Win2K introduced "dynamic" disks, which changed how the partition table worked. Partition type 0x42 means the disk is dynamic and the real information is contained at the end of the disk. 0x42 is supposed to be a container partition meant to span the disk and say "don't mess with me". An exception are boot and/or system partitions, as those have to be read early during boot before the dynamic disk stuff is loaded. Thus, boot/system partitions can be type 0x42 but not span the disk.
Anyway, as a wild-assed guess I'd check that out. Perhaps lilo/grub doesn't play well with dynamic disks.
Well, the 3rd baseman had 1 RBI, so he did contribute vital runs towards the victory. Otherwise Johnson might have been screwed out of his perfect game like Harvey Haddix was.
But, somebody else on the Diamondbacks also had an RBI, so maybe 3rd baseman could have just stood around;)
I evaluated several players before settling on the iPod Mini, so I am in the demographic the article talks about. I have between 12 and 13 GB of music, but found I really only had 3 to 3.5 GB of music I listened to, so the capacity of the mini was perfect.
Being fashion concious;) I ordered a gold iPod mini. In all seriousness, it will match my Nokia cell phone and for some reason I think that is cool.
Anyway, I ordered the mini on 3/22, and the confirmation email said it would take about 3 weeks due to demand. On 4/12, I received mail from Apple that said they are running behind, and it will be another 3 weeks. However, they offered to upgrade my purchase, at no cost to me, to a 15 GB iPod. The mail said customer satisfaction was very important to them, they were sorry about the delay, and were happy to offer basically $50 off the iPod. Today (4/22), I received mail that said my mini has shipped.
The danger in "old" storage formats is lack of machines to read them. Those tapes may be in good shape, and so might the data on an 8" floppy I have, but the 8" floppy is effectively lost to me because I don't have easy access to a drive that can read it anymore! The paper tape programs I "printed" out from a VAX PDP-11 are probably good (if I hadn't lost them years ago) but I can't get to a tape reader, etc.
You almost have to make dozens of copies of data on a modern cheap format, and keep moving it forward.
It must have been an old version of Windows. I too had experienced this problem in the past, but with Win2000 and especially WinXP, it has gotten much better. Heck, on NT4 Microsoft's own apps would gripe if you weren't Administrator.
My normal usage account on my WinXP box is a "power user". I switch user to Administrator for all installs, and so far, everything I've installed except for three apps have worked fine. Those three apps are two games (Star Wars: KOTOR, C&C Generals) and Calendar Creator by Broderbunc. Personal finance program, Open Office, Acrobat, editors, music players, you name it, are working just fine as "power user".
Interesting... I play a lot of games on my desktop (I run as PowerUser) and dozens work just fine, but only a handful require Administrator - two recent games for me that required Admin were Star Wars: KOTOR and C&C: Generals. Others (Morrowind, Galactic Civ, Tron 2.0, Warcraft 3, etc.) don't. I don't mind, doing a "Run As" isn't so bad.
I'll believe Microsoft's hype about.NET (and managed C++, and all the other blahblahblah) as the second coming when I see:
1) MS Exchange Server, MS SQL Server, MS IIS rewritten in managed code
2) MS Office writen in C#/.NET assemblies.
Microsoft touts how much cheaper migrations are when you stay within Windows, so clearly these tasks can't be too difficult. And they have the gigantic advantage of being in-house.
The registry evolved from its original purpose. If you looked way back on Win95 or even Win3.1, the registry was there, but it pretty much only stored COM/OLE related stuff. You know, a big mapping of guid's to binaries, app extensions to guid's, all that stuff, so when you install some program that wanted to populate the shell context menu, it would show up. And this hive of keys is still there today.
This is speculation as I'm not sure which group (Win 3.1 -> Win95 branch) copied who (NT group). Most likely the 3.1/95 group copied since NT has always used the registry as a place to store system startup related stuff, buried in a different branch you'll find all the services and drivers and depencies, start parameters, etc.
Somewhere along the way somebody wanted to phase out win.ini style files. Microsoft doesn't like text config files probably because they think gui's are better for editing things (yes, I run linux also and know this is sometimes the complete opposite) so they looked and lo and behold, they saw the "registry" which was already used by the NT branch for COM and system stuff and figured, hey we can use that for applications settings too.
