Ummmm.... no. BeOS R5 Personal Edition puts that nifty little BeOS icon on your desktop. Making a boot disk IS an option- but you don't have to. My BeOS icon is a shortcut to LOADBEOS.EXE, which, as someone else stated, is a DOS program that drops the processor to real mode and loads the Be kernel from the \BEOS directory on the VFAT partition. You can set it up to make and use a boot disk instead, but if your system boots to Be stable without one, there's no point in making one unless you don't feel like using Windows at all.
Why do so many people go shooting their mouth off when they don't know what the fuck they're talking about?
A Win9x system boots to DOS... for anywhere from about 2 seconds or so to as long as it takes to load any real mode drivers or configure any hardware that isn't totally supported by Windows... Most new systems have no such hardware - mine certainly doesn't. As soon as DOS loads WIN.COM, the Windows kernel32 fires up, switches the processor from real mode to protected mode, and unloads DOS. The kernel loads drivers, the hardware gets initialized, the user interface loads, and that's Windows. If you open a DOS prompt while you're running Windows, DOS is running in a virtual machine, on top of Windows.
Feel free to quote me on that to any die-hard Linux evangelist who doesn't know shit about how Win9x functions. I agree, it is a buggy, backwards-compatible-hacked-together mess of code, but it isn't running on top of DOS anymore.
As a few other people have mentioned, throw the computer in a closet to insulate the noise from the rest of the studio. There's 2 ways you could go about accessing the thing. Either use extension cables for the keyboard, mouse, and montior, or use a KVM switch. The only advantage I can think of to the KVM switch is the distance it can handle. Actually, the only reason I'm writing this post is to make sure someone gets a link up to the best place to shop for all this stuff: http://www.blackbox.com/
Oh yeah, they also sell insulated cabinets and such if you'd prefer to go that route... but most of those need cooling so the heat doesn't build up inside... which would mean fan noise. So you can probably forget that route.
Why did you use Javascript for the redirects anyhow? I know it's Netscape and all, but from the comments of people who turn off Javascript to avoid pr0n redirects and popups, it's not going to work for quite a few people... although most people have no reason to turn it off. Why didn't you check the browser version on the server and dump the right code accordingly that way?
Or is that the way Microsoft's site does it? *grin*
For those people who are too stupid to listen to advice about those.VBS attachments, just write a little batch file or short program to rename their 'wscript.exe' (for Win98), or whatever the DLL used for scripting in Win95 is... Of course, if they're going to be stupid and open anything after you tell them not to, they're probably not going to open something from you... but you can try. There's probably a better chance of them opening it if you spoof the e-mail address to make it look like it's coming from one of their friends though... no one in the corporate world seems to give a shit what the sysadmin says, but that latest chain letter is vitally important to them.
BTW... If you think work is bad, try dealing with 2 younger siblings... and parents who would go nuts if their kids started bitching because the computer wouldn't let them open any.EXE attachments... "But my friend so-and-so can open them! WAAAAAAAA!" Just shoot me now...
As I recall, there are a few more than 4 TLD's in the US alone... Remember.edu? You're probably not a college student, huh...? =) And the US military has.mil. Granted, most of us don't run a school or anything in the military, but most of us don't work in government either...
But other than that, I don't think there's any more...
I know this was a rant, and I've seen you toss around more than your share of flames here, but why doesn't it make sense to you that Rob doesn't want to boot Windows to see a 5-minute video clip? If someone wants to fire up Diablo or something, he's probably going to play a couple of HOURS, not a couple of minutes... Windows takes longer than 5 minutes to BOOT on some machines with enough software and enough fonts... So you'd think it would make perfect sense he doesn't want to waste his time.
RDS is basically a text channel transmitted by a radio station - they can pipe over the name of the station, the song currently playing, the format of the music the station plays... Just about any decent aftermarket car stereo supports it... I know Kenwood and Pioneer units have been pushing it for a few years now. My radio supports it, but I've never found it to be useful (I live in a rural area...) I guess there are some stations that broadcast RDS info around bigger cities... I didn't try my receiver much around Chicago or D.C... why channel-surf when you have CDs? hehe... anyhow... getting off-topic...
