Yea, I can't wait to see all the pissed off kids faces when their XBox crashed in the middle of a game. My Nintendo never had that problem!
Two thoughts:
You're not playing long enough. *grin*
Nintendo never had a system with a heat generating motor in it before.
Of the following systems I own, guess which have a tendancy to overheat and lock up:
Atari 2600
Nindendo Entertainment System
Nintendo Gameboy
Nintendo SNES
Sega Genesis
Sega CD
Sega 32x
Sega Saturn
Sony Playstation
Nintendo N64
Sega Dreamcast
Nintendo Gameboy Color
Bandai WonderSwan
Sony PS2
Nintendo Gameboy Advance
Yep. The Sega CD, the Playstation, and especially the Saturn. All the optical drive systems, with the exception of the very recent ones: the Dreamcast and the PS2.
Hopefully, Nintendo has picked up on the design lessons it took Sony and Sega one or two tries to learn. Having hot running chips in a console is only a small problem. While given a long enough play time cartridge-based systems can overheat and lock, it's fairly rare, and most non-game-all-day-straight players won't experience it. However, moving to optical disks, and adding a warm electric motor can lead to lockups real quick if you don't design carefully. Witness Sega's first two tries.
I'm rooting for, and planning to buy, the GameCube, not the XBox, but we're seeing each company's first attempt to pack hot chips and a hot motor in a small package. Without even getting into possible firmware and software issues, I'm not counting out lockups with either device.
Day they shut off my mail port is the day I cancel.
Agreed. Fortunately, it looks like Verizon DSL customers should still be okay. From https://support.bellatlantic.net/members/whats_new/multipleemails.html#options*:
4. What options do I have if I want to continue using another domain in the "From:" address of emails I send?
Contact the provider that is hosting your incoming mail addressed to your private domain to determine whether that provider offers outgoing (sending) email services as well as incoming (receiving). If so, obtain the name of their SMTP (outgoing mail) server and configure your email program to use that server rather than Verizon Online's SMTP server when sending mail with a "From:" address including that domain.
Not all the facts were stated by the person to which you replied. Windows XP Home Edition does not feature different access levels. All users are Administrators. Windows XP Professional retains different access levels.
Why does everything have to be Gno-this or K-that or GNU-whatever?
Not being too keen on the K[whatever] for KDE and G[whatever] for Gnome naming schemes myself, I hope to release useful applications named K[whatever] for Gnome and G[whatever] for KDE. I like not helping.
Oh, I almost forgot Apple's new i[whatever] scheme. I must remember to work that in there.
I truely fear that someday I will play a X-BOX game and it will wipe out my entire HD)
Hehehe. Anyone remember Crystal Dynamic's "The Horde" for 3DO? It would delete all non-Horde saved games from NVRAM. T'was not a bug, either. It was programmed to do so in order to help the player by providing the maximum amount of space for his or her Horde game saves.
FPS Tetris II is now maximizing the available space on your X-Box. Please wait...
While we are getting changes, I want to see rain! Any game can be made immeasurably better by having 3d rain particles falling down.
Rain might be nice, but what it really needs is lens flare! Afterall, since any halfway decent photographer will go to great lengths to avoid lens flare, by including it in a game it will make the game sequences look more like film. Or something.
Of course, all of this is just to fill time until the first person shooter and Zelda vs. Metroid vs. X-Men fighting game are complete.
Apart from that obvious point, where can I get some of those parts down under???
Well, the site being Slashdotted, I've only managed to get a very small section of the jpg. However, the top corner of the case looks like the black version of the Yeong Yang YY-0221 case I'm using right now. You should be able to find someone to who imports it.
If it is the same case, it's not suprising to me that they replaced the power supply. The PS that came with mine is loud. I intend to replace it as soon as I have the money.
MacOS is wonderful in the regard that it takes all the complexity of the system, and buries most of it.
Which is wonderful until something goes wrong. For instance, one of the Macs in my department at work suffers from frequent lockups and crashes. It's probably a hardware or driver problem, but since Mac OS doesn't generate error logs, no one knows what the problem might be. The Mac experts are forced to fall back on the wipe-the-drive-and-reinstall style of support.
