I doubt any of these parasites would act any different than other scumbag companies right now - they are out for a quick buck. Witness companies like Enron and SCO. The people in charge of them run them into the ground, run off with their millions and leave everyone else to clean up the mess. These people are incredibly short-sighted. They simply don't care about things like revenue streams, even if it could mean more money in the long run.
I'm with you on this. I'm pretty used to Windows, and a bit with KDE. I find OS X to be very useable, and intuitive. It's not hard to pick up on it at all.
The Dock is pretty cool, Coming from Windows, it's not hard to figure out how to use it. It's not all different from putting all your favorite programs in the quicklaunch, and having a nicer way to tell minimized windows apart. About the only thing that annoyed me with the Dock was the way the icons jump out at you when you hoover the mouse over them, but I quickly discovered that can be turned off.
I find the only people who seem to complain about OS X are people that come from OS 9 and earlier. They are used to the old way, and don't want to change. I think OS9 sucks myself, I find it slow, clunky, annoying, and not all that stable. To me, Apple's decision to scrap it and start over with OS X was a no-brainer.
That makes me wonder - because of all the press this new feature in Photoshop has gotten, just how many people have tried copying money that otherwise wouldn't of ever thought of doing it? It seems to be quite a large number.
I don't really know for sure if it would affect it or not, but a CD does contain a layer of metal. Ever put a CD in a microwave? It could be like that.
Do you mean music that is downloaded, or ripped? Most of my ripped music is in OGG, but most of my downloaded music is as it came - mp3. Overall, I have more mp3's than ogg's. And no, I'm not going to transcode the mp3's either, as what's the point to go from one lossy codec to another?
If you don't like MP3, then I would encode with OGG. WMA and AAC may be completely dead in 15 years, but since OGG is open source I can bet the files will still be playable in 15 years (without running 15 year old hardware).
However, I find MP3 just fine. I find 192kbps with LAME is indistinguishable from the CD, and I really have to try to hear the difference at 128kbps. But use a crappy encoder and I can hear the difference. The only reason I use OGG to rip my own CDs now is the space savings.
I have found XP and 2000 do not like large FAT32 partitions formatted with other programs, for some odd reason. I had an 80GB drive I wanted to format as FAT32, and I tried a couple of non-MS things and XP and 2000 balked. Finally I installed it in a Windows ME machine and formatted it, and now XP likes it just fine. So if you have access to a 95b/98/ME machine, try that.
Well, even the veteran Linux users might appreciate something like this, which basically showcases a program, and what it can do. I had heard of DOSEMU, but hadn't given it a whole lot of thought. Now I'm determined to get SimCity 2000 and Master of Orion going in DOSEMU.
If you do take it apart, you'll find the LCD is attached to the mainboard by a largish ribbon cable. This is the most fragile part of the insides of the calculator. If you jiggle the ribbon cable around it can sometimes fix bad lines, but it can also make it worse (though in your case it won't make much difference). Tracking down the actual bad connection is nearly impossible though.
I've seen many older TI's with good, still functioning screens. Keyboards seem to cause the biggest problem, it seems they just get gunk in them and start to stick - but I've fixed that by taking the calculator apart and cleaning the keyboard. The other problem with the 85 is eventually you get all kinds of dust between the LCD and the plastic window. Also can be solved by taking it apart and cleaning it. My 85 is 8 years old, seen all kinds of use/abuse, and still works great. With the newer TI's though, it seems they get cracked LCD's easy when they get dropped.
TI seems to be killing off the 85/86 line. I think TI sees the 83 and it's variants as the line for high school, and the 89 and it's kin as the line for college. In their view, the 85/86 just don't have a place.
But I agree, the 85 is the best TI. I always viewed the 82 as a crippled 85 rather than an upgraded 81 - since the 85 predates the 82. Now the 82 has gone through several revisions and it still lacks many of the 85's features. And these features are ones I find more useful (like polynomial solver, complex numbers, and the larger screen) - as opposed to all the ones the 82/83/84 line has picked up (1.5MB of flash rom? WTF?)
That's one thing about the TI-85 I have. It has never crashed unless I was intentionally screwing with it. I got one of the first TI-86's, and that thing pissed me off more than once, what good is that extra ram if it likes to wipe itself out? Besides, the 86 was slower than the 85.
