Buut seriously, why not just roll the cable , or bend it in half a safe distance from the end?
Ands how often do you actually get inside your computer? Bout' once a month for me.
This would help some people though, who work on computers alot, because I have severed wires on computer shrapnel (sharp little corner and crap)
What I'm interested in know is where can I get an older version of MacOS (7.9 I believe) to cover up a blothced install.
And what are the HardWare requirments for PPCLinux? I just claimed a 100mhz Mac over at www.freeboxen.com? I kno wit will run, but will it run disantly, or like a 486 booting NT?
Thanks
I'm 15, and have had a computer in the house since I was 3 (Started out with packardbell 286 playing "prince of persia").
I bought my own first computer in the 7th grade (P.75 for 200$) but before then had constant access to my mom's.) In the 8th grade I acquired a pent.120, and as a Freshman built a p2.400.
Now as a Sophmore I am looking to Build a new one (probably T.Bird)
Now, I do have to admit I had someone to help me (My Uncle who was very into computers lived with us for a year after he got out of the Army)
but by the time I was 4 or 5 I could navigate myself around DOS.
By when I was 10 I was the one my mom turned to when the computer crashed and she needed help.
When I was 13, my Uncle got me into Linux (I can install it and compile Glide, but thats my extent so far).
Now at 15 I own 4 computers, ran a homenetwork last summer for my house, have a Freesco firewall set-up and running on our house network for road-runner Cable Access.
I constantly help my mom with her computer (I am planning to upgrade her to Win2000 this winter), I helped set-up almost all of the computers in the CAD lab at my school, my teachers know to come to me when they need help with their computers at school or work, and the dude who is a Senior who helps out with all the computers around the school (Tech-assistant) is as best as I can figure by the way he acts towards me, Either afraid or Jealous.
My suggestion for the kid is to somehow get them interested in it, such as, we'll by you the most exspensive computer you want, you just have to put it together ( and them give him a couple books on the subject), I do not know of any classes or anything for kids his age, but maybe I am wrong.
Maybe if you try to make it intersting for him he'll want to learn. But, perhaps he could be like my sister, and just like to play games, and call on me when it comes to something as simple as filling in a Username and password for setting up a yahoo account (and my mom got mad because I was upset that my 11 year old sister couldn't fill in a Username, password, date of birth, and press OK)
I have a Nerf-crossbow, the strings on it broke, but it still works fine.
I have found that to get some nerf guns to shoot twice as far, use a piece of tape over the hole near the end of the barrel, then take a dart, pull the head off, and hot-glue a dime to it, I use it on my little sister all the time
I just upgraded to Netscape 6 last night, and am very unhappy with it.
First, it looks exactly like Mozilla 18,
And I hate the freaking sidebar!
There is no way to disable it, and I hate it!
Also, It added in a ton of liks to my panels it didn;t ask permision too.
So I got mad, but decided to try out a theme for it, well, it just didn;t look like netscape!
So I went back to 4.76, and am happy with it.
Also, Netscape 6 took forever to load, whereas 4.xx loads in seconds, 6 takes about 30seconds on
a pentium2 400mhz.
BTW, Why are Mozilla and Netscape looking almost like each other, I thought the point of Mozilla was to seperate from netscape!
They say its independent of the OS on the computer, but what happens when Winblows craches and I have to reboot? That would screw it up wouldn't it? or would it have its own backup power or power source like the Voodoo5
I had to deal with NewDeal in my schools typing lab, and it was terrible.
I mean, I guess for a 286, it wasn't bad, but my schools computer guy was a lazy son-of-a-B*tch, and decided to charge my school 50$ (I think) a 486 to buy Newdeal Licences, even though nice little me had tryed to show him such things as AbiWord, Staroffice, and I even suggested running Linux on them and using KDE office or something. But no, the guy was a Dick and Put Newdeal on there, and both the typing teachers were ready to strangle him by months end. In the typing program, the spell-checker sucked, and it was so poorly written, it would continually crach on me.
Any way, my school sucks as far as computers go.
Such as when I was talking to one of the Seniors (this is a high-school) that was helping out with computer stuff, and I mentioned somehthing about that there servers were in the room acroast from the library, and he looked like he was ready to kill me when he told me that room was supposed to be secret (aswell as the Cat-5 witing plans), and I told him they should shut the door to it then, because I walk past there every day.
