Microsoft Longhorn Minimum system requrements: Memory: Minimum 512Mb RAM CPU: Palladium enabled 2.0Ghz Pentium IV Processor Graphics: Palladium enabled card, 128Mb RAM mimimum Hard Drive: Minimum 10Gb disk space
Our Product Activation® technology, tried, tested and loved by the masses will now be upgraded as a new feature: Product Pay As-You-Go. For Each month, microsoft will now be charging users $100. If you do not pay this amount, you will go directly to jail for computer theft and piracy. Also, if you so much as change a single piece of hardware you will have to call our Product Activation Centre ®, to have our software product enabled again. Please note, that due to the large volume of calls that we have to take in this regard, we will now be charging for this Activation service.
We have also included yet more features that are guaranteed to drive the ordinary user up the wall, including: a GUI that is even more butt ugly than XP!
Even more bubble help menus, that are guaranteed never to go away!
Including the personalised menu option as default and only setting!
Expected Retail price: Longhorn Professional: only $499! Longhorn Personal: only $399!
Please note that due to the new and improved features present in Longhorn, no upgrade editions will be available.
Man, I wish we had someone like him! I'm doing a masters degree in earth science. We have two separate servers in our department - a windows 2000 server, with windows Ex Piss client machines, and a RedHat server, with Redhat Client machines. all the machines in the main earth science labs are dual bootable, which also mean that we have two separate home areas - one for windows, one for linux. because of this, we can't access files in our linux home areas when we're in windows, and vice versa when we're using linux. on top of this, we have a general university computer network home area in the library, which is separate yet again (these are Ex Piss clients running off a novell server)
so we have three, (yes 3!) mutually incompatible home areas. if we want to retrieve files from our linux home areas, we have to reboot the machine. it's total madness, and it REALLY pisses me off. We also have some SUN workstations, but fortunately, they are linked up to the linux server, so at least we can get files there. Why they don't have a simple SAMBA set up is beyond me. The sysadmin gave me some blurb about linux not being able to write to the NTFS file system as the reason for not using samba (oh, man, can you believe that???)
to top it all off, we have no ftp access to the outside world, because it's a "security risk"
this has got to be the shittiest, dumbest, crappiest most worst run, disjointed computer university network in the world.
It takes me between 7-10 minutes just to log into a Windows Ex Piss machine - yes, i've actually timed it, and i'm not exaggerating. the longest was 12 minutes! sometimes i just reboot, and use linux, because it's really quick (unfortunately, it means I can't work on that excel spreadsheet, because we don't have OpenOffice, and we don't have a unified filesystem!!!)
By contrast, my girlfriend is at another university, and they have a unified filesystem - four UNIX servers with Windows 2000, linux and UNIX client machines. Her home areas follows her around, wherever she is, no matter whatever OS she uses. Plus she can ftp in from our place and get her files from her home area...
I have a Toshiba T1900 Laptop. it has a 486SX processor, running at about 25MHz, with 20Mb of RAM. It runs Windows 95 with Office 2000 (!) without any problems. sure, it may be a little slow, but it works fine. It also dual boots with SuSE Linux 6.4, which came out in 1999. The laptop was made around 1993 (!) Windows 2000 came out, in er, 2000, and there's NO WAY it will run on this laptop. So there are 2 lessons to be learnt from this: 1) you DO NOT need the latest and greatest OS, and the latset and greatest hardware to do most mundane things like type a letter, or get a spreadsheet up or write some FORTRAN code.
2) Linux uses system resources more efficiently than windows. Windows is bloatware.
Whatever happened to the LS-120 superdisks? 120Mb on a single floppy is pretty good to me. we should use those instead of 1.44 floppies! hell, the drives are backwards compatible with regular floppy disks.
This is PRECISELY why I will NEVER, EVER, EVER use Windows Ex Piss. Windows 2000 was/is my last, and final M$ OS.
