You forgot to mention 'call and beg Microsoft permission to reinstall Windows XP on your new computer.'
I have 'retail box' copies of Windows 98, Windows ME, and Windows 2000 (mutliple copies). I've done this because my purchases were intended for permanent use in various applications. And I plan ahead. I won't purchase Windows XP in part because with it I have no idea if it will be usable ten years from now. Similarly, I look carefully at the 'activation schemes' (there are many horror stories there in current 'shareware' products) in any software that I purchase.
It's sometimes referred to as 'making wise choices in your purchase.'
Turned out, all the long filenames had been removed by scandisk (doubly linked files; not allowed in DOS!).
So you applied some of those dubious 'third party utilities' to something new and incompatible with them, fucked it up, and blamed the 'something new.'
Howzabout you get a copy of Norton Utilities 4.5 and run it on your linux system. See what it can 'fix' and get back to us if your Linux system boots afterward.
Either do I. We have two dogs. I just open the kitchen door and let them out into the quarter acre or so of our land that we fenced in for the dog yard.
If this is what you're looking for, how about you go down to you local Animal Shelter and get an actual dog? I'm sure they'll love you for getting them off Death Row...
'Shaming' people into buying a dog, instead of making the impulse purchase of a video game, is a good way to encourage more flippant irresponsible pet acquisitions. Which will lead to MORE unwanted, discarded animals at the shelter.
When I went on the 'family tour' of an IBM Facility in the early 70's, they told us the 'big red button' would immediately cut all power to the system. And that it would burn up as a result since the cooling system would power down as well.
It never occurred to you that the kid spent all of his money on some nice clothes so that the other kids wouldn't make fun of him for being poor, did it?
Yep. Spending lots of money on nice clothes can be twisted around into being a form of oppression.
Depending on what kind of programmer you are talking about, MS-DOS is better than MacOS _or_ Windows. It provides a primative program-loading mechanism, then gets the hell out of the way. For a bare-metal Assembly Language programmer with specific tasks in mind for a machine, neither Windows nor MacOS are suitable at all.
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I have never, ever heard a 'nix geek mention Apropos
Are you sure you're not hanging out with 'nux geeks instead of 'nix geeks??
(there's an old saying: Linux is for people who hate Microsoft. BSD is for people who love UNIX)
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There's no denying, though, that the man pages for many Linux 'distros' is spotty and uneven.
However, you don't have to use Linux, there are other free Unix OSes that have well-integrated and complete manual sets.
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Cygwin is an ugly kludge. Just another layer of DLLs that rides on top of the Win32 subsystem.
Interix, now castrated and called Services for UNIX, is a whole POSIX subsystem that runs in parallel with the Win32 subsystem and runs directly on the NT Kernel. It's a far better choice, from a functional point-of-view, though not 'open source' (but Softway Systems, producers of Interix asked the Open Source Community if they wanted it open-sourced before Microsoft swooped in and bought the company instead.)
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I'd rather take my 1970 Chevy C-10 off-road.
Because I only paid $400 for it, so I can have fun and not worry at all that I'll scratch the paint job.
Laptops in the classroom can also HURT a lot, if the big bucks could be better spent on new materials for teaching children in the time proven ways that seem to be underfunded in today's schools.
Well there's a huge amount of CYA when it comes to devices that people's lives depend on.
Yes. I know this. I have written device qualification plans. I have conducted device qualification testing. I have written qualification reports. I've done Failure Modes and Effects Analysis. I've signed piles and piles of documents as the Reliability Manager for a medical device manufacturer.
I've also sat in rooms filled with desk-jockey regulatory affairs drones who never ever do anything but shuffle around paper.
There is a HELL of a lot of bloat to cut out of the Drug and Medical Device design phase. The big companies KNOW this. The huge cost of bringing anything new to market is USED by them to keep out startups.
Actually, we live in a 'fantasy land' that the Food and Drug Administration has conjured up. I've been to FDA-run seminars about 'regulation of drugs' and heard the old saw they give about how terrible things were in about 1905 and how the FDA 'saved' us from the horrors of that period.
That's where the FDA is mired. The year 1905. Fuck that. Fire the whole lot of them.
I do know what the hell I am talking about. Are you one of the regulatory desk-jockeys soaking up a bunch of that overhead? Your defensive opinion lends credence to that suspicion.
Or are you just a bureaucrat in general, and defending your kind?
