In that case, it looks like it's relatively straightforward - find a drive, plug it into a PC, and then find a DOS utility or something to make the disk image. The OS will know it's a floppy drive, but won't know how to properly read or write the disks, hence the special utility. (Alternately, I do recall there being a DOS utility to provide support for unfamiliar drives by giving sectors, tracks, and such to the OS, and it'd sort everything out... then you'd just need to use rawrite to create the image.)
That car analogy only works in a country where 95% of people can't drive sti... oh. This is the US. Most people really CAN'T drive stick. (I can, and do.)
(And, the Carrera GT is one of the hardest cars to not stall out, from what I hear.)
Amstrad did make some IBM PC compatibles, but that'd be too easy - IIRC, they used standard (well, as standard as you can call it back then) 360 kiB 5.25" floppies, too.
And, all VMware does is virtualization (not emulation) of an x86 PC.
This guy needs to find a working Amstrad that can read his disks, and then use it to create disk images. I don't know if there's a utility to automatically do that for the Amstrads, though. (For Apple IIs, it's stupid easy to make disk images, thanks to ADTPro and cheap serial cables.)
It's all about public perception. The Linux machine can't run Windows apps (at least I don't think WINE's included, and WINE's never a good answer to that problem anyway.) Therefore, it's worse in many people's eyes.
So, now, the Linux machine is more expensive, and perceived to be worse.
This is not good if you want Linux to succeed in the marketplace.
First off, my cable internet is NOT under contract. If I want out, I call Time Warner, and they shut it off. That's it.
Anyway, here's a scenario that could actually happen in this economy... let's say that you lose your job, and can't find another one quickly, or one that pays enough for your current cost of living. So, you decide to cut back on expenses. But, you had already bought the game and the gaming rig (and something tells me Spore doesn't need a $1400 rig - $600 buys a hell of a lot of computer nowadays.)
And in rural parts of Ohio, at least, the electric co-ops often have peak load devices that cut off electric water heaters. Basically, it's a radio receiver that sits on top of the water heater, sitting in between the circuit breaker and the water heater.
Power company sends out a peak alert signal, LED on the receiver goes red, water heater loses power.
There's a modification of that system that works for most stuff, even if you don't own your own domain, although a few providers (*cough*hotmail*cough*) treat it as invalid.
The downside is that the real address can rather easily be backed out of the address.
For the address user@example.com, one could provide Slashdot with user+slashdot@example.com.
Of course, a spambot could just delete everything from the plus to before the at sign, and still get you. But, it still gives better sorting if you don't make the address public.
Ah, but often, used cars are crushed because of minor repairs that are more than the car's value.
If there's less demand for new cars (which, in this example, would translate to more demand for used cars,) the value of used cars would go up, and it would make more sense to maintain those used cars.
Also, one could elect to just maintain the used car despite the repairs being more than the car's value, due to it still having a lower TCO than a new car, but nobody thinks about that here.
And the much larger Audi A2 3L got similar fuel economy and performance (with the same drivetrain) - by using an aluminum chassis, and having aerodynamics that blew away the Prius.
The modern common rail diesel engines are also more efficient than the older "Pumpe-Düse" engines that VW used back when they built the A2 and Lupo. So, VW has everything in their parts bin that they need to make a 100 MPG highway car.
Unfortunately, beyond advocacy, there is little the Linux community can do to bring proprietary applications to Linux.
True, but the open source community can do something... try to create a perfect open-source clone of Windows.
Like ReactOS.
(Although it's FAR from perfect right now...)
Obviously L&F fidelity isn't as big a requirement as you make it out to be.
Well, the GP was slightly wrong. People don't care if programs have a consistent L&F with each other, they care if they have a consistent L&F with Windows XP and Office 2003. (Note that I said Office 2003 - the user interface is the single largest reason why the company that I work for isn't migrating to Office 2007.)
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You wouldn't need to read the filesystem in your PC's OS.
In *nix, dd should do everything that you need... you'd just need to know how to control the drive.
Also, IIRC, bzip2 requires the whole file to be downloaded before it can start decompression.
gzip has no such requirement, meaning it can be used for compression of streaming data. Or, for example, disk images - g4u uses gzip for that.
Ah, I just read it.
In that case, it looks like it's relatively straightforward - find a drive, plug it into a PC, and then find a DOS utility or something to make the disk image. The OS will know it's a floppy drive, but won't know how to properly read or write the disks, hence the special utility. (Alternately, I do recall there being a DOS utility to provide support for unfamiliar drives by giving sectors, tracks, and such to the OS, and it'd sort everything out... then you'd just need to use rawrite to create the image.)
That car analogy only works in a country where 95% of people can't drive sti... oh. This is the US. Most people really CAN'T drive stick. (I can, and do.)
(And, the Carrera GT is one of the hardest cars to not stall out, from what I hear.)
