I did some searching and apparently the Australian Broadcasting Company is also running the same story. Its not exactly the same, but there are direct quotes between the two.
Does anyone know if SMH is a partner company? Same company?
It could even be cost beneficial to the makers due to the fact that they if they really wanted to, they could sell customized versions of their software to specific audiences. I'm sorry, but just because you have a "desktop" and a "server" version of your OS doesn't make you special. Last I checked the "server" versions contain all the bloat from the "desktop" version that is totally undesirable in an actual server.
I think it would be really nice if for once, operating systems tried for a lighter approach to their installs. I know most unixes provide base, custom and full installs, but perhaps someday MS would like to try a light install. Give me XP w/o the Fisher Price colors, w/o the various menu display methods. Stop trying to sell your OS based on features that should be optional. Start trying to sell your OS because its good, not because it has 300+ ways of displaying the same thing. Do something and do it right damnit.
I've read them, don't worry, I was more of making the point about the lack of playablity in the leaked version due to the apparent need of a geForce5 to actually get over 50fps...
A couple of high school kids decide to be mischiveous and tie one end of a rope to your plane, the other end to a truck and do some donuts in your yard turning your home into a G-force simulator.
Whats more frightening than 3 am earthquakes? 3 am Wizzard of Oz flashbacks.
all this time on 56k to download solaris 9 images for my Ultra 60, blew several days on configuring it to my liking and now sun has to go and do this... =P Oh well, I suppose I mucked up my sol9 install enough to warrant a reinstall anyways =)
Now, I write some fairly base HTML, no more than font, table, p, and br tags really. I wrote a decent layout for my site (dcw.govsci.com). True it may never get updated, but I wrote it knowing how Netscape likes its html and how IE liked html. Page in the end looked perfect in IE, but rendered mainly single column in Netscape. There were several little `quirks` I had to work around and kludge before it really worked properly in Netscape as well. Things I shouldn't have had to work around. For instance, I have a java applet on my site. I think the width of it is set to 429, the containing cell is set to 430px wide. If I take that java applet up to 430px wide, it completely breaks my site. But only in Netscape (older versions, not moz). I had all cell padding off, everything I could think of. Its just how Netscape handles that particular applet different from IE/Moz/etc. I only tested for Moz/IE/Netscape at the time though, opera wasn't even remotely popular (or even out) when I came up with that design.
This has become a slightly longer rant than I wanted to write (esp at near 4am) but I suppose my point was that sure Netscape and IE are both rendering the HTML to standard but they handle certain objects differently causing the coder (me) to be forced to adjust their site accordingly to kludge around those slight differences. Standars or not, there are still differences.
If we can come up with one solid independent rendering engine that is both fast and highly portable, use that in all browsers, I think we'd be set.
bother writing compliant html? People will always dream up crazy site designs, they are going to go with whatever technology they can use to make that design a reality. Look at flash, look what happened with DHTML. Netscape's DHTML manual went into documenting aspects of DHTML that weren't even supported in their browser.
Standards can be made, don't expect that people will ever follow them.
This is supposed to be fun? People buy this stuff? This must be the ADA version of Dance Dance Revolution.
-- AcquaCow
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I think just the fluctuations in voltage due to a rather insane stereo system could easily offset that. Not to mention the blanket of influence a 500w subwoofer's magnet has on electronics around it. I can warp the display on my monitor from 10 ft away with some of the components I have.
American Airlines specifically denies you permission to hyperlink or provide references to the Site, unless you are allowed to do so under a separate written agreement with American Airlines
Yeah, you too =)
M. Monitor or copy any Content by using any manual process, or any robot, spider, or other automatic device, without first obtaining American Airlines' prior written consent.
