Actually you can. That is what the "Address" bar in the file manager window is for under Win2k. You can run any program from there, including command line. If you want the command line window to stay up instead of closing after it's done running, it's a simple edit of the cmd properties.
Acutally, when you look at the various uses of a PC, you see that it is used for both a PC and a car. The computer is used to controll the functions of all new vehicles on the road today. Though it is not a PC per say, it is still a computer.
The nice part about a car, I don't have to worry if it's running some damn *nix or windows. It doesn't run either!!! hahaha. Just goes to show that you don't need either to have a computer that runs complex calculations. Thank god I don't have to worry about my car's computer crashing everyday, every other day, every month, every year, or ever!
Computers are in every facit of our world these days. I'm glad they did not stop evolving with the vacuum tube. Command lines are great, but ever so tedious when trying to do a lot of things at the same time and have to type out some long a$$ command to get it accomplished. I work tech support for a company of about 1000 people (2 techs in my group) and I get maybe a call a day for all of those win9x/win2k boxes out there. On the server side where all the production is going on our *nix boxes crash quite often (many times due to hardware failure, crappy RISC boxes. not saying RISC is bad, just the hardware we have sucks). It takes 45 minutes to boot those damn *nix boxes with all the configuration we have ser up on them. Same with our AIX boxes. Same with our Windows servers. I haven't seen any viable advantage to running any of those OS's as an enterprise server.
Typical server support call for *nix box: Get call that server is hosed. Log in to figure out what's wrong. System is locked up for some reason, no way to remote in to kill off bad job due to main system being hosed (not just the console). Reboot and wait. When system comes up, go through error logs and figure out what went wrong. Go fix said program or call apps support. Everything fine and dandy for a while.
Typical Windows server call: Call due to system being hosed. Tell operations staff to hit reset switch and wait. Dial in and check error logs. Find out it's some lame program a developer wrote that has massive memory leakage. Call apps support and tell them to fix it. Everything fine and dandy for a while.
Typical AIX call: Fucking hardware toasted again!! Call hardware support vendor to fix and fail over to other box for duration of down time.
You see, most of the problems experienced in a fortune 500 company with their servers is application based, not the OS's fault (save AIX, that for some reason just plain sucks). For the 3 years I've worked for this company I've only seen 2 NT 4.0 boxes rebuilt due to corrupted exchange databases (can we say virus attacks?!? arg!) and about 2 *nix boxes for other reasons (if I remember right they just all in out failed, probably some app that did the dirty deed). We run a mix because we have differing needs throughout the company that work better on one OS or the other.
I disagree with you about space flight. If you look at the record of space flight deaths there has been only 10. No compare that to missions and miles flown and you have a pretty good safety record. Also take into account that one of those astronauts that day was a school teacher and was to be the first civilian put into space. The death of this crew was a tragedy to those of us who admire the bravery of those willing to be involved in space flight. I may not have stopped for a moment of silence, but I surely remember them in my thoughts. Think back to Apollo 13, if those astronauts had died, would it not have been a tragedy? It's always a tragedy when good people die like this.
I find it funny that everyone here is practically attacking IBM. Jeeze, do you realize where personal PC's would be right now if they hadn't been in a big financial squeeze in the 80's?!? PCI is a reincarnation of MCB (that's micro-channel bus) that was available in the IBM PS/2 286's. God, we'd be well beyond AGP by now. ISA would no longer be even put on a motherboard. Plug and Play would not be still in it's infancy. I feel sorry for you people who don't see that. IBM's R&D department was world class in it's day and is starting to once again regain its' composure.
Microsoft brought standardization to the desktop, and my, look how it's influenced linux. It prompted linux to get off is a** and start to use something other than it's 40 year old command line. I'm glad that PC manufactures weren't so readily happy to stay with the vacuume tubes. Linux is stable as all get out and excells in some areas where Microsoft excells in others. The right tool for the job at hand I say.
Let's look at some historical facts about racism in America:
1)Racisism exists: Has since who knows when.
2)The Black community does not have it worse than other groups of people. Lets look at the other races as well.
--Indians: (the American Tribes that were here before the white man came) were forced off their native lands into reservations. Many were slaughtered, raped, camps pillaged, some taken as slaves. Some of these groups have capitalized and built casinos and gotten rich. While others still live on poor reservations.
