Cause the DOS subsystem can do direct access to a USB drive without admin rights. And you have the fun of fitting everything in 64kB.
How does that work in 64 bit windows where the DOS and Win16 subsystems were removed?
and you had to do it on a seperate layer to avoid damaging the stuff under it. It's greate that they fixed that, but I still miss having a circle and rectangle button on the toolbox.
Also the number of different, incompatible, interfaces that use the RJ45 connector. On one router I have seen: Serial, Ethernet, ISDN, T1 (Technically RJ48), Voice (E&M) and Token Ring. Some ISDN lines provide power that can nicely burn some resistors off of an Ethernet interface.
BTW My annoyance is connector mis-naming. RJ45 originaly was the name for a specific type of analog phone line. When did it become a general term for 8 pin modular connector?
Maybe it'd have been ok if we used a 50 foot coax cable.
Nope. Phone lines are designed for twisted pairs, just like modern Ethernet. Coax is no good since you have to ground the shield which will screw up a phone line.
Cat 5 would be a good choice, or real phone wire. The extension cord probably has no twist to it, which makes it more prone to picking up noise.
What if a user has an open file, and yanks the drive? How does Windows "gracefully" deal with that? Answer: it can't.
AmigaOS handled it pretty well. If a disk was removed while in use you would get a dialog saying "You must replace volume DiskName in Drive 0!!!!". If you did it would complete the operation and everything was fine. If you hit cancel a few times it would give up, but then the application would start giving errors since the operation was aborted. This would also screw up the disk a bit requireing a long repair process when you next used it.
BTW AmigaOS mounts floppy disks as soon as they are inserted and automatically unmounts them on removal.
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Wasn't there one called "Deer's Revenge" where the deers go around with high-powered rifles/scopes and shot hunters?
It is called "Deer Avenger: and it is a bad parody of "Deer Hunter". Probably disappeared either for Trademark reasons or because it sucks.
Another bad, but funny, game was "Redneck Rampage". Think Doom with the slogan "A Butt-Kickin' Gun-Totin' 3d Romp Through Hickston, U.S.A".
I forget which one it was in, but one I liked was where you had to clear some space off on a computer. One of the items on the computer was 'Space Quest'. If you deleted that the game quit, no messages, just a DOS prompt.
Serria did have that annoying tendency to make you need to save your game every 30 seconds.
From a Windows NT4.0 CD (OEM Version):
Disc contains code to run on Windows NT-compatible 486, Pentium, MIPS R4x00, Alpha, PowerpC and Pentium PRO systems.
The SP3 CD drops support for all but x86 and Alpha.
Don't forget the colour schemes to make it hard to photocopy. I remember one game that the code sheet was printed in glossy black ink on matte black paper. Uggh. These days they would probably be sued by someone with poor eyesight.
Another game asked you questions about a full size poster that was way to ugly to hang on the wall so you had to keep unfolding this huge piece of paper every time you played.
In one case I found a CAD error where a 3.3V chip was running on 5V. It hadn't been noticed for months since the chip was working perfectly. The only problem was the chip wouldn't start up after a hot swap insert.
You give the withdrawal slip and a photo ID (usually a driver's license) to the teller, and they process it and give you your money.
And you may not even need ID. Once I didn't have my wallet and needed some money badly and I was able to get money with just my account number and signature.
Of course this only worked because it was the home branch and they could look up the signature on the little card you sign when openning the account.
You can replace the blown traic on the AC module for a lot less (I think I paid about $5 for the part). Just use an NTE generic replacement. Also, put a larger heat sink on it.
I think you can find details using google groups on sci.electronic.repair
I think I have a rebadged one of these (Bell ExpressVU Model 5100 - I think they are made by EchoStar) and agree the software quality is bad. It has gotten better, but still has a few quirks.
Mine would have trouble playing back recorded video as if the MPEG was badly corrupted. It took 2 calls to Bell and reseting the smartcard to fix that one.
Even with that fixed I still sometimes get corrupt screen displays and guide entries.
I have this old Motorola PPC PReP motherboard I use for a fileserver. It had stopped autobooting, but would still boot if I manually typed the boot command on the console.
One day I was playing with it and managed to plug in the power leads wrong (AT power supply:-(). When I turned on the switch and the fans just sort of twitched I instantly realized what I had done.
I plugged them in correctly and turned it on and it still worked!. All of the NVRAM had been erased, but once I re-entered all of the configuration (and guessed at a few values since I don't have a manual) it started auto-booting again.
