Something else.. as other post say, it is amazing how well it works. On my 1.4Ghz Athlon, 1Gig ram, I run also a server, gaming (mostly lineage this days), music (mp3's, including server for all the other pc's in the house), development (c++) and debugging, browsing, etc, many, many stuff at the same time. And I have lots of hardware, 8 hard drives, 2 scsi controllers, 1 cd, 2 cd-r, 1 dvd, capture card, 2 monitors, etc, all on this pc. And it is very stable, uptimes are, in my case, as long as I want. I reset to change OS, or to try something in another XP installation.
By the way, a GREAT app for those who run so many junk on their Windows PC is minimizer http://thebluescreens.8m.com/, so you dont have your taskbar all cluttered by background running apps.
This setup might have a chance to run XP without it feeling like a 386/16 running Windows 3.0 on 4 megs of RAM. Allright, thats probably crazy talk;)
This kind of comments are, sadly, not making/. the best image in the eyes of the public, and not gaining a reputation for clear, objective content it should (could?) have. I know that, after all, this is CmdrTaco's personal journal, but it has millions of visitors and could be one of the showcases to the world of the linux/open source/it community.
Back to the topic, to those who have used XP little, this is my experience.
The OS is great, I did not expect something as good from MS. It is stable, plug and play really works and reboots are very ocassional. Uptimes are long. And it is quite easy to administer. Performancewise (the real reason for my comment) it needs lots of memory, but I have been running it on slooow machines, with very satisfactory results.
For example, it runs very well on my old Sony Vaio laptop, 266Mhz Pentium (not II) with 192Mbs of Ram. It had Win98 before, and I was tired of that. It runs at very good speed, not blazingly fast but acceptable, browses internet faster, boots in shorter time and is totally stable. Also, contrary to Win2k, I get the power management stuff I really need.
Also, I got some old PCs here at home and it runs pretty well, a 400 Celeron for my mother, 256Mb ram and a 333P2 with 128 Mbs ram. It is a RAM hog, and 128Mb is the minimun acceptable.
Also, as a recommendation for anyone running it, turn off the blue theme and run it in 'classic' time. Not drawing all those bitmaps will make it more responsive. Also turn off system restore, it slows the system down quite a bit.
I know this is a place where linux is the ultimate OS. For me, it is, but for some (critical and important) applications. I use it at work. For end users, XP is great, and we (the linux/opensource community) should appreciate how well it works, learn from it the good things and realize that MS just got a better we have to compete against.
Too bad that (like at work) MS has no way to compete with the pricing of linux:)
I also think the same. Been reading about Kamen for years, he is a hacker's hacker, the way he lives life and what he has done. The way he works, the way he lives.
And I am also quite excited about Segway. It looks amazing!
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I've been in an iBot. Very cool, amazing how easy it is to use. Even more amazing is to stand up in one of this things, in 2 wheels! push and move around as much as you can and the damn thing wont fall over! Even as someone pushes you around. The way it compensates and balances, is just amazing.
Now, the huge dif here is an iBot is going to cost 20K or so, while one of this 3K.
And I am also very excited about this - will buy one when they are out. Lovely!
The required API's needed to do this in any windows than ME or NT4 is not there. It can be done 'manually', but it is very slow, difficult to do well (I have done it in one of my progs but at the end disabled it when the prog detected the alpha api was not there) and brings problems when running with other programs that alter the way a window is shown.
It is a pretty esy thing to do. For win32 programmers:
1. Find the window handle you want to alpha blend. (say, hwnd).
2. Add the WS_EX_LAYERED extended style to the window with this call:
SetWindowLong (hwnd, GWL_EXSTYLE, GetWindowLong(hwnd, GWL_EXSTYLE) | WS_EX_LAYERED);
3. Call SetLayeredWindowAttributes. Look up MSDN for the info.
Also, this API in Win2k does not seem to work well in some video cards - windows which update themselves a lot will cause problems i.e. an opengl window, etc (my program has a few of them).
I agree with you. I have tried most of Polaroid's digicams, and found them to be a piece of cheap, badly designed crap.
I think the company demise was, besides their financial problems (who wouldnt have financial problems without sales?) and sticking to old tech, that their products where, simply, counting to much on their name to succeed. Not good in this free market world.
You describe their cameras well. Besides the cheap construction, optically they sucked. Remember as I had a Sony Mavica (talk about efficient - floppy drive and +1h or battery) a cousing got into it and bought a cool Polaroid camera. Oh how much he bragged about it being so much smaller than my camera, and about having 8 megs of mem vs 1.44 in mine (HELLO - how much does a box of floppies cost? 14megs there - and at 800x600 is took many of them to fill a floppy). I remember the battery issue, this one had 4 AA batts on it and it took about 20 pics before it discharged them - alkaline, not rechargables. Amazing! How can a company put a product like this out and NOT FEEL SHAME?
