Win98 seems to do okay on 3GHz machines, far as I've seen. What issues have you seen?
Considering that in consumerspace, the P60 was still newfangled and the P100 was bleeding edge when Win95 came out, guess we shouldn't be too startled if it falls over on vastly faster hardware:) I preferred the utterly slick performance and relative simplicity of Win95, but was forced to W98 by this issue.
Tho sometimes what gets blamed on Windows ain't wholly its fault. Frex, the 47 day rollover bug *doesn't* happen on about half of all hardware. Seems it needs a matching system timer (hardware) bug to manifest. -- Myself, I've never had an everyday system with this bug, so I think it's normal for Windows to run for months on end.:)
As a hedge against physical disasters, I'd also do incremental backups on some far-distant system -- get yourself some cheap hosting (I use 1&1, 120GB for $5/mo.) and dump copies there. It won't necessarily be any more reliable than your own system, but it does provide a remote backup not subject to local disasters.
As the tagline goes.. The four California seasons: Fire, Flood, Riot, and Earthquake.:)
I've understood this to be a problem with insufficiently shielded system RAM too (ie. plastic-sided cases).
Got any sample images to share? My digital camera doesn't do exposure times or lens caps (it's old and cheap:) but it sounds like an interesting experiment.
DOS (by which I normally mean M$DOS7 from Win95 or Win98) has been fine on everything I've tried it on, up into the P4-3GHz range. However, Win95 (OSR2.0b, the good one) threw up all over my now-antique P3-550/BX440 chipset. IIRC it installed fine, but would not run.
It doesn't matter. If your encrypted file is in someone else's hands, and they want to damage your data, all they have to do is assault the file with a hex editor and overwrite the data with a bunch of random bytes. Your data is now toast, despite the encryption being intact.
This is essentially the same issue as "my hard disk has bad spots and it's eating my files!" except induced deliberately by a 3rd party rather than accidentally by techno-breakdown.
On that note, when files are out of your hands, you are now relying on someone else's backups and data integrity -- which may or may not be better than you can achieve on your own!
And hardware backups. Some of the very old hardware is fine if it's powered up regularly, but tends to die if stored unpowered.
I've seen that so often with old-fashioned I/O cards (especially of the VLB type) that frankly I wouldn't trust any of 'em to last in storage at all. That means for old IDE HDs, find a motherboard with onboard connectors; don't rely on that ISA or VLB I/O card you've stashed to match the HD. (Some very old HDs are not recognised when hooked to post-486-era IDE channels, so this is a real issue if you need to recover that data.)
Some old-type hard drives have a similar issue: Conner HDs were fine so long as they were in regular use, but 6+ months in storage and they invariably lost the ability to boot (fixable with FDisk), and some also lost all their files, or at least anything that could be ID'd as a partition table and/or FAT.
Are you referring to the 512mb bug, where Win98 throws up if it sees more than 512mb (unless a certain fix is applied)?? I never heard of and can't find any reference to the bug of which you speak (tho apparently there was such a bug in one incarnation of RedHat).
The 512mb limit kicks in when the mainboard has three DIMM slots (which is seen as 2+2 with one slot overlapping). Two or four slot mobos are generally not affected.
This mainboard has 4 slots. It has 1GB RAM because it was cheap that week, and needed a specific physical height (your RAM dealer looks at you funny when you specify sticks "no taller than [----]") so I just filled the slots, needed or not. $51 for all, no big deal.
As I said, I have swap turned off entirely (yes, I DO know what I'm doing there), and my everyday Win98 box has been running that way for a lot of years. (My Win95 box ran without swap when it had 256mb physical RAM, too -- never saw Win95 go over 150mb total.) Gets rid of all those hitches in W98's getalong.
My WinME box (its almost-twin brother, but 768mb RAM) runs without swap too, when it's up (not often anymore, as it's the alt-boot on my XP box). In case you're about to diss it... it hasn't crashed in 8 years now, and it ran 24/7 for a couple years. Turn off ME's busted incarnation of System Restore (I let XP handle that from its side; works fine), apply 98Lite in default mode, and all ME's stability problems go away.
People act no better elsewhere that they're anonymous, such as when acting as part of a mob or riot.
Even so, the right to be anonymous is so critical to freedom (as expressed in many posts here today), that I'm willing to put up with a few trolls and the occasional mob, rather than lose that right.
I live in an area with mandatory absentee ballots (no polling places in the area). I defeat this loss of anonymity, insofar as any ballot cast at a polling place does, by hand-delivering my ballot to the collection box, rather than mailing it.
Of course, that's not always feasible, but it's a small stopgap.
Or another case with many realworld examples -- if you speak out against your government, and tomorrow the jackbooted thugs drag you away to be shot.
