Karma never mattered much...and it's too muddy to plow...
Now we have to listen to the freaks come out and talk about ...
What a bastard Edison was
Well... considering that Edison wanted power transmitted as DC, and Tesla wanted AC, i'd say that Edison is a bastard. Think of the clunkier mess we'd have for powerlines if we used DC. Damn.
I use MOSIX on my home-lan for various things, but would it work in this situation? It claims to work on programs not specifically written for clustering.
It's really quite easy to send processes to other nodes of the cluster... and I'm thinking that if the program this guy is using performs well on an SMP system, it might-possibly-i-reckon-could work on a MOSIX cluster.
By default, upon a STOP error (blue screen of death), only the first 640K of RAM is dumped, and the system is automatically restarted (not like NT4, where all RAM was dumped and the system would stay at the BSOD until the user restarted). This can be changed to your liking, but 2000 usually only goes to the BSOD when running corrupt programs
HOW do you change this? I think I have a corrupt video driver on my laptop which causes these crashes, but the damned thing keeps rebooting before I can get to the pause key... care to fill in a clueless W2k user on how to stop W2k from moving past a BSOD too fast?
Heh... try this:
From your desktop, right click on my computer and go to properties.
Click on the Advanced tab, and then click on the Startup and Recovery button.
The setting you'd like to change should be in there.
Hope that helps,
Mike.
(BTW: I believe by default, only 64k is dumped, not 640k, in case you wanna know)
I store files at my home computer or at my account in the school, if I need to transfer from place to place or share with somebody I use either email or FTP. For really big files I use CD-RW.
Another possible solution would be that LS-120 floppys (120 Mb).
By the way, I would like to know if slashdotters use diskettes or do just like me.
I do about the same. I found that if I bought a box of say 50 disks, a very large portion of them would be bad. Now I store things on CD-R's with multiple sessions. I can erase them and what not... sure, they still use space on the CD, but if you buy a big spindle of CDs, what does it matter?
Besides that, I use a zip drive to transfer files from work/home, school/home, and vice versa. (Hey, just because they can have T1's doesn't mean I can.).
Heh. Dreamt I was in Quake IIIa once... right before it came out... talk about scary! Phew! Man. I don't like out running alien looking things with a rocket launcher unless I've got a nice piece of glass between me and it.
I thought that a black hole was just a star that collapsed on itself because there was no matter trying to escape, and therefore just started to, uhh, suck.:-)
If that's true, and gravitational forces remain the same, shouldn't things just stay normal? Like, pretend our star was massive enough to become a black hole: if it became one, we would continue to orbit that hole. To distant observers, it would appear that we were obiting nothing. Right?
This is something I read out of a physics book not too long ago... correct me if I'm wrong please. I'd like to know...
I miss the good old platform games and all those other games with simple plots and simple goals. I even wonder if many of today's high school kids have even played those types of games.
...I agree. I've bought Quake, Quake 2, Quake3a, Doom, etc... but I get bored with them really quick. There's some element missing from them. I just dug out an old super nintendo and bought some more games off of E-bay -- I can play Mario Bros. for hours, but it'd be hard to see me playing Quake for more than 10 minutes.
They didn't have fancy graphics, they didn't need graphics accelerators and super k-rad processors, but they sure as hell were, IMHO, a lot more fun.
(BTW - I'm barely a high school student... (for one more year anyway, then i'm through!)... but I played all of those games. I had digdug on my XT:)
print('well i for one thought about it\n'); print<
now... please don't pick that apart because i noticed mistakes when i wrote it...:) please? be kind on me.
Think the USPS is slow? Try paying a bill through the mail with a check when you will have the amount in your account the next day. I swear these move faster than email.
What? Two-button mice are harder for people to learn? They're more fit for other operating systems like Linux? BAH! Everyone knows that all true geeks use three button mice.
Rob Malda is my personal savior. He can be yours too.
Sure, the businesses are protected from any kind of financial loss in the event of something like that... but I'd still be careful about giving a company that's been hacked..err cracked.. my credit card. In the end, it still could cost them business...
