This article title is a generalisation. Some women are really good at desktop navigation.
My fiance is far more comfortable with the new Windows XP start menu, the navigation menu items on the left of Windows Explorer and Windows Media Player. She is a humanities student.
I am a graduate in multimedia, and have studied interface design and useability at length. I use computers all day. I turn Explorer, Windows Media Player and the Start Menu back to the classic look.
I believe maybe women are faster to adapt to change? The factors that make her "like" an interface are basically how pretty it looks, how responsive it is and if it makes cool sounds. I prefer stability, performance and being able to do the job I need to do.
She actually asked me to install RedHat 8 on her laptop... I took a short cut and copied wave files from GNOME across. I also installed Phoenix (woops Firebird) with an Aqua-ish theme. I'm sure when OpenOffice gets spelling to work adequately in Australian English, with Grammar and Thesaurus, she will migrate.
The Australian authorities ordered Australian mobile carriers to make phone numbers portable, and this came into effect about a year ago.
Many people switched providers, but some may have had to pay out the remainder of their contracts (all the fine print you sign when you get a phone). Most phone contracts run for 18-24 months... this could be quite costly.
Girlfriend/wife/significant other sends you a 'hot' voice/video message for your eyes only.
If her parents / colleagues / friends / family got a forwarded copy (possibly by accident) it could ruin her reputation, cause her to lose her job, etc.
Substitute "operating system" for "web browser" in your statement and perhaps I'll agree with you. There are fantastic free operating systems out there, and fantastic free browsers. I never said otherwise.
You of course disclose this up front to your potential clients, don't you? My company won't hire slugs like you, who insist on using non-compliant code and thus alienating any number of potential customers. A class of customers by the way who aren't adverse to spending money for a good product. You are making way too many assumptions. I code to W3C standards, and validate my pages. It's not really an issue if NS4 doesn't support the latest standards, the older standards still work.
I was saying that I will code to standards, if it works on Opera - good, if it doesn't, I'm not going to alter my standards compliant code for a browser that can't interpret the standards completely. This is not a crime.
(I am sure your web-pages are designed to work with a browser's bandwidth-saving "no images"-mode though - unless you're pushing double standard here.)
I usually do browse with images turned off. As a result, I always use ALT and TITLE attributes whilst developing.
On a dialup modem connection, I easily download more than the 1GB per month than I am allowed. Turning off images helps, but frustrates my fiance. lol
Why on earth do you feel you need to develop for specific browsers? I develop to W3C standards, and test it on NS4, MSIE, Mozilla/Phoenix (depending upon requirements).
Other than the totally borked horror that is Netscape 4.x, modern web clients - including Opera - generally do things right as long as you do it right. 'Generally' isn't good enough if browsing is integral to a person's career or to their study. Netscape 4 is a solid browser, even if CSS support is lacking, JavaScript 1.3 is satisfactory.
Most already use bandwidth to download the crappy images and plugin data you web DUH-signers throw in the pages themselves. Also, the banner ad is only present if you don't pay - so which are you criticizing, the ad-ware version or the paid version? Plugin data? What kind of sites are you visiting? I rarely (like twice a year) use plugins. Images usually serve a purpose... if NCSA had never developed Mosaic, you would be just as happy since you don't like images. What version of Lynx are you using these days?
There is no such thing as a free (gratis) lunch. The "free" in "freedom" isn't the "free as in beer" but "free as in speach". Don't mix the two. Just because I used 'freedom' and 'free' in the same sentence does not mean I do not understand their meanings. btw it is 'speech'
It's not sub-standard to those of us that use it. Maybe I should have termed it "not as standards compliant as others"?
And why do you write web pages for Netscape 4.x (which you mentioned at the start of your trolling) which is clearly sub-standard in every possible way? Trolling? That's right, you don't believe in free speech. Netscape 4 was a very popular browser. The deployment environment dictated by the clients will determine whether I develop for NS4.