Anonymity exists primarily to protect people against their own governments (and against non-gov't radical groups), and only secondarily to protect them from other individuals, even tho as your example points out, the net effect can be much the same.
I've noticed that handwriting seems to be tied to the same channel as speech, but typing is a different channel, and over time it tends to override and damage the speech/handwriting channel.
Likewise it would be nifty (and probably scary at times) to be able to record my dreams and view them later, just like I would any other movie.
Aside from the obvious YouTube flooding (since most will be kark), I foresee a market for such things, and the potential to make a living from "lucid dreaming".
I agree with the previous review:) But as you say, nowadays we do too much "censorship" of what we really think, with the net result that no one can cope with anything that's not all rainbows and butterflies, and bullies get to have their way because no one will stand up to them.:(
"If you are at a party and a stranger calls you a jerk, is the host required to tell you who he was?"
I think that's the essential point -- gods, consider if Slashdot were forced to divulge identities (even if they knew 'em!) of everyone here who ever dissed Microsoft? I see no difference in the two situations.
BTW I love the Saki quote in your sig... and it's SOOO true in places like slashdot. And on that note... like someone else pointed out, you missed the irony in the anonymous post. Don't be so "accurate" and you'll need fewer explanations.;)
Yeah, but the net result is the same -- the body winds up with less of the Real Thing to work with. And that is, to my grok, the basic issue with phytoestrogens. Due to that, there's some concern that they have pro-cancer effects in females, too.
Might be that the more rapidly a fetus develops, the more dependent it is on the hormone system being Exactly Right. Humans - 9 months. Dogs - 9 weeks (in Real Life, usually 61 days, but they're viable without special care at 56 days). Mice (which per some studies are profoundly affected) -- what is it, 2 weeks??
We reproduce fine as we evolved to do (obviously, or we wouldn't be here:) But what happens to a human fetus when you effectively REMOVE the mother's natural estrogen by replacing it with PhytoFakeEstrogen?? That's Not A Normal Situation -- particularly since we didn't evolve to eat soy products!
BTW, as a writer, and a non-fan of AltMed, I love your sig:)
Not true. There are some good studies on the effects of phytoestrogens on dogs during fetal development; they're referenced from the linked site. IIRC (been a while since I read the papers), essentially you get underdeveloped male whelps, in addition to low sperm counts in adult males.
Also, IIRC phytoestrogens displace the body's natural estrogen, which obviously is Not Good, since the displacing chemical Doesn't Work Right (rather like how CO displaces O2, with sub-optimal results).
Also, during pregnancy the principle hormone is progesterone -- hit a pregnant bitch with a heavy dose of estrogen, and chances are she'll abort (and cycle back into season). Estrogen in fact is used as an abortificant in dogs, and sometimes is used to induce a heat cycle when the bitch is not cycling normally.
Failure of midline closure: exactly that. Fetal development doesn't complete (I've forgotten the name of the layer of embryonic tissue involved:) so you get large hernias (rather like a surgical opening in the lower ribs and/or abdomen, not like an umbilical hernia), cleft palates, "unfinished lips" (giving an appearance of the mouth gaping too far back toward the jaw hinge; I don't know if this has a medical name, but such pups definitely appear "undercooked"), and more rarely, open skulls (which canine whelps normally do not have, except for a few toy breeds). Affected puppies are almost always males, and are usually born alive, but are nonviable even if not profoundly deformed (I'd guess the intestinal tract is also affected).
I noticed the correlation with particular diets before I became aware of the cause. Once I learned about phytoestrogens, the connection was all too evident. (When you're feeding lots of dogs for a long lot of years, and have 95% of a biochem/microbiol degree, you notice many things about diet that normal people won't.:)
Soybean meal doesn't seem to have the same effect in dogs, but I'd guess that's because of the excess mucus it causes, and generally poor absorption. Flaxseed meal has no such digestive issue.
Gods, I'm a dog geek... I think that may be more freaky than being a medical geek.:D
And some of the best fiddlers are also classically trained. But we still poke a little fun at the stuffy ones.:P -- A nifty peculiarity I found in the local library: Itzhak Perlman playing Yiddish fiddle tunes!
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Win98 seems to do okay on 3GHz machines, far as I've seen. What issues have you seen?
Considering that in consumerspace, the P60 was still newfangled and the P100 was bleeding edge when Win95 came out, guess we shouldn't be too startled if it falls over on vastly faster hardware :) I preferred the utterly slick performance and relative simplicity of Win95, but was forced to W98 by this issue.
