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[I'm just joking. Don't the following too seriously.]
I guess you Americans don't need the top few meters of your Northernmost contiguous states. I mean, you wouldn't want any Americans dying from pacemaker failures or brain tumours from our poor DOC regulations.
Don't worry, we're making good use of them hectares right now.
And remember, if you bring your clocks over to this country, you need to modify them to count from 0.0 o'clock to 9.99 o'clock metric time in one day, or else you'd miss the train.
If you aren't taking the train, don't forget to bring your SUV to drive over the sparsely settled land -- it gets really rough [say it "ruff", not "roof"].
(back on topic) Canadians going down to the US: Don't forget to ditch those 900 Mhz scanners. In the US you are only allowed to listen to portable phone conversations, and not cell phone conversations, since this makes all cell phones much more secure. And don't even think of mentioning the NDP party down there. You Canadians know what I mean.
For Americans coming up to Canada, don't forget to ditch those radar detectors, since in this country those are banned. But why would you need one anyways? The land up here is too rough and barren to drive over the limit anyways.;-)
"AMD Athlon processors with certain chipset combinations will cause problems for the Dazzle Digital Video Creator II"
What matters: certain chipset combinations. Not the processor.
I think what they are trying to say is that one of the current Athlon Chipsets (either the AMD one or the VIA one) is not compatible. But the Athlon CPU itself is perfectly compatible.
>And no, this is not a case of bribed or lazy programmers favoring Intel or "not writing in AMD compatibility".
It's likely a case of poor hardware. Either the chipset is at fault (which is what I'll believe, I know how poor the VIA KT133 chipset is firsthand... I owned a Vortex 2 soundcard and an ATI Radeon, ouch!) or the card is.
>AMD itself doesn't know what's going on
Only if the AMD chipset is the broken item. Not the processor.
>But I simply cannot afford to "take a chance" that all kinds of stuff I need to do won't run on "mostly compatible" AMD chips.
I have only ever heard of a single "major" error in AMD CPUs (there may be more...) that affected the K6 CPU when a jump larger than 32 MB was executed.
I have also heard of major errors on Intel's part, making them incompatible with Intel specs (haha) or just broken. Like the FDIV bug and the F00F bug for example.
You take a chance on whatever you buy. If you want a totally error free processor, you need to buy a 486. That way any errors that exist are very likely known and accounted for (and workarounds enabled). Why do you think NASA didn't put a PIII in the Hubble Telescope? Because it isn't tested well enough.:-)
But don't take my word for it. You really have to decide for yourself.
To make it sweeter, you can't even get the patch unless you are an OEM. Imagine, because of licensing and copyright it may be ILLEGAL to run your operating system in a functioning manner.
If you ask me, "Every day is a showstopper" -- if you run windows. At least the Linux workaround mentioned earlier is availiable to the general public. Microsoft... well... they have an "image" to preserve.
Actually it is 1970. And it was invented by James T. Russell. But you are right, the CD wasn't even slightly popular until the late 80's.
A few handy quotes:
"Like many audiophiles of the time, he was continually frustrated by the wear and tear suffered by his vinyl phonograph records."
"He was also unsatisfied with their sound quality"
"the final product imitated the phonographic disc which had been its inspiration"
Now that has to be the most interesting thing I've found today... I had always thought Philips/Magnavox and Sony invented the CD. But no, it wasn't even a company after all.
>but just a little on the smallish size for copying MP3's back and forth.
All I can say as a college student in a college full of zip drives is that my friends store all their data on 3 1/2", and all their MP3s on Zips.
I know students that tote around Zips just for MP3s. Perfect for those times you have to do "work"...:-)
2 Zips will take about 1 hour to fill with good MP3s on a decent connection (or so I am told). They will provide about 3-4 hours listenable quality sound. That's about as long as any normal (ie: Not geek) student is willing to spend downloading anything. And 3-4 hours music, 5x a week is way more than enough for anyone's collection.
