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At one point in time, MS actually did sell standalone MSIE packages (think of a box approximately the size of the Win95 boxes, which says "Microsoft Internet Explorer" on it). Might have been MSIE 4 but I'm not sure. Anyway, they were about US$40. I may be remembering incorrectly, but I think...

In one of the more extreme cases I've seen, all the X11 programs were outputting garbled unreadable text and things like that. My experience is that usually the upgrades go well (especially when upgrading to 7.3, as opposed to upgrading to prior releases), but once in a while something will go...

Another story on the same site along the same vein (this one is much newer): Engineers, the silent, Anti-Social Killers

Google translation here Seeing the pictures alongside the machine translation is just unbelievably funny... BTW, is that someone's bank account number there?

This is what Win2K does when the page file somehow gets changed to a different drive letter. :( The fix involves editing the registry, if I remember correctly, but that gets you into chicken-and-egg problems. I think there's an MS Knowledge Base article somewhere that talks about this problem...

Note to Tannin: This, not the lack of a floppy drive, is the real kicker IMO. If NRG had a CD writer, he'd be able to just download Seagate's AAM utility, put it onto a bootable MS-DOS CD (thanks to floppy emulation), and run that. I've actually done this with IBM Drive Fitness Test and IBM...

I haven't tried it, but I heard a while back that it had a "run everything as root" paradigm (i.e., that it was insecure). I don't know if that's changed since then.

In October 1998 there were still BX boards on the shelves with BIOSes from May 1998 or so, at least in the US. I guess I made the assumption that the motherboard and CPU were of similar age. Now that I think about it, I have no idea whether that assumption was correct.

It could be an old BIOS that doesn't support the CPU (if you have another CPU there that does work with this mobo, you could put that one in, update the BIOS, and try the Celeron again). That, not a dead battery or the like, is what it's usually been when I've seen that kind of garbage.

PC floppy controllers I forgot the word PC in my previous post (the old 68K Macs use PIO on their floppy controllers, which is why the mouse pointer can't keep up during floppy accesses on those machines).

Actually, floppy controllers do use DMA, and it's not noticeably CPU intensive under Linux or *BSD...

FWIW, I've received 10,000RPM SCSI drives from IBM that were scarred and scratched right out of the bag! (not dented though)

I've heard some people argue that the recent VIA processors are the best x86 server CPUs (if you don't need massive CPU power anyway) because they don't need fans, and that means one less thing that can fail.

I've had this problem with this sound chip too. I really think it's drivers: Under Linux, I originally had a problem with the thing freezing a lot, but updating to the latest driver made it work. (No driver update ever made it work properly under Windows; I replaced it with a Sound Blaster Live...

Still needs horizonal scrolliing on both Mozilla and Konqueror.

Horizontal scrolling needed with both Konqueror 3.0.1 and a slightly patched Mozilla 1.0-branch checkout from earlier today (i.e., 1.0.1 prerelease).

It's scrolling in Konqueror 3.0.1 as well.

Rumor says September, shortly after Win2K SP3. WRT piracy: http://news.com.com/2100-1001-922066.html?tag=rn

I'm typing this from my Quadra 610, 12MB RAM, Seagate X15 hard drive (with a hard drive cooler, "installed" [not really, it's just been stuffed in there and it isn't being held in by screws or other mounting stuff, and the drive cooler is sticking two or three inches out the front of the...

Doug20910: next time you should put the effort into describing the machine you're asking the question about, rather than the machine that you're currently using, so that people like Mercutio don't get confused. :) Doug's Performa is not the Mac clone that he describes in his e-mail. The...

That doesn't quite sound right. Let me see if I can do a better job of explaining... CAD as used by NT (and optionally 2000/XP) is, to put it in generic terms, a Secure Attention Key (SAK). AFAIK, the idea is that it should not be possible for anything outside the OS to intercept a SAK keypress...

A sign of things to come? To me it looks like something that just came! :) BTW, it's working fine for me too. (Win2K, MSIE 5.5 SP2) Syrob, are you running MSIE 5.0x by any chance? If so, you may want to try upgrading to 5.5SP2 (MS has been listing it as a "Critical Update" for a while). Also...

http://www.x-entertainment.com/messages/16.html :)

I'm fully aware of this, and BTW it applies to the PCI bus as well as to the ATA channel; that's another thing I meant to allude to with the phrase "if you're lucky." The 120GXP uses those "Pixie Dust" platters already, according to IBM's web site, and the STR is nowhere near maxing out ATA-100...

