Although I wouldn't use it as a desktop system (although perhaps for non-techies...)
Let's see. I sometimes work for a tech school. I wind up doing a lot of writing copy and correspondence. I occasionally need to access spreadsheets, and sometimes I need to pull up an Access database. (I know...pity me)
I have an IBM Thinkpad 365X laptop. It runs Windows95 and Linux. It runs at 133MHz. It runs Office97 fine on the Windozer side. It also weighs 8 pounds. I keep it in a laptop backpack. It is heavy enough to where I call it "the papoose" at times. I could kill for something a bit faster than that laptop and much more portable. I've seen and used the Cappucino. It weighs a lot less than my laptop. It's my idea of portable.
If I could build a chibi-chibi PC that I could easily transport between the office and home, I would no longer have to join the fight over the two usable workstations or lug my laptop around. All I would need would be a spare keyboard, monitor and mouse. Tech schools tend to have tons of those on hand.
I am looking forward to small, portable computers using this new setup. No, this would not be the box to bring to a LAN party, despite the fact that you will be the only one there without a hernia. However, as a "take to the LUG meeting" machine or a freelancer machine it will truly shine.
That's always my favorite theme for naming machines on networks. There's enough fodder there for a freakin' datacenter.
Right now I'm typing this on Nuku Nuku. My 24/7 Linux box is Kenshin. My audiogeeking machine is Dilputer, thanks to my friend Greg who was a layout artist on the Dilbert animated series. Greg did two murals on the Inwin full-tower case, one on one side with "Dilbert at home" and the other side with "Dilbert at work." My collection of currently usable machines rounds out with my graphics production machine Dexter, (complete with Genndy Tartakovsky signature and drawing of Dexter) my Mac G3 Trent, and my two 68K Macs SodyPop (bought from Spumco!) and JaneLane.
I have plenty of options for the future. I suspect if I was building a big network I'd name the main servers after classic Warner Bros., MGM and Fleischer characters and maybe name other less significant servers after Hanna-Barbera characters. Then the workstations would all get Anime names...there are so many to choose from there.
Why do I like this naming scheme so much? Because it would make me smile, even during bad days, to say "well folks, I'm off to fix Daffy, wish me luck."
If MTV Home Video doesn't want to release Daria on DVD, I can simply capture it off my DSS with a PC capture card, edit out the commercials, convert it to MPEG2 and author my own discs. It's work, but it's nothing _too_ hard. And technically, it's fair use.
If you want to see Daria on DVD, first off: BUY "Is It Fall Yet?" on DVD. It's cheap and it actually is region-free despite the "Region 1" logo on the back cover.
MTV is supposedly "surprised" by demand for "Is It Fall Yet?" on DVD, in spite of the fact they didn't do much work on it and the encode sucks bigtime. (lotsa artifacts!) Maybe if demand continues to "surprise" them, they'll consider what we're asking for.
But then you should try windows 2000 with 128 mb of ram. its sloooooooooooooow!
Umm...I use W2K Pro all the time with 128MB of RAM at work and it's just fine, thank you very much. No disk churn, no swap-o-rama...it's fine.
Now if you were talking XP with 128MB RAM...that's a whole different kettle of fish. XP likes 256MB at minimum to keep it happy, and only truly takes off with 512MB.
KDE 2.2 is very nimble compared to previous versions. I think the work that The Kompany has been doing on embedded KDE/Qt has perhaps encouraged tighter, leaner, faster code. There is no such impetus on Gnome's side. I like it.
And if you are tight on RAM there's always IceWM or BlackBox as an alternative. IceWM is immediately recognizable and usable for Windows refugees, and BlackBox is actually kinda fun once you get the hang of it.
I recently installed both W2K Server and Linux...
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Windows 2K Server takes about an hour to install. However, it comes with a paucity of useful software...c'mon...Wordpad? Pinball? IE? LookOut Express? Paint? Also there's the time it takes to patch. That takes MUCH longer than the install.
I installed Red Hat 7.2 today. Again, it took me an hour. But I now have tons of useful software and even some of my favorite timesink games. Yeah, I know there's patching to do here too. But most of the patches don't require rebooting.
