A mini distro on CD that starts the Linux kernel and then immediately chroots to a USB or firewire hard drive. Add in a USB based ethernet adaptor and you can run linux without limitations. Sounds fun to me. I would have said Knoppix for playstation, but it wouldn't have enough memory to start the gui.
I bought a few DIMMs for one of my SparcStations. A week or so passed with no items. I contacted the seller and he gave me the date that the item was shipped. A few days later I got a sticker on the door saying my item was at the post office. I went there and they said someone filled out the wrong form. They meant to send me a form saying my item could not be located. I went back and forth with the seller with him supposedly going to his post office and complaining. Still not knowing if it was ever going to come. About 2 months later the packaged arrived with the original shipping postmark. Pretty good for "Priority" mail.
USB 1.x has the same bandwidth basically as an ISA slot. Either wait for a USB 2.0 device, Firewire, or get a PCI card for the moment. Audigy 1 cards are cheap, just get one for 50$ (or cheaper) online and wait.
Unless my brain deceives me. ATI is doing better than ever! Buy a server recently? What video chip does it have? Probably ATI Rage series. Who's the first company you think of when you want a video card with tv tuner, tv out and 3d? Probably ATI. For a few years, you couldn't even get a laptop that didn't have an ATI chip in it. For the OEM market ATI has done pretty well. Sun, Dell, IBM have all sold hundreds of thousands of systems with ATI chips on the motherboard. As for high end, ATI and Nvidia are always pretty much neck and neck.
There used to be a program that converted Yaroze executables into regular PSX executables. But one thing I wondered about is what about emulating a Yaroze system on one of the free Playstation emulators. It certainly wouldn't be hard, you'd need the bios dump and change the code in the emulator to allow for more ram.
There's realistic TTS out there, I've heard it. There was a website that had all the major companies side by side and some were indistinguishable from real speech.
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My HighSchool physics teacher (who also taugh AP Chemistry) said he had a student that had figured out a way to make industrial (black) diamonds inexpensively using a tank of compressed Methane and a plasma cutter. The tank was emptied and the head of the plasma cutter is mounted inside and sealed. All air is forced out and replaced with methane. The pressure is raised to about 1000 psi and the plasma cutter is turned on. After a period of time the inside of the gas cylinder is covered in black diamond crystals about the size of grains of sand. This is almost exactly the same method used by Apollo Diamond in the story.
Late this afternoon, Her Majesty's crown jewels have mysteriously disappeared. Scotland Yard is looking for a man known only as "Cowboy Neal". It is believed that Cowboy Neal's new Athlon XP system was overheating due to his constant websurfing and "frist prosting", he needed a large supply of large diamonds to cool his cpu. Industry expert Joshua Davis has this to say. "Not only is it the hardest substance known, it also has the highest thermal conductivity - tremendous heat can pass through it without causing damage." A source from AMD also comments, "The current line of Athlon XP processors each expend 1.5 million BTUs (British Thermal Units) of heat per nanosecond of usage."
Scotland yard has notified all area McDonalds to be on the lookout for this mysterious character, Cowboy Neal.
I was forced by the forum admin to change the name of the link to my website Stonent's Dell Laptop Hack and FAQ on the DellTalk forums. A user complained that hacking is illegal and the forum admin said I needed to change the name in the link. Apparently the user had never even visited my website as it has info on how to upgrade Dell laptops.
Who said she was a filipino-american? She could be a resident alien. I worked with a guy that was British, he wasn't British american. He was a permanent resident.
What they didn't know was that we were serving all this off of ONE Sun Ultra 1 workstation on my desk
Meanwhile, after work, the Filipino cleaning lady that doesn't speak english (Do not unplug Olypic news server!) unplugs it so she can plug in her vacuum.
Plus, I hate stores that make you "clear customs" before you can leave. Geez, if I managed to sneak an article past the cashier, what makes you think you'll catch me? "No, sir, that's not a CAT-5 spool in my pocket... I'm just glad to see you".
I used to be a door nazi at Fry's. And the reason why they are the way they are, is that they get a commission on "recovered" items. I caught a woman who had a 500$ laser printer on the bottom of her cart that she neglected to tell the cashier about. When I told her that it wasn't on her reciept she argued with me. I said "Your receipt totals 100$ and there is a $500 price tag on the printer" So she turned around and paid for it and I got a 50$ commission. The loss prevention people are always at odds with the cashier manager. Because our commission comes out of there budget. I had been verbally assaulted by the cashier manager on several occasions because I was "costing his dept too much money" I said "well maybe your cashiers need to lean over the counter and LOOK in the carts!" Finally he made up a story about me refusing to help a customer carry something to their car (even though loss prevention is expressly forbidden to do so)It turned out the "customer" was another loss prevention person who was carrying something out for someone else and he thought they were the customer. The store manager tore me a new a-hole.
