I haven't played any new videogames since the snes days. Still grieving that they didn't port Seiken Denshuto 3 (however you spell it) and the Dragon Quests to English:(
At least this will be an easy game to boycott for me, as
I still have FF 7,8,9,10 and lord knows how many other
playstation 1 rpg's to get caught up on first, if I ever
feel the need:)
I bet it helps on older computers. Not having to run X just to avoid Lynx will be great. High-res virtual consoles are awesome when you just don't feel like booting X today too.
Very true. I think the problem here is Microsoft not allowing OEM's and such to modify their operating system before they sell. I mean, look at the recent comments by some of the big pre-made computer companies, they get in financial trouble with Microsoft if they just want to distribute pc's with Linux. I hope that the Judge doesn't listen to this B.S. I know getting Microsoft to distribute Windows source code to the public is a pipe dream, but they could at least offer a skeleton version. The dozens of Linux distros is ample proof that even if a multi-billion dollar software company can't make a little diversity in it's operating system (what a crock) then someone will.
I hope they don't pull something like that and get this bill passed in such a manner. That would be
very very very low life. This is a huge bill, they are pretending that all the electronic devices covered are like a little local business they can spank instead of billions of dollar companies which do a lot of business outside the country as well.
Lord knows I stopped watching T.V. for 3 years after I got the internet, and since I started again my brain is slowly starting to rot.
Computer/electronics/software > movie/music/T.V.
This is your brain. This is your brain on T.V. (sizzle)
Incidently I booted up windows and dug out internet explorer to see what you were talking about, that page widening sucks:( If it realy bothers you the windows 0.9.9 mozilla milestone is very good!
Well to be honest I've tried to lean my friends toward the ISP's who gave me good service, little
lip you know. The thing is they get bought out so much I have found myself in the position of having recommend a good isp to a friend a year before and they getting bought out and service and performance gone completely to hell.
I know where you are coming from about "monkeys" I have heard it all. From "everyone in your area calls us to tell us how great our service is" to "I have your network connection up on the monitor now, I dont know what your problem is it all seems ok to me here." Then 5 minutes later admitting they are in another state, they have no way to tell if the network is up, and no there is noone in the state who can fix it but it may be back up tomarrow.
I'd think a 5 day outage on a pair of T-1's would be pretty dang expensive though!!!
Hehe. Well you see that may be true for you, sir.
But if you let a windows box go for a couple years without reinstalling, it takes a good 5 minutes to boot up. In my experience a brand new fresh install of windows and any install of linux boots about the same speed, at least on a Pentium 2 or above. Well that is with the booting of X. If I don't boot to X it's even faster.
Also I see your point about the general feel of windows being more responsive. However If it's that big of a deal for you check out the preemptive/low latency patches for the linux kernel.
I dont know about your saying it's hardly ever the ISP's fault. I for one have absolutely no use for an isp support desk, except to call when my internet connection has been down, or it sucks, and believe me I've had to call many times through the years.
The call always starts out with me having to prove to the isp person that the problem is in fact on their end. Don't get me wrong I realize something screws up, it's just most of the time it is the ISP's fault. Heck, the last time I called the ISP made me run up and down the stairs 6 times to check on the cable modem lights, reboot my computer, write down my cable modem serial number and give it to them, and then it was eh you know what, I just got a report that in your area we are doing some technical maintanence. Well gee thanks for letting me know!
I know I'll miss it, but yahoo is positively going down the drain. First Yahoo starts sticking these huge adds everywhere, no big deal. Then it changes it's pop and email forwarding to $30 a year, and I can't pay in any case because they require a credit card. Also they took over a ton of mailing lists, and after changing my email address a week ago I tried to change my email there and it was like pulling teeth.
And now with this new practice I am very very very glad I didn't ever get my new address in it's database or else I could expect a ton of spam again.
Back in the good old days Yahoo was a great way of finding misc. web sites, it started offering a lot of great free services, got very popular, and now has to charge for everything and practice very shady things like selling off your email addy to the lowest bidder. If it goes under I won't cry too much for it now.
But needless to say I will only use Yahoo for it's web database, just like in the old days, heh. Thank goodness for google!
I hope none of these people get the idea to try to make a little black hole in a lab somewhere, this stuff sounds dangerous to play around with in a laboratory!!!
Ya I had 3 monitors hooked up to win98 bout 3 years ago. At that time I dont think I could do the same with my linux box. As for sound card, never tried that with any OS since 1995 when I tried with win 95 and had no luck and yanked one, then realized hey, should have turn the power off. I guess I needed a new motherboard anyways.
Anyways I think it's great the chinese are implementing a space program. The more the merrier, and the sooner we can get the heck off this planet the better:)
Hehe. Well when the comet came a few years ago.
You know, right when that cult all killed themselves, hale bopp.
That was one BIG COMET just hanging in the sky.