Tho sometimes what gets blamed on Windows ain't wholly its fault. Frex, the 47 day rollover bug *doesn't* happen on about half of all hardware. Seems it needs a matching system timer (hardware) bug to manifest. -- Myself, I've never had an everyday system with this bug, so I think it's normal for Windows to run for months on end. :)
As a hedge against physical disasters, I'd also do incremental backups on some far-distant system -- get yourself some cheap hosting (I use 1&1, 120GB for $5/mo.) and dump copies there. It won't necessarily be any more reliable than your own system, but it does provide a remote backup not subject to local disasters.
As the tagline goes.. The four California seasons: Fire, Flood, Riot, and Earthquake. :)
I've understood this to be a problem with insufficiently shielded system RAM too (ie. plastic-sided cases).
Got any sample images to share? My digital camera doesn't do exposure times or lens caps (it's old and cheap :) but it sounds like an interesting experiment.
DOS (by which I normally mean M$DOS7 from Win95 or Win98) has been fine on everything I've tried it on, up into the P4-3GHz range. However, Win95 (OSR2.0b, the good one) threw up all over my now-antique P3-550/BX440 chipset. IIRC it installed fine, but would not run.
It doesn't matter. If your encrypted file is in someone else's hands, and they want to damage your data, all they have to do is assault the file with a hex editor and overwrite the data with a bunch of random bytes. Your data is now toast, despite the encryption being intact.
This is essentially the same issue as "my hard disk has bad spots and it's eating my files!" except induced deliberately by a 3rd party rather than accidentally by techno-breakdown.
On that note, when files are out of your hands, you are now relying on someone else's backups and data integrity -- which may or may not be better than you can achieve on your own!
And hardware backups. Some of the very old hardware is fine if it's powered up regularly, but tends to die if stored unpowered.
I've seen that so often with old-fashioned I/O cards (especially of the VLB type) that frankly I wouldn't trust any of 'em to last in storage at all. That means for old IDE HDs, find a motherboard with onboard connectors; don't rely on that ISA or VLB I/O card you've stashed to match the HD. (Some very old HDs are not recognised when hooked to post-486-era IDE channels, so this is a real issue if you need to recover that data.)
Some old-type hard drives have a similar issue: Conner HDs were fine so long as they were in regular use, but 6+ months in storage and they invariably lost the ability to boot (fixable with FDisk), and some also lost all their files, or at least anything that could be ID'd as a partition table and/or FAT.
Are you referring to the 512mb bug, where Win98 throws up if it sees more than 512mb (unless a certain fix is applied)?? I never heard of and can't find any reference to the bug of which you speak (tho apparently there was such a bug in one incarnation of RedHat).
The 512mb limit kicks in when the mainboard has three DIMM slots (which is seen as 2+2 with one slot overlapping). Two or four slot mobos are generally not affected.
This mainboard has 4 slots. It has 1GB RAM because it was cheap that week, and needed a specific physical height (your RAM dealer looks at you funny when you specify sticks "no taller than [----]") so I just filled the slots, needed or not. $51 for all, no big deal.
As I said, I have swap turned off entirely (yes, I DO know what I'm doing there), and my everyday Win98 box has been running that way for a lot of years. (My Win95 box ran without swap when it had 256mb physical RAM, too -- never saw Win95 go over 150mb total.) Gets rid of all those hitches in W98's getalong.
My WinME box (its almost-twin brother, but 768mb RAM) runs without swap too, when it's up (not often anymore, as it's the alt-boot on my XP box). In case you're about to diss it... it hasn't crashed in 8 years now, and it ran 24/7 for a couple years. Turn off ME's busted incarnation of System Restore (I let XP handle that from its side; works fine), apply 98Lite in default mode, and all ME's stability problems go away.
People act no better elsewhere that they're anonymous, such as when acting as part of a mob or riot.
Even so, the right to be anonymous is so critical to freedom (as expressed in many posts here today), that I'm willing to put up with a few trolls and the occasional mob, rather than lose that right.
I live in an area with mandatory absentee ballots (no polling places in the area). I defeat this loss of anonymity, insofar as any ballot cast at a polling place does, by hand-delivering my ballot to the collection box, rather than mailing it.
Of course, that's not always feasible, but it's a small stopgap.
Or another case with many realworld examples -- if you speak out against your government, and tomorrow the jackbooted thugs drag you away to be shot.
Anonymity exists primarily to protect people against their own governments (and against non-gov't radical groups), and only secondarily to protect them from other individuals, even tho as your example points out, the net effect can be much the same.
And why some people develop a stutter as adults -- seems to be connected to too much typing.
Keyboards just aren't good for us :)
"Do not think about the white hippopotamus while turning the boiling water into gold!"
