Disabled. Haven't implemented them yet. The options work but the text to further describe them apparently hasn't been finalized (you try explaining to your mother why she needs a firewall).
Hopefully it'll be as stable as Win2000 (my Win2000 box is still my box of choice), but I can't help but think with all those new flashy graphic menus...
I sure hope that in a large network, it'll just show the logon name box.It's an option. You can set it to the default Windows 2000-like logon menu (the nice feature, though is that it saves the state of the session and tells you exactly what is running for each person. That's a nice touch).
Uh, dude. I think you've got issues with the software you installed. Not Windows 2K itself.
I also have run Win2K perfectly for the past few months, with nary a crash (perhaps once or twice, and only when I've been doing really stupid shit like trying to run two copies of Quake 3 as different processes). Hoyle's shouldn't cause an error -- although I have heard some games don't like the CD pulled in Windows 2000 (although, I'd like you to try that, without unmounting, in Linux and see what happens. You'd get some pretty similar, nasty results).
Other than that, did your girlfriend (seems like a moron -- no offense), bump the CD-ROM tray hard enough to unseat it. Did she install Comet Cursor or another pointer manager? Did she disconnect the mouse (Windows 2K detects this and removes the mouse pointer. A nice touch that Linux doesn't have, I may add). All of these things could have caused problems.
I've never had a single issue with word. And if I did, I'd just drop to the Task Manager or even the Command Prompt and kill the process. Just like in Linux.
Sure, Pokemon has help, but Nintendo were hardly a poor company before it, and would have survived without the fad.
I really don't so. Rather, I think without Pokemon they would've innovated a lot more and been pressured to push the GameCube out earlier.
Besides, they are still making the same mistakes which burned them on the N64:
- Claim - Cartridges will provide faster data access...
- Fact - at the cost of much, much smaller media. And, cartridges are a pain in the ass to pirate, vs. CDs. Helps Nintendo's profits more than anything.
- Claim - Mini-DVDs are the wave of the future from GameCube (or some such nonsense. I haven't actually seen a real advantage of Mini-DVDs over regular DVDs).
- Fact - More limited space. Same anti-privacy features so Nintendo can breathe easy.
One game success does not a console make. The whole fact that only a few games will come out for N64 this year, while games *continue* to come out for PS1, kind of shows the problem. I was a real fan of Nintendo. I bought a Nintendo 64 the day it came out for close to $400 (with a game and controller). Previously I had bought a SNES and Nintendo, never touching Genesis or Atari. Now I feel burned.
Today, I own a Dreamcast, which I love. My little brother owns a Playstation One and Two, and I'm selling my N64 and game collection on eBay.
You're wrong. The term for people nowadays who do "finite automata or database normalization" is "computer theorist". Finite automata comes into play with compiler construction (a programmer's field), and database normalization is taught in any basic data structures class.
The difference between a computer theorist, computer programmer and "computer scientist" is arbitrary. Science, according to Webster, is "The observation, identification, description, experimental investigation, and theoretical explanation of phenomena." You wouldn't say programming simulations of real-life events an "explanation of phenomena"?
I don't have terrible faith in Nintendo considering they've been riding the coattails of Pokemon for the past year or so. Very few games have been produced for the Nintendo 64, and the GameCube actually looks to be in for delays (surprise, surprise).
First, the game sucks. It's a bad Tie Fighter clone from the early 1990's.
But seeing as CmdrTaco like to make stupid statements, I say it's time we rag on him. Why is it that early on when I used to email him, he was always so *angry* and *insipid*? Why when people try to email him now, he doesn't respond? Why doesn't he ever post comments on his own site? Has the thrill of hosting the site lost luster for him, and if so, why doesn't he just hand it to someone else?
Rob seems so enraptured with attending tech shows where he gets to speak, and appearing in Newsweek, that he's forgotten what makes this site so great. Hint: it's not throwing a bias on a story on the front page. It's taking part in the discussion himself, answering email on occasion, and not being so goddamn *mean* to everyone, and everything, that doesn't pique his immediate interest.
More important was this story I submitted a few days ago and was rejected (as are most of my better stories. Sigh).
New Hampshire is considering taxing video games and movies, and using the money to help sex crime victims. Says proponents: "both forms of entertainment often feature sexual violence or portray woman as objects of sexual gratification".
Does anybody think the connection being made her is a little tenuous?
