Forte16 is the soundcard, and this non-IDE CD-ROM connects through the soundcard, so i assume these are the CD drivers. It's a 16-bit soundcard, and the drivers are 16-bit DOS drivers, yet are still loaded in CONFIG.SYS, and appear to work fine.
I just run all my stuff into my stereo system's tuner (you know, the thing that does radio reception). Most of the good ones will have RCA jacks on the back to plug in stereo components, and you can get 1/4" to RCA converters at radio shack. I have my TV, CD player, tape deck, radio, turntable, and computer all going through the same set of speakers. It's some Sony thing, around $400, not sure of the model number.
Now a question - why is it that everybody's been recommending mixers? What's the advantage of a mixer over a setup like mine (a component-based stereo system with some AUX inputs for the computer).
I do all sorts of sequencing stuff...I'd suggest taking a look at some of the various trackers (MOD/S3M/IT/XM/etc)...they're a lot more flexible than MIDI is. Of course, an Amiga is the best place to do this type of stuff, but some of the PC-based trackers have gotten quite good as well. I've done some MIDI work, but I find it to be too limiting...
Hmm, I wasn't aware of that. My old computer has a non-IDE (Panasonic proprietary) CD-ROM drive (one of those that hooks up through the sound card), and it used a MSCDEX driver for DOS. When I installed win95, it continued using that driver (it still starts up in the autoexec.bat), and everything appears to be fine. As far as I can tell, there's no 32-bit driver loaded for the CD-ROM drive.
Well if that is indeed what the ad says, then I agree, this guy has no case. I was under the assumption that they had listed the Harrier as a real prize, just with the assumption that nobody would actually get that many Pepsi points to be able to claim it, in which event he would have a case.
I agree that this is being exaggerated. While there are some minor compatibility problems, they are just that - minor. I run several 16-bit programs written for win3.x under my win98 system, and they run fine.
Compare that to Linux binary compatibility. Just look at the mozilla binaries directory. Just for the x86, there's separate binaries for glibc and libc5 and libc4 systems. Plus there's the fact that none of those will run on old a.out systems.
Linux has the same problem. Try running your q3test binaries on LinuxPPC.
This means that there are many different versions of Linux in your view. Not to mention how many hundreds of OS/processor combinations of UNIXes there are...makes Windows look positively unified.
Yeah, but how easy is it to port an application that uses all of the 2.2.x features back to Linux 0.0.99? I don't think that is "just" a recompile either.
You don't even have to recompile. 16-bit code runs fine under win95, win98, and winNT. I've been running several 16-bit apps on my win95 (now win98) setup, and they run fine. In System Monitor it shows them as taking all the free CPU cycles due to some multitasking difficulties, but it doesn't slow the system down - the 16-bit programs just get allocated all the spare cycles.
Most code would benefit from a recompile and some minor changes, but it's not necessary.
If Pepsi intended this as a joke, they should either have had an asterisk and an explicit disclaimer announcing this fact, or have made the number of pepsi points be something equivalent to the cost of a jet. If they had said "get a Harrier for only 250 million pepsi points" rather than a mere 7 million, they wouldn't have had this problem.
Minidiscs only hold 74 minutes per disc. An mp3 player already exists than can use IBM's 340-meg hard drive, which can hold nearly 6 hours of 128kbps mp3s.
Also, minidisc sound quality isn't that great. It uses lossy compression, just like mp3 does. If you purchase mp3s over the internet, then record them to a minidisc, it sounds horrible, since you're going through two different levels of lossy compression.
Actually, I'm surprised there aren't more Linux viruses. Perhaps nobody has bothered to write them, or perhaps the people in Bulgaria (the single largest producer of virueses) are all still running DOS.
Playing around on my friend's Linux system, on which I have a normal non-privilaged account, I've rooted it at least 6 or 7 times. A virus could do the same thing. Once it has root access, Linux isn't any safer than DOS is.
Well, MPAA ratings and age "guidelines" don't have the force of law behind them, but the theater owners are not free to do whatever they want either. If theaters do not follow the industry's policies, they run the risk of not being allowed to purchase movies from the studios.
