I'm 31. I bought mine when I was 23. Don't wonder, while very fun, you get used to it in day to day use. Used to the point that if you get a less powerful car (let's say you rent one on vacation), that you think it's a complete mule even though the very specs contradict that fact.
I still have mine after 8 years and I will have a hard time to part with it when I must (I'm married and we want children). Also, be glad you don't have one with current gas prices;-)
Not hard... Make sure to plant the downloading software on machines that are not linked to you. (Coworker you don't like, a badly secured server, etc, etc..) Many places don't do MAC-address checks and connect any laptop to the network and they will access the whole network. A few Gumstix Linux machines that download Britney Spears continually to/dev/null, well hidden around the office under the raised floor.
It's easy, really...
Not that I would do such a thing, but you just have to think a bit out of the box.
What are you talking about? Windows XP SP2 runs fine on any P-III with at least 600MHz, provided it has at least 512Meg RAM. Turn off the theming, and the eyecandy and make it look like Win2000 and you're fine.
I have used such systems on a daily base and while startup times are a bit longer, once it's loaded it works perfectly fine. Listening to iTunes while typing a document in OpenOffice.org 2.0 and consulting a PDF document at the same time? No... problem... at... all...
Well, do you really think that the majority of laptop use is done in those contexts? My company gives out laptops for everyone. Me? Sure, I have a company laptop. Do you want to know where it is overnight? Right there, on my desk where I left it. I could just as well have a desktop, but they insist on laptops.
Battery? I don't think that my laptop has ever been disconnected from the AC power plug. Except when moving it from one location to another. Then, back into AC it goes.
Tssss.... You don't understand, do you? My dad has a P-III 733MHz laptop, which I think is from around 2000. The machine is completely set to his hand, he loves the resolution (1600x1200, I think... might be a tad less).
Over the years we scavenged parts from left and right: it now has 512Meg RAM instead of 256Meg RAM (scavenged), he has a Linksys 802.11g PCMCIA card ($30 ?), he as now a 80Gig disk instead of a 20Gig disk (scavenged from a more modern defective laptop - I used g4l to copy contents from the 20Gig to the 80Gig) and a scavenged DVD drive instead of the original CD drive. Now last year, his keyboard started acting flakey, and I told him: "Okay, look it's time for a new laptop".
He didn't want to. His XP installation was last redone in 2002 (I secured it, and he runs as User and knows about proper adiministration), and he likes it as it is right now. He spend $300 on a new laptop keyboard and two LiIon batteries that fit his machine. The battery life of his machine is simply astonishing.
He has enough power, he has enough memory, he likes his installation, and he has great battery life. Just by scavening around and spending a little (over time, of course)
So, by doing this: he saved himself money (he would never go for a 1280x800 screen... that's what cheap laptops come with), he saved the environment, and he's happy! What is more to ask?
As an owner (of a now defective... well the ribbon between the motherboard and the screen is damaged), I can only concur! I loved that little machine, even did programming on it. It had this lovely Lotus like spreadsheet. I still have it and hope to repair it someday....
And battery life! On 3 AA's.... Even my Psions were never that good.
I now do have an Asus and since I have it... I only use my 1.5 year old dual core 15.4" laptop rarely.
That's very interesting, because when I do my searchs and click on links they are not translated. So, I do my search in English, I get my results in English and I click the link and it's English, then what is the problem?
Making those changes instead of my preferred settings is another pain in the ass.
Try inverting that: it is a pain in the ass for native people to switch every webpage to their native language. Do remind: *you* are the *exception* in that particular country. Every other Mexican, is actually happy that he gets the page in his native language.
Try to see this world through the eyes of someone else sometimes, mmmkay?
That setting has effects on installed software on Windows, not on anything else. I am not in the UK, but I like all my programs to "think" that I'm English. So, I always choose UK as a location. My "geolocated ads" are always correct (as far as I have seen: they are at least located within my country).
The only way it might affect the browsing experience is that your browser might say you're in locale de_DE and it decides that you speak German. So, if he sees French ads, his locale is at worst fr_CA, which is unlikely, he would have noticed somewhere else in the system.... Like multilingual software presenting itself in French upon installation.
It's taught as the correct method to deal with them at driving schools, and I believe even tested for now.
Yes, it is: the correct method dealing with them is to encourage them to overtake you. Slowing down, keeping right (okay, left in the UK), etc.... What VoidCrow does after that is roadrage. He overtakes them, and gives them the taste of their behaviour. I doubt that such behaviour is encouraged in driving schools. In mine it wasn't: letting them pass, yes. Giving them a taste oof their own medicine is self-justice and a driving school advocating such things isn't doing you any good.
don't think it *is* that bad. The worst frequent offense is tailgating, which I deal with by slowly reducing my speed until people get tired of tailgating a sloth, and overtake. At which point I accelerate, overtake *them*, and put some reasonable distance between our cars. I occasionally have to rinse and repeat, but the majority of people get the hint.
You do realise that what you're doing is qualified as "road rage", don't you? At least a light form. You're trying to teach them a lesson, by annoying them even more.
