Has Microsoft managed to finally get all of of the Windows 2000 holdouts to switch to XP yet?
Not here:) Still running windows 2000 alongside Linux on my home network. I have absolutely no intention of ever upgrading to Ex Pee; in fact two machines I got that came with Ex Pee pre-installed were wiped immediately - one replaced with Linux, the other became a windows 2000-Linux dual boot beastie.
Windows 2000 do everything I need, and it doesn't have that god awful fisher-price/kiddie crayola theme, and all those insanely irritating bubble help thingies...I prefer using operating systems that don't treat you like a total computer dunderhead;o)
I'm also looking to get a new laptop, and the Ex Pee pre-install on that too will be wiped and replaced with something better:o)
Well, over here in the UK, one liter of diesel costs about 94 pence....that's about US$1.56
So a gallon (US) would cost 1.56 * 3.8 = $5.93 (Heh...and you Americans are moaning about the price of gas being $2-3 per gallon...lmfao....)
On the other hand, a liter of veggie oil in the supermarkets costs about half that. But if you can get it from a takeaway, it's usually free..... But we still have to pay 27.1 pence tax per liter (which is *cough cough* entirely self-policing)...makes me laugh...this is an environmentally friendly, CO2 neutral, renewable source of fuel...the government should be giving us tax breaks and grants to get these kits installed on all diesel cars, lorries, vans, buses, tractors and trucks...shows how clueless these numpties who are supposed to represent our best interests are.....but anyway, it's still way cheaper than buying diesel from the garages, innit???:o)
Rudolph Diesels engines were originally designed to run on VEGETABLE OIL, not the dirty dino diesel you buy today from petrol/gas stations. Veggie oil (corn, soya, canola, palm, olive, rapeseed, hemp, peanut, even used deep frying oil from a takeaway! you name it, a diesel will run on it) is a clean, green, renewable, CO2 neutral (the CO2 given off in the combustion process is absorbed by other growing plants; this is therefore not a fossil fuel), sulphur-free fuel. The calorific value of veggie oil is slightly higher than dino diesel, so if anything you get a small boost in perfomance. It's also better for the engine, since there's no sulphur. But you have to first get a kit that heats up the oil to at least seventy degrees centigrade before it gets injected into the combustion chamber. I do not understand why car manufacturers do not include this option either as standard or as an optional extra. There's no "new" technology involved here, just a slight engine mod. Cars, buses, tanks, ships, trucks, trains, tractors; in fact virtually any diesel engine can be run on vegetable oil. Diesel is, in fact, a light oil, which is why it usually has been cheaper than petrol - there's less refining involved.
You can simply grow high yield crops to provide the fuel. When the growing season ends in the northern hemisphere, it starts in the southern hemisphere, so you can pay farmers in developing countries in hard cash to grow these crops...
And this is NOT biodiesel I'm talking about. Biodiesel is where you take veggie oil, mix it with methanol, which forms glycerine, which is then washed out with water, and can be used in some diesels, but not all (It tends to rot rubber seals.....) Seems more messy to me, when you can just use straight veggie oil
This alternative source of fuel is already here, and is readily available. i really don't understand why this time, effort, and money is being spent on "alternative" solutions and "new technology" such as hybrids, when a really great starting point is out there already growing in the fields you pass by......doh. Interested? have a look here.....
Heh, me too. It EATS memory and resources, plus there's Product Activation too....No thanks....staying with Windows 2000 as well, I've tried Ex Pee and I *really* don't like it either - most especially that horrid green-blue kiddy crayola scheme that's installed by default....yuk, what a mess! Yes, I know you can change it, but that's not really the point - I don't want to see it ever. I've lost count of the number of times I've changed the Ex Pee kiddy crayola scheme in internet cafes to the classic view, when I've been away travelling. I suppose though, I might be more inclined to use it if the classic scheme was installed by default...but then again Ex Pee = NT 5.1 and 2000 = NT 5.0 so, not much difference there...but I have noticed 2000 is faster on the same machine over Ex Pee...
The best thing about Windows Ex Pee is removing it from a new computer and upgrading to Windows 2000:o)
Depending on how much money you have, This is what I would do:
Get a differential GPS system - ordinary handheld GPS can be out by as much as 10 metres. Differential will cut that error down to less than a metre - well inside the error tolerances of standard 1:1250 mapping for urban areas.
