I have to wonder what the point is with some of these new faster processors. At this point, almost no applications can really take advantage of the fastest chips available.
Good thing you said "almost," as I'm guessing you don't do much video compression or editing. I've cranked out probably hundreds of SVCDs (mostly of TV shows) over the past couple of years, and I just got a DVD burner last week. MPEG-2 encoding eats up all the processor time you can throw at it...I built a dual Athlon MP 2200, and while it was a major improvement over the 1.0-GHz Athlon I was using previously, I could still use more speed.
Not mine...alfter.us is on a cable-modem connection, and I just fired off email to my grandfather (who I've not been able to convince to ditch AOHell). The qmail log file says 64.12.138.57 returned "250 OK" when it received my message.
It could be that my mail gets through because (1) I'm on a static IP address and (2) Cox puts static and dynamic IPs on different subnets. I suppose the next thing to try would be to grab a dynamic IP address, telnet into an AOHell mail server, and see if I can get my mail through.
They may have a point. But computer users are becomming smarter and smarter.
Back in the day people charged out heaps just to plug a computer in or reinstall it. Nowdays everyones a computer technition and can do it themselves.
You must never have seen a screen covered in white-out.
In many cases, case modding is about making your computer look good.
I suppose that depends on your definition of "good." You're going into an area that's highly subjective. I think the windows, lights, and other crap some people add look ghey as hell, but YMMV.
What is stupid about ricing is it is about making your gear look FAST.
That much is true...there's a difference between looking fast and actually being fast that the riceboys just don't get.
I was kinda pissed that they had the Sawzall out, and all they could hack off was the trunk and the roof. Jeez, c'mon! 1 driver don't need all that floorboard.
Given that there's no frame to which everything is bolted, you wouldn't be able to take much out of the floor without having it crumple up. Hell, it's a bit of a wonder it didn't start sagging when they popped the roof off.
Granted, anytime you see a ricer cut apart, always puts a smile on my face.
:-)
(Anyone else notice the similarities between case modders and riceboys? They both do stupid sh*t to their gear that doesn't do a thing to improve performance, yet they think they're super-1337.)
I used AppleWorks 2 and 3 on a machine with a single 5.25" drive
Ouch.
Fonts weren't much on a issue for me, as I rarely used AppleWorks to print my final draft -- I'd usually save the file as plain ASCII and open it up in Publish-It (a nice Apple II DTP app) for final fonts, layout, and clip art.
PublishIt! was pretty decent...used to do the newsletter for the local Apple user group with it. If I uploaded the PostScript output and printed it on the laser printer in the lab, you couldn't tell that it was done on an Apple II. For printing stuff on an Imagewriter, though, the print quality from SuperFonts was far superior (160x144 dpi vs. 120x72).
Given plenty of storage and memory, AppleWorks (especially >=3.0) was a pretty decent package. 128K and a pair of 5.25" floppies was definitely suboptimal (stick with pre-3.0 versions for such a system), but with 1 meg of RAM and a hard drive (or at least 256K and a 3.5" floppy drive), it was pretty decent. The TimeOut addons were cool, as well (especially SuperFonts and UltraMacros). Just because your school didn't shell out for the goodies didn't make AppleWorks a bad product for the rest of us who did.
Besides, if your spelling was any good, you didn't need the spell checker.:-)
On the other hand, my mother's Imagewriter she got for her Apple IIe 15+ years ago, and my old Epson RX-80 from about 20 years ago still work perfectly today. Of course, finding ribbons for them is pretty rough...
Last time I looked (not too long ago), Imagewriter ribbons were still on the shelf in most office-supply stores, and still selling for the same $3-$5 that they cost back in the day.
There is a similar situation in the UK, with contractors typically working only 9 months a year, and thereby gaining a massive saving in tax by being classed as self employed.
Who's saving on taxes--the employer or the contractor? Here in the States, if you're self-employed, you have the "privilege" of paying the self-employment tax, which basically doubles the amount of money you throw down the Social Security and Medicare ratholes. (Payment of those taxes, which amount to ~14% of your income up to around $90k (how much more regressive can you get?), are normally split between you and your employer. If you are your own employer, you get to pay the whole thing.:-P )
Interesting thought... but I suspect that if it could be done cheaply, it would already have been done.
We have an HP OfficeJet G85 at work that self-aligns, IIRC. When you swap ink cartridges, it cranks out an alignment page without any further intervention; if you look at the carriage moving back and forth while it's aligning, you'll see a blue light moving back and forth that's not on during normal printing. I think some DeskJet models that were out at about the same time also self-align.
