Where I work, they are somewhat flexible with what hours you want to work. We have some people who choose to come in at 9. Problem with that is generally then you would be expected to stay until 6.
Well, you do have OS X Server, which is a more expensive license that the regular OS X you're talking about. In that sense, the only OS that doesn't have multiple tiers at different prices is the various Linux and BSD distributions.
This is a terrible card for future-proofing. In a few years, it'll perform no better than the $100 cards, but will still be the same huge, hot, loud, power-sucking beast it's always been. Cards like this one are really only good for a couple of years, after that they're generally more trouble than their worth. Generally, it's the low-end video cards I have that I end up using the longest - obviously not in my main PC but they're the ones that get a second life in some secondary role.
Well, there are always applications where having a large amount of screen real estate is helpful. Thinks like spreadsheets, photo editors, and the like. Browsing a directory of images via thumbnail view is also a good reason to maximize a window.
Actually, it's the current 20" monitors that are trash. 20" used to mean 1680x1050. Before that it meant 1600x1200. Now it means 1600x900. Why does monitor technology keep moving backwards?
Windows 2000 is well less than 1% by now. They've dropped support for it, which means that most corporate computers have probably migrated away from it by now (at least for PCs connected to the internet). Windows 2000 never really had a big marketshare among home users - my guess is that there are probably more Windows 98 computers out there than 2000 by now.
Well, the manufacturers can't even be consistent. Flash memory cards and most flash thumb drives use the powers of 2 definition, The flash chips, if you look up the spec sheets, use power of 2. Yet when it comes to SSDs suddenly they use the power of 10 definition. Their marketing people should be dragged out and shot.
This only works if the drive can read and interpret the file system to know what's stored on it. This maybe will work with RAID 1, but certainly not with any of the other RAID levels.
I have a computer with an Intel 945GNT. The chipset supports the Core 2 processors, but the BIOS only supports the Socket 775 Pentium 4, Pentium D, and the associated Celerons. Dropping in one of the last generation Core 2 Duos could be a cheap and huge boost to that machine, if the board would take it.
As for Asus, their stuff is junk. I had a board (that was actually part of one of their barebones kits) where you couldn't manually set the memory speed, and it detected the speed of the installed memory wrong (too fast). The system therefore ran unstable, and there was nothing I could do about it.
How'd you get past the requirement of having at least a Pentium processor? The record worst hardware I know of running XP is a Pentium Overdrive, underclocked to 8 Mhz, with 18 MB of ram.
My guess is that you'd have a lot of trouble getting NT4 to run on any hardware that can run Windows 7. NT can't fall back on the BIOS like the DOS-based Windows can, and you'd have a real tough time finding storage and chipset drivers for any relatively modern hardware. You *might* get away with a high end P3 - just old enough to find NT drivers for it, and just new enough that it can slog through Windows 7, but I wouldn't count on it. So I'm guessing he went with the 95/98 path because it was a lot easier.
You really don't have to worry too much about drivers for Windows 95 as the DOS-based Windows can fall back onto the BIOS for things like accessing the disks if it needs to. It's slow as hell (or at least it was on period hardware), but that means it'll run on just about any recent x86 machine that's not a Mac. Windows 2000 is probably your biggest problem, as most new hardware has likely dropped support for it, though you might be able to get XP (which is still widely supported) drivers to work on it. I'd say your best bet is probably a high end P3 or earlier P4 (you might want to avoid Hyperthreading) system. 2003 is about perfect.
I don't think you would even need 3rd party utilities to do it. Start with a 2GB FAT16 partition in DOS 5 (which is possible). You could create multiple 2GB partitions if you wanted, but I don't know what that would gain for you so just leave the rest of the drive blank. When you get to Windows 98 you could convert to FAT32. You can get XP on a 2GB partition (it's a bit tight, it helps to have a small amount of ram to so that Windows doesn't try and create a huge page file). Once you're on XP convert the partition to NTFS, convert the disk to a dynamic disk and grow the partition out.
What, you don't like fire up old games like Doom for old times sake? Though admittedly, with a lot of those old DOS games sometimes it's just better to fire up period hardware, especially if you want sound to work. Not to mention the lower resolution graphics look much better on a CRT than a LCD.
Well, another way to look at is every Mac application from before 2005 will no longer run. Really isn't very impressive compared to Windows, where generally most applications from 1995 will still run.
You're still not going to be able to upgrade your way from the earliest version of the Mac OS to the latest OS X on the same machine. At the very least, you'll need at least 3 machines, and likely many more, as there probably aren't many Macs that can run more than about 4 major revisions of the OS.
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Where I work, they are somewhat flexible with what hours you want to work. We have some people who choose to come in at 9. Problem with that is generally then you would be expected to stay until 6.
Well, you do have OS X Server, which is a more expensive license that the regular OS X you're talking about. In that sense, the only OS that doesn't have multiple tiers at different prices is the various Linux and BSD distributions.
