However, to play QuickTime Sorenson codec movies, you have to pay for the CrossOver plug-in.
QuickTime runs fine in plain Wine. What CrossOver provides is the browser plugin. If you download a Sorenson Encoded QuickTime file you can play it fine in the QuickTime player.
Hard drive and motherboard are what consists of the machine an OEM Windows is on. Change both and it's not the same machine. Change one or the other and it is.
What about one, then the other. For example I got an OEM copy of WinME with my PC (Mainly used for the occaisonal game). I have since replaced the HDD, and may replace the motherboard and CPU in the near future. Is my license invalid if I do that?
BTW I think it may be tied to the MotherBoard since the place I bought this system only sells Windows with Motherboards, even if it is just a motherboard.
I paid for the service - essentially you're telling me if I go to McDonalds and eat all of the food I ordered, I have bad manners....
It might be their network, but for the time I "rent it" for $40/month, I'll do the hell I want with it.
But if you payed for a small fries at McDonalds they would be pissed if you ate a large.
TW is now saying that the monthly fee includes 'X' MB/month and if you want more you have to pay for it (Super sized anyone?).
Rogers here in Toronto has been considering a similar idea. They have also started a new 'Lite' service that gives 128kbps service for a price similar to dialup. They are realizing that the people that don't use it a lot are paying for the heavy users.
BTW I am a moderate user, with 4 people and 8 computers behind a NAT gateway. I would not be annoyed at paying for excessive usage. The only ones I hear complaining are the 24/7 music/pr0n/warez downloaders. They also complain that the Usenet server is terrible for binaries when Usenet was never ment for binary distribution!
I have found EBay a wonderful source of obsolete and oddball computer equipment. Just find the stuff with a $0.01 minimum bid and low shipping charges.
BTW I was given a bag of various SIMMs. I have no idea what to do with the 30 pin ones...
Just pick up the keyboard. Tilt the back towards you until the keys are facing slightly down. Smack the front edge of the keyboard against the desk a few times. Wonder where all the crap came from.
BTW At least twice I have recovered a keyboard that had coffe spilled in to it until the keys were so sticky they would stay down on their own. It involved complete disassembly and about 40 miniature screws.
Remove all of the keycaps and any springs under them. Take the case off the keyboard. Look on the bottom of the inside bits and find all the little screws. Take them out. Pull everything apart. Dump the plastic and metal bits in the sink and wash them. The electronics and contacts can be cleaned with water or alcohol. Alcohol works great on the conductive rubber on the plungers. After everything is completely dry (don't forget under chips, compressed air helps) put everything back together and get the keycaps on in the right places. Last and most important- Get the person who keeps spilling there coffe on teh keyboard to stop!
Expect to spend several hours if you want to clean all of the keycaps too. So don't bother on a $15 keyboard.
I also dissasemble, clean and re-oil dead case fans. One that was so stiff I could barely turn it by hand now runs great. This only takes about 10 minutes and seems to get another 6 months to a year from a cheap sleeve bearing fan.
How l33t does that make you look in your department when every six weeks you lock out your machine?
At my work all you have do is change your NT Domain password while you are still logged in on another workstation. The other workstation will keep trying to access shared drives with the old passowrd causing the Domain Server to lock the account.
Of course the Unix systems never seem to have this problem...
You could do a 2 stage power-up for your system. 1st stage uses the regular switch on your powersupply and does nothing but charge up the caps. Second stage is when you actually apply power to the motherboard and all your drives inside.
Just looking at an old 2GB drive I have sitting here:
570mA @ 12V. Let's assume startup takes 5 seconds.
That means we need 0.570A * 5s = 2.85Columbs of Electrons. At 12V that would take a 2.85Q/12V = 238,000uF capacitor to hold that much charge. Of course you need to keep the voltage up so you need a much bigger capacitor, lets say by a factor of ten (I don't feel like doing the math to figure it out exactly based on the voltage on the cap) giving us a 2.375F capacitor. That would be physically huge, larger than the disk array. And you need another one for the 5V.
On the other hand some lead acid or NiCad batteries might work. Keep them float charged from the power supply and you would have plenty of startup current and pwoer backup. A car battery will provide over 100A for a short time. Only problem is getting the voltage right. 10 NiCad cells is about 12V and 4 NiCads is about 5V, but I think you would need something bigger than a D cell.
As stated above you would probably be best off with multiple power supplies.
I have a old Apple Duo with a trackball. It is a royal pain to keep it clean. It is very sensitive to dirt and the rollers are so small it is hard to get it all off.