Lovely unfounded "probably" there. I guess you also turn off cookies in your browser and demand that web sites you visit turn off IP logging... HTTP requests are often logged by servers, especially advertisements. I do turn off cookies by default, and allow the 10 or so sites that do require it. Sites who bypass this are added to my hosts file.
Such as? Is it really that hard to realize that someone actually can write a smaller program that does the same as a bigger one? You got me there... OpenOffice vs. M$ Office is a good example.
As a web developer, I will never develop pages for Opera. Just MSIE, Mozilla/Phoenix and Netscape 4.x.
How many home, school and business users pay for a web browser that doesn't come with their operating system? Or like valuable screen real estate occupied by a banner image (and using bandwidth to download the banners)?
I thought that the internet is about freedom and free access to information. The idea of paying for a web browser seems ludicrous to me, especially when there are fantastic free browsers out there.
I have heard on many occasions how Opera does not render some pages correctly... and they want to charge people who use this program? Why pay for something that is clearly sub-standard? Or bombard those who wont pay with flashing advertisments (that probably track usage and habbits anyway).
I know why it is only a 3.2 MB download, portions of the code are missing! If I want a small, light weight browser, I will use Phoenix. Although it is double the download size, I am assured of it's rendering ability.
I can't seem to find the page on the Opera website that sells ice to the eskimos. Can someone help me? Thanks.
Last year when I was looking for work, I used two very popular Australian job search engines. These were: www.seek.com.au www.mycareer.com.au
After I started applying for jobs online, I started getting about 5 spam messages per day. This is pretty dodgy. I had the mail delivered to my university account, which has now been deleted as I have finished. This email address was only given to colleagues, and to these two sites, so it was easy for me to determine the culprit.
As a consultant/web developer I get clients always choosing the wrong way they would like something done. Almost to the point where I don't really want to put my name on the product. Granted the customer is always right, but we do have to attempt to enlighten them.
Communicating the Pros & Cons in non-geek-speak is a good start, but sometimes whey have their mind made up. Cost is usually the biggest factor they use to pick one development path over another.
The way I try to correct them is by trying to let them know that they will save money in the long run, or have a more reliable/useable/customisable product.
I commend their development efforts, but such a task is not easy. I am a web developer too. I write in XHTML Strict sometimes, and XHTML Transitional most of the time.
If I am building a site for a target browser and version (MSIE 6 on an intranet, etc), I will build to XHTML Strict, just to keep my brain active. XHTML Strict is a pain in the butt, some things are virtually impossible to do (or workarounds are not elegant).
Otherwise I like to use XHTML Transitional. Accessability is more important than bandwidth considerations, IMHO. Many people use old browsers, and they have the right to. They do not need to download Mozilla every 2 months or update MSIE when a new version/patch comes out. Useability is very important too, although often over-looked. If a site is not accessable and usable, people will not use it.
Table layout's DO have their place. A well designed table can easily use less code than positioned layers. Plus tables are rendered more similarly in more browsers than layers. I'm not talking about a master table with 3+ columns and many rows, I'm talking about a 3x3 (or less) tables.
I guess that Mandrake releasing a "nine" version is possibly the reason why RedHat is releasing a "nine" version too... to catch up in the eyes of the users. Or maybe a marketing ploy to get more subscriptions because users always want the latest version (more urgently if it is an X.0 release).
It's similar to what happened with Netscape 6... it was released as MS Internet Explorer 6 was released, although there was never a Netscape 5. (Although the UserAgents show otherwise).
Personally, I like the simplicity/consistency that RedHatt brings, but the complexity is there if I need it. It's a shame CHAP doesn't work for me on RedHat 8.0, even when CHAP secrets is setup properly.
Are the days of RedHat point releases gone? I had it embedded in my mind that the X.0 release was a little buggy, but by the time it reached X.2 or X.3 it was nice and stable.
Hmm, I doubt about the prevalence of NOS systems, superchargers or V8 engines. Granted, I live very south on the mainland. (The ouback is the north-west of the continent).
