MSX was very popular in the soviet union, france, spain and brasil. I still have 2 under my bed.
I wouldn't have mentioned it on this list because it's operating system was prety much a stripped down, 8 bit port of microsoft's MS-DOS. even the platform name means, according to legend, MicroSoft eXtended, and since it could also run CP/M (being a Z80 machine), MSX is covered twice on TFA.
he was refering to companies that are not IT shops. IT companies like google, MS, Sun, etc. have in-house expertise to deal with whatever happens, not to mentions that most of what they run is developed in-house too.
now, google, IBM, MS, HP, etc. are not the only mega-companies in the world, you know ? there are people like GM, Ford, Daimler, GE, Honda, Toyota, Shell, Vale, etc. none of them are IT shops. the later ones like a lot to have service contracts in place to deal with stuff that's not part of their core business.
put on standby FIRST, THEN turn of the switch. you know it's safe to turn off the switch when the power LED turns red.
simply cutting the power to any modern electronics is a recipe for disaster. stand-by firts, power off later. serves for consoles, TVs, computers, and the like.
this happens because in football the clock is not tied to the ball rolling. if the ball goes off the sidelines, or there's a foul kick, a player needs medical assistance, etc., the clock keeps ticking. then at the end of the half, the referee adds a few minutes (2-4 seem to be the norm) to make up for lost time. so the networks schedule 50 minutes for each half, plus 15 minutes for half-time, round that to 120 minutes and they're set. only on rare cases the game blows this, usually because of something _BIG_ like an in-field brawl.
open it, remove the heads, harvest the nodimium magnets, spin the plater, pass the nodimium magnets over the plates over and over. use a small propane torch to heat them up to make it easier for the magnets to act.
or buy some strong chemical shit at the market (like pipe cleaning products. the ones based on sodium hydroxide are prefered) and dump the platers there.
a well configured linux still boots faster than it takes windows XP on the same hardware to wake up from hybernation.
what makes specially mad at XPs wake up proccess is that it shows you a desktop, the mouse moves, but since it's still running a bunch of crap on the background, hosing the CPU, the environment stays unresponsive for a whole lot of time. apps that were open don't redraw, start menu don't open... it's a fscking mess...
still faster than booting from the ground up, of course, which can take 10 minutes if you count the time it takes to run the login scripts my company installed...
this should circumvent the posix specification that rm shouldn't accept a single "/" as argument. the result is that any poor SA that tries a "rm -rf/tmp/*" or "cd/tmp; rm *" will hose the system.
works on solaris 10.
note: on solaris, "rm -rf/" will result in an error, "cd / ; rm -rf./*" works as it should. i know, i tested. on purpose.
if nintendo is not willing to sell on his market, nintendo itself threw that sale away. they're not making money on that market. why would they care if people on his country copy the game ? nintendo already made it perfectly clear they don't care for the revenue that country would generate. it has ZERO impact on their bottom line.
basicaly, the hide their shit in a self.document.write() function. since this function is actually usefull, I won't clean all instances of it, only instances that try to write:
- A style sheet - More javascript
a page that uses self.document.write() for legitimate purposes only don't have to re-write the style sheet nor add more javascript using this method. they can put it in the clear instead of using self.document.write() to obfuscate the code.
the kernel _I_ use is not bloated. it's 20 something seconds from tapping enter on grub's menu to the login prompt (i log in text mode).
okay, i'm a hardcore debian user, i know how to compile my own kernel, but still, ubuntu 9.04 beta boots in pretty much the same time with a kernel that includes everything plus the kitchen sink.
the kernel is not bloated, it's just that it comes with drivers for a shitload of hardware.
take windows' kernel. if you include on it's source tree all kinds of drivers, for all kind of hardware, how many megs the code would be ?
it's not bloat, it's neccessity.
strip it down by deleting all.c,.cpp,.h, etc, files from stuff you don't need and it'll get pretty slim.
car makers are dictated to install seat belts, air bags, all kinds of flashing lights on the front and the back, put some basic tools to change a tire, plus a spare tire...
would you like walking on the sidewalk at night knowing that cars whithout all that stuff could be rolling down the street ?
