"They run directly on the CPU just like all other Windows applications."
Not on NT, they don't. You see, there's something called the "Hardware Abstraction Layer." All of the calls to hardware are made through the NT kernel. Though this means that all the programs are under direct supervision of the NT kernel (and hence the much higher level of stability), the programs don't perform quite as well as they would on a Win9X system (though the higher chance of instability on a Win9X system immensely offsets the speed benefits).
Just a little more speed, or a lot more stability, which would you choose?
So much for a technological renaissance in Australia. You can't even forward e-mails or cache webpages anymore.
But then again, who will be only too happy to enforce all of this? Constable Microsoft, that's who.
I swear, if I ever get a chance, I'll have the DeCSS source code engraved on a metal breastplate and shield and become the anti-MPAA knight.
Another futile attempt from CBS.
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Remember the likes of "Thanks", "Cybill", and "Walker, Texas Ranger"? Those were all shows broadcast by CBS, and ignored by the audience. Now, in an attempt to seize more viewers, they clinched the rights to broadcast NFL games, and started shows like "CSI", "Yes, Dear", "Judging Amy", "Family Law", "Becker", and "Everybody Loves Raymond". The last two are pretty good due to the lead actors (Ted Danson and Ray Romano) and not the network, but the future of the others looks sketchy at best.
Regardless, Westinghouse is probably reeling from their acquisition of CBS.
For instance, what research is going on to build the world's first handheld railgun? If the U.S. Army gets hold of that weapon, they can recruit all the Quake players in the nation and send a hail of depleted uranium slugs flying toward the enemy!
Then again, an army of hundreds of thousands of railcampers is never good.
Ugh. First, all of those stupid blue-letterbox ads trying to get to your humorous side, and then they focused specifically on Linux. When will the insanity end?
At least they finally ditched Avery Brooks, but the farce doesn't end there: currently, Lotus (bought by IBM a while ago) is running two ads at South Station in Boston: "Looks like a dot-com, acts like a dot-com, moneyed like a blue chip." and "Casual dress code, your birthday off, a business plan that really works." The funny part is that Lotus just laid off 168 people on February 28th. So that's why they're hiring.
After all, you see plenty of stuff with "Patent Pending" imprinted on it. Basically, that means, "Back off, you greedy copycats! I applied for it first, and damnit, I'm getting that patent!"
oblivion. How? By fooling my computer as to the source of the banner ads. Just bind the server carrying the.gif files to 127.0.0.1 in/etc/hosts, and the banner gif won't load. This also works for those Flash banners and banner-sized Java applets (though you have to hunt around the webpage source to find the culprit!). If you still want to support a site, you can still blindly click on the.gif banner ads (i.e., to fund an impoverished website), but you won't know or care where the banner ad leads to.
Think about it: many of the huge Napster servers (come on, you don't really believe that ALL of the music comes from other users on desktop machines, do you?) will ditch Napster in favor of the decentralized Gnutella. Already my average time of searching for and downloading a specific mp3 has improved by 2 minutes.
This filename filtering system could very well mean the demise of Napster. And the beginning of the Gnutella renaissance.
Try this one for size. With a resolution of 330 TV lines and a 9- to 12-volt line drawing 150 milliamps, this one sounds pretty good. Of course, it'll need some sort of battery pack and transmitter. It isn't the one-piece setup he was looking for, but this will do just fine.
I remember when I had a Pentium MMX running at 233. My friend suggested overclocking it, so I did. I set the bus speed to 75, effectively raising the speed to 262 (the BIOS tested it as 266). Windows 95 started and everything ran fine, but when I went into Quake1, it crashed (just Q1, not everything). I decided that if it can't play Quake correctly, then it isn't stable. Sure, I could've bumped up the voltage a little bit, but I didn't feel like frying my chip.
However, six months later my friend overclocked a Pentium 75 to 90 MHz, and ran the Q1 demo loop for six hours. Not bad.
Come on. That's a dead giveaway of something wrong. I always inspect the size of mp3 files I find on Gnutella (usually to guess at the bitrate of the file), and if I see something outlandish (like this), then I ignore it.
As for the universal search matching capability, that's nothing new. Remember Flatplanet?
There's an old Dell Optiplex XM 590 lying on my floor. It has a Pentium OverDrive chip inside, an Intel 430NX chipset, an S3 Vision 868 video chipset (which was pretty good back then), and 48 megs of RAM. That sounds like the perfect Linux guinea pig system.
Only one thing about this shell is for certain...
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Computer Science deals with programming, while Computer Engineering deals with microcontrollers, VLSI, and a little programming as well. I'm a freshman at the Wentworth Institute of Technology, and right now I'm taking an Intro to C class (in fact, in just a half-hour I have to code my midterm project!). I'm also taking Circuit Theory II (I took Circuit Theory I last year), and Electronic Design. That intro to C class is my only significant programming class, but I'll probably take tne next level C class as an elective later on.
