On the driver to the CMD640, an IDE chipset that was on many original Pentium systems (75-100MHz), the driver is listed as "buggy." How is this possible??
I tried using Linux; all I could manage to do was get it to play Quake (I tried to network it with my other win2k computer, but it refused!)
Windows 2000 is just plain easier to install on many computers at once. You can make an "unattended" install file to set most of the preferences. This way, you can sit through less of the install process! I haven't even seen Linux do that, and its installation procedure is so inefficient, having to uncompress thousands of files taking 7 seconds per tarball while Win2k zips along, 50ms per file on average (excluding DRIVER.CAB, which is a lifesaver sometimes!)
As far as being mistreated (pulling the plug), if the two OSes were statues, Win2000 would be steel and Linux would be ice. Linux HATES to be shut off without unmounting filesystems. As for Windows 2000, it GIVES YOU THE OPTION to check file systems, and any missing driver files are automatically restored (I once saw someone delete NTOSKRNL from the/system32 directory. When the folder was re-opened, there it was, back again! As for Linux, god forbid if someone deletes your/etc/fstab or anything else in there!)
Just to recap:
Linux: Ice statue; melts under any heat; need an LCSE just to edit your/etc/fstab file.
Windows 2000: Steel Statue; takes the heat; MUCH easier to set up.
It's sad to see Avery Brooks sell out to Big Blue. Considering that IBM makes NT4 and Linux workstations with USB ports. One operating system never supported USB, the other guarantees never to support it correctly.
The term, "Act of God," is so loosely translated now. Let's say that one of the technicians farts from eating one too many burritos, thereby causing the methane to float into the switchboard room and become ignited by one of the activity LEDs, setting a fire knocking the entire sector off-line for two days. By the probable definition of the SBC lawyers, this could be considered an act of god. But the prosecution could argue that the owner of the guilty loose sphincter was at fault, therefore SBC was at fault for causing the ensuing inferno.
There's a genre for almost everything. FPS, RTS, RPG, board games, classics, simulations, humor. I'd be surprised to see a new one. Then again, that's the game company's hopes, right?
As for me, I'm a die-hard Quaker, and I always go back to my roots (DOOM). If you say RPG to me, the first thing that pops up in my mind is "Rocket Propelled Grenade."
Which CD? If it has an autorun.inf which leads to something pretty smarmy (like a Java interface, a DemoShield which uses MMSYSTEM to play sounds, etc), then I wouldn't be surprised. I find that Win2000 loves all games based on Id Software engines.
I might be considered a different case. I am a power user (see my Windows 2000 Geek of the Week page), and I used to have a 56K modem connecting to Worldspy (which I'd connect to using Dial-Up Networking [my typing teacher found a way to get around the laggy Java client]). When Worldspy was gobbled up by Juno, I was left with no ISP and no choice but to get a high speed connection. I could have used cable, but I didn't because hundreds of people in my town jumped on the RoadRunner bandwagon (I know firsthand: I work at CompUSA, and they ask me where the network cards are [some of them don't even know what a network adapter is]). My friend has it, and he reports that it bogs down to 10k per second. I then looked at DSL. It was 384 to 640kbps (translates to a peak of 60k per second), and the substation is just down the street. I ordered it and set it up (during the strike, I might add). I connected it to my Linksys router, and now I experience constant rates: 60k per second download, 11k per second upload. And it never deviates from that (unless, of course, the server at the other end is slow; many of those mp3 ftp servers are just K6-2 machines!). I chose DSL over cable because it meant freedom from the TimeWarnerAOLMediaOneAT&T conglom-o.
Right on! Linus is not a god! He is a mere mortal, just like you and me, and as a mortal, he makes mistakes. How many mistakes? Count the times that Linux users around the world have seen the words: "Segmentation Fault - Core Dumped"
I currently run VerizonOnline DSL. It's great for almost everything (I NEVER had a 90 ping on a Half-Life server before!), but it seems that the speed between me and the SMTP server is cut down; I've noticed that it takes about 14 seconds to log on and send under 1k of data. Essentially, SMTP is like FTP when it comes to protocol structure (same 550 errors, hehe), but still, I've sustained faster connections while uploading to FTP sites (up to 11k per second, compared to 2k per second with 56k).
