The problem is not Microsoft, the OS, the PCs power or that fact it's on the net. It's the operator. Do you think it was hacked and all that crap was installed with out the user clicking or installing some thing.
I've had to fix a lot of PCs because the user clicked a box, usually misrepresenting what the results would be, and some payload frigs them.
The Problem Exists Between the Keyboard and the Chair
So bad that being "good" bad like Plan Nine or any othe Ed Wood movie, isn't even possible. Yet cheesy enough to watch some (I dare you to not fast forward) and get a few laughs.
We've been evaluating a couple and are replacing some old VT terminals with them. They have no moving parts, no CD, no FD, no HD. 256MB of flash memory running imbedded XP on a Transmeta CPU. You'll need a server to supply any non-imbedded apps, but for web terminals you would not have an easier solution then this type of thin client.
BTW if imbedded XP is not a feature for you, at least the reboots are quicker.
One of the requirements of early patents was to produce a working model of the patented item. These models were often made of wood, and contributed to the fire when the office burnt.
If you want to better patents, make people supply a working model. I'm quite sure alot of patents would not be granted or would be shown to to prior art.
My buddy found out the hard way the raid 0 was not recoverable when he lost a drive last week. Mirror your OS drives. if you want to use raid 0 use it for anything you can afford to lose.
Sony's SACD are a CD layer & a DVD (type) layer on the same side of the disk. But the extra layer is not compatible with any players, other than SACD ones.
Would a real DVD layer work on a player that could support both? IFAIK DVD & CD players currently see the CD layer then ignore the DVD^H^H^SACD layer. I don't know if this is due to the SACD layer being ignored when the player detects the CD layer first or that the DVD layer is not detect as a DVD video layer first. But if the SACD layer was a valid DVD layer would DVD players pick it up? My guess the patents/licensing for this type of disk prevents use or most current hardware would not work without a firmware change.
My father was in the military and he had rolls of tape called GUN tape. I didn't know what DUCT tape was until I realized it was the same stuff just silver and not green.
IMHO it should be called the Red Green Mod or RGM.
Remember when a Sparcstation 330 was $80,000+ consider it had the same MIPS as a 486DX33.
As PC's goes, the office I shared at my first good IT job had an IBM 286 in it. With 30MB HD, two 5.25 Floppies, EGA card, 512K of memory. Cost $14,000. It was the first model of 286 running a brisk 6MHz. I think it was a 5160
We replaced a VAX 330 with an emulated system. The first comments from the field were much better response time was. However the old system ever had downtime in the last three years, and that was due to a UPS failure. Stability is not quite the same, but it reboots quicker.
My 97 Cavalier has one. In fact this year a case of dangerous driving causing death was proven with the black box.
Many Canadians became aware that late-model cars are equipped with "black box" technology during a recent high-profile trial in which a motorist was jailed in the death of a university student in Montreal.
Black box data showed that Eric Gauthier was driving at 157 kilometres an hour just seconds before he struck and killed Yacine Zinet. The trial marked the first time that car data recorders have been accepted as evidence in a Canadian courtroom. Source www.canada.com
Sounds like an upgrade to a IBM mainframe. They just came in and changed a few jumpers to enable the memory that was already there.
In this case, Lite-on used good parts and the smarts or foresight to design & build a cost effective and market effective unit. No redesign or tooling = cheaper units.
10847. SB S&D 1.3 on a friend's daughters PC. Sure a lot were cookies, but she had every known "helper/buddy" app I've seen. Surprise, for some reason IE wasn't working.
No AV either.
Some people are to stupid or naive to run a computer.
Where x is 1-255, it will then print MICROSOFT! X times to the screen.
Legend is that Gates wrote this is in case Commodore stiffed them on the Basic Interpreter, that Microsoft wrote for the PET. So it was an early form of watermark DRM, LOL.
This was the first software sale outside of the original Altair Basic. I believe the PET 2001 was also the first to have the basic in ROM.
Sometimes it comes around full circle with movies like Yojimbo - Fistful of Dollars, The Seven Samurai - Magnificent Seven.
They were Easterners (Ok, I'm probably making this word up), copies of western movie ideas that became westerns.
Re:other country's? - Actually he did visit...
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Spiderman was in a 1990 series called "Skating on thin ice" It was comissioned to be an anti-drug keep-yourself-clean comic by some federal police group in Canada. Peter was sent to various cities to do some of photos and battled various villians dealing badness to the kiddies. Electro is in the first one, which is all I have since they handed it out for free. It was based where I live which is the only reason I kept it.
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The problem is not Microsoft, the OS, the PCs power or that fact it's on the net. It's the operator. Do you think it was hacked and all that crap was installed with out the user clicking or installing some thing.
I've had to fix a lot of PCs because the user clicked a box, usually misrepresenting what the results would be, and some payload frigs them.