Zips fit MP3s perfectly. Heck, I believe Iomega markets some feature for music software for the Zip drive right now.
I've had a couple of disks go bad on me, myself, and I've only bought 10. They spent most of their life in a desk drawer, so they weren't banged about much. But this was back in '96 when the Zip drive was HOT and Iomega were (almost) a bunch of scammers. So they aren't the best media (if you ask me).
And hey, if you don't want students abusing the 'net connection, try a little bandwidth limitation. Only allow each station, say, 7 KB/s bandwidth. Now "leeching" isn't going to be much better than on AOL, and webpages are still going to load up decently (7 KB/s should be reasonable).
What with the way this half-assed launch is going to hurt sales (along the ever eroding popularity of any computer/games hardware over time) that warehouse full of PS2s is gonna end up in the same place as all those Atari ET cartridges...
>We really would like to help you resolving the situation
Break that sentence up and you will see Bell's true meaning:
We really would like to help "you resolving the situation".
ie: They would like to help get you to resolve your own situation.
Sounds like the same Bell Canada that took 5 calls over 2 weeks to get a single tech out to swap my dead/intermittant phone line. I ended up threatning them with their OWN TOS [printed in the phone book], which details Bell has to pay ME three times the cost of service if they fail to repair my problem in "reasonable time". After quoting that to the lady on the phone, I was transferred to a supervisor and promptly had a "higher level" tech sent out the next day.
Yes, Bell cannot repair ANYTHING after 6:00 pm (according to the operators). This means that if the exchange is on fire they'll just let it burn if it is after 6:00. I don't believe it, but I *did* find it funny.
At least my problem got solved. And it proved one thing to me: If you want your problems with Bell solved, you just have to act like a jerk (I _was_ nice the first four times) with support. _Then_ you get a supervisor. It's too bad, too, since I understand how that job can be difficult. But ya gotta do what ya gotta do.:-)
I don't remember where I got this quote from, but it is all too often applicable to slashdot and (gasp!) ZDNet/CNet...:-)
"Say what you mean. Mean what you say."
Isn't that the problem with print, though? You can't easily say what you mean. Even I've been guilty of that (and of Ranting/Flaming... yeah, yesterday even. I gotta chill out a little).
But, if there is any doubt, I usually try to approach these issues with a little tact. Unless someone directly insults me. In which case, all hell breaks loose. Thank God I don't go to bars.
Ok. Well do they have a right to monitor how often you use the toilet?
How about a list, posted conveniently on the door:
- Urinal usage:
- J Smith - 3x today, average 1:20 seconds. 5 cups fluid collected.
- P Larson - 2x today, average 1:12 seconds. 4 cups fluid collected.
- Toilet usage:
- J Smith - 1x today, average 15:20 seconds. 2 cups fluid, 4 oz. solids collected.
Is _that_ legal? You certainly wouldn't need cameras to monitor this. Just a security guard recording the people/times, and an automatic "sampling" machine connected to the... ahem... toiletry devices.
>SOFTWARE, NOT DRIVERS, YOU NIMROD. MAYBE COMPUTERS JUST ARENT FOR YOU.
Are you telling me drivers are NOT software?
EVEN A M O R O N KNOWS THAT DRIVERS ***ARE*** PIECES OF SOFTWARE. They just do a more specific task than wordprocessing.
FOR CRYING OUT LOUD, WHAT DO YOU THINK COMPUTER DRIVERS ARE, ANYWAYS? Little munchkins driving cars inside your computer passing messages between the hardware?
>Why dont you just go to Epson and Opti's website and download the damn drivers, you fool.
Because YOU MOTHERFUCKING DUMB ASS, I DID LAST WEEK.
****** THE LATEST VERSION OF DRIVERS ARE THE ONES THAT DON'T WORK YOU GODDAMN IDIOT. CAN YOU NOT READ? ******
ARE YOU A FUCKING MORON OR WILL I HAVE TO SHOUT AT YOU FOREVER TO TEACH YOU?
