I haven't tried it myself yet, but according to this web site, you can restart without rebooting now.
Um, that's WHOA old. It's only going to work on 98, maybe ME (haven't tried on that piece of trash). To my knowledge, there's not any way of doing this in XP/2K, because you have to reboot so NTLDR can load up NTOSKRNL.EXE.
Point taken. I should have said, "worth to me and others who value accurate information".
I dunno. I've always regarded Wikipedia for exactly what it is: a Wiki. It might be a great starting point to get more information, but I wouldn't take it as a bible for any subject.
Keep in mind, just as if you're talking face to face with someone, if they've said, "What I Know Is...", they could be lacking certain parts of information, or be factually incorrect. It should be assumed that you're taking everything with a grain of salt, and that further study would be required to get an accurate picture of the topic you're dealing with. Just because Wikipedia is correct quite freqently doesn't make it anything more than one giant Wiki. It's pretty valuable to me as is, should I just need to skim over something, or get quickly familiar with a subject.
So nowadays, I am a fan of pulling the powercable out of the back of the machine to shut things off. It saves time and power, and sometimes its a way to prevent a virus from fully propogating on your system(yah I stopped a virus manually like this once).
I know with the advent of journalling filesystems and NTFS, this is becoming less of an issue, but you're just asking for trouble. Nowadays, if you've got a virus on your system, it's only going to take milliseconds for a virus to infect and drop it's payload. All you're doing is turning off an infected system, and still risking data/settings loss. Please tell me, and if you are I pray for your organization, that you don't do this to production systems. I could just see you saying, "well, I need to swap out a card in this server, so let me yank the cord real quick, while database reads and writes could still be taking place!" *shudder*
I wouldn't let you near my systems if you're going to yank the power cable on them. Even back in 95 when you'd see "It is now safe to turn off your computer", you still needed to tell the OS to shut down so it could finish what it was doing, and clean up after itself by writing everything to disk. Then, it was ok to hard-power down your system, only after that was done.
Are there any inexpensive devices that will monitor the power use of individual devices? I'm even more interested in how much power is being used by all the standby lights around the house.
WRT ATX power: push the button (keeping it pushed) for five/ten seconds and it forces the power off.
Um... Not quite. That forces the system into a different power state. Yes, that's the closest approximation of "OFF" that an ATX system has without pulling the cord, but it's not off-- you can still do things like Wake on Lan, or power on using the keyboard from that power state.
I can't say that Napoleon Dynamite was a "geek". Dork, perhaps, but not geek.
I think that you can be a geek, but still not be a dork, or in the same vein, a loser. I think that's what it is these days-- geeks are getting shown to not be losers, but instead are being recognized for their interest in some subject, and lauded for that intelligence.
I understand what he said-- it's still really unfeasible. What are they going to do-- restart a machine every time they sit down at it, or have to change seats? With a live distro, that can take a while.
...and then taking into account that not all systems in an organization will be USB bootable, or even have USB 2.0, making it fast enough to run a live distro.
With the USB keys, I can see loads of broken USB ports in an entire organization as people plug and unplug those guys daily. Not only that, but many organizations have banned USB keys because of concerns such as industrial espionage. And considering the price of one needed to hold a decent live distro, that's not something I, were I an IT manager, would even consider handing out to everyone in an org.
Just run the entire thing off of a thumb drive or live distribution that they can use anywhere they go that mounts your netdrive;)
Are you nuts? Do you really think you're going to get a whole organization to run in that fashion? Do you think end users are going to keep up with thumb drives and live CDs?
I'm not going to belittle you, but that has to be the least feasible idea that I've ever run across as a suggestion for something like this. If the poster really wanted to do it properly, they'd implement roaming profiles, or at the very least, a mounted network share that synchronized at logout. If that was configured correctly, the operation of such a setup would be transparent to any program that accesses files from those directories.
I was running 1.6.1 on the SE/30 I have. It transferred data well enough on the 10BT Ethernet card it had-- so long as you're not hammering it, you'd be OK. I mostly did NFS stuff, not FTP, though. I'm not sure how well SFTP would work out, what with the CPU speed being rather scant.
