I had a BJC-210. It was the first upgrade I had from a slow noisy dot matrix to a shiny coloured printer! After printing 50 pages of colour the BC-05 cartridge ran out. Looked at the prices. . . good lord! So I started running the BC-02 monochrome cartridge as the printer would only accept one cartridge (integrated printhead in the cart, so any "Bubblejet" with these carts were essentially identical). I have never seen a cartridge that could be so easily refilled so many times. It had a very simple print path so it was hard to flub up. Very simple design in total. I remember having to clean the rollers after someone spilled hot cocoa on the printer, that was about it for maintenance. Cartridge wasn't too hard to clean if it clogged.
I replaced it with an HP (Deskjet 3820? I forget the model). Piece of shit broke just after a year. A gear inside had enough and all that would happen is the printhead would slam side to side. So I went all office space on it and smashed it up before throwing it out. This was an incredibly common problem, and someone even started fabbing replacement parts. Eventually HP offered to replace broken printers. Of course after mine was in the landfill.
Since I needed a printer I resurrected the Cannon bubblejet by soaking the printhead in alcohol, and it kept chugging along before I migrated to monochrome laser.
The print quality wasn't that great on this printer (it would tend to bleed on non-inkjet paper) but it would keep chugging along. Three kids went through school with it.
I found worse than Firefox is Flash. For whatever reason on one of my computers Flash is an utter pig on any browser: Firefox, Chrome, IE. It will keep gobbling up RAM until the VM space of the flash plugin reaches 2GB, then crash. Even after every tab with flash is closed it will continue to occupy RAM. I don't understand how flash can bog a computer down so much. It chugs away at the CPU too. A 640p FLV file will purr along at 30% CPU usage on a PIII playing in VLC for crying out loud! What's going on? I've tried reinstalling browsers and Flash plug in.
Ugggg! I have nothing but bad memories of Philly airport. I specifically avoided it because of the horror stories at work, but my flight through New York (on Continental) got cancelled, and I was rebooked on US Airways through Philly. They decided to tell us an hour after our connecting flight was supposed to land, that it wasn't even going to take off from the origin airport before getting to Philly! Fortunately I was with my manager who once spent two days in Philly, and knew where the ticket counter was, and knew where the hotel shuttle was, so we got rebooked on the first flight the next morning. Which meant I was half a day late for my conference.
Not surprisingly, ever since, every single friend I know that has gone through Philly has had nothing but clusterfucks.
And I made the foolish move of thinking I was saving the company money by prepaying my Continental luggage fee. But I ended up having the pay again for US Air, and then waste company time going after the refund, only to not get the total back due to exchange. Last time I do that!
even better, you can configure a shortcut on the "noob"'s computer so they don't even have to type anything to start a connection to a listening client.
Now, my computer at home is faster and more pleasing to use than my POS at work.
In every job I've worked, my work computer was always much slower than my machine at home (except when I worked for the government, they would always buy me the caviar shit since it wasn't their money anyway).
A lot of times it's slower performance wise, but not nessesarily spec wise. After IT has it's way and loads on all sorts of shit security software, it will bog down even a quad core.
I remember quite a few years back I bought a surplus PIII from my company. Under the corporate load of WindowsXP these things were almost unusable. It took 5 minutes to boot, and using anything was a struggle. When I picked it up the IT guy was like "yeah, it might run okay with Windows98"
I put a clean version of WindowsXP on it and the machine ran like a dream. Booted in 30 seconds, Office 2003 was snappy. Good for anything other than heavy duty games or flash heavy websites.
They might come back.. maybe not pagers, but something a little less capable. I'm always amused when going into "secure" areas with signs posted saying no cameras allowed, but people in the area are using a variety of smartphones. A few incidents and phones without cameras might show up in some large corporations again. I'm not sure anybody even makes them anymore, someone must.
A lot of phones are available with a camera delete option for corporate purchase.
