I used to take trips to Michigan, and would "import" pop and other goodies that came in bottles and cans (the local grocery stores here are cheaper, and that's after taking the deposit into account). As the other poster noted, the machines would only give back the deposit for cans bought in Michigan. Well fair enough.
But the thing that really made me scratch my head is that the stupid machines would not accept the out of state cans and bottles for recycling - it spat them back out. So I basically had no other choice but to throw them in the trash! So all the cans and bottles I brought in ended up cluttering Michigan's landfills. Seems a bit counterproductive if you ask me.
If I had to guess they have an old plotter that doesn't play well with Windows 2000/XP. Either that, or the computers themselves are just old and won't take it.
In Opera's preferences, in the "History and Cache" section you can configure how much RAM Opera will use for a cache. I believe the default setting is "Automatic", and if Opera finds itself on a system with a lot of RAM available, it'll go wild and put it to use. I haven't found Opera's memory management to be a big deal, as it seems to give the memory back to the system if the system starts to run low - but if Opera is the only thing open I've seen it take over 100MB on my system with 512MB of memory.
Sure, there may be more DNS root servers outside the US, but it would seem that Verisign still has exclusive rights to muck around with them. So what's the big deal?
I don't get why people are so hard on the Pontiac Aztek's looks. Sure, it's pretty damn ugly, but then I'd say half the cars put out are just as ugly.
Like all the other Pontiacs with atleast 200 pounds of ugly plastic cladding everywhere. The Saturn Vue. The Ford Taurus from the late 90's (especially the Wagon), which I dubbed "the oval nightmare". Some of the new Nissans, especially the Quest (that's one goofy looking van). The Honda Element. The Toyota clone of the Honda Element. The Ford Focus hatchback (some will disagree with me on this one, but I think it's one ugly vehicle). The older Mitsubishi Eclipses, which is a pretty nice little car, save that stupid looking dippy spoiler they stuck on it. And the list goes on, especially when you look further back (mid 80's Toyota Corolla wagon anyone?)
Definently off topic, but the Dos based versions of Windows do have their uses from time to time. For that reason, I don't think I'll ever get rid of my Pentium 133 running Windows 95b. Just a couple weeks ago I had to fire it up to make a boot disk to flash the bios on a misbehaving motherboard. If I didn't have Win95 I don't know what I would of done.
There should be a fast boot option, which usually consists of skipping the memory test, floppy scans, and other stuff. On some boards it's called "Quiet Boot" or something simular to that.
On my system though, it doesn't matter, as the onboard RAID controller has to take atleast 15 seconds to detect drives. Apparently, it stores information about the RAID array on the boot sector(?) of the drives, so every time I turn on the computer it scans for the drives, detects them, then reads the array information off of them. Apparently this is so I can take the drives to a different computer, and still use the array as the configuration information is with the drives. But I would think they could make the process faster.
My experience with CD-RW's is they get less reliable as the speed goes up. I have a bunch of 8-10x rewriteables, and it seems like about half of them have failed. Meanwhile, some old 4x ones just keep going. As for brands, I have found the Sony disks seem to last longer than the others.
But if I was you, I'd just burn to CD-R's as they are a lot more reliable.
If it ain't broke, why fix it? On that note, just the other day, I saw a grocery store running P4's with Windows XP for a cash register! This wasn't a special job, it was a full blown PC with some scanner attachment hooked to it. Talk about overkill - I'll take the 286 myself.
AMD's higher end is a bit pricy, but that's to be expected. Intel can't compete in the mid range, and is getting totally killed on the low end. An Athlon XP 2200 is around $60. That's more expensive than the slowest P4 - the 1.4Ghz. It's even cheaper than the lowly Celeron 2.2Ghz. In that sense, Intel is way overpriced. By the way, Intel's latests chips run just as hot as their AMD counterparts. The days of the cool running PIII are over.
I'm kind of looking for a (non-trendy, non-deathtrap) SUV.
