Hmm, maybe I wasn't entirely clear about Kazaa. I built a dedicated machine, seperate from this one, to use as my "Kazaa testing ground" of sorts. In fact, the only times I use IEXPLORE are when I'm doing Windows Update and when I use those.CHM HTML-imbedded help files and I have no choice. I run (and bought!) Opera for my browser, because it's just that good. As I said in my other post to the other child, I'm gonna turn virtual memory back on, as begrudginly as possible, however. I said it once and I'll say it again, I'm glad I did not pay for this software, because it sorely disappoints me.
See, the whole point of the purchasing the amount of RAM I have is so that Windows did not have to touch the disk unless it needed to load DLL's. I guess I can't get around it though. Back to virtual mem we go. Glad I didn't pay for this kludge.
Naw, no spyware, I have a dedicated machine for Kazaa that actually works fine most of the time, until the stupid thing opens so many IEXPLORE windows that there's no RAM left...
I think what really does it is that I program, and play video games on the box, while running dual view, and I like to alt+tab out of directx applications as well. I usually crash when task switching, especially from or to a game. It's actually rather annoying and kind of defeats the purpose of having a multitaking OS...
Usually, after about 2 weeks, explorer.exe will absorb 90-100MB out of my precious little 768MB. Granted, I could just restart the process and probably keep going, but if I'm gonna do that I may as well refresh all the other services too with a reboot. I have an uptime right now of about 5 hours, give or take, and explorer is already eating 25MB.
And now that I look at it, I disabled virtual memory... Why am I getting page faults? My RAM should not be paging, unless I'm not understanding what paging is. Explorer is page faulting about every second, it's really kind of disturbing, considering this computer is devoid of swap space.
It all comes down to this: "What do you these computers do on your network?" If all you do is use it to access the internet and play video games, and are just a periphery to the network, then you won't have much downtime because you aren't asking very much of it. Now, if you're running IIS, hosting files for your floor (assuming you're in a dorm, by mention of roommate, if not then my mistake), running as a NAT and perhaps even an streaming music station, WHILE playing video games and surfing the internet, then that's a more notable thing. A month uptime with Win2K and all that crap I just listed is a very long time in my experience, and before you assert that I don't know how to make a simple or smart design, let me mention that I've had uptimes over one year on a 486/40MHz w/ 8MB RAM using linux 2.0.36, which ran Apache, was my NAT and stateful packet inspection firewall, ran ftp server, ran ssh server and acted as a streaming music server. There is hardly a windows box out there with a year of uptime, much less one that does what that little 486 did.
Now, I DO run WinXP Professional, and I like it for the most part, but I get uptimes of maybe 2 weeks before the memory leaks in explorer.exe get to be too much. A good system if you shut the computer off every night, like a workstation, but for major links in your network that would render large headaches if they fail and require long uptimes, like a router, then I would not recommend using windows.
Phillips seems to be the coolest corporation ever. First they totally fuck over the asshats who make "copy protected" audio CD's by not letting them use the CDROM logo, and now they actually had the foresight to build upgradable drives... I guarantee my next drive is going to be a Phillips.
You are very right. You can't let the common Joe Blow go tromping about regedit, he'll kill his system. I've given the most concise directions possible to some "customers" when I worked at CompUSA. I regretted it more than anything else ever. I got blamed for all sorts of shit after they couldn't figure out how to not accidentally delete major setting files, or not save a backup and forget what they did to system.ini. After that, the only way I'd repair a software problem is if they brought a restore CD, or if I was consulting on my own on the side. And then, I'd tell the guy, "Look, I can try to show you what's happening here, but let's be honest... you won't spend the time necessary to learn what is needed in order to make sure you can get your way out of any mess you get into."
Nope. It's called a containment building, it has no typical "exhaust", like a chimney or a stack, but rather a series of piping leading away from the structure. All the nuclear material is contained in the containment building, which is damn near indestructible. The uranium or plutonium is split, which heats the surrounding water, spins the turbine, then the water exits the building. Anyhow, the only exhaust is water vapor and neutrons, which are mostly absorbed by the water, and are piped to the cooling towers (which is what you are probably thinking of). They built the containment structure purposefully to withstand an airplane attack, so it's a massively dense and tough building, and not very big, compared to the cooling towers.
After that whole fiasco and making me store my frame damaged car for two months, I dropped them like a hot potato with herpes.
Actually, I never have had any tickets affect my insurance price, last place I paid for it was $850/yr for a 21 yr old male with a High Output V8 in a major city which is notoriously expensive. I didn't get a ticket for anything until I was 19, and that was from my first accident (the scratch).
