Ok... I have some ISA cards. I admit it... they're not all that bad and I'll always have hardware around that can use them... I do like seeing pci only mb's out there and will welcome a wider acceptance of usb (let's get those prices down) soon.
I, however, don't see myself using something like that for a few years yet....
RANT!!!!!
Am I the only person out there that refuses to buy a damn celery or p-II p-III system because they don't have any freakin boards that DON'T use that atrocity called PS/2 ???
KILL IT!!!! What kind of a freakin moron came up with the idea of an architecture that REQUIRES a freakin REBOOT when the device comes unplugged??
I LOVE the fact (with my old AT style keyboard) that I can unplug EVERYTHING from my server after setup... and.... if I ever (god forbid) HAVE to physically sit on it for something I can't do over the network... I can just plug in my keyboard monitor and SERIAL mouse (if necessary) and go to work.
Hello!!! Isn't there ANYONE else out there that agrees that PS/2 must die?
End Rant... *sigh* Thanx a whole freakin lot ibm... and thanx to the idiots in the industry for continuing retarded architecture.
I wouldn't mind wearing a headgear deal (given it wasn't toooo big... ya know? ) if it was capable of a few things.
Integrated with my whole house through voice command. I would love to turn on the stereo and switch cd's from anywhere in the house. Turn off the front porch light when I'm in the backyard with the 8" Telescope. Talk to my circle of friends without having to go through the whole phone/busy-signal/voic-mail junk.... (I have a few ideas on that one.) See who's at the front door.... From work. Re-route my HOUSE line through the head-gear.. (transparently) Check my e-mail. Open doors. Change lights. Set oven temp (no... I don't want auto cooked crap) And of course cramming VR into it so I can handle e-mail, web-browsing, site building, report genration, etc. etc. etc... that would make it infinitely better.
Dangit.. Every year it's the same thing... they promise us vegetables.. and then at the last minute, they take them away. We're hungry computer folks out here people....I don't care if they're frozen or not... I actually prefer them piping hot... with lots of cheese and sour cream w/chives... Yummmm;>
Do you think they could pass out holiday Ramen blocks in the meantime? Mmmmm... crunchy!:P
Besides the obvious baby-boom in 9 months... The cessation of all TV tomorrow would not be a bad thing. Network TV turns your brain to cottage cheese and it dribbles out on your pillow when you sleep. Cable programming isn't much better.
If there was cable/satellite service that offered educational-only programming... I might subscribe. Even then I still wouldn't watch it that much.
Life is too short to watch fantasies all day.
Do yourself a favor and pick up a book... even if it's fiction you'll still be working your brain cells more than tv.
Walked in one day and walked right past her. (she was new) Went and sat down at my desk and started to work. Got up a minute later (just flat out had to) and introduced myself to her.
First time in my life I ever felt I just HAD to introduce myself right away.
All my previous gf's and so's I always took my time from when I met them first, till getting around to knowing them better.
Not so with my wife. Saw her... Had to meet her... We hit it off famously (despite my lack of haircuts and ratty stained clothes) and were married appx. 2 months later.
She's a geek grrl (though she won't admit it) as well as quite a sophisticate.
Oh yeah, don't judge a book by it's cover either. I love looking good for my wife and she appreciates it as well, but I attract young female attention when I dress nice. As a result I normally wear ratty clothes most places when she's not with me. It's interesting to see the types of people that dismiss me out of hand when I dress that way. Then note their reactions when they meet me in my 'Presentable' state. Personally I find most of it disgusting. *shrug*
REAL people usually don't pay attention to dress.
There are good geek guys out there... most of us just don't want to be bothered to get the really pretty feathers out of the closet from behind all our computer equipment.
All I can say is... talk... to a lot of people.... The more you do... the better prepared you will be when what you want comes around.
I never did before... but I'm a firm believer in Destiny now.
I see that some updates have required re-compile and re-format of existing partitions to use now source... *ouch*
Any ideas on how many more times this may happen before the beta-testing is done?? (Hmm... got first post earlier and didn't even try.:> Nice way to start the evening. *grin*)
I've used Netscape as my main browser for years. It's been irritating me to no end that it's become such a bloated and unstable application.:/
With the current events surrounding the M$ trial, one wonders how much better of a product Navigator would be at this time if they'd not had to deal with M$'s embrace and corrupt policy on html/java/javascript standards. Seems that 90% of the time that Nav crashes on me these days is on pages that use m$ specific Java-crud. This is truly irritating.
If IE had been written as a competitive application, by a company _other_ than m$, without m$'s specific advantages as a monopoly (which I firmly belive it is), it's my opinion that Netscape Corp. never would have sold out. In fact, I belive that it would have been a much MUCH bigger company today and we'd have a much better navigator because of it.
