What about Samsung? I've heard good things about them, and so far zero problems with the 3 I have put to use. They are certainly very quite and cool running, and decent performance.
This is completely untrue. We have a progressive tax system- the more money you make, the higher your tax rate is. Lets look at the actual numbers:
In 2000, the richest 1% accounted for just over 20% of all taxable income. That 20% of the income paid 37% of all income taxes. If you look at the richest 5%, they account for 35% of taxable income, but they pay 56% of all income taxes.
That's only income tax. Gas tax, sales tax, cigarette tax, license fees, property tax, alcohol tax - just about every other tax you can think of is a regressive tax. At the end of the day, the very rich don't end up paying more taxes than the poor, it's the other way around.
Interesting. First of all, why are CPU's so high on the list? I have found bad CPU's to be very rare, and the few that I have seen are the completely toast, computer will not even POST kind.
Also, what's with the Windows 2000? It would probably take atleast 15 minutes for Windows 2000 to get done installing all the drivers and rebooting several times before you'd get to a desktop. And that's assuming Windows 2000 even has all the drivers for whatever hardware you are going to run accross.
Here's what I do - General Windows flakyness/slowness: Run adaware/antivirus, disable all the crap in the taskbar. See if it gets better. Try safe mode. If not, reboot into Knoppix. If Knoppix detects and runs fine, it's probably a borked Windows install. But I'll try a few more steps before reinstalling Windows: Like, try the CMOS. Put it on failsafe mode. Flash the Bios if it's really outdated. If not that, open the computer and see what I got. First, dust it out, and see if it's overheating or the fan(s) aren't working. Make sure all the connectors are snug. Jiggle stuff around. Inspect the ribbon cables. If I have more than one stick of ram, try pulling all but one and swapping around. Try to yank out unnessecary expansion cards (usually all but video can go). Disconnect the CD drives, floppies, secondary hard drives. Disable onboard sound/lan/USB/anything that isn't needed. If not, get the parts bin. Try another stick of ram if I couldn't swap them out above. Try another power supply. Try another video card. Swap out the HDD ribbon cables. If that doesn't work, try another motherboard. Swap out various random parts from here.
I don't get why people always reformat the hard drives whenever they want to redo a borked Windows install. Usually, I just nuke C:\Windows\, and C:\Program Files\. Then I'll rename C:\Documents and Settings\. Once I have Windows installed I'll copy the important stuff from there into the new C:\Documents and Settings\ and nuke the old directory. The only time I messed up by doing this is when I nuked C:\Windows\ on a '95 box, then remembered that all the files on the desktop resides in C:\Windows\Desktop\. D'oh!
Also, for easier fixing of Windows installs, I recommend making a 5-15GB C:\ partition that's FAT32, then a NTFS data partition. The reason for FAT32 is that Linux utilities have no problems with it, while writing to NTFS is still very sketchy.
Agreed. I just fixed a Dell, that while it was stable - it was painfully slow. Turned out it was the hard drive causing the slowness - I mirrored the original drive to a spare I had laying around, swapped the drives, and the computer is now atleast 5 times faster. And the diagnostics said the original drive is fine. Go figure.
I still use IE because Mozilla doesn't SHIFT+Click with the same behavior (open in new window) as IE. I don't care if Mozilla is better because old habits are *very* difficult to break.
I don't know about Mozilla so much, but shift+click on Opera opens a new window like IE. Ctrl+shift+click opens a link in a new window in the background, a feature that you will probably find extremely handy.
What do you mean Ram prices have sucked? I guess you never spent $350 for an 8MB upgrade at one time. And I know people here have spent much more for less. All my systems have atleast 512MB of ram just because I can.
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Note that power supply manufacturers sell power supplies that have 100 Watts more rated power for sometimes close to twice the price. That's to take advantage of the "more is better" people.
