RIP will RIP. Yeah I agree that it was very bloated, but that fact that it worked was awesome. The first time I heard about I was sure my buddy was lying to me.
One of my best friends today, was a fellow SYSOP, that I met all those years ago.
Anybody from Southern Ontario, remember Ground Zero? Fast Doors
Ahh the nicks we used to have;
The Byte Bandit, Mr. Toby Madness
Only part of the movie Hackers that I enjoyed; where the kid is telling his friend: "I gotta have a cool nick, without a nick you are nothing."
It was the 'first' one to offer Super VGA graphics. You d'loaded all the graphics to your system, and then the system then queued various icons, backgrounds, and screens so that it appeared that you were browsing a SVGA system.
Very easily lent itself to themes. I was blown out of the water when I first saw that.
Does anybody remember C/Net BBS? (C=64) It was the only one that supported ASCII movies. You could create "movies" of buffered commands. Man those were the fun times....
LORD was great, there was a bug in the casino though. One of the games offered 2:1 odds, and played at exactly that ratio. It was soo easy to get millions of "credits". We then used those credits to offset download ratios. =)
I work for a large copier/network printer company (Not Brand X), and our machines have been able to do this for a very long time. A VERY tiny bar-code style serial number is placed everywhere in any printed and copied document (you need a microscope to see it).
This might be news because small desktop printers have never had small enough 'pixels' to keep it smaller then your eye can see.
1st attempt: Mandrake v10.0 I ran the Nvidia driver installer and it would state: "Nvidia driver installed..." In Mandrake's config files it did report that I was using the correct card. No splash screen and GL games ran like a hog (software emulation it felt like).
I played around with the xfree86.conf (I think that's the name) file, switching "nv" with "nvidia" and back again.
No splash screen.
I then loaded Suse v9.1 It detected the correct video card at installation AND I got the Nvidia splash-screen at boot.
Truth be told, I have had a 50/50 sucess rate with just killing the app. (azureus) After running for 3 days it's using almost 1Gb of ram. But like I mentioned killing the JavaVM works about 50% of the time.
I don't doubt that my OS needs to be nuked & re-installed. I will get around to that when I have enough time to backup my data and install linny instead.
I have found that most (2 of the 3) Java Apps that I used have horrible memory leak issues. I can't let the computer run for more then 3 days or all kinds of funkyness begins (winxp).
I have been using Sun's JVM. I realise that the memory leaks are very likely the fault of the apps themselves, but it seems that the whole JMV is kinda flakey too.
I have tried getting SynCE http://synce.sourceforge.net/synce/ to work in the past with various mail clients on kde & Gnome (various distros too).
But I have never had any luck getting it to run. Does anybody know of any other app that will let you synce (preferable) evolution with a pocketpc running MS Mobile 20003?
I can't remember what this is called, but there is/was a computing proposal that allowed you to add computing 'bricks'.
Each brick consisted of a CPU that when stacked with these other bricks added to the CPU horsepower of the total package.
This concept might actually work quite well. Video and storage were seperate, so want to run Doom5 at 60fps and have the holographic level of detail enabled, but 3 extra cpu Bricks.
And I thought to myself; "Self, why is it that these companies are always trying to blame a lack of innovation on everybody but themselves? Maybe it's just because you can't turn creativity on & off light a bloody light switch."
Most organizations that I have worked in are running NT4.0 for a reason. Usually 1 older app that is mostly DOS based, and has almost certainly been custom built for the job it's doing. (mostly server-side too)
These types of systems can usually stay running untill the hardware dies. Systems running W2k & XP are usually used in a more dynamic environment where you have complex apps and Db's running that stress the system more AND are also used as workstations.
I work for a company that had a Novell server v4.10 that had an uptime of over 5 years! It was hidden in a TV cabinet and coated with dust & dirt. It was used as a print-server.
If your usage of a server could be replaced by a solid-state style "appliance", then it should not be eligle for uptime based surveys.
If you can get the equipment into an air-tight device, and pump CO2 into it, the smell will be eliminated. (I'm not sure how long it needs to stay sealed, but I think 2-3 days is the norm.
I know a guy who specializes in removing nasty odours from cars. (He also does work for the police Dept. Removing the smell of decayed bodies out of cars so the evidence can be collected.)
