OT: Who has the oldest computer?

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dsi1 wrote:

Privacy is history. Get use to it. It is after all the Information Age
where everyone will know about everyone. The Internet is the equalizer and
fraud will be known to everyone. Even though one reads about how the rich
are abusing their power, they will also find no place hide. Ten years ago
the rich could get away with anything without anyone's knowledge. The world
today will know exactly when you brush your teeth and how much salt you put
on your eggs.

For those that want the details after I take a dump, I will tell here or is
that TMI :)

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Enjoy Life... Nad R (Garden in zone 5a Michigan)
 
On 4/19/2011 8:13 PM, atec77 wrote:


By the way, I work in IT for a govt contractor, so we're forced into
this mindset unless we want to find another job. I like my job.
 
Dave Smith wrote:

I enjoyed the TRS-80, I had fun Programing that simple little machine. I
had dozens of games that others wrote and some I wrote. I learned allot
about computer Programing in those early years.

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Enjoy Life... Nad R (Garden in zone 5a Michigan)
 
I bought my Dell dimension 2400 desktop at the end of 2003. It was
pretty fast. Now sometimes it's kind of slow. It slows down quite a
bit during an ISP virus/spyware scan. It also really slows down
whenever my ISP downloads new definitions. Whatever definitions
means, I don't know. Something to do with system protection. I have
256 meg memory. I should probably upgrade to 1 Gig. I find that if I
leave it running without turning it off for days on end, it starts to
slow down. If I shut it off every night, it seems to work faster.
 
Cheryl wrote:

Yes, the plan is to ban people owning computers
and data storage devices that can't be controlled,
allegedly to prevent people from having access
to kiddie porn. Who could be against that?
 
"Krypsis" wrote in message
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DOS only had a speaker which could be modulated. And you could run DOS
games on NT Workstation.


Under NT it was pretty comprehensive save for things like direct drive
writes. NT never stood for Enterprise. Enterprise stood for enterprise as
in their enterprise versions of there servers. NT meant "new technology"
And you can do a lot with a computer OS that does not allow direct memory
writes outside of protected memory when the hardware manufacturer has built
a BIOS which allows the OS to write to the hardware. A programmer just
writes to directly to hardware registers or use APIs.

Just being pedantic. This stuff is not something I larned, I lived it while
it was happning.

Paul
 
"J. Clarke" wrote:



nb,

There's a stripped down version "PhotoShop Express" on the iPhone by Adobe.
No draw/paint tools. Cropping, color correction, filters and borders. It's
FREE. Camera Pack of extras sold separately ($4).

Best,

Andy
 
On Apr 17, 11:08?am, Portland wrote:

==
So its 8 years old and you've never defragged it...right? No wonder
its slow. Yes, more memory would help...256 meg is pitifully
inadequate.
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On 19/04/2011 5:35 AM, J. Clarke wrote:

You've reminded me that it was a DEC Alpha that we had as an office
server some time back. That was the one running NT 3.5. Don't know if it
ever was upgraded to NT 4.
Agreed, There were two different families or streams of Windows at
Microsoft back in the days. One was the DOS based version and the other
was the Enterprise based stuff which used NT 3.5, NT 4, Win2k, etc. When
they merged the two streams into one, then DOS was no more.

Krypsis
 
On Apr 17, 1:19?pm, Roy wrote:

I've defragged it a few times. I've also wiped out the hard drive and
loaded everything again. It seems to be faster after wiping out the
hard drive, but only for a few months. Defragging never seemed to
help much. I guess it's a memory problem.
 
On Sun, 17 Apr 2011 10:08:58 -0700, Portland wrote:


I would get at least one gig of memory. It's cheap and it makes a huge
difference in how your computer runs. 2 gb would be better. I'm mostly
guessing but based on the age of your computer, the memory you would
need would be something like:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820141470

Until recently I had all my previous computers, but I finally got sick
of them taking up closet space and got rid of about half of them.
Currently my oldest machine is a BX-based system that I built in the
late 1990's, and later maxed out with a P3/1200 mhz slocket and 768 mb
ram. It's running Ubuntu 10.04 and sharing a KVM with my previous
desktop, a Dell 1505 desktop pc with an early 64-bit dual-core cpu. That
one has 2 gb ram and has no problem running XP.

My current desktop is an X58-based quad-core i7 930 system with 12 GB
ram. It does sound like a lot, but I'm a network administrator and I
have a lot of virtual machines running, typically 6 or so on top of the
base Linux OS. Very handy for testing various things...
 
Andy wrote:


I use Spark Radio, It was before Tunein Radio. Spark works fine for now, I
know more people use TuneIn. I may someday load TuneIn and see which is
better. However the Radio App is the most used here also. Not favorite that
amazes me.

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Enjoy Life... Nad R (Garden in zone 5a Michigan)
 
On 2011-04-20, Cheryl wrote:



I KNOW the info in cyber-space isn't secure. That's precisely why I
choose to take extra precaustions with the info I don't want
compromised, including not even putting some info on ANY computer. To
entrust it to a 3rd party is just plain idiocy.


Many are stupid enough to use Windows. I'm not one of them.

nb
 
On 4/20/2011 11:52 AM, J. Clarke wrote:

In my limited experience, no mainframes are involved. The most common
model is a visualized infrastructure, either VMWare or MS Hyper V,
running on farms of preferably blade servers beefed up with lots of
memory, limited processor sockets but as many cores as possible. Carve
that up into as many VMs as you can and rent them on a per month (just
an example) basis with options or just vanilla. Options could be the
cloud administrators provide backups, patching and monitoring, or they
could just give em ping, pipe and power. The companies Security office
has to be involved in all models, of course. MS even has a server and
application licensing model just for this situation. Go figure.

True, but our CTO said that when RFIs are released and a response
doesn't even suggest a cloud solution it won't be considered. It's a
whole new area, so we'll see.
 
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