Buy.com does not really suck. Ordering HW is pretty good (one minor snafo once), but their DVD business is completely hosed. I had ordered Heat to test out my forthcoming DVD drive, and it was on back order for ages. Since I didn't have a DVD drive, I let it persist, until I was actually getting my new pc built. I then cancelled the order, placed an order at Amazon, paid 50cents more, and got it three days later. matt
If we are going to be fully anal retentinve, the PPro was sold in 256k, 512k, and 1 meg cache versions. And when Pentiums made the jump to MMX, the internal cache was increased to 16k from 8k, which accounted for the speed increases as MMX was something of a bust perfgrmance wise (*not marketing wise tho).
Jesus Christ. November was LAST MONTH. Do you really think there are boatloads of brilliant OSS programmers who have been sitting around with their thumbs up their arses waiting for a windfalls from distro cmpanies with multi billion dollar valuations before they start programming great works? Were you expecting Xfree 4, the 2.4 kernal, DVD support in 30 minutes or less? Red Hat can't magically get brilliant people over night.
The US may well have the highest use of energy per capita, but the most crucial fact is that we are the world's most efficient producers of "stuff" per kilowatt hr. Avoiding the entire discussion of whether we need stuff or not, I think it is clear that the global desire for more "stuff" is only going to increase. Thus, such environmental treaties as the Kyoto accord are incredibly harmful, as by limiting first world energy usage, production would be moved to higher polluting third world factories.
Option Pack was designed to be installed post SP3 install. Do so, and then attempt to SP6. Or SP5, but maybe you are just a ballsy guy. You will probably get some pop up messages, but check the MS KB.
using IE cuz of stability, hate spending so much time worrying about BROWSER SECURITY VULNERABILITIES. Love the look and feel of Netscape of old, but 4.5+ crashes *way* too often.
If mozilla happens, anyone can take that code and modify it as they wish. No need to reinvent the wheel. Unless the konqueror people can come forward with a anti mozilla manifesto that so explicitly explains why their needs cannot be fulfilled within the mozilla project, then it appears as a waste of effort to me.
This is just another case of MS shooting itself in the foot. Some people have been criticising MS for their testing practices, but this was the first SP that I received a beta of in the 9 months I have been receiving Technet as a MCSE. See, we are all running Win2k beta, so we can't be testing NT 4 SP6 beta, can we?
Seriously, if this was an attempt by the evil empire to slap Lotus around, why on earth would they wait til now, when every major corporation has a complete lockdown in anticipation of Y2k. Places that would be affected by this should have in place major review of any system patches due to y2k lockdown.
MS sez they will has a hot fix available next week, which probably means if one were to call their support lines, one could obtain it free of charge. (Note that normally MS charges per call, but will release hot fixes to people who can prove their need for them. Then hot fixes generally are released into a post SPx dir on MS's ftp server, and then finally folded into the next SP. I have no desire to discuss people's woes of fee based customer support, experience with customer support, or MS's hotfix practice. I am just telling it like it is).
That is where MS sez the hot fix will be available next week.
The real problem here is how MS implements changes. Some people have claimed that an article says that every port over 1023 now needs admin access to open. This may well be true, but MS's readme file says absolutely nothing about this. This approach to security is insane. Learning about security in MS products is a gotcha! endeavor. They make changes by stealth. aieee
Actually, Office 95 was very very good. Whereas I don't have enough experience with 2k to judge, and Office 97 was a piece of crap that needed 2 service packs and stil is nightmarish. Matt
Assessing constitutionality is what the SC is there to do. Well over 90% of cases seen by them find the laws involved to be constitutional. After Marbury v. Madison in which they assertedtheir right to do so, the Court did not strike down a federal law until about 50 years later.
Just about every vid card maker over promises. Nvidia is the worst offender, as the TNT2 ultra finally provided what the TNT2 was promised to do. There will probably be a GeForce + or some such that will meet the published specs of the original press releases for the GeForce.
S3 has done the same with their new chip as well, with lower mem and processor speeds than originally promised.
LCDs are also a helluva lot cheaper to run. I'd love for someone to do a study on the costs over 5 years of 15 LCD vs. CRT. All the numbers I have seen would seem to indicate a cost savers would result with LCD.
