Did that run Dec-2020 BASIC? I had a manual for that, and used to read it and think about programs I could write. Sadly I didn't really understand it all, so I used to completely make it all up.
We called CmdrTaco on this issue, and he blamed GoogleDesktopSearch for the issue.
"The indexing service in Vista, combined with GDS brought my machine to its knees.." he said whilst biting back tears of hate. "I can't believe that Zonk managed to disable the Vista service, allowing him to post moments before. This is a sad day for Slashdot."
My Dell Precision under XP has been rock solid (as in never crashed) for 2 years. I put this down to it being a work machine and not full of downloaded crap, spyware, buttonbars, though I do run VMWare, Citrix, SQL Navigator, MSVC and Google Desktop.
Maybe you should help your wife get it cleaned up. Say whatever about Sony, but their hardware is usually pretty decent.
You might want to look at a reasonably nicely configured E1505 from Dell comes in at <. $1000 with the 1680x1050 WSXGA+ screen. Tempting...
It was a terrible review, but there are two factors that make a Mac Mini suck somewhat out of the box. (1) is too little memory, and (2) is spotlight or mdiImport doing its indexing. I guess the laptop type hard drive doesn't help either.
He should have stuck with it and thrown some memory in it. This is not hard for anyone that has ever installed memory.
My Mac Mini has 2 gigs of Ram in it, and has plenty of horsepower for running XP under Parallels, purely so I can watch Netflix WatchNow. Mac Minis rock, they really do.
You know you can just deathorize all your computers right? I think it's on the Advanced menu.
Then just add the ones you actually need. The DRM is tied to your account, so everything will start working again, just like when you, say, authorize your wifes computer to play your music.
John McCain's wretched bad taste in singing 'Bomb! Bomb! Bomb! Bomb bomb Iran...' to the tune of the the old Beach Boys hit shows he is completely unsuitable for high office. It was disrespectful to those who have given their lives in these misguided wars.
Very few Americans seem to realize that the terrorists in Northern Ireland were not bombed out of existence by the RUC and British Government, but that an American called George Mitchell brought the different parties together and negotiated a power-sharing settlement that was satisfactory to all.
Less power than a PB G4 12", and not silver. Lame.
This is a solution looking for a problem. Carrying two devices is way worse than carrying one, so if I need a laptop, then I'll carry a laptop, but I'll expect laptop functionality such as being able to run flash, Firefox etc.
A device like this might be ok if it subsumed the phone, or provided additional functionality that people couldn't live without, but it doesn't look like it does. Don't expect people to give up their Pearls for this anytime soon.
I especially love the employee who gained brownie-points by putting something (anything!) in the ipod-bin, even if it was only an iPod *cover* [huge grin]. I wonder if Steve (that's Balmer, in case of confusion) was watching him walk on by, and he thought he had to put *something* in...
I can write my normal work docs in OOo and save as Word 97/XP and no one has yet spotted it. The documents look and print exactly the same in Word 2003.
This is pretty good interoperability in my view.
Where OOo is annoying is in being really quite different from MS Word. For example, page styles took me a while to find, as did changing the header/footer on a document. The help system is useful in these examples.
So far OOo 2.2 has been rock solid on my XP laptop.
The real shame is that Microsoft have hidden away some of the greatest programmers that have ever lived, and essentially corralled them into harmlessness in MS Research.
The singularity OS is basically a.NET OS. It's very impressive in and of itself, but the programmers who put that together could have been working on something that would actually see the light of day. Imagine if Borland hadn't been steamrollered into oblivion..NET could have been a Borland or IBM project.
The comparison between the assets that Microsoft have, such as Singularity, the.NET guys, the Haskell guys, and what they actually release such as Office 2007 (though the interface is nice now) is like night and day.
Microsoft have held back the general state of computing in order to preserve their monopoly. It's absolutely clear. Yahoo for Douglas Crockford and watch his Javascript videos. It stands out like a sore thumb how many examples of Microsoft throwing a spanner in the works of Javascript. Repeat this across a whole industry, many times a year and it becomes clear that FOSS and contributors to FOSS are going to be how this industry is driven forward.
Any time there is even a sniff of a state legislating for open standards and Microsoft goons pop out of the woodwork.
GNU/Linux and the web have now cracked Microsoft, the water is starting to flow in, and the whole edifice needs to start bailing, or flounder. Start using your research. Cooperate with open standards, and start to compete on merit, and maybe Microsoft will have a chance.
It's not just low-end surfing. Install Eclipse and OpenOffice and you have some really pretty damn good software.
I've been using my Ubuntu desktop in preference to my iMac, and I have been very impressed by how much Eclipse has developed. It's worth a look just to catch up on the tutorials, and what swt has been developed into.
