You never found the loophole? My friend used to open those with a letter opener so he didn't break the seal. That way, he never technically agreed to anything... at least until he got to read it.
Hell, I'd settle for one that's not friggin' tiny. I have big hands, and it seems to me that mice just get smaller and smaller as the years go by... I wish there was an equivalent to the IBM model M for pointing devices...
There are those of us that aren't scarred, but still would rather be introverts. I live on my computers. When I do leave the house, the laptop comes with me, and my cell phone becomes a modem.
I feel more at home on the Internet than in any IRL situation. I do get out occasionally, but more than I'd like to. And there's always working and forced visits to public places like the DMV for social contact.
Other than those, I'm a proud member of the home-bound geeks of America.
Ironic... I've wasted more time with Linux then I have with BeOS, OS X, and Windows combined. The problem is that issuses are so much harder to sort out on Linux than other platforms. I was able to troubleshoot a video driver fairly easy on windows, but on linux, the same problem could have been indicitive of any number of things. XWindows, KDE, the driver code itself, even. Other platforms are even more simplified than winodws... classic Mac OS and BeOS both have the concept of a driver as a single file. That makes troubleshooting much easier.
It's all about god design... other platforms have it, Linux is kludged,
Why is it you're trying to quit, exactly? What benefit do you expect from it? Is there a reason, other than you think it might be better for your health?
Some of you may think me a young'n, but the first computer I had was a Magnovox 386. Being just a child at the time, I don't remember much about it, save for it running Geoworks on top of DOS instead of the usual windows 3.1. No CD-ROM drive, just a one each 5.25 and 3.5 floppy drives. For almost as long as we had it, I was mostly clueless about it's operation, just used to play games on it (didn't we all?).
Then back in '95 or so came the first REAL computer into my life. I still have pieces of it laying around scattered throguh the various junk piles. It was a Pentium 100MHz with 16MB of RAM (later upgraded to 32MB) and a 1.2GB hard drive (later a 2.0GB was added).
I played games with it, but I also learned. The spark was lit inside me. I did so much with that machine... Upgraded, hacked, cracked, tweaked. Eventually, I had to replace it (this was about the time of the AT/ATX switchover). I decided to build myself my first real home-brew computer. I started with a PII 450MHz (back when this was top of the line, mind you!) and used an Abit BH6 motherboard (I still swear by them to this day) dropped in 128MB of RAM (later upgraded to 256MB) Put a whopping 13.6GB hard drive in... and installed Win98. I had trouble for a while, but this was a good system to me. Things worked out, and she was good to me for a long time. I now had two computers, and that opened up the possibility of networking to me. A long time later, it was time to upgrade. I wanted something 1GHz or faster, and went back to my old friends at Abit. This time I chose a KT7A-RAID and a 1.4GHz AMD athlon (quite an upgrade from the 450, let me tell ya!) And went with 512MB of RAM. I Took the plunge and installed Win2k on the 120GB hard drive, and have seldom looked back since. I still use that machine configured much the same as it was then, excpet now every single expansion slot is in use. SCSI/firewire, display cards, Sound, Network, PCMCIA... This was (and still is) my baby until the power compnay fucked the hard drive. I'm now praying that a friend can dismantle it and recover my data. Once that happened, I basically moved from the desktop over to a Sony Vaio and a Dual 1.42GHz G4 Macintosh. I use the laptop when I feel like using windows, and the mac for most of the other stuff.
Over the years I've owned and used many different PCs and macs, several laptops, and done many things, both hardware and software. I've played with SMP, both on the PPC side (Daystar Genesis 4-CPU Mac clone... NICE system!) and on the X86 side (BeOS machine with two Intell P3's at it's heart). I've upgraded machines beyond reason (put a 333MHz G3 into a powerbook 1400) I've hacked software installs, I've hosted a website off of a Mac SE, I've run every major version of Windows, Mac OS, BeOS, a few flavors of Linux, and some other things.
I currently run a 30-odd machine hetrogenous network in my home.
And it all really started with that lowly Pentium 100MHz running Windows '95.
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As a single guy, I have this to ask... who the hell can afford TV dinners?!
I'm barely scraping by on ramen and macaroni and cheese...
Too little, too late.
This is what you get for running the unstable shitheap that is XP instead of 2K. I warn people about this sort of thing, but no one listens.
Thank god I'm not the only one that remembers this... where did you find this tidbit?
I recall reading it in "Enterprise: The first adventure", but I could be mistaken.
More like not monetarily possible...
Something you and I don't have anymore.
Perhaps in a technical sense, yes. But I think if it came down to demonstrating it in a courtroom, he'd have a fighting chance.
If it does, I guess I'm in the nuthouse with you.
I still have several Sparq drives... and they come in handy for installing operting systems on computers without CDROM drives.
I couldn't have installed Win98 on my uncle's laptop any other way.