Well, there you have it. Wonder why they are broke!
False. Autopilot wont guide to plane to an airport. With current installed technology that is impossible to do. Last time Boeing tried to test an automated guidance system for its plane, it crashed when landing.
It is amazing, after reading the article I went to zdnet to see what they had to say. Things like P4 outperforms all the competition, etc etc, all the crap, FUD, these magazines are sold to the highest bidder!!
Or for 500 dollars (450 ipaq+50 CF Sleeve) you can get a very powerful computer with a 206 Mhz cpu, very portable, which besides playing mp3's and wma's (which are smaller and sound quite well), you can browse html files, use excel, databases, or do more sysop stuff like terminals and other tools. Yes the OS is done by the company every one loves to hate, but I have found Win CE 3.0 to be absolutly stable and fast. Most stable (only stable) windoze I have used. The sound quality is very good, it has a loud little speaker, lasts 4 hours or more playing mp3's with a rechargable lithium ion battery, and uses an industry standard for memory expansion. Ah, you can get compact flash up to 1Gb of storage, using a microdrive, or almost 200 megs using silicon. Or a modem. Or a network card. Very cool toy. Check out the compaq iPaq guys! http://www.the-gadgeteer.com/ipaq-review.html http://www2.pdabuzz.com/Reviews/Detailed/Compaq_iP aq_H3600.html after a month with it I find my palm V utterly boring. Just the screen, juck, with a Pocket PC you get 4x the pixels @ 12 bit colors. Yes yes, palms are cheap, and there is a lot of software available. But now, win ce is amazingly stable, fast and beatiful. In a month, I have gotten absolutely no crashes, frozen, blue screen, whatever, nothing of the usual sh%t you get on windoze.
See you guys! Play with an ipaq on compusa, best buy, but remember, it is plain and simple, it gets more exciting and useful as you get more software.
I don't know you guys, palm are nothing more than a glorified organizer. They are excellent at that, but if you want a real pocket pc go for the WinCE 3.0 new machines. This version of CE is actually streamlined and less buggy than its predecessors.
Aaaand, you can run quake on it. On full color, around 30 fps, with sound, and any of you favorite WAD levels. Sure, it takes a 500 bucks piece of hardware (plus a 100$ flash mem card to hold many levels) but it is the best in mobile gaming for me.
To sad the platform lacks so much in software. To sad it is Windows, but it works pretty well for me.
My only big concern about the new PocketPC devices is that they are still somewhat expensive (about US$500). They should release a backlit monochrome LCD version for around $299--and that will become a viable competitor for Palm devices.
There is one already. Compaq 1550, the excellent 1530 with an updated ROM with the faster and more complete new OS. It is a very thin and light device.
Some of us are actually following the development of the XBox with interest and curiosity. Zealots besides, M$ has HUGE resources and all signs point that they are commiting a lot to this box. If they do things right, and keep an API similar to the one PC developers are used to working on, creating games for this new console will be easier than any console before.
Last week at the Game Developers Conference Microsoft decided to use the Pentium III as its cpu of choice, thanks mostly to Intel being such a big bully. In this new website, the cpu is not specified... so, any chance the cpu choice is still not final, or is the brand new web site just, outdated?
And more than that, Wiles' proof, IIRC, uses plenty of number theory and other unrelated disciplines which didn't even exist, and where far from suspected in Fermatt's time... so, if Fermatt had a proof using the number theory in his time, it has to be very inteligent and/or full of ingenuity.
Fermatt was a genius. And he was a joker. So, in a way, Fermatt's Last Theorem is *still* unresolved. Wiles' proof is NOT the proof Fermatt had, if he had one.:)
Mars Direct is amazing. But even more amazing is NASA's inability to grasp a program like this that, to most experts, is posible within a fraction of NASA's budget, most which are lost in programs that will end nowhere... as you post. Very nice post indeed.:)
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Something else.. as other post say, it is amazing how well it works. On my 1.4Ghz Athlon, 1Gig ram, I run also a server, gaming (mostly lineage this days), music (mp3's, including server for all the other pc's in the house), development (c++) and debugging, browsing, etc, many, many stuff at the same time. And I have lots of hardware, 8 hard drives, 2 scsi controllers, 1 cd, 2 cd-r, 1 dvd, capture card, 2 monitors, etc, all on this pc. And it is very stable, uptimes are, in my case, as long as I want. I reset to change OS, or to try something in another XP installation.
