A 486 chip that failed the FPU verification would also get the SX stamp.
Also, having the SX chip around allowed us to standardize our hardware around 486 motherboards, which made selecting components and planning for upgrades on our corporate fleet much easier.
Later on as our 'power users' were upgraded to pentiums, their DX2 chips and RAM would move down the line, and took about five minutes to slap into an existing box.
I can not for the life of me find an online reference to it, but I watched a crime documentary about a case where they did almost exactly that.
They had a very grainy security camera tape of a suspect with a tattoo. Through a process (I think) of analyzing the deltas between the frames were able to create a shockingly detailed 'close-up' of the tattoo.
This led to the suspect's identity being discovered, and he was eventually convicted of whatever heinous crime it stemmed from.
A lot (if not most) of your 'corporate fleet' type of machines have chassis intrusion alarms. I know Dell's corporate lines have had it for years. In addition they will often have points specifically where a padlock could be applied to the case. I have a circa 1999 Dell server sitting a couple feet from me that has both.
A few years ago I even remember seeing some machines (either HP or Compaq boxen...this was pre-merger) where the 'lid' was held in place with a very odd-looking thumbscrew. Turns out, this was so you could order the machine with a lock cylinder there instead.
Not to rain on your parade, and I'm sure there are places you could get away with that, but physical security is pretty well established already.
A quick google search will give you thousands of dos/win95/win98/winme/etc boot floppy images. Any one of these would have worked just dandy to get your VMWare booted.
Ditto, you could have used dd on your 'nix box to make an image of your friend's floppy.
Not trying to laugh at you or anything...Just one of those 'now you know' sorts of things:)
Windows 95 was a 32-bit OS with 16-bit loadable sections for backward compatibility. If you didn't run 16-bit drivers or apps, you didn't have 16-bit.
Nope. Major sections of Win9x is 16-bit code that is accessed from a 32-bit wrapper through thunking. GDI and USER stuff in particular were 16-bit code.
This is why Win9x can run out of resource space, because these resource chunks are being stored in 64K segments. This is why notepad (or the standard textedit widget for that matter) under Win9x can only store 64k of data, it is not setup to cross the segment barrier. The same widget (and correspondingly notepad) in nt/2k/xp can store vast ammounts of data.
This is also why you will notice that under 9x, you will never have an hWnd greater then 2^16....That made for some interesting bugs....
"The Linux popper is much better adapted for mission-critical kitchens, though the Windows popper is extremely popular in the home."
Probably because home users don't like having to type: $ cat ~/corn >/dev/snack/popcorn/input $ pop_ctl --startup --device=/dev/snack/popcorn $ pop_ctl --status --device/dev/snack/popcorn
Yet last year, Consumer Reports proclaimed the 5-series to be the "highest scoring car they had ever tested."
Don't get too excited about Nissan, if you kept up with CR as religiously as we would think, you would know that the Sentra now has a 'poor' reliability mark.
When Nissan can't even make a reliable econo-box, it's a sad statement that Renault has influenced them instead of the other way around.
You forget just how easy it is to clone/fake a mac address.
That is not too hard, even for idiotic scum who are trying to cover their tracks.
Just wait until they start figuring out how (with subpeonas) to cross reference the mac address to the distributor it was sold to, and then cross-reference that against the serial number on your receipt.
You do buy all of your ethernet/wifi cards with cash, don't you?
Just wait until it is YOUR mac address they have cloned. The Melinda virus escapade a few years ago shows that a mac address is sufficient for a search warrant.
Running Windows 3x in "standard mode" put the machine into 286 protected mode. Exiting Windows would most definately bring you back to a DOS prompt, in real mode, without a reboot.
So, no, the website was not correct.
Why I am even bothering to respond to an AC who is calling me a "retard" is beyond me, but I digress.
Don't take that 'pcmech' website the article links to very seriously. It's an interesting read, but contains so much stuff that is downright *wrong* as to be good for a laugh.
"Despite this, the 186 never found itself in a personal computer."
Bullshit. I owned one. Made by PCTech. Yes, the same one that made the buggy IDE chipset we all know from our kernel configuration sessions. Ironic in that the 186 motherboard they made had onboard SCSI. Quite the piece of work for ~1987.
