Well you had Windows 95. Then there was a service pack that updated it to Windows 95a. This is the only service pack that I'm aware of that you can download for free in the whole 9x/ME series.
There was 95b, and eventually 95c. The only way to get these versions legally was purchase it as an OEM copy with a new computer. You could not update 95/95a, nor was there even standalone version that you could buy (legally that is, there were plenty of places willing to sell you an OEM copy without a hardware purchase though). You couldn't update 95b to 95c either, though you could download updates that would effectively turn a 95b into a 95c install.
Then there was Windows 98, followed up by 98SE. While 98SE kind of is a service pack for the original 98, you could not update 98 to 98SE without going out and buying 98SE. So I really don't consider 98SE to be a service pack in the sense that XP SP2 is.
And as far as I know, there was no major updates to the shortlived disaster known as Windows ME, though it really isn't that different of an OS from 98SE to begin with.
So really, service packs are more of a NT-based thing.
No. You can get away with terrorism and live, it's just that so far all the terrorists have been either idiots ( McVeigh ), or only doing terrorism as a means to get their 70 virgins in paradise. ( idiots of another stripe ) They WANTED to die in the act.
What about the terrorist[s] that sent out the anthrax in the mail shortly after 9/11? They caused a lot of hysteria at the time, and got away with it. Now it seems everyone has forgotten about the anthrax. Subtle?
100,000 writes isn't gonna last long in todays bandwidth intensive video/mp3 world
I don't know about you, but I generally don't edit or move around my mp3 and video files much. Generally I copy them once to the drive somewhere, and after that they are just read when I play them. I don't even defrag my mp3/video partitions (what's the point?) The things that are going to kill a flash drive the quickest are the swap file/partition, and the web browser's cache.
Sadly, Opera has gotten a lot like Windows XP - the default install is just ugh, and I spend a lot of time customizing Opera 7.5 to look and feel like it did back in the 5.x days. It's still my favorite browser though.
My current computer has 280GB of storage. 10 years ago my computer had 200MB. It wouldn't surprise me that much if the computer I have in 2014 has ~200TB of storage.
If it really is a "Starter" edition, then I would imagine they would make it really easy to upgrade to the Home/Pro editions. But then again, it is made by Microsoft.
I don't see it as that bad. What else are you going to do with the empty Predicta shells after cannibalizing the sets to restore other Predictas to original working condition?
If they did that, the computer would probably weigh a ton, or close to it. Not to mention the cost. If I was a millionaire though, I would skip copper and go straight to solid silver. But that's just me.
Holly cow, that's bigger than ALL of windows 98! I know there are a TON of improvements in SP2 but the size is kind of crazy, I guess SUS would have been a good idea even at small clients =)
That's it! SP2 is just a full install of Windows 98SE attached to a small program that silently deletes XP and installs 98SE in it's place. I guess it really is more secure!
Sure, IE6 may have a larger marketshare now than it did a few years ago, but it has a smaller marketshare than it did a few weeks ago. The only thing holding IE at the top right now is inertia, and Microsoft knows that won't last forever.
The problem is that as long as IE continues to stagnate, the number of people switching is just going to increase. As other browsers start picking up users, things are going to start snowballing. And how many people, once they get used to Firefox/Mozilla/Opera/Safari/??? are going to switch back to the outdated IE6? Very few. Microsoft needs an improved IE7 to try to win them back.
but having 2x 200gb and using raid0 (with vinum for example) for nonrelevant data (mp3s, movies etc.) should be no problem and not worth a discussion.
Using Raid-0 for mass storage of MP3's and movies doesn't make any sense at all. RAID-0 is all about speed, and movies and especially MP3's don't need much speed, maybe 1MB/s tops for high quality video. You'd be better off splitting the drives up, so when one of them fails you'll lose only half of your music/movies/pr0n instead of all of it.
I see two possible uses for RAID-0, either for a high speed scratch partition for something like a video editing machine, or to get that extra 1% FPS on a gaming machine where no important data is being stored anyway. For MP3's and video, I prefer to use single 5400RPM drives as they generally run cool and quiet, and I don't need the speed. However, it's getting harder and harder to find 5400RPM drives now.