By the way, a GREAT app for those who run so many junk on their Windows PC is minimizer http://thebluescreens.8m.com/, so you dont have your taskbar all cluttered by background running apps.
This setup might have a chance to run XP without it feeling like a 386/16 running Windows 3.0 on 4 megs of RAM. Allright, thats probably crazy talk ;)
/. the best image in the eyes of the public, and not gaining a reputation for clear, objective content it should (could?) have. I know that, after all, this is CmdrTaco's personal journal, but it has millions of visitors and could be one of the showcases to the world of the linux/open source/it community.
:)
This kind of comments are, sadly, not making
Back to the topic, to those who have used XP little, this is my experience.
The OS is great, I did not expect something as good from MS. It is stable, plug and play really works and reboots are very ocassional. Uptimes are long. And it is quite easy to administer. Performancewise (the real reason for my comment) it needs lots of memory, but I have been running it on slooow machines, with very satisfactory results.
For example, it runs very well on my old Sony Vaio laptop, 266Mhz Pentium (not II) with 192Mbs of Ram. It had Win98 before, and I was tired of that. It runs at very good speed, not blazingly fast but acceptable, browses internet faster, boots in shorter time and is totally stable. Also, contrary to Win2k, I get the power management stuff I really need.
Also, I got some old PCs here at home and it runs pretty well, a 400 Celeron for my mother, 256Mb ram and a 333P2 with 128 Mbs ram. It is a RAM hog, and 128Mb is the minimun acceptable.
Also, as a recommendation for anyone running it, turn off the blue theme and run it in 'classic' time. Not drawing all those bitmaps will make it more responsive. Also turn off system restore, it slows the system down quite a bit.
I know this is a place where linux is the ultimate OS. For me, it is, but for some (critical and important) applications. I use it at work. For end users, XP is great, and we (the linux/opensource community) should appreciate how well it works, learn from it the good things and realize that MS just got a better we have to compete against.
Too bad that (like at work) MS has no way to compete with the pricing of linux
Read the question. He is not asking if he should use fiber now. He is asking if he should wire for a future use of fiber...
I also think the same. Been reading about Kamen for years, he is a hacker's hacker, the way he lives life and what he has done. The way he works, the way he lives.
And I am also quite excited about Segway. It looks amazing!
I've been in an iBot. Very cool, amazing how easy it is to use. Even more amazing is to stand up in one of this things, in 2 wheels! push and move around as much as you can and the damn thing wont fall over! Even as someone pushes you around. The way it compensates and balances, is just amazing.
Now, the huge dif here is an iBot is going to cost 20K or so, while one of this 3K.
And I am also very excited about this - will buy one when they are out. Lovely!
Wow, in all these years of /.'ing this is my first +5! Heh, my window$ programming HAS finally paid off!
:)
The required API's needed to do this in any windows than ME or NT4 is not there. It can be done 'manually', but it is very slow, difficult to do well (I have done it in one of my progs but at the end disabled it when the prog detected the alpha api was not there) and brings problems when running with other programs that alter the way a window is shown.
It is a pretty esy thing to do. For win32 programmers:
1. Find the window handle you want to alpha blend. (say, hwnd).
2. Add the WS_EX_LAYERED extended style to the window with this call:
SetWindowLong (hwnd, GWL_EXSTYLE, GetWindowLong(hwnd, GWL_EXSTYLE) | WS_EX_LAYERED);
3. Call SetLayeredWindowAttributes. Look up MSDN for the info.
Also, this API in Win2k does not seem to work well in some video cards - windows which update themselves a lot will cause problems i.e. an opengl window, etc (my program has a few of them).
Isnt there still a CLI in XP? I use it all the time!!
Eh... can someone explain this one to me? I am totally clueless and I am an Ultima fan who have played through ALL the games.
Thanks!
$55,000 dollars a month.
+ stock options + bonuses + grants.
No wonder these guys take decisions which dont seem intelligent to us normal guys.
No wonder they, sometime, miss things which seem so obvious to many.
Fuuuunny as hell!!
/. post as I did with this one when I read about M$'s Juarez!!
In a good while I had not LOL with a
Anybody else got this?
I agree with you. I have tried most of Polaroid's digicams, and found them to be a piece of cheap, badly designed crap.
I think the company demise was, besides their financial problems (who wouldnt have financial problems without sales?) and sticking to old tech, that their products where, simply, counting to much on their name to succeed. Not good in this free market world.
You describe their cameras well. Besides the cheap construction, optically they sucked. Remember as I had a Sony Mavica (talk about efficient - floppy drive and +1h or battery) a cousing got into it and bought a cool Polaroid camera. Oh how much he bragged about it being so much smaller than my camera, and about having 8 megs of mem vs 1.44 in mine (HELLO - how much does a box of floppies cost? 14megs there - and at 800x600 is took many of them to fill a floppy). I remember the battery issue, this one had 4 AA batts on it and it took about 20 pics before it discharged them - alkaline, not rechargables. Amazing! How can a company put a product like this out and NOT FEEL SHAME?
