Well, since we need to compare to BMW according to the article: a series 3 maximum speed is 250km/h, so is the maximum speed of a series 5, and 'lo and behold also of a series 7! Wow, they all are equivalent!;-) (For those that don't know: stock BMW's are electronically locked to 250km/h, they can do more if the enigine allows is and if they are unlocked)
All in all: CPU speed doesn't matter... especially not when talking Intel;-)
You're on slashdot here... Everybody here should understand what I said. Your solutions also implied that one knows what Tweak-UI is (and that you need to download it if you need it) or it implied that you know where the "Group Policy Manager" is. I have a stock XP Pro here, and I have absolutely no idea where to find the "Group Policy Manager".
My solution just assumes you know that you know the registry and thus know regedit.exe. One can at least *use* my solution with a stock install.
Just set HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Servic es\Cdrom\AutoRun to 0 and call it a day.
However, you forgot to ask if the parent poster wanted to disable AutoRun for all his CD/DVDs. After all, perhaps he likes it that when he inserts a game that the game is automatically started (or a choice is given). I hate it, but not everyone does.
Frm the FAQ:
How long is the Expanded iBook Logic Board Repair Extension Program available?
The program covers affected iBooks for three years after the first retail sale of the unit or until March 18, 2005, whichever provides longer coverage for you. Apple will continue to evaluate the repair data and will provide further repair extensions as needed.
Mine was bought december 2001, which made it three years old in december 2004. It failed in June 2005... I tried getting into the program, but the conditions didn't apply for me and so I would have had to pay.
Bad luck....
You're lucky. My (a bit over) three year old iBook died of the dreaded "logic board failure" and repairing that would cost more than a new iBook. I was happy with my iBook, but I didn't replace it. I'm back to using Windows and Linux. For the moment it would be a stupid investment to buy a G4 based laptop: I'm most definately waiting for the Intel Macs. That's still a while, and perhaps then I don't want to go back. Who knows...
As for your harddisk: shouldn't that be 10GB? After all, even my old 486 laptop from 1994 came with a 350MB disk.
I was reminded of a joke, but I can't seem to find it online (googled a bit around). It was about the conversation between Abraham and God about how to explain Genesis. Abraham wanted to write down the whole history since the Big Bang, but God insisted that The Book would become too big and that they should limit themselves to 7 days.
Anybody got a link? I got a good laugh out of that story.
Glad to hear that I'm not the only one. I bought Ico some time ago and I even read some reviews before buying it. They were all soooo positive. I was really disappointed. Yeah, it's pretty, but the game isn't all that fun. Ico is gathering dust in my drawer....
Hey, my primary laptop is a P-III mobile at 600Mhz that I bought for 100€. Slammed an extra 256Meg into it that I had lying around (total is now 512Meg, alas it didn't take the 512Meg module that I had lying around, otherwhise I would have had more) This setup runs WinXP like a charm (with W2k theme of course) I recently exchanged the harddisk from 6Gig to 80Gigs which cost me 117€. So for 217€ I have a laptop that runs *everything* I need and cost not much at all. Yeah, photo manipulation isn't the fastest but I don't do that often.
A new laptop will do the same: work perfectly, but it would cost at least 750€ (if I can find one for that price) Of course, I'm just a light user: Firefox, Thunderbird, iTunes, Palm Synchronization, OpenOffice.org, PuTTY, occasional GIMPing.
A cheap-ass PC is more than enough these days unless you're into movie-encoding and photo-editing.:-) One thing I doubt a bit is DVD viewing on a P-III, especially the lower-clocked ones. I tried VLC on a P-III 800MHz and that's almost impossible. Perhaps stuff like PowerDVD and whatnot are better but I don't like those programs.
My primary laptop used to be a G3 600Mhz/640Meg RAM, which is more definately slower than my current setup. I loved that machine but it died from the dreaded logic board failure.
Then excuse me for attacking you. Sorry about that.
Well, I suppose that if I hadn't been around for asking why the website was flaky, she would have gone elsewhere. Fate wanted that I was around to help her. She didn't even know about Internet Explorer anymore! I had to start it for her.
So, from that point of view, I am entirely at fault.
I'm already happy that my whole family converted to Firefox. None of them ever uses Internet Explorer (as far as I have observed, of course...), with the recent exception of my wife... of course.
