MS and IBM were developing OS/2 "together"... and if i remember the story correctly (i might not), MS didn't like that IBM wanted OS/2 to run specifically on their hardware.. so they parted ways...
If you had Microsoft Windows NT 3.50, and formatted a floppy without installing the boot sector and OS data to it, then tried to boot that floppy, you'd get a "OS/2!!! SYS0205" error (not quite sure if it was 0205, but a similar error number) which corresponds to OS/2's "This is not a bootable disk" error message.. lol
Obviously you don't work for the company, because you don't really have the slightest clue what you're talking about. Or maybe you work for some franchise store.
And I personally have a Tandy Sensation 2, which has been upgraded to 40MB ram, and a 540mb hard drive. It runs my webserver, email server, database server, and a few other odds and ends.
Yeah, I really should get a monitor on it.. I did get one to it once, and it had OOPS!ed in the NFS server in the kernel.. I figure that's what it's probably doing.. but I hardly ever mount it's NFS share, so it hasn't bugged me too much
I have a machine running 2.4.20, that requires a physical power off about every 3-4 days.. haven't got a head anywhere near it to check it out, either.. too lazy to move on, since a power cycle just fixes it.. i guess that's the same reason people just run windows, eh?
it never did that under 2.2.18.. but 2.4.x is just not very stable on any of the hardware i've tried it on. i'll be loading my laptop with 2.5.x as soon as i figure out -how-...
I have noticed vast increases in desktop usability, and noticed the ability for several programs to access the sound device simultaneously. (I didn't even notice that 2.4 didn't do that, until after 2.5 started doing it.. lol )
I've never really decided on a Window Manager/Desktop, so I've been playing with GNOME, KDE, and other older WM's and such.. I've noticed that KDE's sound server will cause any program that tries to directly access/dev/dsp to not play it's sound until after KDE is shutdown. I had KDE running for almost two weeks, and had no sound from Yahoo Messenger. After the damn thing had slowed to a halt, I ctrl-alt-backspaced on X, and then it played two weeks worth of sounds from Yahoo Messenger. Fucking DOH.
The Bells out there are making damn sure that no one even brings up the idea of making your home phone number portable to a cell phone.
Imagine this: IT'S NEVER GOING TO HAPPEN.
The phone companies basically run the FCC, they want the cellular carriers to go nuts with this kinda garbage, while they continue to glue their phone numbers to their customers. (and then force you to change numbers if you move down the street)
I know this is about to be modded as Flamebait, but if you look at every single thread so far on here, they all basically say:
"I don't buy them because people make money off selling them."
Well, fucking DUH. WHY DO PEOPLE SELL ANYTHING? TO MAKE FUCKING MONEY.
I work for a retailer, that sells things with Service Plans. Virtually everything I buy, I buy the service plan for. Headphones, CD players, telephones (especially WIRELESS phones), you name it. The only things I don't buy service plans on are things that I have no intention of using on a regular basis (sometimes you buy something that you're only gonna need once in a damn lifetime).
Let's see:
24-disc CD changer: replaced when it broke, after repair center deemed "could not reliably repair" Cost of service plan: $60 for 5 years. Would have been repair cost (to get an unreliable repair): $100. Replacement cost at that time: $250.
Laptop computer: 5 year service plan, $249.
Replaced in year 4, after the floppy drive stopped functioning, because the manufacturer no longer made a floppy drive compatible with that unit. Replaced a 486/33 laptop with a Pentium 266. Not bad for $250.
Refrigerator: Bought house, refrigerator in house still had a couple of years left on the service plan the original owners bought on it. Sears replaced refrigerator, with free delivery and taking away of the old one, after their repairman did not have the necessary parts available within 24 hours. Cost of service plan: $100. Cost of refrigerator: about $500. Cost of replacement: about $1000.
Just on those few examples (and these don't count the dozens of times I've replaced my favorite headphones when the cords went bad!) I've probably saved over $2000 just by buying the service plans.
If you're not making $80k/year, can you really afford to replace all the gizmos and gadgets that you like to play with?
funny, we have a few XP machines at work (most are '95).. the XP machines crash at least 3 times a day, and all they do is run Flash presentations all day long. The '95 boxes that are used as our cash registers have uptimes of months...
