Does it matter? HPFS was created at MS. I guess it explains why HPFS hasn't been improved on recent OS/2 beyond HPFS386, and JFS is now an optional FS on OS/2. JFS is probably a much more capable FS than HPFS anyhow.
Windows CE is very different from NT. It was written to provide real-time performance, something that NT can't do (do to driver architecture, etc.) The only thing common between CE and NT (other than coming from Redmond) is the Win32 api (and there are still some api features not supported on CE.)
Yeah. Both winzip and Pkzip now support deflate64, which is the same deflate algorithm with a 64KB window instead of 32KB. About freaking time, imo. RAR can uses window sizes up to 4MB.
PKZIP also supports using Bzip2 compression in its archive now. Look at their updated specification: http://www.pkware.com/products/enterprise/white_pa pers/appnote.html
if (SUCCEEDED(Result)) {
Result = DoPart2(); }... return Result;
You're trading horizontal space for vertical space though. But then again, it's easier for me to keep my eyes fixed and to scroll the page up/down with the mouse than to scan left and right wildly.
Any company wishing to develop a remote desktop solution for Microsoft is free to do so with any hardware they want to do. They can license Windows CE or whatever OS they want and implement their own version of the Remote Desktop Client. They can't call it Mira though.
Mira is a lot like PocketPC and is marketed as an "instant wireless screen in a box" to hardware vendors. Microsoft has invested some devs and time into generating a "Mira kit," that a hardware vendor can use and tweak to run on their own version of the hardware, without having to implement the remote desktop client and the Mira interface.
Mira devices can be customized (Although I bet 99% of the vendors out there are just shipping what MS gave them without any added value), but they define a subset of functionality that will always be present.
Transmeta probably had to provide a reasonably stable sample BSP for other hardware manufacturers to use as a base for their Transmeta based Mira device. They probably had to provide some reference hardware as well for Microsoft to play around with to get a reasonable assurance that final devices based on Transmeta won't be an embarassment in the marketplace.
XScale "optimizations..." Yeah right, more like cludging the code generation so that bread and butter ARM instructions like LDM(IA) will be replaced with sequences of LDR just because Intel just made that instruction particularily inefficient on the Xscale.
I don't know what Intel is smoking, but they sure effed up Xscale. It would have been much better if they just moved the StrongARM to a smaller process and cranked up the clock speed.
Don't buy it from upstategames.com. If you bother to check with BBB and tons of forums (eg. a lot of people who ordered the Flash Linker fot Neo Geo Pocket from upstategames), you'll probably end up with $179 out of your pocket, your pants down, and your @$$ reamed with Dimitri's fist.
If you must order a unit, then order one through lik-sang.com. At least, that's what http://www.devrs.com says.
If Sendo had the brains to check out what microsoft does with PocketPC, AutoPC, etc, they would realize that MS is in these businesses to sell a uniform platform to people who build hardware that will support it. Eg, what's the real difference between the recent Toshiba PocketPC, Compaq Ipaq, and HP Jornandas? Pretty much nothing. They're all arm, all running PocketPC os, and there really isn't anything that distinguishes them other than some stylistic differences.
MS must have made it clear to Sendo in their deal that they were going to develop a generic cellphone OS that other companies can just bundle in with their telephones.
Anyhow, if Sendo had decided to sue the moment they decided to drop Smartphone, I would have given their lawsuit more credence. Right now, it looks like they're trying to hit up MS to get some $$ before they can get their phone design converted over to Symbian.
Hell, someone should publish the contract that the two companies agreed too. It just a waste of energy to speculate on what happened.
Central vac is basically what it sounds like. It's a vacuum for the entire house. Instead of getting an upright or some other evil device you have to drag, you carry around a decent length of tube, which plugs into a port in the wall. A very strong vaccuum in some inconspicuous place (basement, garage) fires up, and guess what, you can clean your floor right there.
Works best on wood floors. Do not use in the vicinity of socks or other light fluffy things that can get sucked into the tube and get lodged in there.
On a similar note, won't the added wire in the vacuum tube just be a good place for lint, hair, dust to catch on to and create a big plug?