That doesn't really exist, as the non-deathtrap SUVs are the ones that are the most car-like, and these are the most trendy ones. Plus the car-like ones are useless in any situation where you need a 4x4. I'd just get a car myself. I'm guessing you don't really need a 4x4 (just gravel roads?), and the car is much safer and cooler than a SUV. But that's just me.
I'm 6' 5" and drive a Nissan Stanza (about the same size and vintage as your Toyota). I can fit into most cars without problems, and I can drive my little Nissan for hours in comfort. Actually, most sedans I find comfortable, even the small ones like the Civic and Sentra. The worst vehicles if you ask me are the small and midsize SUVs and pickups, they are just tiny on the inside.
Then there are the newer cars/SUVs with the sloping roofs - while they have plenty of room on the inside, I'm left staring at the sun visor instead of out the windsheild. Those are a totally different issue though.
It appears to me that someone was working on a new worm that hadn't been finished yet, and it somehow escaped out into the wild. Hence the reason it says 'test' multiple times, and all the things that are not working.
I can just see the author of this worm going to do something like open up his source code on his Windows machine, and accidently clicking the compiled.exe due to file extensions being hidden. Doh!
That's the problem. There is no reason to be root all the time in Linux, as you don't need it most of the time, and when you do it's extremely easy to become root, do what needs to be done, and then go back to a normal user.
This is impossible in Windows 2000. I tried it, and very quickly made my main account administrator. Lots of stuff wouldn't run, or wouldn't want to run right. If I wanted to do something simple, say, update a driver, I would have to close all my programs, log off, log on as root, do what needs to be done, log off, and log back on as a user. Windows XP is better with it's fast user switching, but it's still a hassle.
What is the difference between Windows 2000 and XP security wise? Every major bug that can bite 2000 seems to affect XP, and vise versa. So I would say that 2000 is pretty much the same disaster that XP is. Though I would say XP is actually a bigger risk with things like Remote Desktop and MSN Messenger builtin, as those are simply one more thing that can be exploited.
If you want to run a more secure version of Windows, I suggest Windows 98SE.
I mostly share with WinMX, as it's fast, reasonably popular, has a good client, and so far seems to be under the RIAA's radar (perhaps due to the fact that it's pretty popular over in Asia?). I have BitTorrent too, but so far I have only used it for downloading things like Linux ISO's.
Most schools I have seen either outright block the ports, or throttle them so badly that the program refuses to run, or does at an incredibly slow rate (think 300 baud modem speeds). If you ask them why, they state it's not a legal issue or trying to patrol the network - it's purely a bandwidth issue.
Actually, as a college student who's college decides to block all the major file sharing services, being able to go home to a nice DSL connection meant time to catch up on some things that needed to be downloaded. All legal, of course.
The AC is actually right, most humans can hear sounds down to about 0 decibels. It's no accident that it's scaled that way.
The decibel scale is logarithmic, which means a 70dB sound has 10 times the intensity of a 60dB sound. If you double the intensity, on the decibel scale you only go up 3db. So put 2 30dB case fans in a computer, and the total from them would be 33dB, not 60dB.
It's also possible to have sounds in the negative decibel range, it's just we can't hear them.
Even better if you don't need all the power is to pick up a used PIII system from Dell or HP. They are even more quiet machines than the P4's, and have plenty of power for most tasks. Right now I'm sitting in front of a 866Mhz HP Vectra, and hum from this old 15" monitor is louder than the computer.
I would get a powered USB hub, that would pretty much cover everything but the monitor. As for the monitor, you'd have to get extension cables. If you want to go all out, get a flat panel with a DVI input - as the signal won't degrade over the DVI extension cables like it will over the analog VGA ones (up to a point, but 20 feet you should be ok).
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I used to take trips to Michigan, and would "import" pop and other goodies that came in bottles and cans (the local grocery stores here are cheaper, and that's after taking the deposit into account). As the other poster noted, the machines would only give back the deposit for cans bought in Michigan. Well fair enough.