Get a tablet PC, and hook the GPS to it, using a program like PenMap installed on the tablet PC - this will trace your route directly from the GPS as you walk, and you can then export this data straight into a GIS, like ESRI's ArcMap.
aerial photographs or satellite imagery will be a big help in locating where you are, but they will never be as accurate as walking it yourself with a GPS
As I see it, your only big issue will be recharging your batteries, and checking what voltage the country runs on - either 110v or 220v. When we go out into the wilds to do a survey, the GPS battery is good for several hours, and it depends on how many hours per day you plan to survey. If I were you I would double up on the battery supply, hell even triple up on it!
One final thing - AFAIK, I'm not aware of any GIS software that runs on Macs....
It's not biodiesel. That's a synthetic, chemically produced fuel that only certain, specially modded diesel engines can use. (it rots the rubber seals otherwise). But hey, the oil companies are selling it, and it has the word BIO in it, so it must be good for the environment, right?
So the the word(s) is VEGETABLE OIL not biodiesel:)
Here's an extract from dieselveg.com about biodiesel: Biodiesel = Rapemethylester = RME
"Biodiesel is chemically produced and substantially more expensive than vegetable oil. Except for a few new vehicles, most are not suited for using biodiesel. The majority of diesel vehicles must first be converted, in order to guarantee they will operate on biodiesel. The problem is the durability of the plastic and rubber components, which come into contact with the fuel. If biodiesel is used in a system that has not been adapted, the fuel can leak from places where it frequently backs up, which weakens and dissolves the fuel systems components. When using pure, untreated vegetable oil, these problems will not occur."
So you don't need to hope for anything, friend. It's already here. Get your diesel adapted, and get down to your local supermarket, or get real friendly with your local takeaway (they'll give it to you for free or for a very small price) and start using right away!
Another idea is to do what Rudolf Diesel, the inventor of the diesel engine, had originally planned to do - run diesel engines off vegetable oil. The world's first Diesel engine, shown at the Paris fair at the end of the 19th century, ran on peanut oil.
You can run any diesel engine on any sort of veggie oil (Corn, canola, sunflower, peanut, hemp, palm, rape seed, olive oil you name it, put it in the tank and it will work). It's clean, renewable, has no sulphur and the CO2 emitted is less than the CO2 absorbed when the plants were growing, so simply by using veggie oil in your diesel car you are curbing CO2 emissions
Here in the UK, you can get kits to modify the diesel engine (www.dieselveg.com) - all the mod is is a heat exchanger that heats the oil up to 70 degrees C, so it loses its viscosity and can be injected into the combustion chamber. Vegetable oil also has a slightly higher calorific value than regular dirty diesel, so if anything, you ought to get a small performance boost from using veggie oil.
Alternatively, you can just mix veggie oil with dirty diesel without any modifications to your engine.
When the growing season in the northern hemisphere ends, the industrialised world could pay farmers in developing nations to grow the stuff - pay them a fair price, and give them an opportunity to earn real hard currency, instead of giving them handouts all the time.
IIRC, growing an area the size of Devon and Cornwall with rape seed specifically for diesel engine use would meet the energy requirements that cars in the UK need...
It's totally amazing that we have a clean, renewable energy source already here in front of us, that can be used with existing cars, buses tractors and trucks, yet governments around the world haven't bothered looking into this in a serious way. They're all so seduced by wind farms and tidal power....what a joke.
Hear Hear. I was recently given a PC that had Windows Ex Pee (aka NT 5.1) and Office Ex Pee already loaded on it.The first thing I did was format the hard drive and install Windows 2000 on it.
That blue green Ex Pee kiddy crayola scheme is a freaking joke. Yes, I know you can turn it off, but I don't want it loaded in the first place! Windows 2000 is my last ever MS operating system. It does everything I want, and I'm staying put. I only upgraded from NT 4.0 to 2000 (aka NT 5.0) about 3 years ago, and that was only because NT 4.0 didn't support FAT32 and USB. As for longhorn upgrade...Longhorn...hahahahaaaaaa. Over my cold, rotting corpse...
