This is in fact quite harmless. In normal operation, the BIOS is loaded into memory right at the start, and then the chip isn't touched after that. If you have a borked BIOS, and a spare machine with the same type chip, you can pull the BIOS chip from the working machine while it's on, stick in the borked chip, program with the BIOS for the borked motherboard, then swap the chips out again. Has saved my ass a number of times, when BIOS flashes fail and whatnot. The chance of harming anything is next to nil, just make sure you don't put the chip in backwards.
Seems like a lot of NES games were also on that system... Lots of shots of Castlevania on the screenshots page, as well as one that's unmistakeably River City Ransom. Also some shots of Image Fight; compare this to the crappy NES version that I played as a kid.
As someone stated above (they beat me to it), if the students were smart they would've used the On-Screen Keyboard (osk.exe) that comes with XP, which is made for use with touchscreens. Hardly "painful to work with". If someone with a little more technical knowledge and malicious attitude had come upon this first, the ATM might have been easily emptied.
What would be interesting (though I know it'd be impossible for the first boards, since they've been in R&D for months now) is if they put a 1x PCI-express slot on there; it's definitely small enough to fit.
Something I personally would like to see is all the ports on the back of the board turned into headers, with ribbon cables to mount the ports anywhere you want. You could put them in a row on the back, and only use the ones you need or want.
I use dBpowerAMP to convert between audio formats in Windows. It's got plugins for nearly every format you could want, it integrates very nicely with the Windows Explorer (right-click, pick 'Convert'), and it's completely free:).
Ah, those were fun days. The only time I really ever played WC3, the only time it really had a draw for me, was during the beta, when I played on the unsanctioned servers. The game was spanking new, and there were weekly patches that changed unit balancing. It was great fun, analyzing the changes to figure out who had the unfair advantage at the time;-). When the humans got call-to-arms, my friends and I figured out an extremely cheap stragegy: build a new human castle right near the enemy's base, perform the call to arms, and do a peasant rush on their undeveloped base! Surprisingly, it worked about 50% of the time (and pissed people off 100% of the time). The adapt-or-perish nature of the beta was what made it so enjoyable to me. Apart from that, I didn't find WC3 all that novel (micro-managing heroes isn't my cup of tea), and I stopped playing pretty soon after it left beta.
I suppose the point to this post is that beta games can be just as fun, if not more, than the final product. Oh yeah, and Blizzard sucks for going after BnetD.
If we want to see Linux on the desktop for less technically clued-in users, why not make the *BSD/OS X (Solaris too maybe) move of having a priveledged administrator account, and leaving root disabled by default?
In the case you point to, the method to access the error codes is listed in the factory service manual (I know because I own some); these can be bought by anybody. The method to get the codes is in most cases turning the ignition key ON-OFF-ON-OFF-ON and watching the pattern of a blinking light. The codes are listed in a table in the manual. Chrysler just made it relatively simple to get the engine codes; reverse engineering was not involved at all.
He should junk the Windows XP shell and add ObjectDock, which does a pretty fair job of emulating the feel of the OS X dock. That'd really throw people for a a loop when they saw it...
You're talking about newbs here. I've been using Windows for years (and am about to outgrow it..) and it's been years since I've opened files that way. I have shortcuts on the quicklaunch segment of the taskbar which point to all my frequently-used directories. I want to open a file, I click the icon, then select my file(s), and the app opens. And what if I want to use a different app than the default? Well, all I must do is right-click on the selected file(s), and there is a menu item "Open With..." which gives me a choice of all the programs which I've set to be compatible with the type of file I'm opening, or lets me choose a completely new one. So you see, I beat even your three-step process by one step.
Halo is actually a great game for beginners, since it's not all about fast twitch reactions. The pace of the game is slower, the fact that one can only carry 2 weapons, and the vehicles make for a lot of strategy (especially on the outdoor maps). I started a friend off on Halo, and now he's "graduated" to the more traditional (in terms of FPS gameplay) UT2k3.
To comment on the performance issues, I've got an Athlon 2500+ (1GB RAM) with an ATI Radeon 8500 and have had no issues with framerate. I know others with better systems have had problems though, so YMMV.
This isn't quite true, the RIAA have always had a bloodlust for people who copy their music, check out the fuss they made over DAT taping systems and the royalty levied on blank CD-R media.
That would be very interesting. Hardly anybody apart from us geeks has heard of Mozilla or MozillaFirebird, but if Google rebranded it and put a little link on their front page, it would be exposed to millions every day... who wouldn't grab it and try it out? People trust Google.
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I think Mozilla Lightningmonkey is the best browser by far.
Or, perhaps more importany than simply having the data, sharing data simply by being in proximity?
This is in fact quite harmless. In normal operation, the BIOS is loaded into memory right at the start, and then the chip isn't touched after that. If you have a borked BIOS, and a spare machine with the same type chip, you can pull the BIOS chip from the working machine while it's on, stick in the borked chip, program with the BIOS for the borked motherboard, then swap the chips out again. Has saved my ass a number of times, when BIOS flashes fail and whatnot. The chance of harming anything is next to nil, just make sure you don't put the chip in backwards.