He srrounds the car in a plastic "bubble", pumps out all the air, and then injects CO2 into it.
If you have your music sorted by genre's the catch is to keep the folders general.
ie/music/rock & alternative
From their there is no need to sub-classify the different types of Rock./music/rock & alternative/G&R
The key to this is Sane sorting. It is easy to over-classify your information. Any song should never be more then 4 levels deep./genre/artist/album/song.mp3
This is an overly specific example. The same applies for any user-created files on the OS. (I think I heard the same rule-of-thumb about web-pages too).
Email outta whack, organize it.
mail -/personal //friends //relatives/work-related //corporate bullshit //boss is a jerk //the chick in the mail-room is hot...etc...
This way all you eamil falls under 1 of 2 catagories. Just like a good Db design
I have been fighting with iTunes because it has forced me into using my files this way, and I hate it. But I am trying to learn. I am trying to like it.
It's just like linux for me. I wanna love it & use it, it's just so much work.
I am not trying to troll, but it may end up sounding like it...
I disagree with your initial statement that storeing your files in nested directories is 'cute'.
It is a logical hierarchical structure that allows for easy sorting & finding of documents **If they are stored in any type of sane manner**.
iTunes is an excellent example of this. *(disclaimer: if all your ID3 tags are complete & accurate)* iTunes allows you to search, play, and arrange your music very quickly.
This is perfect if your existing collection was not organized.
WinFS will be perfect for the millions of people who just dump every document that they come across into "My Documents". I work with a dozen of these idiots. The only way that they can "open" a file, is by opening word, clicking the open icon, and looking in the default location among the hundreds of files that they already have there.
Gnome's Spatial file/window system reminds me of the same concept.
Those people who already have their files well structured will only be annoyed at having to jump through the hoops that MS has placed before them. I don't want to have to work just to get at my files. Didn't MS try this already (in a very limited fasion) with the whole: "My Music", "My Photos", "my Downloads", My Gawd! Where are the files actually located?
C:\Documents and Settings\User\My Documents\more!
I much rather prefer: c:\docs c:\mp3 c:\pics d:\download
etc....
By dumping everything into one directory, you make it impossible to easily find what you want, but your answer is: Just search it!
Why would I search it, if in 3 mouse-clicks I could find it the old-fasioned way.
MS strategy (I think) is to make using the compupter less like work (like it is for my above quoted co-workers), and less intimidating, but they do this at the risk of completely annoying it's existing 'power-user' base.
If MS could do it in a fasion that is 100% behind the scenes from the user, then they might have an idea. index all documents, songs (lyrics too), movies (scripts), _EVERYTHING_. Then IF you need to search, then the whole thing is at your fingertips.
I look forward to any opposing thought that you may have on this. I realise that I just might be a carmudgen old-fart who is stuck in his ways and afraid of change.
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...but isn't that what Java was supposed to do?
(Disclaimer: The most programming I have ever done was 10 line batch file. That gave you a few options.)
Where is the +5 Bullsh*t mod when you need it!
Everybody knows that a women who likes $$ and guys with Porsches would NEVER even speak to a geek!
hehe jk, that is cool. Did he have the Porsche because of C|net?
Messages like this convince me that "Six degrees of Seperation" is accurate.
hehe what irony,
RIP will RIP.
Yeah I agree that it was very bloated, but that fact that it worked was awesome. The first time I heard about I was sure my buddy was lying to me.
One of my best friends today, was a fellow SYSOP, that I met all those years ago.
Anybody from Southern Ontario, remember Ground Zero?
Fast Doors
Ahh the nicks we used to have;
The Byte Bandit,
Mr. Toby
Madness
Only part of the movie Hackers that I enjoyed; where the kid is telling his friend: "I gotta have a cool nick, without a nick you are nothing."
It might have been Excalibur, it was running on Windows.
Ack, I tried using it but wasn't creative enough to think of a theme for the system.
It was the 'first' one to offer Super VGA graphics. You d'loaded all the graphics to your system, and then the system then queued various icons, backgrounds, and screens so that it appeared that you were browsing a SVGA system.
Very easily lent itself to themes. I was blown out of the water when I first saw that.
