The PCjr was a joke, as was Bill Sydnes who commissioned it while at IBM. Another example of his handiwork is the death of Commodore (specifically the Amiga).
One of the main reasons why so many people use AOL is because AOL is easier to use than many other interfaces. Having the protocol is the start on the road to an openAOL, but it will still need good, user-friendly client software.
- Keep it up-to-date. This can be a problem as some of them (ie Norton Antivirus) only give you free updates for a limited amount of time, forcing you to buy a new box each year.
- Do weekly thorough scans of your computer.
- Do not use Outlook or Outlook Express for email. I've used Eudora for six years without ever being infected by a virus because of it.
- Do not open up attachments if your virus checker is not running (which should be on all the time anyway).
- Use a firewall program, eg Zone Alarm. You might want to run a tutorial for non-techies so they can follow how to use it.
- If you use any instant messaging programs and people send you files through it, do not open them unless your checker is running (see above).
- If you get a virus, first try cleaning the file, or if that doesn't work, simply delete it.
Epic's site says "Customization: C++, Java, Perl, TCL and Visual Basic programs can be written to customize Epic Editor operation." so you should be able to grab some of the code off the net (eg WinCVS's) and link in CVS support yourself.
Do not underestimate the power of peer pressure and marketting, which have already destroyed most people's long term health. How many times have you seen banner ads with skinny late-teen girls holding out these size 30 pants in front of them with a slogan saying that you too can loose that unsightly 10lbs before school starts again, and that was from a website which purported to be responsible.
Given FDA acceptance, and just a little bit of time, and you'll have most of the "modern" world living off the damn thing.
Here's a method that has always worked for my wife and I: the easiest way to prevent unwanted pregnancy is to force your girlfriend/wife to watch at least one episode of Southpark, and after that you won't see her for a week. Continued long enough this can avoid all the normal problems associated with failed birth control, eg pickle-jam sandwiches and offspring dropping out of school.
Just so you know, this rumor has being doing the circuits for yonks and is a complete joke. Apple is one of Motorola's smaller PPC clients, most PPCs go into embedded systems, eg cars, etc.
The "New" Amiga ideology is to have a 'Digital Environment' which can be either be hosted on another OS (Palm OS, Sharp's TaurusOS, Windows, Linux, etc, etc), or run on their own native hardware (due RSN). Couple this and the write-once-run-anywhere abilities of their core programming languages, and you have an amazingly powerful system for emersing yourself in digital media and content, which is where the industry is moving.
And yes, you'll still have a command line interface if you want it:-)
The whole point of the new initiative is to have a "digital environment" that can run hosted on other OSes, on everything from a Palm or Sharp palmtop to a Windows or Linux desktop to their own brand of hardware which they have licensees building right now. The old OS is being re-written (in stages) to be a high-end media warehouse system and they are merging their current AmigaDE (Digital Environment) layer into it for what will be one heck of a powerful and user-friendly OS.
One suggestion would be to appeal to the Supreme Court and make it a constitutional issue. I'm sure some of the heavy-weight laywers would get involved in it to solve this problem once-and-for-all.
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Component Source's RCS systems can work pretty well with CVS repositories as of the 1.1 release of RCSPro, and gives end-users all the Windows-isms they want, like context menus and pop-up windows when you edit files in most applications. They are also working on direct pserver support for a product called CS-CVS, though I'm not sure if it is an addon for RCSPro or a new product.
It's the sound you mean when you're either kicked in the nugglies or you aren't careful when you fasten up.. then again most names can be taken funny, you just have to find the right incentive.
Ever consider doing a small number of initial prints yourselves and selling them on eg EBay or your own site, and then when you've got people going crazy for it, walk up to a larger publisher and ask for $$$? Basically start a cult following, get lots of publicity over doing it all by hand to start with, and then use the free publicity to launch yourselves into the market properly. I'd buy a set.
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Some geeks also want to be able to buy food, support their cats, and go to an occasional movie with their wife, so it can't /all/ be for free.
If you're going to put Linux or *BSD on it, what difference does it make?
I moved from Ireland to the US and have to re-buy all the movies I bought because I can't play them on American VCRs. Is that fair?
Been five minutes waiting for that site to load. Time that someone used a proper CSM rather than those PHPNuke pieces o' ####.
The PCjr was a joke, as was Bill Sydnes who commissioned it while at IBM. Another example of his handiwork is the death of Commodore (specifically the Amiga).
When Mandrake 8.1 came out many people flamed it for using a custom kernel. RH has done exactly the same thing again, but no flaming. What gives?
One of the main reasons why so many people use AOL is because AOL is easier to use than many other interfaces. Having the protocol is the start on the road to an openAOL, but it will still need good, user-friendly client software.
Here's some suggestions for your speach:
- Buy a virus checker.
- Run it all the time.
- Keep it up-to-date. This can be a problem as some of them (ie Norton Antivirus) only give you free updates for a limited amount of time, forcing you to buy a new box each year.
- Do weekly thorough scans of your computer.
- Do not use Outlook or Outlook Express for email. I've used Eudora for six years without ever being infected by a virus because of it.
- Do not open up attachments if your virus checker is not running (which should be on all the time anyway).
