So, essentially, cutting down 10 minutes making the commute the same time as if he were in the traffic jams... However, he isn't in the traffic jams, since he goes to work late (and as such is better for the environment than his traffic jam waiting compatriots)
That is assuming he doesn't miss the train, nor the continuing bus.
Yeah, sure DOS was a "bootloader" but the 9x "kernel" couldn't live without it. It still was essentially a GUI on top of DOS providing an extensive API, and nothing much more. The whole underlying DOS was there at all times, otherwhise "old drivers" wouldn't be able to function, and I already said that old drivers could and had to be loaded (again sound cards and anti-virus progs were guilty of this)
You still have to load HIMEM.SYS and EMM386.EXE in the config.sys and not doing so would seriously make problems during 9x usage. Don't take my word for it, go ahead and install that piece of crap again.
So, it was a "bootloader" providing essential functions for daily operation. Imagine you'd need grub to load your sound modules, well that was what 9x did. It was too intertwined to consider DOS separate from 9x.
Besides, you remember Win32S. How do you explain that? It was a part of NT that was ported to Wfw311, not exactly a kernel, but enough for many programs to run. It's all in the APIs.
No, he's right and you're wrong. DOS was the underlying architecture and loaded before Windows 9x. Many (older) drivers needed to be loaded there (often soundcards) and Antivirus programs always embedded them in that part. The only thing that was different with WfW 3.11 was that you didn't need "win.exe" in the autoexec.bat.
However, that was easy to change and you could make Win9x boot in CLI by adapting a config file, I just don't remember which one. Also creating a bootdisk with 9x, gave you a 9x bootdisk that went straight to CLI and typing VER didn't say aynthing about DOS, it talked about Windows 95 but for all intents and purposes it was DOS. Heck it even said "Starting Windows 95" as first text upon bootup.
When I said exchange fee, I understood it would be padded into the exchange rate.
Personally, I can only say that the padding wasn't ever outrageous. Could have been lucky, and if importing stuff from the US wasn't extremely hard, I'd be taking advantage of the current exchange rate....
Mod up.... An OS installation is *always* a risky business, regardless what other n00bs may tell.. An external USB harddisk isn't expensive, and alternatively, backup important data to a network server. Heck, do both... That's even better.
I haven't bought it yet either, because like you I only know them form name. Shame on me, I know.
On the other hand, I'm quite knowledgable in banking transactions. If you paid this with a credit card, then you won't pay an exchange fee. Okay, the exchange rate will be slightly inflated, but you won't notice. If you did a wire transfer on the other hand, and it wasn't intra-european (you talk about dollars, so I don't expect it to be), then you will pay a fee.
Is the album any good? I don't need to know from Radiohead fans, but from someone like me that doesn't know them.
No German spam here even though I do talk it (Luxembourg here). I guess you gave your email to some shady German website and they sold it to german marketeers.
Check your SMTP logs and see if it's the same IP addresses sending those spams. If so, blacklist.
"Oh, that car is still several hundred meters away".
As someone who has actually driven 250km/h on an Autobahn: if you drive at these speeds you need to keep traffic in the eye at all moments. You know a driver in front of you will not realize that you'll be there very quickly and as such it is your responsibility to foresee what other drivers might do. A car that is 500m away is a potential hazard already, so you pay attention to it even if the road is clear in front of you. At the moment you even see it slightly veer to the passing lane, you hit the brakes.
Driving at these speeds is exhausting if you're not trained. I can't do it for much longer than 20 minutes, without falling back and going to a more reasonable 160km/h.
Americans have a negative connotation with "socialism", which most of the rest of the world hasn't. The reason is that we can keep apart the idea of socialism from the bad implementations of socialism, which weren't socialism at all.
Well, the moderators must be iPhone lovers too. My post is currently moderated: 30% Funny, 40% Overrated, 10% Insightful. Not that I'm complaining, I knew it would turn out that way. Originally I was just trying to be Funny....
True, but there are two reasons to support Dell in this adventure:
We've been whining that nobody offers Linux PCs, and now someone does. We should support that financially.
Buying "some laptop" with the Intel GMA chip and supported wireless is all fine an dandy, but it will come with Vista. Some of us don't want to pay the Microsoft Tax. That is possible by ordering a Dell Ubuntu laptop.
Completely agree... I had an IBM Model M, US variant. Loved it... My wife hates it because it makes so much noise.
Alas, you can't use it everywhere and as I live and work in Luxembourg, I literally live in keyboard hell. Technically, Luxembourg uses the Swiss layout that comes in a French version and a German version. The only difference is that the three keys that contain all accentuated characters and umlauts switch meaning. In business settings, often the French layout or the Belgian layout are used, and of course I work for a German company and you guessed it, I have to work on German layouts.
