And what if a despot/terrorist got his hands on one of these[...?]
More likely, what if {USA|Britain|France} sells one of these to someone who turns out to be a despot in a couple of years time after their usefulness is over?
I was thinking more in terms of something like Postgres or MySQL using C++ Builder, but that does rather reflect badly on Paradox (or is it the quality of Delphi?).
SGI were doing it in at least 1993 - Filesystem Navigator (fsn) was available for free for the SGI Indigo. It's the thing with all the little cubes and spotlights for navigating files that you see in Jurassic Park.
More recently, there has been a plain-X11 version of a similar thing, but with really nicely done labelling, and good speed (no GL). I wish I could remember what it was called though! I think it was French.
Three guys have to drive pokey little shitboxes to compensate.
Yeah, the BMW 530d is a real pokey shitbox (50mpg extra-urban, 180bhp). European manufacturers are already close to and above (Audi A2 - 70-something mpg) those mileage figures.
I'd guess the Audi A2 (but probably not a BMW 5-series) cost less than the SUV.
As someone pointed out to me the other day here, and has changed the way I use my laptop - if it's a Win2K try Standby next time. As long as the battery holds out, my Toshiba now 'boots' in 3 seconds, and shuts down in about the same. I don't know why I never tried it before.
Which reminds me - anyone know if I can do the same with Linux? I'd like to be able to suspend (mostly-power down) or suspend-to-disk (complete power-down) RH7.2 too...
when Win95 first came out I tryed it out on my 386/16/w 4megs.
That's not that surprising, since the minimum RAM requirement for Win95 was 8M. I'm pretty sure it flat-out refused to install with less RAM, actually - it was a while ago, but I remember seeing a screen telling me my PC was too crap at one point installing 95. Maybe that was for OSR2.
It's worth mentioning that since at least NT4, the NT-based OSes 'cheat' about boot times compared to many Unixes... The typical unix will go through it's rc files (or rc.d/nnn dirs) and run the scripts in turn and wait for them to finish. NT plops it's login screen up long before it's finished loading Services (the rough equivalent of things like Sendmail and BIND on your *nix box). Wait and see how much time you need until both systems stop accessing the disk after reboot - the NT system will clatter away running IIS, DNS, DHCPd, whatever you have configured, for quite a while after the login screen has appeared.
I can see in certain situations the 'multiple users' aspect of XP being handy. You can 'park' your session without logging out, have someone else log in, use the PC then switch back to your workspace as you left it. I believe the Terminal Services client will let the other person reconnect to their session from a RDP client too.
I never though I'd say it, but the fisher-price UI grew on me, too.
they just don't realize many of the benefits they could see.
I found the most benefit in moving from NT4 to Win2000 though. Windows 2000 really is a very nice desktop OS compared to NT Workstation. From Win2000 to XP doesn't seem so amazing (I haven't seriously used XP for long), although I can see how the Home edition would be a really nice change from WinME.
Most people LIKE spending time putting their systems together.
Indeed, I like the idea of being able to pick and choose components for my system. For me, I would pick mainly on noise - cooling noise (fanless VGA, quiet-bearings on CPU fan), hard drive noise (fluid bearings, insulation, lower speed), CDROM noise (TrueX drive) - and secondly on absolute performance. I would also have an LCD screen (assuming I wanted one) of my choice, not attached to the system - that's a benefit in my eyes. Horses for courses.
[anyone know of a UK source for TrueX drives? especially if there is a DVDROM using this technology...]
The spacewalker barebones (Case+Mobo) is about $250 (£170 is the price I knew). Add a duron, 20Gb drive and 256Mb RAM, and it's about $500.
The iMac spec you describe is shipping from the Apple store for $1900.
So, with $1400 to spend, we can add a Pioneer A03 DVD-R ($500), a 15" LCD ($300?) and a PCI GF2MX (should be $100 or less if you can find one).
I think I still saved $500, and I have a computer that will fit on a shelf, and run the latest games reasonably. I guess the final decision (whether you'll pay about $500 premium for the 'sexy' Apple case) is one of taste.
NT4 came with IIS3 (which was a waste of time) as an installable option, but not in the default install. It was IIS4 which was the first interesting version (ASP, ISAPI) that came in the option pack.
Or was it 2 and 3? I can't figure out where another one would come before Win2k's IIS5 then, but I'm sure I remember upgrading from 3 to 4 to get better ASP support. I've tried to blot it out - upgrading to IIS4 was a fricking disaster.
Oh well. I'm sure I remember seeing in a different discussion, someone arguing constitutional protection against something a corporation was doing only to be corrected that it only applies to the government... *shrug* as I said, you probably know better.
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I believe Heinlein is also credited with the word 'Waldo' for a power-assisted/amplified prosthetic.
And what if a despot/terrorist got his hands on one of these[...?]
More likely, what if {USA|Britain|France} sells one of these to someone who turns out to be a despot in a couple of years time after their usefulness is over?
I was thinking more in terms of something like Postgres or MySQL using C++ Builder, but that does rather reflect badly on Paradox (or is it the quality of Delphi?).
You failed (ln: File Exists). That would be:
/usr/bin/diff cheatingdetector
ln -s
It doesn't mention which bits they are intending to change... I wonder if the 'not produce competing products' part is included?
Currently, you couldn't legally use C++ Builder or Delphi/Kylix to write a database engine or an IDE, as I understand it...
Heh. Including the 5.25" Floppy Drives that other guy was looking for yesterday.