After I got through with it, I just wiped it and threw Mac OS 7.1 back on it. With the low amount of RAM it had (8MB), it was refreshing to get something that had a usable GUI and I had a comprehensive suite of old-timey apps to work with it.
I dig up a bit wanting to put it on one of my spare computers...and it doesn't support it. I'm shocked O_o
Don't believe the hype. That's one of few Powermacs not supported by NetBSD. Want to know why? It's not for lack of want or trying-- the 7200 was, and still is, a bastard child of the Power Macintosh line.
--Alex
(Owner of Power Mac 8500s and 8600s that run NetBSD like champs. For extra street-cred, I've installed it successfully on older Mac IIci's, and SE/30's.)
Even funnier...I've seen TV shows, and movies on TV, where for "God Damnit!" they bleep out "God", but leave the "Damnit."
***prepares for flamebait mod***
You can blame that on the religious folks wanting to press their beliefs on you. To them, taking The Lord's name is a BIG no-no.
But, of course, that brings up another question... If you're saying "damn it", you're cursing something. You're wishing ill, or a curse upon someone. Isn't God kind of implied in doing it? If you're going to bleep it out, it just occurs that you would bleep out the whole God Damned thing.
There is no 3D acceleration in VMWare. In fact, gamers aren't even the target market. Things like VMWare workstation, GSX and ESX are meant for development, server consolodation, and virtualisation of legacy OSes still used for old applications.
who would want to watch video on a 2.5" screen, but the question i have, is how the fuck do you plan on taking a normal sized, 30" tv on a plane, train, or in a car?
Hear Hear.
My wife is one of, what seems, the very few people to have bought one of the original Nokia NGAGE game system/phones. She LOVES it. Sure, the screen is smaller than the new iPod's, but she loves watching movies on it. She's an anime fan-- I can take 3-4 smaller anime series and convert them down to H.263, sized for her screen, and they'll easily fit on a 1GB MMC with room to spare. I think, in fact, that an appropriately sized full-length movie might only take up around 80-90MB of space, since you cut a few frames and shrink the video's resolution.
I think that people just like to whine/naysay about anything, personally. Why do you need incredible quality for a portable device, anyways? I think people are really expecting more than they should from these; they're not home entertainment systems, after all, and you're stupid if you honestly expected them to be.
People make money all the time by selling client/server software for FTP. I venture that some websites even make money by offering downloads of content via FTP. Maybe Cohen is going to offer some kind of licensed/authenticated Bittorrent protocol, or something along those lines, to give people a reason to pay him for his work.
You're correct-- but lots of things have DRAM in them. You still need something to load your data/programming into from the flash RAM.
Long story short-- you have both. My PDA, for instance, has DRAM in it and Flash RAM in it. You can use the DRAM for storage while the power's on, then there's a bit of Flash in there you can use for longer term storage. Even with the prevalence of Flash RAM, it's still too slow to effectively provide data to the processors of these devices.
Keep in mind that sometimes you have no choice but to buy Samsung memory, if you want a particular device. We're not just talking some RAM you slap into your desktop box, we're talking the DRAM inside of cellphones, MP3 players, etc-- almost every consumer electronic device that you want to name off. Heck, sometimes when you buy sticks of RAM, it's branded by one company, like Crucial or OCZ, but it's using Samsung DRAM chips on the actual stick.
If you're serious about not buying their memory, it's going to be tough-- you could buy it in a device, and not even know that you did.
Lemme just jump in with a "Me too" on this one. The only thing that kept me from installing the last release is that I thought "Hoary Hedgehog" sounded like a rodent with loose morals.
true, and if other providers are like cingular, you can just write a script to go through a given range of telephone prefixes. with cingular, an email to 1231231234@my.cingular.com will result in a text message being sent to 123-123-1234's cell phone.
While it is technically feasible that this could be done, implementing an anti-spam filter, or similar, on the mail address in question. While everything is still going through a server (and I'm sure similar solutions can/will exist for SMS), whether it's email or SMS, I'm pretty confident that a modern IDS could already help if someone tried to do this by emailing a phone.
I, too, was looking forward to Winter Assault. I went out and bought it the week it was released.