I can condemn action all I want. "Boy, George, that sure was stupid, sending lots of your own military to their swift deaths."... Yet still remain neutral. Neutral means not supporting one side or the other.
I highly doubt that Ted Turner is injecting anything into CNN. He's really damn pissed off about the way things are going in that organization, too. Why would he have been considering leaving?
I'm glad that Al Kaline is at least working for the team, even if he and Harwell are not broadcasting anymore. I actually haven't been able to listen to the games anymore since it changed from George Kell/Ernie Harwell/Al Kaline as announcers. To me, THEY were part of what made baseball so great... of course, the only memory I have of my father ever being genuinely obviously happy was when the 1984 Tigers just obliterated every other team that ever existed.
But I was a Tigers fan right up from then until I grew up, got a job, and moved (actually moved TO Detroit.. but have only been to one game.. thankfully it was in Tiger Stadium.. I'm afraid of Comerica Park... lol) and haven't had time to pay attention to the Tigers, since I work in the day.
Now it's the Red Wings, since I can catch them at work if necessary, and that's not usualyl since the games are almost always on after work hours.
In any case, without those three announcing the pitches, I just turn the volume off of whatever game I happen to catch when I do catch a baseball game. I haven't found any other announcers that sound even close.
My dad and I used to listen to the AM Radio in his old beat up pickup truck, and i could see the whole game as if it were playing on TV in my mind.. amazing.
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SCO's voice, Chris Sontag, or whatever the hell is name is. He's a cock. A big fucking cock. A big, stupid, fucking cock.
The color selection here seriously hurts my eyes so badly that I want to vomit.
Please do something else???
Well, with RMS there, who really thinks they are going to convince anyone of anything, except that the open source people are raving lunatics?
Bzzt. Wrong answer :)
Win32 API is based on OS/2's API.
MS and IBM were developing OS/2 "together"... and if i remember the story correctly (i might not), MS didn't like that IBM wanted OS/2 to run specifically on their hardware.. so they parted ways...
If you had Microsoft Windows NT 3.50, and formatted a floppy without installing the boot sector and OS data to it, then tried to boot that floppy, you'd get a "OS/2!!! SYS0205" error (not quite sure if it was 0205, but a similar error number) which corresponds to OS/2's "This is not a bootable disk" error message.. lol
Three words: Dude. You. Rock.
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Obviously you don't work for the company, because you don't really have the slightest clue what you're talking about. Or maybe you work for some franchise store.
You seem to be a moron.
The latest version of the top of the line project kit from RadioShack.
And I personally have a Tandy Sensation 2, which has been upgraded to 40MB ram, and a 540mb hard drive. It runs my webserver, email server, database server, and a few other odds and ends.
It's at http://mage.kicks-ass.net/
Yeah, I really should get a monitor on it.. I did get one to it once, and it had OOPS!ed in the NFS server in the kernel.. I figure that's what it's probably doing.. but I hardly ever mount it's NFS share, so it hasn't bugged me too much
I have a machine running 2.4.20, that requires a physical power off about every 3-4 days.. haven't got a head anywhere near it to check it out, either.. too lazy to move on, since a power cycle just fixes it.. i guess that's the same reason people just run windows, eh?
.. but 2.4.x is just not very stable on any of the hardware i've tried it on. i'll be loading my laptop with 2.5.x as soon as i figure out -how-...
it never did that under 2.2.18
Strangely enough, that's all happened in the last 40 releases of 2.5.
:P
It's been MORE stable with all these changes than it was BEFORE.
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Well, there goes that really long comment that I had just made.
I have noticed vast increases in desktop usability, and noticed the ability for several programs to access the sound device simultaneously. (I didn't even notice that 2.4 didn't do that, until after 2.5 started doing it.. lol )
/dev/dsp to not play it's sound until after KDE is shutdown. I had KDE running for almost two weeks, and had no sound from Yahoo Messenger. After the damn thing had slowed to a halt, I ctrl-alt-backspaced on X, and then it played two weeks worth of sounds from Yahoo Messenger. Fucking DOH.
I've never really decided on a Window Manager/Desktop, so I've been playing with GNOME, KDE, and other older WM's and such.. I've noticed that KDE's sound server will cause any program that tries to directly access
The Bells out there are making damn sure that no one even brings up the idea of making your home phone number portable to a cell phone.