There are many idiots who extend their phallus by purchasing 6/8 cylinder vehicles and modding them and wasting money. It's not as if they get to their destination any faster... unless they break the speeding laws. And they are still under the impression that these cars assist in their efforts to get layed. I think between the ages of 14 and 32 there is too much blood going to the groin (as opposed to the brain) in Australian men.
They rev their engines, and make their tyres squeal taking corners. I laugh at them. Especially when they take off when the lights turn green and I catch up to them at the next red lights in my Hyundai Excel.
Alternative Title/Article Microsoft: We Make Our Programmers Obsolete. The article really reads: "Microsoft software is carefully designed to keep your company's valuable information open source at Microsoft, and unauthorised people and virii/worms in."
Which means your data couldn't be safer (unless you migrate to an open source operating system/applications or re-install Windows 3.11), even if you keep it in a Microsoft (TM) built safe (made of paper and duct tape). This is great news for the survival of our company (Microsoft). But tragic news for the uninformed suckers who purchase our products.
All that is required is the acceptance of our standard waiver of liability for installing Microsoft software, and the affirmation that your hardware & software belong to Microsoft... you just rent it.
When we (read: hackers/business users) find security holes in our software (read: spyware) we release download patches, amouting to about 10MB per week, and several reboots. This augers well with 56 K modem users who use Linux to dial their ISP (requiring MS-CHAP), when chap.secrets wont work. Don't concern yourself with patches to increase performance and reliability, we only release 'security' (cough) patches.
And to top it off, each new version of our software grows exponentially in size. The next version of Windows will require 2GB of hard disk space and 1024 MB of RAM to work as fast as it would have with Windows 98 and 64 MB of RAM. Never mind that you are doing exactly the same tasks, and the MS Office file format is ideantical in XP, 2000 and 97.
Microsoft programmers are first rate. They all get their qualifications with toys in breakfast cereal packets.
Prepare to be assimilated! Resistance is futile!
[In case you couldn't tell, I was being sarcastic. All hail Tux, commander of the USS Starship Future!]
Just out of interest... what do you pay for one litre of unleaded gasoline/petrol in the US?
Recently in Australia, the price usually lies within 95c to 105c per litre (56c - 62c US). In just 10 years the price has gone up more than 20 cents, partially due to the introduction of the GST (10%).
Goodluck to the US... Australia is your brother in arms.
You can always dig a hole to extend an underground house, but you can't really un-dig one. If you wanted an extra room, that's easy, but if you want to remove it or alter it, it's going to be difficult.
Many people in the opal mining town of Cooper Pedy, South Australia live underground to escape the heat.
Heating would be an issue if you were deep underground. Maybe the heat from molten lava should be used for heating? However, any kind of explosion/terrorism would rupture the pipes and kill everyone in the immediate area.
I would want steel reinforcements in my underground house, although how useful it would be when there are thousands of tonnes of rock above?
What happens after an earthquake? Compulsory interior re-decorating? You mix up some cement to patch up the gaping hole leading to your neighbours toilet?
In the Control Panel, Under Enhanced, you can adjust the Scheduling. Windows in Foreground defaults to 100ms and Windows in Background defaults to 50ms. The minimum timeslice can be altered from the default 20ms too. The "Exclusive in Foreground" checkbox can also be checked here.
You wouldn't be the person who wrote this article would you? Running a web-server on Windows 3.x, playing MP3s in Windows 3.x, sharing files on Windows 3.x... etc. So many screen-shots!
Many years ago, in a town far far away (Melbourne)...
I purchased an ISA sound card with an attached ATAPI CD drive (1x, pull out tray, when CD is in - busy light is always on). The guys as the computer shop put it in and installed the software. I heard noises coming from the speakers, sounding like interference from the hard drive.
I opened the manual and it said move it to move the card to a different slot. So I opened my 486 DX2 66 MHz, and pulled out the ISA sound card and put it in the bottom-most slot (I think it was a VESA slot for display adapters). Turned on computer, BEEP BEEP BEEP, smell of burning electronics, no screen display. (Adrenaline pumping, had I ruined my first non family (ie my own) computer?)