Zip has been updated to support the use of 64bit pointers inside its structure, which take the max file size beyond 4 gigs. Take a peek at PKWARE's website and search for appnote.txt. If one thing is certain, at least the people at PKWARE continue to publish their algorithm openly. I remember installing pkzip 1.10 back in the bbs'ing days, and was mildly surprised to see so much information crammed into the appnote.txt file.
But was he just stealing a couple items, or maybe the newspaper glossed over and didn't mention that Mr. Runner was walking out with 50 lb. of paper, a couple crates of coffee and creamer?
Your company isn't going to bust you for $10 in office items. Wheeling out the copier might. Goddamn it, exercise some common sense.
More likely than anything, Linux is used to get MS off the backs of Chinese computer makers, ie, to avoid paying the MS tax. Sure the PC's come with Red Flag *wink* *wink*, but if the user wants, the assembler probably will just install the latest cracked version of whatever software on there.
So when it comes time for MS to come along and do an "audit", the manufacturer probably will point to a sheet and say, "All of our computers shipped with Red Flag. Screw you and your pitiful capitalist attempts to get money from us."
Man. I did not bother to read the article because it is probably crap. I am not knocking on the person who posted the excerpt, but the author and the editor of the article deserve a beating with a dictionary, preferably unabridged, for not using an appropriate plural form of genius.
From a dictionary:
Main Entry: genius
Pronunciation: 'jEn-y&s, 'jE-nE-&s
Function: noun
Inflected Form(s): plural geniuses or genii/-nE-"I/
Etymology: Latin, tutelary spirit, natural inclinations, from gignere to beget
Date: 1513
1 a plural genii : an attendant spirit of a person or place b plural usually genii : a person who influences another for good or bad
2 : a strong leaning or inclination : PENCHANT
3 a : a peculiar, distinctive, or identifying character or spirit b : the associations and traditions of a place c : a personification or embodiment especially of a quality or condition 4 plural usually genii : SPIRIT, JINNI 5 plural usually geniuses a : a single strongly marked capacity or aptitude genius for getting along with boys -- Mary Ross> b : extraordinary intellectual power especially as manifested in creative activity c : a person endowed with transcendent mental superiority; especially : a person with a very high intelligence quotient
I know for a fact that the author is not refering to multiple spirits or multiple jinns. Just because something ends in -us does not automatically make it Latin-derived (Although, genius is derived from Latin.), and the plural of such nouns ending in -us is not always formed by changing the -us to -i.
Those who attempt to pass themselves as educated by blinding pluralizing in the manner described above (such as virus -> virii) should be directed to the closest dictionary and forced to learn of their wrongs.
But more importantly, people should question everything, including stuff that "sounds" correct or more correct. I have found from personal experience that people are quick to trust those who claim that their pecularities in spelling words and usage are more correct due to some derivation from Latin or some unpracticed rule of English. (I make tons of mistakes and butcher the English language on a daily basis, but when I make the mistake of using "whom" instead of "who" in conversation, many listeners blindly assume that I am correct. Some have even come to the tragically wrong conclusion that I am a verbalist of sorts.)
This post was off-topic, but just seeing the quotation from the article rubbed me in a very wrong way.
Well, it's possible for the application to query the driver in either DirectX or OpenGL and get a reasonable signature that allows the application to make a really good educated guess what video card the user has installed on his machine.
Based on this, the gaming experience is purposely changed for the user, which is evil in my opinion. Not that I care, because I think most of Square's games are just the same stuff rehashed.
You don't see the OSS/FS community bitching because Apple ripped off the dock, which is used in so many of our Window Managers, do you? No.
The dock was invented by NeXT, whose codebase is now the property of Apple. A more appropriate question is "Why isn't Apple suing people for ripping off their dock?"
Geez. How can it be built in if Palladium hasn't been even defined yet. Some people call it DRM, some people call it some sort of virtual machine protection. Ditto if it's the first, but if it turns out to be the second, I'll be more than happy for it.
Get a real RAID card that does hardware raid and abstracts your array as a big single drive to the system. That way, the OS doesn't need to know a single thing about managing a raid drive and you get better performance since your main cpu isn't forced to compute checksums for every hard drive access.