Ahh I forgot Computers are only for People like us, you know Sys Admins & Engineers. Not anyone else. Certainly my parents couldn't work that out and they aren't techno-phobes.
then they can do something non-technical people used to do back in the day. call their ISP and ask them to send a free CD with all neccessary tools. My first ISP sent me a CD chock full of goodies, including software for OS/2 to run a BBS, opera, netscape, several IRC and FTP tools, HTML editors, freeware image editors and other stuff. of course, that was a time when ISPs really cared about their costumers
Sorry but you are talking shit.No they wouldn't. They get NO incentive to install IE, it's part of the OS. Why would an OEM waste time (which is effectively money) installing a product on an OS that already ships with a similar product installed?
Yes they do. it showed up on MS' anti-trust trial. OEM that shipped systems with a netscape or opera browser installed would be charged more for windows. in a market with paper thin margins like PCs, a few dolars more for a windows license can kill a business. when the anti-trust court forbade them from doing this, IE was already deeply integrated on the OS, so they added a small app on Windows XP to change the default browser to something else and hide the blue "e". but nothing convinces me that they completelly stoped using heavy-handed tactics to prevent OEMs from installing firefox on the factory.
Ahh so basically only companies ablee to afford that amount could have their's listed.. Hmm sounds like stiffling choice to me. Not so good for those free non-profit browsers. I suppose the list could have... IE and Netscape?
it could have a whole number of browsers. software developed by non-profits would be analized pro-bono. if they're clear from spyware, they're in. for-profit companies like mozilla and opera can afford paying for the certification, and they certainly would.
same way we did back in 1997, the first year I had internet at home. we used this amazing technology called FTP !!!
yes, Win 95 came with a command line FTP tool, and most ISPs had FTP server that were well publicized.
FTP is a helluva lot more reliable on slow lines, specially the ones subject to frequent interruptions like dial-up, mostly because continuing an interrupted download is a no-brainer.
that's how I obtained and installed several versions of netscape browsers back at the day.
is it just me or do other people read the name of that thing as PowersHell ?
I know I used to emphasize dosshell as dossHELL.
someone tells microsoft's marketing dept. that whatever you put in front of the word "shell" MUST be separated by a white space OR be turned into an acronym, three leters minimum, like CSH, KSH, Bash, etc.
or sick MoFos like me will find a way to emphasize the "hell" in "shell".
if you read user reviews for L. Ron Hubbard's books, you'll find dozens of 5 star reviews, all by scientology members.
it's awfull, can be seen as fraud in some cases, and should be the case to start pestering sites like amazon.com to include in their EULA an item requiring full disclosure of any conflicting interest. it'd make a lot easier to prosecute people like these carbonite guys.
mankind is going through a "food crisis" since i can remember (i'm 35), and according to history, since well before it. irish patato famine ? ever heard of it ?
the imbalance between people with food to throw away and people living with less than a bowl of rice a day always existed, it's one of those incovenient truths we'd like to ignore.
and development IS going on. technological and scientific research hasn't stoped in the west since galileu. it's just that you can't predict from WHERE the solution will come. yeah, NYC was working on public transportation to curb the horse shit problem, but it was the automobile that actually solved the problem.
this is how things go. sometimes you should just have to look away to find the solution to the problem right under your nose.
after I posted, I checked the site, and they seem to have a mercurial up and running with a bug fix tagged late december. so it seems to be picking up speed.
- when I run KDE 4 apps on window maker, the app supplied icon shows as a black and white bitmap, for instance.
- the addition of a notification area (AKA, system tray) to the dock would be nice too.
- ability to work on desktops that spans multiple monitors, so i can plug my notebook on my TV and move a media player to the TV screen instead of it moving to another virtual desktop once the mouse hits the border of the notebook's screen.
What I'd like to see is a decoupling of basic stuff like dialogs from the toolkit.
the idea is that filechoosers, print dialogs and other stuff like that should be separate applications, that comunicates with the calling app using a standard way, adopted by all.
this way GTK, QT, GNUStep, etc. apps. all would have _AT LEAST_ those items in common. that'll make the user able to use muscular memory to use those elements no matter wich toolkit was used to build the app, something that we don't have right now.
i've read an article about visicalc once that said because apple II didn't have an interrupt handling system, they had to fill the code with breaks to simply read the keyboard.
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MSX was very popular in the soviet union, france, spain and brasil. I still have 2 under my bed.