"The 286 was the first 'real' processor."
Ummmmmmmm...Whatever you say.
"it could not switch back to real mode without a warm reboot."
Bullshit. I guess exiting Windows 3x on a 286 and going back to that DOS prompt was a figment of my imagination.
That's only halfway down the first page. It only gets worse.
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A 486 chip that failed the FPU verification would also get the SX stamp.
Also, having the SX chip around allowed us to standardize our hardware around 486 motherboards, which made selecting components and planning for upgrades on our corporate fleet much easier.
Later on as our 'power users' were upgraded to pentiums, their DX2 chips and RAM would move down the line, and took about five minutes to slap into an existing box.
It was not entirely a bad thing.
So we are going to let the Europeans try to teach us about fair democracy? WTF?
In 2000, when Haider became PM of Austria, the EU disliked him enough that they insituted seven months of sanctions to drive him out of power.
The underlying message to the citizenry of the EU is shockingly clear: Only vote for the people or parties that we like, or else.
I can not for the life of me find an online reference to it, but I watched a crime documentary about a case where they did almost exactly that.
They had a very grainy security camera tape of a suspect with a tattoo. Through a process (I think) of analyzing the deltas between the frames were able to create a shockingly detailed 'close-up' of the tattoo.
This led to the suspect's identity being discovered, and he was eventually convicted of whatever heinous crime it stemmed from.
A lot (if not most) of your 'corporate fleet' type of machines have chassis intrusion alarms. I know Dell's corporate lines have had it for years. In addition they will often have points specifically where a padlock could be applied to the case. I have a circa 1999 Dell server sitting a couple feet from me that has both.
A few years ago I even remember seeing some machines (either HP or Compaq boxen...this was pre-merger) where the 'lid' was held in place with a very odd-looking thumbscrew. Turns out, this was so you could order the machine with a lock cylinder there instead.
Not to rain on your parade, and I'm sure there are places you could get away with that, but physical security is pretty well established already.
Hehehe
:)
A quick google search will give you thousands of dos/win95/win98/winme/etc boot floppy images. Any one of these would have worked just dandy to get your VMWare booted.
Ditto, you could have used dd on your 'nix box to make an image of your friend's floppy.
Not trying to laugh at you or anything...Just one of those 'now you know' sorts of things
(hint: it's a joke, I'm sure Maxtor's current crop of products are just, ummmmmmmm, fine and dandy)
Because if the temperatures reach those thresholds, then your 'properly designed heat solution' obviously isn't.
If you have a 'properly designed heat solution' then you should never get throttled or should only be throttled very very little.
This is a case of the OS responding to a condition *prior* to the computer locking up. The Linux kernel has a similar feature.
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If somebody decides to sue Linux for copyright
infringement, who defends it?
IBM, Apparently.I wonder if the settlement was for Books-On-Cd as well, as that would of been a welcome addition to the blind and near-blind library patrons.
More then just the visually impared would be able to benefit by that. No matter how you commute, book on tape/cd/mp3 can be a welcome addition.
Windows 95 was a 32-bit OS with 16-bit loadable sections for backward compatibility. If you didn't run 16-bit drivers or apps, you didn't have 16-bit.
Nope. Major sections of Win9x is 16-bit code that is accessed from a 32-bit wrapper through thunking. GDI and USER stuff in particular were 16-bit code.
This is why Win9x can run out of resource space, because these resource chunks are being stored in 64K segments. This is why notepad (or the standard textedit widget for that matter) under Win9x can only store 64k of data, it is not setup to cross the segment barrier. The same widget (and correspondingly notepad) in nt/2k/xp can store vast ammounts of data.
This is also why you will notice that under 9x, you will never have an hWnd greater then 2^16....That made for some interesting bugs....
Huh?
Philip Morris has been held in a holding company since 1985. PM is still a company.
All they did was changed the name of their holding company, which owns things much larger then just the PM tobacco company.
TV ads from Avis rental car ads, Century 21, or Howard Johnson do not say Cendant at the end, do they? Do you find this deceptive as well?
"The Linux popper is much better adapted for mission-critical kitchens, though the Windows popper is extremely popular in the home."
/dev/snack/popcorn/input
.....20 minutes elapses....
