From what I have been able to understand, Unix/Linux can run for weeks without user intervention (please advise me if I have come to an incorrect conclusion)
Waaaaaait a minute- Don't your NT servers run that long? At work, e have an NT4 SP6a file server and an NT4 SP6a web/mail server... The last time I even remember the file server being rebooted is because someone hit the power button on the UPS. The web/mail server easily stays up over a month at a time... I'm assuming it crashes because it doesn't have all of the latest patches and someone's been screwing around with it- I haven't bothered keeping up with the patches because it takes forever on a machine that slow, and we have a Win2k box that's replacing it. Other than that, the only reason to have to mess with the thing is to install all of the stupid service packs. *sigh* Someday they'll make that easier.
Win2k was a different matter. It didn't like the new on-board IDE controller and blue-screened upon bootup.
Did you read any of the help files beforehand? Win2k does NOT like you changing hardware, ever... especially if your motherboard is using ACPI. I had problems with a simple upgraded driver for the on-board IDE as well - I had to boot to a command prompt in recovery mode and enable the default IDE device, then get back into Windows and uninstall the new drivers. By the way, those were VIA's latest 4-in-1 drivers a month or two ago.
I don't necessarily think Win2k is evil... but I do think ACPI is. Anyone else got an ECP parallel port set to DMA 0 when 3 isn't being used by anything? Damn shitty Compaq Presarios... Oh well.
There's something that didn't even occur to me... I remember a few years back a friend of mine bought a compilation of old Atari games that was basically the ROMs with a bundled Atari emulator... from Atari. Damn. Why do people have to make things so complicated? =)
Processtree was the first thought in my head when I saw this article...
(Although he didn't have to post the link with his sponsor number in it... Exactly why I strip those numbers out when I go to look at sites like that... greedy bastards...)
The weird thing is, there was at least one build I downloaded where I swore the borders disappeared... and I thought to myself, "Damn, that looks a lot better..." And a few days later they were back again. *sigh*
The saving preferences actually works now... that annoyed the hell out of me too. Try downloading a newer build... there's a reason Netscape chose to release now... it's semi-useable (more so than IE2 was, and MS released that...)
Since the first build I downloaded (early this summer, I think), the Mozilla Win32 binary has ALWAYS asked on first load which files you want to associate with it... There's a seperate checkbox for each and every one of those files you're complaining about. I generally let it open.js files and turn the rest of the options off. It's really not that hard to do, nor has it ever 'forgotten' on me and chosen to open them all anyhow.
They suck. Get the nightlies. Yes, they may crash on you occasionally, but the milestones seem to be crashing on you anyhow. The milestones basically say, "We need to have this, this, and this working before we can build Mxx." The nightlies have the latest features and patches, which makes it slightly more likely that it will run perfectly on your system the next day. I'm just amazed that the little thingie they like to call 'transparency' actually works as of a few days ago... my web sites look a tad better now. (I tend to use magenta for the transparent color in my images - magenta over dark blue was just not looking very nice...)
On a side note: Has anyone else seen that awful Digital Convergence "Infomercial" about the cuecat? You know, the one where the students and teachers (in our future) revel in the fact that the Cuecat and it's related technologies will be single-most important factor in labotomizing the Internet and the Information Age?
Ick... I caught some of that damn program... Sounded like an attempt at brainwashing if I ever heard one... kinda scary actually... these guys seem hell-bent on trying to take over at least part of the world or something... I sure hope they run themselves into the ground soon. I never did bother to get a:Cue:Cat... I don't like dealing with the Radio Shack guys much... they always seem annoyed when I ask them questions they don't have answers for... and then they gloat when they get to explain something to me I didn't know... like it bothers me that I'm learning or something... anyhow...
Them re-subscribing you doesn't surprise me. I was shopping around for one of those wonderful Linksys EtherFast Cable/DSL routers about a month ago and they had some with (I believe) $40 rebates. I thought that was nice. Then I clicked on the link for more info. I read the legalese crap. I guess when you use the rebate, you're basically exchanging loads of spam from them reselling your e-mail address for the $40 rebate.
I figure they can burn in hell before they get my e-mail address.
But I'm sure they have a perfectly good reason for spamming people who check all those little boxes...</sarcasm>
I got one of those annoying e-mails last week. It seems they're coming out with some new service or something. You see, Amazon makes you check off what you don't want one-by-one-by-one... Welllll, I checked all those boxes off. But since they came out with something NEW, I didn't have the little box checked, so of course I want them to send it to me... yeah right. So I have to go and un-check yet ANOTHER box, and then I get to wait for the next time they come out with some great idea. At least they let you change your e-mail address - I think... I'm going to try changing it to my spam-mail account.
