Ironically, the web browser that works the best on this aging beige G3 PowerMac that I have sort of grown attached to (it cost me all of $30 at auction) is Internet Explorer 5.1. And Office 98 is pretty good on it too. I tried the unofficial Mozilla build for MacOS 9 and it runs like a pig on this 266 MHz G3 machine. And I'm not ready to turn this machine into a sluggish turtle by running MacOS X.
(plus this non-USB machine is significantly crippled as a result of the hardware features Apple has abandoned support for)
Also, then Apple wouldn't have such a difficult time coming out with a MacOS version 11. (instead of appending.dot versions on the end of MacOS X forever)
Heck, people wouldn't be as riled up at paying another hundred bucks again for MacOS if it was perceived as a major version release.
Microsoft ramped up the vaporware parade to keep developers from looking to see if the grass was greener on the OS/2 side.
Well, that, and the facts that:
OS/2 was sold by a competitor in the desktop PC hardware market. So places like Compaq weren't very keen to bundle OS/2 with each PC they sold. That meant of making a significant royalty payment to their competitor for each unit sold.
OS/2 went out of it's way to be able to run Windows 16-bit applications. In many cases it ran Win16 apps better than 16-bit Windows ran them. This, however, killed the motivation of app developers to come out with a native OS/2 version of their apps.
Then Win32 came out and they didn't have the ability to run Win32 apps. *WHAM* This really, really sucked. I worked with a lot of engineers for a time who were stuck on OS/2 desktops and landlocked on Office 4.2 or Office 2000 on a badly configured Terminal Server.
I noticed just this past week that there's a little clippy facsimile built into OpenOffice 1.1. It isn't as 'animated' as Clippy, but it's an annoying little graphic that pops up.
And yes, it's probably just as easy to disable as Clippy.
Well, then, just substitute 'rm *' and a slip of the CR then, and all the files in the user's home directory (or whatever directory he is in) are gone.
(and everybody knows that the most important files on a system are the user's work. Anything else can be streamed again off the installation CDs)
The Amiga wasn't really a single processor machine. It was a cluster of custom gate arrays and misc chips all doing processor intensive tasks (and all with girly names).
I always thought that was cool, although it's over-rated, because the Junior is much MUCH slower than a PC XT. It has no DMA controller. That makes it MUCH MUCH slower at doing common IO tasks like reading from the floppy drive.
any sane OS programmer would like to be free of most of the junk hardware they have to support.
Well, certainly. Laziness is part of human nature.
We used to joke about Microsoft's 'PC 2000' initiative. Use a dykes to cut off the header pins on your motherboard that connect the serial and parallel ports. Use a dremel tool to bite off the PS/2 keyboard and mouse port connectors. Fill the ISA slot with potting epoxy. Voila! You've got a newly compliant PC 2000 motherboard. Aren't you PROUD to be doing Billy Gates' bidding?
The irony in it all is that Microsoft built their business on extending and extending more the 'legacy' install base of PC hardware.
The photocopier almost always has a warning message on or near it regarding copyright violation. Then it is left to the discretion of the patron to 'do the right thing.' But that doesn't determine the 'right or wrong' of the photocopying, just wether you can get away with it or not.
It's fine to play with the old stuff. I do it myself quite a bit.
However, it's foolish to claim that the original processor is running the network stack when the card that it's connected to has an embedded processor that's as powerful or more than the original. That is a bit like running VT100 terminal emulator software on your C64 and claiming you're running 'lynx' on it because it's the serial console for your Linux box running 'lynx'.
Now, native assembly code on the old system and only the tiniest physical layer possible in hardware... that would be impressive.
Back in the olden days I ran a whole fleet of low end Linux boxes with 3c503 cards that I bought at surplus stores. The 3c503 card is an 8-bit ethernet card. I believe I was paying like $3 a pound for those cards out of scrap bins.
I started out, of course, with the 3c501, which is a horrible broken card that shouldn't be put on modern networks.
And checking the recipe book out of the library disables anybody else's ability to access the info in it for a few weeks. That sort of latency is acceptable to the publishers.
That makes it sound like a worthy challange, which means it WILL happen, and quickly.
The 'suits' are smarter these days than they used to be. They know that riling up the geeks just gets people motivated. So the book publishers rightfully want an end to the 'feature' right away.
I remember the first 'fast' CDROM drive I had. It actually wasn't mine, it was at work. It pissed me off to no end that it was so fricking noisy. I was used to old 1-2-4x type drives.
So I started experimenting. I said 'hmmm, it will get louder if I put an out-of-balance disk in it. So I started putting on progressively bigger pieces of scotch tape on a disk to throw it out of balance.
Cool.
Then I scotch taped a small metal washer on a disk.
