It was in Windows even before 1996. It's called "MS Chat". And if you didn't need to see the person type, you could always "/net send". But there has always been talk and write. The whole USPTO must be on crack.
The only way I would install Windows on that many kids' laptops would be if I put NT 4.0 or Win95 on them. Without the optional networking.
There is really no reason to standardize on MS Office. Get them all using AbiWord. Have them all doing photo editing in gimp. With that many kids using free software, in a couple of years they just may be contributing to it!
I'm coming from a place where 2600 cartridges were available for $1 each at my local Warehouse TEN years ago. Make your own derivative work better and I might consider paying more.
On a different note, S.T.U.N. runner is an awesome game and deserves to have at least $5 paid for the game.
Let's not get greedy now. I won't pay more than.05 cents for the original 2600 Adventure, but good arcade games are worth at least a few bucks.
To plug myself, KnoppiXMAME 1.1 will be available this winter. Reserve your *free* copy now!
check out www.linuxbios.org. Too bad I don't have any motherboards with a supported BIOS. It sounds way cool. Kind of like turning a legacy PC into a modern embedded device. heh
Yes, I have been waiting for this too. Apparently, the cloop filesystem needs to be ported to the new driver module API in 2.6. I've been considering moving everything over to cramfs for my Knoppix variant project, but haven't had much success yet, and haven't spent much time on it. If 2.6 isn't ready by the end of fall semester (and/or there still isn't a cloopfs port), I just might hack more on a cramfs Knoppix.
I'd like to see what would happen if the positions were reversed.
We'd probably have a lot more computers hacked, but I doubt the outcome would be as globally severe as an OS running on millions of computers with the same code base which nobody is allowed to audit. If Linux became more ubiquitous, more people would be around to audit the code. And since Linux is heavily modified by particular distributions, the likelihood of *everyone* running Linux getting hurt is much less likely. It's a win-win situation.
was written for Unix. I hope people don't forget that, but I doubt they will. The difference is most Unix people care about reliability and most people from the Microsoft camp relish viruses becuse the truth of the matter is tech support revenue is much greater than the cost of Windows.
That *is* some pretty good advice. Makes me feel all sentimental about walking into the local University computer room acting like I belonged there. Maybe I'll come full circle when I finally get the credits to go up there for real.
If they have legacy Access frontends, then use crossover plugin from codeweavers. Otherwise, just rewrite the frontend and use a better database. You will most likely need to tweak the code to work with some Access clone anyways, which doesn't exist.
I'm not going to say Red Hat is evil as I run it myself. But I will tell you one thing: support *is* hard, but nine out of ten support people are *lazy* and saying "I can only support a limited subset of software" really says a lot about your lack of skill, including your lack of willingness to acquire any. Sounds like an MCSE if I ever heard one..
I bought one of the first dual-chip ATI cards. It was a Rage Fury Maxx. Not only will it never work in Linux, it won't work on anything past Windows Me! I bought it specifically for Windows 2000 at the time and the drivers page said "coming soon". I waited a couple months refreshing the page until there was finally a PR response saying they couldn't write a Windows 2000 driver that could detect both chips, and it was Windows 2000's fault! Come on folks, I know my Voodoo5 will probably never run in dual-chip mode in Linux, but at least they got it working with one chip!
I am not an expert, and Apple may be using a fixed version; however, I have read that GCC 3.x does not optimize properly for the P4. The documentation I have read for gentoo says to use -mcpu=pentium3 to work around this. Could this have (unwittingly) contributed against the P4/Xeons tested?
Right. The autoconfiguration scripts will make the proper place in/mnt for you to mount the drive, but you have to do it yourself. This is for the simple fact that everything runs as root for performance reasons. If you are Linux savvy, this is not a problem. Also, there are no shells in the console. You have to do it in an xterm. Just minimize the frontend and then click the middle mouse-button -or both if you only have two- to get a window manager menu for spawning an xterm/shell. If this annoys you too much on every reboot, just copy/ramdisk/home to your hard drive, copy it to the root of your.iso (i.e./home), and all your window manager/gxmame preferences will be read from the CD, instead of the defaults I set.
If you are without the software tools or know-how to edit or add files to a.ISO, you can always just put all your roms on a second CD-ROM in a second drive. Just be sure to put them in a/roms directory. same goes for/samples
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It was in Windows even before 1996. It's called "MS Chat". And if you didn't need to see the person type, you could always "/net send". But there has always been talk and write. The whole USPTO must be on crack.
The only way I would install Windows on that many kids' laptops would be if I put NT 4.0 or Win95 on them. Without the optional networking.
There is really no reason to standardize on MS Office. Get them all using AbiWord. Have them all doing photo editing in gimp. With that many kids using free software, in a couple of years they just may be contributing to it!
The FSF would be wise to let that angle play out. Give SCO enough rope to hang themselves with. It would be deja vu from the AT&T lawsuit.
Yeah, buy a Neo-Geo license and you are set.
