Shut up you moron. Klinton did this country some MAJOR damage. Now the idiot wants to be in charge of the UN. Frankly I'm scared that he has a good chance of accomplishing it!
--Holey Crap, FORTY TERABYTES on something the size of an iPod?? Can you imagine trying to DEFRAGMENT that thing?! You'd need another one just to have the extra memory for the defragger program...
> I'm not mistaken you can't boot from a ramdrive.
--You mean ya can't do that TODAY... All it needs is BIOS support, and you're good to go. (But please don't forget reliable LINUX support too, before it goes on sale!)
--When components start getting this small, the chances of having an potential error occur go WAY up. What I'd be interested to see, is what they're doing to protect against stuff like cosmic-ray bit pollution and such.
--After all, if the scale is NANO, one cosmic ray or stray electro/magnetic field can potentially screw up a lot more percentage of memory... Massive redundancy, high speed and constant bit cross-checking would seem to be a reasonable requirement for these chips.
--For just one example, look what a few scratches can do to a CDR - or worse, a DVD. If you can't read it (use it reliably XMillion times) it's basically not very useful...
--I tried 2.0 on a P166 Compaq laptop and it was basically useless. Wouldn't enable the PCMCIA stuff, so no Ethernet, so no updates.:(
--I went back to Knoppix. Actually I'd like to support Libranet's efforts since it would be BAD if they went out of business, but I'm not going to pay $40 sight-unseen for a distro when I haven't had a JOB for TooFkgLong.
> Win98SE would run fine on a Pentium 90 with 16mb of ram.
--I've successfully gotten Win98SE to run quite well on a 486-75 with 16Meg, no CDROM, and a permanent swap file.
> My computer is an Athlon 875mhz with 512mb of ram & 7200rpm hdd - this should be fine as a desktop computer for a long time in theory, but WinXP from 2001 would run slowly on it, and Linux distros run like a dog on it.
--If this is true, you're doing something wrong. Try Knoppix.
> No computer I've seen has been faster to use from an end-user standpoint than my DX4-100 with Windows 3.11.
--Sure, but the things you can actually DO with it these days are pretty limited.
--Keep in mind that the number and variety of DEVICES that we can connect to our computers has multiplied (probably beyond a hundredfold) and that the PC architecture is vastly different from the older Apple tech.
--Also, Apple had control over the hardware. Graphics were primitive, fonts were few, all equipment was pretty much standardized.
--I don't disagree with your post, just pointing out that a LOT of things have changed and the options that can be on one machine now are staggering. That's one reason why the boot process takes longer.
--Also, DO NOT do the whole 650 hours at once! Make a couple of test-cases and play them back. That way if you don't like the results you can tweak or switch to a different method.
--LOL... I have that cd and know exactly what you're talking about man... Woulda been even worse if it had coincided with something freaky in the game!
--You just reminded me - THAT's what it was! It's been a couple of years prolly, but at first I thought it was the mutated-special-ops guy that had snuck up on me - but it was a Headcrab in a dark air duct...
--I remember yelling "Yiiii!!!" and convulsively hammering keys looking for "FIRE" it shocked me so bad...
Gunny Sarge: "Fire at will!!" Trooper, whispering: "(Sucks to be Will...)"
--Yep, don't laugh... When I finally got a halfway decent 3-speaker sound system and played it with the sound turned up, one of the mutant monsters snuck up and scared the living shit out of me!!
1. Upgrade your freakin' memory dude!! My P233MMX came with 32MB RAM back in 1995 - did I keep it that low? NO! I upgraded the thing first to 160MB, and just today brought it up to 256. RAM is *cheap* these days man!!!
2. Try Knoppix. knx-hdinstall should work in text mode just fine.
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Shut up you moron. Klinton did this country some MAJOR damage. Now the idiot wants to be in charge of the UN. Frankly I'm scared that he has a good chance of accomplishing it!
"Today, Apple Computers is seen as dying..."[INTERRUPT]
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Wolfrider: "SHUT UP you NAZI!!"
This thread is now over.
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--Holey Crap, FORTY TERABYTES on something the size of an iPod?? Can you imagine trying to DEFRAGMENT that thing?! You'd need another one just to have the extra memory for the defragger program...
> I'm not mistaken you can't boot from a ramdrive.
--You mean ya can't do that TODAY... All it needs is BIOS support, and you're good to go. (But please don't forget reliable LINUX support too, before it goes on sale!)
