That only works when The Unided States kills citizens of other nationalities. This news really bugs me, why the hell was this thing on the fscking internet?
load up an external hp CDRW 7500 (parallel port version)
load the driver...
now just TRY to boot without a STOP ERROR!
(this also works with an internal 9300 w/out updated drivers)
OR use a Realtek chipset NIC and do a Win2k online update and choose to use MS new online realtek drivers. (this works on 50% of the machines)
OR (heh) convert your NTFS directory (in win2k) to HPFS, it SEEMS to support it for a while, and then "decides" not to support it. (did MS really take HPFS support out, or just make it not work?)
Use old reference drivers for windows 98 to install video cards in win2k. works like a charm. if working means stop errors anyway.
Use Fast page and EDO simms mixed together.
or a variation on this, use an old BIOS and an ODD number of simms, or a version of the bios that lets you force the bios into thinking it has more ram than it does.
Use a Western digital mastered to a Seagate Slave drive (if it will boot, HDD errors will happen fo no good reason) This is neither WD's fault nor Seagates...They both use funny ways of determining master/slave
Load Office 95, then load Norton Windoctor and let it "fix" the registry.
I like this one, put your swap file on a zip drive, but dont use Iomega 2000 tools to install the zip, now eject the zip. Be sure the BIOS sees the zip as a 100Mb Hard drive, not a ARMD device.
Install win2k with ACPI support, using a bios that SUPPORTS it, then flash the version that came out before w2k, that doesnt fully support ACPI.
Dont know of any NT specific crashes other than con/con or nul/nul, but it was muck easier to crash NT, win2k seems pretty stable, as far as messing around with it, win2k is much more forgiving than NT was.
Um, didnt we drop *TWO* nuclear bombs on cities full of (not military installations but) civilians? Has any other country ever done anything like that? no? thank you. When we are in a war, we as citizens rest well at night knowing it wont affect us physically, by that I mean we pretty much know there wont be an H-bomb landing on our bedroom roof. We are the only country to ever bomb civilians with nuclear weapons, and we still have them. If it had been any OTHER country that had done that we would have STRIPPED them of nuclear capability. The fact that other countries dont "mind" hosting American military bases is mostly economical. (and the fact that they ARE weaker than us)
Linux is already proven in the business arena. The main reason everyone uses MS Windows is "for the games"
The only reason I dual boot is because I cant get "the Sims" or Starcraft to run in linux. If I could play all my games, I'd never use Windows again. How many of you out there feel the same way? I'd stop using Photoshop and use the Gimp no problem. Games man Games!
But make them document the Win32 API as well, and make Source Licenses available for their products, doesnt have to be free, but AVAILABLE, like in the Unix days.
Why the hell is the default formatting HTML for posting messages, what the hell is slashdot thinking?
>> Who is "forcing" who to use Linux? I don't recall seeing Linus Torvalds or RMS with a gun to anyone's head. If you don't want to use Linux because it's "already pretty ancient", then there are other "cutting edge" OSes you could choose.
>> I just don't see how Linux, being free and open, can force you into anything. It's the closed, proprietary software which does that.
I'm afraid I didnt make my point clear... I said its forcing the market to become volatile. Companies are giving up tried-and-true (C'mon, its SCO people!) products so that they will fit in with this "linux click" that moderates anyone having ANYTHING SLIGHTLY derogatory to say about linux, as a troll. (Check my last message in this thread) This is not how this industry should evolve.
WHY is this making the industry volitile? Because people making the decisions to use linux are doing so for the same reason a politition kisses a baby at a campaign speech. Linux is that baby. Focus on the REAL issues never makes that speech. Linux (like I said in my "0, Troll" post) best influence is the 'way it was/is being developed', but the REAL issue (GNU OS) is being hidden by the baby kissing, and developement on GNU has taken a back burner. You yourself have demonstrated this by saying "Linus and RMS havent held a gun...", when Linusus Linux kernel is NOT part of RMS's plan, read his manifesto again if you have to, but GNU/Linux is a FORK of GNU's Not Unix. Its ALL WE HAVE at the moment, as the HURD is still smothering in the womb, but its not the ends to RMS's means. This is my whole point, and you have demonstrated it exactly as I meant it, that this baby kissing is making people FORGET the goals of the FSF and the goals of Linus, while complimenting each other nicely, are NOT THE SAME.
Companies are making decisions to use/support/distribute Linux, not for the sake of open source or GNU, but for Linux itself, and tend to do NOTHING to further RMS plan other than to use Linux and stop there, as if that WAS the plan. Forgive me for ranting here but that "troll" moderation kinda pissed me off. It seems that the Linux zealot moderators are splintering from the GNU's Not Unix crowd and are working against them now? Thats not productive, and THATS exactly how this stuff is making the industry volatile. I've spent alot of effort in this persuit to GNU'dom, and I'm no stranger to linux or its adcovacy and pursuit, but I also know that Linux in the big picture, is just the beginning, not the end.
Yes, use Linux, but thats not the point. USE FREE SOFTWARE!
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Agreed. The future is a dedicated broadband line, name your flavor.
The ONLY thing a modem is good for mowdays is faxing. period.
That only works when The Unided States kills citizens of other nationalities. This news really bugs me, why the hell was this thing on the fscking internet?
However, if you "in the act of commiting a felony" kill someone as a result of that crime, its murder, wether or not you intended on even killing.
Anyway, if you tamper with a life support system, its pretty intentional.
"Ground control to Major Tom, your circuits dead, theres something wrong."
So what exactly is going on here?
FEAR the government that Fears your Guns. Fear the government that fears your Computers.
And dont EVER let them take either from you, or limit their use.
