I have dual Sony 17's (both DVI) on a 5600 Ultra.. believe me when I say wait for ATI-based dual DVI cards because this thing can BARELY hack out individual frames of UT2004 @ 800x600 with everything set to low. it's quite sad, but it really looks like NVIDIA hasn't known what they were doing for a while now. Their chips have been odd since NV35. someone screwed their design up..
So here I am, stuck with this crap until ATI 2x DVI cards come out. How's X support for ATI these days? anyone care to chime in..
vmware is so freaking nice. i saw it used to virtualize an old Novell server at a client's site once, and as part of payment they gave me a boxed copy of Workstation. !#@%#! amazing software, it truly is the swiss army knife killer app. win98, w2k, xp setup in it with minimal effort for testing things if you're a developer, or getting at apps not available to you on your native OS. it handles XP's visual extras without ANY latency on an athlon 1.6ghz.
software like this reminds me of the amazement of tools i found when I first installed 40 something floppies of Slack back in the mid 90s.
anyways, my point is that running vmware with snapshotting (think suspend to ram) for fast start/stop when you're done using it makes it all the better. screw trying to hack at faking Windows.. you can just do it virtualized.
props to the vmware developers, if you are listening!
CrossOver worked for me, but had a lot of font rendering issues and I couldn't quite work out https 128bit (was using it for Quicken 2003) I didn't try too hard, but googling didn't take me anywhere.
you have no clue what you're talking about.
windows 95 and 98 do not include that kind of security. there might be through poledit, but I can't say there would be an easy solution for spyware (activex controls and the like)
and, the second point: a lot of business software refuses to run in a restricted environment. something about ass-hat developers doing their thing in an Administrator login, and the company's clients suffer when it gets deployed. you may scoff at that, but i've seen it in four seperate cases in 2 yrs at my current job. so, all the people using those machines have to be logged in with Administrator priveledges. I fight with these companies, but sometimes we get forced to go ahead and give them the perms just to get it running. Go figure that CFOs and CEOs wouldn't care about such details...
sigh. slashdot, where you have to defend every single thing you say..
Images? hah. we've got, at best, 20-30 different general classes of PCs. even still win95 on some of them! maybe in your pretty little world they're all the same. not so for me. imaging would require a hell of a lot of storage space that I don't have.
and we have everything blocked, only web access is allowed. on win2k/xp setups of course users are locked from installing apps, but in some instances we have to grant them that permission. win95/98 doesnt have that capability, which we have a lot of those.
god, what attitude in your post. moron.
I run a network with about 300 Windows PCs on it and our staff has had such a hard time with removing this crap. I applaud this movement because i never thought i'd see something surpass the annoying presence of viruses on Windows. Spyware is now our number one threat of individual system stability, and generates so many support calls it's not even funny.
while we're on the subject- anyone run a network and successfully automate spybot s&d ? we run it by hand, and never have had time to dig and see if it could be runnable via cmd arguments so we could streamline this whole deal with the logon scripts.. such as auto-immunization. i looked at all the docs, and it doesn't say anything about that kind of stuff. any help would be appreciated
If you're running a windows network, go get 2000 server or something and set up a domain for your users. login/passwd authentication, and you can export user home dirs off of the server's disks as shares on each workstation PC.
Then train everyone to treat that drive (home folder mapped to a drive via login script) as their My Docs folder, and just save all your work there.
After that, all you have to do is run a nightly backup of your domain controller, and your entire network's work is safe.
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Neverending Story part 3? hello!
I have dual Sony 17's (both DVI) on a 5600 Ultra.. believe me when I say wait for ATI-based dual DVI cards because this thing can BARELY hack out individual frames of UT2004 @ 800x600 with everything set to low. it's quite sad, but it really looks like NVIDIA hasn't known what they were doing for a while now. Their chips have been odd since NV35. someone screwed their design up..
So here I am, stuck with this crap until ATI 2x DVI cards come out. How's X support for ATI these days? anyone care to chime in..
and that, my friends is why CAN SPAM sucks. it sets the cut-off for legality of the spam as long as it provides legit contact info, and other details.
the spammers, like the big corporations in America have in fact, already won.
vmware is so freaking nice. i saw it used to virtualize an old Novell server at a client's site once, and as part of payment they gave me a boxed copy of Workstation. !#@%#! amazing software, it truly is the swiss army knife killer app. win98, w2k, xp setup in it with minimal effort for testing things if you're a developer, or getting at apps not available to you on your native OS. it handles XP's visual extras without ANY latency on an athlon 1.6ghz.
software like this reminds me of the amazement of tools i found when I first installed 40 something floppies of Slack back in the mid 90s.
anyways, my point is that running vmware with snapshotting (think suspend to ram) for fast start/stop when you're done using it makes it all the better. screw trying to hack at faking Windows.. you can just do it virtualized.
props to the vmware developers, if you are listening!
just make the product free (as in weed)
CrossOver worked for me, but had a lot of font rendering issues and I couldn't quite work out https 128bit (was using it for Quicken 2003) I didn't try too hard, but googling didn't take me anywhere.
just my experience..
oh, i love taking care of it on a personal level. i printed business cards and everything... 35$ an hour. tons of customers. :)
you have no clue what you're talking about. windows 95 and 98 do not include that kind of security. there might be through poledit, but I can't say there would be an easy solution for spyware (activex controls and the like) and, the second point: a lot of business software refuses to run in a restricted environment. something about ass-hat developers doing their thing in an Administrator login, and the company's clients suffer when it gets deployed. you may scoff at that, but i've seen it in four seperate cases in 2 yrs at my current job. so, all the people using those machines have to be logged in with Administrator priveledges. I fight with these companies, but sometimes we get forced to go ahead and give them the perms just to get it running. Go figure that CFOs and CEOs wouldn't care about such details... sigh. slashdot, where you have to defend every single thing you say..
Images? hah. we've got, at best, 20-30 different general classes of PCs. even still win95 on some of them! maybe in your pretty little world they're all the same. not so for me. imaging would require a hell of a lot of storage space that I don't have. and we have everything blocked, only web access is allowed. on win2k/xp setups of course users are locked from installing apps, but in some instances we have to grant them that permission. win95/98 doesnt have that capability, which we have a lot of those. god, what attitude in your post. moron.
I run a network with about 300 Windows PCs on it and our staff has had such a hard time with removing this crap. I applaud this movement because i never thought i'd see something surpass the annoying presence of viruses on Windows. Spyware is now our number one threat of individual system stability, and generates so many support calls it's not even funny. while we're on the subject- anyone run a network and successfully automate spybot s&d ? we run it by hand, and never have had time to dig and see if it could be runnable via cmd arguments so we could streamline this whole deal with the logon scripts.. such as auto-immunization. i looked at all the docs, and it doesn't say anything about that kind of stuff. any help would be appreciated
if i recall correctly, PWA got busted at one point or otherwise died out. Maybe it was Rising Sun ? (Orion's board, the original founder)
ARE YOU SUGGESTING WE KILL THEM?!? ok, great plan. count me in. the kiddies ruined PWA back in the day so time we got revenge
If you're running a windows network, go get 2000 server or something and set up a domain for your users. login/passwd authentication, and you can export user home dirs off of the server's disks as shares on each workstation PC. Then train everyone to treat that drive (home folder mapped to a drive via login script) as their My Docs folder, and just save all your work there. After that, all you have to do is run a nightly backup of your domain controller, and your entire network's work is safe.