If you run a power supply at near capacity, it will run hot, noiser (if it has variable fan speed, which many supplies do now), and likely have a shorter life, than if you had used a higher capacity power supply. Though granted, for a typical computer (1 CPU, 1-2 HDD's, 1-2 optical drives) 350W is more than plenty.
Two weeks ago a private EMS service got off the elevator with a gurney in tow, walked through our office, grabbed one of our employees, and wheeled her out. Their explanation: "she is having a heart attack, although she doesn't know it yet". Pretty weird experience.
Sounds pretty scary to me. So did they arrive in black helicopters?
DVD player: mplayer, xine, videolan, just name a few. CD writer: xcdroast, gtoaster, k3b, not counting commandline apps. They either come with your distro, or are really easy to get. Apt-get, rpmfind.net, emerge, you name it.
Well, it's basically impossible to find a DVD program for Linux that will play commercial DVD movies legally. No problems with non-encrypted ones.
As for CD burning, I've just spent some time getting my CD burner working in Mandrake 9.2. I originally installed Mandrake with just a DVD drive, but I got my hands on a spare CD burner so I decided to throw it into my Mandrake Box. Then I had to spend quite a bit of time figuring out how to get scsi emulation going, which basically meant editing.conf files and rebooting, trying to see if it worked, doing some more.conf editing, rebooting, etc.
Then I booted the computer into Windows, installed the freebie CD burning program that came with the drive, and had it going in Windows in just minutes.
On the other hand, I'm 99% sure that if I had the burner installed in the computer when I installed Mandrake it would of just worked.
There is an "Other" category, which accounts for 5%. I'm sure there are things like internet enabled PDA's in there, along with stuff like BSD, Amigas, and whatnot. But if I had to guess a lot of Linux users get counted as "Other".
Find me a consumer grade PC worth anywhere near this that was built in 1999...
Part of the reason why you won't find a PC from 1999 that is worth that much anymore is because for $600-$700 I could go out and build a new PC from scratch that would totally smoke your Mac (or any 1999 era PC) in terms of performance.
Not to mention that perfectly usuable 1999-2000 era PCs (such as high end PIII's with 512MB of ram and DVD drives) go for under $200 at retrobox.com. I'm sitting in front of one right now.
Not that Macs aren't good computers, they are great machines. But I feel they are overpriced. Which is why I don't see myself buying one any time soon, though I enjoy using other people's Macs.
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Wouldn't it be nice if the engine computer turned off the air conditioner when the RPMs got too high or when you put your foot through the floor? There is really no reason why it can't - on the DSMs, the ECU has direct control of the air conditioner clutch relay! Not only are you robbed of performance due to the drag of the air conditioner compressor, but you are risking the health of the compressor by driving it at such high RPM. A couple people have actually had the compressor "explode" when they missed a shift and ended up driving the compressor at over 7000 RPM.
Funny, my old 1988 Nissan has a mechanically activated switch to turn off the compressor whenever the car is under hard acceleration. Newer cars don't do this anymore?
It really depends on the computer. I've been troubleshooting a Dell Celeron 700Mhz with 256MB of ram, and Windows 2000. The problem? Dreadfully slow. I've tried reinstalling the OS, disabling the eye candy, all the latest drivers are installed, atleast the computer is very stable. Meanwhile, computers that are much less powerful run circles around it. Heck, I have an old P133 running Windows 95 that can do things like launch Photoshop quicker, I kid you not.
It would appear that they installed using a Super 7 board, probably with something like a K6-2. After they installed it they yanked the fast chip and installed the P100. The P100 did pretty well, but then it was running in a Super 7 board with a fast graphics card, a lot of SDRAM, and other things. Try it again on an Intel FX chipset with 8MB of FPM ram and a 1MB Trident card and see how fast it is then.
My school throttles BT all the way to the point where it barely runs. Think less than 500b/s. Most of the p2p applications are throttled like that - they either won't run or will run at a rate that will get you a single MP3 file in a day. They even throttle usenet too, but it's not as bad (10-12k/s).