Product Activation is a big no no no.
we've got windows ex-pee and office ex-pee at university. It's shit. I hate it. windows ex-pee is..soo..s.l..o....w...it takes a full 10 seconds for the start menu to appear. I hate the way i can't configure anything my way "because i don't have permissions". I hate those big ugly icons that appear in the left on each folder. then when i get rid of them by using the "list" option, they re-appear the next time i log on. i hate it i hate it i hate it.
and that green and blue task bar...Lordy! it looks like the teletubbies have gotten their hands on it. yuk.i hate it.
fortunately, all the PC's are dual bootable, and have redhat installed as well...phew!
133Mb Service Pack upgrage??! Bloody hell; that's massive, are they having a laugh or something?
Phew, Thank Linus I'll NEVER be using XP:)
Space travel using the Casimir effect
on
The Casimir Effect
·
· Score: 1
Many years ago, I read a book co-authored by Buzz Aldrin (i forget what it's called) about some aliens from the Alpha Centauri system who come to Earth using a spacecraft powered by millions of tiny plates that extracted energy using the casimir effect. Apparently, a paper proposing this has been published somewhere....
Has anyone read this paper, and has anyone read this book - I'd love to know what it was called...
Here in Europe, we have laws to protect against worker exploitation - You CANNOT be made to work more than 48 hours per week if you don't want to. Emphasis is switching towards a 37 hour week (that's how many hours I work), even 35 hour week in some parts of the European Union.
15 hours per day? That's 75 hours per week. Sounds like you work in a sweat shop in some poor, underdeveloped county.
Here in Britian, we pay a TV licence - about £120 per year. We do NOT get ANY ads on BBC1, BBC2, BBC24, etc. I think paying about £120 per year is a good deal for not having commercials (Not that I can ever remember their content anyway)
I spent 6 months in Canada - they had ad breaks every 5/10 minutes or so!!
We do have adverts on the commercial terrestrial channels - ITV, Channel 4 & Channel 5. But these do serve a useful purpose - It gives you a chance to get up & grab a beer & sandwich, or make a cup of tea/coffee without missing the program:o)
Slashdot Mirror
I have SuSE linux 6.4 on my 486sx laptop, i think it's running the 2.2.14 kernel. But i'm not that much of a kernel freak, so i could be wrong ;)
Microsoft Longhorn Minimum system requrements:
Memory: Minimum 512Mb RAM
CPU: Palladium enabled 2.0Ghz Pentium IV Processor
Graphics: Palladium enabled card, 128Mb RAM mimimum
Hard Drive: Minimum 10Gb disk space
Our Product Activation® technology, tried, tested and loved by the masses will now be upgraded as a new feature: Product Pay As-You-Go.
For Each month, microsoft will now be charging users $100. If you do not pay this amount, you will go directly to jail for computer theft and piracy. Also, if you so much as change a single piece of hardware you will have to call our Product Activation Centre ®, to have our software product enabled again. Please note, that due to the large volume of calls that we have to take in this regard, we will now be charging for this Activation service.
We have also included yet more features that are guaranteed to drive the ordinary user up the wall, including:
a GUI that is even more butt ugly than XP!
Even more bubble help menus, that are guaranteed never to go away!
Including the personalised menu option as default and only setting!
Expected Retail price:
Longhorn Professional: only $499!
Longhorn Personal: only $399!
Please note that due to the new and improved features present in Longhorn, no upgrade editions will be available.
