Oh come on. I have Win2k running on a K6-2 300 with 192mb of RAM and it runs decently enough for Word/internet/etc. Hell, if I disable Themes service and a couple other things, XP runs on the Gateway P2-300 the same way. No complaining about a K6-2 450 now =]
It's a lot easier just to get BT8x8 TV tuners with audio chips supported by the BTAUDIO module - makes a/dev/dspX for each one and you can go from there.
No, no, no! Stress-testing the campus network is a task reserved for such wonderful diagnostic tools as... Unreal Tournament Network Analyzer, EthernetQuake 3, with maybe a little Return to Castle Wolfenrouter mixed in.
Yep, we're stalled at 3MHz. I can't even get 1-2-3 to run, much less WordStar... and maybe if I clear out some space on the hard drive I can install Harvard Graphics, but it takes a LOT - 2.5 megs worth! I only have 10...
(yes, I know, your post was supposed to be all GHz...)
They'll probably rip out this password now but what the hell... login is temp, password is 512. That's what they give you when you say you've "forgotten the password." The real password is another same-for-everybody equally stupid one, but I can't remember it at the moment.
Ah yes, the full-length Packard Bell monstercard. I've personally seen 4 or 5 different versions of this and they're all different hardware-wise.
The one I have basically an Aztech Sound Galaxy Washington 16 with a Rockwell-chipset 14.4 modem grafted on top of it. Linux, with some isapnptools magic, always recognized it fine as a standard serial port and sound with the usual SB driver (iirc). I think once when I was bored I even managed to enable the IDE port on there and with a hacked-up IDE module (this was in 2.0.x) I got a third hard drive connected through it. Win95 worked fine with standard modem and a driver from Aztech somewhere. FaxWorks Voice was a beast though, crashed so many times I just ended up ripping it out.
Of course that modem fried years ago (Florida lightning), and my current machines are ISA- and modem-free.
Open any folder window. Tools menu, folder options, view tab, the last option in the advanced box ("Simple file sharing") - uncheck that. You'll get your real sharing and permissions tabs back.
Actually what happened is that Apex didn't pay the royalties to whoever owns the VCD standard, so their newer players had to have VCD capability removed.
Check the serial number of your player... if it ends in xx08 then it hasn't been hacked either way yet; it's one of the strange new models that among other things doesn't play VCDs, unfortunately. Check out the Nerd-Out forums, go to the AD-1100W section, and look at one of the pinned topics; it's the model/serial number guide.
If you can find the 1meg-ROM unit you can reflash it to be MV and region free; the more common 512k-ROM just has the region-free hack right now but the MV fix is in the works. [check the Nerd-Out forums - AD1100 section, pinned topic at the top] All the DVD's I've used on it, the thing just skips everything you tell it to. Even the sometimes annoyingly-long intros on play menus - don't have to wait for it to come up, press play and it actually PLAYS.
And it has some other nice features: plays MP3s, VCDs, SVCDs, and it'll even show you a CD full of JPEGs. There have even been reports it'll show you raw MPEG files burned to CD (haven't tried that one yet).
No I don't work for Apex, but a box that'll do all that for cheap is a pretty good deal. (Sorry, no component outputs, progressive scan or optical digital out [does have coax], but what do you want for $65?)
I've tried e-mailing him, many times... as far as I've seen he hasn't done any Microsoft investigations so far. Maybe he's just still gathering information but I'm probably just being way too optimistic on that.
IIRC, when they set the phaser down it made the magnet-powering-on noise, so it probably had an electromagnet inside. Hell, they have everything else built in...
What I want to know is, those ships are supposedly made of titanium. Correct me if I'm wrong but titanium isn't magnetic...
Gah, I just did the same thing, and pretty close to the time you sent it too.
<HUMOR VAL="on"> But I get extra geek-points for having to create the virtual DOS box to do it on, with VMWARE, DOS 6.2 and SMB network drivers from bootdisk.com and msbackup 6.2 from here.;) </HUMOR>
Straight from slackware's server, actually... ftp.slackware.com:slackware/slackware-current, something like that. Unfortunately I haven't been able to actually get in with rsync for a couple weeks now, so I just did a wget mirror from the ftp instead. Max speed I get from there is about 8k/sec so probably be prepared to let it run at least overnight.
And I just rsync'ed and upgraded everything up to "beta2" level a couple days ago. Now I have to go and update more stuff. Oh well, updates are always good....
Actually don't call them, I tried that 6 times and they "filled out a form" on their end and I never got the code this way.
