First we loaded Win95 into memory, got it to fetch all the instructions we thought we would need, then disabled memory through the DDR2 bus (which freaked out the northbridge, but hey, who cares.
No it was not stable, yes it died after a few minutes but it was operable. We think it actually died from the Northbridge throwing a hissy fit more than the OS its self.
As to disabling memory, that involved some hanky panky with the DR, WE#, and OE# signals and some blue wire... -nB
What's really fascinating about Win95 (and something I've actually tried) is that you can run it fully within the L2 Cache of Intel's latest generation of Core2 processors... It was blooming hilarious to see it never need to page out to system memory because the entire OS was living on-die. -nB
Rather than modding you (mostly because unless I can hand you both a Troll and an insightful at the same time I can't decide...)
The second to last point you brought up is valid. Vista is broken because of DRM... By design it fuzzes your video if not on HDCP compliant hardware and it detects media of a fairly broad type. I had a Vista box (Vista was more a byproduct of buying the machine) and was *unable* to do video editing because it decided that my video stream was too high a quality.
Now, of course Vista does meet it's design specs in this regard, so it is not defective, but it is broken. -nB
Now for the thought experiment. Stipulation: The computer produces 0.00% false positive identifications. The computer identifies a suspect as 100% likely to rob a bank (he's at the teller window, has demanded cash and is pointing a gun) is it OK to arrest him? The computer identifies a suspect as 99.9% likely to rob a bank (he's next in line for a teller, has a gun and a demand note) is it OK to arrest him? The computer identifies a suspect as 99% likely to rob a ban (he's at the door, gun and note in hand) blah blah blah. at what point is the line drawn that the computer's threshold is high enough to warrant an arrest?
Naturally the stipulation is false. No automated system will have *no* false positives. Schnier has shown how even a 99.99% accurate system is useless when you have millions of "things" to track and identify as threats... Just curious as to your thoughts? -nB
I've got a crown graphic myself, but hardly ever get to use it (I have a 3 and 5 year old...)
Yup, the digital photo never learned on film crowd is very very different.
When I got my F4s I bathed in the glory of it's insane FPS, until I had to pay to develop the 15 rolls of film shot in only seconds of shooting (sans reload time). -nB
I have an old P133 Fujitsu and it is a tank. Dropped it 3Ft to concrete and all that broke was the status LCD. I also have a pair of Stylistic pen tablets (486DX4100) and they rock for what they are. -nB
HP Design Jet plotters do this. You have to replace the heads about every other tank of ink, but they are not too expensive, the ink is one color-one head-one tank, so you replace only what you need. -nB
You realize that there are now, being booked, flights from around the world that will have a layover in that airport for no other reason than that machine...
We take SLA's very seriously. After all they are an army...
In are honesty though, I've not been involved with MS SLA's directly, but I have been involved with Compaq (prior to HP buyout and HP after). We had exactly 2 breaches of SLA. Both during the merger. The first one was fairly serious, but we let it slide with an official apology, promise never to do that again, etc. and internally chalked it up to merger pains. Second breach of SLA (incidentally for the same app), we pounded them for monetary damages, and *new* replacement equipment rather than repair/refurb as in our SLA. Didn't have a third breach... -nB
I dare say, even powered on things frost up pretty good at my job...
I give you FROST and its source It's cheating, I know... but considering my crap works this cold, how dare they claim to only work to 0 degrees (other than K & R). -nB
you know you're preaching to the choir. Point is many of us don't have a choice if we want to collect a paycheck. These driver packs make the daily grind that much less unpleasant. -nB
it's 65 and 45nM or.065 and.045uM pedantic, I know... but.45nM would be phenomenally disruptive as it would literally be two orders of magnitude better litho than what is currently attainable commercially.
you know you can bequeath those two works to the public domain with a simple letter to the copyright office, or by ordering one more printing that contains the forward that they are now granted to the public domain. -nB
you just got everyone staring at me as I literally choked on my burrito. Ended up having to explain to everyone why I was laughing and coughing so hard.
We run a quasi de-centralized org. About 80K employees, and about 50K are developers of such a level that they are local admin. We use Connected Net Backup. It's a de-duplicating network backup machine and it works great. It will bug you about locked files it missed (always borks on FF, 'cause it's always open). Good integration with MS office/"lookout". Can grab snapshots of PST files. If you don't have the client installed you get daily e-mail. After 2 weeks your boss gets the daily e-mails too. Also stores version history for files. Saved my ass once when I overwrote two weeks of source code work with the main tree version prior to merging. Was able to grab a copy of my source less than 24 hours old and only lost about half a day. -nB -nB
Just to be fair: you can register a trademark on a color(pantone)/font face and especially the combination of the two... so it is plausible. We all can assume that grammatical errors can happen. so it is still plausible. We all know how *reasonable* lawyers are, and to that end the elimination of the use of a color seems perfectly reasonable. so it is still plausible. BUT the letter was awfully nice compared to the Normal type of C&D but not as enlightened as this one. So it is no longer plausible and I (and Occam's razor) concur. April fools. -nB
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nothing god like about it.
:-)
It was something we had the equipment to do, not something that I could just whip up at home.
Thanks for even considering it though
First we loaded Win95 into memory, got it to fetch all the instructions we thought we would need, then disabled memory through the DDR2 bus (which freaked out the northbridge, but hey, who cares.
No it was not stable, yes it died after a few minutes but it was operable. We think it actually died from the Northbridge throwing a hissy fit more than the OS its self.
As to disabling memory, that involved some hanky panky with the DR, WE#, and OE# signals and some blue wire...
