I've had similar issues with my Dell Studio 1555 laptop. Even in maximum performance mode and everything in windows power management settings tweaked to the max my CPU constantly is running at 25-50% max. Even when running cpu intensive tasks like video encoding it will rarely jump to the actual frequency. I have a Core 2 Duo T9600 6MB cache 2.8ghz max but likes to run around 1.1ghz.
Last year MS released a new language and IDE called Microsoft SmallBasic. It was intended to help teach beginning programmers the basics while giving them a more modern interface and framework. Kids can easily write graphical programs and games.
Assembly, scheme, C, C++ are all great languages in their own right but for a beginning program they will not be enjoyable at all. The whole reason many of us became programmers was because it was fun and rewarding. This is one reason why many people started out with BASIC, it makes it easy to get that reward, that payoff. So many people started with Apple Basic or QBasic. SmallBasic fills that role. In a few lines someone can make a desktop background slideshow of images from flickr or write a program to make a ball run from a mouse. I've already taught a few kids smallbasic and they found it fun and it gave them the desire to learn more and expand their knowledge. If I had started out having to learn assembly I would have ran away fast from the programming world.
This may just be copying some of the vista bits. I hope not but still it may be what we get. Consumers in the US will probably never see Starter. It is just for developing countries.
I wish they would just get rid of Home Basic and just go with Home Premium as "Home" so then we would have 3 versions, Home, Business and Ultimate.
Every time I help someone that has Home Basic my first advice is to upgrade to premium and the normally do and are rather happy with it.
Something that is very easily changed in the windows update settings.
I do agree that having a server OS default to restart on windows updates may not be a good idea. Just like having screen savers included like Win200 server did. I ran into one client that had a 3d screensaver that would run on their server chewing up 20% of the cpu.
I was going to suggest this as well. This is the most common reason for p2p traffic to take a network down. This is the second setting after the transmit wattage I edit when installing DD-WRT onto a wireless router
Microsoft makes mobile development pretty damn easy. Though to use Visual studio you have to pony up for Professional (which many people got free at the last install fest). you can still do it the manual way by downloading the WM SDK's, the emulators and the.NET CF SDKs. Most of the development could be done in something like SharpDevelop. Just because it's.NET doesn't mean it's stuck to windows mobile either. Mono has been known to run on some symbian phones and openmoko. Probably no luck on Android since Google has that tightly packed with Java
You can use it without the Vuze interface. I just used the old 2.0 stuff and eventually they released core upgrades that did not include the new interface
Actually you can tell VS to download all the libraries and just run from those. It's really easy set up. I did it this morning in less than 2 minutes I was stepping into a System.Windows.Forms class
The current Consumer windows is built from the Windows NT line, not the original Windows line. Since Windows 3.1 was all the rage at the time NT debuted as Windows NT 3.1. Then came 4, 2000(5), XP (6) and next will be 7
It is very specific about this From the article (second page): "The application only works with X1000 series graphics cards, and it only ever will. That's the only architecture with the necessary features to do GPU-accelerated video transcoding well."
I have already helped address part of the problem. I submitted a patch for signtool will allow developers to sign their extensions with a digital certificate. Signtool is part of the Network Security Services project. While the patch was submitted this summer the next version of NSS (3.10 which includes the patch) has yet to be released.
wasn't there an Orb drive that was basically a removable HD that had the heads contained in the media? I remember seeing one demonstrated showing how you could bring your own computer with you where ever you went. All you had to do was boot off the drive. The ORB if I remember right was only like 2.2 gigs.
I think we may be getting a few of these new drives. It sure beats burning a few DVD's to do backups.
We've had Starband internet service for over 3 years now and I hate it so. It's so slow. The only thing I like about it is the 120-150KB/sec downloads. For everything else it bites. I try to synchronize 1 file in Dreamweaver MX 2004 and it takes 5 minutes. It takes a blink of an eye at my house with DSL. Most of the time at work I'm forced to use dial-up cause it's ping times are faster. Mostly I need to upload and synchronize files and use SSH. Satellite seriously fails at these tasks. Try typing something in SSH and have to wait 2-3 seconds for it to show up. Downloading email to outlook also takes forever. The ping times keep it to one message every 3 seconds. That really adds up when I check the email Monday mornings and I have over 1000 emails to download. I've had outlook take over 3 hours to download my email while using the satellite.
