Going through these photo's make the equipment at my old job look hi-tech! They have a 10MB hard drive that must have weighed at least 20kg - although I only saw it used once to update some y2k code in 1999.
But at least with Windows 7 you can use the RC for free until Q2 2010. I never used Vista until I bought I new PC about 15 months ago and never had any issues with it. With Windows 7 RC, I have Firefox crashing quite a bit but for the most part I like it a lot.
If you can try it for free, why not?
When camping one time at a semi remote location (3 hr hike in up a mountain) the squirrels there were used to humans enough to crawl inside my shorts pocket to get at some sunflower seeds I was eating (and tossing a few to him or her). I almost tried petting it but was a little too concerned for my own set of nuts in said shorts. Probably wouldn't take too much to get him to allow me to pet it though. I would think that a baby squirrel raised by humans wouldn't have a problem with this.
You go about 1-2 km on the 1 L of fuel, then get hit by a Hummer and fly the other 566 km. The mods to reach 1000km are to have the Hummer go faster when it hits you.
I always guessed it was Britain's fault. People say "The UK" which makes sense. The UK and The Ukraine both have identical sounds so Ukraine was retrofitted with "The" I know I've said The Ukraine in the past and I have never played Risk until just a few weeks ago.
At my company (~5500 employees) we use towns in the UK. Not sure who implemented that policy, it was there long before I was. I adopted a variation for my own computers (and ones I set up for family members). I use towns in Saskatchewan, since that is where I am from.
> Some of our macros can take upwards of twenty minutes to run.
That might just be a sign of a poor macro. At my company, a friend of mine inherited a spreadsheet doing some intense pipeline modeling that could take upwards of an hour to run depending on the dataset, but my friend was able to decrease that to under 30 seconds by changing the way the data accessed. I think it was basically changing from accessing each cell individually to reading larger sets of data at a time.
Reminds me of the Bob and Doug McKenzie album where Bob is bragging that now that they are a band they have a roadie and 18 tractor trailer trucks carrying their stuff including 50 million pounds of back bacon.
Bob: And 50 million pounds of back bacon.
Doug: 50 million?!? Take off!
Bob: OK, uh, 5 million.
The screen had a a couple of vertical lines that were permanently on. It was a used unit that I bought off a buddy back in the day. Other than that it still worked fine. I don't even remember what happened to it. I still have the Tetris game cartridge that I use occasionally in my Gameboy Advance.
Or someone who wants to write MFC apps. I don't think MFC is included in the 2005 or 2008 express editions.
Although wxWidgets provides an open source MFCish alternative.
At my work, we have maybe 70-100 hard drives 'in the field' in always on systems and we see maybe a few of those fail per year. Usually after 3-5 years of use. The machines are well cooled but live in extrememly dusty environments. I don't know if the dust affects the hard drives but it will impede cooling. We see more problems with Maxtors than any other brand. In house, our server raid drives also seem to fit this 3-5 years of always on service.
At home, I don't leave my computers on all the time and have never had a hard drive fail.
I know of several sites worldwide that use even older OS's. I have seen and worked with iRMX systems running or monitoring power generation facilities, oil/gas, transportion, water distribution, etc. The latest versions of iRMX support telnet and ftp so it is possible to remotely access these computers. However, I image the number of virii is virtually nil and like some others have mentioned, SCADA networks are usually disconnected from the rest of the Internet. I haven't personally seen one that is. Plus the OS is pretty rock solid, especially when using well tested and debugged (read: old) software.
As a side note, I couldn't get FileZilla to work with the iRMX ftp server because it didn't understand the logical file attachments (like:home: or:c: or whatever)
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So John Carmack works for Facebook now?
Except for here and here.
Going through these photo's make the equipment at my old job look hi-tech! They have a 10MB hard drive that must have weighed at least 20kg - although I only saw it used once to update some y2k code in 1999.
http://pbfcomics.com/?cid=PBF165-Yarteries.jpg
Microsoft Merkin
Do we have to wait until SP2 before it's stable (and relatively bug free)?!?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merkin/
But at least with Windows 7 you can use the RC for free until Q2 2010. I never used Vista until I bought I new PC about 15 months ago and never had any issues with it. With Windows 7 RC, I have Firefox crashing quite a bit but for the most part I like it a lot. If you can try it for free, why not?
