why don't more sites use a simple query tool like newegg's?
Actually, Newegg's search is pretty annoying. Try doing a search using their interface for something like all the different series of ATI Radeon 9600 cards with 128MB or 256MB of ram. Not that EMusic's way of doing things is much better.
I've gotten a Windows 95 system up to the fabled 49.7 days. Even did some web browsing, chatting, Photoshopping, and used a scanner that was attached to it too. I didn't decide to go for a the record until I noticed it had been up for about 3.5 weeks, then I decided to see if it would go all the way. It made it, still worked fine right to the end.
Ironically, that's the record holder I have for any of my Windows systems. 2000/XP are far more stable, but I usually end up rebooting them for some reason long before 49 days.
Then the obvious solution would be to send them some emails (be sure to document this!) Then, they will even look worse in the eyes of the judge when they ignored your emails in addition to not doing their homework.
Actually, the problem is unpatched Windows XP and 2000 systems. Many of the new viruses and virtually every new worm that come out now don't affect the older systems. I bet 5-10 years from now, the few Win9x systems still hanging around the internet will be completely ignored.
Something I discovered is when you click on the "Site Info" button, one of the statistics it gives out is a site's speed. I found this pretty interesting. Amazon.com is listed as "Slow". Microsoft.com is "Very Slow". A9.com is merely "Average", but Google.com is "Fast". Gentoo.org is "Very Fast", so go figure.
The slowest site I could find so far is Tripod.com, in the 4th percentile. The fastest site so far is goat.cx (don't ask) in the 97th percentile.
Typing in "search engine" doesn't even yield A9 in the first page of results. Actually, after playing around in A9 some, I kind of like it. Sure, it's a bit more bloated than Google - but with 2Mbit DSL I don't notice it, and the extra bloat is actually useful.
Supposedly, Win95 can run run up to IE 5.5 - though I don't have any idea where you'll find it to download.
But now that you have Firefox, I wouldn't bother with updating. (I have a Win95 system here too, and it doesn't even have IE installed! Take that Gates!)
You'd be surprised at what people will steal. My roommate at college had an old bike. It was a no-name Schwinn knockoff made back in the 70's. It was rusty, crappy as hell, and the back tire wasn't even round. He had it chained up, and someone cut the chain and stole it. When he told me about it, instead of saying something like "Sorry about your bike", I laughed out loud. He didn't see the humor though.
People will steal old beater cars too. They chop them up as there is high demand for parts for some older cars (like Hondas and Toyotas). They are usually pretty easy to get open and started too, for kids that like to go cruising around town. And sometimes a criminal just needs a car - any car will do - and yours happens to be the one most convienent to take.
Even if your college NAT'd the dorms, some clown would bring an infected windows computer and infect everyone else anyway. The only way around it would be to NAT each room individually, or something like that.
I think the idea is a "hybrid" with more of an emphasis on the electric part. You'll plug it in at night, and will be able to get 50-60mi on the electric battery and motor alone. If you need to go further, take a long trip, or accelerate hard - no problem. The gasoline will kick in at that point.
I've always wondered why the current crop of hybrids don't let you plug them in. I bet you'd be able to pick up a few MPG just by topping off the batteries every night.
Even better - what if the grandparent wanted to steal some data? I'm sure he probably has access to data on many workstations and servers. He controls the email system and the intrusion alert - so he doesn't have to worry about tripping that. And being the computer guy, I'm sure no one would think twice if they saw him with a screwdriver taking a computer apart.
I guess the point is, you can restrict some people, but you still have to trust your administrators.
I would just put the parts in an insulated box (not too insulated, but enough). As long as you never shut the thing off, you wouldn't have to worry much about the cold. Do it right, and you could probably keep the temperature of the whole system from fluctuating much at all.
My guess is that due to power restraints, the computer spends most of it's time powered off, or atleast in an extremely low power state.
I don't really think that has anything to do with what I was commenting on.
On Slashdot, the logic applied to stories about browser usage go like this:
"[Major website] shows that Mozilla is 1% of the browser market." --> "That can't be right! It's because everyone is changing their user agents!"
"[Niche website] shows that Mozilla is 20% of the browser market." --> "Damn right! Next year more people will be using Mozilla than IE!"
If we can assume the percentage of people who browse with a fake MSIE user agent in Firefox stays roughly the same over time, then we can still study the numbers to see trends. (ie. While we don't know the exact percentages, it would seem that Firefox usage has gone up 50% in the last year.)