Come on, SOMEONE should mod this up as funny... Geez... My ex-girlfriend just stopped in and dumped a big-ass box full of just about everything I ever gave her... and this fucking made me LAUGH... oh fuck it.
Click 'Tools', 'Internet Options'. Hit the 'Advanced' tab. It's right in the middle - you don't need to scroll or anything. 'Enable folder view for FTP sites' is the exact label.
I'm running Win98 SE with IE 5.01, and I've got 220 MB of memory used up before I even load any programs (on a 64 MB machine) - since IE is pretty much glued to the UI. Granted, M16 is slower than molasses on this thing, but I wouldn't complain about it hogging memory too much... besides, I don't expect much of code that's still being debugged (Windows anyone?) Sorry, have to rip on my OS at least once a day...
I believe the discussion on the I-Opener brought up the fact that the D-Link adapter used the same chip as the Linksys adapter... which means the drivers should work...? Search the old articles...
I had an old IBM Aptiva board lying around with a P75 chip in it, and it played MP3's just fine with DOS 7 from Win95 and XTC-Play... I guess the author of XTC has said programs like Sonique have slighter better quality output, but I never heard a noticeable difference through casual listening...
I'd like to get rid of that board... it's just taking up space and the hard drive controller is flaky on bootup once in a while... anyone want it?
People who don't know much about computers seem to care much MORE about the "Intel Inside" logo being on a box than geeky types in my experience... Most of the people I've helped buy new computers wanted an Intel box because they were led to believe that because the sticker's on the box and they've heard the name before, chips from other people like Cyrix (RIP?) and AMD must be very much inferior to the Intel offerings. It's only within the past 6 months or so with Athlons churning out great performance numbers and being pushed by the big-name companies that people have started to realize "Intel Inside" != "better".
For anyone who hasn't seen it mentioned before, ZoneAlarm by ZoneLabs is a fairly decent (for Windows) program... It lets you allow/disallow network/Internet connectivity on a per-program basis... the first time an application attempts to use the Internet connection, ZoneAlarm prompts you and asks if you want to allow the access. I used it for a short while and it got to be annoying with all the 'net programs I was installing... but for normal home use it works wonderfully. And since it's free for non-commercial use... you'd have to be nuts to not use it if you needed an outbound firewall...
I've been filling out job applications lately, and most of them DO make you sign your life away... "we can choose not to hire you for any reason we want, and if your drug test or background check comes up false positive, you agree not to hold us liable, sue us, etc..." And if you don't sign it, they won't even consider hiring you... at least one of them said the agreement could be modified IF it's done in writing by the manager of the store, etc. etc... real pain in the ass... but that's the way it is these days... A court would probably throw most of that agreement out if it was ever challenged, but I certainly don't have the money to pay a lawyer for that...
I was looking around my brother's computer and noticed someone had gotten him to install a couple of trojans on it (actually, more like 3 or 4... "don't download stuff from people!" doesn't seem to get through to some people...). Anyhow, one day a chat window pops up over the screen and the guy starts talking to me... for no reason at all, he says "Oh well, time to reboot..." and down Windows starts to go... of course, being Windows and all, I killed Explorer and the shutdown canceled... *grin* The point is, they'll do it just to piss you off... if you're working on any files and don't have them saved, rebooting will kill them and upset a few people... sometimes crackers install services that don't actually get run until you reboot... maybe they patched the kernel... who knows. I'd do a complete re-install to be safe.
...check out www.blackbox.com. They have pretty much every bit of hardware you could ever want for a server... They aren't cheap, but maybe they could give you some ideas if you're just out looking, and you could find something similar somewhere else...? I know what it's like to not have a lot of money to work with... good luck.
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I would have awesome uptime if I could keep my cats off the power strip switch.
Duck tape.
The switch on the power strip, not the cats... now THAT would suck.
What's wrong with passive-mode FTP transfers anyhow? You still get the file either way, and it works...?