Well, there you have it. Wonder why they are broke!
So, I found a mouse driver out there that was small enought to let me load both at the same time.
:)
That SUCKED really bad till I found that
False. Autopilot wont guide to plane to an airport. With current installed technology that is impossible to do. Last time Boeing tried to test an automated guidance system for its plane, it crashed when landing.
Wont be the same in an iPaq at 200 Mhz!
Get the quake source code. Very interesting, more even if you are into gaming or graphics.
It is amazing, after reading the article I went to zdnet to see what they had to say. Things like P4 outperforms all the competition, etc etc, all the crap, FUD, these magazines are sold to the highest bidder!!
Or for 500 dollars (450 ipaq+50 CF Sleeve) you can get a very powerful computer with a 206 Mhz cpu, very portable, which besides playing mp3's and wma's (which are smaller and sound quite well), you can browse html files, use excel, databases, or do more sysop stuff like terminals and other tools. Yes the OS is done by the company every one loves to hate, but I have found Win CE 3.0 to be absolutly stable and fast. Most stable (only stable) windoze I have used. The sound quality is very good, it has a loud little speaker, lasts 4 hours or more playing mp3's with a rechargable lithium ion battery, and uses an industry standard for memory expansion. Ah, you can get compact flash up to 1Gb of storage, using a microdrive, or almost 200 megs using silicon. Or a modem. Or a network card. Very cool toy. Check out the compaq iPaq guys! http://www.the-gadgeteer.com/ipaq-review.html http://www2.pdabuzz.com/Reviews/Detailed/Compaq_iP aq_H3600.html after a month with it I find my palm V utterly boring. Just the screen, juck, with a Pocket PC you get 4x the pixels @ 12 bit colors. Yes yes, palms are cheap, and there is a lot of software available. But now, win ce is amazingly stable, fast and beatiful. In a month, I have gotten absolutely no crashes, frozen, blue screen, whatever, nothing of the usual sh%t you get on windoze.
See you guys! Play with an ipaq on compusa, best buy, but remember, it is plain and simple, it gets more exciting and useful as you get more software.
For more pictures, check out the ultra cool and fast (200mhz strongarm cpu) iPaq from Compaq. Look here:
http://www.iolnm.net/dcoffing/Casio/index.htm
I don't know you guys, palm are nothing more than a glorified organizer. They are excellent at that, but if you want a real pocket pc go for the WinCE 3.0 new machines. This version of CE is actually streamlined and less buggy than its predecessors.
Aaaand, you can run quake on it. On full color, around 30 fps, with sound, and any of you favorite WAD levels. Sure, it takes a 500 bucks piece of hardware (plus a 100$ flash mem card to hold many levels) but it is the best in mobile gaming for me.
To sad the platform lacks so much in software. To sad it is Windows, but it works pretty well for me.
Dont believe me?
http://www.conduits.com/ce/page.php3?apps/doom
My only big concern about the new PocketPC devices is that they are still somewhat expensive (about US$500). They should release a backlit monochrome LCD version for around $299--and that will become a viable competitor for Palm devices.
There is one already. Compaq 1550, the excellent 1530 with an updated ROM with the faster and more complete new OS. It is a very thin and light device.
Some of us are actually following the development of the XBox with interest and curiosity. Zealots besides, M$ has HUGE resources and all signs point that they are commiting a lot to this box. If they do things right, and keep an API similar to the one PC developers are used to working on, creating games for this new console will be easier than any console before.
Last week at the Game Developers Conference Microsoft decided to use the Pentium III as its cpu of choice, thanks mostly to Intel being such a big bully. In this new website, the cpu is not specified... so, any chance the cpu choice is still not final, or is the brand new web site just, outdated?
And more than that, Wiles' proof, IIRC, uses plenty of number theory and other unrelated disciplines which didn't even exist, and where far from suspected in Fermatt's time... so, if Fermatt had a proof using the number theory in his time, it has to be very inteligent and/or full of ingenuity.
:)
Fermatt was a genius. And he was a joker. So, in a way, Fermatt's Last Theorem is *still* unresolved. Wiles' proof is NOT the proof Fermatt had, if he had one.
Mars Direct is amazing. But even more amazing is NASA's inability to grasp a program like this that, to most experts, is posible within a fraction of NASA's budget, most which are lost in programs that will end nowhere... as you post. Very nice post indeed. :)
Go to google, search with her name... there she is...
:)