... *AMD* gives *nForce* users bragging rights. My next system will be using something other than nForce, but I'll still be using an AMD CPU.
The nForce was designed for gaming, something that the AMD CPUs excel at. I'd rather use a VIA board with an AMD chip than an Intel board with an nForce, particularly since the removal of Soundstorm.
Seems/. was pretty fast off the mark to scream that the sky was falling but a bit slow to report this news. Has/. become over-dependant on sensationalist stories?
Why bother? I'd only ever run Windows to run the games, which probably wouldn't be able to run at full-tilt on Win/PPC. I think I'm better sticking with Linux/x86 and dual-booting.
The thing with formatting fat32 drives up to 32GB is a Windows problem. Fix your operating system;) IIRC only XP has this problem, but 2K might as well.
I can sell several of my own internal organs, and possibly some very important external ones to raise the funds to buy a license from SCO for a product which doesn't exist.
This is just like saying to the current Sonic Team "This is what you could have been".
I think it's about time we dropped the whole "Adventure" crap, Sonic was meant to be fast. The games should go back to that old school side-scrolling style, perhaps even with 3D graphics, and dump all these stupid humans. Mobius was never about humans.
Most of the research I've seen consists of making big budget films like "The Lawnmower Man", with stunningly good effects for the time, but as much connection to reality as Michael Jackson.
Oh and/. posts saying "roflol dont tel M$!!11 rofl"
It was a mistake going with the prequel-ish theme for Enterprise, but at least this film will document events that we know actually happened, so I have some hope in it:)
We'd been having trouble with our mouse and since I was still fairly new with computers, we'd figured we'd send it into the shop to get fixed.
However, we didn't really want to lose all our data, since the first step that they do at the shop is generally formatting the disc. So I was wanting a secondary HDD that I could claim for myself anyways, so I bought an HDD so we could save all our stuff to that (which would connect as D:).
Great plan, until I discovered I had no clue as to how to format my disc. I thought that you partitioned after you formatted, which caused all sorts of confusion.
So I call tech. support and they walk me through formatting. The last command they give me was format/y... In the root of the C: drive...
Extra Fans
It seemed as though my computer was getting fairly hot, so I bought a couple of case fans. Looking inside my case I could only locate one set of headers for fans spare. So I unplugged my Northbridge fan.
Several months and HDDs later, somebody diagnosed the problem.
This interface isn't being designed for MS products! Just stuff that runs on MS products!
Look, Opera and Mozilla just don't have the same kind of interface with the host system that IE does. That's what makes IE such a problem.
Secure the plug-in architecture, and limit the access that the browser has to the OS and you have a tight system.
You focus too much on the interface between the outside world and the browser, and not enough on that between the browser and the OS, which is where IE really falls down.
To be honest, this is a step-away from letting Microsoft control the net. It's making the alternative browsers a much more attractive option to not only users but developers.
Just because something is being designed to run on an MS system, doesn't mean that it's inherently "evil" or what have you. Alternative browsers running on Windows is a good thing. It raises the overall average security of the internet userbase.
Your rant is incoherent, and stinks of Linux zeal. I'm typing this reply on my favourite Debian box, before you label me an MS zealot.
PS: I don't understand your idea of "building a better internet", or what-have-you. There's really no need. yes, the internet is not perfect, but building a new system that excludes those running Windows is NOT the way to go about it.
Just because Windows has security problems, doesn't mean that those problems will cross-pollinate over to Linux through a plug-in architecture, or even a full browser.
The plug-in architecture is designed for browsers, some of which (Mozilla and Opera) happen to be available for Windows. It still has to go through the browser to get to the OS. That route is a lot tighter in Mozilla and Opera that it is in IE.
The architecture could be really, really tight. Firefox runs on both Windows and Linux, and has architectures to expand its functionality, but that doesn't mean that we're suddenly installing Bonzi Buddy and Gator on Linux, does it?
If you did, then to complete the experience you'd really need FSV. 5 year old code, but even an apt-get junky like me managed to compile it with no problems;)
I must admit, I've heard good things about 2003, and my experience with 2K Pro was very enjoyable. Whilst I like playing with Linux, and I agree with the mentality behind it, 2K Pro is probably the OS that I've achieved the most with.
However, I still think that MS could do with having another shake-up similar to that which the switch to NT afforded them, to get right down to the barebones and say "Okay, what would we like the customers to have, and what would the more savvy customers actually like to have".
Tear everything down and start again. If you can get someone to properly document your kernel, so that your own employees will have a chance of understanding it, go that deep.
Go as far as you need to to actually secure your OS and supporting suite. People aren't going to put up with this crap forever.
Windows had the potential to be a good system when you originally bought DOS, until you started piling "functionality" onto it.
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Hardly a dupe, since the project has risen from speculation to preliminary specs and a petition.
... *AMD* gives *nForce* users bragging rights. My next system will be using something other than nForce, but I'll still be using an AMD CPU.
The nForce was designed for gaming, something that the AMD CPUs excel at. I'd rather use a VIA board with an AMD chip than an Intel board with an nForce, particularly since the removal of Soundstorm.
Did it occur to you that perhaps they are not gay and do not wish to be referred to as something they are not?
Seems /. was pretty fast off the mark to scream that the sky was falling but a bit slow to report this news. Has /. become over-dependant on sensationalist stories?