I have gotten 2 speeding tickets though, which are off my record now. One is complete bullshit... and so it the other now that I think about it, but aren't they all? Anyhow, the first was a 90 in a 55. I call shenanagians on that one because A) I was not drunk nor had I been drinking B) I had no prior tickets C) I was the only car on the road except for the idiot pig who got on from an exit behind me D) My car can easily handle 120-130 without being a danger and E) I was in the middle of a corn field.
The other was equally as stupid. I was actually BEHIND and SLOWER than 5 other cars directly ahead of me but the cop decided to pull me over instead, saying I was going 17mph over. I am pretty sure I wasn't going above 10 over. I think he tagged a different car and pulled me over, he seemed new. Anyhow, the joke's on them, I never paid a dime of that money, nor will I. haha.
My first car was worth about $400. Cost: $3,000 per/yr to drive @ age 16. They have raped me out of approximately $20,000 now, and I've only dealt about $2,000 in damage, and that's a high esitmate (I scratched a guy's fender and pulled out into a Chevy Suburban that was hidden behind a HUGE billlboard... scratched his paint and ripped off his running board. Both under 10mph, both in perfect driving conditions.)
Because these were my fault, it's fine, I have to pay, no big deal. My rates went up slightly, blah blah blah. However when it was MY turn, they fucked me AGAIN by shorting me $1100+ off the value of the car I bought 2 WEEKS PRIOR to it getting destroyed for $3300.
The point? I assert that it isn't "fine" because it's a bullshit system that rewards only one entity: the insurance company. Also, speeding doesn't make you a bad driver. Speed limits are a form of revenue, no more, no less, don't kid yourself about what they really are for.
The computer senses that your stove is using a milliliter/second of natural gas yet the burners haven't been activated, disables the stove and warns you so you can fix it before any accumulates.
The computer senses the coils in the refridgerator are getting too hot and warns you before the compressor dies so you have time to figure out what to do with your food.
Remote monitoring of the status of your clothes in the dryer, the amount of hot water left in your hot water heater, the efficiency of your boiler/heat exchange device, the freon left in your air conditioner, the heat generated by your ceiling fan motor... I am looking forward to the day when I can just go to my web browser, type in http://stove and its current status is a nice webpage for me to view.
You liked Waking Life? Which parts were your favorite? I like/remember a few of the converstaions, esp the one about the thought that we have no free will, since everything is just determined by what its quantum states are, and the lucid dreaming one. However, the animation made me sick to my stomach and I went to see it with a badly scratched cornea, so I was in debilitating pain the whole time.
The only problem with that is that it would still require OS-level support (in the callback defined in the interrupt service handler, it would need to know the task ID of the next process to retrieve its task state). That and then you'd simply be doing round robin, which isn't the greatest form of multitasking. Some instructions on the 80X86 don't complete execution for a long time, becuase they can br preceeded by the REP (example REP STOSD). And you can't task switch during an instruction.
They even did this to my then-girlfriend when I took her to court one day. They made her take out her cuticle scissors....
I mean, come on, they've got armed guards. Cuticle scissors would hardly go through a layer of fat, much less do any real damage, plus that by the time they could be used, they'd have 17 bullets in the scissor wielder. I think they do it to feel like they have some sort of bullshit control, or feel more powerful, or something. It's retarded.
Get a dremel tool and make a template by printing off a image to the size you want it. Get some fiberglass (REAL cheap, like $4/yd) and some epoxy resin. You COULD use Carbon Fiber, and make it invincible and very very sharp-looking, but that shit is quite expensive ($50/yd), but it works the same as the fiberglass fabric. Lay the fiberglass sheet down and apply the resin. Do this a few times to give it some thickness and integrity. Check out some fiberglass sites to tell you the exact procedure, it's pretty simple, but it takes some waiting and making sure you don't over or under soak the fabric with the resin.
Now, after it has dried completely, AND WHILE WEARING A RESPIRATOR, cut the thing to the desired size. Bore out the eyes and the intricate designs via your properly sized template, sand to a rough smoothness (paint needs to stick) paint purple with a good automotive paint, sand, paint, sand, paint. Until it looks like glass, you aren't done. Use proceedingly higher grits of sandpaper, probably 220 up to 2000. And don't sand the paint off or anything, that's too much, you just want to give it some depth, so just scuff the surface. And wear the respirator this whole time too, fiberglass dust is not good for your respiratory tract. And goggles and gloves, but you should know that.
