Apparently Asus distributes an emergency disc with a BIOS image, and flashing tools, that runs FreeDOS. I know this because FreeDOS has a big warning on their front page that there's a problem with Asus' copy of it - basically, it'll fark your MBR if you try to install FreeDOS from it.
Novell? PC-DOS was IBM. You mean DR-DOS, which is the latest version of CP/M, and is now at 8.0, and is now owned by DeviceLogics (7.01 was the last version by Novell - it was sold to Caldera, who is now known as SCO, Caldera spun Lineo off, and Lineo got it, and then DeviceLogics finally updated it.)
Pentium 4 vs. top-end Athlon XP Celeron vs. low, mid-end Athlon XP, Duron
Now it's become like this:
Pentium 4 EE vs. Athlon 64 FX Pentium 4 vs. Athlon 64 Celeron vs. Athlon XP NOTHING vs. Duron
The Duron's been discontinued, and replaced by the processor that it was a crippled version of (even though in many cases it's better than the processor it competed against, even now at 1.8GHz).
They're going to be replaced by the Sempron, though, Real Soon Now(TM).
Well, when fifty MALWARE processes alone are eating up CPU time (from all that browsing with IE, listening to "MP3s" that are really viral code in WMP, and exploits in MSN Messenger), along with the 128-256MB RAM in these things, you need a 3.6GHz Preshott Pentium 4 and 2 or 3 GB of RAM.
Oh, did I go into a rant? I'll get back on topic.
I'm using a 233MHz Pentium MMX with 96MB RAM, and it's more than enough to browse the Internet (with Opera 7.51, and don't suggest Firefox, it's too slow on this), listen to mp3s (with XMMS), and IM (with Kopete). Just don't ask me to browse and play MP3s at the same time without the browser dragging. You don't need that much horsepower if you know what you're doing.
The ORIGINAL 300MHz Celerons were the Covington core, which only ramped to 300MHz, from 266, and had no L2 cache. At all.
You're referring to the Celeron 300A. Most of the earlier Mendocino (300A to 533 in 33MHz increments) Celerons could take an overclock to (whatever their multi was) * 100MHz. It's not uncommon to see a 366 upped to 550.
Celeron D means that it is the D revision of the Celeron. If you look at the alphabet, D is the fourth letter. Look at it this way:
Covington (Cacheless P2): Celeron Mendocino (P2 with less, but faster cache): Celeron A Coppermine-128/Tualatin-128 (P3 with less cache, slower FSB): Celeron B Williamette-128/Northwood-128 (P4 with a LOT less cache, slower FSB): Celeron C Prescott-256 (P4E with less cache, slower FSB): Celeron D
The Celeron M is another story. It's a Celeron of the Pentium M. Half the cache, and less power management. And no, the M does not mean that it's the 1000th Celeron - it actually came before the Tualatin-128, NW-128, and Prescott-256. It's the Banias-512 core, if you were wondering.
There are two reasons for this. The Celeron (in most cases - exceptions are early Pentium IIs, early P4s, P-Ms) runs on a slower bus than an identically clocked Pentium (whatever). However, there was a case when a Mendocino Celeron was faster than an identically clocked Pentium II (with a 66MHz bus). If the processor was working on a dataset that was small enough to fit in the Celeron's cache, it was faster, as the Celeron cache was full speed, whereas the Pentium II cache was half speed.
An AIW 7500? That wasn't supposed to go up against the FX5200.
Those OLD ATI cards ARE supported by DRI. However, try a newer one... you need ATI's closed source drivers, which (from what I've heard) aren't that great.
That is strange on your error. I've got a PNY TNT2 M64 32MB, running Mandrake 10.0 Community with 2.4.22, and it works fine with the nVidia drivers. It's PCI, too.
The first Celerons were based on the Pentium II. These were the Slot I Celerons at 266 and 300MHz. They were essentially a Pentium II core, and no cache on the board. Next was the Mendocino core, another Pentium II derived core. It had a small amount of cache on the core itself (running at full speed). It was available in Slot 1 at 300A MHz and up, and Socket 370 from 300A to 533MHz. Then, the Coppermine (second Pentium III core) was released, and a Celeron version was made. This went from 533 to 1100MHz. Next, the Tualatin (0.13 P3 core) came out, and again a Celery was made. 1.1 to 1.4GHz here. Williamette and Northwood Celerons were made, and now a Prescott Celeron exists. Socket 423 Celerons are cut-down Williamettes, most S478 Celerons (until now) are cut-down Northwoods, and the new Celerons are cut-down Preshotts.
