but there are so many patches and convolutions in MSware that doesn't work any more. when my 98se machine got horked up and I couldn't restore from my tapes any more, because windows kept throwing up in the process due to mixed versions of stuff, I gave up and went Mac. if I can't get MY machine back, why try? the MSmeisters allowed it in the past, but all the patches made it impossible.
now, I just RESTORE my drive to an external periodically. when the internal drive died, I just booted off the system DVD and did a RESTORE back to the newly-installed drive. presto, had MY machine back.
those of you who rotate three disks into two bays on a machine set up for RAID mirroring have a chance in MSland. nobody else does.
vastly overpriced memory, based on a common manufacturer spec stolen from the consortium and patented to screw the rest of the industry.
anything that hurts rambus is OK in my book. you look up "screaming weasel" in the dictionary, you see their logo.
give those DDR guys a medal for a common spec, lower prices, and better performance. I will never own a rambus-loaded computer. it is the one thing I specifically check for.
as soon as I finish rebuilding a signal one, I'm testing back in, and former WN0CBZ will be torturing stray electrons again. it was a neat goal in 1969, and with all the natural disasters about, it's still relevant.
got 'em dead to rights as I read it. now, if this was authorized under the telecom act, no issues. if not, the class-action lawsuit and the pending FCC investigation should bankrupt the long-haul companies that implemented the spytaps.
the interface was better in 95 and 98, and serviceability best in windows 3.1 and WFW... without the evil Registry, we moved folks' entire PC personalities onto new boxes by editing the old INI files into the new ones, and deleting only the old driver references. the OS was at its most stable in NT 3.51.
MS doesn't get better, they just try to herd the users in the direction they want to go this year.
unless they have made a breakthrough in mass psychic transference, you get Internet connectivity through wires or waves... that means telcos, cablecos, and wirelesscos... in addition to television the way God created it, by modulated broadcast radio waves.
so I-TV kills the carriers? boGUSSSSS. the writer is channeling Ralph Kramden.
every dollar stashed overseas from a US transaction should be reviewed by the IRS. we wouldn't have had the IRA, wacko bin looney and his merry murderers, a bevy of crooked CEOs, and OJ hiding their money. it's a good thing that PayPal gets looked at, too. because of weasels, you can't make six transfers a month between checking and savings online, Treasury and Homeland Security prohibit it.
take out the weasels, and maybe we can demand our freedom back.
somebody running an international high-energy physics experiment can be excused for going to a level-2 or level-1 server. everybody else is wrong to do that.
send a private communication to the authentic users (not the robot moochers from D-Link) that on date X, the new IP service address will be unhacked.gps.dix.de or whatever suits him.
on date X, send bogus packets in response... not just wrong time, but seriously wrong time, like a packet with time of 9s in all fields, which would be most seriously wrong.
hopefully, it would lock up the offending junkpiles, and clear the problem right smartly.
the general idea in engineering an end to these things is to find a way to blow up the crooked machine by a seriously wrong entry that will screw up the internals. since they took an ugly and cheap shortcut by using firmware tables, they probably don't error-check their inputs from NTP and other services. so there should be a memory jump and a crash in those pirate boxes someplace.
and that puts the onus back where it belongs, on supercheap designers for obnoxious companies that don't give a shit about network etiquette. the market will punish them. that's how it should be for slap-happy outfits.
McGill was where Ernest Rutherford and Frederic Soddy actually made some of their earliest vital discoveries about the structure of the atom, during Rutherford's first job out of his education at Cavendish.
sounds like all you're going to be able to study there now is the so-called gospel of Judah....
if you want your own stuff to move faster, it should be on a separate parallel network. the ISP connection is where you switch it. and there should be enough router oomph so your great unwashed masses seeking data that wants to be free are not penalized for getting on somebody's internal business deal.
until and unless laws and proposals put that in the legal system, "no" to pay-for-preference.
it's a guerilla movement, and unless they embrace it and push it like they pushed ATM, frame, DSL, it's going to eat them up faster than cable and cellphones.
rollout costs of wi-fi are basically nothing for a sorta-system, and twice that for a 22-1/2 by 6 system... if you're charging five bucks or fifteen bucks a month for the access code, you aren't going to promise 24x7.
it will cost like any other infrastructure if you're going to roll out an FCC-acceptable carrier-class system. but with VoIP in the USB jack, that's a full mobile office, and folks from Bill's Construction to Diaperpails R We won't have a fixed office at all.
if it's so hard to make a business case FOR wi-fi at a telco, as so many public announcements to wail street have stated, how come every passing slick with a tie and a business card has at least two deals going with cities to do a wi-fi rollout?
seems I remember that even back in the Copeland days, Apple had tightly held code that allowed winslows to run on the PPC macs. I strongly suspect it's not really a skunk-works operation, but a calculated "black team" Apple has maintained to keep the MacOS folks' feet to the fire. and a Plan B in case they needed allies and/or money fast.