I have also seen chips meant for 3.3V power run for weeks on 5V power before anyone noticed. Some chips are really tuff.
it's got digital optical audio out, my Sound Blaster5.1 w/ LiveDrive has digital Optical Audio In......it's not analog any more
I may be talking out my ass, but I seem to recall that the SB Live series always uses 48kHz sampling rate from the digital inputs and there is a little bit of degradation resampling from the 44.1kHz rate the CD uses. Recording from the digital input at 44.1kHz would actually do 44.1kHz -> 48kHz -> 44.1kHz.
Definitly better than the analog input. I get -70dB of noise with the Line input selected and muted. The digital noise floor should be at -90dB so there is 20dB of analog noise there. This is on a Live Value 5.1 which unfortunatly has no on-board digital inputs (There is a spot for a CD-ROM SPDIF connector, but it is missing. Of course the TAD connector for a voice modem answering machine is installed:-().
If you are receiving television signals from the US you are breaking the law.
So, when the rabbit ears one my basement TV pick up Buffalo stations (FOX, PBS and occaisonally WB) from Toronto that is illegal? NO!
Is it cheating to cancel WB(Boston) from my ExpressVU and put up a decent antennae to get it from Buffalo over the air? NO! Of course I don't do that, but could.
I think you should be able to watch whatever you want as long as you pay the bill (Cable, Sattalite, UK TV license fees, etc.)
How about the diagnostics from teh manufacturers web sites.
If you can't find one for your drive, try another manufacturers diagnostics. The basic tests should work since they are based on the S.M.A.R.T. standard. I know the Maxtor daignostics will test other drives for at least the 2 minute test.
BTW I wan't to ask if any of these people who experienced failures have S.M.A.R.T. turned on, and if so did you get any warnings from it before it failed?
My fairly new DVD-ROM drive has this. I never use it since the first thing I do is rip all new albums to MP3.
If anyone is interested the drive is a Pine 16x DVD-ROM. It was the cheapest on the shelf... The Creative 52x CDROM it replaced also had a play button.
I remember a parallel port driving LEDs fine without buffering. Of course that was on an old 386 and it wouldn;t surprise me if they are now using 4mA drivers instead of 24mA. 4mA won't give you much light. Most LEDs look good with between 10-20mA.
The buffer also gives the PC more protection against screw ups.
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Cause the DOS subsystem can do direct access to a USB drive without admin rights. And you have the fun of fitting everything in 64kB. How does that work in 64 bit windows where the DOS and Win16 subsystems were removed?
It used to be:
and you had to do it on a seperate layer to avoid damaging the stuff under it. It's greate that they fixed that, but I still miss having a circle and rectangle button on the toolbox.
...a way to draw a circle in less than 5 steps and 2 layers.
I miss Deluxe Paint. Simple, but powerful. EA should get back into productivity software :-).
Also the number of different, incompatible, interfaces that use the RJ45 connector. On one router I have seen: Serial, Ethernet, ISDN, T1 (Technically RJ48), Voice (E&M) and Token Ring. Some ISDN lines provide power that can nicely burn some resistors off of an Ethernet interface.
BTW My annoyance is connector mis-naming. RJ45 originaly was the name for a specific type of analog phone line. When did it become a general term for 8 pin modular connector?
PCs are non-standard since all RS232 equipment should have female connectors. I think PCs went male to avoid confussion with the paralell port.
BTW DTE/DCE makes sense when you look at what it was designed for - connecting a dumb terminal to a dumb modem.
Nope. Phone lines are designed for twisted pairs, just like modern Ethernet. Coax is no good since you have to ground the shield which will screw up a phone line.
Cat 5 would be a good choice, or real phone wire. The extension cord probably has no twist to it, which makes it more prone to picking up noise.
AmigaOS handled it pretty well. If a disk was removed while in use you would get a dialog saying "You must replace volume DiskName in Drive 0!!!!". If you did it would complete the operation and everything was fine. If you hit cancel a few times it would give up, but then the application would start giving errors since the operation was aborted. This would also screw up the disk a bit requireing a long repair process when you next used it.
BTW AmigaOS mounts floppy disks as soon as they are inserted and automatically unmounts them on removal.
It is called "Deer Avenger: and it is a bad parody of "Deer Hunter". Probably disappeared either for Trademark reasons or because it sucks.
Another bad, but funny, game was "Redneck Rampage". Think Doom with the slogan "A Butt-Kickin' Gun-Totin' 3d Romp Through Hickston, U.S.A".
I forget which one it was in, but one I liked was where you had to clear some space off on a computer. One of the items on the computer was 'Space Quest'. If you deleted that the game quit, no messages, just a DOS prompt.
Serria did have that annoying tendency to make you need to save your game every 30 seconds.
From a Windows NT4.0 CD (OEM Version):
Disc contains code to run on Windows NT-compatible 486, Pentium, MIPS R4x00, Alpha, PowerpC and Pentium PRO systems.
