I just ordered a PC this morning with Win2K on it. In the first part of this year I ordered 50+, same config.
People in other parts of my department (or, rather, different business units of the overall corporate IT structure) order hundreds at a time. All Win2K.
Perhaps one cannot purchase Win2K in a shrinkwrap box at your local BestBuy or wherever, but corporations do still license Win2K.
Since the site itself tells me that this is nothing more than software, and that replacing an internal NIC (which almost every laptop sold today has) is prohibitively expensive (in most cases requiring a modified motherboard), I'll reiterate my comment about the blocking/discovery being quite trivial.
Set up a non-Internet-connected pen and see what tries to get out of your fully locked down firewall system. Remove offending code. Rinse, repeat.
Or, better yet, just boot from CD and wipe the drive (which is what's most likely going to happen anyway).
It sure as hell is. You block everything except the few things you know you need or want. Most Win32 home firewalls also allow you to block specific applications.
It's rather trivial, actually.
And anybody who's going to swipe a laptop will probably wipe the drive with a reinstall because they won't be able to log into the system to poke around (unless they intend on hacking the login; again a rather trivial task once you have physical possession).
And what the hell do you consider "green"? My entire screen was color from day-one.
And I loved my old Anchor 300/1200 modem. I ran rings around my friends with their Commodores and their 110 modems. Of course, they had blue and red to go with the green, and had multiple MIDI voices so maybe that's why I was over at their houses playing "Break Street" and "Wolfenstein".
I'm so fucking sad that I run all three at work (including a FreeBSD box in the back, although the disk is dying in that one and I'll be replacing it with a screwed-down Debian system).
The iPod already has (limited) PDA functionality built into it. Adding a GSM cellphone wouldn't be much of a stretch (although battery life will be an issue).
We too have an independent theater that still uses real butter. Better yet, they have a ready supply of brewer's yeast which makes the popcorn "go to eleven".
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I just ordered a PC this morning with Win2K on it. In the first part of this year I ordered 50+, same config.
People in other parts of my department (or, rather, different business units of the overall corporate IT structure) order hundreds at a time. All Win2K.
Perhaps one cannot purchase Win2K in a shrinkwrap box at your local BestBuy or wherever, but corporations do still license Win2K.
Hmmmmm.. grapes...
So I can soon power my car with Nightrain? Wouldn't that promote drinking and driving? It certainly gives a whole new meaning to the term "gassed"!
No, really.. it's FOLGERS.
Third time's the charm, eh?
Since the site itself tells me that this is nothing more than software, and that replacing an internal NIC (which almost every laptop sold today has) is prohibitively expensive (in most cases requiring a modified motherboard), I'll reiterate my comment about the blocking/discovery being quite trivial.
Set up a non-Internet-connected pen and see what tries to get out of your fully locked down firewall system. Remove offending code. Rinse, repeat.
Or, better yet, just boot from CD and wipe the drive (which is what's most likely going to happen anyway).
It sure as hell is. You block everything except the few things you know you need or want. Most Win32 home firewalls also allow you to block specific applications.
It's rather trivial, actually.
And anybody who's going to swipe a laptop will probably wipe the drive with a reinstall because they won't be able to log into the system to poke around (unless they intend on hacking the login; again a rather trivial task once you have physical possession).
And what the hell do you consider "green"? My entire screen was color from day-one.
And I loved my old Anchor 300/1200 modem. I ran rings around my friends with their Commodores and their 110 modems. Of course, they had blue and red to go with the green, and had multiple MIDI voices so maybe that's why I was over at their houses playing "Break Street" and "Wolfenstein".
Ah, the days of suffering under this dreadful bolt-on to Win3.11...
I still wince whenever I see an old Gateway 486 sitting in the back of some closet somewhere.
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Uh, the keel would be the least of your worries.. your real cause for concern would be the big food-processors to the stern.
You'd be better off with one of these...
I'd ask that dumbass to check how much free RAM he's has left, and then start looking at how misconfigured his kernel is...
if you don't do proper bounds-checking on your "hello world" array, then you need a security patch...
[ducks and runs...]
I once installed OO.org on a computer at a small office I worked for (because the owner didn't want to pay for another copy of MSOffice).
The user complained to her boss that she couldn't use OO.org...
the reason?
The splash screen was different and it "confused her".
One password to rule them all
One password to find them
One password to bring them all
And in the darkness bind them.
I'm so fucking sad that I run all three at work (including a FreeBSD box in the back, although the disk is dying in that one and I'll be replacing it with a screwed-down Debian system).
I guess I'm screwing the curve, eh?
The iPod already has (limited) PDA functionality built into it. Adding a GSM cellphone wouldn't be much of a stretch (although battery life will be an issue).
Can you see dialing an international phone number with a thumb-wheel?
FUNNIEST. POST. EVER.
or some kid in high school who needs a little extra weekend cash...
well, as long as it's not "infection" yeast, I'm happy to sprinkle it all over my popcorn...!
We too have an independent theater that still uses real butter. Better yet, they have a ready supply of brewer's yeast which makes the popcorn "go to eleven".
if you rename [file].ogg to [file].mp3, you can load it on your iPod and it'll play just fine.
Then again, I was pretty drunk when I did this so I might be wrong...
...in Soviet Russia, the Map minds You!
(oh christ I can't believe I just did that...)
I'm fairly certain that a 3.5" shell loaded with double-aught would do some damage... swat hell, I'll blow the little bastard out of the sky!
It basically says "April Fools!" with an electronic voice.