Your mileage may vary. I remember selling 5 1/4" 20 MB SCSI and ESDI drives for $1200 Cdn in 1988. Almost all of them kacked after a couple thousand hours, like a light bulb. In fact, they actually came with a label that told you, outright, how many bad sectors the drive had *from the factory*. But the 20mb ESDI on my original Compaq luggable still boots, and runs fine to this day. I turn it on once a year, when I'm feeling nostalgic.
well it's not a huge armada or anything dozen frigates, 4 destroyers, dozen coast guard cutter type ships and various helos and surveillance aircraft older than i am (34) - oh yeah, I forgot the subs - the whole 4 of them and the 10 oberons that the limeys sold us that aren't seaworthy.
Been there done that really easy to do - boot up in ntfs4dos cd to/system32/drivers and delete the bad atapi driver and copy in the good atapi driver with the same filename, 2k & nt don't know the difference once you get the gui going you can fix it up from there. Jeez, just like a *nix guy would do - it no worky? hak it!
...hundreds of lower middle class whities with no discernable taste all across the u.s.commit suicide after finding out that their Whitney Houston, Ace of Base, Air Supply, Yaani, Ponter Sisters and Robyn re-issues won't play on their Emerson ghetto. President George W. Bush , commenting on the tragedy, calls it a "terrorist ploy to destroy the confidence of the Republican voter" while pretty much everyone else with an ounce of discrimination labeled it a "victory"
Sometimes they change parameters related to timeouts on certain hardware, so I guess depends on your hdw config. I'm pretty conservative about my hardware spec, always Intel 10/100 NIC for example, but I've seen slower times with (off the top of my head) a Linksys-y kind of NIC or with a Promise RAID controller
bootup time on any service pack is slower the first time you start up because windows has to regsvr32.exe all the new dll's - I actually noticed a net speed increase upgrading to sp3 once the system finished registering dll's
Here is a more or less thriving, egalitarian, and brilliant online community generally occupied by no less than perhaps one half of one percent of the finest minds in the world and yet all you guys can talk about is the dorkiest of dork subjects. Sheesh. Batman vs Superman? come on! brutal.
Actually I got my MP-100 to work just fine with just a plain old ImageWriter cable which you can get from mac shops for like $6. Tons of freeware (windows too) to transfer apps to newt, even pre-internet, got mine off AppleLink, anyone remember that??
i get misty eyed for the little fucker every day. stupidest thing I ever did was to sell it for $100
Depends how you use the workstation. Ever try to burn a CD, rawrite a floppy, and do heavy HD copying at the same time on IDE? Painful. Sometimes seems like the workstation is hung. I've seen and configured myself P-II's w/ AHA-2940's and Plextor CD burners / Micropolis (ah, the olden days!) hard drives that subjectively ran rings around P4's w/ ATA-100 when the system is under disk load. Response time is a zillion times better, seems to me, with SCSI than with IDE. Granny may not notice the difference downloading Klez, but every goddamn Slashdot reader is gonna know the difference.
Good point - this is a marketing issue. Really, if you guys go to Fry's or Best Buy or whatever and you saw "Rip and mix CD v.98 beta" next to "Rip and mix CD 2.5" which one are you going to buy? Microsofties in da house (and I know there are more than a few, like me, who read/.) remember that MS stirred up some controversy when NT was released in '93 - they have it the version number 3.1 when it was actually 1.0 - the official MS line was that it was in keeping with the nomenclature of Windows 3.1 - of course, we know total B.S. but again, if you are MIS or PHB for a Fortune 1000 and Microsoft wants you to switch to version 1.0 of a new OS, are you gonna feel better if there's an ominous version number of "1.0 build 2192" or nice fuzzy "3.1 build 2192"??
Makes me laugh about this "New AOL 8.0 vs New MSN 8.0" crap - is it a full point upgrade (nope) or is it just Marketing getting freaked out because someone else is shipping something that says 8.0 - life imitates Dilbert more and more every day.
of which IIRC HTML is a subset of SGML which the US Navy / Contractors ? used to product technical documents you'd think they'd just dust off the old stuff from the 80's and use it at least
bzzzt.wrong. newton was killed to simplify and streamline the HARDWARE line, nothing to do with the OS. He also killed some other good hdw concepts like Pippin. At the time, apple had something like 80 SKU's across its product line and it was confusing as shit to buy Apple products. Jobs did not want people to take their eyes off the ball, so to speak, hence: a consumer machine, a portable machine, and a business machine and everything else in the trash. Apple evangelists wanted osx as did everyone else at apple but apple users did not want osx and some would argue that they still don't - flame wars about os9 vs x still abound to this day.