Also, I found the WOAF guy. I even tried Web Archive, and it gave a "Sorry, page removed" (that was what got archived, not an error for web.archive.org).
However, I was telling someone who said that Windows wouldn't have a bundled CD burning app that it had one already. The ISO Recorder suggestion didn't apply, because we were specifically talking about bundled.
OK, so nV has two major areas covered (releasing hardware, not vapor, and writing good drivers (including supporting OSes not in the mainstream)) in the competition against ATi. What they did to beat 3dfx (except they also had the faster part, an advantage that they don't have this time around).
Actually, that is something I've considered doing - stuffing an old Voodoo behind my TNT2 for those games that need a 3dfx card, or they'll run in software acceleration (which is bad, because my CPU is a 233MHz P55C).
Scroll all the way down. It's MiniWindows, the setup environment on Windows 9x/Me, converted to be a full-featured OS. MS-DOS 7.1, a hacked WinFile.exe (handles LFN), CD drivers, the works.
If yes, threaten to leave if they don't become standards compliant, and tell them that you'll tell other people about it. Tell them that you feel that being forced to use an insecure browser that could cause your accounts to be drained is a bad idea.
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Apparently Asus distributes an emergency disc with a BIOS image, and flashing tools, that runs FreeDOS. I know this because FreeDOS has a big warning on their front page that there's a problem with Asus' copy of it - basically, it'll fark your MBR if you try to install FreeDOS from it.
Novell? PC-DOS was IBM. You mean DR-DOS, which is the latest version of CP/M, and is now at 8.0, and is now owned by DeviceLogics (7.01 was the last version by Novell - it was sold to Caldera, who is now known as SCO, Caldera spun Lineo off, and Lineo got it, and then DeviceLogics finally updated it.)
That's a Step-Up version. Step-Up is the MS-DOS equivalent of Upgrade editions of Windows. It requires DOS to already be installed.
AHH, that was supposed to be =<80486, not =80486...
You'll also find it on =80486 webservers. And yes, they do exist.
At least the first two aren't real patents. I don't think patent numbers are into the billions yet... I think they're just at 6 million.
The lineup was like this at first (on price):
Pentium 4 vs. top-end Athlon XP
Celeron vs. low, mid-end Athlon XP, Duron
Now it's become like this:
Pentium 4 EE vs. Athlon 64 FX
Pentium 4 vs. Athlon 64
Celeron vs. Athlon XP
NOTHING vs. Duron
The Duron's been discontinued, and replaced by the processor that it was a crippled version of (even though in many cases it's better than the processor it competed against, even now at 1.8GHz).
They're going to be replaced by the Sempron, though, Real Soon Now(TM).
Well, when fifty MALWARE processes alone are eating up CPU time (from all that browsing with IE, listening to "MP3s" that are really viral code in WMP, and exploits in MSN Messenger), along with the 128-256MB RAM in these things, you need a 3.6GHz Preshott Pentium 4 and 2 or 3 GB of RAM.
Oh, did I go into a rant? I'll get back on topic.
I'm using a 233MHz Pentium MMX with 96MB RAM, and it's more than enough to browse the Internet (with Opera 7.51, and don't suggest Firefox, it's too slow on this), listen to mp3s (with XMMS), and IM (with Kopete). Just don't ask me to browse and play MP3s at the same time without the browser dragging. You don't need that much horsepower if you know what you're doing.
The ORIGINAL 300MHz Celerons were the Covington core, which only ramped to 300MHz, from 266, and had no L2 cache. At all.
You're referring to the Celeron 300A. Most of the earlier Mendocino (300A to 533 in 33MHz increments) Celerons could take an overclock to (whatever their multi was) * 100MHz. It's not uncommon to see a 366 upped to 550.
