Oddly enough, the PICO.EXE that came with it does the same thing. I wonder if it's choking on the 1GB RAM in this machine, that not being what you'd normally expect with Win98. (Which has no problem with it, itself; this is a 4-RAM-slot mobo, which doesn't gag Win9x the way 3 RAM slots will.)
WinRAR didn't think the archive was bogus, so I don't think that was the problem.
To the contrary -- chains and appropriate tires can make one helluva difference (tho they won't negate completely stupid driving). I've lived where I had to put chains on every day to get in and out of my place. And I could get out easily enough with my 2WD truck, chained up; my next door neighbour, who thought he didn't need chains, spent his mornings in his 4WD, busy being stuck.
And I've pulled a number of cars out of the ditch. The biggest factor leading to who was on which end of the tow rope was that I had studded snow tires, and they didn't.
You know that game kids play where you crank the wheel around hard and stand on the gas, to make the car go flip-flip-flip across an empty iced-up parking lot? (The Albertson's lot in Bozeman MT was perfect.) My '63 Olds was great fun for that. Until I put four studded snow tires on it... and found it would no longer go flip-flip-flip; in fact it wouldn't sideslip at all no matter how hard I gunned it. Hey! safety is no fun!:)
And my rule for regular driving was that if you're sliding at all, you're either going too fast or braking too fast. So in the interest of not sliding, I do neither.:)
Nope.. I never troll. I say exactly what I mean, and never with intent to incite a riot (tho this being slashdot, that does happen occasionally anyway).
I noticed a couple modbots took you seriously, tho...:/
I'm from Montana, actually... and I can stop my truck on glare ice faster and steadier primarily by gearing down, and only touching the brakes at the final halt, than with brakes alone. (Tho give me four studded snow tires, and I'll use both -- and stop on ice every bit as short as I can on dry pavement. In an emergency, where some guy flipped himself sideways across my lane, I've done just that.)
Yeah, you've gotta touch the brakes for ABS to go wrong, and no doubt the systems are much better than they used to be, but I remember when they first became prevalent in consumer autos... lordy, the spinning cars we saw for a few years!! Point was, tho, that if you don't have control over the braking decision, there are a lot of ways it can go wrong, and it sure as hell can't make the judgment calls that an experienced driver will.
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McMartin_preschool_trial for an example of how when there is already public hysteria and gov't desire to Do Something, a mere suggestion of wrongdoing can get completely out of hand and ruin multiple people's lives.
Reporting your neighbour's suspiciously large supply of fertilizer wouldn't result in a calm visit from the friendly local cops. It would result in a SWAT team in full assault mode busting down his door, and maybe shooting him if he has the temerity to say "See here now, what's this about?" in too strong a voice.
And use a tool like Password Asterisk Viewer (free from http://www.lostpassword.com/ to extract those asterisks... if a simple tool like this can do it, surely a sophisticated keylogger can have the same capability built in.
Being intrigued by the notion of a decent text-style mail client (and well-accustomed to a text-based BBS-messaging client), I just d/l'd Alpine, and quickly discovered that it will not run on this Win98 box. Didn't see anything about expecting some specific version of Windows...?? It doesn't load, just does an instant abend, in Windows or a DOS box. Where did I go wrong??
We already have those automatic driving contraptions. They're called "trains" and "busses". Trouble is, they don't go everywhere that people need to go.
The trouble with automated systems is that they assume ideal conditions. Anyone who's experienced at driving on ice and in deep snow will tell you how much fun it is to have your ABS take over and spin you around a couple times (or crawl up the side of the plowed-snow bank along the road), when left to your own devices you'd have geared down (yes, auto trannies CAN do that), likely not used the brakes at all, and slowed *safely*.
The difference is that you were acting in a private capacity. Your investigation was not intended to be used by law enforcement, nor in a major civil suit. The RIAA's investigations *were* so intented, which brings them under the more-stringent rules applying to paid investigators.
It's kind of like construction contractor license rules: in general, you can do such work on a very small scale, or for your own personal benefit, without a license. But the moment you do it commercially (ie. in a capacity parallel to a professional investigator), you're required to be licensed.
Not only that, but if the user is doing something "wrong", why did the software ALLOW that to happen?
