Leela: Didn't you have ads in the 21st century?"
Fry: Well sure, but not in our dreams. Only on TV and radio, and in magazines, and movies, and at ball games... and on buses and milk cartons and t-shirts, and bananas and written on the sky. But not in dreams, no siree.
But I rather like the idea of building my system from the ground up. Choosing my Mobo, CPU, RAM, GPU, etc. I like having that level of Quality Control. I'd also like to have a Posix or Unix Based OS, for stability, speed and security, while at the same time retaining a user friendly interface (nothing relying on Xfree or Xorg is ever going to be user friendly). Windows 2003, and Linux, and The BSDs are my only real options right now on x86.
When I look at the Apple configurations, I think; "I'd rather have more speed and greater amount of RAM than what is offered, and a higher Capacity SATA drive, and a Dual Core AMD processor." Possibly have My mac Running in a Blue case with Neon Lights, whatever.
Fact is I'd rather have it built by my own two hands, because I take a good bit of pride in that. Sadly for me and people like me, there really is no good option.
I know I'm not supposed to feed the trolls, but... I gave consideration to the fact that MS is not OSS, but while the OS might be closed source, the software used to distribute and manage the books and grading might be. Sort of how you can run Firefox or Gaim or Thunderbird or Blender3D or your mom on a Windows XP box. Word?
Maybe, but a quick Google Search indicates that the units running "Windows Moblie 2003", are commonly called "Pocket PC 2003" units. Also a bit of anecdotal evidence; when the one that my job gave me boots up (you know the time before I start emulating NES games) it says Pocket PC 2003. By which I'm not saying you are wrong, I'm just saying.
Internet Extreme is only for my 'saaviest' of clients, the clients who can name thier computer by its model year, and use MicrosoftXP. Still most of these clients come to see the light of Firefox with a little sit down walk through.
But some people insist on using IE (you know hurting themselves) and those are the ones I reserve IEx for. It gives them a little peace of mind, and a lot of safety. I can't drive out 30 miles every weekend to work on the same infestations that nuke an unprotected system on broadband week after week. Its sort of like that folders commercial, I'll tell them eventually.
yeah I might get sued, i never really thought about it much though considering the total number of IEx users is less than 5.
I used Firesomething and deleted all of the extrainious stuff that allowed for random names, photoshopped IE's icon to add orange (fade to gold) flames to the bottom half, left the rest as blue.
I used the Office 2003 themes from this guy to create the look and feel.
tidied the whole package up into a selfextracting zip archive and with a nifty install script to handle all this crap and bingo bango, Internet Extreme and the clients do love it, If I can find a place to host the package, I will.
No one understands that 'the big e' is not the internet thats why you have to delete the IE icons and force them to use Firefox for a few minutes, show them tabbed browsing and ad blocking, get them addicted to extensions (like foxytunes). It honestly doesnt take too long, unless they are "teh tech saavy" and 'know' how good MicrosoftXP is and name thier computer by its 'model year'. then you have to resort to "Extreme Measures".
If all else fails and they complain too much put the IE icons back, and allow the system to grind to a halt, they'll figure it out real quick.
Because I rebrand and reskin Firefox then install it on my clients' computers as "Internet Extreme". My saavier clients like how IEx prevents popups and spyware, and also like that it is from Microsoft so they know they can trust it.
Ahhh saavy clients...
Agreed, I got a lot of respect for Gianax, but Eva was crap. crap crap crapcrapcrap. For a series with so much potential, they jsut flushed it all away, like matrix reloaded, and revolutions,
as I have been saying since (before) this whole thing started is that Apple should have been (and be) releasing Live CDs (or DVDs) of thier OS. more so now than ever before. People test drive cars, preview movies and music, we try BEFORE we buy. We re not very apt to abandon what we know works for something with promise with little or no recourse.
If Apple sent out free (or low cost) Live Disks that supported a fairly wide range configurations, anything outside of that Apple can say we don't support it. Tack a few crippling in it (such as no burning and limited application saves etc) and you ahve an excelent preview package.
Now Apple if Apple believes that thier OS has the goods and that it stacks up to what is out there, this is the perfect way to make that statement. And if it really has it, it will show in a shift in marketshare. And if that happens then we will all really see the security and stabilty that OSX has (or doesn't).
-- the OS is only as secure as its most ignorant user.
I like my PDAs. I find that using my desktop as the central repository for my files, and then remoting into it at need from my wireless enabled PDA to be a better solution than carting around my data in an easily stolen and cumbersome form. In the event that my PDA is stolen I am looking at a lower replacement cost and minimal data loss.
