That's exactly the problem, the only thing a BIOS should do is boot the damn thing and that's it!
It's the operating system's kernel job to talk to hardware, not the bios'.
if there is coverage of a certain area by one provider, you can use another provider's phone.
That's just the point, with GSM you DON'T have to use another provider's phone, not even another number. It's called ROAMING. Last summer I went to Italy, all I had to do to make a phonecall was just turning the phone on and dial the number and 6 seconds later I was telling my mother the trip went ok and I was already unpacking my bags. It was the same phone I used at home, it was the same SIM card I used at home; the only different thing was I was using Telecom Italia instead of my local Iceland Telecom.
Did I mention my mother didn't have to pay a penny for receiving that phonecall? (I still find it hard to believe you actually PAY for INCOMING calls, it's almost like the postal service billing you for delivering you mail; it's just stupid)
Same thing happened when I went to Scotland a year ago, I just had to turn the phone off during the flight. I turned it back on when we landed, that same evening a friend of mine gave me a call, asked me where I was, to which I replied "oh, I'm in Edinburgh". He had no way of knowing that, after all he just called my regular number:).
I used the same phone, same SIM card, even the same number. Only I used Vodafone instead of Iceland Telecom, (well I had a choice between BT Cellnet and Vodafone when I landed so I just picked Vodafone out of habit).
Not with my ThinkPad A20M, just about the only thing my standard RH6.2 installation didn't support was the modem (for which I only had to download a module (stupid LT)). Well, that and the fact that the installation via X didn't want to work.
I once accidentally changed an ext2 partition id to a fat32 id. I didn't notice it until several days later when I discovered a "new" partition in msfdisk. Funny thing was, Linux didn't give a rat's ass what the partition id was then.
since I don't see myself using it in the near future, but seeing as how it's focused towards people like members of the press and people like that I can't imagine it being dirtcheap.
... but, BOY is your kid stupid. I got my first computer in 8th grade and I knew diff. between RAM and HDD beforehand; I only learned about drivers a week after that.
At that time I had been exposed just a bit to computers since I was about 10 years old (I didn't have one, neither did my parents, only my causin had a computer).
Also I don't think it's too big a bite (pun intended) to chew to understand the fundamental difference between HDD and RAM (to dumb it REALLY down it can be explained like this: "if you turn your machine off, there is shit on your HDD, but not in your RAM".)
Of course, I could just be a born genius:)
(ps. don't bitch and moan about poor spelling, I've got a final tomorrow and I haven't slept in 2 days.)
the Windows 98 family also has Windows 98SE,
I purchased a laptop (an IBM ThinkPad in which every piece of hw is supported by Linux:) less than a month ago and it came with w98se on it, so you're just dead wrong.
From my point of view slashdot acts as a relay, it just relays what might be interesting to the rest of us who just don't have the time to dig up what we read about here on slashdot.
To make a long story short; don't shoot the messenger!
Admittedly I was using Task Manager to do this, but IMHO I _should_ be able to kill the process (after all, the only process that should be protected against kill are the shell and the idle task, and perhaps a few more, but NOT IIS).
Also, what is the point of having an administrator's account if he can't do anything?
In those cases you use your friendly "kill" command (in the resource kit or pskill from sysinternals.com) and either kill inetinfo.exe,
Well explain then why (logged in as Administrator, not as a user in the admin group) I have on more than one occasion had to reboot a server because I couldn't kill inetinfo.exe? It even gave me a nice little warning box stating that I didn't have proper permissions to kill it. Well what good is an administrator's account anyway if he can't kill whatever process he needs to kill? I even checked Users and Passwords and there it was, in plain english (forgot the exact phrase.. but) "Administrator can basically do whatever the hell he wants"
I wonder why no Windows 2000 support though? I tried installing it anyway on my 2000 box, and the netscp6.exe just hangs. Have to try a re-install I guess...
Strange, I'm writing this from Netscape6 pr3 on my w2k laptop, and the damn thing has been up since I turned it on first about 4-5 hours ago and is just chewing on 35MB of ram (which is ok, I've got 160 more:).
