as it's only using the idle time of the computer. I have SETI running at home(the new OS/2 client) and work, but the computers are only on when I'm using them, thus no extra fuel is being used.
Section 3.11 of their FAQ states that if they don't have enough data then multiple users will receive the same data.
If their servers are being overwhelmed(as their site indicates) then it's entirely possible that they didn't have enough data online to send to all the clients.
Walk into a CompUSA, Best Buy, etc. and attempt to purchase a system(other than a Mac) without any Microsoft software installed on it. Even if you purchase the system and reformat the drive, you're still going to be counted as yet another happy Windows user...
Click on the CPU column header(will bring SETI@home.exe to top cuz it's busiest)
Right-Click on SETI@home.exe and Set Priority to Low
Click Yes on task manager warning about changing the priority
This makes a dramatic improvement in NT's responsiveness. However, when you have to reboot (hehe), SETI@home.exe goes back to normal priority. Anybody know how to make this priority change permanent?
but then I saw the tiny text at the bottom of the article
The South to the Future World Wide Wire Service is a weekly feed of technology and media news commentary and satire published by the San Francisco Bay Guardian. Quotations attributed to public figures who are satirized are often true, but sometimes invented. Some fictional statements may, in fact, be true. Any other use of real names is accidental and coincidental.
Still, I wouldn't be surprised if M$ used this to get people to buy wince [god I love that name:-) ] instead of Palms. Me, I'm sticking with my Newton MP2100 and writting on it like I do on paper!
In this article at the New York times, 8 students from Columbine talk about the shooting. Here's an excerpt:
Q. What about the Nazi stuff?
MEG That is the biggest load of [expletive] I've ever heard. They never wore swastikas around their arm. Never. Not in this entire year that I've known them. No.
DEVON They're not Nazis. They didn't worship Nazis. Some kid said, "Oh I saw them reading a book on Nazis." They read books on Nazis because, guess what they were learning about in World History? They were learning about the Nazis.
DUSTIN Everyone said that they saluted to Hitler after a strike in bowling and stuff. That wasn't true. If they got a strike, they would just sit down.
I thought it was the "movement indicator" so I didn't look at it close enough.
Yep, typical hypocritic response:-/ Pretty sad that we're spending billions in an attempt to stop the persecution of others in Kosovo while our school officials promote it's daily occurrence by either turning a blind eye or, even worse, activly engaging in it.
They are all legal copies. It would be pathetic to claim I support OS/2 and then give away illegal copies. That would be detrimental to the cause.
We're about to add one more - my brother's inlaws will soon be running OS/2 as well. They got tired of having '95 crash on them all the time. After seeing the reliability of OS/2 at my brother's, they decided to run it. For them I'm installing a copy of OS/2 3.0 that I won as a door-prize at last years Warpstock which was held near where my brother lives in Chicago. This year's will be held in Atlanta. Sadly, having purchased a system with Windows pre-installed, my brother's inlaws will still be counted by Microsoft as "yet another happy windows user":-(
I'll have to give the C A [+-] trick a try. Do I need to configure anything first to tell Linux what resolutions/color depths I wish, or does it just step thru what the card is capable of? We're using an old monitor that might not support all the resolutions and frequencies the card can produce.
I've been using OS/2 since the release of Warp 3.0 in '94. My sister and her husband use it, my brother and his family use it, as well as my parents and grandparents. They are all non-tech so I set them up with OS/2 because I knew I couldn't cope with supporting Windows related problems cross-country.
After owning an Amiga 2000HD for many years, I refused downgrade my computer expectations and use Windows 3.1 on my first PC(a Pentium 60). One of my friends in college showed me OS/2 and I was quite impressed with what I saw. Win95 was still vapourware at the time, with an ever expanding list of what it would be capable of(of which only half saw the light of day).
I played with Linux a few of years back, but between a hectic work and school schedule I didn't have the time to devote to an OS that didn't meet my current needs.
I'm working at a startup company(about a year old), and we're now experimenting with Linux to replace some NT servers. We've recently started to regularly reboot the servers in an effort to head off problems we've been experiencing in NT due to a growing user-base.
Linux is a great OS for server use, but not yet to par for the end-user with what I've been using since '94, the OOUI (object oriented user interface) WorkPlace Shell being the major factor. Linux is also definitely not to the level that I would be able to support my non-tech family members on.