PDAs do what most people need them to do when they are away from thier main system, Check email, read slashdot, write documents, play emulated NES games. Integrate wireless, and the capabilty to easily transfer information by secure USB ala pen drives {read: no clunky drivers and management apps to install} that would be killer, but right now no one seems to get it.
would be a minimize to system tray option. I know thats not that hard to code in and makes the whole process a lot easier. I know for a fact that most people like to keep thier task bar pretty clean (and I can honestly state that on any of my systems I have less than 6 icons on my desk top.) I dislike clutter, and I know I know I should get a mac. The mini is on its way...
I've been teeter Tottering about getting a Mac for some time now, a bunch of my close friends have been putting pressure on me to get one (then again they also pressure me to drink)... cuz they all converted years ago. Now it seems like I might actually do it. Like I'm picking out stuff to do with it.
I also thanks to this article am considering doing a crazy Mini-ITX style case mod, and upgrade. as I would something more than a low end starter system.
Does this mean I can fold up my tin hat and go outside again?
--
did not RTFA; because B) I assume its already been slashdotted, and B) because that is how *they* track you.
The first one, for the PC, yeah the one with the overhead view. right, the one where you scored 100 points for running over people. Yeah I was dating this tall leggy brunette at the time and we were at senior prom over looking the French Quarter in New Orleans (any of those who have been there know what I mean) and low and behold, there are like 6 cop cars parked in the parking lot. And as everyone who has played GTA1 knows, cop cars are double point multiplyers and the French Quarter was crowded, just prime for a GOURANGA.
So there I was just standing and staring over the balcony, with an ever grwoing running tally in my head; when the leggy brunnette says "What you thinking about?"
I reply "you don't even wanna know".
then we went back and danced
Funny thing is, she's now a cop... and a lesbian.
--
Where is El Burro when you need him?
I beg to differ, the Alpha lives on in the technologies it spawned, that are just now showing up in the current generation of processors. Alpha, and few would argue against this, was a processor, ahead of its time, created and undermarketed by a company seemingly more interested in advancing the technology than maintaining hte bottom line. That is what ultimately lead to its downfall, a lack of business savvy. However, because some of the very best and brightest worked on its chipset, many of its exclusive features were highly advanced. So in effect, the Company |D|I|G|I|T|A|L| might be dead, and the Processor line might be too, but the technology behind them most certainly lives on.
I actually do this in both a classic and modern sense. Modernly Its Gentoo and XPx64-beta on the modern machine. I've only had it up and running since just 2 weeks prior to christmas, and have had no major hiccups so far. I have concerns about the speed and availibility of service packs and drivers (as in with such a small niche of customers having these processors will Microsoft, and more importantly 3rd party software and driver venders be as dilligent in keeping them updated, prior experience says no) Still It feels faster than having it run XPpro x32. AND it was free for the beta testing, SO, I've got like 340 more days of free OS action to keep me going.
In a Classic sense, right next to the AMD sits an Original, |D|I|G|I|T|A|L| Alpha thats currently running NT4 for Alpha and Gentoo (Though it started out with Red Hat). Running NT4Alpha is one of those things that you never forget. Its fast, stable and relatively virus proof but the biggest problem with it is the LACK OF APPLICATIONS. There were and are no third party apps compiled for NT4Alpha. this was such a major issue that |D|I|G|I|T|A|L| released an emulator thingie, but even that was too little too late to save it.
Thankfully, AMD decided to include Backwards compatibility on the die. because doing it at the higher level chalks up some major performance penalties. But lest we forget, liscensing Alpha technology is the reason we have a lot of the "innovations" boosting speed as of late *cough* Hyperthreading *cough*
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For great justice move sig
Easiest Interview EVER!!
on
Defining Google
·
· Score: 5, Funny
It was like
Me: "What Up?"
Them: "What Up?"
then I pulled down my pants and they were like:
"You're Hired!!"
then I'm like "Respect."
could this be the work of... THE TERRORISTS!?1/
raise the terror alert system to black; for impending Apocalypse!
Now who wants Mojitos! Open Invitation to New Orleans for IcarusMoth's First Annual Armaggedon Party! There will be chips and dip.
--
Zim: I put the fires out.
Tallest: Zim, you made them worse.
Zim: Worse or BETTER?
Slashdot Mirror
No it was Ikari see: Linky
Leela: Didn't you have ads in the 21st century?" Fry: Well sure, but not in our dreams. Only on TV and radio, and in magazines, and movies, and at ball games... and on buses and milk cartons and t-shirts, and bananas and written on the sky. But not in dreams, no siree.
