As long as it is publicly available, I seriously doubt they could successfully charge you for it.
If their newsfeed is copyrighted, I doubt they'd have much trouble prosecuting someone for duplicating it elsewhere without authorization (especially if elsewhere was a commercial site). Looking at unsecured data may be possible, but using illegally is still illegal.
4GB SDRAM DIMMs exist. A quick trip over to Pricewatch shows that Mushkin, for one, makes these things. Prices start at about $1,300. (I'm not saying that Pricewatch components are necessarily approriate for this application, but they do exist.)
Well, it really doesn't matter how your partitions are arranged if you end up doing 'rm -rf/' as root - anything that's mounted is going to get wiped. That said, there are of course still very good reasons to partition one's drives.
If you have access to a reasonably fast internet connection and CD burner, you can go download and burn the SuperRescue ISO. It's a fully-featured RedHat install put onto a bootable CD. You can start up with this in most any system, mount the HFS drive, and transfer the files elsewhere - either to another hard drive or to a location on the network. I did this exact procedure just last week. Granted, I do have working Linux boxes around, but the most convenient box to hook the drive up to didn't have a functional Linux install at the time.
I think you answered your own question, except it's not so much related to GDI limits as it is GDI limits. I'm not up on the topic myself, but I'm sure there are many excellent resources to be found with a simple Google search.
At least in my part of the US, getting an ISDN line and accompanying ISP service would cost around three times what it costs to have a dedicated analog phone line ($25/mo) and an unlimited-access PPP acount ($20/mo) that I can keep connected 24x7.
And of course, DSL and cable aren't available in a lot of areas.
If they can smack Microsoft around for making Frontpage, then I'm all for it. If I was IBM, I'd do it just to see MSFT squirm...
Of course, FrontPage existed, IIRC, in 1996 if not even earlier - which looks like solid prior art. I'm as much for smacking MS around as the next guy, but not without a legitimate reason. Bogus software patents, of course, with years of prior art, aren't exactly legitimate reasons.
I think that to some degree, SpeedStep works independently frrom the OS. You can't change operating speeds while running Linux, but if you power the machine on without AC power, the BIOS (or whatever handles that) automatically puts the processor into low-speed mode.
I use a Dell Inspiron 5000e (CuMine PIII-750/650 w/SpeedStep, 128MB RAM, 10GB HD, DVD, 15" LCD) that gets a full 3 hours per battery under light (e.g. coding, as opposed to encoding MP3s) use, without even enabling any powersaving features. With a second battery in the DVD bay (floppy is non-removeable), it gets a total of 6 hours.
Ned also has young kids (around the age of Bart and Lisa). I would tend to be more suspect of the claim that Ned is a senior citizen than of the claim that he was a small child "30 years ago" (which seems to fit fairly well).
All you people who keep talking about power loss, think rechargeable battery...
Magnetic storage can sit (unconnected to any power source) for years and years and still maintain data integrity. Keeping several GB of RAM powered reliably and cheaply for that long may not be as practical.
It's also important to remember that, with the manufactoring processes used to build today's memory chips, several GB of RAM takes up a considerable amount of space - probably more than can be spared on the PCBs of today's hard drives.
'apropos' is a rather useful little command-line utility that, when given a topic as an argument, will print a list of man pages that may be related to that topic. Quite helpful when you don't know which man page it is you need..
Actually.. yes. I should hope this isn't a terribly widespread situation, but the office I work part-time in uses AOL for email. The company is a distributor of advertising specialities and depends on email to receive artwork from customers, send price quotes, recieve inquiries, and communicate with the factory. Naturally, I'd prefer to see the use of a more sane email client (their mail reader can't do half of what even Netscape Messenger can do), but the fact that there hasn't been any change has to do with the manager - who thinks that browsing the web with Internet Explorer and AOL (through a 3rd party DSL line) are significantly different. But then, that's their market..
Perhaps under optimal conditions modems can outrun typists, but my phone line is so bad (even with 56K modem) that it can take several seconds after I press the key for characters to appear in an ssh session. Ping times are usually on the order of 5,000ms+ when this is happening. Yes, I do have an order in for cable net access..
Will your users want to use floppy drives? Have you figured out an easy way for them to do that?
If one is not using thin-clients (i.e. programs are executing on the same system the floppy drive is in), supermount handles automounting floppies in a manner similar to Windows, if you don't want to retrain users. Or if you're going to be properly training users anyway, I do believe Gnome and KDE make mounting/unmounting devices from the desktop icon pretty easy.
As an aside, even if you're using thin client PCs with floppy drives, it should still be possible to give users transparent access to the floppy drive in their local machine even though they're logged into a central server.
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As long as it is publicly available, I seriously doubt they could successfully charge you for it.
If their newsfeed is copyrighted, I doubt they'd have much trouble prosecuting someone for duplicating it elsewhere without authorization (especially if elsewhere was a commercial site). Looking at unsecured data may be possible, but using illegally is still illegal.
2. Don't use Disks, use Bootable CD's that eliminates the Floppy might go away issue.
That doesn't eliminate any issue, really. Regardless of the media you boot from, you still need some sort of OS code to boot.