NOW FUCK OFF, BASTARD SHITHEAD.
Now for the shouting filter:
You are a dumbass. You are a dumbass. You are a dumbass. You are a dumbass. You are a dumbass. You are a dumbass. You are a dumbass. You are a dumbass. You are a dumbass. You are a dumbass. You are a dumbass. You are a dumbass. You are a dumbass. You are a dumbass. You are a dumbass. You are a dumbass. You are a dumbass. You are a dumbass. You are a dumbass. You are a dumbass.
>As a result, drivers are VERY hardware and operating systems version specific. DUH!
But the original poster was trying to tell me that ALL of windows ME/98 is compatible with 95. Are you agreeing with me by telling me the API has changed? Doesn't that PROVE that 98 and ME are somewhat INCOMPATIBLE with 95?
>Dude, your point that DRIVERS still don't work across operating system versions is irrelevant and shows a blatant lack of understanding.
According to the original poster, Windows 98/ME are nothing more than some "extra features" packed into 95. Just like kernel 2.0.35 has "extra features" compared to kernel 2.0.1. They are still compatible with the software on the system. ie: If 98 doesn't work with 95 drivers, then 98 is NOT just a minor revision. It is a complete new OS line, the same as kernel 2.2 is a whole new line of kernels compared to 2.0.
>So, if you want to criticize windows, you sure picked a damn stupid way to do it.
>than does linux's monolithic kernel.
Oh for God's sakes, you are the THIRD person to try to derail this discussion into a LINUX argument. This is a MICROSOFT discussion. Stay ON TOPIC.
>So, if you want to criticize windows, you sure picked a damn stupid way to do it.
If later revisions of windows don't take older drivers, they are NOT fully compatible. Unless you choose to think like Microsoft and say "But... But... But... But... no, that doesn't count. Because we said so.".
If ifs and buts were candy and nuts... damn I forgot the rest. Well, either way, trying to fight an argument by excluding the main topic from discussion is like trying to stop water exiting a fire hose with your hand. You just lose.
On the other hand, you should write EULAs. Microsoft LOVES people who are willing to take a perfectly normal topic and twist it so it fits their ideas.:-)
>It shows nothing that isnt equally applicable to Linux
Big Deal. You are trying to sidetrack us by comparing Apples to ROCKS. Linux is NOT a Windows version. We are discussing windows here, NOT LINUX.
>Why is my anecdotal evidence any weaker than yours?
Because you don't provide what is in these machines. For all I know they are just Pentium motherboards, P233 processors, an NE2000 network card, and an ISA ATI basic VGA original video card.
I gave SPECIFIC and REPRODUCIBLE examples. You give the example:
A "computer" I own works with all sorts of windows.
I gave the example:
The "Trident 9440 video card original drivers" doesn't work properly with windows 98.
Now, to make it obvious:
You:
The "thing" destroyed something with those thingies.
Me:
The "Linux Penguin Called Tux" beat the Windows 95 logo to bits with its wings.
>About 40 broad categories of undesirable activity, including pornography, fraud, anarchism, "freaking", virus creation, promoting violence, cyber terrorism and hacking, have now been registered in forensic detail.
"Freaking" is "spreading the word" as a hippie. Oh yeah, so, SO, bAd. Or, I suppose, it could mean going insane.
I think they meant "Phreaking" which is tampering with the phone system.
This company must be pretty crappy if they can't even spell what they are looking for.
>Anything previous to W95 is irrelevant cuz it wasnt useful to begin with.
Will you say that about '95 in a decade?
Windows 3.1 is STILL used at my college by teachers.
>W95 compatible in all its incarnations.
I _dare_ you to install the Windows '95 original compatible OPTi 924 soundcard drivers in a ME (or hell '98 or OSR2) box without going INSaNE. But they worked like a charm if you run windows '95 original. And yes, I am talking about the hottest, latest version of them.
