Actually, Windows 95/98 can qualify as an OS on its own if you are not relying on any dos based drivers to support your hardware -- even if it is kick-started by DOS.
People tend to forget how much software cost back in the 70's and 80's.
Even considering something like Borland's Enterprise products (pretty hefty price compared to a single universal MSDN subscription), that price is a minor percentage of what you typically pay a competent developer.
Even the cost of MS Office (or one of the commercial alternatives) is relatively small compared to what you pay a good admin assistant.
Windows is definately NOT going to format a partition unless you explicitly tell it to do so. However, under 2000's disk manager my extfs3 partition shows up as a empty partition (ie: ready to format/map a drive letter to) instead of an unknown partition. Make sure you don't have any drive letters mapped to the extfs2/3/linux swap partitions.
My main system is set up very similar to yours (ie: W2K installed first, SP3 update then Mandrake) and I've never had issues with dual-booting via lilo/grub. The only major difference is that I use NTFS for most of my partitions -- except for one that is fat32 so I can transfer files between linux and Windows.
I find the *nix permission system adequate for most purposes. However, I will gleefully embrace the concept of having ACL (should I choose to use XFS) at my disposal due to the fine-grained control it can provide.
Agreed. If the courts would force Microsoft to do the following:
1) Document all relevant developer API's 2) Stop ALL exclusionary licensing terms with OEM's 3) (service pack addresses what I would normally write here)
Then Microsoft could still be allowed to compete at full force by trying to offer better products than its competitors -- yet be reigned in enough that they could no longer wield their monopoly power to crush competition.
In my experience, most drives that are going to fail do so well within one year of operation. However, like you, I still have seen drives flake out in the 1-3 year range so having a warranty that covers a period of 3 years is important to me. I'll definately won't be considering Maxtor for future purchases now that they have cut their warranty period.
I wish they still made the HP28S calculator. It folded open and was actually quite comfortable to "type" on. The HP48 series is an abomination for entering text/data.
For those that were using the following format for fstab:/dev/disk###/Applications hfs rw 1 2
You may have noticed that automount refuses to mount partitions on your/Application and/Users mount points under Jaguar like it did for before. The correct format for your fstab entries should be:
LABEL=(partition name as mounted under/Volumes)/Users|/Applications|/Whatever hfs rw 1 2
Instead of spaces between the items use tabs -- I haven't verified if spaces work yet.
I'm not a mac user myself but my roommate struggled with this issue for quite a few hours before hitting on the solution. I figured I'd pass it along in case anyone else was struggling with it.
Have you considered using a dynamic DNS service like www.dyndns.org?
I realize that this isn't a true replacement for a static IP. However, most DHCP assigned IP addresses are fairly static in the sense that you can leave your machine on to re-request a lease on the same IP address. Even if you use PPPoE there are clients available for download from dyndns.org's main page that will detect your IP address change and update your DNS account automatically to reflect the new address.
I wouldn't discount MFC yet for new development (unforutantely). Microsoft released a big update to the core MFC libraries with Visual Studio.NET so they are obviously expecting new development to occur.
It's a dirt dauber. We have tons of 'em in Mississippi. They're harmless. I didn't know there were any in Washington. Maybe I accidentally took a few of them with me when I visited the state a few years ago:-D
I dare you to poke a 12" stick into a fully occupied nest and see how "harmless" they react...:)
Strange. When I had RR about a year ago in Austin, TX I ran an SMTP server all the time. The only thing they did was scan it and test it to make sure it wasn't an open relay. Even though the TOS/AUP specifically forbids running servers they never sent any nasty or threatening emails.
The only time I've known them to block a port was when Code Red hit and they started blocking port 80 in order to get a handle on the situation. Eventually, that port restriction was lifted.
However, back when Napster was in full swing I do remember getting a blanket email (I didn't use Napster) from RR asking people not to run the Napster client 24/7 as the surge in upstream traffic was causing problems in certain areas. The email also kindly reminded everyone that it is a violation of AUP/TOS to distribute copyrighted materials that you don't have permission the author's/copyright holder's written permission to distribute. Notice that they didn't say not to run Napster at all -- just don't keep it running if you aren't using it.
All in all, RR has been a pretty tolerant broadband ISP... at least in Austin.
