Unless you're playing a lot of games, you really shouldn't need to reboot more than once a day, and if you do, then there's probably something wrong with your install.
You call this stable? Once a day!? That's at least 6 times too often!
Once a week seems more reasonable to me, but since IE seems to leak memory like an incontinent grandma (at least here, YMMV, etc.), any system under active Net use needs to be rebooted more than that. Of course, there are also the times when Win9x goes into full Helen Keller mode and the only recourse is the reset button; for me, this sometimes daily and other times almost never -- phase of the moon? tides? lack of candles and chicken sacrifices? random instability generator?
The Big Deal in 1991 from MS was DOS 5.0, Win 3.0 (from 1990), and the announcement of VB (the joy! the horror!). NT was still a "glimmer in [Bill's] eye". NT (such as it was) was still 2 years off.
NT 3.1 was released in 1991. Development was rumoured to effectively have begun in 1987. Linus didn't start development until 1991, and didn't "release" anything to anyone until 1993.
05/24/93 Microsoft formally launches Microsoft Windows NT at Windows World in Atlanta. Windows NT delivers a powerful, reliable and open platform for client-server solutions - business applications ranging from inventory management to sales automation to financial analysis. It can also scale to meet the user's increasing processing needs because it has no internal system constraints on resources and provides consistent support for Intel, RISC and multiprocessor systems. It is scheduled to be released in 60 days.
and this, from linux.org
Linus had an interest in Minix, a small UNIX system, and decided to develop a system that exceeded the Minix standards. He began his work in 1991 when he released version 0.02 and worked steadily until 1994 when version 1.0 of the Linux Kernel was released.
Having used NT 3.1 extensively, I can assure you that it was rushed and felt very beta. However, Linux.02 was released in 1991 and hit 1.0 in 1994. It spent a lot of time in development in between, but it was mostly stable from the get-go.
BTW, it took me longer to type this than to find these sources. Poke around first next time.
Yeah, but you were on Disney property -- not having a camcorder is unusual. The pale weirdos from up North wouldn't be caught without one. Even seen them taping the Virgin Megastore there. Taping Bongos, the giant McDonald's, or the enormous world of Disney, OK. But the Virgin Megastore?!
Going off-topic: And please please please, don't say Orlando! I have some friends in Kissimmee, and they get upset when people confuse the area (it bothers me when people say Tampa instead of Tampa Bay -- the Devil Rays play in St Pete, not Tampa...listening, ABC?). All of Disney is technically in Lake Buena Vista, a town that Disney founded, and for which Disney provides fire, phone, and water services.
You seem to have the same problem I have. I have a cable modem (10 Mb/s, and yes, I have seen it hit 1 MB/s!), but most of the sites with illegal copies (MPEG movies and MP3s) seem to be somewhere in Outer Slobonia and served off of some ancient 75 bps acoustic coupler -- I may be exaggerating slightly, but you understand. The RIAA and the MPA need to start telling the truth about this kind of thing instead of lying to help their cause.
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Where on my HD is eBay info stored? Its not...
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Am I missing something?
The way it works is that when you type in your username/passwd in order to make the bid, the JScript sends that to the originator and passes the bid info on to eBay. So, it's more like a Trojan.
To turn this into a real virus, take the username/passwd combos you have collected, use them to log in and modify that user's auction pages to include the JScript, and it starts to spread...Do it automatically, and there's a problem. How long before that?
Read your page...well put! I understand what you're saying entirely. I was lucky in that I went to a 'magnet' high school for tech/sci/math. We were mixed in our gen ed classes with the mainstream high schoolers, and they called us nerds and losers. However, we turned it on them and took the appellation of nerd with pride. We started calling ourselves nerds. Thankfully, there were 100 of us in my class, and we stuck together fairly well. Of course, there were the popular nerds (fit in well with the gen ed) and the outcast nerds (didn't fit in at all), but the outcasts outnumbered the populars, so we were all pretty OK.
And of course, we get the jobs we love and pay well, doing things we might well do for free!
Back in the 40s and 50s... Mom stayed home.. the family had less money but they were closer.. they didn't have 2 to 3 cars.. they didn't have a house that had 3 tvs, with VCRs, cable, etc. hooked up to them... but they didn't care.. they had each other...
Back in the 40s and 50s, Mom lead a dreary, meaningless existence and existed to serve her family. Dad was an alcoholic in a gray flannel suit, who started on the martinis when he got home and demanded dinner when he walked in.
So if parents started to bring up their children right, that includes discipline (spanking), respect for authority, made to make good grades in school, and just a bed and a few toys in there room until they're 13 or 14.