Something you'll find amusing is the original guideline was to store app setting in the windows directory! %systemroot% as I remember. This was because that was the only directory guarenteed to be writable;). I forget the bizarro circumstances this came up, something to do with network intalls of apps where the app wound up on a different machine that was readable but not writable. So that was the guideline and vendors dutifully followed the advice and %systemroot% began to fill up with huge amounts of cruft. Now, that cruft has moved into the registry.
I think the difference between "deploying" and "evaluating" is big, as the two words connote different levels of acceptance.
Deploying implies they have agreed to move forward with the project and are committed to using the software (or whatever). Evaluating implies they haven't made up their mind, aren't commited to using the software (or whatever), and may decide to do something else.
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True, but what happens when/if intelligent life is found that worships a completely different omnipotent God?
Holy scripture doesn't say there isn't life outside this world, but the whole thing becomes a train wreck if said intelligent life doesn't then observe the "same" religion.
How exactly would theists rationalize this away? Err... omnipotent God saw fit to uh... manifest himself completely differently to "them". Or well... He uh... hadn't gotten around to "them" yet. I guess there is always the catch-all "He works in mysterious ways you can't possibly understand divine wisdom." That's worked for thousands of years when the questions get too good.
This is all moot until intelligent life is discovered anyway.
Comparing uptime on your XP Pro desktop isn't the full story.
Consider a Windows server - basically every security fix, everything off windowsupdate, Exchange fix, IIS fix, SQL Server fix, renaming your computer, joining/leaving a domain (granted these last two aren't common), etc. all require a reboot.
Your categories are super broad, which helps. If I read it correctly, games like:
all platformers (Ratchet & Clank, etc.) all sports games (SSX Tricky, etc.) all strategy games (Civilization, Dominions 2, etc.) all flight sims all real time strategy (Warcraft, Age of Empries, etc.) all CRPG's (Morrowind, Star Wars KOTOR) all MMOG's (Everquest, etc.)
all fit into your "third person" category.
These games are even genre spanning like Thief, System Shock, etc.
That's quite a bit of diversity which gets all glommed over in your category system.
Same here, my music collection is around 12 GB, but a playlist of my favorite CD's shows a total of around 3 GB. Hence, the iPod Mini is perfect for me.
I considered one of the iRiver iHP models, but memories of the difficulty of using the iRivier disc player I already have made me think twice.
I considered the Rio Karma but reviews on Amazon show many have hit buggy firmware.
Basically, I am more than happy to pay a bit extra for something that just works correctly. Or put another way, I don't have the patience to futz with a consumer electronics device.
I think the problem with credit card transactions for micropayments, is the cards generally charge a minimum transaction fee, which works out to be many times larger than the "micro"payment itself.
Ever go to a restaurant and see a "minimum charge $5.00" sign?
I also had this experience. Several years ago (probably 1994) I had a Dell notebook. It served me well, and I ran both Win 3.1 and Slackware Linux on it.
After a while, the Win 3.1 install was giving me serious problems. It was acting up, not working consistently. I reboot into slackware, and watched the driver messages go by, until I saw a repeated message, something like "can't talk to drive - ide controller timeout?"
The error message on linux was so much more informative. There was no error message on Win 3.1, just random behavior.
Granted, this was 10 years ago, perhaps a current Windows gives better error messages or diagnostic info.
Why would someone who has a perfectly good copy of MS Office want to switch?
I did this, for a few reasons.
For the first time in my life I now own multiple computers - 3 of them, plus a notebook which is sort of on permanent loan from my company. I have reason to use spreadsheets on all of them, and don't want to shell out for four copies of MS Office. That would be what, $1200? No way is that worth it, it isn't even worth it for one copy and the inconvenience of only using MS Office on one machine.
Seccond, this is more anecdotal, but recently I visited an out-of-state friend who owned Office 97. I used her computer and copy of Office 97... and it wasn't until I was finished with what I needed to do that I realized that I couldn't find anything different between Office 2000 and Office 97, at least among features I used. But, I'm not an "advanced user".