There is at least one Windows product that does sandboxing for executables. Tiny Personal Firewall 3.0 - http://www.tinysoftware.com/home/tiny2?pg=tpf3e_hi gh
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Yes. You sound like a rational human being that can fully understand the difference between commiting simulated violent acts in a game (no bad consequences) vs commiting violent in acts in real life (bad consequences virtually assured). This is all about being able to distinguish between fantasy and reality -- the most fundamental basis for judging whether a person is sane or not.
The problem is that sane people like you and I seem to be becoming more of an exception than the rule. This, unfortunately, makes extremists from both ends of the political spectrum want to ban content based on its supposed ability to incite brain-damaged tards to commit real world violence.
Then show them a bash script doing something they would only expect an "EXE" to do as an example that people do really complicated things with it.
Granted, having such features as an integrated part of the various *nix shells is more useful than the standard windows command shell and batch language -- but you would actually be surprised at what you can accomplish with the FOR command in NT/2000/XP/et al.
However, any Windows developer worth a damn would know how to write a.vbs script file to do more complex tasks that the standard Windows command processor can't handle. The drawback being that.vbs scripts aren't run natively in the shell.
The funny thing is Microsoft crams VBA and VB script functionality into every conceivable orifice they can think of with their various applications -- but then leave it out of the command shell.
.NET could be platform independent if versions of the CLR are implemented on the various platforms. It is really no different in that respect than it being a requirement to have a JRE installed in order to run Java applications.
Of the three boxes I run at home, one is a dual Intel, one is a pre-XP Athlon, and the other is an XP. Guess which is more stable? Answer: NONE THEY ALL RUN FINE HAHAHAHAHA I WIN.
Agreed. VIA has come a long way since they first started making chipsets. My dual p3-450 Supermicro P6DBE motherboard is absolutely stable. My other ABIT VP-6 dual p3-1000 system is also stable. My only stability issues come from companies like Creative that don't support SMP operation properly in their drivers.
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Actually, Windows 95/98 can qualify as an OS on its own if you are not relying on any dos based drivers to support your hardware -- even if it is kick-started by DOS.
People tend to forget how much software cost back in the 70's and 80's.
Even considering something like Borland's Enterprise products (pretty hefty price compared to a single universal MSDN subscription), that price is a minor percentage of what you typically pay a competent developer.
Even the cost of MS Office (or one of the commercial alternatives) is relatively small compared to what you pay a good admin assistant.
Just my $0.07 US (adjusted for inflation) worth.
Windows is definately NOT going to format a partition unless you explicitly tell it to do so. However, under 2000's disk manager my extfs3 partition shows up as a empty partition (ie: ready to format/map a drive letter to) instead of an unknown partition. Make sure you don't have any drive letters mapped to the extfs2/3/linux swap partitions.
My main system is set up very similar to yours (ie: W2K installed first, SP3 update then Mandrake) and I've never had issues with dual-booting via lilo/grub. The only major difference is that I use NTFS for most of my partitions -- except for one that is fat32 so I can transfer files between linux and Windows.
I find the *nix permission system adequate for most purposes. However, I will gleefully embrace the concept of having ACL (should I choose to use XFS) at my disposal due to the fine-grained control it can provide.
Agreed. If the courts would force Microsoft to do the following:
1) Document all relevant developer API's
2) Stop ALL exclusionary licensing terms with OEM's
3) (service pack addresses what I would normally write here)
Then Microsoft could still be allowed to compete at full force by trying to offer better products than its competitors -- yet be reigned in enough that they could no longer wield their monopoly power to crush competition.
In my experience, most drives that are going to fail do so well within one year of operation. However, like you, I still have seen drives flake out in the 1-3 year range so having a warranty that covers a period of 3 years is important to me. I'll definately won't be considering Maxtor for future purchases now that they have cut their warranty period.
I wish they still made the HP28S calculator. It folded open and was actually quite comfortable to "type" on. The HP48 series is an abomination for entering text/data.
For those that were using the following format for fstab: /dev/disk### /Applications hfs rw 1 2
/Application and /Users mount points under Jaguar like it did for before. The correct format for your fstab entries should be:
/Volumes) /Users|/Applications|/Whatever hfs rw 1 2
You may have noticed that automount refuses to mount partitions on your
LABEL=(partition name as mounted under
Instead of spaces between the items use tabs -- I haven't verified if spaces work yet.
I'm not a mac user myself but my roommate struggled with this issue for quite a few hours before hitting on the solution. I figured I'd pass it along in case anyone else was struggling with it.
Oracle, ODBC and DB2 Template Library
I've used it many times in the past (talking to Oracle, MS Access, SQL Server, etc).
Doh! That's the last time I go to lunch composing a post.