If some Linux distributions would like to do more to hide unnecessary diagnositic text from desktop users, that's great! Let them use redirects and splash screens, but there's no reason to stop printing those diagnostics somewhere. When something goes wrong, those error messages will make repairs so much easier.
Then why is it so important for Quake 3 wanker to get the framerate higher than 100. I mean, 25fps is "more than enough." Why go for more than that?
In the creation of a film, each frame is exposed to light for a period of time. This period of time is extremely brief, but even so is enough that moving objects will be captured with some degree of "motion blur".
In contrast, games display images of stationary objects (objects without motion blur) one after another. It takes many more computer graphic frames to make motion look as smooth as film images with motion blur.
Personally, I'd rather have no keyboard and WebTV, and just a nice holder/tray for my laptop.
Well, then you may be interested in JC Penny's e^z chair. It features a foldaway aluminum tray on the right or left and built-in electrical and phone jacks. Sadly, it does not offer RJ-45, but neither does it come with WebTV or a proprietary keyboard.
You may be thinking of the Floating Arms Keyboard from Workplace Designs. It uses two keyboard sections, one attached to each armrest, and includes a trackpad and numeric keypad for the right hand. It can be purchased with a chair or separately.
Now called the Interfaces Keyboard, it is currently available from Interfaces by Cramer. Even with the chair, it's not the $8 to $10 thousand you remember, but at up to $965 it's not cheap either.
On my first reading of the article summary, I thought it said, "Complete with links at the bottom about rigorous military analysis of Penn&Teller's exploding Swedish Lemon Angels." Imagine my disappointment upon following the link.
Personally, I'd be much more satisfied knowing at least a portion of the money removed from my paychecks to help fund the military was being used by them to study the potential threat Penn and Teller's antics pose to national security. Oh well.
And no, you won't impress many chicks with a new gaming console, try a Miata instead.
Don't worry guys, there are girls out there who are impressed by a new gaming console. My wife has eight console systems connected to the television right now, has two handheld systems, had her pre-ordered PS2 paid off months ago, and is eyeing the Dreamcast now that it is gaining some RPGs. In fact, one of her favorite Valentine's Day gifts was Zelda64 the console on which to play it. They're out there guys, and for the record, they're not too fond of Miatas.
In addition to the G400 and G450, this driver supports the G200, which is available in quadhead. Indeed, the G200 itself supports up to four quadhead PCI boards in a single system to provide up to 16 displays. (Collect them all! Trade them with your friends!)
I have no idea if XFree86 will happily support all 16 displays. I do know neither my bank account nor my desk will.
I have an unpowered KVM switchbox. With some of my systems it worked. Other systems would lock solid or just lose keyboard or mouse support until rebooted. I've since purchased a decent, inexpensive powered KVM, and the problems have gone away.
I'd like to see someone integrate one of these into a notebook.
Well, Mitsubishi has the AMiTY CP and XP. They use the WACOM technology for their LCD displays/digitizer tablets. Heck, they use standard Intel mobile Pentium chips, 2.5" notebook harddrives, and run Windows 98, so installing Linux or BSD would probably be fairly easy.
Not using WACOM parts, but still related are the ePlates from Hitachi. These are quite interesting; however at about the same size and weight as the AMiTY tablets, and with Windows CE instead of Windows 98, they might not be as much fun. Cheaper though.
There are a number of other tablet computers on the market. They're just a bit more difficult to track down than your standard, boring old notebook. Oh, and a little more expensive.
On the mud I run, I have added code to simulate lag, packet loss, and to make it appear they are the only ones online.
A very nice solution.
Years ago when I was very involved with Bulletin Board Systems, I found several packages that offered features like this. Instead of closing a user's account, you kept him or her around in a limited fashion. He or she could continue posting messages and the like, but the messages would appear only to that user. No one else on the system ever saw them, and normally the problem user would eventually grow bored after getting no responses and leave.
