The WalMart bundle includes a copy of Lindows written on the hard drive, but you're shit out of luck if it gets corrupted, as you don't get any installation media at all.
And judging from what I've heard about Lindows running everything as root, it's gonna hose up fast, and in ways nobody who runs a regular Linux would have ever guessed.
OS/2 was only Windows 16-bit compatible. And it only really became the robust platform it was in it's mid-life after all the Win32 start started really happening. I worked in a place where a percentage of the technical staff were running OS/2. They were still stuck using 16 bit Office up until about a year ago, truly they were in the 'ghetto' of the company in that regard.
I heard a story once about a guy who assembled an entire Heathkit Color Television kit using 'liquid solder.' That's that shiny metallic-looking epoxy glue, and it's very non-conductive. It produced nice shiny looking solder joints, though, so the guy's buddy admired the workmanship and spent some time troubleshooting it before asking detailed questions about how he'd soldered it.
I'd choose neither of the above. There's probably some useful hardware I could strip out of the TiVo before tossing the chassis, isn't there? There are useful electronic parts in a Television set that can similarly be recovered for productive use.
It fit on fewer 1.2M floppies than the 3-1/2" version did. It is the only version of Windows 95 that has no Internet Explorer whatsoever. I believe it's the initial release version. I think it was 17 or 18 disks, as opposed to the 29 disks of the 3-1/2" version many early non-CD laptops shipped with.
Ask yourself if 'back in the day' you would have wanted some dunderhead kid 'learning UNIX' on your box by fiddling around with the root account. Why would it matter how and why you were in the system. As you freely admit you were 'experimenting' and 'didn't mean any harm'- but how many of us operate our systems as root, let along let a brand newbie in there?
It doesn't matter what your intent was. What's wrong today was wrong back then. Of course, UNIX security in that era was a weak pathetic joke, almost by design.
You can now no longer even open up something you bought to take a peek at it or tell others what is inside, without fear of being prosecuted.
What you have just said is actually quite ridiculous.
This whole discussion revolves around one of the most flagrant and eggregious Warez distributors there is. Obviously, you can open up what you bought and take a peek at what is inside. It might be 'technically' illegal, but nobody is going to prosecute you for it.
It's similar to the traffic laws: people exceed the speed limit all the time. It's people who go way beyond the speed limit, i.e. who go 120 MPH weaving in and out of traffic, who get arrested.
Your message makes an 'alarmist' logical jump, like someone saying: 'you can't even speed up a little in traffic to avoid a collision, because if you do, you'll certainly be prosecuted.' Utter bull.
As far as 'registration key' is concerned, actually, the 5-1/4" floppy version of Windows 95 has:
No registration key or serial number.
No fingerprint of the diskette on first install.
I don't know if they ever sold the 5-1/4" version by retail, though. I got my copy by sending in the coupon out of the back of the User Manual with my $10 or whatever it was.
Next, you'll be telling us that Computer Operators in general are semi-skilled monkeys in white coats trained to mount tapes and plug in disk packs.
Oh, wait! That's the truth, as anybody who was an 'operator' (i.e. myself) back in the days of 9 track tape can tell you.
'Sysadmins' are the janitors of Information Technology, no matter HOW much the current crop of adolescents looks up to them like boys in the past admired riverboat pilots and railroad engineers.
An electric mower, however, just isn't practical for many people. I couldn't use an electric mower to clear out the hay that grows between all the black walnut and pecan seedlings I planted on a patch of the hayfield way out at the end opposite our house. It just wouldn't be practical to string the 400 feet of extension cord needed, and I'm never enthusiastic about battery supplied gear that drives a big motor. So I use a small gasoline mower.
I don't feel that bad about what I'm doing to the enviroment. Planting 55 hardwood trees this summer on our land means I'm sorta on the plus-side of the karma equation, environment-wise, at least for a while.
"My wife, being an environmentalist, listed her requirements: electric, zero emissions..."
His wife, being yet another NIMBY-mentalist, prefers that it be electric, so that the 'zero emissions' instead will be sulfur emissions at the coal fired plant, or long term radioactive waste at a repository, rather than that awful gasoline smell that hurts her nose.
