Windows 2000 was originally just going to be called NT 5, and was going to include 98's enhancements over 95, plus get NT up to 9x's ease of configuration.
It got delayed, so they did some more stuff to it, and called it Windows 2000. It was released in December 1999, IIRC.
Then, they realized that Windows 98 was getting long in the tooth, and neither Neptune (a Windows 2000-based 98 replacement) or Whistler (a Windows 2000-based Windows 2000-replacement) were getting anywhere any time soon, so they released Windows ME in... late 2000. It used the Windows 2000 shell, PART of the Windows 2000 driver model, and turned out to be total crap. It came AFTER 2000, though.
As for Neptune and Whistler... the help system in ME was borrowed from Neptune. Soon afterwards, Neptune and Whistler were merged, Neptune's help system and welcome screens made it into Whistler, and the rest of the project was killed. Whistler became XP.
Funny. IBM creating a branch of a project that was a fork of a Sun product (which is now a branch of it.)
Even funnier, IBM already had a product to do just this, Lotus SmartSuite. (Then again, seeing as it was last updated... what, in 2000? 1999? Somewhere in there? it wasn't going to succeed.;) Wonder if Lenovo will end up putting this on every ThinkPad that doesn't ship with MS Office... they DO hand out SmartSuite licenses already...)
I can definitely see the purpose for the feature, I've got an old 1.1GHz Celeron rig that has audio dropouts under high load... but it's not network traffic causing the high load, and on this system, I'd rather have network traffic working well than audio. (Amazingly, despite it being an rtl8139 (the winmodem of NICs,) it's not that bad as a server.)
Actually... there is no box to check at installation time, I do believe.
You CAN install it later, via Add/Remove Programs.
As for Windows not having a programming environment of ANY sort... it's got Notepad and a few interpreters - CMD.EXE, the VBScript interpreter, and Internet Explorer's JavaScript interpreter.;)
Hmm, I forsee a tiered approach being useful, much like what Windows does.
First, there's the administrator permission level, which is supposed to be the Windows equivalent to wheel (and Administrator being the Windows equivalent to root.)
Then, there's LocalSystem, which has higher permissions than Administrator. (And, Administrator is necessarily slightly lower than *nix root.)
Of course, there's still exploits against the LocalSystem account, but it's not as easy to get to as Administrator or an equivalent account.
2) The basic use case of "put disc in player, press play" is still good, and it's the one most people are using. While they're slightly confused, I doubt they're more confused than composite vs scart vs s-video vs component. And with digital connections you can forget the monster cable bullshit too.
It involves both encryption AND a "do not copy" bit - basically, if there's an interface that has either no encryption, or broken encryption, reduced quality content is sent if that bit is set.
Also, that probably isn't being distributed - my guess is, it's downloading the drivers on first boot - Ubuntu gives you the option to do that if you have hardware that's supported by a closed source driver.
Actually, I hear there's surprisingly good support for ThinkPads (go figure,) and the OS/2 nuts just keep porting all the interesting stuff from Linux back to it.
Also, you can purchase vendor support for OS/2, as well.
The fact that M13s go for $30+ on fleabay, and the fact that they're TrackPoint II, not TrackPoint III or IV. TrackPoint III has some nice inertial features that make targeting much easier, and TrackPoint IV has a middle button that's usually intended for scrolling. The TrackPoint II has the same technology level as everyone else's erasermice.
If that were fixed, the M13 (or the Endura Pro, but I've heard that the TrackPoint is much sloppier on the Unicomp boards) would be the optimal keyboard. Period.
If he were a real geek, he'd write a POSIX-compliant OS, drivers, everything in assembler. And he'd APPRECIATE the isolation. Then, he'd do a cantenna case mod, and get Internet, too.:P
To be fair, the 60 Hz thing is due to ON SOME GRAPHICS CARDS needing some proprietary software to configure it, IIRC, and Ubuntu doesn't wish to include that for whatever legal reasons.
Playing MP3s... I was under the impression that Totem would ask about installing the codec when that issue came up.