Don't get me wrong...I like Windows 2000. It's way better than 9x and arguably better than XP. And unlike Win2K I still have a lot to learn about Linux. But as far as tweak factors, installing Linux and installing 2K are about even. And Linux just plain gives you more good stuff to play with.
With the 365X/XD, there is a known issue with the video that does not allow you to go back and forth between XWindow and Console mode. You leave XWindow and the Console is hopelessly garbled. Only the Three Fingered Salute fixes this problem. I tried deassimilating my 365X and am so frustrated with the result I'm going to nuke and pave it and reinstall Windows95a with all fixes on it.
That having been said, newer Thinkpads (post-MWave) are absolutely awesome Linux laptops. In fact, if you ask IBM nicely I believe they will preload Linux on a new Thinkpad.
...Serial Experiments Lain. Considering it's another Pioneer title and CN and Pioneer seem to have a symbiotic relationship now, it's a natural. There is only one theoretically objectionable reference in the entire mini-series, and that's a reference to masturbation that can easily be excised and is not germane to the plot.
C'mon, CN...DO IT! Rev up Protocol Seven and link Adult Swim to THE WIRED!!!!
Tweety Bird
Animation Birthdate:
November 21, 1942
Bugs Bunny was created on that date by TEX AVERY. And the personality which made Bugs Bunny an American icon was given to the character by BOB CLAMPETT. Tweety Bird was 100% a CLAMPETT creation, and his current personality was given to him by FRIZ FRELENG.
This is the crap I was expecting to happen. History is usually written by the winners, but in this case, history will be written by the last survivor of the Termite Terrace directors.
This pisses me off, but WTF can you do about it? Except rant and rave about it and be considered a sorehead. OK, call me sorehead, but I want to see the record kept correct.
There are plenty of TV shows that I would gladly purchase on DVD. I was happy to see "Buffy the Vampire Slayer, season 1" on DVD -- not because I want to buy it, but because I'm hoping that means that shows like "Kojak, Season 1" make it.
I want to see the entire 5-season run of "Daria" on DVD. So do a lot of other people. There is an organized drive to get "Daria" out on DVD: it can be found at http://www.the-wildone.com/dvdaria/.
One way this can be helped along is by buying the DVD of "Is It Fall Yet?" the first "Daria" TV movie. Research by "Daria" fans in the UK has found that even though the DVD is marked "Region 1" that it is in reality regionless, able to be played on any DVD player or DVD-ROM drive. This is a Good Thing (tm) and suggests that anyone, anywhere in the world should go out and get the DVD.
I would give a link here but there are too many people with too many beefs against too many online merchants to where if I linked to anyone I'd get people upset, and Powell's doesn't seem to carry DVDs anyway. Just go to your favorite video online site and search for "Is It Fall Yet?" Or ask at your local video store. Since Viacom still owns Blockbuster (ugh!) they might be a likely suspect.
Another TV product that I would love to see on DVD is the TNT original movie "Pirates of Silicon Valley." Time-Warner has put it out on VHS but has yet to put it out on DVD.
The media companies need to either start RAPIDLY putting out TV content on DVD or face more of this so-called piracy. I thought that the Sony vs. Universal Pictures decision found that there was a right to not only time-shift TV programs but tape trade stuff taped off the air provided no money changes hands! So what's the fsckn prob? No profit is being made on this, and most of these programs don't have a legit video/DVD pipeline anyway. No bread is being taken out of anyone's mouth.
However, the two Senators from California, Boxer and Feinstein, who are both Democrats and both women, are also thoroughly 0wned by the RIAA and MPAA. Rosen and Valenti are bi-partisan...they buy both parties.
I run a web/proxy/print/dhcp/ssh server that's my firewall too on a P133 with 48 megs of memory. Windows NT probably won't install in this machine. Why? Because it has a bloated, in-kernel graphics subsystem, meaning it isn't designed to run headless. Mac OSX has the same problem.
NT/2K can and will run headless. You can use Terminal Services to remotely administer if you're using 2K. If memory serves me right, it requires a bit more gyrations to convince a Mac to boot headless. This is why people use SE/30s to run as cheapy web servers. The Mac will check to see if a monitor is attached before attempting to boot.