I'm reminded of a case where the developer cleaned up after his app at exit by deleting all the files in the system's %TEMP% directory... which in the DOS era, was the DOS directory by default, so running his app deleted your operating system. He defended this bug by insisting that users shouldn't be so stupid as to leave %TEMP% set to the default.
Yeah, maybe that's true in an ideal world, but in the real world you can't assume all users are equally savvy or equally precise. Mistakes happen, especially mistakes in input and where people click.
I'm wondering if Seamonkey will snag and benefit from these memory leak fixes??
Unfortunately I found Firefox unusable due to the dumbed-down interface, not to mention its poor performance. So I have not been using it myself. But with the leaks reduced, maybe it's time to give it another look.
I've noticed that Mozilla v1.8 doesn't thrash the HD, but it DOES spike CPU usage to 100% any time it's asked to do ANYTHING, effectively bringing this poor old P3, with its lowly 1GB of RAM, to a dead halt until Moz is done doing whatever. (And it does everything SLOWLY. Figure 10 seconds for every 100k worth of data, no matter what it's doing with it.)
While you are correct in the current market, I think in the long term this is a good move for music consumers AND for the artists.
If meatspace radio were forced to pay the same painful royalties as internet radio, based on probable numbers of listeners (and in a big market, that's a LOT of listeners) there'd be such a hue and cry that the entire statutory royalties thing would soon be restructured to something more realistic -- because otherwise they'd all be in the same financial black hole that internet radio is about to go into.
[For one of the more popular internet radio stations, the royalty figure worked out to $17,000 per listener per year. Imagine if a New York or Los Angeles meatspace station had to pay that much!]
I'm curious as to how much more (or less if that's the case) of the energy is dissipated by the blast being over deep water and the consequent boil-off?
I once saw a burning meteor, very high in the atmosphere, that showed a glowing disk -- perhaps half the visible diameter of the sun, or a tish smaller. It produced brilliant white light (akin to a magnesium flash) for several seconds, then went POOF.
I've been told it was probably very small, but I'm curious as to whether there's any good way to actually estimate its size. At a guess, it was probably some tens of miles up.
And if an incoming meteor broke up before impact, not only would the individual pieces, now smaller and with relatively more ablative surface, be less likely to reach the surface than if it were still One Big Lump, but also one might expect to find multiple blast locations (not necessarily in a symmetric pattern). I'd think one could calculate blast angles and reconstruct a multiple-pieces scenario to the point of breakup.
Oh, we're talking at cross-purposes here... I generally agree with you; the future *eventually* will be with the indy artist who can produce and distribute his own work, and collect his own profits without owing 99% of it back to a label. Radiohead's bold move may not have been quite enough to start a cascade failure in the RIAA's business model, but at least it demonstrated that it CAN be done.
But at present the middlemen DO control production of the vast majority of works that fall under the DMCA (and that's what I was referring to). And rather than figuring out that "the more you tighten your grip, the more dollars slip through your fingers", they are clinging ever-more-tightly to their existing model.
I'm reminded of some ill-managed stores that when they see a drop in revenue (for whatever reason), instead of recognising that they need to create incentives for people to come back, they raise prices to make up the revenue gap -- which may work in the short term, but in the long term will drive away even more would-be customers.
I think that thanks to the obscene increase in statutory royalties, internet radio will soon show a much stronger shift toward *royalty-free" music, which by its nature is more likely to have a high percentage of indy artists. Some stations already have a policy of playing only royalty-free works (see http://www.digitalgunfire.com/radioplayrelease.rtf ) -- and guess what, they've managed to shift my tastes toward that music, if only through sheer exposure. Where do you think my dollars will go next time I purchase CDs??
One big diff I see is that domain squatters pay no taxes on their holdings, and since many ARE registrars, they pay no reg'n fee either (ICANN's few cents barely counts.) Real estate will always cost you property tax at the bare minimum.
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Aha. Well, by amazing coincidence, I did so, but turned off delivery... no worries now :)
Will do. Be warned -- I am the beta tester who can break anything. :)
What's the traffic on the list? It won't let me read the archives unless I sign up first. :(
:)
:)
Of course, the problem could be merely my fearsome repute as "the beta-tester who can break anything" at work
Yeah, Win98 is old now, but if it ain't broke... kindof the same reason a lot of folks still use PINE, for that matter.