But I rather like the idea of building my system from the ground up. Choosing my Mobo, CPU, RAM, GPU, etc. I like having that level of Quality Control. I'd also like to have a Posix or Unix Based OS, for stability, speed and security, while at the same time retaining a user friendly interface (nothing relying on Xfree or Xorg is ever going to be user friendly). Windows 2003, and Linux, and The BSDs are my only real options right now on x86.
When I look at the Apple configurations, I think; "I'd rather have more speed and greater amount of RAM than what is offered, and a higher Capacity SATA drive, and a Dual Core AMD processor." Possibly have My mac Running in a Blue case with Neon Lights, whatever.
Fact is I'd rather have it built by my own two hands, because I take a good bit of pride in that. Sadly for me and people like me, there really is no good option.
I know I'm not supposed to feed the trolls, but... I gave consideration to the fact that MS is not OSS, but while the OS might be closed source, the software used to distribute and manage the books and grading might be. Sort of how you can run Firefox or Gaim or Thunderbird or Blender3D or your mom on a Windows XP box. Word?
Maybe, but a quick Google Search indicates that the units running "Windows Moblie 2003", are commonly called "Pocket PC 2003" units. Also a bit of anecdotal evidence; when the one that my job gave me boots up (you know the time before I start emulating NES games) it says Pocket PC 2003. By which I'm not saying you are wrong, I'm just saying.
You know MS calls their Portable OS PocketPC. So my guess is that they run PocketPC2003, by Microsoft
Woudld have been better title in terms of Iambic structure and attention grabbing.
I knew something looked funny, Foldgers not folders
Internet Extreme is only for my 'saaviest' of clients, the clients who can name thier computer by its model year, and use MicrosoftXP. Still most of these clients come to see the light of Firefox with a little sit down walk through.
But some people insist on using IE (you know hurting themselves) and those are the ones I reserve IEx for. It gives them a little peace of mind, and a lot of safety. I can't drive out 30 miles every weekend to work on the same infestations that nuke an unprotected system on broadband week after week. Its sort of like that folders commercial, I'll tell them eventually.
yeah I might get sued, i never really thought about it much though considering the total number of IEx users is less than 5.
I used Firesomething and deleted all of the extrainious stuff that allowed for random names, photoshopped IE's icon to add orange (fade to gold) flames to the bottom half, left the rest as blue.
I used the Office 2003 themes from this guy to create the look and feel.
tidied the whole package up into a selfextracting zip archive and with a nifty install script to handle all this crap and bingo bango, Internet Extreme and the clients do love it, If I can find a place to host the package, I will.
No one understands that 'the big e' is not the internet thats why you have to delete the IE icons and force them to use Firefox for a few minutes, show them tabbed browsing and ad blocking, get them addicted to extensions (like foxytunes). It honestly doesnt take too long, unless they are "teh tech saavy" and 'know' how good MicrosoftXP is and name thier computer by its 'model year'. then you have to resort to "Extreme Measures".
If all else fails and they complain too much put the IE icons back, and allow the system to grind to a halt, they'll figure it out real quick.
Because I rebrand and reskin Firefox then install it on my clients' computers as "Internet Extreme". My saavier clients like how IEx prevents popups and spyware, and also like that it is from Microsoft so they know they can trust it.
Ahhh saavy clients...
Agreed, I got a lot of respect for Gianax, but Eva was crap. crap crap crapcrapcrap. For a series with so much potential, they jsut flushed it all away, like matrix reloaded, and revolutions,
as I have been saying since (before) this whole thing started is that Apple should have been (and be) releasing Live CDs (or DVDs) of thier OS. more so now than ever before. People test drive cars, preview movies and music, we try BEFORE we buy. We re not very apt to abandon what we know works for something with promise with little or no recourse.
If Apple sent out free (or low cost) Live Disks that supported a fairly wide range configurations, anything outside of that Apple can say we don't support it. Tack a few crippling in it (such as no burning and limited application saves etc) and you ahve an excelent preview package.
Now Apple if Apple believes that thier OS has the goods and that it stacks up to what is out there, this is the perfect way to make that statement. And if it really has it, it will show in a shift in marketshare. And if that happens then we will all really see the security and stabilty that OSX has (or doesn't).
--
the OS is only as secure as its most ignorant user.