My wife supports her parents Windows box. Sadly they were hacked, and their bank account passwords stolen. One of our mothers day gifts to them is an old Dell reinstalled with Ubuntu. The login screen is set up with family pics and we should be able to support it remotely. We shall see how well it goes. Personally, my fast Ubuntu box is getting more use than my iMac right now. Wireless, printing, suspend/resume, fonts, even my HDTV card all works. It's really pretty astonishing that it really has all pretty much come together now for GNU/Linux.
The OLPC is capable of being charged from a human powered generator where mains power is not available. The OLPC has a screen readable in daylight that also consumes very little power. It is more like very capable eBook, with a keyboard and wireless, than a conventional laptop.
I think it's a fantastic idea, and the rantings of people who say it's lame, and that people need XP and Office, will be shown to be about as accurate as the people who said the personal computer was a waste of time.
I wonder the OLPC would compare with the goals for the BBC Microcomputer...
1. Install and use Windows XP for a while. 2. Image the drive into a VM. 3. Boot up VM. 4. ??? (Cannot run, please activate this copy of Windows) 5. Install Ubuntu.
Seriously, nothing concentrates the mind like the threat of being able to access your applications and data after a HD crash.
Even Apple *get* this. I imaged my Mac Mini with all my data onto my iMac. Worked great. Nothing like the security of having a backup image ready to go in the event of a HD crash.
Based on actual experience, Vista totally trips out trying to run games if you have a 32 bit deep desktop.
Starting Flight Sim more often than not fails, *unless* you switch to a shallower color desktop, then start it.
OS X may be old fashioned, but at least it works without flashing, pausing and crashing. And this is Vista running on a PC with 1 Gig and a 6800GT which is still a pretty decent card. This is completely unacceptable.
Meantime, a MacBook with the Intel graphics manages all the eye candy, and runs WoW just fine. Vista requirements are ridiculous for what it is.
I can't see any reason to switch from XP, which is a great solid, nice looking and well proven piece of software.
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Can I second that?
;-)
Oh, what the hell, Fsck Clear Channel !
Actually, I have a friend at Clear Channel, though he may not be after this.
Here in Houston we have KPFT Pacific Radio and KUHF NPR.
No, it's because Americans are 40% larger.
Did that run Dec-2020 BASIC? I had a manual for that, and used to read it and think about programs I could write. Sadly I didn't really understand it all, so I used to completely make it all up.
I guess I was kinda weird kid.
Well, as I run a Dell 1920x1200 panel at 1680x1050, purely for the 'smoothing' effect, the Safari font rendering looks absolutely great.
I am the exception that tests the rule, in this case obviously.
I do miss the vi search key '/' though.
We called CmdrTaco on this issue, and he blamed GoogleDesktopSearch for the issue.
"The indexing service in Vista, combined with GDS brought my machine to its knees.." he said whilst biting back tears of hate.
"I can't believe that Zonk managed to disable the Vista service, allowing him to post moments before. This is a sad day for Slashdot."
"Please, shut up. Just when I think you can't say anything more stupid, you speak again." -Archie Bunker.
My Dell Precision under XP has been rock solid (as in never crashed) for 2 years. I put this down to it being a work machine and not full of downloaded crap, spyware, buttonbars, though I do run VMWare, Citrix, SQL Navigator, MSVC and Google Desktop.
...
Maybe you should help your wife get it cleaned up. Say whatever about Sony, but their hardware is usually pretty decent.
You might want to look at a reasonably nicely configured E1505 from Dell comes in at <. $1000 with the 1680x1050 WSXGA+ screen. Tempting
It was a terrible review, but there are two factors that make a Mac Mini suck somewhat out of the box. (1) is too little memory, and (2) is spotlight or mdiImport doing its indexing. I guess the laptop type hard drive doesn't help either.
He should have stuck with it and thrown some memory in it. This is not hard for anyone that has ever installed memory.
My Mac Mini has 2 gigs of Ram in it, and has plenty of horsepower for running XP under Parallels, purely so I can watch Netflix WatchNow. Mac Minis rock, they really do.
You know you can just deathorize all your computers right? I think it's on the Advanced menu.
Then just add the ones you actually need. The DRM is tied to your account, so everything will start working again, just like when you, say, authorize your wifes computer to play your music.
John McCain's wretched bad taste in singing 'Bomb! Bomb! Bomb! Bomb bomb Iran...' to the tune of the the old Beach Boys hit shows he is completely unsuitable for high office. It was disrespectful to those who have given their lives in these misguided wars.
Very few Americans seem to realize that the terrorists in Northern Ireland were not bombed out of existence by the RUC and British Government, but that an American called George Mitchell brought the different parties together and negotiated a power-sharing settlement that was satisfactory to all.
Yes, damn it, as soon as I get back from church, I'll post my own half-assed review!@!@!!
Less power than a PB G4 12", and not silver. Lame.
