Try installing a - how they call it now - legacy piece of hardware in your win peecee...
Action: installing an ArcNet card in an W98SE.
1. - Power down
2. - Insert card after noting the I/O and MEM jumpers
3. - Start computer
4. - Windows starts and reboots itself before prompting me for a driver or anything
5. - Your computer did not bla bla Safe Mode.
6. - Nothing detected in safe mode.
7. - Restart
8. - repeat from 4. as much as you like.
9. - step 9 is never reached.
Action: installing an ArcNet card in Linux
1. - Power Down
2. - Insert card after noting I/O and MEM jumpers
3. - start computer
4. - insmod arcnet io=0xXXX mem=0xXXXXX
5. - ifconfig arc0 a.b.c.d netmask p.q.r.s
My box of 100 5.25" floppys used in my 286 from '91 till '95 are still 100% readable and useable !
I cannot say the same about the 3.5" ones. I never used again an 3.5" drive to flash my bios since a brand new 3.5" diskette made me 'happy' with an "BIOS CHECKSUM ERROR" post message.
The old disks are better - the new ones SUCK ! We want our old trusty floppyes which you could rewrite dozens of times without fear of data loss !
- Get an internal 5" drive
- get a really long floppy cable (up to 0.75m is ok) (ar extend/build one yourself - 34 wires)
- get 2 molex power connectors (one male on female) and 4 wires and build an "power extender"
- remove an ISA/PCI cover plate
- pull the floppy and power cable trough there
- connect to the drive outside the case
- use duct dape as you see fit.
- do not use near strong EM fields.
I have been an faithful WM follower since around 0.20. I still use it on all the slower machines. But I switched to Enlightenment (higly tuned to have the feel of WM) because of the missing support for Xinerama in WM.
Today, most of the videocards come with dual monitor support. It's easy to put the old 14-15" next to the shiny new 17-19" one. But using WM in this setup is a pain... Don't get me wrong - I love WM but after the 100th window that popped up half in a monitor half in the other and the 100th maximized window that took both display - I gave up.
I want my Xinerama (and I don't have enough coding capabilities to add it myself and contribute the patch:( )
1 - Router/firewall/machine-that's-always-useable
[p166@150, quiet fans, obsd]
2 - Main workstation
[2*celeron 533, debian unstable]
3 - Game machine (connected to the second video input on the monitor of machine 2)]
[486sx25, open-dos (yeah, old games rule)]
4 - DivX;-) player. Under the TV
[pIII 800, debian]
5 - exxtreme testing machine
[no case - various cpu, various OS]
Back in the days when i installed my first linux on my first 486, a friend who knew linux told me (after answering a dozen-or so newbie questions) ro rtfm. So i did: cd/bin, ls, man a... man z... , cd/usr/bin...(back then there weren't so many commands in/usr/bin) and alt-F1 man alt-F2 try the command. Often i just read the first lines describing what it does, did not understand and went to the next one (but later remembering that there is somthing that does that thing). At the commands that interested me i discovered that there is an "See Also" at the bottom of the manpage.
Read the (ofter overlooked) files in/usr/share/doc/packagename/ (or/usr/doc depending on your distro). You'll often find there the so called examples:)
Then there are the HOWTOs... not extremelly beginner friendly but they DO help.
Use lots of scrap paper to note your findings (command flags, relevant "other" thingies) as you will be overwhelmed with information and you can't remember it all.
For the first months don't keep your "other os" partitions (where you have the important data) mounted. As you'll have the chance to see the power of the -R flag in action when you least expect it:)
Some mobo's won't budge if they don't find a video card somewhere:(
For my low profile setups i usually use an 1 slot isa extender (in US, i have seen those at fry's, or you could use isa slots and sockets from old/fried mobos and cards and the soldering iron to make an L-shaped extender) and a isa vga or hercules card (anything that will make the bios happy)
Hear this: VMS is going to be discontinued. Heard from official sources. The only thing that will remain from compaq after the merger are the Peecees as HP has understood the truth that if the OS (win) is not reliable, the reliability of the hardware means just a higher price for the same thing. They will scrap the NetServers and go with the Proliants.