Now, if you have some reason to believe that no one is actually switching to Firefox - just all the existing users suddenly switched their user agents from MSIE, I'd like to know.
Actually, IE6 works pretty well on older computers. Stuff like old Pentium MMX's and K6's. Probably has to do with the fact that IE has changed little since those computers were new.
Why would a power cable make much of the difference? Sure, you can change the $.49 standard black power cable to a $49.99 Monster Cable, but that doesn't change the many feet of wiring in the walls of your house, nor the miles of wiring from your house to the closest power plant. So why would the last 5 feet make a significant difference?
Now I have seen those expensive power supplies, and I can believe cleaning up the power can help the sound quality. But really, any decent equipment is going to filter or otherwise compensate for bad power (up to a point), leaving the cheap stuff as the equipment most likely to benefit from a power supply that costs 10 times as much as the stereo plugged into it.
Maybe you should try Winamp 5 Lite, which doesn't have the video player, media library, modern skin support, and a lot of the bloat?
Besides, to all those people that want Winamp 2 back because it was "less bloated": Winamp 2 also had things like the minibrowser, and video player. Maybe you want Winamp 1?
I think the grandparent's point is that if you don't get the floppy, but later decide you need one, you're pretty screwed due to Dell's crappy case designs.
Besides, no one is forcing you to use a floppy disk anyway.
If you know what the security hole is, you may still be able to lessen your risk without the patch. Say Microsoft says there is a security hole in service XYZ that listens on port 1234, and the patch will be out in 2 weeks. The premium customers know this, and can either disable service XYZ or block port 1234 to reduce their risk, but everyone else is out of the loop.
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...for the first computer in existence that met Longhorn's minimum system requirements!
With only 512MB of ram?
why don't more sites use a simple query tool like newegg's?
Actually, Newegg's search is pretty annoying. Try doing a search using their interface for something like all the different series of ATI Radeon 9600 cards with 128MB or 256MB of ram. Not that EMusic's way of doing things is much better.
It's not the Hard Drive manufacturers that need to stop the practice, it's all the users who dont know what a GB is.
Keep in mind that the Hard Drive manufacturers were the ones who started all this nonsense in the first place.
I've gotten a Windows 95 system up to the fabled 49.7 days. Even did some web browsing, chatting, Photoshopping, and used a scanner that was attached to it too. I didn't decide to go for a the record until I noticed it had been up for about 3.5 weeks, then I decided to see if it would go all the way. It made it, still worked fine right to the end.
Ironically, that's the record holder I have for any of my Windows systems. 2000/XP are far more stable, but I usually end up rebooting them for some reason long before 49 days.
Then the obvious solution would be to send them some emails (be sure to document this!) Then, they will even look worse in the eyes of the judge when they ignored your emails in addition to not doing their homework.
It's too late. Sun has already gotten in bed with MS.
I'm sure if IBM really wanted to buy Sun, not even Microsoft could stop them.
Actually, the problem is unpatched Windows XP and 2000 systems. Many of the new viruses and virtually every new worm that come out now don't affect the older systems. I bet 5-10 years from now, the few Win9x systems still hanging around the internet will be completely ignored.
Excuse me while I kiss my Mac, 21 years and only 1 virus.
Likewise, a 21 year old PC is also pretty much immune to any virus flying around the internet nowadays.
Keep in mind that these are only the ones they told us about!
Something I discovered is when you click on the "Site Info" button, one of the statistics it gives out is a site's speed. I found this pretty interesting. Amazon.com is listed as "Slow". Microsoft.com is "Very Slow". A9.com is merely "Average", but Google.com is "Fast". Gentoo.org is "Very Fast", so go figure.
The slowest site I could find so far is Tripod.com, in the 4th percentile. The fastest site so far is goat.cx (don't ask) in the 97th percentile.
Typing in "search engine" doesn't even yield A9 in the first page of results. Actually, after playing around in A9 some, I kind of like it. Sure, it's a bit more bloated than Google - but with 2Mbit DSL I don't notice it, and the extra bloat is actually useful.
Supposedly, Win95 can run run up to IE 5.5 - though I don't have any idea where you'll find it to download.
But now that you have Firefox, I wouldn't bother with updating. (I have a Win95 system here too, and it doesn't even have IE installed! Take that Gates!)
