The MPAA will never try to ban Text Messaging for one simple reason -- THEY ARE INCAPABLE OF COMMING UP WITH A NEW IDEA!
1) Spiderman, Daredevil, The Hulk are not new ideas!
2) Remaking an old movie is not a new idea (on multiple levels!
3) A sequil to a sequil to a sequil to the n'th degree is not a new idea!
4) A parody movie is not a new idea! (But nobody expects them to be a masterpeice anyway.)
5) We do not need another Tumb Raider movie or game. Is this in the wrong list? Oh well.
6) Blaming others for your own failures and shortcommings is not a new idea!
As long as I am here. . .
If these Industry Executives can't come up with anything new then why don't they try and old idea that worked in the past? Produce something with a good plot, story, and some quality! There is no writen law saying that these things must suffer when you add computer generated critters and special effects.
Not to be rude or anything but the early mac chipsets are 6800(or was it 68000?), 68020, 68030, 68LC040, 68040, etc. Assuming you ment the 6800 CPU. ..
Now my 68LC040 ran at 25Mhz so how the hell did you end up with with a 6800 running at 300Mhz? No, really, tell me!
I could be wrong, but I don't remember Macs faster than 200Mhz until the G3 chipsets.
And as long as I am here, maybe you should check to see if your Mac came with a Math Coprocessor (FPU). If it doesn't have one then that could be _one_ why some of you software (games mostly) run a bit slowly.
This moving(copying?) 17MB file to another just sounds odd. Were these folders on different drives? If it is the same hard drive than it should take less than a second to make a change in the directory listings. Most Macs have SCSI drives and have at least a decent speed. Maybe you are having hardware problems (failing drive?) At any rate I don't think Linux is to blame.
Are you sure you are running Linux and not some A/UX?
If you are using a GUI such as KDE 3.0 on linux than your problem is simple; you are running a bloated GUI shell on an over-burdened machine. Run a lightweight GUI or *GASP*, kill your GUI and use a command line like in the good old days of DOS!
Um, were the DOS days really that good? I was kinda using Macs back then. *Sheepish Grin*
Now my Mac is running Mac OS 7.5.5 @ 25Mhz with a 68LC040 CPU and 20MB of memory and it is more stable than my windoze 98 second lousy edition and I am more productive on it than my 98SE.
And on the off-chance that 8600 is a Mac model number, it looks way too much like a CPU type. Next time please put Performa 8600 or whatever model it is.
Well the reality is that I don't have your Mac in front of me so I can only guess and what the problem is.
Sorry if I came off as rude, but I think you are just assuming that Linux is the cause of your slowdowns.
If you download the '-en' version of the ISO, it's default language is English.
Cool. They seem to have -EN, -ES, -DE, -FR versions to download. There may be other languages, but I have not seen them.
I was given a Knoppix CD by someone that was made by the knoppix people. Even though all the info and instructions are written in English, it defalts to German. I guess someone wasn't thinking when they made this batch. Oh well. (It's KNOPPIX 3.1)
Try downloading a distro of KNOPPIX. Check out http://www.knoppix.org/ and http://www.osef.org/ .
Just make sure you select English as your language before you boot (unless you injoy using Linux with a German attitude.)
This distro of Linux is geared more twards grade school students, but it is still a very good distro and it runs compleatly from the CD. Good for those who just don't want to commit a hard drive to Linux but want to use it.
Funny: I just got back from a little road trip across the southwest, and from all the nothing you see out there, you would think that 83% is a bit high. I guess Arizona farmlands must look a lot like wild, untouched desert."
Arizona is not that void of human contact. With over *5,130,632 people living here, cattle ranches (Yes, cows somehow live out here), ATV trails, and people walking through the national parks around here, it's a wonder that not everything has been touched yet.
Here are some reasons to come over and put your human footprint on Arizona.
1) The Grand Canyon (A big hole in the ground.)
2) The Mine Tours of actual old mines. (A trip through a big hole in the ground.)
3) Kartchner Caverns (A walk through a big hole in the ground.)
4) Old Tucson Studios (A themepark-like place based on when people came to Arizona to dig holes in the ground.)
5) Sedona, Arizona (A beautiful city where you can take jeep tours to help disturb nature.)
6) Tombstone, Arizona and other ghost towns. (Where people use to live when they dug a bunch of holes in Arizona.)