I've noticed that handwriting seems to be tied to the same channel as speech, but typing is a different channel, and over time it tends to override and damage the speech/handwriting channel.
is it dark
NO
is the sun shining
NO
is the moon visible
YES
am i outdoors
NO
am i looking through the window
NO
can I see the moon
NO
is it cloudy
NO
am i in bed
YES
am i with a pretty girl
YES
am i dead
YES
is the girl a necrophiliac
NO
did the girl kill me
YES
How do I wake up?? I don't think I like this dream very much!!
Interesting concept. I wonder if it might be used to refine an image, with an effect rather like watching an interlaced image downloading.
Not functionally different from the ancient concept of "the gods told me in a dream". Insert tech, remove gods, what do you have? :)
Likewise it would be nifty (and probably scary at times) to be able to record my dreams and view them later, just like I would any other movie.
Aside from the obvious YouTube flooding (since most will be kark), I foresee a market for such things, and the potential to make a living from "lucid dreaming".
I agree with the previous review :) But as you say, nowadays we do too much "censorship" of what we really think, with the net result that no one can cope with anything that's not all rainbows and butterflies, and bullies get to have their way because no one will stand up to them. :(
Funniest Twitter jokes ever!
Someone mod these ACs up!
I suspect you're right. No franchise company wants a branch store making them look bad, and this sure isn't doing them any good.
I'm also wondering why, if the allegation is that untrue or that actionable, the franchise company doesn't come to his aid??
Seems to me if there was really a case here, Dunkin' Donuts Inc. would be first in line at the legal office.
"If you are at a party and a stranger calls you a jerk, is the host required to tell you who he was?"
I think that's the essential point -- gods, consider if Slashdot were forced to divulge identities (even if they knew 'em!) of everyone here who ever dissed Microsoft? I see no difference in the two situations.
BTW I love the Saki quote in your sig ... and it's SOOO true in places like slashdot. And on that note... like someone else pointed out, you missed the irony in the anonymous post. Don't be so "accurate" and you'll need fewer explanations. ;)
Yeah, but the net result is the same -- the body winds up with less of the Real Thing to work with. And that is, to my grok, the basic issue with phytoestrogens. Due to that, there's some concern that they have pro-cancer effects in females, too.
Might be that the more rapidly a fetus develops, the more dependent it is on the hormone system being Exactly Right. Humans - 9 months. Dogs - 9 weeks (in Real Life, usually 61 days, but they're viable without special care at 56 days). Mice (which per some studies are profoundly affected) -- what is it, 2 weeks??
We reproduce fine as we evolved to do (obviously, or we wouldn't be here :) But what happens to a human fetus when you effectively REMOVE the mother's natural estrogen by replacing it with PhytoFakeEstrogen?? That's Not A Normal Situation -- particularly since we didn't evolve to eat soy products!
BTW, as a writer, and a non-fan of AltMed, I love your sig :)
Not true. There are some good studies on the effects of phytoestrogens on dogs during fetal development; they're referenced from the linked site. IIRC (been a while since I read the papers), essentially you get underdeveloped male whelps, in addition to low sperm counts in adult males.
Also, IIRC phytoestrogens displace the body's natural estrogen, which obviously is Not Good, since the displacing chemical Doesn't Work Right (rather like how CO displaces O2, with sub-optimal results).
Also, during pregnancy the principle hormone is progesterone -- hit a pregnant bitch with a heavy dose of estrogen, and chances are she'll abort (and cycle back into season). Estrogen in fact is used as an abortificant in dogs, and sometimes is used to induce a heat cycle when the bitch is not cycling normally.
Failure of midline closure: exactly that. Fetal development doesn't complete (I've forgotten the name of the layer of embryonic tissue involved :) so you get large hernias (rather like a surgical opening in the lower ribs and/or abdomen, not like an umbilical hernia), cleft palates, "unfinished lips" (giving an appearance of the mouth gaping too far back toward the jaw hinge; I don't know if this has a medical name, but such pups definitely appear "undercooked"), and more rarely, open skulls (which canine whelps normally do not have, except for a few toy breeds). Affected puppies are almost always males, and are usually born alive, but are nonviable even if not profoundly deformed (I'd guess the intestinal tract is also affected).
I noticed the correlation with particular diets before I became aware of the cause. Once I learned about phytoestrogens, the connection was all too evident. (When you're feeding lots of dogs for a long lot of years, and have 95% of a biochem/microbiol degree, you notice many things about diet that normal people won't. :)
Soybean meal doesn't seem to have the same effect in dogs, but I'd guess that's because of the excess mucus it causes, and generally poor absorption. Flaxseed meal has no such digestive issue.
Gods, I'm a dog geek... I think that may be more freaky than being a medical geek. :D
And some of the best fiddlers are also classically trained. But we still poke a little fun at the stuffy ones. :P -- A nifty peculiarity I found in the local library: Itzhak Perlman playing Yiddish fiddle tunes!