Without m$'s clout.... IE would have died a horrible, yet appropriate, Death.
Why do people let the public see files on their ftp before they are done uploading them? Isn't that just silly? (I know it's just a test for them... but still) It makes a whole lot more sense to have all the files in place (and mirrored) before setting the public read permissions... Is it not? Anything else is just un-professional. Just my Take... *shrug*
Re:Too bad S.u.S.e doesn't boot PowerPC's :(
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This is NOT a current G3... Yet.. you are right.. it IS the pci card that's required.
They still neglected to mention such on the phone. (Sorry I don't know more about macs... I prefer Motorola chips in big-iron machines)
thought.... It'd be nice to have a linux distro that ran as an application on windows that wouldn't require you to re-boot to get back to windoze... but wait... that would suck as your stable linux would now be prone to windoze faults...
then again.. (if you have the resources) there's VMware and the like....
Still this does seem the way to go for some folks... I've a few friends myself that are trying out linux using the umsdos loadlin method... *shrug*
I figure when they get confident enough they'll switch to a REAL distro... It's not their fault they were MS-netized a long time ago..:/
borrow a small hd.... unplug linux-drive plug in small hd...
Install winblows unplug small hd re-plug as slave plug back in linux-drive
boot copy necessary/windows/system files etc. etc to directory on linux drive... edit wine.conf format windoze off of small hd (don't wanna contaminate anything) chuck small drive back into parts box
Too bad S.u.S.e doesn't boot PowerPC's :(
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Then maybe my lil' bro's G3 would be able to use the DVD player he had installed when he bought it... The one they didn't tell him he needed extra software (==$400) to watch movies with. Don'tcha just love build it yourself Macintosh ordering personell?
(No.. I wasn't around when he ordered it, or that wouldn't have happened)
The trick is to put them in before you go to bed and take them out the next morning....
Given a good 6-8 hours of sleep, your eyes will stay adjusted to the curve of the lens and you will have good vision for the next 8-12hrs WITHOUT having the lenses in.
The more near-sighted you are, the less effective this is, or rather shorter period of time it stays effective... but it's great for kids.... ask your Opthomalogist.
Has anyone ever come up with an interface that would plug into cpu socket on the motherboard and allow you to place the cpu into the other end of the interface??
I.E. a fibre-optic channel or something...(is copper wire 2 feet in length fast enough for cpu traffic??) This would allow you to cool the cpu seperate from the internal components of the rest of your computer... You might even be able to stick the cup in a liquid nitrogen bath (sealed) inside a cooled unit.
I can think of a number of ways.. just curious as to wether or not anyone has ever done anything like this or if anyone knows why this is a bad idea???
Is anyone else getting tired of non-compatible cpu sockets? Ok.. so I can see AMD using the slot A tech to utilize the alpha tech.... I can see Intel's switch to the slot 1 (because they hold the patent) But how many different freakin sockets does Intel have to bring out? Please... this is getting ridiculous. Socket 7 was great.. (had some drawbacks.. yes) Socket 370 or whatever that non-slot celeron is Slot 1 Slot 2 and now a NEW socket design from Intel? Gah!
I'd love to pretend I'm better than everyone else... but uhh.. well.. I can't... since I already am.:P
Ummm... people with ANY sense of intelligence and culture don't really care about what they _seem like_ to folks who really enjoy TV... eh? Like you?
I use Linux.. yes... I teach Linux when I can. I go around telling my friends that "Real Men Use Computers" You, on the other hand, use rhetoric poorly.
As to my spelling mistake pointed out by JoeSchmoe? Thanx... It's nice to know there are dorks that will point out the typos you make after being up for 82 and a half hours. *grin*
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The local internet gaming cafe has the same problem. (they're running windoze, though they wish they didn't)
Keyboards that come unplugged never work when plugged back in a running machine.
Mice don't either....
What difference does windoze make? None that I can see.
It still grabs a specific IRQ... often times an irq that's
also hardwired by some not so bright pci board manufacturers...
Can anyone shed some light on this ps/2 workee, no workee deal?
Ok... I have some ISA cards. I admit it...
they're not all that bad and I'll always have hardware around
that can use them...
I do like seeing pci only mb's out there and will welcome a
wider acceptance of usb (let's get those prices down) soon.
I, however, don't see myself using something like that for a few years yet....
RANT!!!!!
Am I the only person out there that refuses to buy a damn
celery or p-II p-III system because they don't have any
freakin boards that DON'T use that atrocity called
PS/2 ???
