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May 27 new solar project, LCD clock, small battery
at first, new BEYBLADE illustration! it required less than one hour alltogether.
new LCD clock. very small battery! it has only 1.2 volts. so there will be special DC/DC converter, for low current. the LCD is 2 digits only, just for test. I have ordered more LCDs from China, $4 each. they have 3 1/2 digits. it is based on the PIC 16F57 (RISC microcontroller). solar cells are new type from Thailand, cost about $1.20 each May 23 flickr statistics - support straight marriage, PROPOSITION 8       3071 2916 2516 2228 2201 2174 1749
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new BEYBLADE webpage:
SRMTHFG - super robot monkey team hyper force go! this is a short clip from the first episode!
all the materials available in russian language- NOW! cool flash game here:
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2020 Microsoft Data-center Leader Joins Rival Amazon Web Services (PC World)Microsoft Data-center Leader Joins Rival Amazon Web Services (PC World)
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- Microsoft has lost one of the key architects of its data-center strategy, James Hamilton, to rival Amazon Web Services. Hamilton, a former data-center futures architect at Microsoft, has left the company to become a vice president distinguished engineer at AWS, the company confirmed in an e-mail. The company did not say specifically what Hamilton's role will be, saying only that he will "start putting his expertise" to work in "designing and deploying systems that are secure and that scale reliably and cost-effectively" at AWS beginning in January. Hamilton disclosed that he had left Microsoft on his Microsoft home page. While at Microsoft, he was instrumental in designing the company's current and expanding data-center strategy as part of the data-center futures team, which is responsible for data-center efficiency, speed of deployment and reliability. Hamilton also blogged about his impending move on his Perspectives blog, saying that he has had a "super-interesting time at Microsoft" and that leaving the company is "tough." Microsoft did not immediately return requests for comment Monday on Hamilton's departure. Prior to joining the data-center futures team, Hamilton was an architect on the Live Platform Services team. Before that he was general manager for Microsoft Exchange Hosted Services and also worked in the SQL Server database group. Microsoft has been building out its data-center strategy for the last few years, adding new data centers around the U.S. and overseas, to support its burgeoning software-as-a-service and cloud-computing strategies. This year the company put a significant amount of investment into its Live search engine and Windows Live set of services, among other offerings, specifically to compete with AWS and also Google. In October Microsoft revealed one of its most significant offerings to date to advance its cloud-computing strategy, the Windows Azure Services Platform. This application-development platform and infrastructure is entirely hosted in Microsoft's data centers. In the meantime, AWS, Amazon.com's pioneering cloud-computing subsidiary, continues to expand its own footprint. Last week, the company revealed its first pay-as-you-go application- and service-delivery in Europe. November 05 Gates urges rich countries not to cut health aidNEW DELHI (Reuters) – Microsoft founder Bill Gates on Wednesday said he was worried the global financial crisis
he says could last two to three years might drive rich countries to cut back spending on health aid for the developing world.
no tool assisted walkthrough's, please!i have now added some 22 years old game cartridges to my collection.
there is a page on my popfly, new video's on youtube, and here one large picture of one cartridge.
for instance on wikipedia the discussion of the artwork is not so interesting, for instance
to figure out about the certain graphical style.
there, pages like "tool assisted walkthrough", or short "speedrun" can be found!
it is a special technique.
-grab ROM files from brazil (for instance), and load them into a software emulator.
-activate special codes to switch off collision detection, and have unlimited lives!
so keen freaks can master the classical 8bit titles in just a few minutes.
on wikipedia, this is known as "walkthrough".
sure only a small scene, and not the core team of wikipedia,
but this is just one more tiny special population group, which they have attracted,
and which is not seen much at other places, merely using wikpedia as a springboard.
i am dramatizing because there are some videos on youtube, and it is merely bad gaming manners,
and not caused, or endorsed by wikipedia.
but it is no wonder to me that the explanation of the subject can be found on wikipedia.
what explanation? it is simply cheating.
here the normal way to go:
-get a Nintendo NES or super nintendo, or SEGA master system/mega drive.
-buy original game cartridges from people who do not need them anymore.