Oddly enough, the PICO.EXE that came with it does the same thing. I wonder if it's choking on the 1GB RAM in this machine, that not being what you'd normally expect with Win98. (Which has no problem with it, itself; this is a 4-RAM-slot mobo, which doesn't gag Win9x the way 3 RAM slots will.)
WinRAR didn't think the archive was bogus, so I don't think that was the problem.
To the contrary -- chains and appropriate tires can make one helluva difference (tho they won't negate completely stupid driving). I've lived where I had to put chains on every day to get in and out of my place. And I could get out easily enough with my 2WD truck, chained up; my next door neighbour, who thought he didn't need chains, spent his mornings in his 4WD, busy being stuck.
:)
:)
And I've pulled a number of cars out of the ditch. The biggest factor leading to who was on which end of the tow rope was that I had studded snow tires, and they didn't.
You know that game kids play where you crank the wheel around hard and stand on the gas, to make the car go flip-flip-flip across an empty iced-up parking lot? (The Albertson's lot in Bozeman MT was perfect.) My '63 Olds was great fun for that. Until I put four studded snow tires on it... and found it would no longer go flip-flip-flip; in fact it wouldn't sideslip at all no matter how hard I gunned it. Hey! safety is no fun!
And my rule for regular driving was that if you're sliding at all, you're either going too fast or braking too fast. So in the interest of not sliding, I do neither.
Nope.. I never troll. I say exactly what I mean, and never with intent to incite a riot (tho this being slashdot, that does happen occasionally anyway).
:/
I noticed a couple modbots took you seriously, tho...
I'm from Montana, actually... and I can stop my truck on glare ice faster and steadier primarily by gearing down, and only touching the brakes at the final halt, than with brakes alone. (Tho give me four studded snow tires, and I'll use both -- and stop on ice every bit as short as I can on dry pavement. In an emergency, where some guy flipped himself sideways across my lane, I've done just that.)
Yeah, you've gotta touch the brakes for ABS to go wrong, and no doubt the systems are much better than they used to be, but I remember when they first became prevalent in consumer autos... lordy, the spinning cars we saw for a few years!! Point was, tho, that if you don't have control over the braking decision, there are a lot of ways it can go wrong, and it sure as hell can't make the judgment calls that an experienced driver will.
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McMartin_preschool_trial for an example of how when there is already public hysteria and gov't desire to Do Something, a mere suggestion of wrongdoing can get completely out of hand and ruin multiple people's lives.
Reporting your neighbour's suspiciously large supply of fertilizer wouldn't result in a calm visit from the friendly local cops. It would result in a SWAT team in full assault mode busting down his door, and maybe shooting him if he has the temerity to say "See here now, what's this about?" in too strong a voice.
And use a tool like Password Asterisk Viewer (free from http://www.lostpassword.com/ to extract those asterisks... if a simple tool like this can do it, surely a sophisticated keylogger can have the same capability built in.
Being intrigued by the notion of a decent text-style mail client (and well-accustomed to a text-based BBS-messaging client), I just d/l'd Alpine, and quickly discovered that it will not run on this Win98 box. Didn't see anything about expecting some specific version of Windows...?? It doesn't load, just does an instant abend, in Windows or a DOS box. Where did I go wrong??
We already have those automatic driving contraptions. They're called "trains" and "busses". Trouble is, they don't go everywhere that people need to go.
The trouble with automated systems is that they assume ideal conditions. Anyone who's experienced at driving on ice and in deep snow will tell you how much fun it is to have your ABS take over and spin you around a couple times (or crawl up the side of the plowed-snow bank along the road), when left to your own devices you'd have geared down (yes, auto trannies CAN do that), likely not used the brakes at all, and slowed *safely*.
Can't something like Process Explorer do that? (one of sysinternals.com's free tools)
The difference is that you were acting in a private capacity. Your investigation was not intended to be used by law enforcement, nor in a major civil suit. The RIAA's investigations *were* so intented, which brings them under the more-stringent rules applying to paid investigators.
It's kind of like construction contractor license rules: in general, you can do such work on a very small scale, or for your own personal benefit, without a license. But the moment you do it commercially (ie. in a capacity parallel to a professional investigator), you're required to be licensed.