Put card back into original slot.
Took it back to shop, paid $75 and got a double speed CD/sound card put in. Everything still worked although the faint smell still lingered.
Now I'm patching firmware, adding cards & RAM, changing jumpers, over clocking, cleaning the fans/heatsinks on the display card, the processor and the power supply. I make sure there is no power going to the computer now...
I think there are many times when PHP's print/echo and ASP's Response.Write need to be used. In every project. Functions generate output, and Response.Write sends it to the output stream.
However I was shocked to use ASP.NET and found that unless ASP compat mode was turned on. to output something to the web page I had to create a label, set the label's text, then add it to the body/form control. Talk about the long way of doing something. It isn't any more flexible. It is much harder to change.
IO, IO, It's off to work I go, 1 bit in and 1 bit out... IO IO IO IO
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This article title is a generalisation. Some women are really good at desktop navigation.
My fiance is far more comfortable with the new Windows XP start menu, the navigation menu items on the left of Windows Explorer and Windows Media Player. She is a humanities student.
I am a graduate in multimedia, and have studied interface design and useability at length. I use computers all day. I turn Explorer, Windows Media Player and the Start Menu back to the classic look.
I believe maybe women are faster to adapt to change? The factors that make her "like" an interface are basically how pretty it looks, how responsive it is and if it makes cool sounds. I prefer stability, performance and being able to do the job I need to do.
She actually asked me to install RedHat 8 on her laptop... I took a short cut and copied wave files from GNOME across. I also installed Phoenix (woops Firebird) with an Aqua-ish theme. I'm sure when OpenOffice gets spelling to work adequately in Australian English, with Grammar and Thesaurus, she will migrate.
Has anyone thought of... putting more development effort into making cases that are functional, not necessarily purty with neon lights?
An airtight case (2 layer case with vacuum between layers) could
* reduce noise
* stop dust problems
A humidifier could control the moisture levels (stop corrosion).
An air/gas compressor could keep the internals a constant temperature (even whilst over clocking).
And with the right choice of material, the system could be fire proof to a certain temperature and water proof in the event of a flood.
Quite possibly overkill on the wallet, but for people/businesses who's hardware and data are invaluable, the inital expense would be worth it.
The Australian authorities ordered Australian mobile carriers to make phone numbers portable, and this came into effect about a year ago.
Many people switched providers, but some may have had to pay out the remainder of their contracts (all the fine print you sign when you get a phone). Most phone contracts run for 18-24 months... this could be quite costly.
Think about the following scenario.
Girlfriend/wife/significant other sends you a 'hot' voice/video message for your eyes only.
If her parents / colleagues / friends / family got a forwarded copy (possibly by accident) it could ruin her reputation, cause her to lose her job, etc.
DRM would be effective in this scenario.
2% global economy with 0.3% of the world's population? Not bad I suppose... maybe it would be higher if government & schools used Linux :-)
w
:-)
0.3% = (18,000,000/6,000,000,000) * 100
Estimate of world's population may be found here:
http://www.census.gov/cgi-bin/ipc/popclock
Go Aussie go!
Substitute "operating system" for "web browser" in your statement and perhaps I'll agree with you.
There are fantastic free operating systems out there, and fantastic free browsers. I never said otherwise.
You of course disclose this up front to your potential clients, don't you? My company won't hire slugs like you, who insist on using non-compliant code and thus alienating any number of potential customers. A class of customers by the way who aren't adverse to spending money for a good product.
You are making way too many assumptions. I code to W3C standards, and validate my pages. It's not really an issue if NS4 doesn't support the latest standards, the older standards still work.
I was saying that I will code to standards, if it works on Opera - good, if it doesn't, I'm not going to alter my standards compliant code for a browser that can't interpret the standards completely. This is not a crime.
(I am sure your web-pages are designed to work with a browser's bandwidth-saving "no images"-mode though - unless you're pushing double standard here.)
I usually do browse with images turned off. As a result, I always use ALT and TITLE attributes whilst developing.