-play through like kids did in the 1980s. no save, no cheats, no software patching (tough this
existed on the homecomputer scene).
if young students collect a lot of ROMs, and then also use cheating techniques, found on wikipedia,
they will not get a good job. so it is encouraging bad bahaviour, and damaging the economy.
every little helps!
they simply can not bloat wikipedia with three times the amount of policies they already have in power.
so for this reason, it is not censored at all, at least, not for hacking and cheating.
the emulation scene is a grey area, for instance SEGA manuals have never been released to amateur's,
so most existing emulators have possibly been created using stolen documents.
does wikipedia care about this special situation (japanese 1980s society)?
not at all, even if it would be little boys.
it is evident they have no sense of etiquette in that manner.
at least the situation should be disclaimed.
but it showed early, that no cooperation with wikipedia is possible about the subject
of disclaiming widely prefered social expectations.
no, on wikipedia, rudeness and absence of law&order is given preference.
kids of nowadays look up the 1980s heritage for instance video games, and think, cool,
there is emulator software, cheating techniques, that's the way to go, i can do this too.
OK in the 1980s most kids used stolen software. but it was never officially allowed, by a administration shiftwork
spanning the whole globe, and having a large network of policies.
it was all done privately, in the bedrooms of teenage boys, the place where they maintained their
computers, and floppy disk collections!
i can remember it well.
however- most of them regularily went to shops to buy new, original software.
it was just a way to have "more" games.
on wikipedia, teenagers of today will never find this autenticity of the 1980s, together
with the unimitable honky-tonk sound of sega master system titles (and yet, in the 1980s,
no one was clever enough to pirate the cartridges, this only happened later in the 1990s in south america).
daily evidence not to use wikipedia, an attempt to replace the internet as such, and to silence the masses.
not to forget, to save the third world, india, singapore, and other rubbish dump scaveing countries,
where J Wales can become superhero quite easily, and will force partipants to smile as well,
a la NIKE sweatshop. all cloud computing participants have to be happy, and say pro-wikipedia things, or to get out.
and neutral point of view please. CHEATING? I'm unaware of the situation (did i play any games for real in my youth?)
i would be eager to read a tiny list of such games, and what he thinks about them nowadays.
the formula "tool assisted walkthrough" could be read again, and maybe it has more meanings?
maybe some people just walk through university, and have it more easy than others, for various reasons.
i am angry about that SEGA closed in 2001. maybe there is some sort of american rowdy mentality.
maybe it is something related only to the japanese.
there are various rumours for the reasons!
so the situation that SEGA simply closed down in 2001 indicates there is something going wrong.
it is not true that all adults behave correctly. there are serious problems within the society.
and i think, wikpedia is one of them.
what will close down because of wikipedia?
maybe difficult to say, could be many things.
in the words of J Wales, he predicted the disappearance of service providers,
they would have to adapt to the situation, in order to survive, or to disappear (paper publications).
soon there will be tons of video casts, mp3 casts, all of it cloud generated and copyright free.
no one will read books anymore, or buy movies.
well in his wildest dreams maybe, he'll going to replace whole hollywood, AFP, FOX, IGN, and the like.
don't forget, always without advertising.
i think he would not care if tomorrow, IGN, FOX and AFP will close down, and all goes into the hands of volunteers
and some other collaboration sites.
well NOWPUBLIC is not owned by wikipedia, or associated with them.
but you can take a look, and get an idea of the replacement plans.
he's going into India's muddy corners, and this is going to happen for real!
who needs commercial information, entertainment, or commercially produced game titles.
playing games is not good for you?
well that's "neutral point of view" maybe.
if you cheat, you can just walk through, and the whole thing is like a short movie, maybe a slightly demented one!
if that ever worked on the ATARI 2600!
it was stupid, pointless, boring, terrible, the controllers a nuisance, but still fun.
and you never just "walked through", "assisted by a tool".
is this english: "walking through ATARI 2600 cartridge", "tool assisted"?
in the GREMLINS movie they explicitely said "do not expose to water".
so you have been warned of that!