Re:Ok, been trying to figure this out for awhile..
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Take advantage of the shift width operator
Set the shift width to some arbitrary size, but usually it helps to set it to the same size as your tab stop.
Move to the line at the beginning of the block you wish to indent. "20G"
Tell you want to shift the next five lines "5>>", where >> tells vi to indent by a shift width and tells vi to remove a shift width
gsview. the people who have written ghostview have composed a decent post script file viewer for windows. They have even been nice enough to package it in an installer that does all of the dirty work for you.
The last time I checked, humans don't digest grass readily, but cow's are perfectly fine munching on the grass.
I personally see the cow as an enhancement to the other foodstuffs available because it converts grass into some sort of food useable for me. (Granted, the conversion rate is pretty crappy.:)
Dump a big CO2 source away from you, like a big brick of dry ice. (As Alton Brown would suggest) The mosquitos and other blood suckers will probably gravitate there because they have evolved to be attracted to CO2.
CO2 -> Living creature breathing -> Free food.
It's probably a lot better than some "ultrasonic" pest repellent.
I have a friend whose mother was waiting at a red light, when another vehicle backed out of a drive way and into her car pretty hard. When the police came, the driver of the other vehicle had the audacity to claim that my friend's mother actually backed into him and tried to pin the fault of the accident on her.
Fortunately, a person who saw this happen hanged around until the police came and was able to refute the other driver's fabrication.
If the car had a black box, the police officer could have quickly determined that my friend's mother's car was stationary up till the moment of impact regardless of whether a nice person did or did not loiter around at the crash scene.
Granted, people might complain about details such as the car's location and a log of speeds. These issues can be solved by convincing law makers to dictate a standard set of statistics said auto boxes would record.
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Ah I see. My bad.
Does it matter? HPFS was created at MS. I guess it explains why HPFS hasn't been improved on recent OS/2 beyond HPFS386, and JFS is now an optional FS on OS/2. JFS is probably a much more capable FS than HPFS anyhow.
http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~bolo/shipyard/hpfs.html
You might have accidentally added an extra $100 to the cost.
It's $79. If your friend had to shell out $179, then he got ripped.
http://www.smalldog.com/product/42645
Windows CE is very different from NT. It was written to provide real-time performance, something that NT can't do (do to driver architecture, etc.) The only thing common between CE and NT (other than coming from Redmond) is the Win32 api (and there are still some api features not supported on CE.)
Yeah. Both winzip and Pkzip now support deflate64, which is the same deflate algorithm with a 64KB window instead of 32KB. About freaking time, imo. RAR can uses window sizes up to 4MB.
a pers/appnote.html
PKZIP also supports using Bzip2 compression in its archive now. Look at their updated specification: http://www.pkware.com/products/enterprise/white_p
Actually, what you can do is:
...
HRESULT Result = SUCCESS;
if (SUCCEEDED(Result))
{
Result = DoPart1();
}
if (SUCCEEDED(Result))
{
Result = DoPart2();
}
return Result;
You're trading horizontal space for vertical space though. But then again, it's easier for me to keep my eyes fixed and to scroll the page up/down with the mouse than to scan left and right wildly.
Any company wishing to develop a remote desktop solution for Microsoft is free to do so with any hardware they want to do. They can license Windows CE or whatever OS they want and implement their own version of the Remote Desktop Client. They can't call it Mira though.
Mira is a lot like PocketPC and is marketed as an "instant wireless screen in a box" to hardware vendors. Microsoft has invested some devs and time into generating a "Mira kit," that a hardware vendor can use and tweak to run on their own version of the hardware, without having to implement the remote desktop client and the Mira interface.
Mira devices can be customized (Although I bet 99% of the vendors out there are just shipping what MS gave them without any added value), but they define a subset of functionality that will always be present.
Transmeta probably had to provide a reasonably stable sample BSP for other hardware manufacturers to use as a base for their Transmeta based Mira device. They probably had to provide some reference hardware as well for Microsoft to play around with to get a reasonable assurance that final devices based on Transmeta won't be an embarassment in the marketplace.
