A nightmare of configuring printer drivers hell in DOS Word. And that I had to burn a new EPROM in printer to support a native language characters in hardware.
IBM's PS/2 has nothing to do with Sony playstation. It stands for "Personal System/2", which had supposed to be a platform standard succesor for IBM PC/AT standard. It was on the market in early ninetees, introducing such new technologies as microchannel card bus instead of ISA, "PS/2 keyboard" connector instead of bigger DIN one and a PS/2 mouse port. That would keep both serial ports available to users with mouse.
Later, MC was obsoleted by PCI, but PS/2 keyboard and mouse ports are up on the PC standard to this day.
Long ago, even before my country entered NATO, I have seen a military version of some PC/286 laptop in titanium case, successfully tested as being overrun by 1. GAZ (russian jeep-style car), 2. OT (wheeled armored transporter) and 3. T-72 tank. Very impressive. No doubt it was bulletproof too, but of course it depends on calibre...
From this data, soldiers can easily find a safe route between two locations without being seen or shot from an enemy in another location.
From this very same data, opponent soldiers would be able to deduce automatically a blind spots in the vicinity of their location an send some intelligent robotic mines there, or maybe a bunch of children with hand grenades.
Of course, a quality of that data in the heat of battle would be interesting problem...
- Sir, we can't go this way. My head-on just shows there are 65535 enemy tanks over there! - Check your uplink, soldier! - Sorry sir, BSOD. Perhaps we are under some microwave fire, arn't we?
Year ago I got a second hand iPaq 3970 for 1/3 of retail price just for the fun to put linux onto it. I would never pay a full price for it, no matter how cute device it is.
So, I guess when PDA maker will price them 3-5 times less, they would have no problems to penetrate the market.
Yes, of course, WinCE sucks, too. It's clear people have no use for PDA without any usefull software. That's a moment where platform portability of F/OSS really does count.
With linux I can run almost anything what exists on big machines. I have even a tiny web server and SQL engine running on my iPaq for demonstration. Perfect linux propaganda to impress corporate nuts who are only able to sync their outlook calendar with the same model but running PocketPC.
I wander, what happen when a second RPG is fired to the vehicle half a second after the first, when capacitor is just discharged (and may be left shortened as well)...
How long it take to desert people go figure they just need to fire two rpgs at once?
I have a bound tome of the local newspaper from the year 1905. Certainly, what a difference in culture 99 year ago!
A top political problem in Europe up to that date was women wearing long pantalons in public and irresponsible aviatics flying their fragile machines above the populated cities.(sic!) All socialist parties, which are currently at the peak of power in majority of european countries were totally outlawed, and some their members executed, because of throwing home made bombs on politicians. "War to terror" was that called.
Only things which seems to be almost identical to our time are media advertisings and patent issues.
In real science such as physics or math there is no place for liars to hide. They should go tampering law instead or doing politics, where truth is of no value...
In past years, I noticed people who learned assembly previously are usually good C/C++ coders. I believe this is because knowing what machine really does at it's instruction level helps to imagine how it should be written in higher language. It is sad that Java and C# exists just because former visual basic people can't grasp a concept of a C pointer.
What makes assembly superior is a hardware where resources such as memory or cpu speed are very scarce: embedded devices. Microcontrollers. Either you need less energy, either you stuff there more functionality, in critical systems that counts.
Myself I began my coding experience on Z80, typing instructions on hexpad. Using own mind as an assembler, to this very day I remember 00 is a nop, C3 is jmp and C9 is a ret. Being able to do hex subtraction in head brought me great popularity in my first job, where reading cobol dumps from Univac mainframe was common daily task for programmers, usually trained in "higher" language only.
Even today, unlike bugs in other software, compiler defects could be found only with a good understanding of assembly language.
This book is... interesting. Really. Stuffing Franz Kafka, Leibniz and Mahabharata to a math book and ending it with poems, that's a piece of artistic achievement.
Perhaps, should we start some C++ coding in verses?
One machine I run latest 2.6 kernel and KDE on is the Celeron 333 overclocked to 375, with 512 MB ram with good satisfaction. Although Win2k was a little bit more responsive on this machine, it is not possible to install XP on such box, because of lack of performance.
Also, in my notebook which is P166mmx wih 48MB ram (sic!), I run Fluxbox instead of KDE, on latest 2.4 kernel and whole system fits into 19MB of memory only. It runs perfectly quick. It is not possible to put W2k on such machine and even Win98 were sloppy on it.
A conclusion: pick a desktop engine of the size and performance matching size and performance of your linux box. Note you cannot do that with windows.
The patent is titled "Task list window for use in an integrated development environment" at the patent office. So, run your grep on other machine. Then, you will have a DISTRIBUTED, not INTEGRATED development environment. Do not show results in "window", but call it "virtual screen". Patent showing results in window, especially if you have a 30 years old prior art.
I am afraid Mandrake is not the best distro to experimentally mess with core components. Too many things are tweaked a Mic^H^Handrakesoft's way, the desktops certainly are. It is not easy to rebuild even XFree86 to keep up with those tweaks, so your problems with X.org actually says nothing. And yes, I used to rebuild an XFree86 on Mandrake.
