Right, but who wants to run extra software... (and how do you load it if you've made the new oversized drive your boot drive:-)
I have a friend of mine who's doing exactly that on his 250 gig hd with a (finally!!!!) soon-to-be-junked duron 850...he wouldn't need the software if he were running linux or any "modern" os. Still, he's actually (gasp) downloaded a copy of Ubuntu, and he wants me to install a copy of opensuse on a 12 gig usb stick so he can play around with it, so there's still hope.
Did you work with those big partitions on a bios that can only see 8 gig partitions? I doubt it. We're talking older hardware here - 486 and early P1 machines, many of which are limited to 8 gig, some to 2 gig or even 512 meg. Windows won't reliably write over 32 gig on that hardware, even if the partitions are set up on another machine first.
Fat32 has a hard limit of 32 gigs under win9x. Formatting them over this limit using another OS doesn't fix the problem - as soon as you pass the 32 gig limit, you start writing over the data at the beginning of the partition (unless you have either win98 with all the patches already installed, or winme). Been there, done that.
"So if the software industry got back to lean and mean OSs and small but very usable internet applications and put together a package that could be test run via CD (or floppy/cd combo for those old system that just can't boot from CD) there could possible be an extension to the usable life of systems that otherwise make it to the landfill or recycling mine."
MenuetOS is an Operating System in development for the PC written entirely in 32/64 bit assembly language, and released under the License. It supports 32/64 bit x86 assembly programming for smaller, faster and less resource hungry applications.
Menuet has no roots within UNIX or the POSIX standards, nor is it based on any particular operating system. The design goal has been to remove the extra layers between different parts of an OS, which normally complicate programming and create bugs.
Menuet's application structure is not specifically reserved for asm programming since the header can be produced with practically any other language. However, the overall application programming design is intended for easy 32/64 bit asm programming. Menuet's responsive GUI is easy to handle with assembly language.
Seamonkey works great, even with those stupid banking sites that still don't work with firefox, but work with "Windows Internet Explorer 6, 7, or Netscape 4". Even the fonts are better than firefox's for some reason.
"160go hard drive don't work under some old computers (PII, 1st or 2nd generation of celeron with old bios)."
Stick the drive in a newer linux box, and make a small boot partition (/dev/hda1) that is small enough for the current bios (I've stuck 160 gig hard drives in machines that won't see beyond 8 gigs with this trick), so it works. Make/dev/hda2,/dev/hda3, etc in your preferred layout. Format each as ext3, reiserfs, fat32, whatevr your poison. This works for win9x, winnt, as well as linux.
Move the drive to the old box, boot off the cd-rom, install on the only visible partition (the small one).
Reboot, and at the end of the boot process, your other partitions are visible. On wn9x systems, your other partitions are limited to 32 gig each, so make sure you do under that. On winnt systems, you're limited to 128gig (yes, I know, its supposed to be 256 gig, but don't do it... you might even want to stay below the 32 gig limit and stick with vfat, just to be safe), on linux systems, you're limited to... whatever your heart desires.
Note: if you're using fat32 and are foolish enough to go over the 32 gig limit, you WILL be sorry. It will appear to format, and it will even appear to hold, say, 128 gig. However, once you try to write past the first 32 gig, it will over-write from the beginning of the partition, erasing data... so if you're doing this with a windows box, your absolute safest bet is:
boot partition the maximum size your bios can see (say, 8 gigs, assuming really old hardware - a p150, for example)
So let them use lynx or links, wget and curl if they're that impatient. The can surf the web, download their pr0n, etc., all without the overhead of a gui.
You can't have everything. There was a time when 500 mhz machines were considered blindingly fast... and they're still fast enough for firefox if you're not viewing pages with a ton of flash, etc. Stick adblock plus, remove the flash and pdf plugins, and watch firefox run a lot fastr...
Oh, they want flash and pdf, etc? Well, then they need a better machine. TANSTAAFL.
