So long as they are tied up in the computers like that, they're harmless. It's when they get buried and start leeching into the ground, should you start to worry.
I rented a Dodge Neon recently and got only 20mpg from it. (It must have had an old or badly tuned engine).
Something that I have noticed is that the American small cars like the Neon and Focus get terrible gas mileage, considering what kind of vehicle it is. Not surprisenly, cars like the Corolla and Civic get much better gas mileage.
Even if battery powered cars were the wave of the future, they will merely shift vehicular pollution from gas fired engines to.... coal fired power plants.
Well, today your electric car may be powered by a coal plant. Which I agree, is not a very good solution. But tomorrow, the electric company replaces that coal power plant with a clean, fusion power plant. And instantly, your coal-powered electric car is upgraded to a fusion-powered electric car - and you didn't even have to do a damn thing. Do you get it now?
A month a go I built a new system from components, which I got at Frys ( too impatient to wait for NewEgg ). 2/3 of the ~20 components had rebates. As i think back, it seems that ~ 1/2 of the things i ever bought at Frys had rebates. they even print the rebates on the cash register reciept for you.
Let me get this straight. You were too impatient for newegg.com, but you are willing to deal with the hassle of trying to collect on 13 to 14 rebates? That just boggles the mind.
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Slashdot is like crack - It's an addiction, man. So, despite the fact that Slashdot is taking a 1 day vacation, I'm still hanging around here.
Another solution is to defragment the drive. This will probably not stop a determined person from getting the data back. But if you let Windows manage the page file size, and the drive is mostly full, I would guess any file you delete would be pretty much gone after a full night of disk grinding by the Windows defragmenter.
You must of been running Winamp. Winamp must be one of the hardest programs ever to take down. I swear I can totally hose up the system, no response, frozen mouse cursor, corrupted screen - but my music just keeps playing as if all is fine.
My guess is that on screen you would probably find on an iPod video (read: tiny), you would be really hardpressed to tell the difference between the 300MB+ file, and one that had been recompressed down to less than 150MB. Even so, I would guess most people wouldn't bother spending the time reencoding the video for their iPod, and just throw the high quality version on it and be done.
Apple spent 20 years trying to tell people how great the Mac OS was. It's old hat.
Maybe they should try again, being that Mac OS X is actually great now? Many people, when they think of Mac OS, still think of the steaming pile of crap Apple had back in the 1990's. If they are a bit more in tune with things, the last thing they may remember hearing about is the disaster 10.0 initially was. Not everyone reads slashdot - Apple should be pushing 10.4/10.5/??? to the common folk.
The thing with computer science majors is that I would expect them to be in computer science because they have an interest in computers. Thus, they have played around with them some, and know a thing or to, despite the major actually being a bunch of abstract theory. This was mostly true until a few years ago.
But many of the current crop seemed to have chosen computer science just for the money, and don't know squat about computers. For example, I have had to help computer science majors in my school reinstall Windows. This wasn't something like tracking down some obscure driver conflict. I'm talking people who don't even know where to start.
That's exactly the reason I uninstalled Zonealarm. If you use any software like WinMX, Bittorrent, or any other P2P app - expect lock ups. If you don't run programs like that, you're probably OK. Kerio has a simular issue - lots of connections means high CPU usage (though I really like Kerio otherwise), and atleast Kerio doesn't take the system down with it. Sygate is the only free firewall that I have tried that seems to be able to handle high demands, and it's the firewall I currently have installed. Ditto on Windows firewall (never used it myself, but I have enabled it on other people's computers and it seems to do just fine).
Cheap power supplies are a gamble. Some of them are just fine - I've seen $20 specials go years with zero problems. I have also seen them cause all kinds of strange stability issues and fry components costing even more money. To me, it's just not worth the time or hassle to save as little as $50, it's cheaper and easier (in the long run) to buy a good power supply and be done with it. I guess it's a matter of how much your time is worth to you.
Not to say that all expensive power supplies are good - but I haven't had any problems with the well known, big names out there like Antec.
And your car analogy is flawed. Would you think an 18-24 year old is just as safe in a $500 clunker from the 80's than they would be in a newer, undoubtably more expensive car with airbags and ABS?
If I remember right, 98SE was supposed to be the last of the dos based OSes. But XP was taking too long, and Microsoft decided they needed some more money. So they threw some of the features that were going to be in XP onto 98SE (like system restore), removed all traces of DOS they could find, and called it ME. ME always seemed like a kludge, and it acted like it too.