I also dare you to install my Epson Stylus Color printer driver provided by Epson for Win '95 on a newer W98/WME machine and see if you can get it working without screwing about with it. Yeah, I still use that printer. And the output STILL impresses people.
And, to top it off, I ask if the original Trident 9440 W95 drivers work with new games in W98 (nope... no directX). But windows is fully compatible down the line, right?
>NT is NT all the way down the line.
Can I use a Windows NT 3.5 driver in NT 2000 and have a hope in hell of things working? Nope. I tried with my Cyrix MediaGX audio drivers. For Windows NT 3.5 _only_. Can't get them to work in 2000. Period. But the icons in the system manager (or whatever you call it) look nice...:-)
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>Radar detectors are only illegal in Ontario, the rest of Canada believes in Fair Play (tm).
:-)
I figured that. But that wouldn't have sounded nearly as good in my rant.
[I'm just joking. Don't the following too seriously.]
;-)
I guess you Americans don't need the top few meters of your Northernmost contiguous states. I mean, you wouldn't want any Americans dying from pacemaker failures or brain tumours from our poor DOC regulations.
Don't worry, we're making good use of them hectares right now.
And remember, if you bring your clocks over to this country, you need to modify them to count from 0.0 o'clock to 9.99 o'clock metric time in one day, or else you'd miss the train.
If you aren't taking the train, don't forget to bring your SUV to drive over the sparsely settled land -- it gets really rough [say it "ruff", not "roof"].
(back on topic) Canadians going down to the US: Don't forget to ditch those 900 Mhz scanners. In the US you are only allowed to listen to portable phone conversations, and not cell phone conversations, since this makes all cell phones much more secure. And don't even think of mentioning the NDP party down there. You Canadians know what I mean.
For Americans coming up to Canada, don't forget to ditch those radar detectors, since in this country those are banned. But why would you need one anyways? The land up here is too rough and barren to drive over the limit anyways.
>DOESN'T WORK ON [ALL] ATHLON CHIPS[...]
:-)
...ETS
A quote from the webpage:
"AMD Athlon processors with certain chipset combinations will cause problems for the Dazzle Digital Video Creator II"
What matters: certain chipset combinations. Not the processor.
I think what they are trying to say is that one of the current Athlon Chipsets (either the AMD one or the VIA one) is not compatible. But the Athlon CPU itself is perfectly compatible.
>And no, this is not a case of bribed or lazy programmers favoring Intel or "not writing in AMD compatibility".
It's likely a case of poor hardware. Either the chipset is at fault (which is what I'll believe, I know how poor the VIA KT133 chipset is firsthand... I owned a Vortex 2 soundcard and an ATI Radeon, ouch!) or the card is.
>AMD itself doesn't know what's going on
Only if the AMD chipset is the broken item. Not the processor.
>But I simply cannot afford to "take a chance" that all kinds of stuff I need to do won't run on "mostly compatible" AMD chips.
I have only ever heard of a single "major" error in AMD CPUs (there may be more...) that affected the K6 CPU when a jump larger than 32 MB was executed.
I have also heard of major errors on Intel's part, making them incompatible with Intel specs (haha) or just broken. Like the FDIV bug and the F00F bug for example.
You take a chance on whatever you buy. If you want a totally error free processor, you need to buy a 486. That way any errors that exist are very likely known and accounted for (and workarounds enabled). Why do you think NASA didn't put a PIII in the Hubble Telescope? Because it isn't tested well enough.
But don't take my word for it. You really have to decide for yourself.
Explain this then: Data Loss Threatens Fast Windows Systems
To make it sweeter, you can't even get the patch unless you are an OEM. Imagine, because of licensing and copyright it may be ILLEGAL to run your operating system in a functioning manner.