If you've seen how they pack people in, swivelling isn't an option.
The swivel mechanism would be heavier and weaker, defeating the purpose - no point if all that's going to happen is the seat breaks off and crushes the occupant in the next seat, and so on... domino effect;
How do you deal with the handicapped, limited mobility, kids...
Why not just have them facing backwards, and be done with it. Far safer, and a lot cheaper to implement using mostly existing hardware.
The idea is you dump all your stuff on the floor if you don't have much time, or stow it if you do, and the seat in front of you now acts as a partial shield from flying debris.
"Aortic dissection. This is what kills you. It's the most common, lethal deceleration injury. Of course if you're going fast enough you're simply crushed, but at "lower" speeds a sudden deceleration is enough to rotate the heart (which is fairly mobile in the chest) and rip it off the aorta (which is fixed to the posterior chest wall). The arteriovenous ligament doesn't help, either. So the aorta ruptures and you die of a cardiac tamponade. Oh and this is how Princess Diana died."
They wanted to install seats facing backwards in airplanes specifically to reduce the deaths from the initial crash. Howver, they determined that the flying public wouldn't accept rear-facing seats. Considering all the BS the flying public puts up with nowadyas, maybe its time to float the idea again.
Oh, another Princess Di joke - "I heard Princess Di was on the radio... And the dash. And the seat..."
Fortunately, not everyone in the USA is like that, but really, the behavior of the Fred Phelps of the world would be considered criminal in most civilized countries:-) This is a guy who actively hates the United States, calling it ""A sodomite nation of flag-worshiping idolators. Military funerals are pagan orgies of idolatrous blasphemy where they pray to the dunghill gods of Sodom and play taps to a fallen fool..."
I wonder how much bin Laden is paying him, or is he just another "useful fool"?
How do you link to dead trees? I'd be more interested in that than a rmote 4-display setup (written from a 3-display linux box using plain agp and pci cards at 1/10 the price of matrox's solution).
Yes, its nice. No,its too darned expensive. And I'm sure the mac-head in the next cubbie at work, who is stuck using a dual-monitor setup under Windows, would miss the chance to kick his box every time it stops working (several times a day - Windows video editing sucks in comparison to a Mac - or so he says...).
He'd need a REALLY GOOD bluetooth setup - since the polar bears are on the other side of the world.
Who wants to bet the AC is an American (poor knowledge of geography - "the world is divided into the US and everything else") wno runs Windows (doesn't want to make any references to penguins/linux whatsoever).
That's not what a quicky article is for. And the book sounds interesting enough after reading the blog entry that I'd consider buying it. I recognize the brownian motion pattern (been there), the dead fish pattern (been there), and if I had the book, I'd probably recognize a few others.
The books' value is two-fold: an interesting read, and being able to put it under other people's noses and say "Hey - THIS is what we should be doing!" I'm a big fan of the "test before you test" pattern, the strawman - though I call it the "kill your first baby" (because you should always throw out all your code from the first prototype - its crap, and its served its purpose in helping define the right approach), and I think the seasons for change pattern makes a LOT of sense in helping prevent specs changing on too rapid a basis.
... except that the cash infusion from the rest of the world ($20 billion in insurance claims) and the expl;osion in federal spending were what ended the recession the US was sliding into... and we all know how everyone says that one way to stimulate the economy is to have a war...
The problem with the "inside job" scenarios isn't whether they're true or not - its that this government is so totally ^@%$@'ed up that they are believable to a large percentage of the population.
I mean, where else can a drunk shoot someone in the face and have the VICTIM apologize? Unbelievable! Then again, what other nation has elected an alcoholic coke-head as their numero uno?
The great thing about America - "Anyone* can become president."
The sad thing about America - "Anyone* can become president."