I'm a fan of Macs and use one every day to deal with the Internet. I'm also an MCSE/A+ and work with PCs on a just-about daily basis.
Office Space's computers: co-stars of the movie.
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Actually this was EXTREMELY effective, IMNSHO. Whether you worked in a Mac shop or a Windoze shop you could see familiar things about the computers the geeks worked with. There were even Linux-like aspects of that weird hybrid "operating system" the computers used.
Add to it the anachronistic software boxes on the shelves. I laughed my ass off when I first saw it and everyone looked at me funny because they couldn't see how humorous it was to see DBase II and Lotus 123 and Wordstar 3.3 on the shelves next to more-or-less modern computers on the desks.
Of course it could have all been accidental. The set decorator could have gone through thrift stores in Austin, TX looking for cheap software and finding those old classics. The guys who made the fake OS for display probably were working with Macs (Hollywood LOVES its Macs) and Mike Judge was probably telling them to "make the OS look like Windows." But the result, intentional or unintentional it might be, was true geek humor.
It is my assertion that the co-stars of Office Space were the computers themselves. One more reason that movie is an underrated masterpiece.
If the profit margins are so great on hardware how did Apple loose $1047 million in 1997? Yes, when Apple is doing everything right it can have great margins on its hardware. But that is not always the case. Even when Apple was loosing [sic] a billion dollars a year its software units were still profitable. There have been years when Apple has made staggering losses on its hardware and modest but real profits on its software. 1996 and 1997 were examples of this.
The bright idea to take the LC motherboard design and graft a PPC 603e onto it was one of the main reasons why Apple was sucking so badly in '96 and '97. The 52xx, 62xx and 63xx Performas had a laundry list of things wrong with them because of this ill-conceived design decision. It would be like stuffing a Pentium II onto a 486 motherboard and expecting it to work.
Gil Amelio was on the road to fixing Apple, but he didn't have enough time to do it. Steve Jobs gets all the credit but Apple was on the uptick (modestly, true, but still on the rise) even before he got there. Jobs deserves a great deal of the credit...the iMac was Jobs' baby, so was the G3 Yosemite and the Cube.
The crappy Performas did more to push people away from Apple and towards Windoze than anything else. It certainly turned a lot of the educational market away from Apple. Remember, the 52xx all-in-one series were one of the crappy Macs and that was what the educational (K-12 in particular) market was buying. They got stung real bad by those stinkbombs and were then very receptive when Dell came calling.
The system software hasn't been free since the days of System 5 (or was it System 6, I don't remember).
MacOS as freebie ended with System 7.1.
Everything from 7.0.1 backwards was free as in Free Beer. Now 7.5.3/7.5.5 is free as in Free Beer and can be downloaded from several Apple servers. Unfortunately the same cannot be said for 7.1...apparently there is some third-party proprietary code in there which prevents 7.1 from being released as freeware. Too bad...7.1 is the ideal OS for some elderly Macs.
7.6.1 and above are payware, with no sign that Apple is going to release them into freeware any time soon.
I figured most of the sluggishness was due to Aqua. It's a slick interface (way to brightly colored for my liking), but a little heavy as well. BeOS was meant for multimedia and it didn't need anything like Quartz or Aqua to look good. I think Apple would do well to remember that eye candy isn't worth it if overall functionality and speed is affected.
This is the reason that most Macs other than the Latest And Greatest will not run MacOS X. I have a G3 Blue And White. 350MHz G3. 192MB RAM. It's also something that could be bypassed if only MacOS X allowed people to run alternate GUIs.
What am I going to do about it? Well, upgrading the processor is an option, but it is a costly one. I'm thinking that maybe the Penguin might be my ticket to xNIX on Mac bliss. PPC distributions of Linux have lots of good features and are not too far removed from the Bleeding Edge of Linux. My friend Chad has been running DebianPPC on a G4 Sawtooth and he's very happy with it.
The difference between Linux and MacOS X is this: GUI freedom of choice. If Apple gave us the ability to bypass Aqua and run, say, Ice or BlackBox as the GUI, I could maybe run OS X on my beloved G3. But they won't, so I can't, so I'll be moving to a dual boot of Linux and MacOS 8.6 eventually.