I feel the need to second your opinon. I was going to make a top-level comment suggesting they remove the electric wiring entirely from the library and just have books, but there's the need for some simple lighting, and perhaps the mechanism for checking out books can remain electronic. And since all the libraries have turned the card catalog slowly into slips of paper to use the back of for writing down the details from the book you want that you've looked up on the terminal that replaced the wood-and-paper card catalog, I guess those terminals should remain as well.
As to 'web access terminals' at the library: get rid of them. Bring that part of the budget to zero and reallocate the money to more books.
Part of the reason drugs cost $200,000,000 to develop is the incredible overhead and bloat of the regulatory environment.
I've worked in the medical device market. There are thick layers of bullshit at all levels of product development. The companies (at least, the medical device companies) like it, because it presents a big barrier to entry for upstarts. End result is that a device with 1/10 the electronic complexity of a Sony Walkman ends up costing $800 to the end user.
Cutting deep into the bullshit layers of the FDA would help cut costs immensely.
There. 'make drugs cheaper to develop.'
(don't really care if the parent poster reads this or not, frankly)
Agreed. There's no value in Apple putting an 'Intel Inside' sticker on the case. They don't have competitors producing Macs with Cyrix (or any of the other Intel-knockoff brand) processors in them.
They could keep such information quietly inside the box, if they wished. As they did when Apple started putting drives OEM'd from IBM (formerly depicted as the 'Arch foe of Macintosh' in the propaganda) in the Macs. I remember the pee dribble on the shoes of the Macintosh faithful when they discovered that one...
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You forgot to mention 'call and beg Microsoft permission to reinstall Windows XP on your new computer.'
I have 'retail box' copies of Windows 98, Windows ME, and Windows 2000 (mutliple copies). I've done this because my purchases were intended for permanent use in various applications. And I plan ahead. I won't purchase Windows XP in part because with it I have no idea if it will be usable ten years from now. Similarly, I look carefully at the 'activation schemes' (there are many horror stories there in current 'shareware' products) in any software that I purchase.
It's sometimes referred to as 'making wise choices in your purchase.'
Turned out, all the long filenames had been removed by scandisk (doubly linked files; not allowed in DOS!).
So you applied some of those dubious 'third party utilities' to something new and incompatible with them, fucked it up, and blamed the 'something new.'
Howzabout you get a copy of Norton Utilities 4.5 and run it on your linux system. See what it can 'fix' and get back to us if your Linux system boots afterward.
unless somebody really smart does with Linux what Apple did with BSD.
Except OSX isn't 'something Apple did with BSD' but rather it's the hermit crab's shell (NextStep) that the curious critters at Apple crawled into.
I don't have to walk the dog three times a day
Either do I. We have two dogs. I just open the kitchen door and let them out into the quarter acre or so of our land that we fenced in for the dog yard.
If this is what you're looking for, how about you go down to you local Animal Shelter and get an actual dog? I'm sure they'll love you for getting them off Death Row...
'Shaming' people into buying a dog, instead of making the impulse purchase of a video game, is a good way to encourage more flippant irresponsible pet acquisitions. Which will lead to MORE unwanted, discarded animals at the shelter.
Pentium III would have been the Octium, since the Pentium Pro was the Hexium.
I recently bought SIX Dell machines for $5 each. Three of them are Pentium IIs, three of them are Pentium IIIs. They all had a 128 MB SIMM in them.
Old hardware is CHEAP these days, and I am talking about old hardware capable of running Windows 98 or any recent Linux version.
(sung to tune of by Hank Williams...)
Your bleedin' heart...
Halon?
When I went on the 'family tour' of an IBM Facility in the early 70's, they told us the 'big red button' would immediately cut all power to the system. And that it would burn up as a result since the cooling system would power down as well.
It never occurred to you that the kid spent all of his money on some nice clothes so that the other kids wouldn't make fun of him for being poor, did it?
Yep. Spending lots of money on nice clothes can be twisted around into being a form of oppression.
I knew you could do it.
How long did learning to type on a long-gone computer keyboard benefit you?
Actually, I learned to touch-type on a Royal manual typewriter. In High School.
Touch typing on the ASR-33 teletypes in the computer room wasn't really that much of an option, seeing as they were upper-case-only.
Computers cost $5 at yard sales these days. There are zero, zippo, no kids at this point in time who don't have access to a computer if motivated.
Depending on what kind of programmer you are talking about, MS-DOS is better than MacOS _or_ Windows. It provides a primative program-loading mechanism, then gets the hell out of the way. For a bare-metal Assembly Language programmer with specific tasks in mind for a machine, neither Windows nor MacOS are suitable at all.