"hey, genius, I can run Windows under two layers of emulation faster than your freakin' routine runs native. optimize or die! I got Pagemaker running without panics and you don't!"
so since there are enterprising uber-nerds with vista alphas running on the Intel macs now, Apple probably figured it was time to protect their kernel and boot loader from hacks and put their own flexible one out.
if it wasn't, I would not be out of gas in my car after driving PAST a gas station, for if atoms truly want to be free, I'd have suddenly gained a half tank of fuel.
unless, of course, the atoms are taking orders from the cockroaches. we don't get along.
but it just reeked... software, convenience, value/price, no pre-records... and the market said NO quite resoundingly. the Teac Elcaset was technically superior in its day, too, but it looked and sold like the revere/wollensak tape cartridge.
which should serve as A Lesson For Our Time to the blue-laser super-DVD crowd. if you don't come in cheaper and deliver more from day one, we will hold on to our LPs/CDs/DVDs/2-inch quad VTRs.
that is the goofiest thing I have ever heard. I intend to file papers today patenting swallowing, blinking, and the movement of liquids, such as blood, through a device to pressurize one side of the system and lower pressure on the other side.
and then start enforcing those patents on some of these airhead MBAs....
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but there are so many patches and convolutions in MSware that doesn't work any more. when my 98se machine got horked up and I couldn't restore from my tapes any more, because windows kept throwing up in the process due to mixed versions of stuff, I gave up and went Mac. if I can't get MY machine back, why try? the MSmeisters allowed it in the past, but all the patches made it impossible.
now, I just RESTORE my drive to an external periodically. when the internal drive died, I just booted off the system DVD and did a RESTORE back to the newly-installed drive. presto, had MY machine back.
those of you who rotate three disks into two bays on a machine set up for RAID mirroring have a chance in MSland. nobody else does.
and that freaked the apple brass. what, quit before we can you? how can this be?
but it makes me feel way better this morning that somebody pulled back from the Slope to Hell.
vastly overpriced memory, based on a common manufacturer spec stolen from the consortium and patented to screw the rest of the industry.
anything that hurts rambus is OK in my book. you look up "screaming weasel" in the dictionary, you see their logo.
give those DDR guys a medal for a common spec, lower prices, and better performance. I will never own a rambus-loaded computer. it is the one thing I specifically check for.
geez, the mainstream press wore this one out in mid-April, and slashdot burned their server disk bald by May as well.
folks, the state department talked to France, and they backed down for a while. almost a month ago.
move along, nothing to see here. come on, get moving. OK, what you hanging around for, next bus to gitmo? it loads in two minutes......
considering this administration, inquiring minds want to know ;)
OPEN specifications only, please. it has to be supported on all platforms.
these two ideas, core to the net, means that Microsoft and its eely, oily ways should be barred from submitting the spec.
as soon as I finish rebuilding a signal one, I'm testing back in, and former WN0CBZ will be torturing stray electrons again. it was a neat goal in 1969, and with all the natural disasters about, it's still relevant.
got 'em dead to rights as I read it. now, if this was authorized under the telecom act, no issues. if not, the class-action lawsuit and the pending FCC investigation should bankrupt the long-haul companies that implemented the spytaps.
the interface was better in 95 and 98, and serviceability best in windows 3.1 and WFW... without the evil Registry, we moved folks' entire PC personalities onto new boxes by editing the old INI files into the new ones, and deleting only the old driver references. the OS was at its most stable in NT 3.51.