You'd be surprised at what people will steal. My roommate at college had an old bike. It was a no-name Schwinn knockoff made back in the 70's. It was rusty, crappy as hell, and the back tire wasn't even round. He had it chained up, and someone cut the chain and stole it. When he told me about it, instead of saying something like "Sorry about your bike", I laughed out loud. He didn't see the humor though.
People will steal old beater cars too. They chop them up as there is high demand for parts for some older cars (like Hondas and Toyotas). They are usually pretty easy to get open and started too, for kids that like to go cruising around town. And sometimes a criminal just needs a car - any car will do - and yours happens to be the one most convienent to take.
Even if your college NAT'd the dorms, some clown would bring an infected windows computer and infect everyone else anyway. The only way around it would be to NAT each room individually, or something like that.
I think the idea is a "hybrid" with more of an emphasis on the electric part. You'll plug it in at night, and will be able to get 50-60mi on the electric battery and motor alone. If you need to go further, take a long trip, or accelerate hard - no problem. The gasoline will kick in at that point.
I've always wondered why the current crop of hybrids don't let you plug them in. I bet you'd be able to pick up a few MPG just by topping off the batteries every night.
Even better - what if the grandparent wanted to steal some data? I'm sure he probably has access to data on many workstations and servers. He controls the email system and the intrusion alert - so he doesn't have to worry about tripping that. And being the computer guy, I'm sure no one would think twice if they saw him with a screwdriver taking a computer apart.
I guess the point is, you can restrict some people, but you still have to trust your administrators.
Okay, this is getting offtopic. But anyway...
Along the same lines as the flash animation:
Hunt the Boeing!
Also, do a search for WTC 7, a building which "collapsed" hours after the Sept 11th attacks, under what most certainly was a controlled implosion.
I would just put the parts in an insulated box (not too insulated, but enough). As long as you never shut the thing off, you wouldn't have to worry much about the cold. Do it right, and you could probably keep the temperature of the whole system from fluctuating much at all.
My guess is that due to power restraints, the computer spends most of it's time powered off, or atleast in an extremely low power state.
I don't really think that has anything to do with what I was commenting on.
On Slashdot, the logic applied to stories about browser usage go like this:
"[Major website] shows that Mozilla is 1% of the browser market." --> "That can't be right! It's because everyone is changing their user agents!"
"[Niche website] shows that Mozilla is 20% of the browser market." --> "Damn right! Next year more people will be using Mozilla than IE!"
If we can assume the percentage of people who browse with a fake MSIE user agent in Firefox stays roughly the same over time, then we can still study the numbers to see trends. (ie. While we don't know the exact percentages, it would seem that Firefox usage has gone up 50% in the last year.)
Now, if you have some reason to believe that no one is actually switching to Firefox - just all the existing users suddenly switched their user agents from MSIE, I'd like to know.
Actually, IE6 works pretty well on older computers. Stuff like old Pentium MMX's and K6's. Probably has to do with the fact that IE has changed little since those computers were new.
62 + 12 + 6 = 80%, which also tells us that 20% of your visitors aren't using a computer.
Hey, are you making fun of my Amiga?!?
Why would a power cable make much of the difference? Sure, you can change the $.49 standard black power cable to a $49.99 Monster Cable, but that doesn't change the many feet of wiring in the walls of your house, nor the miles of wiring from your house to the closest power plant. So why would the last 5 feet make a significant difference?
Now I have seen those expensive power supplies, and I can believe cleaning up the power can help the sound quality. But really, any decent equipment is going to filter or otherwise compensate for bad power (up to a point), leaving the cheap stuff as the equipment most likely to benefit from a power supply that costs 10 times as much as the stereo plugged into it.
Maybe you should try Winamp 5 Lite, which doesn't have the video player, media library, modern skin support, and a lot of the bloat?
Besides, to all those people that want Winamp 2 back because it was "less bloated": Winamp 2 also had things like the minibrowser, and video player. Maybe you want Winamp 1?
I think the grandparent's point is that if you don't get the floppy, but later decide you need one, you're pretty screwed due to Dell's crappy case designs.
Besides, no one is forcing you to use a floppy disk anyway.
If you know what the security hole is, you may still be able to lessen your risk without the patch. Say Microsoft says there is a security hole in service XYZ that listens on port 1234, and the patch will be out in 2 weeks. The premium customers know this, and can either disable service XYZ or block port 1234 to reduce their risk, but everyone else is out of the loop.