Definitely. but unless you're running Win 3.1 or something, you shouldn't have to reboot the computers every day.
The problem I have with KVM switches is that not every machine I have takes the same Keyboard/Mouse/Video set. Everybody knows VGA, but my G4 doesn't have a Ps/2 Keyboard out, my old skool pentium and pentium pro don't have USB, and well, let's not talk about the Amigas:)
VNC is free, runs on a lot of different platforms for both client and server, and is pretty transparent. I've thought about trying to simplify my computers down to one laptop that can control the other computers from anywhere at my house with 802.11b.
If you wrap most of your components in bubble wrap, you can actually store jelly beans inside your average 486DX2/66 midsize tower circa 1992. Use Saran Wrap instead of the metal case cover.
No guarantees it'll work, but i have mandrake running on mine (behind a firewall)
Unfortunately, the Eudaemonic Pie book is out of print now. I tried Powell's, and Amazon.com. I thought Predictors was interesting enough (even with the whole VC/stock market stuff), and the roulette story would have been even better. Anybody have any good bookmarks to casino cheating stories? Probably easier now with PalmPilots than back in the day with giant boxes strapped to your waist and leg.
Hey, is there any possibility for some part-time short duration temp techie work in Sitka? I'm planning to be up there in August, would love to hang around Sitka or Juneau. And I don't think I want to work in a cannery:)
I can't believe people are replying to this gibberish.
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Does it surprise you that they won't let you have access to their php scripts? All of the open source tools they are using allow them to keep their own application closed source, so they aren't violating any licenses.
What good would it do you, unless you wanted to build www.givemea1to10.com which was a clone? Their presentation layer code seems easy enough, although the database layer has some interesting bits.
Actually, Bill Gates brought piracy to the attention of the personal computer community back in the late 1970's when he wrote an open letter that described how pirating commercial PC software (at the time, MS BASIC for the Altair and others) would lead to the stagnation of the personal computer software industry.
To say that Microsoft is only bringing this up now that they have people hooked is ignoring 20-odd years of consumer software history. I'm afraid you don't have a clue.
find something that you can do that will save the company money (or make them money). do a cost analysis detailing how you think X will save the company $Y. ask your boss if you can talk to him and give him a short presentation on what your idea is. this shows initiave on your part. if you want to be an engineer this is it. making something from nothing... well really optimizing and doing what you can with what you have.
This is a good idea - but as an intern/co-op be sure to tell your boss that your project will only save half the money you think it will.
That way if your project runs a little over budget, you'll still be seen as the guy who got 85% more savings than he promised. Underpromise, overdeliver. Your boss will probably fudge the numbers to his boss anyway.
Sun actually owns the exclusive license to Windows NT on Sparc, but keeps it bottled up. When Microsoft originally started NT development, they had 8 different architectures (x86,Alpha,PPC,MIPS,Sparc,ARM,???,???).
NT was meant to be extremely portable (unlike Windows 3.x, which was tied to dos and x86).
Sun bought the license from Microsoft in the early 90's, but hasn't released it. Anybody know why? Sun makes their money on the hardware, not on Solaris. I guess they want to "tie" their hardware with their software. What if Fujitsu, a sparc clone maker, wanted to sell NT?
Me and a friend from work are renting a 3 bedroom/2 bath place in austin, recently set up with a cable modem (Linksys router and Netgear 6 port hub are on the way).
I took the third bedroom and installed my stereo system from college, a tv, N64, playstation, sega genesis, and an Atari 2600.
also got a dell optiplex, that will be running redhat shortly, laptop from work, old p133, hp Omnibook 425 with Win 3.1 on ROM, hp OmniGO with GEOS, and 2 Amiga 1000's with tons of weird software I haven't gotten through yet (including Kickstart disks for AmigaOS 1.1->1.3, can these run 3.1?)