How the hell was this flamebait?
OK mods...
FLAMEBAIT: "Linux sucks"
NOT-FLAMEBAIT: "Perhaps it would improve the site if..."
Slashdot is at the mercy of the damn moderators
well shit, even the c=64 and atari4/800 had that (not as sophisticated as Amiga thought)
load up an external hp CDRW 7500 (parallel port version)
load the driver...
now just TRY to boot without a STOP ERROR!
(this also works with an internal 9300 w/out updated drivers)
OR use a Realtek chipset NIC and do a Win2k online update and choose to use MS new online realtek drivers. (this works on 50% of the machines)
OR (heh) convert your NTFS directory (in win2k) to HPFS, it SEEMS to support it for a while, and then "decides" not to support it. (did MS really take HPFS support out, or just make it not work?)
Use old reference drivers for windows 98 to install video cards in win2k. works like a charm. if working means stop errors anyway.
Use Fast page and EDO simms mixed together.
or a variation on this, use an old BIOS and an ODD number of simms, or a version of the bios that lets you force the bios into thinking it has more ram than it does.
Use a Western digital mastered to a Seagate Slave drive (if it will boot, HDD errors will happen fo no good reason) This is neither WD's fault nor Seagates...They both use funny ways of determining master/slave
Load Office 95, then load Norton Windoctor and let it "fix" the registry.
I like this one, put your swap file on a zip drive, but dont use Iomega 2000 tools to install the zip, now eject the zip. Be sure the BIOS sees the zip as a 100Mb Hard drive, not a ARMD device.
Install win2k with ACPI support, using a bios that SUPPORTS it, then flash the version that came out before w2k, that doesnt fully support ACPI.
Dont know of any NT specific crashes other than con/con or nul/nul, but it was muck easier to crash NT, win2k seems pretty stable, as far as messing around with it, win2k is much more forgiving than NT was.
I think it should be released into the Public Domain. NO license whatsoever. nada zilch
If they patent or copyright this stuff, the documentation to MY dna, I'm going to shit.
I can see it now. No one can have a baby with OUR DNA, its DNA PIRACY! you must pay a royalty.
Plus "Ogg" is such a cool name!
Um, didnt we drop *TWO* nuclear bombs on cities full of (not military installations but) civilians? Has any other country ever done anything like that? no? thank you.
When we are in a war, we as citizens rest well at night knowing it wont affect us physically, by that I mean we pretty much know there wont be an H-bomb landing on our bedroom roof.
We are the only country to ever bomb civilians with nuclear weapons, and we still have them. If it had been any OTHER country that had done that we would have STRIPPED them of nuclear capability.
The fact that other countries dont "mind" hosting American military bases is mostly economical. (and the fact that they ARE weaker than us)
Linux is already proven in the business arena. The main reason everyone uses MS Windows is "for the games"
The only reason I dual boot is because I cant get "the Sims" or Starcraft to run in linux. If I could play all my games, I'd never use Windows again. How many of you out there feel the same way? I'd stop using Photoshop and use the Gimp no problem. Games man Games!
Good Idea.
But make them document the Win32 API as well, and make Source Licenses available for their products, doesnt have to be free, but AVAILABLE, like in the Unix days.
Why the hell is the default formatting HTML for posting messages, what the hell is slashdot thinking?
>>what's the hell is that ?? you mean "Ide be happy..."? umm, typing lag
To be able to run MS Word in realtime.
>> Who is "forcing" who to use Linux? I don't recall seeing Linus Torvalds or RMS with a gun to anyone's head. If you don't want to use Linux because it's "already pretty ancient", then there are other "cutting edge" OSes you could choose.
>> I just don't see how Linux, being free and open, can force you into anything. It's the closed, proprietary software which does that.
I'm afraid I didnt make my point clear... I said its forcing the market to become volatile. Companies are giving up tried-and-true (C'mon, its SCO people!) products so that they will fit in with this "linux click" that moderates anyone having ANYTHING SLIGHTLY derogatory to say about linux, as a troll. (Check my last message in this thread) This is not how this industry should evolve.
WHY is this making the industry volitile? Because people making the decisions to use linux are doing so for the same reason a politition kisses a baby at a campaign speech. Linux is that baby. Focus on the REAL issues never makes that speech. Linux (like I said in my "0, Troll" post) best influence is the 'way it was/is being developed', but the REAL issue (GNU OS) is being hidden by the baby kissing, and developement on GNU has taken a back burner. You yourself have demonstrated this by saying "Linus and RMS havent held a gun...", when Linusus Linux kernel is NOT part of RMS's plan, read his manifesto again if you have to, but GNU/Linux is a FORK of GNU's Not Unix. Its ALL WE HAVE at the moment, as the HURD is still smothering in the womb, but its not the ends to RMS's means. This is my whole point, and you have demonstrated it exactly as I meant it, that this baby kissing is making people FORGET the goals of the FSF and the goals of Linus, while complimenting each other nicely, are NOT THE SAME.
Companies are making decisions to use/support/distribute Linux, not for the sake of open source or GNU, but for Linux itself, and tend to do NOTHING to further RMS plan other than to use Linux and stop there, as if that WAS the plan. Forgive me for ranting here but that "troll" moderation kinda pissed me off. It seems that the Linux zealot moderators are splintering from the GNU's Not Unix crowd and are working against them now? Thats not productive, and THATS exactly how this stuff is making the industry volatile. I've spent alot of effort in this persuit to GNU'dom, and I'm no stranger to linux or its adcovacy and pursuit, but I also know that Linux in the big picture, is just the beginning, not the end.
Yes, use Linux, but thats not the point. USE FREE SOFTWARE!
PS: hey moderator, bite me