Some other distros, a Slackware for example, use much pure way to build it's own packages which makes them better tool for this kind of experiments.
It is all my past suffering with windows, which keeps me off now. I could write a forty pages about Windows horrors here, but it does not make sense. All has been written in previous 1000+ replies already. The simple fact these troubles are so common indicates a poor quality of the Microsoft software is a reality, not mythos.
In short, Windows is a consumer grade OS. It is a gaming platform and not industrial level one. Switching to Linux actually boosted my programming productivity a lot.
I can't understand, what would prevent a counterfaiter write a completely new graphics software for himself. It should take less time than engrave a metal plate with all these tiny details...
Perhaps, a making illegal to write graphics software?
I do not believe it is a real device. All so called photos on the website looks perfectly like a rendered images only.
Also, 1G industrial (non-coolable) cpus with 256Megs draws more than 3A of current from 5V, I can't believe such device could run on such small batteries at all (with display and hard drive, at least 5A on 5V, that's 25Watts to dissipate. My omnibook 800CT with 30 Watts dissipation raises it's temperature up to 60-70 degrees of Celsius, and it's volume size is 4 times larger then OQO.
So, this ugly girl from photo on the OQO front page would become quickly a hot chick, literally. If this device is not a vaporware, it will vaporize soon...
The Reason Why i said only HISTORIANS can do the job, is that, when they respect their code of ethics of scientific experiementation. The must study the document from both contries, with an impartial perspective.
I am really sorry, but what 30 years of life in totalitarian propaganda taught me is, there is no unbias history science. History is always seen from the political perspective of the current rulers. Because they are current rulers who are actually making a history, as their actions will be percieved in the future. There is no simple truth in history, only different interpretations of facts. Once the interpretations will overcover the facts, facts are no more and only interpretations remains.
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A nightmare of configuring printer drivers hell in DOS Word. And that I had to burn a new EPROM in printer to support a native language characters in hardware.
Did IBM have Playstation 2 systems in 1999?
IBM's PS/2 has nothing to do with Sony playstation. It stands for "Personal System/2", which had supposed to be a platform standard succesor for IBM PC/AT standard. It was on the market in early ninetees, introducing such new technologies as microchannel card bus instead of ISA, "PS/2 keyboard" connector instead of bigger DIN one and a PS/2 mouse port. That would keep both serial ports available to users with mouse.
Later, MC was obsoleted by PCI, but PS/2 keyboard and mouse ports are up on the PC standard to this day.
I suppose the answer is not allow access to a compiler for non-trusted shell users.
Please do not forget to deny using keyboard keys representing hexadecimal digits, i.e. A-F and 0-9 to untrusted users.
Long ago, even before my country entered NATO, I have seen a military version of some PC/286 laptop in titanium case, successfully tested as being overrun by 1. GAZ (russian jeep-style car), 2. OT (wheeled armored transporter) and 3. T-72 tank. Very impressive. No doubt it was bulletproof too, but of course it depends on calibre...
From this data, soldiers can easily find a safe route between two locations without being seen or shot from an enemy in another location.
From this very same data, opponent soldiers would be able to deduce automatically a blind spots in the vicinity of their location an send some intelligent robotic mines there, or maybe a bunch of children with hand grenades.
Of course, a quality of that data in the heat of battle would be interesting problem...
- Sir, we can't go this way. My head-on just shows there are 65535 enemy tanks over there!
- Check your uplink, soldier!
- Sorry sir, BSOD. Perhaps we are under some microwave fire, arn't we?
Year ago I got a second hand iPaq 3970 for 1/3 of retail price just for the fun to put linux onto it. I would never pay a full price for it, no matter how cute device it is.
So, I guess when PDA maker will price them 3-5 times less, they would have no problems to penetrate the market.
Yes, of course, WinCE sucks, too. It's clear people have no use for PDA without any usefull software. That's a moment where platform portability of F/OSS really does count.
With linux I can run almost anything what exists on big machines. I have even a tiny web server and SQL engine running on my iPaq for demonstration. Perfect linux propaganda to impress corporate nuts who are only able to sync their outlook calendar with the same model but running PocketPC.
Very nice troll article freely advertising an email and credit card collector site with fake certificates.
Spammers:1 Slashdot:0.
Thank you michael.
I wander, what happen when a second RPG is fired to the vehicle half a second after the first, when capacitor is just discharged (and may be left shortened as well)...
How long it take to desert people go figure they just need to fire two rpgs at once?
I have a bound tome of the local newspaper from the year 1905. Certainly, what a difference in culture 99 year ago!
A top political problem in Europe up to that date was women wearing long pantalons in public and irresponsible aviatics flying their fragile machines above the populated cities.(sic!) All socialist parties, which are currently at the peak of power in majority of european countries were totally outlawed, and some their members executed, because of throwing home made bombs on politicians. "War to terror" was that called.
Only things which seems to be almost identical to our time are media advertisings and patent issues.
From the site: INVEST: No more investments, please! Stop sending us money!
At the moment, these kids are really drowning in cash.