You drive across the state, and it is just hanging there, this BIG ***ed comet.
If you need a omen, that comet would apply.
For me it was the most beutiful thing I've ever seen and it changed my life very much. I didn't think I'd ever see a nice comet, not to menthing this BIG ***ed comet just sitting there in the sky no matter I was doin.
Ya. bigfoot.com has "Bigfoot for life" forwarding.I've used it as a backup, forwarding to yahoo for a long time. I've already shared my yahoo email to all my friends. I guess I would probably pay for yahoo.com in the future but I dont have a credit card. So basically I am screwed. Besides I have advertised for yahoo with every email I sent out and I thought it was pretty cool cause yahoo offered so much for free. Now I feel like a retard:P
Besides this is very very harsh. I honestly have a problem believing any website that claims free email for life now that yahoo has double crossed me. Web based email is nice but honestly, without POP access it's completely worthless. You'd think they would appreciate me downloading all the megabytes of spam that gets sent to my yahoo.com address instead of letting it mountain up.
Mostly I chose on Yahoo cause I figured it wasn't gonna go under anytime soon, whereas by several of my former isp's not only was I likely to change isp several times a year but they had a tendancy to change names often as well:( I may stay with Yahoo but honestly I'm poor I think Yahoo would have to implement a more strict new user policy and other ways to prevent spam first. Like I said Hotmail sold my email name out the day I signed up:P
I don't know if even 3 bucks a month is worth getting as much spam as I do from yahoo. I think I spend more than 3 bucks a month just filtering out the spam I get.
Ya, sleazy spammers sent me an email today
with a subject of Web Form Verification or
some BS and, in the body of the email they
explained that they were glad I signed up and
click here to verify or something. What's
even worse was the letter was sent to like
10 people in Yahoo, all with the first same
first three letters of my email address.
I have to expect a lot of scumbags spamming me
on yahoo, every few days I go through and make
about 5-6 new kill filters and try to opt
out for those that have a method to do so.
Of course half the opt-out email adrasses don't
even exist and I am wary to click on their
opt-out forms. Generally I just set up a kill
file though.
I like using Yahoo because it has a free SMTP
server and POP server, and I've used it for a couple years now for my perm addy.
It's not as bad as hotmail though, I tried making
an account a few months ago, and forgot about it for a couple of months and I checked back and I had over 200 emails, although I had never
send any email through hotmail nor had I given it out!
Spammers are brain dead if they expect to be able to sue someone for anything and win.
If I want to be part of a mailing list I will take the time to find a good list, I don't need help.
Send the programmers Papa John's coupons!
Nah, Pizza Hut pays their employees minimum wage.
The pizza is completely overpriced, your $20
pizza prolly only cost $3 for the resaurant.
Your paying for the Pizza Hut experience!!!
BTW Look out for the star wars promotion,
remember the Episode 1 hype.
Ya. Atm I'm too poor to subscribe to much of anything. I'd be happy to click on an ad now and then to help some tho:)
This rollercoaster is cool! Living here in kansas in the middle of grain elevator metropolis this guy
gets mad props from me. As long as it's safe..
I'm a mad scardey cat when it comes to any
roller coaster.
Pats win super bowl!!!!
I read your comment 6 times and I just
can't understand wth you mean.
John Williams Star Wars scores rock,
but Pats kick ass.
If your unhappy Rams lost, lemme rub it
in a little bit:) I took soooo much
bs from Rams fans in the 3 weeks
before the Super Bowl!!!
I got the trailer, personally I think
it's lookin good!
I just installed redhat on a cyrix 120 with 32 megs of ram (40 gig hd) yesterday and something like this is needed.
First I went to the local puter shop and
they wanted $60 us bucks for 2 more 16 meg
chips so I told them what they can do with
their ram chips:P So I installed with 32 megs.
Anyways it took a long time and about 6 install attempts (website says 64 megs needed to install)
but everthing installs ok but there is a serious
problem. In KDE with nothing running but a couple
of background things, the memory usage is
a continuous 30 meg straight line out of 32 on the
monitor. Which basically means that anything at
all I wish to run is running off the swap disk:p
Dont tell me it's not cause it took Konqueror
over 5 mins to load 1 page at kernal.org.
Now windows 98 runs really really fast on this
hardware with the newest I.E. I'd use mozilla
but I think it needs more ram too.
I don't know if it's too late to shrink linux
to run on smaller systems, cause most people
prolly have a lot more ram and bigger cpus.
But like I sayed win98 runs soo smoothly,
on a cyrus 120 with 32 megs ram (cable
modem helps a lot).
