Technical Question

The server isn't powerful... at least not by the standards of your typical desktop. It's a Celeron 500 with 256 MB of RAM. If you were to sit there and stare at it during peak time, you would find that the hard drive light barely blinks. 20 GB/month is not that big of a deal for one server. When you get over a terabyte, then it's something to talk about!

By the way, the speed of your cable modem is only a theoretical max that, in practice, is not achievable because bandwidth is shared by your neighbors. So if your neighbor is a porn addict, look out!

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Jeff
Webmaster/Guide to The Point
Millennium Force laps: 50
*** This post was edited by Jeff on 1/27/2001. ***

Well, when Charter, my cable provider, bought out Helicon, they "upgraded" all the modems. Truth be known, from what I understand, they "capped" the use to 80k/s download, 30k/s upload.

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How dare you vanquish the Steel Phantom without his consent? Fear the Phantom's Revenge.

I am capped at 1MB/sec but usually get around 500KB/sec.

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Do NOT click the link below!

www.yaromat.com/macos8/index.htm

Damn Osborne, LOAD. LOL. I've got 4 of 'em in my basement.

(Really Use a 600MHZ,10Gig HD,64MB Ram computer, with frontside USB, FireWire, and serial ports, what fun!)

P.S.~ If any of you think your techno loosers, I spent $1800 on technology last year (including the computer), and it wouldn't be so bad, because that seems average, except that I'm 14, and I payed for it all with my own money. What a looser!

Now that I'm done "Bragging" (Damn CPU isn't evern 4 months old and it's already outdated.)
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C:/DOS
C:/DOS/RUN
RUN/DOS/RUN


*** This post was edited by Intamin2k on 2/11/2001. ***

Hmmm...Intamin2k must be using CP/M or some Commie version of DOS...if it were MS-DOS or PC-DOS wouldn't it be "C:\DOS\RUN" instead of "C:/DOS/RUN"? :)

'Course, at the other end of the desk is a machine with a hard drive partition named /RAVEN/. The machine I am using right now has partitions named /GEMINI/, /THUNDERBOLT/, /TORNADO/, /CYCLONE/, and :Magnum: (:Magnum: is HFS, the others are ProDOS)

--Dave Althoff, Jr.

All I have is a measly folder named "Cedar Point" on my Windows 98 Platform.

If anyone is ever on the Kent State Network, Find the computer named Millenium Force in the Access Group Cedar Point. It's Mine! I know I spelled Millennium wrong because stupid windows only allows the name to be a certain length. stupid windows,

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Joe E

Joe E, it looks like I will have to find another name for my computer. I am also on Kent's network. I'm sure all of the coaster names can't be taken here. :)

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Brandon Sorc
Millennium Force count:67
www.spiritofthepoint.com

I knew somthing was wrong about my signature Dave, but I just couldn't put my finger on it. And I always forgot to look in DOS to see if I could figure it out. Well, now that that problem has been eliminated...

(Begins evil laugh, then stops abruptly and camera focuses in on his shifty eyes, as to show he may have communist connections. Then he starts laughing again and vanishes in smoke. Fade to commercial)

Wow, I'm a looser.

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"Sorry, gotta go, my damn wiener kids are listening."

~Also from the brilliant mind of Homer J. Simpson (see CoasterBuzz signature)


P.S.~Is it just me or do I have another obsession? All my quotes have been Simpson related. What a looser. Well, while we're on the subject of the Simpsons, try this Simpson related link ~~~~~~> http://www.whatbadgerseat.com

I'm no source for Linux information, but doesn't it use / for paths and whatnot? (Opposed to the customary windows \.)

But, on the other hand... It's not MS-DOS if it's Linux, I suppose. ;)

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How dare you vanquish the Steel Phantom without his consent? Fear the Phantom's Revenge.

(I think I should clarify that by "commie" was referring to Commodore Business Machines. I know that under AmigaDOS, at least, the path syntax is drive:drawer/drawer/file)

--Dave Althoff, Jr., who can't believe this thread is still alive...

Ooh, a geek thread and I'm missing out!

(Says the man typing on a Celeron 600 pushed to 972MHz, with 256MB of PC-133 RAM, Elsa Gladiac GeForce2 video card, Adaptec 2940U2W SCSI controller running an IBM DRH S36V hard drive (36 gig LVD U2W), an Acer 16x DVD drive, and lots of other goodies ;) )

Jeff, I just need to comment real quick that the more I work on web projects (my current work project is a REALLY cool JSP-based application) the more I appreciate the work going into POP Forums...

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--Greg
http://www.pobox.com/~gregleg/
MF count: 27

I considered that Dave, but being the wise arse (trying to keep my profanity count down) that I am....

