I would love to see the floppy make a disappearing act, but we need a replacement for it, an 8-32 MB bootable flash disk would be best.
But I do not believe the h/W makers are in a hurray to kill the floppy otherwise they could have done it a long time ago. I think they see it as a low cost item that they charge for it 3 times their cost.
In one of the seminars I attended promoting linux I saw a picture of a large number of the developers responsible for linux (LT,AC... etc). It had marker with names of each person in the picture. I could not find the source of the picture but would love to get an electronic copy of it. anyone know were to find it.
The article title states "20 Factors That Will Change PCs In 2002 " yet a lot of the items mentioned will not be seen in the PC world until 2004 and beyond.
A friend bought one of those for $240 and he travels with it all the time. it fits in his shirt pocket and all he needs is a usb cable. To me this looks like a lot better deal than the $900 1GB keychain. the good thin is if you wish you could replace the 30GB disk with what ever capacity available. I am told 80 GB is the most at this time.
The fact that I can never get my basic audio and video cards recognized on the spot is an indication that more work needs to be done. I have a P-II IBM PC that I always have to manually intervene to make sure things work right every time I try out one of the distro's on it. With windows it will most like work out of the box or you will find the drivers with little work, but with Linux a lot is involved. Then there is the latest and greatest hardware that are not supported by Linux unless you are one of those who know where to find the source that you can tweak and compile for your kernel level.
I love using linux at home and playing with the latest kerenls but I still have not tried to convince any of my friends to switch to linux for those reasons and others.
They have done something similar a year ago. McAfee anti-virus enables employee monitoring. Read it at http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/archive/11012.html
Does it still have the 1.44MB floppy!!
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We always hear about the Concept PC's yet they always go back to the 1980's technologies of the floppy, slow serial, slow parallel etc. IR Wireless keyboard and mouse were here more than five years ago and last month I tried one that was very reliable and cheap. Nothing is new here.
The concept PC of 200X is one that sheds all the bottlenecks of the 80's and 90's. Unfortunately every PC maker talks the talk but does not walk the walk.
an article in ZDNET states that Hitachi is coming out with a multi-format DVD player/recorder. Read it at
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/zd/20011105/tc/hita ch i_develops_versatile_dvd_drive_1.html
I used to read a lot about how many mips can a processor handle but recently I have not been able to see this for P-III or P-IV. So does anyone know? Also does anyone know how do they come up with these numbers. I remember before the Internet and/. existed wondering about these isses?
Since some suggested the network then the next thing would be one of those free space internet websites like X:drive or E:drive. I am assuming that the uni has a good I-net connection.
From my experience, I learned that you should have nothing but the Login: prompt. any extra info will help the hacker know what he is dealing with. Event the legal copright notice should be removed.
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They are not looking at the mac users, they want to make sure no -new- users go to the mac.
I have been delaying work on my 12 false teeth, now I can get the job done in no pain
I would love to see the floppy make a disappearing act, but we need a replacement for it, an 8-32 MB bootable flash disk would be best.
But I do not believe the h/W makers are in a hurray to kill the floppy otherwise they could have done it a long time ago. I think they see it as a low cost item that they charge for it 3 times their cost.
In one of the seminars I attended promoting linux I saw a picture of a large number of the developers responsible for linux (LT,AC ... etc). It had marker with names of each person in the picture. I could not find the source of the picture but would love to get an electronic copy of it. anyone know were to find it.
Could you tell me what is your source for these numbers.
Thanks
I need benchmarks for different products on the same platform. Thanks.
Is this a payed ad or what? Haven't we discussed this last week.
The article title states "20 Factors That Will Change PCs In 2002 " yet a lot of the items mentioned will not be seen in the PC world until 2004 and beyond.
A friend bought one of those for $240 and he travels with it all the time. it fits in his shirt pocket and all he needs is a usb cable. To me this looks like a lot better deal than the $900 1GB keychain. the good thin is if you wish you could replace the 30GB disk with what ever capacity available. I am told 80 GB is the most at this time.
The fact that I can never get my basic audio and video cards recognized on the spot is an indication that more work needs to be done. I have a P-II IBM PC that I always have to manually intervene to make sure things work right every time I try out one of the distro's on it. With windows it will most like work out of the box or you will find the drivers with little work, but with Linux a lot is involved. Then there is the latest and greatest hardware that are not supported by Linux unless you are one of those who know where to find the source that you can tweak and compile for your kernel level.
I love using linux at home and playing with the latest kerenls but I still have not tried to convince any of my friends to switch to linux for those reasons and others.
They have done something similar a year ago. McAfee anti-virus enables employee monitoring. Read it at http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/archive/11012 .html
We always hear about the Concept PC's yet they always go back to the 1980's technologies of the floppy, slow serial, slow parallel etc. IR Wireless keyboard and mouse were here more than five years ago and last month I tried one that was very reliable and cheap. Nothing is new here.
The concept PC of 200X is one that sheds all the bottlenecks of the 80's and 90's. Unfortunately every PC maker talks the talk but does not walk the walk.
an article in ZDNET states that Hitachi is coming out with a multi-format DVD player/recorder. Read it ata ch i_develops_versatile_dvd_drive_1.html
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/zd/20011105/tc/hit
I used to read a lot about how many mips can a processor handle but recently I have not been able to see this for P-III or P-IV. So does anyone know? Also does anyone know how do they come up with these numbers. I remember before the Internet and /. existed wondering about these isses?
The advantage that the cursoe has is the battery life but unfortunately it is not a major factor to make one forget about the slow processor.
Since some suggested the network then the next thing would be one of those free space internet websites like X:drive or E:drive. I am assuming that the uni has a good I-net connection.
From my experience, I learned that you should have nothing but the Login: prompt. any extra info will help the hacker know what he is dealing with. Event the legal copright notice should be removed.