>Can you imagine how useless Netscape 1.0 would be on today's web? No JS, no https, no HTML 4.0, no CSS, etc.
JS - turned off except when I really need it, and those pages are slow as anything...
https - gotta have it
HTML 4.0 - well, I haven't seem all that much that makes me go wow... but Scraper 1.0 didn't support HTML 3 either, so there's the bigger loss.
no CSS - turned off... it's a waste so far, and Netscape doesn't do it right (neither does IE, though).
If you want to see what everything looks like with Netscape 1, and other old browsers, check out http://www.dejavu.org/ (note: JScript required)
Only if I can plug in my FastLoad cartridge - wow! what a difference!
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See the last comment where I mentioned VMWare... that's my current solution, since I found it a lot easier than WINE (and although it does run all of Windows) it tends to be more stable than wine, and I can run a broader set of apps with less fussing... I'll have to check through some old backups to see if I have that registry...
You don't need a rackmount cabinet, or if you really want one, head down to your local audio recording / reinforcement store, and get an amp rack - same width 8^)
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Hmmm, the only problems I had with it (once loaded) was that saving games would freeze up now and again... the fake registry is... well, the original registry is a hack, so emulate that, and... ugh... VMWare provides a cleaner solution, but (of course) life would be better for everyone if games were ported to linux/BSD . Then again, a reworked windowing system might not hurt...
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Longer than "bombtheolympics.com"... D'Oh! Now they're coming after me!!! --
Lone Sysadmin: You are given a Sun E450 (Solaris/ 100BaseT), an IBM RS/6k (AIX / Tokenring), an x86 (Linux / ATM), another x86 (Win2k / 10BaseT), and two C-64s (Ge/OS and CP/M / serial and joyport links). Make a usable network, with failover file, application and print sharing, basic webserver (CGI/PHP/ASP/LMNOP). Network will be stress tested by 15 guys named B!FF, who have the phone # to the server room. Hubs, switches, routers and cabling are in a box in the corner. There is a case of Mt. Dew under your desk, along with a registered copy of QuakeIIIA and UT. --
Re:Are these the coolest errors ever, or what?
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Even better:
HTTP Error 374
Your bank account has been accessed, and it has
been determined you have insufficient funds. We
are sorry. Please upload some cash and try again. --
I got a notice with my last natural gas bill, explaining why prices will be higher than usual this summer. The quick explanation is that they usually stockpile the gas in the summer, while the demand is low, but due to the higher than average temperatures, and increasing draws on the grid, more nat gas was used for aux power plants, thus preventing the normal stockpiling. So when demand goes up in the winter, with less reserves to fall back on, the prices will jump again (they already rose this summer).
When I first read car boot sale, I figured it was sales of siezed cars (after they've had the big yellow boot put on around the wheel). Of course, I got to the next sentence and it mentioned software... ok, there could have been software left in the car, and that was up for auction as well, but that didn't make a whole lot of sense... trunk seemed somewhat sensible, but it wasn't until our antagonistic friend started spouting and was answered that it was really clear.
also: car park => parking lot, not a place where cars grow from the ground...
>our version is the correct one in all cases
even more flamebaitesque than the previous post...
thru is not formal US english, but more vernacular (though (tho?) oxford just says: US var. of THROUGH)
US english (in it's many forms) is spoken by several hundred million people - a peer language rather than a dialect, I'd say (not that I'm a linguist).
The savings for cooking and heating water are enough for most people, besides the fact that since I've moved to the midwest, I still hate electric stoves (fine for the oven, but gas on the range is the only useful option for most foods).
Maybe it was a long time ago - I haven't heard anything in recent memory about natural gas explosions in a residential area... of course, maybe out on the west coast they still have problems due to the earth moving and moronically placed train tracks on mountains...
