If you turned off the Workplace shell, and replaced it with something real small like a program called Filebar, OS/2 was fantastic on 4MB machines. Even ran on 2MB machines.
I know, because I used to run my BBS on my 486sx/33, while playing Descent.. and downloading, using the second modem with Telemate.
With 4MB RAM. And Descent required 8MB to run in straight DOS. Let alone running a DOS BBS and a DOS terminal program in seperate sessions. Simultaneously. And with Descent STILL running faster than it did in straight DOS.
umm.. OS/2 was out long long LONG before Win '95. 32-bit OS/2 was out at least a good 4-5 years before Win '95. Windows 3.1 was hot when 32-bit OS/2 came out.
...if you need some sort of "content management system" to power your website, you probably aren't the type of person who should be having a web site. It only takes 30 minutes or so to custom build something that does exactly what you want it to, rather than spending probably hours configuring some bizarre conglomeration of weird things, that you'll then have to spend hours trying to figure out the code, if you have to make changes at that level.
...is not that windows users don't know you can do it, it's that most users wouldn't understand why you would want to do it. and neither does most windows software.
that's crazy. You must have an insane amount of resources. My 128mb system can barely handle having 4-5 documents open in Firefox without being totally choked off. (On the other hand, I can open 95 documents in Opera, and still be fairly useful...)
Apparently you've missed Opera. I think IBM WebExplorer MIGHT have had that back in '95, I don't recall it's specifics. I do know that it had the most expansive and advanced "history" of anything yet made.
Windows runs a hell of a lot better in 128MB than does Linux kernel 2.6 + X.org + (GNOME || KDE).
Now, using XFCE and ROX, I've probably got about the same performance as Winders. I can't compare it specifically, because Windows doesn't actually support my SCSI card, and Linux does. (weird, eh?)
You're quite right on that. Tons of Firefox extensions exist only to add features that take up double the memory and are half the quickness of things that Opera has built in.
And Opera is rather mindbogglingly extensible.. it'd be nice if it were all documented somewhere. (but then there's Firefox's documentation... Use the Source, Luke)
But, for now, the actual usefulness of RSS is completely and totally questionable. So far, I've found absolutely no use whatsoever for it, and I've been doing this stuff as long as it's been around.
I'd be willing to bet that LaTeX hasn't been 'corrupted' by Microsoft, because it's not worth corrupting. Tons of other things have been created in the time since Tex was the shiznit.
Web coding IS easily doable by hand, with a text editor. It's the WYSIWYG editors that are leaving us with these gigantic monoliths of crap that they call websites out there.
I loved the first movie, taken on it's own, and i love the trilogy, taken as a whole.
Apparently they are still telling the story, using Matrix Online. I have no idea wtf is going on in there, but they can have fun with that.
I almost wish that they could've made a lot more out of the series. They could've made a dozen Matrix movies, all fit in between 1 and 2. Even at the end of 1, Neo was just figuring out what a badass he was... they could've run that out for a bunch more. And should've!
is reduce it to odds. And completely leave the element of chance there. Chess, you can determine, authoritatively, the best move. In poker, you're not just playing against other people/computers, you're also playing a relatively randomised deck.
Space flight will, for a very very long time, be in beta test. Until we can achieve the shuttle's original mission of going up many, many times in a short time frame... it's going to be in test. Space missions are dangerous, get used to it. It's amazing that we have a track record as good as we do.
Hell, I'm almost 30, and I still have nightmares. Most of them, unfortunatly, are about either work, or ex's, or weird things going on back where I used to live.
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If you turned off the Workplace shell, and replaced it with something real small like a program called Filebar, OS/2 was fantastic on 4MB machines. Even ran on 2MB machines.
I know, because I used to run my BBS on my 486sx/33, while playing Descent.. and downloading, using the second modem with Telemate.
With 4MB RAM. And Descent required 8MB to run in straight DOS. Let alone running a DOS BBS and a DOS terminal program in seperate sessions. Simultaneously. And with Descent STILL running faster than it did in straight DOS.
umm.. OS/2 was out long long LONG before Win '95. 32-bit OS/2 was out at least a good 4-5 years before Win '95. Windows 3.1 was hot when 32-bit OS/2 came out.
