You probably have the cover on, though, providing EM/RF shielding
My friend runs his box coverless. It runs at a 100MHz FSB. He can't get any radio stations in the 100MHz range.:P
it's in 2k professional.
afaik, there's a SP planned for ME that'll add it
it'll certainly be in whistler.
ipv6 support in MS end-user stuff is nothing to worry about.:P
I think you're thinking of the blind man who got a chip implanted in his retina that allowed him to at least see rough shape outlines as an array of points. Pretty cool, that.
IIRC, it actually ran a full copy of Windows 3.1, down to ProgMan and friends, or so the screenshots on sun's site (and the experience of my Solaris-using friends) says.
Also consider that it ran on Solaris on SPARC.
Actually, that's not quite doable with virtualization...the wrong layer of virtualization'll trap the instructions "If ignorance is bliss, may I never be happy.
Damn,you mean XPInstall is still broken? If it works, you can find PSM, which provides https support, somewhere off mozilla.org...
Mozilla is indeed awesome...after using M17 for a few days, I completely ditched NS4.7 on my Linux box.
Long live the lizard!
Gimmie a link?
My laptop's HD is degrading semi-gracefully, it'd be nice to be able to keep some stuff on another drive, and laptop hds are expensive "If ignorance is bliss, may I never be happy.
...and here's what I think.
I hate the dumbed-down interface. Period. The new start menu is no more intuitive than the old one, and I'm thankful that there's at least a way to switch back.
I also -hate- the new "View as Tiles" mode in Explorer. It scales the icons up hugely with no anti-aliasing - and then makes the clickable area extend to the side. Can you imagine how confusing that'll be to a complete novice?
Theme support is spotty and inconsistant - Explorer remains unthemed, as does IE. (Same thing happens with Windowblinds, both these apps bypass the normal Win32 widget stuff)
Besides the modified UI, it's just plain ol' Win2k with a few added services and minor tweaks.
I realize most of this may be due to the fact that it's a beta, but I'm rather disappointed with what I've seen of it so far.
Yeah. Two other examples of software that use dongles are LightWave and 3D Studio MAX.
The companies in this case don't come down hard on individual users of pirated and cracked copies because they know that they'd never pay the $2000-plus that a single-user license costs.:P
Anyway, the code doesn't contain the browser, mail and news. Sun's waiting for the community's opinions on including them as Mozilla is available.
Actually, StarOffice's browser really isn't anything in and of itself. On *NIX, it uses the Netscape 4.x engine; on Win*, it uses IE.
So you're really not missing anything.:P
I have one too...it makes a great serial terminal to my SPARCstation 5 home server.:P
I can't find the damn manuals, though...could you point me to somewhere on the net where they can be found? "If ignorance is bliss, may I never be happy.
I have no problem with apt/dpkg - my Linux box runs debian, and I love it, too. I haven't had to try with a major upgrade; my BSD box suffered severe hardware failure a few weeks ago; bad luck. But I imagine it's up to the job...
In my experience, FreeBSD 4.0-RELEASE was actually easier to install than Debian Slink -OR- Potato. On a LAPTOP, none the less. It autoprobed my PCMCIA NIC, which both Debian installers threw up their hands at. fdisk and disklabel have 'Do it for me' settings. There's more than adequate documentation for each step, and although I had some issues due to my laptop's BIOS permenantly having LBA on, they were quickly resolved. On a slightly offtopic note, IMHO, the ports tree is superior to ALL linux packaging systems, even apt/dpkg.
Another really nifty one is TWIN (forget the URL). It uses ncurses and libgpm to create a console windowing system with widgets, scrollbars, etc - even overlapping windows.
It comes with a terminal emulator and a few other apps; one of my friends has written a CD player for it (TWIN CD). Supposedly the API is really nice.
Oh, and it has screen-like functionality - you can detach a TWIN desktop and reattach it on another tty (even over telnet/ssh, although no mouse over that).
It's a _big_ improvement over M14 - sidebar MUCH improved, scrolling is smoother, disk cache works, and - my favorite - they added XMLTerm, a terminal emulator in XML. It's a bit slow, but boy, is it fun.
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You probably have the cover on, though, providing EM/RF shielding :P
My friend runs his box coverless. It runs at a 100MHz FSB. He can't get any radio stations in the 100MHz range.
"If ignorance is bliss, may I never be happy.
it's in 2k professional. :P
afaik, there's a SP planned for ME that'll add it
it'll certainly be in whistler.
ipv6 support in MS end-user stuff is nothing to worry about.
"If ignorance is bliss, may I never be happy.
I think you're thinking of the blind man who got a chip implanted in his retina that allowed him to at least see rough shape outlines as an array of points. Pretty cool, that.
"If ignorance is bliss, may I never be happy.
IIRC, it actually ran a full copy of Windows 3.1, down to ProgMan and friends, or so the screenshots on sun's site (and the experience of my Solaris-using friends) says.
Also consider that it ran on Solaris on SPARC.
"If ignorance is bliss, may I never be happy.
Nevermind, found it elsewhere...forgot 1918 was the private-address-blocks RFC :P
Boy is my face red.