If you could get revenue from 10% of the supported mame games, you are a marketing god.
I'm coming from a place where 2600 cartridges were available for $1 each at my local Warehouse TEN years ago. Make your own derivative work better and I might consider paying more.
.05 cents for the original 2600 Adventure, but good arcade games are worth at least a few bucks.
On a different note, S.T.U.N. runner is an awesome game and deserves to have at least $5 paid for the game.
Let's not get greedy now. I won't pay more than
To plug myself, KnoppiXMAME 1.1 will be available this winter. Reserve your *free* copy now!
It's not only ok. Been there, done that, have the screensaver.
check out www.linuxbios.org. Too bad I don't have any motherboards with a supported BIOS. It sounds way cool. Kind of like turning a legacy PC into a modern embedded device. heh
Yes, I have been waiting for this too. Apparently, the cloop filesystem needs to be ported to the new driver module API in 2.6. I've been considering moving everything over to cramfs for my Knoppix variant project, but haven't had much success yet, and haven't spent much time on it. If 2.6 isn't ready by the end of fall semester (and/or there still isn't a cloopfs port), I just might hack more on a cramfs Knoppix.
I'd like to see what would happen if the positions were reversed.
We'd probably have a lot more computers hacked, but I doubt the outcome would be as globally severe as an OS running on millions of computers with the same code base which nobody is allowed to audit. If Linux became more ubiquitous, more people would be around to audit the code. And since Linux is heavily modified by particular distributions, the likelihood of *everyone* running Linux getting hurt is much less likely. It's a win-win situation.
was written for Unix. I hope people don't forget that, but I doubt they will. The difference is most Unix people care about reliability and most people from the Microsoft camp relish viruses becuse the truth of the matter is tech support revenue is much greater than the cost of Windows.
Yuck. 2.4 pretty much sucked until about 2.4.18. But that seems better than starting from as far back as 2.2, as others have suggested could be done.
That *is* some pretty good advice. Makes me feel all sentimental about walking into the local University computer room acting like I belonged there. Maybe I'll come full circle when I finally get the credits to go up there for real.
Only if SCO manages to get an injunction against anyone using Linux. Very doubtful.
Love the new acronym. hehe
This is even better than an "X-Spam-I-Am: " header!
... it's called 'The Roads Must Roll'.
:)
Correct. And it was a short story by Heinlein, not Asimov. One of my all-time favourites. Give the man the credit he deserves!
Oh btw, in the story they also used segway-style gyro scooters to work on the roads. Except they were stable on one wheel instead of two.
blocked 22 of 29 spam messages, and only legitimate e-mail ended up in their spam folder
Sounds like an ideal mail filter to me!
If they have legacy Access frontends, then use crossover plugin from codeweavers. Otherwise, just rewrite the frontend and use a better database. You will most likely need to tweak the code to work with some Access clone anyways, which doesn't exist.
I pass gas in Domino's general direction. It tries to do everything, so does nothing exceptionally well.
I'm not going to say Red Hat is evil as I run it myself. But I will tell you one thing: support *is* hard, but nine out of ten support people are *lazy* and saying "I can only support a limited subset of software" really says a lot about your lack of skill, including your lack of willingness to acquire any. Sounds like an MCSE if I ever heard one..
>I'm an ext3 man myself...mostly by convenience,
:)
>since I run RH on about 1/2 of my linux boxen and
>it's enabled by default.
pssst! just type 'linux reiserfs' in at the boot prompt for your redhat install. you are welcome
I bought one of the first dual-chip ATI cards. It was a Rage Fury Maxx. Not only will it never work in Linux, it won't work on anything past Windows Me! I bought it specifically for Windows 2000 at the time and the drivers page said "coming soon". I waited a couple months refreshing the page until there was finally a PR response saying they couldn't write a Windows 2000 driver that could detect both chips, and it was Windows 2000's fault! Come on folks, I know my Voodoo5 will probably never run in dual-chip mode in Linux, but at least they got it working with one chip!
I am not an expert, and Apple may be using a fixed version; however, I have read that GCC 3.x does not optimize properly for the P4. The documentation I have read for gentoo says to use -mcpu=pentium3 to work around this. Could this have (unwittingly) contributed against the P4/Xeons tested?
Right. The autoconfiguration scripts will make the proper place in /mnt for you to mount the drive, but you have to do it yourself. This is for the simple fact that everything runs as root for performance reasons. If you are Linux savvy, this is not a problem. Also, there are no shells in the console. You have to do it in an xterm. Just minimize the frontend and then click the middle mouse-button -or both if you only have two- to get a window manager menu for spawning an xterm/shell. If this annoys you too much on every reboot, just copy /ramdisk/home to your hard drive, copy it to the root of your .iso (i.e. /home), and all your window manager/gxmame preferences will be read from the CD, instead of the defaults I set.
If you are without the software tools or know-how to edit or add files to a .ISO, you can always just put all your roms on a second CD-ROM in a second drive. Just be sure to put them in a /roms directory. same goes for /samples