No, corporations do not that have the right to do so. They may restrict particular people from frequenting their establishments if those people cause problems, but they may not make discriminatory class-based prohibitions. For example, I could not start a theatre that only admitted white people, even if i owned the theater and didn't feel like letting non-white people in.
Hmmm, he gets thousands of messages from kids upset that they cannot break the law
How do you come to that conclusion? What law is being broken? There is no law against under-17-year-olds seeing R-rated movies. The MPAA movie rating system is a voluntary industry system, and has no grounding in law. If a movie theater wanted to let anybody see R rated movies without asking for their age, they would not be in violation of any laws. They might get in trouble with the National Association of Theater Owners (NATO...interesting acronym), but they would not get in trouble with law enforcement.
Basically, know what you're talking about rather than spouting off ignorant drivel. This law you speak of does not exist.
For the majority of users, the network transparency is not used. It just slows things down, sometimes by up to 10%. There should be some way of bypassing it for users who don't need/want it.
Antialiased fonts are not supported by default.
It is just plain slow compared to Win95 running on the same hardware. Scrolling is definitely slower (you can actually visibly see the windows redrawing themselves as you scroll, something i can never see in Win95 except on old 486s).
A bunch more I can't think of at the moment which probably belongs in the "what's wrong with X" ask slashdot article anyway...
Disclaimer: I'm not a stock broker, don't take this as a replacement for real investment advice, just a warning from an amateur stock-following-person.
Most people seem to be treating this as an easy way to make money. I'd suggest not spending any money on the stock that you can't afford to lose. If I read the information correctly, E*Trade is requiring you to hold on to the shares for at least two weeks before selling off. Tech IPOs overall do not have a great record over the first two weeks. They sometimes go up the first day (though interestingly, all four tech-related IPOs yesterday closed the day below their IPO price), but those gains rarely hold, and you won't be able to take advantage of them, since you're not allowed to sell off early. Most importantly, if you don't get in on the IPO, don't buy the stock as soon as it starts trading publicly. Almost all IPOs, especially tech-related ones, go down significantly from their market opening prices.
A few examples: Be, Inc. (BeOS): IPO at 6, opened at around 8, currently at 6. Mp3.com (MPPP): IPO at 28, opened at 92, currently at 29.
Both IPO'd around two weeks ago, so now would be your first opportunity to sell off the shares with E*Trade's policy. As you'll see, you'd make virtually no money with either one of them. If you didn't get in on the IPO, and bought when it the stocks started trading openly, you lost money - a lot of money if you bought mp3.com at 92.
Part of the reason mp3.com jumped and then nosedived is because people thought they owned the mp3 technology, then realized they didn't. This could potentially happen with Red Hat as well, as a few hours later people start realizing that Red Hat doesn't own Linux.
So, my non-expert advice would be, if you can get in on the IPO and can spare the money, buy it as a stock to hold for the long haul, not as a quick way to make money (since that most likely won't happen). If you can't get in at the IPO price, wait a few days for the stock price to drop off before buying some.
Now as soon as we get an actual stable 2.2.x kernel (no, 2.2.10 doesn't count as stable), and replace X with something decent (such as Berlin), all will be well. Oh, and get Dungeon Keeper 2 ported over =)
1) Wiretapping is not going to do anything. Any criminal sufficiently sophisticated to have a satellite phone is also sufficiently sophisticated enough to be able to use a normal phone and encrypt his/her communications. The government can then wiretap a bunch of line noise that's of no use.
2) Why should I forfeit some of my liberties to catch these drug dealers? If they break other laws, such as killing people, then go after them for that, but I really don't care if they sell a bunch of drugs to people who want to buy them (and will find a way to get them whether the FBI likes it or not) anyway. I certainly don't want my money and freedoms forfeited in a futile effort to stop it.
Gates already sold off 3,000,000 shares of Microsoft stock earlier this year. The stock price momentarily dropped, but seems to be doing quite well again.
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Bernie S was the one that was beaten up in prison, after being "accidentally" sent to a maximum security prison.
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As far as I know, his lawsuit against the Pennsylvania prison system is still pending, but I haven't been able to find much information on it.
The Canadians talk funny in Southpark, so therefore all Canadians must talk funny.