~Joe, who also can't believe that this thread is still alive (and is also a techno-nerd*)

*(By techno-nerd I imply that I don't know many people of the general age group that I associate with (14-19) that know DOS or even want to (need to) know it. I in no way wished to insult anyone or associate myself with any techno style of music (Ewww!))

Here's to keeping a useless thread alive :)...
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"Sorry, gotta go, my damn wiener kids are listening."

~From the brilliant mind of Homer J. Simpson


*** This post was edited by Intamin2k on 1/30/2001. *** *** This post was edited by Intamin2k on 1/30/2001. ***

I'm 16 and I grew up with DOS! I had my 33 MHz until 4 years ago. I think it would be really funny to sit the kids that have user-friendly computers in front of a computer with DOS. I'd like to see their expressions when they can't do anything.

Well I learned it on my IBM PS2 (Micro-channel architecure, (shaking head in disgust) what were they thinking?) back in the days of Windows 3.1. Those were the days.

Any way, I remember wanting to play a game called Keen that we had on our computer (C:\KEEN\START), and that's the first time I used dos. I had to be about 8 or 9 when I learned it. My dad being the genius that he is knew every DOS command and taught me (for some reason I wanted to know).

Now-a-days when you ask him a computer question, he'll reply "I stopped knowing after 3.1," but even if he dosen't have the wealth of computer knowledge that he used to, I still attribute my knowledge of computers to my father, and that one wonderful game.

P.S.~Last year in school, I had a media class, and I had to "Run" it with a friend since the media teacher didn't know anything. We were always fixing computers or figuring out what was wrong with them, and I loved watching peoples reactions when they saw me typing all the DOS commands. They thought I was crazy :).
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"Sorry, gotta go, my damn wiener kids are listening."

~Also from the brilliant mind of Homer J. *** This post was edited by Intamin2k on 1/30/2001. ***

Techno-Fun! Computin' to the oldies!

I started out with a CBM VIC-20 and a cassette drive. Graduated to a 1540, then a 1541, then the big daddy 1571 5.25" SSSD floppy drive. Using a goofy backplane I eventually tricked out that VIC to 27k! I also had a C-64, a C-128 and a CBM PLUS-4. My 1st PC system was a CBM PET 8088 with a 10mb HDD, FULL Height, no less.

Those were the days! Who can forget the horrid clacking noise when formatting a floppy with a CBM drive? And let's not forget arcane commands like: OPEN 1,8,15 PRINT#1,IO CLOSE 1 and the ever popular POKE 36879,8

Just to keep it legit, I had a Cedar Point pass back then! :)

Tim Bretz
"Remember to initialize before you write"

Tim, speaking of horrible clacking noises...have you ever formatted a floppy on an Apple "Disk ]["?
"GRIND!thunkathunkathunkathunkathunka SCREECH!! click click click click (repeat 34x) click WOOSH clickaclick scrape scrape click click whirrrrrrr."

THOSE things are (note the present tense!) NOISY! And if you've been listening to them long enough, you can get a pretty good idea of what's happening and when you should worry... :)

--Dave Althoff, ][.

Oh, Apple... always what I imagined it would sound like starting your car with a cat on the manifold.

~Joe (the "proud" owner of 4 (possibly 5) original Macintoshes, and an "Apple II.") Kinda fun to play with :).
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"Sorry, gotta go, my damn wiener kids are listening."

~From the brilliant mind of Homer J. Simpson

Tim, speaking of horrible clacking noises...have you ever formatted a floppy on an Apple

At the risk of setting off a computer Jihad... I have always tried to avoid computers that are named after fruit and smile at you when powered up. :)

Tim Bretz
"Remember to pillage before you burn" *** This post was edited by Timothy A. Bretz on 2/7/2001. ***

Tim, I'll concede the "named after fruit" part. Worse yet is that the fruit has a byte taken out of it. But I have never seen an Apple ][ smile on power-up. Not even the IIgs will smile. Just a simple beep. You're confusing it with those other Apples.

For all the many faults of floppy based systems, there is one good thing about them: When you boot a machine with a 5.25" floppy, it actually sounds like it's starting up. My IIgs starts up with a "boink!" and a "whirrrrrr" as the fans come on. But start up a machine, say, a ][e or //c, with a 5.25" floppy drive, and it sounds like an engine warming up. :)

Absolute WORST machine at startup, though, is my Amiga (latest acquisition). A very soft "Hmmm!" followed by a long wait and a dark screen until the Workbench quietly comes up.

--Dave Althoff, ][.
*** This post was edited by RideMan on 2/7/2001. ***

Dave I didn't realize you ran a Wozniak/Jobs computer museum on the side. We are way off the topic but I would be interested to know what else you have got?