Uhm...just how exactly did you get that old 386 to recognize your brand-new 40GB drive? I'm not doubting the fact, I just wonder how you did it, since even my not-so-old Pentium has problems with disks above 8GB..
It recognized it just fine. The no-name motherboard has an Award BIOS that sees it as an 8GB drive. I guess I just happened to get a decent BIOS. BTW Most drive have a jumper to make them look like 2GB drives to the BIOS if it doesn't like 8GB. Then a real OS or on of those disk driver programs make the rest visible
You won't get Ultra/66 on an old ISA IDE/Floppy/serial/parallel/Joystick card though. The Linux kernel probes the drive for its true capacity and would use LBA mode to get at the whole drive.
I just checked out the IMDB web page. They do have fairly strict limits on what you can do with it, but you can download the entire database in ASCII text from
http://us.imdb.com/interfaces. They also provide link to many clients for various systems.
Compare that to CDDB where they only want you to access their database through 'approved' clients and don't want you to keep a local copy of the data.
Do not hook electronics directly to your cars 12V system!
The power is very noisy and not very consistant. Voltages from 9V up to around 15V are 'normal'. The ignition noise is probably much more.
You will need some sort of power supply to power a CDROM or any other device not meant for car power (Unless it is something really simple like a light or a motor.)
what's the difference between a 486DX and a 486SX? intel intentionally fucked up the FPU on the 486SX! yeah, on the original 486SX's, there WAS an FPU, but it
was disabled. thanks intel!
Didn't they actually use the parts with defective FPUs as 486SXs? I would call it recycling. That is very common in the industry. The reason chips overclock so well is that they are mostly made for a high speed and the ones that only work at the slower speed are sold that way for less.
It's not a good idea to send cabling through ventilation ducts (in fact, it's against the elctrical codes in US and Canada) The major concern is possiblity of electrical surges
that may appear on the communication cable, which would lead to sparks in a dusty environment, which is bad.
I thought you could run cables in ducts, butneeded to use 'plenum cable' which is fire resistant.
Thankfully I only had 3 rooms to do. Two holes in a wall and the rest under the baseboard. Only problem was finding the concrete inside the one wall...
Recording from the Wire coming out of the back of your stereo system, is not a perfect digital copy. That is what they are trying to stop.
What about using the digital SPDIF out on the back of most CDROMs? It may not be as good as cdparanoia or EAC, but it should give better results than analog.
BTW, Why all this worry about going to analog for one generation when you will immediatly mp3 compress the audio which causes much more quality loss.
However, asking people for money isn't a problem. After all, that's how RMS funded much of his work: asking people to pay him to punch Emacs off to a tape for them.
They COULD have downloaded it, or found somebody with a tape and copied it.
And the FSF is still makeing money doing just that. They sell CD-ROMs, manuals, tee-shirts and more on their web page at http://www.gnu.org/order/order.html.
Now, who wll be the first to complain that they charge 4x more to organizations than to individuals for the CDROMs.
Has anyone approached any of these companies
about releasing their old stuff? I know that for
the Amiga there are sites like Back to the Roots that get permission to distribute old games. They have many titles from EA, Sierra and Pygnosis(sp?) and many others.
Anyone with an Amiga or UAE and a legal set of ROMs can get many classic games.
HP Pavilions usually have a serial port and 2 USB ports on the front. I have no experience with the quality, but I have a feeling it is better than Compaq's.
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BTW I think it may be tied to the MotherBoard since the place I bought this system only sells Windows with Motherboards, even if it is just a motherboard.
TW is now saying that the monthly fee includes 'X' MB/month and if you want more you have to pay for it (Super sized anyone?).
Rogers here in Toronto has been considering a similar idea. They have also started a new 'Lite' service that gives 128kbps service for a price similar to dialup. They are realizing that the people that don't use it a lot are paying for the heavy users.
BTW I am a moderate user, with 4 people and 8 computers behind a NAT gateway. I would not be annoyed at paying for excessive usage. The only ones I hear complaining are the 24/7 music/pr0n/warez downloaders. They also complain that the Usenet server is terrible for binaries when Usenet was never ment for binary distribution!
BTW I was given a bag of various SIMMs. I have no idea what to do with the 30 pin ones...
BTW At least twice I have recovered a keyboard that had coffe spilled in to it until the keys were so sticky they would stay down on their own. It involved complete disassembly and about 40 miniature screws.
