yeah, and you also get ripped off. a dvd-r that burns at 1x. 1x? 4.something gigs at 1x? the cd-r burns at 24x, which is perfectly reasonable. but in my opinion, paying some hundred dollars for a 1x dvd burner is sort of silly. you may be better off buying something external now or later on, which i see as a better investment than paying for the super drive.
The fact that such commentary made it to the NYT op/ed pages is remarkable.
I'm don't find it remarkable. I've read Friedman's The Lexus and the Olive Tree, and he has great editorials in the NYT. He's quite a well known figure and I've seen him on several talk shows (not the lame ones). Actually, I think he is a columnist in the NYT. I've also read some of his editorials in my local newspaper.
if such were so and i were him i certainly wouldn't be anywhere near the U.S. what's a good place to hide and avoid extradition? torremolinos, spain? any ideas?:)
Yeah, but not only did he choose to plead guilty this isn't his first entanglement with authorities. The article notes two other instances of him being arrested. I think his cooperation actually might have been helpful, and it was probably better for him to plead guilty because he had a poor chance at winning in court. I am sure he didn't make the decision by himself, either.
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Mac OS X on an old 8500
yyyyyikes! no critique here, i am just curious! so far whenever i encounter mac os x + an "older" computer i imagine a macintosh endlessly chugging away. what exactly are the specs of this 8500. one time i curiously booted into mac os x on an old 333 mhz imac with 196 mb of ram and had to sit through probably more than ten minutes of chugging before i could restart the computer again. i know pretty much nothing about the mac os x (besides the fact that i badly desire an 11 inch powerbook model:), so plz elaborate.
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Your current pushes seem to be towards forwarding my information about EVERYTHING on my computer (including what hardware I am using when XP shuts itself off)
wah? are you talking about windows xp? the product id? nothing is sent to microsoft. the product id was used to prevent 'causual copying' and widespread use of product keys. it generated by your current hardware setup and the product key. nothing is sent during activation and there are many ways to get around the WPA. also, things like service pack 1a check for mainly two product ids that have been "blacklisted". what happens when xp shuts itself off? umm, beats me...
Lightning creates the ozone, right? I'm no ozonelogist to say the least, but if someone is I am sort of curious... Does this mean anything in regards to the ozone layer?
As for going completely bonkers, which requires having to do a clean install, I can't recall any specific instances. However, what I generally do is use a 4 or 5 gigabyte primary partition for \WINNT and then use the logical/extended partition setup for programs and desktop by using TweakUI to set all the common directories to the non-\WINNT partition. I can then just format the partition with \WINNT on it and do a clean install and not lose any important data. A lot of the ISOs of win2k pro and advanced server are often corrupt in that they are missing a few needed files. One of 2k I had was missing a mouse driver file which made it impossible to using any mouse no matter what type of mouse or driver you used. I never wrote down the file (which was reported missing during the install) so I just borrowed a friends copy of what so far has appeared to be a good copy of 2k. Windows 98 is a true disaster, in my opinion, and prone to get cluttered and cluttered the more you use it. Don't even bother with 98(se) anymore unless you really have to for some particular reason. It's no longer supported at all by ms update and stuff. There was one instance with 2k advanced server once where I kept on noticing delays and slow downs when using it as if the cpu was being randomly hogged completely for a few seconds. I discovered that some sort of trojany thing had been installed onto it. By looking in \winnt\system and \winnt\system32 (btw, there are a lot of useful programs in those two folders) i found that many windows system files had been overwritten and mIRC would run and connect completely in the background. It was very strange. I found several bat files. Using a program (which i'd strongly reccomend to you if i could remember what/where it was) I found somewhere in the \WINNT\ dir that allowed me to look at EVERY process running and bring it to front focus. I brought mIRC to the front to find it connected to some room or whatever with a bunch of users in it also. Nobody was talking or anything. I think all the other people in there were victims just like me. Anyway, more searching I found files with a list of user names and all kinds of weird things. Since all that computer did was run delegate for the rest of my computers I decided to just to completely reformat the entire hard drive. The only other problem I've had is with login passwords on 2k pro. when i am at the login prompt it tells me my password is wrong for logging in as admin (i renamed it from "administrator") . I have no clue why. i didn't change my password or anything. I think i'll probably just install windows 2k pro on that partition again in \Winnt2\ and use that. i don't have much software to reinstall, either. what was your crash like with the drivers and waiting three months?