Well, the 80386s and on have some simple instructions to allow you to do fiddle with the current task state. IIRC, Windows does not use these anyhow because the processor was neither robust nor fast at task switching. It takes a ton of cycles (or at least it did, somewhere in the 1-2 hundereds) to flip to a different task state on a processor. At least, that's what my processor manual says.
And yes, it would still require OS support, because the processor would have no idea when the current task is copmleted. I'm also not sure if you could pre-program the processor (hardware) to task switch at a specific time interval, but I'm pretty sure that isn't available on IA-32 processors.
Even if it wasn't the passengers doing, it happened AFTER the Pentagon and WTC were hit. The Gov't knew what was up by that time, and they could have had fighters shoot it down in minutes.
Don't forget the possible tax deductions. I don't know what you could hope to see, but donating a non-functional car to the ACF or the ALA or whatever is worth quite a bit off your taxes.
To win the Illinois lottery, for example, you would need well over $30bn. 54 numbers, 6 picks = 54!/(54!-6!) = 18,595,558,800 possible choices, times $2.
Any lottery that allows you to do that was not created intelligently.
Or we'll get to the point where our processors contain cells, and each cell can be doled out "work units" to handle. Mass a bunch and you can complete more "work units" faster. Each "work unit" would probably be a thread, so that data could be collaborated easily. Maybe our programming models in the future wil be so totally different that processor design as we know it will be like looking at the horse and buggy today.
I do belive it had something to do with a corporation that sponsored it and not some "we are the only country in the world" ego boost. Besides, in 1904 or whenever the first World Series was played, the US was not a superpower.
Borland has given away their 5.5 series of command line compilers. You get no IDE, but it comes with Turbo Debugger, Turbo C++, and some other crap. Go to their site here and tool around a bit.
Having abhorrently bad credit is the best way to protect your financial assets. No one is going to get a credit card under MY name, that's for damn sure.
Easy way to do it is to not pay a utility at an old residence (People's Energy is trying to extort $50 for the 0.07 therms of natural gas I used at my last apartment, and they will never see a dime of it. And no, I'm not kidding about the 7/100ths of a therm.)
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Hmm, maybe I wasn't entirely clear about Kazaa. I built a dedicated machine, seperate from this one, to use as my "Kazaa testing ground" of sorts. In fact, the only times I use IEXPLORE are when I'm doing Windows Update and when I use those .CHM HTML-imbedded help files and I have no choice. I run (and bought!) Opera for my browser, because it's just that good. As I said in my other post to the other child, I'm gonna turn virtual memory back on, as begrudginly as possible, however. I said it once and I'll say it again, I'm glad I did not pay for this software, because it sorely disappoints me.
See, the whole point of the purchasing the amount of RAM I have is so that Windows did not have to touch the disk unless it needed to load DLL's. I guess I can't get around it though. Back to virtual mem we go. Glad I didn't pay for this kludge.
Naw, no spyware, I have a dedicated machine for Kazaa that actually works fine most of the time, until the stupid thing opens so many IEXPLORE windows that there's no RAM left...
I think what really does it is that I program, and play video games on the box, while running dual view, and I like to alt+tab out of directx applications as well. I usually crash when task switching, especially from or to a game. It's actually rather annoying and kind of defeats the purpose of having a multitaking OS...
Usually, after about 2 weeks, explorer.exe will absorb 90-100MB out of my precious little 768MB. Granted, I could just restart the process and probably keep going, but if I'm gonna do that I may as well refresh all the other services too with a reboot. I have an uptime right now of about 5 hours, give or take, and explorer is already eating 25MB.
And now that I look at it, I disabled virtual memory... Why am I getting page faults? My RAM should not be paging, unless I'm not understanding what paging is. Explorer is page faulting about every second, it's really kind of disturbing, considering this computer is devoid of swap space.
It all comes down to this: "What do you these computers do on your network?" If all you do is use it to access the internet and play video games, and are just a periphery to the network, then you won't have much downtime because you aren't asking very much of it. Now, if you're running IIS, hosting files for your floor (assuming you're in a dorm, by mention of roommate, if not then my mistake), running as a NAT and perhaps even an streaming music station, WHILE playing video games and surfing the internet, then that's a more notable thing. A month uptime with Win2K and all that crap I just listed is a very long time in my experience, and before you assert that I don't know how to make a simple or smart design, let me mention that I've had uptimes over one year on a 486/40MHz w/ 8MB RAM using linux 2.0.36, which ran Apache, was my NAT and stateful packet inspection firewall, ran ftp server, ran ssh server and acted as a streaming music server. There is hardly a windows box out there with a year of uptime, much less one that does what that little 486 did.
