But with a 32bit CPU, SSD and nice RAM (3 or 4 GB?) if you install Windows or Linux you'd have a fully up-to-date system. A bit lacking in RAM, sure (Chrome will easily eat well over 3GB if you don't restrict your browsing, so a 64bit OS and machine are needed for that reason)
OS/2 failed because of its Windows 3.1 compatibility. If you can run DOS and Windows 3.1 applications already, why would you want native OS/2 ones? And why not just run the real thing with less cost (such as 4MB RAM instead of 8MB) and no worries about configuring the compatibility layers.
The DOS support could have been enough for games and legacy apps. An ecosystem of OS/2 games and apps could have become a new "legacy".The Windows compatibility wasn't able to keep up with Windows 95, NT4.0 and later, which killed it for good.
Thanks. My solution would be to add a 2nd network card on the Win 7 or linux box. In my country, seems to me that 99% people (well, those with wired broadband at home) use a router that is provided by the ISP. You always have stuff like DHCP ranges and port forwarding (to enable MORE connectivity not less) ; probably other consumer/"multimedia" oriented stuff like NAS function, print server, DLNA etc.
For additional networking options, yes the crappy consumer networking gear probably has more features.
Good idea, create a.deb and install it.. but that's (as a matter of perception) hardcore sysadmin stuff, not user stuff. Yes I'd like to compile some outdated or too new or different (*nix) stuff.. Or say, lone wolf projects, of which emulators are an example. And there are ppas or additional repos but then you need to manage the ppas and the guy doing the ppa might have done a crap job. (oh, I remember being told that in synaptics you can find installed packages that came from a ppa, but I wouldn't have thought of looking there and I still don't know how to do that from the command line).
Easy way out is with./configure --prefix=/opt, but I don't feel that's right if I need to compile libraries before. Maybe I'm wrong. Else, I had thought of using some simple scripts or commands to know what files were added in/usr and such but I'd fear doing some non-robust crap.
Your suggestion makes sense, though it makes me feel like you're some Gentoo, BSD or Arch (?) user. I suppose it's all distro specific.
Compile and install a program on linux with./configure, make and make install? then you will likely be left with no means to uninstall it at all. And I have no idea why there are non-library files in/usr/lib.
Actually, nothing in my culture said something about an animal, person or face on the moon. I was indirectly, non explicitly exposed to the "rabbit" with the Sailor Moon anime and the famous Frank Herbert's book.
"Man in the Moon" is another cultural reference that's been introduced to me by Slashdot, in the past 5 minutes.
Maybe a rich man's VNC? well optimised, adequately compressed, using RDP or similar in the first place. Perhaps it's some "hybrid" setup, when cattering to one app you have full control of and you control the client too, you might be doing a few optimizations and adding a bit of logic. When clicking a menu, the pixel contents of the rectangular drop-down menu area might be cached or even pre-loaded, instead of doing simple VNC-style streaming every time.
For file transfer, I would think that HTTP (HTTPS) transfers are more appropriate these days than old FTP.
In France you might see a "glass" as in glass of water, if the quantity is approximate. But mL, cL, grams etc. may be more likely. Soup spoon, coffee spoon and pinch (of salt, pepper etc.) certainly are prevalent. As for 250mL? you can always say a quarter liter, or 25cL. That's one standard serving for beer by the way but cooking books don't speak in beer servings.
A "cup"? coffee cup can be tiny, tea cups are bigger, and then we now have "mugs". So we don't know what's the size of a "cup".
What about using an oven? I know that 90 degrees C, just below the boiling point is good for gently warming something that was already cooked/baked. 200 degrees C and over are becoming serious.
"Time is still an imperial system, we just don't think of it that way. The French tried to metricise that too but it was crap. Using 60 minutes and 24 hours makes sense as they divide nicely into quarters and thirds unlike 10."
