Microsoft Windows 2000 [Version 5.00.2195]
(C) Copyright 1985-2000 Microsoft Corp.
C:\>uptime
\\LC80257932 has been up for: 48 day(s), 5 hour(s), 16 minute(s), 21 second(s)
C:\>
This is on a ThinkPad T21. Last reboot was when I installed Visio, otherwise that number would go back to when I installed SP2, which was a couple months before that (if I remember correctly).
Perhaps if your w2k box BSODs every time you shut down, you should realize that there's SOMETHING WRONG WITH IT!. Geez, just because it works fine under linux doesn't mean it's not fixable under win2k.
We've got W2K servers with uptimes over 6 months and they're still going strong. Even my ThinkPad with W2K has an uptime of over 3 weeks right now. I just suspend it when commuting.
W2K has only failed on me twice, once when I installed a driver for a cheap-ass USB device that blew up the NETLOGON.DLL (don't know how it did that, but I certainly threw that piece of crap cable out and bought a new ethernet switch instead), and the other time when I tried hacking the NTOSKRNL.EXE file to change my boot-up graphic (I was just playing with it on a test system, no biggie).
The point is, just because your system is @%!#ed, doesn't mean that W2K itself is to blame.
Not if you know what you're doing. Using the qchain utility, you only have to reboot once after applying all the patches is one go (and can even be scripted). Then check if they all took by using the hfnetchk utility. This can easily be done (yes I've done it) on 12+ servers in less than an hour without ever getting up from your desk.
FutureWay is a Canadian provider that is setting up a service like this. My brother just bought a new house (in Richmond Hill, for any Toronto locals), and the neighborhood is pre-wired with fibre to every house, and it will eventually provide digital phone, television, and data. Unfortunately, their website is a little lacking on hard facts (example from the faq: "Q. How fast is the Internet Access? A. Futureway's Internet service is the fastest available" derrr, does that mean it's petabit?), and his house isn't quite built yet, so I can't comment on quality or speed.
Actually, he's referring to a new type of CVT that does not use belts or pulleys. It's called a Toroidal CVT. Check this page at mazda.com.au for an overview of their design, which is still in prototype mode. I believe nissan is already selling a car in japan using this type of CVT.
"The setting was last month's Supertuner Challenge. The mini-Mazda was on hand as an errand boy and was being used as a shuttle en route to the next driver change during the road drive. But as we took off, we noticed there was no map in the Protegé5 -- so we had to keep up with the car ahead. The 650-hp Lingenfelter Twin-Turbo Vette had a 520-hp advantage plus a high-g tire-and-suspension setup, but the nimble little wagon managed to keep within view. And although public-road prudence restrained the Corvette to probably three- or four-tenths of its capability, the equally prudent Protegé5 pilot was enjoying the full potential of his mount and grinning from ear to ear."
I assume the chamber would not need to be evacuated, since liquid hydrogen is more dense then air (slightly, hence the slow fall). It would probably look something like pouring water into a bucket of oil. I'm just guessing here though...
"I think the world will probably need about 5 of these machines and not more....:)"
Yeah, and nobody will ever need more than 640KB of RAM. My company alone has two E10Ks (the predecessor to this beast), so I think there's a decent market for these...
"Besides, if you chose to use an ad blocking proxy, then you're the kind of person who's very unlikely to click on an ad in the first place, and that's what the advertiser wants: clicks. So if we showed you an ad, you'd be very unlikely to click on it, and the only result would be that we'd spend money on the bandwidth without the advertiser getting any benefit."
Whoa, an ad exec who actually has a brain in his head and understands. Will wonders never cease? You should teach a course dude;-)
"This statement alone shows you've never contacted MS for support for anything more complex than "I can't get my email.""
This statement shows that you've never contacted MS support other than their basic consumer level support. Their premier enterprise support is actually staffed by extremely knowledgeable and intelligent techs, and they don't give up on you until your problem is solved, or they've proved to the customer's satisfaction that it's caused by a third party problem.
