Going along with that theme, perhaps Firefox should also detect when a new story is posted to slashdot and automatically do a first post? Now that would be cool.
2K may run, but it will be a dog. You'd better have a fast hard drive if you are going to try it. You'd be better off with Win95 in most cases. Besides, Win95 without Outlook and IE integrated makes it immune from most of the Windows exploits anyway.
That's an interesting looking little player. My only question is, how do you charge the battery? It looks like it comes with a non-standard battery with a charger that's only going to work in Korea.
The power meter at my house recently got replaced with a digital one not to long ago. Instead of analog gauges, it has LCD readouts - stuff like that. While I don't know its capabilities, it wouldn't surprise me at all if the power company is now able to kill my power remotely with a few keystrokes. So I find the story believable.
I have to wonder if anyone who suggests setting up Windows like that has actually tried it and used it. Everyone I know that has tried that approach usually gives up in a short amount of time and just runs as a full blown Administrator. Multiple users on Windows still seems like a hack on top of their old single user, non-networked, Dos-based OSes to me.
That's the same thing I have found. Win2K and XP will install and run on a 128MB machine, but the difference from adding another 128MB of memory is like night and day. Especially on the crappy low end Celeron systems that typically ship out with 128MB.
Someone really needs to go out and combine a worm with an old-school virus. It would be pretty simple, it would infect a computer, and after a few hours of trying to spread itself, it would trash the hard drive. Maybe some of these people will wake up after losing all of their data, maybe not. Atleast a worm/virus like this would kill off a lot of zombies out there that have been up for months spewing crap.
Actually, the reason for the speed limiter in the GXE and GLE is that different tires were sold with the GXE and GLE. I know it's easy to change them, but there are legal issues too. Also, I should note that the GXE, GLE, and SE have different suspensions. The SE has a sportier one, the GLE has one designed to smooth out the bumps, and if I recall right the GXE has one a lot like the GLE.
Don't forget to charge up your batteries for an electric car with that electricity created by coal. Coal accounts for 50%+ of the electricity in the US.
Atleast we mine coal locally here in the US, and generally coal power plants are cleaner than gasoline powered cars. But the original point stands, electric vehicles aren't the answer to our dependence on fossil fuels.
Sorry about the slow reply, but the copy of Windows 95b I had would install windows, reboot, then launch the IE 4.0 installation. At this point I just reset the computer, and enjoyed windows without IE.
You could go to www.retrobox.com - they sell OS-less used computers for cheap. You won't get something blazing fast, but high end P-III systems sell for under $200.
I don't get it. Vans and minivans get better gas mileage (worse than a car, but better than most SUVs), are safer, a lot more comfortable, and are bigger too. Yet it seems like people like you have never heard of them. I find that most people who "need" a SUV would be better off with a van, with the exception of the very few that need to tow large loads or actually have to go off road.
Probably because IE was already loaded into your laptop's minimal amount of memory, so when you anything but IE you had two browsers in memory. For older computers that want to run Windows on, I find that Windows 95b (without IE), and Opera 5 work really well.
I can see people not using IE due to ignorance/fear of unpopular software, but who doesn't use a pop-up blocker? Sheesh. I can't believe those things are still around.
I have seen plenty of pop up blockers that install malware, which spews up plenty of its own pop ups. I really don't know why people put up with it.
Actually if I remember correctly there where some people that claimed the Pentium was slower than the 486 when it first came out.
If I remember right, the first Pentiums were hugely expensive, so everyone just bought the high end 486's. Also, the first Pentiums were a disaster, it wasn't until the Pentium 75 and socket 5 that Intel got it right. Why get a Pentium 60, when for less money you can get a cooler, faster, 486DX4-100? But stick that 486 against a Pentium of the same speed and the Pentium was a clear winner.
I have a Logitech optical USB mouse that generated all kinds of noise when it's cable got too close to the audio cable running to my speakers. I guess the cables weren't well sheilded or something. I solved that problem by moving the mouse to the front USB.
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Going along with that theme, perhaps Firefox should also detect when a new story is posted to slashdot and automatically do a first post? Now that would be cool.
2K may run, but it will be a dog. You'd better have a fast hard drive if you are going to try it. You'd be better off with Win95 in most cases. Besides, Win95 without Outlook and IE integrated makes it immune from most of the Windows exploits anyway.