My friend and ex roommate works at that plant in Bayport. He's been working there since he got out of high school. He makes those windows and the people that work there put alot of themselves into their windows(he used to come home bloody at least once a week cause he was trying to work to fast). They work that damn crazy swingshift too, every 2 weeks they move to a different one. I know pretty much whole families that work there, father's son's, brothers. It's easy to tell when people are coming and going from Andersens. There's a huge line of cars that roll through Stillwater Mn 15 minutes prior and after shift changes. Alot of their workers are actually from wisconsin and alot live by me. I live in a unincorporated town about 25 miles north of bayport and our one and only gas station has a nice little feild dedicated to parking for Andersen's employees that are carpooling.
My co-worker gets 90% off of Andersen windows (bunch of his family works there too).Gonna see how much I can get these babies for when they set a price.:D
My old high school computer teacher helped build their security infrastructure.
I dont care if this gets marked as flamebait or a Troll, just rarely things come up on slashdot that I have connections to.
I definately cant wait to test one of them out. No doubt my old roomy's gonna deck his house out with these. He can hook his multitude of consoles to them. I can imagine him playing his atari on there so all his neighboors can see him kick ass at pong. hehe
It was a reading program sponsored by pizza hut. Read so many books in a month and get a free personal pan pizza. They still run it. It's called Book It. Here's a link to this years program. http://www.pizzahut.com/about/publicrelations/2003/20030422_01.asp
I'm a bit young (23) I think they started it in 85 and thats they year I started kindergarten. It goes on till 6th grade. It was a great program and got alot of kids reading. The closest pizza hut was 40 miles away and we made monthly trips there. I have a brother thats a year younger and we used to try and out do each other.
If any of you have kids and your school doesn't do Book It, I'd suggest it to them.
It's for us who read the books over and over. Jackson could not fit the whole story into the theatrical movies. So he releases the regular DVD's first for people like you with no extra scenes and then later the Extended Editions for people like me who are excited to see more of our beloved story acted out. Jackson still hasn't been able to fit all of the story into the movies. He left out a big part of the first book in the extended edition: Mister Tom Bambodil.
To tell the full story of The Lord of The Rings you need more then 9 hours. I suggest you go out and buy the books. You'll be amazed at the depth J.R.R. Tolkien put into it. It was his lifes work.
I first read the trilogy when I was in 5th grade(got me lots of free pizza's at pizza hut). I've re-read it 5 times since then. Everytime I read it I find something new. I've also read all the side-stories and complimentary stuff like the Simarillion and Lost Tales.
I for one plan to watch all three Extended Editions in one day. I am also going to see all 3 in the theatre next month. Also I already have my tickets to see Return Of the King on Dec 10th. Barry Osborne went to college here and has done it for every movie as a benefit. Costs $50 but is well worth it.
This is just a step in the direction to AMIEE. THen we can recommission the martial arts robots that were created for warfare to run recon. Then forget to totally wipe their programming and let the chance of them switching back to combat mode creep up. It's fun how life starts to imitate art.
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argh, thats what I meant too.... some typos psychic transference going on there, that and 4 hours of sleep in the last 3 days.... too much work, thank god for the weekend.
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Dammit, actually I rented Sightings last night and was gonna watch it tonight for the first time.....
(not being sarcastic either)
I live right off of the St Croix in Osceola Wisconsin(about 35 miles from St Paul MN). On the weekends I usually go out walking the banks of the st croix and going to interstate park. I never knew any of this was going on. Wish I did, sounds fun. Now I know and it may be too late. And such is life.
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I've had similar issues with my Dell Studio 1555 laptop. Even in maximum performance mode and everything in windows power management settings tweaked to the max my CPU constantly is running at 25-50% max. Even when running cpu intensive tasks like video encoding it will rarely jump to the actual frequency. I have a Core 2 Duo T9600 6MB cache 2.8ghz max but likes to run around 1.1ghz.
