Yeah, I had to shell out some money to boost the memory in my dad's 486 SX33. It had 4MB of RAM soldered on the motherboard, and I put another 4MB SIMM in the SINGLE MEMORY SLOT.
Yup, good old Trumpet Winsock(TM). I don't know if you kids would understand, but Windows 3.1 didn't come with a TCP/IP protocol. You had to get this separate program (Trumpet) to do that. That was a bit of a chicken and egg thing. You couldn't get on the net to download it because you need it to get on the net, so you had to find someplace that had internet and bring a disk with you.
Yeah, it sounds like a bad joke. "How many PSI of pressure did it generate? Was it a twin turbo?"
That gave rise to some of the early "ricing" of computers. Because of the turbo button, some computers had an LED display to show what clock speed it was running at when the turbo was on or off. It was just a matter of switching some wires around in the back of the LED to make the display indicate that you were running at 966MHz!
"Zions confirmed that Microsoft is working to replace all open-source code in SFU with commercially licensed alternatives."
That's just weird. I always hear about the open source community having to re-write code to put libre versions of code in for proprietary ones. This is the first time I think I've heard of a company re-writing something open to make it closed so they can include it in their closed application.
With better resolution, designer memes and logos might become the hot intellectual property being shared by the young hipsters. Then again, maybe it will just be another place for advertisers to exploit.
What is "a playground for the spawn of Satan to run rampant?"
The House vote came amid Bush administration warnings of an increased risk of attacks this summer and fall because terrorists hope to disrupt the November's elections.
That doesn't seem to make any sense to me. I would think the world including terrorists would have plenty of reason to make sure the elections go smoothly to try to allow Bush to be voted out of office. If they do some kind of attack right before elections that would just open the possibility of the supreme chancel^H^H^H^H^H^Hpresident being voted emergency powers or something to protect the country. It would be even worse if they did that right before the transfer of power.
Seriously, we have two computers at home and one is WinXP and one is 98SE. Every exploit I've seen for the last few years has been XP only. I went to XP because I wanted a real Task manager to try to kill stuff, but it's been more of a pain than Win98. I keep thinking that it's kind of cool that 98 is immune to so much of that stuff, and it didn't have that registring the license crap, so I can install one copy on whatever computers I want.
I've got Bionic Commando on my computer NES emulator, so I do get to play it if I want, and getting to save state any time is great. I was able to beat the game that way. (There's a really gross animation of Hitler's head blowing up at the end.) But perhaps you missed the part where I said I didn't like the small screen of Gameboys so I wouldn't want to get one.
"There was a Bionic Commando game released for the Gameboy Color, you could try finding that one."
That is really cool, but then I would also have to find a Gameboy Color. You see, I've never bought any version of Gameboy. I love the NES, but never could tolerate the small screen of the Gameboys.
A regular 486DX 50 chip can get mighty hot as well.
The 50 was also a DX-2. I thought all the clock doubler chips would have had heat sinks then. The regular SX or DX chips came in clock speeds of 25, 33, or 40(rare). The DX-2's were 50, 66, or 80.
You can't even trust Charbucks to not burn their coffee, and that's what they are supposed to be good at. No WAY would they be able to handle a music store.
Our company makes memory chips. 80C is considered standard operating temperature. We do high voltage operating stress on the parts to eliminate infant fails at 130C before they're re-tested and sold. I'm not sure how tolerant other types of IC chips are, but 50 or 60 doesn't seem too bad yet. However, if that is 50 or 60 air temp in your case, your components are getting hotter than that, and will probably have problems.
You know, back in those days of the early 90's when processors were ENCLOSED and didn't have heat sinks or fans on them, I'll bet most of us did that. I got a toasty finger from a 486 SX33. I figured if it actually got hot enough to burn you, it would have some kind of cooling mechanism on it. Well, looky what showed up on processors shortly thereafter!
This and many other sites like it offer a Print option that puts the whole story on one page. With the likelyhood that slashdot is going to take this site to task, it would be a good idea to get it all on one page before you start reading. That way, you won't get blue mouse trying to get to page 2.
I noticed how slow it was to pull page 2 and was afraid of it getting/.ed, so I went through and opened page 3,4,5,etc. in new tabs. I really don't like pages like this. The story isn't that long; it's basically just text, but they have to spread it out over several pages because they want you to look at 3 billion ads. I swear the story probably took only about 20% of the screen real estate on that crappy site.
About the story, he must have really been desperate for a story. "Whoa! My deadline is tomorrow. I'd better come up with a humorous anecdote to share with my audience or risk losing my job."
"And then when reaching for my new heatsink, I knocked the whole computer off the desk. It hit so hard it broke the case in two! HA HA I was incapacitated with laughter."
I read their article about the/. effect, and they have a list at the bottom of times Wikipedia has been/.ed. It already has the 300,000 articles story listed July 7, 2004!
I remember Konami having some of the best games for the NES--usually superior to the ones actually made by Nintendo.
The ones I would really like to see is the Double Dragon series. These would work really well on the GBA because of the link cable capability. Starting with DD2, they were simultaneous multiplayer, so that would be perfect for linking together.