I've always thought of it as mesopotamian time rather than imperial time. It's where base 60 and (maybe) base 360 come from. Though, I have no clear idea where these time divisions really come from and maybe the hour was divided in 60 minutes of 60 seconds before the day was unequivocally divided in 24 (or 12) hours. The romans had variable length hours for fuck's sake (as fractions of daytime and nightime that have variable length themselves)
How is a VLAN "cheap"?, I guess you could do that because by chance he had the right specific model router and used the switch integrated to it. Also to me it's not clear. A Windows 2K box shouldn't have access to the internet (maybe that's what you done, I hope)
Focus follows mouse is very rare, I'd say 1% of linux desktop users which themselves are 1% of desktop users. For the last 10 to 15 years focus-on-click has been the norm or at least the default (it even was on Motif Window Manager, which works like Windows 3.1 but with xterms in place of the Program Manager)
That said, on linux environments you have "focus of the scrollwheel follows mouse" and that's very handy, not only to scroll windows or tabs but to change global sound volume without clicking too. So for us stupid ignorant users we have a form of "improper" focus-follows-mouse.
You already contribute financially to illegal activities.
Even if I told the IRS guys I don't want to finance criminals they would just take my/their money by force.
You guys are hard to follow.
But imo, you contribute to illegal activities (and they contribute to you) when you put your money overseas in fiscal paradises. That's a stronger example than just using the internet or walking down the street (because criminals use the pavement?). If you take measures to avoid the IRS you're probably financing criminals! (and financing criminals when paying your taxes.. probably, but less so in $milllion/$billion amounts)
By streamed, does that mean it's a javascript version? (would be much slow, unstable, less feature complete), NaCL? (sort of native code, Google proprietary stuff, I don't know what APIs it uses)
Other? my first understanding was it's some thin client stuff instead! So it would indeed run on the servers (as regular Photoshop x86-64 version) and you'd better have a fiber optics connection or be on a university LAN. Both for the latency and for the slow uploads and downloads of big image files.
The mobile touchscreen world probably needs a linux OS. Thing is, there are some many of them (some were corporate like Intel, Samsung, Nokia) but they are nowhere to be seen in the real world. So maybe it's not so bad that Ubuntu is doing an almost available one, which is closer than the other ones were.
Thing is I consider all the phones unsuitable for gaming (no buttons) and the input or even output is so limited it's a fucking chore to go in the menus, file managers, command line etc. I can "hack" it? (e.g. tie it to a desktop and do some unsupported crap to enable some features that are just regular ones on usual computers). I can have a "root prompt"? Yeah. I'll do that (if I can peck the keyboard keys in less than a minute) and hope this works : find / -iname '*google*'|xargs rm -rf.
Phone users wants video / music (perhaps no video use unless it's easier to find the stuff on youtube), calendars, messaging etc. and then the killer app is the web.
Who cares if the back end is horrible? It could be perl or Tcl/Tk, doesn't matter much if it gets out of the way. Not having to invest yourself in an "ecosystem" with compatibility concerns like the desktops OSes is good. Horrible slow and bloaty javascript is dealt with bruce force (dual 1.2GHz CPU, 512MB RAM..) like phones did over 10 years ago with Java ME on about 1/20th the specs. Half-baked.. Why care, have you seen the screenshots?, fonts, typography and color scheme look excellent. That's well-baked. And the resolution is high (800x480 on 4". It's 160x128 on regular phones and it was 160x144 on the Game Boy)
That's interesting, many "unexpected" little situations pile up, some of them legitimate and some of them less. I'm honestly seeing quite some of them on linux e.g. acessing NTFS and serving the content over ssh - that's pretty legit due to a user space file system and use of encryption ; launching a little GUI to a software synth uses some CPU and pulseaudio is using a ton, there's some bug.. have to upgrade the distro and I guess it will disappear (None of that before upgrading to what I have, but pulseaudio had some other bugs). Xorg sometimes uses much CPU, never knew why. A gnome game locks up, using 99.9% of one CPU core.
Most funny is on a single core computer playing youtube or soundcloud for music. Software updates make the music hang!, they're usually pretty quick enough thanksfully. (I'll renice plugin-container next time?) I guess many seemingly mundane software embed a database and what not. Perhaps it's not all bad. In "good old times" we used to have system-level crashes, explorer.exe crashes, file system corruption and data loss all the time. Firefox still crashes but remembers the data.