--Asians: Came to America in the mid 1800's with the promise of a better future. This particular group of people helped built the first cross-county railroad in the united states. How were they repaid? Many were killed while working on the railroad because the Tycoons didn't want to pay them. Yes, they hired gunmen to kill them on the job or off. Others of Asian decent worked in laundry shops or as servents. Some where even taken as payment by white men and made slaves as well. Many are now furthering themselves in college. As a college student I have been amazed at how many people of Asian decent are in the IT sector of college. It's good to see.
--Blacks: Used as slaves. The initial group of black slaves where sold into slavery to the Brittish and other merchants by their own people in Africa. Some where taken forcibly from their homes. Many died on the trip overseas as well. However, their plight was to be slaves. They were not mass slaughtered due to their value as slaves and cost to aquire them initially. Some where targets of outraged white citizens due to percieved crimes and lynched. They are no longer slaves.
To say that the black community has suffered the most is a farce. There's no basis for that claim at all. As one looks at the history of the world, racism was practiced by all cultures. The Persians segregated their populations and forced entire cultures to be split and moved to different parts of the empire to keep them from rebelling after being conqued. Many were made slaves. Romans also made slaves of those they conquered. Killed those who stood against the empire. Many of the conquered were also made into Gladiators when the arena games became popular.
Racism is an ugly fact, but it's not one that we have to allow to continue. People who claim to be African-American, Asian-American, German-American, etc. are only helping to keep it all alive. We are all Americans in this country, and we need to work together to once again be proud to say it. We are not differnt groups of Americans, we are of differing decent. I am and American of European decent. I was born and raised here, that makes me full blooded AMERICAN. If you swore your allegiance to this country and gained citizenship, then you are an AMERICAN too. We should think of ourselves as not as black-american or white-american, but as simply AMERICANS with unique talents, skills, and looks.
Suits such as these need to be carefully reviewed before passing judgement upon what is going on. The amount being sued for was to help get media attention to the suit and spark just these kinds of comments pro and against. Racism needs to be wiped out, but this isn't the way. It's a long and perilous road up and out to true diversity and freedom. Who will join in that fight? The fight for all peoples, as a whole.
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Actually you can. That is what the "Address" bar in the file manager window is for under Win2k. You can run any program from there, including command line. If you want the command line window to stay up instead of closing after it's done running, it's a simple edit of the cmd properties.
Acutally, when you look at the various uses of a PC, you see that it is used for both a PC and a car. The computer is used to controll the functions of all new vehicles on the road today. Though it is not a PC per say, it is still a computer. The nice part about a car, I don't have to worry if it's running some damn *nix or windows. It doesn't run either!!! hahaha. Just goes to show that you don't need either to have a computer that runs complex calculations. Thank god I don't have to worry about my car's computer crashing everyday, every other day, every month, every year, or ever! Computers are in every facit of our world these days. I'm glad they did not stop evolving with the vacuum tube. Command lines are great, but ever so tedious when trying to do a lot of things at the same time and have to type out some long a$$ command to get it accomplished. I work tech support for a company of about 1000 people (2 techs in my group) and I get maybe a call a day for all of those win9x/win2k boxes out there. On the server side where all the production is going on our *nix boxes crash quite often (many times due to hardware failure, crappy RISC boxes. not saying RISC is bad, just the hardware we have sucks). It takes 45 minutes to boot those damn *nix boxes with all the configuration we have ser up on them. Same with our AIX boxes. Same with our Windows servers. I haven't seen any viable advantage to running any of those OS's as an enterprise server. Typical server support call for *nix box: Get call that server is hosed. Log in to figure out what's wrong. System is locked up for some reason, no way to remote in to kill off bad job due to main system being hosed (not just the console). Reboot and wait. When system comes up, go through error logs and figure out what went wrong. Go fix said program or call apps support. Everything fine and dandy for a while. Typical Windows server call: Call due to system being hosed. Tell operations staff to hit reset switch and wait. Dial in and check error logs. Find out it's some lame program a developer wrote that has massive memory leakage. Call apps support and tell them to fix it. Everything fine and dandy for a while. Typical AIX call: Fucking hardware toasted again!! Call hardware support vendor to fix and fail over to other box for duration of down time. You see, most of the problems experienced in a fortune 500 company with their servers is application based, not the OS's fault (save AIX, that for some reason just plain sucks). For the 3 years I've worked for this company I've only seen 2 NT 4.0 boxes rebuilt due to corrupted exchange databases (can we say virus attacks?!? arg!) and about 2 *nix boxes for other reasons (if I remember right they just all in out failed, probably some app that did the dirty deed). We run a mix because we have differing needs throughout the company that work better on one OS or the other.