I was so excited about the Imperial Guard, which is supposed to be a defensive-oriented game. I thought maybe this would yield a slower pace, which is how I like to play my RTS games. INSTEAD... while your building up your forces, every AI enemy decides to rush your base, and decimate you before getting up and going.
If you like rushes, and defending against them, maybe the expansion is for you. Me, I got hours of enjoyment out of the original DoW, but I'm hardly getting any enjoyment out of DoW:WA. Mainly, though, is because the 10 minutes I spend playing a Skirmish before getting rushed and subsequently killed isn't enough time to form an objective opinion on it.
exactly... without pluto all of our school children would come home spouting off phrases like "My very extroverted mom just sold us nine" and other such rediculousness. WE NEED THE 'PIZZAS'!
Nah... you could do:
My Very Extroverted Mom Just Sold Us Nintendos
...but I'm not sure how well that'd work out, because somebody'd probably try to sue someone, somewhere...
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Um, that's WHOA old. It's only going to work on 98, maybe ME (haven't tried on that piece of trash). To my knowledge, there's not any way of doing this in XP/2K, because you have to reboot so NTLDR can load up NTOSKRNL.EXE.
I dunno. I've always regarded Wikipedia for exactly what it is: a Wiki. It might be a great starting point to get more information, but I wouldn't take it as a bible for any subject.
Keep in mind, just as if you're talking face to face with someone, if they've said, "What I Know Is...", they could be lacking certain parts of information, or be factually incorrect. It should be assumed that you're taking everything with a grain of salt, and that further study would be required to get an accurate picture of the topic you're dealing with. Just because Wikipedia is correct quite freqently doesn't make it anything more than one giant Wiki. It's pretty valuable to me as is, should I just need to skim over something, or get quickly familiar with a subject.
I don't know about you guys and gals, but it looks to me like they just discovered Martians knew how to tye-dye. Groovy, baby!
I know with the advent of journalling filesystems and NTFS, this is becoming less of an issue, but you're just asking for trouble. Nowadays, if you've got a virus on your system, it's only going to take milliseconds for a virus to infect and drop it's payload. All you're doing is turning off an infected system, and still risking data/settings loss. Please tell me, and if you are I pray for your organization, that you don't do this to production systems. I could just see you saying, "well, I need to swap out a card in this server, so let me yank the cord real quick, while database reads and writes could still be taking place!" *shudder*
I wouldn't let you near my systems if you're going to yank the power cable on them. Even back in 95 when you'd see "It is now safe to turn off your computer", you still needed to tell the OS to shut down so it could finish what it was doing, and clean up after itself by writing everything to disk. Then, it was ok to hard-power down your system, only after that was done.
Check this guy out:
http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/electronic/7657/
It monitors a single power outlet, but it would tell you how much power your system is using with just a standby light running on it.
Um... Not quite. That forces the system into a different power state. Yes, that's the closest approximation of "OFF" that an ATX system has without pulling the cord, but it's not off-- you can still do things like Wake on Lan, or power on using the keyboard from that power state.
I think that you can be a geek, but still not be a dork, or in the same vein, a loser. I think that's what it is these days-- geeks are getting shown to not be losers, but instead are being recognized for their interest in some subject, and lauded for that intelligence.
With the USB keys, I can see loads of broken USB ports in an entire organization as people plug and unplug those guys daily. Not only that, but many organizations have banned USB keys because of concerns such as industrial espionage. And considering the price of one needed to hold a decent live distro, that's not something I, were I an IT manager, would even consider handing out to everyone in an org.
Are you nuts? Do you really think you're going to get a whole organization to run in that fashion? Do you think end users are going to keep up with thumb drives and live CDs?
I'm not going to belittle you, but that has to be the least feasible idea that I've ever run across as a suggestion for something like this. If the poster really wanted to do it properly, they'd implement roaming profiles, or at the very least, a mounted network share that synchronized at logout. If that was configured correctly, the operation of such a setup would be transparent to any program that accesses files from those directories.
After I got through with it, I just wiped it and threw Mac OS 7.1 back on it. With the low amount of RAM it had (8MB), it was refreshing to get something that had a usable GUI and I had a comprehensive suite of old-timey apps to work with it.
