The LCD manufacturers are further shooting themselves in the foot by allowing the CRT manufacturer to rapidly increases the minimum acceptable monitor size, right now about 19" for about $200
I don't know about that...
On one hand, how long is that going to last? Big CRTs are.. big, not to mention fucking heavy. Not everyone has the space to put a monster CRT.
On the other, since those same CRT mfr's are forcing the bigger screen sizes, people who are convinced of the size but don't have/want to waste the space may trade money for space and move to LCD.
More widescreen (like Apple's.. whatever it's called) LCD's would be fuckin cool too. My eyes are side by side people, my field of vision is not square!
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The mere existence of politicians have always bothered me. Their entire (almost) purpose is to sit around, making laws. Since by default there are no laws, there's nowhere to go except add restrictions. It's just a matter of time before we have nothing left.
It's obvious now, that new laws are so completely retarded and out of touch with reality, that laws have reached saturation point, and it's time to start scaling back on the politicians and their abilities to make more laws so easily, and enforce them so broadly.
wear I wouldn't have thought a problem.. if ceramic wasn't good enough, then a nice layer of artificial diamond ought to do the trick. They only have to safely last one flight (with a large safety margin of course).
Except they said cracked, not worn, so I'm assuming something's putting way too much pressure on them...
Duh. Make sure it runs everywhere, and make sure you let everyone know you're going to be around for a while.
Personally, it's no good to me if it has no Pascal, Python or PHP (PPP) support under _both_ Win32 and *nix, or if I can't guarantee it'll be updated in a timely fashion (bug fixes, compatibility tweaks for new OS revisions, etc) after I go to significant trouble to install it.
With native *nix software, dialin and IP connections are no different (it's all stdio, whereas old DOS/OS2/WIN style talked to the serial port and/or FOSSIL).
I recommend setting up a native *nix BBS (I use EleBBS), and DOSEMU with the vmodem patch to run old DOS doors/games. Getting DOSEMU setup correctly for this is tricky, but Google for BBS DOSEMU vmodem and you should find some howtos.
Cache is huge. Find some closeups of processor cores, and you see that the cache of an average desktop processor covers up to half of the space, maybe even more.
That's not cheap to make, and no doubt power hungry, which is the reverse of what the Crusoe does best. Besides, there's no guarantee more cache will help given it's current design - if you want a smokin' processor with lots of cache, use one that was designed for that purpose.
Why is it not a bug if it's hardware? Software that fails to protect against the unknown is still labelled as buggy - you don't complain about society because someone did something the programmer(s) didn't expect.
Why cant someone put such a processor, 256Mb of ram, a silent slow disk, vga, nic and ethernet into a small box (no extreme design, just something slightly smaller than a minitower).
It's not entirely prebuilt (BYO HDD, RAM and CPU), but something like the AsusTerminator might do it for you.
Say what? Microsoft doesn't hold 100% of the PC industry, yet they are still a monopoly *of the Windows market* their monopoly abuse was over *Windows applications* not over Windows vs other platforms.
xref. Apple, who are the only ones that sell Macs, and they already killed the clones so an arguement can be made that they abused their monopoly on the platform.
RedHat sells services, their software can be had for Free, so they don't really fit in to the picture.
If china lands on the moon the US will probably change it's tune on whether or not various non-Earth bodies may be owned by anyone (except the US of course), esp. if something valuable is found.
The show of force is plenty, there'd never be a govt vs People fight. A thousand or three armed protesters would get their point across pretty quickly. It would also be a media shitstorm so calling in the blank helicopters would just reinforce the notion that the govt was out of control, thereby convincing the rest of the population to raze hell.
We do exactly the same thing at my company every day.
I wouldn't be suprised if the result is tossed in the corner and never used though.. like multi-1000 page reports which get tossed straight in the bin except for the coverpage.
UNIX config files are easily replicated to another box for a poor man's backup/failover situation. I had a 2000 server in a SAN go down and while I could easily mount that boxes disks into another 2000 server, moving the printer and file shares over was a problem because that shit is all stored in the registry. Instead of a simply copy command, I'd either need to write some sort of program to extract and merge into the backup's registry or figure out another way to replicate the shares. Keeping config crap out of a common database means the service isn't tied to a box so much. Need to move it to another box? Install, copy config files, change a virtual DNS name to point to new location.
Assuming you can find the registry tree you want to keep, use regedit to export it/reimport it:
Windows registry is horribly insecure, not by design, but implementation. Loads of apps insist on writing per-user stuff to HKLM during runtime. I should be able to make HKLM r/o for all users but if I do that, shit breaks horribly. Damn it, HKLM should only be scribbled into by an application during its install process.
Mostly because of Win9x. Now that NT is also the "user" flavour of Windows, there should be a higher number of apps obeying the "rules" of multi-user systems, and not assuming they own the lot.
Re:Removes the sting of improper configuration
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Would. You. Like. To. Play. A. Game. ?
> lets play global thermonuclear war
Wouldn't. You. Prefer. A. Nice. Game. Of. Chess. ?
