Don't forget the Administrator password. I had to do a reinstall because I forgot it. Luckily, I hadn't transferred any info at the time.
You don't need to do it the hard way. Check out this guy's nt pw reset boot CD. There are probably others out there, but this one works - I recommend "blanking" the pw option as that seems to work most often.
Now Carly wants to make HP a "services" company. Guess what Carly? - IBM already has you beat
As soon as CPQ bought DEC, CPQ became a services company - that was a driving reason for buying DEC. As soon as HP got CPQ, they inherited that services division & voila, HP is an instant services company.
The Yorktown article doesn't give enough information to blame the problem on NT itself. If NT had a "divide by zero" error problem at it's heart, the business world would have found out about it first.
Most likely it was the software handling the processing that was not doing adequate checks. I love my Mandrake box to bits, but the same argument can be made against Linux if the code running on it is crap.
For example:
#include <stdio.h>
int main() { printf("Hello World!%d\n",5/0); return 0; }
If you "cc" this on Linux, you get a "Floating Point Exception" error and the program exits. If the software on the ship were running into this same scenario, it would halt as well - doesn't matter if it were on Linux or Win32.
Seriously though... who REALLY needs to be contacted IMMEDIATELY 24-7? I would suggest that if you are really that important, you might want to skip the movie and stay in the Oval Office doing your job.
Why do you feel being available 24/7 MUST be a life or death/important situation? I completely agree with you - jerks having their cells go off during a movie is rude & uncalled for. The perp should be smacked & yanked out of the movie flick. But why not receive a silent page/text message - things to be taken care of after the movie but might be received during. As a side note, in the past 10 years of movie watching in a theatre (about 6 or flicks/yr) , I have only heard a cell go off twice - I must be extremly fortunate.
We don't NEED to be hooked up to a communication network all the time
Why not? What gives you the right to dictate when I'm allowed to/not to receive a message and communicate with someone? The whole beauty of cell phones is that it gives you the ability to be free from staying at home waiting for a call - An incoming cell call is sorta like an Interrupt Request which you can choose to accept or ignore while doing something.
I whole heartedly agree that nobody has the right to interrupt something you have paid for that requires silence and concentration (e.g. lecture/conference/movie) with their noisy device - which is why mine is ALWAYS on vibe (or off).
However, I must disagree as far as public transit/places go - "crowded" public transit is usually noisy - not with human banter, but the noise of the actual vehicle carrying on. Why the hell should I keep silent and not speak with people on my cell just because you aren't? It is your choice to sit there staring out the window trying to avoide eye contact with the people around you.
It is the "few" annoying cell phone users that ruin it for those of us that use it responsibly and courteously.
Basically anything that reduces our addiction to instant satisfaction of our every wish is ok with me. We don't NEED to be hooked up to a communication network all the time.
And that is fine - for you. Why do you get to decide that my use of a mobile phone is an "addiction"?. Also, I'm not sure where you pull "instant satisfaction" out of - it is unrelated to using a cell. I can be "hooked" up to a communication network all the time if I want - I do not fear communication and can handle the requests/responsibilities carrying a cell entail.
> >One communications snag: The rep didn't realize that when Barr said "oh" he meant the number, not the letter.
>wtf is Alabama English? you can't just make up your own languange and expect it to be supported. this is just arrogance. if you don't want to speak or type properly that's fine but you live with the consequences.
Any geek worth their paycheque has dealt with and can recognize potential '0' and 'O' discrepancies.
Alabamans don't realize they talk with accents. No American realizes they have an accent (yeah, I'm Canadian & no, I don't have an accent;)
No wonder your off shore support was having problems with blurbs like that. I'm no typing master myself, but as an "on-shore" English Canadian, I had to read that 3 or 4 times. You're just setting them them up for failure with text like that;)
Wow, I had yet to meet a fellow geek that had seen The Andromeda Strain. That's a fairly old flick - I first saw it back between 1989 and 1993 while skipping school. I think it was on PBS and I remember dreading to watch this old flick (I had tuned in a little late) with it's old colour, etc... but I was very impressed and it made it on to my favorites list immediately (although I haven't seen it since then).
