That would be nice, but Dell doesn't offer an ATI Rage 128 Ultra driver for Windows 2000. Just recently, they made it available for Windows XP, which means you could FINALLY reload your Dimension 4500 and get better than 800x600x16 (what the one in my school that was used in the Win2K experiment is currently running at), but only with WinXP. However, any other drivers for that card that I find show the splash screen and that InstallShield Wizard is getting ready, and then the process disappears. If I try again, the process doesn't even show up. The WinXP driver at least gets to the setup, only to show a screen that it only works with WinXP, and I have Win2K. Anyone know how to get in with a hex editor and *cough* fix it *cough*?
30MB? That was drivers and the boot screen that told you to agree to the license agreements on all the software... and the agreements were only available after you had agreed to them. It's a FAT16 partition, but it's damaged in a way that FDISK and NT's Partition Manager can't see it, but Linux blindly assumes it's FAT16 and gets it right.
Funny, because the HP restore partition isn't in the bootloader (just XP Home), and burning it to a CD (it fits) doesn't work. I tried that on my grandmother's box, before disaster struck...
The problem with the mom-and-pops is that they're not newb-friendly. My largest local mom-and-pop does try to shove them down your throat, but if you know what you want, exactly, and are prepared, they're OK to deal with. They'll give you a CD with both Windows and Linux versions of ThizOffice's lite version (go with OOo - that way you can be sure as to what version of OOo you're getting, as ThizOffice doesn't give the version of OOo they used as their code base), and no OS is the standard config on their low-end boxes ($99 for XP Home - and I had a W2K Pro CD in hand when my parents decided on XP). The only thing to watch out for is if they try to give you a mobo with an S3 graphics card integrated. $DEITY, that sucks! Dark colors are indistinguishable from black, white-on-black is barely readable, and cranking up the gamma washes out the light colors.
It would be a STUPID setup, but Windows on the FAT )because a sysadmin prefers fat over NTFS so he can access it with Linux) and an NTFS for storage? So, you'd also have to mount FAT partitions before loading NTFS.SYS.
Damn it, that's why you make ATX-sized CPUs! BTW, have you read Shutdown, by R.J. Pineiro (sp?)? It's a pretty good read, where some Japanese are sabotaging American microcontrollers, and making their reset lines erode away in two years.
What cache? I was using a WDC 65C02 @ 1MHz w/o a cache, you insensitive clod! (I didn't get my first PC until 1994, and it was a 386SX/16MHz w/o a 387. 1997 was when I got both a 386DX/33 w/o 387 and a Cyrix MediaGX/166)
Take the whole family (ACR, AMR, CNR), okay? BTW, ACR/AMR is SHIT.
ACR Audio Communications Riser, a slot that is only used by large OEMs to add cheap devices to their computers. Since ACR devices are software based, they often times sap a lot of CPU resources.
AMR Audio Modem Riser, like the ACR, AMR's are extremely low cost software devices that can do a host of functions. Since they are software based, they use quite a bit of CPU resources.
CNR Communications Network Riser - Small slot next to the PCI slots which a modem or sound riser card plugs into.
I'm just saying that it sucked the first time someone tried, and the second time Intel burned itself. BTW, Timna was also Intel's first CPU with an on-board memory controller in a LONG time. Their official stance is now to never have one, which leaves AMD (I don't think VIA will repeat Cyrix's mistake - not with the direction they're headed) to screw up again - any bets that they won't?
Actually, they already tried that. However, their Israel design team had it almost finished when they pulled the plug, and they were PISSED. Ah, well, they were happy when they got the Pentium M project - what the P4 shoulda been!
BTW, have you played with a Cyrix MediaGX? If so, then you should be modded funny. If not, they need to make a mod for stupid - Cyrix's implementation SUCKED - 44-50MHz CPU speed was lost, and the video was worse than i810.