Maybe I'll get an iLuxo Jr. sometime in the future. But until I do, I'm staying well away from MacOS X.
A distro for older computers is ABSOLUTELY NEEDED!
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That said, there are legitimate reasons to have older computers. I remember talking to a technical support rep who had just spent nearly an hour helping a customer run our software on a system with only two megabytes of ram (this was early 1996; 16 megs of ram was the norm; 32 megs of ram cost $350 at the time). I asked him "Why didn't the customer buy more memory?" His reply: "Because she was a single mom." This lady, after feeding her kid and paying for the babysitter, plain simply did not have the money to upgrade her computer.
I live in Panorama City, CA. It used to be considered part of Pacoima until the end of World War II and new towns were carved out of old farmland in the San Fernando Valley. The area covered by The City of San Fernando, Mission Hills, Pacoima, Panorama City and Arleta is not a hardcore ghetto like South Central LA, but it's not Beverly Hills either. Lots of struggling Latino, Black and Asian immigrant families (Thai and Filipino mostly) who are trying to make ends meet. Do their children have computers? Not many.
The Digital Divide will not be breached when these children can go to the Library or the computer room at school and wait in line for their 15 minutes to look up a reference or two. The Digital Divide will only be breached when these children have their OWN COMPUTERS. Period.
While we prattle here about how "Linux should not be held back in order to support creaky old 486en" let's consider these facts: 1.) There is now a project afoot to use prison labor to dismantle computers discarded by big corporations; 2.) These computers are usually IN WORKING ORDER; and 3.) These computers could be used by kids who need them.
Windows is NOT the answer...it is actually a goodly portion of the problem. Remember that group in Australia who were visited by the jackbooted thugs of the BSA because they dared load old computers with Windows95? And that's an OS that Microsoft stopped supporting on 12/31/2001! FreeDOS could provide part of the answer, particularly in tandem with New Deal's office and internet suites, but that costs too. Linux could be the entire answer, if someone would take the time to create a basic distro for older PCs.
What Red Hat is doing is not enough. There needs to be a simple, lightweight distribution, of more substance than Freesco and Coyote Linux but DEFINITELY not bloated like the major distros. We're looking for the happy medium here and I don't mean Miss Cleo. It's not a SEXY project. But it's needed. It might even give you some Karma points in Heaven or whatever, because dammit, it's THE RIGHT THING TO DO.
Once upon a time Linux ran contentedly on 386en with 4MB of RAM. It can be done. Let's do it again.
The real reason for FreeDOS...
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Wow, I feel like a total mark now. So SEGA was really behind this all? Crap.
"The Dreamcast Coder Cable is not a Sega licensed product. It is an unauthorized, black-market peripheral for Sega Dreamcast hardware and we do not condone
its use or sale. Sega gives our full and complete support to U.S. customs in their efforts to stop piracy under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. Sega stands
by our position that piracy is a serious crime and must be stopped. Sega supports a creative team of developers and we aim to protect their intellectual and creative
properties in order to deliver the best possible gaming experience to our consumers."
Yeah, right guys...what about the creative team of developers who are trying to keep your platform you strangled in its crib alive? Fsck y'all. You can take my serial cable when you pry it from my cold dead hands.
The BSD, DCLinux and KOS developers will continue regardless of your lameness. With or without your approval. You could have bucked the trend and encouraged homebrew development. Hell, that was the unofficial line at SEGA US. With this statement, you guys are just as bad as Sony and Nintendo and Microsoft and the rest of that greedy lot.
There's a great gaijin colloquialism you should know about. It goes like this: "cutting your nose to spite your face." That's precisely what you are doing here.
By rare I mean: 1.) Out of print, 2.) In big demand, 3.) Fetching insane prices on eBay. You will have no trouble finding SC and/or DOA2 if you are willing to pay about $40 or $50 for a used copy.
BTW Virtua Fighter 3tb is a GREAT alternative to DOA2 and is easy to find at less than stratospheric (for used DC games) prices.