Does anybody remember C/Net BBS? (C=64) It was the only one that supported ASCII movies. You could create "movies" of buffered commands. Man those were the fun times....
C64 + Digiboard + 2 phone lines + two 1581 drives.
LORD was great, there was a bug in the casino though. One of the games offered 2:1 odds, and played at exactly that ratio. It was soo easy to get millions of "credits". We then used those credits to offset download ratios. =)
I work for a large copier/network printer company (Not Brand X), and our machines have been able to do this for a very long time. A VERY tiny bar-code style serial number is placed everywhere in any printed and copied document (you need a microscope to see it).
This might be news because small desktop printers have never had small enough 'pixels' to keep it smaller then your eye can see.
Thank-you for your quick reply.
Yes, multi-monitor does work. I use it in XP all the time.
This is similar to the problems that I have faced (and many others too I am sure) in getting linny & nvidia to play nice together.
Hardware:
AMD AthlonXP 2600+
1.5GB ram
Nvidia Ti4600
1st attempt: Mandrake v10.0
I ran the Nvidia driver installer and it would state: "Nvidia driver installed..."
In Mandrake's config files it did report that I was using the correct card.
No splash screen and GL games ran like a hog (software emulation it felt like).
I played around with the xfree86.conf (I think that's the name) file, switching "nv" with "nvidia" and back again.
No splash screen.
I then loaded Suse v9.1 It detected the correct video card at installation AND I got the Nvidia splash-screen at boot.
but
the DVI output on my card wouldn't work.
Any suggestions?
Azureas (BT client) is the worst offender, there are a few other that I have run that acted in a similar way.
Truth be told, I have had a 50/50 sucess rate with just killing the app. (azureus) After running for 3 days it's using almost 1Gb of ram. But like I mentioned killing the JavaVM works about 50% of the time.
I don't doubt that my OS needs to be nuked & re-installed. I will get around to that when I have enough time to backup my data and install linny instead.
I have found that most (2 of the 3) Java Apps that I used have horrible memory leak issues. I can't let the computer run for more then 3 days or all kinds of funkyness begins (winxp).
I have been using Sun's JVM. I realise that the memory leaks are very likely the fault of the apps themselves, but it seems that the whole JMV is kinda flakey too.
Hopefully this new release works better.
Yes, I know MS is evil but I have a pocketPC.
I have tried getting SynCE http://synce.sourceforge.net/synce/ to work in the past with various mail clients on kde & Gnome (various distros too).
But I have never had any luck getting it to run. Does anybody know of any other app that will let you synce (preferable) evolution with a pocketpc running MS Mobile 20003?
It seems completely obvious to the millions of people who visit /., so why isn't obvious to the people who implement these things.
The only thing that these USB tokens verify is the information on the token!
Untill they surgically graft these fobbles to the children and make them unstealable (ooops not possible), then they are pointless.
hehe WON'T SOMEBODY THINK OF THE CHILDREN!
har, I thought I would never say that.
hehe no,
it was an actual physical interconnect, and brick size & shape components that you could add/remove to increase/decrease processing power.
IIRC there were some serious heat issues.
I can't remember what this is called, but there is/was a computing proposal that allowed you to add computing 'bricks'.
Each brick consisted of a CPU that when stacked with these other bricks added to the CPU horsepower of the total package.
This concept might actually work quite well.
Video and storage were seperate, so want to run Doom5 at 60fps and have the holographic level of detail enabled, but 3 extra cpu Bricks.
hehe am I the only one who read that title as:
"Parents threaten Software Innovation"
And I thought to myself; "Self, why is it that these companies are always trying to blame a lack of innovation on everybody but themselves? Maybe it's just because you can't turn creativity on & off light a bloody light switch."
That is how I was introduced as well.
I have been trying to expand my anime movies, but it still seems that those two will always be in my top ten.
Most organizations that I have worked in are running NT4.0 for a reason. Usually 1 older app that is mostly DOS based, and has almost certainly been custom built for the job it's doing. (mostly server-side too)
These types of systems can usually stay running untill the hardware dies. Systems running W2k & XP are usually used in a more dynamic environment where you have complex apps and Db's running that stress the system more AND are also used as workstations.
