Yes, I read. I had even called the friggin US distributor to get a price!
It's a prototyping machine that happens to be in a desktop form-factor, and as such is usable as both. But it is a prototyping machine first and foremost!
Hemos better be off for a while on his honeymoon, so you don't have to worry about him giving you any more books containing weak memes that induce "Oops! Brain Panic!"
And if he isn't: Shame on you! Working when you should be rolling in the sand on some carribean island! For shame!
Unfortunatly, Google still returns several of my archived/. posts with the linked.sig before the actual page on CDROM RAID. Thankfully my sig changed, so there won't be too many more interfering entries, but still!
Terribly sorry.. I posted during the pre-coffee fog this morning.. Could have honestly sworn you said brake fluid!! I know of more than one moron that has used it for solvent, and it does do a great job getting that nasty 80W90 gear oil smell out of jeans, so what I thought you said wasn't that farfetched..
No it's not that dangerous.. Worse than linseed oil and cotton cloth, but I will admit it was a bit of a THOU SHALT NOT preachy scare.. You pretty much have to mix it 50/50 with laundry bleach or pool treatment to get any sort of guaranteed effect, and even then it rarely spontaneously combusts.. Still, it was significant enough to cover in-depth during in school, so...
Most of those 'brake cleaners' are pretty good.. I like carbochlor, but only because a $2.59 quart lasts twenty times as long as a big aerosol can of $1.99 chlorinated stuff..
I am of the opinion that Woodward and Bernstein made him up. They had hundreds of circumstantial clues that could only lead to a single feasable conclusion. So they blame the information on an unnamed source, Deepthroat, and thus have leave to publish. Rinse and repeat, as more stuff comes in..
Using a cheap BT848 you can grab and write 30 fps at that resolution and depth, so you could potentially get 2.2 megs a second.. For a 20G volume, that's just over two and a half hours..
By a simple increase of resolution to the break-even point (512x384 at 16bpp I believe is where the older Brooktree flatline) you could easily saturate any IDE device, and mow that sucker in under an hour..
A queer side effect would be that any super-hyper-sharp NSA cracker might be able to make out a snowy episode of Dragonball-Z through your data, and know the key off the bat!!
Oh, and does anyone else get Johnny Mnemonic deja vu?
Brake fluid is NOT recommended as cleaning solvent as it has been known to violently and spontaneously combust on a several types of man-made cloth, as well as in the presence of peroxides and chlorine.. 'Tide with Bleach' and DOT-3 brake fluid is credited with one fire locally..
Additionally, it's toxic. Dip your hand in some DOT-3 and see how long it takes you to pass out!
This said, try carbochlor for grease on metals (wear gloves!), naptha if on plastic, and a tube of plain old Goop handcleaner for clothing.. If it's not a spot cleaning cleaning, cheapo foaming engine degreaser will take almost anything off with a tiny scrubbing. Even safe on those old 'Dip and dry' Model-M's!! Plastics, metals and paint are safe.. You may wish to top it off with a quick treatment of soap and water, because some brands leave residue...
This works exactly like the theory of an infinite monkeys on typewriters (See the relevant RFC, please!) producing Hamlet. You have an infinite number of simulated engines, each running a performance test against the others. An infinite number of grease monkeys, per se..
One can only imagine the results he'll get when he expands the simulation beyond the six very basic qualities he's using now.. Perhaps boost pressure, pre-fire advance and ignition retard would be good for the next series of tests..
A 300 horsepower diesel that gets 100 miles to the gallon..
Well, maybe not. And even if he did, no self respecting twit 'American' car buyer would want to be seen driving one.. Oh, Gawd! You're driving a diesel!?!?!?
Stupid, playing dumb, and lying are three different things.. Unfortunatly, only one can 'work' at a time. Valenti is trying to pull all three off and looking like an ass.
Free for personal use, and all the way up in under twenty seconds(power switch to finish). I'm using it as a 'instant boot' client on a couple of 486-33/24M laptops I had lying around..
Very, very nice..
BeOS is also quite quick. I'd expect it to come in under thirty on decent last gen hardware.
Linux can also work, if you like a *nix style client. I've had P54D (166 Pentium) machines from post to login in under twenty. I was only starting a bare minimum of 'services' (inetd, routing, ethernet, card services) and running a very lean 2.0.xx kernel. The 1.2.xx series are even quicker, but may not have some of the device support you need..
Come on! Dude got a blow job in the oval office, and got caught.. That's it..
Nothing like the Theodore Roosevelt, who almost got his ass kicked for misuse of funds. Or Nixon, who was a real dumb ass.. Or George Bush, who worked for the CIA..
still doesn't come with the full compliment that Windows 95 does
Sorry. Typo. Thet should read
still doesn't come with the full compliment that Windows 98 does
Anyway..
