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

[Watson A.Name - Watt Sun, Dark Remover]

I read in sci.electronics.design that Watson A. Name - Watt Sun, Dark
ews.dslextreme.com>) about 'Isn't this a Contradiction in Terms? IBM
Dishes Out Small, Low-Power Supercomputer', on Sun, 16 Nov 2003:

No. If you right-click on the filename in Windows Explorer you get a
drop-down menu that includes 'Rename', which highlights the filename and
puts the cursor at its end. Very convenient for deleting the extension,
which is probably NOT what you want to do. (;-)

You can also do this by left-clicking once on the filename to highlight
it and then again, NOT TOO QUICKLY, to rename.

Well, in my DOS example, I tried to show that I was renaming multiple
files, all at once.


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[Spehro Pefhany]

Yes, I find Acrobat (5.0.5) to be troublesome. It grabs huge chunks of
memory for no reason, screws up the icons on the desktop (replacing the
little arrow on short-cut icons with something indecipherable) and
generally shows instability.

If you kill it in the task manager and restart it, you can get around
most of that stuff without rebooting.

Best regards,
Spehro Pefhany

 

[John Woodgate]

I read in sci.electronics.design that Watson A. Name - Watt Sun, Dark
s.dslextreme.com>) about 'Isn't this a Contradiction in Terms? IBM
Dishes Out Small, Low-Power Supercomputer', on Sun, 16 Nov 2003:

Well, in my DOS example, I tried to show that I was renaming multiple
files, all at once.

So you did, and I didn't realise. Sorry.

 

[Mark Jones]

In news:[email protected] (Spehro Pefhany):

If you kill it in the task manager and restart it, you can get around
most of that stuff without rebooting.

Best regards,
Spehro Pefhany

Just an aside, I've never had to terminate the LizardTech .DjVu viewer
process, nor the encoder.

Acrobat reader occasionally locks up though even in XP, so I disabled the
..PDF browser plugin, and it works much better that way. Can only have one
..PDF open at a time then, however.

I guess we're stuck with it though, huh. Bugs and all.

 

[Damien]

What are you doing on your "always crashing" box?

Starting it! Before I've even had a chance to log on, it just blue screens,
and starts dumping memory. Not a lot to be done when it does that!

Damien

 

[Greg Pierce]

[snip]

Yes, my system has been up for 46 days, 8 hours and 51 minutes. The
last reboot was due to a kernel upgrade.

And there lies the rub. All those long unbooted systems could be guilty
of being neglected or unattended, or admins have been negligent in proper
OS maintenance/upgrades.

Now watch all the feathers fly, as *nix defenders try to whittle what I've
said down to matchsticks. I didn't say that the above was bad; if the box
is doing its job, then no sense in fixin' what ain't broken. But just the
increasing demand for services should put those archaic boxes out to
salvage and get them replaced with a more powerful box. Unless, of
course, you have acres of rack space. ;-)

My system isn't a server, its a workstation. I installed the latest kernel
to get all the latest features. This is seldom necessary for a server,
where all you are concerned with is stability, security, and that it does
the job. If all of these criteria are met, there is no real reason to
install a newer kernel, and some good reasons not to. The older
kernels continue to be tested and monitored, so they are usually
going to be a bit better in terms of security and stability - which is
why these systems have such long uptime and haven't been hacked.
You are mistaking *nix systems for being like Windows, where you
have to "upgrade" frequently to fix bugs or gaping security holes.

 

[John Larkin]

OMG! WTF is CP/M doing on the sidebar! I haven't seen that in
ten years, booting a Kaypro from one of those big 5 1/4" floppies

Tim

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

John

 

[John Larkin]

Surely
Data are not instructions
or
A Datum is not an instruction
let's get the programming right

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

 

[Mike Cukr]

Have to keep that in mind, thanks. BTW, I can go to DOS box and

rename a bunch of similar filenames in 8.3 format to a different name,
like xxx123 and xxx124 to yyy123 and yyy124, etc.
Like c:> REN xxx*.ext yyy*.ext

But how does one do this in windows, with longer filenames? Does it
require a utility? Thanks.

<snip>

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

 

[Bill Garber]

Starting it! Before I've even had a chance to log on, it just blue screens,
and starts dumping memory. Not a lot to be done when it does that!

Damien

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 };-)
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[Tom Del Rosso]

In Ban typed:

I cannot imagine a better idea than what BGates had, to create a
common OS-interface for all apps.

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

 

[John Woodgate]

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

If it's windows, simply reinstall it over the present installation.

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.

 

[Bill Garber]

I read in sci.electronics.design that Bill Garber
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.

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[Watson A.Name - Watt Sun, Dark Remover]

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.

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.

Mike

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[Watson A.Name - Watt Sun, Dark Remover]

If you kill it in the task manager and restart it, you can get around
most of that stuff without rebooting.

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.

Best regards,
Spehro Pefhany

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Just when you thought you had all this figured out, the gov't
changed it: http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/binary.html
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[Watson A.Name - Watt Sun, Dark Remover]

In (Spehro Pefhany):


Just an aside, I've never had to terminate the LizardTech .DjVu viewer
process, nor the encoder.

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.

Acrobat reader occasionally locks up though even in XP, so I disabled the
.PDF browser plugin, and it works much better that way. Can only have one
.PDF open at a time then, however.

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.

I guess we're stuck with it though, huh. Bugs and all.

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


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Don't be ripped off by the big book dealers. Go to the URL
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http://www.everybookstore.com You'll be glad you did!
Just when you thought you had all this figured out, the gov't
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[DarkMatter]

3) DATA IS NOT INSTRUCTIONS.

John

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

 

[Tim Auton]

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 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

 

[DarkMatter]

In (Spehro Pefhany):


Just an aside, I've never had to terminate the LizardTech .DjVu viewer
process, nor the encoder.

Acrobat reader occasionally locks up though even in XP, so I disabled the
.PDF browser plugin, and it works much better that way. Can only have one
.PDF open at a time then, however.

I guess we're stuck with it though, huh. Bugs and all.

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

 

[Iwo Mergler]

3) DATA IS NOT INSTRUCTIONS.

4) STACK IS NOT INSTRUCTIONS.

Iwo