-nB
What's really fascinating about Win95 (and something I've actually tried) is that you can run it fully within the L2 Cache of Intel's latest generation of Core2 processors...
It was blooming hilarious to see it never need to page out to system memory because the entire OS was living on-die.
-nB
http://www.ideastorm.com/article/show/70157/Offer_and_Dell_Recommend_HDCP_Compliant_Video_Cards
http://arstechnica.com/articles/paedia/hardware/hdcp-vista.ars
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6286245.stm
The Chuck Norris of space? What's his super power though? CN has his roundhouse, Schnier has his inbuilt XOR engine...
Rather than modding you (mostly because unless I can hand you both a Troll and an insightful at the same time I can't decide...)
The second to last point you brought up is valid.
Vista is broken because of DRM...
By design it fuzzes your video if not on HDCP compliant hardware and it detects media of a fairly broad type. I had a Vista box (Vista was more a byproduct of buying the machine) and was *unable* to do video editing because it decided that my video stream was too high a quality.
Now, of course Vista does meet it's design specs in this regard, so it is not defective, but it is broken.
-nB
Let me start by saying I agree with you 100%.
Now for the thought experiment.
Stipulation: The computer produces 0.00% false positive identifications.
The computer identifies a suspect as 100% likely to rob a bank (he's at the teller window, has demanded cash and is pointing a gun) is it OK to arrest him?
The computer identifies a suspect as 99.9% likely to rob a bank (he's next in line for a teller, has a gun and a demand note) is it OK to arrest him?
The computer identifies a suspect as 99% likely to rob a ban (he's at the door, gun and note in hand) blah blah blah.
at what point is the line drawn that the computer's threshold is high enough to warrant an arrest?
Naturally the stipulation is false. No automated system will have *no* false positives. Schnier has shown how even a 99.99% accurate system is useless when you have millions of "things" to track and identify as threats...
Just curious as to your thoughts?
-nB
I've got a crown graphic myself, but hardly ever get to use it (I have a 3 and 5 year old...)
Yup, the digital photo never learned on film crowd is very very different.
When I got my F4s I bathed in the glory of it's insane FPS, until I had to pay to develop the 15 rolls of film shot in only seconds of shooting (sans reload time).
-nB
flywheel.
Solar to motor to flywheel to generator
I have an old P133 Fujitsu and it is a tank. Dropped it 3Ft to concrete and all that broke was the status LCD. I also have a pair of Stylistic pen tablets (486DX4100) and they rock for what they are.
-nB
HP Design Jet plotters do this.
You have to replace the heads about every other tank of ink, but they are not too expensive, the ink is one color-one head-one tank, so you replace only what you need.
-nB
You realize that there are now, being booked, flights from around the world that will have a layover in that airport for no other reason than that machine...
Don't you?
We take SLA's very seriously. After all they are an army...
In are honesty though, I've not been involved with MS SLA's directly, but I have been involved with Compaq (prior to HP buyout and HP after). We had exactly 2 breaches of SLA. Both during the merger. The first one was fairly serious, but we let it slide with an official apology, promise never to do that again, etc. and internally chalked it up to merger pains. Second breach of SLA (incidentally for the same app), we pounded them for monetary damages, and *new* replacement equipment rather than repair/refurb as in our SLA.
Didn't have a third breach...
-nB
And so it shall be, paid for with your "redundant" karma it would appear ;-)
-nB
I dare say, even powered on things frost up pretty good at my job...
I give you FROST
and its source
It's cheating, I know... but considering my crap works this cold, how dare they claim to only work to 0 degrees (other than K & R).
-nB
you know you're preaching to the choir.
Point is many of us don't have a choice if we want to collect a paycheck. These driver packs make the daily grind that much less unpleasant.
-nB
you're talking about Ross Perot?
I have a T61 running XP SP2, no problem with any devices. Drivers readily available (and if you have issues finding them e-mail me).
-nB
I've had reasonable success with dreamhost.com
FWIW they're going through growing pains at the moment.
The peak of human light sensitivity is in the green spectrum...
I think that may have something to do with it.
it's 65 and 45nM or .065 and .045uM .45nM would be phenomenally disruptive as it would literally be two orders of magnitude better litho than what is currently attainable commercially.
pedantic, I know...
but
-nB
you know you can bequeath those two works to the public domain with a simple letter to the copyright office, or by ordering one more printing that contains the forward that they are now granted to the public domain.
-nB
you just got everyone staring at me as I literally choked on my burrito. Ended up having to explain to everyone why I was laughing and coughing so hard.
We run a quasi de-centralized org.
About 80K employees, and about 50K are developers of such a level that they are local admin. We use Connected Net Backup. It's a de-duplicating network backup machine and it works great. It will bug you about locked files it missed (always borks on FF, 'cause it's always open).
Good integration with MS office/"lookout". Can grab snapshots of PST files.
If you don't have the client installed you get daily e-mail. After 2 weeks your boss gets the daily e-mails too.
Also stores version history for files. Saved my ass once when I overwrote two weeks of source code work with the main tree version prior to merging. Was able to grab a copy of my source less than 24 hours old and only lost about half a day.
-nB
-nB
Just to be fair:
you can register a trademark on a color(pantone)/font face and especially the combination of the two...
so it is plausible.
We all can assume that grammatical errors can happen.
so it is still plausible.
We all know how *reasonable* lawyers are, and to that end the elimination of the use of a color seems perfectly reasonable.
so it is still plausible.
BUT the letter was awfully nice compared to the Normal type of C&D but not as enlightened as this one.
So it is no longer plausible and I (and Occam's razor) concur. April fools.
-nB