Er, what do you mean? My main problem with the poll was that the Big 3 Graphics options weren't split into three separate options of their own; that is, I thought there weren't enough options. :) I would have considered G1000 if it had been an option of its own, but (for the moment) I couldn't...

Of course, nobody is going to have ATA drives with STRs anywhere near that fast anytime soon, and PCI cards are going to be of little help on this front because most people still have 32-bit 33MHz, 133MB/s (if you're lucky -- some chipsets have bugs that cripple the speed to various limits like...

http://www.apple.com/macosx/newversion/ I hope this puts any doubts of my "more bloated than even WinXP" claim to rest. :( I can't imagine the flames MS would get if they required you to have a GeForce2 or up or a Radeon for 2D (not 3D!) graphics acceleration under WinXP, or if they...

From a brief glance, I think I can tell you what it's saying: internally, the drive is failing to read data too often. It's saying that it might go 75GXP on you (i.e., tons of bad sectors and data loss) at any point. At least, that's what the drive firmware thinks. It's already remapped 9...

Apple IIgs all over again, in some ways Limited hardware acceleration of graphics (I don't think it's absolutely zero -- IIRC it's supported to some extent on some cards). I've heard that the reason this is supported so badly right now is that they want to make the graphics acceleration...

Oh, wait, WHOOPS. It's displaying page file usage where NT/2K/XP used to display virtual memory usage. I bet that's going to confuse a lot of people once Windows.NET comes out... Looking at it again, I think (assuming I'm not misinterpreting things again) it's using about 170MB of memory...

No, no, look at the screenshot more carefully. Less than 80MB of that 1GB is in use!

The first three were 36LZX's. The first one got louder and louder until it suddenly stopped spinning (after 6 months). The second one started getting louder the same way, and IBM tech support told me to return it (after 3 months). The third one died after a month or so (it sounded like it was...

I just received my latest 36GB 10000RPM IBM UltraStar "serviceable used part" today (replacement for the last four that failed on me), and it made me wonder whether anyone else really goes through the bother of returning the drive that many times to the manufacturer or if they just give up...

(As an aside, I removed the uncompressed download from my web site (if it can even be called a site) -- there's only the compressed .zip download. I hope that's not a problem.) My "utility" (which is really a minimal single-floppy bootable Linux distribution with the smartctl command from...

You mean, "9.5mm laptop HDDs hit 5,400 RPM Now!" IBM has had 12.5mm 5400RPM laptop drives for a while. I've been using one since October 2000 or so.

http://www.pcguide.com/ref/mbsys/buses/types/pciMastering-c.html I believe this is a trick to improve performance, but that many (most?) devices nowadays will refuse to operate without the ability. I may be wrong though. Your SCSI and network cards almost certainly require bus mastering, and...

For nice font display under Mozilla on Linux, you really need a recent Mozilla (probably 0.9.6 or newer, I'm not totally sure -- 0.9.7 and 0.9.8 definitely do the trick though), as well as XFree86 4.1.0 or later (Mandrake 8.1 or RH 7.2 -- XFree86 4.0.x from Mandrake 8.0 or RH 7.0/7.1 is too old...

FWIW, Counterpane Labs has a password manager program called Password Safe: http://www.counterpane.com/passsafe.html That's version 1.7.x; the 2.0 development page is: http://passwordsafe.sourceforge.net/ I've never used Password Safe, but it's an example of a program to deal with this type of...

I think I need to clarify my previous post a bit: At this point, if you want lots of familiar Unix commands to be accessible, type "aliasall" and press Enter. To see a list of these commands, "alias". The shell also has "help", for what it's worth. None of this is necessary to simply use...

How to use SmartBoot: -Put the floppy disk in the drive and boot the computer -The computer should display "Loading...." and a bunch of dots, then "Uncompressing Linux" or something like that. If it displays any hexadecimal numbers before it gets to "Uncompressing" then it could be a bad...

Ok, here it is: http://members.cox.net/barrykn/ sb010.img is a 1440K raw disk image file. sb010.zip is a zipped version of this file -- it's only a 740K or so download. You'll want to use your browser's "save to disk" function, or whatever your browser has, on the .img file if you decide to...

I'm almost done putting together a Linux boot floppy which should allow you to get more SMART information from that drive. I'll post in this thread again when I have it done, with a URL to the boot floppy image and instructions for turning it into a real floppy.