(for some values of "Anyone" - white, well-connected, rich, able to lie convincingly)
"
The idea with the terrorist dirty bomb would not be to get it to explode it would be to wrap the radioactive material around a conventional explosive get around helicopter height in a city with skyscapers and then explode it. The material would be embedded in the walls of the building or shatter glass and be enbedded in the floors and interior walls of the building; and possibly people.
Then based on the anthrax attacks it would require that the building be destroied. It would be the perfect terrorist attack, fiarly easiy to do provided you have the materials, and huge amount of destruction.
Screw the nuclear crap. Just hose the building in dioxin or ricin. There's a reason why biologicals have been called "The Poor Man's Nuke."
Or you could use [REDACTED] along with [REDACTED] and really cause a panic. Just [REDACTED], and make sure you [REDACTED]; then just dump [REDACTED] and [REDACTED] or [REDACTED]. [REDACTED] near any convenient [REDACTED] and [REDACTED] - and run like hell.
Hold on, there's some suits from the [REDACTED] who want to talk with me...
Like there's no water vapor in earth's atmosphere?
According to the article, the planet is gravity-locked, so while the atmosphere may be 1000K, the "dark side" might be "interesting". Look at Mercury - hot enough during the day to melt metals, and cold enough in some spots at night that the air you are breathing right now would be liquid. If it were gravity-locked, the dark side would be the coldest spot in the solar system - colder than Pluto.
Project Mercury Atronauts - Shepherd had to piss in is suit on the launch pad - no catheter, no "adult diapers"...
Gemini Astronauts - baggies with adhesive rims - strap it around your arse and take a dump, then "brown-bag it".
Apollo - baggies in the CM, diapers in the LEM.
$19 million to keep the crap and piss from floating all over the place - a lot cheaper than a "baggie failure", and a lot less time-consuming. Time is one thing that's at a premium - the $19 mill.saves them more than it costs.
Just what we need; the knowledge that there are an infinite amount of dupe posts in the multi-verse.
... and that another almost-me is wasting time on a Friday night posting on slashdot, while another almost-me is partying it up like there's no tomorrow (of course for trhat doppelganger, there may not be a tomorrow...)
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Right, but who wants to run extra software ... (and how do you load it if you've made the new oversized drive your boot drive :-)
I have a friend of mine who's doing exactly that on his 250 gig hd with a (finally!!!!) soon-to-be-junked duron 850 ...he wouldn't need the software if he were running linux or any "modern" os. Still, he's actually (gasp) downloaded a copy of Ubuntu, and he wants me to install a copy of opensuse on a 12 gig usb stick so he can play around with it, so there's still hope.
... tipped my DS meter this point ...
""complete with a user rights management system that a seasoned Linux user could appreciate"
I guess I need more seasoning ... perhaps with MS' "secret sauce" ...
Did you work with those big partitions on a bios that can only see 8 gig partitions? I doubt it. We're talking older hardware here - 486 and early P1 machines, many of which are limited to 8 gig, some to 2 gig or even 512 meg. Windows won't reliably write over 32 gig on that hardware, even if the partitions are set up on another machine first.
Fat32 has a hard limit of 32 gigs under win9x. Formatting them over this limit using another OS doesn't fix the problem - as soon as you pass the 32 gig limit, you start writing over the data at the beginning of the partition (unless you have either win98 with all the patches already installed, or winme). Been there, done that.
"So if the software industry got back to lean and mean OSs and small but very usable internet applications and put together a package that could be test run via CD (or floppy/cd combo for those old system that just can't boot from CD) there could possible be an extension to the usable life of systems that otherwise make it to the landfill or recycling mine."
You mean like this?
Screen shots - web browsing, playing doom and quake, http and mp3 servers, etc.
Seamonkey works great, even with those stupid banking sites that still don't work with firefox, but work with "Windows Internet Explorer 6, 7, or Netscape 4". Even the fonts are better than firefox's for some reason.
"160go hard drive don't work under some old computers (PII, 1st or 2nd generation of celeron with old bios)."
