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or... you could always grasp the fact that a 2.4GHz PIV tower isn't always the best solution. C3s suck for normal desktop apps, unless you *really* want something small/hidden. But then, I'm feeding the trolls. stupid me.
Until the user wants to do stuff in the background while they work on their spreadsheet... like move the mouse, listen to music, diddle with a webpage, have autocorrect that doesn't require the user to stop and wait while it looks up words...
since when do you pay for a service not delivered? why would someone have to pay "even if it doesn't snow?"
Would you rather call them up and wait several hours before they come out to plow, plus making sure someone stays up (or gets up really early) to decide to call the company? Or would you rather they Just Come And Do It?
Also, if you get the right crew, you can make sure the folks that don't pay don't have a clear path from their driveway to the road.
Municipalities do that? (No, really. Never heard of it myself, though I don't necessilarily live in a place that gets a lot of snow anyway..)
Hey now, my SJ20 has a DragonBall in it too.. it's *REALLY* fast after it switches to SuperClie-an mode.
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Stanford University Network, perhaps? Google is wonderful, ainnit? And hey, 80% isn't 100% either, even if you are correct. People can be wrong sometimes.
We do that. Though, now we're looking into software that restores the machines automatically at logout. (I forget what it's called.. driveshield or something?) Public access computer labs have horrendous problems with people installing Kazaa and whatnot and, therefore, Gator and whatnot as well.
You could probably fanagle a combination of System Commander and Ghost to do the same thing, too - reboot and automagically reghost, using the image on a secured part of the hard drive.
There were 486SLC boards (have 2 motherboards built 'round em) that did that.. basically, you have a 486 core paired with what's essentially a 386 pinout. You can then shoehorn those into a 386 board. Some were a bit buggy regarding cache flushing and whatnot.. the 386 didn't have CPU caches so a lot of 386 BIOSes didn't know what to do with 'em. But, they offered an easy way to go from 386 to 486 (and then 286->486 as well... though I only ever saw the 386 versions of those boards).
You can get it for MS-DOS too. The source and executables are available at http://www.fdisk.com/doslynx. If you use a multitasker in DOS you can even run it along side WordPerfect.;-)
No, it's not, at least IMHO. It's always been my opinion (and I'm a student, here) that you're there for academic purposes, not because you can get a fat pipe. Kazaa very rarely counts as "academic purposes", and that's why it gets packet-shaped. We've had problems (I work at the Univ I go to) with Kazaa et. al. that things have been sucking up enough bandwidth that stuff like our public web servers weren't responding to connections. That, IMHO, says to the public "we're a publicly funded university, but we'd rather let all our students download music and movies and stuff". Plus, the people who are actually trying to do academic work get screwed. Primary functions tend to need to go, well, first, and if your institution's primary function is academic, then it only makes sense that you block or shape P2P users.
Granted, I'm sure you can find a few legit uses for Kazaa/Morpheus/et.al. in an academic point of view, which is why I'm more for packetshaping than outright blocking it. (At least on student's personal computers - I wish we could block it completely in the labs.) I don't have much sympathy for the people who bitch that they can't use Kazaa on their university's network - no matter how you try to justify it, it's pretty damn evident that the primary purpose of the program isn't academic.
The gist of my rant is as follows: you may be paying $200/credithour for stuff plus added fees for on-campus residence - but you're there persuing a degree. And you're STILL buying a part of someone else's connection.
You could register a domain name... but then, you're contributing to the diminishing pool of available domain names, plus you're taking on a chance of litigation (what if your domain is like some big corporation you've never heard of? etc.), possibly hairier administration duties, and dealing with re-mapping your account when it changes. Plus, there's the possibility you lose out on things like spam filters if you don't have an e-mail account with someone that provides those features anyway. (Maybe if you got a free Yahoo! account and then bought a domain name and mapped it..:-)
Now, I'm not saying there'd be no problems at all if you bought the POP3 service thru Yahoo!, but that just buying a domain name isn't a panacea.
No, then I'll either go back to my Macintosh (whether it be a new one or an old 8100), or wait for someone to put together a Linux distro that I don't have to fiddle with for days to get it to work. The view point "everyone wants an easy-to-use computer" is just as wrong as the "everyone should do it the hard way" - there's always that pesky group in between...