Remove all of the keycaps and any springs under them. Take the case off the keyboard. Look on the bottom of the inside bits and find all the little screws. Take them out. Pull everything apart. Dump the plastic and metal bits in the sink and wash them. The electronics and contacts can be cleaned with water or alcohol. Alcohol works great on the conductive rubber on the plungers. After everything is completely dry (don't forget under chips, compressed air helps) put everything back together and get the keycaps on in the right places. Last and most important- Get the person who keeps spilling there coffe on teh keyboard to stop!
Expect to spend several hours if you want to clean all of the keycaps too. So don't bother on a $15 keyboard.
I also dissasemble, clean and re-oil dead case fans. One that was so stiff I could barely turn it by hand now runs great. This only takes about 10 minutes and seems to get another 6 months to a year from a cheap sleeve bearing fan.
Of course the Unix systems never seem to have this problem...
That means we need 0.570A * 5s = 2.85Columbs of Electrons. At 12V that would take a 2.85Q/12V = 238,000uF capacitor to hold that much charge. Of course you need to keep the voltage up so you need a much bigger capacitor, lets say by a factor of ten (I don't feel like doing the math to figure it out exactly based on the voltage on the cap) giving us a 2.375F capacitor. That would be physically huge, larger than the disk array. And you need another one for the 5V.
On the other hand some lead acid or NiCad batteries might work. Keep them float charged from the power supply and you would have plenty of startup current and pwoer backup. A car battery will provide over 100A for a short time. Only problem is getting the voltage right. 10 NiCad cells is about 12V and 4 NiCads is about 5V, but I think you would need something bigger than a D cell.
As stated above you would probably be best off with multiple power supplies.
Isn't that obvious? If they published the spec you wouldn't have to use an Alpine CD changer. It's called vendor lockin.
I always liked using Broadcast2000. However it is getting hard to find since the developers no longer distribute it.
On a standard 120V North American circuit an 8ohm speaker would be drawing 15A . This is 1800W or 4 times the rated power of the speaker.
How long would the speaker last in this condition?
I have a old Apple Duo with a trackball. It is a royal pain to keep it clean. It is very sensitive to dirt and the rollers are so small it is hard to get it all off.
Too bad GORILLA.BAS is not included :-(
It recognized it just fine. The no-name motherboard has an Award BIOS that sees it as an 8GB drive. I guess I just happened to get a decent BIOS. BTW Most drive have a jumper to make them look like 2GB drives to the BIOS if it doesn't like 8GB. Then a real OS or on of those disk driver programs make the rest visible
You won't get Ultra/66 on an old ISA IDE/Floppy/serial/parallel/Joystick card though. The Linux kernel probes the drive for its true capacity and would use LBA mode to get at the whole drive.
I just checked out the IMDB web page. They do have fairly strict limits on what you can do with it, but you can download the entire database in ASCII text from http://us.imdb.com/interfaces. They also provide link to many clients for various systems.
Compare that to CDDB where they only want you to access their database through 'approved' clients and don't want you to keep a local copy of the data.
The power is very noisy and not very consistant. Voltages from 9V up to around 15V are 'normal'. The ignition noise is probably much more.
You will need some sort of power supply to power a CDROM or any other device not meant for car power (Unless it is something really simple like a light or a motor.)
Didn't they actually use the parts with defective FPUs as 486SXs? I would call it recycling. That is very common in the industry. The reason chips overclock so well is that they are mostly made for a high speed and the ones that only work at the slower speed are sold that way for less.
Thankfully I only had 3 rooms to do. Two holes in a wall and the rest under the baseboard. Only problem was finding the concrete inside the one wall...
What about using the digital SPDIF out on the back of most CDROMs? It may not be as good as cdparanoia or EAC, but it should give better results than analog.
BTW, Why all this worry about going to analog for one generation when you will immediatly mp3 compress the audio which causes much more quality loss.
And the FSF is still makeing money doing just that. They sell CD-ROMs, manuals, tee-shirts and more on their web page at http://www.gnu.org/order/order.html.
Now, who wll be the first to complain that they charge 4x more to organizations than to individuals for the CDROMs.
But a Wolf3D style engine was done on the TI-85. I think it was called Deadalus. Check ticalc.org as mentioned above.
Greyscale, 128x64 resolution and even a decent frame rate all on a 6MHz Z80 and 32k of RAM....
It also needs MacOS to run the booter. There probably isn't room for MacOS, the booter and the kernel on a disk.
Anyone with an Amiga or UAE and a legal set of ROMs can get many classic games.