Man, can you read? I said that *I* wouldn't give them business. Actually, *I* did not give them business. Do you understand that I had to choose between a happy-wife-because-she-got-the-stuff-she-needed-fo r-her-job and being-an-ass-because-I-think-Internet-Explorer-suc ks. It's not that I don't care, but other things have priority... For example the happyness of my wife.
If you can't understand that, you're either not married or are married to a geeky wife. Go figure, my wife is definately non-geeky and I have to respect that. You don't want to know in what kind of state her computer was when I entered her life.
Uhm, *I* would not have bought with them: I have a wife who does. My wife (while nicely using Firefox on my advice) does not have an Opensource agenda, and just wanted to have her stuff nice and fast. Competition? It's already hard enough to find online stores that ship stuff to my country, that we're happy to find someone who is willing.
You see, this works when you talk about me: I would never buy a product with them because of their inability to create a compliant website. For my wife this is a small inconvenience, but she really doesn't want to hear about browser wars and standard compatibility. All she needs to know is that she needs to fire up another browser because (I quote myself) "ALS Verlag did everything you shouldn't do when building a website". I can't do more than that *and* have a peaceful marriage.
Interesting... I didn't know about that extension. Still, doesn't the risk exists that she starts browsing with IE without knowing it with this plugin? At least now she uses Firefox most of the time and IE when trouble comes up (due to bad webdesign, and she knows it... )
FF, OOo, and friends are "licensed for personal use only" and these people believe the company will be billed a significant sum for such "improperly licensed software".
And the SBA is right of course! They will be billed the gargantuous amount of 0$/seat!!! On top of that they will have to pay a 150% fine on the total amount! Better stick to the Free Internet Explorer and the properly licensed Microsoft Office 2003 (Latest version is not optional says SBA!)
Of course, I'm sure that neither OpenOffice.org or the Mozilla foundation will object to higher amounts per seat (like 1$/seat...)
And writing emails to these guys doesn't help. Just in the last week I came across two websites: Audi Belgium and ALS Verlag . Both sites majorly fuck up on navigation.
The first one pissed me off because the.de and.com versions don't seem to have problems. The second one was problematic because my wife wanted to order something and didn't understand why the website was broken (Firefox is mandatory at my home). She blamed the website though, but I had to show her Internet Explorer so she could order the stuff she needed.
I guessed that it would be a Linux isse. Give The Gimp a try under Windows. Alas, I'm not a Linux wizkid, so I can't help you. I used it, but professionaly I need to use Windows.:-/
I use The GIMP occasionally as well, but I can't figure out how to make it recognize my tablet's pressure sensitivity, so I don't use it very often.
I recently bought my wife an Wacom Intuos 3 and I installed The Gimp on her Windows XP machine. Pressure sensitivity worked out of the box. What version did you use? I used 2.2.8. Still, my wife doesn't use The Gimp, she uses Corel Painter (or whatever came with the Wacom, I don't know... I suck at using tablets)
Ehm, I'm not actually an expert on the subject. ( I have no idea how semen tastes) I heard that the taste actually varies according to what you eat and drink. No idea if it's true, but I know a girl that refuses to give you a blowjob if you drink alcohol. (Of course, I found that out *after* drinking beer... *sigh*)
The "vacuum cleaner" icon means "Quickies" and has been around longer than I've been around. I don't have the lowest ID number, but I recall reading slashdot in 1999... I just don't remember if I had an ID back then.
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All in all: CPU speed doesn't matter... especially not when talking Intel ;-)
My solution just assumes you know that you know the registry and thus know regedit.exe. One can at least *use* my solution with a stock install.
However, you forgot to ask if the parent poster wanted to disable AutoRun for all his CD/DVDs. After all, perhaps he likes it that when he inserts a game that the game is automatically started (or a choice is given). I hate it, but not everyone does.
Frm the FAQ:
How long is the Expanded iBook Logic Board Repair Extension Program available?
The program covers affected iBooks for three years after the first retail sale of the unit or until March 18, 2005, whichever provides longer coverage for you. Apple will continue to evaluate the repair data and will provide further repair extensions as needed.
Mine was bought december 2001, which made it three years old in december 2004. It failed in June 2005... I tried getting into the program, but the conditions didn't apply for me and so I would have had to pay.
Bad luck....
As for your harddisk: shouldn't that be 10GB? After all, even my old 486 laptop from 1994 came with a 350MB disk.