I think it's time for DSL providers to tune up their SMTP and POP3 servers, the most ignored of all the servers within an ISP's server closet. For once, respect should be bestowed upon the consumers. Enough with this money-grubbing race, it's time to respect the average joe in favor of the rich CEO.
Most of the time, they're steaming, heaping loads. Personally, I don't trust a company press release unless it comes from the lips of someone high in the company. Even I know that sometimes what CmdrTaco reports is just a glitzy rumor motivated by the tech tabloids and 300 cc's of caffeine right to the heart.
For some fun, type in your browser:
about:mozilla
In Netscape, it displays a funny bible-ish story.
In IE4 and IE5, it displays a blue screen, a pun at how much Netscape crashes, even in NT.
Remember, there are only 2 things that have been proven to crash Windows 2000:
1. Badly written software
2. Badly written drivers
Ever notice how the proles in San Jose want to be like the pros in Santa Clara? So many of my least favorite companies in San Jose: 3dfx, Adobe, VA Linux (all of which will be in my upcoming manifesto: "The Whoring of the Digital World").
For the last goddamned time, it's Sun Solaris 2.7!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I have the same exact Linksys router, and it works great! Then again, verizon allows this kind of setup, but they won't give tech support for it (just a way of saying "We don't want to help you debug your LAN," after all, it's not that hard.
I've heard of pixels and texels, but voxels? Give me a break, 3dlabs! This is the same company that created glint, a long-forgotten proprietary dialect of OpenGL (sort of like GLide)
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and IEEE1394, and ATA66/100...
On the driver to the CMD640, an IDE chipset that was on many original Pentium systems (75-100MHz), the driver is listed as "buggy." How is this possible??Yes, it's true, see for yourself: My Geek of the Week page
I tried using Linux; all I could manage to do was get it to play Quake (I tried to network it with my other win2k computer, but it refused!)
Windows 2000 is just plain easier to install on many computers at once. You can make an "unattended" install file to set most of the preferences. This way, you can sit through less of the install process! I haven't even seen Linux do that, and its installation procedure is so inefficient, having to uncompress thousands of files taking 7 seconds per tarball while Win2k zips along, 50ms per file on average (excluding DRIVER.CAB, which is a lifesaver sometimes!)
As far as being mistreated (pulling the plug), if the two OSes were statues, Win2000 would be steel and Linux would be ice. Linux HATES to be shut off without unmounting filesystems. As for Windows 2000, it GIVES YOU THE OPTION to check file systems, and any missing driver files are automatically restored (I once saw someone delete NTOSKRNL from the /system32 directory. When the folder was re-opened, there it was, back again! As for Linux, god forbid if someone deletes your /etc/fstab or anything else in there!)
Just to recap:
Linux: Ice statue; melts under any heat; need an LCSE just to edit your /etc/fstab file.
Windows 2000: Steel Statue; takes the heat; MUCH easier to set up.
It's sad to see Avery Brooks sell out to Big Blue. Considering that IBM makes NT4 and Linux workstations with USB ports. One operating system never supported USB, the other guarantees never to support it correctly.
Just some food for thought. Digest responsibly.
There's a genre for almost everything. FPS, RTS, RPG, board games, classics, simulations, humor. I'd be surprised to see a new one. Then again, that's the game company's hopes, right? As for me, I'm a die-hard Quaker, and I always go back to my roots (DOOM). If you say RPG to me, the first thing that pops up in my mind is "Rocket Propelled Grenade."
If you're so sure, then why are you an anonymous coward?