What you need to do is email simunlock@voicestream.com with the original phone owner's name, the original mobile number, the IMEI number (on a sticker on the phone somewhere or type *#06# into the phone), the carrier name (was it an old Aerial phone pre-merger, or was it real VoiceStream, etc), city/region where it was first used and the date of purchase, all so they can find the right database with the codes. Got an email the next morning (Sunday no less) with the 8-digit SIM unlock code.
Doesn't appear that they lock their new phones anymore... if you want a no-frills american-GSM phone you can get a Nokia 3390 from them for $99 through their prepaid sales.
(must give thanks here to jesus herrera who posted the unlock info info first on this message board =] )
BIOS flashing from Windows? Can we say BAD IDEA? Not only a neat new toy for the virus authors, but almost guaranteed to mess up normal bios flashing in general.
I can't tell you how many times I've seen one of those Windows-based flashers die right in the middle of programming the bootblock or something and rendering the whole machine worthless... until somebody yanks out the chip and reprograms/hotflashes it, that is. Nice clean DOS (DR-DOS works fine, yeah *shock* even PC-/MS- DOS is pretty stable, dunno about FreeDOS) is still the best for messing with your BIOS code. Especially with Uniflash. =]
WOPRnet... wow, thought i'd never see anybody mention that thing again, lol... solaris boxes,/home NFS-mounted across all four, kerberos passwords, the works, and that strange module system to load up TCL and the other devel tools. Strange stuff. Had a bot on their machines for a while until they killed it and went to a "pay" system which must not have worked out very well.
brtb:
Well, at any time you want you can download a snapshot of Slackware's current tree, which is the development happening in realtime... probably can't get any faster beta releases then that;)
essdodson:
Perhaps next time please look into things before boasting that Slackware does something that FreeBSD doesn't.
::looks:: now where did I say something against FreeBSD? I was just responding to the original poster who asked...
Jeff Probst:
Do any of the linux distros have a beta release program as excellent as FreeBSD's?
Sure I was saying good things about Slackware, but I didn't mean to imply that FreeBSD didn't have similar development methods; if I did I apologize, that wasn't intended.
Well, at any time you want you can download a snapshot of Slackware's current tree, which is the development happening in realtime... probably can't get any faster beta releases then that;)
ok, that'll teach me to post at 2 in the morning. wrong parent and forgot to turn the +1 off. doh! you can go ahead and mod me down for both of these, lol;)
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Oh come on. I have Win2k running on a K6-2 300 with 192mb of RAM and it runs decently enough for Word/internet/etc. Hell, if I disable Themes service and a couple other things, XP runs on the Gateway P2-300 the same way. No complaining about a K6-2 450 now =]
It's a lot easier just to get BT8x8 TV tuners with audio chips supported by the BTAUDIO module - makes a /dev/dspX for each one and you can go from there.
Watching those might be interesting (ooh, look at the pretty random colors!) but as for myself I'd burn them both, put in CD1 and boot from it. =]
No, no, no! Stress-testing the campus network is a task reserved for such wonderful diagnostic tools as... Unreal Tournament Network Analyzer, EthernetQuake 3, with maybe a little Return to Castle Wolfenrouter mixed in.
>=]
Yep, we're stalled at 3MHz. I can't even get 1-2-3 to run, much less WordStar... and maybe if I clear out some space on the hard drive I can install Harvard Graphics, but it takes a LOT - 2.5 megs worth! I only have 10...
(yes, I know, your post was supposed to be all GHz...)
GATOS driver support for ati cards (actually, the v4l compatibility part) isn't complete enough for mythtv to make use of (yet). Sorry...
They'll probably rip out this password now but what the hell... login is temp, password is 512. That's what they give you when you say you've "forgotten the password." The real password is another same-for-everybody equally stupid one, but I can't remember it at the moment.
Ah yes, the full-length Packard Bell monstercard. I've personally seen 4 or 5 different versions of this and they're all different hardware-wise.
The one I have basically an Aztech Sound Galaxy Washington 16 with a Rockwell-chipset 14.4 modem grafted on top of it. Linux, with some isapnptools magic, always recognized it fine as a standard serial port and sound with the usual SB driver (iirc). I think once when I was bored I even managed to enable the IDE port on there and with a hacked-up IDE module (this was in 2.0.x) I got a third hard drive connected through it. Win95 worked fine with standard modem and a driver from Aztech somewhere. FaxWorks Voice was a beast though, crashed so many times I just ended up ripping it out.
Of course that modem fried years ago (Florida lightning), and my current machines are ISA- and modem-free.
Ah, but there's where you're wrong! >=]
Sampo DVE631CF with hard drive hacking possibilities (and it already comes with a compactflash slot).