Ideally, eBay could use similar methods so problem users always are instantly outbid, have their auctions and feedback to others visible only to themselves, etc. Unfortunately, due to eBay's design, the problem children would quickly catch on. This sort of system would only work if the user couldn't browse auction listings and read feedback without first logging in.
There is no good reason anybody should be pinging my system: you ping to test connectivity, and since you cannot connect to my system, you have no reason to be testing if you can connect.
As I've no reason to assume otherwise, I'm guessing you fall into the category of "clever people who know how to selectively filter ICMP packets." Good for you. Deny everything you don't need.
Unfortunately, a great number of people on the Internet seem inclined to block all ICMP packets in fear of ping and traceroute, and your message might accidentally encourage more users to do so. As you probably know (but others reading this might not), this goes against RFC1191 and breaks Path MTU (PMTU) discovery. To all those frightened admins out there: please reconfigure your firewalls to allow ICMP Destination Unreachable messages marked "Fragmentation Needed and 'Don't Fragment' Set".
Who knows? It might even fix the mysterious web and email problems your users keep complaining about. (See: http://www.worldgate.com/~marcs/mtu/)
It (Quicken) doesn't seem like a good financial name at all.
PC Teller would be better in my mind.
While I agree the "Quicken" name alone fails to instantly conjure images of simple personal money management, to me "PC Teller" is worse. The first thought that occurs to me upon seeing "PC Teller" is the slight-of-hand team comprised of one large guy who talks a lot and one small guy who doesn't talk at all. I don't know about you, but I wouldn't trust them with my money.
I certainly hope that these PDA's are better than VTech's desktops and laptops.
Well, I can't speak to VTech's later computer systems or new handhelds, but on my desk right now I have a Laser (VTech) Turbo XT from 1987. It has survived years of use from me--after being a floor display model at Sears.
While many other computer systems come and gone, the VTech XT is still going strong; the only part that has failed is the clock battery. The original system, floppy and hard drives, monitor, and keyboard all still function as good as new.
Currently, the computer runs MS-DOS 5.0, 4DOS 4.0, and Geos to act as a terminal to a 10Base-T hub and a Linux box I fully expect it to outlast. And there's just something wonderful about hearing a late eighties, RLL harddrive spin up, not to mention speedisk.
Geos lives on as NewDeal from NewDeal, Inc. NewDeal release 3.2 is out, and requires only a 286 with 640K RAM and 10MB of disk space. It is available as NewDeal Office, NewDeal WebSuite, and NewDeal SchoolSuite to meet different needs. It may be purchased through the NewDeal, Inc. web site with discounts available to users upgrading from previous versions, including Geos.
Slashdot Mirror
Two thoughts:
Of the following systems I own, guess which have a tendancy to overheat and lock up:
- Atari 2600
- Nindendo Entertainment System
- Nintendo Gameboy
- Nintendo SNES
- Sega Genesis
- Sega CD
- Sega 32x
- Sega Saturn
- Sony Playstation
- Nintendo N64
- Sega Dreamcast
- Nintendo Gameboy Color
- Bandai WonderSwan
- Sony PS2
- Nintendo Gameboy Advance
Yep. The Sega CD, the Playstation, and especially the Saturn. All the optical drive systems, with the exception of the very recent ones: the Dreamcast and the PS2.Hopefully, Nintendo has picked up on the design lessons it took Sony and Sega one or two tries to learn. Having hot running chips in a console is only a small problem. While given a long enough play time cartridge-based systems can overheat and lock, it's fairly rare, and most non-game-all-day-straight players won't experience it. However, moving to optical disks, and adding a warm electric motor can lead to lockups real quick if you don't design carefully. Witness Sega's first two tries.
I'm rooting for, and planning to buy, the GameCube, not the XBox, but we're seeing each company's first attempt to pack hot chips and a hot motor in a small package. Without even getting into possible firmware and software issues, I'm not counting out lockups with either device.
Agreed. Fortunately, it looks like Verizon DSL customers should still be okay. From https://support.bellatlantic.net/members/whats_new /multipleemails.html#options*:
* Note: This page is behind a login barrier.
