Back at my old ISP before the big Telus bought us out, we had both IIS and apache servers. the apache servers hummed steadily in the corner, pumping out pages like nobodies business while the IIS took so much maintenance and work, we ended up creating a script to just reboot the things every few days.
. . . and speaking of pour websites, one of our old customers (I had to try and answer his question in a professional way as to why people weren't coming to his website) designing-websites.com although he has gotten a lot better than what it was before
Ever consider contacting a consultant (or high school kid) that knows how to set it up properly. One of the largest XP Themes sites uses a totally non MS server and couldn't really handle the traffic on the same hardware without a non-ms solution.
Unfortunatly, despite your best attempts to slander the apache software, it looks more like pebkac
. . . a finished product. I too have both *nix and windows boxes for different tasks and as much as I love linux for servers, for end users and day to day things, windows just has that polished edge. All security and bug issues aside, they have the formula that a lot of distros miss out on: One text editor, One paint program, One media player and One browser (as evil as the last two are). As much as the proponents of linux proclaim it is all about choice, the average user doesn't really need five different text editors, three browsers or two GUI's. People always compain about Windows and it's size, but last time I did a default install of RH, two CD's and over a gig later, it dawned on me that win 2k can be installed in under 500 MB.
Now despite playing the devils advocate above, I am a lover of linux, and yes, there are some distros that are getting a much more refined finish to them, but I personally still see linux as more of a specialized tech OS or a server room product. It's the difference between playing an european, unfinished game ported to english by a valuesoft company or a complete game where years after the release, say early 90's, you can still find people modding and using it. There are people that still use Win 9x and Mac OS < 10 because they were finished products for their time. How many people still use RH 5.2 (slackware users aside;-) instead of upgrading to the newest hoping it would do and support the things they wanted.
I like linux and would really like to see it become more predominant, but with sooooo many flavours, choices and ways to skin a cat, the average user gets lost in the shuffle. Lindows is doing a great job in trying to produce a finished product, but still offers a few too many choices and just recently took this approach (plus costs money, which turns off a lot of the cheap skates that came to linux only because it was free, not because they thought it could do more). Make the initial install include one text editor, a simple RTF editor (and just the basics, like MS Paint as opposed to an adobe photoshop clone) and provide on a second disk the catalogue of all sorts to customize for those that want, and the option to not make a choice for those that really do not like making choices. MS Might be evil, but they realized this formula a long time ago.
. . . has concluded that time travel is impossible and that lead causes cancer and birth defects. We have also been unable to find a cure for baldness in the future, even though we can cure the blind.
I had an office that thought the CWS was neat aswell. Quietly install Google toolbar and tell them it is the upgraded version and not to install the old one over top.
IMHO, people take these written statments far too seriously. Just because they had their lawyers write it, does not always mean it is binding. A small thing called the reasonable man test helps out with that.
Not software related, but still applying is the parkade at my work that has lots of signs which state "Not responsible for any damage to vehicle" When I drove my truck into the underground parkade, I cleared the height bar fine, yet when I parked this one time, an air duct was too low and scratched my roof. When I pushed the issue with the building manager, they did not even try to argue as they know themselves that their sign does not absolve them of liability.
Back to software, it is unreasonable to assume that the average joe is going to read the EULA, and as scarey as it is, this sort of gives ignorance a fighting chance. It is also unreasonable to assume that any knowing user would give up the rights to their computer and all the software on it to another company just because they wrote that clause in there.
Unfortunatly the problem with companies pushing their customers around is not limited to just software. Companies do to us what we let them, and will continue until people say stop.
I concure full heartedly. Back in the early days of my computer career, I came across a 486 motherboard from a small company, I think was called Chico or Chimano, but anyways that little board with a 66DX chip could just rock and outperform first generation pentiums. Even loading it down in 3.1, it was just a solid performer. It was just the right combination of motherboard and ATI Mach 32 Vesa graphics card that matched well.