But the thing that really made me scratch my head is that the stupid machines would not accept the out of state cans and bottles for recycling - it spat them back out. So I basically had no other choice but to throw them in the trash! So all the cans and bottles I brought in ended up cluttering Michigan's landfills. Seems a bit counterproductive if you ask me.
If I had to guess they have an old plotter that doesn't play well with Windows 2000/XP. Either that, or the computers themselves are just old and won't take it.
In Opera's preferences, in the "History and Cache" section you can configure how much RAM Opera will use for a cache. I believe the default setting is "Automatic", and if Opera finds itself on a system with a lot of RAM available, it'll go wild and put it to use. I haven't found Opera's memory management to be a big deal, as it seems to give the memory back to the system if the system starts to run low - but if Opera is the only thing open I've seen it take over 100MB on my system with 512MB of memory.
Sure, there may be more DNS root servers outside the US, but it would seem that Verisign still has exclusive rights to muck around with them. So what's the big deal?
They don't happen to live in Minneapolis? I see a Yugo running around every once and a while there, in the Lake street area. A miracle I say.
I don't get why people are so hard on the Pontiac Aztek's looks. Sure, it's pretty damn ugly, but then I'd say half the cars put out are just as ugly.
Like all the other Pontiacs with atleast 200 pounds of ugly plastic cladding everywhere. The Saturn Vue. The Ford Taurus from the late 90's (especially the Wagon), which I dubbed "the oval nightmare". Some of the new Nissans, especially the Quest (that's one goofy looking van). The Honda Element. The Toyota clone of the Honda Element. The Ford Focus hatchback (some will disagree with me on this one, but I think it's one ugly vehicle). The older Mitsubishi Eclipses, which is a pretty nice little car, save that stupid looking dippy spoiler they stuck on it. And the list goes on, especially when you look further back (mid 80's Toyota Corolla wagon anyone?)
I wonder what kind of hardware and bandwidth you need to survive a post on slashdot with the words "star wars" and "video clip".
Someone needs to figure this out.
Probably less hardware and bandwidth than a server holding a large zip file with the words "SCO" and "evidence" in the file name.
Definently off topic, but the Dos based versions of Windows do have their uses from time to time. For that reason, I don't think I'll ever get rid of my Pentium 133 running Windows 95b. Just a couple weeks ago I had to fire it up to make a boot disk to flash the bios on a misbehaving motherboard. If I didn't have Win95 I don't know what I would of done.
There should be a fast boot option, which usually consists of skipping the memory test, floppy scans, and other stuff. On some boards it's called "Quiet Boot" or something simular to that.
On my system though, it doesn't matter, as the onboard RAID controller has to take atleast 15 seconds to detect drives. Apparently, it stores information about the RAID array on the boot sector(?) of the drives, so every time I turn on the computer it scans for the drives, detects them, then reads the array information off of them. Apparently this is so I can take the drives to a different computer, and still use the array as the configuration information is with the drives. But I would think they could make the process faster.
My experience with CD-RW's is they get less reliable as the speed goes up. I have a bunch of 8-10x rewriteables, and it seems like about half of them have failed. Meanwhile, some old 4x ones just keep going. As for brands, I have found the Sony disks seem to last longer than the others.
But if I was you, I'd just burn to CD-R's as they are a lot more reliable.
If it ain't broke, why fix it? On that note, just the other day, I saw a grocery store running P4's with Windows XP for a cash register! This wasn't a special job, it was a full blown PC with some scanner attachment hooked to it. Talk about overkill - I'll take the 286 myself.
AMD's higher end is a bit pricy, but that's to be expected. Intel can't compete in the mid range, and is getting totally killed on the low end. An Athlon XP 2200 is around $60. That's more expensive than the slowest P4 - the 1.4Ghz. It's even cheaper than the lowly Celeron 2.2Ghz. In that sense, Intel is way overpriced. By the way, Intel's latests chips run just as hot as their AMD counterparts. The days of the cool running PIII are over.