I wouldn't have mentioned it on this list because it's operating system was prety much a stripped down, 8 bit port of microsoft's MS-DOS. even the platform name means, according to legend, MicroSoft eXtended, and since it could also run CP/M (being a Z80 machine), MSX is covered twice on TFA.
he was refering to companies that are not IT shops. IT companies like google, MS, Sun, etc. have in-house expertise to deal with whatever happens, not to mentions that most of what they run is developed in-house too.
now, google, IBM, MS, HP, etc. are not the only mega-companies in the world, you know ? there are people like GM, Ford, Daimler, GE, Honda, Toyota, Shell, Vale, etc. none of them are IT shops. the later ones like a lot to have service contracts in place to deal with stuff that's not part of their core business.
put on standby FIRST, THEN turn of the switch. you know it's safe to turn off the switch when the power LED turns red.
simply cutting the power to any modern electronics is a recipe for disaster. stand-by firts, power off later. serves for consoles, TVs, computers, and the like.
WHAT ??? WHAT DID YOU SAY ?!?
this happens because in football the clock is not tied to the ball rolling. if the ball goes off the sidelines, or there's a foul kick, a player needs medical assistance, etc., the clock keeps ticking. then at the end of the half, the referee adds a few minutes (2-4 seem to be the norm) to make up for lost time. so the networks schedule 50 minutes for each half, plus 15 minutes for half-time, round that to 120 minutes and they're set. only on rare cases the game blows this, usually because of something _BIG_ like an in-field brawl.
open it, remove the heads, harvest the nodimium magnets, spin the plater, pass the nodimium magnets over the plates over and over. use a small propane torch to heat them up to make it easier for the magnets to act.
or buy some strong chemical shit at the market (like pipe cleaning products. the ones based on sodium hydroxide are prefered) and dump the platers there.
a well configured linux still boots faster than it takes windows XP on the same hardware to wake up from hybernation.
what makes specially mad at XPs wake up proccess is that it shows you a desktop, the mouse moves, but since it's still running a bunch of crap on the background, hosing the CPU, the environment stays unresponsive for a whole lot of time. apps that were open don't redraw, start menu don't open... it's a fscking mess...
still faster than booting from the ground up, of course, which can take 10 minutes if you count the time it takes to run the login scripts my company installed...
create a file on /tmp named " ../*"
this should circumvent the posix specification that rm shouldn't accept a single "/" as argument. the result is that any poor SA that tries a "rm -rf /tmp/*" or "cd /tmp; rm *" will hose the system.
works on solaris 10.
note: on solaris, "rm -rf /" will result in an error, "cd / ; rm -rf ./*" works as it should. i know, i tested. on purpose.
it does. it's called "format c:"
if nintendo is not willing to sell on his market, nintendo itself threw that sale away. they're not making money on that market. why would they care if people on his country copy the game ? nintendo already made it perfectly clear they don't care for the revenue that country would generate. it has ZERO impact on their bottom line.
Intel licensed a bunch of stuff to VIA after a legal battle some years ago.
here: http://arstechnica.com/old/content/2003/04/397.ars
And I just installed greasemonkey.
will start coding something to clean up the mess.
basicaly, the hide their shit in a self.document.write() function. since this function is actually usefull, I won't clean all instances of it, only instances that try to write:
- A style sheet
- More javascript
a page that uses self.document.write() for legitimate purposes only don't have to re-write the style sheet nor add more javascript using this method. they can put it in the clear instead of using self.document.write() to obfuscate the code.
the kernel _I_ use is not bloated. it's 20 something seconds from tapping enter on grub's menu to the login prompt (i log in text mode).
okay, i'm a hardcore debian user, i know how to compile my own kernel, but still, ubuntu 9.04 beta boots in pretty much the same time with a kernel that includes everything plus the kitchen sink.
the kernel is not bloated, it's just that it comes with drivers for a shitload of hardware.
take windows' kernel. if you include on it's source tree all kinds of drivers, for all kind of hardware, how many megs the code would be ?
it's not bloat, it's neccessity.
strip it down by deleting all .c, .cpp, .h, etc, files from stuff you don't need and it'll get pretty slim.
car makers are dictated to install seat belts, air bags, all kinds of flashing lights on the front and the back, put some basic tools to change a tire, plus a spare tire...
would you like walking on the sidewalk at night knowing that cars whithout all that stuff could be rolling down the street ?