A method to induce sleep in young humans through the use of pressure waves generated by the female progenitor's vocal chords
"A method to induce somnolent behaviour in scions through the use of maternal cantillations."?
You mean like this?
:)
They even supply the layout software (actually, they require you to use it, to save costs in fooling around).
Oh, for ICs...
SGI were doing it in at least 1993 - Filesystem Navigator (fsn) was available for free for the SGI Indigo. It's the thing with all the little cubes and spotlights for navigating files that you see in Jurassic Park.
More recently, there has been a plain-X11 version of a similar thing, but with really nicely done labelling, and good speed (no GL). I wish I could remember what it was called though! I think it was French.
ummm, because your roommate deals on the black market? Why would one dorm room have dozens?
Three guys have to drive pokey little shitboxes to compensate.
Yeah, the BMW 530d is a real pokey shitbox (50mpg extra-urban, 180bhp). European manufacturers are already close to and above (Audi A2 - 70-something mpg) those mileage figures.
I'd guess the Audi A2 (but probably not a BMW 5-series) cost less than the SUV.
Too bad the video quality will suck worse than a 4th generation tape - or is that just my GeForce? *damn* fringy picture.
yeah, and picard got a haircut. Stay on target. Geez.
As someone pointed out to me the other day here, and has changed the way I use my laptop - if it's a Win2K try Standby next time. As long as the battery holds out, my Toshiba now 'boots' in 3 seconds, and shuts down in about the same. I don't know why I never tried it before.
Which reminds me - anyone know if I can do the same with Linux? I'd like to be able to suspend (mostly-power down) or suspend-to-disk (complete power-down) RH7.2 too...
when Win95 first came out I tryed it out on my 386/16 /w 4megs.
That's not that surprising, since the minimum RAM requirement for Win95 was 8M. I'm pretty sure it flat-out refused to install with less RAM, actually - it was a while ago, but I remember seeing a screen telling me my PC was too crap at one point installing 95. Maybe that was for OSR2.
It's worth mentioning that since at least NT4, the NT-based OSes 'cheat' about boot times compared to many Unixes... The typical unix will go through it's rc files (or rc.d/nnn dirs) and run the scripts in turn and wait for them to finish. NT plops it's login screen up long before it's finished loading Services (the rough equivalent of things like Sendmail and BIND on your *nix box). Wait and see how much time you need until both systems stop accessing the disk after reboot - the NT system will clatter away running IIS, DNS, DHCPd, whatever you have configured, for quite a while after the login screen has appeared.
I can see in certain situations the 'multiple users' aspect of XP being handy. You can 'park' your session without logging out, have someone else log in, use the PC then switch back to your workspace as you left it. I believe the Terminal Services client will let the other person reconnect to their session from a RDP client too.
I never though I'd say it, but the fisher-price UI grew on me, too.
they just don't realize many of the benefits they could see.
I found the most benefit in moving from NT4 to Win2000 though. Windows 2000 really is a very nice desktop OS compared to NT Workstation. From Win2000 to XP doesn't seem so amazing (I haven't seriously used XP for long), although I can see how the Home edition would be a really nice change from WinME.
Most people LIKE spending time putting their systems together.
Indeed, I like the idea of being able to pick and choose components for my system. For me, I would pick mainly on noise - cooling noise (fanless VGA, quiet-bearings on CPU fan), hard drive noise (fluid bearings, insulation, lower speed), CDROM noise (TrueX drive) - and secondly on absolute performance. I would also have an LCD screen (assuming I wanted one) of my choice, not attached to the system - that's a benefit in my eyes. Horses for courses.
[anyone know of a UK source for TrueX drives? especially if there is a DVDROM using this technology...]
Having said that, I'd love to see one of these slightly taller
Try the ASUS Terminator then. 2 PCI slots, 2 3.5" bays, 2 5.25" bays. A bit more plasticky too though.
Actually, one of the few recent mobo reviews I've seen without a fan on the northbridge (only a heatsink) was for an nForce board: the MSI K7N420 Pro.
The spacewalker barebones (Case+Mobo) is about $250 (£170 is the price I knew). Add a duron, 20Gb drive and 256Mb RAM, and it's about $500.
The iMac spec you describe is shipping from the Apple store for $1900.
So, with $1400 to spend, we can add a Pioneer A03 DVD-R ($500), a 15" LCD ($300?) and a PCI GF2MX (should be $100 or less if you can find one).
I think I still saved $500, and I have a computer that will fit on a shelf, and run the latest games reasonably. I guess the final decision (whether you'll pay about $500 premium for the 'sexy' Apple case) is one of taste.
The Apple Store has them here for $5 each, and unless the world has gone completely mad, they must be available cheaper than that.
That said, Amazon has a single disk for $15, so maybe it's time to start padding the walls. Ouch.
NT4 came with IIS3 (which was a waste of time) as an installable option, but not in the default install. It was IIS4 which was the first interesting version (ASP, ISAPI) that came in the option pack.
Or was it 2 and 3? I can't figure out where another one would come before Win2k's IIS5 then, but I'm sure I remember upgrading from 3 to 4 to get better ASP support. I've tried to blot it out - upgrading to IIS4 was a fricking disaster.
Anyway, there was an IIS on the NT4 CD.
Oh well. I'm sure I remember seeing in a different discussion, someone arguing constitutional protection against something a corporation was doing only to be corrected that it only applies to the government... *shrug* as I said, you probably know better.