It should run on Pentium M's. The intel core Duo's are pentium M based if I am not mistaken. Also, you can run OS X on SSE2, but SSE 3 chips run better from what my friends who run this hacked version of OS X tell me.
I got my first flash memory drive about two years ago. For me, its the best thing to happen to storage in years.
With that said, I am still surprised by the large number of floppies used by students and teachers in our education system (K-12). I did IT consulting work at a charter school for two years (just left for a higher paying job), and I had numerous cases where students (and even teachers) were saving documents directly to floppy disks! They would be distraught beyond description when they found out the disk went bad as it was crushed and pounded inside of a backpack, and the data was destroyed. I told everyone that had this happen to them to switch to usb flash drives and it has made the biggest difference.
My usb drive has been through the washing machine, dropped, stepped on, and plugged into hundreds of machines over the last two years with no data integrity loss. It holds all my software utilities for my job, and two years worth of school work. I've had hard drives fail, CD that stopped reading, and the aforementioned floppy disks. I would say that flash memory has been the most reliable form of data storage I have used in my 20 years of using computers.
I can understand why Microsoft is so protective of their XBox system, but for the sake of covering their own behinds, they have ignored an entire niche market (xbox hackers). I am curious to find out what percentage of original xbox's have mods made to them. There are dozens of different mods out there that enhance what Microsoft has put together.
Instead of shunning these people, embrace them. Give them opportunities to mod the Xbox. Lend them code or reference design information. Do it with the idea that if you do, Microsoft will not honor parts or all of their warranty.
Really, why would Microsoft really care about this? All it is is more Xbox units being sold and more money in their pocket. I see it as a win-win situation.
I can't justify that sort of monthly expense
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Personally, I would be more inclined to play a MMOG if I wasn't charged a monthly fee. When I already have to pay $50 a month for DSL/Cable connection, another $50 for my cell phone, $35 for my land phone line, $50 for Cable/Satellite television, how on earth can I justify paying $15+ a month to play a game I spend $50-60 for at the store? They aren't necessarily providing me a service in the sense that the previously mentioned items are. Or are they?
World of Pirates is a fun one and it is only a one-time charge of $20 to play. Granted its not World of Warcraft, but its an enjoyable clone of the old Sid Meier's game, and its all online, and it plays on relatively old machines.
Another feature added to the already bloated Norton family of software. Is it just me, or is Norton making themselves more and more useless every time they release a new version of there software?
Will Microsoft really be more secure? With all the antispyware, antivirus, firewall software with billions invested into it from the makers of these programs, it won't happen. Not if Symantec, McAfee and all those other companies out there have anything to say about it. Besides, 95% of the world out there thinks windows IS the only OS you can load on a computer anyway and changing that is going to take YEARS to do this. Microsoft knows this, and with billions of dollars in revenue coming in, there is not need to really change, as long as the overall impression is given that they are really concerned about security, hence the reason for stupid stuff like the security center that came with XP Service Pack 2.
My only concern about this is, whether the merger will make Maxtor Drives better (one can only hope) or make Seagate drives worse (I hope not). We can all remember what happened to the quality of Maxtor drives after they bought Quantum. What a mess!
I have read a number of these types of reviews over the last several months, and I personally don't see a need for them. I manage a network of about 60 computers on a windows 2003 domain. All users have limited user privileges on the network, and can't install anything without me doing it. With that kind of security, why on earth would you need to spend $1000's on antispyware deployment? Unless you have a network full of windows 98 machines, what's the use? If its a severe problem set up Squid and Dansguardian. That costs nothing.