That's an interesting looking little player. My only question is, how do you charge the battery? It looks like it comes with a non-standard battery with a charger that's only going to work in Korea.
Yeah, but how many security issues do they list for MS-DOS?
Easy. All the script kiddies naturally oppose anything that would make Windows even slightly more secure.
That's the secret!?! And all those hours I spent googlewhacking...
The power meter at my house recently got replaced with a digital one not to long ago. Instead of analog gauges, it has LCD readouts - stuff like that. While I don't know its capabilities, it wouldn't surprise me at all if the power company is now able to kill my power remotely with a few keystrokes. So I find the story believable.
I have to wonder if anyone who suggests setting up Windows like that has actually tried it and used it. Everyone I know that has tried that approach usually gives up in a short amount of time and just runs as a full blown Administrator. Multiple users on Windows still seems like a hack on top of their old single user, non-networked, Dos-based OSes to me.
Guess he'd be better off running Windows 98SE then?
That's the same thing I have found. Win2K and XP will install and run on a 128MB machine, but the difference from adding another 128MB of memory is like night and day. Especially on the crappy low end Celeron systems that typically ship out with 128MB.
In belgium they even install high-bandwith dsl or cable on that crappy unpatched, non-firewalled win98 box.
Better than installing high-bandwidth dsl or cable on that crappy, unpatched, non-firewalled Win2k or XP box!
Someone really needs to go out and combine a worm with an old-school virus. It would be pretty simple, it would infect a computer, and after a few hours of trying to spread itself, it would trash the hard drive. Maybe some of these people will wake up after losing all of their data, maybe not. Atleast a worm/virus like this would kill off a lot of zombies out there that have been up for months spewing crap.
Because hitting Ctrl-C on Dvorak can be a pain in the ass?
Actually, the reason for the speed limiter in the GXE and GLE is that different tires were sold with the GXE and GLE. I know it's easy to change them, but there are legal issues too. Also, I should note that the GXE, GLE, and SE have different suspensions. The SE has a sportier one, the GLE has one designed to smooth out the bumps, and if I recall right the GXE has one a lot like the GLE.
Don't forget to charge up your batteries for an electric car with that electricity created by coal. Coal accounts for 50%+ of the electricity in the US.
Atleast we mine coal locally here in the US, and generally coal power plants are cleaner than gasoline powered cars. But the original point stands, electric vehicles aren't the answer to our dependence on fossil fuels.
Sorry about the slow reply, but the copy of Windows 95b I had would install windows, reboot, then launch the IE 4.0 installation. At this point I just reset the computer, and enjoyed windows without IE.
Too bad the vastly hyper-intelligent dinosaur civilization's NASA counterpart didn't have a Near-Earth Object Program.
What good would it of done, if they couldn't do anything about it? If we found a dinosaur-killer heading our way, could we stop it?
You could go to www.retrobox.com - they sell OS-less used computers for cheap. You won't get something blazing fast, but high end P-III systems sell for under $200.
I don't get it. Vans and minivans get better gas mileage (worse than a car, but better than most SUVs), are safer, a lot more comfortable, and are bigger too. Yet it seems like people like you have never heard of them. I find that most people who "need" a SUV would be better off with a van, with the exception of the very few that need to tow large loads or actually have to go off road.
Probably because IE was already loaded into your laptop's minimal amount of memory, so when you anything but IE you had two browsers in memory. For older computers that want to run Windows on, I find that Windows 95b (without IE), and Opera 5 work really well.
Maybe he was refering to the K5?
I can see people not using IE due to ignorance/fear of unpopular software, but who doesn't use a pop-up blocker? Sheesh. I can't believe those things are still around.
I have seen plenty of pop up blockers that install malware, which spews up plenty of its own pop ups. I really don't know why people put up with it.
Actually if I remember correctly there where some people that claimed the Pentium was slower than the 486 when it first came out.
If I remember right, the first Pentiums were hugely expensive, so everyone just bought the high end 486's. Also, the first Pentiums were a disaster, it wasn't until the Pentium 75 and socket 5 that Intel got it right. Why get a Pentium 60, when for less money you can get a cooler, faster, 486DX4-100? But stick that 486 against a Pentium of the same speed and the Pentium was a clear winner.
I have a Logitech optical USB mouse that generated all kinds of noise when it's cable got too close to the audio cable running to my speakers. I guess the cables weren't well sheilded or something. I solved that problem by moving the mouse to the front USB.
Try plugging in the network cable.