The only real advantage I see to ME is that it has the USB mass storage device drivers built in, whereas Windows 98SE does not (and this is highly annoying to me). Also, I believe ME is still just barely still supported by Microsoft (I may be wrong on that though).
Hmm... bummer. I think Windows all the way up to Windows ME could read dblspace compressed drives, but I think support was dropped for XP (support probably never existed for the NT/2000 line in the first place). While it would be pretty neat to see that video again, don't go to too much trouble to try to read that disk. Besides, if you had to compress that drive, you probably already nuked that large video file anyway.
Yes, I do believe that is the one. Or maybe it had a slightly larger number (Legend 2050?) I think the Legend 2000 was a 486-33, which I saw a lot of back in those days.
Yeah, I had a friend who had one of the P75's. I was jealous of him at the time. But later I laughed at him when I built my 450Mhz AMD system, and he was still running the P75 (and by that time, I had long figured out that PB = junk).
The one I had was one of the last 486 models, which looked like the Pentium ones. I also remember the ones where you could change the gray plastic ripples to other colors - whatever suited your mood (and this was long before the iMac).
On a somewhat unrelated note, I remember a Packard Bell 486 I got around 1994 or so. This was supposed to be a multimedia PC, and Packard Bell decided Windows 3.1 wasn't flashy enough. So they had their own "Navigator" GUI that ran on top of Windows 3.1 that automatically started whenever the computer started up. And part of Navigator was this amusing and very cheesy video of a mime showing you how to use the computer. The video was over 40MB (if I remember right), and the computer had a 420MB harddrive, so this was a huge waste of space. Not to mention all the other space that the Navigator program took up. So after playing around with it for a bit, it got deleted.
If anyone has that video though, I would love to see it again. It's probably even funnier now than it was then.
"In Longhorn, applications will launch and load files 15 percent faster than with Windows XP."
How was the figure arrived at exactly? All applications and all files will load 15 percent faster?
It's just more bogus claims. Microsoft makes them for every one of their releases.
"Windows 95 is faster than Windows 3.1!" "Windows 98 is faster than Windows 95!" "Windows ME is faster than Windows 98!" "Windows 2000 is faster than the dos based Windows!" "Windows XP is faster than Windows 2000!"
And now... "The next Windows will be faster than XP!"
Now, Windows 3.1 screamed on a 486DX2 with 16MB of Ram. But Longhorn wouldn't even boot on that computer, and sounds like it is going to crawl on one that is 50 times faster than that 486.
I never said OS X invented the feature of entering an admin password to install software. You're attacking a strawman.
What I said was that OS X has that very same dialog which asks you to enter a password before installing software. Microsoft's dialog is nearly identical. They could have done any number of ways to ask for the password, from for instance one of their popup balloons to, well, anything else. But they instead chose to use an OS X-alike dialog.
So what? They both use a dialog box to ask for a password to install software. Maybe they both do it because it's the simpliest and most obvious way to do it? My Linux box has a very simular dialog box that pops up when I click on a.rpm file. There really isn't anything novel about how any OS does it.
1. They are usually the cheapest. I have seen them as cheap as $30-$40 at places like Target. Don't bother with the flash players that are in this price range.
2. They quite a bit, 700MB per disk. You can change out the disk anytime you like, no need to be at a computer to change songs.
3. They play the same media as the MP3 CD-based car stereos that are becoming more common.
4. They can play normal audio CDs.
The disadvantages include size, battery life, and no coolness factor.
Presumably with WMA, you could buy songs from any of the many stores that sell WMA files, and play them on any of the many MP3/WMA players out there that support DRM'd WMA files. Granted, you are still stuck with Microsoft's lousy format, and there isn't much freedom - but that's a lot more open than the iPod/iTunes combo.
Five years from now you'll want to replace it anyway, whether it has replaceable batteries or not. There will be something much cooler available by then.
Yeah, in five years from now, Apple might of gotten around to doing something really cool, like putting a screen on it!
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So long as they are tied up in the computers like that, they're harmless. It's when they get buried and start leeching into the ground, should you start to worry.
I rented a Dodge Neon recently and got only 20mpg from it. (It must have had an old or badly tuned engine).
Something that I have noticed is that the American small cars like the Neon and Focus get terrible gas mileage, considering what kind of vehicle it is. Not surprisenly, cars like the Corolla and Civic get much better gas mileage.