Imagine this: IT'S NEVER GOING TO HAPPEN.
The phone companies basically run the FCC, they want the cellular carriers to go nuts with this kinda garbage, while they continue to glue their phone numbers to their customers. (and then force you to change numbers if you move down the street)
I caught a slashdot article about this movie a few months back.. is it out on video already? did it even make it to theaters??!?
I know this is about to be modded as Flamebait, but if you look at every single thread so far on here, they all basically say:
"I don't buy them because people make money off selling them."
Well, fucking DUH. WHY DO PEOPLE SELL ANYTHING? TO MAKE FUCKING MONEY.
I work for a retailer, that sells things with Service Plans. Virtually everything I buy, I buy the service plan for. Headphones, CD players, telephones (especially WIRELESS phones), you name it. The only things I don't buy service plans on are things that I have no intention of using on a regular basis (sometimes you buy something that you're only gonna need once in a damn lifetime).
Let's see:
24-disc CD changer: replaced when it broke, after repair center deemed "could not reliably repair" Cost of service plan: $60 for 5 years. Would have been repair cost (to get an unreliable repair): $100. Replacement cost at that time: $250.
Laptop computer: 5 year service plan, $249.
Replaced in year 4, after the floppy drive stopped functioning, because the manufacturer no longer made a floppy drive compatible with that unit. Replaced a 486/33 laptop with a Pentium 266. Not bad for $250.
Refrigerator: Bought house, refrigerator in house still had a couple of years left on the service plan the original owners bought on it. Sears replaced refrigerator, with free delivery and taking away of the old one, after their repairman did not have the necessary parts available within 24 hours. Cost of service plan: $100. Cost of refrigerator: about $500. Cost of replacement: about $1000.
Just on those few examples (and these don't count the dozens of times I've replaced my favorite headphones when the cords went bad!) I've probably saved over $2000 just by buying the service plans.
If you're not making $80k/year, can you really afford to replace all the gizmos and gadgets that you like to play with?
I KNEW right after I hit Submit, that someone was going to make a crack just like that.. good one.
XP still blue screens all day long on the installations I get to baby sit for...
funny, we have a few XP machines at work (most are '95) .. the XP machines crash at least 3 times a day, and all they do is run Flash presentations all day long. The '95 boxes that are used as our cash registers have uptimes of months...
But, some of the votes were basically cast by the supreme court, who ... let's see... George Bush Sr. appointed.
I don't know about arabnews.com. I hit a news story there the other day (first time I'd ever seen it pop up on Google News), that basically said :
George W. Bush is coming to kill the people of Iraq. He is going to destroy the entire country, all in the name of his God.
*boggle*
I can condemn action all I want. "Boy, George, that sure was stupid, sending lots of your own military to their swift deaths." ... Yet still remain neutral. Neutral means not supporting one side or the other.
I highly doubt that Ted Turner is injecting anything into CNN. He's really damn pissed off about the way things are going in that organization, too. Why would he have been considering leaving?
Could you possibly tell me when it was that George W. Bush was elected to our National Government?
I don't recall it ever happening!
Mob rule by the rich! woo hoo!
Agreed, Re: Ernie Harwell.
I'm glad that Al Kaline is at least working for the team, even if he and Harwell are not broadcasting anymore. I actually haven't been able to listen to the games anymore since it changed from George Kell/Ernie Harwell/Al Kaline as announcers. To me, THEY were part of what made baseball so great... of course, the only memory I have of my father ever being genuinely obviously happy was when the 1984 Tigers just obliterated every other team that ever existed.
But I was a Tigers fan right up from then until I grew up, got a job, and moved (actually moved TO Detroit.. but have only been to one game.. thankfully it was in Tiger Stadium.. I'm afraid of Comerica Park... lol) and haven't had time to pay attention to the Tigers, since I work in the day.
Now it's the Red Wings, since I can catch them at work if necessary, and that's not usualyl since the games are almost always on after work hours.
In any case, without those three announcing the pitches, I just turn the volume off of whatever game I happen to catch when I do catch a baseball game. I haven't found any other announcers that sound even close.
My dad and I used to listen to the AM Radio in his old beat up pickup truck, and i could see the whole game as if it were playing on TV in my mind.. amazing.