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  1. Re:What keeps it going? Nostalgia on Still Life in the Apple II Community · · Score: 0

    Calmira anyone? Windows 3.1 that looks sorta like 95 (that is, unless you start something without a pirated Mask98 on your system). It may be used in ReactOS (my bets are on it - it's an OSS version of NT4).

    Searching for Calmira will get you many, many links to Win3.1 sites that have WiMP 5.4 Beta (a 16-bit version of WiMP 6.4, but it's buggier than WinME) and IE5 16-bit. Check it out!

  2. Re:What keeps it going? Nostalgia on Still Life in the Apple II Community · · Score: 0

    Just how old are you? Of course, my first computer, an old //c, was outdated in '91, when I first touched it.

  3. Re:With programs like... on Still Life in the Apple II Community · · Score: 0

    I thought ? was only a //c shortcut... Or did later ][e's have it?

    BTW, here's what I THINK (please don't flame me if I'm wrong) is the correct spelling for A2 models:

    ][
    ][+ (or ][ Plus)
    ][e (for Classic or Enhanced)
    IIe (for Platinum) //c //c+ (or //c Plus)
    IIGS (for standalone units)
    ][GS (for ][e upgrade units)

    ][, //, II (A2 in general)

  4. Re:possibly... on Still Life in the Apple II Community · · Score: 0

    Forgetting Taipan anyone? Drugwars for the 60's (1860's, that is). The Apple version was apparently a port (no pun intended), but it was the only one that gained recognition. There's Windows and Palm OS versions somewhere. My high score is something on the order of 5900. (50000 and up is the best range)

  5. Re:sci-fi wins again on Electronic Paper Advances · · Score: 0

    OT again, but are you locking your keypad? Are you not pressing the buttons EVEN IF THE KEYPAD IS LOCKED (Mitsubishi phones will backlight under these conditions)? Is the cell analog or digital? If digital, what brand and what model?

  6. Re:Not impressed. on Oddball PC Cases From Japan · · Score: 0

    The Ohio State Fair has a butter sculpture for the duration of the fair. Butter me PC up!

  7. Re:ATI All In Wonder on Preserving VHS Recordings For Another 20 Years? · · Score: 0

    Bochs anyone? It is an x86 emulator that runs on x86.

  8. Re:NEWSFLASH, NTFS is a journaling filesystem! on Looking at Longhorn · · Score: 0

    I even do work on my laptop, and it has a dead memory backup battery. It has a FAT32 partition, and it only has errors when it is exposed to August weather in Illinois for a week in a pickup truck (don't do that, I lost 20MB to bad sectors because of that).

  9. Re:bah on HTML Rendering Crashes IE · · Score: 0
    4. MS has announced 16 security related flaws this year. Debian is up to 78. Debian has announced more buffer overflow and underflow vulnerabilities than Microsoft has reported vulnerabilities period.


    Ahh, but there are lots of rapes that aren't reported, aren't there? MS just doesn't want to admit that they have problems. Debian does. Just because they aren't reported doesn't mean they don't exist.
  10. Re:mozilla crashes too on HTML Rendering Crashes IE · · Score: 0

    With a freeze, you can still copy down the address bar, and whatever you had in the forms on to a piece of paper (or vi on another computer).

  11. Re:Two points of significance for crashes. on HTML Rendering Crashes IE · · Score: 0

    lookOut 2000 will start back on the message. lookOut XP will ask if you want to start in "safe mode" (not displaying that message), or in normal mode (lookOut 2000 mode)

  12. Re:Two points of significance for crashes. on HTML Rendering Crashes IE · · Score: 0

    Parts of Mac OS are Free. The Darwin core is open source, the Safari browser is based on an open source core, which is based on KHTML and KJS. Tell me it's not Free. (And, all the stuff under the Darwin link is Free too!)

  13. Re:OS X IE Is Unaffected on HTML Rendering Crashes IE · · Score: 0

    In a previous article on Xupiter, they were talking about users blindly clicking "Yes" in popup dialogs, and stuff installing on their computers. It is very easy (a very small snippet of JavaScript will do the job) to make a "Would you like to make 'about:' your homepage?" box. Google is one example (click "Make Google Your Homepage!"). Many sites will throw these on you without asking.

  14. Re:NULL pointers and error handling on HTML Rendering Crashes IE · · Score: 0

    Look at your German textbook... Null means 0 in German.

  15. Re:Dear Slashdot,.. on Starting an After-School Computer Club? · · Score: 0

    My private school is K-12, and the REALLY fat people are the only fat people picked on. My class is 7-9th grades (I know, it's weird), and almost half of the class is in the same clique (I'm in it - I'm the one that gets their trash laptops working). I'm also assistant system admin of our Win2K/WinXP network. I have full access to the gradebooks anyway. And all of their software. I wouldn't do that though, because I'm working towards a $1500 Dell laptop, and getting fired wouldn't work very well (I need a new laptop too).

  16. Re:Are there ink jets that don't jerk users around on Ink Cartridges with Built-In Self-Destruct Dates · · Score: 1, Interesting

    The old Canons didn't have seperate printheads. The BJ*-2*0 series (I'm not censoring, I'm just mentioning a model line that had even had it's name changed) and essentially all of its predecessors have integrated printheads. I like that, because I also have a BJC-610, that had to have a meeting with a Q-Tip (after hours of searching on Canon's site for how to clean it if the built in cleaning doesn't work). The printer never worked right, but then again, it WAS refurbished. I had a BJ-200 that died soon after I got it (used, but not much), and a returned (due to a bad cable which didn't even come with the thing) BJC-240 (the other end of the 200 series) that took the old carts and worked for about one print - until my last old cart ran out!

  17. Re:RIAA vs Eliza on RIAA Chats With Song Swappers · · Score: 0

    Funny, but not quite right... Try THIS.

  18. Re:Game plan on Talk With Michael Robertson · · Score: 0

    Ah, shoot. I fscked up. Read message 5828490.

  19. Re:Game plan on Talk With Michael Robertson · · Score: 0

    Release the whole shebang with source for JUST THE GPLed BINARIES! Makes sense to me.

  20. Re:$500 on Micro-Helicopter Fun · · Score: 0

    I think he meant that he could do ALL of that on $500.

  21. Re:Dupe! on The Unix-Haters Handbook Online · · Score: 0

    The Apple II had an optional color screen or RF modulator to hook it up to a TV. The A2 monitors are actually tuner-less, speaker-less TVs with AV inputs (I've got my Super Nintendo hooked up to one)

  22. Re:Dunno... on Fully-functional Miniature Notebook Planned · · Score: 0

    Hibernate resume doesn't take long at all (15 secs. tops on a PC designed for XP), and standby resume takes 10 secs.

  23. Re:But the question you have to ask is... on Fully-functional Miniature Notebook Planned · · Score: 0

    Try one of the old (400 series) Toshiba Satellite Pros. The LCDs have color problems (blotchy), but they refresh REALLY quickly.

  24. Re:Data ROMs? on New Palms: Zire 71 and Tungsten C · · Score: 0

    What, the Tiqit eightythree? It has a 266-300 MHz Pentium-compatible processor, a 4" 640x480 touchscreen, 256 MB RAM, and a 10 GB HDD. It doesn't have WiFi/Bluetooth, but it'll take PCMCIA/CardBus cards.

  25. Re:Open more up on Microsoft Shared Source -- With a Twist · · Score: 0

    From what I've heard, Windows 3.00a is freeware. That's IT.

    (I found this out on some HP 200LX site. I forget where, but harness Google's power to find it. I remember they said that they'd have to write their own manual because the official MS manual was NOT freeware.)