I still haven't figured out the new TI-84's, and why TI is trying to kill off the 85-86 line. The 84 lacks a lot of what the 85 has - polynomial solver, system of equation solver, unit conversions, complex numbers, better interface, better screen - to name a few. If you ask me, the 85 is the best TI out there - powerful enough to be useful, simple enough to be easy to use and fast. The 89/92 and HP's 48 and 49 series can do a lot that the 85 can't do - but I find if I need the kind of power I don't have with the 85, I'm better off running to the computer instead.
I'm not really interested in the 84, or the new 89. If TI made a TI-87 that addresses some of the flaws in the 85/86, with the features the 83 series have picked up (like the better stats package), plus a faster processor and maybe flash ram I might pay attention. Otherwise I'll stick to my 85.
I have a roommate who just purchased a NForce 2 board, and there is just a big heatsink sitting on the Northbridge. I believe it's an Asus, supposedly a good one for overclocking too. While he hasn't overclocked his chip yet (I'm not sure if he even plans on it) - the board is currently stable.
I can see why overclockers need to pay attention, I have seen them with little fans on their memory heat-spreaders too! Pretty silly if you ask me, but I guess it works for them.
Why do so many motherboards get away with slapping a heatsink on the northbridge? Not just old ones too, motherboards with the newest chipsets do this too. I don't like the tiny, unreliable, noisy motherboard fans so I always opt for the ones with the heatsinks, and have not had any problems.
With respert to the search assistant, I simply don't like the XP interface. I prefer to pull up search and type something like "*chicane*.mp3" and let it churn. I guess I'm just old school like that. It would be nice if XP let people choose which one they want, as the 2000 style search is obviously still in XP.
I still don't think the XP search searches everything, even when I tell it too. I've done some searches to find system files, and windows search comes up empty while "dir/s" finds stuff. But I'll have to expirment around with the settings more to make sure I have them all correct.
I'll have to fool around with Remote Desktop more. Right now it doesn't work because all the XP machines on the network have been 'tweaked', and I have to reenable the services. I currently use Radmin ( http://www.famatech.com/ ), and used that before XP came out. Nice thing about that is I can Radmin my Windows 2000 and Windows 95 machines too.
I just tried "disabling" the search assistant in XP by right-clicking it, and all I get is "close toolbar". Yeah, you can disable the little dog, but that's not what I mean. If you want the much better Windows 2000 search, you *have* to load up regedit: http://www.windows-help.net/WindowsXP/tu ne-20.html
As for MSN messenger, sure they put a little icon there, but just like the "uninstall" option for Internet Explorer, just about all it does is delete the icons for it.
I've never used remote desktop. But I'm sure it comes in handy, though I'm a bit disturbed by the fact that by default the remote desktop/registry service is on in XP.
Well, you could do what other people have done - just look around: The toaster, that old broken VCR, a pumpkin, a hubcap, a Windows XP retail box... the possibilities are endless!
The OEMs are pretty good at making quiet computers, atleast the office computers. I bought a used HP Vectra - a PIII 866Mhz with a 7200RPM hard drive, and I can't believe how quiet the thing is. It's cooled by a single low RPM fan, and a couple of clever ducts for the air to blow around in. The sides of the case are fairly thick plastic, and seems to utilize some strategically placed foam to reduce vibrations. It turns out that the hum from my old monitor is louder than the computer! I bet it would even be more silent if I swapped out the 7200RPM Maxtor for a 5400RPM Samsung.
I find XP to be slower than 2000. I know I can disable the themes and all the ugly eye candy, but it's still slower. Not to mention all the tweaking I have to do, like hacking the registry to rid myself of the search assistant and MSN Messenger.
Windows XP does have it's advantages over 2000. The two that immediately come to mind is the faster boot time, and built-in dual display support for dualhead video cards (which worked in Windows 98 but was mysteriously missing in Windows 2000)
So what do you call the box I'm sitting in front of right now, an AMD Athlon running Windows XP? Or the one to my right, an Intel PIII that runs Mandrake? A Winthlon? A Lintel? Curious minds wish to know.
If you had that computer hooked up to the internet, it may of gotten instantly owned by any number of worms the second the unpatched Windows XP desktop came up. A lot of those worms do not play nice if you try to install an antivirus program either. I've seen things like that happen before, but either way you basically had no choice but to reinstall XP. Another bit of advice is that once you get the XP system patched, tweaked and configured, and all your software installed do a backup - that way you won't have to do another reinstall when the system gets borked again.
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I doubt any of these parasites would act any different than other scumbag companies right now - they are out for a quick buck. Witness companies like Enron and SCO. The people in charge of them run them into the ground, run off with their millions and leave everyone else to clean up the mess. These people are incredibly short-sighted. They simply don't care about things like revenue streams, even if it could mean more money in the long run.
