I cannot afford M$ Office, but have to use it (my parents have taken a 100% anti-open source stance) on my desktop. They're not paying several hundred dollars for it - and they need it too.
Last year they blocked ALL of google through their own proxy, instead of our isp's. They unblocked it all. BTW, they did have a NETWORK policy (in other words, hack it as much as you can to run off the network, and you're home free) that was eight pages long that was obviously a state form (it had blanks for the school's name). I never signed it!:-) And I'm assistant sysadmin, too.
Stability: (this is scary) RARELY does my Win95B laptop crash (even individual programs). Granted, my Win98SE desktop crashed at least once a day (until the PSU went out, that is), and the WinXPPro boxes at my school crash once a week (the OS, too - damn buggy Sega Genesis and Super Nintendo emulators). Security: Got me there. Windows security SUCKS! Although, ZoneAlarm is a GREAT Windows firewall... Remote Admin: Why? XP has Remote Assistance, and when I need to add users to my school's network, I use Remote Desktop Connection to access the server, rather than go down to the first floor of the school (I'm usually on the third floor). Networking: The only networking problems I've had are when the hub gets unplugged (the damn bastards need to watch their feet) and when the ISP went down. Price: DAMN! Our old sysadmin pirated everything too!
To do any file ops on my Win95b laptop, I just go -, , com, . (I don't have Windows keys, and IE5.5 autocompletes command for me by the time I've typed com).
RedHat did all that automatically - and coexisted with WinME pretty darn well (it was an experiment on Linux!) I simply FDISKed the system's NTFS (it had an f---ed up XP install) partition off, replaced it with a FAT32 partition that took half of the HDD, installed WinME (not without some trouble - the DVD drive was f----ed up), then installed RedHat 8. It just did what it wanted to, and I could dual boot easily.
BTW, a complete idiot with a 73 IQ "figgered out that linnex was more better".
Oh so true. My high school network blocks EVERYTHING. pr0n of course is blocked:
"The Websense category ''Sex'' is blocked."
MP3 files are blocked:
"The Websense category ''MP3'' is blocked."
Games are blocked:
"The Websense category ''Games'' is blocked."
Hell, even the Onion is blocked:
"The Websens category ''Tasteless'' is blocked."
Actually, most of this is from the ISP. Our old sysadmin was nice to us. We could install/dl anything we could (and we have). Even pr0n occasionally gets through the filters (can only block text, and Websense is only "block these URLs for these reasons", so not even text is blocked).
It was available from M$' BBS (long distance if you didn't live in M$ville) in 1991 for Windows 3.0, and came with Windows Entertainment Pack 1 in 1991.
Here goes - I'm not listing Windows 3.2 (it's a Chinese thing) and service packs (unless they are also released as a major version):
Windows 1.01-1.04 - 1985 Windows 2.03 - 1987 OS/2 1.1 - 1988 Windows 2.10-2.11 - 1988 OS/2 1.2 - 1989 Windows 3.0 - 1990 Windows 3.00a - 1990 OS/2 1.3 - 1990 (OS/2 timeline doesn't end here - just the part that matters to Windows does) Windows 3.10 - 1992 Windows For Workgroups 3.10 - 1992 (Don't believe it? Try Nathan's Toasty Technology Page: GUI Gallery in the Windows section) Windows 3.11 - 1993 Windows For Workgroups 3.11 - 1993 Windows NT 3.10 - 1993 Windows NT 3.50 - 1995 Windows 95 Retail (Win95) - 1995 Windows NT 3.51 - 1995 Windows 95 OSR1 (Win95a) - 1995 Windows 95 OSR2.0 (Win95b) - 1996 Windows NT 4.0 (Server & Workstation) - 1996 Windows 95 OSR2.1 (Win95b) - 1996 Windows 95 OSR2.5 (Win95c) - 1997 Windows NT 4.0 Terminal Server - 1997 Windows 98 - 1998 Windows 98 Second Edition - 1999 Windows 2000 (Server, Advanced Server, Datacenter, Professional) - 1999 Windows ME - 2000 Windows XP (Home & Professional) - 2001 Windows Server 2003 (There are other editions) - 2003 Windows Longhorn 4008 (Illegal leak, older releases available) - 2003
I know I missed a version of NT4 for server appliances, but I don't know the year. All I know about it was that it was installed on a $1500 Intel plug-and-play server that had IIS, and could only be administrated via remote admin.
XP cracks have been around longer than beta (read - the boxed versions) versions of XP. They've been around since the public alphas (read - beta 1 & 2)!