MS doesn't get better, they just try to herd the users in the direction they want to go this year.
unless they have made a breakthrough in mass psychic transference, you get Internet connectivity through wires or waves... that means telcos, cablecos, and wirelesscos... in addition to television the way God created it, by modulated broadcast radio waves.
so I-TV kills the carriers? boGUSSSSS. the writer is channeling Ralph Kramden.
every dollar stashed overseas from a US transaction should be reviewed by the IRS. we wouldn't have had the IRA, wacko bin looney and his merry murderers, a bevy of crooked CEOs, and OJ hiding their money. it's a good thing that PayPal gets looked at, too. because of weasels, you can't make six transfers a month between checking and savings online, Treasury and Homeland Security prohibit it.
take out the weasels, and maybe we can demand our freedom back.
and he'd be pulling from the right level.
somebody running an international high-energy physics experiment can be excused for going to a level-2 or level-1 server. everybody else is wrong to do that.
send a private communication to the authentic users (not the robot moochers from D-Link) that on date X, the new IP service address will be unhacked.gps.dix.de or whatever suits him.
on date X, send bogus packets in response... not just wrong time, but seriously wrong time, like a packet with time of 9s in all fields, which would be most seriously wrong.
hopefully, it would lock up the offending junkpiles, and clear the problem right smartly.
the general idea in engineering an end to these things is to find a way to blow up the crooked machine by a seriously wrong entry that will screw up the internals. since they took an ugly and cheap shortcut by using firmware tables, they probably don't error-check their inputs from NTP and other services. so there should be a memory jump and a crash in those pirate boxes someplace.
and that puts the onus back where it belongs, on supercheap designers for obnoxious companies that don't give a shit about network etiquette. the market will punish them. that's how it should be for slap-happy outfits.
McGill was where Ernest Rutherford and Frederic Soddy actually made some of their earliest vital discoveries about the structure of the atom, during Rutherford's first job out of his education at Cavendish.
sounds like all you're going to be able to study there now is the so-called gospel of Judah....
if you want your own stuff to move faster, it should be on a separate parallel network. the ISP connection is where you switch it. and there should be enough router oomph so your great unwashed masses seeking data that wants to be free are not penalized for getting on somebody's internal business deal.
until and unless laws and proposals put that in the legal system, "no" to pay-for-preference.
it's a guerilla movement, and unless they embrace it and push it like they pushed ATM, frame, DSL, it's going to eat them up faster than cable and cellphones.
rollout costs of wi-fi are basically nothing for a sorta-system, and twice that for a 22-1/2 by 6 system... if you're charging five bucks or fifteen bucks a month for the access code, you aren't going to promise 24x7.
it will cost like any other infrastructure if you're going to roll out an FCC-acceptable carrier-class system. but with VoIP in the USB jack, that's a full mobile office, and folks from Bill's Construction to Diaperpails R We won't have a fixed office at all.
if it's so hard to make a business case FOR wi-fi at a telco, as so many public announcements to wail street have stated, how come every passing slick with a tie and a business card has at least two deals going with cities to do a wi-fi rollout?
it's going to bite the telcos in the end.
seems I remember that even back in the Copeland days, Apple had tightly held code that allowed winslows to run on the PPC macs. I strongly suspect it's not really a skunk-works operation, but a calculated "black team" Apple has maintained to keep the MacOS folks' feet to the fire. and a Plan B in case they needed allies and/or money fast.
"hey, genius, I can run Windows under two layers of emulation faster than your freakin' routine runs native. optimize or die! I got Pagemaker running without panics and you don't!"
so since there are enterprising uber-nerds with vista alphas running on the Intel macs now, Apple probably figured it was time to protect their kernel and boot loader from hacks and put their own flexible one out.
if it wasn't, I would not be out of gas in my car after driving PAST a gas station, for if atoms truly want to be free, I'd have suddenly gained a half tank of fuel.
unless, of course, the atoms are taking orders from the cockroaches. we don't get along.
the guys who with XP-SP1 tried to isolate everybody who had a common serial number?
MS has finally awakened and smells the coffee.
but I have no cup for them any more.
just in different ways, and to different degrees. it's all full of bugs and nobody fixes them in a timely fashion, and that's the truth, pfffffttt.
but it just reeked... software, convenience, value/price, no pre-records... and the market said NO quite resoundingly. the Teac Elcaset was technically superior in its day, too, but it looked and sold like the revere/wollensak tape cartridge.
which should serve as A Lesson For Our Time to the blue-laser super-DVD crowd. if you don't come in cheaper and deliver more from day one, we will hold on to our LPs/CDs/DVDs/2-inch quad VTRs.
you silly editors, you.
is that the government is buying windows laptops, not secure ones. it doesn't have a lot to do with lenovo.
and establish a Cabinet-level office of "le Software" to celebrate victory.
viva le Difference.
that is the goofiest thing I have ever heard. I intend to file papers today patenting swallowing, blinking, and the movement of liquids, such as blood, through a device to pressurize one side of the system and lower pressure on the other side.
and then start enforcing those patents on some of these airhead MBAs....