Buying a computer is annoying just because of that. Bought the BE version on my laptop, because they didn't have the SF version. *sigh* Normal users get very confused too. My wife (before she knew me) bought her computer in Germany, but she exchanged her keyboard with another one (don't remember exactly what one). She wrote her whole thesis with a badly configured keyboard layout. Laypeople are unable to change this stuff.
Ah, but people are learning.... In the last few months, I have had serveral people ask me about DRMed music and why it wouldn't play on their $PLAYER or that it didn't work on a specific computer, etc, etc...
People need to get burned to be informed... That's happening more everyday.... That's a good thing, even though you get a bunch of unsatisfied customers.
Some people can't touch-type.... (Read: me) Also, you can't borrow your laptop to anyone.... They're bound to get crazy with a keyboard that doesn't match the layout.
Personally, I like US-International layout and that should simply be standard everywhere instead of all those stupid different keyboard layouts.
Keyboards are different...:-( While not all that bad, it can be very annoying. On a daily base I get to fight with the Swiss French/Swiss German, the Belgian, the French and the German layout. If I'm lucky I might even get a US/UK layout to round off the day.
I've been looking for a new laptop too.... I borrowed my new one (bought in january) to my sister and I'm unlikely to see it back anytime soon. So, I thought, let's give Dell/Ubuntu a shot. Well, only in UK, FR and DE. We in the Benelux are outta luck.
Pretty much everyone is guilty of this. The advantage with google is that at least they have a link "Google.com in English" which is quite visible. I've been told that some websites don't even give such options, which is very very very bad.
My personal vision on this is that anyone instructed to implement locales and I8N should be sent to a country where he doesn't know the language to get a feeling what it is like. Someone who only knows one language, has by definition nothing to do in this stuff and I fear most people who have implemented this never been in the situation to even remotely comprehend what exactly they are doing.
If it isn't a brown dwarf, and a brown dwarf is by definition a failed star, then what is Jupiter exactly if it isn't a planet. Both Uranus and Neptune both contain huge amounts of hydrogen. Does that make them failed stars too?
I'm not claiming to know anything. I just referred to a well known astronomer. That well known astronomer makes a point of Jupiter being a planet and not a failed star. A star has a well defined astronomical definition, and neither Jupiter (nor Saturn) fill that definition.
So: Jupiter is *not* a BD; it formed like a planet, in the disk around the Sun. It also has about 1/1000 the mass of the Sun, or about 1/80 of the mass it needs to fuse hydrogen.
Plus the fact that Phil Plait is a real astronomer? I'd take his word over yours anyday...
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So, essentially, cutting down 10 minutes making the commute the same time as if he were in the traffic jams... However, he isn't in the traffic jams, since he goes to work late (and as such is better for the environment than his traffic jam waiting compatriots)
That is assuming he doesn't miss the train, nor the continuing bus.
that was only a PORTION of the OS
You finally agreed with me.... Good boy...
Yeah, sure DOS was a "bootloader" but the 9x "kernel" couldn't live without it. It still was essentially a GUI on top of DOS providing an extensive API, and nothing much more. The whole underlying DOS was there at all times, otherwhise "old drivers" wouldn't be able to function, and I already said that old drivers could and had to be loaded (again sound cards and anti-virus progs were guilty of this)
You still have to load HIMEM.SYS and EMM386.EXE in the config.sys and not doing so would seriously make problems during 9x usage. Don't take my word for it, go ahead and install that piece of crap again.
So, it was a "bootloader" providing essential functions for daily operation. Imagine you'd need grub to load your sound modules, well that was what 9x did. It was too intertwined to consider DOS separate from 9x.
Besides, you remember Win32S. How do you explain that? It was a part of NT that was ported to Wfw311, not exactly a kernel, but enough for many programs to run. It's all in the APIs.
No, he's right and you're wrong. DOS was the underlying architecture and loaded before Windows 9x. Many (older) drivers needed to be loaded there (often soundcards) and Antivirus programs always embedded them in that part. The only thing that was different with WfW 3.11 was that you didn't need "win.exe" in the autoexec.bat.
However, that was easy to change and you could make Win9x boot in CLI by adapting a config file, I just don't remember which one. Also creating a bootdisk with 9x, gave you a 9x bootdisk that went straight to CLI and typing VER didn't say aynthing about DOS, it talked about Windows 95 but for all intents and purposes it was DOS. Heck it even said "Starting Windows 95" as first text upon bootup.
Thanks for the info
When I said exchange fee, I understood it would be padded into the exchange rate.Personally, I can only say that the padding wasn't ever outrageous. Could have been lucky, and if importing stuff from the US wasn't extremely hard, I'd be taking advantage of the current exchange rate....
Mod up.... An OS installation is *always* a risky business, regardless what other n00bs may tell.. An external USB harddisk isn't expensive, and alternatively, backup important data to a network server. Heck, do both... That's even better.