My wife bought a copy of Placebo's album...erm...fourth album, can't remember what it's called. Sleeping with Ghosts???? Well, in any cae, she wanted to rip it so that she could listen to it on her mp3 player, and she was more than a little miffed when she couldn't rip it in the normal way, as it has this "copy protection" nonsense on it.
No worries, all I did was play the album and record the digital output. I ended up with a single 700Mb.wav file, which I then split into the individual tracks using basic sound editing software, and converted the.wav files to mp3 format in the standard way. it took a little longer, but the result was the same: a way around the copy protection - and very easy too.
Problem solved.
There's no way this copy protection nonsense can or will work, because there will always be a way around it. instead the recod companies end up pissing off people who are within the law- i.e. people like us who actually BUY the CD, but who just want to listen to it in a different format, or on a portable media player.
The record companies are fools, thick as two short planks of wood. They will never listen, stupid choppers that they are.
Biodiesel isn't all it cracked up to be.
This extract is from
dieselveg
Biodiesel = Rapemethylester = RME
"Biodiesel is chemically produced and substantially more expensive than vegetable oil. Except for a few new vehicles, most are not suited for using biodiesel. The majority of diesel vehicles must first be converted, in order to guarantee they will operate on biodiesel. The problem is the durability of the plastic and rubber components, which come into contact with the fuel. If biodiesel is used in a system that has not been adapted, the fuel can leak from places where it frequently backs up, which weakens and dissolves the fuel systems components. When using pure, untreated vegetable oil, these problems will not occur."
It is perhaps better to use veggie oil - it is already here, it's cheap, the vehicles need no special conversions (save for the addition of a heat exchanger), uses existing technology and it is practically CO2 neutral - the CO2 the plants absorb when they grow is released when the oil is burned - it isn't stored up for hundreds of millions of years and then released in one huge massive exhale like what we are doing right now.
And to all those doom mongers and naysayers here that are always shooting down these good ideas, well fine. Carry on and use your petrol cars and whatnot. I'm making the switch to veggie oil. And if/when petrol goes up to $5 per gallon (US)/2-3 UK pounds per liter or more, I will be the one smiling. You know it makes sense!;-)
I strongly recommend everyone spend some time at this site Dieselveg It's very interesting and worth a good look through... I don't know about anybody else around here, but I'm sold on the idea.
You are correct. No mention of Linux whatsoever.
(From their website)
System Requirements
Operating Systems: Microsoft Windows 98SE, Windows ME, Windows 2000, Windows XP
Processor: Intel Pentium II 350MHz* or above, or any Athlon processor
* To enable audio effects such as Dolby Headphone, Dolby Virtual Speaker, SRS TruSurround XT, CLMEI(TM), and Dolby Pro Logic II decoder, or to play DVD titles with DTS digital surround tracks, it is recommended to use a 400MHz or higher processor system and at least 128MB of system RAM.
* CLPV(TM) and CLEV(TM) are sophisticated video processing technologies that require higher CPU power. If both of them are enabled, together with the audio effects above, it is recommended to have a Pentium®-M/Centrino®, Pentium® 4, Athlon® 1.0GHz, or a system with equivalent or higher performance.
Memory: 64 MB RAM or above. To enable audio effects, 128MB of system RAM is recommended.
Audio Device: PCI sound card, USB audio box or motherboard built-in audio device
Hard Disk Space: Hard disk requirement of at least 40MB
Optical Device: DVD-ROM, DVD-R/RW, DVD-RAM, or DVD+RW drive with 1394, ATAPI, SCSI, USB 2.0, or Card Bus interface
Video Display: Display card supporting DirectDraw overlay
...I know it's a software decoder, but it would be a really nice touch if it detects that you have a hardware decoder card installed, and uses that instead of shunting everything off to the processor. I tried an earlier version of PowerDVD (version 2.55 I think...) that came bundled with my DVD/cd writer combo drive on a Celeron 500MhZ system with 256Mb RAM and it was crap. Choppy as hell, even with all other programs turned off, and the image quality was very poor. I later got a creative DVD hardware card and that solved the problem; perfectly smooth payback, with excellent image clarity. So I tried running CyberDVD again, but the idiot program still shunted everything off to the the CPU and ignored the decoder card. So I uninstalled it and chucked the CD in the bin.