That being said, I'm impressed enough with what's been happening with Linux that I plan to have a Linux box or two in my new home(finished June/July). At least one to serve as a firewall[hopefully GTE will have ADSL support in place in my new neighborhood by then:-)]
I also plan to experiment more with BeOS. I have it installed on a partition of my current system, but the current release doesn't care for my Kensington Turbo Mouse(trackball) so I've not used it much. However, what I have seen in BeOS is quite impressive. The multiple desktops, each with their own resolution/color depth, takes me back to the days of my Amiga with it's concept of Screens. All that's missing is the Amiga's ability to pull a screen down like a window shade, and see both it and the screen behind it:-)
After reading the cover of the latest Time, The Monsters Next Door, I thought "oh no, more persecution". Imagine my surprise to see a balanced look at the issues:
Page 2 of the cover story goes over the daily treatment received(bottles/rocks thrown at them from moving cars, persecution from jocks and teachers, etc.)
The computer age may be giving kids a new outlet for their dark fantasies, but that hardly means it is turning them into killers. from Digital Dungeons, an article covering software.
I suggest that Time is commended by our community for covering the truth behind the issue.
Interviews with various surviors of the attack quote the gunmen as saying "This is revenge".
Larry King interviewed a girl this weekend(Friday night?) who was friends with the gunmen. She confirmed that the members of the group where excessively tormented by the jocks.
Sunday on Yahoo's Colorado Shooting page there was an article about one of the trenchcoat group members who had dropped out of school becausing the tormenting was so bad. Click here for full article(it's no longer listed on the first page).
In spite of all this, the general public still maintains that games, music, and violence in the media are to blame for these two young men going over the edge. They conventiently gloss over the fact that day-in an day-out they were treated as dirt by the people they took their revenge on.
No where is it said that FUD is the truth, it's just that it's presented in such a way that it appears that it could be the truth.
Standard FUD against OS/2 is that there are no applications for it. Nothing could be further from the truth. Sure there may be fewer of each type of application when compared to what's available for windows, but there are applications. And as we all know, quantity does not equate to quality. The OS/2 Alternative site maintains a list of various Windows programs and the OS/2 equivalents.
Being a long-time OS/2 user I've been on the receiving end of their tactics for quite some time:
The lock on OEM's that make in impossible for them to sell non-MS operating systems and still remain competitive. I recall reading about an OEM in German that used to sell 30% of their systems preloaded OS/2, that is until they were threatened with higher prices by Microsoft. Only now with the DOJ on Microsoft's back are OEM's starting to offer alternatives such as Linux.
Threaten stores with the loss of discounts on MS software if any OS/2 software was sold, even if it was special ordered by a customer. By doing so the false perception of there's no software for OS/2 is maintained.
MS has purchased many companies with the sole purpose of removing their excellent non-MS based software offerings from the market. This has been seen in the OS/2 community as well as more recently in the Java community.
The continual changes to Windows 3 where the only new feature is to break software running under OS/2's Windows 3 support. (ie the many revisions to win32s.dll)
Their ability to manipulate the media due to ad dollars. What else could explain reviews that point out how much better OS/2 is in performance and stability over Windows, and yet the conclusion is but your better off staying with Microsoft products?
After experiencing such I refuse to support them by purchasing any of their products, no matter how good they might be, because doing otherwise furthers Microsoft's ability to maintain their stranglehold on the market.
Checking IBM's OS/2 Device Driver Pak Online reveals support for USB based mice, keyboards, modems, and speakers. There is even support for Micro$oft's USB Intellimouse.
you have probably seen more code generated by Indian programmers than I have
Not necessarily. I originally supported EDI for one of the "children" companies of the corporation I worked for. There we used different software than the parent company did. Last summer I took a promotion to manage the newly consolidated EDI group which was to support the entire corporation. This is when I moved to the corporate building and experienced a few of the programs written by the Indian company. Since the programs I dealt with were for the EDI module, it's entirely likely they were written by the same person(or group).
I found I didn't care for the managerial position(dealt more with managing other manager's ego trips than anything). I left in November when I was offered a programming position at a start-up company that my best friend works for.