Yes it is usable in 25 seconds on that old POS that barely runs. MS really did make it very trimmed down as the kernel will run on phones. The hard drive spins for about 3 to 4 seconds while I log in and then it is all done and ready to go.
My Windows 7 desktop does have more software on it I admit, but I use MSConfig to just load Avast AV, mouse software, ATi script (not the cataylst) for accelerated media and thats it. My desktop is usable after about 50 seconds.
For a comparison I had Windows 7 on that el cheapo laptop before and it became usable after 1.20 minutes when I timed it before. I did have the same AV software that is not present on Win 8 though.
(very) few computers only draw 25 to 50 watts. Most draw a hell of a lot more. The simple proof is that 300+ watt power supply in it (gamers cannot get by without at least a 450 watt PSU to power a mid range card)
Laptops draw in the order of 25-50 watts, and laptops outsell desktops.
While the PSU in a desktop may be 300W+, most of the time it's idling at far less.
The experimental proof is to plug the computer into a power meter (Eg: Kill-a-watt) instead of reading nameplate data.
You mean like ms12-020? There are lots of others too. Just Google "windows remote exploits"
" The following mitigating factors may be helpful in your situation:
By default, the Remote Desktop Protocol is not enabled on any Windows operating system. Systems that do not have RDP enabled are not at risk. Note that on Windows XP and Windows Server 2003, Remote Assistance can enable RDP."
Wake me up when they find something that can infect a Mac connected to the internet when no is one using it. You know, kind of like "install windows, connect to internet, pwned in 15 minutes"?
Anyone can do a user-mode trojan that says "PLEEZE INSTAWL ME! I'M A UPGRAYD!"
That was only an issue with Pre- WindowsXP-SP2 computers. SP2 was released 8 years ago. With SP2 Windows firewall came enabled by default, which protected unpatched services (like SMB) from being connected directly to the internet.
you could [run Netflix] with a computer as well. Biggest pain would be using a keyboard and mouse
That's what a tray table is for. You put the wireless keyboard and trackball on the tray while picking a show, and once the show starts, you put them away to make room for your microwave dinner.
I use a Logitech K400 keyboard. It's a wireless keyboard with touchpad built in. I don't normally like touchpads, but for the application it's perfect. Select a show, then set it down while I watch. It's also great to pass around if you have friends over and they want to show a certain youtube video, etc.
On my "Media PC" I don't use any fancy software. Just VLC or Media player. I can't stand Media Centre. Though I don't have a tuner card or remote.
I worked on the overhaul of a marine vessel a couple years ago. Going in for the log printers were brand new Okidata dot matrix printers WITH USB capability.
For decades of hoping for the year of the Linux desktop, many have been disappointed year after year.
Meanwhile the year of the Linux Phone has arrived. Neckbeards are disappointed though that it isn't actually the Gnu/Linux Phone, or as I've taken to calling it GNU PLUS Linux.
Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.
I don't think so? That was cooperative tasking. I remember how annoyed I was that one crashed program could make the whole MacOS freeze-up (because the hung task was not releasing the CPU for other programs/tasks).
You misread and mis-quoted that. Cro Magnon meant Windows 95 had better preemptive multitasking (as limited as it was) than MacOS's co-operative multitasking of the time, which was worse than Windows 3.1.
I should mention you can do this reimaging without any additional charge. The Windows7 Pro OEM that came with the machine is the only incremental amount you give MS.
You don't need Software assurance. New PCs sold with Windows 7 Pro licenses (eg the laptops and workstations businesses buy) come with Downgrade rights to WindowsXP pro.
These businesses already have their XP Pro VL key and image, and are allowed to use it to reimage these new PCs to XP. You don't NEED a VL copy, you can use other versions, but activation becomes a PITA in a hurry.
It's quite surprising that unlike say MS Office, IE can't run different versions side-by-side. That causes people to use IE 6 for legacy apps, and Firefox for everything else.
