Don't tolerate it. Now what, Theresa? What exactly are you going to do about it? How, exactly are you going to not tolerate it? Nuke them? Impose sanctions or something? Who is going to listen to you and your jokes? Some poor soul somewhere on the Isle of something or other, perhaps. Some retired pinhead with a greasy fat chip in one hand and a union jack in another wailing "we don't need no immagrunts!". You left the eu, remember? Trump is all about america first so he sure as hell isn't going to back you on thid one. Please tell us Mrs. May, what are you going to to about it, exactly? Will M come up with something?
Well, I hope you never have to retrieve a quarter-megapixel digital photo from your graduation ceremony off an ATA disk. Or an original LaTeX of your final year project, for example. Don't worry soon enough you won't have a cd reader anywhere around you and loads of burned cds...
Oh PPP minihowto! Yes, remember that one. Settled for SLIP first to get things going and then went on to tackle PPP. Minihowto saved the day! Thanks from me too.
Sorry to burst your bubble my fried but that list is wrong. What the author fails to mention is that 4 sims of 1mb each would cost £240 yet a single 4mb simm was priced WAY more that those 4 1mb simms. And then a 72-pin simm would again be slightly more expensive than a 30-pin one. To get up to 64MB you would need 4x16MB simms. Probably 72-pin ones as I don't seem to recall anything bigger than 4MB in 30-pin guise. My unix lab (where I'd later come to work at) bought a 64MB simm (or whatever SparcServer 20 modules were called back then) and paid between 60 and 90k for it, can't remember the exact figure. SunSite at src.doc.ic.ac.uk had 128MB and 2GB disk and was regarded as one of the beefier machines in the country, sponsored by Sun. So no $2400 wouldn't have covered it.
24 floppies. My 12th and 14th didn't copy properly so had to run back to the uni to re-do them. I guess I was one of your first devoted readers then? But I don't remeber a mini howto on slackware, just the regular one..
IBM PCs weren't meant for graphics or 3d. Amigas of the era would fly if I remember correctly. So would NeXT boxen. And SGIs of course. And the little sonic the hedgehog wouldn't even twitch on a sega. There must be a point in your comment but I am struggling to pinpoint it.
I don't think they are developers. They are typists that today's universities (and ms courseware) churn out by the truck-load. On their way to extinction...
One thing I noticed he has no external (L3 I think) cache installed. He should try with that first. It looked like a sim if I remember correctly. Also there are some PCI messages during boot. No PCI, just ISA and Vesa Local Bus support required. No PNP either. He could strip that down further. Mine would boot in a minute and a half or so to prompt. Another maybe 2 to X with olwm or windowmaker.
64MB RAM? Eh??? Back then 64MB of RAM cost £60k. And I don't think PCs supported more than 8 or 16MB. I had 4x1MB 30pin and had 2 72pin slots free. Later added 2x2MB in 95 or thereabouts. X would fly with 8 megs. Anyway I forgot more about Linux then I know right now but I think it did run on DX (i.e. 32-bit) machines only, SX was 16-bit, right?
Even 250 seats is too much for her, let alone 313.
But what has UK politics got to do with slashdot, did I miss something?
About as much as US politics has... Just because _you_ aren't in the UK, it doesn't mean that it doesn't matter to millions of other people. Furthermore, the UK is one of the USA's closest allies, not that Agent Orange really gives two fucks about that.
So what you're saying is that I've been reading slashdot for the past 20-odd years under the wrong impression that it has something to do with computers and things? Ok, sorry.
Businesses that rely on geo locks? Those businesses should die off. And secondly, there were no such things as geo locks on the internet 10, 20 or 30 years ago so why should there be now? As a matter of fact there were no businesses that rely on geo locks at all. What's this crap about?
Or the lot of them, all 6000, are just a bunch of your run-of-the-mill OFFICE MOANERS who have time to participate in surveys. Their shitty computers load survey pages so fast you see. Must be a virus or something.
Wait, 6000? I thought there are 500.000.000 people in Europe? So 6000 MOANERS makes a decent sample-size now, does it?
I have never EVER had issues with workplace machines, only a few times when office laptops were stolen overnight, promptly replaced by new laptops and ONCE when the multi-core CPU and RAM far-outclassed the ageing HDDs inside new thinkstations. And that was only getting on some peoples nerves when booting up in the morning! 1 minute and 28 seconds WASTED!!! EVERY DAY!!! And even then IT support picked up on the fact rather quickly and proceeded to do performance monitoring and ask us to time boot ups etc. Don't know what happened afterwards as I left but I presume they bought a cardboard box of SSDs soon after...
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Don't tolerate it. Now what, Theresa? What exactly are you going to do about it? How, exactly are you going to not tolerate it? Nuke them? Impose sanctions or something? Who is going to listen to you and your jokes? Some poor soul somewhere on the Isle of something or other, perhaps. Some retired pinhead with a greasy fat chip in one hand and a union jack in another wailing "we don't need no immagrunts!". You left the eu, remember? Trump is all about america first so he sure as hell isn't going to back you on thid one.
Please tell us Mrs. May, what are you going to to about it, exactly? Will M come up with something?