Wrong. If you install W2K using the hardware listed in their compatibility list (those pieces that Windows 2000 has drivers for) they will work out of box. Microsoft.com even has a whole section of their site with a tool that determines what hardware you have that works out of box, what you will need to install drivers for, and what hardware won't work at all. It's a web ap, and will work on any previous Windows system.
You install hardware that's on "Redhat's Hardware Compatibility List", and some works, some is autodetected, others aren't recognizable or usable at all without running config utilities and changing text config files. There is nothing that is excusable about that. If you don't want to install the hardware correctly, don't put it on your compatibility list.
I think a majority of Slashdotters really haven't used a Windows OS since 95, and are therefore shooting them all down. In my mind, Windows 2000 is as much a contender to Linux as Unix itself.
Uh, no. All of my hardware was recognized by Windows 2000 actually. I didn't need to configure anything at all. I've installed on multiple machines, and I get the same results for each
The KDE issue is well known. KDE has been having a variety of problems with sound (kde.org was peppered with user's problems).
By the way, it's a little discouraging that you would tell a student (which I am) that I have an issue of "not turning my speakers on". I'll have you know I've building and programming my computers since age 6. I got involved in the Linux effort around 16 and haven't looked back. This still doesn't excuse the fact that today, when Linux is trying to gain marketshare, that the sound still needs to be manually configured.
It's a good thing the professors at my college are a little more considerate. And that I'm not going to Indiana.
I read the documentation. I read the documentation for Redhat. That's all the documentation you should have to read to install a *RedHat* distro. I'm not writing Linux over multiple distros, I'm using one, and it should work. I also didn't need to run a config utility after I installed Windows.
Can you explain to me why a distro like RedHat shouldn't have KDE sound working out of the box? Why it can autoprobe the card just fine, but doesn't bother setting up the default configuration for KDE sound? While the www.kde.org website has a whole section devoted to it about installing the sound, because people have been having so much trouble?
The point is, if you have the default hardware (that which is on the compatibility lists), and install Windows 2000, every bit of hardware works correctly out of box. You set up the machine and everything just works. I didn't need to run any configuration utilities whatsoever.
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Disabled. Haven't implemented them yet. The options work but the text to further describe them apparently hasn't been finalized (you try explaining to your mother why she needs a firewall).
Second, the Ctrl-Alt-Delete thing to restart in Linux is user-configurable. You can turn that off for added securtity
Not to mention that OS X requires 1 gig and the same amount of memory for its default install...
Hopefully it'll be as stable as Win2000 (my Win2000 box is still my box of choice), but I can't help but think with all those new flashy graphic menus...
I sure hope that in a large network, it'll just show the logon name box.It's an option. You can set it to the default Windows 2000-like logon menu (the nice feature, though is that it saves the state of the session and tells you exactly what is running for each person. That's a nice touch).
OS X asks for 128MB of RAM and a gig of free hard drive space. Otherwise, the install doesn't even *run*.
Huh? Where did you get that information?
Have you tried installing Windows 2K in a fresh install? Like Linux, upgrading Windows 2K over a previous version is just asking for trouble.
I also have run Win2K perfectly for the past few months, with nary a crash (perhaps once or twice, and only when I've been doing really stupid shit like trying to run two copies of Quake 3 as different processes). Hoyle's shouldn't cause an error -- although I have heard some games don't like the CD pulled in Windows 2000 (although, I'd like you to try that, without unmounting, in Linux and see what happens. You'd get some pretty similar, nasty results).
Other than that, did your girlfriend (seems like a moron -- no offense), bump the CD-ROM tray hard enough to unseat it. Did she install Comet Cursor or another pointer manager? Did she disconnect the mouse (Windows 2K detects this and removes the mouse pointer. A nice touch that Linux doesn't have, I may add). All of these things could have caused problems.
I've never had a single issue with word. And if I did, I'd just drop to the Task Manager or even the Command Prompt and kill the process. Just like in Linux.
Hehe. That was worth a mod point.
I find it a little too cutesy as well, but I'd kill to have a Windows 2000 with backward compatibility with some software.
I'd argue against that, but I'm too tired right now to make my point.
I really don't so. Rather, I think without Pokemon they would've innovated a lot more and been pressured to push the GameCube out earlier.
Besides, they are still making the same mistakes which burned them on the N64:
- Claim - Cartridges will provide faster data access...