My company (a rather large multinational) requires IE for a number of internal apps. Even the Intranet site won't render properly on Firefox. Yet the outward customer facing website refuses to even try and load on IE6.
Last year they actually officially released firefox (3.6) through internal software distribution channels, for general web browsing, and because new web apps (like new Oracle version) don't work on IE6. We also had problems when Firefox blocked Java. And of course days after sanctioning Firefox 3.6, firefox started running away with versions.
I'm actually quite surprised. For a very conservative company in the past year we've gone Office XP (2002) - Office 2010, IE 6 - Firefox 3.6, Lotus notes 6.5-8.5, Windows XP- Windows 7 is in trials and will start rolling out Q4 (and will migrate away from Novell Netware).
We'll still have PDP 11's, DecWriters, and VT220 terminals though.
It had to wait, however, for the mobile device revolution to have its day, being ideally suited to the limited resources on portable devices
WTF? New iOS devices are more powerful than NeXTStep and original OS X machines.
The reason it became popular is because the iPhone & iPad are very popular in the mobile space. They aren't popular because of Obj-C, but rather a combination of user experience and marketing. Not only that, but if you want to develop on iOS, you have the choice of... Obj-C.
On the Desktop computer side of things, "Visual studio" is probably the most popular development environment, in part because Windows is the most popular platform, but even then there's still a choice of lanuages: VB, C++, C#.
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I had a BJC-210. It was the first upgrade I had from a slow noisy dot matrix to a shiny coloured printer! After printing 50 pages of colour the BC-05 cartridge ran out. Looked at the prices. . . good lord! So I started running the BC-02 monochrome cartridge as the printer would only accept one cartridge (integrated printhead in the cart, so any "Bubblejet" with these carts were essentially identical). I have never seen a cartridge that could be so easily refilled so many times. It had a very simple print path so it was hard to flub up. Very simple design in total. I remember having to clean the rollers after someone spilled hot cocoa on the printer, that was about it for maintenance. Cartridge wasn't too hard to clean if it clogged.
I replaced it with an HP (Deskjet 3820? I forget the model). Piece of shit broke just after a year. A gear inside had enough and all that would happen is the printhead would slam side to side. So I went all office space on it and smashed it up before throwing it out. This was an incredibly common problem, and someone even started fabbing replacement parts. Eventually HP offered to replace broken printers. Of course after mine was in the landfill.
Since I needed a printer I resurrected the Cannon bubblejet by soaking the printhead in alcohol, and it kept chugging along before I migrated to monochrome laser.
The print quality wasn't that great on this printer (it would tend to bleed on non-inkjet paper) but it would keep chugging along. Three kids went through school with it.
I found worse than Firefox is Flash. For whatever reason on one of my computers Flash is an utter pig on any browser: Firefox, Chrome, IE. It will keep gobbling up RAM until the VM space of the flash plugin reaches 2GB, then crash. Even after every tab with flash is closed it will continue to occupy RAM. I don't understand how flash can bog a computer down so much. It chugs away at the CPU too. A 640p FLV file will purr along at 30% CPU usage on a PIII playing in VLC for crying out loud! What's going on? I've tried reinstalling browsers and Flash plug in.
I fly a lot on business, out of Philadelphia
Ugggg! I have nothing but bad memories of Philly airport. I specifically avoided it because of the horror stories at work, but my flight through New York (on Continental) got cancelled, and I was rebooked on US Airways through Philly. They decided to tell us an hour after our connecting flight was supposed to land, that it wasn't even going to take off from the origin airport before getting to Philly! Fortunately I was with my manager who once spent two days in Philly, and knew where the ticket counter was, and knew where the hotel shuttle was, so we got rebooked on the first flight the next morning. Which meant I was half a day late for my conference.
Not surprisingly, ever since, every single friend I know that has gone through Philly has had nothing but clusterfucks.
