Maybe if people started properly hyphenating Via and C3 as Via-Cyrix and C3-Cyrix... there would not be so much hype.
The VIA/Cyrix C3/Cyrix 1Gigapro is 666MHz with half speed FPU and half speed MMX -- and the only benchmark showing it to be that speed would be calling it 4.0 times faster than the 1997 Cyrix 166MHz (still 4X slower than a cacheless Celeron 266).
Take a hacksaw and chopdown a P-II motherboard if you really yearn to do the retro crawl!
When asking for directions from Houston's Galleria district to downtown, I must have gotten someone who knew they were working their last day there.
No need for the suggested "reality check" as this person certainly had driven the route... the recommended path actually had you pull into someone's private driveway of a mansion in the very expensive River Oaks section of Houston to do a U-turn to avoid traffic lights.
And they were right with this nationally published advice!
It is also funny how they put in the part about crackers, crooks and deviants. I guess anyone that wants to find security holes fall into this category?
I resemble that remark. What's wrong with deviating?
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Microsoft Security Bulletin (MS98-015)
"even if Internet Explorer is not used as your default browser"
I almost never saw some "average Joe" buy a new Apple system and then comment about it being "the same one shown in movie Z"
There is no honest reply to this statement that could be construed as anything but flamebait.
So I'll stick to the original story comments about McDonald's attempting cool commercials... their cartoonish portrayal of minority actors exceeds the actual comical Joe Camel campaign.
I have been searching for a pen with those properties all my life
The problem with most good pens is they soon disappear unless monogrammed.
A few well-placed bite marks on the end of the cap is what it takes for a pen to last you a lifetime.
Hundreds of users who can't do much more than connect to a webpage, can do so. First time, every time.
And those users don't need you or anyone to set up their client, reconfigure it, or support it.
That's a million-dollar app in the corp world.
I can't even order CD drives on computers anymore.
The last two SUVs I rode in at lunch have DVD players, not CD.
It's been 20 years since Springsteen produced "Born in the USA" as the first CD pressed in the United States for commercial release.
The industry doesn't even know their distribution format is dead.
Simson Garfinkel... described early experiences with folks using cable internet access
Five years ago this month, Houston Roadrunner beta opened to "21 carefully selected testers" [ie., those of us who called Time-Warner every single day for months on end]
Much advice and time was spent telling of the dangers to NETBIOS sharing
[like a sex education class for teenage boys where the lab practical would consist of a trip to a brothel]
Being only a few miles from Roadrunner meant I ended up being the first official tester to go online
[after leaving the building was a "Gentlemen start your engines" moment]
The NetworkNeighborhood was only lonely for a few minutes as twenty others popped up
[once again, the search for p0rn easily wins out over the search for security]
Why would Microsoft's WinCE code do any better than Windows 2003 Server, which specifically forbids the licensee from using in the monitoring of nuclear power plants and lifesupport equipment in hospitals?
with my fax machine. It's not nearly as cool though.
You could probably reach an effective throughput
of 4MHz on that 6502 by running 16-bit 68000 software emulation, on a 32-bit 68030 add-in board running at 25MHz and modded up to 33MHz with proper cooling.
When 6000kbps DSL connections are as ubiquitous as the 300 million RJ11 jacks providing dialtone, you will be able to use a USB router that can "hold" every decent FTP site on the Internet.
Until then, it'll cost you $150US per month to fill half your USB1.0 pipe with fast DSL.
The four non rechargeable Eveready Lithium batteries
in my digital camera deliver 6.0V versus the 4.8V you
get from the latest breed of Ni-MH rechargeables.
Being 1.5V rather than 1.2V is an extra 25% that the
manufacturer originally intended, and I can leave them
in devices for weeks on end and have them still work
without the ten percent daily drain of rechargeables.
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Drop 4000 bowling balls and I'll watch.
How about 4000 of THESE dropped on Las Vegas taxis for COMDEX? ...
The "resistance is futile" slogan for the Hilton show is on the wrong cab here
Maybe if people started properly hyphenating Via and C3 as Via-Cyrix and C3-Cyrix ... there would not be so much hype.
The VIA/Cyrix C3/Cyrix 1Gigapro is 666MHz with half speed FPU and half speed MMX -- and the only benchmark showing it to be that speed would be calling it 4.0 times faster than the 1997 Cyrix 166MHz (still 4X slower than a cacheless Celeron 266).
Take a hacksaw and chopdown a P-II motherboard if you really yearn to do the retro crawl!