Amstrad CPC6128 was very successful, especially popular in Europe - cheap price as a dedicated monitor was always bundled and a floppy drive was integrated, whereas other stuff like C64, Spectrum etc. tended to be used with a cassette drive and on the television.
It's not a killer machine, though. Rudimentary sound and no sprites - but it was colorful, with 16 colors out of a 32 color palette (much better than 8 fixed colors on some of the 8bit crap:p) Then it did have an upgrade that made it a "killer 8-bit"! These were the ill-fated CPC Plus and GX-4000 console. Typical fate of an upgraded model and a failed, unsupported console. It didn't help that the year was 1990, well into the times of Amiga 500 and Megadrive/Genesis and NES utterly dominating the game consoles.
France had that usual Colbertian, Louis XIV attitude of über strong centralization applied to nearly everything, so you have a single giant company (formerly 100% state owned, now 84% state owned) managing well over 50 nuclear reactors, and another virtually 100% state owned company dealing with plant building and the whole fuel cycle.
I guess that is what the nuclear industry needs. It's as if you had a company headquartered in Washington D.C., owned at 100% by the Department of Energy that operated all the 210 or so reactors. I guess that for many US readers such an idea would lead to many raised or frowned eyebrows. (But the US situation is almost like Mr Burns owning a single nuclear plant and nothing else and that isn't sustainable) I wish the European Union could be used for such endeavours. And, I have some many anarchist tendancies but when it comes to such things as this I'm a big Statist. It's like single payer healthcare, where the giant government thing is actually twice as efficient as private industry : the more "privatized" the system is, the more issues of undercoverage, surveillance and endless paperwork, effectively dozens or hundreds fiefdoms of power are created that leech off people and have the absolute word on what they can and cannot do. (I'm dwelling off-topic here to address some philosophical issue)
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But with a 32bit CPU, SSD and nice RAM (3 or 4 GB?) if you install Windows or Linux you'd have a fully up-to-date system. A bit lacking in RAM, sure (Chrome will easily eat well over 3GB if you don't restrict your browsing, so a 64bit OS and machine are needed for that reason)
OS/2 failed because of its Windows 3.1 compatibility. If you can run DOS and Windows 3.1 applications already, why would you want native OS/2 ones? And why not just run the real thing with less cost (such as 4MB RAM instead of 8MB) and no worries about configuring the compatibility layers.
The DOS support could have been enough for games and legacy apps. An ecosystem of OS/2 games and apps could have become a new "legacy".The Windows compatibility wasn't able to keep up with Windows 95, NT4.0 and later, which killed it for good.
I've find out I have "shutdown..." stuff in my top corner. Will try using it more.
Thanks.
My solution would be to add a 2nd network card on the Win 7 or linux box.
In my country, seems to me that 99% people (well, those with wired broadband at home) use a router that is provided by the ISP. You always have stuff like DHCP ranges and port forwarding (to enable MORE connectivity not less) ; probably other consumer/"multimedia" oriented stuff like NAS function, print server, DLNA etc.
For additional networking options, yes the crappy consumer networking gear probably has more features.
Good idea, create a .deb and install it.. but that's (as a matter of perception) hardcore sysadmin stuff, not user stuff.
Yes I'd like to compile some outdated or too new or different (*nix) stuff.. Or say, lone wolf projects, of which emulators are an example. And there are ppas or additional repos but then you need to manage the ppas and the guy doing the ppa might have done a crap job. (oh, I remember being told that in synaptics you can find installed packages that came from a ppa, but I wouldn't have thought of looking there and I still don't know how to do that from the command line).
Easy way out is with ./configure --prefix=/opt, but I don't feel that's right if I need to compile libraries before. Maybe I'm wrong. Else, I had thought of using some simple scripts or commands to know what files were added in /usr and such but I'd fear doing some non-robust crap.
Your suggestion makes sense, though it makes me feel like you're some Gentoo, BSD or Arch (?) user. I suppose it's all distro specific.
Is that just that your user directory is stored on the network?
And then there was a transition to C:\Documents and Settings\username\AppData ? (or \Users\usernames\AppData which is the same)
Compile and install a program on linux with ./configure, make and make install? then you will likely be left with no means to uninstall it at all. And I have no idea why there are non-library files in /usr/lib.
