Hehe, thanks... It only took a couple of years for someone to notice. I thought that the geek level was high enough on Slashdot, but I guess if it's not Yu-Gi-Oh, no one notices.:P
Hehe... The last virus I had on my computer was the Monkey virus around 1992 as well. IIRC the only harmful thing it did was make a copy of the FAT and move it. That way if you used any other boot source, you would cause your own havoc. Pretty kewl really.
Yaakov Smirnov? Man, I hate to do it... Mod me down if you must, but isn't there an "In Soviet Russia Weed Distributes You" or perhaps an "In Soviet Russia, CD Artists Distribute Weed"? Actually, that last one happens here in the US too. I'm sure some of the Gangsta rappers still sell a little Weed now and then:)
Funny, but it seems that my iMac (snow) seems to enjoy 1970 too. I don't think that it's the aforementioned bug, however; Mine is quite repeatable. All I have to do is unplug it.:) Voila! It's 1970 again and I'm having my first birthday.
I'll bet that your battery is flaky or perhaps it was just a glitch.
Worst:Charlies Angels Full Throttle Well, I hadn't been to the theatre in a couple of years (I know... so sue me) and I happened to win a pair of free tickets from a local radio station (WLW). The tickets were for Charlies Angels "Full Throttle". Boy was I shocked at how bad the movie was. From the first completely unrealistic scene with the truck (wasn't it a truck? It was so hard to tell with the epileptic seizure like scene changes) plummenting over the bridge, to the last fight scene where the angels defy gravity once again; The movie reeked.
Best:Open Range I was determined to go see at *least* one more movie this year, hoping that I could pick one that didn't suck. That movie was "Open Range" with Kevin "Kneel down and kiss my feet, scum." Costner, Robert Duval and Annette Bening. Since I am partial to westerns anyway, I had high hopes for the film, but I was concerned since I knew Kevvy was certain to be omnipresent. The sub-plot love interest between Costner and Bening could have been a little less sappy, but it kept all the women (my wife included) who were forced to see a western by their significant other(s), happy. I won't give up any more, but if you like westerns, it's one of the best (and the few) since "Unforgiven".
Disclaimer:The above was not really meant as a review, but just my take since I'm not the movie going buff... I should be able to comment on *most* of the 2003 releases after they are released on DVD...
As much as I am an Apple fan (I have no less than six Apple IIs in my basement at the moment), the Apple II's graphics paled in comparison to the C64's.
Let's not forget that the C64s graphics paled in comparison to the Atari 400/800:)
Amen! I was settling in for a nice read about all of the graphics cards that I consider history. The great feeling of getting my first 24-bit color graphics card, the Targa card (where the TGA file format came from) which set back my company a cool 8000 bucks. Or perhaps the early days of playing "Corvette!" (I still have the original box) or "Stunts!" (What was with all the exclamations back then?) on that awesome EGA card. (I used to brag to all the diehard IBMers that my old Atari 800 had better graphics / more colors than EGA)
BAH! Not history at all, but a light (very LIGHT) gloss over 3d card history.;P phht!
A great little (sorta) freeware app that I use(d) on all of my Winboxen (I have officially been COMPLETELY Win-free for about 3 weeks) is Ad-Aware. It can be gotten from LavaSoft's home page. If you are the "just gimmie the goods" type; click here to go to the TuCows download page. It does a pretty nice job of removing *most* spyware. I actually haven't seen any that it doesn't detect... That is if you keep your refs file updated! (Just like everything else)
I was chuckling to myself thinking "Boy, Slashdotters sure have alot of credit problems!" Of course, then I remembered that for some reason (I sure don't know why) I also know a lot about how collection companies work. Suddenly I didn't know whether to laugh harder or weep...
Well, I started in December of 1992, on a 33 MHz 486DX with 16MB of RAM. The distribution I used was called SNOW and was on about 25 floppies. It included X.