I don't think we'll ever see robotic controlled vehicles on the highways. Too much liability for any manufacturer to build them because the lawyers will have a field day when the first person is killed by a robotic vehicle.
Someone needs to make an "old school" destroy-the-computer virus combined with modern delivery methods. Millions of zombies all over the internet would suddenly be silenced, and after losing all their pr0n and mp3's, people might start caring about system security again. And undoubtably, lots of good hardware will end up on the curb for me to pick up and use.
It's crazy. I wasted a few minutes last week searching through my Gmail spam archive trying to find a word that didn't appear anywhere, and came up with very few successes. If nothing else, Gmail is probably the world's biggest and most accurate archive of spam.
Wow, you just came up with a new form of Googlewhacking! I'm impressed!
What if I put a system in the company panel van and blasted it? Can a taxi cab driver have the radio on without paying up? Where will the insanity end?
I've used a keyboard like that before. I don't know if other people type like me, but I always hit the left side of the space bar on a standard keyboard. Needless to say, having a backspace there instead drove me absolutely nuts.
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Despite my tendency to vote Republican, I agree on this issue--EITHER you tax corporations fairly or not at all. Personally, I would rather see a flat tax on all corps: 10% should do nicely. Walmart would save money by not having to hire so many accountants to try to figure out how to avoid taxes, and the gov't would get more money.
10% of what? Even a flat tax still has problems. Even if you were to say something simple like 10% of revenue, the corporations would still have teams of accountants busy trying to figure out how to hide thousands/millions/billions of revenue from the IRS.
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Well you had Windows 95. Then there was a service pack that updated it to Windows 95a. This is the only service pack that I'm aware of that you can download for free in the whole 9x/ME series.
There was 95b, and eventually 95c. The only way to get these versions legally was purchase it as an OEM copy with a new computer. You could not update 95/95a, nor was there even standalone version that you could buy (legally that is, there were plenty of places willing to sell you an OEM copy without a hardware purchase though). You couldn't update 95b to 95c either, though you could download updates that would effectively turn a 95b into a 95c install.
Then there was Windows 98, followed up by 98SE. While 98SE kind of is a service pack for the original 98, you could not update 98 to 98SE without going out and buying 98SE. So I really don't consider 98SE to be a service pack in the sense that XP SP2 is.
And as far as I know, there was no major updates to the shortlived disaster known as Windows ME, though it really isn't that different of an OS from 98SE to begin with.
So really, service packs are more of a NT-based thing.
No. You can get away with terrorism and live, it's just that so far all the terrorists have been either idiots ( McVeigh ), or only doing terrorism as a means to get their 70 virgins in paradise. ( idiots of another stripe ) They WANTED to die in the act.
What about the terrorist[s] that sent out the anthrax in the mail shortly after 9/11? They caused a lot of hysteria at the time, and got away with it. Now it seems everyone has forgotten about the anthrax. Subtle?
100,000 writes isn't gonna last long in todays bandwidth intensive video/mp3 world
I don't know about you, but I generally don't edit or move around my mp3 and video files much. Generally I copy them once to the drive somewhere, and after that they are just read when I play them. I don't even defrag my mp3/video partitions (what's the point?) The things that are going to kill a flash drive the quickest are the swap file/partition, and the web browser's cache.
Sadly, Opera has gotten a lot like Windows XP - the default install is just ugh, and I spend a lot of time customizing Opera 7.5 to look and feel like it did back in the 5.x days. It's still my favorite browser though.
My current computer has 280GB of storage. 10 years ago my computer had 200MB. It wouldn't surprise me that much if the computer I have in 2014 has ~200TB of storage.
If it really is a "Starter" edition, then I would imagine they would make it really easy to upgrade to the Home/Pro editions. But then again, it is made by Microsoft.
I don't see it as that bad. What else are you going to do with the empty Predicta shells after cannibalizing the sets to restore other Predictas to original working condition?