I like my PDAs. I find that using my desktop as the central repository for my files, and then remoting into it at need from my wireless enabled PDA to be a better solution than carting around my data in an easily stolen and cumbersome form. In the event that my PDA is stolen I am looking at a lower replacement cost and minimal data loss. PDAs do what most people need them to do when they are away from thier main system, Check email, read slashdot, write documents, play emulated NES games. Integrate wireless, and the capabilty to easily transfer information by secure USB ala pen drives {read: no clunky drivers and management apps to install} that would be killer, but right now no one seems to get it.
I mean all Oxygen does is show Lifetime movies and "Oprah after the show". And I think we can all do with less of that.
would be a minimize to system tray option. I know thats not that hard to code in and makes the whole process a lot easier. I know for a fact that most people like to keep thier task bar pretty clean (and I can honestly state that on any of my systems I have less than 6 icons on my desk top.) I dislike clutter, and I know I know I should get a mac. The mini is on its way...
I've been teeter Tottering about getting a Mac for some time now, a bunch of my close friends have been putting pressure on me to get one (then again they also pressure me to drink)... cuz they all converted years ago. Now it seems like I might actually do it. Like I'm picking out stuff to do with it.
I also thanks to this article am considering doing a crazy Mini-ITX style case mod, and upgrade. as I would something more than a low end starter system.
Yaaay!
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Ps, First post? maybe, not quite,
Um where are they, because the first thing that I look at when picking a distro is pretty pictures. pretty pretty pictures.
--
hottest Firefox ever!
Does this mean I can fold up my tin hat and go outside again?
--
did not RTFA; because B) I assume its already been slashdotted, and B) because that is how *they* track you.
The first one, for the PC, yeah the one with the overhead view. right, the one where you scored 100 points for running over people. Yeah I was dating this tall leggy brunette at the time and we were at senior prom over looking the French Quarter in New Orleans (any of those who have been there know what I mean) and low and behold, there are like 6 cop cars parked in the parking lot. And as everyone who has played GTA1 knows, cop cars are double point multiplyers and the French Quarter was crowded, just prime for a GOURANGA.
So there I was just standing and staring over the balcony, with an ever grwoing running tally in my head; when the leggy brunnette says "What you thinking about?" I reply "you don't even wanna know". then we went back and danced
Funny thing is, she's now a cop... and a lesbian.
--
Where is El Burro when you need him?
I beg to differ, the Alpha lives on in the technologies it spawned, that are just now showing up in the current generation of processors. Alpha, and few would argue against this, was a processor, ahead of its time, created and undermarketed by a company seemingly more interested in advancing the technology than maintaining hte bottom line. That is what ultimately lead to its downfall, a lack of business savvy. However, because some of the very best and brightest worked on its chipset, many of its exclusive features were highly advanced. So in effect, the Company |D|I|G|I|T|A|L| might be dead, and the Processor line might be too, but the technology behind them most certainly lives on.
I actually do this in both a classic and modern sense. Modernly Its Gentoo and XPx64-beta on the modern machine. I've only had it up and running since just 2 weeks prior to christmas, and have had no major hiccups so far. I have concerns about the speed and availibility of service packs and drivers (as in with such a small niche of customers having these processors will Microsoft, and more importantly 3rd party software and driver venders be as dilligent in keeping them updated, prior experience says no) Still It feels faster than having it run XPpro x32. AND it was free for the beta testing, SO, I've got like 340 more days of free OS action to keep me going.
In a Classic sense, right next to the AMD sits an Original, |D|I|G|I|T|A|L| Alpha thats currently running NT4 for Alpha and Gentoo (Though it started out with Red Hat). Running NT4Alpha is one of those things that you never forget. Its fast, stable and relatively virus proof but the biggest problem with it is the LACK OF APPLICATIONS. There were and are no third party apps compiled for NT4Alpha. this was such a major issue that |D|I|G|I|T|A|L| released an emulator thingie, but even that was too little too late to save it.
Thankfully, AMD decided to include Backwards compatibility on the die. because doing it at the higher level chalks up some major performance penalties. But lest we forget, liscensing Alpha technology is the reason we have a lot of the "innovations" boosting speed as of late *cough* Hyperthreading *cough*
---
For great justice move sig
It was like
Me: "What Up?"
Them: "What Up?"
then I pulled down my pants and they were like:
"You're Hired!!"
then I'm like "Respect."
could this be the work of... THE TERRORISTS!?1/
raise the terror alert system to black; for impending Apocalypse!
Now who wants Mojitos! Open Invitation to New Orleans for IcarusMoth's First Annual Armaggedon Party! There will be chips and dip.
--
Zim: I put the fires out.
Tallest: Zim, you made them worse.
Zim: Worse or BETTER?