Customs recently started checking ALL of Lik-Sang's shipments to the US (under the guise of trying to stop any NEO4s from coming in -- even though Lik-Sang immediately stopped shipping them when they were announced as being against the DMCA). They were denying coder's cables, gameboy wormlights, everything. Basically, it looks like they were too lazy to hand-check the packages and just refused almost all of them going from Lik-Sang into the US via UPS
This doesn't seem like something SEGA has anything to do with. It actually looks like all those posts about Sony might be zeroing in on the REAL problem. Lik Sang used to sell PSX and PS2 modchips. Looks Sony beefed loud and long to Customs about Lik Sang and their sales of "copyright circumvention devices" to North America.
Basically US Customs agreed with Sony and basically said "No more Lik Sang imports, period, until we bring these Chi-Com bastards to their knees!" And that's where we are right now.
From what I understand SEGA is very supportive of the developer underground now that the Dreamcast is no more. They still don't like piracy but with DC games going for $10 or less at Fry's it's not an issue anymore. Why sweat trying to burn a GDRom (which is doable on a DVD-RW drive but not on a CD-RW) when you can probably pick up that game you want on eBay for $7.99? Silly, silly, silly. Even rare games like Dead Or Alive 2, Soul Calibur and Grand Theft Auto 2 are going for less money than they initially sold for.
Again, the villain seems not to be SEGA but Sony, a company which is a signatory to both the MPAA and the RIAA. Again, look at my.SIG here. Know your enemy.
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If that movie classic Pirates Of Silicon Valley is based on reality, Gates had even better moves. On skates. ^_~
...'nuff said.
Let's see. I sometimes work for a tech school. I wind up doing a lot of writing copy and correspondence. I occasionally need to access spreadsheets, and sometimes I need to pull up an Access database. (I know...pity me)
I have an IBM Thinkpad 365X laptop. It runs Windows95 and Linux. It runs at 133MHz. It runs Office97 fine on the Windozer side. It also weighs 8 pounds. I keep it in a laptop backpack. It is heavy enough to where I call it "the papoose" at times. I could kill for something a bit faster than that laptop and much more portable. I've seen and used the Cappucino. It weighs a lot less than my laptop. It's my idea of portable.
If I could build a chibi-chibi PC that I could easily transport between the office and home, I would no longer have to join the fight over the two usable workstations or lug my laptop around. All I would need would be a spare keyboard, monitor and mouse. Tech schools tend to have tons of those on hand.
I am looking forward to small, portable computers using this new setup. No, this would not be the box to bring to a LAN party, despite the fact that you will be the only one there without a hernia. However, as a "take to the LUG meeting" machine or a freelancer machine it will truly shine.
That's always my favorite theme for naming machines on networks. There's enough fodder there for a freakin' datacenter.
Right now I'm typing this on Nuku Nuku. My 24/7 Linux box is Kenshin. My audiogeeking machine is Dilputer, thanks to my friend Greg who was a layout artist on the Dilbert animated series. Greg did two murals on the Inwin full-tower case, one on one side with "Dilbert at home" and the other side with "Dilbert at work." My collection of currently usable machines rounds out with my graphics production machine Dexter, (complete with Genndy Tartakovsky signature and drawing of Dexter) my Mac G3 Trent, and my two 68K Macs SodyPop (bought from Spumco!) and JaneLane.
I have plenty of options for the future. I suspect if I was building a big network I'd name the main servers after classic Warner Bros., MGM and Fleischer characters and maybe name other less significant servers after Hanna-Barbera characters. Then the workstations would all get Anime names...there are so many to choose from there.
Why do I like this naming scheme so much? Because it would make me smile, even during bad days, to say "well folks, I'm off to fix Daffy, wish me luck."
And I also love cartoons. I never outgrew that.
Ummm...someone's already gone and done it...
The Happy Hacking Keyboard.
Thank me.
Well, they could be talking about him.
If you want to see Daria on DVD, first off: BUY "Is It Fall Yet?" on DVD. It's cheap and it actually is region-free despite the "Region 1" logo on the back cover.
Then, come visit this site:
http://www.the-wildone.com/dvdaria/
and join the petition drive for Daria on DVD.
MTV is supposedly "surprised" by demand for "Is It Fall Yet?" on DVD, in spite of the fact they didn't do much work on it and the encode sucks bigtime. (lotsa artifacts!) Maybe if demand continues to "surprise" them, they'll consider what we're asking for.
