Actually, we had a 486/50 with 32Mb of RAM, Drive Manager, and NT Server 4.0 as our BDC, and it booted in less than 5 minutes each of the approximately 10 times I had to restart it for upgrades/changes in its 4 year life span. (This was before the advent of patches every day from you know who)
Speaking as someone moving towards this situation, It's simple... I want to be able to relax and play CIV III when I'm burned out, I have a laptop with a 6 GB hard drive. If I can't run GNU/Linux as the main OS, and emulate Windows 98 just enough to wrap it around Civ III, then I'm going to stick with Win98, and I won't ever run GNU/Linux.
It's a playing around machine, I'd like to play with Linux, but I'm not willing to give up Civ III.
License, schmicense... got more of those than machines, who cares?
My understanding is that at least one of the wireless carriers has a list of 280 words you can't send via wireless. (Unless it's pay based, then they don't care). They fear that they might offend someone, and have a class action lawsuit brought against them.
Don't even think of saying "redneck"... it's offensive.
I've seen the future, it's not free, open 802.11b, it's people using WAP phones playing games, paying 20 cents to get the high score on a round of a trivia game, ending up huge phone bills. Just think AOL before they went flat rate.
There's money in pay per click.
Press SEND to get high kharma(for only 20 cents)
--Mike--
I was going to start doing the math, but it seems silly. Consider what happens when you stand next to a building, hill, etc... they weigh a lot, but have no noticable pull to them. The fact is, unless this thing sliced through you, you might hear the crack of the air as it whips by, possibly triggering a lightning strike, you might see the place where it hits the ground, but otherwise, you'd miss it unless you were warned and waiting for it.
Ok, so I'm all hyped... got it this morning, plugged it in, figured I'd take a few pictures of myself, set the interval to 5 seconds, and I can't get it to work.... get pissed, think it's something wrong, didn't read directions, etc...
More time spent, tried automatic mode on the camera (I always use Manual), no joy...
Turns out the engineer who designed this thing is a mornon, he built in a 2 MINUTE minumum interval into this thing. There is no obvious or sane reason for this, the camera only takes about 1.5 seconds between pictures, what the heck was the imbecile who designed this thing thinking???
Now I reconsider the whole Nikon experience... perhaps now it's time to switch to Canon, or Kodak??
It's not clear which type of "Time Lapse" you're looking for. I'm assuming you want to take multiple still images at intervals, for composition into a movie at some later point.
The Nikon Coolpix family offers an accessory cord - MC-EU1 which supposedly allows you to take pictures at intervals until the camera runs out of CompactFlash, or the battery dies. (I just ordered mine while composing this)
I've got a Coolpix 995, and it takes GREAT photos. In case you were wondering about just long exposures... here's a self portrait which shows a fairly long (4 second) exposure.
If you do real HDTV, for an editing suite, etc... you only get 44 hours and 39 minutes of full quality 1080p60 for your 1.2E14 bytes.
1920 x 1080 pixels
16 bits/pixel x RGB = 6 bytes/pixel
60 frames/second
Yields 746,496,000 bytes/second. (Or about 8 parallel gigabit ethernet cards)
Do this at full bore, and you get 160,751 seconds of video, less than 2 days worth!
Sure, I know you could compress the video, but I've seen 1080p up close and personal, I noticed the artifacts in the video on the monitor of the broadcast quality HDTV demo, and the sales guy finally confessed that they just had to compress it to make it feasable to record it on tape.
If I noticed it right off the bat, someone will pay to have this quality level.
So... when do we get the petabyte storage?
--Mike--
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This is my first attempt at doing anything with an SQL server, I'm used to MS-Access97, so we're going off the deep end with no lifeguard. It's going to be interesting.
So far I've got the database installed, and found I needed a tool to administer it enough to change the password, did that... now what?
Nobody really cares about reverse engineering a soft modem, because when you're done... you've got a modem, and possibly a nice answering machine core, but nothing more.
It doesn't help that under linux you have to know how to hack the kernel to do anything with hardware.
If you do the work to reverse engineer a software driven WiFi system, you can do ANYTHING with the card, you can boost the power, provide a signal for switching on an external POWER AMPLIFIER at the appropriate times, change the modulation scheme to get stealth, do all sorts of cool tricks that would make the FBI, CIA, and NSA get a cold sweat worrying about, if put into the hands of a thinking citizenry.