KILL IT!!!! What kind of a freakin moron came up with the idea
of an architecture that REQUIRES a freakin REBOOT when the device
comes unplugged??
I LOVE the fact (with my old AT style keyboard) that I can unplug
EVERYTHING from my server after setup... and....
if I ever (god forbid) HAVE to physically sit on it for something
I can't do over the network... I can just plug in my keyboard
monitor and SERIAL mouse (if necessary) and go to work.
Hello!!! Isn't there ANYONE else out there that agrees
that PS/2 must die?
End Rant... *sigh*
Thanx a whole freakin lot ibm... and thanx to the idiots
in the industry for continuing retarded architecture.
few things for me would be nice.
I wouldn't mind wearing a headgear deal (given it wasn't toooo big... ya know? ) if it was capable of a few things.
Integrated with my whole house through voice command.
I would love to turn on the stereo and switch cd's from anywhere in the house.
Turn off the front porch light when I'm in the backyard with the
8" Telescope.
Talk to my circle of friends without having to go through the whole
phone/busy-signal/voic-mail junk.... (I have a few ideas on that one.)
See who's at the front door.... From work.
Re-route my HOUSE line through the head-gear.. (transparently)
Check my e-mail. Open doors. Change lights.
Set oven temp (no... I don't want auto cooked crap)
And of course cramming VR into it so I can handle e-mail, web-browsing,
site building, report genration, etc. etc. etc...
that would make it infinitely better.
Just my take is all.
Dangit.. Every year it's the same thing... they promise us ;>
:P
vegetables.. and then at the last minute, they take them away.
We're hungry computer folks out here people....I don't
care if they're frozen or not... I actually prefer them piping hot...
with lots of cheese and sour cream w/chives... Yummmm
Do you think they could pass out holiday Ramen blocks in the meantime?
Mmmmm... crunchy!
I think you missed the post explaining that
HDTV over cable is not possible. *shrug*
Now doesn't THAT just suck. (assuming you watch tv)
Besides the obvious baby-boom in 9 months...
The cessation of all TV tomorrow would not be a bad
thing. Network TV turns your brain to cottage cheese
and it dribbles out on your pillow when you sleep.
Cable programming isn't much better.
If there was cable/satellite service that offered
educational-only programming... I might subscribe.
Even then I still wouldn't watch it that much.
Life is too short to watch fantasies all day.
Do yourself a favor and pick up a book... even if it's fiction
you'll still be working your brain cells more than tv.
Met my wife at work.
Walked in one day and walked right past her. (she was new)
Went and sat down at my desk and started to work.
Got up a minute later (just flat out had to) and introduced myself to her.
First time in my life I ever felt I just HAD to introduce myself right away.
All my previous gf's and so's I always took my time from
when I met them first, till getting around to knowing them better.
Not so with my wife. Saw her... Had to meet her...
We hit it off famously (despite my lack of haircuts and ratty stained clothes) and were married appx. 2 months later.
She's a geek grrl (though she won't admit it) as well as quite a sophisticate.
Oh yeah, don't judge a book by it's cover either.
I love looking good for my wife and she appreciates it as well, but
I attract young female attention when I dress nice. As a result I normally wear ratty clothes most places when she's not with me.
It's interesting to see the types of people that dismiss me
out of hand when I dress that way. Then note their
reactions when they meet me in my 'Presentable' state.
Personally I find most of it disgusting. *shrug*
REAL people usually don't pay attention to dress.
There are good geek guys out there... most of us just don't
want to be bothered to get the really pretty feathers out of the
closet from behind all our computer equipment.
All I can say is... talk... to a lot of people....
The more you do... the better prepared you will be when
what you want comes around.
I never did before... but I'm a firm believer in Destiny now.
Kinda funny... but not really... a mind like that could have done a much better job... take a little more time before your next post
I see that some updates have required re-compile
:> Nice way to start the evening. *grin*)
and re-format of existing partitions to use now
source... *ouch*
Any ideas on how many more times this may happen before the beta-testing is done??
(Hmm... got first post earlier and didn't even try.
Finally?/Hopefully?
:>
I can't wait to try this one out
I've used Netscape as my main browser for years. :/
:(
It's been irritating me to no end that it's become such
a bloated and unstable application.
With the current events surrounding the M$ trial, one
wonders how much better of a product Navigator would be at this time
if they'd not had to deal with M$'s embrace and corrupt
policy on html/java/javascript standards.
Seems that 90% of the time that Nav crashes on me these days
is on pages that use m$ specific Java-crud. This is
truly irritating.