We were trading DRM-free music long before Apple had even conceived of the DRM-encumbered iPod and iTunes Music Store.
This is a terrible card for future-proofing. In a few years, it'll perform no better than the $100 cards, but will still be the same huge, hot, loud, power-sucking beast it's always been. Cards like this one are really only good for a couple of years, after that they're generally more trouble than their worth. Generally, it's the low-end video cards I have that I end up using the longest - obviously not in my main PC but they're the ones that get a second life in some secondary role.
The guy who replicates the most bullets?
Not, but marketing makes you think that nothing other than the Macbook can do that.
Don't worry, I'm sure they'll find a way to charge you with a crime.
Well, there are always applications where having a large amount of screen real estate is helpful. Thinks like spreadsheets, photo editors, and the like. Browsing a directory of images via thumbnail view is also a good reason to maximize a window.
Holy crap. What's next, a mouse with two physical buttons?
Actually, it's the current 20" monitors that are trash. 20" used to mean 1680x1050. Before that it meant 1600x1200. Now it means 1600x900. Why does monitor technology keep moving backwards?
I thought that no flash in IE 64 bit was a feature? That's the only version of IE I'll run on my machine.
Windows 2000 is well less than 1% by now. They've dropped support for it, which means that most corporate computers have probably migrated away from it by now (at least for PCs connected to the internet). Windows 2000 never really had a big marketshare among home users - my guess is that there are probably more Windows 98 computers out there than 2000 by now.
He was pretty annoying in Episode 2. I figure that Lucas must have decided to ramp him up to 11 as revenge for having to tone back Jar Jar.
Well, the manufacturers can't even be consistent. Flash memory cards and most flash thumb drives use the powers of 2 definition, The flash chips, if you look up the spec sheets, use power of 2. Yet when it comes to SSDs suddenly they use the power of 10 definition. Their marketing people should be dragged out and shot.
This only works if the drive can read and interpret the file system to know what's stored on it. This maybe will work with RAID 1, but certainly not with any of the other RAID levels.
I have a computer with an Intel 945GNT. The chipset supports the Core 2 processors, but the BIOS only supports the Socket 775 Pentium 4, Pentium D, and the associated Celerons. Dropping in one of the last generation Core 2 Duos could be a cheap and huge boost to that machine, if the board would take it.
As for Asus, their stuff is junk. I had a board (that was actually part of one of their barebones kits) where you couldn't manually set the memory speed, and it detected the speed of the installed memory wrong (too fast). The system therefore ran unstable, and there was nothing I could do about it.
A torch? What, you don't have a flashlight?
It looks to me like the actual tracking device is the radio-looking thing, and the big pipebomb looking thing is a battery pack.
How'd you get past the requirement of having at least a Pentium processor? The record worst hardware I know of running XP is a Pentium Overdrive, underclocked to 8 Mhz, with 18 MB of ram.
My guess is that you'd have a lot of trouble getting NT4 to run on any hardware that can run Windows 7. NT can't fall back on the BIOS like the DOS-based Windows can, and you'd have a real tough time finding storage and chipset drivers for any relatively modern hardware. You *might* get away with a high end P3 - just old enough to find NT drivers for it, and just new enough that it can slog through Windows 7, but I wouldn't count on it. So I'm guessing he went with the 95/98 path because it was a lot easier.
You really don't have to worry too much about drivers for Windows 95 as the DOS-based Windows can fall back onto the BIOS for things like accessing the disks if it needs to. It's slow as hell (or at least it was on period hardware), but that means it'll run on just about any recent x86 machine that's not a Mac. Windows 2000 is probably your biggest problem, as most new hardware has likely dropped support for it, though you might be able to get XP (which is still widely supported) drivers to work on it. I'd say your best bet is probably a high end P3 or earlier P4 (you might want to avoid Hyperthreading) system. 2003 is about perfect.
I don't think you would even need 3rd party utilities to do it. Start with a 2GB FAT16 partition in DOS 5 (which is possible). You could create multiple 2GB partitions if you wanted, but I don't know what that would gain for you so just leave the rest of the drive blank. When you get to Windows 98 you could convert to FAT32. You can get XP on a 2GB partition (it's a bit tight, it helps to have a small amount of ram to so that Windows doesn't try and create a huge page file). Once you're on XP convert the partition to NTFS, convert the disk to a dynamic disk and grow the partition out.
What, you don't like fire up old games like Doom for old times sake? Though admittedly, with a lot of those old DOS games sometimes it's just better to fire up period hardware, especially if you want sound to work. Not to mention the lower resolution graphics look much better on a CRT than a LCD.
Well, another way to look at is every Mac application from before 2005 will no longer run. Really isn't very impressive compared to Windows, where generally most applications from 1995 will still run.
You're still not going to be able to upgrade your way from the earliest version of the Mac OS to the latest OS X on the same machine. At the very least, you'll need at least 3 machines, and likely many more, as there probably aren't many Macs that can run more than about 4 major revisions of the OS.