I thought it was Muad' Dib.
Actually, nothing in my culture said something about an animal, person or face on the moon. I was indirectly, non explicitly exposed to the "rabbit" with the Sailor Moon anime and the famous Frank Herbert's book.
"Man in the Moon" is another cultural reference that's been introduced to me by Slashdot, in the past 5 minutes.
Maybe a rich man's VNC? well optimised, adequately compressed, using RDP or similar in the first place. Perhaps it's some "hybrid" setup, when cattering to one app you have full control of and you control the client too, you might be doing a few optimizations and adding a bit of logic. When clicking a menu, the pixel contents of the rectangular drop-down menu area might be cached or even pre-loaded, instead of doing simple VNC-style streaming every time.
For file transfer, I would think that HTTP (HTTPS) transfers are more appropriate these days than old FTP.
In France you might see a "glass" as in glass of water, if the quantity is approximate. But mL, cL, grams etc. may be more likely. Soup spoon, coffee spoon and pinch (of salt, pepper etc.) certainly are prevalent. As for 250mL? you can always say a quarter liter, or 25cL. That's one standard serving for beer by the way but cooking books don't speak in beer servings.
A "cup"? coffee cup can be tiny, tea cups are bigger, and then we now have "mugs". So we don't know what's the size of a "cup".
What about using an oven? I know that 90 degrees C, just below the boiling point is good for gently warming something that was already cooked/baked. 200 degrees C and over are becoming serious.
"Time is still an imperial system, we just don't think of it that way. The French tried to metricise that too but it was crap. Using 60 minutes and 24 hours makes sense as they divide nicely into quarters and thirds unlike 10."
I've always thought of it as mesopotamian time rather than imperial time. It's where base 60 and (maybe) base 360 come from. Though, I have no clear idea where these time divisions really come from and maybe the hour was divided in 60 minutes of 60 seconds before the day was unequivocally divided in 24 (or 12) hours. The romans had variable length hours for fuck's sake (as fractions of daytime and nightime that have variable length themselves)
How is a VLAN "cheap"?, I guess you could do that because by chance he had the right specific model router and used the switch integrated to it. Also to me it's not clear. A Windows 2K box shouldn't have access to the internet (maybe that's what you done, I hope)
Focus follows mouse is very rare, I'd say 1% of linux desktop users which themselves are 1% of desktop users. For the last 10 to 15 years focus-on-click has been the norm or at least the default (it even was on Motif Window Manager, which works like Windows 3.1 but with xterms in place of the Program Manager)
That said, on linux environments you have "focus of the scrollwheel follows mouse" and that's very handy, not only to scroll windows or tabs but to change global sound volume without clicking too. So for us stupid ignorant users we have a form of "improper" focus-follows-mouse.
Minesweeper is an example this can be done, and it has been pretty well executed. See there :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
You already contribute financially to illegal activities.
Even if I told the IRS guys I don't want to finance criminals they would just take my/their money by force.
You guys are hard to follow.
But imo, you contribute to illegal activities (and they contribute to you) when you put your money overseas in fiscal paradises. That's a stronger example than just using the internet or walking down the street (because criminals use the pavement?).
If you take measures to avoid the IRS you're probably financing criminals! (and financing criminals when paying your taxes.. probably, but less so in $milllion/$billion amounts)
By streamed, does that mean it's a javascript version? (would be much slow, unstable, less feature complete), NaCL? (sort of native code, Google proprietary stuff, I don't know what APIs it uses)
Other? my first understanding was it's some thin client stuff instead!
So it would indeed run on the servers (as regular Photoshop x86-64 version) and you'd better have a fiber optics connection or be on a university LAN. Both for the latency and for the slow uploads and downloads of big image files.
The mobile touchscreen world probably needs a linux OS. Thing is, there are some many of them (some were corporate like Intel, Samsung, Nokia) but they are nowhere to be seen in the real world. So maybe it's not so bad that Ubuntu is doing an almost available one, which is closer than the other ones were.