Didn't you know? One of the reasons that advertising has quite a high value is that it serves as a 'filter.' Merchants would prefer only having to deal with stupid, gullible people.
It's like the list of respondants to a piece of poorly worded spam. You might think that it's just a poorly presented piece of spam because the person who prepared it is also stupid. In some cases this is true, but in other cases the spammer is building up a list of 'marks' who the stupidest possible people to run a scam on.
In other words, ThinkGeek is a goldmine of stupid people with far too much money to spend who'll squirt out dollars to have cool things to show off to their friends.
The conflicting predictions have even baffled Tuvalu's prime minister. "Scientists have confused us," Ionatana told Radio Australia after hearing recently that a group of Australian scientists used tide gauges to predict that the sea levels won't rise. "So here we are with the situation. We are threatened by rising sea levels and here are these tide gauges telling us there is no sea rise... Now where do we stand here?"
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It's convenient to reduce all of the Clinton scandals to a blow job, isn't it?
Too bad that won't work. Bombing an asprin factory to distract the media from his 'other problems' was pretty outrageous.
The whole Whitewater mess was turned into a 'get them off by technicalities' legal swindle, to put icing on the real estate swindle it investigated.
The really sad fact is, so many of Clintons lies were with regard to petty white trash shit. What the fuck where we thinking electing a bastard like him (literally) to the highest office of the land?
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The WalMart bundle includes a copy of Lindows written on the hard drive, but you're shit out of luck if it gets corrupted, as you don't get any installation media at all.
And judging from what I've heard about Lindows running everything as root, it's gonna hose up fast, and in ways nobody who runs a regular Linux would have ever guessed.
Download the ISO, when the server opens up
Maybe I haven't looked closely enough, but I can't find where they're encouraging me to download the ISO.
Every place I look they want me to Act Fast And Send In $99 Now!
OS/2 was only Windows 16-bit compatible. And it only really became the robust platform it was in it's mid-life after all the Win32 start started really happening. I worked in a place where a percentage of the technical staff were running OS/2. They were still stuck using 16 bit Office up until about a year ago, truly they were in the 'ghetto' of the company in that regard.
You're forgetting that McNeely is a hockey player, and bringa a hockey player mentality to everything he does. For him, fighting is second nature.
Remember the guy who slammed you up against the lockers regularly in High School. That was your school's Scot McNeely.
I heard a story once about a guy who assembled an entire Heathkit Color Television kit using 'liquid solder.' That's that shiny metallic-looking epoxy glue, and it's very non-conductive. It produced nice shiny looking solder joints, though, so the guy's buddy admired the workmanship and spent some time troubleshooting it before asking detailed questions about how he'd soldered it.
I'd choose neither of the above. There's probably some useful hardware I could strip out of the TiVo before tossing the chassis, isn't there? There are useful electronic parts in a Television set that can similarly be recovered for productive use.
'Gentlemen, you can't fight here. This is the War Room.'
Back in the day you had a soldering iron, an EPROM programmer, a box of chips. That was if you did a kit and used prebuilt circuit boards.
If you were hardcore you used a wire wrap gun, and designed the logic yourself.
I don't get it when people consider it 'building a computer from scratch' when the only tool used is a phillips screwdriver.
My first IBM compatible was built from pieces bought at various tables at a swapmeet.
Kinda like the yeoman farmers of olden times who had to know how to weld and do metalwork to keep the machinery all operational.
It fit on fewer 1.2M floppies than the 3-1/2" version did. It is the only version of Windows 95 that has no Internet Explorer whatsoever. I believe it's the initial release version. I think it was 17 or 18 disks, as opposed to the 29 disks of the 3-1/2" version many early non-CD laptops shipped with.
Ask yourself if 'back in the day' you would have wanted some dunderhead kid 'learning UNIX' on your box by fiddling around with the root account. Why would it matter how and why you were in the system. As you freely admit you were 'experimenting' and 'didn't mean any harm'- but how many of us operate our systems as root, let along let a brand newbie in there?
It doesn't matter what your intent was. What's wrong today was wrong back then. Of course, UNIX security in that era was a weak pathetic joke, almost by design.