Flip an ESRB-rated game over. It explains what got it it's rating, kinda live the TV-** (Y for youth (no modifiers), Y7 for youth 7&up (fantasy violence - FV - only legal modifier), G for all (no modifiers), PG for parental guidance (D - dialogue (poor grammar) - S - sex - L - language (profanity), V - violence), 14 for 14+ (same as PG), M or MA for mature (ditto)) system.
It's all about mental stability. If you're mentally stable when you start fragging, you probably won't be dead in the end. If you aren't stable (and it CAN be caused by others - Columbine was blamed on Doom, but they just got the idea from Doom - as for the being pissed off enough to do it, it was all their classmates teasing them), you could snap a LOT easier. Anyone want to bet the guy who shot himself because something of his for EverQuest was stolen wasn't stable?
What, do you live on the south side of I-270 in Ohio?:-|
BTW, what game promotes shooting at passing cars (as opposed to passing pedestrians - GTA promotes that, but shooting at passing cars isn't quick in any GTA game w/o a rocket launcher or flamethrower)? I do agree, however, with your point. Also, I feel that someone who shoots up a bunch of people after playing a violent game was probably unstable for some reason anyway (sometimes not necessarily their fault, but...)
What stops Linux from having full control of the hardware? After all, Windows just chooses to go through the BIOS. Linux just needs a BIOS to boot, and then once the kernel starts, fsck the BIOS. Windows just chooses to use the old interrupt based system because that's what they're used to. I think this new "CSS" will stop older versions of Windows from running, as they ARE dependent on a traditional BIOS, but it won't do anything to Linux, as it has never needed a BIOS except to boot, which I think this could do, seeing as LinuxBios is a Linux bootloader in the BIOS. Patches might have to be backported to the older kernels to boot without a true BIOS, like LinuxBios requires (AFAIK), but it would still work.
However, ISA looks similar to PCI to the BIOS, and the IDE controller, embedded video/sound, etc., etc., are just PCI devices that are soldered onto the board. After all, HDD handling could be done by any Phoenix, AMI, or IBM BIOS 10-15 years ago, when PCs were just as integrated as they were back in the day of the AT - not at all. BTW, what I was asking is if it's ok to use this code and not have IBM sue you, not if it would actually work. It's a good place to start, as modern* BIOSes evolved from this.
* They're not that different from those old BIOSes in the AT...
They're already doing TC chips. Do you see more and more of their laptops having "IBM Embedded Security Subsystem 2.0" standard? I thought not, because you weren't looking. The only good news is it seems to be off-BIOS.
IBM: Made their own BIOS since 1981, but more and more of their laptops have IBM's Embedded Security System 2.0 (DRM, at least not in the BIOS) Compaq: The first Phoenix client - they're responsible for Phoenix making their BIOS in the first place HP: Phoenix and AMI all the way Whiteboxers: Award, Phoenix, and AMI (in that order)
That leaves IBM's BIOS (as it doesn't have internal DRM), which locks you down to ONE brand of PC. Of course, there is always LinuxBios, but it SUCKS. I mean, you could try ADLO (LinuxBios with BochsBIOS for true interrupt support (Linux doesn't touch the BIOS once it's loaded, so the BIOS needs to be able to load a Linux kernel and that's it, but that's not the case with other OSes like Windows)), but that's dead in the water (or so it seems). I think someone needs to ignore LinuxBios, as it's VERY dependent on Linux to work. Maybe a fork of BochsBIOS to work with traditional hardware?
They're going to ditch the BIOS, and replace it with a DRM-enabled "Core System Software" thingy. I wouldn't mind this "CSS" thing at all if it didn't have the DRM!
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That would be nice, but Dell doesn't offer an ATI Rage 128 Ultra driver for Windows 2000. Just recently, they made it available for Windows XP, which means you could FINALLY reload your Dimension 4500 and get better than 800x600x16 (what the one in my school that was used in the Win2K experiment is currently running at), but only with WinXP. However, any other drivers for that card that I find show the splash screen and that InstallShield Wizard is getting ready, and then the process disappears. If I try again, the process doesn't even show up. The WinXP driver at least gets to the setup, only to show a screen that it only works with WinXP, and I have Win2K. Anyone know how to get in with a hex editor and *cough* fix it *cough*?