I also don't fit into the "needs compatibility with others" situation. I'm not sure what jobs require this, nowhere I've ever worked have I ever had the occasion to send documents (the bits) to people outside my place of employment. Maybe that is something for legal and/or marketing careers (not a diss, I just don't write documents that get circulated in binary form).
Car analogies will fail because there is a lot of competition in the car market. Yes, currently you have to buy cars with seats, and theoretically if there were consumer demand for cars with no seats, somebody would offer it.
I don't know about the guy above, but I tried MCE on a machine I built. I'm an MSDN Universal subscriber, and thus am able to get a completely legit copy off the MSDN Universal download site. I took my 3 CD's home (2 for 2003, 1 for 2004), installed, upgraded, etc. and finally went through the setup wizard. It bombed out because MCE wasn't able to detect the network card. With no network card you can't really proceed to the next step of downloading TV info based on your zip code... and thus the whole thing was a wash.
The machine I built for this was a Shuttle XPC SS51G, which has a Realtek 8100B. I tried fiddling around for a while, installing the drivers that came with the Shuttle on a CD (regular XP finds and uses the network card just fine), but no go. So, I gave up. Next project will be building a Myth TV box. (I already have a Replay so this system will be for fun).
Doesn't matter how difficult Linux is to configure... Knoppix is to the rescue! I think the future of linux based PVR's "for the masses" (i.e. regular people who want to give it a whirl) is the Knoppix based distro that boots up Myth TV. It is still in the works.
You do need the service for series 2 TiVo's, otherwise they will stop working after a month. Not working means they won't let you do any new recording, but will allow you to watch what has already been previously recorded.
$50 a month for cable? Where I live, Comcast offers "basic" cable, which includes the broadcast stations, and a few misc. cable channels: Discovery, Weather, and a whole bunch of public access and shopping ones. Of course, I am primarily interested in Discovery.
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Win2K introduced "dynamic" disks, which changed how the partition table worked. Partition type 0x42 means the disk is dynamic and the real information is contained at the end of the disk. 0x42 is supposed to be a container partition meant to span the disk and say "don't mess with me". An exception are boot and/or system partitions, as those have to be read early during boot before the dynamic disk stuff is loaded. Thus, boot/system partitions can be type 0x42 but not span the disk.
Anyway, as a wild-assed guess I'd check that out. Perhaps lilo/grub doesn't play well with dynamic disks.
Well, the 3rd baseman had 1 RBI, so he did contribute vital runs towards the victory. Otherwise Johnson might have been screwed out of his perfect game like Harvey Haddix was. But, somebody else on the Diamondbacks also had an RBI, so maybe 3rd baseman could have just stood around ;)
I evaluated several players before settling on the iPod Mini, so I am in the demographic the article talks about. I have between 12 and 13 GB of music, but found I really only had 3 to 3.5 GB of music I listened to, so the capacity of the mini was perfect.
;) I ordered a gold iPod mini. In all seriousness, it will match my Nokia cell phone and for some reason I think that is cool.
Being fashion concious
Anyway, I ordered the mini on 3/22, and the confirmation email said it would take about 3 weeks due to demand. On 4/12, I received mail from Apple that said they are running behind, and it will be another 3 weeks. However, they offered to upgrade my purchase, at no cost to me, to a 15 GB iPod. The mail said customer satisfaction was very important to them, they were sorry about the delay, and were happy to offer basically $50 off the iPod. Today (4/22), I received mail that said my mini has shipped.
So, there are some data for you.
The danger in "old" storage formats is lack of machines to read them. Those tapes may be in good shape, and so might the data on an 8" floppy I have, but the 8" floppy is effectively lost to me because I don't have easy access to a drive that can read it anymore! The paper tape programs I "printed" out from a VAX PDP-11 are probably good (if I hadn't lost them years ago) but I can't get to a tape reader, etc.
You almost have to make dozens of copies of data on a modern cheap format, and keep moving it forward.
Something more recent might be Queensryche "Operation MindCrime". But that's still 15+ years ago.
It must have been an old version of Windows. I too had experienced this problem in the past, but with Win2000 and especially WinXP, it has gotten much better. Heck, on NT4 Microsoft's own apps would gripe if you weren't Administrator.