On the other hand, last time I needed to download some Linux ISO, I hopped on a mirror hosted by a school about 70 miles down the road and snagged them at 10MB/s. That was frickin' fast!
Interesting, but why not set up a Linux box with Samba? Probably could just format the hard drive with one huge, blank partition. Then load up Knoppix and have it start Samba. I believe the default in Knoppix is to share everything with read/write access.
Also, I can seem to get around the limitation in XP by typing in the IP address directly, such as \\192.168.1.100 in the Run dialog.
I doubt TI is going to, either. It seems like they want to kill off the TI-85/86 line myself, as it is kind of awkwardly placed between the high school TI-83 variants and the geared for college TI-89. Otherwise, I would of expected a flash based TI-86+/87 a LONG time ago.
Also, to keep it on topic a little, I still want a serial port to talk to my HP-48G. And a parallel port to talk to my TI-85 (I built one of the homebrew links ages ago, still use it).
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The whole arguement is pointless, really. IE is tied into the OS, and really can't be seperated. A lot of the dlls and other various files are used by both IE and Windows itself - so if you are trying to add them all up, what do count and what do you ignore.
IE is still bloated though. You have to go way back to make a comparsion, but compare a Windows 95 install with no IE to Windows 95 with IE 5.5 (or whatever the last release on 95 was). Windows 95 with IE installed is so much slower it's not even funny, especially on the computers that were new back in the Windows 95 days (generally classic Pentium's with 16-32MB of ram).
Interesting. If Pepsi sends a bunch of the caps to places where the locals can't redeem them, can they really claim they are giving away 100 million songs?
However, a bunch of people with useless caps would likely benefit the guys running the website in the article.
Slashdot Mirror
Well, if it's anything like the Bear Share of years past, they'll know your every move on the computer due to all the spyware they install.
What about Samsung? I've heard good things about them, and so far zero problems with the 3 I have put to use. They are certainly very quite and cool running, and decent performance.
Your browser refers to itself as a collective "we"?
Aren't we a pompous browser.
Imagine a beowolf cluster of browsers, you insensitive clod!
This is completely untrue. We have a progressive tax system- the more money you make, the higher your tax rate is. Lets look at the actual numbers:
In 2000, the richest 1% accounted for just over 20% of all taxable income. That 20% of the income paid 37% of all income taxes. If you look at the richest 5%, they account for 35% of taxable income, but they pay 56% of all income taxes.
That's only income tax. Gas tax, sales tax, cigarette tax, license fees, property tax, alcohol tax - just about every other tax you can think of is a regressive tax. At the end of the day, the very rich don't end up paying more taxes than the poor, it's the other way around.
Interesting. First of all, why are CPU's so high on the list? I have found bad CPU's to be very rare, and the few that I have seen are the completely toast, computer will not even POST kind.
Also, what's with the Windows 2000? It would probably take atleast 15 minutes for Windows 2000 to get done installing all the drivers and rebooting several times before you'd get to a desktop. And that's assuming Windows 2000 even has all the drivers for whatever hardware you are going to run accross.
Here's what I do -
General Windows flakyness/slowness:
Run adaware/antivirus, disable all the crap in the taskbar. See if it gets better. Try safe mode.
If not, reboot into Knoppix. If Knoppix detects and runs fine, it's probably a borked Windows install. But I'll try a few more steps before reinstalling Windows:
Like, try the CMOS. Put it on failsafe mode. Flash the Bios if it's really outdated.
If not that, open the computer and see what I got.
First, dust it out, and see if it's overheating or the fan(s) aren't working. Make sure all the connectors are snug. Jiggle stuff around. Inspect the ribbon cables.
If I have more than one stick of ram, try pulling all but one and swapping around. Try to yank out unnessecary expansion cards (usually all but video can go). Disconnect the CD drives, floppies, secondary hard drives.
Disable onboard sound/lan/USB/anything that isn't needed.