> fuck no. lets play global thermonuclear war
LILILILILILILILILILILILILILILILILILILILILILILILI LI LILILILI
Video on D-VHS tapes is uncompressed, so it's enormous. A
75GB hard disk would only hold around 30 minutes of the video, according to company officials, making the trading of HD content over the Internet impossible. D-VHS can record and play back up to four hours of video in high definition mode -- up to 1,080 lines per screen width, or more than double the resolution of DVD
600GB? Sounds like a viable home-backup solution to me. Depending on just how reliable/inexpensive the D-VHS media is of course... but a couple months is plenty for me (anyone with serious backup needs can just buy proper backup equipment).
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On one hand, how long is that going to last? Big CRTs are.. big, not to mention fucking heavy. Not everyone has the space to put a monster CRT.
On the other, since those same CRT mfr's are forcing the bigger screen sizes, people who are convinced of the size but don't have/want to waste the space may trade money for space and move to LCD.
More widescreen (like Apple's.. whatever it's called) LCD's would be fuckin cool too. My eyes are side by side people, my field of vision is not square!
The mere existence of politicians have always bothered me. Their entire (almost) purpose is to sit around, making laws. Since by default there are no laws, there's nowhere to go except add restrictions. It's just a matter of time before we have nothing left.
It's obvious now, that new laws are so completely retarded and out of touch with reality, that laws have reached saturation point, and it's time to start scaling back on the politicians and their abilities to make more laws so easily, and enforce them so broadly.
wear I wouldn't have thought a problem.. if ceramic wasn't good enough, then a nice layer of artificial diamond ought to do the trick. They only have to safely last one flight (with a large safety margin of course).
Except they said cracked, not worn, so I'm assuming something's putting way too much pressure on them...
Cos IDE is a port not a bus. That's why having two devices on the same cable is so dodgy: it's a nasty hack to do something it wasn't designed for.
Duh. Make sure it runs everywhere, and make sure you let everyone know you're going to be around for a while.
Personally, it's no good to me if it has no Pascal, Python or PHP (PPP) support under _both_ Win32 and *nix, or if I can't guarantee it'll be updated in a timely fashion (bug fixes, compatibility tweaks for new OS revisions, etc) after I go to significant trouble to install it.
You're like these criminals that get up to take a leak during commericals on TV.
THIEF!
I'll have to take your word for it. I fell asleep no less than 4 times trying to watch that movie.
Sorry, I take crazy physics over that any day. Shit, I'd rather have a tooth removed sans anesthetic than watch 2001 in it's entirety.
With native *nix software, dialin and IP connections are no different (it's all stdio, whereas old DOS/OS2/WIN style talked to the serial port and/or FOSSIL).
I recommend setting up a native *nix BBS (I use EleBBS), and DOSEMU with the vmodem patch to run old DOS doors/games. Getting DOSEMU setup correctly for this is tricky, but Google for BBS DOSEMU vmodem and you should find some howtos.
Cache is huge. Find some closeups of processor cores, and you see that the cache of an average desktop processor covers up to half of the space, maybe even more.
That's not cheap to make, and no doubt power hungry, which is the reverse of what the Crusoe does best. Besides, there's no guarantee more cache will help given it's current design - if you want a smokin' processor with lots of cache, use one that was designed for that purpose.
Any UPS that doesn't have user replacable, hot-swappable batteries is a piece of shit (IMO).
Most home/SOHO units seem to like the 7Ah SLA type, which are pretty cheap.
Why is it not a bug if it's hardware? Software that fails to protect against the unknown is still labelled as buggy - you don't complain about society because someone did something the programmer(s) didn't expect.
Eps 4, 5 and 6 dialog generator:
if (drand48() 0.5)
return "it's not yet operational";
else
return "IT'S FUCKING OPERATIONAL!";
fool me once, shame on you.
fool me twice, shame on me.
bah, Gopher owns!
Say what? Microsoft doesn't hold 100% of the PC industry, yet they are still a monopoly *of the Windows market* their monopoly abuse was over *Windows applications* not over Windows vs other platforms.
xref. Apple, who are the only ones that sell Macs, and they already killed the clones so an arguement can be made that they abused their monopoly on the platform.
RedHat sells services, their software can be had for Free, so they don't really fit in to the picture.
And this is grounds to make them illegal?
When your national anthem reads "land of the almost free" then you'll have a leg to stand on - until then, you're a hipocrite.
If china lands on the moon the US will probably change it's tune on whether or not various non-Earth bodies may be owned by anyone (except the US of course), esp. if something valuable is found.
The show of force is plenty, there'd never be a govt vs People fight. A thousand or three armed protesters would get their point across pretty quickly. It would also be a media shitstorm so calling in the blank helicopters would just reinforce the notion that the govt was out of control, thereby convincing the rest of the population to raze hell.
We do exactly the same thing at my company every day.
I wouldn't be suprised if the result is tossed in the corner and never used though.. like multi-1000 page reports which get tossed straight in the bin except for the coverpage.
regedit
regedit
(/e = export,
Mostly because of Win9x. Now that NT is also the "user" flavour of Windows, there should be a higher number of apps obeying the "rules" of multi-user systems, and not assuming they own the lot.
Would. You. Like. To. Play. A. Game. ?
I LI LILILILI
> lets play global thermonuclear war
Wouldn't. You. Prefer. A. Nice. Game. Of. Chess. ?
> fuck no. lets play global thermonuclear war
LILILILILILILILILILILILILILILILILILILILILILILIL
Nothing could ever make up for that.. but this comes close..