or, in DOS/Win7 CLI: "dir/s/os >filelist" returns the entire tree contents from the current directory sorted in ascending file size order to the text file "filelist". 10,070 files/6359 folders (random tree search on my hard drive) took 16 seconds. Import tab-delimited list into your favourite spreadsheet. Do what you need to do.
I don't know what the price of RAM is doing these days, but I did buy a 4GB upgrade for my laptop last September, cost £19 for the module....oh here we go: 8GB Integral PC3-12800 desktop is going for £55 at PC World Retail. 32GB bankfiller would hit £220, you could beat that with a little shopping around I'm sure. Laptop SODIMM: same price.
...is something I did for my kids. It's very simple: load the Gutenberg library onto a self-booting flash drive that'll run on any x86-compatible machine with a usb port. It has space remaining on it for user data as well, so school projects &c can be stored on it and mirrored on a central server so even if the flash drive gets lost or stolen, the work is still accessible.
...neither of which involve any sort of antenna stuck in the side of a Walkman.
The first is a vacuum cleaner with a HEPA filter. Moves the little bastards like you wouldn't believe. The second is a liberal spraying with a little cocktail of my own design: it consists of a few drops of clove oil, a quantity of organic solvent, and water. Kills anything with more than four legs stone dead instantly, doesn't aggravate my lung condition and doesn't smell like someone just fumigated the place. One treatment every two months, and I'm gravy.
hang on. 1080p laptops at the time I bought this one were simply not available for less than two grand. This thing cost me £420, and came with twice the RAM and twice the hard disk of those things - not to mention one more GPU core. I think with up to 4GB RAM addressable for graphics, this thing has the boots (why else would it have an HDMI port??) to run 1080p internally. For which I can pick up a spanking brand new panel at an armrippingoffly £40. Why in $Deity's name would I fork out on a new laptop??
I have railed on this point for fucking YEARS! I know, as I'm sure others do, that the screen is the single most annoying bottleneck right now. And the second I have the money to upgrade the panel on my laptop from 1366x768 to 1080p full HD for the same panel size (with its accompanying 300% increase in desktop real estate!), it's fucking happening!
I got a Fujitsu slate a few years ago with xp on it. It was an unholy mess even with a fresh install and the touchscreen plugin. This may come as a shock to some, but I did actually wipe it and install ME, it's a whole lot better.
That's the DOS stuff out of the way. Now to deal with the NT branch. You've got to do it this way or you end up with a horrible mess.
NT3.5: OK NT4: sucked NT5 AKA Win2K: good NT5.1.x AKA xp: sucked xpSP1: ok xpSP2: broken xpSP3: fixed it Vista: trainwreck 7: great 8: Human Centipede 2 times 1000, so that'd be Human Centipede 2000. 8.1: dunno, I haven't seen it yet 9: ?
I think it might be designed for rough point-n-drool by literal meaning, as in hitting the screen with your finger, rather than precise clicking with a stylus or mouse cursor. Hm? Kinda helps out those manufacturers who want to push touchscreen laptops, convertibles, pop tops and pure tablets, since they're in competition with Apple and have been since the LISA.
I got out of Dodge in the middle of 2008, but I know there're still people who cling on to the Vista Greatness (either because they know no different it being the first PC they ever paid for or whatever, or they haven't seen Windows 7 yet) and like to blame their underpowered hardware when shit goes South. I was skeptical when I bought my Win7 laptop, was immediately shocked to discover that it wasn't as awful as the Vista diehards made it out to be - their perceptions being based on Vista, not actual handling of a 7 box - in fact I found it, once I dialled back the pretties, to be *better* than xp, *better* than any MS-DOS based platform, it pissed all over Vista (yes, I had a play and hated it), and pulled me back over the LXOS brink (having spent the preceding four or five years exclusively locked on SuSE on my personal desktops and Debian for all my backend stuff). I still use Linux-based platforms for some stuff, but that's all on virtual machines hosted by Win7. Oh, except for my picture frames, they use a custom build based on muLinux that runs off odd SD memory cards I have lying around...
not so much locked in a closet, it sits on top of my laser printer with what's left of the lid up (I stripped the bezel after it developed some cracks, it looks ugly-functional, in a cyberpunk fashion).
it does help your case if you have the equipment condemned as nonfunctional due to defect in manufacturing by what would be termed an expert witness (in the case of white goods, a competent, accredited electrical engineer, or in the case of a computer system, a repair technician).
