"gigabyte transfer speed"?!?!
Ok then, my car has a 155 mile top speed.
My printer prints 15 pages black and white, 12 pages color.
My resting heart rate is about 80 beats.
My cars gas economy is 18 miles.
There, all done.
Yes, but 10 minutes of voice recording takes one battery, so you would need to sit next to an electrical socket. Honestly, who really thinks that any college student is going to use a free iPod for educational purposes? If they can download lectures or additional audio manterial to it, it can also be played on the computer and manipulated much more easily. I have an iPod, and I never would dream of using it for anything but music.
Ok, I have gotten a lot of replies to this post. Let me state that did not, and still do not intend to insult anyone or their beliefs on what is best to do with a crapped-up Win98 machine.
Most of the people that we work for are not of unlimited means. They usually have only a couple of MBs of word documents to backup, and all of the programs they use came on CDs with the PC, or are freeware from the Internet. They want their computer working for as little cost as possible, which means as little time spent fixing it as possible, since we bill by the hour. Reinstalling is the fastest way for us. I have completed a reinstall of 98 on a 333 Mhz machine with Office, firewall, and other misc programs in 1.5 hours. For the most part, these machines require under 3 hours.
Sometimes we have special clients, usually buisnesses, that need the OS actually cleaned, because of installed and lost software, or just the sheer amount of backup that would be needed before a clean install is possible. These machines often do take days to fix, and are never the same as a fresh install, but at least usable. Imaging is not an option for us, since we do not want identical machines like a corporation might, but it is a very good and fast way of installing in the right circumstances.
I now see that the artical was about actually cleaning the machines, not for practicality, but to see if it can be done.
I run a computer repair service for home users. I routinely see 98 and Me machines that have been on broadband with no protection (hardware or software firewall) for months. I do not know what kind of surgery these people performed to fix these machines, but short of taking a microscope and tweezers and flipping all of the bits on the hard drive over, there is no way it could take 8-10 hours. When I encounter a machine like this, the operating system is composed of more infected files than non-infected files (ok more Non-Microsoft infected files than Microsoft infected files in the case of Me). Virus scanning is usually impossible due to system stability, and getting rid of the viruses does nothing because there are so many it takes most of the system files with it. I usually just tell people to back up as much as possible, boot with my trusty DOS boot disk (try doing that with a USB drive on older computers), reformat and reinstall. The whole process takes maybe 4 hours on a 400 Mhz machine, not 10.
You make it sound like the whole "Extreme Edition" processor line is cancled. This is not true. They are just dropping the oldest processor in the lineup, which was a little too slow to be considered "ultimate performance" like the rest of the lineup.
You mean $150,000,000,000. You forgot to factor in inflation of the US Dollar resulting from the disasters of the Bush Presidency in 2000-2004, then the Stratosphere wars of the Bush III presidency from 2016-2020. Also, displays are made from plastic, which is made from oil, which is gone.
I have an almost mint condition RadioShack Tandy catalogue from 1981. In it is offered a 9.0 MB hard drive for US $ 5999. They also introduced the NEW and IMPROVED 16-bit Tandys. I got this catalogue while my grandfather was cleaning out his closet. I noticed a bunch of old magazines lying on the floor in the trash pile, and right on top was this catalogue. What a find!
If you want to write articles in internet cafes, check out my setup:
Alphasmart (Palm with wide screen and built in keyboard)
Die Hard 12v Deep Cycle boat battery
DC to DC inverter
I get about 4 months of constant use out of this setup. At some points, the spontanious recombination of lead ions in the battery exceeds the actual power use of the alphasmart, so using it actally charges the battery.
Anyone who wants me to destroy their valuable electronics, please contact me. I would be glad to send you lots of pictures, like this guy did! You know where to find me...
Chances are, people who have massive heart failure are not going to get any with either of the alternatives: death, or a donor heart and powerful medications.
Here is a similar comparison:
Number of Vehicle Models:
Ford 15 Rolls Royce 2
The clear winner in terms of reliablity, availability and overall goodness? Ford
You notice they are only getting a common socket, NOT a common motherboard. I think this fits into Intel's new numbering scheme. Motherboards for Itanium and Xeon will have huge long numbers that are difficult to tell apart. That way if you buy the wrong one, it will fry both the motherboard and processor, forcing you to buy new ones, increasing Intel's buisness AND marketshare on paper. Now is it so hard to understand?