If you ask me, "Every day is a showstopper" -- if you run windows. At least the Linux workaround mentioned earlier is availiable to the general public. Microsoft... well... they have an "image" to preserve.
Actually it is 1970. And it was invented by James T. Russell. But you are right, the CD wasn't even slightly popular until the late 80's.
A few handy quotes:
Now that has to be the most interesting thing I've found today... I had always thought Philips/Magnavox and Sony invented the CD. But no, it wasn't even a company after all.
>but just a little on the smallish size for copying MP3's back and forth.
:-)
:-)
All I can say as a college student in a college full of zip drives is that my friends store all their data on 3 1/2", and all their MP3s on Zips.
I know students that tote around Zips just for MP3s. Perfect for those times you have to do "work"...
2 Zips will take about 1 hour to fill with good MP3s on a decent connection (or so I am told). They will provide about 3-4 hours listenable quality sound. That's about as long as any normal (ie: Not geek) student is willing to spend downloading anything. And 3-4 hours music, 5x a week is way more than enough for anyone's collection.
Zips fit MP3s perfectly. Heck, I believe Iomega markets some feature for music software for the Zip drive right now.
I've had a couple of disks go bad on me, myself, and I've only bought 10. They spent most of their life in a desk drawer, so they weren't banged about much. But this was back in '96 when the Zip drive was HOT and Iomega were (almost) a bunch of scammers. So they aren't the best media (if you ask me).
And hey, if you don't want students abusing the 'net connection, try a little bandwidth limitation. Only allow each station, say, 7 KB/s bandwidth. Now "leeching" isn't going to be much better than on AOL, and webpages are still going to load up decently (7 KB/s should be reasonable).
But hey, that's just my 2 cents.
>dark green & grey caused people to 'de-intellectualize'
Why am I not surprised those are slashdot's default colours...
What with the way this half-assed launch is going to hurt sales (along the ever eroding popularity of any computer/games hardware over time) that warehouse full of PS2s is gonna end up in the same place as all those Atari ET cartridges...
:-)
Each to their own opinion though.
>We really would like to help you resolving the situation
:-)
Break that sentence up and you will see Bell's true meaning:
We really would like to help "you resolving the situation".
ie: They would like to help get you to resolve your own situation.
Sounds like the same Bell Canada that took 5 calls over 2 weeks to get a single tech out to swap my dead/intermittant phone line. I ended up threatning them with their OWN TOS [printed in the phone book], which details Bell has to pay ME three times the cost of service if they fail to repair my problem in "reasonable time". After quoting that to the lady on the phone, I was transferred to a supervisor and promptly had a "higher level" tech sent out the next day.
Yes, Bell cannot repair ANYTHING after 6:00 pm (according to the operators). This means that if the exchange is on fire they'll just let it burn if it is after 6:00. I don't believe it, but I *did* find it funny.
At least my problem got solved. And it proved one thing to me: If you want your problems with Bell solved, you just have to act like a jerk (I _was_ nice the first four times) with support. _Then_ you get a supervisor. It's too bad, too, since I understand how that job can be difficult. But ya gotta do what ya gotta do.
Just my 2 cents.
>cp /home/kitchen/beer.can /home/office/beer.can
/home/kitchen/beer.can /home/office/beer.can
Are you sure it is such a good idea for you and furby to drink together? In the office no less?
Or did you mean:
mv
;-)
I don't remember where I got this quote from, but it is all too often applicable to slashdot and (gasp!) ZDNet/CNet... :-)
"Say what you mean. Mean what you say."
Isn't that the problem with print, though? You can't easily say what you mean. Even I've been guilty of that (and of Ranting/Flaming... yeah, yesterday even. I gotta chill out a little).
But, if there is any doubt, I usually try to approach these issues with a little tact. Unless someone directly insults me. In which case, all hell breaks loose. Thank God I don't go to bars.
Ok. Well do they have a right to monitor how often you use the toilet?