Co-op was a good time - running through the levels guns-a-blazing but the monsters were either insanely stupid or too machine like (as with most wannabe bot AI). Of course fighting some of the "doom gods" was like fighting the nightmare bots on steroids. However, I really enjoyed the hunt of the other players & picking up new tricks (killer BFG eyes, silent rockets, wall running, grunting to cover weapon noise, silent rocket/plasma)- things that would get you kicked off any DC server now-a-days (superman, mortar bug) but was the mark of a good player back then.
We had one large BBS in Calgary called Nucleus which eventually turned ISP (and a LOT of 1 to <10 line dial-ups...ahhhh the good ole' days). When I first joined Nuke, it was $20 or $30 Cdn/mo and around 30 lines. it quickly grew over a year to 100+ lines, lots of door game/muds, chat/trivia, and most importantly Gamecon. I successfully dropped my GPA by 1.0+ points by staying up late fragging in doom][. It was the most fun a geek could have with his pants on. For pants off entertainment, one had to socialize in the chat area. It had no rocket launchers/shotgun so it wasn't as appealing.
but Doom has for the most part always been a First Person SHooter in the pure sense
I strongly disagree for "the most part". In the beginning, sure - kuz it was weird to get together with your computers (ok its still weird but accepted) but after people discovered net play, single player was an afterthought. Back in 95/96/97 myself and a bunch of other doom][ addicts regularly gamed (DM) against each other. MajorBBS had an addon called "Gamecon" that would allow us to have up to 4 player deathmatch over 14.4k+ modems (although the doom gods wouldn't participate in this kind of fragfest). Sure we had fun playing the single player mission in the beginning but as soon as there was a way for us to kill each other, the single player was only there for when nobody was around to play DM.
2) High speed connections are required (read: No shooting at a 56K players lagging all over the place)
3) Level playing field (everybody plays with the same graphic settings / options. HDTV being the exception)
You could limit to High speed requirement on PC games too - it isn't a console "feature"
I prefer my good looking PC graphics to the unrecognizable grainy T.V. blobs.
Is it even possible to carry two assault rifles simultaneously in real life? sounds a bit heavy...
You are worried about reality in a game where you can launch balls of plasma & then detonate it with a stream of energy? AND translocate faster than Santa clause? AND hand held R/C nukes? jeebus! forget reality & enjoy the fun.
It isn't entirely uselsss. "skipping stones" was the tech behind the bouncing bombs in WWII that the Allies used to destroy German dams to deprive their industry of water. A couple weeks ago there was a great documentary about it on t.v. but i can't find a link - wuz on discovery or history channel i think - might have been one of those "dangerous jobs" shows. The bombs would bounce across the water & timed so that they would sink when they got up close to the dam and then detonate deep under water against the structure. Unfortunately, my words do not do the program justice.
I remember him (or some other loser spammer) blathering about this a year (or more) ago. I've seen people get swamped with windows messenger spam & instructed them how to turn it off. Ye-ole home router/firewall blocks that crap nicely.
I hope these two Romanian programmers take him for a ton of ca$h.
.NET will disappear once Microsoft starts pushing their next initiative and forces upgrades and rewrites. It's all about the $$$, never about the product. The product is just a conduit for money.
There is more to.NET than the buzz you seem to think it is. Now that they've gone the CLR (aka bytecode) route, their DLL's are basically like java packages & you can make a runtime for any platform & the apps are instantly deployable. i'm not saying they've been innovative in that respect, but the good part is you can develop in c++/c#/vb/etc... and generate code for any platform. Unlike Java where you are stuck with the one language.
The Visual Studio.Net and 2003 IDE is excellent to work with and I hear nothing but praise for it over other IDEs.
Implementation Inheritance instead of just Interface Inheritance - something the COM/Activex developers ached for without having to kludge it using Aggregation & wrapper functions.