As for networking or becoming a sysadmin, that's an entirely different major group altogether.
Just right-click the banner and go to Properties (for Flash ads, it's a bit trickier; you'll have to view the source of the page and hunt down the HTML tag), and bind the host of the offending graphic to 127.0.0.1 in your/etc/hosts file. For instance, by binding gserv-cnet.zdnet.com to 127.0.0.1, you don't have to see that ghastly Flash ad. What's more, the page loads faster! Sure, there's an ugly "The page cannot be found" error in the space where the ad would've been, but aside from not being drawn away from the task at hand, the page loads faster and scrolls properly.
Fortunately, TreeLoot has discarded that incredibly annoying banner-sized Java applet (just look at what it does to CPU time on a P3 733!) with a much less volatile animated GIF. However, I wouldn't have noticed the change on my computer, since I bound www.treeloot.com to 127.0.0.1 in hosts!
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Hell, what term will we use in place of "overclocking"?
You're WRONG! TuxRacer 0.61 runs perfectly on Windows! See?!?!
Not on NT, they don't. You see, there's something called the "Hardware Abstraction Layer." All of the calls to hardware are made through the NT kernel. Though this means that all the programs are under direct supervision of the NT kernel (and hence the much higher level of stability), the programs don't perform quite as well as they would on a Win9X system (though the higher chance of instability on a Win9X system immensely offsets the speed benefits).
Just a little more speed, or a lot more stability, which would you choose?
Oh, the awful irony! Seeing cubes on desks where bulky PC AT computers once sat!
He'll go with Linux right away!
But then again, who will be only too happy to enforce all of this? Constable Microsoft, that's who.
I swear, if I ever get a chance, I'll have the DeCSS source code engraved on a metal breastplate and shield and become the anti-MPAA knight.
Regardless, Westinghouse is probably reeling from their acquisition of CBS.
Then they should rename it OS V or OS 9.999.
Then again, an army of hundreds of thousands of railcampers is never good.
At least they finally ditched Avery Brooks, but the farce doesn't end there: currently, Lotus (bought by IBM a while ago) is running two ads at South Station in Boston: "Looks like a dot-com, acts like a dot-com, moneyed like a blue chip." and "Casual dress code, your birthday off, a business plan that really works." The funny part is that Lotus just laid off 168 people on February 28th. So that's why they're hiring.
After all, you see plenty of stuff with "Patent Pending" imprinted on it. Basically, that means, "Back off, you greedy copycats! I applied for it first, and damnit, I'm getting that patent!"
ROT13, anyone?
EBG13, nalbar?
oblivion. How? By fooling my computer as to the source of the banner ads. Just bind the server carrying the .gif files to 127.0.0.1 in /etc/hosts, and the banner gif won't load. This also works for those Flash banners and banner-sized Java applets (though you have to hunt around the webpage source to find the culprit!). If you still want to support a site, you can still blindly click on the .gif banner ads (i.e., to fund an impoverished website), but you won't know or care where the banner ad leads to.
But not as much as it did four months ago. Why? Because many fast servers are shifting to Gnutella.
This filename filtering system could very well mean the demise of Napster. And the beginning of the Gnutella renaissance.
Try this one for size. With a resolution of 330 TV lines and a 9- to 12-volt line drawing 150 milliamps, this one sounds pretty good. Of course, it'll need some sort of battery pack and transmitter. It isn't the one-piece setup he was looking for, but this will do just fine.
...for that road to Q2 might actually hit a dead end next month.
However, six months later my friend overclocked a Pentium 75 to 90 MHz, and ran the Q1 demo loop for six hours. Not bad.
As for the universal search matching capability, that's nothing new. Remember Flatplanet?
Sure, the story isn't done, but once Rambus finally dies they'll surely be in an article about stupid patents.
There's an old Dell Optiplex XM 590 lying on my floor. It has a Pentium OverDrive chip inside, an Intel 430NX chipset, an S3 Vision 868 video chipset (which was pretty good back then), and 48 megs of RAM. That sounds like the perfect Linux guinea pig system.
...its name is MUD.
As for networking or becoming a sysadmin, that's an entirely different major group altogether.
...but I'd rather see Martin or Milhaus playing with a declawed CueCat for scanning UPC codes.
Fortunately, TreeLoot has discarded that incredibly annoying banner-sized Java applet (just look at what it does to CPU time on a P3 733!) with a much less volatile animated GIF. However, I wouldn't have noticed the change on my computer, since I bound www.treeloot.com to 127.0.0.1 in hosts!