I work for a company that had a Novell server v4.10 that had an uptime of over 5 years! It was hidden in a TV cabinet and coated with dust & dirt. It was used as a print-server.
If your usage of a server could be replaced by a solid-state style "appliance", then it should not be eligle for uptime based surveys.
Carbon Dioxide.
If you can get the equipment into an air-tight device, and pump CO2 into it, the smell will be eliminated. (I'm not sure how long it needs to stay sealed, but I think 2-3 days is the norm.
I know a guy who specializes in removing nasty odours from cars. (He also does work for the police Dept. Removing the smell of decayed bodies out of cars so the evidence can be collected.)
He srrounds the car in a plastic "bubble", pumps out all the air, and then injects CO2 into it.
All Bad odours are gone.
Seed that is my point.
I have no taste in music.
Who is Elvis Costello? Is he related to Elvis Presley?
(jk! but I don't have any taste in music.)
I have 14000+ songs, but they all fit into 5 genre's
I see what the problem is! I have shitty taste in music.
hehe practically none of my mp3's are cross-genres, (or I just don't care that much).
I thnk you hit the nail on the head. Asking Joe Administrator to find Bob-the-Boss's 3rd quarter powerpoint presentation that HE lost is a nightmare.
Being able to centrally and easily manage filesystems in an "active-directory style" might make life very easy for admins.
backup (query files where date > yesterday)
or something to that degree.
Ok you have converted me. As long as they can make it painless from the user perspective.
You just illustrated my point.
/music/rock & alternative
/music/rock & alternative/G&R
/genre/artist/album/song.mp3
/personal /friends /relatives /work-related /corporate bullshit /boss is a jerk /the chick in the mail-room is hot ...etc...
If you have your music sorted by genre's the catch is to keep the folders general.
ie
From their there is no need to sub-classify the different types of Rock.
The key to this is Sane sorting. It is easy to over-classify your information. Any song should never be more then 4 levels deep.
This is an overly specific example. The same applies for any user-created files on the OS. (I think I heard the same rule-of-thumb about web-pages too).
Email outta whack, organize it.
mail -
/
/
/
/
/
This way all you eamil falls under 1 of 2 catagories. Just like a good Db design
I have been fighting with iTunes because it has forced me into using my files this way, and I hate it. But I am trying to learn. I am trying to like it.
It's just like linux for me. I wanna love it & use it, it's just so much work.
I am not trying to troll, but it may end up sounding like it...
I disagree with your initial statement that storeing your files in nested directories is 'cute'.
It is a logical hierarchical structure that allows for easy sorting & finding of documents **If they are stored in any type of sane manner**.
iTunes is an excellent example of this. *(disclaimer: if all your ID3 tags are complete & accurate)*
iTunes allows you to search, play, and arrange your music very quickly.
This is perfect if your existing collection was not organized.
WinFS will be perfect for the millions of people who just dump every document that they come across into "My Documents". I work with a dozen of these idiots. The only way that they can "open" a file, is by opening word, clicking the open icon, and looking in the default location among the hundreds of files that they already have there.
Gnome's Spatial file/window system reminds me of the same concept.
Those people who already have their files well structured will only be annoyed at having to jump through the hoops that MS has placed before them. I don't want to have to work just to get at my files. Didn't MS try this already (in a very limited fasion) with the whole: "My Music", "My Photos", "my Downloads", My Gawd! Where are the files actually located?
C:\Documents and Settings\User\My Documents\more!
I much rather prefer:
c:\docs
c:\mp3
c:\pics
d:\download
etc....
By dumping everything into one directory, you make it impossible to easily find what you want, but your answer is: Just search it!
Why would I search it, if in 3 mouse-clicks I could find it the old-fasioned way.
MS strategy (I think) is to make using the compupter less like work (like it is for my above quoted co-workers), and less intimidating, but they do this at the risk of completely annoying it's existing 'power-user' base.
If MS could do it in a fasion that is 100% behind the scenes from the user, then they might have an idea. index all documents, songs (lyrics too), movies (scripts), _EVERYTHING_. Then IF you need to search, then the whole thing is at your fingertips.
I look forward to any opposing thought that you may have on this. I realise that I just might be a carmudgen old-fart who is stuck in his ways and afraid of change.