i've been harassed by wikipedia, so they'll get everything back, including some interest.
if that's causing their end, i'm not the one "crying about programming that is so beautiful that people will cry".
or forcing people to smile a la NIKE.
well only the paid workers please. they get money for it.
the customers of NIKE do not have to smile all day.
just to behave.
like this one maybe:
November 02 the dark is raisingedit: i have juound this: http://www.pythian.com/blogs/1311/open-source-and-the-economy
i think wikipedia is stealing workforce from people.
if they have a real world police like the administrators on wikipedia,
they would be behaving like these cuties in the above video.
wikipedia is a lawless zone! yet its founder travels around the world, and gives interviews,
issues his concerns about government getting hold of people's privacy.
i think he would be interested to tamper with private lifes of people, and use the wikipedia
for many purposes, not just encyclopedia, but university, web collaboration, and international police.
harassing people through communities.
the truth is that a while ago, they had pretty nifty user boxes, and if he thinks that is forgotten,
it is remembered well.
there is an easy solution: do not visit the wikipedia websites. do not even look.
what makes me really angry, not to say hating wikipedia and the founder J Wales is the fact
they are against HTML. people should not use HTML, but preconfigured cloud computing pages.
whoever owns the data, it will not be individual users.
if you write something they (the admins) do not like, it will be blocked.
that's the real idea behind it. to gain total control.
he does not like HTML because it gives freedom of expression to people, use graphics on remote sites,
create tables, embedd multimedia etc.
and even to save content, and to republish it.
not so in the world of wikipedia.
you add a link to a tiny custom page you created yourself, with additional information,
and you will become criminalized.
i think it is just completely wrong attitudes. no wonder they force people to submit under GDFL (GNU).
one time, they abused GDFL in the following way: they prohibited me from removing annoying comments, and from editing
my own writing. argumentation was, that GDFL would be equal to ammend all copyright, and the general public now owns
copyright on the textual discussion.
it was just a couple of lines. well that's the way it goes with law in florida.
it is not me who owns or controls the writing on my user page, or the articles.
just for the records, some people can make better descisions about content, and they are called administrators.
so no one owns the data, but some own it more.
it is now called "the largest distributed bureaucracy in the world".
my call is not to use wikipedia.
to speak up that the act of collaborative editing is theft of workforce.
there are no security disclaimers, wikipedia is fully unsafe.
and anonymous people can edit.
because of the collaborative system, they can hide out perfectly.
in the cause, most articles are useless.
i read a lot of technical articles myself, about computers and electronics.
do you think there is just one useful article?
or it could be edited in a way that it becomes really useful?
no they are not written for people who really apply the knowledge.
they are written for ordinary people who know nothing, and after reading wikipedia,
they know something, what they call "a starting point". October 19 new Microsoft technologies: Silverlight, PopflySilverlight is a multimedia extension, including controls, serverside streaming (the player software runs on the server, not the client).
Yet this requires permission, for instance to use IFRAME. many blogs do not allow IFRAME.
alternatively, Microsoft is also offering an interface to store movies on their servers, and give a direct link to .WMV file.
all media files are converted to WMV, which is a compact format, and it can be played by many software products, including most OEM DVD software players.
So if you do not want Windows Media Player (mine always has the hickups, i can not figure out why), simply try to drop WMV on your DVD replay software.
Also the Standard Nero can play WMV, and the free Irfanview never has any MP3 hickups.
I have no clue what's causing these gitches, maybe some freaks created bogus components, because they do not like Windows Media Player.
I have new computer, but replaying MP3 causes unaceptable glitches. this also occured on my older computer, and i even changed the soundcard.
For instance, i do not have the Nero Video editor on my own computer, but there is a 3rd party computer which has this software installed.
You see it is not obscure i want to save the WMV i get back from Microsoft Silverlight, and replay it on my own computer using DVD software!
But here some links, first my POPFLY page: http://www.popfly.com/users/tetsu-jp
and here a HTML page i've created to replay the movies, it is using standard Media player gadget: http://mtfujitown.info/javascript_moviepage.htm
My position is that people should be able to download everything.