If anyone from IBM is here, I'm prefectly willing to beta test one of these....
She clearly had an anti computer bias. If you were a lawyer, and worked the same hours with legal pads, or a doctor with tissue and bones, do you honestly think she would feel them same way? Some people are still stuck in the computer=nerd mentality. Keep moving on though, I am kinda alarmed by your "avoid face to face" part, as a lot of non geeks don't have anti geek bias.
WP has had special legal editions for years. I think that they had massive supremacy since their 5.1 DOS versions of it, and have been able to keep that specific market base. matt
6th gen vs 7th gen is silly quasi-geek marketing speak. If Transmeta came out with a CPU tomorrow that blew away all Athlons and CuMines for $100, would you seriously not buy it because it would be only a 1st gen processor?
Buy the processor for what you need, if it is for the world beater of a desktop PC, then go Athlon.
Huh?!?!??! IBM supported the PS/2's for at least 10 years!!! IBM has Win2k beta support tips for my three year old laptop (not that I could afford enough ram to run it). Of anything you can criticize IBM for, long term support aint it. Now, their mysterious part numbering system and their spontaneous renumbering can definitely be criticized. Matt
I go to American U and will promptly return to Boston upon graduation.
1. Drop someone in SE DC and they *will* know they aren't in Kansas anymore
2. Having seen a homicide at Union Station has kinda dampened my enthusiasm for walking around DC in general. Not that there is much of DC you can walk around anyhow.
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You are absolutely correct, as I have received all the Compaq Alpha betas... until they killed the platform however. Doh! matt
Buy.com does not really suck. Ordering HW is pretty good (one minor snafo once), but their DVD business is completely hosed. I had ordered Heat to test out my forthcoming DVD drive, and it was on back order for ages. Since I didn't have a DVD drive, I let it persist, until I was actually getting my new pc built. I then cancelled the order, placed an order at Amazon, paid 50cents more, and got it three days later. matt
If we are going to be fully anal retentinve, the PPro was sold in 256k, 512k, and 1 meg cache versions. And when Pentiums made the jump to MMX, the internal cache was increased to 16k from 8k, which accounted for the speed increases as MMX was something of a bust perfgrmance wise (*not marketing wise tho).
matt
Jesus Christ. November was LAST MONTH. Do you really think there are boatloads of brilliant OSS programmers who have been sitting around with their thumbs up their arses waiting for a windfalls from distro cmpanies with multi billion dollar valuations before they start programming great works? Were you expecting Xfree 4, the 2.4 kernal, DVD support in 30 minutes or less? Red Hat can't magically get brilliant people over night.
matt
You meant special features clogging my CPU, with the new AIM ticker using 20% of CPU on a P II 350 : - )
matt
Anyone down the hall willing to take credit for the buffer overflows that AIM relies on?
Matt
At 1134pm eastern on a Sat night? who makes the first "is it hosted by IIS" post?
Matt
Contempt of Congress charges were the basis of a few Supreme Court cases in the 50s, revolving around former communists and HUAC
The US may well have the highest use of energy per capita, but the most crucial fact is that we are the world's most efficient producers of "stuff" per kilowatt hr. Avoiding the entire discussion of whether we need stuff or not, I think it is clear that the global desire for more "stuff" is only going to increase. Thus, such environmental treaties as the Kyoto accord are incredibly harmful, as by limiting first world energy usage, production would be moved to higher polluting third world factories.
matt
Actually, I just read about a Chrysler dealership that was charging 299.99 for a so called y2k update. What they were actually doing was firmware upgrades that Chrysler Corp. did not feel necessitated a recall. It looks like the dealership was just trying to make money off the hype. Slimy. if ya wanna read it, scroll down like crazy, and go quickly, as ths Globe will probably remove it shortly
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matt
Option Pack was designed to be installed post SP3 install. Do so, and then attempt to SP6. Or SP5, but maybe you are just a ballsy guy. You will probably get some pop up messages, but check the MS KB.
matt
using IE cuz of stability, hate spending so much time worrying about BROWSER SECURITY VULNERABILITIES. Love the look and feel of Netscape of old, but 4.5+ crashes *way* too often.