But you didn't use the driver they provided...
Don't buy too many cheap USB devices, do you? Half the time they count on the driver being on the Windows install media and DO NOT INCLUDE ONE. I cannot use a driver I do not have.
Take for example my buddies USB webcam. The driver for it wasn't included in the patch. (which is moot; I think MS vaporized it to sell more copies of 98) The manufacturer of the webcam tells him that he should contact the reseller for it. The reseller points out that the instructions say to 'contact your OS vendor for unsupported platforms' and tells him to call MS. MS tells him 'We're not releasing the driver'.
He called me, I went over with a copy of Windows 98, and installed the driver.
Windows 98 USB drivers will allow USB devices to run under Windows 95. There was no big change to the driver model.
So, instead of patching the OS to add the feature you needed
All you need is the drivers. Besides, the USB patch breaks a large amount of legacy stuff, and still doesn't come with the full compliment that Windows 95 does.
you downloaded a copy of a different OS. How can you not view that as piracy?
If the hardware vendor tells you to talk to the OS vendor, and the OS vendor won't give you the driver because they are monopolistic twits and want to force you into a $200 upgrade, what else can you do? You're only using the driver, which you are legally entitled to as owner of the hardware.
That takes a fair amount of time.. Hell, it takes me a knife and a minute to open any retail-boxed Microsoft! In the time it takes him to open the box and grab what he wants, security is already there.. If he grabs and stuffs, there is a pretty good chance security won't even notice...
The UK patent was filed for in 1976 and granted in 1980, but the protection of law for it only extended until 1996. They're not going after UK ISPs. They can't. However, the US patent was applied for in 1980 and granted in 1989, so the protection of law extends until sometime between 2003 and 2006. (I'm not sure which; They passed a series of reform laws in the early eighties that may apply to 'pending' patents. )
Xanadu went public with a release in 1977. There is academic description and active work as far back as 1972. It covered nearly every aspect of the patent, and those not covered can be clearly seen as obvious to anyone ordinarily skilled in the art.
The 'selected key' language in the patent make it obvious that they sought a system that used function shortcut keys, i.e. "Press pf12 for bass.ale.txt". No incarnation of any HTML browser has used this feature. Even the earliest incarnations of the WC3 browsers used tab stops.
Also, the notion of the 'central server' over POTS lines does not seem to apply here. Even when there is an actual modem connection (as per patent) there is never a central server. The terminal depends on the single central server (predetermined address) and can not be said to apply to a system where the address is not predetermined.
The patent was filed in 1980. It was granted, after additions and such, in 1989..
It's supposed to reduce the complexity of communication protocols, as well as reduce the document overhead transferred across the dialup..
Fortunatly, I believe Ted Nelson (of Xanadu) demonstrated a very similar system three years earlier. He'd been working on it since 1960, and was a prolific writer, so there is surely some hypothetical discussion of systems covered by this patent somewhere in recent antiquity..
Minitel may also predate the patent, with its linked MGS. They were rolled out in 82-83, but development was probably three to five years earlier (Telecom companies are notoriously slow!)
Besides, ISPs have no interest in licensing this; They provide text content, which is only intrepreted by the terminal (AIEE, Nutscrape, Opera). This patent covers hyperlinking and the terminal. The ISP does not infringe, therefore licensing is moot..
Dell Optiplex, included in this scheme, are actually user upgradeable.. The powersupply requires a short and Dell is rather happy to tell you this when you ask, but that is the only issue..
[laughs] My company just made a million eight cash, plus a million two in purchase certificates off of their stupidity. We leased something like five thousand defective laptops..
The problem in the drives is so insanly unlikely to happen and then so insanly unlikely to matter due to the way filesystems work that no Toshiba laptop owner is ever going to ever notice in practical use.
On one hand, I hope they cave because I directly benefit. On the other, the premise that harm could ever be is so moronically laughable I hope they duke it out and win..
I've only used the past few revisions, so I can't really speak for the decline.. It will still produce accurate text with little intervention if you're feeding it plain, crisp ASCII text. Feed it a memo on letterhead with paragraphs, font changes and italics, and it prompts you continually. Not to mention it generically interprets formatting; Any one of a dozen detectable ways of formatting a paragraph (one tab, two tabs, three space indent, doublespaced, etc) are rendered only one way in the result. One tab, single spaced, no indent.
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Yes, I read. I had even called the friggin US distributor to get a price!
It's a prototyping machine that happens to be in a desktop form-factor, and as such is usable as both. But it is a prototyping machine first and foremost!
It's a prototyping board , meant be used whilst developing software for embedded StrongArm applications. It's not a desktop machine!
Hemos better be off for a while on his honeymoon, so you don't have to worry about him giving you any more books containing weak memes that induce "Oops! Brain Panic!"
