(from wintop.exe -- a great program, part of MS Kernel Toys)
Word: 5192K Allocated / 3016K In Memory / 1868K In Use Excel: 2556K Allocated / 1256K In Memory / 828K In Use Outlook: 9836K Allocated / 2732K In Memory / 1460K In Use
Both Word & Excel have average-sized documents loaded.
(and for comparison, cause we all love Netscape to death;)
Netscape: 11104K Allocated / 8992K In Memory/ 8132K In Use
One browser running, this page as I'm typing up this message.
For MS Office's full suite on a typical install (Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Access & Outlook), the total disk space including shared files hovers around the 200 meg mark. That's around 100 less than Office 97 took up, I believe. That's actually VERY impressive, if those numbers don't lie.
These are just the facts on my machine -- take them with a grain of salt, if you will. However O2K hasn't crashed on me ONCE, and to MS's credit, Outlook 2K does a great job as a personal information manager. It's years above what Office 97 was. Plus, PGP integrates itself seemelssly into it. Before Outlook 2k, whenever I was in Windows I was using PC-Pine, so that should tell you something;)
And YES, the Office Helper can be turned off, hell it even asks you "Do you want to turn me off permanently?" if you hide it a bunch of times (and turning it off is only a matter of right clicking, choosing options, and clicking the box that says "turn off the office helper").
It's monolithic, yes, but it's an Office Suite, they're not ment to be under 100k in disk size. If you find one that is, let me know, better yet, if you create one and decide to sell it, rather then GPL it, let me in on your IPO;)
I think what would be just as effective, and easier to implement (though still VERY difficult) would be a mass EDP -- E-mail Death Penalty. Think about it -- all other servers participating than the one getting the DP would automatically kill off all incoming all e-mail from the offending server, forcing the users of the DP'ed e-mail provider to switch servers, causing lots of lost revenue (watch the DP'ed ISP collective ears perk up at that one).
The DVD industry obviously thinks that the people who use Linux are a bunch of pirates, because they're the ones that created DeCSS.
What you should do is after buying a DVD -- and I'm dead serious about this -- is write a nice little letter to the movie company that released it saying something to the effect of...
"Hello, my name is XXXX, and I'm a Linux user. As such, I have been unable to play DVDs on my computer system, so I have not purchased any DVDs until now. Now that DeCSS is released and in the general public, I can finally play DVD movies, and have purchased your movie "...". I plan on watching this on my Linux computer system using DeCSS. I understand your worries about DVD pirating, but you must realize that our intentions are to allow us to view your movies, and in effect to be your customers, to put food on your dinner table. I thank you for your concern with our movement, but feel it is misguided, and you do not realize our true intentions, creating something which the DVD industry has overlooked -- DVD players on "non-mainstream" operating systems. I thank you for your time, and for your movie."
Do this for every movie you purchase. It's a protest, it's a public declaration that you're using a product they fear and wish to abolish, but at the same time, it's a letter telling them that you're supporting their product ONLY because someone filled the gap they created -- the lack of linux DVD players. It's definately worth a shot.
I didn't think it was really all that funny, but I laughed when I saw Cypher say "1 g0t r3wt on al j00r box0rs" -- until I realized it didn't say "I got root in your boxers";);)
.. and that first joke's not fair. I watch Dawson's Creek -- occasionally.:)
If Lucas is really afraid of pirating, then let's hit him where it'll hurt most: by showing that pirating VHS casettes is MUCH easier than pirating DVD's.
If I'm gonna buy the movie when it comes out, it's gonna be to make *gasp* illegal copies. I'll pass them out to my friends at the price of a blank VHS tape -- which is what? $2.00? Hell, I'll sell them on the 'net. I'll make it known that because of Lucas's poor decision, they're gonna lose money from more VHS pirates then they would have ever from DVD pirates (who are at the moment, virtually inexistant..)
The cost to pirate DVD's runs into the thousands -- a DVD copier, a powerful computer, blank DVD's. All I need to pirate a VHS tape is an extra VCR. If anything, Lucas should release the movie on DVD only.
I think what's REALLY funny is that both POS-O, and Super Telecom (the "supposed" free CD company without a real webpage) are housed in the same building and use the same phone number. But, it's not JUST a phone number: if you lok at POS-O's webpage you'll see that number - (510)-527-6908, but on Supertelecom, you'll see that you can fax them at, not suprisingly - (510)-527-6908. In fact, all of the banner's that they show on the webpage, to four different companies, has the exact same phone #.
So my question is what happens for incoming calls? Is there someone who picks up the phone and if they hear the carrier of a fax transmission, quickly hang up the phone, turn the fax machine on, and hope the caller will call back? =)
Sounds like a.5 bit operation to me. Or, maybe if we're lucky, it's a forefront for a mob organization... Hehe, getting organized crime to back a supposed OSS company, what could be better? =)
I ran across their coolstuff4free.com, and I got this quote:
"Super Telecom Inc is a world leader for internet access and web hosting services."