Celeron D means that it is the D revision of the Celeron. If you look at the alphabet, D is the fourth letter. Look at it this way:
Covington (Cacheless P2): Celeron
Mendocino (P2 with less, but faster cache): Celeron A
Coppermine-128/Tualatin-128 (P3 with less cache, slower FSB): Celeron B
Williamette-128/Northwood-128 (P4 with a LOT less cache, slower FSB): Celeron C
Prescott-256 (P4E with less cache, slower FSB): Celeron D
The Celeron M is another story. It's a Celeron of the Pentium M. Half the cache, and less power management. And no, the M does not mean that it's the 1000th Celeron - it actually came before the Tualatin-128, NW-128, and Prescott-256. It's the Banias-512 core, if you were wondering.
There are two reasons for this. The Celeron (in most cases - exceptions are early Pentium IIs, early P4s, P-Ms) runs on a slower bus than an identically clocked Pentium (whatever). However, there was a case when a Mendocino Celeron was faster than an identically clocked Pentium II (with a 66MHz bus). If the processor was working on a dataset that was small enough to fit in the Celeron's cache, it was faster, as the Celeron cache was full speed, whereas the Pentium II cache was half speed.
An AIW 7500? That wasn't supposed to go up against the FX5200.
Those OLD ATI cards ARE supported by DRI. However, try a newer one... you need ATI's closed source drivers, which (from what I've heard) aren't that great.
That is strange on your error. I've got a PNY TNT2 M64 32MB, running Mandrake 10.0 Community with 2.4.22, and it works fine with the nVidia drivers. It's PCI, too.
The first Celerons were based on the Pentium II. These were the Slot I Celerons at 266 and 300MHz. They were essentially a Pentium II core, and no cache on the board. Next was the Mendocino core, another Pentium II derived core. It had a small amount of cache on the core itself (running at full speed). It was available in Slot 1 at 300A MHz and up, and Socket 370 from 300A to 533MHz. Then, the Coppermine (second Pentium III core) was released, and a Celeron version was made. This went from 533 to 1100MHz. Next, the Tualatin (0.13 P3 core) came out, and again a Celery was made. 1.1 to 1.4GHz here. Williamette and Northwood Celerons were made, and now a Prescott Celeron exists. Socket 423 Celerons are cut-down Williamettes, most S478 Celerons (until now) are cut-down Northwoods, and the new Celerons are cut-down Preshotts.
Also, I found the WOAF guy. I even tried Web Archive, and it gave a "Sorry, page removed" (that was what got archived, not an error for web.archive.org).
However, I was telling someone who said that Windows wouldn't have a bundled CD burning app that it had one already. The ISO Recorder suggestion didn't apply, because we were specifically talking about bundled.
OK, so nV has two major areas covered (releasing hardware, not vapor, and writing good drivers (including supporting OSes not in the mainstream)) in the competition against ATi. What they did to beat 3dfx (except they also had the faster part, an advantage that they don't have this time around).
It's 250Mb/s EACH DIRECTION per lane. So, 500Mb/s total. 500Mb/s * 16 lanes = 8Gb/s.
I thought part of what killed 3dfx was that they had vapor, and lots of it.
nV is actually LAUNCHING parts earlier than ATI.
Also, how were 3dfx's drivers compared to nV's at the time of their death?
nV still has a lead in drivers, especially in Linux/FBSD.
Actually, that is something I've considered doing - stuffing an old Voodoo behind my TNT2 for those games that need a 3dfx card, or they'll run in software acceleration (which is bad, because my CPU is a 233MHz P55C).
How possible is that?
http://newdos.yginfo.net/msdos71/index.htm
Scroll all the way down. It's MiniWindows, the setup environment on Windows 9x/Me, converted to be a full-featured OS. MS-DOS 7.1, a hacked WinFile.exe (handles LFN), CD drivers, the works.
I guess you are right... IE 1.0 was in the Win95 Plus pack (and later in Win95 OSR1), meaning it came after Win95 first did.
However, that's not bundled with the OS, now, is it?
Unless you can find a way to replace MSHTML.DLL with a safe version that's based on Gecko or something, it's still MSHTML.DLL.
Well, GMail recently added Safari support, so Opera should be coming soon...
Are there other banks you can go to?
If yes, threaten to leave if they don't become standards compliant, and tell them that you'll tell other people about it. Tell them that you feel that being forced to use an insecure browser that could cause your accounts to be drained is a bad idea.