The speed of that thing is great!! It runs circles around IE when it comes to rendering. The new default skin that comes with it is _VERY_ aesthetically (correct spelling?) pleasing.
One minor "feature" about it that I've noticed (at least with me) is that i doesn't seem to handle it when I jump from a link in a table to a new page and back, to go back to where I was in the table before I clicked a link.
But apart from that minor detail, if the final version is _anything_ like this preview release, I'd be more than happy to even pay for it.
I'm running both IE (albeit not 5.5, only 5.0) and the latest preview of Netscape here side by side. And I've gotta hand it to Netscape, it whoops IE's ass in rendering the stuff I'm looking at now.
The reason I haven't upgraded to 5.5 is that it's more crap than 5.0.
5.0 won't sometimes let me save attachments on my deja.com email account.
When I use 5.5 and I try to open a webpage somewhere and it can't look up its IP it just stops on that page, it won't let me refresh (like I can in 5.0) to try and look it up again (which usually does the trick), it just sits there, I can't even enter the same url in the Location field and try again, nopers, I have to open a new window and try there.
So, yes IE[<5.5] sucks ass bigtime,
whereas Netscape6 PR3 does not.
well, there is (on ircnet at least) a channel mode that sets it anonymous, so you won't see
"nick!user@host joins #whatever", you'll see
"anonymous!anonymous@anonymous joins &whatever"
The trick iirc is that you have to join &channelname (ampersand instead of hash) and set the +a channel mode on.
/mode &whatever +a
This is however not 100% securely enforced, but along with secure-irc it would be close enough:)
Well, what I like about Netscape is that when it dies, it does just that, whereas IE dies and takes everything down with it.
Sure, the explorer shell comes up again but it fails to load them tiny app thingies that are loaded on startup. That sucks for me since I use a program for switching between virtual desktops in Windows and it sits in the right corner of my taskbar and it gets hosed whenever explorer.exe decides to jump off a cliff.
Ps. If you think that Netscape is a big memory hog, explain to me why IE consumes more memory than netscape (even though I'm surfing the very same webs in either browser).
who did just that!
I got a mail from him with an attachment, (which I saved and viewed in notepad) and later that day I stopped by his office and took a look on his monitor,.. lo and behold.. there were quite a few messages with the subject.. "This illiterate (l)user doesn't know how to read"
REally? I have one of them IBM springy tank killer keyboard thingies and it has been in mint condition since I bought the computer it came with 8 years ago:-)
The mouse is also in pretty good shape considering its age.
I'd rather be un-employed and live a decent life, rather than being in a shitty job, working my back off barely earning food on the table.
As far as 'socialist' goes, I like the idea of walking into a hospital, getting quality health care and not having to pay for it.
Oil-taxing.. well high petrolprices _do_ teach one to make cars that get good milage.
Gun-banning, well.. why on earth should we need guns? To protect ourselves from the gun-owning fuckwit next door? If he doesn't have a gun, nor do I.
Besides, you _can_ own a gun in Europe (in most countries at least), you just need to have a license for it.
Well, since when did affordable mean "great"?
I think it's been. All the switches in my network were 100% digital about 9-10 years ago, so my modem always connects at its peak speed, packet loss due to line noise is something I read about in history books.
Just because it's state-run doesn't make it bad.
_THAT_ is something you "yanks" have never seemed to understand:)
Well why don't you just hop over the Atlantic and see for yourself?
Granted, I'm not a Brit, but (even though technically I'm not) I'm Scandinavian and the 50% number sounds about right... too low if anything.
This is very much like what I see when I visit the UK and the rest of Europe...
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That's exactly the problem, the only thing a BIOS should do is boot the damn thing and that's it! It's the operating system's kernel job to talk to hardware, not the bios'.
if there is coverage of a certain area by one provider, you can use another provider's phone.
:).
I used the same phone, same SIM card, even the same number. Only I used Vodafone instead of Iceland Telecom, (well I had a choice between BT Cellnet and Vodafone when I landed so I just picked Vodafone out of habit).
