For some reason the private network at my work is on 131.0.0.0 with various subnets and VLANS in place. I believe this is already a public IP Address range for something or other.
No, I don't know why it is that and not something else. We only have a couple hundred assigned IP addresses.
I don't want to start a holy war here, but what is the deal with you Mac fanatics? I've been sitting here at my freelance gig in front of a Mac (a 8600/300 w/64 Megs of RAM) for about 20 minutes now while it attempts to copy a 17 Meg file from one folder on the hard drive to another folder. 20 minutes. At home, on my Pentium Pro 200 running NT 4, which by all standards should be a lot slower than this Mac, the same operation would take about 2 minutes. If that.
In addition, during this file transfer, Netscape will not work. And everything else has ground to a halt. Even BBEdit Lite is straining to keep up as I type this.
I won't bore you with the laundry list of other problems that I've encountered while working on various Macs, but suffice it to say there have been many, not the least of which is I've never seen a Mac that has run faster than its Wintel counterpart, despite the Macs' faster chip architecture. My 486/66 with 8 megs of ram runs faster than this 300 mhz machine at times. From a productivity standpoint, I don't get how people can claim that the Macintosh is a superior machine.
Mac addicts, flame me if you'd like, but I'd rather hear some intelligent reasons why anyone would choose to use a Mac over other faster, cheaper, more stable systems.
I have no idea of what intel are calling their cips and which is the best etc
Can someone answer these 'simple' questions - In terms of regular geek activities, movie playing/encoding, gaming, compiling, rendering, desktop use, all the regular things
1. Which processor is the all out fastest, best (money no object)
2. Which processor is the best bang for buck (money and object)
3. how do intel chips compare to amd on the bang per buck level.
Install a tiny debian virtual machine on your windows PC that can host the USB drive as a network share for the times when you have to use it via Windows. There maybe some kind of Virtual-box-system-in-an-exe type thing where you could have it on a FAT32 partition at the start of the disk so you could run it on any windows PC without the need to pre configure a VM. Depends on your situation.
Pretty surethis has been in Since about Opera 1. It was/is one of the features of Opera, having a full MDI interafce, where the tabs aren't just tabs, but actual windows that can be displayed together, resized, tiled, cascaded etc etc.
[i]I'd also like a "chatter" mode (defeatable, of course) that would tell me interesting things about the geology, geography, history of where I am -- even if it was just synthesized speech nabbed from Wikipedia from an entry for whatever town I'm passing through...[/i]
That would be pretty neat. Is there any sat nav out there that has anthing even approaching this functionalit? Or a laptop application ?
Well now you mention it, I am reminded of a meat supreme pizza, of which sometimes when it's loaded with all the beef and the bacon, chilli, ham, chorizo, pepparoni, chicken, you often WANT to eat it all, but you aren't able to. So rather than throeing it away it is stored for later consumption, to be reheated in the oven at a later date, if you will.
So Actually it's like storing a pizza in the fridge rather than the bin.
PowerToys for Windows has this option which works mostly quite well, but there are some programs that don't respect it and will raise on focus, which can be a major problem if you are trying to reach a dialog in the middle of the screen and it keeps getting covered when you move the mouse towards it.
The point of the windows is that you can drag stuff between them, you can't do this efficiently if they are maximised. And view two or more thing at once together. Manually dragging the edges of windows can suck, but in 'traditional' setups, you use the lower right corner (which is a big target) to adjust the size and the title bar (which is a big target) to adjust the position. Most Linux WMs also have ALT shortcut which makes large percentages of the windows 'hot' for adjustment.
Taking it a step further, (or back depending on POV) the original Mac WIMP implementation has a metphor of 'the desktop' and each window represents a _document_ or a physical _thing_. Desks are generally large enough to handle more than one bit of paper for example, and usually once document doesn't take up the whole desk.
It looks as though there is a stereo setup there? Or is it more to do with the frequencies or something?