Stick the drive in a newer linux box, and make a small boot partition (/dev/hda1) that is small enough for the current bios (I've stuck 160 gig hard drives in machines that won't see beyond 8 gigs with this trick), so it works. Make /dev/hda2, /dev/hda3, etc in your preferred layout. Format each as ext3, reiserfs, fat32, whatevr your poison. This works for win9x, winnt, as well as linux.
Move the drive to the old box, boot off the cd-rom, install on the only visible partition (the small one).
Reboot, and at the end of the boot process, your other partitions are visible. On wn9x systems, your other partitions are limited to 32 gig each, so make sure you do under that. On winnt systems, you're limited to 128gig (yes, I know, its supposed to be 256 gig, but don't do it ... you might even want to stay below the 32 gig limit and stick with vfat, just to be safe), on linux systems, you're limited to ... whatever your heart desires.
Note: if you're using fat32 and are foolish enough to go over the 32 gig limit, you WILL be sorry. It will appear to format, and it will even appear to hold, say, 128 gig. However, once you try to write past the first 32 gig, it will over-write from the beginning of the partition, erasing data ... so if you're doing this with a windows box, your absolute safest bet is:
So let them use lynx or links, wget and curl if they're that impatient. The can surf the web, download their pr0n, etc., all without the overhead of a gui.
You can't have everything. There was a time when 500 mhz machines were considered blindingly fast ... and they're still fast enough for firefox if you're not viewing pages with a ton of flash, etc. Stick adblock plus, remove the flash and pdf plugins, and watch firefox run a lot fastr ...
Oh, they want flash and pdf, etc? Well, then they need a better machine. TANSTAAFL.
oh great ... that's all we need, a bunch of pyro-mainiacs.
See, you've already melted their server ... didn't anyone teach you not to play with fire?
Why not just have them facing backwards, and be done with it. Far safer, and a lot cheaper to implement using mostly existing hardware.
The idea is you dump all your stuff on the floor if you don't have much time, or stow it if you do, and the seat in front of you now acts as a partial shield from flying debris.
"Aortic dissection. This is what kills you. It's the most common, lethal deceleration injury. Of course if you're going fast enough you're simply crushed, but at "lower" speeds a sudden deceleration is enough to rotate the heart (which is fairly mobile in the chest) and rip it off the aorta (which is fixed to the posterior chest wall). The arteriovenous ligament doesn't help, either. So the aorta ruptures and you die of a cardiac tamponade. Oh and this is how Princess Diana died."
They wanted to install seats facing backwards in airplanes specifically to reduce the deaths from the initial crash. Howver, they determined that the flying public wouldn't accept rear-facing seats. Considering all the BS the flying public puts up with nowadyas, maybe its time to float the idea again.
Oh, another Princess Di joke - "I heard Princess Di was on the radio... And the dash. And the seat ..."
"I'm not exactly sure why this is new/different than the more well known open relay proxy networks."
"Who wants to bet that you're a troll who doesn't know how to close his tags properly?"
No, I was just too busy eating breakfast with one hand and typing with the other before heading into the office.
So, truth hurts about some Americans having a poor knowledge of the rest of the world? Mistaking Australia for Iran, North and South Korea, and France ... (and if you look around, you can find other parts of the clip where they say that a triangle has 4 sides and no sides, that the official religion of Israel is Islam, that the language of latin America is latin ... and here and this really dumb sick f*ck religious nutcase disrupting military funerals.
Fortunately, not everyone in the USA is like that, but really, the behavior of the Fred Phelps of the world would be considered criminal in most civilized countries :-) This is a guy who actively hates the United States, calling it ""A sodomite nation of flag-worshiping idolators. Military funerals are pagan orgies of idolatrous blasphemy where they pray to the dunghill gods of Sodom and play taps to a fallen fool ..."
I wonder how much bin Laden is paying him, or is he just another "useful fool"?
