HBBS -- The first graphical BBS software I can think of, circa ~1984, HBBS (HiRes BBS) never fully worked on my Franklin Ace 1000, but I knew people who had it working.
Tele-Cat II - Docs here Basically an Apple II BBS for the Novation Apple Cat modem/miracle. I think this one was actually written by Novation, but i can't remember.
ProTalk -- A total rewrite of L&L Productions' GBBS by Parik Rao, the only thing ProTalk had in common with GBBS was it used the same MACOS language. ProTalk was pretty popular by like 1988 or so.
Ascii Express -- Anyone writing a history of BBSing on the Apple II MUST include this file-xfer software which was basically the system upon which the Apple II BBS community were built. In the early days of the 1980s, AE *WAS* BBSing, and AE was usually integrated into later BBSes, which would "drop you" into AE for file uh, exchanging.
Cat-Fur ][ -- Not BBS software per say, but this file transfer software was very much used w/the Novation Apple Cat file-sharing set and was integrated into many BBses.
There was also some kind of famous EAMON-like role playing BBS system too for the Apple II but I can't remember what it was called.
Hope this is helpful. Maybe someone else can fill in the blanks.
From what I can recall, back in the early days of the Web, some programmers in the UK (?) set up a camera so they could check via an xwindow when the coffee in the other room was done. Like the Fish cam and Jennicam, the Trojan Room coffee cam is a part of Internet history.
The coffee machine was shut down earlier this year, but I guess it's back.
That's not bad, but according to the FAQ it stands for the recursive "JAILBAIT's Another Interesting Linux But Also Intimidating Too".
Not to mention that the guy who made it is named Jeffrey Baitis, and he goes by "jbaitis".
But anyway, can this distribution be safely used on the IOpener? Jailbait 6.0 has all kidns of beta stuff in it, like a beta kernel and very beta USB ethernet drivers. Is all that stuff up to date now?
I know this plan is a joke, but maybe there's a way to do it without causing damage to the pizza companies but rather to the spammers themselves.
Maybe the key is to start ordering shitty products from one spam company and sending to another's whois mailing address. We can call this program like "Spam-Swap(TM)" and even make them opt-out of it.
"Sorry if you've received this other spammer's product in error. Reply to be removed from our Spam-Swap(TM) List."
The WIPO panel goes so far as to insist that because the band Primus owns
the domain name primussucks.com (named after their 1990 album "Suck on
This"), prospective visitors to vivendi.com might get confused about who's who.
Well, kinda. Back in the late 80s/early 90s, Primus fans used the term "sucks" in an ironic fashion. It was kind of an inside joke -- ie, Primus fans would have bumper stickers that said "PRIMUS SUCKS", t-shirts etc. It was a heavily sarcastic way of showing your fanness, typical of the early 90's rejection of corporate culture (grunge, etc.-- Ah, take a moment to remember the glory days before all TV and advertising was wry and tongue-in-cheek and corporate marketers didn't know how to handle "Generation X".)
Seeing as it was originally a joke slogan meant to confuse non-"true" Primus fans, it makes no sense to use it as an example of how the general public might get confused-- that was the whole point!
Salon is NOT "extorting" money by running ads-- they're trying to find a model that will support themselves and their *outstanding* journalism. I've seen many, many stories on Salon that I didn't see anywhere else until Salon reported it...many of which have been linked to on/. over the years.
Contrary to your expectations, Salon Magazine is not a God-given right, and the heady days of free shit on the Internet are over. The majority of businesses who followed that model are long gone, and I dont' see how you can blame Salon for being so "belligerent" as to want to be able to sustain their business.
As for "They'll get my money if they ask nicely." -- they've been asking nicely for six months, and apparently it didn't work for you, since you never subscribed. You know what though? I've been meaning to sign up for that whole period, and now I'm going to-- because Salon is awesome, and you've made me realize that it's worth paying money for.
So Jesus Christ, grow up and quit being a goddamn crybaby who wants everything for nothing.