Amstrad did make some IBM PC compatibles, but that'd be too easy - IIRC, they used standard (well, as standard as you can call it back then) 360 kiB 5.25" floppies, too.
And, all VMware does is virtualization (not emulation) of an x86 PC.
This guy needs to find a working Amstrad that can read his disks, and then use it to create disk images. I don't know if there's a utility to automatically do that for the Amstrads, though. (For Apple IIs, it's stupid easy to make disk images, thanks to ADTPro and cheap serial cables.)
It depends on the platform.
IBM-compatibles used a special floppy interface - the controller is on the motherboard.
And, if a modern PC has the hardware to drive a 3.5" floppy, it can drive a 5.25" floppy. So, yes.
But, the IBM-compatible floppy controller might not be able to handle these Amstrad disks.
This is very true, but...
It's all about public perception. The Linux machine can't run Windows apps (at least I don't think WINE's included, and WINE's never a good answer to that problem anyway.) Therefore, it's worse in many people's eyes.
So, now, the Linux machine is more expensive, and perceived to be worse.
This is not good if you want Linux to succeed in the marketplace.
I don't disagree with that, and I actually have much more than 2 months worth saved up... but I still feel that the scenario is plausible.
First off, my cable internet is NOT under contract. If I want out, I call Time Warner, and they shut it off. That's it.
Anyway, here's a scenario that could actually happen in this economy... let's say that you lose your job, and can't find another one quickly, or one that pays enough for your current cost of living. So, you decide to cut back on expenses. But, you had already bought the game and the gaming rig (and something tells me Spore doesn't need a $1400 rig - $600 buys a hell of a lot of computer nowadays.)
And in rural parts of Ohio, at least, the electric co-ops often have peak load devices that cut off electric water heaters. Basically, it's a radio receiver that sits on top of the water heater, sitting in between the circuit breaker and the water heater.
Power company sends out a peak alert signal, LED on the receiver goes red, water heater loses power.
There's a modification of that system that works for most stuff, even if you don't own your own domain, although a few providers (*cough*hotmail*cough*) treat it as invalid.
The downside is that the real address can rather easily be backed out of the address.
For the address user@example.com, one could provide Slashdot with user+slashdot@example.com.
Of course, a spambot could just delete everything from the plus to before the at sign, and still get you. But, it still gives better sorting if you don't make the address public.
Ah, but often, used cars are crushed because of minor repairs that are more than the car's value.
If there's less demand for new cars (which, in this example, would translate to more demand for used cars,) the value of used cars would go up, and it would make more sense to maintain those used cars.
Also, one could elect to just maintain the used car despite the repairs being more than the car's value, due to it still having a lower TCO than a new car, but nobody thinks about that here.
Except... someone would've bought a car no matter what, just not the specific one that you bought.
So, by not buying a car, you ARE reducing the demand for new cars, which in turn reduces the production.
PAE is enabled by default, but Microsoft has it all set to keep everything within the 4 GiB barrier anyway.
Unless, by "most versions of Windows," you mean Windows 2000 Server, Windows Server 2003, and Windows Server 2008.
Ah, but common rail designs, IIRC, have less parasitic loss on the engine, and have more precise control of injection quantity and timing.
And the much larger Audi A2 3L got similar fuel economy and performance (with the same drivetrain) - by using an aluminum chassis, and having aerodynamics that blew away the Prius.
The modern common rail diesel engines are also more efficient than the older "Pumpe-Düse" engines that VW used back when they built the A2 and Lupo. So, VW has everything in their parts bin that they need to make a 100 MPG highway car.
It just wouldn't sell.
http://www.opengroup.org/openbrand/register/brand3555.htm
I would say no, there's no corresponding UNIX 03 certification for 10.5 on PPC.
Actually, OS X 10.5/x86 is UNIX, according to the Open Group, who owns the UNIX trademark. ;)
Not screwed, you mean.
Because it could benefit the franchise greatly to keep advancing the game, rather than pulling a Madden or FIFA?
Also, I've not played GTA4, but the previous versions certainly feel like they could rather easily adapt to an MMO-style environment.
True, but the open source community can do something... try to create a perfect open-source clone of Windows.
Like ReactOS.
(Although it's FAR from perfect right now...)
Well, the GP was slightly wrong. People don't care if programs have a consistent L&F with each other, they care if they have a consistent L&F with Windows XP and Office 2003. (Note that I said Office 2003 - the user interface is the single largest reason why the company that I work for isn't migrating to Office 2007.)
Timex sold a notebook adapter, which was an LED interface for it.
Alternately, the new DataLinks have a USB interface.
Technically, two of those upmods were funny, so I can actually lose karma for this post - even if it shows as +5 something. ;)
But, funny was what I was going for.
So, in other words, just like how Slashdot works?
Diebold voting machines run Windows CE.