Similarly, I later came across a board that I could overclock my Cyrix (Yes, I know, stop laughing) 133 to 150, increading the bus speed from 66 to 75 and thus making the whole system operate faster, not just the processor. Again, an ATI card, this time a Mach 64, and this system was by far the most stable system yet outperformed 200-233 class pentium. As much as I have always loved AMD, in this case using one in this system made noticable differences to stability and speed.
As much as I think that Mobo's are the heart of the artistry, it really does come to chance sometimes that you just have the matching hardware that works well together. Despite the standards, there are so many minute variables that it really is a crap shoot.
would be a nice thing to search for the url in the dmoz database, place the bookmark in a folder in relation to it's location online, and maybe even grab the description and throw that in there too. Instant personal directory of your own sites.
Actually, I think it would be neat to try and patent the sky's colour and its use in relation to weather/time determination. It would be worth the filing fee to see if it could pass. And just think of the SCo style business model you could set up. . . there are a lot of weather stations out there that use bright suns on their graphics to represent a clear sunny day.
I wasn't aware that this program installs itself, then replicates by copying itself into other programs.
That is the definition of worms, but virii can still be virii without duplicating itself. SDBot is definatly a virus, but it does not replicate itself, it tricks folk into running it (well, the creator has to some how, simply emailing porn.scr should be simple enough)
I like my recycle bin the way it is, painfully microsoft, I don't need it painfully microsoft and horribly symantec at the same time. Try and walk the average home user through disabling it over the phone. . . well then, my mother has always been the hardest person for me to give tech support for. ... too much swearing knocks me out of the will.
But everyone else has their own reality TV show. .
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. . even Crocodile Dundee has his own. I admit this is not as riviting as fox's new "Judge Judy - The RIAA files" and "Look out!! He's Suing right at us", a southpark spinoff with Johny Cochrane and his chewbacca defense, but should be hitting the primetime slots soon enough.
Hmmm. . . If I recall, I did web development, photoshop, desktop publishing, runnign a quake server and most taxing 3d rendering in truespace and 3dSmax all on a p166 with an 8mb S3 vid and maybe 64 megs of ram. The hard drives were so small, you had to use the network to change your background;-) I have a piii 400 upstairs running two operating systems at once with vmware, dual monitors, and all connected to a 133 running win2k server (don't ask how long the install went) and acting as my DHCP/DNS/Router.
Besides all the pissing contest factors, old machines are also very good for developing and debugging programs. If only programmers used older systems for develpoment, we might not need to throw hardware away to combat sloppy code.
This may seem redundant, but could you find an antenna with a relatively narrow scope and use it in wardriving to try and triangulate the source based on signal strength? Obviously this is a yes if you are within the designed range of what you are detecting, for arguments sake, 2Km, but could you communicate with a network 4km away if only your antenna was suped up?
I am sure someone has written an app to detect incomming signal strength almost akin to passive sonar, but would you actually be able to create a two way connection?
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Scary thing is, worded correctly, I fear you may just get the patent.
You mean TV isn't real?
. . . and speaking of pour websites, one of our old customers (I had to try and answer his question in a professional way as to why people weren't coming to his website) designing-websites.com although he has gotten a lot better than what it was before
Unfortunatly, despite your best attempts to slander the apache software, it looks more like pebkac
what, it would follow 1.3.34?
Must really suck to be lost at sea in an old boat that only has the 121.5 MHz distress signals. . . do you hear someone crying wolf?
Microsoft was a two person company . . . But I guess back in the dos days . . .
But we need this story posted now if we are to dupe it on time.
Now despite playing the devils advocate above, I am a lover of linux, and yes, there are some distros that are getting a much more refined finish to them, but I personally still see linux as more of a specialized tech OS or a server room product. It's the difference between playing an european, unfinished game ported to english by a valuesoft company or a complete game where years after the release, say early 90's, you can still find people modding and using it. There are people that still use Win 9x and Mac OS < 10 because they were finished products for their time. How many people still use RH 5.2 (slackware users aside ;-) instead of upgrading to the newest hoping it would do and support the things they wanted.