Even if battery powered cars were the wave of the future, they will merely shift vehicular pollution from gas fired engines to.... coal fired power plants.
Well, today your electric car may be powered by a coal plant. Which I agree, is not a very good solution. But tomorrow, the electric company replaces that coal power plant with a clean, fusion power plant. And instantly, your coal-powered electric car is upgraded to a fusion-powered electric car - and you didn't even have to do a damn thing. Do you get it now?
A month a go I built a new system from components, which I got at Frys ( too impatient to wait for NewEgg ). 2/3 of the ~20 components had rebates. As i think back, it seems that ~ 1/2 of the things i ever bought at Frys had rebates. they even print the rebates on the cash register reciept for you.
Let me get this straight. You were too impatient for newegg.com, but you are willing to deal with the hassle of trying to collect on 13 to 14 rebates? That just boggles the mind.
Slashdot is like crack - It's an addiction, man. So, despite the fact that Slashdot is taking a 1 day vacation, I'm still hanging around here.
Yes, I know. It's pathetic.
Another solution is to defragment the drive. This will probably not stop a determined person from getting the data back. But if you let Windows manage the page file size, and the drive is mostly full, I would guess any file you delete would be pretty much gone after a full night of disk grinding by the Windows defragmenter.
I highly doubt you're running that iMac at 1600 x 1050 resolution. If you are, and on the stock monitor... well, your eyes are way better than mine!
You must of been running Winamp. Winamp must be one of the hardest programs ever to take down. I swear I can totally hose up the system, no response, frozen mouse cursor, corrupted screen - but my music just keeps playing as if all is fine.
Every Sony computer display I have ever seen has had a great picture, whether it was a CRT or LCD.
Though, sometimes I wonder about Sony's gaming unit, it seems the Playstations have had had a lot more problems than any of Sony's other products.
I guess to be fair though, I have a Sony Watchman (portable LCD TV) with a stuck pixel. Being a portable TV it has never bothered me.
My guess is that on screen you would probably find on an iPod video (read: tiny), you would be really hardpressed to tell the difference between the 300MB+ file, and one that had been recompressed down to less than 150MB. Even so, I would guess most people wouldn't bother spending the time reencoding the video for their iPod, and just throw the high quality version on it and be done.
Apple spent 20 years trying to tell people how great the Mac OS was. It's old hat.
Maybe they should try again, being that Mac OS X is actually great now? Many people, when they think of Mac OS, still think of the steaming pile of crap Apple had back in the 1990's. If they are a bit more in tune with things, the last thing they may remember hearing about is the disaster 10.0 initially was. Not everyone reads slashdot - Apple should be pushing 10.4/10.5/??? to the common folk.
The thing with computer science majors is that I would expect them to be in computer science because they have an interest in computers. Thus, they have played around with them some, and know a thing or to, despite the major actually being a bunch of abstract theory. This was mostly true until a few years ago.
But many of the current crop seemed to have chosen computer science just for the money, and don't know squat about computers. For example, I have had to help computer science majors in my school reinstall Windows. This wasn't something like tracking down some obscure driver conflict. I'm talking people who don't even know where to start.
That's exactly the reason I uninstalled Zonealarm. If you use any software like WinMX, Bittorrent, or any other P2P app - expect lock ups. If you don't run programs like that, you're probably OK. Kerio has a simular issue - lots of connections means high CPU usage (though I really like Kerio otherwise), and atleast Kerio doesn't take the system down with it. Sygate is the only free firewall that I have tried that seems to be able to handle high demands, and it's the firewall I currently have installed. Ditto on Windows firewall (never used it myself, but I have enabled it on other people's computers and it seems to do just fine).
Cheap power supplies are a gamble. Some of them are just fine - I've seen $20 specials go years with zero problems. I have also seen them cause all kinds of strange stability issues and fry components costing even more money. To me, it's just not worth the time or hassle to save as little as $50, it's cheaper and easier (in the long run) to buy a good power supply and be done with it. I guess it's a matter of how much your time is worth to you.
Not to say that all expensive power supplies are good - but I haven't had any problems with the well known, big names out there like Antec.
And your car analogy is flawed. Would you think an 18-24 year old is just as safe in a $500 clunker from the 80's than they would be in a newer, undoubtably more expensive car with airbags and ABS?
Have you tried Oldversion.com?