Don't believe the hype. That's one of few Powermacs not supported by NetBSD. Want to know why? It's not for lack of want or trying-- the 7200 was, and still is, a bastard child of the Power Macintosh line.
--Alex
(Owner of Power Mac 8500s and 8600s that run NetBSD like champs. For extra street-cred, I've installed it successfully on older Mac IIci's, and SE/30's.)
Suddenly, in Los Alamos, a new retort for pickup lines emerges:
Lady: GET A LIFE!
Scientist: Working on it, baby.
***prepares for flamebait mod***
You can blame that on the religious folks wanting to press their beliefs on you. To them, taking The Lord's name is a BIG no-no.
But, of course, that brings up another question... If you're saying "damn it", you're cursing something. You're wishing ill, or a curse upon someone. Isn't God kind of implied in doing it? If you're going to bleep it out, it just occurs that you would bleep out the whole God Damned thing.
There is no 3D acceleration in VMWare. In fact, gamers aren't even the target market. Things like VMWare workstation, GSX and ESX are meant for development, server consolodation, and virtualisation of legacy OSes still used for old applications.
Hear Hear.
My wife is one of, what seems, the very few people to have bought one of the original Nokia NGAGE game system/phones. She LOVES it. Sure, the screen is smaller than the new iPod's, but she loves watching movies on it. She's an anime fan-- I can take 3-4 smaller anime series and convert them down to H.263, sized for her screen, and they'll easily fit on a 1GB MMC with room to spare. I think, in fact, that an appropriately sized full-length movie might only take up around 80-90MB of space, since you cut a few frames and shrink the video's resolution.
I think that people just like to whine/naysay about anything, personally. Why do you need incredible quality for a portable device, anyways? I think people are really expecting more than they should from these; they're not home entertainment systems, after all, and you're stupid if you honestly expected them to be.
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http://froogle.google.com/froogle?q=%22ftp+client
http://froogle.google.com/froogle?q=%22ftp+server
People make money all the time by selling client/server software for FTP. I venture that some websites even make money by offering downloads of content via FTP. Maybe Cohen is going to offer some kind of licensed/authenticated Bittorrent protocol, or something along those lines, to give people a reason to pay him for his work.
Long story short-- you have both. My PDA, for instance, has DRAM in it and Flash RAM in it. You can use the DRAM for storage while the power's on, then there's a bit of Flash in there you can use for longer term storage. Even with the prevalence of Flash RAM, it's still too slow to effectively provide data to the processors of these devices.
If you're serious about not buying their memory, it's going to be tough-- you could buy it in a device, and not even know that you did.
Lemme just jump in with a "Me too" on this one. The only thing that kept me from installing the last release is that I thought "Hoary Hedgehog" sounded like a rodent with loose morals.
While it is technically feasible that this could be done, implementing an anti-spam filter, or similar, on the mail address in question. While everything is still going through a server (and I'm sure similar solutions can/will exist for SMS), whether it's email or SMS, I'm pretty confident that a modern IDS could already help if someone tried to do this by emailing a phone.
Yes. You are correct. The proper usage is uniquer.
I was so excited about the Imperial Guard, which is supposed to be a defensive-oriented game. I thought maybe this would yield a slower pace, which is how I like to play my RTS games. INSTEAD... while your building up your forces, every AI enemy decides to rush your base, and decimate you before getting up and going.
If you like rushes, and defending against them, maybe the expansion is for you. Me, I got hours of enjoyment out of the original DoW, but I'm hardly getting any enjoyment out of DoW:WA. Mainly, though, is because the 10 minutes I spend playing a Skirmish before getting rushed and subsequently killed isn't enough time to form an objective opinion on it.
This is incorrect. Michael Dell himself invested $100m into Red Hat, not Dell itself. They are different entities.
http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/05/09/ 1221229&tid=110&tid=98&tid=106
OH GOD! NOT THERE! FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, YOU JUST KILLED ME! HOW DID THEY LET YOU INTO MED SCHOOL?!?!
Nah... you could do:
My Very Extroverted Mom Just Sold Us Nintendos