Jobs will expand the line in the future but jobs being jobs will always stick to his K.I.S.S philosophy
I admin 120 w2k boxes in 20 locations 300 km apart (and still manage to run the company website that does 2M+ a year in sales) and I can tell you it aint no picnic, remote managment is not what it's cracked up to be. There's a lot of calling people up on the phone and have them do something at the console 'cause Terminal Services has a bug in it or whatever (try to add an HP DLC printer port thru a terminal services session and you will see what I mean) I would *love* to have a (native, not add-on or grossly insecure telnet)CLI rather than stupid TS or stupid PC/anywhere
I was kinda disgusted to see that the MCSE's can only admin 10 boxes - I mean, are these guys twits or what? I guess the article told me I am grossly underpaid too only made 70K cdn last year, but like US, Canada's IT indistry is in the toilet too so I guess I take what I can get.
tom clancy did it in debt of honor i think, they used a cia team in japan to bring down a civilian airliner with a big honkin deer light maybe i am giving al Qaida ideas as we speak lol
When we built the new building my company moved to, I did all the wiring / network design and had to liase with a security -type on how we were going to secure the building. I was pushing for a KISS principle of key trust (physical key not PGP key) exactly the same way that a retail store works; you have a manager who has the key to the joint and certain "keyholders" who are trusted. They lock and unlock the doors. Simple, elegant, and hard to beat. The consultant said "that's no good, you need a cardswipe system with maglocks on the doors" and he presented a spec that managment loved, sicne it had all those gee-whiz card sensors that went BLING! when you swiped your card. I looked at the spec during a meeting and said to the consultant: "These maglocks, they close (lock) when they are energized (have power applied to them), right?" him: "Yep" me: "So what happens when the power goes out?" him:"Errr...I'll get back to you" he gets back to me and assures me that there is room in the budget for a UPS that will keep the doors up for a long time. So we get the system, and one day (long weekend), the power goes out. No prob, my racks have APC RM UPS'es and everything gets shut down gracefully. I get warning bleeps on my SMS cell that power's out, I go, "So what, it's the weekend" and ignore it. 8 hours later the company president calls me up, says "WTF? Door's unlocked, anyone can walk in and take the 17" TFT on the receptionist's desk!" Me: "WTF?" Haul ass down there, take a look, pop my head in the ceiling to take a look at the door UPS
I *can't* believe it! The security guy specs out an APC Back 250 UPS like you get at Costco for $80 The frickin door probably only stayed locked for, like, a half hour. The security guy though it would stay locked for days!
I inserted my key into the deadbolt on the door (which I insisted on) and firmly closed the lock. The APC was replaced with a 1500 the next day.
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Canadian military uses DLT's as flight recorders on their (few) f-18's. good enough for my purchase order.
My users already do this: "When I go into Microsoft, it gives me an error - what could be wrong?" (actual quote)
Your mileage may vary. I remember selling 5 1/4" 20 MB SCSI and ESDI drives for $1200 Cdn in 1988. Almost all of them kacked after a couple thousand hours, like a light bulb. In fact, they actually came with a label that told you, outright, how many bad sectors the drive had *from the factory*. But the 20mb ESDI on my original Compaq luggable still boots, and runs fine to this day. I turn it on once a year, when I'm feeling nostalgic.
>3 will have web sites >2 will have mailing list >1 will have a developer 0 will have files
i bought mine last year, it's in stasis in the basement waiting for my son to turn 12...i can hardly wait!
well it's not a huge armada or anything dozen frigates, 4 destroyers, dozen coast guard cutter type ships and various helos and surveillance aircraft older than i am (34) - oh yeah, I forgot the subs - the whole 4 of them and the 10 oberons that the limeys sold us that aren't seaworthy.
ahhhh...populous....a tear shed for my first true game addiction....
Been there done that really easy to do - boot up in ntfs4dos cd to /system32/drivers and delete the bad atapi driver and copy in the good atapi driver with the same filename, 2k & nt don't know the difference once you get the gui going you can fix it up from there. Jeez, just like a *nix guy would do - it no worky? hak it!
LOL!!! best pun yet on /. mod up!!
...hundreds of lower middle class whities with no discernable taste all across the u.s.commit suicide after finding out that their Whitney Houston, Ace of Base, Air Supply, Yaani, Ponter Sisters and Robyn re-issues won't play on their Emerson ghetto. President George W. Bush , commenting on the tragedy, calls it a "terrorist ploy to destroy the confidence of the Republican voter" while pretty much everyone else with an ounce of discrimination labeled it a "victory"
Sometimes they change parameters related to timeouts on certain hardware, so I guess depends on your hdw config. I'm pretty conservative about my hardware spec, always Intel 10/100 NIC for example, but I've seen slower times with (off the top of my head) a Linksys-y kind of NIC or with a Promise RAID controller
bootup time on any service pack is slower the first time you start up because windows has to regsvr32.exe all the new dll's - I actually noticed a net speed increase upgrading to sp3 once the system finished registering dll's
yesterday about you guys being big dorks. I humbly submit that stories like this are the omelette
Here is a more or less thriving, egalitarian, and brilliant online community generally occupied by no less than perhaps one half of one percent of the finest minds in the world and yet all you guys can talk about is the dorkiest of dork subjects. Sheesh. Batman vs Superman? come on! brutal.
