Hat's off to these guys for doing that! Gives me encouragement that somewhere, somehow, someone is able to get their machines to "jump through hoops" with all that "running windows on top of linux on a game console" stuff. Hooray for them!
Now, if I could just get the $%@&* CDROM drive to boot in something other than Windows 98 on this Compaq Deskpro 575 that I have worn the hell out. Imagine my shock and suprise when even tomsrtbt 1.7.361 can't spot this drive when Windows 98 can and does! I'm ready to throw this peezoshit in the Dumpster!
That's what I like to do, partition the drives, and install several os's and see which one runs the best on the hardware. On this little PS/1, I have Windows 98, with Grey Cat Linux 3.0 (470MB partition), and DOS/Arachne 1.70 in a little 30 MB partition. I run a menu in the little partition so I can choose between Arachne 1.70 or Grey Cat Linux 3.0 (in the big partition).
See http://www.angelfire.com/ms/telegram/menu.html for that.
Although Arachne and GCL 3.0 are fun, Windows 98 does the best, I use Opera and Pegasus, and leave IE 4.0 alone. I don't bother to upgrade Windows 98 on a setup like this at all, since a lot of that is just security fixes anyway. Btw, you need at least IE 5x to upgrade anyway. I can do that, I have the 80+ MB file for MSIE 5.x but can't spare the HDD space for something I won't use.
I have other machines with dual Linux installs, and almost always Windows 98. Keeps me busy, without spending much $.
Windows users often use various screensavers, desktop backgrounds, mouse pointers, etc. to customize their setup. We linux users just have more choices, but the Redhat unified look and feel will be needed in mainstream desktop distros for the average Joe Sixpack. These folks don't fool with computers just to be fooling around with them, they want to do something else, like "Send an Email" or "Scan,edit and print an old photograph". Also, they want to "look something up on the Internet". For them, a unified look and feel might be good, to get RHL out there in competition with Windows. btw, I'm using Grey Cat Linux 3.0 to make this post, temporarily unavailable for download, so I feel like I'm one of a very few that are GCL 3.0 users. Right now, one has to have a little patience with GCL 3.0, it has it's good days, and it's bad days...
An Electric Airplane? Wall Street Journal reports that the two hybrid cars from Honda and Toyota seem to be powered by "two squirrels on a treadmill", according to some who have driven them. There are toy electric airplanes, but I can't imagine a useful full size airplane powered by electricity alone. Having said that, there are solar-powered drones that have set some impressive records, using extremely fragile construction, and enormous wingspans. So much has been done in aviation over the years, it may be possible that the electric airplane in this project could actually fly. (unlike this post, struggling to get off the ground and make an interesting point) There's a lot on the Discovery Wings Channel on cable about the efforts that have been made over the years to get all kinds of aircraft airborne. It's all been amazing, really.
Ok, so I'm the only one over 60. Just don't slip down on the rolling stone magazines on your way out.
Wooophs! Not the one with Jennifer Aniston on the Cover! Jeeez!
Quick, sign up now and influence content on her official site: http://www.jenniferaniston.com/
Ok, with the testing being done say with something like Mozilla 1.1, running on the well tested platform Redhat 7.1, the "running amuck" problem is very slight. Now here's one that can do just that, run amuck, and the repeatable conditions to get it to misbehave: Arachne 1.70, running on top of MSDOS.
When you are surfing with it, and change your mind about downloading a web page, normally you would hit the stop button in most browsers. In Arachne, this will crash the program, and your DOS, too. You'll have to reboot the computer. I'm sure some of you have other examples, especially programs that have just been written, and not completely tested, that can run wild. I've had some items in Redhat blow up on me, so it's not immune to that. These were programs that were provided in the distribution, and should work, but perhaps I am trying to run them on a machine with not enough ram, cpu power, etc. and trigger the bug.