On a dialup modem connection, I easily download more than the 1GB per month than I am allowed. Turning off images helps, but frustrates my fiance. lol
Why on earth do you feel you need to develop for specific browsers?
I develop to W3C standards, and test it on NS4, MSIE, Mozilla/Phoenix (depending upon requirements).
Other than the totally borked horror that is Netscape 4.x, modern web clients - including Opera - generally do things right as long as you do it right.
'Generally' isn't good enough if browsing is integral to a person's career or to their study. Netscape 4 is a solid browser, even if CSS support is lacking, JavaScript 1.3 is satisfactory.
Most already use bandwidth to download the crappy images and plugin data you web DUH-signers throw in the pages themselves. Also, the banner ad is only present if you don't pay - so which are you criticizing, the ad-ware version or the paid version?
Plugin data? What kind of sites are you visiting? I rarely (like twice a year) use plugins. Images usually serve a purpose... if NCSA had never developed Mosaic, you would be just as happy since you don't like images. What version of Lynx are you using these days?
There is no such thing as a free (gratis) lunch. The "free" in "freedom" isn't the "free as in beer" but "free as in speach". Don't mix the two.
Just because I used 'freedom' and 'free' in the same sentence does not mean I do not understand their meanings. btw it is 'speech'
It's not sub-standard to those of us that use it.
Maybe I should have termed it "not as standards compliant as others"?
And why do you write web pages for Netscape 4.x (which you mentioned at the start of your trolling) which is clearly sub-standard in every possible way?
Trolling? That's right, you don't believe in free speech. Netscape 4 was a very popular browser. The deployment environment dictated by the clients will determine whether I develop for NS4.
Lovely unfounded "probably" there. I guess you also turn off cookies in your browser and demand that web sites you visit turn off IP logging...
HTTP requests are often logged by servers, especially advertisements. I do turn off cookies by default, and allow the 10 or so sites that do require it. Sites who bypass this are added to my hosts file.
Such as? Is it really that hard to realize that someone actually can write a smaller program that does the same as a bigger one?
You got me there... OpenOffice vs. M$ Office is a good example.
As a web developer, I will never develop pages for Opera. Just MSIE, Mozilla/Phoenix and Netscape 4.x.
How many home, school and business users pay for a web browser that doesn't come with their operating system? Or like valuable screen real estate occupied by a banner image (and using bandwidth to download the banners)?
I thought that the internet is about freedom and free access to information. The idea of paying for a web browser seems ludicrous to me, especially when there are fantastic free browsers out there.
I have heard on many occasions how Opera does not render some pages correctly... and they want to charge people who use this program? Why pay for something that is clearly sub-standard? Or bombard those who wont pay with flashing advertisments (that probably track usage and habbits anyway).
I know why it is only a 3.2 MB download, portions of the code are missing! If I want a small, light weight browser, I will use Phoenix. Although it is double the download size, I am assured of it's rendering ability.
I can't seem to find the page on the Opera website that sells ice to the eskimos. Can someone help me? Thanks.
Last year when I was looking for work, I used two very popular Australian job search engines. These were:
:-(
www.seek.com.au
www.mycareer.com.au
After I started applying for jobs online, I started getting about 5 spam messages per day. This is pretty dodgy. I had the mail delivered to my university account, which has now been deleted as I have finished. This email address was only given to colleagues, and to these two sites, so it was easy for me to determine the culprit.
Now I just get spam to my hotmail account
I'm just an Australian (who uses Linux :-), portrayed incorrectly in that infamous Simpson's episode (with the toads, the boot, ocre accents, etc).
Skippy the Bush Kanagroo was a successful, long running series. Don't diss the kangaroos, unless you are talking about the AFL football team.
As a consultant/web developer I get clients always choosing the wrong way they would like something done. Almost to the point where I don't really want to put my name on the product. Granted the customer is always right, but we do have to attempt to enlighten them.
Communicating the Pros & Cons in non-geek-speak is a good start, but sometimes whey have their mind made up. Cost is usually the biggest factor they use to pick one development path over another.