How's that for some common sense?
XScale "optimizations..." Yeah right, more like cludging the code generation so that bread and butter ARM instructions like LDM(IA) will be replaced with sequences of LDR just because Intel just made that instruction particularily inefficient on the Xscale.
I don't know what Intel is smoking, but they sure effed up Xscale. It would have been much better if they just moved the StrongARM to a smaller process and cranked up the clock speed.
Don't buy it from upstategames.com. If you bother to check with BBB and tons of forums (eg. a lot of people who ordered the Flash Linker fot Neo Geo Pocket from upstategames), you'll probably end up with $179 out of your pocket, your pants down, and your @$$ reamed with Dimitri's fist.
If you must order a unit, then order one through lik-sang.com. At least, that's what http://www.devrs.com says.
If Sendo had the brains to check out what microsoft does with PocketPC, AutoPC, etc, they would realize that MS is in these businesses to sell a uniform platform to people who build hardware that will support it. Eg, what's the real difference between the recent Toshiba PocketPC, Compaq Ipaq, and HP Jornandas? Pretty much nothing. They're all arm, all running PocketPC os, and there really isn't anything that distinguishes them other than some stylistic differences.
MS must have made it clear to Sendo in their deal that they were going to develop a generic cellphone OS that other companies can just bundle in with their telephones.
Anyhow, if Sendo had decided to sue the moment they decided to drop Smartphone, I would have given their lawsuit more credence. Right now, it looks like they're trying to hit up MS to get some $$ before they can get their phone design converted over to Symbian.
Hell, someone should publish the contract that the two companies agreed too. It just a waste of energy to speculate on what happened.
They won't even see the party member get hangovers by drinking a few too many pails of ale.
Central vac is basically what it sounds like. It's a vacuum for the entire house. Instead of getting an upright or some other evil device you have to drag, you carry around a decent length of tube, which plugs into a port in the wall. A very strong vaccuum in some inconspicuous place (basement, garage) fires up, and guess what, you can clean your floor right there.
Works best on wood floors. Do not use in the vicinity of socks or other light fluffy things that can get sucked into the tube and get lodged in there.
On a similar note, won't the added wire in the vacuum tube just be a good place for lint, hair, dust to catch on to and create a big plug?
Zip has been updated to support the use of 64bit pointers inside its structure, which take the max file size beyond 4 gigs. Take a peek at PKWARE's website and search for appnote.txt. If one thing is certain, at least the people at PKWARE continue to publish their algorithm openly. I remember installing pkzip 1.10 back in the bbs'ing days, and was mildly surprised to see so much information crammed into the appnote.txt file.
But was he just stealing a couple items, or maybe the newspaper glossed over and didn't mention that Mr. Runner was walking out with 50 lb. of paper, a couple crates of coffee and creamer?
Your company isn't going to bust you for $10 in office items. Wheeling out the copier might. Goddamn it, exercise some common sense.
More likely than anything, Linux is used to get MS off the backs of Chinese computer makers, ie, to avoid paying the MS tax. Sure the PC's come with Red Flag *wink* *wink*, but if the user wants, the assembler probably will just install the latest cracked version of whatever software on there.
So when it comes time for MS to come along and do an "audit", the manufacturer probably will point to a sheet and say, "All of our computers shipped with Red Flag. Screw you and your pitiful capitalist attempts to get money from us."
Man. I did not bother to read the article because it is probably crap. I am not knocking on the person who posted the excerpt, but the author and the editor of the article deserve a beating with a dictionary, preferably unabridged, for not using an appropriate plural form of genius.