Which figures, because I think they're all in their own little world over there;)
I dunno about Godlike power, but my school is one of the members, and, well, our connection sucks. I'm lucky if I get 10-20k/s during peak hours (14:00-00:00 EST), it's usually not much better than a dialup account during those times.
I believe it is the gateway server out of the dorms -- I'm not sure what kind of machine it is, but it seems to drop packets like it's nooone's business. It makes playing Quake very difficult, with 25% packetloss.
Now that I found out that our school's an I2 member, I might just have to e-mail the admins here and ask (in more polite terms, of course) "wtf is going on d00ds???" =)
"There's money going back into Jeff & Rob's pockets, guaranteed"
What happens when your nonprofit org starts making enough money that you start to take some of that home in profit? Is it no longer a nonprofit org?
Yes, I know the costs in running a website, even a major one such as slashdot. I also know how much revenues can be brought in by banner ads (not even necessary for banner clicks -- with the # of pageviews/. has a day, those advertisers are paying slash every time their banner is displayed, not when someone follows the link. However Jeff & Rob own stock in Andover, which owns slashdot. Therefore, Jeff & Rob are making money from their own company, money which is by very little doubt going into their own pockets, therefore they are turning a profit.
I could be wrong on this one, because IANAIRS Agent, however aren't there tax exemptions for nonprofit orgs?
Like it or not --/. is selling a product. Their price? Free. Are they making money? Yes.
I'd love to get ahold of some andover financial statements and find out just how MUCH money they're making, but there's a little something called "the law" and "privacy" getting in my way;)
Seriously -- this place is no longer a nonprofit org. They sell advertisements, they hold contests (with $10,000-$30,000 being the prize range), and they hold stock in the web page itself (okay, so they hold stock in Andover).
Legally, this place needs to change it's domain to slashdot.com -- there's money going into Rob & Jeff's pockets, guaranteed.
If we wins the case, he can probably buy, oh, maybe a box of cards.
I saw the price in E.B. the other day -- $2.50 / pack -- and only 8 come in a pack? Does anyone remember paying even close to that much for baseball cards? Okay, so I'm 20, and packs of baseball cards only costed $.50 - $1.50 when I was collecting, but you got 15, and until around '90, a stick of gum..
Nintendo is making more than enough money on this case to pay him off over and over again. Not that I care either way who wins this -- a corrupt wanna-be psychic who discovered a neat trick while he was a child, or a corrupt company who's business practices makes Microsoft look saintly.
Everyone's been suggesting inventor type geeks. There's someone who didn't really invent anything, but made as big of an impact, perhaps bigger, than all the other geeks on the list.
Red Hat beer -- they'll give you the recipe for free, they'll sell you the beer for very cheap, but if you need a ride home after the party, they'll charge upwards of $25/hr/person.
I found a sitting spider on my computer sometime around 12:30AM EST, so I named him the official millenium bug & celebrated by taking him to the porcelin water slide screw ride. When I pressed the metal handle to start the ride, I could tell he was having a great deal of fun celebrating his millennial status, swirling all around on the ride and everything.
But something happened which I did not forsee -- the drain at the bottom of the ride was about 1000 times his size, and there was no mesh for protection. It was a short celebration, but I'm sure he was happy, being the official bug & everything. But the way his legs were moving around, seemingly trying to scramble up the sides of the ride -- now in hindsight, I'm not sure.
VERY good thing, because I just can't squeeze the fps from Q3A Linux & UT Linux I can from their Windows counterparts -- plus, I'm too lazy to configure pppd, so until I get back to college, no net in Linux.
I had that kind of problem last year, last time my Windows system went kaput. Very likely you'll have to format c: --:(
You can check bootlog.txt & see just what it stops loading at -- for me, it was when it was trying to load the driver for the floppy drive -- I wouldn't have ever guessed:)
Live was supposed to play their hometown show in Hershey last nite, but they crapped out when Ed got sick, and apparently he passed it onto the rest of the band:-(
If they hadn't gotten sick, I WOULD have had plans last night:-(
Slashdot Mirror
Memory hogs?
;)
;)
;)
(from wintop.exe -- a great program, part of MS Kernel Toys)
Word: 5192K Allocated / 3016K In Memory / 1868K In Use
Excel: 2556K Allocated / 1256K In Memory / 828K In Use
Outlook: 9836K Allocated / 2732K In Memory / 1460K In Use
Both Word & Excel have average-sized documents loaded.
(and for comparison, cause we all love Netscape to death
Netscape: 11104K Allocated / 8992K In Memory/ 8132K In Use
One browser running, this page as I'm typing up this message.