Ahh I forgot Computers are only for People like us, you know Sys Admins & Engineers. Not anyone else. Certainly my parents couldn't work that out and they aren't techno-phobes.
then they can do something non-technical people used to do back in the day. call their ISP and ask them to send a free CD with all neccessary tools. My first ISP sent me a CD chock full of goodies, including software for OS/2 to run a BBS, opera, netscape, several IRC and FTP tools, HTML editors, freeware image editors and other stuff. of course, that was a time when ISPs really cared about their costumers
Sorry but you are talking shit.No they wouldn't. They get NO incentive to install IE, it's part of the OS. Why would an OEM waste time (which is effectively money) installing a product on an OS that already ships with a similar product installed?
Yes they do. it showed up on MS' anti-trust trial. OEM that shipped systems with a netscape or opera browser installed would be charged more for windows. in a market with paper thin margins like PCs, a few dolars more for a windows license can kill a business. when the anti-trust court forbade them from doing this, IE was already deeply integrated on the OS, so they added a small app on Windows XP to change the default browser to something else and hide the blue "e". but nothing convinces me that they completelly stoped using heavy-handed tactics to prevent OEMs from installing firefox on the factory.
Ahh so basically only companies ablee to afford that amount could have their's listed.. Hmm sounds like stiffling choice to me. Not so good for those free non-profit browsers. I suppose the list could have... IE and Netscape?
it could have a whole number of browsers. software developed by non-profits would be analized pro-bono. if they're clear from spyware, they're in. for-profit companies like mozilla and opera can afford paying for the certification, and they certainly would.
same way we did back in 1997, the first year I had internet at home. we used this amazing technology called FTP !!!
yes, Win 95 came with a command line FTP tool, and most ISPs had FTP server that were well publicized.
FTP is a helluva lot more reliable on slow lines, specially the ones subject to frequent interruptions like dial-up, mostly because continuing an interrupted download is a no-brainer.
that's how I obtained and installed several versions of netscape browsers back at the day.
is it just me or do other people read the name of that thing as PowersHell ?
I know I used to emphasize dosshell as dossHELL.
someone tells microsoft's marketing dept. that whatever you put in front of the word "shell" MUST be separated by a white space OR be turned into an acronym, three leters minimum, like CSH, KSH, Bash, etc.
or sick MoFos like me will find a way to emphasize the "hell" in "shell".
if you read user reviews for L. Ron Hubbard's books, you'll find dozens of 5 star reviews, all by scientology members.
it's awfull, can be seen as fraud in some cases, and should be the case to start pestering sites like amazon.com to include in their EULA an item requiring full disclosure of any conflicting interest. it'd make a lot easier to prosecute people like these carbonite guys.
mankind is going through a "food crisis" since i can remember (i'm 35), and according to history, since well before it. irish patato famine ? ever heard of it ?
the imbalance between people with food to throw away and people living with less than a bowl of rice a day always existed, it's one of those incovenient truths we'd like to ignore.
and development IS going on. technological and scientific research hasn't stoped in the west since galileu. it's just that you can't predict from WHERE the solution will come. yeah, NYC was working on public transportation to curb the horse shit problem, but it was the automobile that actually solved the problem.
this is how things go. sometimes you should just have to look away to find the solution to the problem right under your nose.
after I posted, I checked the site, and they seem to have a mercurial up and running with a bug fix tagged late december. so it seems to be picking up speed.
i'm sooooo happy !!!
bug fixes and a few new features, like:
- when I run KDE 4 apps on window maker, the app supplied icon shows as a black and white bitmap, for instance.
- the addition of a notification area (AKA, system tray) to the dock would be nice too.
- ability to work on desktops that spans multiple monitors, so i can plug my notebook on my TV and move a media player to the TV screen instead of it moving to another virtual desktop once the mouse hits the border of the notebook's screen.
I'm still waiting for a restart on wmaker's development. anyone have any news about it ?
short answer: yes.
long answer: yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees (sorry Yahtzee!).
a friend of mine migrated to OOo a year ago and most of his employees didn't even noticed. he owns a small architecture office.
only the oddball document that doesn't open right in OOo, he opens and converts on his own notebook, the only one in the company that have MS stuff.
What I'd like to see is a decoupling of basic stuff like dialogs from the toolkit.
the idea is that filechoosers, print dialogs and other stuff like that should be separate applications, that comunicates with the calling app using a standard way, adopted by all.
this way GTK, QT, GNUStep, etc. apps. all would have _AT LEAST_ those items in common. that'll make the user able to use muscular memory to use those elements no matter wich toolkit was used to build the app, something that we don't have right now.
i've read an article about visicalc once that said because apple II didn't have an interrupt handling system, they had to fill the code with breaks to simply read the keyboard.
wild ride that one...