Hi I'm Rocky. And I'm a Mac. ;)
On Nov 22, 2009, at 4:24 PM, David dlocklea...@gmail.com wrote:
Some of you maybe wanting to buy a computer now that Windows 7 is out,
or maybe for a holiday gift.
But before you rush out, I would like to share this with you:
There is a new motherboard on
If you have your windows update set to automatic (and depending on the settings
you choose) you already have all of the updated patches, if not then just
manually start windows update. It's simple, automatic, and almost fool-proof.
A remember the days when MS bug fixes were over a year
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*Sent:* Saturday, May 05, 2007 3:30 PM
*To:* Don Cooper
*Cc:* Nico Escamilla; mark.al...@l-3com.com; wwildch...@aol.com;
Texascavers@texascavers.com
*Subject:* Re: [Texascavers] OT - computer news
It's still showing as registered, and doesn't expire until July 07
noticed this, too.
Actually, it's been MIA for a couple of weeks.
Is it kaput?
(A Curious) Mark
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*From:* wwildch...@aol.com [mailto:wwildch...@aol.com]
*Sent:* Friday, May 04, 2007 11:28 AM
*To:* Texascavers@texascavers.com
*Subject:* Re: [Texascavers] OT
04, 2007 11:28 AM
*To:* Texascavers@texascavers.com
*Subject:* Re: [Texascavers] OT - computer news
Wow, and to think that my Commodore Vic 20 with 5k of RAM actually
ran an operating system at all. Since your talking bogomips, it would be in
the neighborhood of .004
And to make
; wwildch...@aol.com;
Texascavers@texascavers.com
Subject: Re: [Texascavers] OT - computer news
It's still showing as registered, and doesn't expire until July 07 (this is
only the domain side, not necessarily his hosting).
Perhaps Chris would donate the domain over to the TSA and they could put an
auto
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*Sent:* Friday, May 04, 2007 11:28 AM
*To:* Texascavers@texascavers.com
*Subject:* Re: [Texascavers] OT - computer news
Wow, and to think that my Commodore Vic 20 with 5k of RAM actually
ran an operating system at all. Since your talking bogomips, it would
: Texascavers@texascavers.com
Sent: Thu, 3 May 2007 1:50 AM
Subject: Re: [Texascavers] OT - computer news
Well, as much as I'd like to say the 'bloatation' of Windows is a microsoft
problem -
I've noticed enhanced feature performance hindrance every bit as much (or even
more) in the X-Windows
I noticed this, too.
Actually, it's been MIA for a couple of weeks.
Is it kaput?
(A Curious) Mark
From: wwildch...@aol.com [mailto:wwildch...@aol.com]
Sent: Friday, May 04, 2007 11:28 AM
To: Texascavers@texascavers.com
Subject: Re: [Texascavers] OT
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*From:* wwildch...@aol.com [mailto:wwildch...@aol.com]
*Sent:* Friday, May 04, 2007 11:28 AM
*To:* Texascavers@texascavers.com
*Subject:* Re: [Texascavers] OT - computer news
Wow, and to think that my Commodore Vic 20 with 5k of RAM actually ran an
operating system at all
Well, as much as I'd like to say the 'bloatation' of Windows is a microsoft
problem -
I've noticed enhanced feature performance hindrance every bit as much (or
even more) in the X-Windows, shareware realm of Gnome (graphic environment
for RH (and other) Linux(es)).
The '2000 release' of RH 7
I gave up on the RH flavors back in version 7, way too much bloat. Since
then, I've used FreeBSD for any of my UNIX needs, especially servers. For
workstations, I recently moved over to Ubuntu, while bloated, it supports
more Windows compatiblities than BSD did, namely shockwave, flash, video
The time is well past for investing in a flash start-up...
Stefan
-Original Message-
From: David Locklear [mailto:dlocklea...@gmail.com]
In summary, now would be a good time to invest some money in a start-up
company making flash memory.
David Locklear
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IMPORTANT NOTICE: The
The purpose of flash memory and vista is for vista to store small files that
are usually randomly accessed from your hard drive on flash, the I/O of
flash is usually not that great but it has awesome seek times compared to
spindles, therefore the theory is you can get a performance boost out of
David, flash drives are becoming a very viable medium for computers. Dell
recently announced that certain models of laptops would have the option for
a flash hard drive, but at a steep cost.
http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/04/26/2049235
I predict that within 5 years, you'll find
While we're On Computers and predictions I'll try my John McLaughlin
voice:
Vista will become the next instance of an 'ME' type, poorly
received release.
Opinion, Commentary?
-WaV
(IMO - even with USB 2.0 - non volitle memory sticks are too slow to speed
up any process.
Useful as a substitute
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Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2007 5:03 PM
To: Charles Goldsmith
Cc: Cavers, Texas
Subject: Re: [Texascavers] OT - computer news
While we're On Computers and predictions I'll try my John McLaughlin
voice:
Vista will become the next instance of an 'ME' type, poorly received
release.
Opinion
Don, your prediction is probably right, I'll stick to my OSX and UNIX
favorites... I only use Windows where I have to, and will keep using XP
there until I'm forced to update because xyz application or game forces me
to go to Vista.
ME was a horrible experience.
Charles
On 5/2/07, Don Cooper
Right on! Macs Rulz!
Charles, how is your brother doing? I hope all is well.
- Pete
Charles Goldsmith wrote:
Don, your prediction is probably right, I'll stick to my OSX and UNIX
favorites... I only use Windows where I have to, and will keep using XP
there until I'm forced to update because
I should have updated sooner, he's doing great, he was released on Monday
and is home on oral antibiotics
Thanks for asking
On 5/2/07, Pete Lindsley linds...@raytheon.com wrote:
Right on! Macs Rulz!
Charles, how is your brother doing? I hope all is well.
- Pete
Charles Goldsmith wrote:
Maybe in the interim they'll release a 'Classic' 3.1 version.
Wouldn't that be hilarious? A return to Windows fundamentals
I think I might have mentioned it to you or someone on the remailer list
that I hooked up hard drive containing Windows 3.11 on a 400 Mhz PIII
machine. It booted up so
I'm not surprised, I put WFW3.11 on a server class pentium pro 200 with a
raid 5 scsi system back in 1996, just to time it booting up, and of course,
it booted very nicely in under 2 seconds.
I'm sure Win95 or 98 will boot up on modern, fast hardware very quickly, it
would be usable, and would
David, you are delving into a deep and unknown area :)
As WaVy states, most unix's/linux are free, so don't spend any money on
them. A good one to play with (and you dont' have to install) is
Knoppix http://knoppix.org/ (it runs from a cd, or you can go through an
installer), just pop the cd
David, you are delving into a deep and unknown area :)
As WaVy states, most unix's/linux are free, so don't spend any money on
them. A good one to play with (and you dont' have to install) is
Knoppix http://knoppix.org/ (it runs from a cd, or you can go through an
installer), just pop the cd
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