I haven't bought it yet either, because like you I only know them form name. Shame on me, I know.
On the other hand, I'm quite knowledgable in banking transactions. If you paid this with a credit card, then you won't pay an exchange fee. Okay, the exchange rate will be slightly inflated, but you won't notice. If you did a wire transfer on the other hand, and it wasn't intra-european (you talk about dollars, so I don't expect it to be), then you will pay a fee.
Is the album any good? I don't need to know from Radiohead fans, but from someone like me that doesn't know them.
Ouch!
No German spam here even though I do talk it (Luxembourg here). I guess you gave your email to some shady German website and they sold it to german marketeers.
Check your SMTP logs and see if it's the same IP addresses sending those spams. If so, blacklist.
"Oh, that car is still several hundred meters away".
As someone who has actually driven 250km/h on an Autobahn: if you drive at these speeds you need to keep traffic in the eye at all moments. You know a driver in front of you will not realize that you'll be there very quickly and as such it is your responsibility to foresee what other drivers might do. A car that is 500m away is a potential hazard already, so you pay attention to it even if the road is clear in front of you. At the moment you even see it slightly veer to the passing lane, you hit the brakes.
Driving at these speeds is exhausting if you're not trained. I can't do it for much longer than 20 minutes, without falling back and going to a more reasonable 160km/h.
Why did you switch from a server class version to a desktop version of an operating system? Sounds like a bad choice in the first place.
Americans have a negative connotation with "socialism", which most of the rest of the world hasn't. The reason is that we can keep apart the idea of socialism from the bad implementations of socialism, which weren't socialism at all.
Well, the moderators must be iPhone lovers too. My post is currently moderated: 30% Funny, 40% Overrated, 10% Insightful. Not that I'm complaining, I knew it would turn out that way. Originally I was just trying to be Funny....
Completely agree... I had an IBM Model M, US variant. Loved it... My wife hates it because it makes so much noise.
Alas, you can't use it everywhere and as I live and work in Luxembourg, I literally live in keyboard hell. Technically, Luxembourg uses the Swiss layout that comes in a French version and a German version. The only difference is that the three keys that contain all accentuated characters and umlauts switch meaning. In business settings, often the French layout or the Belgian layout are used, and of course I work for a German company and you guessed it, I have to work on German layouts.
Buying a computer is annoying just because of that. Bought the BE version on my laptop, because they didn't have the SF version. *sigh* Normal users get very confused too. My wife (before she knew me) bought her computer in Germany, but she exchanged her keyboard with another one (don't remember exactly what one). She wrote her whole thesis with a badly configured keyboard layout. Laypeople are unable to change this stuff.
It's a pain, and it's useless.
Kinda like how Microsoft has to open up its protocols in Europe.
Yeah, and that has worked so wel...*sigh*
Ah, but people are learning.... In the last few months, I have had serveral people ask me about DRMed music and why it wouldn't play on their $PLAYER or that it didn't work on a specific computer, etc, etc...
People need to get burned to be informed... That's happening more everyday.... That's a good thing, even though you get a bunch of unsatisfied customers.
Some people can't touch-type.... (Read: me) Also, you can't borrow your laptop to anyone.... They're bound to get crazy with a keyboard that doesn't match the layout.
Personally, I like US-International layout and that should simply be standard everywhere instead of all those stupid different keyboard layouts.
Keyboards are different... :-( While not all that bad, it can be very annoying. On a daily base I get to fight with the Swiss French/Swiss German, the Belgian, the French and the German layout. If I'm lucky I might even get a US/UK layout to round off the day.
I've been looking for a new laptop too.... I borrowed my new one (bought in january) to my sister and I'm unlikely to see it back anytime soon. So, I thought, let's give Dell/Ubuntu a shot. Well, only in UK, FR and DE. We in the Benelux are outta luck.
Or some other iPhone lover? ;-)
Pretty much everyone is guilty of this. The advantage with google is that at least they have a link "Google.com in English" which is quite visible. I've been told that some websites don't even give such options, which is very very very bad.
My personal vision on this is that anyone instructed to implement locales and I8N should be sent to a country where he doesn't know the language to get a feeling what it is like. Someone who only knows one language, has by definition nothing to do in this stuff and I fear most people who have implemented this never been in the situation to even remotely comprehend what exactly they are doing.
If it isn't a brown dwarf, and a brown dwarf is by definition a failed star, then what is Jupiter exactly if it isn't a planet. Both Uranus and Neptune both contain huge amounts of hydrogen. Does that make them failed stars too?
I'm not claiming to know anything. I just referred to a well known astronomer. That well known astronomer makes a point of Jupiter being a planet and not a failed star. A star has a well defined astronomical definition, and neither Jupiter (nor Saturn) fill that definition.
You can go and argue with Mr Plait about that.