I don't get that either-- if the terrorists used their REAL NAMES (or at least the names/aliases that were wanted by the FBI or close spellings thereof) you would think at least THAT would have been cross-indexed and they wouldve been stopped...
I thought about something like this-- like a special ID number each pilot has to type into a security pad every 20 minutes to maintain control of the aircraft; typing the wrong code signals the control tower that something is wrong and would give control to the tower...
Then I realized that if the control towers can take control of the plane, the terrorists will just go for the control towers....
Not to mention-- maybe someone with more flight experience can help here-- I'd imagine it'd be pretty damn hard/expensive to build an auto-landing system into an airplane-- one that isn't controlled at all by a person... I remember reading the military had some spy planes that could take off, fly, and land without a pilot... anyone know anything more about this?
On a related note, Tom Stoppard wrote a movie called "Enigma" about Bletcheley park. It was produced by the odd pairing of Mick Jagger and Saturday Night Live producer Lorne Michaels.
I saw the movie at Sundance last year (both Lorne & Mick as well as the director Michael Apted were there and answered questions afterwards) and while it wasn't a GREAT film by any means, I think it would definately be interesting to the slashdot crowd-- Kate Winslet was pretty awesome (she's good in everything though) and it had a cool "cloak and dagger" feel to it.
I'm not sure if the movie's out yet. I also can't remember Alan Turing being mentioned specifically, though there are lots of scenes of guys brainstorming trying to crack the code, plenty of BBC-esque twists and turns, and the film does a great job of explaining how the enigma machine actually operates. Just getting to see it how it was actually used in close-up is pretty cool.
I believe Mick Jagger actually had one of the few surviving enigmas which they used for the film. I also think Jagger has a cameo as an english general or something for about a 10th of a second, but it was so fast I coulda been wrong.
During the Q&A the actors said they got to meet many of the surviving members of the Bletcheley Park team, and some scientists tried to explain to them what they were saying in the film. They didn't understand it apparently, but had a lot of respect for those guys..
The best laugh was when during a somewhat technical discussion about the enigma machine and the various sea battle sequences, someone asked how historically accurate the film was and Lorne Michaels replied, "Well, the film was mostly accurate-- although in the actual war, the Germans lost."
Ok, so the Feds find themselves in a tough position-- they've got to enforce this law that Adobe themselves say they don't want enforced.
If they drop all the charges, this looks too obviously like they were just Adobe's bitches, a private police force at the beck and call of big business ("arrest him? Ok. Don't arrest him.. Ok.")
If they do indict him mildly, they set up a situation where Dmitri's sentence might turn out to be enough of slap on the wrist that it's worth contesting on principle, and then this would surely become a test-case for the constitutionality of the entire law. Since they ARE bitches to big business, the government doesn't want this. If it's gonna be tested in court they'll want a more clear-cut case of some obviously evil megapirate somewhere, not a sympathetic programmer out to topple an unjust law.
So what did they do? They decided to throw the book at him, pile up enough charges that it becomes a very high-stakes game for Dmitri personally. Dmitri will be intimidated (and rightly so) into negociating his way out of it. He's got nothing to gain from being a test case in a bad American law...and everything to lose.
After the judge dismisses some charges along the way, Dmitri will likely plea-bargain his way down to probation or something and skip off to Russia shortly thereafter.
The Feds look like they're not pussies, the law remains unchallenged, Dmitri gets a slap on the wrist, and the MPAA/RIAA's message is preserved: "Don't fuck with us. We WILL fuck with you."
by "I bet the majority of the public will pay to use it" I mean the majority of the public THAT USES IT will pay for it, not the majority of the public at large, because I mean, only a tiny percentage are going to have the bandwidth and want to wait hours and hours for it to download.
Plus people with shared bandwidth are gonna piss off their neighbors;)
That's my guess. Of course, if they preview the format and ask for comment like SDMI I give it 3 months from the preview.
If there is a hardware component involved, I'll give it another..oh, say 3 more months.
Thats my guess.