Umm...I use W2K Pro all the time with 128MB of RAM at work and it's just fine, thank you very much. No disk churn, no swap-o-rama...it's fine.
Now if you were talking XP with 128MB RAM...that's a whole different kettle of fish. XP likes 256MB at minimum to keep it happy, and only truly takes off with 512MB.
KDE 2.2 is very nimble compared to previous versions. I think the work that The Kompany has been doing on embedded KDE/Qt has perhaps encouraged tighter, leaner, faster code. There is no such impetus on Gnome's side. I like it.
And if you are tight on RAM there's always IceWM or BlackBox as an alternative. IceWM is immediately recognizable and usable for Windows refugees, and BlackBox is actually kinda fun once you get the hang of it.
Windows 2K Server takes about an hour to install. However, it comes with a paucity of useful software...c'mon...Wordpad? Pinball? IE? LookOut Express? Paint? Also there's the time it takes to patch. That takes MUCH longer than the install.
I installed Red Hat 7.2 today. Again, it took me an hour. But I now have tons of useful software and even some of my favorite timesink games. Yeah, I know there's patching to do here too. But most of the patches don't require rebooting.
Don't get me wrong...I like Windows 2000. It's way better than 9x and arguably better than XP. And unlike Win2K I still have a lot to learn about Linux. But as far as tweak factors, installing Linux and installing 2K are about even. And Linux just plain gives you more good stuff to play with.
With the 365X/XD, there is a known issue with the video that does not allow you to go back and forth between XWindow and Console mode. You leave XWindow and the Console is hopelessly garbled. Only the Three Fingered Salute fixes this problem. I tried deassimilating my 365X and am so frustrated with the result I'm going to nuke and pave it and reinstall Windows95a with all fixes on it.
That having been said, newer Thinkpads (post-MWave) are absolutely awesome Linux laptops. In fact, if you ask IBM nicely I believe they will preload Linux on a new Thinkpad.
...Serial Experiments Lain. Considering it's another Pioneer title and CN and Pioneer seem to have a symbiotic relationship now, it's a natural. There is only one theoretically objectionable reference in the entire mini-series, and that's a reference to masturbation that can easily be excised and is not germane to the plot.
C'mon, CN...DO IT! Rev up Protocol Seven and link Adult Swim to THE WIRED!!!!
Animation Birthdate:
July 27, 1940
Tweety Bird
Animation Birthdate:
November 21, 1942
Bugs Bunny was created on that date by TEX AVERY. And the personality which made Bugs Bunny an American icon was given to the character by BOB CLAMPETT. Tweety Bird was 100% a CLAMPETT creation, and his current personality was given to him by FRIZ FRELENG.
This is the crap I was expecting to happen. History is usually written by the winners, but in this case, history will be written by the last survivor of the Termite Terrace directors.
This pisses me off, but WTF can you do about it? Except rant and rave about it and be considered a sorehead. OK, call me sorehead, but I want to see the record kept correct.
I want to see the entire 5-season run of "Daria" on DVD. So do a lot of other people. There is an organized drive to get "Daria" out on DVD: it can be found at http://www.the-wildone.com/dvdaria/.
One way this can be helped along is by buying the DVD of "Is It Fall Yet?" the first "Daria" TV movie. Research by "Daria" fans in the UK has found that even though the DVD is marked "Region 1" that it is in reality regionless, able to be played on any DVD player or DVD-ROM drive. This is a Good Thing (tm) and suggests that anyone, anywhere in the world should go out and get the DVD.
I would give a link here but there are too many people with too many beefs against too many online merchants to where if I linked to anyone I'd get people upset, and Powell's doesn't seem to carry DVDs anyway. Just go to your favorite video online site and search for "Is It Fall Yet?" Or ask at your local video store. Since Viacom still owns Blockbuster (ugh!) they might be a likely suspect.
Another TV product that I would love to see on DVD is the TNT original movie "Pirates of Silicon Valley." Time-Warner has put it out on VHS but has yet to put it out on DVD.