Now, I DO run WinXP Professional, and I like it for the most part, but I get uptimes of maybe 2 weeks before the memory leaks in explorer.exe get to be too much. A good system if you shut the computer off every night, like a workstation, but for major links in your network that would render large headaches if they fail and require long uptimes, like a router, then I would not recommend using windows.
.. if little bubbles will my my everclear taste any better...
Phillips seems to be the coolest corporation ever. First they totally fuck over the asshats who make "copy protected" audio CD's by not letting them use the CDROM logo, and now they actually had the foresight to build upgradable drives... I guarantee my next drive is going to be a Phillips.
You are very right. You can't let the common Joe Blow go tromping about regedit, he'll kill his system. I've given the most concise directions possible to some "customers" when I worked at CompUSA. I regretted it more than anything else ever. I got blamed for all sorts of shit after they couldn't figure out how to not accidentally delete major setting files, or not save a backup and forget what they did to system.ini. After that, the only way I'd repair a software problem is if they brought a restore CD, or if I was consulting on my own on the side. And then, I'd tell the guy, "Look, I can try to show you what's happening here, but let's be honest... you won't spend the time necessary to learn what is needed in order to make sure you can get your way out of any mess you get into."
But what if you already had an 'e' at the end? ;)
Nope. It's called a containment building, it has no typical "exhaust", like a chimney or a stack, but rather a series of piping leading away from the structure. All the nuclear material is contained in the containment building, which is damn near indestructible. The uranium or plutonium is split, which heats the surrounding water, spins the turbine, then the water exits the building. Anyhow, the only exhaust is water vapor and neutrons, which are mostly absorbed by the water, and are piped to the cooling towers (which is what you are probably thinking of). They built the containment structure purposefully to withstand an airplane attack, so it's a massively dense and tough building, and not very big, compared to the cooling towers.
After that whole fiasco and making me store my frame damaged car for two months, I dropped them like a hot potato with herpes.
Actually, I never have had any tickets affect my insurance price, last place I paid for it was $850/yr for a 21 yr old male with a High Output V8 in a major city which is notoriously expensive. I didn't get a ticket for anything until I was 19, and that was from my first accident (the scratch).
I have gotten 2 speeding tickets though, which are off my record now. One is complete bullshit... and so it the other now that I think about it, but aren't they all? Anyhow, the first was a 90 in a 55. I call shenanagians on that one because A) I was not drunk nor had I been drinking B) I had no prior tickets C) I was the only car on the road except for the idiot pig who got on from an exit behind me D) My car can easily handle 120-130 without being a danger and E) I was in the middle of a corn field.
The other was equally as stupid. I was actually BEHIND and SLOWER than 5 other cars directly ahead of me but the cop decided to pull me over instead, saying I was going 17mph over. I am pretty sure I wasn't going above 10 over. I think he tagged a different car and pulled me over, he seemed new. Anyhow, the joke's on them, I never paid a dime of that money, nor will I. haha.
My first car was worth about $400. Cost: $3,000 per/yr to drive @ age 16. They have raped me out of approximately $20,000 now, and I've only dealt about $2,000 in damage, and that's a high esitmate (I scratched a guy's fender and pulled out into a Chevy Suburban that was hidden behind a HUGE billlboard... scratched his paint and ripped off his running board. Both under 10mph, both in perfect driving conditions.)
Because these were my fault, it's fine, I have to pay, no big deal. My rates went up slightly, blah blah blah. However when it was MY turn, they fucked me AGAIN by shorting me $1100+ off the value of the car I bought 2 WEEKS PRIOR to it getting destroyed for $3300.
The point? I assert that it isn't "fine" because it's a bullshit system that rewards only one entity: the insurance company. Also, speeding doesn't make you a bad driver. Speed limits are a form of revenue, no more, no less, don't kid yourself about what they really are for.
The computer senses that your stove is using a milliliter/second of natural gas yet the burners haven't been activated, disables the stove and warns you so you can fix it before any accumulates.
The computer senses the coils in the refridgerator are getting too hot and warns you before the compressor dies so you have time to figure out what to do with your food.
Remote monitoring of the status of your clothes in the dryer, the amount of hot water left in your hot water heater, the efficiency of your boiler/heat exchange device, the freon left in your air conditioner, the heat generated by your ceiling fan motor... I am looking forward to the day when I can just go to my web browser, type in http://stove and its current status is a nice webpage for me to view.