(At home, most of my printing is through either a Lexmark Optra Color 40 (PostScript inkjet printer...snagged one when buy.com was blowing them out for $100...works well, but ink's a bit expensive) or a Brother HL-630 ($7.50 @ Goodwill, plus $110 to replace the high-mileage drum unit that was in it...but it's one of the least expensive laser printers to keep going). I also have an 18-year-old Apple Imagewriter here someplace that used to go through cases of paper, but I haven't fired up that beast in a few years. It'd probably need only a new ribbon to get it going again, if that...)
I have two of those key generators. They both spit out a very short list of unique keys. And every one of them is invalid
The keygen with MD5 sum 4345bb04307870d17c6f44893a81f85e works...you might check and see if you have a different keygen. (The MD5 sum is of the keygen executable itself, not of an archive containing it.)
My first real computer (after a used XT) was a 386DX 33mhz with 4MB RAM and a 110MB HD. The 386DX had an integrated FPU and sold for $280 more than the SX chip. Both were 32 bit parts.
While they both ran the same code and had the same register set, the data-bus and address-bus widths of the 386SX were 16 and 24 bits, respectively. Bus widths on the 386DX were 32 bits each for addresses and data. The smaller bus made a same-clock-speed 386SX a fair bit slower, and it only supported up to 16MB of physical memory.
(My first Linux box was an AMD 386SX-25...nothing like waiting an hour for a kernel compile, and that was for 0.99pl14 with not much hardware support compiled in.)
There has ALWAYS been a key readily available even after WPA. And WPA has never been a problem. Sure SP1 blocked TWO popular keys but do you have any idea how many people have friends in IT depts. with access to keys?
There's also a WinXP keygen available. Use it with the corporate WinXP and you have no activation and the ability to install service packs.
Any hardware that is capable of decoding video can easily decode Vorbis as well
This is definitely NOT true... TiVo does its MPEG2 encoding and decoding with SPECIFIC hardware that will only encode/decode MPEG. While they could be using it to decode MP3s as well (since MP3 is MPEG1 layer 3 audio)
Maybe not even MP3, since the audio format (on a standalone Series 1 TiVo, at least) is 32-kHz stereo audio stored as 192-kbps Layer 2 (not Layer 3). If the MPEG decoder happens to support Layer 3, MP3 playback would be possible through it. If it only groks Layer 2, MP3s won't play.
(Then again, Series 2 might use a different MPEG decoder with more features than was used in the Series 1 design.)
I'll keep my TiVo1 series box until DTV gets on the ball. When I can get these new features I'll buy two TiVo2 boxes!
Even then, I'm not so sure that HMO makes the upgrade to Series 2 worthwhile. I have a standalone Series 1 TiVo, and I don't plan on upgrading. My TiVo is connected to my network, and I've been ripping/archiving shows from it for nearly two years now. The software to enable this keeps getting better all the time...TyStudio is especially slick. Once it's set up, a few clicks are all it takes to extract an MPEG stream that you can burn directly to DVD or transcode to a lower bitrate for SVCD. (Info on transcoding/editing TiVo video is available here, but it's not yet been updated for TyStudio.) Remote scheduling is handled through TivoWeb, so that's covered...that's really the only HMO feature I'd find useful, as I have only one TiVo (making "multi-room viewing," as they've defined it, useless) and my DVD player plays MP3 CDs.
Maybe HMO is a bit easier to set up for the drooling masses, but you can still do more with a Series 1 TiVo...and it doesn't cost you anything (other than the cost of a NIC for your TiVo, and even that is cheaper than HMO).
if they're using random MP3s downloaded from the net, most of those are encoded at lower bit rates for portable players and often with lousy coders
That depends on your source. If you're using one of the P2P services, that's probably what you'll get. If you get your music fix from alt.binaries.sounds.mp3.*, though, it's more likely you'll see high-bitrate (often excessively high, like 256 or even 320 kbps) MP3s encoded with LAME or other decent encoders.
I thought most services just refused access to your page if you went over your bandwidth anyways.
It depends on how your site is hosted. Some of us just throw a Linux box up on a cable-modem or DSL connection at home. In that case, there's usually just bandwidth throttling done at the headend. If your upstream bandwidth is 128 kbps and you get/.'d, you basically have no upstream bandwidth for your own use for the next 24 hours or so.