Oh, and one of my favorites, although not very well known, is Bionic Commando. For those of you not familiar with it, he was a soldier who had basically a spring-launched grappling hook on one arm so that he could launch it to grab hold of ceilings, overhead beams, etc. to pull himself up or swing from. There was a cool tie-in to another game in that his mission was to rescue Super Joe, who was the main character of the game Commando. There was just so much cool potential for doing tricky stuff in this game. Once you got the hang of it, you could do the tarzan thing in some areas, where you would swing across the ceiling, in a latch and release method. He had some cool power ups you could get like a three-way gun or very powerful single shot gun.
I have gotten these on my NES emulator, but playing them portable would be great.
Well sure it won't fly very well if you don't throw it right. If you just try to throw it with no rotation it will do that. To get distance on it, it has to spin. If you throw it like a frisbee with a lot of spin or throwing overhand holding by the edge, it will get plenty of speed. It would be pretty hard for a disc launcher gun to shoot it with spin though.
I live in Idaho, where mountain wilderness is a 20 min drive away. Many people I know have a handgun that they keep just to take with them when they go camping. There are a lot of wolves, bears, mountain lions, etc. out here, so protection is a very real factor.
Maybe what we should do is check out the computers in use by Hatch's political organization, and demand that they remove all software that enables copyright violation, starting with their email software. Maybe that would get the message across.
Now that would be a cool move. I don't think they realize how idiotic and broad the legislation is. It will probably have to hit them in the nose before they will realize what they have done. I would like to pursue that with the police if that passes. What? You have an email account? We'll have to press charges against your ISP. You have a computer you use to check that email? We'll have to confiscate that.
OH OH, I hate that! I always think about going after stuff like that, but I figure there's no way it would ever work, and the amounts are so small that it would never be worth my time to pursue it anyway.
Hi, I'm still not much of a Linux user--have tried it out but the computer I was using to try it (backup one, of course, as you mentioned) was too slow to handle it very well. I have just gotten a newer computer, though, so I will be trying again.
My recommendation to you is that the "vaunted Linux Community" is not a very friendly or helpful place for new users, except as a last resort. Google is very helpful and doesn't criticize you for asking it questions. I've had to search for lots of stuff there and almost always found answers. I have never used IRC at all and have never gone to Linux chat rooms, but have managed to find everything I've needed through searching the web. Someone did make a very good point, though, that a web search should be your first stop, and you will get much more respect if you come to the forums with some evidence of having searched without finding the answer you need. Information is critical, too. Include things like, I'm using SuSE 9.1 with the Nvidia xxxx card.I already tried the [whatever] option in YaST. That will get you more helpful replies.
My other comment is that you are kind of indirectly knocking SuSE tech support. You should "pay" for support with either time or money, but not both, which you have done and been frustrated by. Let those who have more time than money or are just cheap deal with the arseholes in the community. Since you have paid for the full SuSE package, USE that SuSE support line for it! They will gladly help you because you have paid them. When you pay for a distro, it can be for generous reasons to support the company's effort, but for most people, it should be a reasonable expectation of help from the company. The people who don't pay should expect to try to extract help from other users with more effort.
Slashdot Mirror
Yeah, I had to shell out some money to boost the memory in my dad's 486 SX33. It had 4MB of RAM soldered on the motherboard, and I put another 4MB SIMM in the SINGLE MEMORY SLOT.
Yup, good old Trumpet Winsock(TM). I don't know if you kids would understand, but Windows 3.1 didn't come with a TCP/IP protocol. You had to get this separate program (Trumpet) to do that. That was a bit of a chicken and egg thing. You couldn't get on the net to download it because you need it to get on the net, so you had to find someplace that had internet and bring a disk with you.
Yeah, it sounds like a bad joke.
"How many PSI of pressure did it generate? Was it a twin turbo?"
That gave rise to some of the early "ricing" of computers. Because of the turbo button, some computers had an LED display to show what clock speed it was running at when the turbo was on or off. It was just a matter of switching some wires around in the back of the LED to make the display indicate that you were running at 966MHz!
The sad part is that I really didn't get it until you just made it bleeding obvious. Now where's that coffee?
"Zions confirmed that Microsoft is working to replace all open-source code in SFU with commercially licensed alternatives."
That's just weird. I always hear about the open source community having to re-write code to put libre versions of code in for proprietary ones. This is the first time I think I've heard of a company re-writing something open to make it closed so they can include it in their closed application.
I never get tired of those. People's misuse of stringed instruments is a pet peeve of mine I guess.
I think for my attempt to get on Slashdot I'll straighten out a coat hanger and promote it as a Wi-Fi antenna booster.
I'm sorry, it was "What is advertising space?"
That's what I said!
Seriously, we have two computers at home and one is WinXP and one is 98SE. Every exploit I've seen for the last few years has been XP only. I went to XP because I wanted a real Task manager to try to kill stuff, but it's been more of a pain than Win98. I keep thinking that it's kind of cool that 98 is immune to so much of that stuff, and it didn't have that registring the license crap, so I can install one copy on whatever computers I want.