If mozilla happens, anyone can take that code and modify it as they wish. No need to reinvent the wheel. Unless the konqueror people can come forward with a anti mozilla manifesto that so explicitly explains why their needs cannot be fulfilled within the mozilla project, then it appears as a waste of effort to me.
matt
This is just another case of MS shooting itself in the foot. Some people have been criticising MS for their testing practices, but this was the first SP that I received a beta of in the 9 months I have been receiving Technet as a MCSE. See, we are all running Win2k beta, so we can't be testing NT 4 SP6 beta, can we?
/ recommended/SP6/allSP6.asp
Seriously, if this was an attempt by the evil empire to slap Lotus around, why on earth would they wait til now, when every major corporation has a complete lockdown in anticipation of Y2k. Places that would be affected by this should have in place major review of any system patches due to y2k lockdown.
MS sez they will has a hot fix available next week, which probably means if one were to call their support lines, one could obtain it free of charge. (Note that normally MS charges per call, but will release hot fixes to people who can prove their need for them. Then hot fixes generally are released into a post SPx dir on MS's ftp server, and then finally folded into the next SP. I have no desire to discuss people's woes of fee based customer support, experience with customer support, or MS's hotfix practice. I am just telling it like it is).
http://www.microsoft.com/ntserver/nts/downloads
That is where MS sez the hot fix will be available next week.
The real problem here is how MS implements changes. Some people have claimed that an article says that every port over 1023 now needs admin access to open. This may well be true, but MS's readme file says absolutely nothing about this. This approach to security is insane. Learning about security in MS products is a gotcha! endeavor. They make changes by stealth. aieee
matt
Actually, Office 95 was very very good. Whereas I don't have enough experience with 2k to judge, and Office 97 was a piece of crap that needed 2 service packs and stil is nightmarish. Matt
Assessing constitutionality is what the SC is there to do. Well over 90% of cases seen by them find the laws involved to be constitutional. After Marbury v. Madison in which they assertedtheir right to do so, the Court did not strike down a federal law until about 50 years later.
Matt
Just about every vid card maker over promises. Nvidia is the worst offender, as the TNT2 ultra finally provided what the TNT2 was promised to do. There will probably be a GeForce + or some such that will meet the published specs of the original press releases for the GeForce.
S3 has done the same with their new chip as well, with lower mem and processor speeds than originally promised.
matt
LCDs are also a helluva lot cheaper to run. I'd love for someone to do a study on the costs over 5 years of 15 LCD vs. CRT. All the numbers I have seen would seem to indicate a cost savers would result with LCD.
If anyone from IBM is here, I'm prefectly willing to beta test one of these....
matt
The CEO makes it appear as if you *need* to contribute all changes made to the source, not the journalist.
Matt
She clearly had an anti computer bias. If you were a lawyer, and worked the same hours with legal pads, or a doctor with tissue and bones, do you honestly think she would feel them same way? Some people are still stuck in the computer=nerd mentality. Keep moving on though, I am kinda alarmed by your "avoid face to face" part, as a lot of non geeks don't have anti geek bias.
matt
WP has had special legal editions for years. I think that they had massive supremacy since their 5.1 DOS versions of it, and have been able to keep that specific market base. matt
Only on Slashdot could you *possibly* find people who would like to read a 385 page diatribe against MS.
Matt Ostiguy, MCSE, hates 9x, but COME ON!
6th gen vs 7th gen is silly quasi-geek marketing speak. If Transmeta came out with a CPU tomorrow that blew away all Athlons and CuMines for $100, would you seriously not buy it because it would be only a 1st gen processor?
Buy the processor for what you need, if it is for the world beater of a desktop PC, then go Athlon.
Matt
Huh?!?!??! IBM supported the PS/2's for at least 10 years!!! IBM has Win2k beta support tips for my three year old laptop (not that I could afford enough ram to run it). Of anything you can criticize IBM for, long term support aint it. Now, their mysterious part numbering system and their spontaneous renumbering can definitely be criticized. Matt
I go to American U and will promptly return to Boston upon graduation.
1. Drop someone in SE DC and they *will* know they aren't in Kansas anymore
2. Having seen a homicide at Union Station has kinda dampened my enthusiasm for walking around DC in general. Not that there is much of DC you can walk around anyhow.
matt