My mom always taught me to question and evaluate authority. Rule by fiat is abnormal to me.
Yes, Spanking. I am a product of spanking. It works. I am a 4.0 student in high school and at the top of my class. I say "Yes, Sir." and "No, Sir." and when I backtalk I get slapped in the mouth. My parents words are final and there is NO questioning. Because of my achevements, that how I get the computer that is sitting on my desk and the truck that I drive. If I screw it up, I lose both and the CD player in my room and the CDs that go with it. I atttend Sevrices Sunday morning, Sunday night, and Wednesday night. Religon is a major factor in a childs development. And the parent MUST follow the same rules of the child, that is to say, set an example.
My mother never hit me. I didn't get a 4.0 all the time, but my grades are good enough for a full academic scholarship. Growing up, I always had a cable TV in my bedroom; does that make me spoiled? Moreover, I am an atheist. My mother is a devout Baptist, but she does not mind my decision not to follow her beliefs. She believes it is an extension of the questioning of authority. Religion does not necessarily make a good child, and neither does corporal punishment. Different things work for different children, and your recommendations would most likely have led me to a bitter, hateful existence. However, it seems to have worked fine for you. General parenting pronouncements are a Bad Thing.
This is oddddddd. I had formatted this, but it seems to have stripped it. Between `re: geeks' and `work at it' should be italic and set apart from the rest...very strange.
re: geeks -- I was a classic techie geek at the age of 17, emotionally withdrawn and not a happy bunny. God knows I fantasised enough about blowing the heads off the UK equiv. of 'jocks'... fortunately I couldn't get a gun, and eventually grew up & realised that though I had smaller muscles, I had a more brains:) and that they get you status, too, if you work at it. I think that most of the slashdotters were probably not the most popular people in high school. We're a bunch of geeks and nerds. However, most of us were either mature enough to realize that killing the jocks would be a serious career-limiting move or intelligent enough to know that someday we would have better jobs than the jocks. The problem is that in US society, even adult geeks are ridiculed for being unpopular and strange, and when the mainstream culture crosses into our enormous world (as with the growth of the Net), they get confused and decide that we're still geeks and not worth their time. The upside of this is (I guess) that eventually, we will run things. Besides, only a geek can get hired without any (or limited) college experience into a 6-figure job.
I have absolutely no idea. I agree that it would be an excellent keyboard, as that is one thing that IBM (Lexmark?) has always excelled at. Those original PS/2s may not have had 5.25" floppies (in 1987! like the iMac today!), but they had great keyboards.
You can get new ones here. I ordered mine from them, and it is a certified classic...it has the speaker on the bottom, the slip-on keycaps, and the (c)1984 IBM Corp on the bottom.
So you use Explorer at work? Is there a special force that keeps you away from Netscape? I'll tell you a site that isn't blocked for MSIE. - www.netscape.com It may be blocked by BackOffice (as seen on their howto page) by you'll get around that. Then you download the installer and you have a nice new browser.
Many institutions have extremely strict policies on what can and cannot be done by their end users. Software installation is usually on the "Cannot do" list.
(unfortunatly some prefer MSIE for some reason).
I happen to prefer IE, thank you very much. I wish MS would get their heads out of the sand and port it to Linux.
Sites that blocks MSIE are preserving our freedom, even though they actually block it.
Sites that block IE haven't figured out that MS's lock on the desktop has more to do with Win, Office, and undocumented APIs as well as OEM deals, not browser dominance. They do not (yet?) own the W3C. The choice of user agent is not political.
Alas, that's not all of it. Sites that have been generated by Frontapge, Use broken MSIE HTML to force the use of MSIE. They "block" Netscape or any other non-msie page, and are very common. And should I mention "sorry you must use ActiveX" sites?
That is so not true. Frontpage may not generate perfect HTML, but Navigator (not Netscape! That really bugs them!) usually renders it fine. Granted, Navigator doesn't always render table cell backgrounds correctly, but that's hardly Frontpage's fault.
Many sites like that, contain also ? instead of 's, if we browse them with linux. I can tell you, that almost every commercial site never cares, and we are being "blocked".
The question mark/apostrophe thing is an issue of character sets. I've often run into the same problem when converting documents from Mac -> PC and back again. Again, not an issue of political importance.
Sometimes a political stand, is much more important then a content.
And sometimes, you'll just annoy people into thinking people with your stance are bothersome and immature.
(as I, a Canadian, know well) They sure do grow 'em weird up there, don't they? Dave Foley, Scott Thompson, and Crysgem...maybe it's the air, or the Molson?