Have you considered using a dynamic DNS service like www.dyndns.org?
I realize that this isn't a true replacement for a static IP. However, most DHCP assigned IP addresses are fairly static in the sense that you can leave your machine on to re-request a lease on the same IP address. Even if you use PPPoE there are clients available for download from dyndns.org's main page that will detect your IP address change and update your DNS account automatically to reflect the new address.
I wouldn't discount MFC yet for new development (unforutantely). Microsoft released a big update to the core MFC libraries with Visual Studio .NET so they are obviously expecting new development to occur.
It's a dirt dauber. We have tons of 'em in Mississippi. They're harmless. I didn't know there were any in Washington. Maybe I accidentally took a few of them with me when I visited the state a few years ago :-D
:)
I dare you to poke a 12" stick into a fully occupied nest and see how "harmless" they react...
Strange. When I had RR about a year ago in Austin, TX I ran an SMTP server all the time. The only thing they did was scan it and test it to make sure it wasn't an open relay. Even though the TOS/AUP specifically forbids running servers they never sent any nasty or threatening emails.
The only time I've known them to block a port was when Code Red hit and they started blocking port 80 in order to get a handle on the situation. Eventually, that port restriction was lifted.
However, back when Napster was in full swing I do remember getting a blanket email (I didn't use Napster) from RR asking people not to run the Napster client 24/7 as the surge in upstream traffic was causing problems in certain areas. The email also kindly reminded everyone that it is a violation of AUP/TOS to distribute copyrighted materials that you don't have permission the author's/copyright holder's written permission to distribute. Notice that they didn't say not to run Napster at all -- just don't keep it running if you aren't using it.
All in all, RR has been a pretty tolerant broadband ISP... at least in Austin.
There is at least one Windows product that does sandboxing for executables. Tiny Personal Firewall 3.0 - http://www.tinysoftware.com/home/tiny2?pg=tpf3e_hi gh
Except maybe my first panicked headcrab assault.
You and me both.
The easiest way I've found to get back to the main page is to click on the faq link and then click the slashdot link.
Yes. You sound like a rational human being that can fully understand the difference between commiting simulated violent acts in a game (no bad consequences) vs commiting violent in acts in real life (bad consequences virtually assured). This is all about being able to distinguish between fantasy and reality -- the most fundamental basis for judging whether a person is sane or not.
The problem is that sane people like you and I seem to be becoming more of an exception than the rule. This, unfortunately, makes extremists from both ends of the political spectrum want to ban content based on its supposed ability to incite brain-damaged tards to commit real world violence.
For XP, IIS is only available for the XP Professional and upcoming XP/.NET/Whatever-the-hell-M$-will-eventually-call- it Server editions.
Then show them a bash script doing something they would only expect an "EXE" to do as an example that people do really complicated things with it.
.vbs script file to do more complex tasks that the standard Windows command processor can't handle. The drawback being that .vbs scripts aren't run natively in the shell.
Granted, having such features as an integrated part of the various *nix shells is more useful than the standard windows command shell and batch language -- but you would actually be surprised at what you can accomplish with the FOR command in NT/2000/XP/et al.
However, any Windows developer worth a damn would know how to write a
The funny thing is Microsoft crams VBA and VB script functionality into every conceivable orifice they can think of with their various applications -- but then leave it out of the command shell.
.NET could be platform independent if versions of the CLR are implemented on the various platforms. It is really no different in that respect than it being a requirement to have a JRE installed in order to run Java applications.
Mono is working on a linux version of the CLR.
http://arstechnica.com/paedia/n/net/net-1.html
.NET actual is and is not. The article gives a nice broad technical overview.
For those that are interested in learning what
In addition my next system will probably be a dual XP since AMD has closed (and apparently surpassed) the performance gap with Intel.
Of the three boxes I run at home, one is a dual Intel, one is a pre-XP Athlon, and the other is an XP. Guess which is more stable? Answer: NONE THEY ALL RUN FINE HAHAHAHAHA I WIN.
Agreed. VIA has come a long way since they first started making chipsets. My dual p3-450 Supermicro P6DBE motherboard is absolutely stable. My other ABIT VP-6 dual p3-1000 system is also stable. My only stability issues come from companies like Creative that don't support SMP operation properly in their drivers.
Not to be off topic but if you really want a good boot disk to deal with cleaning up Windows systems do a search on Google for TechW0rm.
TechW0rm > any linux boot disk for recovering/repairing Windows installations.