That's just the point, with GSM you DON'T have to use another provider's phone, not even another number.
It's called ROAMING.
Last summer I went to Italy, all I had to do to make a phonecall was just turning the phone on and dial the number and 6 seconds later I was telling my mother the trip went ok and I was already unpacking my bags. It was the same phone I used at home, it was the same SIM card I used at home; the only different thing was I was using Telecom Italia instead of my local Iceland Telecom.
Did I mention my mother didn't have to pay a penny for receiving that phonecall? (I still find it hard to believe you actually PAY for INCOMING calls, it's almost like the postal service billing you for delivering you mail; it's just stupid)
Same thing happened when I went to Scotland a year ago, I just had to turn the phone off during the flight. I turned it back on when we landed, that same evening a friend of mine gave me a call, asked me where I was, to which I replied "oh, I'm in Edinburgh". He had no way of knowing that, after all he just called my regular number
But that's enough ranting for now...
Not with my ThinkPad A20M, just about the only thing my standard RH6.2 installation didn't support was the modem (for which I only had to download a module (stupid LT)). Well, that and the fact that the installation via X didn't want to work.
I once accidentally changed an ext2 partition id to a fat32 id. I didn't notice it until several days later when I discovered a "new" partition in msfdisk. Funny thing was, Linux didn't give a rat's ass what the partition id was then.
since I don't see myself using it in the near future, but seeing as how it's focused towards people like members of the press and people like that I can't imagine it being dirtcheap.
A couple of weeks ago the second largest mobile provider in Iceland launched its GPRS service.
... but, BOY is your kid stupid. I got my first computer in 8th grade and I knew diff. between RAM and HDD beforehand; I only learned about drivers a week after that.
:)
At that time I had been exposed just a bit to computers since I was about 10 years old (I didn't have one, neither did my parents, only my causin had a computer).
Also I don't think it's too big a bite (pun intended) to chew to understand the fundamental difference between HDD and RAM (to dumb it REALLY down it can be explained like this: "if you turn your machine off, there is shit on your HDD, but not in your RAM".)
Of course, I could just be a born genius
(ps. don't bitch and moan about poor spelling, I've got a final tomorrow and I haven't slept in 2 days.)
Had this been a GSM phone all you needed to do was take the GSM card out of it and buy a new phone and you would have been back on track within a day.
then this would be modded +2 Funny :)
the Windows 98 family also has Windows 98SE,
I purchased a laptop (an IBM ThinkPad in which every piece of hw is supported by Linux:) less than a month ago and it came with w98se on it, so you're just dead wrong.
I just downloaded this thing and normal AA rendering looks like crap afterwards
Já, mér líst ansi vel á á hugmynd að sletta aðeins smá íslensku hér á SkástrikPunktur.
To make a long story short; don't shoot the messenger!
If it comes from a decent OEM I think it's just great! (IBM comes to mind).
.. at work and it was the first time I was impressed with a windows setup.
I once saw an IBM "recovery CD" at work
Admittedly I was using Task Manager to do this, but IMHO I _should_ be able to kill the process (after all, the only process that should be protected against kill are the shell and the idle task, and perhaps a few more, but NOT IIS).
Also, what is the point of having an administrator's account if he can't do anything?
In those cases you use your friendly "kill" command (in the resource kit or pskill from sysinternals.com) and either kill inetinfo.exe,
.. but) "Administrator can basically do whatever the hell he wants"
Well explain then why (logged in as Administrator, not as a user in the admin group) I have on more than one occasion had to reboot a server because I couldn't kill inetinfo.exe? It even gave me a nice little warning box stating that I didn't have proper permissions to kill it. Well what good is an administrator's account anyway if he can't kill whatever process he needs to kill? I even checked Users and Passwords and there it was, in plain english (forgot the exact phrase
I wonder why no Windows 2000 support though? I tried installing it anyway on my 2000 box, and the netscp6.exe just hangs. Have to try a re-install I guess...