I disagree with you about space flight. If you look at the record of space flight deaths there has been only 10. No compare that to missions and miles flown and you have a pretty good safety record. Also take into account that one of those astronauts that day was a school teacher and was to be the first civilian put into space. The death of this crew was a tragedy to those of us who admire the bravery of those willing to be involved in space flight. I may not have stopped for a moment of silence, but I surely remember them in my thoughts. Think back to Apollo 13, if those astronauts had died, would it not have been a tragedy? It's always a tragedy when good people die like this.
I find it funny that everyone here is practically attacking IBM. Jeeze, do you realize where personal PC's would be right now if they hadn't been in a big financial squeeze in the 80's?!? PCI is a reincarnation of MCB (that's micro-channel bus) that was available in the IBM PS/2 286's. God, we'd be well beyond AGP by now. ISA would no longer be even put on a motherboard. Plug and Play would not be still in it's infancy. I feel sorry for you people who don't see that. IBM's R&D department was world class in it's day and is starting to once again regain its' composure.
Microsoft brought standardization to the desktop, and my, look how it's influenced linux. It prompted linux to get off is a** and start to use something other than it's 40 year old command line. I'm glad that PC manufactures weren't so readily happy to stay with the vacuume tubes. Linux is stable as all get out and excells in some areas where Microsoft excells in others. The right tool for the job at hand I say.
Let's look at some historical facts about racism in America:
1)Racisism exists: Has since who knows when.
2)The Black community does not have it worse than other groups of people. Lets look at the other races as well.
--Indians: (the American Tribes that were here before the white man came) were forced off their native lands into reservations. Many were slaughtered, raped, camps pillaged, some taken as slaves. Some of these groups have capitalized and built casinos and gotten rich. While others still live on poor reservations.
--Asians: Came to America in the mid 1800's with the promise of a better future. This particular group of people helped built the first cross-county railroad in the united states. How were they repaid? Many were killed while working on the railroad because the Tycoons didn't want to pay them. Yes, they hired gunmen to kill them on the job or off. Others of Asian decent worked in laundry shops or as servents. Some where even taken as payment by white men and made slaves as well. Many are now furthering themselves in college. As a college student I have been amazed at how many people of Asian decent are in the IT sector of college. It's good to see.
--Blacks: Used as slaves. The initial group of black slaves where sold into slavery to the Brittish and other merchants by their own people in Africa. Some where taken forcibly from their homes. Many died on the trip overseas as well. However, their plight was to be slaves. They were not mass slaughtered due to their value as slaves and cost to aquire them initially. Some where targets of outraged white citizens due to percieved crimes and lynched. They are no longer slaves.
To say that the black community has suffered the most is a farce. There's no basis for that claim at all. As one looks at the history of the world, racism was practiced by all cultures. The Persians segregated their populations and forced entire cultures to be split and moved to different parts of the empire to keep them from rebelling after being conqued. Many were made slaves. Romans also made slaves of those they conquered. Killed those who stood against the empire. Many of the conquered were also made into Gladiators when the arena games became popular.
Racism is an ugly fact, but it's not one that we have to allow to continue. People who claim to be African-American, Asian-American, German-American, etc. are only helping to keep it all alive. We are all Americans in this country, and we need to work together to once again be proud to say it. We are not differnt groups of Americans, we are of differing decent. I am and American of European decent. I was born and raised here, that makes me full blooded AMERICAN. If you swore your allegiance to this country and gained citizenship, then you are an AMERICAN too. We should think of ourselves as not as black-american or white-american, but as simply AMERICANS with unique talents, skills, and looks.
Suits such as these need to be carefully reviewed before passing judgement upon what is going on. The amount being sued for was to help get media attention to the suit and spark just these kinds of comments pro and against. Racism needs to be wiped out, but this isn't the way. It's a long and perilous road up and out to true diversity and freedom. Who will join in that fight? The fight for all peoples, as a whole.