Last year MS released a new language and IDE called Microsoft SmallBasic. It was intended to help teach beginning programmers the basics while giving them a more modern interface and framework. Kids can easily write graphical programs and games.
Assembly, scheme, C, C++ are all great languages in their own right but for a beginning program they will not be enjoyable at all. The whole reason many of us became programmers was because it was fun and rewarding. This is one reason why many people started out with BASIC, it makes it easy to get that reward, that payoff. So many people started with Apple Basic or QBasic. SmallBasic fills that role. In a few lines someone can make a desktop background slideshow of images from flickr or write a program to make a ball run from a mouse. I've already taught a few kids smallbasic and they found it fun and it gave them the desire to learn more and expand their knowledge. If I had started out having to learn assembly I would have ran away fast from the programming world.
MCTS or MCPD would be the ways to go for Microsoft Certification. MCSE is no more and was only for platforms.
This may just be copying some of the vista bits. I hope not but still it may be what we get. Consumers in the US will probably never see Starter. It is just for developing countries.
I wish they would just get rid of Home Basic and just go with Home Premium as "Home" so then we would have 3 versions, Home, Business and Ultimate.
Every time I help someone that has Home Basic my first advice is to upgrade to premium and the normally do and are rather happy with it.
Something that is very easily changed in the windows update settings. I do agree that having a server OS default to restart on windows updates may not be a good idea. Just like having screen savers included like Win200 server did. I ran into one client that had a 3d screensaver that would run on their server chewing up 20% of the cpu.
I was going to suggest this as well. This is the most common reason for p2p traffic to take a network down. This is the second setting after the transmit wattage I edit when installing DD-WRT onto a wireless router
I should have searched, Mono runs on the Iphone/Ipod Touch now. Sweet http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2008/Mar-10.html
Microsoft makes mobile development pretty damn easy. Though to use Visual studio you have to pony up for Professional (which many people got free at the last install fest). you can still do it the manual way by downloading the WM SDK's, the emulators and the .NET CF SDKs. Most of the development could be done in something like SharpDevelop. Just because it's .NET doesn't mean it's stuck to windows mobile either. Mono has been known to run on some symbian phones and openmoko. Probably no luck on Android since Google has that tightly packed with Java
You can use it without the Vuze interface. I just used the old 2.0 stuff and eventually they released core upgrades that did not include the new interface
Actually you can tell VS to download all the libraries and just run from those. It's really easy set up. I did it this morning in less than 2 minutes I was stepping into a System.Windows.Forms class
The current Consumer windows is built from the Windows NT line, not the original Windows line.
Since Windows 3.1 was all the rage at the time NT debuted as Windows NT 3.1. Then came 4, 2000(5), XP (6) and next will be 7
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_NT#Releases
It is very specific about this
From the article (second page):
"The application only works with X1000 series graphics cards, and it only ever will. That's the only architecture with the necessary features to do GPU-accelerated video transcoding well."
Here's the Bugzilla link https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2487
I have already helped address part of the problem. I submitted a patch for signtool will allow developers to sign their extensions with a digital certificate. Signtool is part of the Network Security Services project. While the patch was submitted this summer the next version of NSS (3.10 which includes the patch) has yet to be released.
My own FireFox extension is signed by my employer's code signing certificate.
http://www.j-maxx.net/abtrans/abextension.php
wasn't there an Orb drive that was basically a removable HD that had the heads contained in the media? I remember seeing one demonstrated showing how you could bring your own computer with you where ever you went. All you had to do was boot off the drive. The ORB if I remember right was only like 2.2 gigs. I think we may be getting a few of these new drives. It sure beats burning a few DVD's to do backups.
We've had Starband internet service for over 3 years now and I hate it so. It's so slow. The only thing I like about it is the 120-150KB/sec downloads. For everything else it bites.
I try to synchronize 1 file in Dreamweaver MX 2004 and it takes 5 minutes. It takes a blink of an eye at my house with DSL.
Most of the time at work I'm forced to use dial-up cause it's ping times are faster. Mostly I need to upload and synchronize files and use SSH. Satellite seriously fails at these tasks. Try typing something in SSH and have to wait 2-3 seconds for it to show up.