Also , how do these sound in real life? Does the sound have a point source, or does it just envelope the listener becoming a whole part of the environment? What's the lowest/highest frequency they can produce? How Hifi are they?
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No, I don't know why it is that and not something else. We only have a couple hundred assigned IP addresses.
I like turtles.
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I don't want to start a holy war here, but what is the deal with you Mac fanatics? I've been sitting here at my freelance gig in front of a Mac (a 8600/300 w/64 Megs of RAM) for about 20 minutes now while it attempts to copy a 17 Meg file from one folder on the hard drive to another folder. 20 minutes. At home, on my Pentium Pro 200 running NT 4, which by all standards should be a lot slower than this Mac, the same operation would take about 2 minutes. If that.
In addition, during this file transfer, Netscape will not work. And everything else has ground to a halt. Even BBEdit Lite is straining to keep up as I type this.
I won't bore you with the laundry list of other problems that I've encountered while working on various Macs, but suffice it to say there have been many, not the least of which is I've never seen a Mac that has run faster than its Wintel counterpart, despite the Macs' faster chip architecture. My 486/66 with 8 megs of ram runs faster than this 300 mhz machine at times. From a productivity standpoint, I don't get how people can claim that the Macintosh is a superior machine.
Mac addicts, flame me if you'd like, but I'd rather hear some intelligent reasons why anyone would choose to use a Mac over other faster, cheaper, more stable systems.
That's a MAN, baby. That's a MAN!
So, what does this mean for the other people who live on.in Britain? You know, the Welsh, the Scots, the Irish etc.
I for one, welcome our bandwagon jumping hyping hyping overlords.
Can someone answer these 'simple' questions - In terms of regular geek activities, movie playing/encoding, gaming, compiling, rendering, desktop use, all the regular things
1. Which processor is the all out fastest, best (money no object)
2. Which processor is the best bang for buck (money and object)
3. how do intel chips compare to amd on the bang per buck level.
I for one, welcome our newly extinct Ibex Clone overlords.
Well yes. I think that's kinda the point of TFA.
Install a tiny debian virtual machine on your windows PC that can host the USB drive as a network share for the times when you have to use it via Windows. There maybe some kind of Virtual-box-system-in-an-exe type thing where you could have it on a FAT32 partition at the start of the disk so you could run it on any windows PC without the need to pre configure a VM. Depends on your situation.
Anything equivelant in Penguin Land? Avisynth is extremely powerful.
Crap I just looked at the link, and ou seem to be right that 'tiling' is a new thing apparently ? Or maybe just a new way to display it?
Pretty surethis has been in Since about Opera 1. It was/is one of the features of Opera, having a full MDI interafce, where the tabs aren't just tabs, but actual windows that can be displayed together, resized, tiled, cascaded etc etc.
Both my parents died from it and I suspect I probably will too. Or maybe not if they can find a cure.
That would be pretty neat. Is there any sat nav out there that has anthing even approaching this functionalit? Or a laptop application ?
'2 metric tons' Doesn't make sense. Tell me how many kilostones that is?
So Actually it's like storing a pizza in the fridge rather than the bin.
That would have made more sense.
o_O 'braces', for non-american English speaking folk.
PowerToys for Windows has this option which works mostly quite well, but there are some programs that don't respect it and will raise on focus, which can be a major problem if you are trying to reach a dialog in the middle of the screen and it keeps getting covered when you move the mouse towards it.
Taking it a step further, (or back depending on POV) the original Mac WIMP implementation has a metphor of 'the desktop' and each window represents a _document_ or a physical _thing_. Desks are generally large enough to handle more than one bit of paper for example, and usually once document doesn't take up the whole desk.
Was I the only one that was thinking of Circular Saws, Electric drills with built in LCD displays?
PC LOAD LETTER - What FUCK does that MEAN?
It looks as though there is a stereo setup there? Or is it more to do with the frequencies or something?
Also , how do these sound in real life? Does the sound have a point source, or does it just envelope the listener becoming a whole part of the environment? What's the lowest/highest frequency they can produce? How Hifi are they?