I used to do something simular, my metal belt buckle would always trip the damn detector, and rather than take the belt off I would just cover the buckle with my hand and walk on through. Hasn't worked for some time now, as they have cranked up the sensitivity on the detectors so they can see the metal through your hand now.
That would rock. I still say the SNES version of SimCity was the best version. But time passed so damn slow. A 286 easily ran SimCity ten times faster.
The factorial function is about the most intensive thing you can do on a little scientific calculator. 69! is ~1.711E98, which is the largest most calculators can go, as 70! factorial has an exponent of over 100. Unless your calculator can handle 3 digit exponents, then you can compute 449!
Ahh... the memories... back in middle school we used to glitch our solar powered calculators by doing 69! then covering the solar cells, which sometimes resulted in some pretty weird stuff (we could make TI-30's go into some kind of octal mode, also the calculator could sometimes go into some kind of trippy looped animation on the display, or it could change layouts to another TI model, like the TI-30STAT).
To bring things kind of back on topic, I once overclocked my TI-85. And some of the games did break, though the good ASM programmers didn't rely on the CPU speed, as it would slow down as the batteries wore out, even if you didn't overclock.
I recently installed Mandrake 9.2, with KDE 3.1.something, and that was like one of the first things I noticed. My solution so far to been to just leave KMix open, and when I boot into KDE I just set the volume back up. And I thought it was just me!
the only REAL demonstaration of this was a pair of IBM deathstars 1 120 gig and 1 80 gig drive. we were abl;e to convert the 80 gig to a 120 gig by flashing the 80 gig's drive with the 120's firmware. they were both the same drive one was short stroking the platter.
Any details on this? I got one of those 80GB IBM drives just laying around, that sounds like something to try.
?) Not sure about the hard drive. Quite often it's the speed and transfer rate that will kill performance, so recycling a hard drive may drag down a normally speedy machine.
I use older hard drives as secondary drives. If you just store data on them, you likely won't notice the lost speed. Things like MP3's do just fine on very slow drives (as long as they aren't tiny, slow drives). Another thing to do is buy an external enclosure (~$35 for USB 2.0) and turn them into external hard drives - great for backups.
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You obviously never tried RealOne player. I can get Real 8 under control, but RealOne keeps on fighting back. I can uncheck all the settings, and hack the registry - but the next time it's used it resets itself, respawns icons everywhere, and starts popping up messages from the system tray. Argh.
What video files won't Winamp play? I use Winamp for video, and it just uses the codecs installed in Windows, so if WMP can play it, Winamp will. That leaves out Real files and Quicktime, but it will handle mpeg1, svcd, divx, xvid, and others provided you install the proper codecs.
You may have to go into options, and take a look at the 'Nullsoft DirectShow Decoder' in the 'Input Plugins', and make sure the file extensions of the files you want to play are listed, because if they aren't Winamp assumes it's an audio file.
Actually, ICQ was all but dead in the US before Microsoft decided to bundle MSN Messenger in Windows XP. Everyone was using AIM, and to a lesser extent Yahoo. Yahoo is alright, it has offline messages and invisible mode. However, AIM is way behind everyone else in terms of features (very few things seem to have been added since about 1997, except ads and bloat). I never figured out why everyone flocked to it.
Now everyone uses MSN Messenger, with AIM in close competition. A few on Yahoo still, and ICQ isn't even on the map. I still use ICQ however, though I admit their client is crap. I use Miranda myself.
I would just hook it up to a few LEDs and a capacitor to light up the keyboard as you type. That would actually be useful, doesn't hurt the battery at all, and would look cool.
That's just the number of DIMM slots multiplied by the largest stick you can get. 4 DIMMs * 2GB/DIMM = 8GB. Just like how my Athlon XP system only supports 3GB of memory, as it has 3 DIMM slots that can handle DIMMs up to 1GB. Technically, the processer can handle 4GB but I'd have to find another board.
Actually, all of Creative's MP3 players seem to have the MuVo logo on them. A quick search reveals that the MuVo NX is a flashed based MP3 player that comes with 128MB or 256MB of memory. The original poster is fine.
Well, there are scores of MuVo2's on eBay without the drive. There are a few more that are being sold with smaller flash cards installed. Going rate seems to be about $50, so add in the cost of a CF card of your choice and you could have a cheap flash MP3 player.
The Alero is basically a repackaged Pontiac Grand Prix, if I remember right. Anyhow, good luck getting the front end of an Alero onto a Mustang. (why would anyone do that anyway?)