When I put the disk in the drive, the whole case buzzed and rattled. I had to pull the power to the system because I was afraid someone would come in to find out what the HELL I was doing in my cubicle.
I have a DVD drive I want to patch to RPC1, but I have to find a windows machine to do this on right now!
You're absolutely nuts if you're going to do a DVD drive firmware update from Windows. Use a boot diskette. Use DR-DOS if you are postively, absolutely refusing to allow Microsoft code to run on the machine.
Or use a boot CD if you're one of those people who hopped right to it and got rid of your floppy drive, the way Microsoft wants you to (Microsoft has tried long and hard to eliminate 'legacy' hardware from PCs)
Only one person at a time can read the book checked out of the library. Many libraries buy many multiple copies of popular books, because they know they'll be read by many people.
A 'copy' represents a single sale to many more people than the 20-50 copies of popular books that many libraries buy.
You sound like a real zealot. You even know the buzzwords to throw around. I don't hang out at freerepublic.com I think they're just as zealous and angst-ridden as you are.
It's pretty humorous to see you speaking for 'REAL conservatives.' Why don't you wander back to your liberal blog and sing in the choir?
Polticians are almost without exception lying SOBs. But you deny this, claiming that YOUR candiate is a fine man. That's really a laugh.
The best thing that can happen is what SOME of the politicians occasionally try to do: put themselves out of business by cutting off government's air supply (by instituting significant tax cuts).
The time and place for Jackson to hammer Microsoft for their courtroom behavior was in his courtroom.
The fact that he waited, and then took the opportunity to badmouth them afterwards indicates serious poor judgement on his part. If Microsoft's courtroom behavior was so horrible, why didn't he DO something about it when it was in his purview to do so? Or is it a case where he felt his innuendo and unofficial remarks would do them more damage?
It just doesn't make sense, and Jackson looks unprofessional and like a zealot.
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Especially when we found the version of Exceed that our company purchased for Win2K wouldn't run on XP.
Eeek! Yet another reason for me to never, ever, 'upgrade' to XP.
Ironically, the web browser that works the best on this aging beige G3 PowerMac that I have sort of grown attached to (it cost me all of $30 at auction) is Internet Explorer 5.1. And Office 98 is pretty good on it too. I tried the unofficial Mozilla build for MacOS 9 and it runs like a pig on this 266 MHz G3 machine. And I'm not ready to turn this machine into a sluggish turtle by running MacOS X.
(plus this non-USB machine is significantly crippled as a result of the hardware features Apple has abandoned support for)
Also, then Apple wouldn't have such a difficult time coming out with a MacOS version 11. (instead of appending .dot versions on the end of MacOS X forever)
Heck, people wouldn't be as riled up at paying another hundred bucks again for MacOS if it was perceived as a major version release.
Well, that, and the facts that:
OS/2 was sold by a competitor in the desktop PC hardware market. So places like Compaq weren't very keen to bundle OS/2 with each PC they sold. That meant of making a significant royalty payment to their competitor for each unit sold.
OS/2 went out of it's way to be able to run Windows 16-bit applications. In many cases it ran Win16 apps better than 16-bit Windows ran them. This, however, killed the motivation of app developers to come out with a native OS/2 version of their apps.
Then Win32 came out and they didn't have the ability to run Win32 apps. *WHAM* This really, really sucked. I worked with a lot of engineers for a time who were stuck on OS/2 desktops and landlocked on Office 4.2 or Office 2000 on a badly configured Terminal Server.
I noticed just this past week that there's a little clippy facsimile built into OpenOffice 1.1. It isn't as 'animated' as Clippy, but it's an annoying little graphic that pops up.
And yes, it's probably just as easy to disable as Clippy.
Well, then, just substitute 'rm *' and a slip of the CR then, and all the files in the user's home directory (or whatever directory he is in) are gone.
(and everybody knows that the most important files on a system are the user's work. Anything else can be streamed again off the installation CDs)
The big difference is, Apple has a more vocal and devoted pack of 'defenders' than Microsoft did at the time.
Yeah, yeah... reply with all your reasons why it isn't so. Be vocal and defend your temple.
Are you going to bleat the bit about 'security through obscurity' now?
The NSA has a large body of in-house coding expertise. They really don't have to rely on J Random Hacker to find their bugs.
Usually, 'heads on pikes' are used by repressive regimes to warn anybody else who might rebel.
Do we really WANT IBM to 0wn the IT world?
Does this mean Carly will move back in with her mother at the trailer park?
Will the good stuff get re-branded back to Hewlett-Packard and the bad product lines get sold to Dell?
A geek can dream, can't he?
The Amiga wasn't really a single processor machine. It was a cluster of custom gate arrays and misc chips all doing processor intensive tasks (and all with girly names).
The PC Jr. has a Norton SI of .7 .
