Most of the preproduction boxes I knew about were gifts/loans to apps developers to migrate to PPC. Had they made it to market, in that era, $5-10K would have been the expected price range.
I know of a single lan-party that resulted in 16 infected machines because one had a worm on it. If you have a cable/dsl router protecting you, then yes, you do not get rooted quickly, if ever.
But let someone walk into your house with a laptop and plug in, may the Gods help you.
The only reason I could see for making the switch to PPC is exactly what MS is doing with the Xbox. Embedded software. The PPC is a much better general purpose embedded/mobile processor than anything Intel makes (I know the StrongARM people will flame me here):-D
Alpha: Cannot find an authoritative resource for proof, but the way I understand it is that NT was IMPOSSIBLE to run on a big-endian-only CPU, hence the #1 reason it never made it beyond rumor stage on Sparc.
I remember back in '96-'97 timeframe hearing from a number of Sun vendors about experiments with NT on Ultrasparc, but could never get a demo (and we had Sun workstation vendors falling all over us to give us hardware at the time).
You would be correct if you qualified that by stating: there were no computers available to run NT/PPC for less than $5K. Many of which indeed had plastic cases, but the vast majority of which came from Intel (IIRC Netpower was flirting with a switch from MIPS to PPC, but that was so long ago I barely remember it). I do remember stacking the entire pile of PPC boxes in a closet once we got the letter from Microsoft that the Beta was ending (This would have been NT4 SP2 era).
You have to also remember that the Alpha, MIPS and PPC platforms were aimed at a much different market than the Intel boxes. The Pentiums of the day just weren't up to snuff (this started to change once the PII started the MHZ escalation from 300-500mhz), and things like the Integraph TDZ series hit the market.
But you were still talking $10K-$20K graphics workstations.
In 1967(?), there were far fewer systems capable of reaching that altitude. The fact that the U.S. had been probing Soviet airspace for some time surely spurred the Soviets into moving high-altitude systems where they were most useful.
Had Powers been in an SR71, he'd probably have come home in his aircraft.
Yes, but enough people track these things that the orbits themselves can be found, not necessarily the function (yet sometimes the function can be determined by the type of orbit).
IIRC, NORAD tracking data includes classified satellite orbits.
It's because the OP who F#CK'd google wasn't ready to go the final mile and write FUCK google, for whatever reasons he has in mind, which is what the GP was pondering about.
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tell me more about this gdb-mode swami?
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I'm not too found of Intellisense, actually. I've found that 99% of the time, it locks up my interface while it searches the browser database for a tag, and or it requires me to move my hands from the alpha keys to the arrows to complete a task. It's mentally exhausting to deal with when all I want to do is stream-of-consciousness programming.
I won't even deal with auto-format which is much worse in my opinion...
Only thing I really dislike about the bob*l*bee is the big ass space at the bottom, it's really wasted pack space. I've got mine (orange, I got it for $99 cuz the color is heinous), all tricked out with the accessories, and manage to carry a laptop, two changes of clothes, poncho, chargers, 2 cameras +lenses+ flash, light-meter tripod, batteries, sweatshirt, and the kitchen sink. Weighs about 40-45 pounds fully loaded, and makes maneuvering on the MBTA very tough. Had mine about three years, pretty solidly build, and even with all that crap, it still fits in an overhead compartment.
Or worse, take a perfectly working sendmail/Netscape based email system and a 3rd party calendaring system that was distributed throughout the world on 8 boxes, and replacing each site with a clustered exchange host, burning a million+ $$$$ in the process...
Yeah, who's kid works at Microsoft and needed to make quota?
Unless that somewhere safe isn't up to code and partially collapses?;-) It would be nice if you could at least build inground bunkers to hide out the nasty wind like smart people do in Tornado Alley, but you've got no ground to dig in!!! The whole state is what, 12 feet above sea level?