And I made the foolish move of thinking I was saving the company money by prepaying my Continental luggage fee. But I ended up having the pay again for US Air, and then waste company time going after the refund, only to not get the total back due to exchange. Last time I do that!
even better, you can configure a shortcut on the "noob"'s computer so they don't even have to type anything to start a connection to a listening client.
On the upside I've been getting fewer chain mails and other junkmail forwards on my email
Here's the real deal, it's worth any extra pennies over haynes
http://www.ebay.com/itm/2002-Chrysler-CONCORDE-Service-Shop-Repair-Manual-Set-OEM-FACTORY-DEALERSHIP-02-/400310648085
Now, my computer at home is faster and more pleasing to use than my POS at work.
In every job I've worked, my work computer was always much slower than my machine at home (except when I worked for the government, they would always buy me the caviar shit since it wasn't their money anyway).
A lot of times it's slower performance wise, but not nessesarily spec wise. After IT has it's way and loads on all sorts of shit security software, it will bog down even a quad core.
I remember quite a few years back I bought a surplus PIII from my company. Under the corporate load of WindowsXP these things were almost unusable. It took 5 minutes to boot, and using anything was a struggle. When I picked it up the IT guy was like "yeah, it might run okay with Windows98"
I put a clean version of WindowsXP on it and the machine ran like a dream. Booted in 30 seconds, Office 2003 was snappy. Good for anything other than heavy duty games or flash heavy websites.
They might come back.. maybe not pagers, but something a little less capable.
I'm always amused when going into "secure" areas with signs posted saying no cameras allowed, but people in the area are using a variety of smartphones.
A few incidents and phones without cameras might show up in some large corporations again. I'm not sure anybody even makes them anymore, someone must.
A lot of phones are available with a camera delete option for corporate purchase.
Yes it is usable in 25 seconds on that old POS that barely runs. MS really did make it very trimmed down as the kernel will run on phones. The hard drive spins for about 3 to 4 seconds while I log in and then it is all done and ready to go.
My Windows 7 desktop does have more software on it I admit, but I use MSConfig to just load Avast AV, mouse software, ATi script (not the cataylst) for accelerated media and thats it. My desktop is usable after about 50 seconds.
For a comparison I had Windows 7 on that el cheapo laptop before and it became usable after 1.20 minutes when I timed it before. I did have the same AV software that is not present on Win 8 though.
I have Windows XP usable in 25 seconds on a PIII
DOS is usable in 10 seconds on my 8088!
(very) few computers only draw 25 to 50 watts. Most draw a hell of a lot more.
The simple proof is that 300+ watt power supply in it (gamers cannot get by without at least a 450 watt PSU to power a mid range card)
Laptops draw in the order of 25-50 watts, and laptops outsell desktops.
While the PSU in a desktop may be 300W+, most of the time it's idling at far less.
The experimental proof is to plug the computer into a power meter (Eg: Kill-a-watt) instead of reading nameplate data.
You mean like ms12-020? There are lots of others too. Just Google "windows remote exploits"
" The following mitigating factors may be helpful in your situation:
By default, the Remote Desktop Protocol is not enabled on any Windows operating system. Systems that do not have RDP enabled are not at risk. Note that on Windows XP and Windows Server 2003, Remote Assistance can enable RDP."
The dentist will allow you to opt out, in favour for a traditional cavity search.
I actually did laugh out loud for this one. I almost had wine out my nose. I had mod points but it was already +5.
Wake me up when they find something that can infect a Mac connected to the internet when no is one using it. You know, kind of like "install windows, connect to internet, pwned in 15 minutes"?
Anyone can do a user-mode trojan that says "PLEEZE INSTAWL ME! I'M A UPGRAYD!"