0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
Man, I wish we had someone like him! I'm doing a masters degree in earth science. We have two separate servers in our department - a windows 2000 server, with windows Ex Piss client machines, and a RedHat server, with Redhat Client machines. all the machines in the main earth science labs are dual bootable, which also mean that we have two separate home areas - one for windows, one for linux. because of this, we can't access files in our linux home areas when we're in windows, and vice versa when we're using linux. on top of this, we have a general university computer network home area in the library, which is separate yet again (these are Ex Piss clients running off a novell server) so we have three, (yes 3!) mutually incompatible home areas. if we want to retrieve files from our linux home areas, we have to reboot the machine. it's total madness, and it REALLY pisses me off. We also have some SUN workstations, but fortunately, they are linked up to the linux server, so at least we can get files there. Why they don't have a simple SAMBA set up is beyond me. The sysadmin gave me some blurb about linux not being able to write to the NTFS file system as the reason for not using samba (oh, man, can you believe that???) to top it all off, we have no ftp access to the outside world, because it's a "security risk" this has got to be the shittiest, dumbest, crappiest most worst run, disjointed computer university network in the world. It takes me between 7-10 minutes just to log into a Windows Ex Piss machine - yes, i've actually timed it, and i'm not exaggerating. the longest was 12 minutes! sometimes i just reboot, and use linux, because it's really quick (unfortunately, it means I can't work on that excel spreadsheet, because we don't have OpenOffice, and we don't have a unified filesystem!!!) By contrast, my girlfriend is at another university, and they have a unified filesystem - four UNIX servers with Windows 2000, linux and UNIX client machines. Her home areas follows her around, wherever she is, no matter whatever OS she uses. Plus she can ftp in from our place and get her files from her home area...
I have a Toshiba T1900 Laptop. it has a 486SX processor, running at about 25MHz, with 20Mb of RAM. It runs Windows 95 with Office 2000 (!) without any problems. sure, it may be a little slow, but it works fine. It also dual boots with SuSE Linux 6.4, which came out in 1999. The laptop was made around 1993 (!)
Windows 2000 came out, in er, 2000, and there's NO WAY it will run on this laptop.
So there are 2 lessons to be learnt from this:
1) you DO NOT need the latest and greatest OS, and the latset and greatest hardware to do most mundane things like type a letter, or get a spreadsheet up or write some FORTRAN code.
2) Linux uses system resources more efficiently than windows. Windows is bloatware.
Whatever happened to the LS-120 superdisks?
120Mb on a single floppy is pretty good to me. we should use those instead of 1.44 floppies! hell, the drives are backwards compatible with regular floppy disks.
This is PRECISELY why I will NEVER, EVER, EVER use Windows Ex Piss. Windows 2000 was/is my last, and final M$ OS. Product Activation is a big no no no.
we've got windows ex-pee and office ex-pee at university. It's shit. I hate it. windows ex-pee is..soo..s.l..o....w...it takes a full 10 seconds for the start menu to appear. I hate the way i can't configure anything my way "because i don't have permissions". I hate those big ugly icons that appear in the left on each folder. then when i get rid of them by using the "list" option, they re-appear the next time i log on. i hate it i hate it i hate it. and that green and blue task bar...Lordy! it looks like the teletubbies have gotten their hands on it. yuk.i hate it. fortunately, all the PC's are dual bootable, and have redhat installed as well...phew!
133Mb Service Pack upgrage??! Bloody hell; that's massive, are they having a laugh or something? Phew, Thank Linus I'll NEVER be using XP :)
Many years ago, I read a book co-authored by Buzz Aldrin (i forget what it's called) about some aliens from the Alpha Centauri system who come to Earth using a spacecraft powered by millions of tiny plates that extracted energy using the casimir effect. Apparently, a paper proposing this has been published somewhere.... Has anyone read this paper, and has anyone read this book - I'd love to know what it was called...
If you want to see it on the webcam, you have to give Real.com your credit card number in order to download the real player!
Here in Europe, we have laws to protect against worker exploitation - You CANNOT be made to work more than 48 hours per week if you don't want to. Emphasis is switching towards a 37 hour week (that's how many hours I work), even 35 hour week in some parts of the European Union. 15 hours per day? That's 75 hours per week. Sounds like you work in a sweat shop in some poor, underdeveloped county.
Here in Britian, we pay a TV licence - about £120 per year. We do NOT get ANY ads on BBC1, BBC2, BBC24, etc. I think paying about £120 per year is a good deal for not having commercials (Not that I can ever remember their content anyway) I spent 6 months in Canada - they had ad breaks every 5/10 minutes or so!! We do have adverts on the commercial terrestrial channels - ITV, Channel 4 & Channel 5. But these do serve a useful purpose - It gives you a chance to get up & grab a beer & sandwich, or make a cup of tea/coffee without missing the program :o)