I can't imagine Red Hat's installer "How many network cards do you have, but then again maybe it does, I'm a Slackware kinda person...
I can assure you that it does not. I have two: 3Com 3c900 (PCI, 10BaseT) and 3c503 (ISA, 10Base2 -- don't laugh; I got four of 'em for free!). It detected and properly set up the 900, but I was left to my own devices with the 503; RH found the one and assumed that it was all I had. These biased and clueless newbies may not have even been using the other NICs at all.
They act as though frequent updates are a Bad Thing. As if hoping and praying that the next NT SP will fix your problem, be released within the next year, and be affordable were better...
they were using a ZD program to test SMB performance?
So? ZDBOp's own tests on Linux (using lowly 2.0.36) showed that it was almost twice fast as NT. In fact, the headline of the article was Linux Up Close: Time To Switch. Unfortunately, this version has pulled the damning charts.
Carefull with Cracker. It's well used in a negative light down here in the South US, to refer to white males ~18-27. Referring specifically to the Georgia Crackers, men who unloaded the slaving ships in Savanaha with whips.
I think I've mentioned this before, but "cracker" is not necessarily derogatory, and your etymology is wrong. "Cracker" was the name for cattle drivers (who did use whips, but only on cows) in south Georgia and Florida. It can be derogatory, but many call themselves "crackers" as a point of pride, especally among Florida natives, who make up only 1/3 of our population. Also, it is not restricted to age.
The Newton logo (in a background kind, like gray and embossed) can be found here. Extremely cool, in my opinion; but I'm still attached to my MessagePad 110.
The question was not whether Matsushita is owned by anyone; it is whether the format they are pushing (AudioDVD) is owned by anyone (like Betamax) or an open standard (like VHS). Read harder.
This program takes a list of names on separate lines and sorts them.
[1 J^P$L$$
J <.-Z;.,(S,$ -D.)FX1 @F^B $K:L I $ G1 L>$$
(where ^B means `Control-B' (ASCII 0000010) and $ is actually an alt or escape (ASCII 0011011) character).
In fact, this very program was used to produce the second, sorted list from the first list. The first hack at it had a bug: GLS (the author) had accidentally omitted the @ in front of F^B, which as anyone can see is clearly the Wrong Thing. It worked fine the second time. There is no space to describe all the features of TECO, but it may be of interest that ^P means `sort' and J <.-Z;... L> is an idiomatic series of commands for `do once for every line'.
Almost as bad as INTERCAL.
And/. is still doin' that thing with the < and >.
You should babelfish (babblefish?) the whole article:
A well-known company with a aenlichen slogan requested us to remove our sub-title from the homepage. We fulfill this request naturally - however where do we want to go then tomorrow? -) We mean: There again a knackiger message must. For this reason we organize now a competition competition competition.
Do you have a knackigen message in stock, which strikes others from the socks? Then ago with it!
To win there is naturally also somewhat... which, that yet not betrayed. As much is said: the hauptgewinn is rather large and does not fit now really into a CD ROM drive;-)
As is the case for each competition there is also a selection: Your voice for the best Linux linux-Slogan delivers! Starting from 1 May the " wahlurnen " are open.
Anyone got a slogan that "strikes others from the socks"? Because "as much is said: the hauptgewinn is rather large and does not fit now really into a CD ROM drive."
I have to say that my hauptgewinn is getting too big for my CD drive.
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Unless you're playing a lot of games, you really shouldn't need to reboot more than once a day, and if you do, then there's probably something wrong with your install.
You call this stable? Once a day!? That's at least 6 times too often!
Once a week seems more reasonable to me, but since IE seems to leak memory like an incontinent grandma (at least here, YMMV, etc.), any system under active Net use needs to be rebooted more than that. Of course, there are also the times when Win9x goes into full Helen Keller mode and the only recourse is the reset button; for me, this sometimes daily and other times almost never -- phase of the moon? tides? lack of candles and chicken sacrifices? random instability generator?
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NT 3.1 was released in 1991. Development was rumoured to effectively have begun in 1987. Linus didn't start development until 1991, and didn't "release" anything to anyone until 1993.
Perhaps you may find thi interesting. This is from the Microsoft Museum Timeline
Microsoft Launches Windows NT at Windows World
05/24/93 Microsoft formally launches Microsoft Windows NT at Windows World in Atlanta. Windows NT delivers a powerful, reliable and open platform for client-server solutions - business applications ranging from inventory management to sales automation to financial analysis. It can also scale to meet the user's increasing processing needs because it has no internal system constraints on resources and provides consistent support for Intel, RISC and multiprocessor systems. It is scheduled to be released in 60 days.
and this, from linux.org
Linus had an interest in Minix, a small UNIX system, and decided to develop a system that exceeded the Minix standards. He began his work in 1991 when he released version 0.02 and worked steadily until 1994 when version 1.0 of the Linux Kernel was released.