Speaking of a decent movie player... I prefer VLC, but Totem can do that, too. Add/Remove Programs has a LOT of stuff in there, FWIW.;)
Amd. for MSN, did you try Gaim Internet Messenger? When you add an account, MSN is one of the optiuon.;)
I'll grant you the Sims, but it specifically says it requires Windows on the box, and this isn't Windows.
The Apple II ProDos in 1982 had about as much in common with Mac OS X in 2007 as LINUX in 1989 has with Linux today. (That is, it didn't exist.;))
We would be talking about Apple DOS 3.3 here, which had been around for two years, and had already gotten a bugfix. (Then again, finding out what version you actually had was difficult, as they weren't versioned differently, and they dropped in place of one another - one could actually put the bugfixed 3.3 on a non-bugfixed System Master, and the HELLO code wouldn't be changed, with the date being the old date... vice versa also worked...)
Methanol destroys your vision and kills you. Ethanol doesn't (well, it destroys your liver if you drink too much of it, but...)
However, because in the US, fuel ethanol is blended with 15% gasoline normally, and even when it isn't, it's denatured so it tastes NASTY, drinking your fuel is still a no-no.
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They ignored 2K because it cost $300, and was meant for businesses (meaning it wasn't marketed towards consumers.) ;)
:P
They ignored ME because it offered no tangible benefits.
Windows 2000 was originally just going to be called NT 5, and was going to include 98's enhancements over 95, plus get NT up to 9x's ease of configuration.
It got delayed, so they did some more stuff to it, and called it Windows 2000. It was released in December 1999, IIRC.
Then, they realized that Windows 98 was getting long in the tooth, and neither Neptune (a Windows 2000-based 98 replacement) or Whistler (a Windows 2000-based Windows 2000-replacement) were getting anywhere any time soon, so they released Windows ME in... late 2000. It used the Windows 2000 shell, PART of the Windows 2000 driver model, and turned out to be total crap. It came AFTER 2000, though.
As for Neptune and Whistler... the help system in ME was borrowed from Neptune. Soon afterwards, Neptune and Whistler were merged, Neptune's help system and welcome screens made it into Whistler, and the rest of the project was killed. Whistler became XP.
Funny. IBM creating a branch of a project that was a fork of a Sun product (which is now a branch of it.)
;) Wonder if Lenovo will end up putting this on every ThinkPad that doesn't ship with MS Office... they DO hand out SmartSuite licenses already...)
Even funnier, IBM already had a product to do just this, Lotus SmartSuite. (Then again, seeing as it was last updated... what, in 2000? 1999? Somewhere in there? it wasn't going to succeed.
That would be because many of the Windows networking tools come straight from BSD...
Actually, Windows has netstat as well. ;)
I'm saying that such a feature would be useful if it were backported...
Vista, OTOH... I won't even run that on modern hardware, and for other reasons than this.
I can definitely see the purpose for the feature, I've got an old 1.1GHz Celeron rig that has audio dropouts under high load... but it's not network traffic causing the high load, and on this system, I'd rather have network traffic working well than audio. (Amazingly, despite it being an rtl8139 (the winmodem of NICs,) it's not that bad as a server.)
Actually... there is no box to check at installation time, I do believe.
;)
You CAN install it later, via Add/Remove Programs.
As for Windows not having a programming environment of ANY sort... it's got Notepad and a few interpreters - CMD.EXE, the VBScript interpreter, and Internet Explorer's JavaScript interpreter.
Hmm, I forsee a tiered approach being useful, much like what Windows does.
First, there's the administrator permission level, which is supposed to be the Windows equivalent to wheel (and Administrator being the Windows equivalent to root.)
Then, there's LocalSystem, which has higher permissions than Administrator. (And, Administrator is necessarily slightly lower than *nix root.)
Of course, there's still exploits against the LocalSystem account, but it's not as easy to get to as Administrator or an equivalent account.
You didn't say automobiles xor door locks - AND satisfies OR, just not XOR.