Well, I just checked my CONFIG.SYS, and the following line appears in it:
/D:MSCD0001 /P:630
DEVICEHIGH=C:\FORTE16\DRIVERS\CDMKE.SYS
Forte16 is the soundcard, and this non-IDE CD-ROM connects through the soundcard, so i assume these are the CD drivers. It's a 16-bit soundcard, and the drivers are 16-bit DOS drivers, yet are still loaded in CONFIG.SYS, and appear to work fine.
I just run all my stuff into my stereo system's tuner (you know, the thing that does radio reception). Most of the good ones will have RCA jacks on the back to plug in stereo components, and you can get 1/4" to RCA converters at radio shack. I have my TV, CD player, tape deck, radio, turntable, and computer all going through the same set of speakers. It's some Sony thing, around $400, not sure of the model number.
Now a question - why is it that everybody's been recommending mixers? What's the advantage of a mixer over a setup like mine (a component-based stereo system with some AUX inputs for the computer).
I do all sorts of sequencing stuff...I'd suggest taking a look at some of the various trackers (MOD/S3M/IT/XM/etc)...they're a lot more flexible than MIDI is. Of course, an Amiga is the best place to do this type of stuff, but some of the PC-based trackers have gotten quite good as well. I've done some MIDI work, but I find it to be too limiting...
Hmm, I wasn't aware of that. My old computer has a non-IDE (Panasonic proprietary) CD-ROM drive (one of those that hooks up through the sound card), and it used a MSCDEX driver for DOS. When I installed win95, it continued using that driver (it still starts up in the autoexec.bat), and everything appears to be fine. As far as I can tell, there's no 32-bit driver loaded for the CD-ROM drive.
Well if that is indeed what the ad says, then I agree, this guy has no case. I was under the assumption that they had listed the Harrier as a real prize, just with the assumption that nobody would actually get that many Pepsi points to be able to claim it, in which event he would have a case.
I agree that this is being exaggerated. While there are some minor compatibility problems, they are just that - minor. I run several 16-bit programs written for win3.x under my win98 system, and they run fine.
Compare that to Linux binary compatibility. Just look at the mozilla binaries directory. Just for the x86, there's separate binaries for glibc and libc5 and libc4 systems. Plus there's the fact that none of those will run on old a.out systems.
Linux has the same problem. Try running your q3test binaries on LinuxPPC.
This means that there are many different versions of Linux in your view. Not to mention how many hundreds of OS/processor combinations of UNIXes there are...makes Windows look positively unified.
Yeah, but how easy is it to port an application that uses all of the 2.2.x features back to Linux 0.0.99? I don't think that is "just" a recompile either.
I was under the impression that a.out binaries no longer ran under (most) default Linux distribution installs.
You don't even have to recompile. 16-bit code runs fine under win95, win98, and winNT. I've been running several 16-bit apps on my win95 (now win98) setup, and they run fine. In System Monitor it shows them as taking all the free CPU cycles due to some multitasking difficulties, but it doesn't slow the system down - the 16-bit programs just get allocated all the spare cycles.
Most code would benefit from a recompile and some minor changes, but it's not necessary.
If Pepsi intended this as a joke, they should either have had an asterisk and an explicit disclaimer announcing this fact, or have made the number of pepsi points be something equivalent to the cost of a jet. If they had said "get a Harrier for only 250 million pepsi points" rather than a mere 7 million, they wouldn't have had this problem.
Minidiscs only hold 74 minutes per disc. An mp3 player already exists than can use IBM's 340-meg hard drive, which can hold nearly 6 hours of 128kbps mp3s.
Also, minidisc sound quality isn't that great. It uses lossy compression, just like mp3 does. If you purchase mp3s over the internet, then record them to a minidisc, it sounds horrible, since you're going through two different levels of lossy compression.
Actually, I'm surprised there aren't more Linux viruses. Perhaps nobody has bothered to write them, or perhaps the people in Bulgaria (the single largest producer of virueses) are all still running DOS.
Playing around on my friend's Linux system, on which I have a normal non-privilaged account, I've rooted it at least 6 or 7 times. A virus could do the same thing. Once it has root access, Linux isn't any safer than DOS is.
Slashdot is in Holland, Michigan.