Yes, but AMD never said "you'll have to get a new-style ATX case where the multi-pound heatsink bolts on, since it will be too heavy for the processor connector to support"... that's when people start noticing... --
I'd have to say that AIX, Solaris (for Sparce, not x86), and VMS (agreeing with the other poster) are surely ready for mission critical applications. AIX (for example) runs a journaled FS, is one of the most rock-solid OSs I've seen, scales amazing well (can you say S80 or SP (i.e. Deep Blue), and is one of the most well tested Un*xes.... nice troll. --
Hey - I started on a C-64 in BASIC (I was 6yro), and then I managed to work my way to machine code on the 64 and 128... By middle school (gr. 6-8) I realized that coding apps wasn't really all that fun, and I yearned for lower levels of understanding... Heck, if you can't figure out how to put two drives on one IDE chain, you need to spend a little more time reading the labels on the drives, and soon you'll get it... if you really can't figure it out, check darwinawards.com and learn from them, or get a job laying asphalt. Really, with a few hours of training, anyone with half a brain should be able to read a PCI trace, much less figure out how to attach some IDE devices.
I ran GeOS on my C-64. GUI with a drawing pad and a little joystick for a mouse... it was then that I turnd against GUIs... NT4 (with the 95 GUI) almost won me back (along with KDE/GNOME), but there are just too many reasons to have a command line (if nothing else) available. GUIs are great - I'd hate to have to type 'netscape -install' on my workstation every time - it's much easier to click the KDE icon for the scraper. It is *much* easier to form a decent grep command than to use any 'find' GUI that has been invented yet. Faster, easier, etc.... Each has their own advantages, and (at the risk of sounding like management) we should leverage the synergy of these two paradigms to enhance our productivity by empowering oursleves, since without putting forth this initiative, we cannot attain the productivity we could achieve otherwise (ick).
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Cisco, not IBM.
Users should read the related material before posting...
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>Can you imagine how useless Netscape 1.0 would be on today's web? No JS, no https, no HTML 4.0, no CSS, etc.
JS - turned off except when I really need it, and those pages are slow as anything...
https - gotta have it
HTML 4.0 - well, I haven't seem all that much that makes me go wow... but Scraper 1.0 didn't support HTML 3 either, so there's the bigger loss.
no CSS - turned off... it's a waste so far, and Netscape doesn't do it right (neither does IE, though).
If you want to see what everything looks like with Netscape 1, and other old browsers, check out http://www.dejavu.org/ (note: JScript required)
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Why not just increase the memory cache, and set the disk cache to 0? That should have the same effect without all of the effort.
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Only if I can plug in my FastLoad cartridge - wow! what a difference!
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See the last comment where I mentioned VMWare... that's my current solution, since I found it a lot easier than WINE (and although it does run all of Windows) it tends to be more stable than wine, and I can run a broader set of apps with less fussing... I'll have to check through some old backups to see if I have that registry...
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You don't need a rackmount cabinet, or if you really want one, head down to your local audio recording / reinforcement store, and get an amp rack - same width 8^)
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Hmmm, the only problems I had with it (once loaded) was that saving games would freeze up now and again... the fake registry is... well, the original registry is a hack, so emulate that, and... ugh... VMWare provides a cleaner solution, but (of course) life would be better for everyone if games were ported to linux/BSD . Then again, a reworked windowing system might not hurt...
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Longer than "bombtheolympics.com"... D'Oh! Now they're coming after me!!!
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Odd... I always thought of bridge as a summer sport, with cribbage as a winter one
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I'd guess it would be like "Many happy returns!" (wishing someone a safe journey, and please visit again/often). fnord on the other hand...
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I think Mt. Dew and Jolt are still higher on the sponsors list, but there's always room for more 8^)
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Lone Sysadmin: You are given a Sun E450 (Solaris/ 100BaseT), an IBM RS/6k (AIX / Tokenring), an x86 (Linux / ATM), another x86 (Win2k / 10BaseT), and two C-64s (Ge/OS and CP/M / serial and joyport links). Make a usable network, with failover file, application and print sharing, basic webserver (CGI/PHP/ASP/LMNOP). Network will be stress tested by 15 guys named B!FF, who have the phone # to the server room. Hubs, switches, routers and cabling are in a box in the corner. There is a case of Mt. Dew under your desk, along with a registered copy of QuakeIIIA and UT.
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Even better:
HTTP Error 374
Your bank account has been accessed, and it has
been determined you have insufficient funds. We
are sorry. Please upload some cash and try again.