The tide is already rolling out, dude... With more and more apps end-users are using being delivered online via Java or HTML/DHTML, the home market is RIPE for massive takeover wrt Linux. Firefox is the holy grail for most of the IE only websites. It's really only the business market at this point where application support is suffering. The only reason I haven't switched my dad is Photoshop (the Gimp is really inferior to Photoshop 7), and some accounting packages that do not yet have comparable counterparts via the Web (sql-ledger is still an infant in the accounting space) that don't require an ASP to get access to.
I'm going to confess to attempting to wget your lemmings sample so I can learn offline. What you've described is exactly what I want to do for a number of applications I'm working on for my local intranet, and from what I've seen so far, your example is a great place for me to start.
I guess my only problem with it at this moment seems to be the necessary interfaces to the server to retrieve data. I've been partial to attempting to do server access (when required, say, on final save) in an iframe that's invisible to the user, and trapping/reading any error output. My eventual goals were the hope that 1. I could transparently talk to the server without the user being aware of server unavailability, and 2. local information storage (in IE, the Scripting.FileSystemObject if necessary, or document.cookies if at all possible).
Mostly, I've noticed your use of the CGI mechanism to effect certain application features. How to do so using DHTML events across pages? Where's the feature document.location.href="blah.html" and queue an event on the page "newdoc.loadMenuOld()"?
Having a completely disconnected client, something I can distribute in a tarfile to end users that only does large-grained transactions to the server when necessary? Attainable?
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Most of the preproduction boxes I knew about were gifts/loans to apps developers to migrate to PPC. Had they made it to market, in that era, $5-10K would have been the expected price range.
I know of a single lan-party that resulted in 16 infected machines because one had a worm on it. If you have a cable/dsl router protecting you, then yes, you do not get rooted quickly, if ever.
But let someone walk into your house with a laptop and plug in, may the Gods help you.
If true (not too insult you and say it isn't), that would surely explain some of the later developments in 98, 99 (can we say Java)?
The only reason I could see for making the switch to PPC is exactly what MS is doing with the Xbox. Embedded software. The PPC is a much better general purpose embedded/mobile processor than anything Intel makes (I know the StrongARM people will flame me here) :-D
Mips: MIPS IV Instruction Set Section A.2.1
Alpha: Cannot find an authoritative resource for proof, but the way I understand it is that NT was IMPOSSIBLE to run on a big-endian-only CPU, hence the #1 reason it never made it beyond rumor stage on Sparc.
Solaris and Endianness.
I remember back in '96-'97 timeframe hearing from a number of Sun vendors about experiments with NT on Ultrasparc, but could never get a demo (and we had Sun workstation vendors falling all over us to give us hardware at the time).
You would be correct if you qualified that by stating: there were no computers available to run NT/PPC for less than $5K. Many of which indeed had plastic cases, but the vast majority of which came from Intel (IIRC Netpower was flirting with a switch from MIPS to PPC, but that was so long ago I barely remember it). I do remember stacking the entire pile of PPC boxes in a closet once we got the letter from Microsoft that the Beta was ending (This would have been NT4 SP2 era).
You have to also remember that the Alpha, MIPS and PPC platforms were aimed at a much different market than the Intel boxes. The Pentiums of the day just weren't up to snuff (this started to change once the PII started the MHZ escalation from 300-500mhz), and things like the Integraph TDZ series hit the market.
But you were still talking $10K-$20K graphics workstations.
In 1967(?), there were far fewer systems capable of reaching that altitude. The fact that the U.S. had been probing Soviet airspace for some time surely spurred the Soviets into moving high-altitude systems where they were most useful.
Had Powers been in an SR71, he'd probably have come home in his aircraft.
And it never occurred to you that there were HUMANS on board that thing? That don't react well to .30-06 rounds travelling at high velocity?
You *ARE* a redneck.
Yes, but enough people track these things that the orbits themselves can be found, not necessarily the function (yet sometimes the function can be determined by the type of orbit).
IIRC, NORAD tracking data includes classified satellite orbits.
No, Sea Bass. Or Bluefish. Meaner than sharks...
you are mistaken... fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck.
