This is a Windows XP box with an AOL label on it, with AOL 9.0 Optimized and StarOffice on the image. The iOpener was a PC-like box with a proprietary QNX-based OS on a DoC, and happened to have an IDE connector.
Re:Not bad for WebTV users
on
AOL's $299 PC
·
· Score: 2, Interesting
Actually, it's a rebranded StarOffice, which is a rebranded and enhanced (aka much faster) closed source OpenOffice.org.
In case anyone didn't know, that appears to search Microsoft and several independent Windows support sites. Looks VERY helpful, and better than trying a site:microsoft.com site:annoyances.org site:computing.net site:... (especially when you can only have 15 or 20 terms)
I've got both an old IBM Model M (early colored keys model) and a newer IBM-branded Lexmark Model M (drainage holes, but non-removable cable). The old one seems MUCH more durable.
That's nothing. My Seagate HDD in my 486 was warranted up to 75g shock, and the one in my Celery is 300g shock (and my celery is an old el cheapo HP, too!)
A friend of mine had a 760ED fail when the bus he was in went over railroad tracks. Permanently. However, my Toshiba Satellite Pro 405CS was left in a pickup truck for a week in the middle of August. Only 200KB of bad clusters, and I got all of them during that incident (however, it didn't run right for months).
Hell, my school's gone all digital (OK, so this is it's first year of even having journalism). If there's something that we, ahem, forgot, if it's a photo we reprint the master, and if it's a drawing, we glue it on, then the fixed master hits the xerox.
There's the other way around too. Dell uses a FAT16 partition that is designed to look like an Unknown partition. However, thanks to Linux actually looking into the structure of the partition, it knows it's FAT16, and can figure it out.
I read the correction. However, there's a few details you left out. Windows NT was originally codenamed NT, and then the devgeeks did something that MS's marketing team liked... a lot - making NT stand for New Technology instead of the nickname for the i860. Anyway, when they presented it to IBM, IBM realized that MS was screwing them, as they had turned around and decided to write a Win32 API instead of an OS/2-32 API. HPFS was actually Microsoft code - MS made the faster implementation in 80386 assembler, but it ended up being slower when it was backported to C on an 80286... They didn't steal anything, just looked like it. HPFS 2.0 is IBM's branch of HPFS 1.0, and the trunk was continued with NTFS 3.1 and up.
Let's make a formula defining small. FAT12 was invented in 1980, and 32MB is it's maximum capacity (160K is the minimum capacity). FAT16 was designed in ~1985, and can handle up to 2GB and down to 16MB. FAT32 was designed in ~1994, and can handle a shitload of space (I think 40GB), and down to 512MB. VFAT extensions for all FAT filesystems were engineered along with FAT32. However, all of these are in use. VFAT12 is used by small flash cards and floppy disks. VFAT16 is used by most flash cards. VFAT32 is VERY rare in flash cards.
Anyway, hard drives were 10MB max at the time that FAT12 came out. FAT12 handled 160K as it's minimum, and 180K was considered large. However, we're basing this on the maximum and what was considered the lowest common denominator of storage. 10MB was the highest storage format, and 180K was the LCD of storage formats. 40MB and 720K were the formats around the release of FAT16, and 810MB and 1.44MB were the formats around the release of FAT32.
10240:180::40960:720::829440:1440
Divide the capacity of the HDD @ FAT12 creation by the LCD (FDD). Get 56 1/8. FAT16 is 56 1/8. FAT32 is 576, which represents a slip in FDD capacity. Unfortunately, this factor is meaningless, as floppy drives have stayed the same, but hard drives have advanced leaps and bounds. For the factor to remain the same, floppy drives would have to have been 14580K when FAT32 was released. Ironically, they'd still have been under FAT16's minimum... I'd say "small" is anything that can be multiplied by 56 1/8 to get 40GB (or less), the smallest normal HDD size nowadays.
Until a geek tells them - my whole high school knows about spyware (and Spybot), and I'm trying to get the school browser to be Opera. I'd say about 10% of the high school's students use Opera as their primary browser thanks to word of mouth. They do still use IE as a secondary, as IE can access some sites that Opera craps out on.
They should still tell people that it IS a problem, and Spybot can eliminate it. BTW, there are many BHOs, Google Toolbar being one of them, and spyware being a good portion of them. BHOs are the most effective spyware. Of course, telling people to not read EULAs was bad - I almost got hit, but just before I hit "Next", I saw that this FREEWARE pro-OSS theme came with spyware - (I was a bit suspicious when it was an installer, and not a WZSE) added by the site, and I found the same theme somewhere else as a.ZIP.
More generically we need some kind of media campaign or some way to inform people about spyware, perhaps every company giving away free software without spyware should have an obligatory like to Ad Aware or Spybot during the install process.