SCSI and Marinetti! BTW, apple was trying to drop the apple ][ when they made the GS. They at least made it cheaper on themselves by making it primarily mac compatible! Oh, if you've got cable/dsl/other forms of broadband that need only a network card, get a LANceGS. It kinda works with Marinetti (DNS is shot, and you can only communicate with your own subnet - Linux and a 386 save the day here)
What was that about MS writing software for Linux? Try this.
Anyway, I thought it was Windows F(uck the) U(ser). And their anti-piracy measures don't work. I'm downloading FP and Publisher XP now, and I've cracked Office XP Trial!
Errm, how hard is it to emulate a G4 processor on an x86? Darwin is open source! Oh yeah, M$ has WMP (and they dare to call it Windows Media Player for Mac OS X, too) and IE (5) for Mac OS X.
After digging around in the Internet Archive (pages not indexed, Microsoft's 404 page being indexed, pages redirecting to Microsoft's WMP dl page), I found the proof in a 1999 page: "x86 Linux ELF" was in the list of OSes supported! Holy Sh--!
Also, what Linux embedded boxes AREN'T x86? (OK, OK, I know, there are ARM, Sparc, Alpha, G4, 680x0, etc. Linux boxes, but still...) Opera for iTV appears to be aimed at x86 set-tops. TiVo is an x86 set-top. All of those damn internet appliances (except for the Z80 MailStations and the Audrey) have x86's. (BTW, has anyone checked to make sure M$ didn't break GPL on the MSN IAs? After all, they're the only ones not to run QNX except for the MailStations).
Errm... I've only got IE on my desktop (at school, I've got Opera), and Håkon's site does...exactly that! It's JavaScript on the page, not an internal Borking on Opera 7 Bork Edition's part!
BTW, IE doesn't even support JavaScript properly. Now Opera 7 supports it better than IE 6! His page renders with a "Done, with errors on page" error. It says Line 20, Character 1 is "not implemented"! I have no clue how IE renders those numbers, but IE sux!
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I cannot afford M$ Office, but have to use it (my parents have taken a 100% anti-open source stance) on my desktop. They're not paying several hundred dollars for it - and they need it too.
Last year they blocked ALL of google through their own proxy, instead of our isp's. They unblocked it all. BTW, they did have a NETWORK policy (in other words, hack it as much as you can to run off the network, and you're home free) that was eight pages long that was obviously a state form (it had blanks for the school's name). I never signed it! :-) And I'm assistant sysadmin, too.
ARRGH! It should have been [ctrl]-[esc], [r], com, [enter]!
Stability: (this is scary) RARELY does my Win95B laptop crash (even individual programs). Granted, my Win98SE desktop crashed at least once a day (until the PSU went out, that is), and the WinXPPro boxes at my school crash once a week (the OS, too - damn buggy Sega Genesis and Super Nintendo emulators).
Security: Got me there. Windows security SUCKS! Although, ZoneAlarm is a GREAT Windows firewall...
Remote Admin: Why? XP has Remote Assistance, and when I need to add users to my school's network, I use Remote Desktop Connection to access the server, rather than go down to the first floor of the school (I'm usually on the third floor).
Networking: The only networking problems I've had are when the hub gets unplugged (the damn bastards need to watch their feet) and when the ISP went down.
Price: DAMN! Our old sysadmin pirated everything too!
To do any file ops on my Win95b laptop, I just go -, , com, . (I don't have Windows keys, and IE5.5 autocompletes command for me by the time I've typed com).
RedHat did all that automatically - and coexisted with WinME pretty darn well (it was an experiment on Linux!) I simply FDISKed the system's NTFS (it had an f---ed up XP install) partition off, replaced it with a FAT32 partition that took half of the HDD, installed WinME (not without some trouble - the DVD drive was f----ed up), then installed RedHat 8. It just did what it wanted to, and I could dual boot easily.
BTW, a complete idiot with a 73 IQ "figgered out that linnex was more better".
Oh so true. My high school network blocks EVERYTHING. pr0n of course is blocked:
"The Websense category ''Sex'' is blocked."
MP3 files are blocked:
"The Websense category ''MP3'' is blocked."
Games are blocked:
"The Websense category ''Games'' is blocked."
Hell, even the Onion is blocked:
"The Websens category ''Tasteless'' is blocked."
Actually, most of this is from the ISP. Our old sysadmin was nice to us. We could install/dl anything we could (and we have). Even pr0n occasionally gets through the filters (can only block text, and Websense is only "block these URLs for these reasons", so not even text is blocked).
-- Where do you REALLY want to go today?