If not, get the parts bin. Try another stick of ram if I couldn't swap them out above. Try another power supply. Try another video card. Swap out the HDD ribbon cables.
If that doesn't work, try another motherboard. Swap out various random parts from here.
I don't get why people always reformat the hard drives whenever they want to redo a borked Windows install. Usually, I just nuke C:\Windows\, and C:\Program Files\. Then I'll rename C:\Documents and Settings\. Once I have Windows installed I'll copy the important stuff from there into the new C:\Documents and Settings\ and nuke the old directory. The only time I messed up by doing this is when I nuked C:\Windows\ on a '95 box, then remembered that all the files on the desktop resides in C:\Windows\Desktop\. D'oh!
Also, for easier fixing of Windows installs, I recommend making a 5-15GB C:\ partition that's FAT32, then a NTFS data partition. The reason for FAT32 is that Linux utilities have no problems with it, while writing to NTFS is still very sketchy.
Agreed. I just fixed a Dell, that while it was stable - it was painfully slow. Turned out it was the hard drive causing the slowness - I mirrored the original drive to a spare I had laying around, swapped the drives, and the computer is now atleast 5 times faster. And the diagnostics said the original drive is fine. Go figure.
So, did you recreate the root account as a regular user with no privileges and an impossibly long password?
I still use IE because Mozilla doesn't SHIFT+Click with the same behavior (open in new window) as IE. I don't care if Mozilla is better because old habits are *very* difficult to break.
I don't know about Mozilla so much, but shift+click on Opera opens a new window like IE. Ctrl+shift+click opens a link in a new window in the background, a feature that you will probably find extremely handy.
What do you mean Ram prices have sucked? I guess you never spent $350 for an 8MB upgrade at one time. And I know people here have spent much more for less. All my systems have atleast 512MB of ram just because I can.
Note that power supply manufacturers sell power supplies that have 100 Watts more rated power for sometimes close to twice the price. That's to take advantage of the "more is better" people.
If you run a power supply at near capacity, it will run hot, noiser (if it has variable fan speed, which many supplies do now), and likely have a shorter life, than if you had used a higher capacity power supply. Though granted, for a typical computer (1 CPU, 1-2 HDD's, 1-2 optical drives) 350W is more than plenty.
Two weeks ago a private EMS service got off the elevator with a gurney in tow, walked through our office, grabbed one of our employees, and wheeled her out. Their explanation: "she is having a heart attack, although she doesn't know it yet". Pretty weird experience.
Sounds pretty scary to me. So did they arrive in black helicopters?
1. Good DVD player & CD-RW that just work...
.conf files and rebooting, trying to see if it worked, doing some more .conf editing, rebooting, etc.
DVD player: mplayer, xine, videolan, just name a few.
CD writer: xcdroast, gtoaster, k3b, not counting commandline apps.
They either come with your distro, or are really easy to get. Apt-get, rpmfind.net, emerge, you name it.
Well, it's basically impossible to find a DVD program for Linux that will play commercial DVD movies legally. No problems with non-encrypted ones.
As for CD burning, I've just spent some time getting my CD burner working in Mandrake 9.2. I originally installed Mandrake with just a DVD drive, but I got my hands on a spare CD burner so I decided to throw it into my Mandrake Box. Then I had to spend quite a bit of time figuring out how to get scsi emulation going, which basically meant editing
Then I booted the computer into Windows, installed the freebie CD burning program that came with the drive, and had it going in Windows in just minutes.
On the other hand, I'm 99% sure that if I had the burner installed in the computer when I installed Mandrake it would of just worked.
There is an "Other" category, which accounts for 5%. I'm sure there are things like internet enabled PDA's in there, along with stuff like BSD, Amigas, and whatnot. But if I had to guess a lot of Linux users get counted as "Other".
Find me a consumer grade PC worth anywhere near this that was built in 1999 ...