(I'd document my source, but that violates the agreement too =P)
AcquaCow here...Litestep.net admin...I just wanna say that I've been using LS since may 98 and well...I have only seen LS itself truely crash only a few times...there was a period or two when LS didn't like multiple recyles...most of the time its the thrid party modules that will bring it down (hey...we all can't code perfetly can we?). I have not personally seen LiteStep crash since the 11-23-99 build. I dropped it a few times with a few modules once again, but I can recycle all I want now. I'm using the 10-6-2000 build at present and no problems here. Perhaps you should try it out again before you bash it..
alright....so ms is gonna open their sourfce to people in France and Israel...what are the chances that some Israelie gets in there and bugs up the code? We end up with some MS related linux viruses running around... The only really good thing I am looking for in this is for IE source code to leak out so the *nix devs out there can code us up a good html rendering browser...we all know netscape sucks, it doesn't support html. The new realease of it is better but still okay at best. Lets get some functionality people...
I didn't pay for any of my copies of windows...but come to think of it...I didn't pay for the computers I built either...only $$ I have given MS was the $20 for the IntelliMouse Explorer I bought.
Hey...i wonder if you can buy a stripped down variation of the espresso. Not even having a hard drive wouldn't be a problem...can you imagine how easily you could build clusters out of these things? And it would be different from normal clusters because the nodes would be hideously small and hopefully quiet. If you had the cash, you could cluster 20 of them together right under your desk...or even under your bed!
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aah..cool...
-- AcquaCow
thanks
-- AcquaCow
I did some searching and apparently the Australian Broadcasting Company is also running the same story. Its not exactly the same, but there are direct quotes between the two.
Does anyone know if SMH is a partner company? Same company?
Does anyone know who had the story first?
-- AcquaCow
US Military officials discovered the accused's computer was actually only infected with code red and they forgot to patch.
-- AcquaCow
perhaps...but if no one sees it, does it exist?
-- AcquaCow
It could even be cost beneficial to the makers due to the fact that they if they really wanted to, they could sell customized versions of their software to specific audiences. I'm sorry, but just because you have a "desktop" and a "server" version of your OS doesn't make you special. Last I checked the "server" versions contain all the bloat from the "desktop" version that is totally undesirable in an actual server.
-- AcquaCow
Yeah, I played with 98lite for a tad. Quite nice. The thing is, third parties need not do this. The maker of the OS needs to do this.
-- AcquaCow
I think it would be really nice if for once, operating systems tried for a lighter approach to their installs. I know most unixes provide base, custom and full installs, but perhaps someday MS would like to try a light install. Give me XP w/o the Fisher Price colors, w/o the various menu display methods. Stop trying to sell your OS based on features that should be optional. Start trying to sell your OS because its good, not because it has 300+ ways of displaying the same thing. Do something and do it right damnit.
-- AcquaCow
I've read them, don't worry, I was more of making the point about the lack of playablity in the leaked version due to the apparent need of a geForce5 to actually get over 50fps...
-- AcquaCow
Perhaps its worth downloading then...
These new game mods and patches need to stop coming out just before finals.
-- AcquaCow
Hopefully I will actually be able to begin a game now.
Yeah, it would be great if you could actually play a game that you spent all day downloading on 56k. (even if it is a leaked copy =P)
-- AcquaCow
And on the lighter side, LSDsmurf reports that there's a patch for Doom III Alpha. Yes, you read that right.
Does this mean that I might actually be able to get positive FPS now?
-- AcquaCow
A couple of high school kids decide to be mischiveous and tie one end of a rope to your plane, the other end to a truck and do some donuts in your yard turning your home into a G-force simulator.
Whats more frightening than 3 am earthquakes? 3 am Wizzard of Oz flashbacks.