Companies being obscure about low-quality MP3, tiny movies in low resolution, well you know what.
It is a free market after all.
On the other hand, people are not allowed to distribute full quality .WAV from CDs.
They must buy the CDs in a shop.
And people are not allowed to distribute DVDs on the internet.
Yet it is permissible to film off an excerpt from the screen using a digital camera, and add it to YOUTUBE.
it is not allowed officially, but it is tolerated in many cases, because it is not for the reason to get the movie for free.
It is "fair use", for the purpose to discuss the content, and to promote it "fan materials".
Fair use normally is a few minutes, maybe even only 50 seconds, in low resolution.
For instance old TV commercials from VHS tapes can be found on YOUTUBE in large numbers.
I think if people do buy DVDs and CDs, they do not have to accept any DRM (Digital Rights Management).
It helps no one.
People without money simply will not buy music, because they can not do it.
And normal people who work, who have some money available will simply want to go to a shop and buy some DVDs.
Yet it is obscure to stream DVD (5 GB), or even Blue-Ray and HD via the internet.
No one would be interested to get, let say, 5 movies that way.
Right now, some people are "sharing" slices of a few 100 mbytes each.
This is somply not professional, and maybe 5 to 10 percent of all people would be willing even to try such techniques.
So DRM helps no one, these 5 percent "have nots" will not buy anything, and will always break copyright.
Yet i think copyright mechanism on DVD does not matter, i mean, i do not really want to store movies on hard drives,
it is OK to play disc-jockey...
But it is thinkable to copy them to the hard-drive.
Yet i understand the industry wants to be sure people pay money correctly...
Take a look SONY's CD copy protection...it simply failed.
People do not want to be treated like idiots or LINUX students, and to have to install a 300MB rootkit just to listen to low-quality mp3.
But yet this is reality for instance my MINIDISC player. It has USB interface, but it can not record, and transfer the data to my PC.
Why not? I have purchased recording software for soundcard, a while ago, and now lost the license key.
So i can only record on MINIDISC, but i can not transfer the data to the PC.
It can also record files from PC to MINIDISC!
Yet there is a large and complicated software, with a graphical user interface.
It is not too bad because i do not use recording professionally.
Most of my MP3 content is not available on commercial CDs, or it is 20 years old from YOUTUBE.
so i do not understand the problems. I understand there is music in the media markets, and that it is content i would not listen to it
just one minute. And yet people (teenagers) will copy the mp3 and do not pay money.
For this reason, there is no free recording software, and even MINIDISC is sort of restricted.
I think the future is not DRM, and it will not belong to companies who try to work out more schemes, such as people can not save anything from the internet anymore (yet, they still can grab FLASH objects if they really wanted to).
It will simply be seen unethical to have unlicensed movies, for instance, when friends visit, they can see the DVD cases on display, personally i have more than 50 DVDs. It will only be a few special population groups who override the copy protection meachanism, and have it for free!
It is like having a crystal plastic box at the work place, and have real money notes inside it.
If money disappears, you simply have to fire people!
If you can not trust people that way, DRM will only create more paranoia, and it will produce distraction to people who pay for media.
I mean, who is really uploading .WAV tracks to the internet? 50 megabyte each? i have not seen any.
MP3 is fair usage already, the lower quality downend.
For instance, i have some CDs, and have extracted the WAV files to my hard drive.
I do not want to play discjockey all the time.
It is an obscure idea to upload 600 megabtes of music tracks to the internet, and yet, at 500kbps, it would be a terrific act.
I think companies like Microsoft will simply give a certain amount of storage to people, right now 10GB, and do not care anymore about the copyright of the content.
Yet, after a while, maybe they will get some VIACOM detectives scanning for samples from new rock music, means, which is found in shops, and some groups do not want their fans to create unpaid excerpts.
Do you think, if it becomes possible, everyone would stop buying music and movies, and download it from the internet "for free"?
Maybe in Indonesia, and Phillipines, and also areas of China, this would be the case. They do not always have money.
They have a problem with "pirate" copies. but this is unrelated to DRM. Or is it related? Maybe these people are more willing to use unlicensed content.