Not only that, but if the user is doing something "wrong", why did the software ALLOW that to happen?
I'm reminded of a case where the developer cleaned up after his app at exit by deleting all the files in the system's %TEMP% directory... which in the DOS era, was the DOS directory by default, so running his app deleted your operating system. He defended this bug by insisting that users shouldn't be so stupid as to leave %TEMP% set to the default.
Yeah, maybe that's true in an ideal world, but in the real world you can't assume all users are equally savvy or equally precise. Mistakes happen, especially mistakes in input and where people click.
I'm wondering if Seamonkey will snag and benefit from these memory leak fixes??
Unfortunately I found Firefox unusable due to the dumbed-down interface, not to mention its poor performance. So I have not been using it myself. But with the leaks reduced, maybe it's time to give it another look.
I've noticed that Mozilla v1.8 doesn't thrash the HD, but it DOES spike CPU usage to 100% any time it's asked to do ANYTHING, effectively bringing this poor old P3, with its lowly 1GB of RAM, to a dead halt until Moz is done doing whatever. (And it does everything SLOWLY. Figure 10 seconds for every 100k worth of data, no matter what it's doing with it.)
Pessimists... *Constantine* would've seen it as a good sign and built an empire on it.
While you are correct in the current market, I think in the long term this is a good move for music consumers AND for the artists.
If meatspace radio were forced to pay the same painful royalties as internet radio, based on probable numbers of listeners (and in a big market, that's a LOT of listeners) there'd be such a hue and cry that the entire statutory royalties thing would soon be restructured to something more realistic -- because otherwise they'd all be in the same financial black hole that internet radio is about to go into.
[For one of the more popular internet radio stations, the royalty figure worked out to $17,000 per listener per year. Imagine if a New York or Los Angeles meatspace station had to pay that much!]
I'm curious as to how much more (or less if that's the case) of the energy is dissipated by the blast being over deep water and the consequent boil-off?
I once saw a burning meteor, very high in the atmosphere, that showed a glowing disk -- perhaps half the visible diameter of the sun, or a tish smaller. It produced brilliant white light (akin to a magnesium flash) for several seconds, then went POOF.
I've been told it was probably very small, but I'm curious as to whether there's any good way to actually estimate its size. At a guess, it was probably some tens of miles up.
And if an incoming meteor broke up before impact, not only would the individual pieces, now smaller and with relatively more ablative surface, be less likely to reach the surface than if it were still One Big Lump, but also one might expect to find multiple blast locations (not necessarily in a symmetric pattern). I'd think one could calculate blast angles and reconstruct a multiple-pieces scenario to the point of breakup.
Oh, we're talking at cross-purposes here... I generally agree with you; the future *eventually* will be with the indy artist who can produce and distribute his own work, and collect his own profits without owing 99% of it back to a label. Radiohead's bold move may not have been quite enough to start a cascade failure in the RIAA's business model, but at least it demonstrated that it CAN be done.
But at present the middlemen DO control production of the vast majority of works that fall under the DMCA (and that's what I was referring to). And rather than figuring out that "the more you tighten your grip, the more dollars slip through your fingers", they are clinging ever-more-tightly to their existing model.
I'm reminded of some ill-managed stores that when they see a drop in revenue (for whatever reason), instead of recognising that they need to create incentives for people to come back, they raise prices to make up the revenue gap -- which may work in the short term, but in the long term will drive away even more would-be customers.
I think that thanks to the obscene increase in statutory royalties, internet radio will soon show a much stronger shift toward *royalty-free" music, which by its nature is more likely to have a high percentage of indy artists. Some stations already have a policy of playing only royalty-free works (see http://www.digitalgunfire.com/radioplayrelease.rtf
) -- and guess what, they've managed to shift my tastes toward that music, if only through sheer exposure. Where do you think my dollars will go next time I purchase CDs??
One big diff I see is that domain squatters pay no taxes on their holdings, and since many ARE registrars, they pay no reg'n fee either (ICANN's few cents barely counts.) Real estate will always cost you property tax at the bare minimum.
So this is more like your country being overrun by foreign troops, who then confiscate your home?
You heard it as an advertising stream, of course.