In a blessed day of 1988 I got my hands on a VHS Tape with the movie War Games. I said "Wow, Cool, but that can't be done - it's only a movie". Years later, in high-school i borrowed an 2400 modem and plugged-it into my state-of the art (then) 286. 2 Months later a friend gave me a phone number, an username and a pass. I tought it was an BBS. But no. It was an VAX/VMS. I could give commands on a remote server. Then my friend told me about that magical thing "the internet" (that sever vas one of the few ones to thare the first internet connection in Romania - i think it was 9.6k) and it showed me the magical command named ftp. After a year i discovered Linux... the rest is history...
Slashdot Mirror
Please Mod Parent Up ! :D :D :D
Get Netscape 3.x
type about:1994 (or it was 1993 ? 1996? ) in the URL Box
Enjoy...
(the egg still exists in netscape 4.x but the picture is gone)
The aerogel is so old (1932) that this isn't even funny ...
Info Here
> I occasionally got dropped calls with AT&T and VoiceStream
As an european I kindly ask you sir to explain to me what is this "Dropped call" thingy you americans say you have and we don'd ?
^_^
/me wants some 4meg-ers too
jdoe-at-k-dot-ro
MOD PARENT UP NOW !!!
Click on the link to see from where they got the picture...
Complete and total RIP-OFF ! Hey Pentagon, will you give me 50M$ if I edit some photos in Gimp ?
...and let the DDoS^H^H^H^H/. effect begin ...
This brings quite sad news to all of us who are forced to sit behind that ugly piece of %$^@ that is msporksy 2.0 :(
Please mod parent UP !!!
we NEED rot13 in reading and composing (ie: ROT13 selected text) mails. !!!
yeah ...
...
- PAL -
((576/2)*768) = 221184 pixels/field
221184 pixels/field * 50 fields/sec = 11059200 pixels/sec
But nooo, the americans loove their NTSC
Get a PAL tv & DVD doodes... A PAL disk looks way better than the NTSC version.
Mod parent up !!!
Nah - the guy is actually easy in Win:
Try installing a - how they call it now - legacy piece of hardware in your win peecee...
Action: installing an ArcNet card in an W98SE.
1. - Power down
2. - Insert card after noting the I/O and MEM jumpers
3. - Start computer
4. - Windows starts and reboots itself before prompting me for a driver or anything
5. - Your computer did not bla bla Safe Mode.
6. - Nothing detected in safe mode.
7. - Restart
8. - repeat from 4. as much as you like.
9. - step 9 is never reached.
Action: installing an ArcNet card in Linux
1. - Power Down
2. - Insert card after noting I/O and MEM jumpers
3. - start computer
4. - insmod arcnet io=0xXXX mem=0xXXXXX
5. - ifconfig arc0 a.b.c.d netmask p.q.r.s
Linux Kernel's VT handling SUX
XFree86's VT handling SUX
a quick'n'dirty workaround is described in a link posted in the message (#2936738) above.
at least 10 meters without distortion with 1280x1024@75Hz with well shielded cables with ferrites on both sides. (seen with a Sun monitor)
I use an (good) 3 meter cable at home and i see no distortion at all at 1600x1200@100Hz even when the phone rings.
Mod parent +1 Funny :)
My box of 100 5.25" floppys used in my 286 from '91 till '95 are still 100% readable and useable !
I cannot say the same about the 3.5" ones. I never used again an 3.5" drive to flash my bios since a brand new 3.5" diskette made me 'happy' with an "BIOS CHECKSUM ERROR" post message.
The old disks are better - the new ones SUCK ! We want our old trusty floppyes which you could rewrite dozens of times without fear of data loss !