Do we really want to sponsor more competition to our jobs?
Some other people see affairs in wider context as "Do we really want to sponsor american lifestyle?"
In real science such as physics or math there is no place for liars to hide. They should go tampering law instead or doing politics, where truth is of no value...
In past years, I noticed people who learned assembly previously are usually good C/C++ coders. I believe this is because knowing what machine really does at it's instruction level helps to imagine how it should be written in higher language. It is sad that Java and C# exists just because former visual basic people can't grasp a concept of a C pointer.
What makes assembly superior is a hardware where resources such as memory or cpu speed are very scarce: embedded devices. Microcontrollers. Either you need less energy, either you stuff there more functionality, in critical systems that counts.
Myself I began my coding experience on Z80, typing instructions on hexpad. Using own mind as an assembler, to this very day I remember 00 is a nop, C3 is jmp and C9 is a ret. Being able to do hex subtraction in head brought me great popularity in my first job, where reading cobol dumps from Univac mainframe was common daily task for programmers, usually trained in "higher" language only.
Even today, unlike bugs in other software, compiler defects could be found only with a good understanding of assembly language.
This book is... interesting. Really. Stuffing Franz Kafka, Leibniz and Mahabharata to a math book and ending it with poems, that's a piece of artistic achievement.
Perhaps, should we start some C++ coding in verses?
Certainly, this article is a total flamebait from michael.
I doubt an ostrich strategy to put head into sand is a winning one, when only benefit is you will not know what did a bite to you.
For every such a software security so-called experts, such as ekr is, I have a question: How much code did you write, actually?
One machine I run latest 2.6 kernel and KDE on is the Celeron 333 overclocked to 375, with 512 MB ram with good satisfaction. Although Win2k was a little bit more responsive on this machine, it is not possible to install XP on such box, because of lack of performance.
Also, in my notebook which is P166mmx wih 48MB ram (sic!), I run Fluxbox instead of KDE, on latest 2.4 kernel and whole system fits into 19MB of memory only. It runs perfectly quick. It is not possible to put W2k on such machine and even Win98 were sloppy on it.
A conclusion: pick a desktop engine of the size and performance matching size and performance of your linux box. Note you cannot do that with windows.
Why this article makes me some faded memories about HalfLife entering my mind?
"Freeman, put the probe into beam, do you understand me?"
The patent is titled "Task list window for use in an integrated development environment" at the patent office. So, run your grep on other machine. Then, you will have a DISTRIBUTED, not INTEGRATED development environment. Do not show results in "window", but call it "virtual screen". Patent showing results in window, especially if you have a 30 years old prior art.
Or, use emacs. That's a platform, not IDE....
I am afraid Mandrake is not the best distro to experimentally mess with core components. Too many things are tweaked a Mic^H^Handrakesoft's way, the desktops certainly are. It is not easy to rebuild even XFree86 to keep up with those tweaks, so your problems with X.org actually says nothing. And yes, I used to rebuild an XFree86 on Mandrake.
Some other distros, a Slackware for example, use much pure way to build it's own packages which makes them better tool for this kind of experiments.
It is all my past suffering with windows, which keeps me off now. I could write a forty pages about Windows horrors here, but it does not make sense. All has been written in previous 1000+ replies already. The simple fact these troubles are so common indicates a poor quality of the Microsoft software is a reality, not mythos.
In short, Windows is a consumer grade OS. It is a gaming platform and not industrial level one. Switching to Linux actually boosted my programming productivity a lot.
I can't understand, what would prevent a counterfaiter write a completely new graphics software for himself. It should take less time than engrave a metal plate with all these tiny details...
Perhaps, a making illegal to write graphics software?
So, does anyone have useful remarks on why this may succeed or fail?
Yes. A simple fake IP will make a real havoc by denial of service of really big networks.
Mozilla with it's primitive gtk look is the only ugly app on both my kde driven desktop and fluxbox driven notebook.
So I am looking forward I could be able to make estetically acceptable look and feel for my visually eccentric fluxbox book.
I do not believe it is a real device. All so called photos on the website looks perfectly like a rendered images only.
Also, 1G industrial (non-coolable) cpus with 256Megs draws more than 3A of current from 5V, I can't believe such device could run on such small batteries at all (with display and hard drive, at least 5A on 5V, that's 25Watts to dissipate. My omnibook 800CT with 30 Watts dissipation raises it's temperature up to 60-70 degrees of Celsius, and it's volume size is 4 times larger then OQO.
So, this ugly girl from photo on the OQO front page would become quickly a hot chick, literally. If this device is not a vaporware, it will vaporize soon...
The Reason Why i said only HISTORIANS can do the job, is that, when they respect their code of ethics of scientific experiementation. The must study the document from both contries, with an impartial perspective.
I am really sorry, but what 30 years of life in totalitarian propaganda taught me is, there is no unbias history science. History is always seen from the political perspective of the current rulers. Because they are current rulers who are actually making a history, as their actions will be percieved in the future. There is no simple truth in history, only different interpretations of facts. Once the interpretations will overcover the facts, facts are no more and only interpretations remains.