In my region of Europe, there are not many bumpers stickers and at the few occasions I saw one, it was on a large truck and the bumper sticker clearly indicated that the driver was from the US. (There is a US Military base within 300km).
EU people generally don't seem to put stickers on their car. I damn well don't have any, and won't put any up. I did notice quite a lot Jesus-Fish stickers in the Bavaria region (Germany) last time I was there. Nowhere else I went though.
Having said that, whenever I see the Jesus fish on the back of a car, I do want to run it off the road on general principle. But maybe that's just me.
AMD finally released the X2's when Intel could only offer the toasty hot P4's
You have your timelimes a bit mixed up. AMD began it's climb to fame with the Athlon models in the late P-III days and the early P-IV days. In the Athlon XP and Athlon MP days it kicked serious Intel ass and it peaked with the Athlon 64 release. Then the Intel Core architecture was released and the AMD decline started. The X2 is more a sidenote in the AMD64 line. Don't forget that Intel had to adopt the AMD64 instructions: that's what EMT64T is!
I've been building my own machines since I was 14 years old, I ran DOS 5, I ran DOS 6.22, I ran 3.11 etc - I'm not a 'dummy user' by any means, sure I can't code but I'm not an idiot.
Not going to argue the "dummy user". I'm not one either. I ran DOS 3.0 to to 6.22 (skipping 4.0, you probably know why) and Windows 2.0, Windows 3.0, Windows 3.1, Windows 3.11 and Windows 95, at which point I finally switched to NT 4.0. That's my "Windows credentials". However, I always kept a healthy interest in other operating systens, and I ran OS/2 2.1 and 3.0 back in the Win95 days alongside my Win95. In about 1996, I tried my first Redhat Linux and kept it running alongside Windows also. I even ran fully Linux 1999-2000 based on Slackware. Started using OpenBSD in 2001, ran FreeBSD on a laptop, bought an iBook back in the day.
I kept an interest... Stayed on the lookout... I kept *learning*.
partial lazyness, I admit
Partial? No, downright lazyness. You do not want to broaden your options, otherwise you would have done so. Your DOS knowledge would have been a great asset when learning early Linux. Linux back in those days came on CD with a book that you bought. A book that usually gave you a thorough introduction and was pretty good at troubleshooting typical problems.
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I can get text messages on my landline. I can even send text messages from my landline. I don't know if this is specific to ISDN, though.
It's called a Model M. Yeah, I have one and my wife hates it because it is indeed very noisy... (The keyboard, not the wife.)
Just out of curiosity: what are those limitations?
I'm 31. I bought mine when I was 23. Don't wonder, while very fun, you get used to it in day to day use. Used to the point that if you get a less powerful car (let's say you rent one on vacation), that you think it's a complete mule even though the very specs contradict that fact.
I still have mine after 8 years and I will have a hard time to part with it when I must (I'm married and we want children). Also, be glad you don't have one with current gas prices ;-)
I did read this thread and you're complaining about something that is useful for others. That you weren't aware of this behaviour is not important.
Not hard... Make sure to plant the downloading software on machines that are not linked to you. (Coworker you don't like, a badly secured server, etc, etc..) Many places don't do MAC-address checks and connect any laptop to the network and they will access the whole network. A few Gumstix Linux machines that download Britney Spears continually to /dev/null, well hidden around the office under the raised floor.
It's easy, really...
Not that I would do such a thing, but you just have to think a bit out of the box.
What are you talking about? Windows XP SP2 runs fine on any P-III with at least 600MHz, provided it has at least 512Meg RAM. Turn off the theming, and the eyecandy and make it look like Win2000 and you're fine.
I have used such systems on a daily base and while startup times are a bit longer, once it's loaded it works perfectly fine. Listening to iTunes while typing a document in OpenOffice.org 2.0 and consulting a PDF document at the same time? No... problem... at... all...
Well, do you really think that the majority of laptop use is done in those contexts? My company gives out laptops for everyone. Me? Sure, I have a company laptop. Do you want to know where it is overnight? Right there, on my desk where I left it. I could just as well have a desktop, but they insist on laptops.
Battery? I don't think that my laptop has ever been disconnected from the AC power plug. Except when moving it from one location to another. Then, back into AC it goes.
Tssss.... You don't understand, do you? My dad has a P-III 733MHz laptop, which I think is from around 2000. The machine is completely set to his hand, he loves the resolution (1600x1200, I think... might be a tad less).
Over the years we scavenged parts from left and right: it now has 512Meg RAM instead of 256Meg RAM (scavenged), he has a Linksys 802.11g PCMCIA card ($30 ?), he as now a 80Gig disk instead of a 20Gig disk (scavenged from a more modern defective laptop - I used g4l to copy contents from the 20Gig to the 80Gig) and a scavenged DVD drive instead of the original CD drive. Now last year, his keyboard started acting flakey, and I told him: "Okay, look it's time for a new laptop".
He didn't want to. His XP installation was last redone in 2002 (I secured it, and he runs as User and knows about proper adiministration), and he likes it as it is right now. He spend $300 on a new laptop keyboard and two LiIon batteries that fit his machine. The battery life of his machine is simply astonishing.