And if he isn't: Shame on you! Working when you should be rolling in the sand on some carribean island! For shame!
Unfortunatly, Google still returns several of my archived /. posts with the linked .sig before the actual page on CDROM RAID. Thankfully my sig changed, so there won't be too many more interfering entries, but still!
Terribly sorry.. I posted during the pre-coffee fog this morning.. Could have honestly sworn you said brake fluid!! I know of more than one moron that has used it for solvent, and it does do a great job getting that nasty 80W90 gear oil smell out of jeans, so what I thought you said wasn't that farfetched..
No it's not that dangerous.. Worse than linseed oil and cotton cloth, but I will admit it was a bit of a THOU SHALT NOT preachy scare.. You pretty much have to mix it 50/50 with laundry bleach or pool treatment to get any sort of guaranteed effect, and even then it rarely spontaneously combusts.. Still, it was significant enough to cover in-depth during in school, so...
Most of those 'brake cleaners' are pretty good.. I like carbochlor, but only because a $2.59 quart lasts twenty times as long as a big aerosol can of $1.99 chlorinated stuff..
I am of the opinion that Woodward and Bernstein made him up. They had hundreds of circumstantial clues that could only lead to a single feasable conclusion. So they blame the information on an unnamed source, Deepthroat, and thus have leave to publish. Rinse and repeat, as more stuff comes in..
Using a cheap BT848 you can grab and write 30 fps at that resolution and depth, so you could potentially get 2.2 megs a second.. For a 20G volume, that's just over two and a half hours..
By a simple increase of resolution to the break-even point (512x384 at 16bpp I believe is where the older Brooktree flatline) you could easily saturate any IDE device, and mow that sucker in under an hour..
A queer side effect would be that any super-hyper-sharp NSA cracker might be able to make out a snowy episode of Dragonball-Z through your data, and know the key off the bat!!
Oh, and does anyone else get Johnny Mnemonic deja vu?
Brake fluid is NOT recommended as cleaning solvent as it has been known to violently and spontaneously combust on a several types of man-made cloth, as well as in the presence of peroxides and chlorine.. 'Tide with Bleach' and DOT-3 brake fluid is credited with one fire locally..
Additionally, it's toxic. Dip your hand in some DOT-3 and see how long it takes you to pass out!
This said, try carbochlor for grease on metals (wear gloves!), naptha if on plastic, and a tube of plain old Goop handcleaner for clothing.. If it's not a spot cleaning cleaning, cheapo foaming engine degreaser will take almost anything off with a tiny scrubbing. Even safe on those old 'Dip and dry' Model-M's!! Plastics, metals and paint are safe.. You may wish to top it off with a quick treatment of soap and water, because some brands leave residue...
This works exactly like the theory of an infinite monkeys on typewriters (See the relevant RFC, please!) producing Hamlet. You have an infinite number of simulated engines, each running a performance test against the others. An infinite number of grease monkeys, per se..
One can only imagine the results he'll get when he expands the simulation beyond the six very basic qualities he's using now.. Perhaps boost pressure, pre-fire advance and ignition retard would be good for the next series of tests..
A 300 horsepower diesel that gets 100 miles to the gallon..
Well, maybe not. And even if he did, no self respecting twit 'American' car buyer would want to be seen driving one.. Oh, Gawd! You're driving a diesel!?!?!?
Easy does it!
This article has been submitted already, 1334 minutes ago. No need to try again.
This Valenti guy surely can't be this stupid.
Stupid, playing dumb, and lying are three different things.. Unfortunatly, only one can 'work' at a time. Valenti is trying to pull all three off and looking like an ass.
Free for personal use, and all the way up in under twenty seconds(power switch to finish). I'm using it as a 'instant boot' client on a couple of 486-33/24M laptops I had lying around..
Very, very nice..
BeOS is also quite quick. I'd expect it to come in under thirty on decent last gen hardware.
Linux can also work, if you like a *nix style client. I've had P54D (166 Pentium) machines from post to login in under twenty. I was only starting a bare minimum of 'services' (inetd, routing, ethernet, card services) and running a very lean 2.0.xx kernel. The 1.2.xx series are even quicker, but may not have some of the device support you need..
They were the first to push it.. They also have the distinction of developing LSD and synthetic TXP.. b
Come on! Dude got a blow job in the oval office, and got caught.. That's it..
Nothing like the Theodore Roosevelt, who almost got his ass kicked for misuse of funds. Or Nixon, who was a real dumb ass.. Or George Bush, who worked for the CIA..
still doesn't come with the full compliment that Windows 95 does
Sorry. Typo. Thet should read
still doesn't come with the full compliment that Windows 98 does
Anyway..
But you didn't use the driver they provided...
