The Win32 API is just a wrapper anyway - at least on the NT OSes - the calls get passed on to the NT Native API.
Re:In 10 years you'll be glad your Mac runs Linux
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4400/603ev*/64MB/OS 9.1
*To keep things bearable it has an overclocked (240Mhz-->320Mhz) G3 where the L2 cache is meant to be - had to bend the Voodoo2 card to get everything to fit though!
BTW one button mouse trolls - it has a 5 button MS Intellimouse too.
Re:Works great if you have a clean room available
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Clear Hard Drive Mods
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I know that everyone has different taste, but if you think windows and neon lights belong on PCs, you have poor taste.
I must have some taste, I don't have Windows on any of my PCs:)
The older Bond films are classics - your thinking of the terrible Roger Moore flicks. The really early Sean Connery films: Dr No, From Russia with Love and Goldfinger are great films. The plots are not too far fetched even though the girls' names might be - I still don't know how did they got away with Pussy Galore!
The arcade machines are worse: the battery RAM is solely powered by the battery - the mains power doesn't touch it - so it's guaranteed to fail at some point. Keeping it plugged in 24/7 doesn't help you.
This forced obsolescence is evil. If you collect old arcade machines you come across a similar problem - the suicide battery. Certain Japanese manufacturers had a small amount of battery powered RAM that held the decryption tables to decode the game ROMs - when the battery goes your cabinet is useless!
Why? Why? Why? If I buy something I expect it to work and I certainly don't expect the manufacturer to put a time bomb in it! Same goes for software. The problem boils down to the fact that you don't own the software - you just get a licence to use it under whatever restrictive clauses the vendor can dream up. There's certainly something to be said for genuinely free software - once you've got it it is your's to do with as you please.
I suspect that most people putting Afghanistan for their location are just messing around.
A lot of sites that ask for your country of origin have a HUGE drop down list of every country on the earth. I've selected 'Afghanistan' from the top of the list rather than scroll all the way down to 'United Kingdom' many times...
but the Commodore 64...snip... that machine had amazing games for it's time, and even had a technically astounding disk drive
Yes amazing games and even more amazing sound - the SID was not surpassed for years in the home - but a technically astounding disk drive?!?!?
The only thing astounding about the C64's disk was how damned sloooow it was - tape would give it a run for it's money! If you want astounding disk design take a look at Woz's single handed design of the Apple ][ drive controller.
The Adventure Shell is ideal when you're slightly bored with the mundanity of normal shell life - it turns the shell environment into something resembling an old text adventure game (the type that ran on your super-powerful z80 in the ``good old days'' (tm)), filled with monsters, rooms and things to grab.
As an example :
You have entered/home/andrew. This room contains:
diary
ispell.words
pgcount.ps
pscnt.sh
zsh.faq
There are exits labeled:
Mail
News
RCS
bin
lib
media
src
tmp
txt
work
as well as a passage overhead.
There are shadowy figures in the corner.
-> get zsh.faq
zsh.faq: taken
-> wake cat pscnt.sh
You awaken the cat monster:
> #!/bin/sh
>> (
>> cat $*
>> echo currentdevice/PageCount gsgetdeviceprop == flush
>> ) | gs -q -sDEVICE=bit -sOutputFile=/dev/null -r5 - | tail -1
The monster slithers back into the darkness.
->
When you 'get' a file, it goes into your knapsack ~/.knapsack), and can be dropped in another room (directory)...
Obviously, this shell isn't much use for real work.
Apple's Macintosh, from the very beginning, allowed folders to be nested inside folders, allowing an infinite amount of scalability
Surprisingly this is untrue! The original MacOS System 1.0 used MFS (Macintosh File Sysyem) which only allowed two levels of files on a disk. You had the disk root which could contain folders but folders could not contain more folders. Additionally the OS didn't care much about folders at all - an open file dialog would just list the entire disk's contents. Fortunately HFS replaced the original MFS in system 3.0. Here's a link for those interested in very early MacOS.
Maybe you could kindly point out where I gave a rats arse about logic gates and trinary algebra. My post was about the lame karma whoring +5 funny jokes that had been made many, many times in the previous story and sadly repeated in response to this one.
Perhaps if you read my original post you wouldn't make such blatantly false comments.
On a further karma burning point, why was the original modded as redundant? Flamebait maybe, but redundant? No-one had mentioned the previous article when I posted - perhaps someone posted minutes before me but this just underlines the pointlessness of the redundant moderation.
A very similar story was posted less than three weeks ago. Many of the replies were lame jokes about Tits and Yes|No|Maybe logic - please don't make us suffer them again.
Re:How many times are we going to see this?