The way I try to correct them is by trying to let them know that they will save money in the long run, or have a more reliable/useable/customisable product.
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I tried to get first post. How did I go?
I commend their development efforts, but such a task is not easy. I am a web developer too. I write in XHTML Strict sometimes, and XHTML Transitional most of the time.
http://www.froggy.com.au/mike.skinner/Mike Skinner - Resume.htm
If I am building a site for a target browser and version (MSIE 6 on an intranet, etc), I will build to XHTML Strict, just to keep my brain active. XHTML Strict is a pain in the butt, some things are virtually impossible to do (or workarounds are not elegant).
Otherwise I like to use XHTML Transitional. Accessability is more important than bandwidth considerations, IMHO. Many people use old browsers, and they have the right to. They do not need to download Mozilla every 2 months or update MSIE when a new version/patch comes out. Useability is very important too, although often over-looked. If a site is not accessable and usable, people will not use it.
Table layout's DO have their place. A well designed table can easily use less code than positioned layers. Plus tables are rendered more similarly in more browsers than layers. I'm not talking about a master table with 3+ columns and many rows, I'm talking about a 3x3 (or less) tables.
I guess that Mandrake releasing a "nine" version is possibly the reason why RedHat is releasing a "nine" version too... to catch up in the eyes of the users. Or maybe a marketing ploy to get more subscriptions because users always want the latest version (more urgently if it is an X.0 release).
It's similar to what happened with Netscape 6... it was released as MS Internet Explorer 6 was released, although there was never a Netscape 5. (Although the UserAgents show otherwise).
Personally, I like the simplicity/consistency that RedHatt brings, but the complexity is there if I need it. It's a shame CHAP doesn't work for me on RedHat 8.0, even when CHAP secrets is setup properly.
Are the days of RedHat point releases gone? I had it embedded in my mind that the X.0 release was a little buggy, but by the time it reached X.2 or X.3 it was nice and stable.
Hmm, I doubt about the prevalence of NOS systems, superchargers or V8 engines. Granted, I live very south on the mainland. (The ouback is the north-west of the continent).
There are many idiots who extend their phallus by purchasing 6/8 cylinder vehicles and modding them and wasting money. It's not as if they get to their destination any faster... unless they break the speeding laws. And they are still under the impression that these cars assist in their efforts to get layed. I think between the ages of 14 and 32 there is too much blood going to the groin (as opposed to the brain) in Australian men.
They rev their engines, and make their tyres squeal taking corners. I laugh at them. Especially when they take off when the lights turn green and I catch up to them at the next red lights in my Hyundai Excel.
Alternative Title/Article
Microsoft: We Make Our Programmers Obsolete.
The article really reads: "Microsoft software is carefully designed to keep your company's valuable information open source at Microsoft, and unauthorised people and virii/worms in."
Which means your data couldn't be safer (unless you migrate to an open source operating system/applications or re-install Windows 3.11), even if you keep it in a Microsoft (TM) built safe (made of paper and duct tape). This is great news for the survival of our company (Microsoft). But tragic news for the uninformed suckers who purchase our products.
All that is required is the acceptance of our standard waiver of liability for installing Microsoft software, and the affirmation that your hardware & software belong to Microsoft... you just rent it.
When we (read: hackers/business users) find security holes in our software (read: spyware) we release download patches, amouting to about 10MB per week, and several reboots. This augers well with 56 K modem users who use Linux to dial their ISP (requiring MS-CHAP), when chap.secrets wont work. Don't concern yourself with patches to increase performance and reliability, we only release 'security' (cough) patches.
And to top it off, each new version of our software grows exponentially in size. The next version of Windows will require 2GB of hard disk space and 1024 MB of RAM to work as fast as it would have with Windows 98 and 64 MB of RAM. Never mind that you are doing exactly the same tasks, and the MS Office file format is ideantical in XP, 2000 and 97.
Microsoft programmers are first rate. They all get their qualifications with toys in breakfast cereal packets.