7) Biosphere 2 (A big artificial hole above ground)
Re:2.4.x still compiles on mine too, (in 3 hours)
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As far as I know, time can only deal with one process at a time. I basically wanted to know how long the entire process took and what errors occoured. (Lucky me, no errors!) I could have used time on the batch file, but if I did, I probably would have forgotten to type "time".
Holy shit, that works?!? I always sent mine for $15 MILLION but never got a response! Damnit!
Yah. Try sending a bill to Microsoft for $15 bucks. As far as I know this is not illegal. They could always not pay it of course.
Actually this might be a good way to get an unofficial refund for all the MS Crapware that gets bundled with our computers. Out of the five or so OEM software packages that came bundled and pre-installed with my PC, I use non of them.
Most (if not all) of these bad patents we have been reading about lately in the news have to do with human leaches trying to get money without working for it (the lawyers do all the work).
It's easy. For patents just come up with some broad, utterly asinine idea that people have been doing long enough that people will not stop.
This works for the same reason that sending a bill for $15 to a large business works; the company will pay the small fee because it is cheaper to do so than to investigate every questionable bill.
With these bad patents, if the price is low enough then most companies will pay the licensing fee instead of the greater cost to fight it in court.
The only solution that could work is getting the people working in the patent office a clue. How about some redundancy so it would take at least 3 people to review patent. That way if we can get at least one of those three to be a person who has common sence, problem solved!
Or is this just wishful thinking?
2.4.x still compiles on mine too, (in 3 hours)
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Just in case somebody besides myself actually cares about how long it takes to compile a modern kernel on an old i486. ..
I recently compiled a kernel (2.4.18) on my 80486 (@ 66Mhz with 16MB memory). I knew it was going to take a while, (insert snickers bar refrence here), so I wrote a script to log the start & end times and let it run. Here's what I got.
Thu Oct 3 16:58:16 MST 2002 (Start time) Thu Oct 3 20:10:03 MST 2002 (End time)
So if I do the math right, it took 3 hours, 11 minutes, and 57 seconds. (That is not counting make mrproper or make menuconf.)
The script looked something like
#!/bin/bash date >/home/foo/date.start make dep >/home/foo/dep.log && make bzImage >/home/foo/bzImage.log && make modules >/home/foo/modules.log && make modules_install >/home/foo/modules_install.log && make install >/home/foo/install.log date >/home/foo/date.end
I have had a few oddball messages too.
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I had a Windows 98 program I was writing and some file got linked that somehow wasn't updated. The address of the error was 0000:cafedead. At first I thought the computer was trying to tell me something.
I had another one that was along the lines of
"Unable to open the folder foo because it doesn't exist."
So did I just double click on a non-existant folder?
The one that really bugs me is when I shutdown Windows and it hangs and I am forced to power off. On the next boot I usually get an error message about it not being shut down properly. Why can't Windows unmount the disks BEFORE it hangs? I'd ask for it never to hang, but I don't think I could do that with a striaght face.
I know this story is already old news, but oh well.
Maybe I should send Microsoft my switch from Mac to Windows testimony?
I switched from a really old 680LC40 Macintosh running system 7.5.5 to a P3 @ 350Mhz running Windows 98 (first lousy addition.) I was kinda impressed by the computer until I turned it on.
Just clicking on stuff and looking around make it crash. The next Windows Mis-feature I delt with was that unlike the mac, if I move a a file, it's alias (Microsoft perfers the term shortcut) becomes broken.
This is kinda minor, but giving a folder an icon is a pain under Windows.
Then there is the system folder itself. On a Macintosh it usually is not very dificult to figure out what everything is. The Finder is your file browser, the extensions are usually named something sane, and on windows everything has a cryptic name! WTF is cmd640X2.dll for?! And has anyone seen any MS documentation on now to use HWINFO.EXE? You double click that one and nothing happens, or does it?
I could go on and on, but what it really comes down to are these few things:
* I had less problems with my Mac.
* I spent less time fixing my Mac.
* Whatever software I needed was available for my Mac. (I am not a gamer or in need of some sort of special software.)
* I was more productive on the Mac.
* The Mac didn't eat memory and disk space for breakfast.
* Because of system extensions, I could make my Mac do only the very basics (be lean and mean), or use every bell, whistle, and Talking Moose (be a fat memory hog, yet still more stable than Windies every few hours).
* We had the money to buy a Mac.
So what about my Macroshil Windies 98 system? Well until I replace that lousy win-modem I need it to access the Internet and my two other PCs are running GNU/Linux.
Yes, I switched from Mac to Windows and have regretted it ever since (except for the part where I am slowly replacing Window with Linux.)