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Remember M$ are still being dragged through the courts in Europe so Europeans ought to send some of those intelligent and informed opinions to their representitives too.
What bugs me with the proposed US 'settlement' is all those opt outs - the register eloquently outlines the many flaws . Once again the the excuse of 3v1l h4X0rs is used to allow M$ to hide 'security sensitive' information - who decides what's sensitive? Why M$ of course!
Things like checking pointers to see if they are NULL before using them. Error handling doesn't just mean catching the error after its already happened. It also means being proactive about it before it happens.
There's two ways of going about this kind of error and which one you choose depends on circumstance:
The advantage of one is that the program won't stop but you won't get so many bug reports. What if some code hundreds of lines away expected this to have worked? When the program does eventually fail you may be a long way from the real cause - debugging hell...
Two will let you know when that pointer is unexpectedly NULL straight away so the bug is more likely to be caught during development - a good thing!
It can be a good thing to have code that stops as soon as it hits a problem - especially development code. Though stuff like autopilots had better keep going - and have been through a good testing cycle in the first place.
I opened a hotmail account last week so I could set up an instant messenger account. I made sure that I had unchecked *all* the advertising, pass on your e-mail, useful partners checkboxes. I have *never* used the account and have *never* published the address yet within 24 hours I had a dozen XXX, $$$ emails in the inbox.
Charles Baggage - father of the suitcase
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Looks like a rogue spell checker got at the system toolbox article:
While still a young boy, Baggage was concerned with questions of "how" over those of "why.".
Of course Mac has niether a Properties nor a right-click.
Command-I for the Mac equivalent of properties, control-click or right-click (duh) for right-click.
The Z80A used in the Sinclair Spectrum and other home computers of that era also had a slew of undocumented op-codes.
What happened was the CPU designers put the dodgy thrillseaker stuff on the less reliable edge of the CPU. Only the core, documented functionality would be tested to see if the CPU was 'good'.
Later in the CPUs lifecycle the undocumented stuff would be more or less certain to work too - good 8 bit computer emulators all claim to support the undocumented op-codes as some games require them.
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The Win32 API is just a wrapper anyway - at least on the NT OSes - the calls get passed on to the NT Native API.
4400/603ev*/64MB/OS 9.1
*To keep things bearable it has an overclocked (240Mhz-->320Mhz) G3 where the L2 cache is meant to be - had to bend the Voodoo2 card to get everything to fit though!
BTW one button mouse trolls - it has a 5 button MS Intellimouse too.
I know that everyone has different taste, but if you think windows and neon lights belong on PCs, you have poor taste.
:)
I must have some taste, I don't have Windows on any of my PCs
Unfortunately page widening works just fine on SGI Links
The older Bond films are classics - your thinking of the terrible Roger Moore flicks. The really early Sean Connery films: Dr No, From Russia with Love and Goldfinger are great films. The plots are not too far fetched even though the girls' names might be - I still don't know how did they got away with Pussy Galore!
One board costs $3,900 - I think I'll still be dealing with Apple for my PPC needs - get a dual CPU and a GeForce 4 included for that price!
You get Lexus cars in the UK, check out this link.
BTW how many more off topic car posts before CmdrTaco gives us all a collective bitchslap?
The arcade machines are worse: the battery RAM is solely powered by the battery - the mains power doesn't touch it - so it's guaranteed to fail at some point. Keeping it plugged in 24/7 doesn't help you.
This forced obsolescence is evil. If you collect old arcade machines you come across a similar problem - the suicide battery. Certain Japanese manufacturers had a small amount of battery powered RAM that held the decryption tables to decode the game ROMs - when the battery goes your cabinet is useless!
Why? Why? Why? If I buy something I expect it to work and I certainly don't expect the manufacturer to put a time bomb in it! Same goes for software. The problem boils down to the fact that you don't own the software - you just get a licence to use it under whatever restrictive clauses the vendor can dream up. There's certainly something to be said for genuinely free software - once you've got it it is your's to do with as you please.
I suspect that most people putting Afghanistan for their location are just messing around.
A lot of sites that ask for your country of origin have a HUGE drop down list of every country on the earth. I've selected 'Afghanistan' from the top of the list rather than scroll all the way down to 'United Kingdom' many times...
but the Commodore 64 ...snip... that machine had amazing games for it's time, and even had a technically astounding disk drive
Yes amazing games and even more amazing sound - the SID was not surpassed for years in the home - but a technically astounding disk drive?!?!?
The only thing astounding about the C64's disk was how damned sloooow it was - tape would give it a run for it's money! If you want astounding disk design take a look at Woz's single handed design of the Apple ][ drive controller.