I used this experience as an example to show that outsourcing to a low-cost solution might not be all it's cracked up to be. Sure the up-front savings are great but the maintainence issues could easily overrun those savings once the product is in actual use.
The variables were not short. Since I didn't recognize most of them as English, I can only assume they were not. The ones that I recognized as English didn't flow the way a native English speaker would have written them, such as NumberPO instead of PONumber. Reversed "word order" is minor compared to non-english variables, but it still throws you off when analyzing the programs.
I've not worked there for quite some time so I don't have actual examples handy.
Why would you find it hard to swallow that the variables were not in English? I've looked at many non-work related source code files from non-English speakers and regularly see variables names that don't mean anything to me without a translation dictionary(babelfish proves useful for this).
At my prior job, an Indian company was outsourced to re-write the company software for a migration off a Wang system onto an AS/400 with client/server support for PC systems. I had a few problems trying to make revisions to the code that definitely lowered my productivity:
variable names were ambiguous(for an English speaker at least) which made it hard to follow the programs
spagetti code was rampant, goto's everywhere. It reminded me of my days on the Commodore 64. At least on the C=64 you had to use GOTO
entire sub-routines were routinely disabled by placing a GOTO as the first line of the sub-routine, where the destination was the end of the subroutine. This not only had the effect of inflating the lines of code written, but it also made me less productive by making the program much harder to follow (all the calls to the null-subroutine were still active)
I suspect another issue is that American companies in general have been computerized longer than companies in other countries. This would imply that more work in the USA would be done on maintenance than on developing new code. Maintenance work tends to produce fewer lines of code due to the time spent analyzing the program before changes can be written and applied.
cuz I had custom UART code:-) My BBS software also let the C= caller hear real-time music, see interrupt driven character and sprite animation, as well as play online games with their joystick, all at 300 baud(provided they used my term software).
My BBS and term software also took advantage of the fact that 300 baud modems could be pushed to 450-500 baud without any problems. The users without the money to upgrade to a 1200 or 2400 really appreciated the free 50-67% speed boost.
If you lived in Corpus Christi, Tx from 83-87 or Houston from 88-91 you might have called it - The Dragon's Lair(yep, tis I, The Dm). I eventually dropped out of the BBS scene due to lack of interest. I had discovered the internet in the late 80's at U of H, and was busy in newsgroups and getting Amiga Demos from AMINET:-)
I had some other fun software for the C= 128: 128 Invaders, an 80 column Space Invaders clone(one of the few games that used the 80 column screen); a program to change the 80x25 screen to 80x50 (rewrote part of the print support for that and turned on interlaced video mode); and a 25% speed-booster for the 128's 40 column screen(a raster interrupt that turned the 2MHz switch on whenever the scanline was in the top/bottom screen borders, or back to 1MHz when in the visible portion)
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as it's only using the idle time of the computer. I have SETI running at home(the new OS/2 client) and work, but the computers are only on when I'm using them, thus no extra fuel is being used.
Section 3.11 of their FAQ states that if they don't have enough data then multiple users will receive the same data.
If their servers are being overwhelmed(as their site indicates) then it's entirely possible that they didn't have enough data online to send to all the clients.
and just look where that got us :-)
Walk into a CompUSA, Best Buy, etc. and attempt to purchase a system(other than a Mac) without any Microsoft software installed on it. Even if you purchase the system and reformat the drive, you're still going to be counted as yet another happy Windows user...
as he obviously has no respect for the consumer, as shown by the trash he forces down our throats.
I've been to Warpstock '97, took my brother to '98, and plan to attend '99 as well. Follow the link above for more info.
I rebooted my NT system to see what would happen and SETI@home picks up where it left off.
I figured out how to lower the priority:
This makes a dramatic improvement in NT's responsiveness. However, when you have to reboot (hehe), SETI@home.exe goes back to normal priority. Anybody know how to make this priority change permanent?
but then I saw the tiny text at the bottom of the article
The South to the Future World Wide Wire Service is a weekly feed of technology and media news commentary and satire published by the San Francisco Bay Guardian. Quotations attributed to public figures who are satirized are often true, but sometimes invented. Some fictional statements may, in fact, be true. Any other use of real names is accidental and coincidental.