Seriously, my roommate has a cheap Sanyo microwave, which comes with the standard compliment of buttons to do things like make popcorn and reheat leftovers. I have found that the "boil water" button will crash the microwave about 1/2 the time, leaving no other option than to reboot it by unplugging it and plugging it back in. Pretty annoying if you ask me.
95B's USB support was a total and complete joke. It never worked right. And I spent some considerable time trying. Never, ever worked.
And if you ask me, the original 98 was terrible. It was a crash happy, bloated, slow version of 95C with a bunch of crap I didn't want (though it atleast had working USB support). 98SE was a huge improvement.
Aren't those microdrives not very reliable? I suppose in a cluster they don't get bumped around a lot, but I don't know if they are up to being run for days and days continously. Then again if one fails I suppose it's probably a quick and cheap replacement.
Windows 95OSR2 came with IE 3.0 if I remember right. It was put in there by the installer, but you could remove it if you were crafty enough.
But I think it was Win95OSR2.5 came with IE 4.0 - the funny thing is that it would completely install Windows 95, then boot to the desktop and present you with the IE 4.0 installer. You couldn't cancel out of it, but at this point everything else was done so I would just hit the reset button and enjoy my IE-free Windows.
That would mean that everyone who tweaks the source code and rolls their own version of Linux for their own use would be in violation of the GPL. The appliance is interesting though, I wonder what OS it runs.
It makes better economic sense to take out evil tin-plated dictatorships than to provide them with aid and support, like China does.
Likewise, the United States has a long and proud history of propping up evil tin-plated dictatorships. The US only knocks them over when they start causing more problems than they solve.
It would only be a GPL violation if they distributed the binaries for their Google OS without the source code. Since Google OS is only used internally at Google (as far as I know), then they are not in violation of the GPL.
Still, it would be pretty neat to see Google OS if you ask me.
By fiddling with the color controls onjust about any TV, I can make it into a large screen black and white TV without too much trouble. Heck, I can have a B&W computer monitor if I really felt like it. Why anyone would want to do that is another question entirely.
As for the smelly TVs, even if they become standard, I'm sure the smell can be turned off.
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Maybe it's due to the fact that "The Sims" has about 12 expansion packs, and the purchase of each one counts as one game?
I used to do something simular, my metal belt buckle would always trip the damn detector, and rather than take the belt off I would just cover the buckle with my hand and walk on through. Hasn't worked for some time now, as they have cranked up the sensitivity on the detectors so they can see the metal through your hand now.
That would rock. I still say the SNES version of SimCity was the best version. But time passed so damn slow. A 286 easily ran SimCity ten times faster.
Didn't stop me from playing it to death though.
The factorial function is about the most intensive thing you can do on a little scientific calculator. 69! is ~1.711E98, which is the largest most calculators can go, as 70! factorial has an exponent of over 100. Unless your calculator can handle 3 digit exponents, then you can compute 449!
Ahh... the memories... back in middle school we used to glitch our solar powered calculators by doing 69! then covering the solar cells, which sometimes resulted in some pretty weird stuff (we could make TI-30's go into some kind of octal mode, also the calculator could sometimes go into some kind of trippy looped animation on the display, or it could change layouts to another TI model, like the TI-30STAT).
To bring things kind of back on topic, I once overclocked my TI-85. And some of the games did break, though the good ASM programmers didn't rely on the CPU speed, as it would slow down as the batteries wore out, even if you didn't overclock.
I recently installed Mandrake 9.2, with KDE 3.1.something, and that was like one of the first things I noticed. My solution so far to been to just leave KMix open, and when I boot into KDE I just set the volume back up. And I thought it was just me!
the only REAL demonstaration of this was a pair of IBM deathstars 1 120 gig and 1 80 gig drive. we were abl;e to convert the 80 gig to a 120 gig by flashing the 80 gig's drive with the 120's firmware. they were both the same drive one was short stroking the platter.
Any details on this? I got one of those 80GB IBM drives just laying around, that sounds like something to try.
?) Not sure about the hard drive. Quite often it's the speed and transfer rate that will kill performance, so recycling a hard drive may drag down a normally speedy machine.
I use older hard drives as secondary drives. If you just store data on them, you likely won't notice the lost speed. Things like MP3's do just fine on very slow drives (as long as they aren't tiny, slow drives). Another thing to do is buy an external enclosure (~$35 for USB 2.0) and turn them into external hard drives - great for backups.
You obviously never tried RealOne player. I can get Real 8 under control, but RealOne keeps on fighting back. I can uncheck all the settings, and hack the registry - but the next time it's used it resets itself, respawns icons everywhere, and starts popping up messages from the system tray. Argh.