My mom wants to mail me my PS/2 Model 30 (Win 1.03), Mac SE (68000), and Kaypro/IV from home.(portable, sort of, the thing is probably 20 pounds)
I had some friends (4 guys) at school (CMU) who got a hot tub for their house, but it didn't really turn out to be the girl magnet they thought it would be.:)
Maybe I'm just being stupid here, but most Intel chips past the original Pentium, the old NexGen 586 and 686, and the newer AMD chips all work this way - they have an internal instruction set (microcode, I guess), and x86 instructions are translated into the native format. I can run old DOS stuff from 1981 on my brand new Pentium III if I wanted to, and nothing in the hardware has broken it.
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Definitely. but unless you're running Win 3.1 or something, you shouldn't have to reboot the computers every day.
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The problem I have with KVM switches is that not every machine I have takes the same Keyboard/Mouse/Video set. Everybody knows VGA, but my G4 doesn't have a Ps/2 Keyboard out, my old skool pentium and pentium pro don't have USB, and well, let's not talk about the Amigas
VNC is free, runs on a lot of different platforms for both client and server, and is pretty transparent. I've thought about trying to simplify my computers down to one laptop that can control the other computers from anywhere at my house with 802.11b.
No guarantees it'll work, but i have mandrake running on mine (behind a firewall)
Unfortunately, the Eudaemonic Pie book is out of print now. I tried Powell's, and Amazon.com. I thought Predictors was interesting enough (even with the whole VC/stock market stuff), and the roulette story would have been even better. Anybody have any good bookmarks to casino cheating stories? Probably easier now with PalmPilots than back in the day with giant boxes strapped to your waist and leg.
Hey, is there any possibility for some part-time short duration temp techie work in Sitka? I'm planning to be up there in August, would love to hang around Sitka or Juneau. And I don't think I want to work in a cannery :)
Troll.....
I can't believe people are replying to this gibberish.
Troll score: +3
* Reference to McCarthy +3
* Reference to Quisling +1
* Reference to abortion and murder -1
* Reply from the guy who said he'd publish abortion methods +3
* Use of effective bolding techniques +2
* Referring to Hitler -1
* Replying to own troll -1 * 4 = -4
What good would it do you, unless you wanted to build www.givemea1to10.com which was a clone? Their presentation layer code seems easy enough, although the database layer has some interesting bits.
To say that Microsoft is only bringing this up now that they have people hooked is ignoring 20-odd years of consumer software history. I'm afraid you don't have a clue.
This is a good idea - but as an intern/co-op be sure to tell your boss that your project will only save half the money you think it will.
That way if your project runs a little over budget, you'll still be seen as the guy who got 85% more savings than he promised. Underpromise, overdeliver. Your boss will probably fudge the numbers to his boss anyway.
NT was meant to be extremely portable (unlike Windows 3.x, which was tied to dos and x86).
Sun bought the license from Microsoft in the early 90's, but hasn't released it. Anybody know why? Sun makes their money on the hardware, not on Solaris. I guess they want to "tie" their hardware with their software. What if Fujitsu, a sparc clone maker, wanted to sell NT?
I took the third bedroom and installed my stereo system from college, a tv, N64, playstation, sega genesis, and an Atari 2600.
also got a dell optiplex, that will be running redhat shortly, laptop from work, old p133, hp Omnibook 425 with Win 3.1 on ROM, hp OmniGO with GEOS, and 2 Amiga 1000's with tons of weird software I haven't gotten through yet (including Kickstart disks for AmigaOS 1.1->1.3, can these run 3.1?)
My mom wants to mail me my PS/2 Model 30 (Win 1.03), Mac SE (68000), and Kaypro/IV from home.(portable, sort of, the thing is probably 20 pounds)
I had some friends (4 guys) at school (CMU) who got a hot tub for their house, but it didn't really turn out to be the girl magnet they thought it would be.
Maybe I'm just being stupid here, but most Intel chips past the original Pentium, the old NexGen 586 and 686, and the newer AMD chips all work this way - they have an internal instruction set (microcode, I guess), and x86 instructions are translated into the native format. I can run old DOS stuff from 1981 on my brand new Pentium III if I wanted to, and nothing in the hardware has broken it.