Make that:
The efficiency and stablilty of software halves every 18 months, and the size doubles.
That's about right (Office XP full install - 750Mb, WinXP full install 2Gb (that's more than doubled, surely!)).
NT4.0 on MS approved hardware crashes like a sick dog driving a ferrari
I will be hiring a sick dog immediately to drive me around:
Dell Poweredge 1300 - Windows NT 4 Server - Uptime 6 months.
Dell Poweredge 1300 - Windows NT 4 Server - Uptime 3 months.
Dual PII 450 256Mb - Windows 2K Advanced Server - Development Server - Uptime 1 month
Dual Celeron 366@550Mhz 128Mb - Windows 2K Pro - It's never crashed.
PIII 800 128Mb - Windows 2K Pro - again, never crashed
Dell Inspiron 7000 - Win2K Pro - Win2K is the only OS to work with Power management on this thing.
Flame and counter-flame, post and counter-post. Stab and counter-stab. You're doing it. I'm doing it. The whole of bloody Slashdot's doing it. My OS is better than yours. My OS has a passing resemblance to MacOS, so it must be crap (no offence to Mac-users anywhere. I am one).
Win2K is the best desktop operating system I have seen.
BSD is the best server operating system I have seen.
Linux is the best operating system I have seen for those who like their OS rough, ready, in-your-face and easy to fiddle with.
The truth is that Windows (at least 2000):
Is easy to install
Has utterly unrivaled hardware support (When XWindows will work first time with every system in this room, I will worship Linus)
Has the best GUI (KDE is coming closer)
Is stable. It is. Really. Try it. I dare you.
It's polished. It doesn't dump you to a command prompt each time you boot. It has the fancy menus. It has all the tools installed as standard.
It is supported. The Microsoft Knowledge base is marvellous. It's easy to support. You know what's gone wrong (if it's gone wrong).
That's why I pay $200 for windows as opposed to nothing for a free operating system.
May I also add that my main workstation (the dual celeron) currently quaruple (!) boots Win2K, BSD, QNX, and BeOS.
I routinely use crypto for every message I send. If it is confidential, nobody can read it - so much the better. If it's a routine meneal message, it's pissing the NSA/GCHQ off - none the worse.
On the downside, Maxtor has ditched BSD for W2k in its network hard drive box.
Do you need to purchase a client license for each client that accesses this box?? This is rediculous! You'll end up paying more for access to your hard drive box than you paid for the box!
How can I set up a local server to test my PHP and CGI scripts [which use Sendmail and MySQL along the road]?
Apache for Windows PHP for Apache for Windows MySQL for Windows (which works with PHP for Apache for Windows)
I use this software daily on my Win2K machine for developing PHP for use on my Linux servers.
I wouldn't dream of using Windows as a big server - same as I wouldn't dream of using Linux as a decent desktop.
Jabber is a free IM standard which supports linking to ICQ, MSN messenger, AIM, Yahoo, at the server end - One client for all of these messengers. It's damn handy.
Surely, if you're "printing" a chip, even of today's standards of size, you're still looking at the printer moving the substrate along minute amounts to get the design right. It would probably take several days...
To hazard a guess, H2G2 means two Hs and two Gs i.e. HHGG - Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy. This rather strange abbreviation method is redundant, since it doesn't make the acronym any shorter (indeed www.HHGG.com also points to the same site).
in the UK Maplin magazine recently about this. They have no web site, but baically the cables will run underground (no fried birds).
The cables are (I think) manufacured by Pirelli and consist of a central LN2 tube surrounded by the conductor, then several layers of insulation. This is (apparently) the most efficient way of doing things
Sheesh - the use of quotes in that article would make Dr. Evil proud:
...ability to control and "land" a simulated 757... ...control an aircraft without the aid of a "stick"...
Scientists outfitted a "pilot" with an armband... ...a simulated "damaged" aircraft...
Hmmm... a little over doing it? Do you need to put the word "pilot" in quotes (well, I did just then, but then I needed to, because... Oh, forget it.
Here in the UK, we're not that far in front. WAP has just been released and it was a failure. One network has just released GPRS (General Packet Radio Service) which currently delivers 64k always-on internet to your phone!
I'm behind a NAT router, and some sites which read the IP pick up the internal IP address (200.200.200.x, actually an address range in Brazil). I live in the UK.
The UK already has such a scheme in the form of tele2. They sell "Wireless [A]DSL". 500Mb of transfer for £34.99 ($52) a month (They don't say the speed... ~1MB?). They also do leased-line standard symmetrical services (at a price).
It's not that cheap, and 500Mb isn't even enough to download a decent Linux distro. Also, the coverage isn't much yet, but they are increasing it.
Anyway, the UK government has allocated a vast swathe of the 35Ghz microwave band for wireless Internet, of which, AFAIK, tele2 is the only licencee. It was a bit of a flop.
I wouldn't settle for anything less than the hard-wired stuff (I have an NTL cable modem myself. Very rare in the UK). Cable modem has much potential (>10Mbps downstream. That I want to see).
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Make that: The efficiency and stablilty of software halves every 18 months, and the size doubles. That's about right (Office XP full install - 750Mb, WinXP full install 2Gb (that's more than doubled, surely!)).
What is this I see?
The brethren of Slashdot joining together to praise Microsoft?
The end is nigh.