/dev/snack/popcorn/output > ~/bowl
Probably because home users don't like having to type:
$ cat ~/corn >
$ pop_ctl --startup --device=/dev/snack/popcorn
$ pop_ctl --status --device/dev/snack/popcorn
popcorn status: popping 342/7873 kernels.
$ pop_ctl --status --device/dev/snack/popcorn
popcorn status: complete, waiting in buffer.
$ cat
Perhaps for applications software or an internal web application, yes.
But most of the time, you have no reason to use gif instead of png.
Most of the time, I need transparency in IE.
I threw my younger sister into SuSE and Yast and she had a decent handle on things (Mind you, she's no geek but quite trendy, so a shock indeed :)
Sooooooooo......Being slashdot....Tell us more about this Linux-using sister of yours??!?
>> An American $499 Dell is Canadian $550
Nope.
Dell's default configurations are different in Canada.
I configured two low-end systems identically: Dimension 2400, 128mb, 80gb, 48x CDRW, 17" monitor, cheap speakers, optical mouse.
The results...
USD$628, $0 shipping, $50 rebate. Final: USD$578.00
CAD$834, $10 shipping. Final: CAD$844.00.
USD$578.00 is CAD$757.00. The system in the US also includes a free camera, which they do not seem to offer in Canada.
Looks like not only are you completely and totally wrong, but the Canadian consumer gets pretty well shafted.
Does is play DVD's while in Linux mode?? If not, that don't count.
Any machine running Windows, MacOS, or several other operating systems can play DVD's legally with the right software.
Every single one of these can be dual-booted into linux/bsd and not be able to legally play them. Same difference.
Yet last year, Consumer Reports proclaimed the 5-series to be the "highest scoring car they had ever tested."
Don't get too excited about Nissan, if you kept up with CR as religiously as we would think, you would know that the Sentra now has a 'poor' reliability mark.
When Nissan can't even make a reliable econo-box, it's a sad statement that Renault has influenced them instead of the other way around.
You forget just how easy it is to clone/fake a mac address.
That is not too hard, even for idiotic scum who are trying to cover their tracks.
Just wait until they start figuring out how (with subpeonas) to cross reference the mac address to the distributor it was sold to, and then cross-reference that against the serial number on your receipt.
You do buy all of your ethernet/wifi cards with cash, don't you?
Just wait until it is YOUR mac address they have cloned. The Melinda virus escapade a few years ago shows that a mac address is sufficient for a search warrant.
Very vital question for the UML virtual server leasing cottage industry and the customers of same.
If this were to be run on a UML session, what would happen? Would the damage be limited to that UML session, or would the host machine go down?
Nope, 8088, just like the PCsr.
In Soviet Russia, PHP runs on TOP of an IP stack.
Oh wait
n/m
Ummmmmmmm, excuse me?
Running Windows 3x in "standard mode" put the machine into 286 protected mode. Exiting Windows would most definately bring you back to a DOS prompt, in real mode, without a reboot.
So, no, the website was not correct.
Why I am even bothering to respond to an AC who is calling me a "retard" is beyond me, but I digress.
Oy!
Don't take that 'pcmech' website the article links to very seriously. It's an interesting read, but contains so much stuff that is downright *wrong* as to be good for a laugh.
"Despite this, the 186 never found itself in a personal computer."
Bullshit. I owned one. Made by PCTech. Yes, the same one that made the buggy IDE chipset we all know from our kernel configuration sessions. Ironic in that the 186 motherboard they made had onboard SCSI. Quite the piece of work for ~1987.
"The 286 was the first 'real' processor."
Ummmmmmmm...Whatever you say.
"it could not switch back to real mode without a warm reboot."
Bullshit. I guess exiting Windows 3x on a 286 and going back to that DOS prompt was a figment of my imagination.
That's only halfway down the first page. It only gets worse.
How would that be news?
I've married J-Lo, at least twice already today. I mean...Come on! Who hasn't?
She's the town bicycle, everybody has gotten a ride.
If 97% of the 400% of spam comes from your IP, then you are only responsible for 24% of the total spam.
And, likewise, if there is only 400% spam quantity, and you are responsible for 24% of it, that is only 6% of the total spam.
Continue extrapolating, and you will quickly see that you are not responsible for any spam whatsoever.