All this is what makes working with computers interesting for us, and give us something to do, and experiment with. Self-healing computers as such don't really exist totally, but we are working on it;-)
And let it go in that. Oh, yes, don't forget Netscape 3.04, still in use on library computers in poor neighborhoods. Yes, you'll go crazy trying to make all of your pages do in all browsers. Oh, don't forget the text browsers! I try and try to make at least some of my pages work in something. Now, I have Grey Cat Linux 3.0, (perhaps 20 installations World-Wide) running Netscape 3.04. Had to spend some wee-hours time getting something that would work in that, and in MSIE 6.0, Mozilla 1.1 too! Whew! It is fun, however, to reboot into another OS, and bring up a page in a different browser, and have it work OK!
Early 1980's, a CPA friend of mine had three or four
machines on a network, and had a 20 MB (not GB) harddrive.
When he told me about it at a fancy gathering at a
Country Club, a hush came over the room. Combination of
high cost to buy, massive storage capacity (for then)
could have the impact of a whispered "PSSST, I just won a
Million Dollars." Folks are all chattering, but believe me,
can hear really good stuff, no matter how noisy the room
at the time.
Looks like someone came up with an amazingly simple solution. Now ordinary Chinese web-surfing citizens, (with the help of a mirror) can look stuff up on Google! Now all those error messages can be researched, and solved! The Chinese need to re-read the history of the Great Wall of China, and see how useless it eventually became.
Re:A positive application for the /. effect!
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Guess not... I just went to it, and the server is still up. Maybe, just maybe, this is a decoy in the photograph, and something much more powerful is actually handling the hits. If so, then the jokes on us.
Have a look at: http://spaceflightnow.com/news/index.html/
In addition to Space Shuttle news, they have some Hubble Telescope items as well. Also currently at spaceflightnow.com:
http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0208/17exploding/
An interesting story about an exploding galaxy at the edge of the universe, discovered using the Subaru Telescope, National Astronomical Observatory of Japan.
The Viscosity of Pitch: Compared to Waiting in the Queue at one's local bank. After a long wait, I often mention to my queue-mates that I was a young man when I started waiting, and now I have gray hair, and am old, etc. Another one, the money I brought to deposit was once worth something when I came here, now it won't buy " ".
If this theory holds true it may explain why some humans who are repeatedly exposed to HIV don't get sick. First of all, we share roughly 97% of our DNS with chimpanzees. So many funny things to say about the comparison of humans to chimps, so little time to say them. But here goes:
Sharing my DNS with chimpanzees explains A LOT about the poor service I get when I email customer support at my hoster.
When I get up in the morning, and dare to look in the mirror, I can certify that I do, in fact share a goodly percentage of my (DNA) with chimpanzees.
Some humans don't get sick, etc. Well, nooo, if I am indeed mostly "chimpanzee", then I get all the benefits of the two million years of evolution since the "Big Wipeout" we chimps had to endure...
When I head off to work, and I know there will be a reasonable chance of thunderstorms and lightning, I just unplug all the computer surge suppressor power cords from the wall sockets, and unplug the modem line. I have four machines in one room, running off two surge suppressors. I usually only run two computers at once, sometimes only one. I know they give you an "insurance policy" against damage, but I'd rather not come home to anything like that. If I'm home, working on the computers, or asleep or otherwise indisposed, that's when a lightning strike nearby could affect my setup, so I do need the supressors. As for ESD, I ground my hands on the frame, powersupply, before removing components like cards, memory, HDD's. I appreciate the use of straps, etc. and have read some of the posts about their use in commercial enviroments, and will get one next time I'm in the store;-)
Using one can't hurt.