Finally they gave me the "option" to take a position in any dept of my choosing. I chose the computer service dept of course, as that was where I had been trying to move into since it was Incredible Universe. The store manager was fired shortly after I left.
So they kick your door down and snatch the flash card out of the router? What kind of "license" do I get with Phoenix/Award/AMI when I buy a computer? How about the firmware in my CD/RW? My HD?
Many's the time that a major business transaction has screeched to a halt due to a HD problem. This is just one of many things we've used to get data from a drive. Another is freezing it in a ziplock bag. And it DOES help!
WinXP is a step backward after Windows 2000 Professional
Agreed, but after using it for a while, there are a few features that I miss in 2000. 1. Auto completion of commands ala bash from the command line. 2. Grouping like apps together on the task bar. I love the right-click, close group. A good way to free up memory by closing a dozen IE windows.
Ah, I see you've met the people in #Linux on EFNet.:)
Not only that, it happens with #solaris and #freebsd. They have taken a channel name that implies discussion about something but when you go in there they are talking about something else and when you attempt to talk about solaris or freebsd they get mad at you! Or the topic says "This is not a help channel!". Well excuse the fsck out of me! And finally there was #irix they password the channel. Ok, so where does someone get irix help on IRC? You could try #unixhelp but 9 times out of 10, only Linux guys are there.
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I've heard a few people say "G-nome" or "Guh-nome" for Gnome. Those people and the L-eye-nux people drive me up the wall.
A mini distro on CD that starts the Linux kernel and then immediately chroots to a USB or firewire hard drive. Add in a USB based ethernet adaptor and you can run linux without limitations. Sounds fun to me. I would have said Knoppix for playstation, but it wouldn't have enough memory to start the gui.
I bought a few DIMMs for one of my SparcStations. A week or so passed with no items. I contacted the seller and he gave me the date that the item was shipped. A few days later I got a sticker on the door saying my item was at the post office. I went there and they said someone filled out the wrong form. They meant to send me a form saying my item could not be located. I went back and forth with the seller with him supposedly going to his post office and complaining. Still not knowing if it was ever going to come. About 2 months later the packaged arrived with the original shipping postmark. Pretty good for "Priority" mail.
USB 1.x has the same bandwidth basically as an ISA slot. Either wait for a USB 2.0 device, Firewire, or get a PCI card for the moment. Audigy 1 cards are cheap, just get one for 50$ (or cheaper) online and wait.
Unless my brain deceives me. ATI is doing better than ever! Buy a server recently? What video chip does it have? Probably ATI Rage series. Who's the first company you think of when you want a video card with tv tuner, tv out and 3d? Probably ATI. For a few years, you couldn't even get a laptop that didn't have an ATI chip in it. For the OEM market ATI has done pretty well. Sun, Dell, IBM have all sold hundreds of thousands of systems with ATI chips on the motherboard. As for high end, ATI and Nvidia are always pretty much neck and neck.
Galium Arsenide is the material of the future, and always will be.
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No, it's Diamond! http://science.slashdot.org/science/03/08/12/2112
Not trolling, but I couldn't help myself...
Cause : Major virus hits the internet
Effect: Outlook Express development gets wiped.
Does this mean an end to viruses as we know it?
There used to be a program that converted Yaroze executables into regular PSX executables. But one thing I wondered about is what about emulating a Yaroze system on one of the free Playstation emulators. It certainly wouldn't be hard, you'd need the bios dump and change the code in the emulator to allow for more ram.
There's realistic TTS out there, I've heard it. There was a website that had all the major companies side by side and some were indistinguishable from real speech.
My HighSchool physics teacher (who also taugh AP Chemistry) said he had a student that had figured out a way to make industrial (black) diamonds inexpensively using a tank of compressed Methane and a plasma cutter. The tank was emptied and the head of the plasma cutter is mounted inside and sealed. All air is forced out and replaced with methane. The pressure is raised to about 1000 psi and the plasma cutter is turned on. After a period of time the inside of the gas cylinder is covered in black diamond crystals about the size of grains of sand. This is almost exactly the same method used by Apollo Diamond in the story.