My normal usage account on my WinXP box is a "power user". I switch user to Administrator for all installs, and so far, everything I've installed except for three apps have worked fine. Those three apps are two games (Star Wars: KOTOR, C&C Generals) and Calendar Creator by Broderbunc. Personal finance program, Open Office, Acrobat, editors, music players, you name it, are working just fine as "power user".
Interesting... I play a lot of games on my desktop (I run as PowerUser) and dozens work just fine, but only a handful require Administrator - two recent games for me that required Admin were Star Wars: KOTOR and C&C: Generals. Others (Morrowind, Galactic Civ, Tron 2.0, Warcraft 3, etc.) don't. I don't mind, doing a "Run As" isn't so bad.
I'll believe Microsoft's hype about .NET (and managed C++, and all the other blahblahblah) as the second coming when I see:
1) MS Exchange Server, MS SQL Server, MS IIS rewritten in managed code
2) MS Office writen in C#/.NET assemblies.
Microsoft touts how much cheaper migrations are when you stay within Windows, so clearly these tasks can't be too difficult. And they have the gigantic advantage of being in-house.
The registry evolved from its original purpose. If you looked way back on Win95 or even Win3.1, the registry was there, but it pretty much only stored COM/OLE related stuff. You know, a big mapping of guid's to binaries, app extensions to guid's, all that stuff, so when you install some program that wanted to populate the shell context menu, it would show up. And this hive of keys is still there today.
;). I forget the bizarro circumstances this came up, something to do with network intalls of apps where the app wound up on a different machine that was readable but not writable. So that was the guideline and vendors dutifully followed the advice and %systemroot% began to fill up with huge amounts of cruft. Now, that cruft has moved into the registry.
This is speculation as I'm not sure which group (Win 3.1 -> Win95 branch) copied who (NT group). Most likely the 3.1/95 group copied since NT has always used the registry as a place to store system startup related stuff, buried in a different branch you'll find all the services and drivers and depencies, start parameters, etc.
Somewhere along the way somebody wanted to phase out win.ini style files. Microsoft doesn't like text config files probably because they think gui's are better for editing things (yes, I run linux also and know this is sometimes the complete opposite) so they looked and lo and behold, they saw the "registry" which was already used by the NT branch for COM and system stuff and figured, hey we can use that for applications settings too.
Something you'll find amusing is the original guideline was to store app setting in the windows directory! %systemroot% as I remember. This was because that was the only directory guarenteed to be writable
Dell doesn't have any retail outlets, or even sell computers in the usual chains, so Gateway isn't necessarily doomed...
but I don't think Gateway's build-to-order system is as well running as Dell's.
I think the difference between "deploying" and "evaluating" is big, as the two words connote different levels of acceptance.
Deploying implies they have agreed to move forward with the project and are committed to using the software (or whatever). Evaluating implies they haven't made up their mind, aren't commited to using the software (or whatever), and may decide to do something else.
True, but what happens when/if intelligent life is found that worships a completely different omnipotent God?
Holy scripture doesn't say there isn't life outside this world, but the whole thing becomes a train wreck if said intelligent life doesn't then observe the "same" religion.
How exactly would theists rationalize this away? Err... omnipotent God saw fit to uh... manifest himself completely differently to "them". Or well... He uh... hadn't gotten around to "them" yet. I guess there is always the catch-all "He works in mysterious ways you can't possibly understand divine wisdom." That's worked for thousands of years when the questions get too good.
This is all moot until intelligent life is discovered anyway.
Comparing uptime on your XP Pro desktop isn't the full story.
Consider a Windows server - basically every security fix, everything off windowsupdate, Exchange fix, IIS fix, SQL Server fix, renaming your computer, joining/leaving a domain (granted these last two aren't common), etc. all require a reboot.
Yep, it is the Martians, farting in our general direction.
Your categories are super broad, which helps. If I read it correctly, games like:
all platformers (Ratchet & Clank, etc.)
all sports games (SSX Tricky, etc.)
all strategy games (Civilization, Dominions 2, etc.)
all flight sims
all real time strategy (Warcraft, Age of Empries, etc.)
all CRPG's (Morrowind, Star Wars KOTOR)
all MMOG's (Everquest, etc.)
all fit into your "third person" category.