Still, I wouldn't be surprised if M$ used this to get people to buy wince [god I love that name :-) ] instead of Palms. Me, I'm sticking with my Newton MP2100 and writting on it like I do on paper!
I thought it was the "movement indicator" so I didn't look at it close enough.
Yep, typical hypocritic response :-/ Pretty sad that we're spending billions in an attempt to stop the persecution of others in Kosovo while our school officials promote it's daily occurrence by either turning a blind eye or, even worse, activly engaging in it.
- 4-25
- 4-27
- 4-28
From Kevin Siers at The Charlotte ObserverI found these going thru the political cartoons at Cagle. Of course the vast majority of them blame the parents, the movies, the music, etc.
I've e-mailed them BOTH to express my appreciation.
They are all legal copies. It would be pathetic to claim I support OS/2 and then give away illegal copies. That would be detrimental to the cause.
We're about to add one more - my brother's inlaws will soon be running OS/2 as well. They got tired of having '95 crash on them all the time. After seeing the reliability of OS/2 at my brother's, they decided to run it. For them I'm installing a copy of OS/2 3.0 that I won as a door-prize at last years Warpstock which was held near where my brother lives in Chicago. This year's will be held in Atlanta. Sadly, having purchased a system with Windows pre-installed, my brother's inlaws will still be counted by Microsoft as "yet another happy windows user" :-(
I'll have to give the C A [+-] trick a try. Do I need to configure anything first to tell Linux what resolutions/color depths I wish, or does it just step thru what the card is capable of? We're using an old monitor that might not support all the resolutions and frequencies the card can produce.
I've been using OS/2 since the release of Warp 3.0 in '94. My sister and her husband use it, my brother and his family use it, as well as my parents and grandparents. They are all non-tech so I set them up with OS/2 because I knew I couldn't cope with supporting Windows related problems cross-country.
After owning an Amiga 2000HD for many years, I refused downgrade my computer expectations and use Windows 3.1 on my first PC(a Pentium 60). One of my friends in college showed me OS/2 and I was quite impressed with what I saw. Win95 was still vapourware at the time, with an ever expanding list of what it would be capable of(of which only half saw the light of day).
I played with Linux a few of years back, but between a hectic work and school schedule I didn't have the time to devote to an OS that didn't meet my current needs.
I'm working at a startup company(about a year old), and we're now experimenting with Linux to replace some NT servers. We've recently started to regularly reboot the servers in an effort to head off problems we've been experiencing in NT due to a growing user-base.
Linux is a great OS for server use, but not yet to par for the end-user with what I've been using since '94, the OOUI (object oriented user interface) WorkPlace Shell being the major factor. Linux is also definitely not to the level that I would be able to support my non-tech family members on.
That being said, I'm impressed enough with what's been happening with Linux that I plan to have a Linux box or two in my new home(finished June/July). At least one to serve as a firewall[hopefully GTE will have ADSL support in place in my new neighborhood by then :-)]
I also plan to experiment more with BeOS. I have it installed on a partition of my current system, but the current release doesn't care for my Kensington Turbo Mouse(trackball) so I've not used it much. However, what I have seen in BeOS is quite impressive. The multiple desktops, each with their own resolution/color depth, takes me back to the days of my Amiga with it's concept of Screens. All that's missing is the Amiga's ability to pull a screen down like a window shade, and see both it and the screen behind it :-)
After reading the cover of the latest Time, The Monsters Next Door, I thought "oh no, more persecution". Imagine my surprise to see a balanced look at the issues:
- The Curse of Cliques
- Page 2 of the cover story goes over the daily treatment received(bottles/rocks thrown at them from moving cars, persecution from jocks and teachers, etc.)
- Coverage of the Goth scene in We're Goths Not Monsters
- Flash: movies don't kill people from Bang, You're Dead
- The computer age may be giving kids a new outlet for their dark fantasies, but that hardly means it is turning them into killers. from Digital Dungeons, an article covering software.
I suggest that Time is commended by our community for covering the truth behind the issue.Interviews with various surviors of the attack quote the gunmen as saying "This is revenge".
Larry King interviewed a girl this weekend(Friday night?) who was friends with the gunmen. She confirmed that the members of the group where excessively tormented by the jocks.