Actually I got my MP-100 to work just fine with just a plain old ImageWriter cable which you can get from mac shops for like $6. Tons of freeware (windows too) to transfer apps to newt, even pre-internet, got mine off AppleLink, anyone remember that?? i get misty eyed for the little fucker every day. stupidest thing I ever did was to sell it for $100
Depends how you use the workstation. Ever try to burn a CD, rawrite a floppy, and do heavy HD copying at the same time on IDE? Painful. Sometimes seems like the workstation is hung. I've seen and configured myself P-II's w/ AHA-2940's and Plextor CD burners / Micropolis (ah, the olden days!) hard drives that subjectively ran rings around P4's w/ ATA-100 when the system is under disk load. Response time is a zillion times better, seems to me, with SCSI than with IDE. Granny may not notice the difference downloading Klez, but every goddamn Slashdot reader is gonna know the difference.
Good point - this is a marketing issue. Really, if you guys go to Fry's or Best Buy or whatever and you saw "Rip and mix CD v .98 beta" next to "Rip and mix CD 2.5" which one are you going to buy? Microsofties in da house (and I know there are more than a few, like me, who read /.) remember that MS stirred up some controversy when NT was released in '93 - they have it the version number 3.1 when it was actually 1.0 - the official MS line was that it was in keeping with the nomenclature of Windows 3.1 - of course, we know total B.S. but again, if you are MIS or PHB for a Fortune 1000 and Microsoft wants you to switch to version 1.0 of a new OS, are you gonna feel better if there's an ominous version number of "1.0 build 2192" or nice fuzzy "3.1 build 2192"??
Makes me laugh about this "New AOL 8.0 vs New MSN 8.0" crap - is it a full point upgrade (nope) or is it just Marketing getting freaked out because someone else is shipping something that says 8.0 - life imitates Dilbert more and more every day.
of which IIRC HTML is a subset of SGML which the US Navy / Contractors ? used to product technical documents you'd think they'd just dust off the old stuff from the 80's and use it at least
bzzzt.wrong. newton was killed to simplify and streamline the HARDWARE line, nothing to do with the OS. He also killed some other good hdw concepts like Pippin. At the time, apple had something like 80 SKU's across its product line and it was confusing as shit to buy Apple products. Jobs did not want people to take their eyes off the ball, so to speak, hence: a consumer machine, a portable machine, and a business machine and everything else in the trash. Apple evangelists wanted osx as did everyone else at apple but apple users did not want osx and some would argue that they still don't - flame wars about os9 vs x still abound to this day.
Jobs will expand the line in the future but jobs being jobs will always stick to his K.I.S.S philosophy
I admin 120 w2k boxes in 20 locations 300 km apart (and still manage to run the company website that does 2M+ a year in sales) and I can tell you it aint no picnic, remote managment is not what it's cracked up to be. There's a lot of calling people up on the phone and have them do something at the console 'cause Terminal Services has a bug in it or whatever (try to add an HP DLC printer port thru a terminal services session and you will see what I mean) I would *love* to have a (native, not add-on or grossly insecure telnet)CLI rather than stupid TS or stupid PC/anywhere
I was kinda disgusted to see that the MCSE's can only admin 10 boxes - I mean, are these guys twits or what?
I guess the article told me I am grossly underpaid too only made 70K cdn last year, but like US, Canada's IT indistry is in the toilet too so I guess I take what I can get.
tom clancy did it in debt of honor i think, they used a cia team in japan to bring down a civilian airliner with a big honkin deer light maybe i am giving al Qaida ideas as we speak lol
When we built the new building my company moved to, I did all the wiring / network design and had to liase with a security -type on how we were going to secure the building. I was pushing for a KISS principle of key trust (physical key not PGP key) exactly the same way that a retail store works; you have a manager who has the key to the joint and certain "keyholders" who are trusted. They lock and unlock the doors. Simple, elegant, and hard to beat. The consultant said "that's no good, you need a cardswipe system with maglocks on the doors" and he presented a spec that managment loved, sicne it had all those gee-whiz card sensors that went BLING! when you swiped your card. I looked at the spec during a meeting and said to the consultant: "These maglocks, they close (lock) when they are energized (have power applied to them), right?" him: "Yep" me: "So what happens when the power goes out?" him:"Errr...I'll get back to you" he gets back to me and assures me that there is room in the budget for a UPS that will keep the doors up for a long time. So we get the system, and one day (long weekend), the power goes out. No prob, my racks have APC RM UPS'es and everything gets shut down gracefully. I get warning bleeps on my SMS cell that power's out, I go, "So what, it's the weekend" and ignore it. 8 hours later the company president calls me up, says "WTF? Door's unlocked, anyone can walk in and take the 17" TFT on the receptionist's desk!" Me: "WTF?" Haul ass down there, take a look, pop my head in the ceiling to take a look at the door UPS
I *can't* believe it! The security guy specs out an APC Back 250 UPS like you get at Costco for $80 The frickin door probably only stayed locked for, like, a half hour. The security guy though it would stay locked for days!
I inserted my key into the deadbolt on the door (which I insisted on) and firmly closed the lock. The APC was replaced with a 1500 the next day.
...just take one of these and some of these and as long as you are on the same phase, you should be good to go.
Ohhh yaaaa!
Does it bother anyone else but me that Equifax is also the fuckwadding scumbags that have a say in my credit rating???