By your statement i should be able to sue the stockmarket, 401k plans and social security plans.
They smell like a bank, look like a bank, hold my money like a bank, transfer my money like a bank, but aren't insured like a bank. Heck, i can loose every dime i have and someone owes me!
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Those are investments, and yes, Virginia, there is a difference. And someone smarter than me can explain what.:-)
This is, of course, assuming that everyone trying to get into PayPal is after big bucks anyway (doing it professionally).. when it's quite likely they could have been targeted by someone who's just experimenting and hit something small to lessen their chances of getting caught (or, at least, trying not to get into too much trouble.. you might suspect that if the person raided a several thousand/tenthousand dollar account they'd be up against a lot more, punishment-wise).
Of course, isn't the purpetrator's name tagged to the transaction? You have to have a valid bank account to move funds out of your PayPal account.. wouldn't it just make it that much harder to hide from the authorities if you broke in to someone's account and moved stuff over?
This reminds me of when lowendmac got hit last month (earlier this month.. something like that). It's unfortunate PayPal has "critical mass" or whathaveyou. You'd think that someone big would care, but they can't even be bothered to work with all banks.
I hope you don't end up in charge of the tech writing for the product... I can just see thousands of geeks reading the manual (well, maybe not) and opening the toilet.
You realize that's been done, right? I have 486 boards with mouse support in the BIOS. And a GUI. (AMI WinBios or somesuch. They suck, IMHO.) My ThinkPad 765XL has a GUI-based BIOS too, with animation and everything (the little ducky mouse cursor has real flapping wings! no, really). Plus, for the most part, and from what I've seen (which lately is just Dell machines), the BIOS probes for a PS/2 mouse anyway. There's also typically USB keyboard support in there at least, so you can use your USB keyboard on a machine with a non-USB capable OS (such as DOS).
Plus, an 8 megabyte (you used little b, I assume you mean bits?) BIOS wouldn't surprise me. I don't know what the BIOS sizes on newer motherboards are now, though.
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or... you could always grasp the fact that a 2.4GHz PIV tower isn't always the best solution. C3s suck for normal desktop apps, unless you *really* want something small/hidden. But then, I'm feeding the trolls. stupid me.
NetBSD is working on that. And you can't anyway, odds are OS X Doppelganger was compiled for PowerPC anyhoo. Assuming it's closed source, that is.
Until the user wants to do stuff in the background while they work on their spreadsheet... like move the mouse, listen to music, diddle with a webpage, have autocorrect that doesn't require the user to stop and wait while it looks up words...
It's the CJB popup.. they were cool until they started forcing popups on their page. Owell.
now everyone can come over and re-bury it for you... what fun! :-)
since when do you pay for a service not delivered? why would someone have to pay "even if it doesn't snow?"
Would you rather call them up and wait several hours before they come out to plow, plus making sure someone stays up (or gets up really early) to decide to call the company? Or would you rather they Just Come And Do It?
Also, if you get the right crew, you can make sure the folks that don't pay don't have a clear path from their driveway to the road.
Municipalities do that? (No, really. Never heard of it myself, though I don't necessilarily live in a place that gets a lot of snow anyway..)
Hey now, my SJ20 has a DragonBall in it too.. it's *REALLY* fast after it switches to SuperClie-an mode.
Stanford University Network, perhaps? Google is wonderful, ainnit? And hey, 80% isn't 100% either, even if you are correct. People can be wrong sometimes.
For your VNC problem: you might try Apple Remote Desktop. It's been out for a while now (since the release of the XServe? I forget).
We do that. Though, now we're looking into software that restores the machines automatically at logout. (I forget what it's called.. driveshield or something?) Public access computer labs have horrendous problems with people installing Kazaa and whatnot and, therefore, Gator and whatnot as well.
You could probably fanagle a combination of System Commander and Ghost to do the same thing, too - reboot and automagically reghost, using the image on a secured part of the hard drive.