Prepare to be assimilated! Resistance is futile!
[In case you couldn't tell, I was being sarcastic. All hail Tux, commander of the USS Starship Future!]
Just out of interest... what do you pay for one litre of unleaded gasoline/petrol in the US?
Recently in Australia, the price usually lies within 95c to 105c per litre (56c - 62c US). In just 10 years the price has gone up more than 20 cents, partially due to the introduction of the GST (10%).
Goodluck to the US... Australia is your brother in arms.
You can always dig a hole to extend an underground house, but you can't really un-dig one. If you wanted an extra room, that's easy, but if you want to remove it or alter it, it's going to be difficult.
Many people in the opal mining town of Cooper Pedy, South Australia live underground to escape the heat.
Heating would be an issue if you were deep underground. Maybe the heat from molten lava should be used for heating? However, any kind of explosion/terrorism would rupture the pipes and kill everyone in the immediate area.
I would want steel reinforcements in my underground house, although how useful it would be when there are thousands of tonnes of rock above?
What happens after an earthquake? Compulsory interior re-decorating? You mix up some cement to patch up the gaping hole leading to your neighbours toilet?
I better disconnect my Windows 3.11 with TCP/IP and Win32s, don't want it getting infected!
m
http://www.froggy.com.au/mike.skinner/16bitwin.ht
I know there is a general trend in electronics towards smaller devices being "better", but aren't mobile phones small enough already?
I have thick fingers (comes with being 6'3"), and I find that the buttons on my Nokia 3310 are only just big enough to be useable.
Button size is a very important factor for me, not just for entering phone numbers but for entering SMS messages (I SMS very frequently).
Woman with long finger nails might have the same problem too.
Windows 3.11 does too!
h tm
In the Control Panel, Under Enhanced, you can adjust the Scheduling. Windows in Foreground defaults to 100ms and Windows in Background defaults to 50ms. The minimum timeslice can be altered from the default 20ms too. The "Exclusive in Foreground" checkbox can also be checked here.
http://www.froggy.com.au/mike.skinner/16bitwin.
"As an avid Microsoft fan..."
h tm
You wouldn't be the person who wrote this article would you? Running a web-server on Windows 3.x, playing MP3s in Windows 3.x, sharing files on Windows 3.x... etc. So many screen-shots!
http://www.froggy.com.au/mike.skinner/16bitwin.
Many years ago, in a town far far away (Melbourne)...
I purchased an ISA sound card with an attached ATAPI CD drive (1x, pull out tray, when CD is in - busy light is always on). The guys as the computer shop put it in and installed the software. I heard noises coming from the speakers, sounding like interference from the hard drive.
I opened the manual and it said move it to move the card to a different slot. So I opened my 486 DX2 66 MHz, and pulled out the ISA sound card and put it in the bottom-most slot (I think it was a VESA slot for display adapters). Turned on computer, BEEP BEEP BEEP, smell of burning electronics, no screen display. (Adrenaline pumping, had I ruined my first non family (ie my own) computer?)
Put card back into original slot.
Took it back to shop, paid $75 and got a double speed CD/sound card put in. Everything still worked although the faint smell still lingered.
Now I'm patching firmware, adding cards & RAM, changing jumpers, over clocking, cleaning the fans/heatsinks on the display card, the processor and the power supply. I make sure there is no power going to the computer now...
Has anyone noticed that the Lindows site looks very similar to the Apple web site?
And the green running man in a circle looks similar to the Ximian (monkey?) logo.
Lindows should get an "original" graphic designer. I think they are good for the Linux movement though.
I think there are many times when PHP's print/echo and ASP's Response.Write need to be used. In every project. Functions generate output, and Response.Write sends it to the output stream.
However I was shocked to use ASP.NET and found that unless ASP compat mode was turned on. to output something to the web page I had to create a label, set the label's text, then add it to the body/form control. Talk about the long way of doing something. It isn't any more flexible. It is much harder to change.
IO, IO, It's off to work I go, 1 bit in and 1 bit out... IO IO IO IO