You liked Waking Life? Which parts were your favorite? I like/remember a few of the converstaions, esp the one about the thought that we have no free will, since everything is just determined by what its quantum states are, and the lucid dreaming one. However, the animation made me sick to my stomach and I went to see it with a badly scratched cornea, so I was in debilitating pain the whole time.
The only problem with that is that it would still require OS-level support (in the callback defined in the interrupt service handler, it would need to know the task ID of the next process to retrieve its task state). That and then you'd simply be doing round robin, which isn't the greatest form of multitasking. Some instructions on the 80X86 don't complete execution for a long time, becuase they can br preceeded by the REP (example REP STOSD). And you can't task switch during an instruction.
They even did this to my then-girlfriend when I took her to court one day. They made her take out her cuticle scissors....
I mean, come on, they've got armed guards. Cuticle scissors would hardly go through a layer of fat, much less do any real damage, plus that by the time they could be used, they'd have 17 bullets in the scissor wielder. I think they do it to feel like they have some sort of bullshit control, or feel more powerful, or something. It's retarded.
Get a dremel tool and make a template by printing off a image to the size you want it. Get some fiberglass (REAL cheap, like $4/yd) and some epoxy resin. You COULD use Carbon Fiber, and make it invincible and very very sharp-looking, but that shit is quite expensive ($50/yd), but it works the same as the fiberglass fabric. Lay the fiberglass sheet down and apply the resin. Do this a few times to give it some thickness and integrity. Check out some fiberglass sites to tell you the exact procedure, it's pretty simple, but it takes some waiting and making sure you don't over or under soak the fabric with the resin.
Now, after it has dried completely, AND WHILE WEARING A RESPIRATOR, cut the thing to the desired size. Bore out the eyes and the intricate designs via your properly sized template, sand to a rough smoothness (paint needs to stick) paint purple with a good automotive paint, sand, paint, sand, paint. Until it looks like glass, you aren't done. Use proceedingly higher grits of sandpaper, probably 220 up to 2000. And don't sand the paint off or anything, that's too much, you just want to give it some depth, so just scuff the surface. And wear the respirator this whole time too, fiberglass dust is not good for your respiratory tract. And goggles and gloves, but you should know that.
Well, the 80386s and on have some simple instructions to allow you to do fiddle with the current task state. IIRC, Windows does not use these anyhow because the processor was neither robust nor fast at task switching. It takes a ton of cycles (or at least it did, somewhere in the 1-2 hundereds) to flip to a different task state on a processor. At least, that's what my processor manual says.
And yes, it would still require OS support, because the processor would have no idea when the current task is copmleted. I'm also not sure if you could pre-program the processor (hardware) to task switch at a specific time interval, but I'm pretty sure that isn't available on IA-32 processors.
Even if it wasn't the passengers doing, it happened AFTER the Pentagon and WTC were hit. The Gov't knew what was up by that time, and they could have had fighters shoot it down in minutes.
Don't forget the possible tax deductions. I don't know what you could hope to see, but donating a non-functional car to the ACF or the ALA or whatever is worth quite a bit off your taxes.
Sorry, I could have sworn it was out of 54. And $2 to play, but I admit I haven't played in a number of years, my numbers are probably wrong :\...
To win the Illinois lottery, for example, you would need well over $30bn. 54 numbers, 6 picks = 54!/(54!-6!) = 18,595,558,800 possible choices, times $2.
Any lottery that allows you to do that was not created intelligently.
Or we'll get to the point where our processors contain cells, and each cell can be doled out "work units" to handle. Mass a bunch and you can complete more "work units" faster. Each "work unit" would probably be a thread, so that data could be collaborated easily. Maybe our programming models in the future wil be so totally different that processor design as we know it will be like looking at the horse and buggy today.
I do belive it had something to do with a corporation that sponsored it and not some "we are the only country in the world" ego boost. Besides, in 1904 or whenever the first World Series was played, the US was not a superpower.
Borland has given away their 5.5 series of command line compilers. You get no IDE, but it comes with Turbo Debugger, Turbo C++, and some other crap. Go to their site here and tool around a bit.
Having abhorrently bad credit is the best way to protect your financial assets. No one is going to get a credit card under MY name, that's for damn sure.
Easy way to do it is to not pay a utility at an old residence (People's Energy is trying to extort $50 for the 0.07 therms of natural gas I used at my last apartment, and they will never see a dime of it. And no, I'm not kidding about the 7/100ths of a therm.)