The SP3 CD drops support for all but x86 and Alpha.
Don't forget the colour schemes to make it hard to photocopy. I remember one game that the code sheet was printed in glossy black ink on matte black paper. Uggh. These days they would probably be sued by someone with poor eyesight.
Another game asked you questions about a full size poster that was way to ugly to hang on the wall so you had to keep unfolding this huge piece of paper every time you played.
In one case I found a CAD error where a 3.3V chip was running on 5V. It hadn't been noticed for months since the chip was working perfectly. The only problem was the chip wouldn't start up after a hot swap insert.
Power Good is a signal TO the motherboard! It is used to hold the processor in reset until the power is all the way on.
The reason a supply won't work alone is usually not enough load (Connect an old hard drive or headlight bulb) to keep the supply happy.
To make an ATX supply turn on by itself ground the green wire (to any black wire) with enough load connected.
You give the withdrawal slip and a photo ID (usually a driver's license) to the teller, and they process it and give you your money.
And you may not even need ID. Once I didn't have my wallet and needed some money badly and I was able to get money with just my account number and signature.
Of course this only worked because it was the home branch and they could look up the signature on the little card you sign when openning the account.
You can replace the blown traic on the AC module for a lot less (I think I paid about $5 for the part). Just use an NTE generic replacement. Also, put a larger heat sink on it.
I think you can find details using google groups on sci.electronic.repair
I think I have a rebadged one of these (Bell ExpressVU Model 5100 - I think they are made by EchoStar) and agree the software quality is bad. It has gotten better, but still has a few quirks.
Mine would have trouble playing back recorded video as if the MPEG was badly corrupted. It took 2 calls to Bell and reseting the smartcard to fix that one.
Even with that fixed I still sometimes get corrupt screen displays and guide entries.
I actually improved a system through abuse!
I have this old Motorola PPC PReP motherboard I use for a fileserver. It had stopped autobooting, but would still boot if I manually typed the boot command on the console.
One day I was playing with it and managed to plug in the power leads wrong (AT power supply :-(). When I turned on the switch and the fans just sort of twitched I instantly realized what I had done.
I plugged them in correctly and turned it on and it still worked!. All of the NVRAM had been erased, but once I re-entered all of the configuration (and guessed at a few values since I don't have a manual) it started auto-booting again.
I have also seen chips meant for 3.3V power run for weeks on 5V power before anyone noticed. Some chips are really tuff.
I may be talking out my ass, but I seem to recall that the SB Live series always uses 48kHz sampling rate from the digital inputs and there is a little bit of degradation resampling from the 44.1kHz rate the CD uses. Recording from the digital input at 44.1kHz would actually do 44.1kHz -> 48kHz -> 44.1kHz.
Definitly better than the analog input. I get -70dB of noise with the Line input selected and muted. The digital noise floor should be at -90dB so there is 20dB of analog noise there. This is on a Live Value 5.1 which unfortunatly has no on-board digital inputs (There is a spot for a CD-ROM SPDIF connector, but it is missing. Of course the TAD connector for a voice modem answering machine is installed :-().
They are running Linux.
Just a little humour...
Is there any way to configure BIND to ignore this other than picking new root servers and removing the option to use my ISPs DNS server?
I am running BIND9 on OpenBSD as a local LAN name server and DNS cache for the Internet.
So, when the rabbit ears one my basement TV pick up Buffalo stations (FOX, PBS and occaisonally WB) from Toronto that is illegal? NO!
Is it cheating to cancel WB(Boston) from my ExpressVU and put up a decent antennae to get it from Buffalo over the air? NO! Of course I don't do that, but could.
I think you should be able to watch whatever you want as long as you pay the bill (Cable, Sattalite, UK TV license fees, etc.)
How about the diagnostics from teh manufacturers web sites.
If you can't find one for your drive, try another manufacturers diagnostics. The basic tests should work since they are based on the S.M.A.R.T. standard. I know the Maxtor daignostics will test other drives for at least the 2 minute test.
BTW I wan't to ask if any of these people who experienced failures have S.M.A.R.T. turned on, and if so did you get any warnings from it before it failed?
My fairly new DVD-ROM drive has this. I never use it since the first thing I do is rip all new albums to MP3.
If anyone is interested the drive is a Pine 16x DVD-ROM. It was the cheapest on the shelf... The Creative 52x CDROM it replaced also had a play button.
progman.exe
It is still there, at least up to Win2k, probably in XP too
II remember a parallel port driving LEDs fine without buffering. Of course that was on an old 386 and it wouldn;t surprise me if they are now using 4mA drivers instead of 24mA. 4mA won't give you much light. Most LEDs look good with between 10-20mA.
The buffer also gives the PC more protection against screw ups.
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