Still, I think this is a good thing, as the MPAA basically has no choice about whether the stuff goes online or not. They may as well offer it online themselves, and if they make it reasonable I bet the majority of the public will pay to use it, DMCA or no DMCA.
Of course, if it's successful, the MPAA will give credit to the DMCA for stopping piracy, and if it's not a hit the MPAA will blame pirates. I have a feeling though the success or failure will more have to do with the number of people with broadband and their willingess to watch movies on their computers.
Oh, and if Passport is required to use it, I'll be pissed.
W
Hmm. I was thinking of doing this...
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Back during the "glory days" of the Internet boom, a friend had rack-mounted a few G4s and had the gutted cases laying around. He asked if I wanted one, and being the cheapo I am, I said, "sure."
it's been sitting in my room all this time, and I *AM* thinking of getting one of those Athalon 1.4Gig machines... Hmm. Anyone know the ideal motherboard model that might work? I guess you need a smaller one than usual or something....
With all those destructive virus-writers groups and everything, you'd think by now there'd be an Illuminati-type secret organization of white hat programmers somewhere out there that cripple viruses and release a "serum" strain to innoculate systems and close MS's holes.
It would be illegal of course, but, well, Robin Hood broke the law too.
(I'm not advocating this of course, just thinking it's curious no such organization exists)
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Yesterday, many news sites reported China's freeing of Gao Zhan, a US-based scholar convicted and sentenced for spying for the US.
Meanwhile, here in the US, a foreign citizen is still held hostage not for anything as serious as spying, but for challenging the authority of a corporation.
What is the consensus on the best way to include Open Directory Project (ODP/dmoz) content in your web site, say for a mini-portal (or in the case of OSD, for a mini software directory)? I dont' want to simply download/display dmoz's RDF/XML file on a weekly basis because (1) I'm only interested in a tiny portion of the ODP which relates to my web site and (2) I'd like to encourage people to be uploading new content back to dmoz, so I'm looking for a way to pull "live" content from dmoz and let my visitors send links back to dmoz.
Is there a PHP class or something that everyone's using for this? I saw a couple offerings at freshmeat that relates to ODP and some some tools and code are here, but I'm curious what most people are using.
A lot of strange news all in one day! The EFF is in hostage negociations with the "Republic of Adobe", trying to gain the release of a Russian whistleblower who was arrested for a speech given on US soil exposing false security claims made by an American corporation. (Then, to underscore the whole point, A man is shot in the head in Italy protesting excessive corporate power.)
Investigative journalists-- there's a Pulitzer waiting for you in here somewhere. -------------------
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HBBS -- The first graphical BBS software I can think of, circa ~1984, HBBS (HiRes BBS) never fully worked on my Franklin Ace 1000, but I knew people who had it working.
Tele-Cat II - Docs here Basically an Apple II BBS for the Novation Apple Cat modem/miracle. I think this one was actually written by Novation, but i can't remember.
ABBS - BBS system, docs at this excellent site
ProTalk -- A total rewrite of L&L Productions' GBBS by Parik Rao, the only thing ProTalk had in common with GBBS was it used the same MACOS language. ProTalk was pretty popular by like 1988 or so.
Ascii Express -- Anyone writing a history of BBSing on the Apple II MUST include this file-xfer software which was basically the system upon which the Apple II BBS community were built. In the early days of the 1980s, AE *WAS* BBSing, and AE was usually integrated into later BBSes, which would "drop you" into AE for file uh, exchanging.
Cat-Fur ][ -- Not BBS software per say, but this file transfer software was very much used w/the Novation Apple Cat file-sharing set and was integrated into many BBses.
There was also some kind of famous EAMON-like role playing BBS system too for the Apple II but I can't remember what it was called.
Hope this is helpful. Maybe someone else can fill in the blanks.
The Trojan Room Coffee Pot page which links to the page I listed before. There's also a "biography" of the coffee pot here
I totally remember loading this thing up w/ Mosaic. The shot of it being switched off is about what it looked like then-- tiny and black and white.
The coffee machine was shut down earlier this year, but I guess it's back.