- Fact - at the cost of much, much smaller media. And, cartridges are a pain in the ass to pirate, vs. CDs. Helps Nintendo's profits more than anything.
- Claim - Mini-DVDs are the wave of the future from GameCube (or some such nonsense. I haven't actually seen a real advantage of Mini-DVDs over regular DVDs).
- Fact - More limited space. Same anti-privacy features so Nintendo can breathe easy.
One game success does not a console make. The whole fact that only a few games will come out for N64 this year, while games *continue* to come out for PS1, kind of shows the problem. I was a real fan of Nintendo. I bought a Nintendo 64 the day it came out for close to $400 (with a game and controller). Previously I had bought a SNES and Nintendo, never touching Genesis or Atari. Now I feel burned.
Today, I own a Dreamcast, which I love. My little brother owns a Playstation One and Two, and I'm selling my N64 and game collection on eBay.
The difference between a computer theorist, computer programmer and "computer scientist" is arbitrary. Science, according to Webster, is "The observation, identification, description, experimental investigation, and theoretical explanation of phenomena." You wouldn't say programming simulations of real-life events an "explanation of phenomena"?
I don't have terrible faith in Nintendo considering they've been riding the coattails of Pokemon for the past year or so. Very few games have been produced for the Nintendo 64, and the GameCube actually looks to be in for delays (surprise, surprise).
First, the game sucks. It's a bad Tie Fighter clone from the early 1990's.
But seeing as CmdrTaco like to make stupid statements, I say it's time we rag on him. Why is it that early on when I used to email him, he was always so *angry* and *insipid*? Why when people try to email him now, he doesn't respond? Why doesn't he ever post comments on his own site? Has the thrill of hosting the site lost luster for him, and if so, why doesn't he just hand it to someone else?
Rob seems so enraptured with attending tech shows where he gets to speak, and appearing in Newsweek, that he's forgotten what makes this site so great. Hint: it's not throwing a bias on a story on the front page. It's taking part in the discussion himself, answering email on occasion, and not being so goddamn *mean* to everyone, and everything, that doesn't pique his immediate interest.
New Hampshire is considering taxing video games and movies, and using the money to help sex crime victims. Says proponents: "both forms of entertainment often feature sexual violence or portray woman as objects of sexual gratification".
Does anybody think the connection being made her is a little tenuous?
Maybe there should be a "Stupid *nix Tricks" category for the watches, putting NetBSD on a Dreamcast, etc.
But the girls love all those buttons, plus extras on a "scientific" watch like sin, cos, etc. It's oh so sexy.
No.
Yo, chill dude. One can only wonder why the really mean people post as ACs.
It was my understanding that the "concession" never happened.
You install hardware that's on "Redhat's Hardware Compatibility List", and some works, some is autodetected, others aren't recognizable or usable at all without running config utilities and changing text config files. There is nothing that is excusable about that. If you don't want to install the hardware correctly, don't put it on your compatibility list.
I think a majority of Slashdotters really haven't used a Windows OS since 95, and are therefore shooting them all down. In my mind, Windows 2000 is as much a contender to Linux as Unix itself.
The KDE issue is well known. KDE has been having a variety of problems with sound (kde.org was peppered with user's problems).
By the way, it's a little discouraging that you would tell a student (which I am) that I have an issue of "not turning my speakers on". I'll have you know I've building and programming my computers since age 6. I got involved in the Linux effort around 16 and haven't looked back. This still doesn't excuse the fact that today, when Linux is trying to gain marketshare, that the sound still needs to be manually configured.
It's a good thing the professors at my college are a little more considerate. And that I'm not going to Indiana.
I read the documentation. I read the documentation for Redhat. That's all the documentation you should have to read to install a *RedHat* distro. I'm not writing Linux over multiple distros, I'm using one, and it should work. I also didn't need to run a config utility after I installed Windows.
Can you explain to me why a distro like RedHat shouldn't have KDE sound working out of the box? Why it can autoprobe the card just fine, but doesn't bother setting up the default configuration for KDE sound? While the www.kde.org website has a whole section devoted to it about installing the sound, because people have been having so much trouble?
The point is, if you have the default hardware (that which is on the compatibility lists), and install Windows 2000, every bit of hardware works correctly out of box. You set up the machine and everything just works. I didn't need to run any configuration utilities whatsoever.