Cruise missile technology is hardly new. Remember that the Nazis built their V1 Doodlebug (powered by the exact same pulse jet type engine) and the more powerful V2 ballistic missile over 60 years ago, complete with their own guidance systems - and they didn't have the luxury of GPS navigation back then... It's not exactly, erm, rocket science, is it? It's probably even easier today, with the aid of GPS.
It is probably more technologically challenging to build a nuclear device than it is to build a basic cruise missile, so those countries that posses nuclear weapons - Israel, Pakistan, India could quite easily build cruise missiles...
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Seems everyone in this long and interesting discussion has simply forgotten Mr Rudolph Diesel and his brilliant Diesel engine.
The first Diesel engine ran on PEANUT OIL. In fact, Diesel engines will run on any kind of vegetable oil - corn oil, sunflower oil, olive oil, rape seed oil, peanut oil, you name it. The Deisel engine will even run on USED (albeit filtered first!)cooking oil from your local fish & chips shop or grill
Dielsel was on his way over to England to get the UK submarine fleet converted to run on veg oil, when he was murdered. His body was found in the Channel a few days later. Then the Oil companies got wind of this new engine, muscled their way in with their dirty diesel, and everyone forgot about the original purpose for Diesel engines...
It was Mr Diesels idea to run his engine on vegetable oil; it was clean, better for the engine in terms of lubrication (no extra added sulphur that fossil fuel diesel has). It's better for the environment, since the CO2 that the plants absorb is released when the oil is burnt in the engine. Well, maybe more CO2 is created, (I'm not a chemist) but the plants are contemporaneous; they aren't locked away underground for millions of years and then the CO2 released all in on go, like it is today as we burn it like crazy
here in the UK, you can buy kits to convert your deisel car to run on vegetable oil; all it does is heat the oil so it loses it's viscosity (i.e. becomes runny like water, and is injected into the engine. The car can still run on regular dirty deisel, and you can switch between fuels at any point. The added advantage is that you get an extra tank in your boot, giving you extra range. And if you don't like it, you can remove it...
I'm getting a deisel car next, and I'm having one of these kits fitted. To hell with the oil companies. The next time another oil crises happens, well, I won't be worried....supermarkets and wholesalers will always have cheaper, environmentally frielndly cooking oil for sale!
Also for p2p, don't forget Limewire (Java powered). The Linux version is actually better than the Windows version, because it doesn't have any spyware:)
Heh...have you ever tried Microsoft Publisher 2000? That has got to be the biggest piece of shite I've come across recently. I was given two files that displayed a map - only the files were 45Mb in size each...they took ages to open, and someone externally wanted copies. (I do not know how the original creator managed to make a simple plan such a huge size) Save/export as a *.jpg file....nope. It did let me save it as a word document, or a text file, as useless as that was. Right-clicking and copying to the clipboard gave me a very, very poor quality image, so in the end I printed them off, (took a long time) scanned them in and saved them as a decent file size, and emailed those.
Then I was given a small booklet that needed updating. When it came time to print it off, it was all back to front - totally different to what it was showing on the screen, and how it should have printed off. It was easier just printing it off and performing gymnastics with the photocopier to get the pages in the right order
By improving DOS, (e.g. multitasking, multiuser, file permissions, and so on) they could have paved the way for a better and stabler foundation for Windows - Windows 3.1, 95/8/ME was a "multitasking" OS riding atop a single tasking, single user OS. From an engineering point of view, that doesn't seem very stable to me. Like trying to balance a dinner plate using a single chopstick. Instead MS just seemed to hack their way through things, rather than re-write stuff...
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Not here :) Still running windows 2000 alongside Linux on my home network. I have absolutely no intention of ever upgrading to Ex Pee; in fact two machines I got that came with Ex Pee pre-installed were wiped immediately - one replaced with Linux, the other became a windows 2000-Linux dual boot beastie. ;o)
:o)
Windows 2000 do everything I need, and it doesn't have that god awful fisher-price/kiddie crayola theme, and all those insanely irritating bubble help thingies...I prefer using operating systems that don't treat you like a total computer dunderhead
I'm also looking to get a new laptop, and the Ex Pee pre-install on that too will be wiped and replaced with something better
Uh, in case you hadn't noticed, he was joking, you dork....
Right on!
Mod this Up!
