Isn't this a Contradiction in Terms? IBM Dishes Out Small, Low-Power Supercomputer

Big? The Dec floppies were 8". A dual drive with unibus interface used to cost about 4 grand.

John

Picky, picky. Consider the statement to be a shortened version of "a block of data is not a list of instructions." Or, if you prefer, DON'T EXECUTE BUFFERS, DAMMIT!

John

Try quoting the file names ie

ren "xxx*.ext" "yyy*.ext"

otherwise the file names get mangled into 8.3 format. That should work unless the combined file name and path length exceeds 128 chars---the whole thing is a PITA.

Mike

screens,

If it's windows, simply reinstall it over the present installation. Should correct whatever is wrong. I've done that twice this year just as a precaution. I hate to wait until it goes completely. Do it each time you begin to see subtle discrepencies in operation. A .DLL cleaner will help too. There are free ones and cheap ones that do the job nicely. Also a Registry Cleaner will get rid of entries from software that has been uninstalled and merely marked as unused.

Bill @ GarberStreet Enterprizez };-) Web Site -

Idea that WHO had??? Maybe Steve Jobs or maybe somebody at Xerox, but it definitely wasn't Bill's idea.

I read in sci.electronics.design that Bill Garber wrote (in ) about 'Isn't this a Contradiction in Terms? IBM Dishes Out Small, Low- Power Supercomputer', on Sun, 16 Nov 2003:

How do you re-install all the upgrades and patches? I had to do it once and it took 6 hours to get all the stuff from the Net to fix the original files from the CD-ROM.

I skip all the updates, upgrades, and patches. I find they crash my system more than if I simply use the base system from the installation CD. If the original recognizes all your hardware, then you need no upgrades or patches. If it doesn't, then your hardware should have come with a driver disk. Be sure to use the original OEM installation CD, not a copy. Copies will not work properly.

Bill @ GarberStreet Enterprizez };-) Web Site -

In article , snipped-for-privacy@massnet1.net mentioned...

Yeah, thanks. I think when I tried that, the files got changed to the ~1 on the end. I'm not sure, I'll have to try it again.

In article , snipped-for-privacy@interlogDOTyou.knowwhat mentioned...

I'm beginning go get to the point where I unconsciously, without even thinking, click on ACRORD32.EXE and end task. :-/

And when I run Photoshop, I sometimes have to do it to that, too.

In article , "Mark Jones" mentioned...

But the viewer is a plug-in.

Every time I upgrade Mozilla (which is about once a month lately), it says it removed those plug-ins. So I got tired of putting Djvu back in, and besides, I almost never have to use it anyway. Except for some diehards here who won't go to .PDFs.

I notice that when I end the ACRORD32 task, it sometimes comes up as the full program instead of the plug-in. Which I like, because it doesn't have the lock-up problem.

Maybe it's the OS causing the prob, not the reader. :o)

On Sat, 15 Nov 2003 21:36:38 -0800, John Larkin Gave us:

Data transfers from one motherboard locale to another should also NOT crash the system.

If you don't care about security then you can ignore the patches. I take it you have a substantial firewall and up-to-date anti-virus software. An unpatched Windows box on the net is wide open.

Tim

On Sun, 16 Nov 2003 17:06:58 -0500, "Mark Jones" Gave us:

Mozilla or Firebird. The problem isn't acrobat. It's Billy's Browser... Patches and all.

Iwo

On Mon, 17 Nov 2003 09:33:50 +1100, "Damien" Gave us:

Did it ever occur to you that failing to boot points toward a hardware issue?

Quite, I'm not even sure what Ben meant. If he meant a system API then they've been around as long as operating systems. If he meant standard GUI widgets then I imagine Xerox got there first, but perhaps it was Apple or whatever the first wm for XWindows was. If he means that everybody uses Windows then that's not a common OS-interface at all, it's exclusive to Windows *and* it's changed!

Tim

On Sun, 16 Nov 2003 18:29:00 -0500, "Mike Cukr" Gave us:

Not a valid DOS action.

The command you specified does not do what you claim it does.

On Mon, 17 Nov 2003 05:41:35 -0500, "Bill Garber" Gave us:

You are devoid of any knowledge on the subject, and should refrain from "contributing".

Although Mozilla is certainly superior (how did I ever live without tabbed browsing and popup blocking?) I still find Acrobat plays silly buggers with it. It doesn't take the browser with it when it dies, but it still freezes with distressing regularity.

Tim