What, like KaZaA Lite (AFAIK, Spybot is even an option in the install process) or TheHun.net (porn site, but they have a large notice saying to get Spybot if you didn't intentionally go there)
But how many people have heard of Linux? Few know that it's getting strong on the desktop, some know that it's very strong on the server, and most say "What are you smoking?" when you say Linux. Linux has software, but quality can be poor *cough*OOo*cough*. I mean, you could go Mac, but a reformed Dell wouldn't want that, let alone a fucked up Dell.
Hmm... then why is it that GPLed software won't let me install it unless I click I Agree (I do, but...)? Wouldn't that be a violation of the GPL, even if it is an inherent limitation of the installer app?
But, people should know how to get the guy caught. I mean, if someone puts sludge in your gas tank, you want someone to catch the guy. The cops (who work with the DOT) want him too. No, they shouldn't be directly responsible; they should make him pay. It's common sense to look at the license plate of the guy fleeing the scene as your engine stalls. However, the OEM and ISP don't tell you to get AdAware or Spybot, and people aren't experienced enough yet to know what to do (clicking "Fix My Computer" (or whatever it is) in AOL 9.0 doesn't count). Personal cars have been around for about 100 years. Personal computers appeared in the mid '70s.
You know, my grandmother actually asked me to keep Cydoor on, because her copy of eGames Collector's Edition required it. The Gator shit was fine to eliminate, as she never used Gator or Date Manager, and I activated Windows Time Update to replace PrecisionTime. Webshots wasn't detected, so The only time I've seen Bonzi in use is to make the purple bastard say stuff to piss off teachers. And then, I had to use these crapME boxes with the spyware from hell. That's when I found out about AdAware - they weren't stopping software installs, so I waged war on the spyware...
However, does it make sense if some guy put shit (as in brown) on your shoes while you weren't wearing them for you to be the one left holding the shitty shoes? No. I'd kinda like to know what to use to de-shit my shoes. If some guy put shit (as in spyware) on your box when you weren't there, or slipped a pile of shit (as in spyware) on your box when you were browsing, wouldn't you want your OEM to tell you that you need AdAware or Spybot to de-shit your box?
BAD analogy. Should the user be responsible for the guy who opened the gas tank while they were at a red light and poured sludge in? Hell no. Should the user be responsible for the site that attacked their browser and threw spyware on their box? Hell no.
Slashdot Mirror
This is a Windows XP box with an AOL label on it, with AOL 9.0 Optimized and StarOffice on the image. The iOpener was a PC-like box with a proprietary QNX-based OS on a DoC, and happened to have an IDE connector.
Actually, it's a rebranded StarOffice, which is a rebranded and enhanced (aka much faster) closed source OpenOffice.org.
23.90% - that's definitely a 3, and not a 5.
Experts Exchange requires you to sign up for newsletters, and you get heavily restricted access without paying.
In case anyone didn't know, that appears to search Microsoft and several independent Windows support sites. Looks VERY helpful, and better than trying a site:microsoft.com site:annoyances.org site:computing.net site:... (especially when you can only have 15 or 20 terms)
I've got both an old IBM Model M (early colored keys model) and a newer IBM-branded Lexmark Model M (drainage holes, but non-removable cable). The old one seems MUCH more durable.
That's nothing. My Seagate HDD in my 486 was warranted up to 75g shock, and the one in my Celery is 300g shock (and my celery is an old el cheapo HP, too!)
A friend of mine had a 760ED fail when the bus he was in went over railroad tracks. Permanently. However, my Toshiba Satellite Pro 405CS was left in a pickup truck for a week in the middle of August. Only 200KB of bad clusters, and I got all of them during that incident (however, it didn't run right for months).
Hell, my school's gone all digital (OK, so this is it's first year of even having journalism). If there's something that we, ahem, forgot, if it's a photo we reprint the master, and if it's a drawing, we glue it on, then the fixed master hits the xerox.
Actually, that's what they suggested on the evening news when I saw this last night.
There's the other way around too. Dell uses a FAT16 partition that is designed to look like an Unknown partition. However, thanks to Linux actually looking into the structure of the partition, it knows it's FAT16, and can figure it out.
I read the correction. However, there's a few details you left out. Windows NT was originally codenamed NT, and then the devgeeks did something that MS's marketing team liked... a lot - making NT stand for New Technology instead of the nickname for the i860. Anyway, when they presented it to IBM, IBM realized that MS was screwing them, as they had turned around and decided to write a Win32 API instead of an OS/2-32 API. HPFS was actually Microsoft code - MS made the faster implementation in 80386 assembler, but it ended up being slower when it was backported to C on an 80286... They didn't steal anything, just looked like it. HPFS 2.0 is IBM's branch of HPFS 1.0, and the trunk was continued with NTFS 3.1 and up.
Did anyone RTFS (story)? It said formatted FAT by the MANUFACTURER. The drivers could simply say "Click 'Format the Memory Card' before using it"...