I was just mentioning that as a data point.
My current systems have at least one copy of OOo 2.2, and one has two (Linux/x86 and Win32, in addition to Office 2003.)
O RLY?
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It involves both encryption AND a "do not copy" bit - basically, if there's an interface that has either no encryption, or broken encryption, reduced quality content is sent if that bit is set.
Actually, it was a while back that I've done this, but I ran SO 7, and I think it was OOo 1.2 on the same machine.
SO 7 was blazing fast.
OOo 1.2? Dog slow.
Same machine. Same codebase.
Also, that probably isn't being distributed - my guess is, it's downloading the drivers on first boot - Ubuntu gives you the option to do that if you have hardware that's supported by a closed source driver.
Actually, I hear there's surprisingly good support for ThinkPads (go figure,) and the OS/2 nuts just keep porting all the interesting stuff from Linux back to it.
Also, you can purchase vendor support for OS/2, as well.
That said, I'll stick with Ubuntu.
FSR means Force Sensing Resistor, and it's how all of these work. However, from what I've heard, IBM's FSRs are tighter, and just feel better.
If it's got the third button, it's a TrackPoint IV - that's the only difference.
The trick to getting a TrackPoint II working in middle button emulation mode is to run TrackPoint IV drivers - they run it emulated, I do believe.
Two things piss me off.
The fact that M13s go for $30+ on fleabay, and the fact that they're TrackPoint II, not TrackPoint III or IV. TrackPoint III has some nice inertial features that make targeting much easier, and TrackPoint IV has a middle button that's usually intended for scrolling. The TrackPoint II has the same technology level as everyone else's erasermice.
If that were fixed, the M13 (or the Endura Pro, but I've heard that the TrackPoint is much sloppier on the Unicomp boards) would be the optimal keyboard. Period.
If he were a real geek, he'd write a POSIX-compliant OS, drivers, everything in assembler. And he'd APPRECIATE the isolation. Then, he'd do a cantenna case mod, and get Internet, too. :P
Unless, of course, you know, you're IN the US. ;)
I've gotten "PC LOAD A4" before in the US... when I had stuff set for Letter! (Ubuntu takes a few tries to get it to respect Letter settings.)
To be fair, the 60 Hz thing is due to ON SOME GRAPHICS CARDS needing some proprietary software to configure it, IIRC, and Ubuntu doesn't wish to include that for whatever legal reasons.
;)
;)
Playing MP3s... I was under the impression that Totem would ask about installing the codec when that issue came up.
Speaking of a decent movie player... I prefer VLC, but Totem can do that, too. Add/Remove Programs has a LOT of stuff in there, FWIW.
Amd. for MSN, did you try Gaim Internet Messenger? When you add an account, MSN is one of the optiuon.
I'll grant you the Sims, but it specifically says it requires Windows on the box, and this isn't Windows.
The Apple II ProDos in 1982 had about as much in common with Mac OS X in 2007 as LINUX in 1989 has with Linux today. (That is, it didn't exist. ;))
We would be talking about Apple DOS 3.3 here, which had been around for two years, and had already gotten a bugfix. (Then again, finding out what version you actually had was difficult, as they weren't versioned differently, and they dropped in place of one another - one could actually put the bugfixed 3.3 on a non-bugfixed System Master, and the HELLO code wouldn't be changed, with the date being the old date... vice versa also worked...)
The NES used a modified version of the 6502.
In addition, the Commodore PET and VIC-20 used the 6502, and the 64 and 128 used the 6510 (a modified 6502.)
Also, the Atari 2600, 5200, 400, and 800 used either a modified 6502 (for the 2600) or a 6502 (for the others.)
/me facepalms...
We're talking about ethanol here. No M.
Methanol destroys your vision and kills you. Ethanol doesn't (well, it destroys your liver if you drink too much of it, but...)
However, because in the US, fuel ethanol is blended with 15% gasoline normally, and even when it isn't, it's denatured so it tastes NASTY, drinking your fuel is still a no-no.