I'm right there with you... I took a six week aviation and HAM radio course back in middle school that taught everything necessary to get a technician HAM license, but when I took the test, I failed the morse code part... The morse code requirement definitely does seem to "weed out" people, as it did for you and me.:^)
DR-DOS was a product that was actually selling for a long time, and was even being pre-loaded before MS killed them with shonky license deals.
Not only were they killed by bad licensing deals, they were killed when Microsoft added code to Windows 3.x which made installing it on DR-DOS impossible. The code was along the lines of:
1. run "ver" 2. check for "MS" in output string 3. if "MS" is not found, give a vaguely worded error, and don't install Windows
The article says there are pretty hefty performance gains from upgrading to Panther on a G5, but unless we know how much Panther benefits a G4 as well, it is hard to say what plan of action is best. You can get a Powermac G4 Dual 1.25 GHz for $1599 (went to store.apple.com, clicked on single 1.25 model, and added a second processor), and it looks like it gives you performance that equals or rivals the single G5s (based on the benchmarks given, with all systems running Jaguar)... I think it may be best to wait until Panther arrives before making any purchasing decisions based on these kinds of benchmarks.
Your little 900 person problem is like a marble orbiting around the sun, invisible by scale.
Thanks for the reassuring words... Back when this first happened, part of me worried that such a thing would come back to haunt me.:^)
I agree that Windows is allowing these worms and viruses to propagate, and something must be done about it. I think that Bill Gates is starting to get pretty worried about it now, so one can only hope that M$ will take the steps that are necessary to stop the onslaught of these things. Sadly he blames users as much as he does Microsoft. Unfortunately I think it will take something worse than Blaster or SoBig.F before the situation gets better.
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I can't remember where I read this quote, but it went something like, "In the publishing industry, tons are spent and much effort is made to ensure that the paper is thick enough so that the reader can't see the words underneath the current page... In the computer industry, it seems that the effort spent is for the opposite effect.":^)
Over the years, I have memorized a number of DNS servers I have had to use... Wouldn't anyone who has done this have the ability to circumvent this restriction?
Case in point -- back in 2000, even though I had about four years Linux experience by then, I managed to bring down Internet access for an entire dorm (about 900 students) for a week.
It all started when I helped a friend install Linux on his new computer. Unfortunately, in addition to installing a DHCP client on his machine, I had accidentally flagged the DHCP server to install as well. What happened was that the DHCP server software on his new Linux box was challenging the Windows DHCP server that the dorm was using, and his machine won -- even though his DHCP server wasn't properly configured to hand out IP addresses to other clients. So, all of these other 900 students would turn on their computers, which would send out a DHCP request, and they would get a response from his computer instead of the real DHCP server, thus causing their computers to give up trying to connect to the network. Ironically enough, his computer connected to the internet fine, as it was the only one connecting to the real DHCP server (I guess that explains his super-fast connection during that week).
Anyway, we had no idea that any of this was happening until we headed back to his dorm room one day, and found three network services guys looking in bewilderment at the computer (they had never used anything but Windows, so they had no idea how to fix it). They claimed that it took them a week to isolate the problem to his machine. They explained what was happening, and it then hit me that the DHCP server was also running on his machine, so I logged in, apt-get removed it, and the problem was immediately fixed. Not in their eyes though, as they made us talk to the head guy at network services... He gave us fair warning that if we did that again, our access to the network would be revoked (and rightly so!).
The obvious moral of the story is, whereas most OSes give you just enough rope to tie a knot, Linux gives you enough rope to hang about 900 people.:^)
What you hear on Eigenradio is the best of the New Music, distilled and de-correlated.
One important thing I learned in my statistics classes was "Garbage In, Garbage Out", essentially that any system which is fed garbage will produce garbage as its result... Given that most new music is garbage, won't this merely produce garbage as its output?
Usually people find one way of doing something, and stick with it... For me, I always look for the "My Documents" icon on the desktop, but did not find it there... I of course eventually found it by using one of the myriad other ways of finding it.:^)
My Computer and the other desktop icons are gone by default in XP
That explains why I couldn't find the "My Documents" folder on the desktop of my friend's XP machine... I have seen other XP machines where "My Documents" is shown by default. So much for consistency!
All I know is that 98 doesn't have [remote management].
Have you tried VNC before? It has saved my butt a number of times, it's free (both in source and in price), and it works on a lot of OSes (and doesn't require the server and client to be running the same OS). It's not automatic remote management by any means, but it does get the job done.
If you want an entry level Apple, you can get an iBook laptop for $950 (education price), or an eMac for $749 (also the education price). That isn't too cost-prohibitive for what you are getting, especially considering that both of these machines will run OS X faster than my 1.5 year old Powerbook G4...
Your post strikes a chord with me... I had the same learning curve to overcome as well -- it took me about six months to do it -- and this was in 1996! Unless you truly enjoy fiddling to make stuff to work, Linux is probably not for you. This is generally as true now as it was back then. BTW, I'm also running OS X now -- finally, usability and functionality can be in the same sentence!