Open any folder window. Tools menu, folder options, view tab, the last option in the advanced box ("Simple file sharing") - uncheck that. You'll get your real sharing and permissions tabs back.
Actually what happened is that Apex didn't pay the royalties to whoever owns the VCD standard, so their newer players had to have VCD capability removed.
Check the serial number of your player... if it ends in xx08 then it hasn't been hacked either way yet; it's one of the strange new models that among other things doesn't play VCDs, unfortunately. Check out the Nerd-Out forums, go to the AD-1100W section, and look at one of the pinned topics; it's the model/serial number guide.
Apex AD1100-W's are great and $65 at Wal-mart.
If you can find the 1meg-ROM unit you can reflash it to be MV and region free; the more common 512k-ROM just has the region-free hack right now but the MV fix is in the works. [check the Nerd-Out forums - AD1100 section, pinned topic at the top] All the DVD's I've used on it, the thing just skips everything you tell it to. Even the sometimes annoyingly-long intros on play menus - don't have to wait for it to come up, press play and it actually PLAYS.
And it has some other nice features: plays MP3s, VCDs, SVCDs, and it'll even show you a CD full of JPEGs. There have even been reports it'll show you raw MPEG files burned to CD (haven't tried that one yet).
No I don't work for Apex, but a box that'll do all that for cheap is a pretty good deal. (Sorry, no component outputs, progressive scan or optical digital out [does have coax], but what do you want for $65?)
I've tried e-mailing him, many times... as far as I've seen he hasn't done any Microsoft investigations so far. Maybe he's just still gathering information but I'm probably just being way too optimistic on that.
And if you're on ext2, don't forget the default 5% reserved (and not shown in the `df` drive size totals) for the superuser...
IIRC, when they set the phaser down it made the magnet-powering-on noise, so it probably had an electromagnet inside. Hell, they have everything else built in...
What I want to know is, those ships are supposedly made of titanium. Correct me if I'm wrong but titanium isn't magnetic...
Gah, I just did the same thing, and pretty close to the time you sent it too.
;)
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But I get extra geek-points for having to create the virtual DOS box to do it on, with VMWARE, DOS 6.2 and SMB network drivers from bootdisk.com and msbackup 6.2 from here.
</HUMOR>
Straight from slackware's server, actually... ftp.slackware.com:slackware/slackware-current, something like that. Unfortunately I haven't been able to actually get in with rsync for a couple weeks now, so I just did a wget mirror from the ftp instead. Max speed I get from there is about 8k/sec so probably be prepared to let it run at least overnight.
And I just rsync'ed and upgraded everything up to "beta2" level a couple days ago. Now I have to go and update more stuff. Oh well, updates are always good....
Actually don't call them, I tried that 6 times and they "filled out a form" on their end and I never got the code this way.
What you need to do is email simunlock@voicestream.com with the original phone owner's name, the original mobile number, the IMEI number (on a sticker on the phone somewhere or type *#06# into the phone), the carrier name (was it an old Aerial phone pre-merger, or was it real VoiceStream, etc), city/region where it was first used and the date of purchase, all so they can find the right database with the codes. Got an email the next morning (Sunday no less) with the 8-digit SIM unlock code.
Doesn't appear that they lock their new phones anymore... if you want a no-frills american-GSM phone you can get a Nokia 3390 from them for $99 through their prepaid sales.
(must give thanks here to jesus herrera who posted the unlock info info first on this message board =] )
I can't tell you how many times I've seen one of those Windows-based flashers die right in the middle of programming the bootblock or something and rendering the whole machine worthless... until somebody yanks out the chip and reprograms/hotflashes it, that is. Nice clean DOS (DR-DOS works fine, yeah *shock* even PC-/MS- DOS is pretty stable, dunno about FreeDOS) is still the best for messing with your BIOS code. Especially with Uniflash. =]
Flashback to the old days of IRC, eh?
/home NFS-mounted across all four, kerberos passwords, the works, and that strange module system to load up TCL and the other devel tools. Strange stuff. Had a bot on their machines for a while until they killed it and went to a "pay" system which must not have worked out very well.
WOPRnet... wow, thought i'd never see anybody mention that thing again, lol... solaris boxes,
Nowadays... well, check the sig. >=]
Sure I was saying good things about Slackware, but I didn't mean to imply that FreeBSD didn't have similar development methods; if I did I apologize, that wasn't intended.
Well, at any time you want you can download a snapshot of Slackware's current tree, which is the development happening in realtime... probably can't get any faster beta releases then that ;)
ok, that'll teach me to post at 2 in the morning. wrong parent and forgot to turn the +1 off. doh! you can go ahead and mod me down for both of these, lol ;)