The media companies need to either start RAPIDLY putting out TV content on DVD or face more of this so-called piracy. I thought that the Sony vs. Universal Pictures decision found that there was a right to not only time-shift TV programs but tape trade stuff taped off the air provided no money changes hands! So what's the fsckn prob? No profit is being made on this, and most of these programs don't have a legit video/DVD pipeline anyway. No bread is being taken out of anyone's mouth.
Family Guy? What about Downtown???
That show NEVER had a chance. MTV YOU SUCK!!!!
However, the two Senators from California, Boxer and Feinstein, who are both Democrats and both women, are also thoroughly 0wned by the RIAA and MPAA. Rosen and Valenti are bi-partisan...they buy both parties.
NT/2K can and will run headless. You can use Terminal Services to remotely administer if you're using 2K. If memory serves me right, it requires a bit more gyrations to convince a Mac to boot headless. This is why people use SE/30s to run as cheapy web servers. The Mac will check to see if a monitor is attached before attempting to boot.
I'm a fan of Macs and use one every day to deal with the Internet. I'm also an MCSE/A+ and work with PCs on a just-about daily basis.
Actually this was EXTREMELY effective, IMNSHO. Whether you worked in a Mac shop or a Windoze shop you could see familiar things about the computers the geeks worked with. There were even Linux-like aspects of that weird hybrid "operating system" the computers used.
Add to it the anachronistic software boxes on the shelves. I laughed my ass off when I first saw it and everyone looked at me funny because they couldn't see how humorous it was to see DBase II and Lotus 123 and Wordstar 3.3 on the shelves next to more-or-less modern computers on the desks.
Of course it could have all been accidental. The set decorator could have gone through thrift stores in Austin, TX looking for cheap software and finding those old classics. The guys who made the fake OS for display probably were working with Macs (Hollywood LOVES its Macs) and Mike Judge was probably telling them to "make the OS look like Windows." But the result, intentional or unintentional it might be, was true geek humor.
It is my assertion that the co-stars of Office Space were the computers themselves. One more reason that movie is an underrated masterpiece.
The bright idea to take the LC motherboard design and graft a PPC 603e onto it was one of the main reasons why Apple was sucking so badly in '96 and '97. The 52xx, 62xx and 63xx Performas had a laundry list of things wrong with them because of this ill-conceived design decision. It would be like stuffing a Pentium II onto a 486 motherboard and expecting it to work.
Gil Amelio was on the road to fixing Apple, but he didn't have enough time to do it. Steve Jobs gets all the credit but Apple was on the uptick (modestly, true, but still on the rise) even before he got there. Jobs deserves a great deal of the credit...the iMac was Jobs' baby, so was the G3 Yosemite and the Cube.
The crappy Performas did more to push people away from Apple and towards Windoze than anything else. It certainly turned a lot of the educational market away from Apple. Remember, the 52xx all-in-one series were one of the crappy Macs and that was what the educational (K-12 in particular) market was buying. They got stung real bad by those stinkbombs and were then very receptive when Dell came calling.
Here's the full story of these Road Apples:
http://www.lowendmac.com/tech/x200.shtml
MacOS as freebie ended with System 7.1.
Everything from 7.0.1 backwards was free as in Free Beer. Now 7.5.3/7.5.5 is free as in Free Beer and can be downloaded from several Apple servers. Unfortunately the same cannot be said for 7.1...apparently there is some third-party proprietary code in there which prevents 7.1 from being released as freeware. Too bad...7.1 is the ideal OS for some elderly Macs.
7.6.1 and above are payware, with no sign that Apple is going to release them into freeware any time soon.
HTH.
This is the reason that most Macs other than the Latest And Greatest will not run MacOS X. I have a G3 Blue And White. 350MHz G3. 192MB RAM. It's also something that could be bypassed if only MacOS X allowed people to run alternate GUIs.
What am I going to do about it? Well, upgrading the processor is an option, but it is a costly one. I'm thinking that maybe the Penguin might be my ticket to xNIX on Mac bliss. PPC distributions of Linux have lots of good features and are not too far removed from the Bleeding Edge of Linux. My friend Chad has been running DebianPPC on a G4 Sawtooth and he's very happy with it.
The difference between Linux and MacOS X is this: GUI freedom of choice. If Apple gave us the ability to bypass Aqua and run, say, Ice or BlackBox as the GUI, I could maybe run OS X on my beloved G3. But they won't, so I can't, so I'll be moving to a dual boot of Linux and MacOS 8.6 eventually.