When camping one time at a semi remote location (3 hr hike in up a mountain) the squirrels there were used to humans enough to crawl inside my shorts pocket to get at some sunflower seeds I was eating (and tossing a few to him or her). I almost tried petting it but was a little too concerned for my own set of nuts in said shorts. Probably wouldn't take too much to get him to allow me to pet it though. I would think that a baby squirrel raised by humans wouldn't have a problem with this.
You go about 1-2 km on the 1 L of fuel, then get hit by a Hummer and fly the other 566 km. The mods to reach 1000km are to have the Hummer go faster when it hits you.
Not to mention John Deere American Farmer. http://www.universalfarmer.com/
I always guessed it was Britain's fault. People say "The UK" which makes sense. The UK and The Ukraine both have identical sounds so Ukraine was retrofitted with "The" I know I've said The Ukraine in the past and I have never played Risk until just a few weeks ago.
I had a Tandy 1000 HX with DOS 2.11 in ROM which booted in about 3-4 seconds. And that was in 1988.
Mark Russinovich's comments on the subject: http://blogs.technet.com/markrussinovich/archive/2008/02/04/2826167.aspx
640K should be enough for anybody. Wait. What?
At my company (~5500 employees) we use towns in the UK. Not sure who implemented that policy, it was there long before I was. I adopted a variation for my own computers (and ones I set up for family members). I use towns in Saskatchewan, since that is where I am from.
Wouldn't the big bang qualify as a once-in-a-universe event?
> Some of our macros can take upwards of twenty minutes to run. That might just be a sign of a poor macro. At my company, a friend of mine inherited a spreadsheet doing some intense pipeline modeling that could take upwards of an hour to run depending on the dataset, but my friend was able to decrease that to under 30 seconds by changing the way the data accessed. I think it was basically changing from accessing each cell individually to reading larger sets of data at a time.
Beauty, Clark
Reminds me of the Bob and Doug McKenzie album where Bob is bragging that now that they are a band they have a roadie and 18 tractor trailer trucks carrying their stuff including 50 million pounds of back bacon. Bob: And 50 million pounds of back bacon. Doug: 50 million?!? Take off! Bob: OK, uh, 5 million.
The screen had a a couple of vertical lines that were permanently on. It was a used unit that I bought off a buddy back in the day. Other than that it still worked fine. I don't even remember what happened to it. I still have the Tetris game cartridge that I use occasionally in my Gameboy Advance.
http://www.willowglen.ca/Products/Vista/Vista.htm
Or someone who wants to write MFC apps. I don't think MFC is included in the 2005 or 2008 express editions. Although wxWidgets provides an open source MFCish alternative.
At my work, we have maybe 70-100 hard drives 'in the field' in always on systems and we see maybe a few of those fail per year. Usually after 3-5 years of use. The machines are well cooled but live in extrememly dusty environments. I don't know if the dust affects the hard drives but it will impede cooling. We see more problems with Maxtors than any other brand. In house, our server raid drives also seem to fit this 3-5 years of always on service. At home, I don't leave my computers on all the time and have never had a hard drive fail.
My computer boots in a matter of seconds also. It just so happens that it is in a matter of 120 seconds.
I know of several sites worldwide that use even older OS's. I have seen and worked with iRMX systems running or monitoring power generation facilities, oil/gas, transportion, water distribution, etc. The latest versions of iRMX support telnet and ftp so it is possible to remotely access these computers. However, I image the number of virii is virtually nil and like some others have mentioned, SCADA networks are usually disconnected from the rest of the Internet. I haven't personally seen one that is. Plus the OS is pretty rock solid, especially when using well tested and debugged (read: old) software. As a side note, I couldn't get FileZilla to work with the iRMX ftp server because it didn't understand the logical file attachments (like :home: or :c: or whatever)
I thought my company was the only one still using the iRMX Real Time OS and PLM/386!! Oh wait...
Now they can show that the new formats help fight piracy. No one wants to pirate those titles!!