With a software controled WiFi, you could potentially make an undetectable ethernet, that they couldn't tap, and couldn't block, and was really optimized for throughput.
This could be very cool for us, and very bad for those that wish to control us.
I know of at least one case of a lost finger because the ring cutter in an ER couldn't remove a Titanium ring in time to save it. While new versions of this tool might be designed to cut Titanium, do you really want to bet that the one actually available to your ER crew can really deliver?
The elite must be worried, so they need to tighten the grip on us. Too many people busy trying to figure out what really happened last September, and there is a real danger to the forces in power that democracy might break out.
I have a 183 degree lens, and it's not that good, when you do this, your detail gets pushed down to really bad levels. 4 separate wide angles are better, IMHO.
Why not take pictures of every building and lot in a City? It would be cheap, and way cool to look back on in a few years. I'm considering doing a small section of Chicago (a VERY small section of Chicago).
I could then put in some coordinates from the GPS, and viola, a cool project.
This is a cool concept, thought it was cool when I saw it a before, and had the sigh of discontent when the only picture that I knew the area of, instead of hitting the gates of Rose-Hulman, he instead managed to get the gas station in front of the "barn".
The barn is supposedly where the Last IBM Mainframe ever used at Rose was housed, according to urban legend circa 1982.
The reason we don't, and won't see flat rate fast wireless in the US for a long time is simple. We sold off the airwaves, instead of offering them up for experimentation and development like other countries. What this has effectively done is made the money collected a TAX on the airwaves, of BILLIONS (10E+9) of US Dollars on the spectrum which will have to be collected from consumers before we can even begin to get truely usefull fast wireless in the US.
After investigating, here in Chicago, the only flat rate I can find is from Verizon, and it's 28.8kbps, more or less, for $55/month on a 1 year, and $40/month for 2 or 3 years. This is better than paying per byte, as the maximum file sizes usable across the internet tends towards infinity over time.
So, I'll stick with Cable modems, DSL, and the Frac-T at work, for now.
Why is it that everyone assumes things that happened in the past have nothing to do with the present? Past performance is a HUGE clue as to current tendencies. Are you really so naive to think that history is bunk?
The basic problem could be fixed by supporting MARKUP in HTML... computers currently don't do markup properly, because HTML isn't a true markup language... if we can fix this, we're home free.
You wrote:
"THE FILE FORMATS HAVENT CHANGED SINCE OFFICE 97?!?!?!?!?"
Then you wrote:
"you dont need a newer version of office to open any of the files created in a newer version."
So, I don't need a newer version, as you just stated twice. Why should I upgrade then? It doesn't do anything new, the existing software meets our needs without expending new $$$ and time in training, new hardware, etc.
Well, I've been keeping my eye on the FreeDOS project for a while. I'm convinced that a good stable FREE implementation of MS-DOS 6.22 could be a very good base to build a lot of projects on top of.
It's nice here in the "stone age"... (1998, more or less)... there aren't nearly as many back doors in Outlook 97, you can close them easier, the hardware requirements for Office 97 Pro can be deal with for $100 at a computer show, with monitor!
We have yet to find a single file from any of our customers that requires a newer version to open, which tells me that Office97 is the defacto standard for file exchange, and will be for a VERY long time.
You can get a legitimate copy of NT4 with 10 client licenses for $20.00 or so, and it's not hard to find Exchange 5.5, etc. Office 97, etc... are all cheap now. 8)
The future is not Linux, nor is it XP, the future is Windows 98SE, Office97 Pro, and NT Server 4.0.
1. What the heck is it? Every time you turn around, it's something different. I suspect it's just another dressed up version of OLE/ActiveX in a pretty new wrapper.
2. It's a way to trap everyone into their code. If you start using.NET, you'll be stuck with it, and it's not going to be portable to anything else. There are plenty of ways to write software that don't require you to give your first born male child to Micro$oft, and I'm going to use those instead.
3. "It's Microsoft, so it's Evil" (TM). They want everyone to use it, so it must be bad. Look at their history of embrace, extend, extinguish. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out it's a Faustian deal, no matter how you do it.
--Mike--
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--Mike--
It's a playing around machine, I'd like to play with Linux, but I'm not willing to give up Civ III.
License, schmicense... got more of those than machines, who cares?
--Mike--
Don't even think of saying "redneck"... it's offensive.
I've seen the future, it's not free, open 802.11b, it's people using WAP phones playing games, paying 20 cents to get the high score on a round of a trivia game, ending up huge phone bills. Just think AOL before they went flat rate.