My mum bought a cooker in 1982. A Belling Compact DeLuxe. It came with a ten year warranty. In 1991 the first ring failed and the oven element blew on the same day. An engineer was out in two days and replaced both elements. Under warranty (there was a year left on it). In 1995 another ring failed. THE SAME ENGINEER came out and replaced the failed ring, said he was surprised to see a thirteen year old cooker still working(!) In 2000, two rings failed. THE SAME ENGINEER replaced them both and once again expressed his incredulity at seeing a cooker that age still cranking away. Costs deferred as my mum invoked the implied warranty clause of SOGA. Kitchen whitegoods should last a minimum of twenty years (there's precedent somewhere). Since then, the engineer has sadly passed on. How shocked would he be to learn that that cooker STILL works, even the clock (which has never failed) after 32 years?
I have a Beko Compact cooker I bought and installed in 2001. So far one ring has blown, haven't bothered replacing it - it's a solid ceramic hotplate and I cannot be arsed, basically.
I've got a Latitude CPi d266xt (Pentium MMX so... 1998?) that still works. It's my print server. It also has an Intel Pro 5000 wireless card for point-to-point. Bloody ancient but the important thing is it works.
I have a Sansui 4-channel (2+2) solid state receiver/amp which is probably from the 1970's. When the volume control started going on that all I did was take the thing apart and give it a blast with WD40. Good as new. Still going now. Only replaced the caps once.
general rule of computing: if a component is going to fail because of a defect in design or manufacturing it is going to fail in the first few *weeks*.
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or, in DOS/Win7 CLI: "dir /s /os >filelist" returns the entire tree contents from the current directory sorted in ascending file size order to the text file "filelist". 10,070 files/6359 folders (random tree search on my hard drive) took 16 seconds.
Import tab-delimited list into your favourite spreadsheet.
Do what you need to do.
I don't know what the price of RAM is doing these days, but I did buy a 4GB upgrade for my laptop last September, cost £19 for the module. ...oh here we go: 8GB Integral PC3-12800 desktop is going for £55 at PC World Retail. 32GB bankfiller would hit £220, you could beat that with a little shopping around I'm sure.
Laptop SODIMM: same price.
Seems a bit high to me...
oh, there'll be plenty of spamvertisements for penis extensions buried in the sea of rejected submissions somewhere...
...is something I did for my kids. It's very simple: load the Gutenberg library onto a self-booting flash drive that'll run on any x86-compatible machine with a usb port. It has space remaining on it for user data as well, so school projects &c can be stored on it and mirrored on a central server so even if the flash drive gets lost or stolen, the work is still accessible.
well thank *** I've not go** ***wing carrots in the S****horpe ***tant factory!
I have cats and they like to wander. I deal with it.
addendum: there's another ingredient in my bug killer, and that's citrus oil.
...neither of which involve any sort of antenna stuck in the side of a Walkman.
The first is a vacuum cleaner with a HEPA filter. Moves the little bastards like you wouldn't believe.
The second is a liberal spraying with a little cocktail of my own design: it consists of a few drops of clove oil, a quantity of organic solvent, and water. Kills anything with more than four legs stone dead instantly, doesn't aggravate my lung condition and doesn't smell like someone just fumigated the place. One treatment every two months, and I'm gravy.
hang on. 1080p laptops at the time I bought this one were simply not available for less than two grand. This thing cost me £420, and came with twice the RAM and twice the hard disk of those things - not to mention one more GPU core. I think with up to 4GB RAM addressable for graphics, this thing has the boots (why else would it have an HDMI port??) to run 1080p internally. For which I can pick up a spanking brand new panel at an armrippingoffly £40. Why in $Deity's name would I fork out on a new laptop??
THIS! Oh $Deity, THIS!
I have railed on this point for fucking YEARS! I know, as I'm sure others do, that the screen is the single most annoying bottleneck right now. And the second I have the money to upgrade the panel on my laptop from 1366x768 to 1080p full HD for the same panel size (with its accompanying 300% increase in desktop real estate!), it's fucking happening!