Also, when I mentioned to the tech guy about linux, he said he had "Tried it" and did not believe it was a good platform for the typing lab, when I asked him a few questions, it was apparent he was Lying, and was most likely afraid to try anything his MCSE didn't include.
But, he resigned last year, so now our "Tech director" is the dude who manages the money for the district, and all he does is change all the passwords once a month, and hire someone if a computer breaks down.
Sorry bout my rant
Anyway, I too am 15, frequently use Linux (Though,I prefer to use windows to surf the web and play games, but use Linux for Word processing, and to experiment with such stuff as Win4Lin, Vmware, or Wine)
I would like to try to start to learn Java, but I can't get a disant book for less that 40$ (and I'm broke) so I'm going to wait and beg my mom for one for christmas. I have an Uncle who knows Java, but the time I asked him for help, he just glanced at the book, and then told me I wasn't really trying and that it was all right there in the book. (which was untrue the book was made for people who had priar experience in c++ or perl, but was the only one the library had)
The Way I see it is that if the computer is able to run it is in close enough to good condition to be able to compile stuff.
I help my Drafting teacher out in the Lab at my school, t set up computers, and whenever we couldn't get something to work, he would want to blame it on the condition of the computer, but I see it is as if it can run at all, its in condition enough to be able to run programs and such.
Unless, you have cheap-ram, if thats the case it most likely could be the source of the problem
YES!!
I have been trying to get an awnser to that question for a Long time (about the shock of hitting potholes)!
Does anyone have an awnser?
I really would like to have a computer in my car, but am afraid of constantly going through drives.
Other than that, I probably will end up using BEOS and a WinAmp like program to play MP3's on.
I remember when the dude came and installed our dish-tv, and said something about this happening.
True to his word, their is a high-speed data port on the back of the reciever
Thats where I'm stuck, I'm 15 as well, and just made an attempt at programming in Java.
The book I got from the library was severly outdated, but still sucked at explaining stuff.
I don't have anyone to help me that knows very much programming, and I need a book a little more intersting then giving one example, then adding more to it, then more, then more.
I just can't learn that way.
I'm really afraid that when I get to college, that I won't know enough to be able to do very well in classes, but I'm having a hard time getting started with it.
Does anyone know of a really disant book for programming for Beginners (thats the problem I had with the last book, it was made like it expected you to have a former background in C/++)
for programming in Java.
And does anyone know of Java compilers that would work disant on a 386sx (with no cd-rom support),
because I hate being tied to my desk.
I just got RR and am very happy with it
BTW, if you want to check your Bandwidth, I find a nifty tester here- http://www.2wire.com/bandwidth/bmresult.asp?kbps=0 .0
This kind of reminds me of Legalism, a Chinese School of thought.
They believed Humans were untruthful and war-like by nature, and shouldn't be trusted (they didn't last long either, they severly beat the whole family of someone if they commited a crime).
I know atleast 3 people who have bought linux at OfficeMax-BestBuy-CompUSA with no clue what it is, just a look at the pictures on the back and they thought it was a Text-editor or something.
2 wanted refunds after they called me asking what it was (do you know how hard it is to actually explain to a newbie what an os is?
"It is an perating system, you use it instead of Winblows"
"heehee, your making fun of microsoft aren;t you"
"Yes"
"so its kind of like Mac OS"
"Yeah, exactly"
"So it runs on a Mac"
"No"
"But windows runs on a pc"
"So does Linux"
"Yeah right, seriously, what is Linux"
"Its an OS, you use it in place of windows"
"Yeah right, you can't take windows of a computer"
-continue for 10 minutes
The other guy left his CD in, and forgot about it when it didn't work. The next day I got a call when he turned on his computer and got the Set-up screen.
Seriously, its kinda cool their selling Linux at Wal-mart, but how many people that shop their will actually be able to figure out what its for?
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Wow, thats, um... neat, yeah, neat....
Buut seriously, why not just roll the cable , or bend it in half a safe distance from the end?
Ands how often do you actually get inside your computer? Bout' once a month for me.
This would help some people though, who work on computers alot, because I have severed wires on computer shrapnel (sharp little corner and crap)
No, I need the older version for my sisters mac, and it is running 7.4.4 I believe.
What I'm interested in know is where can I get an older version of MacOS (7.9 I believe) to cover up a blothced install.