What video files won't Winamp play? I use Winamp for video, and it just uses the codecs installed in Windows, so if WMP can play it, Winamp will. That leaves out Real files and Quicktime, but it will handle mpeg1, svcd, divx, xvid, and others provided you install the proper codecs.
You may have to go into options, and take a look at the 'Nullsoft DirectShow Decoder' in the 'Input Plugins', and make sure the file extensions of the files you want to play are listed, because if they aren't Winamp assumes it's an audio file.
Actually, ICQ was all but dead in the US before Microsoft decided to bundle MSN Messenger in Windows XP. Everyone was using AIM, and to a lesser extent Yahoo. Yahoo is alright, it has offline messages and invisible mode. However, AIM is way behind everyone else in terms of features (very few things seem to have been added since about 1997, except ads and bloat). I never figured out why everyone flocked to it.
Now everyone uses MSN Messenger, with AIM in close competition. A few on Yahoo still, and ICQ isn't even on the map. I still use ICQ however, though I admit their client is crap. I use Miranda myself.
I would just hook it up to a few LEDs and a capacitor to light up the keyboard as you type. That would actually be useful, doesn't hurt the battery at all, and would look cool.
If the 2.6 kernel is too big for you, you can always use the 2.0, 2.2, or 2.4 kernels which are all still being maintained and updated.
That's just the number of DIMM slots multiplied by the largest stick you can get. 4 DIMMs * 2GB/DIMM = 8GB. Just like how my Athlon XP system only supports 3GB of memory, as it has 3 DIMM slots that can handle DIMMs up to 1GB. Technically, the processer can handle 4GB but I'd have to find another board.
Actually, all of Creative's MP3 players seem to have the MuVo logo on them. A quick search reveals that the MuVo NX is a flashed based MP3 player that comes with 128MB or 256MB of memory. The original poster is fine.
Well, there are scores of MuVo2's on eBay without the drive. There are a few more that are being sold with smaller flash cards installed. Going rate seems to be about $50, so add in the cost of a CF card of your choice and you could have a cheap flash MP3 player.
The Alero is basically a repackaged Pontiac Grand Prix, if I remember right. Anyhow, good luck getting the front end of an Alero onto a Mustang. (why would anyone do that anyway?)
I don't think so, since the rovers are "among the most biologically clean spacecraft ever launched from Cape Canaveral."
What earlier stuff like Viking, and the Russian built landers? Could we have already, unintentionally contaminated Mars?
Seriously, my roommate has a cheap Sanyo microwave, which comes with the standard compliment of buttons to do things like make popcorn and reheat leftovers. I have found that the "boil water" button will crash the microwave about 1/2 the time, leaving no other option than to reboot it by unplugging it and plugging it back in. Pretty annoying if you ask me.
95B's USB support was a total and complete joke. It never worked right. And I spent some considerable time trying. Never, ever worked.
And if you ask me, the original 98 was terrible. It was a crash happy, bloated, slow version of 95C with a bunch of crap I didn't want (though it atleast had working USB support). 98SE was a huge improvement.
Aren't those microdrives not very reliable? I suppose in a cluster they don't get bumped around a lot, but I don't know if they are up to being run for days and days continously. Then again if one fails I suppose it's probably a quick and cheap replacement.
Windows 95OSR2 came with IE 3.0 if I remember right. It was put in there by the installer, but you could remove it if you were crafty enough.
But I think it was Win95OSR2.5 came with IE 4.0 - the funny thing is that it would completely install Windows 95, then boot to the desktop and present you with the IE 4.0 installer. You couldn't cancel out of it, but at this point everything else was done so I would just hit the reset button and enjoy my IE-free Windows.
That would mean that everyone who tweaks the source code and rolls their own version of Linux for their own use would be in violation of the GPL. The appliance is interesting though, I wonder what OS it runs.
It makes better economic sense to take out evil tin-plated dictatorships than to provide them with aid and support, like China does.
Likewise, the United States has a long and proud history of propping up evil tin-plated dictatorships. The US only knocks them over when they start causing more problems than they solve.
It would only be a GPL violation if they distributed the binaries for their Google OS without the source code. Since Google OS is only used internally at Google (as far as I know), then they are not in violation of the GPL.
Still, it would be pretty neat to see Google OS if you ask me.
By fiddling with the color controls onjust about any TV, I can make it into a large screen black and white TV without too much trouble. Heck, I can have a B&W computer monitor if I really felt like it. Why anyone would want to do that is another question entirely.
As for the smelly TVs, even if they become standard, I'm sure the smell can be turned off.