I have version 5 installed on some of my computers, though I have yet to find anything in a PDF file that Ghostscript/Ghostview can't handle.
If I remember right, 98SE was supposed to be the last of the dos based OSes. But XP was taking too long, and Microsoft decided they needed some more money. So they threw some of the features that were going to be in XP onto 98SE (like system restore), removed all traces of DOS they could find, and called it ME. ME always seemed like a kludge, and it acted like it too.
The only real advantage I see to ME is that it has the USB mass storage device drivers built in, whereas Windows 98SE does not (and this is highly annoying to me). Also, I believe ME is still just barely still supported by Microsoft (I may be wrong on that though).
Hmm... bummer. I think Windows all the way up to Windows ME could read dblspace compressed drives, but I think support was dropped for XP (support probably never existed for the NT/2000 line in the first place). While it would be pretty neat to see that video again, don't go to too much trouble to try to read that disk. Besides, if you had to compress that drive, you probably already nuked that large video file anyway.
Yes, I do believe that is the one. Or maybe it had a slightly larger number (Legend 2050?) I think the Legend 2000 was a 486-33, which I saw a lot of back in those days.
Yeah, I had a friend who had one of the P75's. I was jealous of him at the time. But later I laughed at him when I built my 450Mhz AMD system, and he was still running the P75 (and by that time, I had long figured out that PB = junk).
The one I had was one of the last 486 models, which looked like the Pentium ones. I also remember the ones where you could change the gray plastic ripples to other colors - whatever suited your mood (and this was long before the iMac).
On a somewhat unrelated note, I remember a Packard Bell 486 I got around 1994 or so. This was supposed to be a multimedia PC, and Packard Bell decided Windows 3.1 wasn't flashy enough. So they had their own "Navigator" GUI that ran on top of Windows 3.1 that automatically started whenever the computer started up. And part of Navigator was this amusing and very cheesy video of a mime showing you how to use the computer. The video was over 40MB (if I remember right), and the computer had a 420MB harddrive, so this was a huge waste of space. Not to mention all the other space that the Navigator program took up. So after playing around with it for a bit, it got deleted.
If anyone has that video though, I would love to see it again. It's probably even funnier now than it was then.
"In Longhorn, applications will launch and load files 15 percent faster than with Windows XP."
How was the figure arrived at exactly? All applications and all files will load 15 percent faster?
It's just more bogus claims. Microsoft makes them for every one of their releases.
"Windows 95 is faster than Windows 3.1!"
"Windows 98 is faster than Windows 95!"
"Windows ME is faster than Windows 98!"
"Windows 2000 is faster than the dos based Windows!"
"Windows XP is faster than Windows 2000!"
And now...
"The next Windows will be faster than XP!"
Now, Windows 3.1 screamed on a 486DX2 with 16MB of Ram. But Longhorn wouldn't even boot on that computer, and sounds like it is going to crawl on one that is 50 times faster than that 486.
I never said OS X invented the feature of entering an admin password to install software. You're attacking a strawman.
.rpm file. There really isn't anything novel about how any OS does it.
What I said was that OS X has that very same dialog which asks you to enter a password before installing software. Microsoft's dialog is nearly identical. They could have done any number of ways to ask for the password, from for instance one of their popup balloons to, well, anything else. But they instead chose to use an OS X-alike dialog.
So what? They both use a dialog box to ask for a password to install software. Maybe they both do it because it's the simpliest and most obvious way to do it? My Linux box has a very simular dialog box that pops up when I click on a
CD based MP3 players also have other advantages:
1. They are usually the cheapest. I have seen them as cheap as $30-$40 at places like Target. Don't bother with the flash players that are in this price range.
2. They quite a bit, 700MB per disk. You can change out the disk anytime you like, no need to be at a computer to change songs.
3. They play the same media as the MP3 CD-based car stereos that are becoming more common.
4. They can play normal audio CDs.
The disadvantages include size, battery life, and no coolness factor.
Presumably with WMA, you could buy songs from any of the many stores that sell WMA files, and play them on any of the many MP3/WMA players out there that support DRM'd WMA files. Granted, you are still stuck with Microsoft's lousy format, and there isn't much freedom - but that's a lot more open than the iPod/iTunes combo.
Five years from now you'll want to replace it anyway, whether it has replaceable batteries or not. There will be something much cooler available by then.
Yeah, in five years from now, Apple might of gotten around to doing something really cool, like putting a screen on it!