And what are the HardWare requirments for PPCLinux? I just claimed a 100mhz Mac over at www.freeboxen.com? I kno wit will run, but will it run disantly, or like a 486 booting NT?
Thanks
DVD support
I'm 15, and have had a computer in the house since I was 3 (Started out with packardbell 286 playing "prince of persia").
I bought my own first computer in the 7th grade (P.75 for 200$) but before then had constant access to my mom's.) In the 8th grade I acquired a pent.120, and as a Freshman built a p2.400.
Now as a Sophmore I am looking to Build a new one (probably T.Bird)
Now, I do have to admit I had someone to help me (My Uncle who was very into computers lived with us for a year after he got out of the Army)
but by the time I was 4 or 5 I could navigate myself around DOS.
By when I was 10 I was the one my mom turned to when the computer crashed and she needed help.
When I was 13, my Uncle got me into Linux (I can install it and compile Glide, but thats my extent so far).
Now at 15 I own 4 computers, ran a homenetwork last summer for my house, have a Freesco firewall set-up and running on our house network for road-runner Cable Access.
I constantly help my mom with her computer (I am planning to upgrade her to Win2000 this winter), I helped set-up almost all of the computers in the CAD lab at my school, my teachers know to come to me when they need help with their computers at school or work, and the dude who is a Senior who helps out with all the computers around the school (Tech-assistant) is as best as I can figure by the way he acts towards me, Either afraid or Jealous.
My suggestion for the kid is to somehow get them interested in it, such as, we'll by you the most exspensive computer you want, you just have to put it together ( and them give him a couple books on the subject), I do not know of any classes or anything for kids his age, but maybe I am wrong.
Maybe if you try to make it intersting for him he'll want to learn. But, perhaps he could be like my sister, and just like to play games, and call on me when it comes to something as simple as filling in a Username and password for setting up a yahoo account (and my mom got mad because I was upset that my 11 year old sister couldn't fill in a Username, password, date of birth, and press OK)
I have a Nerf-crossbow, the strings on it broke, but it still works fine.
I have found that to get some nerf guns to shoot twice as far, use a piece of tape over the hole near the end of the barrel, then take a dart, pull the head off, and hot-glue a dime to it, I use it on my little sister all the time
I just upgraded to Netscape 6 last night, and am very unhappy with it.
First, it looks exactly like Mozilla 18,
And I hate the freaking sidebar!
There is no way to disable it, and I hate it!
Also, It added in a ton of liks to my panels it didn;t ask permision too.
So I got mad, but decided to try out a theme for it, well, it just didn;t look like netscape!
So I went back to 4.76, and am happy with it.
Also, Netscape 6 took forever to load, whereas 4.xx loads in seconds, 6 takes about 30seconds on
a pentium2 400mhz.
BTW, Why are Mozilla and Netscape looking almost like each other, I thought the point of Mozilla was to seperate from netscape!
They say its independent of the OS on the computer, but what happens when Winblows craches and I have to reboot? That would screw it up wouldn't it? or would it have its own backup power or power source like the Voodoo5
I had to deal with NewDeal in my schools typing lab, and it was terrible.
I mean, I guess for a 286, it wasn't bad, but my schools computer guy was a lazy son-of-a-B*tch, and decided to charge my school 50$ (I think) a 486 to buy Newdeal Licences, even though nice little me had tryed to show him such things as AbiWord, Staroffice, and I even suggested running Linux on them and using KDE office or something. But no, the guy was a Dick and Put Newdeal on there, and both the typing teachers were ready to strangle him by months end. In the typing program, the spell-checker sucked, and it was so poorly written, it would continually crach on me.
Any way, my school sucks as far as computers go.
Such as when I was talking to one of the Seniors (this is a high-school) that was helping out with computer stuff, and I mentioned somehthing about that there servers were in the room acroast from the library, and he looked like he was ready to kill me when he told me that room was supposed to be secret (aswell as the Cat-5 witing plans), and I told him they should shut the door to it then, because I walk past there every day.
Also, when I mentioned to the tech guy about linux, he said he had "Tried it" and did not believe it was a good platform for the typing lab, when I asked him a few questions, it was apparent he was Lying, and was most likely afraid to try anything his MCSE didn't include.
But, he resigned last year, so now our "Tech director" is the dude who manages the money for the district, and all he does is change all the passwords once a month, and hire someone if a computer breaks down.