That was only an issue with Pre- WindowsXP-SP2 computers. SP2 was released 8 years ago. With SP2 Windows firewall came enabled by default, which protected unpatched services (like SMB) from being connected directly to the internet.
you could [run Netflix] with a computer as well. Biggest pain would be using a keyboard and mouse
That's what a tray table is for. You put the wireless keyboard and trackball on the tray while picking a show, and once the show starts, you put them away to make room for your microwave dinner.
I use a Logitech K400 keyboard. It's a wireless keyboard with touchpad built in. I don't normally like touchpads, but for the application it's perfect. Select a show, then set it down while I watch. It's also great to pass around if you have friends over and they want to show a certain youtube video, etc.
On my "Media PC" I don't use any fancy software. Just VLC or Media player. I can't stand Media Centre. Though I don't have a tuner card or remote.
I worked on the overhaul of a marine vessel a couple years ago. Going in for the log printers were brand new Okidata dot matrix printers WITH USB capability.
For decades of hoping for the year of the Linux desktop, many have been disappointed year after year.
Meanwhile the year of the Linux Phone has arrived. Neckbeards are disappointed though that it isn't actually the Gnu/Linux Phone, or as I've taken to calling it GNU PLUS Linux.
Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.
>>>Apple had limited preemptive multitasking (95)
I don't think so? That was cooperative tasking. I remember how annoyed I was that one crashed program could make the whole MacOS freeze-up (because the hung task was not releasing the CPU for other programs/tasks).
You misread and mis-quoted that. Cro Magnon meant Windows 95 had better preemptive multitasking (as limited as it was) than MacOS's co-operative multitasking of the time, which was worse than Windows 3.1.
I'm DAZzled that your activating your system that way. Surely you can LOAD softwarE that would pResent the system as completely genuine.
I like the $40 student upgrade versions I bought.
It's strange what happens reading the article
"[Plus] they had their own laundromat there, so I'd wash my clothes there."
Win7 activation methods that produce "genuine results" are exactly the same as Win Vista. Both are trivial.
I should mention you can do this reimaging without any additional charge. The Windows7 Pro OEM that came with the machine is the only incremental amount you give MS.
You don't need Software assurance. New PCs sold with Windows 7 Pro licenses (eg the laptops and workstations businesses buy) come with Downgrade rights to WindowsXP pro.
These businesses already have their XP Pro VL key and image, and are allowed to use it to reimage these new PCs to XP. You don't NEED a VL copy, you can use other versions, but activation becomes a PITA in a hurry.
It's quite surprising that unlike say MS Office, IE can't run different versions side-by-side. That causes people to use IE 6 for legacy apps, and Firefox for everything else.
My company (a rather large multinational) requires IE for a number of internal apps. Even the Intranet site won't render properly on Firefox. Yet the outward customer facing website refuses to even try and load on IE6.
Last year they actually officially released firefox (3.6) through internal software distribution channels, for general web browsing, and because new web apps (like new Oracle version) don't work on IE6. We also had problems when Firefox blocked Java. And of course days after sanctioning Firefox 3.6, firefox started running away with versions.
I'm actually quite surprised. For a very conservative company in the past year we've gone Office XP (2002) - Office 2010, IE 6 - Firefox 3.6, Lotus notes 6.5-8.5, Windows XP- Windows 7 is in trials and will start rolling out Q4 (and will migrate away from Novell Netware).
We'll still have PDP 11's, DecWriters, and VT220 terminals though.
It had to wait, however, for the mobile device revolution to have its day, being ideally suited to the limited resources on portable devices
WTF? New iOS devices are more powerful than NeXTStep and original OS X machines.
The reason it became popular is because the iPhone & iPad are very popular in the mobile space. They aren't popular because of Obj-C, but rather a combination of user experience and marketing. Not only that, but if you want to develop on iOS, you have the choice of... Obj-C.
On the Desktop computer side of things, "Visual studio" is probably the most popular development environment, in part because Windows is the most popular platform, but even then there's still a choice of lanuages: VB, C++, C#.