I'll prolly try a newer kernal, prolly
end up installing something besides KDE,
and turn off all the daemons I won't ever
need. Not giving up on linux:)
Same here. My folks use MSN as their start page,
and sometimes there are some interesting
random articles on there. I installed
Mozilla last night after about a 2 month
period of resorting to IE and one of the
first things I did was bookmark the news sites,
including MSN. It loaded up just fine last night,
today it's blocked. Maybe someone at MS
tried the newest Mozillas, realized it kicks
IE's butt, and did this:P Stupid, for as far
as I can see I'm getting great functionality
in Java, Flash, not to mention it seems to render
pages faster than IE, and the interface
seems a LOT smoother than IE. WTG mozilla people!
Hey where are the spammers when ya need em.
It's not like I am a big supporter of spam
and all, but why not spam all the
aol people with info about how aol
is bullying people like this.
Come on just cause they all
flock like lemmings cause of commericials
saying look how many poeple use Aol
we rock I mean they need to know
how Aol is really just bunch of dorks
bullying.:)
I think that had to do with
the fact that it would be impossible
for it to be autonomous (or difficult)
without computers (they being prohibited
but no explantion of butlerian jihad period)
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At least this will be an easy game to boycott for me, as I still have FF 7,8,9,10 and lord knows how many other playstation 1 rpg's to get caught up on first, if I ever feel the need :)
I bet it helps on older computers. Not having to run X just to avoid Lynx will be great. High-res virtual consoles are awesome when you just don't feel like booting X today too.
Very true. I think the problem here is Microsoft not allowing OEM's and such to modify their operating system before they sell. I mean, look at the recent comments by some of the big pre-made computer companies, they get in financial trouble with Microsoft if they just want to distribute pc's with Linux. I hope that the Judge doesn't listen to this B.S. I know getting Microsoft to distribute Windows source code to the public is a pipe dream, but they could at least offer a skeleton version. The dozens of Linux distros is ample proof that even if a multi-billion dollar software company can't make a little diversity in it's operating system (what a crock) then someone will.
Lord knows I stopped watching T.V. for 3 years after I got the internet, and since I started again my brain is slowly starting to rot.
Computer/electronics/software > movie/music/T.V.
This is your brain. This is your brain on T.V. (sizzle)
Incidently I booted up windows and dug out internet explorer to see what you were talking about, that page widening sucks :( If it realy bothers you the windows 0.9.9 mozilla milestone is very good!
Well to be honest I've tried to lean my friends toward the ISP's who gave me good service, little lip you know. The thing is they get bought out so much I have found myself in the position of having recommend a good isp to a friend a year before and they getting bought out and service and performance gone completely to hell.
I know where you are coming from about "monkeys" I have heard it all. From "everyone in your area calls us to tell us how great our service is" to "I have your network connection up on the monitor now, I dont know what your problem is it all seems ok to me here." Then 5 minutes later admitting they are in another state, they have no way to tell if the network is up, and no there is noone in the state who can fix it but it may be back up tomarrow.
I'd think a 5 day outage on a pair of T-1's would be pretty dang expensive though!!!
Hehe. Well you see that may be true for you, sir. But if you let a windows box go for a couple years without reinstalling, it takes a good 5 minutes to boot up. In my experience a brand new fresh install of windows and any install of linux boots about the same speed, at least on a Pentium 2 or above. Well that is with the booting of X. If I don't boot to X it's even faster.
Also I see your point about the general feel of windows being more responsive. However If it's that big of a deal for you check out the preemptive/low latency patches for the linux kernel.
I dont know about your saying it's hardly ever the ISP's fault. I for one have absolutely no use for an isp support desk, except to call when my internet connection has been down, or it sucks, and believe me I've had to call many times through the years. The call always starts out with me having to prove to the isp person that the problem is in fact on their end. Don't get me wrong I realize something screws up, it's just most of the time it is the ISP's fault. Heck, the last time I called the ISP made me run up and down the stairs 6 times to check on the cable modem lights, reboot my computer, write down my cable modem serial number and give it to them, and then it was eh you know what, I just got a report that in your area we are doing some technical maintanence. Well gee thanks for letting me know!
Back in the good old days Yahoo was a great way of finding misc. web sites, it started offering a lot of great free services, got very popular, and now has to charge for everything and practice very shady things like selling off your email addy to the lowest bidder. If it goes under I won't cry too much for it now.
But needless to say I will only use Yahoo for it's web database, just like in the old days, heh. Thank goodness for google!
Well, the article states it had a little problem importing some word documents, mostly in tables and charts, and the flow of text around images.
Robots are fun, they a little too expensive for my tastes tho.
I hope none of these people get the idea to try to make a little black hole in a lab somewhere, this stuff sounds dangerous to play around with in a laboratory!!!
Anyways I think it's great the chinese are implementing a space program. The more the merrier, and the sooner we can get the heck off this planet the better :)
That was one BIG COMET just hanging in the sky.
You drive across the state, and it is just hanging there, this BIG ***ed comet.
If you need a omen, that comet would apply.