Yup, that's the one! Thanks :-)
Anybody got a link? I got a good laugh out of that story.
Weird: I picked it up for 19.99€ in the bargain bin. It must be a re-release, since it doesn't have any postcards with it.
Glad to hear that I'm not the only one. I bought Ico some time ago and I even read some reviews before buying it. They were all soooo positive. I was really disappointed. Yeah, it's pretty, but the game isn't all that fun.
Ico is gathering dust in my drawer....
A new laptop will do the same: work perfectly, but it would cost at least 750€ (if I can find one for that price) Of course, I'm just a light user: Firefox, Thunderbird, iTunes, Palm Synchronization, OpenOffice.org, PuTTY, occasional GIMPing.
A cheap-ass PC is more than enough these days unless you're into movie-encoding and photo-editing. :-) One thing I doubt a bit is DVD viewing on a P-III, especially the lower-clocked ones. I tried VLC on a P-III 800MHz and that's almost impossible. Perhaps stuff like PowerDVD and whatnot are better but I don't like those programs.
My primary laptop used to be a G3 600Mhz/640Meg RAM, which is more definately slower than my current setup. I loved that machine but it died from the dreaded logic board failure.
Well, I suppose that if I hadn't been around for asking why the website was flaky, she would have gone elsewhere. Fate wanted that I was around to help her. She didn't even know about Internet Explorer anymore! I had to start it for her.
So, from that point of view, I am entirely at fault.
I'm already happy that my whole family converted to Firefox. None of them ever uses Internet Explorer (as far as I have observed, of course...), with the recent exception of my wife... of course.
If you can't understand that, you're either not married or are married to a geeky wife. Go figure, my wife is definately non-geeky and I have to respect that. You don't want to know in what kind of state her computer was when I entered her life.
You really thought that I linked to them without thinking of such a thing? ;-)
You see, this works when you talk about me: I would never buy a product with them because of their inability to create a compliant website. For my wife this is a small inconvenience, but she really doesn't want to hear about browser wars and standard compatibility. All she needs to know is that she needs to fire up another browser because (I quote myself) "ALS Verlag did everything you shouldn't do when building a website". I can't do more than that *and* have a peaceful marriage.
Interesting... I didn't know about that extension. Still, doesn't the risk exists that she starts browsing with IE without knowing it with this plugin? At least now she uses Firefox most of the time and IE when trouble comes up (due to bad webdesign, and she knows it... )
And the SBA is right of course! They will be billed the gargantuous amount of 0$/seat!!! On top of that they will have to pay a 150% fine on the total amount! Better stick to the Free Internet Explorer and the properly licensed Microsoft Office 2003 (Latest version is not optional says SBA!)
Of course, I'm sure that neither OpenOffice.org or the Mozilla foundation will object to higher amounts per seat (like 1$/seat...)
The first one pissed me off because the .de and .com versions don't seem to have problems. The second one was problematic because my wife wanted to order something and didn't understand why the website was broken (Firefox is mandatory at my home). She blamed the website though, but I had to show her Internet Explorer so she could order the stuff she needed.
I guessed that it would be a Linux isse. Give The Gimp a try under Windows. Alas, I'm not a Linux wizkid, so I can't help you. I used it, but professionaly I need to use Windows. :-/
I recently bought my wife an Wacom Intuos 3 and I installed The Gimp on her Windows XP machine. Pressure sensitivity worked out of the box. What version did you use? I used 2.2.8. Still, my wife doesn't use The Gimp, she uses Corel Painter (or whatever came with the Wacom, I don't know... I suck at using tablets)
Too late... I'm married now (and not with that girl).
Nah, she got laid by me that night anyway. Just no blowjob....
Ehm, I'm not actually an expert on the subject. ( I have no idea how semen tastes) I heard that the taste actually varies according to what you eat and drink. No idea if it's true, but I know a girl that refuses to give you a blowjob if you drink alcohol. (Of course, I found that out *after* drinking beer... *sigh*)
I have to admit that you get at least a +3,Funny, in my opinion, for that comment. (Even if the mods don't agree) :-)
I don't like making duplicate comments .
The "vacuum cleaner" icon means "Quickies" and has been around longer than I've been around. I don't have the lowest ID number, but I recall reading slashdot in 1999... I just don't remember if I had an ID back then.