There were 486SLC boards (have 2 motherboards built 'round em) that did that.. basically, you have a 486 core paired with what's essentially a 386 pinout. You can then shoehorn those into a 386 board. Some were a bit buggy regarding cache flushing and whatnot.. the 386 didn't have CPU caches so a lot of 386 BIOSes didn't know what to do with 'em. But, they offered an easy way to go from 386 to 486 (and then 286->486 as well... though I only ever saw the 386 versions of those boards).
You can get it for MS-DOS too. The source and executables are available at http://www.fdisk.com/doslynx. If you use a multitasker in DOS you can even run it along side WordPerfect. ;-)
No, it's not, at least IMHO. It's always been my opinion (and I'm a student, here) that you're there for academic purposes, not because you can get a fat pipe. Kazaa very rarely counts as "academic purposes", and that's why it gets packet-shaped. We've had problems (I work at the Univ I go to) with Kazaa et. al. that things have been sucking up enough bandwidth that stuff like our public web servers weren't responding to connections. That, IMHO, says to the public "we're a publicly funded university, but we'd rather let all our students download music and movies and stuff". Plus, the people who are actually trying to do academic work get screwed. Primary functions tend to need to go, well, first, and if your institution's primary function is academic, then it only makes sense that you block or shape P2P users.
Granted, I'm sure you can find a few legit uses for Kazaa/Morpheus/et.al. in an academic point of view, which is why I'm more for packetshaping than outright blocking it. (At least on student's personal computers - I wish we could block it completely in the labs.) I don't have much sympathy for the people who bitch that they can't use Kazaa on their university's network - no matter how you try to justify it, it's pretty damn evident that the primary purpose of the program isn't academic.
The gist of my rant is as follows: you may be paying $200/credithour for stuff plus added fees for on-campus residence - but you're there persuing a degree. And you're STILL buying a part of someone else's connection.
Well, actually it does... Start->Run->cmd->ftp ftp.mozilla.org :)
It sucks, though. but you didn't say anything about the FTP client needing to be good..
I'm waiting for them to put a really big Palm on a gold chain, so that maybe Public Enemy can make a comeback.
You could register a domain name... but then, you're contributing to the diminishing pool of available domain names, plus you're taking on a chance of litigation (what if your domain is like some big corporation you've never heard of? etc.), possibly hairier administration duties, and dealing with re-mapping your account when it changes. Plus, there's the possibility you lose out on things like spam filters if you don't have an e-mail account with someone that provides those features anyway. (Maybe if you got a free Yahoo! account and then bought a domain name and mapped it.. :-)
Now, I'm not saying there'd be no problems at all if you bought the POP3 service thru Yahoo!, but that just buying a domain name isn't a panacea.
No, then I'll either go back to my Macintosh (whether it be a new one or an old 8100), or wait for someone to put together a Linux distro that I don't have to fiddle with for days to get it to work. The view point "everyone wants an easy-to-use computer" is just as wrong as the "everyone should do it the hard way" - there's always that pesky group in between...
Easy. Set your drink in front, hit Eject twice, and watch it pull it in.. and hope it doesn't try to play your coffee. :-)
By your statement i should be able to sue the stockmarket, 401k plans and social security plans.
:-)
They smell like a bank, look like a bank, hold my money like a bank, transfer my money like a bank, but aren't insured like a bank. Heck, i can loose every dime i have and someone owes me!
# export NITPICK=ON
Those are investments, and yes, Virginia, there is a difference. And someone smarter than me can explain what.
Dude, stop it! You're making the milk come outta my nose! :-)
Of course, isn't the purpetrator's name tagged to the transaction? You have to have a valid bank account to move funds out of your PayPal account.. wouldn't it just make it that much harder to hide from the authorities if you broke in to someone's account and moved stuff over?
This reminds me of when lowendmac got hit last month (earlier this month.. something like that). It's unfortunate PayPal has "critical mass" or whathaveyou. You'd think that someone big would care, but they can't even be bothered to work with all banks.
I hope you don't end up in charge of the tech writing for the product... I can just see thousands of geeks reading the manual (well, maybe not) and opening the toilet.
Plus, an 8 megabyte (you used little b, I assume you mean bits?) BIOS wouldn't surprise me. I don't know what the BIOS sizes on newer motherboards are now, though.