4 reboots + download time (assumming you have broadband) + all the chugging it does after the reboot when windows is starting up and during the pre-reboot install + the time it takes if you want to create an "uninstall" feature for some updates such as service packs + MORE reboots for non-critical (but sometimes very useful) updates
yes. for the automatic updates you simply disable the windows service by going to 'adminstrative tools' in the control panel and opening up 'services'. i do it everytime i do a clean install, as well as a few other services... such as "remote registry access" and useless things like that.
wow. that's a long list of fixes. i curiously looked at the previous service pack 3 list of fixes and it was also enormous. does this seriously add to the stability of windows 2000 if upgraded to the latest service pack?
Actually I think maybe it's not always the case. I went to a non-public high school where they enfored all kinds of rules about visiting "non-school related content". I pay taxes for that internet connection for my public school district and I don't want it to so teens can IM there friends from school and talk about whats up. Another reason is how much the school can possibly be held responsible when students are visiting "18+ only" pages, as well as other things deemed illegal. If a teenage student is visiting a site completely unrelated to whatever he is supposed to be learning and is blocked or has to get the teachers permission to access the page I don't see what is the problem. On the other hand, my high school never imposed any filters, but they would check the history and nail you with a few detentions or disable your account, which makes more sense than putting in an obtrustive filter in many situations.
And just to be a little more mindful of what you are saying would you mind telling what region you live in? Winters vary quite a bit from place to place. Up here in Michigan the most recent winter was nearly record breaking with several below zero nights. I have a few computers that run 24/7 in my bedroom, but none of them can do much to improve the humidity when it's ten below zero outside. My room is upstairs, so I get a lot of heat from the lower levels anyways. Wouldn't a monitor provide a lot of heat too?
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I've noticed that LCD screens of powerbooks slowly "fade" away. is this some sort of feature designed to prevent burn-in or just another feature designed to save battery power?
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so then 1x would put it just under one hour? that's not too bad i suppose.
yeah, and you also get ripped off. a dvd-r that burns at 1x. 1x? 4.something gigs at 1x? the cd-r burns at 24x, which is perfectly reasonable. but in my opinion, paying some hundred dollars for a 1x dvd burner is sort of silly. you may be better off buying something external now or later on, which i see as a better investment than paying for the super drive.
it's called a "throw-away account"... something you create to avoid using your main email address. as for einsteining... well um
The fact that such commentary made it to the NYT op/ed pages is remarkable.
I'm don't find it remarkable. I've read Friedman's The Lexus and the Olive Tree, and he has great editorials in the NYT. He's quite a well known figure and I've seen him on several talk shows (not the lame ones). Actually, I think he is a columnist in the NYT. I've also read some of his editorials in my local newspaper.
i like spain.
where? in the community jail showers? doesn't sound like a safe idea to me....
actually, the coffee spill case was appealed and the judge lowered the sum to only 480,000 dollars.
if such were so and i were him i certainly wouldn't be anywhere near the U.S. what's a good place to hide and avoid extradition? torremolinos, spain? any ideas? :)
Yeah, but not only did he choose to plead guilty this isn't his first entanglement with authorities. The article notes two other instances of him being arrested. I think his cooperation actually might have been helpful, and it was probably better for him to plead guilty because he had a poor chance at winning in court. I am sure he didn't make the decision by himself, either.
Mac OS X on an old 8500
:), so plz elaborate.
yyyyyikes! no critique here, i am just curious! so far whenever i encounter mac os x + an "older" computer i imagine a macintosh endlessly chugging away. what exactly are the specs of this 8500. one time i curiously booted into mac os x on an old 333 mhz imac with 196 mb of ram and had to sit through probably more than ten minutes of chugging before i could restart the computer again. i know pretty much nothing about the mac os x (besides the fact that i badly desire an 11 inch powerbook model
Your current pushes seem to be towards forwarding my information about EVERYTHING on my computer (including what hardware I am using when XP shuts itself off)
wah? are you talking about windows xp? the product id? nothing is sent to microsoft. the product id was used to prevent 'causual copying' and widespread use of product keys. it generated by your current hardware setup and the product key. nothing is sent during activation and there are many ways to get around the WPA. also, things like service pack 1a check for mainly two product ids that have been "blacklisted". what happens when xp shuts itself off? umm, beats me...
Lightning creates the ozone, right? I'm no ozonelogist to say the least, but if someone is I am sort of curious... Does this mean anything in regards to the ozone layer?
