I still have a 386sx IBM PS2 stashed under my bar. I threaten to fire it up sometimes just to scare the kids. "If you kids don't pipe down, you'll be using THIS!!".
I have to disagree. Most people can use Linux once it is installed, especially Mandrake and the like. They can't tell the difference between it and MS Windows. You click, stuff comes up. They're happy. You have email, you have a spreadsheet, you have a word processor, you have a browser. That's all you need. What you DON'T have is the ability to screw up your machine with email viruses and screensavers from Hell.
I've been a programmer for 22 years and XML has never interested me. I've seen the "great new thing" come and go over the years. APL, PL/1, OS/2, etc. XML looks amazingly like the old "great new things" that went onto the heap.
Note: PHP and Linux look a lot like the things that DIDN'T go on the heap. Simple to understand, easy to use, powerful. If a non-programmer can grasp it easily, it usually doesn't go on the heap.
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Yeah buy a different chipset. It's not the processor's fault.
I just bought a Biostar M7VIG for $60. Works like a charm
My sister calls me "My computer doesn't work". We talk over a few things and find out she deleted something she wasn't supposed to delete so we restore it. The conversation continues: Me: What kind of PC do you have? Her: It's a Compaq. I've had this over a year so I guess it will die soon Me: Huh? Her: Yeah. all my computers die within a year. And I don't like this one. It won't fit in my desk. Me: Huh? (note trend) Her: Yeah, I put the box thing in the desk but the door won't close. Me: Door? (she now thinks I'm a clueless fuck) Her: Yeah, it has this large box on the side with a door so I always put the PC box in there and closed the door. This one is too big and I can't close the door. It's a pain
What's amazing is that the vast majority of driving is commuting or trips "to town ie shopping, eating, etc". Most of your driving is within the range of an electric car. Imagine how much money you would save if you never bought gas for your daily driving. Never. Ever.
Our gas card bill is about $150 a month if that tells you anything.
For one thing, Windows 95 is not secure and not supported. Office 95 has trouble reading files from newer versions of Office. And you will be chasing viruses until you collapse in a heap.
Linux is more secure, less breakable and has enough features for the common worker. In a typical office, complexity breeds confusion. Keep it simple and controlled and everything will fall into place.
The home consoles of late killed arcades because they offered the same quality for a one-time charge at home, as opposed to quartering one to death.
Not here. The mall arcades are jammed with kids waiting for the 'rents to get through at JC Penney. Add the bored geeks looking to impress some other younger geeks with their Jedi powers and the required chicken cruisers. It's like a line of ants from the arcade to Software Etc back to the arcade. Every now and then, a mom will get drug to the Software Etc for some begging action.
If this were a Microsoft product, smoking would be a feature. If you don't want smoking, you have to upgrade all your software to the nosmoking versions.
And you would be the only customer who didn't like smoking boards.
Well that is all good and swell but am I still going to get a virus everytime I use it?
Would you rather have ANARCHY? Bodies in the streets? Blood coursing through the gutters? Children wailing for the dead mothers Huh? IS THAT WHAT YOU WANT? ANSWER ME!! WELL THAT'S WHAT YOU'LL GET IF YOU SPREAD YOUR LEGS FOR OPENOFFICE AND THE OTHER WHORES OF BABYLON!!!! COMPLETE AND UTTER CHAOS!!!!!!!!!
A little bitty virus isn't too much to ask to save the WHOLE FUCKING WORLD. Think about someone else for a change.
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We all know, times were good, now times are bad; why dance on Salon's grave before the body's even cold?
Pussy you don't ask for is pussy you don't get Start lifting weights now, you scrawny shrimp. You'll be fat later. And try out for football Don't smoke. You don't look cool doing it. It will make you miserable in the end Study. Try to make good grades. It really is important The rich girls aren't harder to get along with than the poor ones. So go after them
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"They'd have 10,000 participants if they brought datess!"
Dates! What a hoot! If they could get a date, they wouldn't be THERE!
Can't helps it. That's what was on that there website thingy.
Beverages containing alcohol is not allowed inside the hall or anywhere near it
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Well, what's the point then? 5,000 sober guys all trying to impress each other with the size of their equipment. It's like Hell.
Yeah, I'm seriously considering an IBM 8513 that I can get for $50. I'm going to slap it on my IBM 386SX that I am using for an Applications Server.
I still have a 386sx IBM PS2 stashed under my bar. I threaten to fire it up sometimes just to scare the kids. "If you kids don't pipe down, you'll be using THIS!!".
I guess I could slap Linux on it just for a goof.
I installed Windows 1.0 on my Swan XT Clone. It worked amazingly well. But I preferred WordPerfect so I spent most of my time in DOS.
Pre Windows, I sold Xerox's which had icons on them. We couldn't give them away. People liked the prompt and menus back then.
{ maynard g krebbs } PROMPT!! { /maynard g krebbs }
but the learning curve's steep for Joe Sixpack.