For MS Office's full suite on a typical install (Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Access & Outlook), the total disk space including shared files hovers around the 200 meg mark. That's around 100 less than Office 97 took up, I believe. That's actually VERY impressive, if those numbers don't lie.
These are just the facts on my machine -- take them with a grain of salt, if you will. However O2K hasn't crashed on me ONCE, and to MS's credit, Outlook 2K does a great job as a personal information manager. It's years above what Office 97 was. Plus, PGP integrates itself seemelssly into it. Before Outlook 2k, whenever I was in Windows I was using PC-Pine, so that should tell you something
And YES, the Office Helper can be turned off, hell it even asks you "Do you want to turn me off permanently?" if you hide it a bunch of times (and turning it off is only a matter of right clicking, choosing options, and clicking the box that says "turn off the office helper").
It's monolithic, yes, but it's an Office Suite, they're not ment to be under 100k in disk size. If you find one that is, let me know, better yet, if you create one and decide to sell it, rather then GPL it, let me in on your IPO
I think what would be just as effective, and easier to implement (though still VERY difficult) would be a mass EDP -- E-mail Death Penalty. Think about it -- all other servers participating than the one getting the DP would automatically kill off all incoming all e-mail from the offending server, forcing the users of the DP'ed e-mail provider to switch servers, causing lots of lost revenue (watch the DP'ed ISP collective ears perk up at that one).
The people who post messages from AOL aren't generally spammers, just stupid ;)
I dunno about Beowulf clusters, but I'm wondering which direction the bubbles would go if a pint was poured into a Klein bottle.
Why would you boycott DVD's in the first place?
The DVD industry obviously thinks that the people who use Linux are a bunch of pirates, because they're the ones that created DeCSS.
What you should do is after buying a DVD -- and I'm dead serious about this -- is write a nice little letter to the movie company that released it saying something to the effect of...
"Hello, my name is XXXX, and I'm a Linux user. As such, I have been unable to play DVDs on my computer system, so I have not purchased any DVDs until now. Now that DeCSS is released and in the general public, I can finally play DVD movies, and have purchased your movie "...". I plan on watching this on my Linux computer system using DeCSS. I understand your worries about DVD pirating, but you must realize that our intentions are to allow us to view your movies, and in effect to be your customers, to put food on your dinner table. I thank you for your concern with our movement, but feel it is misguided, and you do not realize our true intentions, creating something which the DVD industry has overlooked -- DVD players on "non-mainstream" operating systems. I thank you for your time, and for your movie."
Do this for every movie you purchase. It's a protest, it's a public declaration that you're using a product they fear and wish to abolish, but at the same time, it's a letter telling them that you're supporting their product ONLY because someone filled the gap they created -- the lack of linux DVD players. It's definately worth a shot.
I didn't think it was really all that funny, but I laughed when I saw Cypher say "1 g0t r3wt on al j00r box0rs" -- until I realized it didn't say "I got root in your boxers" ;) ;)
:)
.. and that first joke's not fair. I watch Dawson's Creek -- occasionally.
If Lucas is really afraid of pirating, then let's hit him where it'll hurt most: by showing that pirating VHS casettes is MUCH easier than pirating DVD's.
If I'm gonna buy the movie when it comes out, it's gonna be to make *gasp* illegal copies. I'll pass them out to my friends at the price of a blank VHS tape -- which is what? $2.00? Hell, I'll sell them on the 'net. I'll make it known that because of Lucas's poor decision, they're gonna lose money from more VHS pirates then they would have ever from DVD pirates (who are at the moment, virtually inexistant..)
The cost to pirate DVD's runs into the thousands -- a DVD copier, a powerful computer, blank DVD's. All I need to pirate a VHS tape is an extra VCR. If anything, Lucas should release the movie on DVD only.
Oh well. They'll learn.
Yup, and December 31st, I'll be partying like it's 1999
Bah. I'll just celebrate Y2K next time it comes around...
The hilarity continues!
I called the phone number -- it's 8:55 am EST here, so it's just about 6 am over there. Someone answered the phone, and sounded VERY sleepy.
Ya think this is being run out of a bedroom? =)
I think what's REALLY funny is that both POS-O, and Super Telecom (the "supposed" free CD company without a real webpage) are housed in the same building and use the same phone number. But, it's not JUST a phone number: if you lok at POS-O's webpage you'll see that number - (510)-527-6908, but on Supertelecom, you'll see that you can fax them at, not suprisingly - (510)-527-6908. In fact, all of the banner's that they show on the webpage, to four different companies, has the exact same phone #.
.5 bit operation to me. Or, maybe if we're lucky, it's a forefront for a mob organization... Hehe, getting organized crime to back a supposed OSS company, what could be better? =)
;)
So my question is what happens for incoming calls? Is there someone who picks up the phone and if they hear the carrier of a fax transmission, quickly hang up the phone, turn the fax machine on, and hope the caller will call back? =)
Sounds like a
I ran across their coolstuff4free.com, and I got this quote:
"Super Telecom Inc is a world leader for internet access and web hosting services."