I always thought that was cool, although it's over-rated, because the Junior is much MUCH slower than a PC XT. It has no DMA controller. That makes it MUCH MUCH slower at doing common IO tasks like reading from the floppy drive.
any sane OS programmer would like to be free of most of the junk hardware they have to support.
Well, certainly. Laziness is part of human nature.
We used to joke about Microsoft's 'PC 2000' initiative. Use a dykes to cut off the header pins on your motherboard that connect the serial and parallel ports. Use a dremel tool to bite off the PS/2 keyboard and mouse port connectors. Fill the ISA slot with potting epoxy. Voila! You've got a newly compliant PC 2000 motherboard. Aren't you PROUD to be doing Billy Gates' bidding?
The irony in it all is that Microsoft built their business on extending and extending more the 'legacy' install base of PC hardware.
The photocopier almost always has a warning message on or near it regarding copyright violation. Then it is left to the discretion of the patron to 'do the right thing.' But that doesn't determine the 'right or wrong' of the photocopying, just wether you can get away with it or not.
It's fine to play with the old stuff. I do it myself quite a bit.
However, it's foolish to claim that the original processor is running the network stack when the card that it's connected to has an embedded processor that's as powerful or more than the original. That is a bit like running VT100 terminal emulator software on your C64 and claiming you're running 'lynx' on it because it's the serial console for your Linux box running 'lynx'.
Now, native assembly code on the old system and only the tiniest physical layer possible in hardware... that would be impressive.
Back in the olden days I ran a whole fleet of low end Linux boxes with 3c503 cards that I bought at surplus stores. The 3c503 card is an 8-bit ethernet card. I believe I was paying like $3 a pound for those cards out of scrap bins.
I started out, of course, with the 3c501, which is a horrible broken card that shouldn't be put on modern networks.
And checking the recipe book out of the library disables anybody else's ability to access the info in it for a few weeks. That sort of latency is acceptable to the publishers.
What Amazon is doing isn't.
That makes it sound like a worthy challange, which means it WILL happen, and quickly.
The 'suits' are smarter these days than they used to be. They know that riling up the geeks just gets people motivated. So the book publishers rightfully want an end to the 'feature' right away.
Why would you run X in the first place on your router machine?
Hell, I prefer SparcStations for that kind of role, where you can use a serial console.
I remember the first 'fast' CDROM drive I had. It actually wasn't mine, it was at work. It pissed me off to no end that it was so fricking noisy. I was used to old 1-2-4x type drives.
So I started experimenting. I said 'hmmm, it will get louder if I put an out-of-balance disk in it. So I started putting on progressively bigger pieces of scotch tape on a disk to throw it out of balance.
Cool.
Then I scotch taped a small metal washer on a disk.
When I put the disk in the drive, the whole case buzzed and rattled. I had to pull the power to the system because I was afraid someone would come in to find out what the HELL I was doing in my cubicle.
The drive survived the experiment. Oh well.
I have a DVD drive I want to patch to RPC1, but I have to find a windows machine to do this on right now!
You're absolutely nuts if you're going to do a DVD drive firmware update from Windows. Use a boot diskette. Use DR-DOS if you are postively, absolutely refusing to allow Microsoft code to run on the machine.
Or use a boot CD if you're one of those people who hopped right to it and got rid of your floppy drive, the way Microsoft wants you to (Microsoft has tried long and hard to eliminate 'legacy' hardware from PCs)
Any moderately well-constructed CD-ROM drive has flashable firmware. And hence can be destroyed by a data stream coming into it.
So save your 'no data' rant.
If Microsoft had done this to a drive, I can already tell what would be getting spewed all over slashdot.
Only one person at a time can read the book checked out of the library. Many libraries buy many multiple copies of popular books, because they know they'll be read by many people.
A 'copy' represents a single sale to many more people than the 20-50 copies of popular books that many libraries buy.
You sound like a real zealot. You even know the buzzwords to throw around. I don't hang out at freerepublic.com I think they're just as zealous and angst-ridden as you are.
It's pretty humorous to see you speaking for 'REAL conservatives.' Why don't you wander back to your liberal blog and sing in the choir?
Polticians are almost without exception lying SOBs. But you deny this, claiming that YOUR candiate is a fine man. That's really a laugh.
The best thing that can happen is what SOME of the politicians occasionally try to do: put themselves out of business by cutting off government's air supply (by instituting significant tax cuts).
The time and place for Jackson to hammer Microsoft for their courtroom behavior was in his courtroom.
The fact that he waited, and then took the opportunity to badmouth them afterwards indicates serious poor judgement on his part. If Microsoft's courtroom behavior was so horrible, why didn't he DO something about it when it was in his purview to do so? Or is it a case where he felt his innuendo and unofficial remarks would do them more damage?
It just doesn't make sense, and Jackson looks unprofessional and like a zealot.