Reminds me of a great quote by an american comedian (I don't remember his name) when asked by a canadian interviewer, "What do americans think of canada?"
Not exactly what you're looking for, and not text, but here's a link to a series of charts I've found very useful. They cover pentium era through late P3, plus Athlons up to the 1GHz Slot A. They show handy stuff like clock speed, bus speed, multiplier, cache size, votages, etc.
Microsoft spends more than $5.3 Billion on R&D per year. That is more than IBM spends on hardware/software R&D (5.1B) and more than 2X Sun/Oracle combined!
Good thinking... I've been looking into hiring a full-time squire. He'd come in most handy when dressing for hockey, but I hadn't thought of his pack-mule attributes. Anyone willing to fill this role for a generous $5/day (canadian funds)?
This picture kind of brings on the "Duh, why didn't I think of that?" feeling. It seems so obvious now that someone else has thought it up for me. Anyway, I want one!
In that case, just take it a step further. Throw the CD in your stereo system and connect that to the line-in on your sound card. You'd still get very tolerable quality (people do this to copy LPs all the time).
Even though you proved my point with this sentence: "it may not be practical to clean the curtain if the chemicals to do so cost more than replacing it, or will potentially cause more environmental damage than just tossing the curtian", my comment was meant to be funny, and was moderated as such. You've got to learn to chill a bit dude.
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Microsoft Windows 2000 [Version 5.00.2195]
(C) Copyright 1985-2000 Microsoft Corp.
C:\>uptime
\\LC80257932 has been up for: 48 day(s), 5 hour(s), 16 minute(s), 21 second(s)
C:\>
This is on a ThinkPad T21. Last reboot was when I installed Visio, otherwise that number would go back to when I installed SP2, which was a couple months before that (if I remember correctly).
Sounds like a hardware problem to me. Have you checked your CPU heatsink/fan?
Perhaps if your w2k box BSODs every time you shut down, you should realize that there's SOMETHING WRONG WITH IT! . Geez, just because it works fine under linux doesn't mean it's not fixable under win2k.
We've got W2K servers with uptimes over 6 months and they're still going strong. Even my ThinkPad with W2K has an uptime of over 3 weeks right now. I just suspend it when commuting.
W2K has only failed on me twice, once when I installed a driver for a cheap-ass USB device that blew up the NETLOGON.DLL (don't know how it did that, but I certainly threw that piece of crap cable out and bought a new ethernet switch instead), and the other time when I tried hacking the NTOSKRNL.EXE file to change my boot-up graphic (I was just playing with it on a test system, no biggie).
The point is, just because your system is @%!#ed, doesn't mean that W2K itself is to blame.
...and in case anyone's wondering:
hfnetchk utility
qchain utility
"and a reboot is required after every patch"
Not if you know what you're doing. Using the qchain utility, you only have to reboot once after applying all the patches is one go (and can even be scripted). Then check if they all took by using the hfnetchk utility. This can easily be done (yes I've done it) on 12+ servers in less than an hour without ever getting up from your desk.
FutureWay is a Canadian provider that is setting up a service like this. My brother just bought a new house (in Richmond Hill, for any Toronto locals), and the neighborhood is pre-wired with fibre to every house, and it will eventually provide digital phone, television, and data. Unfortunately, their website is a little lacking on hard facts (example from the faq: "Q. How fast is the Internet Access? A. Futureway's Internet service is the fastest available" derrr, does that mean it's petabit?), and his house isn't quite built yet, so I can't comment on quality or speed.
Actually, he's referring to a new type of CVT that does not use belts or pulleys. It's called a Toroidal CVT. Check this page at mazda.com.au for an overview of their design, which is still in prototype mode. I believe nissan is already selling a car in japan using this type of CVT.