[QUOTE] New File Format - This as you know is the area that is most near and dear to my heart. We are finally fully opening up our file formats in Office. Word, PowerPoint, and Excel will all three use new XML formats as their default formats. These formats will be fully documented and anyone can leverage them to build solutions, or even to build a competitive application. If you're interested in this topic, just keep reading my blog (and look through all my previous entries. [/QUOTE]
This infuriates me. They act as if they were the ones who came up with the idea of a new open format for office applications, and then talk about how near and dear to their heart it is. This sounds more like a hallmark commercial than a msdn blog
I've been a system admin for this company for 2 months, in that time period, I have managed to consolidate 3 windows servers into 1 linux server, with better speed, more reliability and stability than the other 2 windows 2003 servers I have as domain controllers. The 2003 servers tape drives disappear from device manager after 6 weeks or so, windows requires me to reboot every time I run windows update, which I NEVER had to do with my linux machine, which includes upgrades to Apache, PHP5, MySQL. The windows proxy server software expired, and wanted me to renew my subscription for $150? I saved my company the money by throwing squid and DansGuardian on the Gentoo server and we were up and running with 30 minutes. I couldn't do that with windows.
What's the big deal about Google doing this? Isn't that what a library was used for at one point? I never had to pay for anything there.
Along the same lines, I heard about this device that allows people to listen to copyrighted music on broadcast frequencies for FREE! People get these devices called "radios" and can listen from inside their car. In fact, some of these carsThese devices are also widely available for home use where people can record the music from the radio onto small reel-to-reel "tapes". These tapes can be listened to in other devices with tape players. I can't believe that people aren't freaking out about this!
This is somewhat obvious to me that Excel would run faster, considering it is created by the same company that created the OS it's running on, and it doesn't have to do any VB to java conversions like OO does. I am sure OO would run much faster on JDS and solaris than MS if MS was ported to Solaris. What's the point?
I think the 'bloat' numbers are a bit exaggerated (been running OO 2.0 on my XP system here at work for a week, and it runs great). Just now opened a good sized Excel file in OO (charts, formulas, macros, etc) and its using 64 mb right now. With Excel and the same file, 12MB.
It's like being a great golfer and creating a golf course and bragging about how you get lower scores than anyone on that course. Big Deal.
OO 2.0 is SUCH an improvement over previous versions, I am very pleased with it.
Whoever filed this lawsuit needs to live in a third world country for a few years where there is no such thing as running water, electricity, a stable government or bill of rights and lets see if they care their their freakin' iPod is scratched or not. Some people have too much time on their hands
From working at a local computer store here in Denver, I have learned one thing over the hundreds of computers I have worked on; whatever you do don't install a software firewall, especially Zone Alarm! First of all, its a resource HOG! Secondly, ZA has problems with buffer overflows which we know hackers exploit all the time, an major issue with software firewalls (Duh, it's software based! Google "Zone Alarm" buffer overflow and you'll see what I am talking about). A software firewall combined with a hardware firewall is overkill! Who wants to configure grandma's ports on her home network? Also, who wants those retarded messages saying something is intruding? They are as annoying as popups! 99% of computer users freak out because they don't know what the heck TCP/UDP ports are and how they work. So they call us expecting us to explain in 5 minutes what I spent months learning about in school. It's utter crap. Besides, a firewall DOES NOT PREVENT SPYWARE! When I used windows, I would just use mozilla or firefox and I would never have problems with spyware. I would scan once a month and get a few cookies, that's it!
Lastly, Ad aware or spybot does not get rid of hijacked web browsers. hijack this works like a dream. It's great because I can use it on a windows 2k box and remove startup stuff without copying an msconfig.exe from an XP box into it, and customers who tinker around with their computers won't accidentally re-enable those stupid programs again.
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It should run on Pentium M's. The intel core Duo's are pentium M based if I am not mistaken. Also, you can run OS X on SSE2, but SSE 3 chips run better from what my friends who run this hacked version of OS X tell me.
I got my first flash memory drive about two years ago. For me, its the best thing to happen to storage in years.
With that said, I am still surprised by the large number of floppies used by students and teachers in our education system (K-12). I did IT consulting work at a charter school for two years (just left for a higher paying job), and I had numerous cases where students (and even teachers) were saving documents directly to floppy disks! They would be distraught beyond description when they found out the disk went bad as it was crushed and pounded inside of a backpack, and the data was destroyed. I told everyone that had this happen to them to switch to usb flash drives and it has made the biggest difference.
