdot! I'm gonna make a Beowolf Cluster of these babies!
One - Binary file formats - such as MS Word - cannot have diffs run on them that are meaningful - a binary diff will result in a file larger than the two original files. So most version control programs will store binary files as seperate versions - but will NOT show the differences between the versions.
What are you talking about? You can run a diff on whatever you what. It may depend on whether or not the program you're using takes binary or ASCII, but the concept is still exactly the same. And, just as effective.
int break_spirit()
{
crush_nutz(left_nut,right_nut);
return(1);
};
Retailers, dumbass! Who buys 9x/ME in volume?! Distributors! OEMs! (Can you say Compaq? Dell? IBM?) System builders! Odds are if you do a lot of freelance PC work, you've had to purchase 9x/ME/NT/2k under a volume license at least once...but then...you obviosly don't do that.
int break_spirit()
{
crush_nutz(left_nut,right_nut);
return(1);
};
For the most part, Microsoft does treat it's permatemp employees like shit...but I've never heard of racism being a problem at the biggest software vendor in the world. In fact, I've heard the opposite. Whatever reservations I have about their business, or their product, I have always accepted and understood that they're real employees are treated like gods...not so I guess.
On another note, you don't have to be a minority to comment on racism, as Taco might have you believe. Anyone that tells you anything else is either seriously lacking in common sense, or is trying to take advantage of you. Sometimes I get tired of being a white male in this brave new PC (as in political...not personal) world, as I am constantly reminded of the boorish behavior of my gender+race, both past and present. Not to say that this isn't an issue that we need to be on guard for all of the time, but the manner in which we go about safeguarding our society is both guilt-inducing and frustrating for the majority (as Taco has unwittingly indicated). Sometimes I wish that they (whatever minority has been so terribly wronged today) would just leave me and my sense of self in peace. At least then I would be able to start telling myself that I don't have to feel guilty for being white.
Of course, as you can probably tell, this post is made partly out of anger/frustration and partly out of common sense. Whether or not you can sort it out is most likely indicative of your ability to really read what I'm saying, or just make another rash judgement about me to heap on the pile. It's okay if you want to...I'm white. I can take it.
int break_spirit()
{
crush_nutz(left_nut,right_nut);
return(1);
};
Slashdot Mirror
And you obviously don't know how to use google. The HP LaserJet 1100 has a well known, well documented paper feed issue.
HP was taken to task for it in early to mid 2001, and were forced to offer a free repair kit (which you could order off their web site). The last time I ordered a kit from them was around 2002, so I'm not sure if they still offer them now. Might be worth looking into, though.
It is NOT GPL. Read the freaking web site.
I work from home 99.44% of the time.
Maybe you're not a team player because people don't like how you calculate such retarded things out to two decimal places.
Those are stange numbers...
When you download a file with internet explorer, it downloads to a temporary directory, and then copies it to the location you selected in the "Save" dialog (using Windows copy facilities). According to your logic, the file that you downloaded should not be fragmented, at all.
Care to explain yourself?
I recieved a quote for a WinOMS CS install in the $18,000 range last January. This was for an office of 5 people. We ended up turning it down and going with their local competitor's $15,000 offer, instead.
ARRGH! You're right! I totally missed that semi-colon... Please disregard my earlier post...
Actually, he's not assigning anything...he's comparing the number 4294967295 to the value of i. Thing is, his code is a sort of a trick. The first time into the while loop, the test will pass (because 1 is not equal to 4294967295), the statement below it will be executed, and the program will exit (return 0). With proper brackets (because slashdot is stupid and won't let you indent), the code would look like the code below. The brackets after the while statement are not necessary if only one line of code follows (as in this example), and are assumed in the parent post's code.
int main(int argc, char *argv)
{
double i=0;
while ( i++ != 0xFFFFFFFF);
{
return 0;
}
}
Dragonfly BSD is dying...
And I quote from the FAQ:
3. Isn't Quakeâ GPL? Where's the source?
The technology preview is a Quakeâ compatible system that reads the Quakeâ network protocol and file formats. This is a from-scratch implementation using the Javaâ language and the Reality Interactive Simulation Containerâ. The purpose of the demo is not to demonstrate Quakeâ, but the capabilities of the Simulation Containerâ.
RTFA, smartypants.
seriously, this is a difference between FREE SOFTWARE and VENDOR LOCK-IN. Even Brett Glass can understand what FREE means in this context.
.NET" to solve all your worries.
Microsoft probably knows EXACTLY how much of a pain this is and will happily SELL you some overpriced "Windows Update Proxy Server Professional 2000
Don't be a moron. Software Update Services is free. All you need is a machine running IIS.
Holed up in his California cocoon, Lucas seemed to fall out of touch with post-9/11 America.
Of course, let's not forget that this film has been in production for nearly two years! To expect Lucas to dump the entire work and opt for something that seems more "touching in a post-9/11 way" is absurd.
The 9/11 attacks are entirely irrelevant. Lucas isn't making these movies to make people feel better about what happened last September...he's making them with the expectation that they'll outlive him by many years. In a decade, people will see Spider-Man for what it really is...an entertaining film with a cheap, corporatized bid for the sympathy of The American People thrown in at the end.
They were discontinued becuase they had all sorts of read problems. They couldn't read most CD-R's, they couldn't read any CD-RW's, and they didn't handle scratches very well (even the tiny, supposedly insignificant, scratches threw the drive off).