If IE had been written as a competitive application, by a
company _other_ than m$, without m$'s specific
advantages as a monopoly (which I firmly belive it is), it's my opinion that Netscape Corp. never would
have sold out. In fact, I belive that it would have been a
much MUCH bigger company today and we'd have a much
better navigator because of it.
Without m$'s clout.... IE would have died a horrible, yet appropriate,
Death.
Bummer daze...
Why do people let the public see files on their ftp before they are done uploading them? Isn't that just silly? (I know it's just a test for them... but still) It makes a whole lot more sense to have all the files in place (and mirrored) before setting the public read permissions... Is it not? Anything else is just un-professional. Just my Take... *shrug*
This is NOT a current G3...
Yet.. you are right.. it IS the pci card that's required.
They still neglected to mention such on the phone.
(Sorry I don't know more about macs... I prefer Motorola chips in big-iron machines)
thought....
:/
It'd be nice to have a linux distro that ran as
an application on windows that wouldn't require you to re-boot to get back to windoze...
but wait... that would suck as your stable linux
would now be prone to windoze faults...
then again.. (if you have the resources) there's
VMware and the like....
Still this does seem the way to go for some folks...
I've a few friends myself that are trying out linux
using the umsdos loadlin method... *shrug*
I figure when they get confident enough they'll switch
to a REAL distro...
It's not their fault they were MS-netized a long time ago..
borrow a small hd....
/windows/system files etc. etc
unplug linux-drive
plug in small hd...
Install winblows
unplug small hd re-plug as slave
plug back in linux-drive
boot
copy necessary
to directory on linux drive...
edit wine.conf
format windoze off of small hd (don't wanna contaminate anything)
chuck small drive back into parts box
Then maybe my lil' bro's G3 would be able to use the
DVD player he had installed when he bought it...
The one they didn't tell him he needed extra software (==$400) to watch movies with.
Don'tcha just love build it yourself Macintosh ordering personell?
(No.. I wasn't around when he ordered it, or that wouldn't have happened)
Works for me... all I get to see are the informative
and insightful replies.
Let's hear it for moderation
This is indeed the most appropriate approach.
Never EVER give out more information than is necessary... (too late if they read this list).
Best case scenario, they will take a second look
to make sure they are right and realize their mistake.
A minimalistic reply is always your best approach for first response.
Good Luck
There's another option that's quite nice.
Rigid gas-permeable lenses....
The trick is to put them in before you go to bed and take them out the next morning....
Given a good 6-8 hours of sleep, your eyes will stay adjusted to the curve of the lens and you
will have good vision for the next 8-12hrs WITHOUT
having the lenses in.
The more near-sighted you are, the less effective this is,
or rather shorter period of time it stays effective...
but it's great for kids.... ask your Opthomalogist.
Ok... how about just 10 inches? and make it
:>
fiber optic??
I understand the slowdown with copper...
wouldn't the fiber-optic be fast enough? Even at 10 inches?
There's got to be a way
Has anyone ever come up with an interface that would plug into cpu socket on the motherboard and
allow you to place the cpu into the other end
of the interface??
I.E. a fibre-optic channel or something...(is copper
wire 2 feet in length fast enough for cpu traffic??)
This would allow you to cool the cpu seperate from the internal
components of the rest of your computer...
You might even be able to stick the cup in
a liquid nitrogen bath (sealed) inside a cooled unit.
I can think of a number of ways.. just curious as
to wether or not anyone has ever done anything like this
or if anyone knows why this is a bad idea???
Is anyone else getting tired of non-compatible cpu sockets? Ok.. so I can see AMD using the slot A tech to utilize the alpha tech.... I can see Intel's switch to the slot 1 (because they hold the patent) But how many different freakin sockets does Intel have to bring out? Please... this is getting ridiculous. Socket 7 was great.. (had some drawbacks.. yes) Socket 370 or whatever that non-slot celeron is Slot 1 Slot 2 and now a NEW socket design from Intel? Gah!
I'd love to pretend I'm better than everyone else... :P
but uhh.. well.. I can't... since I already am.
Ummm... people with ANY sense of intelligence and culture
don't really care about what they _seem like_ to folks
who really enjoy TV... eh? Like you?
I use Linux.. yes... I teach Linux when I can.
I go around telling my friends that "Real Men Use Computers"
You, on the other hand, use rhetoric poorly.
As to my spelling mistake pointed out by JoeSchmoe?
Thanx... It's nice to know there are dorks that will
point out the typos you make after being up for 82 and a half hours. *grin*
I dunno about you folks.. but I get the :>
:>
warm fuzzlies from hearing stuff like this
Next check I'll donate some extra straight to them...
I don't need another distribution though..
btw.. website should be back up in a few days... thanx.
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