On the other hand, a liter of veggie oil in the supermarkets costs about half that. But if you can get it from a takeaway, it's usually free..... But we still have to pay 27.1 pence tax per liter (which is *cough cough* entirely self-policing)...makes me laugh...this is an environmentally friendly, CO2 neutral, renewable source of fuel...the government should be giving us tax breaks and grants to get these kits installed on all diesel cars, lorries, vans, buses, tractors and trucks...shows how clueless these numpties who are supposed to represent our best interests are.....but anyway, it's still way cheaper than buying diesel from the garages, innit??? :o)
But you have to first get a kit that heats up the oil to at least seventy degrees centigrade before it gets injected into the combustion chamber. I do not understand why car manufacturers do not include this option either as standard or as an optional extra. There's no "new" technology involved here, just a slight engine mod. Cars, buses, tanks, ships, trucks, trains, tractors; in fact virtually any diesel engine can be run on vegetable oil. Diesel is, in fact, a light oil, which is why it usually has been cheaper than petrol - there's less refining involved.
You can simply grow high yield crops to provide the fuel. When the growing season ends in the northern hemisphere, it starts in the southern hemisphere, so you can pay farmers in developing countries in hard cash to grow these crops...
And this is NOT biodiesel I'm talking about. Biodiesel is where you take veggie oil, mix it with methanol, which forms glycerine, which is then washed out with water, and can be used in some diesels, but not all (It tends to rot rubber seals.....) Seems more messy to me, when you can just use straight veggie oil
This alternative source of fuel is already here, and is readily available. i really don't understand why this time, effort, and money is being spent on "alternative" solutions and "new technology" such as hybrids, when a really great starting point is out there already growing in the fields you pass by......doh.
Interested? have a look here.....
http://www.dieselveg.com/
Yes, I know you can change it, but that's not really the point - I don't want to see it ever. I've lost count of the number of times I've changed the Ex Pee kiddy crayola scheme in internet cafes to the classic view, when I've been away travelling. I suppose though, I might be more inclined to use it if the classic scheme was installed by default...but then again Ex Pee = NT 5.1 and 2000 = NT 5.0 so, not much difference there...but I have noticed 2000 is faster on the same machine over Ex Pee...
The best thing about Windows Ex Pee is removing it from a new computer and upgrading to Windows 2000 :o)
Get a differential GPS system - ordinary handheld GPS can be out by as much as 10 metres. Differential will cut that error down to less than a metre - well inside the error tolerances of standard 1:1250 mapping for urban areas. Get a tablet PC, and hook the GPS to it, using a program like PenMap installed on the tablet PC - this will trace your route directly from the GPS as you walk, and you can then export this data straight into a GIS, like ESRI's ArcMap.
aerial photographs or satellite imagery will be a big help in locating where you are, but they will never be as accurate as walking it yourself with a GPS
As I see it, your only big issue will be recharging your batteries, and checking what voltage the country runs on - either 110v or 220v. When we go out into the wilds to do a survey, the GPS battery is good for several hours, and it depends on how many hours per day you plan to survey. If I were you I would double up on the battery supply, hell even triple up on it!
One final thing - AFAIK, I'm not aware of any GIS software that runs on Macs....
Here's an extract from dieselveg.com about biodiesel:
Biodiesel = Rapemethylester = RME
"Biodiesel is chemically produced and substantially more expensive than vegetable oil. Except for a few new vehicles, most are not suited for using biodiesel. The majority of diesel vehicles must first be converted, in order to guarantee they will operate on biodiesel. The problem is the durability of the plastic and rubber components, which come into contact with the fuel. If biodiesel is used in a system that has not been adapted, the fuel can leak from places where it frequently backs up, which weakens and dissolves the fuel systems components. When using pure, untreated vegetable oil, these problems will not occur."
So you don't need to hope for anything, friend. It's already here. Get your diesel adapted, and get down to your local supermarket, or get real friendly with your local takeaway (they'll give it to you for free or for a very small price) and start using right away!