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The MPAA will never try to ban Text Messaging for one simple reason -- THEY ARE INCAPABLE OF COMMING UP WITH A NEW IDEA! 1) Spiderman, Daredevil, The Hulk are not new ideas! 2) Remaking an old movie is not a new idea (on multiple levels! 3) A sequil to a sequil to a sequil to the n'th degree is not a new idea! 4) A parody movie is not a new idea! (But nobody expects them to be a masterpeice anyway.) 5) We do not need another Tumb Raider movie or game. Is this in the wrong list? Oh well. 6) Blaming others for your own failures and shortcommings is not a new idea! As long as I am here. . . If these Industry Executives can't come up with anything new then why don't they try and old idea that worked in the past? Produce something with a good plot, story, and some quality! There is no writen law saying that these things must suffer when you add computer generated critters and special effects.
Not to be rude or anything but the early mac chipsets are 6800(or was it 68000?), 68020, 68030, 68LC040, 68040, etc. .
Assuming you ment the 6800 CPU. .
Now my 68LC040 ran at 25Mhz so how the hell did you end up with with a 6800 running at 300Mhz? No, really, tell me!
I could be wrong, but I don't remember Macs faster than 200Mhz until the G3 chipsets.
And as long as I am here, maybe you should check to see if your Mac came with a Math Coprocessor (FPU). If it doesn't have one then that could be _one_ why some of you software (games mostly) run a bit slowly.
This moving(copying?) 17MB file to another just sounds odd. Were these folders on different drives? If it is the same hard drive than it should take less than a second to make a change in the directory listings. Most Macs have SCSI drives and have at least a decent speed. Maybe you are having hardware problems (failing drive?) At any rate I don't think Linux is to blame.
Are you sure you are running Linux and not some A/UX?
If you are using a GUI such as KDE 3.0 on linux than your problem is simple; you are running a bloated GUI shell on an over-burdened machine. Run a lightweight GUI or *GASP*, kill your GUI and use a command line like in the good old days of DOS!
Um, were the DOS days really that good? I was kinda using Macs back then. *Sheepish Grin*
Now my Mac is running Mac OS 7.5.5 @ 25Mhz with a 68LC040 CPU and 20MB of memory and it is more stable than my windoze 98 second lousy edition and I am more productive on it than my 98SE.
And on the off-chance that 8600 is a Mac model number, it looks way too much like a CPU type. Next time please put Performa 8600 or whatever model it is.
Well the reality is that I don't have your Mac in front of me so I can only guess and what the problem is.
Sorry if I came off as rude, but I think you are just assuming that Linux is the cause of your slowdowns.
I was given a Knoppix CD by someone that was made by the knoppix people. Even though all the info and instructions are written in English, it defalts to German. I guess someone wasn't thinking when they made this batch. Oh well. (It's KNOPPIX 3.1)
Just make sure you select English as your language before you boot (unless you injoy using Linux with a German attitude.)
This distro of Linux is geared more twards grade school students, but it is still a very good distro and it runs compleatly from the CD. Good for those who just don't want to commit a hard drive to Linux but want to use it.
Arizona is not that void of human contact. With over *5,130,632 people living here, cattle ranches (Yes, cows somehow live out here), ATV trails, and people walking through the national parks around here, it's a wonder that not everything has been touched yet.
Here are some reasons to come over and put your human footprint on Arizona.
1) The Grand Canyon (A big hole in the ground.)
2) The Mine Tours of actual old mines. (A trip through a big hole in the ground.)
3) Kartchner Caverns (A walk through a big hole in the ground.)
4) Old Tucson Studios (A themepark-like place based on when people came to Arizona to dig holes in the ground.)
5) Sedona, Arizona (A beautiful city where you can take jeep tours to help disturb nature.)
6) Tombstone, Arizona and other ghost towns. (Where people use to live when they dug a bunch of holes in Arizona.)
7) Biosphere 2 (A big artificial hole above ground)
http://www.pr.state.az.us/parkhtml/kartchner.htmla me=DEC_2000_SF1_U&geo_id=04000US04&qr_name=DEC_200 0_SF1_U_DP1
http://www.oldtucson.com/
http://www.sedona.net/
* http://www.census.gov/census2000/states/az.html
http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/QTTable?ds_n
As far as I know, time can only deal with one process at a time. I basically wanted to know how long the entire process took and what errors occoured. (Lucky me, no errors!) I could have used time on the batch file, but if I did, I probably would have forgotten to type "time".