NT4.0 on MS approved hardware crashes like a sick dog driving a ferrari
I will be hiring a sick dog immediately to drive me around:
Dell Poweredge 1300 - Windows NT 4 Server - Uptime 6 months.
Dell Poweredge 1300 - Windows NT 4 Server - Uptime 3 months.
Dual PII 450 256Mb - Windows 2K Advanced Server - Development Server - Uptime 1 month
Dual Celeron 366@550Mhz 128Mb - Windows 2K Pro - It's never crashed.
PIII 800 128Mb - Windows 2K Pro - again, never crashed
Dell Inspiron 7000 - Win2K Pro - Win2K is the only OS to work with Power management on this thing.
Flame and counter-flame, post and counter-post. Stab and counter-stab. You're doing it. I'm doing it. The whole of bloody Slashdot's doing it. My OS is better than yours. My OS has a passing resemblance to MacOS, so it must be crap (no offence to Mac-users anywhere. I am one).
Win2K is the best desktop operating system I have seen.
BSD is the best server operating system I have seen.
Linux is the best operating system I have seen for those who like their OS rough, ready, in-your-face and easy to fiddle with.
The truth is that Windows (at least 2000):
Is easy to install
Has utterly unrivaled hardware support (When XWindows will work first time with every system in this room, I will worship Linus)
Has the best GUI (KDE is coming closer)
Is stable. It is. Really. Try it. I dare you.
It's polished. It doesn't dump you to a command prompt each time you boot. It has the fancy menus. It has all the tools installed as standard.
It is supported. The Microsoft Knowledge base is marvellous. It's easy to support. You know what's gone wrong (if it's gone wrong).
That's why I pay $200 for windows as opposed to nothing for a free operating system.
May I also add that my main workstation (the dual celeron) currently quaruple (!) boots Win2K, BSD, QNX, and BeOS.
I routinely use crypto for every message I send. If it is confidential, nobody can read it - so much the better. If it's a routine meneal message, it's pissing the NSA/GCHQ off - none the worse.
On the downside, Maxtor has ditched BSD for W2k in its network hard drive box.
Do you need to purchase a client license for each client that accesses this box?? This is rediculous! You'll end up paying more for access to your hard drive box than you paid for the box!
How can I set up a local server to test my PHP and CGI scripts [which use Sendmail and MySQL along the road]?
Apache for Windows
PHP for Apache for Windows
MySQL for Windows (which works with PHP for Apache for Windows)
I use this software daily on my Win2K machine for developing PHP for use on my Linux servers.
I wouldn't dream of using Windows as a big server - same as I wouldn't dream of using Linux as a decent desktop.
As for macs, well...
Jabber is a free IM standard which supports linking to ICQ, MSN messenger, AIM, Yahoo, at the server end - One client for all of these messengers. It's damn handy.
Surely, if you're "printing" a chip, even of today's standards of size, you're still looking at the printer moving the substrate along minute amounts to get the design right. It would probably take several days...
There's a euphemism if ever I heard one...
To hazard a guess, H2G2 means two Hs and two Gs i.e. HHGG - Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy. This rather strange abbreviation method is redundant, since it doesn't make the acronym any shorter (indeed www.HHGG.com also points to the same site).
in the UK Maplin magazine recently about this. They have no web site, but baically the cables will run underground (no fried birds).
The cables are (I think) manufacured by Pirelli and consist of a central LN2 tube surrounded by the conductor, then several layers of insulation. This is (apparently) the most efficient way of doing things
Sheesh - the use of quotes in that article would make Dr. Evil proud:
...ability to control and "land" a simulated 757...
...control an aircraft without the aid of a "stick"...
...a simulated "damaged" aircraft...
Scientists outfitted a "pilot" with an armband...
Hmmm... a little over doing it? Do you need to put the word "pilot" in quotes (well, I did just then, but then I needed to, because... Oh, forget it.
.NET is the name for Microsoft's next range of projects. First there was '95, then '98, then 2000, and now .NET:
Visual Studio 7 = Visual Studio.NET
Windows 7 = Windows.NET
Office 11 = Office.NET
etc, etc..
To find out more, go to http://www.amsat.org.
Here in the UK, we're not that far in front. WAP has just been released and it was a failure. One network has just released GPRS (General Packet Radio Service) which currently delivers 64k always-on internet to your phone!
All commercial aricraft which have glass cockpits have to have seperate backup gauges for altitude, speed, etc...
I'm behind a NAT router, and some sites which read the IP pick up the internal IP address (200.200.200.x, actually an address range in Brazil). I live in the UK.
Yes, but the UK DOESN'T want to volunteer. The Government volunteers us.
The UK already has such a scheme in the form of tele2. They sell "Wireless [A]DSL". 500Mb of transfer for £34.99 ($52) a month (They don't say the speed... ~1MB?). They also do leased-line standard symmetrical services (at a price).
It's not that cheap, and 500Mb isn't even enough to download a decent Linux distro. Also, the coverage isn't much yet, but they are increasing it.
Anyway, the UK government has allocated a vast swathe of the 35Ghz microwave band for wireless Internet, of which, AFAIK, tele2 is the only licencee. It was a bit of a flop.
I wouldn't settle for anything less than the hard-wired stuff (I have an NTL cable modem myself. Very rare in the UK). Cable modem has much potential (>10Mbps downstream. That I want to see).
Russ