Time has to be provided for adequate rest (sleep), and also some form of exercise needs to be done, walking, bicycling, not just pumping iron, or working out with an exercise machine. A lunch hour, actually about an hour and 20 minutes, spent walking will improve the overall health of the person. Remember, we are a human animal, and not a machine. The health of the circulatory system, lungs, needs to be maintained. Sure, if one is on a roll as far as coding goes, then spend the time working, then rest. Otherwise, the health of the individual will eventually suffer, and the employer will only get new employees to replace those who come down sick. Bicycling is dangerous, but gives enormous benefits. When you go up that first long hill, you'll spout cuss-words, etc. as you work to get up there on that bike. When you get to the top, and you back off, and start to yawn, that's when you know that you have done all you can for your heart, lungs, and circulatory system. Coast for a while, then go after another hill. Be sure and get a reliable bike, one that the gears and transmission won't slip when you press it hard. These cost several hundred, but you'll love the thing. Watch what you eat, and you'll soon begin to lose weight. It's your health, not your employers. Eventually, you'll be replaced in your job, and you want to have your health when you leave there. Oh, btw, hope you don't smoke, or all bets are off.
I've just downloaded Mozilla 1.1 for Linux and Windows, and find it much better than Netscape 7.0. Not as many commercials:-) btw, I'm using Grey Cat Linux to post this, and the Links browser. Made a nifty boot disk that brings up a menu, from which I can select GCL and a couple of other items. Made one win 98 boot disk that goes right to GCL, the menu one is win 95;-)
Sure, some students are going to "outpace" teachers when it comes to computers. I had my General Class Ham license when I was 14, and _none_ of my teachers had one. When you are 14, and apply yourself, you can do all that and more. Not all students have access at home, and in a safe environment, to a decent computer, and have the time away from others to work with that computer. The school systems need to see, somehow, that more students have the chance to work with, and learn computing skills. The teachers already have a full time job, teaching, so they cannot now learn computer skills if they were not "into" computers at an early age. There will always be some students that excel in something the teachers are not able to devote time to. That's why they have a "Math Teacher" and an "English Teacher", etc. Once you get into their classroom, you, as a student, are in their territory, and they are supposed to be masters of their craft, not you, the student. Then they get to teach the student. Powerful, space-age technology like computers require lots of expertise that your garden-variety English teacher may not have been schooled in, so they are sitting ducks for hot-shot kids that are able to focus themselves to learn and master. A really good teacher will get a good kid or two to help her (or him) get computer-savvy. I know of a choral-music teacher in high school that did just that.
Really, I have dialup with about 49333, and Look, I tried Broadband, and after an Hour, I was Wore Out! No waiting, no time to go do the dishes while "USA Today" downloads. I clicked on it, and PooF! There it was! Now I gotta Read It!, then click on something else. Again, PooF! there it was! Darn, no time to get the dishes done, let the cat in or out, put my socks on, etc.
I like the Document: Done (5.22 secs) item you get with Mozilla. If you empty your disk cache, then go a-surfing, the files are all new to Mozilla and it's disk cache, of course, and with dialup, (I usually get 49333) the page comes up slower, etc.
Next visit to the page, look out! Mozilla now shines, and really outperforms the old 4x Netscapes. Opera may claim speed, but IMHO, they talk the talk, but can't walk the walk like Mozilla can. I just downloaded the Windows version, and am using it now.
I dread having to download the Linux version, because I have TWO linux installs on one HDD, Redhat and Mandrake, and with user accounts, etc. PLUS, I have Windows 98 there also. Of course, I download it once, then copy it to all linux users, but still, It's going to be a long nite!
I've been installing Opera 6.03 on a bunch of user accounts this afternoon, and one of the ads that Opera runs lately is the special to buy opera and get entered in a contest to win a Zaurus. Sure, I'd like to have one, just as long as it's smaller than a laptop, and almost free to boot. Guess I'd have to spring for the modem, etc. to go with the Zaurus if I won one, also the access$ account$. Also this: Deutsche Telekom has proposed selling its U.S. wireless unit VoiceStream to Cingular Wireless, a combination which would rival market leader Verizon Wireless, the Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday. Apparently D. Telekom needs to pay some debt, and has to sell VoiceStream or so I have heard. Not that any of that would affect the Zaurus setup, but it might...
