Isn't the one to be blamed for Horizons (or at least for turning what was once one of the loveliest games on the Net into a steaming turd), He Who Shall Not Be Named (aka Dave Bowman)?
Viewers along the northeastern coast of the United States and Canada, as well as people in Europe and western Africa might get to see a possible 'outburst' of as many as 100-600 meteors per hour.
So, those of us on the West Coast of the U.S. get left out, hmm?
Good beer, right out the nose...it's a shame to waste it like that.
Isn't that alcohol abuse?:D
Anyway, last hard drive upgrade I did was what I would call an upgrade of opportunity. I had recently scored a nice system for $25 at a thrift store. This "greenbox" system, as I call them, is a Gateway box with a 1.5GHz P4, a pair of 256MB PC800 RIMMs (I went ahead and shelled out the $75 on eBay for 2 more 256MB sticks for her), CD-RW drive, 40GB hard drive, and a few other goodies.
I went ahead and pulled the drive and replaced the 13GB drive that was serving as/dev/hdd in my main system with it. The 13GB went into the Gateway box, since it was still perfectly good. Before that though, I replaced the 8GB drive that was serving as/dev/hdb, since I thought it was going bad. The new drive is 200GB. I later discovered that the problem with the old drive was simply a loose interface cable. So that drive is now in my Hardware Testing Station (a Dell Optiplex something or other...Pentium 200, 128MB RAM.)
Also, I recently replaced the 810MB hard drive in my other laptop (just an old Toshiba Satellite running 98SE Lite) with a 6GB drive, and the 810 is in my even older WfW 3.11 TI Extensa Laptop, and the Extensa's old 540MB drive was resold on eBay for a fiver, if I remember right.
Hardware generally does not go to waste around here, unless it's undeniably dead.
But normally, like many others here, I just add drives as needed, such as the 250GB Linkstation network drive that is connected directly to my home network's switch, or the 300GB USB hard drive I bought last summer for my primary laptop (Gateway MX6440). Generally, hard drive upgrades and additions are done because I want to and can do it.
Perhaps you'd like to meet my friend, Mr 'Corporate Key'
There's also a little utility floating around out there on the Net called Make Me Legal. When you run it, your XP installation is flagged as activated.
So when the little green men come and ask "Take me to your leader" they now at least have a mugshot to who they are looking for. A cartoon looking asian man with a goatee in a white suit with a red apron.
Either I need a nap, or I need more coffee. When I first read this, I saw it as:
A cartoon looking asian man with a goatse in a white suit with a red apron
Now there's an idea for something to create that's visible from space...
This story is no different than running the latest Linux distribution on old hardware.
That is not an entirely accurate comparison. The latest Linux distros will run fine on old hardware. Why is that? Because unlike the latest incarnation of Windows, you can pick and choose what packages you want that suit your needs and your hardware's capabilities.
Don't have the horsepower to run KDE or Gnome? Use IceWM, or Fluxbox, or some other lightweight WM. OpenOffice is too heavy duty for your system? Give AbiWord and Gnumeric a try, or even TED (if Rich Text Format is good enough for you). That's the beauty of Linux. Even the latest and greatest distro can be tailored to your needs and capabilities, and keeps otherwise perfectly good hardware out of the landfills.
What intelligent person would really want that DRM OS on their box anyway?
Sadly, that would be the sheeple who don't know any better, the ones who don't even know what DRM is all about, and don't realize that there are viable choices out there instead of just unquestioningly accepting whatever Redmond tosses their way through the big chain stores like Circuit City, Best Buy, Office Depot, etc.
My biggest security clean up was the Gateway MX6440 laptop I bought from Best Buy a few months ago. The documentation said that it was infested with something called Windows XP Home Edition. So, I gave it its initial boot up with a Debian CD in the drive, wiped out Windows and am now happily running 64 bit Linux on her. The "Made for Windows XP / Vista Compatible" case sticker was removed and stuck in its rightful place on the toilet's tank, and a "Linux Inside" case badge was stuck on the computer in its place.
BTW, anyone interested in buying an unused XP Home OEM license?:D
I remember a computer magazine editorial saying we would never store music on Hard Drives, it would take up to much space.
Likewise, I also seem to recall that when hard drives were finally becoming affordable, people were claiming that the chances of actually filling up a 20 or 40MB drive were almost nil.
'Each of these devices is used to store unpaid-for material...'
Sounds like a nice setup for a class action libel lawsuit.:D
Looking at my own collection of CDs, LPs, and tapes that I either purchased (new or used) or received as gifts over the years, a collection that I later ripped and / or digitally recorded to load onto my iRiver, I take some amount of offense in this asshat accusing me of stealing what I had already legally acquired. This is assuming that the phrase "each of these devices" is referring to all portable media players, and not just the Zune.
I hate to repeat this annoying phrase, but: "And this benefits the consumer, how?"
Not quite as annoying if you change it to something that shows a bit more respect for the buyers. How about: "And this benefits the customer, how?"