How about a list, posted conveniently on the door:
- Urinal usage:
- J Smith - 3x today, average 1:20 seconds. 5 cups fluid collected.
- P Larson - 2x today, average 1:12 seconds. 4 cups fluid collected.
- Toilet usage:
- J Smith - 1x today, average 15:20 seconds. 2 cups fluid, 4 oz. solids collected.
Is _that_ legal? You certainly wouldn't need cameras to monitor this. Just a security guard recording the people/times, and an automatic "sampling" machine connected to the... ahem... toiletry devices.
Where does it end?
>This is perfect if you want to do telemarketting!
:-)
Unless you phoned from a PayPhone at work (I prefer to keep my ANI secret, TYVM). They can call MY PayPhone number anytime.
>MAYBE YOU ARE JUST TOO STUPID TO INSTALL THEM?
Maybe you are too stupid to listen to what I said.
Thank God the moderators are gone and I can say what I like.
>SOFTWARE, NOT DRIVERS, YOU NIMROD. MAYBE COMPUTERS JUST ARENT FOR YOU.
Are you telling me drivers are NOT software?
EVEN A M O R O N KNOWS THAT DRIVERS ***ARE*** PIECES OF SOFTWARE. They just do a more specific task than wordprocessing.
FOR CRYING OUT LOUD, WHAT DO YOU THINK COMPUTER DRIVERS ARE, ANYWAYS? Little munchkins driving cars inside your computer passing messages between the hardware?
MAYBE A BICYCLE IS MORE YOUR SPEED.
>Why dont you just go to Epson and Opti's website and download the damn drivers, you fool.
Because YOU MOTHERFUCKING DUMB ASS, I DID LAST WEEK.
****** THE LATEST VERSION OF DRIVERS ARE THE ONES THAT DON'T WORK YOU GODDAMN IDIOT. CAN YOU NOT READ? ******
ARE YOU A FUCKING MORON OR WILL I HAVE TO SHOUT AT YOU FOREVER TO TEACH YOU?
NOW FUCK OFF, BASTARD SHITHEAD.
Now for the shouting filter:
You are a dumbass. You are a dumbass. You are a dumbass. You are a dumbass. You are a dumbass. You are a dumbass. You are a dumbass. You are a dumbass. You are a dumbass. You are a dumbass. You are a dumbass. You are a dumbass. You are a dumbass. You are a dumbass. You are a dumbass. You are a dumbass. You are a dumbass. You are a dumbass. You are a dumbass. You are a dumbass.
>As a result, drivers are VERY hardware and operating systems version specific. DUH!
:-)
But the original poster was trying to tell me that ALL of windows ME/98 is compatible with 95. Are you agreeing with me by telling me the API has changed? Doesn't that PROVE that 98 and ME are somewhat INCOMPATIBLE with 95?
>Dude, your point that DRIVERS still don't work across operating system versions is irrelevant and shows a blatant lack of understanding.
According to the original poster, Windows 98/ME are nothing more than some "extra features" packed into 95. Just like kernel 2.0.35 has "extra features" compared to kernel 2.0.1. They are still compatible with the software on the system. ie: If 98 doesn't work with 95 drivers, then 98 is NOT just a minor revision. It is a complete new OS line, the same as kernel 2.2 is a whole new line of kernels compared to 2.0.
>So, if you want to criticize windows, you sure picked a damn stupid way to do it.
>than does linux's monolithic kernel.
Oh for God's sakes, you are the THIRD person to try to derail this discussion into a LINUX argument. This is a MICROSOFT discussion. Stay ON TOPIC.
>So, if you want to criticize windows, you sure picked a damn stupid way to do it.
If later revisions of windows don't take older drivers, they are NOT fully compatible. Unless you choose to think like Microsoft and say "But... But... But... But... no, that doesn't count. Because we said so.".
If ifs and buts were candy and nuts... damn I forgot the rest. Well, either way, trying to fight an argument by excluding the main topic from discussion is like trying to stop water exiting a fire hose with your hand. You just lose.