This is a solution looking for a problem. Carrying two devices is way worse than carrying one, so if I need a laptop, then I'll carry a laptop, but I'll expect laptop functionality such as being able to run flash, Firefox etc.
A device like this might be ok if it subsumed the phone, or provided additional functionality that people couldn't live without, but it doesn't look like it does. Don't expect people to give up their Pearls for this anytime soon.
NPR covered some of the human aspects of the gold farming story a while ago. Audio Link for your listening pleasure.
12 hours a day playing Warcraft, getting beaten up by higher level players. It's sounds like a pretty ugly life.
Sadly the box was not large enough for a chair.
I can write my normal work docs in OOo and save as Word 97/XP and no one has yet spotted it. The documents look and print exactly the same in Word 2003.
This is pretty good interoperability in my view.
Where OOo is annoying is in being really quite different from MS Word. For example, page styles took me a while to find, as did changing the header/footer on a document. The help system is useful in these examples.
So far OOo 2.2 has been rock solid on my XP laptop.
The real shame is that Microsoft have hidden away some of the greatest programmers that have ever lived, and essentially corralled them into harmlessness in MS Research.
.NET OS. It's very impressive in and of itself, but the programmers who put that together could have been working on something that would actually see the light of day. Imagine if Borland hadn't been steamrollered into oblivion. .NET could have been a Borland or IBM project.
.NET guys, the Haskell guys, and what they actually release such as Office 2007 (though the interface is nice now) is like night and day.
The singularity OS is basically a
The comparison between the assets that Microsoft have, such as Singularity, the
Microsoft have held back the general state of computing in order to preserve their monopoly. It's absolutely clear. Yahoo for Douglas Crockford and watch his Javascript videos. It stands out like a sore thumb how many examples of Microsoft throwing a spanner in the works of Javascript. Repeat this across a whole industry, many times a year and it becomes clear that FOSS and contributors to FOSS are going to be how this industry is driven forward.
Any time there is even a sniff of a state legislating for open standards and Microsoft goons pop out of the woodwork.
GNU/Linux and the web have now cracked Microsoft, the water is starting to flow in, and the whole edifice needs to start bailing, or flounder. Start using your research. Cooperate with open standards, and start to compete on merit, and maybe Microsoft will have a chance.
It's not just low-end surfing. Install Eclipse and OpenOffice and you have some really pretty damn good software.
I've been using my Ubuntu desktop in preference to my iMac, and I have been very impressed by how much Eclipse has developed. It's worth a look just to catch up on the tutorials, and what swt has been developed into.
My wife supports her parents Windows box. Sadly they were hacked, and their bank account passwords stolen. One of our mothers day gifts to them is an old Dell reinstalled with Ubuntu. The login screen is set up with family pics and we should be able to support it remotely. We shall see how well it goes. Personally, my fast Ubuntu box is getting more use than my iMac right now. Wireless, printing, suspend/resume, fonts, even my HDTV card all works. It's really pretty astonishing that it really has all pretty much come together now for GNU/Linux.
Yep, I once typed "(re?)boot" into a terminal windows in Solaris.
Oh-oh. There was a collective pause as the well planners in the room all went silent as their work disappeared.
I'd typed it into the wrong terminal window. Oops.
The OLPC is capable of being charged from a human powered generator where mains power is not available. The OLPC has a screen readable in daylight that also consumes very little power. It is more like very capable eBook, with a keyboard and wireless, than a conventional laptop.
I think it's a fantastic idea, and the rantings of people who say it's lame, and that people need XP and Office, will be shown to be about as accurate as the people who said the personal computer was a waste of time.
I wonder the OLPC would compare with the goals for the BBC Microcomputer...
Try this:
1. Install and use Windows XP for a while.
2. Image the drive into a VM.
3. Boot up VM.
4. ??? (Cannot run, please activate this copy of Windows)
5. Install Ubuntu.
Seriously, nothing concentrates the mind like the threat of being able to access your applications and data after a HD crash.
Even Apple *get* this. I imaged my Mac Mini with all my data onto my iMac. Worked great. Nothing like the security of having a backup image ready to go in the event of a HD crash.
Yes, why enrich Microsoft when you can enrich the community.
Based on actual experience, Vista totally trips out trying to run games if you have a 32 bit deep desktop.
Starting Flight Sim more often than not fails, *unless* you switch to a shallower color desktop, then start it.
OS X may be old fashioned, but at least it works without flashing, pausing and crashing. And this is Vista running on a PC with 1 Gig and a 6800GT which is still a pretty decent card. This is completely unacceptable.
Meantime, a MacBook with the Intel graphics manages all the eye candy, and runs WoW just fine. Vista requirements are ridiculous for what it is.
I can't see any reason to switch from XP, which is a great solid, nice looking and well proven piece of software.
I'm yawning like hell reading this.
No, day-trading is the oldest profession.