You never found the loophole? My friend used to open those with a letter opener so he didn't break the seal. That way, he never technically agreed to anything... at least until he got to read it.
Hell, I'd settle for one that's not friggin' tiny. I have big hands, and it seems to me that mice just get smaller and smaller as the years go by... I wish there was an equivalent to the IBM model M for pointing devices...
*sigh*
I'm a righy and I can do... some things with my left hand. Leaving my right free to operate the mouse. :P
There are those of us that aren't scarred, but still would rather be introverts. I live on my computers. When I do leave the house, the laptop comes with me, and my cell phone becomes a modem.
I feel more at home on the Internet than in any IRL situation. I do get out occasionally, but more than I'd like to. And there's always working and forced visits to public places like the DMV for social contact.
Other than those, I'm a proud member of the home-bound geeks of America.
IRC? From your phone?
Sounds interesting... details?
The T-cube looks interesting... does it run an actual OS, or something specifically designed for embedded systems?
He's using _amarican_ english, asswipe.
Also, he has a point. I haven't had any vacation in four years, and I work my ass off.
I think the version of HFS that shiped prior to OS 8 wasn't able to handle volumes larger than 2GB.
Ironic... I've wasted more time with Linux then I have with BeOS, OS X, and Windows combined. The problem is that issuses are so much harder to sort out on Linux than other platforms. I was able to troubleshoot a video driver fairly easy on windows, but on linux, the same problem could have been indicitive of any number of things. XWindows, KDE, the driver code itself, even. Other platforms are even more simplified than winodws... classic Mac OS and BeOS both have the concept of a driver as a single file. That makes troubleshooting much easier.
It's all about god design... other platforms have it, Linux is kludged,
Amen brother. If you know how to maintain it properly, then just about anything can be made very stable and reliable these days.
Why is it you're trying to quit, exactly? What benefit do you expect from it? Is there a reason, other than you think it might be better for your health?
Some of you may think me a young'n, but the first computer I had was a Magnovox 386. Being just a child at the time, I don't remember much about it, save for it running Geoworks on top of DOS instead of the usual windows 3.1. No CD-ROM drive, just a one each 5.25 and 3.5 floppy drives. For almost as long as we had it, I was mostly clueless about it's operation, just used to play games on it (didn't we all?).
Then back in '95 or so came the first REAL computer into my life. I still have pieces of it laying around scattered throguh the various junk piles. It was a Pentium 100MHz with 16MB of RAM (later upgraded to 32MB) and a 1.2GB hard drive (later a 2.0GB was added).
I played games with it, but I also learned. The spark was lit inside me. I did so much with that machine... Upgraded, hacked, cracked, tweaked. Eventually, I had to replace it (this was about the time of the AT/ATX switchover). I decided to build myself my first real home-brew computer. I started with a PII 450MHz (back when this was top of the line, mind you!) and used an Abit BH6 motherboard (I still swear by them to this day) dropped in 128MB of RAM (later upgraded to 256MB) Put a whopping 13.6GB hard drive in... and installed Win98. I had trouble for a while, but this was a good system to me. Things worked out, and she was good to me for a long time. I now had two computers, and that opened up the possibility of networking to me. A long time later, it was time to upgrade. I wanted something 1GHz or faster, and went back to my old friends at Abit. This time I chose a KT7A-RAID and a 1.4GHz AMD athlon (quite an upgrade from the 450, let me tell ya!) And went with 512MB of RAM. I Took the plunge and installed Win2k on the 120GB hard drive, and have seldom looked back since. I still use that machine configured much the same as it was then, excpet now every single expansion slot is in use. SCSI/firewire, display cards, Sound, Network, PCMCIA... This was (and still is) my baby until the power compnay fucked the hard drive. I'm now praying that a friend can dismantle it and recover my data. Once that happened, I basically moved from the desktop over to a Sony Vaio and a Dual 1.42GHz G4 Macintosh. I use the laptop when I feel like using windows, and the mac for most of the other stuff.
Over the years I've owned and used many different PCs and macs, several laptops, and done many things, both hardware and software. I've played with SMP, both on the PPC side (Daystar Genesis 4-CPU Mac clone... NICE system!) and on the X86 side (BeOS machine with two Intell P3's at it's heart). I've upgraded machines beyond reason (put a 333MHz G3 into a powerbook 1400) I've hacked software installs, I've hosted a website off of a Mac SE, I've run every major version of Windows, Mac OS, BeOS, a few flavors of Linux, and some other things.
I currently run a 30-odd machine hetrogenous network in my home.
And it all really started with that lowly Pentium 100MHz running Windows '95.
Ah, memories.
You mean it DIDN'T?! Then what the hell have I been playing?
In all fairness though, show me the person who has HALF of those features, and I'll do them on the spot. :P
Miserably.
OK, you're absoloutely right.
;)
Can I have your job so that I can see that fail too? Maybe I'll become "old" before my time...