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Isn't the one to be blamed for Horizons (or at least for turning what was once one of the loveliest games on the Net into a steaming turd), He Who Shall Not Be Named (aka Dave Bowman)?
There, I fixed your typo for you.
So, those of us on the West Coast of the U.S. get left out, hmm?
Those damn insensitive celestial clods...
And after Mars, comes the invasion of Uranus.
Isn't that alcohol abuse?
Anyway, last hard drive upgrade I did was what I would call an upgrade of opportunity. I had recently scored a nice system for $25 at a thrift store. This "greenbox" system, as I call them, is a Gateway box with a 1.5GHz P4, a pair of 256MB PC800 RIMMs (I went ahead and shelled out the $75 on eBay for 2 more 256MB sticks for her), CD-RW drive, 40GB hard drive, and a few other goodies.
I went ahead and pulled the drive and replaced the 13GB drive that was serving as
Also, I recently replaced the 810MB hard drive in my other laptop (just an old Toshiba Satellite running 98SE Lite) with a 6GB drive, and the 810 is in my even older WfW 3.11 TI Extensa Laptop, and the Extensa's old 540MB drive was resold on eBay for a fiver, if I remember right.
Hardware generally does not go to waste around here, unless it's undeniably dead.
But normally, like many others here, I just add drives as needed, such as the 250GB Linkstation network drive that is connected directly to my home network's switch, or the 300GB USB hard drive I bought last summer for my primary laptop (Gateway MX6440). Generally, hard drive upgrades and additions are done because I want to and can do it.
There's also a little utility floating around out there on the Net called Make Me Legal. When you run it, your XP installation is flagged as activated.
[slappysquirrel]Now that's comedy![/slappysquirrel]
Is this the same Windows CEMeNT you are referring to?
Actually, he wants to be Steve Wright.
Now, shhh...Or I'll throw a chair at you.
Well, Belgium! You had to go and use up most of the old standbys yourself. But you missed at least one...
I, for one, welcome our 4 bit overlords.
Aw, Belgium! Shows how much I know about obscenity laws on other worlds.
And that poor little koala now has another reason to hate Qantas.
Either I need a nap, or I need more coffee. When I first read this, I saw it as:
A cartoon looking asian man with a goatse in a white suit with a red apron
Now there's an idea for something to create that's visible from space...
Y'know, I think it is acceptable to use the "fuck word" here on Slashdot instead of bleeping out a couple letters with asterisks.
I think it's pretty obvious that in this particular context, would of means would have.
*** Ba-Doomp! ***
Happy sweet 16th birthday to the World Wide Web!
Now, who do we designate to take the obligatory birthday spanking?
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That is not an entirely accurate comparison. The latest Linux distros will run fine on old hardware. Why is that? Because unlike the latest incarnation of Windows, you can pick and choose what packages you want that suit your needs and your hardware's capabilities.
Don't have the horsepower to run KDE or Gnome? Use IceWM, or Fluxbox, or some other lightweight WM. OpenOffice is too heavy duty for your system? Give AbiWord and Gnumeric a try, or even TED (if Rich Text Format is good enough for you). That's the beauty of Linux. Even the latest and greatest distro can be tailored to your needs and capabilities, and keeps otherwise perfectly good hardware out of the landfills.
Sadly, that would be the sheeple who don't know any better, the ones who don't even know what DRM is all about, and don't realize that there are viable choices out there instead of just unquestioningly accepting whatever Redmond tosses their way through the big chain stores like Circuit City, Best Buy, Office Depot, etc.
My biggest security clean up was the Gateway MX6440 laptop I bought from Best Buy a few months ago. The documentation said that it was infested with something called Windows XP Home Edition. So, I gave it its initial boot up with a Debian CD in the drive, wiped out Windows and am now happily running 64 bit Linux on her. The "Made for Windows XP / Vista Compatible" case sticker was removed and stuck in its rightful place on the toilet's tank, and a "Linux Inside" case badge was stuck on the computer in its place.
:D
BTW, anyone interested in buying an unused XP Home OEM license?
Wasn't he picked up by the cops last year on a 1492, for not believing in Columbus?
Likewise, I also seem to recall that when hard drives were finally becoming affordable, people were claiming that the chances of actually filling up a 20 or 40MB drive were almost nil.
This coffee tastes like shit.
It is shit.
Oh. It's a bit nutty.
Sounds like a nice setup for a class action libel lawsuit.
Looking at my own collection of CDs, LPs, and tapes that I either purchased (new or used) or received as gifts over the years, a collection that I later ripped and / or digitally recorded to load onto my iRiver, I take some amount of offense in this asshat accusing me of stealing what I had already legally acquired. This is assuming that the phrase "each of these devices" is referring to all portable media players, and not just the Zune.
Not quite as annoying if you change it to something that shows a bit more respect for the buyers. How about: "And this benefits the customer, how?"