Which CD? If it has an autorun.inf which leads to something pretty smarmy (like a Java interface, a DemoShield which uses MMSYSTEM to play sounds, etc), then I wouldn't be surprised. I find that Win2000 loves all games based on Id Software engines.
sorry, bad link. Here's my Geek of the Week page
I might be considered a different case. I am a power user (see my Windows 2000 Geek of the Week page), and I used to have a 56K modem connecting to Worldspy (which I'd connect to using Dial-Up Networking [my typing teacher found a way to get around the laggy Java client]). When Worldspy was gobbled up by Juno, I was left with no ISP and no choice but to get a high speed connection. I could have used cable, but I didn't because hundreds of people in my town jumped on the RoadRunner bandwagon (I know firsthand: I work at CompUSA, and they ask me where the network cards are [some of them don't even know what a network adapter is]). My friend has it, and he reports that it bogs down to 10k per second. I then looked at DSL. It was 384 to 640kbps (translates to a peak of 60k per second), and the substation is just down the street. I ordered it and set it up (during the strike, I might add). I connected it to my Linksys router, and now I experience constant rates: 60k per second download, 11k per second upload. And it never deviates from that (unless, of course, the server at the other end is slow; many of those mp3 ftp servers are just K6-2 machines!). I chose DSL over cable because it meant freedom from the TimeWarnerAOLMediaOneAT&T conglom-o.
Right on! Linus is not a god! He is a mere mortal, just like you and me, and as a mortal, he makes mistakes. How many mistakes? Count the times that Linux users around the world have seen the words: "Segmentation Fault - Core Dumped"
I currently run VerizonOnline DSL. It's great for almost everything (I NEVER had a 90 ping on a Half-Life server before!), but it seems that the speed between me and the SMTP server is cut down; I've noticed that it takes about 14 seconds to log on and send under 1k of data. Essentially, SMTP is like FTP when it comes to protocol structure (same 550 errors, hehe), but still, I've sustained faster connections while uploading to FTP sites (up to 11k per second, compared to 2k per second with 56k).
I think it's time for DSL providers to tune up their SMTP and POP3 servers, the most ignored of all the servers within an ISP's server closet. For once, respect should be bestowed upon the consumers. Enough with this money-grubbing race, it's time to respect the average joe in favor of the rich CEO.
This was so funny, I'm gonna check it everyday. Forget it taco, you refused to post my manifesto, and that's what you get.
Vote Steve Case off the Island!!!
Most of the time, they're steaming, heaping loads. Personally, I don't trust a company press release unless it comes from the lips of someone high in the company. Even I know that sometimes what CmdrTaco reports is just a glitzy rumor motivated by the tech tabloids and 300 cc's of caffeine right to the heart.
I didn't know you blew goats. What a nice flame-boyant way to show it.
crap, sorry it's here, put too one too many http://
Okay, I thought mozilla was dead too. Oh well.
For some fun, type in your browser:
about:mozilla
In Netscape, it displays a funny bible-ish story.
In IE4 and IE5, it displays a blue screen, a pun at how much Netscape crashes, even in NT.
Remember, there are only 2 things that have been proven to crash Windows 2000:
1. Badly written software
2. Badly written drivers
Wasn't exactly sure of VA. Anyone got a list of all the tech companies in San Jose? I'll tell you which ones are going on my manifesto.
PSX didn't support ANY kind of anti-aliasing. And I've heard rumors that PS2 won't either (though I hope that's just a rumor).
and this is the guy who said he didn't care about my manifesto, "The Whoring of the Digital World," which launches edicts at the following companies:
Apple
Adobe
AMD
Epic Games
Linux
Lucent Technologies
Netscape
S3
Sony Consumer Electronics
Sun Microsystems
(he probably doesn't want to post it because he supports at least 50% of these companies)
gotta publicise somehow.
Ever notice how the proles in San Jose want to be like the pros in Santa Clara? So many of my least favorite companies in San Jose: 3dfx, Adobe, VA Linux (all of which will be in my upcoming manifesto: "The Whoring of the Digital World").
For the last goddamned time, it's Sun Solaris 2.7!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Not like $800 for 128MB of RDRAM. Makes me livid when I think of what I'll have to go through to replace my 320MB of SDRAM.
I have the same exact Linksys router, and it works great! Then again, verizon allows this kind of setup, but they won't give tech support for it (just a way of saying "We don't want to help you debug your LAN," after all, it's not that hard.
ok, back to the original point of this one: WHAT THE HELL IS AN ACCELERATED BEZIER PATCH?!?!?!?!
I've heard of pixels and texels, but voxels? Give me a break, 3dlabs! This is the same company that created glint, a long-forgotten proprietary dialect of OpenGL (sort of like GLide)