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One man's information is another's troll
Unless they are traveling less than 2 furlongs per fortnight.
When asking for directions from Houston's Galleria district to downtown, I must have gotten someone who knew they were working their last day there.
No need for the suggested "reality check" as this person certainly had driven the route ... the recommended path actually had you pull into someone's private driveway of a mansion in the very expensive River Oaks section of Houston to do a U-turn to avoid traffic lights.
And they were right with this nationally published advice!
It is also funny how they put in the part about crackers, crooks and deviants. I guess anyone that wants to find security holes fall into this category?
I resemble that remark. What's wrong with deviating?
--
Microsoft Security Bulletin (MS98-015)
"even if Internet Explorer is not used as your default browser"
I almost never saw some "average Joe" buy a new Apple system
and then comment about it being "the same one shown in movie Z"
There is no honest reply to this statement that could be construed as anything but flamebait.
So I'll stick to the original story comments about McDonald's attempting cool commercials ...
their cartoonish portrayal of minority actors exceeds the actual comical Joe Camel campaign.
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Offtopic but worth it
- Academic advancement depends on the ability to entertain.
- Being incapable of smiling (independent of laughing) is a career limiting factor in the 21st Century.
The problem with most good pens is they soon disappear unless monogrammed.
A few well-placed bite marks on the end of the cap is what it takes for a pen to last you a lifetime.
--
As The Saying Goes,
A Good PenIs Hard To Find
What do they offer over VNC?
Hundreds of users who can't do much more than connect to a webpage, can do so. First time, every time.
And those users don't need you or anyone to set up their client, reconfigure it, or support it.
That's a million-dollar app in the corp world.
Leave it to those Dublin scientists to invent something for couch potatoes (*)
* potatos, in Northern Ireland
The last two SUVs I rode in at lunch have DVD players, not CD.
It's been 20 years since Springsteen produced "Born in the USA" as the first CD pressed in the United States for commercial release.
The industry doesn't even know their distribution format is dead.
Just so long as it did not wipe out the nation's MasterCard approval system.
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Fulfill your economic, patriotic duty.
Spend ourselves out of this recession.
Changing those pesky state laws to allow keyboards on the unused rear-view car mirrors would be a good first step as well.
http://sherpa.sandia.gov/planet-impact/asteroid
http://www.sandia.gov/media/comethit.htm
This is one site you don't want to stray off the beaten path.
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Securing "a peaceful and free world through technology"
seems long, so just add three chapters and it's
"LEARN fill-in-the-blank IN 24 HOURS"
Five years ago this month, Houston Roadrunner beta opened to "21 carefully selected testers"
[ie., those of us who called Time-Warner every single day for months on end]
Much advice and time was spent telling of the dangers to NETBIOS sharing
[like a sex education class for teenage boys where the lab practical would consist of a trip to a brothel]
Being only a few miles from Roadrunner meant I ended up being the first official tester to go online
[after leaving the building was a "Gentlemen start your engines" moment]
The NetworkNeighborhood was only lonely for a few minutes as twenty others popped up
[once again, the search for p0rn easily wins out over the search for security]
If India is going do this on-time and under-budget, they'll probably have to outsource technical support to some third world country.
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Early 4 digit Slashdot IDs (819x and 38dd) available on Ebay.
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You could probably reach an effective throughput of 4MHz on that 6502 by running 16-bit 68000 software emulation, on a 32-bit 68030 add-in board running at 25MHz and modded up to 33MHz with proper cooling.
I guess "bulletproof" means PoR2 won't destroy an entire HD partition when installed to a non-default directory on your console?
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Kids, don't try this one at home
When 6000kbps DSL connections are as ubiquitous as the 300 million RJ11 jacks providing dialtone, you will be able to use a USB router that can "hold" every decent FTP site on the Internet. Until then, it'll cost you $150US per month to fill half your USB1.0 pipe with fast DSL.
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Put that in your pipe and smoke...
"What with voting turnout at an all-time
low, not voting makes me more American."
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Hank Hill, King of the Hill
in my digital camera deliver 6.0V versus the 4.8V you
get from the latest breed of Ni-MH rechargeables.
Being 1.5V rather than 1.2V is an extra 25% that the
manufacturer originally intended, and I can leave them
in devices for weeks on end and have them still work
without the ten percent daily drain of rechargeables.
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... .-.. .- ... .... DOT
calling MODSQUAD:
I'd sooner trust Consumer Reports to recommend my next computer or operating system.