My usb drive has been through the washing machine, dropped, stepped on, and plugged into hundreds of machines over the last two years with no data integrity loss. It holds all my software utilities for my job, and two years worth of school work. I've had hard drives fail, CD that stopped reading, and the aforementioned floppy disks. I would say that flash memory has been the most reliable form of data storage I have used in my 20 years of using computers.
(Sitting in my RV) Wait a minute? Isn't that was cruise control does!? Oh crap, I got to go!
Mod Parent Up! Come on people, it was a joke. I thought it was funny. Too bad I'm out of mod points or I would.
Hey in the same spirit of Richard Dean Anderson Television Shows, how about a MaGyver MMORPG?
Selma: Richard Dean Anderson will be in my dreams tonight!
I can understand why Microsoft is so protective of their XBox system, but for the sake of covering their own behinds, they have ignored an entire niche market (xbox hackers). I am curious to find out what percentage of original xbox's have mods made to them. There are dozens of different mods out there that enhance what Microsoft has put together.
Instead of shunning these people, embrace them. Give them opportunities to mod the Xbox. Lend them code or reference design information. Do it with the idea that if you do, Microsoft will not honor parts or all of their warranty.
Really, why would Microsoft really care about this? All it is is more Xbox units being sold and more money in their pocket. I see it as a win-win situation.
No Child Left Behind . . . . . Without a Laptop
Personally, I would be more inclined to play a MMOG if I wasn't charged a monthly fee. When I already have to pay $50 a month for DSL/Cable connection, another $50 for my cell phone, $35 for my land phone line, $50 for Cable/Satellite television, how on earth can I justify paying $15+ a month to play a game I spend $50-60 for at the store? They aren't necessarily providing me a service in the sense that the previously mentioned items are. Or are they? World of Pirates is a fun one and it is only a one-time charge of $20 to play. Granted its not World of Warcraft, but its an enjoyable clone of the old Sid Meier's game, and its all online, and it plays on relatively old machines.
I am the google bot, all your search results are belong to us.
I have 3 younger brothers still in Jr/Sr High School (I'm 27), that would love to show the results of this study to my mother.
Another feature added to the already bloated Norton family of software. Is it just me, or is Norton making themselves more and more useless every time they release a new version of there software?
Will Microsoft really be more secure? With all the antispyware, antivirus, firewall software with billions invested into it from the makers of these programs, it won't happen. Not if Symantec, McAfee and all those other companies out there have anything to say about it. Besides, 95% of the world out there thinks windows IS the only OS you can load on a computer anyway and changing that is going to take YEARS to do this. Microsoft knows this, and with billions of dollars in revenue coming in, there is not need to really change, as long as the overall impression is given that they are really concerned about security, hence the reason for stupid stuff like the security center that came with XP Service Pack 2.
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COMPUTER: Dell Optiplex GX1
CPU: Pentium III 500MHZ
RAM: 768MB
SWAP: 2200MB
CONTROLLER: Maxtor Promise ATA/133 TX2 - IN PCI SLOT #1
DRIVES USED: 1] Seagate 400GB ATA/100 8MB CACHE 7200RPM
2] Maxtor 61.4GB ATA/66 2MB CACHE 5400RPM
DRIVE TESTED: The Seagate 400GB.
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It's comforting to know I'm not the only one still using one of these! Those are almost the exact same specs as my linux server!
It appears I will have to solicit my inventory of viagra, cialis, and levitra elsewhere.
My only concern about this is, whether the merger will make Maxtor Drives better (one can only hope) or make Seagate drives worse (I hope not). We can all remember what happened to the quality of Maxtor drives after they bought Quantum. What a mess!
At least Neopets don't poop on your furniture and scratch the carpet.
I have read a number of these types of reviews over the last several months, and I personally don't see a need for them. I manage a network of about 60 computers on a windows 2003 domain. All users have limited user privileges on the network, and can't install anything without me doing it. With that kind of security, why on earth would you need to spend $1000's on antispyware deployment? Unless you have a network full of windows 98 machines, what's the use? If its a severe problem set up Squid and Dansguardian. That costs nothing.