Actually, they are a little less honest than it appears -- they promised purchasers of the OS 9 version of RealPC a free upgrade to the OS X version, when it came out...
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I'm right there with you... I took a six week aviation and HAM radio course back in middle school that taught everything necessary to get a technician HAM license, but when I took the test, I failed the morse code part... The morse code requirement definitely does seem to "weed out" people, as it did for you and me. :^)
1. run "ver"
2. check for "MS" in output string
3. if "MS" is not found, give a vaguely worded error, and don't install Windows
And people wonder why I don't like Microsoft...
Pavarotti has something to say about elephants... This comes from the person who made viking kittens sing and dance along to Led Zeppelin...
Hahaha! Much cheesy silliness is to be had today.
You can grate cheese with the G5, but not the G4... :^)
(I suppose you could grate cheese with the fan on the back of the G4, but that would get messy real quick!)
The G5 has a DVD-R drive, which appears to account for that $200 price difference... Moral of the story: Get what you want, and be happy. :^)
The article says there are pretty hefty performance gains from upgrading to Panther on a G5, but unless we know how much Panther benefits a G4 as well, it is hard to say what plan of action is best. You can get a Powermac G4 Dual 1.25 GHz for $1599 (went to store.apple.com, clicked on single 1.25 model, and added a second processor), and it looks like it gives you performance that equals or rivals the single G5s (based on the benchmarks given, with all systems running Jaguar)... I think it may be best to wait until Panther arrives before making any purchasing decisions based on these kinds of benchmarks.
I agree that Windows is allowing these worms and viruses to propagate, and something must be done about it. I think that Bill Gates is starting to get pretty worried about it now, so one can only hope that M$ will take the steps that are necessary to stop the onslaught of these things. Sadly he blames users as much as he does Microsoft. Unfortunately I think it will take something worse than Blaster or SoBig.F before the situation gets better.
I can't remember where I read this quote, but it went something like, "In the publishing industry, tons are spent and much effort is made to ensure that the paper is thick enough so that the reader can't see the words underneath the current page... In the computer industry, it seems that the effort spent is for the opposite effect." :^)
For those who didn't think that was a true story, I just dug up the FSU network admin mailing list article that mentions it...
Over the years, I have memorized a number of DNS servers I have had to use... Wouldn't anyone who has done this have the ability to circumvent this restriction?
Case in point -- back in 2000, even though I had about four years Linux experience by then, I managed to bring down Internet access for an entire dorm (about 900 students) for a week.
:^)
It all started when I helped a friend install Linux on his new computer. Unfortunately, in addition to installing a DHCP client on his machine, I had accidentally flagged the DHCP server to install as well. What happened was that the DHCP server software on his new Linux box was challenging the Windows DHCP server that the dorm was using, and his machine won -- even though his DHCP server wasn't properly configured to hand out IP addresses to other clients. So, all of these other 900 students would turn on their computers, which would send out a DHCP request, and they would get a response from his computer instead of the real DHCP server, thus causing their computers to give up trying to connect to the network. Ironically enough, his computer connected to the internet fine, as it was the only one connecting to the real DHCP server (I guess that explains his super-fast connection during that week).
Anyway, we had no idea that any of this was happening until we headed back to his dorm room one day, and found three network services guys looking in bewilderment at the computer (they had never used anything but Windows, so they had no idea how to fix it). They claimed that it took them a week to isolate the problem to his machine. They explained what was happening, and it then hit me that the DHCP server was also running on his machine, so I logged in, apt-get removed it, and the problem was immediately fixed. Not in their eyes though, as they made us talk to the head guy at network services... He gave us fair warning that if we did that again, our access to the network would be revoked (and rightly so!).
The obvious moral of the story is, whereas most OSes give you just enough rope to tie a knot, Linux gives you enough rope to hang about 900 people.
Usually people find one way of doing something, and stick with it... For me, I always look for the "My Documents" icon on the desktop, but did not find it there... I of course eventually found it by using one of the myriad other ways of finding it. :^)
Wow... Apple needs to compile OS X with this thing! I could use a speed improvement right about now. :^)
If you want an entry level Apple, you can get an iBook laptop for $950 (education price), or an eMac for $749 (also the education price). That isn't too cost-prohibitive for what you are getting, especially considering that both of these machines will run OS X faster than my 1.5 year old Powerbook G4...
Your post strikes a chord with me... I had the same learning curve to overcome as well -- it took me about six months to do it -- and this was in 1996! Unless you truly enjoy fiddling to make stuff to work, Linux is probably not for you. This is generally as true now as it was back then. BTW, I'm also running OS X now -- finally, usability and functionality can be in the same sentence!
One token ring to rule them all!
As long as they don't turn on Skynet, everything will be OK. :^)
Actually, they are a little less honest than it appears -- they promised purchasers of the OS 9 version of RealPC a free upgrade to the OS X version, when it came out...