In fact, X ran quite well on this machine, and with its 800 MB SCSI disk that soared at 2.5 Mbyte/s it was a high-end box for those days. It ran circles around the DEC VAX 6200 we had at work:-)
All you bastards with your blazing fast boxen:) I started in Dec '93 with Slack 1.1.0 - kernel 0.99pl13 on a 386-40 (overclocked to 50!) with 8 megs of ram (I splurged), a 340mb WD Caviar (Splurged again) and a Spider Graphics vid card (Tseng or Trident I dont remember) capable of true color. Being a guy who was in the graphics arts business, it was a must to have true color:)
I remember my first forage with partitioning for Slack and the wonder of being able to boot from the HD and boot into OS/2 (damn that 30 disc installation SUCKED!), while booting from floppy brought up Slack. Magic I say...
I was able to get X up and running, but it was certainly not too usable, and I didn't have any idea what the hell I was doing (not that I'm much better now -lol). My greatest achievement was getting a serial terminal working (my company had a couple they threw away) and having two users at once (a geek friend and myself). Totally blown away:) Oh man, the memories. Sniff...
My heart is soothed by glancing at my wifes box (har har) which is a nice silver modded case running Gentoo, but it still has a badly discolored yellow-brownish (many packs of smokes and late hours for that!) floppy from that old '386, it will always have the heart of that old machine:-)
Let's see... Play in a band, work on cars, build audio equipment, repair major appliances.
It's funny how having a bunch of influences as a child can broaden your horizons. I don't run into too many people that can open the hood of a car and discuss the merits of L-Jetronic fuel injection vs. EEC IV or how Ford really does build the better small-block (no flames please) and then go inside and feel comfortable ripping apart a computer / writing software, playing an instrument in the band and then fixing the dishwasher. Most of these things I have found are sadly exclusive of each other. Musicians != Gearheads != Geeks.
I guess if you really break it all down, they aren't that exclusive of each other because they all have some sort of logic / mathmatical origin. It's kinda what others around you are doing that influences your interests. Luckily (I guess) I have been fortunate enough to have made friends in many different areas.
Windows XP running a hidden *virtual* Windows XP session. Vistual session crashes, it won't bring the machine down. How to solve the performance hit? Just wait, 3.06Ghz will soon be entry level.
Seriously, the nice part about it being integrated into the OS would be for compatibility purposes with their own older OS's. Like for instance (God forbid) Win 3.11 for Workgroups, or Win 95, or Dos 4 (lol).
Even BETTER, maybe it will include ALL of the emulation out on the net today... Like MAME and Atari800WinOh, the possibilities! GLAVEN!
Years (I mean YEARS!) ago...
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In Cincinnati we had a computer store called appropriately enough, "Cincinnati Computer Store". In said computer store sat an Apple II+ that had burned in a fire. Melted to hell and back, but the bastard still worked. The store used it to sell many Apple II's I'm certain.
<FLAMEPROOF>
(Of course I bought an Atari 800, the clearly superior machine, even if it couldn't handle a fire.)
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Hehe, thanks... It only took a couple of years for someone to notice. :P
I thought that the geek level was high enough on Slashdot, but I guess if it's not Yu-Gi-Oh, no one notices.
Isn't there a Java-based client on this page? It even says "a Java version of the client (also for Windows)".
Hehe... The last virus I had on my computer was the Monkey virus around 1992 as well. IIRC the only harmful thing it did was make a copy of the FAT and move it. That way if you used any other boot source, you would cause your own havoc. Pretty kewl really.
-FB
I'll bet that your battery is flaky or perhaps it was just a glitch.
Well, I hadn't been to the theatre in a couple of years (I know... so sue me) and I happened to win a pair of free tickets from a local radio station (WLW). The tickets were for Charlies Angels "Full Throttle". Boy was I shocked at how bad the movie was. From the first completely unrealistic scene with the truck (wasn't it a truck? It was so hard to tell with the epileptic seizure like scene changes) plummenting over the bridge, to the last fight scene where the angels defy gravity once again; The movie reeked.
Best: Open Range
I was determined to go see at *least* one more movie this year, hoping that I could pick one that didn't suck. That movie was "Open Range" with Kevin "Kneel down and kiss my feet, scum." Costner, Robert Duval and Annette Bening. Since I am partial to westerns anyway, I had high hopes for the film, but I was concerned since I knew Kevvy was certain to be omnipresent. The sub-plot love interest between Costner and Bening could have been a little less sappy, but it kept all the women (my wife included) who were forced to see a western by their significant other(s), happy. I won't give up any more, but if you like westerns, it's one of the best (and the few) since "Unforgiven".