Well, I hope you never have to retrieve a quarter-megapixel digital photo from your graduation ceremony off an ATA disk. Or an original LaTeX of your final year project, for example. Don't worry soon enough you won't have a cd reader anywhere around you and loads of burned cds...
Oh PPP minihowto! Yes, remember that one. Settled for SLIP first to get things going and then went on to tackle PPP. Minihowto saved the day! Thanks from me too.
Sorry to burst your bubble my fried but that list is wrong.
What the author fails to mention is that 4 sims of 1mb each would cost £240 yet a single 4mb simm was priced WAY more that those 4 1mb simms. And then a 72-pin simm would again be slightly more expensive than a 30-pin one. To get up to 64MB you would need 4x16MB simms. Probably 72-pin ones as I don't seem to recall anything bigger than 4MB in 30-pin guise. My unix lab (where I'd later come to work at) bought a 64MB simm (or whatever SparcServer 20 modules were called back then) and paid between 60 and 90k for it, can't remember the exact figure. SunSite at src.doc.ic.ac.uk had 128MB and 2GB disk and was regarded as one of the beefier machines in the country, sponsored by Sun. So no $2400 wouldn't have covered it.
True. But even NASA has started slipping up nowdays, sadly. Because of the aforementioned issues I fear.
BeBOX was a dream never to come true sadly...
24 floppies. My 12th and 14th didn't copy properly so had to run back to the uni to re-do them.
I guess I was one of your first devoted readers then? But I don't remeber a mini howto on slackware, just the regular one..
IBM PCs weren't meant for graphics or 3d. Amigas of the era would fly if I remember correctly. So would NeXT boxen. And SGIs of course. And the little sonic the hedgehog wouldn't even twitch on a sega.
There must be a point in your comment but I am struggling to pinpoint it.
That is one well-substantiated statement right there. How old are you, 16?
I don't think they are developers. They are typists that today's universities (and ms courseware) churn out by the truck-load. On their way to extinction...
Actually decoding mpeg layer3 was rather difficult.
We used to say (back in the 486-era) how software of today is shit and how everything was flying on 286-es in assembler. And 8085s...
My memory is starting to come back now... thanks for that I forgot about fp coprocessors completely!
I ran a web server with cgi off of postgres95 back then would you believe it. And sendmail.
I was referring to 386sx. Didn't realise there was a 486sx...I di remember a dx4 though..lots of MHz..80 or 120?
One thing I noticed he has no external (L3 I think) cache installed. He should try with that first. It looked like a sim if I remember correctly. Also there are some PCI messages during boot. No PCI, just ISA and Vesa Local Bus support required. No PNP either. He could strip that down further.
Mine would boot in a minute and a half or so to prompt. Another maybe 2 to X with olwm or windowmaker.
64MB RAM? Eh??? Back then 64MB of RAM cost £60k. And I don't think PCs supported more than 8 or 16MB. I had 4x1MB 30pin and had 2 72pin slots free. Later added 2x2MB in 95 or thereabouts. X would fly with 8 megs. Anyway I forgot more about Linux then I know right now but I think it did run on DX (i.e. 32-bit) machines only, SX was 16-bit, right?
Minesweeper was the only thing I ever got to run with it. And notepad, maybe. Wine sucked eggs since its inception. Bet it still does?!
Is this the pinnacle of literacy for y-generation?
Even 250 seats is too much for her, let alone 313.
But what has UK politics got to do with slashdot, did I miss something?
Theresa May is (was?) one of the leading figures in attempts to censor the internet in the UK, and this is entirely relevant to Your Rights Online.
Is she now? Tony did that 19 years ago actually...and did it quite good, so no point in repeating the exercise.
Even 250 seats is too much for her, let alone 313.
But what has UK politics got to do with slashdot, did I miss something?
About as much as US politics has... Just because _you_ aren't in the UK, it doesn't mean that it doesn't matter to millions of other people.
Furthermore, the UK is one of the USA's closest allies, not that Agent Orange really gives two fucks about that.
TW10 here mate...
So what you're saying is that I've been reading slashdot for the past 20-odd years under the wrong impression that it has something to do with computers and things? Ok, sorry.
Even 250 seats is too much for her, let alone 313.
But what has UK politics got to do with slashdot, did I miss something?
Businesses that rely on geo locks? Those businesses should die off.
And secondly, there were no such things as geo locks on the internet 10, 20 or 30 years ago so why should there be now? As a matter of fact there were no businesses that rely on geo locks at all. What's this crap about?
Or the lot of them, all 6000, are just a bunch of your run-of-the-mill OFFICE MOANERS who have time to participate in surveys. Their shitty computers load survey pages so fast you see. Must be a virus or something.
Wait, 6000? I thought there are 500.000.000 people in Europe? So 6000 MOANERS makes a decent sample-size now, does it?
I have never EVER had issues with workplace machines, only a few times when office laptops were stolen overnight, promptly replaced by new laptops and ONCE when the multi-core CPU and RAM far-outclassed the ageing HDDs inside new thinkstations. And that was only getting on some peoples nerves when booting up in the morning! 1 minute and 28 seconds WASTED!!! EVERY DAY!!! And even then IT support picked up on the fact rather quickly and proceeded to do performance monitoring and ask us to time boot ups etc. Don't know what happened afterwards as I left but I presume they bought a cardboard box of SSDs soon after...
MOANERS.