Having used NT 3.1 extensively, I can assure you that it was rushed and felt very beta. However, Linux .02 was released in 1991 and hit 1.0 in 1994. It spent a lot of time in development in between, but it was mostly stable from the get-go.
BTW, it took me longer to type this than to find these sources. Poke around first next time.
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Yeah, but you were on Disney property -- not having a camcorder is unusual. The pale weirdos from up North wouldn't be caught without one. Even seen them taping the Virgin Megastore there. Taping Bongos, the giant McDonald's, or the enormous world of Disney, OK. But the Virgin Megastore?!
Going off-topic: And please please please, don't say Orlando! I have some friends in Kissimmee, and they get upset when people confuse the area (it bothers me when people say Tampa instead of Tampa Bay -- the Devil Rays play in St Pete, not Tampa...listening, ABC?). All of Disney is technically in Lake Buena Vista, a town that Disney founded, and for which Disney provides fire, phone, and water services.
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Am I missing something?
The way it works is that when you type in your username/passwd in order to make the bid, the JScript sends that to the originator and passes the bid info on to eBay. So, it's more like a Trojan.
To turn this into a real virus, take the username/passwd combos you have collected, use them to log in and modify that user's auction pages to include the JScript, and it starts to spread...Do it automatically, and there's a problem. How long before that?
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Read your page...well put! I understand what you're saying entirely. I was lucky in that I went to a 'magnet' high school for tech/sci/math. We were mixed in our gen ed classes with the mainstream high schoolers, and they called us nerds and losers. However, we turned it on them and took the appellation of nerd with pride. We started calling ourselves nerds. Thankfully, there were 100 of us in my class, and we stuck together fairly well. Of course, there were the popular nerds (fit in well with the gen ed) and the outcast nerds (didn't fit in at all), but the outcasts outnumbered the populars, so we were all pretty OK.
And of course, we get the jobs we love and pay well, doing things we might well do for free!
Mike
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Back in the 40s and 50s... Mom stayed home.. the family had less money but they were closer.. they didn't have 2 to 3 cars.. they didn't have a house that had 3 tvs, with VCRs, cable, etc. hooked up to them... but they didn't care.. they had each other...
Back in the 40s and 50s, Mom lead a dreary, meaningless existence and existed to serve her family. Dad was an alcoholic in a gray flannel suit, who started on the martinis when he got home and demanded dinner when he walked in.
So if parents started to bring up their children right, that includes discipline (spanking), respect for authority, made to make good grades in school, and just a bed and a few toys in there room until they're 13 or 14.
My mom always taught me to question and evaluate authority. Rule by fiat is abnormal to me.
Yes, Spanking. I am a product of spanking. It works. I am a 4.0 student in high school and at the top of my class. I say "Yes, Sir." and "No, Sir." and when I backtalk I get slapped in the mouth. My parents words are final and there is NO questioning. Because of my achevements, that how I get the computer that is sitting on my desk and the truck that I drive. If I screw it up, I lose both and the CD player in my room and the CDs that go with it. I atttend Sevrices Sunday morning, Sunday night, and Wednesday night. Religon is a major factor in a childs development. And the parent MUST follow the same rules of the child, that is to say, set an example.
My mother never hit me. I didn't get a 4.0 all the time, but my grades are good enough for a full academic scholarship. Growing up, I always had a cable TV in my bedroom; does that make me spoiled? Moreover, I am an atheist. My mother is a devout Baptist, but she does not mind my decision not to follow her beliefs. She believes it is an extension of the questioning of authority. Religion does not necessarily make a good child, and neither does corporal punishment. Different things work for different children, and your recommendations would most likely have led me to a bitter, hateful existence. However, it seems to have worked fine for you. General parenting pronouncements are a Bad Thing.
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If I wrote boring text web pages, *I'd* be the one getting fired
And ALT="descriptor" in your IMG tags would be so difficult? lazy, lazy lazy...
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So you use Explorer at work? Is there a special force that keeps you away from Netscape? I'll tell you a site that isn't blocked for MSIE. - www.netscape.com It may be blocked by BackOffice (as seen on their howto page) by you'll get around that. Then you download the installer and you have a nice new browser.
Many institutions have extremely strict policies on what can and cannot be done by their end users. Software installation is usually on the "Cannot do" list.