I hate those bastards. Let's spend our money someplace else.
Carnivore is not designed to go through email archives.
Perhaps not, but it's quite capable of creating a giant e-mail archive of whatever the FBI decides to capture... Media is cheap these days, and I wouldn't put it past them.
I'm pretty sure DoD standards mandate writing over the data 7 times. I'm not sure if it's 1's and 0's or if they use some specific algorithm... probably #2. I never really had anything worth hiding with that sort of delete, but it's fun to play around with utilities that do it anyhow. =) Remember PC Tools 7 for DOS? It was so wonderful to have encryption and a disk defragmenter and a secure delete and decent undelete, blah blah blah... Ahhh, those were the days. Of course, now I can find freeware on the 'net to do the same instead. *grin*
If BeOs run on Mac mac as well as on a PC, Windows 98 could run on my Mac as well, if they does't sell it to me that their loss.
I think the poster was trying to make a point - in case you didn't know, BeOS was developed on the Macintosh for the clones when Apple started licensing them. The BeBox was a very interesting bit of hardware that was a Mac clone. The only reason we have BeOS on the x86 is because Apple refused to allow any more clones and Be had to be ported to x86 Pentium-class CPUs to avoid going belly-up.
Besides that, Be was written from the ground up. I'd like to see MS port Win98 to the Macintosh... that would be funny for some reason (if not a complete waste of everyone's time)... So there's a REASON we were talking about Be running on both platforms... yeah. [end semi-rant]
Milwaukee School of Engineering bans Napster, and they only have 2000 students, with
I didn't even ask why, although the the 100 GB or so of MP3s available from students sharing their files on their Windoze machines kinda makes Napster pointless for a lot of songs...
I have ICQ running at te moment. It's using 6 meg, I haven't a clue what it actually puts in that 6 meg. If memory were not considered unlimited how much would it be using?
I'm wondering if all that memory taken up by ICQ is the stupid plug-ins I never use being loaded, or my entire message history. Either way, I think it could load both of those from disk as needed if it was a little more well-written. Even so, it crashes on me much less frequently than either MSN Messenger (ick) or AIM (double ick). The CPU utilization is horrible, but what do you expect from a horribly bloated program?
The Tandy 1000 has MS-DOS 5.0 burned into ROM. You could either boot from the hard drive or the ROM. It was an interesting idea, but I never really found it all that useful.
However, there are a few crazy guys out there toying with Linux to create an free, open BIOS... that one should be quite interesting...
Windows 95 etc. does use a write-behind cache for hard drives by default. You can turn it off in Settings, Control Panel, System, Performance, File System, Troubleshooting (that's a lot of clicking...).
I wonder if anyone cares about my useful tip for making Windows more crash-tolerant... (my sense of humor is horrible today, really) *grin*
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Waaaaaait a minute- Don't your NT servers run that long? At work, e have an NT4 SP6a file server and an NT4 SP6a web/mail server... The last time I even remember the file server being rebooted is because someone hit the power button on the UPS. The web/mail server easily stays up over a month at a time... I'm assuming it crashes because it doesn't have all of the latest patches and someone's been screwing around with it- I haven't bothered keeping up with the patches because it takes forever on a machine that slow, and we have a Win2k box that's replacing it. Other than that, the only reason to have to mess with the thing is to install all of the stupid service packs. *sigh* Someday they'll make that easier.
Did you read any of the help files beforehand? Win2k does NOT like you changing hardware, ever... especially if your motherboard is using ACPI. I had problems with a simple upgraded driver for the on-board IDE as well - I had to boot to a command prompt in recovery mode and enable the default IDE device, then get back into Windows and uninstall the new drivers. By the way, those were VIA's latest 4-in-1 drivers a month or two ago.
I don't necessarily think Win2k is evil... but I do think ACPI is. Anyone else got an ECP parallel port set to DMA 0 when 3 isn't being used by anything? Damn shitty Compaq Presarios... Oh well.
Ditto.
You can't afford to shell out $35 for an Academic Edition copy of Windows 2000 Professional? How the hell can you afford a computer to run it on?
Bullshit.
Someone mod the above comment up!
There's something that didn't even occur to me... I remember a few years back a friend of mine bought a compilation of old Atari games that was basically the ROMs with a bundled Atari emulator... from Atari. Damn. Why do people have to make things so complicated? =)
Damn good point.
Processtree was the first thought in my head when I saw this article...