He has enough power, he has enough memory, he likes his installation, and he has great battery life. Just by scavening around and spending a little (over time, of course)
So, by doing this: he saved himself money (he would never go for a 1280x800 screen... that's what cheap laptops come with), he saved the environment, and he's happy! What is more to ask?
As an owner (of a now defective... well the ribbon between the motherboard and the screen is damaged), I can only concur! I loved that little machine, even did programming on it. It had this lovely Lotus like spreadsheet. I still have it and hope to repair it someday....
And battery life! On 3 AA's.... Even my Psions were never that good.
I now do have an Asus and since I have it... I only use my 1.5 year old dual core 15.4" laptop rarely.
That's very interesting, because when I do my searchs and click on links they are not translated. So, I do my search in English, I get my results in English and I click the link and it's English, then what is the problem?
Try inverting that: it is a pain in the ass for native people to switch every webpage to their native language. Do remind: *you* are the *exception* in that particular country. Every other Mexican, is actually happy that he gets the page in his native language.
Try to see this world through the eyes of someone else sometimes, mmmkay?
Well... You see, you know that, I know that... but he might not. Get the picture?
Ehm.... Not really: exchange the harddisk with a spare. Document the process with pictures and serial numbers.
I'd do exactly that.
That setting has effects on installed software on Windows, not on anything else. I am not in the UK, but I like all my programs to "think" that I'm English. So, I always choose UK as a location. My "geolocated ads" are always correct (as far as I have seen: they are at least located within my country).
The only way it might affect the browsing experience is that your browser might say you're in locale de_DE and it decides that you speak German. So, if he sees French ads, his locale is at worst fr_CA, which is unlikely, he would have noticed somewhere else in the system.... Like multilingual software presenting itself in French upon installation.
Oh, come on.... When I visit Google for the first time, I get it in German. You know what I do? Yeah, there is a small link on the bottom of the page named "Google in English" (and it's really written in English!) It's to the right, just above © 2008 Google. Click it and you will be in English nirvana. A cookie is set and it never asks you again.
I checked, http://www.google.com.mx/ has it too...
You two together and we have an escalating situation of roadrage. Geez!
Yes, it is: the correct method dealing with them is to encourage them to overtake you. Slowing down, keeping right (okay, left in the UK), etc.... What VoidCrow does after that is roadrage. He overtakes them, and gives them the taste of their behaviour. I doubt that such behaviour is encouraged in driving schools. In mine it wasn't: letting them pass, yes. Giving them a taste oof their own medicine is self-justice and a driving school advocating such things isn't doing you any good.
Oh, I always saw those as the equivalent of hazardous material signs ;-)
You do realise that what you're doing is qualified as "road rage", don't you? At least a light form. You're trying to teach them a lesson, by annoying them even more.
He's British, what did you expect?
Apart from that, when I read "not exactly rare" it means "frequent" to me. 90% qualifies as "frequent". It's a common literary technique, you know.
Fair, but I was actually just trying to be funny. There are assholes in both camps.
Well, see that's the difference between a democrat and a republican: a democrat only thinks of it, a republican actually does it....
;-)/p>
In my region of Europe, there are not many bumpers stickers and at the few occasions I saw one, it was on a large truck and the bumper sticker clearly indicated that the driver was from the US. (There is a US Military base within 300km).
EU people generally don't seem to put stickers on their car. I damn well don't have any, and won't put any up. I did notice quite a lot Jesus-Fish stickers in the Bavaria region (Germany) last time I was there. Nowhere else I went though.
Nah... ;-)
You have your timelimes a bit mixed up. AMD began it's climb to fame with the Athlon models in the late P-III days and the early P-IV days. In the Athlon XP and Athlon MP days it kicked serious Intel ass and it peaked with the Athlon 64 release. Then the Intel Core architecture was released and the AMD decline started. The X2 is more a sidenote in the AMD64 line. Don't forget that Intel had to adopt the AMD64 instructions: that's what EMT64T is!
Not going to argue the "dummy user". I'm not one either. I ran DOS 3.0 to to 6.22 (skipping 4.0, you probably know why) and Windows 2.0, Windows 3.0, Windows 3.1, Windows 3.11 and Windows 95, at which point I finally switched to NT 4.0. That's my "Windows credentials". However, I always kept a healthy interest in other operating systens, and I ran OS/2 2.1 and 3.0 back in the Win95 days alongside my Win95. In about 1996, I tried my first Redhat Linux and kept it running alongside Windows also. I even ran fully Linux 1999-2000 based on Slackware. Started using OpenBSD in 2001, ran FreeBSD on a laptop, bought an iBook back in the day.
I kept an interest... Stayed on the lookout... I kept *learning*.
Partial? No, downright lazyness. You do not want to broaden your options, otherwise you would have done so. Your DOS knowledge would have been a great asset when learning early Linux. Linux back in those days came on CD with a book that you bought. A book that usually gave you a thorough introduction and was pretty good at troubleshooting typical problems.
I do believe that. It's most probably why dumpster diving is prohibited at my recycling centre: they make money on it.....