Not all the facts were stated by the person to which you replied. Windows XP Home Edition does not feature different access levels. All users are Administrators. Windows XP Professional retains different access levels.
See: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/guide/compariso n.asp
Not being too keen on the K[whatever] for KDE and G[whatever] for Gnome naming schemes myself, I hope to release useful applications named K[whatever] for Gnome and G[whatever] for KDE. I like not helping.
Oh, I almost forgot Apple's new i[whatever] scheme. I must remember to work that in there.
Geos. It still exists, though it changed hands and is now known as NewDeal.
Hehehe. Anyone remember Crystal Dynamic's "The Horde" for 3DO? It would delete all non-Horde saved games from NVRAM. T'was not a bug, either. It was programmed to do so in order to help the player by providing the maximum amount of space for his or her Horde game saves.
FPS Tetris II is now maximizing the available space on your X-Box. Please wait...
Rain might be nice, but what it really needs is lens flare! Afterall, since any halfway decent photographer will go to great lengths to avoid lens flare, by including it in a game it will make the game sequences look more like film. Or something.
Of course, all of this is just to fill time until the first person shooter and Zelda vs. Metroid vs. X-Men fighting game are complete.
Well, the site being Slashdotted, I've only managed to get a very small section of the jpg. However, the top corner of the case looks like the black version of the Yeong Yang YY-0221 case I'm using right now. You should be able to find someone to who imports it.
If it is the same case, it's not suprising to me that they replaced the power supply. The PS that came with mine is loud. I intend to replace it as soon as I have the money.
On the plus side, this will take care of that pesky global warming problem.
Which is wonderful until something goes wrong. For instance, one of the Macs in my department at work suffers from frequent lockups and crashes. It's probably a hardware or driver problem, but since Mac OS doesn't generate error logs, no one knows what the problem might be. The Mac experts are forced to fall back on the wipe-the-drive-and-reinstall style of support.
If some Linux distributions would like to do more to hide unnecessary diagnositic text from desktop users, that's great! Let them use redirects and splash screens, but there's no reason to stop printing those diagnostics somewhere. When something goes wrong, those error messages will make repairs so much easier.
In fairness to Microsoft, this feature has been available through the optional Microsoft Family Logon network client since IE4 for Windows 95.
Other articles on XP have mentioned that the friendly, user-list style logon automatically disables itself on machines that log into a domain.
It's not as well coded as you might hope. See: CERT Advisory CA-96.13.
In the creation of a film, each frame is exposed to light for a period of time. This period of time is extremely brief, but even so is enough that moving objects will be captured with some degree of "motion blur".
In contrast, games display images of stationary objects (objects without motion blur) one after another. It takes many more computer graphic frames to make motion look as smooth as film images with motion blur.
Well, then you may be interested in JC Penny's e^z chair. It features a foldaway aluminum tray on the right or left and built-in electrical and phone jacks. Sadly, it does not offer RJ-45, but neither does it come with WebTV or a proprietary keyboard.
You may be thinking of the Floating Arms Keyboard from Workplace Designs. It uses two keyboard sections, one attached to each armrest, and includes a trackpad and numeric keypad for the right hand. It can be purchased with a chair or separately.
Now called the Interfaces Keyboard, it is currently available from Interfaces by Cramer. Even with the chair, it's not the $8 to $10 thousand you remember, but at up to $965 it's not cheap either.
On my first reading of the article summary, I thought it said, "Complete with links at the bottom about rigorous military analysis of Penn&Teller's exploding Swedish Lemon Angels." Imagine my disappointment upon following the link.
Personally, I'd be much more satisfied knowing at least a portion of the money removed from my paychecks to help fund the military was being used by them to study the potential threat Penn and Teller's antics pose to national security. Oh well.
Don't worry guys, there are girls out there who are impressed by a new gaming console. My wife has eight console systems connected to the television right now, has two handheld systems, had her pre-ordered PS2 paid off months ago, and is eyeing the Dreamcast now that it is gaining some RPGs. In fact, one of her favorite Valentine's Day gifts was Zelda64 the console on which to play it. They're out there guys, and for the record, they're not too fond of Miatas.