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Hat's off to these guys for doing that! Gives me encouragement that somewhere, somehow, someone is able to get their machines to "jump through hoops" with all that "running windows on top of linux on a game console" stuff. Hooray for them! Now, if I could just get the $%@&* CDROM drive to boot in something other than Windows 98 on this Compaq Deskpro 575 that I have worn the hell out. Imagine my shock and suprise when even tomsrtbt 1.7.361 can't spot this drive when Windows 98 can and does! I'm ready to throw this peezoshit in the Dumpster!
That's what I like to do, partition the drives, and install several os's and see which one runs the best on the hardware. On this little PS/1, I have Windows 98, with Grey Cat Linux 3.0 (470MB partition), and DOS /Arachne 1.70 in a little 30 MB partition. I run a menu in the little partition so I can choose between Arachne 1.70 or Grey Cat Linux 3.0 (in the big partition).
See http://www.angelfire.com/ms/telegram/menu.html for that.
Although Arachne and GCL 3.0 are fun, Windows 98 does the best, I use Opera and Pegasus, and leave IE 4.0 alone. I don't bother to upgrade Windows 98 on a setup like this at all, since a lot of that is just security fixes anyway. Btw, you need at least IE 5x to upgrade anyway. I can do that, I have the 80+ MB file for MSIE 5.x but can't spare the HDD space for something I won't use.
I have other machines with dual Linux installs, and almost always Windows 98. Keeps me busy, without spending much $.
Not unless they are interested in adding another conversation piece to their collection. Some harley owners have more than one bike or car.
Windows users often use various screensavers, desktop backgrounds, mouse pointers, etc. to customize their setup. We linux users just have more choices, but the Redhat unified look and feel will be needed in mainstream desktop distros for the average Joe Sixpack. These folks don't fool with computers just to be fooling around with them, they want to do something else, like "Send an Email" or "Scan,edit and print an old photograph". Also, they want to "look something up on the Internet". For them, a unified look and feel might be good, to get RHL out there in competition with Windows.
btw, I'm using Grey Cat Linux 3.0 to make this post, temporarily unavailable for download, so I feel like I'm one of a very few that are GCL 3.0 users.
Right now, one has to have a little patience with GCL 3.0, it has it's good days, and it's bad days...
I'll bet you have the Opening of the Titannic Safe with Telle Savalas in your video library, too.
An Electric Airplane? Wall Street Journal reports that the two hybrid cars from Honda and Toyota seem to be powered by "two squirrels on a treadmill", according to some who have driven them. There are toy electric airplanes, but I can't imagine a useful full size airplane powered by electricity alone.
Having said that, there are solar-powered drones that have set some impressive records, using extremely fragile construction, and enormous wingspans.
So much has been done in aviation over the years, it may be possible that the electric airplane in this project could actually fly. (unlike this post, struggling to get off the ground and make an interesting point)
There's a lot on the Discovery Wings Channel on cable about the efforts that have been made over the years to get all kinds of aircraft airborne. It's all been amazing, really.
Ok, so I'm the only one over 60. Just don't slip down on the rolling stone magazines on your way out. Wooophs! Not the one with Jennifer Aniston on the Cover! Jeeez!
Quick, sign up now and influence content on her official site:
http://www.jenniferaniston.com/
Ok, with the testing being done say with something like Mozilla 1.1, running on the well tested platform Redhat 7.1, the "running amuck" problem is very slight. Now here's one that can do just that, run amuck, and the repeatable conditions to get it to misbehave: Arachne 1.70, running on top of MSDOS. When you are surfing with it, and change your mind about downloading a web page, normally you would hit the stop button in most browsers. In Arachne, this will crash the program, and your DOS, too. You'll have to reboot the computer. I'm sure some of you have other examples, especially programs that have just been written, and not completely tested, that can run wild. I've had some items in Redhat blow up on me, so it's not immune to that. These were programs that were provided in the distribution, and should work, but perhaps I am trying to run them on a machine with not enough ram, cpu power, etc. and trigger the bug.