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"The DLL Recognition event was
canceled due to a GPF in the
scoring server"
Whoo-hoo!
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A good thing Audi only uses four, or they'd have to recall all of the grill/steering wheel oraments...
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I got a notice with my last natural gas bill, explaining why prices will be higher than usual this summer. The quick explanation is that they usually stockpile the gas in the summer, while the demand is low, but due to the higher than average temperatures, and increasing draws on the grid, more nat gas was used for aux power plants, thus preventing the normal stockpiling. So when demand goes up in the winter, with less reserves to fall back on, the prices will jump again (they already rose this summer).
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Must be some more of those crack-smoking moderators...
(+1; informative) (sorry this doesn't really work)
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Just a note: Starcraft has run well under WINE for over a year, at least... Works For Me(TM).
By the way, I see your bitchslap has ended... visible posting again, must be fun.
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When I first read car boot sale, I figured it was sales of siezed cars (after they've had the big yellow boot put on around the wheel). Of course, I got to the next sentence and it mentioned software... ok, there could have been software left in the car, and that was up for auction as well, but that didn't make a whole lot of sense... trunk seemed somewhat sensible, but it wasn't until our antagonistic friend started spouting and was answered that it was really clear.
also: car park => parking lot, not a place where cars grow from the ground...
>our version is the correct one in all cases
even more flamebaitesque than the previous post...
thru is not formal US english, but more vernacular (though (tho?) oxford just says: US var. of THROUGH)
US english (in it's many forms) is spoken by several hundred million people - a peer language rather than a dialect, I'd say (not that I'm a linguist).
Relax...
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Can I hear an amen from the congregation? (slashgregation?)
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The savings for cooking and heating water are enough for most people, besides the fact that since I've moved to the midwest, I still hate electric stoves (fine for the oven, but gas on the range is the only useful option for most foods).
Maybe it was a long time ago - I haven't heard anything in recent memory about natural gas explosions in a residential area... of course, maybe out on the west coast they still have problems due to the earth moving and moronically placed train tracks on mountains...
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Yes, but AMD never said "you'll have to get a new-style ATX case where the multi-pound heatsink bolts on, since it will be too heavy for the processor connector to support"... that's when people start noticing...
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>Because FLOPs/s is a better judge of speed that Mhz, in my experience.
;-)
Ah yes, but what about the all-important BOGOMIPS?!
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I'd have to say that AIX, Solaris (for Sparce, not x86), and VMS (agreeing with the other poster) are surely ready for mission critical applications. AIX (for example) runs a journaled FS, is one of the most rock-solid OSs I've seen, scales amazing well (can you say S80 or SP (i.e. Deep Blue), and is one of the most well tested Un*xes.... nice troll.
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Hey - I started on a C-64 in BASIC (I was 6yro), and then I managed to work my way to machine code on the 64 and 128... By middle school (gr. 6-8) I realized that coding apps wasn't really all that fun, and I yearned for lower levels of understanding... Heck, if you can't figure out how to put two drives on one IDE chain, you need to spend a little more time reading the labels on the drives, and soon you'll get it... if you really can't figure it out, check darwinawards.com and learn from them, or get a job laying asphalt. Really, with a few hours of training, anyone with half a brain should be able to read a PCI trace, much less figure out how to attach some IDE devices.
I ran GeOS on my C-64. GUI with a drawing pad and a little joystick for a mouse... it was then that I turnd against GUIs... NT4 (with the 95 GUI) almost won me back (along with KDE/GNOME), but there are just too many reasons to have a command line (if nothing else) available. GUIs are great - I'd hate to have to type 'netscape -install' on my workstation every time - it's much easier to click the KDE icon for the scraper. It is *much* easier to form a decent grep command than to use any 'find' GUI that has been invented yet. Faster, easier, etc.... Each has their own advantages, and (at the risk of sounding like management) we should leverage the synergy of these two paradigms to enhance our productivity by empowering oursleves, since without putting forth this initiative, we cannot attain the productivity we could achieve otherwise (ick).
You get the point.
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