(unfortunatly some prefer MSIE for some reason).
I happen to prefer IE, thank you very much. I wish MS would get their heads out of the sand and port it to Linux.
Sites that blocks MSIE are preserving our freedom, even though they actually block it.
Sites that block IE haven't figured out that MS's lock on the desktop has more to do with Win, Office, and undocumented APIs as well as OEM deals, not browser dominance. They do not (yet?) own the W3C. The choice of user agent is not political.
Alas, that's not all of it. Sites that have been generated by Frontapge, Use broken MSIE HTML to force the use of MSIE. They "block" Netscape or any other non-msie page, and are very common. And should I mention "sorry you must use ActiveX" sites?
That is so not true. Frontpage may not generate perfect HTML, but Navigator (not Netscape! That really bugs them!) usually renders it fine. Granted, Navigator doesn't always render table cell backgrounds correctly, but that's hardly Frontpage's fault.
Many sites like that, contain also ? instead of 's, if we browse them with linux. I can tell you, that almost every commercial site never cares, and we are being "blocked".
The question mark/apostrophe thing is an issue of character sets. I've often run into the same problem when converting documents from Mac -> PC and back again. Again, not an issue of political importance.
Sometimes a political stand, is much more important then a content.
And sometimes, you'll just annoy people into thinking people with your stance are bothersome and immature.
Mike
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I can't imagine Red Hat's installer "How many network cards do you have, but then again maybe it does, I'm a Slackware kinda person...
I can assure you that it does not. I have two: 3Com 3c900 (PCI, 10BaseT) and 3c503 (ISA, 10Base2 -- don't laugh; I got four of 'em for free!). It detected and properly set up the 900, but I was left to my own devices with the 503; RH found the one and assumed that it was all I had. These biased and clueless newbies may not have even been using the other NICs at all.
Mike
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They act as though frequent updates are a Bad Thing. As if hoping and praying that the next NT SP will fix your problem, be released within the next year, and be affordable were better...
grrr...
Mike
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they were using a ZD program to test SMB performance?
So? ZDBOp's own tests on Linux (using lowly 2.0.36) showed that it was almost twice fast as NT. In fact, the headline of the article was Linux Up Close: Time To Switch. Unfortunately, this version has pulled the damning charts.
Mike
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Carefull with Cracker. It's well used in a negative light down here in the South US, to refer to white males ~18-27. Referring specifically to the Georgia Crackers, men who unloaded the slaving ships in Savanaha with whips.
I think I've mentioned this before, but "cracker" is not necessarily derogatory, and your etymology is wrong. "Cracker" was the name for cattle drivers (who did use whips, but only on cows) in south Georgia and Florida. It can be derogatory, but many call themselves "crackers" as a point of pride, especally among Florida natives, who make up only 1/3 of our population. Also, it is not restricted to age.
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Was it just straight off the linux.de homepage
Almost...clicked on the full story link.
Here's the reference to TECO you mentioned:
This program takes a list of names on separate lines and sorts them.
[1 J^P$L$$
J <.-Z; .,(S,$ -D .)FX1 @F^B $K :L I $ G1 L>$$
(where ^B means `Control-B' (ASCII 0000010) and $ is actually an alt or escape (ASCII 0011011) character).
In fact, this very program was used to produce the second, sorted list from the first list. The first hack at it had a bug: GLS (the author) had accidentally omitted the @ in front of F^B, which as anyone can see is clearly the Wrong Thing. It worked fine the second time. There is no space to describe all the features of TECO, but it may be of interest that ^P means `sort' and J <.-Z; ... L> is an idiomatic series of commands for `do once for every line'.
Almost as bad as INTERCAL.
And /. is still doin' that thing with the < and >.
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You should babelfish (babblefish?) the whole article:
A well-known company with a aenlichen slogan requested us to remove our sub-title from the homepage. We fulfill this request naturally - however where do we want to go then tomorrow? -) We mean: There again a knackiger message must. For this reason we organize now a competition competition competition.
Do you have a knackigen message in stock, which strikes others from the socks? Then ago with it!
To win there is naturally also somewhat... which, that yet not betrayed. As much is said: the hauptgewinn is rather large and does not fit now really into a CD ROM drive ;-)
As is the case for each competition there is also a selection: Your voice for the best Linux linux-Slogan delivers! Starting from 1 May the " wahlurnen " are open.
Anyone got a slogan that "strikes others from the socks"? Because "as much is said: the hauptgewinn is rather large and does not fit now really into a CD ROM drive."
I have to say that my hauptgewinn is getting too big for my CD drive.Mike
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