30MB? That was drivers and the boot screen that told you to agree to the license agreements on all the software... and the agreements were only available after you had agreed to them. It's a FAT16 partition, but it's damaged in a way that FDISK and NT's Partition Manager can't see it, but Linux blindly assumes it's FAT16 and gets it right.
Funny, because the HP restore partition isn't in the bootloader (just XP Home), and burning it to a CD (it fits) doesn't work. I tried that on my grandmother's box, before disaster struck...
The problem with the mom-and-pops is that they're not newb-friendly. My largest local mom-and-pop does try to shove them down your throat, but if you know what you want, exactly, and are prepared, they're OK to deal with. They'll give you a CD with both Windows and Linux versions of ThizOffice's lite version (go with OOo - that way you can be sure as to what version of OOo you're getting, as ThizOffice doesn't give the version of OOo they used as their code base), and no OS is the standard config on their low-end boxes ($99 for XP Home - and I had a W2K Pro CD in hand when my parents decided on XP). The only thing to watch out for is if they try to give you a mobo with an S3 graphics card integrated. $DEITY, that sucks! Dark colors are indistinguishable from black, white-on-black is barely readable, and cranking up the gamma washes out the light colors.
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That should do it...
He said this was 100x of what the human eye could see.
Umm... RAM disk? I would think that Knoppix would use a RAM disk, as it's a live CD...
It would be a STUPID setup, but Windows on the FAT )because a sysadmin prefers fat over NTFS so he can access it with Linux) and an NTFS for storage? So, you'd also have to mount FAT partitions before loading NTFS.SYS.
Damn it, that's why you make ATX-sized CPUs! BTW, have you read Shutdown, by R.J. Pineiro (sp?)? It's a pretty good read, where some Japanese are sabotaging American microcontrollers, and making their reset lines erode away in two years.
It won't be hard for them to rewrite it to say "Windows x (where x equals the year Windows Longhorn will be released. X = infinity)"
GTFA (grok TFA). They will ban the names of certain controlled drugs as keywords in its search-related advertising.
What cache? I was using a WDC 65C02 @ 1MHz w/o a cache, you insensitive clod! (I didn't get my first PC until 1994, and it was a 386SX/16MHz w/o a 387. 1997 was when I got both a 386DX/33 w/o 387 and a Cyrix MediaGX/166)
Take the whole family (ACR, AMR, CNR), okay? BTW, ACR/AMR is SHIT.
ACR Audio Communications Riser, a slot that is only used by large OEMs to add cheap devices to their computers. Since ACR devices are software based, they often times sap a lot of CPU resources.
AMR Audio Modem Riser, like the ACR, AMR's are extremely low cost software devices that can do a host of functions. Since they are software based, they use quite a bit of CPU resources.
CNR Communications Network Riser - Small slot next to the PCI slots which a modem or sound riser card plugs into.
I'm just saying that it sucked the first time someone tried, and the second time Intel burned itself. BTW, Timna was also Intel's first CPU with an on-board memory controller in a LONG time. Their official stance is now to never have one, which leaves AMD (I don't think VIA will repeat Cyrix's mistake - not with the direction they're headed) to screw up again - any bets that they won't?
http://slashdot.org/articles/99/11/25/094246.shtml
Actually, they already tried that. However, their Israel design team had it almost finished when they pulled the plug, and they were PISSED. Ah, well, they were happy when they got the Pentium M project - what the P4 shoulda been!
BTW, have you played with a Cyrix MediaGX? If so, then you should be modded funny. If not, they need to make a mod for stupid - Cyrix's implementation SUCKED - 44-50MHz CPU speed was lost, and the video was worse than i810.