On the other hand, you should write EULAs. Microsoft LOVES people who are willing to take a perfectly normal topic and twist it so it fits their ideas.
>The USB backport dosn't work with kernel 2.0.4
Since when did Microsoft have a "kernel 2.0.4"?
We are talking MICROSOFT WINDOWS, not LINUX.
Stay on track. Don't derail the conversation.
>Of course, not everyone has the space or need for a separate TV...
Get a Video Projector then, and find a wall.
Or get a video capture card.
For me:
:-)
Slashdot == English
The articles are posted in English. If ya can't read that, you probably can't figure out how to post.
Not that I care that a French translation is on slashdot. But posting in English would allow ALL viewers to read it...
Slashdot does post a lot of US politics though, so one could suggest it has a US bias (the polls show it too).
>It shows nothing that isnt equally applicable to Linux
Big Deal. You are trying to sidetrack us by comparing Apples to ROCKS. Linux is NOT a Windows version. We are discussing windows here, NOT LINUX.
>Why is my anecdotal evidence any weaker than yours?
Because you don't provide what is in these machines. For all I know they are just Pentium motherboards, P233 processors, an NE2000 network card, and an ISA ATI basic VGA original video card.
I gave SPECIFIC and REPRODUCIBLE examples. You give the example:
A "computer" I own works with all sorts of windows.
I gave the example:
The "Trident 9440 video card original drivers" doesn't work properly with windows 98.
Now, to make it obvious:
You:
The "thing" destroyed something with those thingies.
Me:
The "Linux Penguin Called Tux" beat the Windows 95 logo to bits with its wings.
See the difference? It's in the details.
>Shit hardware usually equals shit head.
Huh?
The Epson Stylus Color is a 720x720 DPI color inkjet printer employing the MACH technology that Epson STILL uses. You calling this SHIT?
And you call the OPTi 924 soundcard, which does MIDI, 16-bit stereo sound, SB emulation, WSS emulation, etc etc, SHIT? Is the SB16 SHIT too?
Yeah, the Trident card isn't good. So what?
Interestingly enough ALL this hardware works 100% in Linux, but not windows.
And, might I mention, that saving money on hardware (where you reasonably can) give you a fat wallet to spend on more important things...
>About 40 broad categories of undesirable activity, including pornography, fraud, anarchism, "freaking", virus creation, promoting violence, cyber terrorism and hacking, have now been registered in forensic detail.
"Freaking" is "spreading the word" as a hippie. Oh yeah, so, SO, bAd. Or, I suppose, it could mean going insane.
I think they meant "Phreaking" which is tampering with the phone system.
This company must be pretty crappy if they can't even spell what they are looking for.
>Anything previous to W95 is irrelevant cuz it wasnt useful to begin with.
:-)
Will you say that about '95 in a decade?
Windows 3.1 is STILL used at my college by teachers.
>W95 compatible in all its incarnations.
I _dare_ you to install the Windows '95 original compatible OPTi 924 soundcard drivers in a ME (or hell '98 or OSR2) box without going INSaNE. But they worked like a charm if you run windows '95 original. And yes, I am talking about the hottest, latest version of them.
I also dare you to install my Epson Stylus Color printer driver provided by Epson for Win '95 on a newer W98/WME machine and see if you can get it working without screwing about with it. Yeah, I still use that printer. And the output STILL impresses people.
And, to top it off, I ask if the original Trident 9440 W95 drivers work with new games in W98 (nope... no directX). But windows is fully compatible down the line, right?
>NT is NT all the way down the line.
Can I use a Windows NT 3.5 driver in NT 2000 and have a hope in hell of things working? Nope. I tried with my Cyrix MediaGX audio drivers. For Windows NT 3.5 _only_. Can't get them to work in 2000. Period. But the icons in the system manager (or whatever you call it) look nice...