From a dictionary: /-nE-"I/
Main Entry: genius
Pronunciation: 'jEn-y&s, 'jE-nE-&s
Function: noun
Inflected Form(s): plural geniuses or genii
Etymology: Latin, tutelary spirit, natural
inclinations, from gignere to beget
Date: 1513
1 a plural genii : an attendant spirit of a
person or place b plural usually genii : a person
who influences another for good or bad
2 : a strong leaning or inclination : PENCHANT
3 a : a peculiar, distinctive, or identifying
character or spirit b : the associations and
traditions of a place c : a personification or
embodiment especially of a quality or condition
4 plural usually genii : SPIRIT, JINNI
5 plural usually geniuses a : a single
strongly marked capacity or aptitude genius for getting along with boys -- Mary
Ross>
b : extraordinary intellectual power especially
as manifested in creative activity c : a person
endowed with transcendent mental superiority;
especially : a person with a very high
intelligence quotient
I know for a fact that the author is not refering to multiple spirits or multiple jinns. Just because something ends in -us does not automatically make it Latin-derived (Although, genius is derived from Latin.), and the plural of such nouns ending in -us is not always formed by changing the -us to -i.
Those who attempt to pass themselves as educated by blinding pluralizing in the manner described above (such as virus -> virii) should be directed to the closest dictionary and forced to learn of their wrongs.
But more importantly, people should question everything, including stuff that "sounds" correct or more correct. I have found from personal experience that people are quick to trust those who claim that their pecularities in spelling words and usage are more correct due to some derivation from Latin or some unpracticed rule of English. (I make tons of mistakes and butcher the English language on a daily basis, but when I make the mistake of using "whom" instead of "who" in conversation, many listeners blindly assume that I am correct. Some have even come to the tragically wrong conclusion that I am a verbalist of sorts.)
This post was off-topic, but just seeing the quotation from the article rubbed me in a very wrong way.
Well, it's possible for the application to query the driver in either DirectX or OpenGL and get a reasonable signature that allows the application to make a really good educated guess what video card the user has installed on his machine.
Based on this, the gaming experience is purposely changed for the user, which is evil in my opinion. Not that I care, because I think most of Square's games are just the same stuff rehashed.
You don't see the OSS/FS community bitching because Apple ripped off the dock, which is used in so many of our Window Managers, do you? No.
The dock was invented by NeXT, whose codebase is now the property of Apple. A more appropriate question is "Why isn't Apple suing people for ripping off their dock?"
Geez. How can it be built in if Palladium hasn't been even defined yet. Some people call it DRM, some people call it some sort of virtual machine protection. Ditto if it's the first, but if it turns out to be the second, I'll be more than happy for it.
Get a real RAID card that does hardware raid and abstracts your array as a big single drive to the system. That way, the OS doesn't need to know a single thing about managing a raid drive and you get better performance since your main cpu isn't forced to compute checksums for every hard drive access.
Take advantage of the shift width operator
Set the shift width to some arbitrary size, but usually it helps to set it to the same size as your tab stop.
Move to the line at the beginning of the block you wish to indent. "20G"
Tell you want to shift the next five lines "5>>", where >> tells vi to indent by a shift width and tells vi to remove a shift width
Repeat as many times as necessary "...."
gsview. the people who have written ghostview have composed a decent post script file viewer for windows. They have even been nice enough to package it in an installer that does all of the dirty work for you.
http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/
Nice piece of software.
Fifty pounds of what kind of plant? Grass?
:)
The last time I checked, humans don't digest grass readily, but cow's are perfectly fine munching on the grass.
I personally see the cow as an enhancement to the other foodstuffs available because it converts grass into some sort of food useable for me. (Granted, the conversion rate is pretty crappy.
Dump a big CO2 source away from you, like a big brick of dry ice. (As Alton Brown would suggest) The mosquitos and other blood suckers will probably gravitate there because they have evolved to be attracted to CO2.
CO2 -> Living creature breathing -> Free food.
It's probably a lot better than some "ultrasonic" pest repellent.
I have a friend whose mother was waiting at a red light, when another vehicle backed out of a drive way and into her car pretty hard. When the police came, the driver of the other vehicle had the audacity to claim that my friend's mother actually backed into him and tried to pin the fault of the accident on her.
Fortunately, a person who saw this happen hanged around until the police came and was able to refute the other driver's fabrication.
If the car had a black box, the police officer could have quickly determined that my friend's mother's car was stationary up till the moment of impact regardless of whether a nice person did or did not loiter around at the crash scene.
Granted, people might complain about details such as the car's location and a log of speeds. These issues can be solved by convincing law makers to dictate a standard set of statistics said auto boxes would record.