Has anyone looked at the source of the page in question? I did, and look what the keywords are:
honey, bees, Margaret, small busines, beekeeping,
hives, retail, market, Operator, bug, buggy, virus, infestation, WTF is
going on with this damn thing, parasite, strong intrusive inclination, medium,
messages, shipwreck, network throttling, SOS, hoax, game, bee hoax, bee game,
survivor, survive, evade, resist, escape, a little help would be appreciated,
thanks and tip your waitress, sleep, is, good, install, reinstall,
re-reinstall, re-re-reinstall, I, love, bees
For anyone with dislexia or ADHD severe enough for them not to read it, one of the keywords is hoax.
Why the big deal? Just because a publication is owned by a company does not mean that it has to be a propaganda peddler. The New York Times and Slashdot are/were owned by media companies. Did they become solely dedicated to shoving that company down people's throats? No. Does Microsoft's ownership of MSN change anything?
You think NASA could have afforded a better one. How many hundreds of millions of dollars did this mission cost? I'm sure they could have at least sprung for a mid-range Sony MiniDV with 1.2 Megapixel stills.
SIG: There is no sig.
I use a Creative Digital VCR Blaster Card. I know that it has been discontinued, but I own 3 TV cards (Creative, Haupaugge and ATI), and the Creative offers by far the most TiVo like experence. With the other two cards, you are constantly reminded that you are using a computer to watch TV. The screen skips every once and awhile, and there is a lag when pausing, fast forewarding and rewinding. The software often crashes. The creative software has some problems, but when you press a button, your computer turns into a TV, plus you can instantly pause and navigate through the video like a DVD player, but much more smoothly. It even works great on my 550 MHz PIII. The only thing it lacks is an integrated TV guide. I have tried all sorts of guides, but none of them integrate into the software well, if at all. If you don't want to spend a lot of time trying to get a good solution, just find one of these cards on eBay.
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"gigabyte transfer speed"?!?! Ok then, my car has a 155 mile top speed. My printer prints 15 pages black and white, 12 pages color. My resting heart rate is about 80 beats. My cars gas economy is 18 miles. There, all done.
Yes, but 10 minutes of voice recording takes one battery, so you would need to sit next to an electrical socket. Honestly, who really thinks that any college student is going to use a free iPod for educational purposes? If they can download lectures or additional audio manterial to it, it can also be played on the computer and manipulated much more easily. I have an iPod, and I never would dream of using it for anything but music.
I am detecting a slight conflict of interest here.
Ok, I have gotten a lot of replies to this post. Let me state that did not, and still do not intend to insult anyone or their beliefs on what is best to do with a crapped-up Win98 machine.
Most of the people that we work for are not of unlimited means. They usually have only a couple of MBs of word documents to backup, and all of the programs they use came on CDs with the PC, or are freeware from the Internet. They want their computer working for as little cost as possible, which means as little time spent fixing it as possible, since we bill by the hour. Reinstalling is the fastest way for us. I have completed a reinstall of 98 on a 333 Mhz machine with Office, firewall, and other misc programs in 1.5 hours. For the most part, these machines require under 3 hours.
Sometimes we have special clients, usually buisnesses, that need the OS actually cleaned, because of installed and lost software, or just the sheer amount of backup that would be needed before a clean install is possible. These machines often do take days to fix, and are never the same as a fresh install, but at least usable. Imaging is not an option for us, since we do not want identical machines like a corporation might, but it is a very good and fast way of installing in the right circumstances.
I now see that the artical was about actually cleaning the machines, not for practicality, but to see if it can be done.
I run a computer repair service for home users. I routinely see 98 and Me machines that have been on broadband with no protection (hardware or software firewall) for months. I do not know what kind of surgery these people performed to fix these machines, but short of taking a microscope and tweezers and flipping all of the bits on the hard drive over, there is no way it could take 8-10 hours. When I encounter a machine like this, the operating system is composed of more infected files than non-infected files (ok more Non-Microsoft infected files than Microsoft infected files in the case of Me). Virus scanning is usually impossible due to system stability, and getting rid of the viruses does nothing because there are so many it takes most of the system files with it. I usually just tell people to back up as much as possible, boot with my trusty DOS boot disk (try doing that with a USB drive on older computers), reformat and reinstall. The whole process takes maybe 4 hours on a 400 Mhz machine, not 10.
I'm not clicking any links until I get assurance that their clothes will remain on.
But can it run Linux or be in a Beowolf cluster?