To quote car and driver:
"The setting was last month's Supertuner Challenge. The mini-Mazda was on hand as an errand boy and was being used as a shuttle en route to the next driver change during the road drive. But as we took off, we noticed there was no map in the Protegé5 -- so we had to keep up with the car ahead. The 650-hp Lingenfelter Twin-Turbo Vette had a 520-hp advantage plus a high-g tire-and-suspension setup, but the nimble little wagon managed to keep within view. And although public-road prudence restrained the Corvette to probably three- or four-tenths of its capability, the equally prudent Protegé5 pilot was enjoying the full potential of his mount and grinning from ear to ear."
It's not all about horsepower you know...
I assume the chamber would not need to be evacuated, since liquid hydrogen is more dense then air (slightly, hence the slow fall). It would probably look something like pouring water into a bucket of oil. I'm just guessing here though...
It's a little more complicated then that. Here's the whole story of the crash and the following scandal: Investigation: Air France 296
Fuel cells have no moving parts, and are totally silent. Hydrogen in one end... electricity out the other.
"I think the world will probably need about 5 of these machines and not more .... :)"
Yeah, and nobody will ever need more than 640KB of RAM. My company alone has two E10Ks (the predecessor to this beast), so I think there's a decent market for these...
"Besides, if you chose to use an ad blocking proxy, then you're the kind of person who's very unlikely to click on an ad in the first place, and that's what the advertiser wants: clicks. So if we showed you an ad, you'd be very unlikely to click on it, and the only result would be that we'd spend money on the bandwidth without the advertiser getting any benefit."
;-)
Whoa, an ad exec who actually has a brain in his head and understands. Will wonders never cease? You should teach a course dude
"This statement alone shows you've never contacted MS for support for anything more complex than "I can't get my email.""
This statement shows that you've never contacted MS support other than their basic consumer level support. Their premier enterprise support is actually staffed by extremely knowledgeable and intelligent techs, and they don't give up on you until your problem is solved, or they've proved to the customer's satisfaction that it's caused by a third party problem.
Reminds me of a great quote by an american comedian (I don't remember his name) when asked by a canadian interviewer, "What do americans think of canada?"
Answer: "We don't"
Not exactly what you're looking for, and not text, but here's a link to a series of charts I've found very useful. They cover pentium era through late P3, plus Athlons up to the 1GHz Slot A. They show handy stuff like clock speed, bus speed, multiplier, cache size, votages, etc.
Processor and Chipset Tables
Microsoft spends more than $5.3 Billion on R&D per year. That is more than IBM spends on hardware/software R&D (5.1B) and more than 2X Sun/Oracle combined!
Did you even read the entire post?
"And don't be surprised, its gonna go up and down like a yo yo as we fix things."
Good thinking... I've been looking into hiring a full-time squire. He'd come in most handy when dressing for hockey, but I hadn't thought of his pack-mule attributes. Anyone willing to fill this role for a generous $5/day (canadian funds)?
The Register has a good summary of Gibson's ravings here
Nope, it's one hole per pixel, as shown in this picture.
(link to picture was stolen from a previous post by someone else, so if moderators are thinking of modding me up, go find the original and mod him up)
This picture kind of brings on the "Duh, why didn't I think of that?" feeling. It seems so obvious now that someone else has thought it up for me. Anyway, I want one!
"It's pieces of these objects that end up in museums, labs or collectors."
Damn, it's gotta suck to be a collector then, what with all these pieces ending up inside them...
In that case, just take it a step further. Throw the CD in your stereo system and connect that to the line-in on your sound card. You'd still get very tolerable quality (people do this to copy LPs all the time).
Even though you proved my point with this sentence: "it may not be practical to clean the curtain if the chemicals to do so cost more than replacing it, or will potentially cause more environmental damage than just tossing the curtian", my comment was meant to be funny, and was moderated as such. You've got to learn to chill a bit dude.
;-)
BTW, I'm not American, I'm Canadian. So there