You can run any diesel engine on any sort of veggie oil (Corn, canola, sunflower, peanut, hemp, palm, rape seed, olive oil you name it, put it in the tank and it will work). It's clean, renewable, has no sulphur and the CO2 emitted is less than the CO2 absorbed when the plants were growing, so simply by using veggie oil in your diesel car you are curbing CO2 emissions
Here in the UK, you can get kits to modify the diesel engine (www.dieselveg.com) - all the mod is is a heat exchanger that heats the oil up to 70 degrees C, so it loses its viscosity and can be injected into the combustion chamber. Vegetable oil also has a slightly higher calorific value than regular dirty diesel, so if anything, you ought to get a small performance boost from using veggie oil. Alternatively, you can just mix veggie oil with dirty diesel without any modifications to your engine.
When the growing season in the northern hemisphere ends, the industrialised world could pay farmers in developing nations to grow the stuff - pay them a fair price, and give them an opportunity to earn real hard currency, instead of giving them handouts all the time.
IIRC, growing an area the size of Devon and Cornwall with rape seed specifically for diesel engine use would meet the energy requirements that cars in the UK need...
It's totally amazing that we have a clean, renewable energy source already here in front of us, that can be used with existing cars, buses tractors and trucks, yet governments around the world haven't bothered looking into this in a serious way. They're all so seduced by wind farms and tidal power....what a joke.
LMAO....I hear you brother. How true!
That blue green Ex Pee kiddy crayola scheme is a freaking joke. Yes, I know you can turn it off, but I don't want it loaded in the first place! Windows 2000 is my last ever MS operating system. It does everything I want, and I'm staying put. I only upgraded from NT 4.0 to 2000 (aka NT 5.0) about 3 years ago, and that was only because NT 4.0 didn't support FAT32 and USB. As for longhorn upgrade...Longhorn...hahahahaaaaaa. Over my cold, rotting corpse...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/412 6513.stm
My wife bought a copy of Placebo's album...erm...fourth album, can't remember what it's called. Sleeping with Ghosts???? Well, in any cae, she wanted to rip it so that she could listen to it on her mp3 player, and she was more than a little miffed when she couldn't rip it in the normal way, as it has this "copy protection" nonsense on it.
No worries, all I did was play the album and record the digital output. I ended up with a single 700Mb
Problem solved.
There's no way this copy protection nonsense can or will work, because there will always be a way around it. instead the recod companies end up pissing off people who are within the law- i.e. people like us who actually BUY the CD, but who just want to listen to it in a different format, or on a portable media player.
The record companies are fools, thick as two short planks of wood. They will never listen, stupid choppers that they are.
http://www.dieselveg.com/smart.htm
Here you are:x /preview/sysreqs.html
http://www.suse.com/en/private/products/suse_linu
Biodiesel = Rapemethylester = RME
"Biodiesel is chemically produced and substantially more expensive than vegetable oil. Except for a few new vehicles, most are not suited for using biodiesel. The majority of diesel vehicles must first be converted, in order to guarantee they will operate on biodiesel. The problem is the durability of the plastic and rubber components, which come into contact with the fuel. If biodiesel is used in a system that has not been adapted, the fuel can leak from places where it frequently backs up, which weakens and dissolves the fuel systems components. When using pure, untreated vegetable oil, these problems will not occur."
It is perhaps better to use veggie oil - it is already here, it's cheap, the vehicles need no special conversions (save for the addition of a heat exchanger), uses existing technology and it is practically CO2 neutral - the CO2 the plants absorb when they grow is released when the oil is burned - it isn't stored up for hundreds of millions of years and then released in one huge massive exhale like what we are doing right now.
And to all those doom mongers and naysayers here that are always shooting down these good ideas, well fine. Carry on and use your petrol cars and whatnot. I'm making the switch to veggie oil. And if/when petrol goes up to $5 per gallon (US)/2-3 UK pounds per liter or more, I will be the one smiling. You know it makes sense! ;-)
I strongly recommend everyone spend some time at this site Dieselveg
It's very interesting and worth a good look through... I don't know about anybody else around here, but I'm sold on the idea.
(From their website)
System Requirements
Operating Systems: Microsoft Windows 98SE, Windows ME, Windows 2000, Windows XP
Processor: Intel Pentium II 350MHz* or above, or any Athlon processor
* To enable audio effects such as Dolby Headphone, Dolby Virtual Speaker, SRS TruSurround XT, CLMEI(TM), and Dolby Pro Logic II decoder, or to play DVD titles with DTS digital surround tracks, it is recommended to use a 400MHz or higher processor system and at least 128MB of system RAM. * CLPV(TM) and CLEV(TM) are sophisticated video processing technologies that require higher CPU power. If both of them are enabled, together with the audio effects above, it is recommended to have a Pentium®-M/Centrino®, Pentium® 4, Athlon® 1.0GHz, or a system with equivalent or higher performance.