4GB SDRAM DIMMs exist. A quick trip over to Pricewatch shows that Mushkin, for one, makes these things. Prices start at about $1,300. (I'm not saying that Pricewatch components are necessarily approriate for this application, but they do exist.)
Well, it really doesn't matter how your partitions are arranged if you end up doing 'rm -rf /' as root - anything that's mounted is going to get wiped. That said, there are of course still very good reasons to partition one's drives.
If you have access to a reasonably fast internet connection and CD burner, you can go download and burn the SuperRescue ISO. It's a fully-featured RedHat install put onto a bootable CD. You can start up with this in most any system, mount the HFS drive, and transfer the files elsewhere - either to another hard drive or to a location on the network. I did this exact procedure just last week. Granted, I do have working Linux boxes around, but the most convenient box to hook the drive up to didn't have a functional Linux install at the time.
For that, you need a capable OS. Needless to say, Windows and MacOS (as found in schools) do not fall into this category.
Were these PS/2 style keyboards? Supposedly hotplugging PS/2 connections can fry the port and/or board, though it's never happened to me.
I think you answered your own question, except it's not so much related to GDI limits as it is GDI limits. I'm not up on the topic myself, but I'm sure there are many excellent resources to be found with a simple Google search.
You're saying which one is overpriced?
400GB added to a PC - $1,200
460GB RaidZone - $10,000
At least in my part of the US, getting an ISDN line and accompanying ISP service would cost around three times what it costs to have a dedicated analog phone line ($25/mo) and an unlimited-access PPP acount ($20/mo) that I can keep connected 24x7.
And of course, DSL and cable aren't available in a lot of areas.
Frontpage 97 (or perhaps an even earlier version) came on the Windows NT 4 CD (released 1996).
If they can smack Microsoft around for making Frontpage, then I'm all for it. If I was IBM, I'd do it just to see MSFT squirm...
Of course, FrontPage existed, IIRC, in 1996 if not even earlier - which looks like solid prior art. I'm as much for smacking MS around as the next guy, but not without a legitimate reason. Bogus software patents, of course, with years of prior art, aren't exactly legitimate reasons.
I think that to some degree, SpeedStep works independently frrom the OS. You can't change operating speeds while running Linux, but if you power the machine on without AC power, the BIOS (or whatever handles that) automatically puts the processor into low-speed mode.
I use a Dell Inspiron 5000e (CuMine PIII-750/650 w/SpeedStep, 128MB RAM, 10GB HD, DVD, 15" LCD) that gets a full 3 hours per battery under light (e.g. coding, as opposed to encoding MP3s) use, without even enabling any powersaving features. With a second battery in the DVD bay (floppy is non-removeable), it gets a total of 6 hours.
This placeclaims to do that sort of thing, though I've never used it myself.
Ned also has young kids (around the age of Bart and Lisa). I would tend to be more suspect of the claim that Ned is a senior citizen than of the claim that he was a small child "30 years ago" (which seems to fit fairly well).
All you people who keep talking about power loss, think rechargeable battery...
Magnetic storage can sit (unconnected to any power source) for years and years and still maintain data integrity. Keeping several GB of RAM powered reliably and cheaply for that long may not be as practical.
It's also important to remember that, with the manufactoring processes used to build today's memory chips, several GB of RAM takes up a considerable amount of space - probably more than can be spared on the PCBs of today's hard drives.
'apropos' is a rather useful little command-line utility that, when given a topic as an argument, will print a list of man pages that may be related to that topic. Quite helpful when you don't know which man page it is you need..
Actually.. yes. I should hope this isn't a terribly widespread situation, but the office I work part-time in uses AOL for email. The company is a distributor of advertising specialities and depends on email to receive artwork from customers, send price quotes, recieve inquiries, and communicate with the factory. Naturally, I'd prefer to see the use of a more sane email client (their mail reader can't do half of what even Netscape Messenger can do), but the fact that there hasn't been any change has to do with the manager - who thinks that browsing the web with Internet Explorer and AOL (through a 3rd party DSL line) are significantly different. But then, that's their market..
Win2K, FWIW, runs AOL 5.0 and 6.0 relatively well.
But did you try emailing the maintainer of the site you linked? He/she may be able to help you out.
Perhaps under optimal conditions modems can outrun typists, but my phone line is so bad (even with 56K modem) that it can take several seconds after I press the key for characters to appear in an ssh session. Ping times are usually on the order of 5,000ms+ when this is happening. Yes, I do have an order in for cable net access..
Will your users want to use floppy drives? Have you figured out an easy way for them to do that?
If one is not using thin-clients (i.e. programs are executing on the same system the floppy drive is in), supermount handles automounting floppies in a manner similar to Windows, if you don't want to retrain users. Or if you're going to be properly training users anyway, I do believe Gnome and KDE make mounting/unmounting devices from the desktop icon pretty easy.
As an aside, even if you're using thin client PCs with floppy drives, it should still be possible to give users transparent access to the floppy drive in their local machine even though they're logged into a central server.