Already been done
/home/andrew. This room contains:
/PageCount gsgetdeviceprop == flush
adsh (The Adventure Shell)
The Adventure Shell is ideal when you're slightly bored with the mundanity of normal shell life - it turns the shell environment into something resembling an old text adventure game (the type that ran on your super-powerful z80 in the ``good old days'' (tm)), filled with monsters, rooms and things to grab.
As an example :
You have entered
diary
ispell.words
pgcount.ps
pscnt.sh
zsh.faq
There are exits labeled:
Mail
News
RCS
bin
lib
media
src
tmp
txt
work
as well as a passage overhead.
There are shadowy figures in the corner.
-> get zsh.faq
zsh.faq: taken
-> wake cat pscnt.sh
You awaken the cat monster:
> #!/bin/sh
>> (
>> cat $*
>> echo currentdevice
>> ) | gs -q -sDEVICE=bit -sOutputFile=/dev/null -r5 - | tail -1
The monster slithers back into the darkness.
->
When you 'get' a file, it goes into your knapsack ~/.knapsack), and can be dropped in another room (directory)...
Obviously, this shell isn't much use for real work.
Apple's Macintosh, from the very beginning, allowed folders to be nested inside folders, allowing an infinite amount of scalability
Surprisingly this is untrue! The original MacOS System 1.0 used MFS (Macintosh File Sysyem) which only allowed two levels of files on a disk. You had the disk root which could contain folders but folders could not contain more folders. Additionally the OS didn't care much about folders at all - an open file dialog would just list the entire disk's contents. Fortunately HFS replaced the original MFS in system 3.0. Here's a link for those interested in very early MacOS.
Maybe you could kindly point out where I gave a rats arse about logic gates and trinary algebra. My post was about the lame karma whoring +5 funny jokes that had been made many, many times in the previous story and sadly repeated in response to this one.
Perhaps if you read my original post you wouldn't make such blatantly false comments.
On a further karma burning point, why was the original modded as redundant? Flamebait maybe, but redundant? No-one had mentioned the previous article when I posted - perhaps someone posted minutes before me but this just underlines the pointlessness of the redundant moderation.
A very similar story was posted less than three weeks ago. Many of the replies were lame jokes about Tits and Yes|No|Maybe logic - please don't make us suffer them again.
Month/week - don't you have a clock?
Remember M$ are still being dragged through the courts in Europe so Europeans ought to send some of those intelligent and informed opinions to their representitives too.
What bugs me with the proposed US 'settlement' is all those opt outs - the register eloquently outlines the many flaws . Once again the the excuse of 3v1l h4X0rs is used to allow M$ to hide 'security sensitive' information - who decides what's sensitive? Why M$ of course!
Track spootnik's posts and point out he's stealing them from usenet!
There's two ways of going about this kind of error and which one you choose depends on circumstance:
1
//Do Stuff
// Attempt to recover
if(ptr != NULL)
{
}
else
{
}
2
// Do Stuff
assert(ptr);
The advantage of one is that the program won't stop but you won't get so many bug reports. What if some code hundreds of lines away expected this to have worked? When the program does eventually fail you may be a long way from the real cause - debugging hell...
Two will let you know when that pointer is unexpectedly NULL straight away so the bug is more likely to be caught during development - a good thing!
It can be a good thing to have code that stops as soon as it hits a problem - especially development code. Though stuff like autopilots had better keep going - and have been through a good testing cycle in the first place.
Microsoft email spam free? I think not!
I opened a hotmail account last week so I could set up an instant messenger account. I made sure that I had unchecked *all* the advertising, pass on your e-mail, useful partners checkboxes. I have *never* used the account and have *never* published the address yet within 24 hours I had a dozen XXX, $$$ emails in the inbox.
Looks like a rogue spell checker got at the system toolbox article:
While still a young boy, Baggage was concerned with questions of "how" over those of "why.".
2001-10-09 12:43:06 UK government recognise Jedi as a religion (articles,news) (rejected)
Dunno - being a few hours earlier still obviously doesn't help! Not that I'm bitter and twisted or anything.
Of course Mac has niether a Properties nor a right-click.
Command-I for the Mac equivalent of properties, control-click or right-click (duh) for right-click.
The Mac (note not all CAPS) does have contextual menus. Just control-click or *Gasp* right-click if you've splashed out on a multi button mouse.
The Z80A used in the Sinclair Spectrum and other home computers of that era also had a slew of undocumented op-codes.
What happened was the CPU designers put the dodgy thrillseaker stuff on the less reliable edge of the CPU. Only the core, documented functionality would be tested to see if the CPU was 'good'.
Later in the CPUs lifecycle the undocumented stuff would be more or less certain to work too - good 8 bit computer emulators all claim to support the undocumented op-codes as some games require them.