One site i know is http://multiply.com
Recently, they changed the way of handling MP3. people without premium account can still upload, and their visitors can listen to the tracks.
but they can not download anymore.
Only members with premium accounts can keep the original files.
Yet, MULTIPLY can do great things:
-GRAB your complete FLICKR stream, and import it
-SAVE copies from YOUTUBE movies
-UPLOAD mp3, and share it (they monitor the usage so you can not add unlimited number of tracks)
do not think i just write something i have invented myself and it is only based on my own home.
i know maybe 20 internet communites, if you subtract the one's i do not visit anymore!
so the real number is even higher. I try to "know" the population on the internet, including generation younger than myself.
And i would say, there are people who think it is OK to have music and movies for free, based on rock and punk music attitudes "sort of rebellious attitudes", means it is OK to bypass the "rich".
Yet they do not see many of their bands are rich themselves.
And there are other people who want to buy entertainment, like DVDs, commercially. they know, if the producers get revenue, means money, they can create more, high quality content.
So that's what the recording and entertainment industry is maybe missing to see:
there are different population groups.
and people want to copy digitally for different reasons.
Personally i have no problem with let say, two tiny clips filmed off the screen, maybe a minute each, and 50 DVDs.
Also, they are from movies which are 15 years old, and have been exploited commercially for a long time already.
I mean, i do not feel doing something wrong. And yet, they have not been removed by Youtube.
I know i have compulsory right to maintain such excerpts on the internet, even if they are only filmed off from the screen, not digital copies.
So people could always sample from the analog back end, and nowadays, that's more than good quality.
For this reason, DRM does not really matter, the people who are after the content will always find ways to bypass it.
Yet it creates an athmosphere of paranoia, and criminalization of everyone, like on wikipedia, where you either illegally re-license stuff under the GDFL, or you are asked to get out. Be it tiny bitmaps from a public domain source, or photographies you created yourself, or scans from musem pieces photographies.
They do not care about the real life situation, they care about their policies, and literally, it can criminalize people quiete easily.
I want to write more of my ideas about copyright on the internet, for instance "fair usage" of bitmap graphics.
I think it is allowed in many cases, similar companies are allowed to send paper leaflets to people's homes, even if this is not asked for.
For instance illustrations which are decades old, and which are not subject of current commercial exploitation.
 May 26 HITACHI LCD controller
this is a DOT MATRIX LED clock, which also includes a 8X2 LCD! it is built using the PIC16F913 from Microchip, which provides 4K program memory, and runs at 8MHz. there are 256 bytes RAM! here you see the LCD menu in action. most topics have no effect, but can already be browsed, and binary switches (ON/OFF) can be set! right now, 2700 program words are used. today i have added time display for the LCD, next thing will be weekday and months scroller- it can use japanese language! of course, it can also show english days and months, and two time zones at once. the menu is only in english (4K memory are not endless, also english is more easy to abbreviate). May 14 new MICROSOFT siteMay 07 why there are no new entries?simply because i have other social sites up and running!
for instance, in english: http://alex2705.multiply.com/
which is updated every two weeks or so with new items, and also people visiting daily.
have a look this AKIRA pattern generator, and also my entire YOUTUBE channel:
disappearance of 1980s
motorola quartz generator from the year 1983- worked on the first try after 25 years.
Hitachi MSX H2 commercial 工藤夕貴 new WINDOWS SERVER 2003 website is now added to the internet, and it can be visited. it is a site to represent my PIC, 68000, and software projects. also i want to learn .ASP it is tiny webspace- supported by IT company in Bangalore, India. for the needs of a tiny personal website, the plan i have signed up for is best value. i just do not need unlimited storage, or transfer in the gigabytes range. in addition, i have already "outsourced" my picture files to photobucket. -they can be shown on many pages -people can see them, search them, share them (download), without messing with my sites. -it can be backed up more easily than from web site -the best thing: photobucket can generate thumbnails automatically, as well HTML template. and even flash objects can be shown via website! anti wikipedia links here some evidence that i am not alone... actually because they do not include security disclaimer, they could be fined for passively causing improper handling. for instance, technology, food, biology research, medicine and the like. http://www.flickr.com/photos/nike6/2421790930/ the links are here: http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2006/07/31/060731fa_fact http://www.theonion.com/content/node/50902 http://www.dashes.com/anil/2006/07/quitting-wikipe.html April 17 VISUAL BASIC program... LCD font converter April 04 windows phones soon- according to BIll Gatesthere are already JAVA phones on the market- for low prices...