If they did that, the computer would probably weigh a ton, or close to it. Not to mention the cost. If I was a millionaire though, I would skip copper and go straight to solid silver. But that's just me.
I'll hold off updating to SP2 until after I finish downloading all that pr0n I have queued on my P2P clients.
Or in other words, you're going to run SP1 forever?
Holly cow, that's bigger than ALL of windows 98! I know there are a TON of improvements in SP2 but the size is kind of crazy, I guess SUS would have been a good idea even at small clients =)
That's it! SP2 is just a full install of Windows 98SE attached to a small program that silently deletes XP and installs 98SE in it's place. I guess it really is more secure!
Sure, IE6 may have a larger marketshare now than it did a few years ago, but it has a smaller marketshare than it did a few weeks ago. The only thing holding IE at the top right now is inertia, and Microsoft knows that won't last forever.
The problem is that as long as IE continues to stagnate, the number of people switching is just going to increase. As other browsers start picking up users, things are going to start snowballing. And how many people, once they get used to Firefox/Mozilla/Opera/Safari/??? are going to switch back to the outdated IE6? Very few. Microsoft needs an improved IE7 to try to win them back.
but having 2x 200gb and using raid0 (with vinum for example) for nonrelevant data (mp3s, movies etc.) should be no problem and not worth a discussion.
Using Raid-0 for mass storage of MP3's and movies doesn't make any sense at all. RAID-0 is all about speed, and movies and especially MP3's don't need much speed, maybe 1MB/s tops for high quality video. You'd be better off splitting the drives up, so when one of them fails you'll lose only half of your music/movies/pr0n instead of all of it.
I see two possible uses for RAID-0, either for a high speed scratch partition for something like a video editing machine, or to get that extra 1% FPS on a gaming machine where no important data is being stored anyway. For MP3's and video, I prefer to use single 5400RPM drives as they generally run cool and quiet, and I don't need the speed. However, it's getting harder and harder to find 5400RPM drives now.
You mean that site had pop ups? Gee, I didn't notice.
I cannot think of a more useless waste of time than sitting down and watching an NFL game.
I can. How about a major league baseball game?
I don't think we'll ever see robotic controlled vehicles on the highways. Too much liability for any manufacturer to build them because the lawyers will have a field day when the first person is killed by a robotic vehicle.
Someone needs to make an "old school" destroy-the-computer virus combined with modern delivery methods. Millions of zombies all over the internet would suddenly be silenced, and after losing all their pr0n and mp3's, people might start caring about system security again. And undoubtably, lots of good hardware will end up on the curb for me to pick up and use.
It's crazy. I wasted a few minutes last week searching through my Gmail spam archive trying to find a word that didn't appear anywhere, and came up with very few successes. If nothing else, Gmail is probably the world's biggest and most accurate archive of spam.
Wow, you just came up with a new form of Googlewhacking! I'm impressed!
Apple purposely disabled all other formats due to licenseing costs.
If this was true, then why would Apple disable OGG support?
What if I put a system in the company panel van and blasted it? Can a taxi cab driver have the radio on without paying up? Where will the insanity end?
The filter at home does just the opposite thing. I pour water through it and I get coffee. Weird indeed.
I think you got it upside down. Try turning it over.
I've used a keyboard like that before. I don't know if other people type like me, but I always hit the left side of the space bar on a standard keyboard. Needless to say, having a backspace there instead drove me absolutely nuts.
Despite my tendency to vote Republican, I agree on this issue--EITHER you tax corporations fairly or not at all. Personally, I would rather see a flat tax on all corps: 10% should do nicely. Walmart would save money by not having to hire so many accountants to try to figure out how to avoid taxes, and the gov't would get more money.
10% of what? Even a flat tax still has problems. Even if you were to say something simple like 10% of revenue, the corporations would still have teams of accountants busy trying to figure out how to hide thousands/millions/billions of revenue from the IRS.
Until then, it's just a hobby.
tell that to the engineers who work at a large corporation
Engineers wear special shoes?
Are you sure you aren't confused with an advertisment for a Nissan?