Don't buy too many cheap USB devices, do you? Half the time they count on the driver being on the Windows install media and DO NOT INCLUDE ONE. I cannot use a driver I do not have.
Take for example my buddies USB webcam. The driver for it wasn't included in the patch. (which is moot; I think MS vaporized it to sell more copies of 98) The manufacturer of the webcam tells him that he should contact the reseller for it. The reseller points out that the instructions say to 'contact your OS vendor for unsupported platforms' and tells him to call MS. MS tells him 'We're not releasing the driver'.
He called me, I went over with a copy of Windows 98, and installed the driver.
You have a 95 machine and you wanted USB
;)
Windows 98 USB drivers will allow USB devices to run under Windows 95. There was no big change to the driver model.
So, instead of patching the OS to add the feature you needed
All you need is the drivers. Besides, the USB patch breaks a large amount of legacy stuff, and still doesn't come with the full compliment that Windows 95 does.
you downloaded a copy of a different OS. How can you not view that as piracy?
If the hardware vendor tells you to talk to the OS vendor, and the OS vendor won't give you the driver because they are monopolistic twits and want to force you into a $200 upgrade, what else can you do? You're only using the driver, which you are legally entitled to as owner of the hardware.
95 and 98 are *different* products
They are? Could have fooled me!
That takes a fair amount of time.. Hell, it takes me a knife and a minute to open any retail-boxed Microsoft! In the time it takes him to open the box and grab what he wants, security is already there.. If he grabs and stuffs, there is a pretty good chance security won't even notice...
The bigger the box, the less likely someone is going to make it out the door with it stuffed under their shirt..
The UK patent was filed for in 1976 and granted in 1980, but the protection of law for it only extended until 1996. They're not going after UK ISPs. They can't. However, the US patent was applied for in 1980 and granted in 1989, so the protection of law extends until sometime between 2003 and 2006. (I'm not sure which; They passed a series of reform laws in the early eighties that may apply to 'pending' patents. )
Xanadu went public with a release in 1977. There is academic description and active work as far back as 1972. It covered nearly every aspect of the patent, and those not covered can be clearly seen as obvious to anyone ordinarily skilled in the art.
The 'selected key' language in the patent make it obvious that they sought a system that used function shortcut keys, i.e. "Press pf12 for bass.ale.txt". No incarnation of any HTML browser has used this feature. Even the earliest incarnations of the WC3 browsers used tab stops.
Also, the notion of the 'central server' over POTS lines does not seem to apply here. Even when there is an actual modem connection (as per patent) there is never a central server. The terminal depends on the single central server (predetermined address) and can not be said to apply to a system where the address is not predetermined.
The patent was filed in 1980. It was granted, after additions and such, in 1989..
It's supposed to reduce the complexity of communication protocols, as well as reduce the document overhead transferred across the dialup..
Fortunatly, I believe Ted Nelson (of Xanadu) demonstrated a very similar system three years earlier. He'd been working on it since 1960, and was a prolific writer, so there is surely some hypothetical discussion of systems covered by this patent somewhere in recent antiquity..
Minitel may also predate the patent, with its linked MGS. They were rolled out in 82-83, but development was probably three to five years earlier (Telecom companies are notoriously slow!)
Besides, ISPs have no interest in licensing this; They provide text content, which is only intrepreted by the terminal (AIEE, Nutscrape, Opera). This patent covers hyperlinking and the terminal. The ISP does not infringe, therefore licensing is moot..
Dell Optiplex, included in this scheme, are actually user upgradeable.. The powersupply requires a short and Dell is rather happy to tell you this when you ask, but that is the only issue..
They have cheap components for just about everything
Including night-vision goggles and Minuteman guidance systems.
Yeah. I had the same experience asking for a weatherproof sealed two pole DPST toggle rated for at least 30A at 12V.
I had to spend twenty-five minutes explaining what I meant, but it got it..
[laughs]
My company just made a million eight cash, plus a million two in purchase certificates off of their stupidity. We leased something like five thousand defective laptops..
The problem in the drives is so insanly unlikely to happen and then so insanly unlikely to matter due to the way filesystems work that no Toshiba laptop owner is ever going to ever notice in practical use.
On one hand, I hope they cave because I directly benefit. On the other, the premise that harm could ever be is so moronically laughable I hope they duke it out and win..
I've only used the past few revisions, so I can't really speak for the decline.. It will still produce accurate text with little intervention if you're feeding it plain, crisp ASCII text. Feed it a memo on letterhead with paragraphs, font changes and italics, and it prompts you continually. Not to mention it generically interprets formatting; Any one of a dozen detectable ways of formatting a paragraph (one tab, two tabs, three space indent, doublespaced, etc) are rendered only one way in the result. One tab, single spaced, no indent.