It's because the OP who F#CK'd google wasn't ready to go the final mile and write FUCK google, for whatever reasons he has in mind, which is what the GP was pondering about.
tell me more about this gdb-mode swami?
I'm not too found of Intellisense, actually. I've found that 99% of the time, it locks up my interface while it searches the browser database for a tag, and or it requires me to move my hands from the alpha keys to the arrows to complete a task. It's mentally exhausting to deal with when all I want to do is stream-of-consciousness programming.
I won't even deal with auto-format which is much worse in my opinion...
But to each his own. Best of luck to you!
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Visual C++ user since 2.0.
how an average of 40MB/sec is too slow is a mystery to me....
I think EVERYONE is failing in providing friendly HDTV recording capability... considering said capability only hit the market last spring...
I'd rather Tivo take their time and Do-It-Right than fuck it up royally (like some to-be-unnamed vendors). IIRC, an HD-Tivo is still unavailable...
Only thing I really dislike about the bob*l*bee is the big ass space at the bottom, it's really wasted pack space. I've got mine (orange, I got it for $99 cuz the color is heinous), all tricked out with the accessories, and manage to carry a laptop, two changes of clothes, poncho, chargers, 2 cameras +lenses+ flash, light-meter tripod, batteries, sweatshirt, and the kitchen sink. Weighs about 40-45 pounds fully loaded, and makes maneuvering on the MBTA very tough. Had mine about three years, pretty solidly build, and even with all that crap, it still fits in an overhead compartment.
Which gets billed to whom?
If not this project, it will be buried in the appropriations for the next one...
Or worse, take a perfectly working sendmail/Netscape based email system and a 3rd party calendaring system that was distributed throughout the world on 8 boxes, and replacing each site with a clustered exchange host, burning a million+ $$$$ in the process...
Yeah, who's kid works at Microsoft and needed to make quota?
Every car I have ever been in has a (N)eutral option that ALWAYS works. Use it.
Most cars will auto-shutoff anyway once the RPMs redline (My taurus and voyager do this).
Except this here Intarweb we're all using... Kudos, Al Gore.... :-D
eep!! Quick, Rsync ODSL over to my Shuttle Aria!!!
Unless that somewhere safe isn't up to code and partially collapses? ;-) It would be nice if you could at least build inground bunkers to hide out the nasty wind like smart people do in Tornado Alley, but you've got no ground to dig in!!! The whole state is what, 12 feet above sea level?
Yeah, um, the Northeast doesn't lose people at the rate of multiple dozens every winter to blizzards.
I'll keep my snow and ice thank you.
I imagine Arizone is pretty safe... just hot.
The tide is already rolling out, dude... With more and more apps end-users are using being delivered online via Java or HTML/DHTML, the home market is RIPE for massive takeover wrt Linux. Firefox is the holy grail for most of the IE only websites. It's really only the business market at this point where application support is suffering. The only reason I haven't switched my dad is Photoshop (the Gimp is really inferior to Photoshop 7), and some accounting packages that do not yet have comparable counterparts via the Web (sql-ledger is still an infant in the accounting space) that don't require an ASP to get access to.
I'm going to confess to attempting to wget your lemmings sample so I can learn offline. What you've described is exactly what I want to do for a number of applications I'm working on for my local intranet, and from what I've seen so far, your example is a great place for me to start.
I guess my only problem with it at this moment seems to be the necessary interfaces to the server to retrieve data. I've been partial to attempting to do server access (when required, say, on final save) in an iframe that's invisible to the user, and trapping/reading any error output. My eventual goals were the hope that 1. I could transparently talk to the server without the user being aware of server unavailability, and 2. local information storage (in IE, the Scripting.FileSystemObject if necessary, or document.cookies if at all possible).
Mostly, I've noticed your use of the CGI mechanism to effect certain application features. How to do so using DHTML events across pages? Where's the feature document.location.href="blah.html" and queue an event on the page "newdoc.loadMenuOld()"?
Having a completely disconnected client, something I can distribute in a tarfile to end users that only does large-grained transactions to the server when necessary? Attainable?