Disclaimer: The above was not really meant as a review, but just my take since I'm not the movie going buff... I should be able to comment on *most* of the 2003 releases after they are released on DVD...
Isn't this similar to what happened to the Bayer Corp. and their trademark on the name Aspirin?
Let's not forget that the C64s graphics paled in comparison to the Atari 400/800
Amen! I was settling in for a nice read about all of the graphics cards that I consider history. The great feeling of getting my first 24-bit color graphics card, the Targa card (where the TGA file format came from) which set back my company a cool 8000 bucks. Or perhaps the early days of playing "Corvette!" (I still have the original box) or "Stunts!" (What was with all the exclamations back then?) on that awesome EGA card. (I used to brag to all the diehard IBMers that my old Atari 800 had better graphics / more colors than EGA)
;P phht!
BAH! Not history at all, but a light (very LIGHT) gloss over 3d card history.
I use it for FTP, WEB, SMB, AppleTalk and print server as well. Heck, they even give you a free dynamic DNS address.
They also have a commercial version that supports IPSEC and PPTP, although you can install that stuff yourself.
Check it out here for the hobbyist version, or here for the commerical version. Enjoy!
-Fordboy0
I use irc.chatjunkies.org:6667 - channel #linuxhelp or #linux :)
It seems to be down today... That's not good!
I think I will be dead and cold before this new standard gets adopted :)
At least we will have something to take up all of that excess drive space...
-FB
It does a pretty nice job of removing *most* spyware. I actually haven't seen any that it doesn't detect... That is if you keep your refs file updated! (Just like everything else)
Enjoy!
-FB
-FB
I remember my first forage with partitioning for Slack and the wonder of being able to boot from the HD and boot into OS/2 (damn that 30 disc installation SUCKED!), while booting from floppy brought up Slack. Magic I say... I was able to get X up and running, but it was certainly not too usable, and I didn't have any idea what the hell I was doing (not that I'm much better now -lol). My greatest achievement was getting a serial terminal working (my company had a couple they threw away) and having two users at once (a geek friend and myself). Totally blown away :) Oh man, the memories. Sniff...
My heart is soothed by glancing at my wifes box (har har) which is a nice silver modded case running Gentoo, but it still has a badly discolored yellow-brownish (many packs of smokes and late hours for that!) floppy from that old '386, it will always have the heart of that old machine :-)
-FB
Lusting over the sweet autotuned voice of a plastic surgery enhanced goddess with fake knockers!
;P
Just gives me another reason to like Phish
-FB
It's funny how having a bunch of influences as a child can broaden your horizons. I don't run into too many people that can open the hood of a car and discuss the merits of L-Jetronic fuel injection vs. EEC IV or how Ford really does build the better small-block (no flames please) and then go inside and feel comfortable ripping apart a computer / writing software, playing an instrument in the band and then fixing the dishwasher. Most of these things I have found are sadly exclusive of each other. Musicians != Gearheads != Geeks.
I guess if you really break it all down, they aren't that exclusive of each other because they all have some sort of logic / mathmatical origin. It's kinda what others around you are doing that influences your interests. Luckily (I guess) I have been fortunate enough to have made friends in many different areas.
Can't I just click on "Windows Update"?
Windows XP running a hidden *virtual* Windows XP session. Vistual session crashes, it won't bring the machine down. How to solve the performance hit? Just wait, 3.06Ghz will soon be entry level.
Seriously, the nice part about it being integrated into the OS would be for compatibility purposes with their own older OS's. Like for instance (God forbid) Win 3.11 for Workgroups, or Win 95, or Dos 4 (lol).
Even BETTER, maybe it will include ALL of the emulation out on the net today... Like MAME and Atari800WinOh, the possibilities! GLAVEN!
Man... Didn't any of you see Total Recall, what with all the mutants and the digging and the Triple Breasted Whore of Eroticon Six and ... GLAVEN!
Jeff Feige
Cincinnati, OH
Just a friendly poke...
After reading the entire PDF file, I can say that if they successfully pull it off, more power to 'em.