Where do you have your dock? I put it on the left side of the screen, where it is usually out of the way. I rarely hit it by accident.
I'm with you on this. I'm pretty used to Windows, and a bit with KDE. I find OS X to be very useable, and intuitive. It's not hard to pick up on it at all.
The Dock is pretty cool, Coming from Windows, it's not hard to figure out how to use it. It's not all different from putting all your favorite programs in the quicklaunch, and having a nicer way to tell minimized windows apart. About the only thing that annoyed me with the Dock was the way the icons jump out at you when you hoover the mouse over them, but I quickly discovered that can be turned off.
I find the only people who seem to complain about OS X are people that come from OS 9 and earlier. They are used to the old way, and don't want to change. I think OS9 sucks myself, I find it slow, clunky, annoying, and not all that stable. To me, Apple's decision to scrap it and start over with OS X was a no-brainer.
That makes me wonder - because of all the press this new feature in Photoshop has gotten, just how many people have tried copying money that otherwise wouldn't of ever thought of doing it? It seems to be quite a large number.
I don't really know for sure if it would affect it or not, but a CD does contain a layer of metal. Ever put a CD in a microwave? It could be like that.
I think I'll store my images on punchcards.
A lot of techno/electronic CDs fill up the entire thing. Otherwise, I don't know of many.
They could always use the stamped equivalent of those 99 minute CD-R's. Most newer CD players and computers can handle those just fine.
Do you mean music that is downloaded, or ripped? Most of my ripped music is in OGG, but most of my downloaded music is as it came - mp3. Overall, I have more mp3's than ogg's. And no, I'm not going to transcode the mp3's either, as what's the point to go from one lossy codec to another?
If you don't like MP3, then I would encode with OGG. WMA and AAC may be completely dead in 15 years, but since OGG is open source I can bet the files will still be playable in 15 years (without running 15 year old hardware).
However, I find MP3 just fine. I find 192kbps with LAME is indistinguishable from the CD, and I really have to try to hear the difference at 128kbps. But use a crappy encoder and I can hear the difference. The only reason I use OGG to rip my own CDs now is the space savings.
I have found XP and 2000 do not like large FAT32 partitions formatted with other programs, for some odd reason. I had an 80GB drive I wanted to format as FAT32, and I tried a couple of non-MS things and XP and 2000 balked. Finally I installed it in a Windows ME machine and formatted it, and now XP likes it just fine. So if you have access to a 95b/98/ME machine, try that.
Is that you don't try to extort Google. They're willing to fight back.
Did you learn this the hard way?
Well, even the veteran Linux users might appreciate something like this, which basically showcases a program, and what it can do. I had heard of DOSEMU, but hadn't given it a whole lot of thought. Now I'm determined to get SimCity 2000 and Master of Orion going in DOSEMU.
If you do take it apart, you'll find the LCD is attached to the mainboard by a largish ribbon cable. This is the most fragile part of the insides of the calculator. If you jiggle the ribbon cable around it can sometimes fix bad lines, but it can also make it worse (though in your case it won't make much difference). Tracking down the actual bad connection is nearly impossible though.
I've seen many older TI's with good, still functioning screens. Keyboards seem to cause the biggest problem, it seems they just get gunk in them and start to stick - but I've fixed that by taking the calculator apart and cleaning the keyboard. The other problem with the 85 is eventually you get all kinds of dust between the LCD and the plastic window. Also can be solved by taking it apart and cleaning it. My 85 is 8 years old, seen all kinds of use/abuse, and still works great. With the newer TI's though, it seems they get cracked LCD's easy when they get dropped.
TI seems to be killing off the 85/86 line. I think TI sees the 83 and it's variants as the line for high school, and the 89 and it's kin as the line for college. In their view, the 85/86 just don't have a place.
But I agree, the 85 is the best TI. I always viewed the 82 as a crippled 85 rather than an upgraded 81 - since the 85 predates the 82. Now the 82 has gone through several revisions and it still lacks many of the 85's features. And these features are ones I find more useful (like polynomial solver, complex numbers, and the larger screen) - as opposed to all the ones the 82/83/84 line has picked up (1.5MB of flash rom? WTF?)
That's one thing about the TI-85 I have. It has never crashed unless I was intentionally screwing with it. I got one of the first TI-86's, and that thing pissed me off more than once, what good is that extra ram if it likes to wipe itself out? Besides, the 86 was slower than the 85.