Part of the reason why you won't find a PC from 1999 that is worth that much anymore is because for $600-$700 I could go out and build a new PC from scratch that would totally smoke your Mac (or any 1999 era PC) in terms of performance.
Not to mention that perfectly usuable 1999-2000 era PCs (such as high end PIII's with 512MB of ram and DVD drives) go for under $200 at retrobox.com. I'm sitting in front of one right now.
Not that Macs aren't good computers, they are great machines. But I feel they are overpriced. Which is why I don't see myself buying one any time soon, though I enjoy using other people's Macs.
Wouldn't it be nice if the engine computer turned off the air conditioner when the RPMs got too high or when you put your foot through the floor? There is really no reason why it can't - on the DSMs, the ECU has direct control of the air conditioner clutch relay! Not only are you robbed of performance due to the drag of the air conditioner compressor, but you are risking the health of the compressor by driving it at such high RPM. A couple people have actually had the compressor "explode" when they missed a shift and ended up driving the compressor at over 7000 RPM.
Funny, my old 1988 Nissan has a mechanically activated switch to turn off the compressor whenever the car is under hard acceleration. Newer cars don't do this anymore?
It really depends on the computer. I've been troubleshooting a Dell Celeron 700Mhz with 256MB of ram, and Windows 2000. The problem? Dreadfully slow. I've tried reinstalling the OS, disabling the eye candy, all the latest drivers are installed, atleast the computer is very stable. Meanwhile, computers that are much less powerful run circles around it. Heck, I have an old P133 running Windows 95 that can do things like launch Photoshop quicker, I kid you not.
It would appear that they installed using a Super 7 board, probably with something like a K6-2. After they installed it they yanked the fast chip and installed the P100. The P100 did pretty well, but then it was running in a Super 7 board with a fast graphics card, a lot of SDRAM, and other things. Try it again on an Intel FX chipset with 8MB of FPM ram and a 1MB Trident card and see how fast it is then.
My school throttles BT all the way to the point where it barely runs. Think less than 500b/s. Most of the p2p applications are throttled like that - they either won't run or will run at a rate that will get you a single MP3 file in a day. They even throttle usenet too, but it's not as bad (10-12k/s).
On the other hand, last time I needed to download some Linux ISO, I hopped on a mirror hosted by a school about 70 miles down the road and snagged them at 10MB/s. That was frickin' fast!
Interesting, but why not set up a Linux box with Samba? Probably could just format the hard drive with one huge, blank partition. Then load up Knoppix and have it start Samba. I believe the default in Knoppix is to share everything with read/write access.
Also, I can seem to get around the limitation in XP by typing in the IP address directly, such as
\\192.168.1.100
in the Run dialog.
This is two clicks?
Actually Kodak has some pretty nice digitals out there, such as the DCS series. I wonder if they mean film cameras?
I doubt TI is going to, either. It seems like they want to kill off the TI-85/86 line myself, as it is kind of awkwardly placed between the high school TI-83 variants and the geared for college TI-89. Otherwise, I would of expected a flash based TI-86+/87 a LONG time ago.
Also, to keep it on topic a little, I still want a serial port to talk to my HP-48G. And a parallel port to talk to my TI-85 (I built one of the homebrew links ages ago, still use it).
The whole arguement is pointless, really. IE is tied into the OS, and really can't be seperated. A lot of the dlls and other various files are used by both IE and Windows itself - so if you are trying to add them all up, what do count and what do you ignore.
IE is still bloated though. You have to go way back to make a comparsion, but compare a Windows 95 install with no IE to Windows 95 with IE 5.5 (or whatever the last release on 95 was). Windows 95 with IE installed is so much slower it's not even funny, especially on the computers that were new back in the Windows 95 days (generally classic Pentium's with 16-32MB of ram).
Interesting. If Pepsi sends a bunch of the caps to places where the locals can't redeem them, can they really claim they are giving away 100 million songs?
However, a bunch of people with useless caps would likely benefit the guys running the website in the article.