- Use a firewall program, eg Zone Alarm. You might want to run a tutorial for non-techies so they can follow how to use it.
- If you use any instant messaging programs and people send you files through it, do not open them unless your checker is running (see above).
- If you get a virus, first try cleaning the file, or if that doesn't work, simply delete it.
This should avert 99% of possible virus attacks.
> CPU: AMD Thunderbird 1.2GHz Socket A 266MHz
:)
> RAM: DDR SDRAM 2100 2 * 256 MB
Cool.
> Harddrive: Western Digital Caviar 7200 RPM 40 GB
Get a cheap Maxtor 40gig instead - faster, more reliable and standards compliant.
> Motherboard: Asus A7M266, AMD761-chipsett,
Not one I know about, but sure
> Sound Card: Creative Soundblaster Live! 1024
Either stick with the onboard audio, get something that Linux has OS drivers for, or an Audigy.
> Video Card: Matrox Millenium G450 32MB DDR-Ram, Bulk
Pretty good card, if you're not after the latest games. If you are, get a Radeon.
> CRT: Samtron 96P
CRT? Pah. Get the Planar 17.4" LCD instead - 25ns refresh, DVI+analog. Have a look at Anandtech Forums for some comments.
> CD-ROM-drive: Creative 52x IDE
The Liteon 24x is possibly the best drive on the market, especially if you want to be able to make backups (for legit use).
Damien
Epic's site says "Customization: C++, Java, Perl, TCL and Visual Basic programs can be written to customize Epic Editor operation." so you should be able to grab some of the code off the net (eg WinCVS's) and link in CVS support yourself.
Do not underestimate the power of peer pressure and marketting, which have already destroyed most people's long term health. How many times have you seen banner ads with skinny late-teen girls holding out these size 30 pants in front of them with a slogan saying that you too can loose that unsightly 10lbs before school starts again, and that was from a website which purported to be responsible.
Given FDA acceptance, and just a little bit of time, and you'll have most of the "modern" world living off the damn thing.
Here's a method that has always worked for my wife and I: the easiest way to prevent unwanted pregnancy is to force your girlfriend/wife to watch at least one episode of Southpark, and after that you won't see her for a week. Continued long enough this can avoid all the normal problems associated with failed birth control, eg pickle-jam sandwiches and offspring dropping out of school.
Just so you know, this rumor has being doing the circuits for yonks and is a complete joke. Apple is one of Motorola's smaller PPC clients, most PPCs go into embedded systems, eg cars, etc.
RAID? Striping? Network storage servers?
.. although marketting will be part of it.
:-)
The "New" Amiga ideology is to have a 'Digital Environment' which can be either be hosted on another OS (Palm OS, Sharp's TaurusOS, Windows, Linux, etc, etc), or run on their own native hardware (due RSN). Couple this and the write-once-run-anywhere abilities of their core programming languages, and you have an amazingly powerful system for emersing yourself in digital media and content, which is where the industry is moving.
And yes, you'll still have a command line interface if you want it
The whole point of the new initiative is to have a "digital environment" that can run hosted on other OSes, on everything from a Palm or Sharp palmtop to a Windows or Linux desktop to their own brand of hardware which they have licensees building right now. The old OS is being re-written (in stages) to be a high-end media warehouse system and they are merging their current AmigaDE (Digital Environment) layer into it for what will be one heck of a powerful and user-friendly OS.
One suggestion would be to appeal to the Supreme Court and make it a constitutional issue. I'm sure some of the heavy-weight laywers would get involved in it to solve this problem once-and-for-all.
You're scaring me pal, I'm going to sue you!
"Present them!"
"Touche teacher!"
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Component Source's RCS systems can work pretty well with CVS repositories as of the 1.1 release of RCSPro, and gives end-users all the Windows-isms they want, like context menus and pop-up windows when you edit files in most applications. They are also working on direct pserver support for a product called CS-CVS, though I'm not sure if it is an addon for RCSPro or a new product.
Why not just sue everyone?
If a local newspaper covers the same article that a national newspaper covers, then they are violating their rights to cover a story.
Corel, the KOffice team, etc, are restricting Microsoft's office-suite market, therefore Microsoft should sue them.
My car doesn't last 1000 years without needing to be refueled and serviced, so I should sue the manufacturer for selling defective parts.
We should sue the weather news people for bringing bad weather upon us.
And most of all...
We should sue our parents for bringing us into this godforsaken place.
No problems here, and running on Win2k. I haven't installed their latest 5.01s update though, but it has been fine with both 5.0 and 5.01.
If that's true, then why do you fail a pot drug test if you eat hemp oil? Outdated drug testing procedures?
It's the sound you mean when you're either kicked in the nugglies or you aren't careful when you fasten up.. then again most names can be taken funny, you just have to find the right incentive.
Ever consider doing a small number of initial prints yourselves and selling them on eg EBay or your own site, and then when you've got people going crazy for it, walk up to a larger publisher and ask for $$$? Basically start a cult following, get lots of publicity over doing it all by hand to start with, and then use the free publicity to launch yourselves into the market properly. I'd buy a set.
Ug The Caveman must have dropped his C64 and not remembered where he left it...