but also they do not include real software, or real keyboard.
they can be used to read email, and even to write email, and to upload pictures to flickr.
there is a tiny web browser called OPERA MINI- with compulsory wikipedia link.
this is not so nice- it can not be switched off.
i have not asked for a mobile encyclopedia- indeed, i do not use the feature at all.
and also JAVA is now more or less open source.
so anyone can publish tiny helper applications- they already exist.
well SHOZU is trusted...more or the less.
but WINDOWS phones will be different.
i have seen one MOTOROLA phone available for just the double price of normal phones-
just not on the local market, or with no service provider contract.
the difficulty is not the phone, but how easy people can maintain service contracts...
they need one to surf the internet!
anyway i want one of these WINDOWS phones- including real keyboard!
it is just not practicable to write blog entries, or email, using mobile phone.
few people will do this continuously!
so these JAVA phones are more or less "toys"- the camera's are also not really good quality!
i started to use my "old" digital camera again (old= 1 year, 5 MEGAPIXELS).
it can use ordinary 512MB SD card (but not the ultra tiny card from the phone).
in theory, i could even use the phone as modem for the computer.
but it is horribly expensive to set it up (it it is not set up by default).
i think WINDOWS phones must offer connection to service providers, not just the phones (they are already available in the USA).
over long time, i think such devices will evolve- not the cheap JAVA phones (nice as extra toys),
but devices which can run real software.
OK the JAVA phones can download programs- in the KB (kilobytes) range!
but it is not compatible to WINDOWS standard.
i think the surfaces are "homegrown"- even if they are good, they are different from phone to phone.
and there are no instructions how to adjust the connection settings.
the people in the shop must enter these settings!
i tried 5 hours one time- and giving up.
actually i do not use the built-in walkman very much, or the picture camera.
it is possible even to send tiny video via internet (and SHOZU)- but really low quality.
i tried a few times...but why not use normal digital camera.
there are tools to organize dates, calendar etc. it is just too tiny keyboard...
OK it is maybe even possible to use IrDA...it is just not added to PCs by default.
think i can install different web browsers- including internet explorer- not just OPERA MINI.
indeed i do not use it much.
i think these JAVA phones are tools, are a showcase. few people use the functions on daily basis (except some poor kids maybe with no computer).
and think a MOTOROLA phone with large keyboard is just two times more expensive (maybe no memory card, no earphones).
i have visited the SUN SOFT website (they distribute and maintain JAVA).
and what i read looks not really good. i do not feel good using this free software.
it is not that i want to get rid of the phone or even destroy it- that would be stupid.
but it is not so much fun using it anymore- since i read they include all this GLP stuff:
YOYODYNE, JOE HACKER, and TYCOON- forever! and other, new things as well...not all people really know the truth about "open source".
imagine if they put YOYODYNE on the phones...or TYCOON! not SONY, NOKIA or SAMSUNG. well even MOTOROLA is using JAVA for their "handsets".
i wonder how the WINDOWS devices will be called...? mini computers? mobile platform? smart phone?
maybe not "handset" or "javaphone".
it is strange- many new names appear- and after a few years, they become unavailable! virtual WINDOWS98...in a box!today i have tried MICROSOFT VIRTUAL PC 2007.
it can run old WINDOWS as guest application in a box!
the good news..it is only 30 megabytes, and it works! it can install WIN98SE into 500mbyte virtual hard disk.
the bad news...no USB support (only serial COM ports).
i need WIN98 for PAL programmer...it only works for 98,2000, and XP.
other versions (VISTA, 64BIT) can not load the driver.
the latest plan is to add a tiny secondary hard drive, and to use the BIOS bootloader.