Which figures, because I think they're all in their own little world over there
I dunno about Godlike power, but my school is one of the members, and, well, our connection sucks. I'm lucky if I get 10-20k/s during peak hours (14:00-00:00 EST), it's usually not much better than a dialup account during those times.
I believe it is the gateway server out of the dorms -- I'm not sure what kind of machine it is, but it seems to drop packets like it's nooone's business. It makes playing Quake very difficult, with 25% packetloss.
Now that I found out that our school's an I2 member, I might just have to e-mail the admins here and ask (in more polite terms, of course) "wtf is going on d00ds???" =)
AC: You overlooked something I wrote:
/. has a day, those advertisers are paying slash every time their banner is displayed, not when someone follows the link. However Jeff & Rob own stock in Andover, which owns slashdot. Therefore, Jeff & Rob are making money from their own company, money which is by very little doubt going into their own pockets, therefore they are turning a profit.
/. is selling a product. Their price? Free. Are they making money? Yes.
;)
"There's money going back into Jeff & Rob's pockets, guaranteed"
What happens when your nonprofit org starts making enough money that you start to take some of that home in profit? Is it no longer a nonprofit org?
Yes, I know the costs in running a website, even a major one such as slashdot. I also know how much revenues can be brought in by banner ads (not even necessary for banner clicks -- with the # of pageviews
I could be wrong on this one, because IANAIRS Agent, however aren't there tax exemptions for nonprofit orgs?
Like it or not --
I'd love to get ahold of some andover financial statements and find out just how MUCH money they're making, but there's a little something called "the law" and "privacy" getting in my way
Seriously -- this place is no longer a nonprofit org. They sell advertisements, they hold contests (with $10,000-$30,000 being the prize range), and they hold stock in the web page itself (okay, so they hold stock in Andover).
Legally, this place needs to change it's domain to slashdot.com -- there's money going into Rob & Jeff's pockets, guaranteed.
If we wins the case, he can probably buy, oh, maybe a box of cards.
I saw the price in E.B. the other day -- $2.50 / pack -- and only 8 come in a pack? Does anyone remember paying even close to that much for baseball cards? Okay, so I'm 20, and packs of baseball cards only costed $.50 - $1.50 when I was collecting, but you got 15, and until around '90, a stick of gum..
Nintendo is making more than enough money on this case to pay him off over and over again. Not that I care either way who wins this -- a corrupt wanna-be psychic who discovered a neat trick while he was a child, or a corrupt company who's business practices makes Microsoft look saintly.
hehehehe, it's a little orange beastie with a moustache
Which one? The pokemon, or Uri Geller?
=)
My bad on the spelling -- Gandhi. Oops :P
Everyone's been suggesting inventor type geeks. There's someone who didn't really invent anything, but made as big of an impact, perhaps bigger, than all the other geeks on the list.
That man is Ghandi.
Windows 99 Beer: Tastes great, less bloating.
Red Hat beer -- they'll give you the recipe for free, they'll sell you the beer for very cheap, but if you need a ride home after the party, they'll charge upwards of $25/hr/person.
Sounds like a dud, but my movie review system wasn't compatible, so it only gets 1.900 thumbs down by me.
I found a sitting spider on my computer sometime around 12:30AM EST, so I named him the official millenium bug & celebrated by taking him to the porcelin water slide screw ride. When I pressed the metal handle to start the ride, I could tell he was having a great deal of fun celebrating his millennial status, swirling all around on the ride and everything.
But something happened which I did not forsee -- the drain at the bottom of the ride was about 1000 times his size, and there was no mesh for protection. It was a short celebration, but I'm sure he was happy, being the official bug & everything. But the way his legs were moving around, seemingly trying to scramble up the sides of the ride -- now in hindsight, I'm not sure.
Even my 95 box survived the crossover...
:(
:)
VERY good thing, because I just can't squeeze the fps from Q3A Linux & UT Linux I can from their Windows counterparts -- plus, I'm too lazy to configure pppd, so until I get back to college, no net in Linux.
I had that kind of problem last year, last time my Windows system went kaput. Very likely you'll have to format c: --
You can check bootlog.txt & see just what it stops loading at -- for me, it was when it was trying to load the driver for the floppy drive -- I wouldn't have ever guessed
A much better song to usher in the 2000s than Prince's stupid "1999", in my opinion.
I don't know about you, but it sure didn't seem like I was partying like it was 1999 last night. Doh.
Live was supposed to play their hometown show in Hershey last nite, but they crapped out when Ed got sick, and apparently he passed it onto the rest of the band :-(
:-(
If they hadn't gotten sick, I WOULD have had plans last night