It was available from M$' BBS (long distance if you didn't live in M$ville) in 1991 for Windows 3.0, and came with Windows Entertainment Pack 1 in 1991.
Here goes - I'm not listing Windows 3.2 (it's a Chinese thing) and service packs (unless they are also released as a major version):
Windows 1.01-1.04 - 1985
Windows 2.03 - 1987
OS/2 1.1 - 1988
Windows 2.10-2.11 - 1988
OS/2 1.2 - 1989
Windows 3.0 - 1990
Windows 3.00a - 1990
OS/2 1.3 - 1990 (OS/2 timeline doesn't end here - just the part that matters to Windows does)
Windows 3.10 - 1992
Windows For Workgroups 3.10 - 1992 (Don't believe it? Try Nathan's Toasty Technology Page: GUI Gallery in the Windows section)
Windows 3.11 - 1993
Windows For Workgroups 3.11 - 1993
Windows NT 3.10 - 1993
Windows NT 3.50 - 1995
Windows 95 Retail (Win95) - 1995
Windows NT 3.51 - 1995
Windows 95 OSR1 (Win95a) - 1995
Windows 95 OSR2.0 (Win95b) - 1996
Windows NT 4.0 (Server & Workstation) - 1996
Windows 95 OSR2.1 (Win95b) - 1996
Windows 95 OSR2.5 (Win95c) - 1997
Windows NT 4.0 Terminal Server - 1997
Windows 98 - 1998
Windows 98 Second Edition - 1999
Windows 2000 (Server, Advanced Server, Datacenter, Professional) - 1999
Windows ME - 2000
Windows XP (Home & Professional) - 2001
Windows Server 2003 (There are other editions) - 2003
Windows Longhorn 4008 (Illegal leak, older releases available) - 2003
I know I missed a version of NT4 for server appliances, but I don't know the year. All I know about it was that it was installed on a $1500 Intel plug-and-play server that had IIS, and could only be administrated via remote admin.
And what about the Lisa? Apple's first try at something like the Mac (the Mac was an anti-Lisa project), but it flopped because it cost too much!
XP cracks have been around longer than beta (read - the boxed versions) versions of XP. They've been around since the public alphas (read - beta 1 & 2)!
SCSI and Marinetti! BTW, apple was trying to drop the apple ][ when they made the GS. They at least made it cheaper on themselves by making it primarily mac compatible! Oh, if you've got cable/dsl/other forms of broadband that need only a network card, get a LANceGS. It kinda works with Marinetti (DNS is shot, and you can only communicate with your own subnet - Linux and a 386 save the day here)
ftp://ftp.apple.asimov.org/pub/images (anonymous login) should have it.
Actually, the first Apple ][ modem, the A.P.P.L.E. Box, emulated a cassette drive!
BTW, earthlink (and sprint, which uses earthlink as the isp) both offer DSL
AOL offers cable internet too. So, an AOL Broadband account, running its own SMTP server, would get bounced by AOL's own servers.
What was that about MS writing software for Linux? Try this. Anyway, I thought it was Windows F(uck the) U(ser). And their anti-piracy measures don't work. I'm downloading FP and Publisher XP now, and I've cracked Office XP Trial!
Errm, how hard is it to emulate a G4 processor on an x86? Darwin is open source! Oh yeah, M$ has WMP (and they dare to call it Windows Media Player for Mac OS X, too) and IE (5) for Mac OS X.
After digging around in the Internet Archive (pages not indexed, Microsoft's 404 page being indexed, pages redirecting to Microsoft's WMP dl page), I found the proof in a 1999 page: "x86 Linux ELF" was in the list of OSes supported! Holy Sh--!
Also, what Linux embedded boxes AREN'T x86? (OK, OK, I know, there are ARM, Sparc, Alpha, G4, 680x0, etc. Linux boxes, but still...) Opera for iTV appears to be aimed at x86 set-tops. TiVo is an x86 set-top. All of those damn internet appliances (except for the Z80 MailStations and the Audrey) have x86's. (BTW, has anyone checked to make sure M$ didn't break GPL on the MSN IAs? After all, they're the only ones not to run QNX except for the MailStations).
Errm... I've only got IE on my desktop (at school, I've got Opera), and Håkon's site does...exactly that! It's JavaScript on the page, not an internal Borking on Opera 7 Bork Edition's part!
BTW, IE doesn't even support JavaScript properly. Now Opera 7 supports it better than IE 6! His page renders with a "Done, with errors on page" error. It says Line 20, Character 1 is "not implemented"! I have no clue how IE renders those numbers, but IE sux!