...if you need some sort of "content management system" to power your website, you probably aren't the type of person who should be having a web site. It only takes 30 minutes or so to custom build something that does exactly what you want it to, rather than spending probably hours configuring some bizarre conglomeration of weird things, that you'll then have to spend hours trying to figure out the code, if you have to make changes at that level.
...is not that windows users don't know you can do it, it's that most users wouldn't understand why you would want to do it. and neither does most windows software.
I can't think of one thing that I can do in my entire Debian system that is improved upon, or easier, than any other OS I've ever used.
The last innovative thing I can recall is OS/2's Workplace Shell, which so far everyone's working on making piss poor clones of.
that's crazy. You must have an insane amount of resources. My 128mb system can barely handle having 4-5 documents open in Firefox without being totally choked off. (On the other hand, I can open 95 documents in Opera, and still be fairly useful...)
Apparently you've missed Opera.
I think IBM WebExplorer MIGHT have had that back in '95, I don't recall it's specifics. I do know that it had the most expansive and advanced "history" of anything yet made.
Windows runs a hell of a lot better in 128MB than does Linux kernel 2.6 + X.org + (GNOME || KDE).
Now, using XFCE and ROX, I've probably got about the same performance as Winders. I can't compare it specifically, because Windows doesn't actually support my SCSI card, and Linux does. (weird, eh?)
You're quite right on that. Tons of Firefox extensions exist only to add features that take up double the memory and are half the quickness of things that Opera has built in.
And Opera is rather mindbogglingly extensible.. it'd be nice if it were all documented somewhere. (but then there's Firefox's documentation... Use the Source, Luke)
Now, I'm a total Linux user, but..
Please defend yourself.
What, in the 'innovative' category, has RH/Fedora done? Anything?
But, for now, the actual usefulness of RSS is completely and totally questionable. So far, I've found absolutely no use whatsoever for it, and I've been doing this stuff as long as it's been around.
I'd be willing to bet that LaTeX hasn't been 'corrupted' by Microsoft, because it's not worth corrupting. Tons of other things have been created in the time since Tex was the shiznit.
Web coding IS easily doable by hand, with a text editor. It's the WYSIWYG editors that are leaving us with these gigantic monoliths of crap that they call websites out there.
and people spend all their time just making Mozilla get the features that Opera has had for years.
looks like someone made something in photoshop, then viewed it in Mozilla, and then took a picture of hte screen.
I loved the first movie, taken on it's own, and i love the trilogy, taken as a whole.
Apparently they are still telling the story, using Matrix Online. I have no idea wtf is going on in there, but they can have fun with that.
I almost wish that they could've made a lot more out of the series. They could've made a dozen Matrix movies, all fit in between 1 and 2. Even at the end of 1, Neo was just figuring out what a badass he was... they could've run that out for a bunch more. And should've!
i played all the games, and remember being really pissed (as pissed as a 6 or 7 year old gets) that the last one never came out... :(
What moron modded me as a troll?
...then it's still nowhere near what it needs to be. Fix it so no one will ever need it, and then you'll have the right installation program.
Get with it, open source people.
is reduce it to odds. And completely leave the element of chance there. Chess, you can determine, authoritatively, the best move. In poker, you're not just playing against other people/computers, you're also playing a relatively randomised deck.
Space flight will, for a very very long time, be in beta test. Until we can achieve the shuttle's original mission of going up many, many times in a short time frame... it's going to be in test. Space missions are dangerous, get used to it. It's amazing that we have a track record as good as we do.
i'd take the T.P. too. But I'd really love to be able to see the movie before it was completed!
Whomever modded this "Funny" is an asshat. This isn't funny, this is true.
Jamie Zawinski's operating system of the day is relevant to WHOM?
Jamie Zawinski.
Do you think that xscreensaver, and the other stuff he did before Netscape.. was ever even run on Linux, to begin with?
xscreensaver, and most everything else he's done predate Linux. Why does ANYONE care except him?
Hell, I'm almost 30, and I still have nightmares. Most of them, unfortunatly, are about either work, or ex's, or weird things going on back where I used to live.
Last night, involved all of the above! yay!
you watched all of the nightmare on elm street movies when you were 4?
;-)
so.. excluding Freddy vs. Jason, that means you are now... 14? 15 at best? Hmm.
You got a few more years to go.