Buckingham Palace
Official Press Release
Crown Jewels Stolen
Late this afternoon, Her Majesty's crown jewels have mysteriously disappeared. Scotland Yard is looking for a man known only as "Cowboy Neal". It is believed that Cowboy Neal's new Athlon XP system was overheating due to his constant websurfing and "frist prosting", he needed a large supply of large diamonds to cool his cpu. Industry expert Joshua Davis has this to say. "Not only is it the hardest substance known, it also has the highest thermal conductivity - tremendous heat can pass through it without causing damage." A source from AMD also comments, "The current line of Athlon XP processors each expend 1.5 million BTUs (British Thermal Units) of heat per nanosecond of usage."
Scotland yard has notified all area McDonalds to be on the lookout for this mysterious character, Cowboy Neal.
There's also the "device" that can be patented. CocaCola calls the stripe on the side a "device". Jaguar has the "Leaping Cat Device"
I was forced by the forum admin to change the name of the link to my website Stonent's Dell Laptop Hack and FAQ on the DellTalk forums. A user complained that hacking is illegal and the forum admin said I needed to change the name in the link. Apparently the user had never even visited my website as it has info on how to upgrade Dell laptops.
Who said she was a filipino-american? She could be a resident alien. I worked with a guy that was British, he wasn't British american. He was a permanent resident.
You would not. Our customers were compliant!
What they didn't know was that we were serving all this off of ONE Sun Ultra 1 workstation on my desk
Meanwhile, after work, the Filipino cleaning lady that doesn't speak english (Do not unplug Olypic news server!) unplugs it so she can plug in her vacuum.
Funny, I did that too, make sure to hit ctrl when you do it or it will redisplay from cache. (At least in IE)
Hello, this is Leenoos Toorvahlds and I spell flavor, f-l-a-v-o-u-r.
Plus, I hate stores that make you "clear customs" before you can leave. Geez, if I managed to sneak an article past the cashier, what makes you think you'll catch me? "No, sir, that's not a CAT-5 spool in my pocket... I'm just glad to see you".
I used to be a door nazi at Fry's. And the reason why they are the way they are, is that they get a commission on "recovered" items. I caught a woman who had a 500$ laser printer on the bottom of her cart that she neglected to tell the cashier about. When I told her that it wasn't on her reciept she argued with me. I said "Your receipt totals 100$ and there is a $500 price tag on the printer" So she turned around and paid for it and I got a 50$ commission. The loss prevention people are always at odds with the cashier manager. Because our commission comes out of there budget. I had been verbally assaulted by the cashier manager on several occasions because I was "costing his dept too much money" I said "well maybe your cashiers need to lean over the counter and LOOK in the carts!" Finally he made up a story about me refusing to help a customer carry something to their car (even though loss prevention is expressly forbidden to do so)It turned out the "customer" was another loss prevention person who was carrying something out for someone else and he thought they were the customer. The store manager tore me a new a-hole.
Finally they gave me the "option" to take a position in any dept of my choosing. I chose the computer service dept of course, as that was where I had been trying to move into since it was Incredible Universe. The store manager was fired shortly after I left.
So they kick your door down and snatch the flash card out of the router? What kind of "license" do I get with Phoenix/Award/AMI when I buy a computer? How about the firmware in my CD/RW? My HD?
Many's the time that a major business transaction has screeched to a halt due to a HD problem. This is just one of many things we've used to get data from a drive. Another is freezing it in a ziplock bag. And it DOES help!
Problem #2: Didn't manage to download every rom I wanted before the ROM police shut down downloads at www.MAME.dk Solution: ???
emuchina
I've ran systems before without page files just fine.
WinXP is a step backward after Windows 2000 Professional
Agreed, but after using it for a while, there are a few features that I miss in 2000. 1. Auto completion of commands ala bash from the command line. 2. Grouping like apps together on the task bar. I love the right-click, close group. A good way to free up memory by closing a dozen IE windows.
Ah, I see you've met the people in #Linux on EFNet. :)
Not only that, it happens with #solaris and #freebsd. They have taken a channel name that implies discussion about something but when you go in there they are talking about something else and when you attempt to talk about solaris or freebsd they get mad at you! Or the topic says "This is not a help channel!". Well excuse the fsck out of me! And finally there was #irix they password the channel. Ok, so where does someone get irix help on IRC? You could try #unixhelp but 9 times out of 10, only Linux guys are there.