Let's make a formula defining small. FAT12 was invented in 1980, and 32MB is it's maximum capacity (160K is the minimum capacity). FAT16 was designed in ~1985, and can handle up to 2GB and down to 16MB. FAT32 was designed in ~1994, and can handle a shitload of space (I think 40GB), and down to 512MB. VFAT extensions for all FAT filesystems were engineered along with FAT32. However, all of these are in use. VFAT12 is used by small flash cards and floppy disks. VFAT16 is used by most flash cards. VFAT32 is VERY rare in flash cards.
Anyway, hard drives were 10MB max at the time that FAT12 came out. FAT12 handled 160K as it's minimum, and 180K was considered large. However, we're basing this on the maximum and what was considered the lowest common denominator of storage. 10MB was the highest storage format, and 180K was the LCD of storage formats. 40MB and 720K were the formats around the release of FAT16, and 810MB and 1.44MB were the formats around the release of FAT32.
10240:180::40960:720::829440:1440
Divide the capacity of the HDD @ FAT12 creation by the LCD (FDD). Get 56 1/8. FAT16 is 56 1/8. FAT32 is 576, which represents a slip in FDD capacity. Unfortunately, this factor is meaningless, as floppy drives have stayed the same, but hard drives have advanced leaps and bounds. For the factor to remain the same, floppy drives would have to have been 14580K when FAT32 was released. Ironically, they'd still have been under FAT16's minimum... I'd say "small" is anything that can be multiplied by 56 1/8 to get 40GB (or less), the smallest normal HDD size nowadays.
Until a geek tells them - my whole high school knows about spyware (and Spybot), and I'm trying to get the school browser to be Opera. I'd say about 10% of the high school's students use Opera as their primary browser thanks to word of mouth. They do still use IE as a secondary, as IE can access some sites that Opera craps out on.
I'd rather have a Dell than most ThinkPads - at least the ones with Embedded Security Subsystem standard...
They should still tell people that it IS a problem, and Spybot can eliminate it. BTW, there are many BHOs, Google Toolbar being one of them, and spyware being a good portion of them. BHOs are the most effective spyware. Of course, telling people to not read EULAs was bad - I almost got hit, but just before I hit "Next", I saw that this FREEWARE pro-OSS theme came with spyware - (I was a bit suspicious when it was an installer, and not a WZSE) added by the site, and I found the same theme somewhere else as a .ZIP.
More generically we need some kind of media campaign or some way to inform people about spyware, perhaps every company giving away free software without spyware should have an obligatory like to Ad Aware or Spybot during the install process.
What, like KaZaA Lite (AFAIK, Spybot is even an option in the install process) or TheHun.net (porn site, but they have a large notice saying to get Spybot if you didn't intentionally go there)
No, like cars that you don't support if you modify them in any way.
But how many people have heard of Linux? Few know that it's getting strong on the desktop, some know that it's very strong on the server, and most say "What are you smoking?" when you say Linux. Linux has software, but quality can be poor *cough*OOo*cough*. I mean, you could go Mac, but a reformed Dell wouldn't want that, let alone a fucked up Dell.
Hmm... then why is it that GPLed software won't let me install it unless I click I Agree (I do, but...)? Wouldn't that be a violation of the GPL, even if it is an inherent limitation of the installer app?
But, people should know how to get the guy caught. I mean, if someone puts sludge in your gas tank, you want someone to catch the guy. The cops (who work with the DOT) want him too. No, they shouldn't be directly responsible; they should make him pay. It's common sense to look at the license plate of the guy fleeing the scene as your engine stalls. However, the OEM and ISP don't tell you to get AdAware or Spybot, and people aren't experienced enough yet to know what to do (clicking "Fix My Computer" (or whatever it is) in AOL 9.0 doesn't count). Personal cars have been around for about 100 years. Personal computers appeared in the mid '70s.
You know, my grandmother actually asked me to keep Cydoor on, because her copy of eGames Collector's Edition required it. The Gator shit was fine to eliminate, as she never used Gator or Date Manager, and I activated Windows Time Update to replace PrecisionTime. Webshots wasn't detected, so The only time I've seen Bonzi in use is to make the purple bastard say stuff to piss off teachers. And then, I had to use these crapME boxes with the spyware from hell. That's when I found out about AdAware - they weren't stopping software installs, so I waged war on the spyware...
However, does it make sense if some guy put shit (as in brown) on your shoes while you weren't wearing them for you to be the one left holding the shitty shoes? No. I'd kinda like to know what to use to de-shit my shoes. If some guy put shit (as in spyware) on your box when you weren't there, or slipped a pile of shit (as in spyware) on your box when you were browsing, wouldn't you want your OEM to tell you that you need AdAware or Spybot to de-shit your box?
BAD analogy. Should the user be responsible for the guy who opened the gas tank while they were at a red light and poured sludge in? Hell no. Should the user be responsible for the site that attacked their browser and threw spyware on their box? Hell no.