Ummmm.... no. BeOS R5 Personal Edition puts that nifty little BeOS icon on your desktop. Making a boot disk IS an option- but you don't have to. My BeOS icon is a shortcut to LOADBEOS.EXE, which, as someone else stated, is a DOS program that drops the processor to real mode and loads the Be kernel from the \BEOS directory on the VFAT partition. You can set it up to make and use a boot disk instead, but if your system boots to Be stable without one, there's no point in making one unless you don't feel like using Windows at all.
Why do so many people go shooting their mouth off when they don't know what the fuck they're talking about?
A Win9x system boots to DOS... for anywhere from about 2 seconds or so to as long as it takes to load any real mode drivers or configure any hardware that isn't totally supported by Windows... Most new systems have no such hardware - mine certainly doesn't. As soon as DOS loads WIN.COM, the Windows kernel32 fires up, switches the processor from real mode to protected mode, and unloads DOS. The kernel loads drivers, the hardware gets initialized, the user interface loads, and that's Windows. If you open a DOS prompt while you're running Windows, DOS is running in a virtual machine, on top of Windows.
Feel free to quote me on that to any die-hard Linux evangelist who doesn't know shit about how Win9x functions. I agree, it is a buggy, backwards-compatible-hacked-together mess of code, but it isn't running on top of DOS anymore.
As a few other people have mentioned, throw the computer in a closet to insulate the noise from the rest of the studio. There's 2 ways you could go about accessing the thing. Either use extension cables for the keyboard, mouse, and montior, or use a KVM switch. The only advantage I can think of to the KVM switch is the distance it can handle. Actually, the only reason I'm writing this post is to make sure someone gets a link up to the best place to shop for all this stuff: http://www.blackbox.com/
Oh yeah, they also sell insulated cabinets and such if you'd prefer to go that route... but most of those need cooling so the heat doesn't build up inside... which would mean fan noise. So you can probably forget that route.
Why did you use Javascript for the redirects anyhow? I know it's Netscape and all, but from the comments of people who turn off Javascript to avoid pr0n redirects and popups, it's not going to work for quite a few people... although most people have no reason to turn it off. Why didn't you check the browser version on the server and dump the right code accordingly that way?
Or is that the way Microsoft's site does it? *grin*
If you can spare the bandwidth for a 50mb download, go check it out... It hauls.
http://free.be.com/
For those people who are too stupid to listen to advice about those .VBS attachments, just write a little batch file or short program to rename their 'wscript.exe' (for Win98), or whatever the DLL used for scripting in Win95 is... Of course, if they're going to be stupid and open anything after you tell them not to, they're probably not going to open something from you... but you can try. There's probably a better chance of them opening it if you spoof the e-mail address to make it look like it's coming from one of their friends though... no one in the corporate world seems to give a shit what the sysadmin says, but that latest chain letter is vitally important to them.
.EXE attachments... "But my friend so-and-so can open them! WAAAAAAAA!" Just shoot me now...
BTW... If you think work is bad, try dealing with 2 younger siblings... and parents who would go nuts if their kids started bitching because the computer wouldn't let them open any
As I recall, there are a few more than 4 TLD's in the US alone... Remember .edu? You're probably not a college student, huh...? =) And the US military has .mil. Granted, most of us don't run a school or anything in the military, but most of us don't work in government either...
But other than that, I don't think there's any more...
I know this was a rant, and I've seen you toss around more than your share of flames here, but why doesn't it make sense to you that Rob doesn't want to boot Windows to see a 5-minute video clip? If someone wants to fire up Diablo or something, he's probably going to play a couple of HOURS, not a couple of minutes... Windows takes longer than 5 minutes to BOOT on some machines with enough software and enough fonts... So you'd think it would make perfect sense he doesn't want to waste his time.
Think about it for a few minutes.