I'm not sure if this was an implementation issue, or if any drive that employed this type of technology was prone to these sorts of issues...
Oh yeah...and they cost approximately $200 a piece. Who cares if the damn thing's got seven lasers? $140 extra isn't worth the headache...
Wh3r3 4r3 th3 h0t Ch11XX0r g4m3rZ!?
I'm sorry...I really hate to be negative, but these requirements are really stupid.
I mean, really stupid.
Let me get this straight, here...You want to develop this app on NT, test it on NT, and migrate it to Unix after all this is complete? I certainly hope this isn't doing anything important, `cause that baby's gonna crash-and-burn like a mofo. when you bring up your Unix boxes for the first time.
First...get a clue. Cross platform development for the GUI is going to fucking suck. No, I take that back...Cross platform development alone is going to fucking suck. The GUI won't help, either. You can use third-party libraries, but that's code that you haven't written (which means you know very little about it). Not good.
Second...you're a fool if you think that you can build and test this on NT, and just port it to Unix a year later. If this is going to end up on Unix boxes, then that's what it needs to be built and tested on, from the ground up.
Third...grow some balls, and tell the people that want phases 1 & 2 on NT to fuck off. The right way (and the smart way) to do this is develop the app for Unix, test on Unix, and roll out on Unix. Testing on NT, and then porting to Unix 6 months later will do two things...Make you look staggeringly stupid when it doesn't work, and help you to understand that it's a terrible idea (TM) to build and test Unix apps on NT(!).
I know I'm repeating myself, here...but the nature of the question really leads me to believe that this needs to be rammed down your throat. If it's for Unix, build it on Unix, and test it on Unix. If it's for NT, build it on NT, and test it on NT. Build two separate apps, if you have to. I guarantee that it'll be smaller, better, faster, and cheaper than the spaghetti mess that you'll end up with at the end of your proposed project.
But hey...it'll be portable spaghetti.
It's also important to keep in mind that the way the drive is mounted can affect the way it works. Specifically, how tightly is it screwed in? IBM drives (believe me...I used to install and troubleshoot these things for a living) cannot be screwed down too tightly, or the voice-coil inside will become bent. When the voice-coil becomes bent, the heads stop doing what they're supposed to, leading to the "clicking" or "high pitched scratching" that many users compalin about.
It sounds ridiculous, I know, but time, and time again, I've fixed that very problem for people by slightly loosening the screws that keep the drive bolted down in the case.
But now, they ship CMS drives.
Don't believe me? Find a photo of a (reasonably new) CMS drive. You'll be floored.
Big or little...You'll never convince me that making a singularity is a good idea.
What if, in the future, they have the ability to make bigger singularities...Maybe not "star sized"...But big enough to get started on the world...what then?
Will we be held hostage by a terrorist, threatening to "eat the world?" It seems farfetched...but, christ, we're talking about black holes, here.
Well...what can you do....
At least Reno had balls.
...for nearly 80 years. If I can live as long as him, I couldn't really give a rat's ass what coffee does to my arteries.
I'm really not convinced that coffee's as dangerous as these people would have you believe.
In other, equally important, news:
I've decided to install Linux on my dick. This will revolutionize the known world of penile control mechanisms, while also bringing lots of attention to the upstart OS.
It's going to be a bit hard, I imagine. A custom kernal should help smoothe things out, though.
Somebody call Slashdot! I'm gonna make a Beowolf Cluster of these babies!
What are you talking about? You can run a diff on whatever you what. It may depend on whether or not the program you're using takes binary or ASCII, but the concept is still exactly the same. And, just as effective.
int break_spirit()
{
crush_nutz(left_nut,right_nut);
return(1);
};
I submitted this story two days ago. It was rejected. I totally love how the left hand of Slashdot has no fucking clue what the right is doing.
int break_spirit()
{
crush_nutz(left_nut,right_nut);
return(1);
};
Retailers, dumbass! Who buys 9x/ME in volume?! Distributors! OEMs! (Can you say Compaq? Dell? IBM?) System builders! Odds are if you do a lot of freelance PC work, you've had to purchase 9x/ME/NT/2k under a volume license at least once...but then...you obviosly don't do that.
int break_spirit()
{
crush_nutz(left_nut,right_nut);
return(1);
};
German? He wasn't German...He had a speech impediment!
int break_spirit()
{
crush_nutz(left_nut,right_nut);
return(1);
};
On another note, you don't have to be a minority to comment on racism, as Taco might have you believe. Anyone that tells you anything else is either seriously lacking in common sense, or is trying to take advantage of you. Sometimes I get tired of being a white male in this brave new PC (as in political...not personal) world, as I am constantly reminded of the boorish behavior of my gender+race, both past and present. Not to say that this isn't an issue that we need to be on guard for all of the time, but the manner in which we go about safeguarding our society is both guilt-inducing and frustrating for the majority (as Taco has unwittingly indicated). Sometimes I wish that they (whatever minority has been so terribly wronged today) would just leave me and my sense of self in peace. At least then I would be able to start telling myself that I don't have to feel guilty for being white.
Of course, as you can probably tell, this post is made partly out of anger/frustration and partly out of common sense. Whether or not you can sort it out is most likely indicative of your ability to really read what I'm saying, or just make another rash judgement about me to heap on the pile. It's okay if you want to...I'm white. I can take it.
int break_spirit()
{
crush_nutz(left_nut,right_nut);
return(1);
};