(Although he didn't have to post the link with his sponsor number in it... Exactly why I strip those numbers out when I go to look at sites like that... greedy bastards...)
The weird thing is, there was at least one build I downloaded where I swore the borders disappeared... and I thought to myself, "Damn, that looks a lot better..." And a few days later they were back again. *sigh*
Or maybe I'm just crazy.
The saving preferences actually works now... that annoyed the hell out of me too. Try downloading a newer build... there's a reason Netscape chose to release now... it's semi-useable (more so than IE2 was, and MS released that...)
Since the first build I downloaded (early this summer, I think), the Mozilla Win32 binary has ALWAYS asked on first load which files you want to associate with it... There's a seperate checkbox for each and every one of those files you're complaining about. I generally let it open .js files and turn the rest of the options off. It's really not that hard to do, nor has it ever 'forgotten' on me and chosen to open them all anyhow.
They suck. Get the nightlies. Yes, they may crash on you occasionally, but the milestones seem to be crashing on you anyhow. The milestones basically say, "We need to have this, this, and this working before we can build Mxx." The nightlies have the latest features and patches, which makes it slightly more likely that it will run perfectly on your system the next day. I'm just amazed that the little thingie they like to call 'transparency' actually works as of a few days ago... my web sites look a tad better now. (I tend to use magenta for the transparent color in my images - magenta over dark blue was just not looking very nice...)
Ick... I caught some of that damn program... Sounded like an attempt at brainwashing if I ever heard one... kinda scary actually... these guys seem hell-bent on trying to take over at least part of the world or something... I sure hope they run themselves into the ground soon. I never did bother to get a
Perhaps 'Show all files' wasn't checked in your Win95 folder options?
Them re-subscribing you doesn't surprise me. I was shopping around for one of those wonderful Linksys EtherFast Cable/DSL routers about a month ago and they had some with (I believe) $40 rebates. I thought that was nice. Then I clicked on the link for more info. I read the legalese crap. I guess when you use the rebate, you're basically exchanging loads of spam from them reselling your e-mail address for the $40 rebate.
I figure they can burn in hell before they get my e-mail address.
But I'm sure they have a perfectly good reason for spamming people who check all those little boxes...</sarcasm>
I got one of those annoying e-mails last week. It seems they're coming out with some new service or something. You see, Amazon makes you check off what you don't want one-by-one-by-one... Welllll, I checked all those boxes off. But since they came out with something NEW, I didn't have the little box checked, so of course I want them to send it to me... yeah right. So I have to go and un-check yet ANOTHER box, and then I get to wait for the next time they come out with some great idea. At least they let you change your e-mail address - I think... I'm going to try changing it to my spam-mail account.
I hate those bastards. Let's spend our money someplace else.
Hey, I actually thought this was kinda funny... guess the moderators don't have my Saturday-afternoon-just-woke-up perspective on things right now...
I'm pretty sure DoD standards mandate writing over the data 7 times. I'm not sure if it's 1's and 0's or if they use some specific algorithm... probably #2. I never really had anything worth hiding with that sort of delete, but it's fun to play around with utilities that do it anyhow. =) Remember PC Tools 7 for DOS? It was so wonderful to have encryption and a disk defragmenter and a secure delete and decent undelete, blah blah blah... Ahhh, those were the days. Of course, now I can find freeware on the 'net to do the same instead. *grin*
I really don't think this is funny, but I guess it deserves a score of 1... how about 'overrated'? Now would be a nice time to have some mod points...
Besides that, Be was written from the ground up. I'd like to see MS port Win98 to the Macintosh... that would be funny for some reason (if not a complete waste of everyone's time)... So there's a REASON we were talking about Be running on both platforms... yeah. [end semi-rant]
Milwaukee School of Engineering bans Napster, and they only have 2000 students, with
I didn't even ask why, although the the 100 GB or so of MP3s available from students sharing their files on their Windoze machines kinda makes Napster pointless for a lot of songs...
The Tandy 1000 has MS-DOS 5.0 burned into ROM. You could either boot from the hard drive or the ROM. It was an interesting idea, but I never really found it all that useful.
However, there are a few crazy guys out there toying with Linux to create an free, open BIOS... that one should be quite interesting...
Windows 95 etc. does use a write-behind cache for hard drives by default. You can turn it off in Settings, Control Panel, System, Performance, File System, Troubleshooting (that's a lot of clicking...).
I wonder if anyone cares about my useful tip for making Windows more crash-tolerant... (my sense of humor is horrible today, really) *grin*
A K5-75 won't cut it. Neither will a K5-133. You have to go at least P-75, although I wouldn't use anything 100.