All this is what makes working with computers interesting for us, and give us something to do, and experiment with. Self-healing computers as such don't really exist totally, but we are working on it;-)
And let it go in that. Oh, yes, don't forget Netscape 3.04, still in use on library computers in poor neighborhoods. Yes, you'll go crazy trying to make all of your pages do in all browsers. Oh, don't forget the text browsers! I try and try to make at least some of my pages work in something. Now, I have Grey Cat Linux 3.0, (perhaps 20 installations World-Wide) running Netscape 3.04. Had to spend some wee-hours time getting something that would work in that, and in MSIE 6.0, Mozilla 1.1 too! Whew! It is fun, however, to reboot into another OS, and bring up a page in a different browser, and have it work OK!
Early 1980's, a CPA friend of mine had three or four machines on a network, and had a 20 MB (not GB) harddrive. When he told me about it at a fancy gathering at a Country Club, a hush came over the room. Combination of high cost to buy, massive storage capacity (for then) could have the impact of a whispered "PSSST, I just won a Million Dollars." Folks are all chattering, but believe me, can hear really good stuff, no matter how noisy the room at the time.
A dot com millionaire? Hell, I'm not even a hundredaire.
Looks like someone came up with an amazingly simple solution. Now ordinary Chinese web-surfing citizens, (with the help of a mirror) can look stuff up on Google! Now all those error messages can be researched, and solved! The Chinese need to re-read the history of the Great Wall of China, and see how useless it eventually became.
Guess not... I just went to it, and the server is still up. Maybe, just maybe, this is a decoy in the photograph, and something much more powerful is actually handling the hits. If so, then the jokes on us.
Have a look at:
http://spaceflightnow.com/news/index.html/
In addition to Space Shuttle news, they have some Hubble Telescope items as well. Also currently at spaceflightnow.com:
http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0208/17exploding/
An interesting story about an exploding galaxy at the edge of the universe, discovered using the Subaru Telescope, National Astronomical Observatory of Japan.
The Viscosity of Pitch: Compared to Waiting in the Queue at one's local bank. After a long wait, I often mention to my queue-mates that I was a young man when I started waiting, and now I have gray hair, and am old, etc. Another one, the money I brought to deposit was once worth something when I came here, now it won't buy " ".
Hide not your talents, they for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade?
--Benjamin Franklin
First of all, we share roughly 97% of our DNS with chimpanzees.
So many funny things to say about the comparison of humans to chimps, so little time to say them. But here goes:
When I head off to work, and I know there will be a reasonable chance of thunderstorms and lightning, I just unplug all the computer surge suppressor power cords from the wall sockets, and unplug the modem line. I have four machines in one room, running off two surge suppressors. I usually only run two computers at once, sometimes only one. I know they give you an "insurance policy" against damage, but I'd rather not come home to anything like that. If I'm home, working on the computers, or asleep or otherwise indisposed, that's when a lightning strike nearby could affect my setup, so I do need the supressors. As for ESD, I ground my hands on the frame, powersupply, before removing components like cards, memory, HDD's. I appreciate the use of straps, etc. and have read some of the posts about their use in commercial enviroments, and will get one next time I'm in the store ;-)
Using one can't hurt.
