The machine running Slackware serves its purpose plentifully: running statistics/data analysis apps, drawing nice graphs, printing them, and some occasional web browsing. The same machine running Windows is about as useful as a kidney stone. QED.
Windows and IE run better on old hardware than anything else. And that's a proven fact.
Proven? By who? What were the exact conditions? Compared to what?
Hint: W98 + IE5 on a P200 with 64M RAM: dog slow. Same machine in W2K: takes 10 minutes to boot. Same machine in Linux: recent snapshot of slackware-current, complete with Xwindow 4.0.2 and KDE2: really snappy. Same subjective speed and usability as a 400MHz Windows machine.
I concur - I've been using installwatch for quite a while, with excellent results; including with installers from commercial packages. Very nice utility. Use it as installwatch -o logfile [your installer name here].
TiVo is a software company, more precisely a Linux software company. They don't make any hardware, just the software. Now what on earth would TiVo have to do with UTV, which runs WinCE?
Not to mention (from UTV's web site): "UltimateTV® SERVICE IS DEVELOPED BY WebTV Networks, INC., A WHOLLY OWNED SUBSIDIARY OF Microsoft."
Actually, Avery mentions on his web site he can readily recognize large bunchs of assembly code he put into his app, which don't get changed by recompiling.
Here's a resource for you: MIS Associates. For around $24, you can get a kit that'll allow you to refill your cartridges ~12 times. How's that for an improvement? That's what I'm doing with my 842C.
Uh, no. The belt itself is a region where charged particles from the solar wind are concentrated by earth's magnetic field, and this is beneficial, because it shields us down here from the said solar wind. But once you clear the belt (BTW, there is more than one belt, so we hould really call them "belts"), you get exposed to the background radiation which is certainly higher than on earth's surface, but not unacceptably high or something that can't be shielded.
The Van Allen belt isn't continuous - there are holes, mainly towards the poles. That's the trajectory that manned spacecraft adopt, BTW. But at the equator, it's continuous.
I find it interesting everyone quotes the [red, blue, green] Mars, but no one remembers who first had the idea: A.C.Clarke - "Fountains of Paradise". It's a very good book, it even has the right solution for preventing the catastrophic collapse.:)
However, there is a huge problem with a space elevator: The Van Allen belt. By its nature, a space elevator would have to cut right through it... and it's something like 2500 rems of radiation.
I didn't imply they do. It's just the way the service is organized that makes it possible. I use other free web-based email services, some of which are prominent, and none has a systematic spamming problem.
OTOH, it was pretty instructive to look at the distribution of the spam volume over the 3 months... you get some insight in the way they operate.
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The machine running Slackware serves its purpose plentifully: running statistics/data analysis apps, drawing nice graphs, printing them, and some occasional web browsing. The same machine running Windows is about as useful as a kidney stone. QED.
May I add your sig to my collection?
Tuning done: installed Linux. No more trouble.
Windows and IE run better on old hardware than anything else. And that's a proven fact.
Proven? By who? What were the exact conditions? Compared to what?
Hint: W98 + IE5 on a P200 with 64M RAM: dog slow. Same machine in W2K: takes 10 minutes to boot. Same machine in Linux: recent snapshot of slackware-current, complete with Xwindow 4.0.2 and KDE2: really snappy. Same subjective speed and usability as a 400MHz Windows machine.
I concur - I've been using installwatch for quite a while, with excellent results; including with installers from commercial packages. Very nice utility. Use it as installwatch -o logfile [your installer name here].
Yes they did. Check in the Underground section of the AVS TiVo forum. It's called TiVoNet. You can even buy it from 9th Tee.
TiVo is a software company, more precisely a Linux software company. They don't make any hardware, just the software. Now what on earth would TiVo have to do with UTV, which runs WinCE?
Not to mention (from UTV's web site): "UltimateTV® SERVICE IS DEVELOPED BY WebTV Networks, INC., A WHOLLY OWNED SUBSIDIARY OF Microsoft."
Actually, Avery mentions on his web site he can readily recognize large bunchs of assembly code he put into his app, which don't get changed by recompiling.
Don't be too sad, man - if it didn't bounce back, you'd be (maybe) taken off a list, but added to 10-20 others...
Here's a resource for you: MIS Associates. For around $24, you can get a kit that'll allow you to refill your cartridges ~12 times. How's that for an improvement? That's what I'm doing with my 842C.
Only works for the high end laserjet printers, not for the consummer-grade deskjets.
"Andromeda Strain" - one of the early books by Michael Crichton (of "Jurassic Park" fame).
Huh? If you think a 6-foot-thick lead wall would be cost-effective on such a device, think again...
It may work for nuclear reactors, but this doesn't make it a solution for the space elevator.
Uh, no. The belt itself is a region where charged particles from the solar wind are concentrated by earth's magnetic field, and this is beneficial, because it shields us down here from the said solar wind. But once you clear the belt (BTW, there is more than one belt, so we hould really call them "belts"), you get exposed to the background radiation which is certainly higher than on earth's surface, but not unacceptably high or something that can't be shielded.
The Van Allen belt isn't continuous - there are holes, mainly towards the poles. That's the trajectory that manned spacecraft adopt, BTW. But at the equator, it's continuous.
You're missing the centrifugal force. But that's moot anyway.
I find it interesting everyone quotes the [red, blue, green] Mars, but no one remembers who first had the idea: A.C.Clarke - "Fountains of Paradise". It's a very good book, it even has the right solution for preventing the catastrophic collapse. :)
However, there is a huge problem with a space elevator: The Van Allen belt. By its nature, a space elevator would have to cut right through it... and it's something like 2500 rems of radiation.
Three words: linear magnetic motors. You don't have to take the description "elevator" so litterally.
...the price of land near the equator will increase shortly. :)
Heh, you have to educate your reflexes to become as slow as after 2 cases of beer! :) I'm getting there, slowly but steadily.
I didn't imply they do. It's just the way the service is organized that makes it possible. I use other free web-based email services, some of which are prominent, and none has a systematic spamming problem.
OTOH, it was pretty instructive to look at the distribution of the spam volume over the 3 months... you get some insight in the way they operate.
The backdoor for 30 second skip, I've never heard of. Is it mentioned on the TiVo underground?
Yes it is here.
Which patch for downloading? Oh, you mean the one that doesn't work? Nice try tho'.
A few years ago, maybe. Not anymore. Belive me.