Instant Web Application - not as much futzing manually with jscript & server pages, etc...
The big SOAP push so you can have applications easily exposing and implementing functionality from other vendors on a COMMON STANDARD protocol without re-writing or having to do much manual stuff on your own part. I haven't used this functionality so I can't vouch for how well it works.
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Machine gun jubblies, of course.
In TFA, I didn't see the step where ECS mixes in 9lbs of rat $hit per unit - can someone please send me that link? Tnx.
Don't forget the Administrator password. I had to do a reinstall because I forgot it. Luckily, I hadn't transferred any info at the time.
You don't need to do it the hard way. Check out this guy's nt pw reset boot CD. There are probably others out there, but this one works - I recommend "blanking" the pw option as that seems to work most often.
As soon as CPQ bought DEC, CPQ became a services company - that was a driving reason for buying DEC. As soon as HP got CPQ, they inherited that services division & voila, HP is an instant services company.
Most likely it was the software handling the processing that was not doing adequate checks. I love my Mandrake box to bits, but the same argument can be made against Linux if the code running on it is crap.
For example:
If you "cc" this on Linux, you get a "Floating Point Exception" error and the program exits. If the software on the ship were running into this same scenario, it would halt as well - doesn't matter if it were on Linux or Win32.
Govertnment Taxation. These devices probably aren't taxed/levied/whatever anywhere near as bad as a cigarette.
Why do you feel being available 24/7 MUST be a life or death/important situation? I completely agree with you - jerks having their cells go off during a movie is rude & uncalled for. The perp should be smacked & yanked out of the movie flick. But why not receive a silent page/text message - things to be taken care of after the movie but might be received during. As a side note, in the past 10 years of movie watching in a theatre (about 6 or flicks/yr) , I have only heard a cell go off twice - I must be extremly fortunate.
We don't NEED to be hooked up to a communication network all the time
Why not? What gives you the right to dictate when I'm allowed to/not to receive a message and communicate with someone? The whole beauty of cell phones is that it gives you the ability to be free from staying at home waiting for a call - An incoming cell call is sorta like an Interrupt Request which you can choose to accept or ignore while doing something.
I whole heartedly agree that nobody has the right to interrupt something you have paid for that requires silence and concentration (e.g. lecture/conference/movie) with their noisy device - which is why mine is ALWAYS on vibe (or off).
However, I must disagree as far as public transit/places go - "crowded" public transit is usually noisy - not with human banter, but the noise of the actual vehicle carrying on. Why the hell should I keep silent and not speak with people on my cell just because you aren't? It is your choice to sit there staring out the window trying to avoide eye contact with the people around you.
It is the "few" annoying cell phone users that ruin it for those of us that use it responsibly and courteously.
Basically anything that reduces our addiction to instant satisfaction of our every wish is ok with me. We don't NEED to be hooked up to a communication network all the time.
And that is fine - for you. Why do you get to decide that my use of a mobile phone is an "addiction"?. Also, I'm not sure where you pull "instant satisfaction" out of - it is unrelated to using a cell. I can be "hooked" up to a communication network all the time if I want - I do not fear communication and can handle the requests/responsibilities carrying a cell entail.
but in the context of a page on the net, it does suck. As would a .doc, .wpd or .sdw.
>wtf is Alabama English? you can't just make up your own languange and expect it to be supported. this is just arrogance. if you don't want to speak or type properly that's fine but you live with the consequences.
Any geek worth their paycheque has dealt with and can recognize potential '0' and 'O' discrepancies.
Alabamans don't realize they talk with accents. No American realizes they have an accent (yeah, I'm Canadian & no, I don't have an accent ;)
No wonder your off shore support was having problems with blurbs like that. I'm no typing master myself, but as an "on-shore" English Canadian, I had to read that 3 or 4 times. You're just setting them them up for failure with text like that ;)
I would also like to add:
I know there are dozens of other flicks that need to be up here but alas, i've never had total recall.