RDS is basically a text channel transmitted by a radio station - they can pipe over the name of the station, the song currently playing, the format of the music the station plays... Just about any decent aftermarket car stereo supports it... I know Kenwood and Pioneer units have been pushing it for a few years now. My radio supports it, but I've never found it to be useful (I live in a rural area...) I guess there are some stations that broadcast RDS info around bigger cities... I didn't try my receiver much around Chicago or D.C... why channel-surf when you have CDs? hehe... anyhow... getting off-topic...
Come on, SOMEONE should mod this up as funny... Geez... My ex-girlfriend just stopped in and dumped a big-ass box full of just about everything I ever gave her... and this fucking made me LAUGH... oh fuck it.
Any single females out there? Hello? Helllooooo?
Where's a (-1,Loser) choice when you need it?
Click 'Tools', 'Internet Options'. Hit the 'Advanced' tab. It's right in the middle - you don't need to scroll or anything. 'Enable folder view for FTP sites' is the exact label.
I'm running Win98 SE with IE 5.01, and I've got 220 MB of memory used up before I even load any programs (on a 64 MB machine) - since IE is pretty much glued to the UI. Granted, M16 is slower than molasses on this thing, but I wouldn't complain about it hogging memory too much... besides, I don't expect much of code that's still being debugged (Windows anyone?) Sorry, have to rip on my OS at least once a day...
I believe the discussion on the I-Opener brought up the fact that the D-Link adapter used the same chip as the Linksys adapter... which means the drivers should work...? Search the old articles...
I had an old IBM Aptiva board lying around with a P75 chip in it, and it played MP3's just fine with DOS 7 from Win95 and XTC-Play... I guess the author of XTC has said programs like Sonique have slighter better quality output, but I never heard a noticeable difference through casual listening...
I'd like to get rid of that board... it's just taking up space and the hard drive controller is flaky on bootup once in a while... anyone want it?
People who don't know much about computers seem to care much MORE about the "Intel Inside" logo being on a box than geeky types in my experience... Most of the people I've helped buy new computers wanted an Intel box because they were led to believe that because the sticker's on the box and they've heard the name before, chips from other people like Cyrix (RIP?) and AMD must be very much inferior to the Intel offerings. It's only within the past 6 months or so with Athlons churning out great performance numbers and being pushed by the big-name companies that people have started to realize "Intel Inside" != "better".
For anyone who hasn't seen it mentioned before, ZoneAlarm by ZoneLabs is a fairly decent (for Windows) program... It lets you allow/disallow network/Internet connectivity on a per-program basis... the first time an application attempts to use the Internet connection, ZoneAlarm prompts you and asks if you want to allow the access. I used it for a short while and it got to be annoying with all the 'net programs I was installing... but for normal home use it works wonderfully. And since it's free for non-commercial use... you'd have to be nuts to not use it if you needed an outbound firewall...
I've been filling out job applications lately, and most of them DO make you sign your life away... "we can choose not to hire you for any reason we want, and if your drug test or background check comes up false positive, you agree not to hold us liable, sue us, etc..." And if you don't sign it, they won't even consider hiring you... at least one of them said the agreement could be modified IF it's done in writing by the manager of the store, etc. etc... real pain in the ass... but that's the way it is these days... A court would probably throw most of that agreement out if it was ever challenged, but I certainly don't have the money to pay a lawyer for that...
I was looking around my brother's computer and noticed someone had gotten him to install a couple of trojans on it (actually, more like 3 or 4... "don't download stuff from people!" doesn't seem to get through to some people...). Anyhow, one day a chat window pops up over the screen and the guy starts talking to me... for no reason at all, he says "Oh well, time to reboot..." and down Windows starts to go... of course, being Windows and all, I killed Explorer and the shutdown canceled... *grin* The point is, they'll do it just to piss you off... if you're working on any files and don't have them saved, rebooting will kill them and upset a few people... sometimes crackers install services that don't actually get run until you reboot... maybe they patched the kernel... who knows. I'd do a complete re-install to be safe.
...check out www.blackbox.com. They have pretty much every bit of hardware you could ever want for a server... They aren't cheap, but maybe they could give you some ideas if you're just out looking, and you could find something similar somewhere else...? I know what it's like to not have a lot of money to work with... good luck.