Downloading email to outlook also takes forever. The ping times keep it to one message every 3 seconds. That really adds up when I check the email Monday mornings and I have over 1000 emails to download. I've had outlook take over 3 hours to download my email while using the satellite.
My friend and ex roommate works at that plant in Bayport. He's been working there since he got out of high school. He makes those windows and the people that work there put alot of themselves into their windows(he used to come home bloody at least once a week cause he was trying to work to fast). They work that damn crazy swingshift too, every 2 weeks they move to a different one. I know pretty much whole families that work there, father's son's, brothers. It's easy to tell when people are coming and going from Andersens. There's a huge line of cars that roll through Stillwater Mn 15 minutes prior and after shift changes. Alot of their workers are actually from wisconsin and alot live by me. I live in a unincorporated town about 25 miles north of bayport and our one and only gas station has a nice little feild dedicated to parking for Andersen's employees that are carpooling.
:D
My co-worker gets 90% off of Andersen windows (bunch of his family works there too).Gonna see how much I can get these babies for when they set a price.
My old high school computer teacher helped build their security infrastructure.
I dont care if this gets marked as flamebait or a Troll, just rarely things come up on slashdot that I have connections to.
I definately cant wait to test one of them out. No doubt my old roomy's gonna deck his house out with these. He can hook his multitude of consoles to them. I can imagine him playing his atari on there so all his neighboors can see him kick ass at pong. hehe
I second this notion. That would be a lovely category.
It was a reading program sponsored by pizza hut. Read so many books in a month and get a free personal pan pizza. They still run it. It's called Book It. Here's a link to this years program. http://www.pizzahut.com/about/publicrelations/2003 /20030422_01.asp
I'm a bit young (23) I think they started it in 85 and thats they year I started kindergarten. It goes on till 6th grade. It was a great program and got alot of kids reading. The closest pizza hut was 40 miles away and we made monthly trips there. I have a brother thats a year younger and we used to try and out do each other.
If any of you have kids and your school doesn't do Book It, I'd suggest it to them.
It's for us who read the books over and over. Jackson could not fit the whole story into the theatrical movies. So he releases the regular DVD's first for people like you with no extra scenes and then later the Extended Editions for people like me who are excited to see more of our beloved story acted out. Jackson still hasn't been able to fit all of the story into the movies. He left out a big part of the first book in the extended edition: Mister Tom Bambodil. To tell the full story of The Lord of The Rings you need more then 9 hours. I suggest you go out and buy the books. You'll be amazed at the depth J.R.R. Tolkien put into it. It was his lifes work. I first read the trilogy when I was in 5th grade(got me lots of free pizza's at pizza hut). I've re-read it 5 times since then. Everytime I read it I find something new. I've also read all the side-stories and complimentary stuff like the Simarillion and Lost Tales. I for one plan to watch all three Extended Editions in one day. I am also going to see all 3 in the theatre next month. Also I already have my tickets to see Return Of the King on Dec 10th. Barry Osborne went to college here and has done it for every movie as a benefit. Costs $50 but is well worth it.
This is just a step in the direction to AMIEE. THen we can recommission the martial arts robots that were created for warfare to run recon. Then forget to totally wipe their programming and let the chance of them switching back to combat mode creep up. It's fun how life starts to imitate art.
Did anyone notice on the delete any file link that the next topic on that board was about the Half Life 2 source code and how it was actually leaked. http://lists.netsys.com/pipermail/full-disclosure/ 2003-October/011338.html
Looks like microsoft's flaws are to blame
argh, thats what I meant too.... some typos psychic transference going on there, that and 4 hours of sleep in the last 3 days.... too much work, thank god for the weekend.
Dammit, actually I rented Sightings last night and was gonna watch it tonight for the first time..... (not being sarcastic either)
I live right off of the St Croix in Osceola Wisconsin(about 35 miles from St Paul MN). On the weekends I usually go out walking the banks of the st croix and going to interstate park. I never knew any of this was going on. Wish I did, sounds fun. Now I know and it may be too late. And such is life.