--When components start getting this small, the chances of having an potential error occur go WAY up. What I'd be interested to see, is what they're doing to protect against stuff like cosmic-ray bit pollution and such.
--After all, if the scale is NANO, one cosmic ray or stray electro/magnetic field can potentially screw up a lot more percentage of memory... Massive redundancy, high speed and constant bit cross-checking would seem to be a reasonable requirement for these chips.
--For just one example, look what a few scratches can do to a CDR - or worse, a DVD. If you can't read it (use it reliably XMillion times) it's basically not very useful...
--I tried 2.0 on a P166 Compaq laptop and it was basically useless. Wouldn't enable the PCMCIA stuff, so no Ethernet, so no updates. :(
--I went back to Knoppix. Actually I'd like to support Libranet's efforts since it would be BAD if they went out of business, but I'm not going to pay $40 sight-unseen for a distro when I haven't had a JOB for TooFkgLong.
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--Yes, we will hunt you down one by one and force you to see the wonders of the modern world...
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--For Godsake, UPGRADE ALREADY from that TI-994/A you've been using for all these years!!
> Win98SE would run fine on a Pentium 90 with 16mb of ram.
--I've successfully gotten Win98SE to run quite well on a 486-75 with 16Meg, no CDROM, and a permanent swap file.
> My computer is an Athlon 875mhz with 512mb of ram & 7200rpm hdd - this should be fine as a desktop computer for a long time in theory, but WinXP from 2001 would run slowly on it, and Linux distros run like a dog on it.
--If this is true, you're doing something wrong. Try Knoppix.
> No computer I've seen has been faster to use from an end-user standpoint than my DX4-100 with Windows 3.11.
--Sure, but the things you can actually DO with it these days are pretty limited.
--Keep in mind that the number and variety of DEVICES that we can connect to our computers has multiplied (probably beyond a hundredfold) and that the PC architecture is vastly different from the older Apple tech.
--Also, Apple had control over the hardware. Graphics were primitive, fonts were few, all equipment was pretty much standardized.
--I don't disagree with your post, just pointing out that a LOT of things have changed and the options that can be on one machine now are staggering. That's one reason why the boot process takes longer.
1. Use Opera.
2. Click on the little icon that switches the view into "User mode" - 3rd icon from the left.
--Not perfect, but it works.
---Nonono, you have it all wrong! What you have to do is transcribe all the video to Egyptian hieroglyphs, and carve them into STONE.
;-)
--Stone and hieroglyphs last for THOUSANDS OF YEARS - just ask the pharaohs!
--Also, DO NOT do the whole 650 hours at once! Make a couple of test-cases and play them back. That way if you don't like the results you can tweak or switch to a different method.
--I protest the Offtopic moderation! I was responding to a question!!
--LOL... I have that cd and know exactly what you're talking about man... Woulda been even worse if it had coincided with something freaky in the game!
Yes, but can the Ocarina do the Macarena??
Simpsons. The Ahnold-like guy was making a movie that involved REAL toxic sludge...
--You just reminded me - THAT's what it was! It's been a couple of years prolly, but at first I thought it was the mutated-special-ops guy that had snuck up on me - but it was a Headcrab in a dark air duct...
--I remember yelling "Yiiii!!!" and convulsively hammering keys looking for "FIRE" it shocked me so bad...
Gunny Sarge: "Fire at will!!"
Trooper, whispering: "(Sucks to be Will...)"
--Yep, don't laugh... When I finally got a halfway decent 3-speaker sound system and played it with the sound turned up, one of the mutant monsters snuck up and scared the living shit out of me!!
>spend two days sorting out the kernel panics
>wait all week for kde to emerge
> processor dies of over work
>huge nasty electricty bill arrives after running emerge for over a week 24/7
--ROTFLMAO
--Good one!
Two suggestions:
1. Upgrade your freakin' memory dude!! My P233MMX came with 32MB RAM back in 1995 - did I keep it that low? NO! I upgraded the thing first to 160MB, and just today brought it up to 256. RAM is *cheap* these days man!!!
2. Try Knoppix. knx-hdinstall should work in text mode just fine.
--Imagine a Beowulf cluster of spare cy--
Oh, never mind.
--Would shielding the cockpit (maybe a Faraday cage?) alleviate these fears?
--I don't mind Debian being Gnu/Linux in concept, but trying to make everyone else say Gnu/blah is just stupid.
--Apart from that, props to RMS for his coding contributions and efforts for Free Software.
Root!