Maybe I'll get an iLuxo Jr. sometime in the future. But until I do, I'm staying well away from MacOS X.
I live in Panorama City, CA. It used to be considered part of Pacoima until the end of World War II and new towns were carved out of old farmland in the San Fernando Valley. The area covered by The City of San Fernando, Mission Hills, Pacoima, Panorama City and Arleta is not a hardcore ghetto like South Central LA, but it's not Beverly Hills either. Lots of struggling Latino, Black and Asian immigrant families (Thai and Filipino mostly) who are trying to make ends meet. Do their children have computers? Not many.
The Digital Divide will not be breached when these children can go to the Library or the computer room at school and wait in line for their 15 minutes to look up a reference or two. The Digital Divide will only be breached when these children have their OWN COMPUTERS. Period.
While we prattle here about how "Linux should not be held back in order to support creaky old 486en" let's consider these facts: 1.) There is now a project afoot to use prison labor to dismantle computers discarded by big corporations; 2.) These computers are usually IN WORKING ORDER; and 3.) These computers could be used by kids who need them.
Windows is NOT the answer...it is actually a goodly portion of the problem. Remember that group in Australia who were visited by the jackbooted thugs of the BSA because they dared load old computers with Windows95? And that's an OS that Microsoft stopped supporting on 12/31/2001! FreeDOS could provide part of the answer, particularly in tandem with New Deal's office and internet suites, but that costs too. Linux could be the entire answer, if someone would take the time to create a basic distro for older PCs.
What Red Hat is doing is not enough. There needs to be a simple, lightweight distribution, of more substance than Freesco and Coyote Linux but DEFINITELY not bloated like the major distros. We're looking for the happy medium here and I don't mean Miss Cleo. It's not a SEXY project. But it's needed. It might even give you some Karma points in Heaven or whatever, because dammit, it's THE RIGHT THING TO DO.
Once upon a time Linux ran contentedly on 386en with 4MB of RAM. It can be done. Let's do it again.
DOOM, DOOM and more DOOM.
Yeah, right guys...what about the creative team of developers who are trying to keep your platform you strangled in its crib alive? Fsck y'all. You can take my serial cable when you pry it from my cold dead hands.
The BSD, DCLinux and KOS developers will continue regardless of your lameness. With or without your approval. You could have bucked the trend and encouraged homebrew development. Hell, that was the unofficial line at SEGA US. With this statement, you guys are just as bad as Sony and Nintendo and Microsoft and the rest of that greedy lot.
There's a great gaijin colloquialism you should know about. It goes like this: "cutting your nose to spite your face." That's precisely what you are doing here.
By rare I mean: 1.) Out of print, 2.) In big demand, 3.) Fetching insane prices on eBay. You will have no trouble finding SC and/or DOA2 if you are willing to pay about $40 or $50 for a used copy.
BTW Virtua Fighter 3tb is a GREAT alternative to DOA2 and is easy to find at less than stratospheric (for used DC games) prices.
This doesn't seem like something SEGA has anything to do with. It actually looks like all those posts about Sony might be zeroing in on the REAL problem. Lik Sang used to sell PSX and PS2 modchips. Looks Sony beefed loud and long to Customs about Lik Sang and their sales of "copyright circumvention devices" to North America.
Basically US Customs agreed with Sony and basically said "No more Lik Sang imports, period, until we bring these Chi-Com bastards to their knees!" And that's where we are right now.
From what I understand SEGA is very supportive of the developer underground now that the Dreamcast is no more. They still don't like piracy but with DC games going for $10 or less at Fry's it's not an issue anymore. Why sweat trying to burn a GDRom (which is doable on a DVD-RW drive but not on a CD-RW) when you can probably pick up that game you want on eBay for $7.99? Silly, silly, silly. Even rare games like Dead Or Alive 2, Soul Calibur and Grand Theft Auto 2 are going for less money than they initially sold for.
Again, the villain seems not to be SEGA but Sony, a company which is a signatory to both the MPAA and the RIAA. Again, look at my .SIG here. Know your enemy.