I have to disagree. Most people can use Linux once it is installed, especially Mandrake and the like. They can't tell the difference between it and MS Windows. You click, stuff comes up. They're happy. You have email, you have a spreadsheet, you have a word processor, you have a browser. That's all you need. What you DON'T have is the ability to screw up your machine with email viruses and screensavers from Hell.
I've been a programmer for 22 years and XML has never interested me. I've seen the "great new thing" come and go over the years. APL, PL/1, OS/2, etc. XML looks amazingly like the old "great new things" that went onto the heap.
Note: PHP and Linux look a lot like the things that DIDN'T go on the heap. Simple to understand, easy to use, powerful. If a non-programmer can grasp it easily, it usually doesn't go on the heap.
Yeah buy a different chipset. It's not the processor's fault.
I just bought a Biostar M7VIG for $60. Works like a charm
My sister calls me "My computer doesn't work". We talk over a few things and find out she deleted something she wasn't supposed to delete so we restore it. The conversation continues:
Me: What kind of PC do you have?
Her: It's a Compaq. I've had this over a year so I guess it will die soon
Me: Huh?
Her: Yeah. all my computers die within a year. And I don't like this one. It won't fit in my desk.
Me: Huh? (note trend)
Her: Yeah, I put the box thing in the desk but the door won't close.
Me: Door? (she now thinks I'm a clueless fuck)
Her: Yeah, it has this large box on the side with a door so I always put the PC box in there and closed the door. This one is too big and I can't close the door. It's a pain
She burnt up a computer every year.
Lord, how did our ancestors cross the plains with all these syndromes and diseases?
I'm really wondering who would buy these in a quantity of 10,000.
Soft drink and snack machines, Scanners in factories, traffic counters, any equipment that that you want to query remotely to see if it is operating.
What's amazing is that the vast majority of driving is commuting or trips "to town ie shopping, eating, etc". Most of your driving is within the range of an electric car. Imagine how much money you would save if you never bought gas for your daily driving. Never. Ever.
Our gas card bill is about $150 a month if that tells you anything.
For one thing, Windows 95 is not secure and not supported. Office 95 has trouble reading files from newer versions of Office. And you will be chasing viruses until you collapse in a heap.
Linux is more secure, less breakable and has enough features for the common worker. In a typical office, complexity breeds confusion. Keep it simple and controlled and everything will fall into place.
I work for the government. We have more time than money. Trust me on this one.
The home consoles of late killed arcades because they offered the same quality for a one-time charge at home, as opposed to quartering one to death.
Not here. The mall arcades are jammed with kids waiting for the 'rents to get through at JC Penney. Add the bored geeks looking to impress some other younger geeks with their Jedi powers and the required chicken cruisers. It's like a line of ants from the arcade to Software Etc back to the arcade. Every now and then, a mom will get drug to the Software Etc for some begging action.
"Look," said Doug Hoover, 13, double-clicking on a wolf site. "Here's a picture of the sound waves the wolf makes when it howls."
Great. A $2000 See-And-Say.
If this were a Microsoft product, smoking would be a feature. If you don't want smoking, you have to upgrade all your software to the nosmoking versions.
And you would be the only customer who didn't like smoking boards.
The point? What is the point?
"Look I embedded a server into a fly"
Boss: "DON'T YOU HAVE WORK TO DO?"
"Look I embedded a server into a fly"
Mother: "What's wrong with a date now and then? I'll trade the dead fly for a grandchild"
"Look I embedded a server into a fly"
Dad: "Is it a job? A dead fly server is nice but you can't eat with it."
From what I could understand bacteriophage development is so simple, it would be impossible to make any money out of it.
BooHaHa. You can make money off of anything if you play it right. See 80's Hair Bands.
it's currently moving at something more like 20,000 mph.
And somewhere in space, some asshole in a VW Beetle is honking at it to pass.
Well that is all good and swell but am I still going to get a virus everytime I use it?
Would you rather have ANARCHY? Bodies in the streets? Blood coursing through the gutters? Children wailing for the dead mothers Huh? IS THAT WHAT YOU WANT? ANSWER ME!! WELL THAT'S WHAT YOU'LL GET IF YOU SPREAD YOUR LEGS FOR OPENOFFICE AND THE OTHER WHORES OF BABYLON!!!! COMPLETE AND UTTER CHAOS!!!!!!!!!
A little bitty virus isn't too much to ask to save the WHOLE FUCKING WORLD. Think about someone else for a change.
We all know, times were good, now times are bad; why dance on Salon's grave before the body's even cold?
Because I enjoy dancing. Especially on THAT grave
Pussy you don't ask for is pussy you don't get
Start lifting weights now, you scrawny shrimp. You'll be fat later. And try out for football
Don't smoke. You don't look cool doing it. It will make you miserable in the end
Study. Try to make good grades. It really is important
The rich girls aren't harder to get along with than the poor ones. So go after them