I've got Bionic Commando on my computer NES emulator, so I do get to play it if I want, and getting to save state any time is great. I was able to beat the game that way. (There's a really gross animation of Hitler's head blowing up at the end.)
But perhaps you missed the part where I said I didn't like the small screen of Gameboys so I wouldn't want to get one.
"There was a Bionic Commando game released for the Gameboy Color, you could try finding that one."
That is really cool, but then I would also have to find a Gameboy Color. You see, I've never bought any version of Gameboy. I love the NES, but never could tolerate the small screen of the Gameboys.
the food eats YOU! *ducks*
You can't even trust Charbucks to not burn their coffee, and that's what they are supposed to be good at. No WAY would they be able to handle a music store.
Our company makes memory chips. 80C is considered standard operating temperature. We do high voltage operating stress on the parts to eliminate infant fails at 130C before they're re-tested and sold. I'm not sure how tolerant other types of IC chips are, but 50 or 60 doesn't seem too bad yet. However, if that is 50 or 60 air temp in your case, your components are getting hotter than that, and will probably have problems.
You know, back in those days of the early 90's when processors were ENCLOSED and didn't have heat sinks or fans on them, I'll bet most of us did that. I got a toasty finger from a 486 SX33. I figured if it actually got hot enough to burn you, it would have some kind of cooling mechanism on it. Well, looky what showed up on processors shortly thereafter!
About the story, he must have really been desperate for a story. "Whoa! My deadline is tomorrow. I'd better come up with a humorous anecdote to share with my audience or risk losing my job."
"And then when reaching for my new heatsink, I knocked the whole computer off the desk. It hit so hard it broke the case in two! HA HA I was incapacitated with laughter."
I read their article about the /. effect, and they have a list at the bottom of times Wikipedia has been /.ed. It already has the 300,000 articles story listed July 7, 2004!
I remember Konami having some of the best games for the NES--usually superior to the ones actually made by Nintendo.
The ones I would really like to see is the Double Dragon series. These would work really well on the GBA because of the link cable capability. Starting with DD2, they were simultaneous multiplayer, so that would be perfect for linking together.
Oh, and one of my favorites, although not very well known, is Bionic Commando. For those of you not familiar with it, he was a soldier who had basically a spring-launched grappling hook on one arm so that he could launch it to grab hold of ceilings, overhead beams, etc. to pull himself up or swing from. There was a cool tie-in to another game in that his mission was to rescue Super Joe, who was the main character of the game Commando. There was just so much cool potential for doing tricky stuff in this game. Once you got the hang of it, you could do the tarzan thing in some areas, where you would swing across the ceiling, in a latch and release method. He had some cool power ups you could get like a three-way gun or very powerful single shot gun.
I have gotten these on my NES emulator, but playing them portable would be great.
Well sure it won't fly very well if you don't throw it right. If you just try to throw it with no rotation it will do that. To get distance on it, it has to spin. If you throw it like a frisbee with a lot of spin or throwing overhand holding by the edge, it will get plenty of speed. It would be pretty hard for a disc launcher gun to shoot it with spin though.
I live in Idaho, where mountain wilderness is a 20 min drive away. Many people I know have a handgun that they keep just to take with them when they go camping. There are a lot of wolves, bears, mountain lions, etc. out here, so protection is a very real factor.
You're confused? At least you know you're confused. These moron senators still need to be told of their condition.
" items priced at ".50 cents" etc."
OH OH, I hate that! I always think about going after stuff like that, but I figure there's no way it would ever work, and the amounts are so small that it would never be worth my time to pursue it anyway.
Wow. Hey, can I use your employee number next time I go in there to get your discount?
Hi, I'm still not much of a Linux user--have tried it out but the computer I was using to try it (backup one, of course, as you mentioned) was too slow to handle it very well. I have just gotten a newer computer, though, so I will be trying again.
My recommendation to you is that the "vaunted Linux Community" is not a very friendly or helpful place for new users, except as a last resort. Google is very helpful and doesn't criticize you for asking it questions. I've had to search for lots of stuff there and almost always found answers. I have never used IRC at all and have never gone to Linux chat rooms, but have managed to find everything I've needed through searching the web. Someone did make a very good point, though, that a web search should be your first stop, and you will get much more respect if you come to the forums with some evidence of having searched without finding the answer you need. Information is critical, too. Include things like, I'm using SuSE 9.1 with the Nvidia xxxx card. I already tried the [whatever] option in YaST. That will get you more helpful replies.
My other comment is that you are kind of indirectly knocking SuSE tech support. You should "pay" for support with either time or money, but not both, which you have done and been frustrated by. Let those who have more time than money or are just cheap deal with the arseholes in the community. Since you have paid for the full SuSE package, USE that SuSE support line for it! They will gladly help you because you have paid them. When you pay for a distro, it can be for generous reasons to support the company's effort, but for most people, it should be a reasonable expectation of help from the company. The people who don't pay should expect to try to extract help from other users with more effort.