Sorry bout my rant
What about Comdex? Or is that not considered a conference?
Either way, it would be cool to go!
How do you know she is a girl? ;-)
Anyway, I too am 15, frequently use Linux (Though,I prefer to use windows to surf the web and play games, but use Linux for Word processing, and to experiment with such stuff as Win4Lin, Vmware, or Wine)
I would like to try to start to learn Java, but I can't get a disant book for less that 40$ (and I'm broke) so I'm going to wait and beg my mom for one for christmas. I have an Uncle who knows Java, but the time I asked him for help, he just glanced at the book, and then told me I wasn't really trying and that it was all right there in the book. (which was untrue the book was made for people who had priar experience in c++ or perl, but was the only one the library had)
The Way I see it is that if the computer is able to run it is in close enough to good condition to be able to compile stuff.
I help my Drafting teacher out in the Lab at my school, t set up computers, and whenever we couldn't get something to work, he would want to blame it on the condition of the computer, but I see it is as if it can run at all, its in condition enough to be able to run programs and such.
Unless, you have cheap-ram, if thats the case it most likely could be the source of the problem
YES!!
I have been trying to get an awnser to that question for a Long time (about the shock of hitting potholes)!
Does anyone have an awnser?
I really would like to have a computer in my car, but am afraid of constantly going through drives.
Other than that, I probably will end up using BEOS and a WinAmp like program to play MP3's on.
Thanks
Hey what about.....
Caps-Lock on, Caps-Lock off
I remember when the dude came and installed our dish-tv, and said something about this happening.
True to his word, their is a high-speed data port on the back of the reciever
I remeber my mom actually trying to use that accounting program about 10 years ago.
Ended up using Mas-90
Thats where I'm stuck, I'm 15 as well, and just made an attempt at programming in Java.
The book I got from the library was severly outdated, but still sucked at explaining stuff.
I don't have anyone to help me that knows very much programming, and I need a book a little more intersting then giving one example, then adding more to it, then more, then more.
I just can't learn that way.
I'm really afraid that when I get to college, that I won't know enough to be able to do very well in classes, but I'm having a hard time getting started with it.
Does anyone know of a really disant book for programming for Beginners (thats the problem I had with the last book, it was made like it expected you to have a former background in C/++)
for programming in Java.
And does anyone know of Java compilers that would work disant on a 386sx (with no cd-rom support),
because I hate being tied to my desk.
I just got RR and am very happy with it0 .0
BTW, if you want to check your Bandwidth, I find a nifty tester here- http://www.2wire.com/bandwidth/bmresult.asp?kbps=
Just hit retest
Cool, I wonder if I could use this on my satelite system as well, because it has to dial in to pay for pay-per-views
This kind of reminds me of Legalism, a Chinese School of thought.
They believed Humans were untruthful and war-like by nature, and shouldn't be trusted (they didn't last long either, they severly beat the whole family of someone if they commited a crime).
"BeOS can be thrown in there as well too (don't know pricing on it)."
How about free, atleast for the personal edition.
I just downloaded it yesterday, perty cool....
I need to change the IRQ and DMA of a 3c509
How exactly do I do it If I don't have windows?
I can imagine it now!
"Send in 5 Paper RF ID tags with a self-addressed stamed envelope to recieve you toy, in specially marked boxes only"
Are you using a Winmodem?
I know atleast 3 people who have bought linux at OfficeMax-BestBuy-CompUSA with no clue what it is, just a look at the pictures on the back and they thought it was a Text-editor or something.
2 wanted refunds after they called me asking what it was (do you know how hard it is to actually explain to a newbie what an os is?
"It is an perating system, you use it instead of Winblows"
"heehee, your making fun of microsoft aren;t you"
"Yes"
"so its kind of like Mac OS"
"Yeah, exactly"
"So it runs on a Mac"
"No"
"But windows runs on a pc"
"So does Linux"
"Yeah right, seriously, what is Linux"
"Its an OS, you use it in place of windows"
"Yeah right, you can't take windows of a computer"
-continue for 10 minutes
The other guy left his CD in, and forgot about it when it didn't work. The next day I got a call when he turned on his computer and got the Set-up screen.
Seriously, its kinda cool their selling Linux at Wal-mart, but how many people that shop their will actually be able to figure out what its for?