Co-op was a good time - running through the levels guns-a-blazing but the monsters were either insanely stupid or too machine like (as with most wannabe bot AI). Of course fighting some of the "doom gods" was like fighting the nightmare bots on steroids. However, I really enjoyed the hunt of the other players & picking up new tricks (killer BFG eyes, silent rockets, wall running, grunting to cover weapon noise, silent rocket/plasma)- things that would get you kicked off any DC server now-a-days (superman, mortar bug) but was the mark of a good player back then.
We had one large BBS in Calgary called Nucleus which eventually turned ISP (and a LOT of 1 to <10 line dial-ups...ahhhh the good ole' days). When I first joined Nuke, it was $20 or $30 Cdn/mo and around 30 lines. it quickly grew over a year to 100+ lines, lots of door game/muds, chat/trivia, and most importantly Gamecon. I successfully dropped my GPA by 1.0+ points by staying up late fragging in doom][. It was the most fun a geek could have with his pants on. For pants off entertainment, one had to socialize in the chat area. It had no rocket launchers/shotgun so it wasn't as appealing.
I strongly disagree for "the most part". In the beginning, sure - kuz it was weird to get together with your computers (ok its still weird but accepted) but after people discovered net play, single player was an afterthought. Back in 95/96/97 myself and a bunch of other doom][ addicts regularly gamed (DM) against each other. MajorBBS had an addon called "Gamecon" that would allow us to have up to 4 player deathmatch over 14.4k+ modems (although the doom gods wouldn't participate in this kind of fragfest). Sure we had fun playing the single player mission in the beginning but as soon as there was a way for us to kill each other, the single player was only there for when nobody was around to play DM.
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Your ISP can read your e-mail as it travels through their network to your mail server.
Then why does my cell phone have a colour screen, camera, scheduler, office software, etcc? My GBA plays games AND mp3's.
You could limit to High speed requirement on PC games too - it isn't a console "feature"
I prefer my good looking PC graphics to the unrecognizable grainy T.V. blobs.
You are worried about reality in a game where you can launch balls of plasma & then detonate it with a stream of energy? AND translocate faster than Santa clause? AND hand held R/C nukes? jeebus! forget reality & enjoy the fun.
The generally accepted value for SQL is: Structured Query Language
It isn't entirely uselsss. "skipping stones" was the tech behind the bouncing bombs in WWII that the Allies used to destroy German dams to deprive their industry of water. A couple weeks ago there was a great documentary about it on t.v. but i can't find a link - wuz on discovery or history channel i think - might have been one of those "dangerous jobs" shows. The bombs would bounce across the water & timed so that they would sink when they got up close to the dam and then detonate deep under water against the structure. Unfortunately, my words do not do the program justice.
I hope these two Romanian programmers take him for a ton of ca$h.
Royal Bank of Canada Invests in SCO 30 out of a 50 million investment.
bummer! You can have mine. I opened it, said "cool", put it back in the box and promptly forgot about it.
I received mine a few weeks later - maybe you didn't punch the monkey properly.
There is more to .NET than the buzz you seem to think it is. Now that they've gone the CLR (aka bytecode) route, their DLL's are basically like java packages & you can make a runtime for any platform & the apps are instantly deployable. i'm not saying they've been innovative in that respect, but the good part is you can develop in c++/c#/vb/etc... and generate code for any platform. Unlike Java where you are stuck with the one language.
The Visual Studio .Net and 2003 IDE is excellent to work with and I hear nothing but praise for it over other IDEs.
Implementation Inheritance instead of just Interface Inheritance - something the COM/Activex developers ached for without having to kludge it using Aggregation & wrapper functions.
Instant Web Application - not as much futzing manually with jscript & server pages, etc...
The big SOAP push so you can have applications easily exposing and implementing functionality from other vendors on a COMMON STANDARD protocol without re-writing or having to do much manual stuff on your own part. I haven't used this functionality so I can't vouch for how well it works.