Caution: Really dumb joke ahead.
What happens when pigs fly?
Bacon goes up!
You have been warned.
Well, we use to get insulin straight from pigs so why not a whole pancreas?
Now if they harvest organs from these pigs with human DNA, does that mean we can't eat the leftovers without being cannibals?
Yah. Try sending a bill to Microsoft for $15 bucks. As far as I know this is not illegal. They could always not pay it of course.
Actually this might be a good way to get an unofficial refund for all the MS Crapware that gets bundled with our computers. Out of the five or so OEM software packages that came bundled and pre-installed with my PC, I use non of them.
Most (if not all) of these bad patents we have been reading about lately in the news have to do with human leaches trying to get money without working for it (the lawyers do all the work).
It's easy. For patents just come up with some broad, utterly asinine idea that people have been doing long enough that people will not stop.
This works for the same reason that sending a bill for $15 to a large business works; the company will pay the small fee because it is cheaper to do so than to investigate every questionable bill.
With these bad patents, if the price is low enough then most companies will pay the licensing fee instead of the greater cost to fight it in court.
The only solution that could work is getting the people working in the patent office a clue. How about some redundancy so it would take at least 3 people to review patent. That way if we can get at least one of those three to be a person who has common sence, problem solved!
Or is this just wishful thinking?
Just in case somebody besides myself actually cares about how long it takes to compile a modern kernel on an old i486. . .
/home/foo/date.start /home/foo/dep.log && /home/foo/bzImage.log && /home/foo/modules.log && /home/foo/modules_install.log && /home/foo/install.log /home/foo/date.end
I recently compiled a kernel (2.4.18) on my 80486 (@ 66Mhz with 16MB memory). I knew it was going to take a while, (insert snickers bar refrence here), so I wrote a script to log the start & end times and let it run. Here's what I got.
Thu Oct 3 16:58:16 MST 2002 (Start time)
Thu Oct 3 20:10:03 MST 2002 (End time)
So if I do the math right, it took 3 hours, 11 minutes, and 57 seconds. (That is not counting make mrproper or make menuconf.)
The script looked something like
#!/bin/bash
date >
make dep >
make bzImage >
make modules >
make modules_install >
make install >
date >
I had a Windows 98 program I was writing and some file got linked that somehow wasn't updated. The address of the error was 0000:cafedead. At first I thought the computer was trying to tell me something. I had another one that was along the lines of "Unable to open the folder foo because it doesn't exist." So did I just double click on a non-existant folder? The one that really bugs me is when I shutdown Windows and it hangs and I am forced to power off. On the next boot I usually get an error message about it not being shut down properly. Why can't Windows unmount the disks BEFORE it hangs? I'd ask for it never to hang, but I don't think I could do that with a striaght face.
I know this story is already old news, but oh well.
Maybe I should send Microsoft my switch from Mac to Windows testimony?
I switched from a really old 680LC40 Macintosh running system 7.5.5 to a P3 @ 350Mhz running Windows 98 (first lousy addition.) I was kinda impressed by the computer until I turned it on.
Just clicking on stuff and looking around make it crash. The next Windows Mis-feature I delt with was that unlike the mac, if I move a a file, it's alias (Microsoft perfers the term shortcut) becomes broken.
This is kinda minor, but giving a folder an icon is a pain under Windows.
Then there is the system folder itself. On a Macintosh it usually is not very dificult to figure out what everything is. The Finder is your file browser, the extensions are usually named something sane, and on windows everything has a cryptic name! WTF is cmd640X2.dll for?! And has anyone seen any MS documentation on now to use HWINFO.EXE? You double click that one and nothing happens, or does it?
I could go on and on, but what it really comes down to are these few things:
* I had less problems with my Mac.
* I spent less time fixing my Mac.
* Whatever software I needed was available for my Mac. (I am not a gamer or in need of some sort of special software.)
* I was more productive on the Mac.
* The Mac didn't eat memory and disk space for breakfast.
* Because of system extensions, I could make my Mac do only the very basics (be lean and mean), or use every bell, whistle, and Talking Moose (be a fat memory hog, yet still more stable than Windies every few hours).
* We had the money to buy a Mac.
So what about my Macroshil Windies 98 system? Well until I replace that lousy win-modem I need it to access the Internet and my two other PCs are running GNU/Linux.
Yes, I switched from Mac to Windows and have regretted it ever since (except for the part where I am slowly replacing Window with Linux.)