Not to mention that the guy who made it is named Jeffrey Baitis, and he goes by "jbaitis".
But anyway, can this distribution be safely used on the IOpener? Jailbait 6.0 has all kidns of beta stuff in it, like a beta kernel and very beta USB ethernet drivers. Is all that stuff up to date now?
W
I'm still running that old old version of Jailbait... can this new version be flashed onto the IO?
W
I know this plan is a joke, but maybe there's a way to do it without causing damage to the pizza companies but rather to the spammers themselves.
Maybe the key is to start ordering shitty products from one spam company and sending to another's whois mailing address. We can call this program like "Spam-Swap(TM)" and even make them opt-out of it.
"Sorry if you've received this other spammer's product in error. Reply to be removed from our Spam-Swap(TM) List."
W
(ps. this is a joke too...)
Well, kinda. Back in the late 80s/early 90s, Primus fans used the term "sucks" in an ironic fashion. It was kind of an inside joke -- ie, Primus fans would have bumper stickers that said "PRIMUS SUCKS", t-shirts etc. It was a heavily sarcastic way of showing your fanness, typical of the early 90's rejection of corporate culture (grunge, etc.-- Ah, take a moment to remember the glory days before all TV and advertising was wry and tongue-in-cheek and corporate marketers didn't know how to handle "Generation X".)
Seeing as it was originally a joke slogan meant to confuse non-"true" Primus fans, it makes no sense to use it as an example of how the general public might get confused-- that was the whole point!
W
1. zipping a file compresses it but it is not a technology primarily designed to protect copyright.
2. He is not disputing what is in the zipped files.
This is yet another reason not to buy Sony products...
Salon is NOT "extorting" money by running ads-- they're trying to find a model that will support themselves and their *outstanding* journalism. I've seen many, many stories on Salon that I didn't see anywhere else until Salon reported it...many of which have been linked to on /. over the years.
Contrary to your expectations, Salon Magazine is not a God-given right, and the heady days of free shit on the Internet are over. The majority of businesses who followed that model are long gone, and I dont' see how you can blame Salon for being so "belligerent" as to want to be able to sustain their business.
As for "They'll get my money if they ask nicely." -- they've been asking nicely for six months, and apparently it didn't work for you, since you never subscribed. You know what though? I've been meaning to sign up for that whole period, and now I'm going to-- because Salon is awesome, and you've made me realize that it's worth paying money for.
So Jesus Christ, grow up and quit being a goddamn crybaby who wants everything for nothing.
W
I don't get that either-- if the terrorists used their REAL NAMES (or at least the names/aliases that were wanted by the FBI or close spellings thereof) you would think at least THAT would have been cross-indexed and they wouldve been stopped...
I thought about something like this-- like a special ID number each pilot has to type into a security pad every 20 minutes to maintain control of the aircraft; typing the wrong code signals the control tower that something is wrong and would give control to the tower...
Then I realized that if the control towers can take control of the plane, the terrorists will just go for the control towers....
Not to mention-- maybe someone with more flight experience can help here-- I'd imagine it'd be pretty damn hard/expensive to build an auto-landing system into an airplane-- one that isn't controlled at all by a person... I remember reading the military had some spy planes that could take off, fly, and land without a pilot... anyone know anything more about this?
W
In the original CW (not to be confused with Castle Smurfenstein by Silus S. Smurf), the graphics were (single) hires.
You walked around in a 2-d map and if you held down the space bar you could open locks on chests and stuff twice as fast.
W
Instant access via his what ?
W
Yep you're right. Sorry about not giving that important credit ;)
W
On a related note, Tom Stoppard wrote a movie called "Enigma" about Bletcheley park. It was produced by the odd pairing of Mick Jagger and Saturday Night Live producer Lorne Michaels.
I saw the movie at Sundance last year (both Lorne & Mick as well as the director Michael Apted were there and answered questions afterwards) and while it wasn't a GREAT film by any means, I think it would definately be interesting to the slashdot crowd-- Kate Winslet was pretty awesome (she's good in everything though) and it had a cool "cloak and dagger" feel to it.