Time has to be provided for adequate rest (sleep), and also some form of exercise needs to be done, walking, bicycling, not just pumping iron, or working out with an exercise machine. A lunch hour, actually about an hour and 20 minutes, spent walking will improve the overall health of the person. Remember, we are a human animal, and not a machine. The health of the circulatory system, lungs, needs to be maintained. Sure, if one is on a roll as far as coding goes, then spend the time working, then rest. Otherwise, the health of the individual will eventually suffer, and the employer will only get new employees to replace those who come down sick. Bicycling is dangerous, but gives enormous benefits. When you go up that first long hill, you'll spout cuss-words, etc. as you work to get up there on that bike. When you get to the top, and you back off, and start to yawn, that's when you know that you have done all you can for your heart, lungs, and circulatory system. Coast for a while, then go after another hill. Be sure and get a reliable bike, one that the gears and transmission won't slip when you press it hard. These cost several hundred, but you'll love the thing. Watch what you eat, and you'll soon begin to lose weight. It's your health, not your employers. Eventually, you'll be replaced in your job, and you want to have your health when you leave there.
Oh, btw, hope you don't smoke, or all bets are off.
So much for my effort to start an interesting thread.
I've just downloaded Mozilla 1.1 for Linux and Windows, and find it much better than Netscape 7.0. Not as many commercials:-) ;-)
btw, I'm using Grey Cat Linux to post this, and the Links browser. Made a nifty boot disk that brings up a menu, from which I can select GCL and a couple of other items. Made one win 98 boot disk that goes right to GCL, the menu one is win 95
Sure, some students are going to "outpace" teachers when it comes to computers. I had my General Class Ham license when I was 14, and _none_ of my teachers had one. When you are 14, and apply yourself, you can do all that and more. Not all students have access at home, and in a safe environment, to a decent computer, and have the time away from others to work with that computer. The school systems need to see, somehow, that more students have the chance to work with, and learn computing skills. The teachers already have a full time job, teaching, so they cannot now learn computer skills if they were not "into" computers at an early age. There will always be some students that excel in something the teachers are not able to devote time to. That's why they have a "Math Teacher" and an "English Teacher", etc. Once you get into their classroom, you, as a student, are in their territory, and they are supposed to be masters of their craft, not you, the student. Then they get to teach the student. Powerful, space-age technology like computers require lots of expertise that your garden-variety English teacher may not have been schooled in, so they are sitting ducks for hot-shot kids that are able to focus themselves to learn and master.
A really good teacher will get a good kid or two to help her (or him) get computer-savvy. I know of a choral-music teacher in high school that did just that.
Really, I have dialup with about 49333, and Look, I tried Broadband, and after an Hour, I was Wore Out!
No waiting, no time to go do the dishes while "USA Today" downloads. I clicked on it, and PooF! There it was! Now I gotta Read It!, then click on something else. Again, PooF! there it was! Darn, no time to get the dishes done, let the cat in or out, put my socks on, etc.
I like the Document: Done (5.22 secs) item you get with Mozilla. If you empty your disk cache, then go a-surfing, the files are all new to Mozilla and it's disk cache, of course, and with dialup, (I usually get 49333) the page comes up slower, etc.
Next visit to the page, look out! Mozilla now shines, and really outperforms the old 4x Netscapes. Opera may claim speed, but IMHO, they talk the talk, but can't walk the walk like Mozilla can.
I just downloaded the Windows version, and am using it now. I dread having to download the Linux version, because I have TWO linux installs on one HDD, Redhat and Mandrake, and with user accounts, etc. PLUS, I have Windows 98 there also. Of course, I download it once, then copy it to all linux users, but still, It's going to be a long nite!
I've been installing Opera 6.03 on a bunch of user accounts this afternoon, and one of the ads that Opera runs lately is the special to buy opera and get entered in a contest to win a Zaurus. Sure, I'd like to have one, just as long as it's smaller than a laptop, and almost free to boot. Guess I'd have to spring for the modem, etc. to go with the Zaurus if I won one, also the access$ account$.
Also this:
Deutsche Telekom has proposed selling its U.S. wireless unit VoiceStream to Cingular Wireless, a combination which would rival market leader Verizon Wireless, the Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday.
Apparently D. Telekom needs to pay some debt, and has to sell VoiceStream or so I have heard.
Not that any of that would affect the Zaurus setup, but it might...