The Problem Exists Between the Keyboard and the Chair
The Man Who Saved the World
So bad that being "good" bad like Plan Nine or any othe Ed Wood movie, isn't even possible. Yet cheesy enough to watch some (I dare you to not fast forward) and get a few laughs.
We've been evaluating a couple and are replacing some old VT terminals with them. They have no moving parts, no CD, no FD, no HD. 256MB of flash memory running imbedded XP on a Transmeta CPU. You'll need a server to supply any non-imbedded apps, but for web terminals you would not have an easier solution then this type of thin client.
BTW if imbedded XP is not a feature for you, at least the reboots are quicker.
One of the requirements of early patents was to produce a working model of the patented item. These models were often made of wood, and contributed to the fire when the office burnt.
If you want to better patents, make people supply a working model. I'm quite sure alot of patents would not be granted or would be shown to to prior art.
My buddy found out the hard way the raid 0 was not recoverable when he lost a drive last week. Mirror your OS drives. if you want to use raid 0 use it for anything you can afford to lose.
Would a real DVD layer work on a player that could support both? IFAIK DVD & CD players currently see the CD layer then ignore the DVD^H^H^SACD layer. I don't know if this is due to the SACD layer being ignored when the player detects the CD layer first or that the DVD layer is not detect as a DVD video layer first. But if the SACD layer was a valid DVD layer would DVD players pick it up? My guess the patents/licensing for this type of disk prevents use or most current hardware would not work without a firmware change.
Turn off SSID AND encrypt.
My father was in the military and he had rolls of tape called GUN tape. I didn't know what DUCT tape was until I realized it was the same stuff just silver and not green.
IMHO it should be called the Red Green Mod or RGM.
Like Disney's videos and DVDs, I bet this plays dumbass ads for other Disney products while it boots.
Remember when a Sparcstation 330 was $80,000+ consider it had the same MIPS as a 486DX33.
As PC's goes, the office I shared at my first good IT job had an IBM 286 in it. With 30MB HD, two 5.25 Floppies, EGA card, 512K of memory. Cost $14,000. It was the first model of 286 running a brisk 6MHz. I think it was a 5160
Ah, blee^H^H^H^Hcutting edge.
We replaced a VAX 330 with an emulated system. The first comments from the field were much better response time was. However the old system ever had downtime in the last three years, and that was due to a UPS failure. Stability is not quite the same, but it reboots quicker.
My 97 Cavalier has one. In fact this year a case of dangerous driving causing death was proven with the black box.
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Many Canadians became aware that late-model cars are equipped with "black box" technology during a recent high-profile trial in which a motorist was jailed in the death of a university student in Montreal.
Black box data showed that Eric Gauthier was driving at 157 kilometres an hour just seconds before he struck and killed Yacine Zinet. The trial marked the first time that car data recorders have been accepted as evidence in a Canadian courtroom.
Source www.canada.com
http://www.cbc.ca/stories/2004/04/14/blackbox_2
Now if Americans would only turn on your lights when driving. It let's you be seen better on the road.
ARRRRGGHHHHH, I'm surrounded by mail clipper noise.
Thanksa for the correction. But I still think the Nixie tubes are cooler.
and the correct answer was.....
More likely the large Xerox call center in Saint John NB.
Correct, most likely a NIXIE tube.
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http://www.decodesystems.com/nixie.html
Check this for a neat application.
http://www.amug.org/~jthomas/watch.
NTOND
Nixie Tube Of Near Death
Sounds like an upgrade to a IBM mainframe. They just came in and changed a few jumpers to enable the memory that was already there.
In this case, Lite-on used good parts and the smarts or foresight to design & build a cost effective and market effective unit. No redesign or tooling = cheaper units.
After all doesn't the magnetic field protect earth from solar radiation. May be a link to global weather trends too.
10847. SB S&D 1.3 on a friend's daughters PC.
Sure a lot were cookies, but she had every known "helper/buddy" app I've seen. Surprise, for some reason IE wasn't working.
No AV either.
Some people are to stupid or naive to run a computer.
After all even techs have to keep a job have some laughs too.
The newfies are part of Canada too.
Actually just use the
WAIT 6502,X
Where x is 1-255, it will then print MICROSOFT! X times to the screen.
Legend is that Gates wrote this is in case Commodore stiffed them on the Basic Interpreter, that Microsoft wrote for the PET. So it was an early form of watermark DRM, LOL.
This was the first software sale outside of the original Altair Basic. I believe the PET 2001 was also the first to have the basic in ROM.
Sometimes it comes around full circle with movies like Yojimbo - Fistful of Dollars, The Seven Samurai - Magnificent Seven. They were Easterners (Ok, I'm probably making this word up), copies of western movie ideas that became westerns.
Spiderman was in a 1990 series called "Skating on thin ice" It was comissioned to be an anti-drug keep-yourself-clean comic by some federal police group in Canada. Peter was sent to various cities to do some of photos and battled various villians dealing badness to the kiddies. Electro is in the first one, which is all I have since they handed it out for free. It was based where I live which is the only reason I kept it.