[QUOTE]
New File Format - This as you know is the area that is most near and dear to my heart. We are finally fully opening up our file formats in Office. Word, PowerPoint, and Excel will all three use new XML formats as their default formats. These formats will be fully documented and anyone can leverage them to build solutions, or even to build a competitive application. If you're interested in this topic, just keep reading my blog (and look through all my previous entries.
[/QUOTE]
This infuriates me. They act as if they were the ones who came up with the idea of a new open format for office applications, and then talk about how near and dear to their heart it is. This sounds more like a hallmark commercial than a msdn blog
I've been a system admin for this company for 2 months, in that time period, I have managed to consolidate 3 windows servers into 1 linux server, with better speed, more reliability and stability than the other 2 windows 2003 servers I have as domain controllers. The 2003 servers tape drives disappear from device manager after 6 weeks or so, windows requires me to reboot every time I run windows update, which I NEVER had to do with my linux machine, which includes upgrades to Apache, PHP5, MySQL. The windows proxy server software expired, and wanted me to renew my subscription for $150? I saved my company the money by throwing squid and DansGuardian on the Gentoo server and we were up and running with 30 minutes. I couldn't do that with windows.
What's the big deal about Google doing this? Isn't that what a library was used for at one point? I never had to pay for anything there.
Along the same lines, I heard about this device that allows people to listen to copyrighted music on broadcast frequencies for FREE! People get these devices called "radios" and can listen from inside their car. In fact, some of these carsThese devices are also widely available for home use where people can record the music from the radio onto small reel-to-reel "tapes". These tapes can be listened to in other devices with tape players. I can't believe that people aren't freaking out about this!
This is somewhat obvious to me that Excel would run faster, considering it is created by the same company that created the OS it's running on, and it doesn't have to do any VB to java conversions like OO does. I am sure OO would run much faster on JDS and solaris than MS if MS was ported to Solaris. What's the point? I think the 'bloat' numbers are a bit exaggerated (been running OO 2.0 on my XP system here at work for a week, and it runs great). Just now opened a good sized Excel file in OO (charts, formulas, macros, etc) and its using 64 mb right now. With Excel and the same file, 12MB. It's like being a great golfer and creating a golf course and bragging about how you get lower scores than anyone on that course. Big Deal. OO 2.0 is SUCH an improvement over previous versions, I am very pleased with it.
Did Yoko Ono break up Mario and Luigi too!? I don't know what to believe in anymore!
Whoever filed this lawsuit needs to live in a third world country for a few years where there is no such thing as running water, electricity, a stable government or bill of rights and lets see if they care their their freakin' iPod is scratched or not. Some people have too much time on their hands
Is it just me, or does Windows Vista sound like the name of a retirement community?
From working at a local computer store here in Denver, I have learned one thing over the hundreds of computers I have worked on; whatever you do don't install a software firewall, especially Zone Alarm! First of all, its a resource HOG! Secondly, ZA has problems with buffer overflows which we know hackers exploit all the time, an major issue with software firewalls (Duh, it's software based! Google "Zone Alarm" buffer overflow and you'll see what I am talking about). A software firewall combined with a hardware firewall is overkill! Who wants to configure grandma's ports on her home network? Also, who wants those retarded messages saying something is intruding? They are as annoying as popups! 99% of computer users freak out because they don't know what the heck TCP/UDP ports are and how they work. So they call us expecting us to explain in 5 minutes what I spent months learning about in school. It's utter crap. Besides, a firewall DOES NOT PREVENT SPYWARE! When I used windows, I would just use mozilla or firefox and I would never have problems with spyware. I would scan once a month and get a few cookies, that's it!
Lastly, Ad aware or spybot does not get rid of hijacked web browsers. hijack this works like a dream. It's great because I can use it on a windows 2k box and remove startup stuff without copying an msconfig.exe from an XP box into it, and customers who tinker around with their computers won't accidentally re-enable those stupid programs again.