In addition to the G400 and G450, this driver supports the G200, which is available in quadhead. Indeed, the G200 itself supports up to four quadhead PCI boards in a single system to provide up to 16 displays. (Collect them all! Trade them with your friends!)
I have no idea if XFree86 will happily support all 16 displays. I do know neither my bank account nor my desk will.
Okay.
I have an unpowered KVM switchbox. With some of my systems it worked. Other systems would lock solid or just lose keyboard or mouse support until rebooted. I've since purchased a decent, inexpensive powered KVM, and the problems have gone away.
Well, Mitsubishi has the AMiTY CP and XP. They use the WACOM technology for their LCD displays/digitizer tablets. Heck, they use standard Intel mobile Pentium chips, 2.5" notebook harddrives, and run Windows 98, so installing Linux or BSD would probably be fairly easy.
Not using WACOM parts, but still related are the ePlates from Hitachi. These are quite interesting; however at about the same size and weight as the AMiTY tablets, and with Windows CE instead of Windows 98, they might not be as much fun. Cheaper though.
There are a number of other tablet computers on the market. They're just a bit more difficult to track down than your standard, boring old notebook. Oh, and a little more expensive.
A very nice solution.
Years ago when I was very involved with Bulletin Board Systems, I found several packages that offered features like this. Instead of closing a user's account, you kept him or her around in a limited fashion. He or she could continue posting messages and the like, but the messages would appear only to that user. No one else on the system ever saw them, and normally the problem user would eventually grow bored after getting no responses and leave.
Ideally, eBay could use similar methods so problem users always are instantly outbid, have their auctions and feedback to others visible only to themselves, etc. Unfortunately, due to eBay's design, the problem children would quickly catch on. This sort of system would only work if the user couldn't browse auction listings and read feedback without first logging in.
As I've no reason to assume otherwise, I'm guessing you fall into the category of "clever people who know how to selectively filter ICMP packets." Good for you. Deny everything you don't need.
Unfortunately, a great number of people on the Internet seem inclined to block all ICMP packets in fear of ping and traceroute, and your message might accidentally encourage more users to do so. As you probably know (but others reading this might not), this goes against RFC1191 and breaks Path MTU (PMTU) discovery. To all those frightened admins out there: please reconfigure your firewalls to allow ICMP Destination Unreachable messages marked "Fragmentation Needed and 'Don't Fragment' Set".
Who knows? It might even fix the mysterious web and email problems your users keep complaining about. (See: http://www.worldgate.com/~marcs/mtu/)
While I agree the "Quicken" name alone fails to instantly conjure images of simple personal money management, to me "PC Teller" is worse. The first thought that occurs to me upon seeing "PC Teller" is the slight-of-hand team comprised of one large guy who talks a lot and one small guy who doesn't talk at all. I don't know about you, but I wouldn't trust them with my money.
Well, I can't speak to VTech's later computer systems or new handhelds, but on my desk right now I have a Laser (VTech) Turbo XT from 1987. It has survived years of use from me--after being a floor display model at Sears.
While many other computer systems come and gone, the VTech XT is still going strong; the only part that has failed is the clock battery. The original system, floppy and hard drives, monitor, and keyboard all still function as good as new.
Currently, the computer runs MS-DOS 5.0, 4DOS 4.0, and Geos to act as a terminal to a 10Base-T hub and a Linux box I fully expect it to outlast. And there's just something wonderful about hearing a late eighties, RLL harddrive spin up, not to mention speedisk.
Geos lives on as NewDeal from NewDeal, Inc. NewDeal release 3.2 is out, and requires only a 286 with 640K RAM and 10MB of disk space. It is available as NewDeal Office, NewDeal WebSuite, and NewDeal SchoolSuite to meet different needs. It may be purchased through the NewDeal, Inc. web site with discounts available to users upgrading from previous versions, including Geos.