Any clown can get a Legal Degree just by paying tuition and brownosing/answering questions right in class.
To become a lawyer, you have to pass a Bar Exam.
There are countless people out there with legal degrees who've not passed the Bar.
You can now no longer even open up something you bought to take a peek at it or tell others what is inside, without fear of being prosecuted.
What you have just said is actually quite ridiculous.
This whole discussion revolves around one of the most flagrant and eggregious Warez distributors there is. Obviously, you can open up what you bought and take a peek at what is inside. It might be 'technically' illegal, but nobody is going to prosecute you for it.
It's similar to the traffic laws: people exceed the speed limit all the time. It's people who go way beyond the speed limit, i.e. who go 120 MPH weaving in and out of traffic, who get arrested.
Your message makes an 'alarmist' logical jump, like someone saying: 'you can't even speed up a little in traffic to avoid a collision, because if you do, you'll certainly be prosecuted.' Utter bull.
Actually, I think Aldus and their Pagemaker product 'made' the Macintosh. And I mean long before Adobe purchased Aldus.
No registration key or serial number.
No fingerprint of the diskette on first install.
I don't know if they ever sold the 5-1/4" version by retail, though. I got my copy by sending in the coupon out of the back of the User Manual with my $10 or whatever it was.
You've just slagged 'sysadmins.'
Next, you'll be telling us that Computer Operators in general are semi-skilled monkeys in white coats trained to mount tapes and plug in disk packs.
Oh, wait! That's the truth, as anybody who was an 'operator' (i.e. myself) back in the days of 9 track tape can tell you.
'Sysadmins' are the janitors of Information Technology, no matter HOW much the current crop of adolescents looks up to them like boys in the past admired riverboat pilots and railroad engineers.
How can you say User Friendly is un-funny?
It's a veritable Family Circus of laughs.
An electric mower, however, just isn't practical for many people. I couldn't use an electric mower to clear out the hay that grows between all the black walnut and pecan seedlings I planted on a patch of the hayfield way out at the end opposite our house. It just wouldn't be practical to string the 400 feet of extension cord needed, and I'm never enthusiastic about battery supplied gear that drives a big motor. So I use a small gasoline mower.
I don't feel that bad about what I'm doing to the enviroment. Planting 55 hardwood trees this summer on our land means I'm sorta on the plus-side of the karma equation, environment-wise, at least for a while.
why bother to have the board at all.
Wow! You figured out the Conservative approach without even trying that hard!
"My wife, being an environmentalist, listed her requirements: electric, zero emissions..."
His wife, being yet another NIMBY-mentalist, prefers that it be electric, so that the 'zero emissions' instead will be sulfur emissions at the coal fired plant, or long term radioactive waste at a repository, rather than that awful gasoline smell that hurts her nose.
(NIMBY=not in my back yard)
Didn't you know? One of the reasons that advertising has quite a high value is that it serves as a 'filter.' Merchants would prefer only having to deal with stupid, gullible people.
It's like the list of respondants to a piece of poorly worded spam. You might think that it's just a poorly presented piece of spam because the person who prepared it is also stupid. In some cases this is true, but in other cases the spammer is building up a list of 'marks' who the stupidest possible people to run a scam on.
In other words, ThinkGeek is a goldmine of stupid people with far too much money to spend who'll squirt out dollars to have cool things to show off to their friends.
So you hate Microsoft fundamentally, and there's no rhyme nor reason to your hatred of their modern product.
Thanks for clearing that one up.
It's convenient to reduce all of the Clinton scandals to a blow job, isn't it?
Too bad that won't work. Bombing an asprin factory to distract the media from his 'other problems' was pretty outrageous.
The whole Whitewater mess was turned into a 'get them off by technicalities' legal swindle, to put icing on the real estate swindle it investigated.
The really sad fact is, so many of Clintons lies were with regard to petty white trash shit. What the fuck where we thinking electing a bastard like him (literally) to the highest office of the land?
Isn't Trident 'deprecated' (aka- unsupported) in the modern XFree86? The S3 Trio64 certainly is.
It's kinda one of those Microsoftian things, obsoleting hardware for convenience....