- Get an internal 5" drive
- get a really long floppy cable (up to 0.75m is ok) (ar extend/build one yourself - 34 wires)
- get 2 molex power connectors (one male on female) and 4 wires and build an "power extender"
- remove an ISA/PCI cover plate
- pull the floppy and power cable trough there
- connect to the drive outside the case
- use duct dape as you see fit.
- do not use near strong EM fields.
> the thief needs to sift through 9999 combinations.
:)
More like 1234 combinations to get to the right one
I have been an faithful WM follower since around 0.20. I still use it on all the slower machines. But I switched to Enlightenment (higly tuned to have the feel of WM) because of the missing support for Xinerama in WM.
... Don't get me wrong - I love WM but after the 100th window that popped up half in a monitor half in the other and the 100th maximized window that took both display - I gave up.
:( )
Today, most of the videocards come with dual monitor support. It's easy to put the old 14-15" next to the shiny new 17-19" one. But using WM in this setup is a pain
I want my Xinerama (and I don't have enough coding capabilities to add it myself and contribute the patch
1 - Router/firewall/machine-that's-always-useable
[p166@150, quiet fans, obsd]
2 - Main workstation
[2*celeron 533, debian unstable]
3 - Game machine (connected to the second video input on the monitor of machine 2)]
[486sx25, open-dos (yeah, old games rule)]
4 - DivX;-) player. Under the TV
[pIII 800, debian]
5 - exxtreme testing machine
[no case - various cpu, various OS]
linux|*nix has something called man.
/bin, ls, man a... man z... , cd /usr/bin ...(back then there weren't so many commands in /usr/bin) and alt-F1 man alt-F2 try the command. Often i just read the first lines describing what it does, did not understand and went to the next one (but later remembering that there is somthing that does that thing). At the commands that interested me i discovered that there is an "See Also" at the bottom of the manpage.
/usr/share/doc/packagename/ (or /usr/doc depending on your distro). You'll often find there the so called examples :)
... not extremelly beginner friendly but they DO help.
:)
Back in the days when i installed my first linux on my first 486, a friend who knew linux told me (after answering a dozen-or so newbie questions) ro rtfm. So i did: cd
Read the (ofter overlooked) files in
Then there are the HOWTOs
Use lots of scrap paper to note your findings (command flags, relevant "other" thingies) as you will be overwhelmed with information and you can't remember it all.
For the first months don't keep your "other os" partitions (where you have the important data) mounted. As you'll have the chance to see the power of the -R flag in action when you least expect it
Some mobo's won't budge if they don't find a video card somewhere :(
For my low profile setups i usually use an 1 slot isa extender (in US, i have seen those at fry's, or you could use isa slots and sockets from old/fried mobos and cards and the soldering iron to make an L-shaped extender) and a isa vga or hercules card (anything that will make the bios happy)
and OpenBSD also has almost-builtin[tm] serial console support. Even for instalation. (you have to modify one line in one file on the install disk).
The Freebsd install floppy will sense and use a serial console if you send enough Break signals.
Hear this: VMS is going to be discontinued. Heard from official sources. The only thing that will remain from compaq after the merger are the Peecees as HP has understood the truth that if the OS (win) is not reliable, the reliability of the hardware means just a higher price for the same thing. They will scrap the NetServers and go with the Proliants.
In a blessed day of 1988 I got my hands on a VHS Tape with the movie War Games. I said "Wow, Cool, but that can't be done - it's only a movie". Years later, in high-school i borrowed an 2400 modem and plugged-it into my state-of the art (then) 286. 2 Months later a friend gave me a phone number, an username and a pass. I tought it was an BBS. But no. It was an VAX/VMS. I could give commands on a remote server. Then my friend told me about that magical thing "the internet" (that sever vas one of the few ones to thare the first internet connection in Romania - i think it was 9.6k) and it showed me the magical command named ftp. After a year i discovered Linux ... the rest is history ...