We here at slashdot don't believe in the fiction know as "intellectual property" -- information wants to be free.
I for one am overjoyed to see that the anonymous masses were elected to represent /. before the world.
Why bother? I'd only ever run Windows to run the games, which probably wouldn't be able to run at full-tilt on Win/PPC. I think I'm better sticking with Linux/x86 and dual-booting.
He can't even follow the guidelines set for the article and he's expected to run a country?
The thing with formatting fat32 drives up to 32GB is a Windows problem. Fix your operating system ;) IIRC only XP has this problem, but 2K might as well.
Which section does this article fall under? I'm reading /., not the local paper on the way to work.
... that 33-year olds across the globe are cursing /. for making them feel old ;)
I can sell several of my own internal organs, and possibly some very important external ones to raise the funds to buy a license from SCO for a product which doesn't exist.
And I think to myself, what a wonderful world.
This is just like saying to the current Sonic Team "This is what you could have been". I think it's about time we dropped the whole "Adventure" crap, Sonic was meant to be fast. The games should go back to that old school side-scrolling style, perhaps even with 3D graphics, and dump all these stupid humans. Mobius was never about humans.
Now combine this article with the recent concerns over GMail. Seems like everyone likes seeing a bit of 1984 in Google.
Most of the research I've seen consists of making big budget films like "The Lawnmower Man", with stunningly good effects for the time, but as much connection to reality as Michael Jackson.
Oh and /. posts saying "roflol dont tel M$!!11 rofl"
Wow, stating the obvious, if only I'd thought of that, maybe I'd be a multi-millionaire.
MS is losing, they may as wlel just accept it now.
That means you RIAA! Even when we can get it for free we don't want it!
It was a mistake going with the prequel-ish theme for Enterprise, but at least this film will document events that we know actually happened, so I have some hope in it :)
Tech Support Formatting
We'd been having trouble with our mouse and since I was still fairly new with computers, we'd figured we'd send it into the shop to get fixed.
However, we didn't really want to lose all our data, since the first step that they do at the shop is generally formatting the disc. So I was wanting a secondary HDD that I could claim for myself anyways, so I bought an HDD so we could save all our stuff to that (which would connect as D:).
Great plan, until I discovered I had no clue as to how to format my disc. I thought that you partitioned after you formatted, which caused all sorts of confusion.
So I call tech. support and they walk me through formatting. The last command they give me was format /y... In the root of the C: drive...
Extra Fans
It seemed as though my computer was getting fairly hot, so I bought a couple of case fans. Looking inside my case I could only locate one set of headers for fans spare. So I unplugged my Northbridge fan.
Several months and HDDs later, somebody diagnosed the problem.
Ugh, where to start?
This interface isn't being designed for MS products! Just stuff that runs on MS products!
Look, Opera and Mozilla just don't have the same kind of interface with the host system that IE does. That's what makes IE such a problem.
Secure the plug-in architecture, and limit the access that the browser has to the OS and you have a tight system.
You focus too much on the interface between the outside world and the browser, and not enough on that between the browser and the OS, which is where IE really falls down.
To be honest, this is a step-away from letting Microsoft control the net. It's making the alternative browsers a much more attractive option to not only users but developers.
Just because something is being designed to run on an MS system, doesn't mean that it's inherently "evil" or what have you. Alternative browsers running on Windows is a good thing. It raises the overall average security of the internet userbase.
Your rant is incoherent, and stinks of Linux zeal. I'm typing this reply on my favourite Debian box, before you label me an MS zealot.
PS: I don't understand your idea of "building a better internet", or what-have-you. There's really no need. yes, the internet is not perfect, but building a new system that excludes those running Windows is NOT the way to go about it.
Buck up your "smash the system" ideas!
Just because Windows has security problems, doesn't mean that those problems will cross-pollinate over to Linux through a plug-in architecture, or even a full browser.
The plug-in architecture is designed for browsers, some of which (Mozilla and Opera) happen to be available for Windows. It still has to go through the browser to get to the OS. That route is a lot tighter in Mozilla and Opera that it is in IE.
The architecture could be really, really tight. Firefox runs on both Windows and Linux, and has architectures to expand its functionality, but that doesn't mean that we're suddenly installing Bonzi Buddy and Gator on Linux, does it?
If you did, then to complete the experience you'd really need FSV. 5 year old code, but even an apt-get junky like me managed to compile it with no problems ;)
I must admit, I've heard good things about 2003, and my experience with 2K Pro was very enjoyable. Whilst I like playing with Linux, and I agree with the mentality behind it, 2K Pro is probably the OS that I've achieved the most with.
However, I still think that MS could do with having another shake-up similar to that which the switch to NT afforded them, to get right down to the barebones and say "Okay, what would we like the customers to have, and what would the more savvy customers actually like to have".
Tear everything down and start again. If you can get someone to properly document your kernel, so that your own employees will have a chance of understanding it, go that deep.
Go as far as you need to to actually secure your OS and supporting suite. People aren't going to put up with this crap forever.
Windows had the potential to be a good system when you originally bought DOS, until you started piling "functionality" onto it.
Lynx can render my router's setup page, as can Konqueror.
Sadly, Firefox can't.
The earliest I've seen this power source suggested was in Asimov's I, Robot. Unfortunately, I don't have a copy on me to check the dates ;)