Memory: 64 MB RAM or above. To enable audio effects, 128MB of system RAM is recommended.
Screen Resolution: 800 x 600 pixels min., 1024 * 768 recommended
Audio Device: PCI sound card, USB audio box or motherboard built-in audio device
Hard Disk Space: Hard disk requirement of at least 40MB
Optical Device: DVD-ROM, DVD-R/RW, DVD-RAM, or DVD+RW drive with 1394, ATAPI, SCSI, USB 2.0, or Card Bus interface
Video Display: Display card supporting DirectDraw overlay
I later got a creative DVD hardware card and that solved the problem; perfectly smooth payback, with excellent image clarity. So I tried running CyberDVD again, but the idiot program still shunted everything off to the the CPU and ignored the decoder card. So I uninstalled it and chucked the CD in the bin.
It is probably more technologically challenging to build a nuclear device than it is to build a basic cruise missile, so those countries that posses nuclear weapons - Israel, Pakistan, India could quite easily build cruise missiles...
Europa a dud? Oh come off it!
The first Diesel engine ran on PEANUT OIL. In fact, Diesel engines will run on any kind of vegetable oil - corn oil, sunflower oil, olive oil, rape seed oil, peanut oil, you name it. The Deisel engine will even run on USED (albeit filtered first!)cooking oil from your local fish & chips shop or grill
Dielsel was on his way over to England to get the UK submarine fleet converted to run on veg oil, when he was murdered. His body was found in the Channel a few days later. Then the Oil companies got wind of this new engine, muscled their way in with their dirty diesel, and everyone forgot about the original purpose for Diesel engines...
It was Mr Diesels idea to run his engine on vegetable oil; it was clean, better for the engine in terms of lubrication (no extra added sulphur that fossil fuel diesel has). It's better for the environment, since the CO2 that the plants absorb is released when the oil is burnt in the engine. Well, maybe more CO2 is created, (I'm not a chemist) but the plants are contemporaneous; they aren't locked away underground for millions of years and then the CO2 released all in on go, like it is today as we burn it like crazy
here in the UK, you can buy kits to convert your deisel car to run on vegetable oil; all it does is heat the oil so it loses it's viscosity (i.e. becomes runny like water, and is injected into the engine. The car can still run on regular dirty deisel, and you can switch between fuels at any point. The added advantage is that you get an extra tank in your boot, giving you extra range. And if you don't like it, you can remove it...
I'm getting a deisel car next, and I'm having one of these kits fitted. To hell with the oil companies. The next time another oil crises happens, well, I won't be worried....supermarkets and wholesalers will always have cheaper, environmentally frielndly cooking oil for sale!
http://www.dieselveg.com
Just do it!
Also for p2p, don't forget Limewire (Java powered). The Linux version is actually better than the Windows version, because it doesn't have any spyware :)
...what where the other 11% running?
I was given two files that displayed a map - only the files were 45Mb in size each...they took ages to open, and someone externally wanted copies. (I do not know how the original creator managed to make a simple plan such a huge size) Save/export as a *.jpg file....nope. It did let me save it as a word document, or a text file, as useless as that was. Right-clicking and copying to the clipboard gave me a very, very poor quality image, so in the end I printed them off, (took a long time) scanned them in and saved them as a decent file size, and emailed those.
Then I was given a small booklet that needed updating. When it came time to print it off, it was all back to front - totally different to what it was showing on the screen, and how it should have printed off. It was easier just printing it off and performing gymnastics with the photocopier to get the pages in the right order
That's probably because North Korea has (if not the biggest) one of the largest standing armies in the world...
By improving DOS, (e.g. multitasking, multiuser, file permissions, and so on) they could have paved the way for a better and stabler foundation for Windows - Windows 3.1, 95/8/ME was a "multitasking" OS riding atop a single tasking, single user OS. From an engineering point of view, that doesn't seem very stable to me. Like trying to balance a dinner plate using a single chopstick. Instead MS just seemed to hack their way through things, rather than re-write stuff...