Sunday on Yahoo's Colorado Shooting page there was an article about one of the trenchcoat group members who had dropped out of school becausing the tormenting was so bad. Click here for full article(it's no longer listed on the first page).
In spite of all this, the general public still maintains that games, music, and violence in the media are to blame for these two young men going over the edge. They conventiently gloss over the fact that day-in an day-out they were treated as dirt by the people they took their revenge on.
No where is it said that FUD is the truth, it's just that it's presented in such a way that it appears that it could be the truth.
Standard FUD against OS/2 is that there are no applications for it. Nothing could be further from the truth. Sure there may be fewer of each type of application when compared to what's available for windows, but there are applications. And as we all know, quantity does not equate to quality. The OS/2 Alternative site maintains a list of various Windows programs and the OS/2 equivalents.
Being a long-time OS/2 user I've been on the receiving end of their tactics for quite some time:
After experiencing such I refuse to support them by purchasing any of their products, no matter how good they might be, because doing otherwise furthers Microsoft's ability to maintain their stranglehold on the market.
Checking IBM's OS/2 Device Driver Pak Online reveals support for USB based mice, keyboards, modems, and speakers. There is even support for Micro$oft's USB Intellimouse.
I think I'll have to look into getting one!
From their site, the list of supported Operating Systems include the obligatory winblows as well as Dos, OS/2, and Mac. No mention of Linux or BeOS.
you have probably seen more code generated by Indian programmers than I have
Not necessarily. I originally supported EDI for one of the "children" companies of the corporation I worked for. There we used different software than the parent company did. Last summer I took a promotion to manage the newly consolidated EDI group which was to support the entire corporation. This is when I moved to the corporate building and experienced a few of the programs written by the Indian company. Since the programs I dealt with were for the EDI module, it's entirely likely they were written by the same person(or group).
I found I didn't care for the managerial position(dealt more with managing other manager's ego trips than anything). I left in November when I was offered a programming position at a start-up company that my best friend works for.
I used this experience as an example to show that outsourcing to a low-cost solution might not be all it's cracked up to be. Sure the up-front savings are great but the maintainence issues could easily overrun those savings once the product is in actual use.
The variables were not short. Since I didn't recognize most of them as English, I can only assume they were not. The ones that I recognized as English didn't flow the way a native English speaker would have written them, such as NumberPO instead of PONumber. Reversed "word order" is minor compared to non-english variables, but it still throws you off when analyzing the programs.
I've not worked there for quite some time so I don't have actual examples handy.
Why would you find it hard to swallow that the variables were not in English? I've looked at many non-work related source code files from non-English speakers and regularly see variables names that don't mean anything to me without a translation dictionary(babelfish proves useful for this).
At my prior job, an Indian company was outsourced to re-write the company software for a migration off a Wang system onto an AS/400 with client/server support for PC systems. I had a few problems trying to make revisions to the code that definitely lowered my productivity:
I suspect another issue is that American companies in general have been computerized longer than companies in other countries. This would imply that more work in the USA would be done on maintenance than on developing new code. Maintenance work tends to produce fewer lines of code due to the time spent analyzing the program before changes can be written and applied.
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cuz I had custom UART code :-) My BBS software also let the C= caller hear real-time music, see interrupt driven character and sprite animation, as well as play online games with their joystick, all at 300 baud(provided they used my term software).
My BBS and term software also took advantage of the fact that 300 baud modems could be pushed to 450-500 baud without any problems. The users without the money to upgrade to a 1200 or 2400 really appreciated the free 50-67% speed boost.
If you lived in Corpus Christi, Tx from 83-87 or Houston from 88-91 you might have called it - The Dragon's Lair(yep, tis I, The Dm). I eventually dropped out of the BBS scene due to lack of interest. I had discovered the internet in the late 80's at U of H, and was busy in newsgroups and getting Amiga Demos from AMINET :-)
I had some other fun software for the C= 128: 128 Invaders, an 80 column Space Invaders clone(one of the few games that used the 80 column screen); a program to change the 80x25 screen to 80x50 (rewrote part of the print support for that and turned on interlaced video mode); and a 25% speed-booster for the 128's 40 column screen(a raster interrupt that turned the 2MHz switch on whenever the scanline was in the top/bottom screen borders, or back to 1MHz when in the visible portion)