I have never, ever heard a 'nix geek mention Apropos
Are you sure you're not hanging out with 'nux geeks instead of 'nix geeks??
(there's an old saying: Linux is for people who hate Microsoft. BSD is for people who love UNIX)
There's no denying, though, that the man pages for many Linux 'distros' is spotty and uneven.
However, you don't have to use Linux, there are other free Unix OSes that have well-integrated and complete manual sets.
Cygwin is an ugly kludge. Just another layer of DLLs that rides on top of the Win32 subsystem.
Interix, now castrated and called Services for UNIX, is a whole POSIX subsystem that runs in parallel with the Win32 subsystem and runs directly on the NT Kernel. It's a far better choice, from a functional point-of-view, though not 'open source' (but Softway Systems, producers of Interix asked the Open Source Community if they wanted it open-sourced before Microsoft swooped in and bought the company instead.)
I'd rather take my 1970 Chevy C-10 off-road.
Because I only paid $400 for it, so I can have fun and not worry at all that I'll scratch the paint job.
rather than having you try to buy something that could benefit the community for many years.
The Pentium IIs with Windows 95 on them that the library bought 6 years ago is going to benefit the community for many more years???
Laptops in the classroom can also HURT a lot, if the big bucks could be better spent on new materials for teaching children in the time proven ways that seem to be underfunded in today's schools.
Things like textbooks.
Well there's a huge amount of CYA when it comes to devices that people's lives depend on.
Yes. I know this. I have written device qualification plans. I have conducted device qualification testing. I have written qualification reports. I've done Failure Modes and Effects Analysis. I've signed piles and piles of documents as the Reliability Manager for a medical device manufacturer.
I've also sat in rooms filled with desk-jockey regulatory affairs drones who never ever do anything but shuffle around paper.
There is a HELL of a lot of bloat to cut out of the Drug and Medical Device design phase. The big companies KNOW this. The huge cost of bringing anything new to market is USED by them to keep out startups.
Actually, we live in a 'fantasy land' that the Food and Drug Administration has conjured up. I've been to FDA-run seminars about 'regulation of drugs' and heard the old saw they give about how terrible things were in about 1905 and how the FDA 'saved' us from the horrors of that period.
That's where the FDA is mired. The year 1905. Fuck that. Fire the whole lot of them.
I do know what the hell I am talking about. Are you one of the regulatory desk-jockeys soaking up a bunch of that overhead? Your defensive opinion lends credence to that suspicion.
Or are you just a bureaucrat in general, and defending your kind?
I feel the need to second your opinon. I was going to make a top-level comment suggesting they remove the electric wiring entirely from the library and just have books, but there's the need for some simple lighting, and perhaps the mechanism for checking out books can remain electronic. And since all the libraries have turned the card catalog slowly into slips of paper to use the back of for writing down the details from the book you want that you've looked up on the terminal that replaced the wood-and-paper card catalog, I guess those terminals should remain as well.
As to 'web access terminals' at the library: get rid of them. Bring that part of the budget to zero and reallocate the money to more books.
Part of the reason drugs cost $200,000,000 to develop is the incredible overhead and bloat of the regulatory environment.
I've worked in the medical device market. There are thick layers of bullshit at all levels of product development. The companies (at least, the medical device companies) like it, because it presents a big barrier to entry for upstarts. End result is that a device with 1/10 the electronic complexity of a Sony Walkman ends up costing $800 to the end user.
Cutting deep into the bullshit layers of the FDA would help cut costs immensely.
There. 'make drugs cheaper to develop.'
(don't really care if the parent poster reads this or not, frankly)
Does ADV really freely distribute movie promos on VHS tape?
Agreed. There's no value in Apple putting an 'Intel Inside' sticker on the case. They don't have competitors producing Macs with Cyrix (or any of the other Intel-knockoff brand) processors in them.
They could keep such information quietly inside the box, if they wished. As they did when Apple started putting drives OEM'd from IBM (formerly depicted as the 'Arch foe of Macintosh' in the propaganda) in the Macs. I remember the pee dribble on the shoes of the Macintosh faithful when they discovered that one...
It doesn't matter if it's all shit all the way down, when you're ankle deep in the top layer of shit.
How will this Anime distributor feel when, rather than promos, outsiders start distributing the full legnth versions of their products on BitTorrent?
I don't think this question is being addressed. In fact, some seem to want to pretend ADV is distributing more than promos.