the vendor for the driver looks like a serious, modern company- not a little office with three people.
i wrote to the hardware vendor for the PAL programmer- they do not have a 64bit driver available...
also AGP graphics card is not supported by new mainboard. i found the card just a few weeks ago in a shop!
then i decided to build a new system.
but do not mind. i do not want my old WIN98 system back...at 500MHz.
there are 1GB memory now (not 256 megabyte).
however even some modern software is not available for 64BIT.
for instance, DVD player works using the 32bit version- it just pops up a compatibility warning.
but the step for 64BIT is required for innovation purpose. so i do not mind the few things not working right now.
a tiny extra 3.2 GB hard drive for £15 will solve the USB problem- i do not use the PAL programmer each day.
just sometimes it is required! OK it would also be good to have a 64bit driver soon!
it is a new piece of hardware, called TOP2007 programmer- but only supporting WINDOWS XP (and of course, WIN98).
the virtual PC can use network driver- i tried to setup a network between the WINDOWS VISTA host, and the WIN98 terminal.
but it is actually difficult to configure it- i am not a networking expert. it is not required functionality-
it is more easy to setup a real network between two real computers, i have done this once...
this time, it is between virtual machines!
i would like to try visit the "Internet", at least, the virtual PC will believe it is the internet.
but it is not that easy to set it up...sure it is possible somehow.
so this is how i get along with new WINDOWS- among other things like using VISUAL STUDIO.
also the graphic subsystem on the mainboard does not include 64bit driver- DIRECTX demos (from the SDK) can not run.
i think adding a new graphics card will make it possible...
it was just my own mistake to buy an AGP card for my old PENTIUMIII board, and then to buy a new board with no AGP slot.
but it is not too bad- it was a beginners model.
so i think to add new graphics card, and extra secondary hard drive to use WIN98 USB.
also i have tried USB to SERIAL converter for the first time- it can not be used for PIC programmer!
but i think it works for normal serial communications.
i want to add serial interface to PIC project!
also the PAL programmer can program PIC chips...
i have 3 different PIC programmers right now.
there are people like me, and for them there is no "one suits all" solution.
i do not like it if they create image gallery software- and it only can be used in some ways.
OK maybe absolute beginners like it- others want to switch off features, or do configuration...
at least WINDOWS still can print to parallel port- even if there is no driver for this ancient hardware anymore.
in the news they write MICROSOFT will now support WIN XP for additional 2 years...
hope drivers will soon be available in 64BIT.
it is not just an option to switch on- many new CPUs are now using 64BIT only.
it is fierce from the LINUX section to try to push their distributions just right now, when WINDOWS made the transition from unsafe 32BIT,
to modern .NET and 64BIT.
they admitted themselves, that some of their programs only work for a certain ditribution, and can not run on other distributions.
i have experienced myself that sometimes there are files missing...with no hint where to find (or even to buy) them.
so the few troubles will definenitely not cause me to try LINUX- with virtually no 64BIT drivers, or drivers for special hardware.
OK 2 DVDs sneaked into the home- included to ordinary PC magazines (PC shopper for instance).
i like it- but i did not try to install it (or to destroy the DVD). i am not that crazy about LINUX...
just let it be what it is- a RESEARCH OPERATING SYSTEM.
i would rather use WIN98 or MSDOS than LINUX.