Well, MPAA ratings and age "guidelines" don't have the force of law behind them, but the theater owners are not free to do whatever they want either. If theaters do not follow the industry's policies, they run the risk of not being allowed to purchase movies from the studios.
No, corporations do not that have the right to do so. They may restrict particular people from frequenting their establishments if those people cause problems, but they may not make discriminatory class-based prohibitions. For example, I could not start a theatre that only admitted white people, even if i owned the theater and didn't feel like letting non-white people in.
Hmmm, he gets thousands of messages from kids upset that they cannot break the law
How do you come to that conclusion? What law is being broken? There is no law against under-17-year-olds seeing R-rated movies. The MPAA movie rating system is a voluntary industry system, and has no grounding in law. If a movie theater wanted to let anybody see R rated movies without asking for their age, they would not be in violation of any laws. They might get in trouble with the National Association of Theater Owners (NATO...interesting acronym), but they would not get in trouble with law enforcement.
Basically, know what you're talking about rather than spouting off ignorant drivel. This law you speak of does not exist.
I support teaching children never to use "u" as a substitute for "you," and never to use "4" as a substitute for "for."
I can think of lots of things wrong with X.
For the majority of users, the network transparency is not used. It just slows things down, sometimes by up to 10%. There should be some way of bypassing it for users who don't need/want it.
Antialiased fonts are not supported by default.
It is just plain slow compared to Win95 running on the same hardware. Scrolling is definitely slower (you can actually visibly see the windows redrawing themselves as you scroll, something i can never see in Win95 except on old 486s).
A bunch more I can't think of at the moment which probably belongs in the "what's wrong with X" ask slashdot article anyway...
Disclaimer: I'm not a stock broker, don't take this as a replacement for real investment advice, just a warning from an amateur stock-following-person.
Most people seem to be treating this as an easy way to make money. I'd suggest not spending any money on the stock that you can't afford to lose. If I read the information correctly, E*Trade is requiring you to hold on to the shares for at least two weeks before selling off. Tech IPOs overall do not have a great record over the first two weeks. They sometimes go up the first day (though interestingly, all four tech-related IPOs yesterday closed the day below their IPO price), but those gains rarely hold, and you won't be able to take advantage of them, since you're not allowed to sell off early. Most importantly, if you don't get in on the IPO, don't buy the stock as soon as it starts trading publicly. Almost all IPOs, especially tech-related ones, go down significantly from their market opening prices.
A few examples:
Be, Inc. (BeOS): IPO at 6, opened at around 8, currently at 6.
Mp3.com (MPPP): IPO at 28, opened at 92, currently at 29.
Both IPO'd around two weeks ago, so now would be your first opportunity to sell off the shares with E*Trade's policy. As you'll see, you'd make virtually no money with either one of them. If you didn't get in on the IPO, and bought when it the stocks started trading openly, you lost money - a lot of money if you bought mp3.com at 92.
Part of the reason mp3.com jumped and then nosedived is because people thought they owned the mp3 technology, then realized they didn't. This could potentially happen with Red Hat as well, as a few hours later people start realizing that Red Hat doesn't own Linux.
So, my non-expert advice would be, if you can get in on the IPO and can spare the money, buy it as a stock to hold for the long haul, not as a quick way to make money (since that most likely won't happen). If you can't get in at the IPO price, wait a few days for the stock price to drop off before buying some.
Now as soon as we get an actual stable 2.2.x kernel (no, 2.2.10 doesn't count as stable), and replace X with something decent (such as Berlin), all will be well. Oh, and get Dungeon Keeper 2 ported over =)
1) Wiretapping is not going to do anything. Any criminal sufficiently sophisticated to have a satellite phone is also sufficiently sophisticated enough to be able to use a normal phone and encrypt his/her communications. The government can then wiretap a bunch of line noise that's of no use.
2) Why should I forfeit some of my liberties to catch these drug dealers? If they break other laws, such as killing people, then go after them for that, but I really don't care if they sell a bunch of drugs to people who want to buy them (and will find a way to get them whether the FBI likes it or not) anyway. I certainly don't want my money and freedoms forfeited in a futile effort to stop it.
Gates already sold off 3,000,000 shares of Microsoft stock earlier this year. The stock price momentarily dropped, but seems to be doing quite well again.