I still haven't figured out the new TI-84's, and why TI is trying to kill off the 85-86 line. The 84 lacks a lot of what the 85 has - polynomial solver, system of equation solver, unit conversions, complex numbers, better interface, better screen - to name a few. If you ask me, the 85 is the best TI out there - powerful enough to be useful, simple enough to be easy to use and fast. The 89/92 and HP's 48 and 49 series can do a lot that the 85 can't do - but I find if I need the kind of power I don't have with the 85, I'm better off running to the computer instead.
I'm not really interested in the 84, or the new 89. If TI made a TI-87 that addresses some of the flaws in the 85/86, with the features the 83 series have picked up (like the better stats package), plus a faster processor and maybe flash ram I might pay attention. Otherwise I'll stick to my 85.
I have a roommate who just purchased a NForce 2 board, and there is just a big heatsink sitting on the Northbridge. I believe it's an Asus, supposedly a good one for overclocking too. While he hasn't overclocked his chip yet (I'm not sure if he even plans on it) - the board is currently stable.
I can see why overclockers need to pay attention, I have seen them with little fans on their memory heat-spreaders too! Pretty silly if you ask me, but I guess it works for them.
Yeah, I bet those Cyrix/IBM 6x86 systems are starting to get a bit dated.
Why do so many motherboards get away with slapping a heatsink on the northbridge? Not just old ones too, motherboards with the newest chipsets do this too. I don't like the tiny, unreliable, noisy motherboard fans so I always opt for the ones with the heatsinks, and have not had any problems.
With respert to the search assistant, I simply don't like the XP interface. I prefer to pull up search and type something like "*chicane*.mp3" and let it churn. I guess I'm just old school like that. It would be nice if XP let people choose which one they want, as the 2000 style search is obviously still in XP.
/s" finds stuff. But I'll have to expirment around with the settings more to make sure I have them all correct.
I still don't think the XP search searches everything, even when I tell it too. I've done some searches to find system files, and windows search comes up empty while "dir
I'll have to fool around with Remote Desktop more. Right now it doesn't work because all the XP machines on the network have been 'tweaked', and I have to reenable the services. I currently use Radmin ( http://www.famatech.com/ ), and used that before XP came out. Nice thing about that is I can Radmin my Windows 2000 and Windows 95 machines too.
I just tried "disabling" the search assistant in XP by right-clicking it, and all I get is "close toolbar". Yeah, you can disable the little dog, but that's not what I mean. If you want the much better Windows 2000 search, you *have* to load up regedit:u ne-20.html
http://www.windows-help.net/WindowsXP/t
As for MSN messenger, sure they put a little icon there, but just like the "uninstall" option for Internet Explorer, just about all it does is delete the icons for it.
I've never used remote desktop. But I'm sure it comes in handy, though I'm a bit disturbed by the fact that by default the remote desktop/registry service is on in XP.
Well, you could do what other people have done - just look around: The toaster, that old broken VCR, a pumpkin, a hubcap, a Windows XP retail box... the possibilities are endless!
The OEMs are pretty good at making quiet computers, atleast the office computers. I bought a used HP Vectra - a PIII 866Mhz with a 7200RPM hard drive, and I can't believe how quiet the thing is. It's cooled by a single low RPM fan, and a couple of clever ducts for the air to blow around in. The sides of the case are fairly thick plastic, and seems to utilize some strategically placed foam to reduce vibrations. It turns out that the hum from my old monitor is louder than the computer! I bet it would even be more silent if I swapped out the 7200RPM Maxtor for a 5400RPM Samsung.
I find XP to be slower than 2000. I know I can disable the themes and all the ugly eye candy, but it's still slower. Not to mention all the tweaking I have to do, like hacking the registry to rid myself of the search assistant and MSN Messenger.
Windows XP does have it's advantages over 2000. The two that immediately come to mind is the faster boot time, and built-in dual display support for dualhead video cards (which worked in Windows 98 but was mysteriously missing in Windows 2000)
So what do you call the box I'm sitting in front of right now, an AMD Athlon running Windows XP? Or the one to my right, an Intel PIII that runs Mandrake? A Winthlon? A Lintel? Curious minds wish to know.
If you had that computer hooked up to the internet, it may of gotten instantly owned by any number of worms the second the unpatched Windows XP desktop came up. A lot of those worms do not play nice if you try to install an antivirus program either. I've seen things like that happen before, but either way you basically had no choice but to reinstall XP. Another bit of advice is that once you get the XP system patched, tweaked and configured, and all your software installed do a backup - that way you won't have to do another reinstall when the system gets borked again.