(Implementing some sort of rate limiting at your server or firewall would fix that. I've never looked into doing that. I've been/.'d on a couple of occasions, though, so I probably should do something about it. Maybe after I get the new firewall up and running...)
Nope...the Apple II was a 6502/65C02/65C816-based machine, depending on the model. The Lisa, like the pre-PowerPC Macintosh, was a 68K beast (5-MHz 68000 for the Lisa, faster processors for the various Macs that followed).
I think it was. I know I wanted one very very badly at that time. Even today those screen shots look very usable. By usable I mean it had a gui that is simular to what we all use today, it had the all purpose application of the day AppleWorks amoung others.
I'm guessing that you're referring to the Lisa...if you were, AppleWorks didn't run on the Lisa. I don't doubt that there was a similar productivity suite for the Lisa, but AppleWorks was an Apple II package. It was derived from an earlier Apple III package called III EZ Pieces.
More recently, Apple resurrected the AppleWorks name when it renamed ClarisWorks. Any version of AppleWorks =6 runs on Macs.
The real theme of conservatism as of late is to spit bile, intolerance, and contempt at anyone/everyone who doesn't buy their bullshit. I for one am sick of it.
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Good thing you said "almost," as I'm guessing you don't do much video compression or editing. I've cranked out probably hundreds of SVCDs (mostly of TV shows) over the past couple of years, and I just got a DVD burner last week. MPEG-2 encoding eats up all the processor time you can throw at it...I built a dual Athlon MP 2200, and while it was a major improvement over the 1.0-GHz Athlon I was using previously, I could still use more speed.
Not mine...alfter.us is on a cable-modem connection, and I just fired off email to my grandfather (who I've not been able to convince to ditch AOHell). The qmail log file says 64.12.138.57 returned "250 OK" when it received my message.
It could be that my mail gets through because (1) I'm on a static IP address and (2) Cox puts static and dynamic IPs on different subnets. I suppose the next thing to try would be to grab a dynamic IP address, telnet into an AOHell mail server, and see if I can get my mail through.
You must never have seen a screen covered in white-out.
I suppose that depends on your definition of "good." You're going into an area that's highly subjective. I think the windows, lights, and other crap some people add look ghey as hell, but YMMV.
That much is true...there's a difference between looking fast and actually being fast that the riceboys just don't get.
Given that there's no frame to which everything is bolted, you wouldn't be able to take much out of the floor without having it crumple up. Hell, it's a bit of a wonder it didn't start sagging when they popped the roof off.
(Anyone else notice the similarities between case modders and riceboys? They both do stupid sh*t to their gear that doesn't do a thing to improve performance, yet they think they're super-1337.)
Ouch.
PublishIt! was pretty decent...used to do the newsletter for the local Apple user group with it. If I uploaded the PostScript output and printed it on the laser printer in the lab, you couldn't tell that it was done on an Apple II. For printing stuff on an Imagewriter, though, the print quality from SuperFonts was far superior (160x144 dpi vs. 120x72).
Given plenty of storage and memory, AppleWorks (especially >=3.0) was a pretty decent package. 128K and a pair of 5.25" floppies was definitely suboptimal (stick with pre-3.0 versions for such a system), but with 1 meg of RAM and a hard drive (or at least 256K and a 3.5" floppy drive), it was pretty decent. The TimeOut addons were cool, as well (especially SuperFonts and UltraMacros). Just because your school didn't shell out for the goodies didn't make AppleWorks a bad product for the rest of us who did.
Besides, if your spelling was any good, you didn't need the spell checker. :-)
Last time I looked (not too long ago), Imagewriter ribbons were still on the shelf in most office-supply stores, and still selling for the same $3-$5 that they cost back in the day.
Who's saving on taxes--the employer or the contractor? Here in the States, if you're self-employed, you have the "privilege" of paying the self-employment tax, which basically doubles the amount of money you throw down the Social Security and Medicare ratholes. (Payment of those taxes, which amount to ~14% of your income up to around $90k (how much more regressive can you get?), are normally split between you and your employer. If you are your own employer, you get to pay the whole thing. :-P )
You can get your very own copy of it, too...w00t! (At least RMS wasn't attempting to sing it...)
We have an HP OfficeJet G85 at work that self-aligns, IIRC. When you swap ink cartridges, it cranks out an alignment page without any further intervention; if you look at the carriage moving back and forth while it's aligning, you'll see a blue light moving back and forth that's not on during normal printing. I think some DeskJet models that were out at about the same time also self-align.