:).
Strange, I'm writing this from Netscape6 pr3 on my w2k laptop, and the damn thing has been up since I turned it on first about 4-5 hours ago and is just chewing on 35MB of ram (which is ok, I've got 160 more
The speed of that thing is great!! It runs circles around IE when it comes to rendering. The new default skin that comes with it is _VERY_ aesthetically (correct spelling?) pleasing.
One minor "feature" about it that I've noticed (at least with me) is that i doesn't seem to handle it when I jump from a link in a table to a new page and back, to go back to where I was in the table before I clicked a link.
But apart from that minor detail, if the final version is _anything_ like this preview release, I'd be more than happy to even pay for it.
I'm running both IE (albeit not 5.5, only 5.0) and the latest preview of Netscape here side by side. And I've gotta hand it to Netscape, it whoops IE's ass in rendering the stuff I'm looking at now.
The reason I haven't upgraded to 5.5 is that it's more crap than 5.0.
5.0 won't sometimes let me save attachments on my deja.com email account.
When I use 5.5 and I try to open a webpage somewhere and it can't look up its IP it just stops on that page, it won't let me refresh (like I can in 5.0) to try and look it up again (which usually does the trick), it just sits there, I can't even enter the same url in the Location field and try again, nopers, I have to open a new window and try there.
So, yes IE[<5.5] sucks ass bigtime,
whereas Netscape6 PR3 does not.
just my €0.02
well, there is (on ircnet at least) a channel mode that sets it anonymous, so you won't see
:)
"nick!user@host joins #whatever", you'll see
"anonymous!anonymous@anonymous joins &whatever"
The trick iirc is that you have to join &channelname (ampersand instead of hash) and set the +a channel mode on.
/mode &whatever +a
This is however not 100% securely enforced, but along with secure-irc it would be close enough
Well, what I like about Netscape is that when it dies, it does just that, whereas IE dies and takes everything down with it.
Sure, the explorer shell comes up again but it fails to load them tiny app thingies that are loaded on startup. That sucks for me since I use a program for switching between virtual desktops in Windows and it sits in the right corner of my taskbar and it gets hosed whenever explorer.exe decides to jump off a cliff.
Ps. If you think that Netscape is a big memory hog, explain to me why IE consumes more memory than netscape (even though I'm surfing the very same webs in either browser).
who did just that! I got a mail from him with an attachment, (which I saved and viewed in notepad) and later that day I stopped by his office and took a look on his monitor, .. lo and behold .. there were quite a few messages with the subject .. "This illiterate (l)user doesn't know how to read"
REally? I have one of them IBM springy tank killer keyboard thingies and it has been in mint condition since I bought the computer it came with 8 years ago :-)
The mouse is also in pretty good shape considering its age.
Being unemployed is only half the story.
.. why on earth should we need guns? To protect ourselves from the gun-owning fuckwit next door? If he doesn't have a gun, nor do I.
:)
I'd rather be un-employed and live a decent life, rather than being in a shitty job, working my back off barely earning food on the table.
As far as 'socialist' goes, I like the idea of walking into a hospital, getting quality health care and not having to pay for it.
Oil-taxing.. well high petrolprices _do_ teach one to make cars that get good milage.
Gun-banning, well
Besides, you _can_ own a gun in Europe (in most countries at least), you just need to have a license for it.
Well, since when did affordable mean "great"?
I think it's been. All the switches in my network were 100% digital about 9-10 years ago, so my modem always connects at its peak speed, packet loss due to line noise is something I read about in history books.
Just because it's state-run doesn't make it bad.
_THAT_ is something you "yanks" have never seemed to understand
if I remember my latin correctly,.. Vocativ is hardly ever used, and if it is used it is only to address people. Flame me if I'm wrong...
Well why don't you just hop over the Atlantic and see for yourself? ... too low if anything.
Granted, I'm not a Brit, but (even though technically I'm not) I'm Scandinavian and the 50% number sounds about right
This is very much like what I see when I visit the UK and the rest of Europe...