Hmm, look at the Pentium 4 - there are a LOT of things they didn't think of, like 75W being too fucking much heat for a CPU to be putting out!
Sign the petition in my sig, and get us some more efficient CPUs.
What, like make the good guys wear Nike shoes and the baddies wear Beeroks (to avoid copyright infringement)?
Flip an ESRB-rated game over. It explains what got it it's rating, kinda live the TV-** (Y for youth (no modifiers), Y7 for youth 7&up (fantasy violence - FV - only legal modifier), G for all (no modifiers), PG for parental guidance (D - dialogue (poor grammar) - S - sex - L - language (profanity), V - violence), 14 for 14+ (same as PG), M or MA for mature (ditto)) system.
It's all about mental stability. If you're mentally stable when you start fragging, you probably won't be dead in the end. If you aren't stable (and it CAN be caused by others - Columbine was blamed on Doom, but they just got the idea from Doom - as for the being pissed off enough to do it, it was all their classmates teasing them), you could snap a LOT easier. Anyone want to bet the guy who shot himself because something of his for EverQuest was stolen wasn't stable?
What, do you live on the south side of I-270 in Ohio? :-|
BTW, what game promotes shooting at passing cars (as opposed to passing pedestrians - GTA promotes that, but shooting at passing cars isn't quick in any GTA game w/o a rocket launcher or flamethrower)? I do agree, however, with your point. Also, I feel that someone who shoots up a bunch of people after playing a violent game was probably unstable for some reason anyway (sometimes not necessarily their fault, but...)
What stops Linux from having full control of the hardware? After all, Windows just chooses to go through the BIOS. Linux just needs a BIOS to boot, and then once the kernel starts, fsck the BIOS. Windows just chooses to use the old interrupt based system because that's what they're used to. I think this new "CSS" will stop older versions of Windows from running, as they ARE dependent on a traditional BIOS, but it won't do anything to Linux, as it has never needed a BIOS except to boot, which I think this could do, seeing as LinuxBios is a Linux bootloader in the BIOS. Patches might have to be backported to the older kernels to boot without a true BIOS, like LinuxBios requires (AFAIK), but it would still work.
However, ISA looks similar to PCI to the BIOS, and the IDE controller, embedded video/sound, etc., etc., are just PCI devices that are soldered onto the board. After all, HDD handling could be done by any Phoenix, AMI, or IBM BIOS 10-15 years ago, when PCs were just as integrated as they were back in the day of the AT - not at all. BTW, what I was asking is if it's ok to use this code and not have IBM sue you, not if it would actually work. It's a good place to start, as modern* BIOSes evolved from this.
* They're not that different from those old BIOSes in the AT...
They're already doing TC chips. Do you see more and more of their laptops having "IBM Embedded Security Subsystem 2.0" standard? I thought not, because you weren't looking. The only good news is it seems to be off-BIOS.
IBM: Made their own BIOS since 1981, but more and more of their laptops have IBM's Embedded Security System 2.0 (DRM, at least not in the BIOS)
Compaq: The first Phoenix client - they're responsible for Phoenix making their BIOS in the first place
HP: Phoenix and AMI all the way
Whiteboxers: Award, Phoenix, and AMI (in that order)
That leaves IBM's BIOS (as it doesn't have internal DRM), which locks you down to ONE brand of PC. Of course, there is always LinuxBios, but it SUCKS. I mean, you could try ADLO (LinuxBios with BochsBIOS for true interrupt support (Linux doesn't touch the BIOS once it's loaded, so the BIOS needs to be able to load a Linux kernel and that's it, but that's not the case with other OSes like Windows)), but that's dead in the water (or so it seems). I think someone needs to ignore LinuxBios, as it's VERY dependent on Linux to work. Maybe a fork of BochsBIOS to work with traditional hardware?
They're going to ditch the BIOS, and replace it with a DRM-enabled "Core System Software" thingy. I wouldn't mind this "CSS" thing at all if it didn't have the DRM!