-- AcquaCow
all this time on 56k to download solaris 9 images for my Ultra 60, blew several days on configuring it to my liking and now sun has to go and do this... =P Oh well, I suppose I mucked up my sol9 install enough to warrant a reinstall anyways =)
-- AcquaCow
Now, I write some fairly base HTML, no more than font, table, p, and br tags really. I wrote a decent layout for my site (dcw.govsci.com). True it may never get updated, but I wrote it knowing how Netscape likes its html and how IE liked html. Page in the end looked perfect in IE, but rendered mainly single column in Netscape. There were several little `quirks` I had to work around and kludge before it really worked properly in Netscape as well. Things I shouldn't have had to work around. For instance, I have a java applet on my site. I think the width of it is set to 429, the containing cell is set to 430px wide. If I take that java applet up to 430px wide, it completely breaks my site. But only in Netscape (older versions, not moz). I had all cell padding off, everything I could think of. Its just how Netscape handles that particular applet different from IE/Moz/etc. I only tested for Moz/IE/Netscape at the time though, opera wasn't even remotely popular (or even out) when I came up with that design.
This has become a slightly longer rant than I wanted to write (esp at near 4am) but I suppose my point was that sure Netscape and IE are both rendering the HTML to standard but they handle certain objects differently causing the coder (me) to be forced to adjust their site accordingly to kludge around those slight differences. Standars or not, there are still differences.
If we can come up with one solid independent rendering engine that is both fast and highly portable, use that in all browsers, I think we'd be set.
5 mins to 4 am...its time for bed.
-- AcquaCow
bother writing compliant html? People will always dream up crazy site designs, they are going to go with whatever technology they can use to make that design a reality. Look at flash, look what happened with DHTML. Netscape's DHTML manual went into documenting aspects of DHTML that weren't even supported in their browser.
Standards can be made, don't expect that people will ever follow them.
-- AcquaCow
This is supposed to be fun? People buy this stuff? This must be the ADA version of Dance Dance Revolution.
-- AcquaCow
I think just the fluctuations in voltage due to a rather insane stereo system could easily offset that. Not to mention the blanket of influence a 500w subwoofer's magnet has on electronics around it. I can warp the display on my monitor from 10 ft away with some of the components I have.
-- AcquaCow
I thought I might actually be productive and get some work done today, nVidia has to go and do this to me!
...must resist the temptat...WAIT! You mean I can have GL accelerated sprongies now!!! OMG! *click*
-- AcquaCow
taken from the disclaimer:
American Airlines specifically denies you permission to hyperlink or provide references to the Site, unless you are allowed to do so under a separate written agreement with American Airlines
Yeah, you too =)
M. Monitor or copy any Content by using any manual process, or any robot, spider, or other automatic device, without first obtaining American Airlines' prior written consent.
(I'd document my source, but that violates the agreement too =P)
-- AcquaCow
AcquaCow here...Litestep.net admin...I just wanna say that I've been using LS since may 98 and well...I have only seen LS itself truely crash only a few times...there was a period or two when LS didn't like multiple recyles...most of the time its the thrid party modules that will bring it down (hey...we all can't code perfetly can we?). I have not personally seen LiteStep crash since the 11-23-99 build. I dropped it a few times with a few modules once again, but I can recycle all I want now. I'm using the 10-6-2000 build at present and no problems here. Perhaps you should try it out again before you bash it..
-- AcquaCow
alright....so ms is gonna open their sourfce to people in France and Israel...what are the chances that some Israelie gets in there and bugs up the code? We end up with some MS related linux viruses running around... The only really good thing I am looking for in this is for IE source code to leak out so the *nix devs out there can code us up a good html rendering browser...we all know netscape sucks, it doesn't support html. The new realease of it is better but still okay at best. Lets get some functionality people...
I didn't pay for any of my copies of windows...but come to think of it...I didn't pay for the computers I built either...only $$ I have given MS was the $20 for the IntelliMouse Explorer I bought.
Hey...i wonder if you can buy a stripped down variation of the espresso. Not even having a hard drive wouldn't be a problem...can you imagine how easily you could build clusters out of these things? And it would be different from normal clusters because the nodes would be hideously small and hopefully quiet. If you had the cash, you could cluster 20 of them together right under your desk...or even under your bed!
umm...(Dr. Evil) Riiight...(/Dr Evil)