These games are even genre spanning like Thief, System Shock, etc.
That's quite a bit of diversity which gets all glommed over in your category system.
Same here, my music collection is around 12 GB, but a playlist of my favorite CD's shows a total of around 3 GB. Hence, the iPod Mini is perfect for me.
I considered one of the iRiver iHP models, but memories of the difficulty of using the iRivier disc player I already have made me think twice.
I considered the Rio Karma but reviews on Amazon show many have hit buggy firmware.
Basically, I am more than happy to pay a bit extra for something that just works correctly. Or put another way, I don't have the patience to futz with a consumer electronics device.
Yes, it is that easy. And for an easy Debian install, boot Knoppix and install that to your drive first.
I think the problem with credit card transactions for micropayments, is the cards generally charge a minimum transaction fee, which works out to be many times larger than the "micro"payment itself.
Ever go to a restaurant and see a "minimum charge $5.00" sign?
I also had this experience. Several years ago (probably 1994) I had a Dell notebook. It served me well, and I ran both Win 3.1 and Slackware Linux on it.
After a while, the Win 3.1 install was giving me serious problems. It was acting up, not working consistently. I reboot into slackware, and watched the driver messages go by, until I saw a repeated message, something like "can't talk to drive - ide controller timeout?"
The error message on linux was so much more informative. There was no error message on Win 3.1, just random behavior.
Granted, this was 10 years ago, perhaps a current Windows gives better error messages or diagnostic info.
I did this, for a few reasons.
For the first time in my life I now own multiple computers - 3 of them, plus a notebook which is sort of on permanent loan from my company. I have reason to use spreadsheets on all of them, and don't want to shell out for four copies of MS Office. That would be what, $1200? No way is that worth it, it isn't even worth it for one copy and the inconvenience of only using MS Office on one machine.
Seccond, this is more anecdotal, but recently I visited an out-of-state friend who owned Office 97. I used her computer and copy of Office 97... and it wasn't until I was finished with what I needed to do that I realized that I couldn't find anything different between Office 2000 and Office 97, at least among features I used. But, I'm not an "advanced user".
I also don't fit into the "needs compatibility with others" situation. I'm not sure what jobs require this, nowhere I've ever worked have I ever had the occasion to send documents (the bits) to people outside my place of employment. Maybe that is something for legal and/or marketing careers (not a diss, I just don't write documents that get circulated in binary form).
Car analogies will fail because there is a lot of competition in the car market. Yes, currently you have to buy cars with seats, and theoretically if there were consumer demand for cars with no seats, somebody would offer it.
I don't know about the guy above, but I tried MCE on a machine I built. I'm an MSDN Universal subscriber, and thus am able to get a completely legit copy off the MSDN Universal download site. I took my 3 CD's home (2 for 2003, 1 for 2004), installed, upgraded, etc. and finally went through the setup wizard. It bombed out because MCE wasn't able to detect the network card. With no network card you can't really proceed to the next step of downloading TV info based on your zip code... and thus the whole thing was a wash.
The machine I built for this was a Shuttle XPC SS51G, which has a Realtek 8100B. I tried fiddling around for a while, installing the drivers that came with the Shuttle on a CD (regular XP finds and uses the network card just fine), but no go. So, I gave up. Next project will be building a Myth TV box. (I already have a Replay so this system will be for fun).
Doesn't matter how difficult Linux is to configure... Knoppix is to the rescue! I think the future of linux based PVR's "for the masses" (i.e. regular people who want to give it a whirl) is the Knoppix based distro that boots up Myth TV. It is still in the works.
You do need the service for series 2 TiVo's, otherwise they will stop working after a month. Not working means they won't let you do any new recording, but will allow you to watch what has already been previously recorded.
$50 a month for cable? Where I live, Comcast offers "basic" cable, which includes the broadcast stations, and a few misc. cable channels: Discovery, Weather, and a whole bunch of public access and shopping ones. Of course, I am primarily interested in Discovery.
Monthly cost: $12.30.