There's money in pay per click.
Press SEND to get high kharma (for only 20 cents)
--Mike--
--Mike--
More time spent, tried automatic mode on the camera (I always use Manual), no joy...
Turns out the engineer who designed this thing is a mornon, he built in a 2 MINUTE minumum interval into this thing. There is no obvious or sane reason for this, the camera only takes about 1.5 seconds between pictures, what the heck was the imbecile who designed this thing thinking???
Now I reconsider the whole Nikon experience... perhaps now it's time to switch to Canon, or Kodak??
--Mike--
I've got a Coolpix 995, and it takes GREAT photos. In case you were wondering about just long exposures... here's a self portrait which shows a fairly long (4 second) exposure.
--Mike--
1920 x 1080 pixels
16 bits/pixel x RGB = 6 bytes
60 frames/second
Yields 746,496,000 bytes/second. (Or about 8 parallel gigabit ethernet cards)
Do this at full bore, and you get 160,751 seconds of video, less than 2 days worth!
Sure, I know you could compress the video, but I've seen 1080p up close and personal, I noticed the artifacts in the video on the monitor of the broadcast quality HDTV demo, and the sales guy finally confessed that they just had to compress it to make it feasable to record it on tape.
If I noticed it right off the bat, someone will pay to have this quality level.
So... when do we get the petabyte storage?
--Mike--
So far I've got the database installed, and found I needed a tool to administer it enough to change the password, did that... now what?
--Mike--
If you do the work to reverse engineer a software driven WiFi system, you can do ANYTHING with the card, you can boost the power, provide a signal for switching on an external POWER AMPLIFIER at the appropriate times, change the modulation scheme to get stealth, do all sorts of cool tricks that would make the FBI, CIA, and NSA get a cold sweat worrying about, if put into the hands of a thinking citizenry.
With a software controled WiFi, you could potentially make an undetectable ethernet, that they couldn't tap, and couldn't block, and was really optimized for throughput.
This could be very cool for us, and very bad for those that wish to control us.
--Mike--
--Mike--
--Mike--
--Mike--
The elite must be worried, so they need to tighten the grip on us. Too many people busy trying to figure out what really happened last September, and there is a real danger to the forces in power that democracy might break out.
--Mike--
--Mike--
I could then put in some coordinates from the GPS, and viola, a cool project.
--Mike--
The barn is supposedly where the Last IBM Mainframe ever used at Rose was housed, according to urban legend circa 1982.
--Mike--
After investigating, here in Chicago, the only flat rate I can find is from Verizon, and it's 28.8kbps, more or less, for $55/month on a 1 year, and $40/month for 2 or 3 years. This is better than paying per byte, as the maximum file sizes usable across the internet tends towards infinity over time.
So, I'll stick with Cable modems, DSL, and the Frac-T at work, for now.
--Mike--
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--Mike--
"THE FILE FORMATS HAVENT CHANGED SINCE OFFICE 97?!?!?!?!?"
Then you wrote:
"you dont need a newer version of office to open any of the files created in a newer version."
So, I don't need a newer version, as you just stated twice. Why should I upgrade then? It doesn't do anything new, the existing software meets our needs without expending new $$$ and time in training, new hardware, etc.
Why should I upgrade? All I see is downside.
--Mike--
--Mike--
--Mike--
We have yet to find a single file from any of our customers that requires a newer version to open, which tells me that Office97 is the defacto standard for file exchange, and will be for a VERY long time.
You can get a legitimate copy of NT4 with 10 client licenses for $20.00 or so, and it's not hard to find Exchange 5.5, etc. Office 97, etc... are all cheap now. 8)
The future is not Linux, nor is it XP, the future is Windows 98SE, Office97 Pro, and NT Server 4.0.
--Mike--
1. What the heck is it? Every time you turn around, it's something different. I suspect it's just another dressed up version of OLE/ActiveX in a pretty new wrapper. .NET, you'll be stuck with it, and it's not going to be portable to anything else. There are plenty of ways to write software that don't require you to give your first born male child to Micro$oft, and I'm going to use those instead.
2. It's a way to trap everyone into their code. If you start using
3. "It's Microsoft, so it's Evil" (TM). They want everyone to use it, so it must be bad. Look at their history of embrace, extend, extinguish. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out it's a Faustian deal, no matter how you do it.
--Mike--