You make it sound like the whole "Extreme Edition" processor line is cancled. This is not true. They are just dropping the oldest processor in the lineup, which was a little too slow to be considered "ultimate performance" like the rest of the lineup.
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You mean $150,000,000,000. You forgot to factor in inflation of the US Dollar resulting from the disasters of the Bush Presidency in 2000-2004, then the Stratosphere wars of the Bush III presidency from 2016-2020. Also, displays are made from plastic, which is made from oil, which is gone.
I have an almost mint condition RadioShack Tandy catalogue from 1981. In it is offered a 9.0 MB hard drive for US $ 5999. They also introduced the NEW and IMPROVED 16-bit Tandys. I got this catalogue while my grandfather was cleaning out his closet. I noticed a bunch of old magazines lying on the floor in the trash pile, and right on top was this catalogue. What a find!
Intense concentration, or just push the disk really hard into a slot loading CD-ROM drive.
If you want to write articles in internet cafes, check out my setup:
Alphasmart (Palm with wide screen and built in keyboard)
Die Hard 12v Deep Cycle boat battery
DC to DC inverter
I get about 4 months of constant use out of this setup. At some points, the spontanious recombination of lead ions in the battery exceeds the actual power use of the alphasmart, so using it actally charges the battery.
Anyone who wants me to destroy their valuable electronics, please contact me. I would be glad to send you lots of pictures, like this guy did! You know where to find me...
Chances are, people who have massive heart failure are not going to get any with either of the alternatives: death, or a donor heart and powerful medications.
Here is a similar comparison:
Number of Vehicle Models:
Ford 15
Rolls Royce 2
The clear winner in terms of reliablity, availability and overall goodness? Ford
You notice they are only getting a common socket, NOT a common motherboard. I think this fits into Intel's new numbering scheme. Motherboards for Itanium and Xeon will have huge long numbers that are difficult to tell apart. That way if you buy the wrong one, it will fry both the motherboard and processor, forcing you to buy new ones, increasing Intel's buisness AND marketshare on paper. Now is it so hard to understand?
To do list:
[check] Runs linux
[check] Vastly overpowered
[ ] Beowolf Cluster
[ ] RAID
[ ] Ogg Vorbis
Has anyone looked at the source of the page in question? I did, and look what the keywords are:
honey, bees, Margaret, small busines, beekeeping, hives, retail, market, Operator, bug, buggy, virus, infestation, WTF is going on with this damn thing, parasite, strong intrusive inclination, medium, messages, shipwreck, network throttling, SOS, hoax, game, bee hoax, bee game, survivor, survive, evade, resist, escape, a little help would be appreciated, thanks and tip your waitress, sleep, is, good, install, reinstall, re-reinstall, re-re-reinstall, I, love, bees
For anyone with dislexia or ADHD severe enough for them not to read it, one of the keywords is hoax.
This is easy, here is some pseudo-code:
Input photograph;
Print "This is fake";
As long as only photographs whos' validity is in question are input, no one will ever be able to prove it does not work.
I found a bipedal robot much cheaper: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&cate gory=747&item=5905146415&rd=1&ssPageName=W D1V
[ebay.com]
Why the big deal? Just because a publication is owned by a company does not mean that it has to be a propaganda peddler. The New York Times and Slashdot are/were owned by media companies. Did they become solely dedicated to shoving that company down people's throats? No. Does Microsoft's ownership of MSN change anything?
You think NASA could have afforded a better one. How many hundreds of millions of dollars did this mission cost? I'm sure they could have at least sprung for a mid-range Sony MiniDV with 1.2 Megapixel stills. SIG: There is no sig.
Not only a mobile phone but a COMBONATION cellphone/PDA. Now doesn't it all make sense?
I use a Creative Digital VCR Blaster Card. I know that it has been discontinued, but I own 3 TV cards (Creative, Haupaugge and ATI), and the Creative offers by far the most TiVo like experence. With the other two cards, you are constantly reminded that you are using a computer to watch TV. The screen skips every once and awhile, and there is a lag when pausing, fast forewarding and rewinding. The software often crashes. The creative software has some problems, but when you press a button, your computer turns into a TV, plus you can instantly pause and navigate through the video like a DVD player, but much more smoothly. It even works great on my 550 MHz PIII. The only thing it lacks is an integrated TV guide. I have tried all sorts of guides, but none of them integrate into the software well, if at all. If you don't want to spend a lot of time trying to get a good solution, just find one of these cards on eBay.