I like linux and would really like to see it become more predominant, but with sooooo many flavours, choices and ways to skin a cat, the average user gets lost in the shuffle. Lindows is doing a great job in trying to produce a finished product, but still offers a few too many choices and just recently took this approach (plus costs money, which turns off a lot of the cheap skates that came to linux only because it was free, not because they thought it could do more). Make the initial install include one text editor, a simple RTF editor (and just the basics, like MS Paint as opposed to an adobe photoshop clone) and provide on a second disk the catalogue of all sorts to customize for those that want, and the option to not make a choice for those that really do not like making choices. MS Might be evil, but they realized this formula a long time ago.
Welcome to market research, not just marketing.
That is all.
I had an office that thought the CWS was neat aswell. Quietly install Google toolbar and tell them it is the upgraded version and not to install the old one over top.
Not software related, but still applying is the parkade at my work that has lots of signs which state "Not responsible for any damage to vehicle" When I drove my truck into the underground parkade, I cleared the height bar fine, yet when I parked this one time, an air duct was too low and scratched my roof. When I pushed the issue with the building manager, they did not even try to argue as they know themselves that their sign does not absolve them of liability.
Back to software, it is unreasonable to assume that the average joe is going to read the EULA, and as scarey as it is, this sort of gives ignorance a fighting chance. It is also unreasonable to assume that any knowing user would give up the rights to their computer and all the software on it to another company just because they wrote that clause in there.
Unfortunatly the problem with companies pushing their customers around is not limited to just software. Companies do to us what we let them, and will continue until people say stop.
Just my thoughts.
Similarly, I later came across a board that I could overclock my Cyrix (Yes, I know, stop laughing) 133 to 150, increading the bus speed from 66 to 75 and thus making the whole system operate faster, not just the processor. Again, an ATI card, this time a Mach 64, and this system was by far the most stable system yet outperformed 200-233 class pentium. As much as I have always loved AMD, in this case using one in this system made noticable differences to stability and speed.
As much as I think that Mobo's are the heart of the artistry, it really does come to chance sometimes that you just have the matching hardware that works well together. Despite the standards, there are so many minute variables that it really is a crap shoot.
At first, I thought you were talking about bush.
But this is an election year. Whether it works or not is not the point, as long as it gets a few more votes from the "at least they are trying" crowd.
would be a nice thing to search for the url in the dmoz database, place the bookmark in a folder in relation to it's location online, and maybe even grab the description and throw that in there too. Instant personal directory of your own sites.
Actually, I think it would be neat to try and patent the sky's colour and its use in relation to weather/time determination. It would be worth the filing fee to see if it could pass. And just think of the SCo style business model you could set up. . . there are a lot of weather stations out there that use bright suns on their graphics to represent a clear sunny day.
Sorry, just watched conspiricy theroy the other night.
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That is the definition of worms, but virii can still be virii without duplicating itself. SDBot is definatly a virus, but it does not replicate itself, it tricks folk into running it (well, the creator has to some how, simply emailing porn.scr should be simple enough)
I like my recycle bin the way it is, painfully microsoft, I don't need it painfully microsoft and horribly symantec at the same time. Try and walk the average home user through disabling it over the phone. . . well then, my mother has always been the hardest person for me to give tech support for. . .. too much swearing knocks me out of the will.
. . even Crocodile Dundee has his own. I admit this is not as riviting as fox's new "Judge Judy - The RIAA files" and "Look out!! He's Suing right at us", a southpark spinoff with Johny Cochrane and his chewbacca defense, but should be hitting the primetime slots soon enough.
Forget 3d, can you imagine compiling gentoo on this? and I thought my Athlon was slow. . .
Besides all the pissing contest factors, old machines are also very good for developing and debugging programs. If only programmers used older systems for develpoment, we might not need to throw hardware away to combat sloppy code.
I am sure someone has written an app to detect incomming signal strength almost akin to passive sonar, but would you actually be able to create a two way connection?