Wouldn't they be able to do it even cheaper? I mean we all know how much the record companies are making in CD sales, considering that it costs them very little to actually manufacture the things. Of course there are other things, like paying the musicians and what not, but still. I think they could even make it cheaper and people would still be able to eat.
But still, the prices would be comparable to a CD... $1/song * 15 songs == $15/cd.
I think the record companies would be best to try to hurry up and embrace this instead of spending so many of their resources trying to fight it.
I have a Nino 510 (CE 2.11)... and CE has a QWERTY keyboard... I find it quite hard to use. We also have handwriting recognition. In the pre-CE-3.0 models, this was done w/ Caligrapher, or Jot... in the new PocketPCs...WinCE 3.0, I believe it is built in. Both accessible by the keyboard icon, either in the taskbar (pre 3.0) or the little status bar at the bottom (3.0)
If Palm did MP3's and other multimedia, I'd *DEFINITELY* switch though.
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Mike.
Ouu..I need to find their pantry.
Now we have to listen to the freaks come out and talk about
...
What a bastard Edison was
Well... considering that Edison wanted power transmitted as DC, and Tesla wanted AC, i'd say that Edison is a bastard. Think of the clunkier mess we'd have for powerlines if we used DC. Damn.
That must have been before 6.22, as I have a 6.22 certificate of authenticity! Still sealed in its plastic-wrap!
(Seriously...)
Mike.
It's really quite easy to send processes to other nodes of the cluster... and I'm thinking that if the program this guy is using performs well on an SMP system, it might-possibly-i-reckon-could work on a MOSIX cluster.
Any ideas people?
Mike
HOW do you change this? I think I have a corrupt video driver on my laptop which causes these crashes, but the damned thing keeps rebooting before I can get to the pause key ... care to fill in a clueless W2k user on how to stop W2k from moving past a BSOD too fast?
Heh... try this:
From your desktop, right click on my computer and go to properties.
Click on the Advanced tab, and then click on the Startup and Recovery button.
The setting you'd like to change should be in there.
Hope that helps,
Mike.
(BTW: I believe by default, only 64k is dumped, not 640k, in case you wanna know)
I do about the same. I found that if I bought a box of say 50 disks, a very large portion of them would be bad. Now I store things on CD-R's with multiple sessions. I can erase them and what not... sure, they still use space on the CD, but if you buy a big spindle of CDs, what does it matter?
Besides that, I use a zip drive to transfer files from work/home, school/home, and vice versa. (Hey, just because they can have T1's doesn't mean I can.).
If that's true, and gravitational forces remain the same, shouldn't things just stay normal? Like, pretend our star was massive enough to become a black hole: if it became one, we would continue to orbit that hole. To distant observers, it would appear that we were obiting nothing. Right?
This is something I read out of a physics book not too long ago... correct me if I'm wrong please. I'd like to know...
Mike.
They didn't have fancy graphics, they didn't need graphics accelerators and super k-rad processors, but they sure as hell were, IMHO, a lot more fun.
(BTW - I'm barely a high school student... (for one more year anyway, then i'm through!)... but I played all of those games. I had digdug on my XT :)
print('well i for one thought about it\n'); print< :) please? be kind on me.
now... please don't pick that apart because i noticed mistakes when i wrote it...
That's right. Mice are only props for the terminally macho. It doesn't matter whether it works or not, as long as it looks cool.
Rob Malda is my personal savior. He can be yours too.
No really... I want a Palmtop running one of these.. WHOO HOO. Supercomputer(?) in the palm of your hand.
Sure, the businesses are protected from any kind of financial loss in the event of something like that... but I'd still be careful about giving a company that's been hacked..err cracked.. my credit card. In the end, it still could cost them business...
But still, the prices would be comparable to a CD... $1/song * 15 songs == $15/cd.
I think the record companies would be best to try to hurry up and embrace this instead of spending so many of their resources trying to fight it.
If Palm did MP3's and other multimedia, I'd *DEFINITELY* switch though.
How can they keep you from copying it? I mean can't somebody just do a kind of like raw copy of the disc? What keeps that from working?
Enjoy your new knowledge everyone.