(At home, most of my printing is through either a Lexmark Optra Color 40 (PostScript inkjet printer...snagged one when buy.com was blowing them out for $100...works well, but ink's a bit expensive) or a Brother HL-630 ($7.50 @ Goodwill, plus $110 to replace the high-mileage drum unit that was in it...but it's one of the least expensive laser printers to keep going). I also have an 18-year-old Apple Imagewriter here someplace that used to go through cases of paper, but I haven't fired up that beast in a few years. It'd probably need only a new ribbon to get it going again, if that...)
The keygen with MD5 sum 4345bb04307870d17c6f44893a81f85e works...you might check and see if you have a different keygen. (The MD5 sum is of the keygen executable itself, not of an archive containing it.)
While they both ran the same code and had the same register set, the data-bus and address-bus widths of the 386SX were 16 and 24 bits, respectively. Bus widths on the 386DX were 32 bits each for addresses and data. The smaller bus made a same-clock-speed 386SX a fair bit slower, and it only supported up to 16MB of physical memory.
(My first Linux box was an AMD 386SX-25...nothing like waiting an hour for a kernel compile, and that was for 0.99pl14 with not much hardware support compiled in.)
There's also a WinXP keygen available. Use it with the corporate WinXP and you have no activation and the ability to install service packs.
Popups? What popups?
Maybe not even MP3, since the audio format (on a standalone Series 1 TiVo, at least) is 32-kHz stereo audio stored as 192-kbps Layer 2 (not Layer 3). If the MPEG decoder happens to support Layer 3, MP3 playback would be possible through it. If it only groks Layer 2, MP3s won't play.
(Then again, Series 2 might use a different MPEG decoder with more features than was used in the Series 1 design.)
Even then, I'm not so sure that HMO makes the upgrade to Series 2 worthwhile. I have a standalone Series 1 TiVo, and I don't plan on upgrading. My TiVo is connected to my network, and I've been ripping/archiving shows from it for nearly two years now. The software to enable this keeps getting better all the time...TyStudio is especially slick. Once it's set up, a few clicks are all it takes to extract an MPEG stream that you can burn directly to DVD or transcode to a lower bitrate for SVCD. (Info on transcoding/editing TiVo video is available here, but it's not yet been updated for TyStudio.) Remote scheduling is handled through TivoWeb, so that's covered...that's really the only HMO feature I'd find useful, as I have only one TiVo (making "multi-room viewing," as they've defined it, useless) and my DVD player plays MP3 CDs.
Maybe HMO is a bit easier to set up for the drooling masses, but you can still do more with a Series 1 TiVo...and it doesn't cost you anything (other than the cost of a NIC for your TiVo, and even that is cheaper than HMO).
That depends on your source. If you're using one of the P2P services, that's probably what you'll get. If you get your music fix from alt.binaries.sounds.mp3.*, though, it's more likely you'll see high-bitrate (often excessively high, like 256 or even 320 kbps) MP3s encoded with LAME or other decent encoders.
Yes, there is: No Poofters!
There is NO rule six!
Maybe you meant to swap these around...
Note that they're 10 years old. Try this:
Half of the time, you won't be able to do that with what passes for floppy disks today.
(By comparison, I have some disks that are nearly 18 years old that my Apple IIs can still read without problems.)
It depends on how your site is hosted. Some of us just throw a Linux box up on a cable-modem or DSL connection at home. In that case, there's usually just bandwidth throttling done at the headend. If your upstream bandwidth is 128 kbps and you get /.'d, you basically have no upstream bandwidth for your own use for the next 24 hours or so.
(Implementing some sort of rate limiting at your server or firewall would fix that. I've never looked into doing that. I've been /.'d on a couple of occasions, though, so I probably should do something about it. Maybe after I get the new firewall up and running...)
Nope...the Apple II was a 6502/65C02/65C816-based machine, depending on the model. The Lisa, like the pre-PowerPC Macintosh, was a 68K beast (5-MHz 68000 for the Lisa, faster processors for the various Macs that followed).
I'm guessing that you're referring to the Lisa...if you were, AppleWorks didn't run on the Lisa. I don't doubt that there was a similar productivity suite for the Lisa, but AppleWorks was an Apple II package. It was derived from an earlier Apple III package called III EZ Pieces.
More recently, Apple resurrected the AppleWorks name when it renamed ClarisWorks. Any version of AppleWorks =6 runs on Macs.
Pot. Kettle. Black.