For me it was the most beutiful thing I've ever seen and it changed my life very much. I didn't think I'd ever see a nice comet, not to menthing this BIG ***ed comet just sitting there in the sky no matter I was doin.
Besides this is very very harsh. I honestly have a problem believing any website that claims free email for life now that yahoo has double crossed me. Web based email is nice but honestly, without POP access it's completely worthless. You'd think they would appreciate me downloading all the megabytes of spam that gets sent to my yahoo.com address instead of letting it mountain up.
You're right it's $30 a year now..
Mostly I chose on Yahoo cause I figured it wasn't gonna go under anytime soon, whereas by several of my former isp's not only was I likely to change isp several times a year but they had a tendancy to change names often as well :( I may stay with Yahoo but honestly I'm poor I think Yahoo would have to implement a more strict new user policy and other ways to prevent spam first. Like I said Hotmail sold my email name out the day I signed up :P
I don't know if even 3 bucks a month is worth getting as much spam as I do from yahoo. I think I spend more than 3 bucks a month just filtering out the spam I get.
I have to expect a lot of scumbags spamming me on yahoo, every few days I go through and make about 5-6 new kill filters and try to opt out for those that have a method to do so. Of course half the opt-out email adrasses don't even exist and I am wary to click on their opt-out forms. Generally I just set up a kill file though.
I like using Yahoo because it has a free SMTP server and POP server, and I've used it for a couple years now for my perm addy.
It's not as bad as hotmail though, I tried making an account a few months ago, and forgot about it for a couple of months and I checked back and I had over 200 emails, although I had never send any email through hotmail nor had I given it out!
Spammers are brain dead if they expect to be able to sue someone for anything and win.
If I want to be part of a mailing list I will take the time to find a good list, I don't need help.
Check out The Mote in God's Eye.
Very good book!!!
Your paying for the Pizza Hut experience!!!
BTW Look out for the star wars promotion, remember the Episode 1 hype.
Ctrl - t for a new tab.
Ya. Atm I'm too poor to subscribe to much of anything. I'd be happy to click on an ad now and then to help some tho :)
This rollercoaster is cool! Living here in kansas in the middle of grain elevator metropolis this guy
gets mad props from me. As long as it's safe..
I'm a mad scardey cat when it comes to any
roller coaster.
Pats win super bowl!!!! I read your comment 6 times and I just can't understand wth you mean. John Williams Star Wars scores rock, but Pats kick ass. If your unhappy Rams lost, lemme rub it in a little bit :) I took soooo much
bs from Rams fans in the 3 weeks
before the Super Bowl!!!
I got the trailer, personally I think
it's lookin good!
I just installed redhat on a cyrix 120 with 32 megs of ram (40 gig hd) yesterday and something like this is needed. First I went to the local puter shop and they wanted $60 us bucks for 2 more 16 meg chips so I told them what they can do with their ram chips :P So I installed with 32 megs.
Anyways it took a long time and about 6 install attempts (website says 64 megs needed to install)
but everthing installs ok but there is a serious
problem. In KDE with nothing running but a couple
of background things, the memory usage is
a continuous 30 meg straight line out of 32 on the
monitor. Which basically means that anything at
all I wish to run is running off the swap disk :p
Dont tell me it's not cause it took Konqueror
over 5 mins to load 1 page at kernal.org.
Now windows 98 runs really really fast on this
hardware with the newest I.E. I'd use mozilla
but I think it needs more ram too.
I don't know if it's too late to shrink linux
to run on smaller systems, cause most people
prolly have a lot more ram and bigger cpus.
But like I sayed win98 runs soo smoothly,
on a cyrus 120 with 32 megs ram (cable
modem helps a lot).
I'll prolly try a newer kernal, prolly
end up installing something besides KDE,
and turn off all the daemons I won't ever
need. Not giving up on linux :)
Same here. My folks use MSN as their start page, :P Stupid, for as far
and sometimes there are some interesting
random articles on there. I installed
Mozilla last night after about a 2 month
period of resorting to IE and one of the
first things I did was bookmark the news sites,
including MSN. It loaded up just fine last night,
today it's blocked. Maybe someone at MS
tried the newest Mozillas, realized it kicks
IE's butt, and did this
as I can see I'm getting great functionality
in Java, Flash, not to mention it seems to render
pages faster than IE, and the interface
seems a LOT smoother than IE. WTG mozilla people!
Hey where are the spammers when ya need em. It's not like I am a big supporter of spam and all, but why not spam all the aol people with info about how aol is bullying people like this. Come on just cause they all flock like lemmings cause of commericials saying look how many poeple use Aol we rock I mean they need to know how Aol is really just bunch of dorks bullying. :)
I think that had to do with the fact that it would be impossible for it to be autonomous (or difficult) without computers (they being prohibited but no explantion of butlerian jihad period)