How do you link to dead trees? I'd be more interested in that than a rmote 4-display setup (written from a 3-display linux box using plain agp and pci cards at 1/10 the price of matrox's solution).
Yes, its nice. No,its too darned expensive. And I'm sure the mac-head in the next cubbie at work, who is stuck using a dual-monitor setup under Windows, would miss the chance to kick his box every time it stops working (several times a day - Windows video editing sucks in comparison to a Mac - or so he says ...).
That's not what a quicky article is for. And the book sounds interesting enough after reading the blog entry that I'd consider buying it. I recognize the brownian motion pattern (been there), the dead fish pattern (been there), and if I had the book, I'd probably recognize a few others.
The books' value is two-fold: an interesting read, and being able to put it under other people's noses and say "Hey - THIS is what we should be doing!" I'm a big fan of the "test before you test" pattern, the strawman - though I call it the "kill your first baby" (because you should always throw out all your code from the first prototype - its crap, and its served its purpose in helping define the right approach), and I think the seasons for change pattern makes a LOT of sense in helping prevent specs changing on too rapid a basis.
The problem with the "inside job" scenarios isn't whether they're true or not - its that this government is so totally ^@%$@'ed up that they are believable to a large percentage of the population.
I mean, where else can a drunk shoot someone in the face and have the VICTIM apologize? Unbelievable! Then again, what other nation has elected an alcoholic coke-head as their numero uno?
The great thing about America - "Anyone* can become president."
The sad thing about America - "Anyone* can become president."
(for some values of "Anyone" - white, well-connected, rich, able to lie convincingly)
" The idea with the terrorist dirty bomb would not be to get it to explode it would be to wrap the radioactive material around a conventional explosive get around helicopter height in a city with skyscapers and then explode it. The material would be embedded in the walls of the building or shatter glass and be enbedded in the floors and interior walls of the building; and possibly people.
Then based on the anthrax attacks it would require that the building be destroied. It would be the perfect terrorist attack, fiarly easiy to do provided you have the materials, and huge amount of destruction.
Screw the nuclear crap. Just hose the building in dioxin or ricin. There's a reason why biologicals have been called "The Poor Man's Nuke."
Or you could use [REDACTED] along with [REDACTED] and really cause a panic. Just [REDACTED], and make sure you [REDACTED]; then just dump [REDACTED] and [REDACTED] or [REDACTED]. [REDACTED] near any convenient [REDACTED] and [REDACTED] - and run like hell.
Hold on, there's some suits from the [REDACTED] who want to talk with me ...
Eat some rally nasty chili and wait a few hours - when you go to the bathroom, they'll be able to find water on Uranus.
Like there's no water vapor in earth's atmosphere?
According to the article, the planet is gravity-locked, so while the atmosphere may be 1000K, the "dark side" might be "interesting". Look at Mercury - hot enough during the day to melt metals, and cold enough in some spots at night that the air you are breathing right now would be liquid. If it were gravity-locked, the dark side would be the coldest spot in the solar system - colder than Pluto.
Lets see -
Project Mercury Atronauts - Shepherd had to piss in is suit on the launch pad - no catheter, no "adult diapers" ...
Gemini Astronauts - baggies with adhesive rims - strap it around your arse and take a dump, then "brown-bag it".
Apollo - baggies in the CM, diapers in the LEM.
$19 million to keep the crap and piss from floating all over the place - a lot cheaper than a "baggie failure", and a lot less time-consuming. Time is one thing that's at a premium - the $19 mill.saves them more than it costs.
"I am a happy Wii user which only plays each odd weekend"
(- it actually makes sense - the Wii is still in short supply, unlike the xbox360 and ps3).
Under linux: time wget "url_of_file_you_want_to_time.iso"
Why do the math when there's a program ready to do it for you?
Just what we need; the knowledge that there are an infinite amount of dupe posts in the multi-verse.