As for going completely bonkers, which requires having to do a clean install, I can't recall any specific instances. However, what I generally do is use a 4 or 5 gigabyte primary partition for \WINNT and then use the logical/extended partition setup for programs and desktop by using TweakUI to set all the common directories to the non-\WINNT partition. I can then just format the partition with \WINNT on it and do a clean install and not lose any important data. A lot of the ISOs of win2k pro and advanced server are often corrupt in that they are missing a few needed files. One of 2k I had was missing a mouse driver file which made it impossible to using any mouse no matter what type of mouse or driver you used. I never wrote down the file (which was reported missing during the install) so I just borrowed a friends copy of what so far has appeared to be a good copy of 2k. Windows 98 is a true disaster, in my opinion, and prone to get cluttered and cluttered the more you use it. Don't even bother with 98(se) anymore unless you really have to for some particular reason. It's no longer supported at all by ms update and stuff. There was one instance with 2k advanced server once where I kept on noticing delays and slow downs when using it as if the cpu was being randomly hogged completely for a few seconds. I discovered that some sort of trojany thing had been installed onto it. By looking in \winnt\system and \winnt\system32 (btw, there are a lot of useful programs in those two folders) i found that many windows system files had been overwritten and mIRC would run and connect completely in the background. It was very strange. I found several bat files. Using a program (which i'd strongly reccomend to you if i could remember what/where it was) I found somewhere in the \WINNT\ dir that allowed me to look at EVERY process running and bring it to front focus. I brought mIRC to the front to find it connected to some room or whatever with a bunch of users in it also. Nobody was talking or anything. I think all the other people in there were victims just like me. Anyway, more searching I found files with a list of user names and all kinds of weird things. Since all that computer did was run delegate for the rest of my computers I decided to just to completely reformat the entire hard drive. The only other problem I've had is with login passwords on 2k pro. when i am at the login prompt it tells me my password is wrong for logging in as admin (i renamed it from "administrator") . I have no clue why. i didn't change my password or anything. I think i'll probably just install windows 2k pro on that partition again in \Winnt2\ and use that. i don't have much software to reinstall, either. what was your crash like with the drivers and waiting three months?
Idiots? not quite
4 reboots + download time (assumming you have broadband) + all the chugging it does after the reboot when windows is starting up and during the pre-reboot install + the time it takes if you want to create an "uninstall" feature for some updates such as service packs + MORE reboots for non-critical (but sometimes very useful) updates
yes. for the automatic updates you simply disable the windows service by going to 'adminstrative tools' in the control panel and opening up 'services'. i do it everytime i do a clean install, as well as a few other services... such as "remote registry access" and useless things like that.
wow. that's a long list of fixes. i curiously looked at the previous service pack 3 list of fixes and it was also enormous. does this seriously add to the stability of windows 2000 if upgraded to the latest service pack?
it is pronounced as one syllable.. as you guessed "SKOH".. SKO.. whichever.
I suppose Hitler wasn't that bad of a fellow after all. His Nazi idea is starting to grow on me now. Hmmm
The folks who get screwed here are the teenagers
Actually I think maybe it's not always the case. I went to a non-public high school where they enfored all kinds of rules about visiting "non-school related content". I pay taxes for that internet connection for my public school district and I don't want it to so teens can IM there friends from school and talk about whats up. Another reason is how much the school can possibly be held responsible when students are visiting "18+ only" pages, as well as other things deemed illegal. If a teenage student is visiting a site completely unrelated to whatever he is supposed to be learning and is blocked or has to get the teachers permission to access the page I don't see what is the problem. On the other hand, my high school never imposed any filters, but they would check the history and nail you with a few detentions or disable your account, which makes more sense than putting in an obtrustive filter in many situations.
And just to be a little more mindful of what you are saying would you mind telling what region you live in? Winters vary quite a bit from place to place. Up here in Michigan the most recent winter was nearly record breaking with several below zero nights. I have a few computers that run 24/7 in my bedroom, but none of them can do much to improve the humidity when it's ten below zero outside. My room is upstairs, so I get a lot of heat from the lower levels anyways. Wouldn't a monitor provide a lot of heat too?
Hello? I don't see this as very insightful...
...improved digital media experience for high quality stills of Rob Malda with various homosexual men, and support for developers building Microsoft .NET services and applications for Pocket PC devices...
I've noticed that LCD screens of powerbooks slowly "fade" away. is this some sort of feature designed to prevent burn-in or just another feature designed to save battery power?