Thing is I consider all the phones unsuitable for gaming (no buttons) and the input or even output is so limited it's a fucking chore to go in the menus, file managers, command line etc.
I can "hack" it? (e.g. tie it to a desktop and do some unsupported crap to enable some features that are just regular ones on usual computers). I can have a "root prompt"? Yeah. I'll do that (if I can peck the keyboard keys in less than a minute) and hope this works : find / -iname '*google*'|xargs rm -rf.
Phone users wants video / music (perhaps no video use unless it's easier to find the stuff on youtube), calendars, messaging etc. and then the killer app is the web.
Who cares if the back end is horrible? It could be perl or Tcl/Tk, doesn't matter much if it gets out of the way. Not having to invest yourself in an "ecosystem" with compatibility concerns like the desktops OSes is good. Horrible slow and bloaty javascript is dealt with bruce force (dual 1.2GHz CPU, 512MB RAM..) like phones did over 10 years ago with Java ME on about 1/20th the specs.
Half-baked.. Why care, have you seen the screenshots?, fonts, typography and color scheme look excellent. That's well-baked. And the resolution is high (800x480 on 4". It's 160x128 on regular phones and it was 160x144 on the Game Boy)
Importantly FF OS is the only one out anyway.
That's interesting, many "unexpected" little situations pile up, some of them legitimate and some of them less. I'm honestly seeing quite some of them on linux
e.g. acessing NTFS and serving the content over ssh - that's pretty legit due to a user space file system and use of encryption ; launching a little GUI to a software synth uses some CPU and pulseaudio is using a ton, there's some bug.. have to upgrade the distro and I guess it will disappear (None of that before upgrading to what I have, but pulseaudio had some other bugs). Xorg sometimes uses much CPU, never knew why. A gnome game locks up, using 99.9% of one CPU core.
Most funny is on a single core computer playing youtube or soundcloud for music. Software updates make the music hang!, they're usually pretty quick enough thanksfully. (I'll renice plugin-container next time?)
I guess many seemingly mundane software embed a database and what not. Perhaps it's not all bad. In "good old times" we used to have system-level crashes, explorer.exe crashes, file system corruption and data loss all the time. Firefox still crashes but remembers the data.
In fairness there's something about it in the release notes, and a workaround that seems farily easy (no dicking around in the command line)
http://www.linuxmint.com/rel_q...
Amstrad CPC6128 was very successful, especially popular in Europe - cheap price as a dedicated monitor was always bundled and a floppy drive was integrated, whereas other stuff like C64, Spectrum etc. tended to be used with a cassette drive and on the television.
It's not a killer machine, though. Rudimentary sound and no sprites - but it was colorful, with 16 colors out of a 32 color palette (much better than 8 fixed colors on some of the 8bit crap :p)
Then it did have an upgrade that made it a "killer 8-bit"! These were the ill-fated CPC Plus and GX-4000 console. Typical fate of an upgraded model and a failed, unsupported console. It didn't help that the year was 1990, well into the times of Amiga 500 and Megadrive/Genesis and NES utterly dominating the game consoles.
France had that usual Colbertian, Louis XIV attitude of über strong centralization applied to nearly everything, so you have a single giant company (formerly 100% state owned, now 84% state owned) managing well over 50 nuclear reactors, and another virtually 100% state owned company dealing with plant building and the whole fuel cycle.
I guess that is what the nuclear industry needs. It's as if you had a company headquartered in Washington D.C., owned at 100% by the Department of Energy that operated all the 210 or so reactors. I guess that for many US readers such an idea would lead to many raised or frowned eyebrows. (But the US situation is almost like Mr Burns owning a single nuclear plant and nothing else and that isn't sustainable)
I wish the European Union could be used for such endeavours. And, I have some many anarchist tendancies but when it comes to such things as this I'm a big Statist. It's like single payer healthcare, where the giant government thing is actually twice as efficient as private industry : the more "privatized" the system is, the more issues of undercoverage, surveillance and endless paperwork, effectively dozens or hundreds fiefdoms of power are created that leech off people and have the absolute word on what they can and cannot do. (I'm dwelling off-topic here to address some philosophical issue)