I'm kind of looking for a (non-trendy, non-deathtrap) SUV.
That doesn't really exist, as the non-deathtrap SUVs are the ones that are the most car-like, and these are the most trendy ones. Plus the car-like ones are useless in any situation where you need a 4x4. I'd just get a car myself. I'm guessing you don't really need a 4x4 (just gravel roads?), and the car is much safer and cooler than a SUV. But that's just me.
I'm 6' 5" and drive a Nissan Stanza (about the same size and vintage as your Toyota). I can fit into most cars without problems, and I can drive my little Nissan for hours in comfort. Actually, most sedans I find comfortable, even the small ones like the Civic and Sentra. The worst vehicles if you ask me are the small and midsize SUVs and pickups, they are just tiny on the inside.
Then there are the newer cars/SUVs with the sloping roofs - while they have plenty of room on the inside, I'm left staring at the sun visor instead of out the windsheild. Those are a totally different issue though.
It appears to me that someone was working on a new worm that hadn't been finished yet, and it somehow escaped out into the wild. Hence the reason it says 'test' multiple times, and all the things that are not working.
.exe due to file extensions being hidden. Doh!
I can just see the author of this worm going to do something like open up his source code on his Windows machine, and accidently clicking the compiled
That's the problem. There is no reason to be root all the time in Linux, as you don't need it most of the time, and when you do it's extremely easy to become root, do what needs to be done, and then go back to a normal user.
This is impossible in Windows 2000. I tried it, and very quickly made my main account administrator. Lots of stuff wouldn't run, or wouldn't want to run right. If I wanted to do something simple, say, update a driver, I would have to close all my programs, log off, log on as root, do what needs to be done, log off, and log back on as a user. Windows XP is better with it's fast user switching, but it's still a hassle.
Well, as Mike Rowe has found it, you'll be able to sell it for about $10.
What is the difference between Windows 2000 and XP security wise? Every major bug that can bite 2000 seems to affect XP, and vise versa. So I would say that 2000 is pretty much the same disaster that XP is. Though I would say XP is actually a bigger risk with things like Remote Desktop and MSN Messenger builtin, as those are simply one more thing that can be exploited.
If you want to run a more secure version of Windows, I suggest Windows 98SE.
I mostly share with WinMX, as it's fast, reasonably popular, has a good client, and so far seems to be under the RIAA's radar (perhaps due to the fact that it's pretty popular over in Asia?). I have BitTorrent too, but so far I have only used it for downloading things like Linux ISO's.
Most schools I have seen either outright block the ports, or throttle them so badly that the program refuses to run, or does at an incredibly slow rate (think 300 baud modem speeds). If you ask them why, they state it's not a legal issue or trying to patrol the network - it's purely a bandwidth issue.
Actually, as a college student who's college decides to block all the major file sharing services, being able to go home to a nice DSL connection meant time to catch up on some things that needed to be downloaded. All legal, of course.
The AC is actually right, most humans can hear sounds down to about 0 decibels. It's no accident that it's scaled that way.
The decibel scale is logarithmic, which means a 70dB sound has 10 times the intensity of a 60dB sound. If you double the intensity, on the decibel scale you only go up 3db. So put 2 30dB case fans in a computer, and the total from them would be 33dB, not 60dB.
It's also possible to have sounds in the negative decibel range, it's just we can't hear them.
Even better if you don't need all the power is to pick up a used PIII system from Dell or HP. They are even more quiet machines than the P4's, and have plenty of power for most tasks. Right now I'm sitting in front of a 866Mhz HP Vectra, and hum from this old 15" monitor is louder than the computer.
I would get a powered USB hub, that would pretty much cover everything but the monitor. As for the monitor, you'd have to get extension cables. If you want to go all out, get a flat panel with a DVI input - as the signal won't degrade over the DVI extension cables like it will over the analog VGA ones (up to a point, but 20 feet you should be ok).
That site did nothing in Opera, but I just opened it on IE6 - holy crap that's evil! But I must admit I do like it.