March 29 new MSN group createdMarch 25 STOP THE LINUX, block all filesharer's, get FIREFOX (and WINDOWS VISTA)
screenshot from new WINDOWS DESKTOP. programs like acrobat reader and cyber DVD (dvd player) say that they have compatibility issue, but they still can be used. i guess they are not native 64bit applications! however, since i am a programmer, after experience of new MSDN, and VISUAL STUDIO 2008, all i can say about the LINUX is that the lack of documentation is slanderous. OK maybe i missed to download the right packages (i tried 3 different LINUX in the past years). but naturally, they do not have commercial interest to maintain a complete, standartized, and accurate API documentation. people form open source will add stuff now and then, as they like, but there is no guarantee that it is bundled the way you want (or need) it. so for me personally, it is unlikely i will ever touch LINUX again. should you use FIREFOX? online, i have to sometimes. maybe they install IE (internet explorer) bugs on purpose, to make people use FIREFOX. for instance, sometimes i can not sign in using IE. but i do not really believe they do this officially. and FIREFOX is not distributed under GPL, you do not have to agree to GPL to use it. the truth is that i go to internet shop to use internet, people can not really get into the home via the net. but this is not suitable for everyone, in the countryside they maybe need to access internet via home connection. use detachable modem maybe! i use internet explorer (bad thing: if you try to save web pages, after a few times, it will penalize you with long inactivity). and firefox has better print module. if there are bugs in IE, i use FIREFOX sometimes. i do not think the question is if FIREFOX can replace IE, but if it is good if there are possible alternative programs, offering different features, or they can use if the original software will crash. a strange thing about LINUX i have read yesterday: "viruses would just sit around (under LINUX), and do nothing". i think this attitude is dangerous over long time. here the URL where i found it: also i used FreeBSD webhosting, at YAHOO US, a while ago, i do not use it anymore, because i do not want to agree to GPL. this is compulsory for the MySQL. it was never too buggy, just sometimes locally it was impossible to access the website, i think overseas, it was always possible, they wrote to me it would be related to my ISP. however, this occured like using a pattern- regularily, for no visible reason. also they offer PHPNUKE, which is obviously broken. this appears unserious, and was decision-making not to use YAHOO US webhosting anymore. recently they switched to unlimited webhosting, but they also say, they will "measure" it, and will "limit" the growth. this is also unserious, because they do not give any quota, they just write "unlimited", but it is not true. so they should give the quota the old way. STOP ALL FILESHARERS what is filesharing? it is using systems like bearshare, limewire, or morpheus. they do not run very fast using free edition, you get 10 to 20kbyte/second. but the system can be used for files upto 100s of megabytes, also some people use "bit torrent", capable of gigabytes. maybe it takes 4 days to download a DVD movie, i can not verify this personally. i do not think sharing a few mp3 songs is "filesharing", if you also own commercial CDs, and movie DVDs. but copying DVDs using LINUX copy editions, or via internet bit torrent is theft, and "file sharing". i think GNU, LINUX and the like encourage it, or at least, they do not really countermeasure it. I do not depend on such services, indeed, i do not use them at all. when i want to see movie, i go to shop, and buy DVD. so they should take a look at file trasnsfers in 100s of megabytes, or gigabytes range, if it is personal data (people can do this if they want to), or copies from commercial DVDs.
personally, for home computer, i do not need FIREFOX, and do not want to install it. however, online it is sometimes practical to have it. i can not verify if they invented IE bugs, to make people use FIREFOX. i also can not exclude it, because being unable even to sign in using IE is strange. but i think, it depends on the system settings, for cookies. also this occurs just sometimes, not each day. i do not think the settings ever change. so right now, i use FIREFOX sometimes. i do not see it as replacement, but additional, alternative software solution. similar to various players for obscure audio formats, such as C64, .MOD music, and midi, i do not always want to use windows media player. well this was situation on old WIN98SE, new media player is much more comfortable. but it is including features like "library", sort by artist, which i do not really want to use. i use directories for my mp3, recently i have moved all mp3 into one directory. this does not mean i uninstall media player, no, i like it. but also i use additional software to play media files. so i think the EU issues not to bundle media player are strange. people can install additional software as much as they like, media player is just a common standard, and i think, most people will install it (guess 80 to 90 percent). OK it is true, the surface is made for "users", not "admininistrators", or "programmers". so it does not fit everyone for every purpose. but people do not have to start it? i think, maybe these EU judges never used a computer, they do not really understand file, directory, program, desktop. maybe some of them do. but maybe some of them are out-of-this world, so they think, people MUST USE MEDIA PLAYER, AND CAN NOT START ADDITIONAL SOFTWARE. that is what i believe. OK people also can uninstall software, when it comes to private files, they seem to be very clever of skills how to get rid of such data. strange world...according to... OTAKU USA magazine!
March 24 what is DPRK (north Korea)?
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