Seems like a lot of NES games were also on that system... Lots of shots of Castlevania on the screenshots page, as well as one that's unmistakeably River City Ransom. Also some shots of Image Fight; compare this to the crappy NES version that I played as a kid.
It's just a remnant of their Ximian holdings, which were written in Mono (C#), for Gnome. Give them time...
Unreal Tournament 2003 and 2004 also use Ogg Vorbis.
"we don't just chuck out all the old work when something new comes along."
:)
But all the "old work" costs less! Maybe I'll be able to afford a good videocard in a few months.
Don't some people do it because they enjoy it?
As someone stated above (they beat me to it), if the students were smart they would've used the On-Screen Keyboard (osk.exe) that comes with XP, which is made for use with touchscreens. Hardly "painful to work with". If someone with a little more technical knowledge and malicious attitude had come upon this first, the ATM might have been easily emptied.
Checking the system requirements for XP shows that it needs something in the PII range at minimum, with at least 128MB RAM.
It would seems that Diebold makes sales off of marketing ("Our ATMs have MegaHertz!!") instead of engineering quality products.
What would be interesting (though I know it'd be impossible for the first boards, since they've been in R&D for months now) is if they put a 1x PCI-express slot on there; it's definitely small enough to fit.
Something I personally would like to see is all the ports on the back of the board turned into headers, with ribbon cables to mount the ports anywhere you want. You could put them in a row on the back, and only use the ones you need or want.
RealSecure, indeed.
I use dBpowerAMP to convert between audio formats in Windows. It's got plugins for nearly every format you could want, it integrates very nicely with the Windows Explorer (right-click, pick 'Convert'), and it's completely free :).
Ah, those were fun days. The only time I really ever played WC3, the only time it really had a draw for me, was during the beta, when I played on the unsanctioned servers. The game was spanking new, and there were weekly patches that changed unit balancing. It was great fun, analyzing the changes to figure out who had the unfair advantage at the time ;-). When the humans got call-to-arms, my friends and I figured out an extremely cheap stragegy: build a new human castle right near the enemy's base, perform the call to arms, and do a peasant rush on their undeveloped base! Surprisingly, it worked about 50% of the time (and pissed people off 100% of the time). The adapt-or-perish nature of the beta was what made it so enjoyable to me. Apart from that, I didn't find WC3 all that novel (micro-managing heroes isn't my cup of tea), and I stopped playing pretty soon after it left beta.
I suppose the point to this post is that beta games can be just as fun, if not more, than the final product. Oh yeah, and Blizzard sucks for going after BnetD.
If we want to see Linux on the desktop for less technically clued-in users, why not make the *BSD/OS X (Solaris too maybe) move of having a priveledged administrator account, and leaving root disabled by default?
Hackles? As in "the erectile hairs along the neck and back, especially of a dog"? Why are dogs being aroused by Project Guteberg? ;)
I just installed it and got Fireworm and Supershark. Quality stuff.
In the case you point to, the method to access the error codes is listed in the factory service manual (I know because I own some); these can be bought by anybody. The method to get the codes is in most cases turning the ignition key ON-OFF-ON-OFF-ON and watching the pattern of a blinking light. The codes are listed in a table in the manual. Chrysler just made it relatively simple to get the engine codes; reverse engineering was not involved at all.
He should junk the Windows XP shell and add ObjectDock, which does a pretty fair job of emulating the feel of the OS X dock. That'd really throw people for a a loop when they saw it...
You're talking about newbs here. I've been using Windows for years (and am about to outgrow it..) and it's been years since I've opened files that way. I have shortcuts on the quicklaunch segment of the taskbar which point to all my frequently-used directories. I want to open a file, I click the icon, then select my file(s), and the app opens. And what if I want to use a different app than the default? Well, all I must do is right-click on the selected file(s), and there is a menu item "Open With..." which gives me a choice of all the programs which I've set to be compatible with the type of file I'm opening, or lets me choose a completely new one. So you see, I beat even your three-step process by one step.
Then there is this War on Terror business. Although many people will argue that it was (is) a bad thing, there are many (esp. humanitarian) plusses.
Why not skip the war and killing part and go straight to helping people?
Any idea when we'll start seeing 2.6 as the kernel included in the big distributions?
Halo is actually a great game for beginners, since it's not all about fast twitch reactions. The pace of the game is slower, the fact that one can only carry 2 weapons, and the vehicles make for a lot of strategy (especially on the outdoor maps). I started a friend off on Halo, and now he's "graduated" to the more traditional (in terms of FPS gameplay) UT2k3.
To comment on the performance issues, I've got an Athlon 2500+ (1GB RAM) with an ATI Radeon 8500 and have had no issues with framerate. I know others with better systems have had problems though, so YMMV.
This isn't quite true, the RIAA have always had a bloodlust for people who copy their music, check out the fuss they made over DAT taping systems and the royalty levied on blank CD-R media.
That would be very interesting. Hardly anybody apart from us geeks has heard of Mozilla or MozillaFirebird, but if Google rebranded it and put a little link on their front page, it would be exposed to millions every day... who wouldn't grab it and try it out? People trust Google.