"If ignorance is bliss, may I never be happy.
Metalab/iBiblio/Sunsite/whatever-it-is-this-week doesn't seem to have RFC 1918. Could you post a summary or a link?
"If ignorance is bliss, may I never be happy.
The Solaris/SPARC Windows 3.x emulator was called WABI. :P
Sun's still selling it, actually.
"If ignorance is bliss, may I never be happy.
Actually, that's not quite doable with virtualization...the wrong layer of virtualization'll trap the instructions
"If ignorance is bliss, may I never be happy.
They finally replaced the Tin-Can-And-String(tm)(c) link to GEO with something better.
"If ignorance is bliss, may I never be happy.
Damn,you mean XPInstall is still broken? If it works, you can find PSM, which provides https support, somewhere off mozilla.org...
Mozilla is indeed awesome...after using M17 for a few days, I completely ditched NS4.7 on my Linux box.
Long live the lizard!
"If ignorance is bliss, may I never be happy.
Gimmie a link?
My laptop's HD is degrading semi-gracefully, it'd be nice to be able to keep some stuff on another drive, and laptop hds are expensive
"If ignorance is bliss, may I never be happy.
Anyone know how to do this using qmail?
"If ignorance is bliss, may I never be happy.
Tried it on 2k, -and- 98.
Nuh-uh.
"If ignorance is bliss, may I never be happy.
...and here's what I think.
I hate the dumbed-down interface. Period. The new start menu is no more intuitive than the old one, and I'm thankful that there's at least a way to switch back.
I also -hate- the new "View as Tiles" mode in Explorer. It scales the icons up hugely with no anti-aliasing - and then makes the clickable area extend to the side. Can you imagine how confusing that'll be to a complete novice?
Theme support is spotty and inconsistant - Explorer remains unthemed, as does IE. (Same thing happens with Windowblinds, both these apps bypass the normal Win32 widget stuff)
Besides the modified UI, it's just plain ol' Win2k with a few added services and minor tweaks.
I realize most of this may be due to the fact that it's a beta, but I'm rather disappointed with what I've seen of it so far.
"If ignorance is bliss, may I never be happy.
Yeah. Two other examples of software that use dongles are LightWave and 3D Studio MAX.
:P
The companies in this case don't come down hard on individual users of pirated and cracked copies because they know that they'd never pay the $2000-plus that a single-user license costs.
"If ignorance is bliss, may I never be happy.
Anyway, the code doesn't contain the browser, mail and news. Sun's waiting for the community's opinions on including them as Mozilla is available.
:P
Actually, StarOffice's browser really isn't anything in and of itself. On *NIX, it uses the Netscape 4.x engine; on Win*, it uses IE.
So you're really not missing anything.
"If ignorance is bliss, may I never be happy.
I don't remember the source offhand, but I remember reading that SMP Socket A (Tbird/Duron) mobos would be out around January.
"If ignorance is bliss, may I never be happy.
I have one too...it makes a great serial terminal to my SPARCstation 5 home server. :P
I can't find the damn manuals, though...could you point me to somewhere on the net where they can be found?
"If ignorance is bliss, may I never be happy.
Mod this up.
Damn good point.
"If ignorance is bliss, may I never be happy.
Yes! Finally a fellow LW fan!
It's so much more visual and less text-box-oriented than 3dsmax, but no one listens to me.
"If ignorance is bliss, may I never be happy.
I have no problem with apt/dpkg - my Linux box runs debian, and I love it, too.
I haven't had to try with a major upgrade; my BSD box suffered severe hardware failure a few weeks ago; bad luck. But I imagine it's up to the job...
"If ignorance is bliss, may I never be happy.
In my experience, FreeBSD 4.0-RELEASE was actually easier to install than Debian Slink -OR- Potato.
On a LAPTOP, none the less.
It autoprobed my PCMCIA NIC, which both Debian installers threw up their hands at. fdisk and disklabel have 'Do it for me' settings. There's more than adequate documentation for each step, and although I had some issues due to my laptop's BIOS permenantly having LBA on, they were quickly resolved.
On a slightly offtopic note, IMHO, the ports tree is superior to ALL linux packaging systems, even apt/dpkg.
"If ignorance is bliss, may I never be happy.
Actually, it is supported. I have the dual-head version too, and it's not bad at all.
"If ignorance is bliss, may I never be happy.
On the subject of textmode windowing systems...
Another really nifty one is TWIN (forget the URL). It uses ncurses and libgpm to create a console windowing system with widgets, scrollbars, etc - even overlapping windows.
It comes with a terminal emulator and a few other apps; one of my friends has written a CD player for it (TWIN CD). Supposedly the API is really nice.
Oh, and it has screen-like functionality - you can detach a TWIN desktop and reattach it on another tty (even over telnet/ssh, although no mouse over that).
"If ignorance is bliss, may I never be happy.
It's a _big_ improvement over M14 - sidebar MUCH improved, scrolling is smoother, disk cache works, and - my favorite - they added XMLTerm, a terminal emulator in XML. It's a bit slow, but boy, is it fun.
"If ignorance is bliss, may I never be happy.