I got a Fujitsu slate a few years ago with xp on it. It was an unholy mess even with a fresh install and the touchscreen plugin. This may come as a shock to some, but I did actually wipe it and install ME, it's a whole lot better.
Apple hardware is built by Dell. Jussayin'.
95: sucked
OSR2: fixed
98: sucked
98SE: fixed
ME: sucked
That's the DOS stuff out of the way. Now to deal with the NT branch. You've got to do it this way or you end up with a horrible mess.
NT3.5: OK
NT4: sucked
NT5 AKA Win2K: good
NT5.1.x AKA xp: sucked
xpSP1: ok
xpSP2: broken
xpSP3: fixed it
Vista: trainwreck
7: great
8: Human Centipede 2 times 1000, so that'd be Human Centipede 2000.
8.1: dunno, I haven't seen it yet
9: ?
I think it might be designed for rough point-n-drool by literal meaning, as in hitting the screen with your finger, rather than precise clicking with a stylus or mouse cursor. Hm? Kinda helps out those manufacturers who want to push touchscreen laptops, convertibles, pop tops and pure tablets, since they're in competition with Apple and have been since the LISA.
Vista=the ME of NT.
I got out of Dodge in the middle of 2008, but I know there're still people who cling on to the Vista Greatness (either because they know no different it being the first PC they ever paid for or whatever, or they haven't seen Windows 7 yet) and like to blame their underpowered hardware when shit goes South. I was skeptical when I bought my Win7 laptop, was immediately shocked to discover that it wasn't as awful as the Vista diehards made it out to be - their perceptions being based on Vista, not actual handling of a 7 box - in fact I found it, once I dialled back the pretties, to be *better* than xp, *better* than any MS-DOS based platform, it pissed all over Vista (yes, I had a play and hated it), and pulled me back over the LXOS brink (having spent the preceding four or five years exclusively locked on SuSE on my personal desktops and Debian for all my backend stuff). I still use Linux-based platforms for some stuff, but that's all on virtual machines hosted by Win7. Oh, except for my picture frames, they use a custom build based on muLinux that runs off odd SD memory cards I have lying around...
not so much locked in a closet, it sits on top of my laser printer with what's left of the lid up (I stripped the bezel after it developed some cracks, it looks ugly-functional, in a cyberpunk fashion).
wonder how easy that'd be on a board with a soldered-on APU... like most, if not all, of the E350 units?
you've never looked under the keyboard of a Dell Inspiron 8000 series or a C640/C840, I take it? They have Mobile AGP cards that just pop right off.
was it Apple who said something about lid lifting techniques on the ultrathins when they came out and people started snapping screens?
it does help your case if you have the equipment condemned as nonfunctional due to defect in manufacturing by what would be termed an expert witness (in the case of white goods, a competent, accredited electrical engineer, or in the case of a computer system, a repair technician).
My mum bought a cooker in 1982. A Belling Compact DeLuxe. It came with a ten year warranty.
In 1991 the first ring failed and the oven element blew on the same day. An engineer was out in two days and replaced both elements. Under warranty (there was a year left on it).
In 1995 another ring failed. THE SAME ENGINEER came out and replaced the failed ring, said he was surprised to see a thirteen year old cooker still working(!)
In 2000, two rings failed. THE SAME ENGINEER replaced them both and once again expressed his incredulity at seeing a cooker that age still cranking away. Costs deferred as my mum invoked the implied warranty clause of SOGA. Kitchen whitegoods should last a minimum of twenty years (there's precedent somewhere).
Since then, the engineer has sadly passed on. How shocked would he be to learn that that cooker STILL works, even the clock (which has never failed) after 32 years?
I have a Beko Compact cooker I bought and installed in 2001. So far one ring has blown, haven't bothered replacing it - it's a solid ceramic hotplate and I cannot be arsed, basically.
whose lifetime?
I've got a Latitude CPi d266xt (Pentium MMX so... 1998?) that still works. It's my print server. It also has an Intel Pro 5000 wireless card for point-to-point. Bloody ancient but the important thing is it works.
I have a Sansui 4-channel (2+2) solid state receiver/amp which is probably from the 1970's. When the volume control started going on that all I did was take the thing apart and give it a blast with WD40. Good as new. Still going now. Only replaced the caps once.
general rule of computing: if a component is going to fail because of a defect in design or manufacturing it is going to fail in the first few *weeks*.