I'm not sure if the movie's out yet. I also can't remember Alan Turing being mentioned specifically, though there are lots of scenes of guys brainstorming trying to crack the code, plenty of BBC-esque twists and turns, and the film does a great job of explaining how the enigma machine actually operates. Just getting to see it how it was actually used in close-up is pretty cool.
I believe Mick Jagger actually had one of the few surviving enigmas which they used for the film. I also think Jagger has a cameo as an english general or something for about a 10th of a second, but it was so fast I coulda been wrong.
During the Q&A the actors said they got to meet many of the surviving members of the Bletcheley Park team, and some scientists tried to explain to them what they were saying in the film. They didn't understand it apparently, but had a lot of respect for those guys..
The best laugh was when during a somewhat technical discussion about the enigma machine and the various sea battle sequences, someone asked how historically accurate the film was and Lorne Michaels replied, "Well, the film was mostly accurate-- although in the actual war, the Germans lost."
W
Time Magazine
Newsweek
W
Ok, so the Feds find themselves in a tough position-- they've got to enforce this law that Adobe themselves say they don't want enforced.
If they drop all the charges, this looks too obviously like they were just Adobe's bitches, a private police force at the beck and call of big business ("arrest him? Ok. Don't arrest him.. Ok.")
If they do indict him mildly, they set up a situation where Dmitri's sentence might turn out to be enough of slap on the wrist that it's worth contesting on principle, and then this would surely become a test-case for the constitutionality of the entire law. Since they ARE bitches to big business, the government doesn't want this. If it's gonna be tested in court they'll want a more clear-cut case of some obviously evil megapirate somewhere, not a sympathetic programmer out to topple an unjust law.
So what did they do? They decided to throw the book at him, pile up enough charges that it becomes a very high-stakes game for Dmitri personally. Dmitri will be intimidated (and rightly so) into negociating his way out of it. He's got nothing to gain from being a test case in a bad American law...and everything to lose.
After the judge dismisses some charges along the way, Dmitri will likely plea-bargain his way down to probation or something and skip off to Russia shortly thereafter.
The Feds look like they're not pussies, the law remains unchallenged, Dmitri gets a slap on the wrist, and the MPAA/RIAA's message is preserved: "Don't fuck with us. We WILL fuck with you."
W
by "I bet the majority of the public will pay to use it" I mean the majority of the public THAT USES IT will pay for it, not the majority of the public at large, because I mean, only a tiny percentage are going to have the bandwidth and want to wait hours and hours for it to download.
;)
Plus people with shared bandwidth are gonna piss off their neighbors
W
That's my guess. Of course, if they preview the format and ask for comment like SDMI I give it 3 months from the preview.
If there is a hardware component involved, I'll give it another..oh, say 3 more months.
Thats my guess.
Still, I think this is a good thing, as the MPAA basically has no choice about whether the stuff goes online or not. They may as well offer it online themselves, and if they make it reasonable I bet the majority of the public will pay to use it, DMCA or no DMCA.
Of course, if it's successful, the MPAA will give credit to the DMCA for stopping piracy, and if it's not a hit the MPAA will blame pirates. I have a feeling though the success or failure will more have to do with the number of people with broadband and their willingess to watch movies on their computers.
Oh, and if Passport is required to use it, I'll be pissed.
W
Back during the "glory days" of the Internet boom, a friend had rack-mounted a few G4s and had the gutted cases laying around. He asked if I wanted one, and being the cheapo I am, I said, "sure."
it's been sitting in my room all this time, and I *AM* thinking of getting one of those Athalon 1.4Gig machines... Hmm. Anyone know the ideal motherboard model that might work? I guess you need a smaller one than usual or something....
W
With all those destructive virus-writers groups and everything, you'd think by now there'd be an Illuminati-type secret organization of white hat programmers somewhere out there that cripple viruses and release a "serum" strain to innoculate systems and close MS's holes.
It would be illegal of course, but, well, Robin Hood broke the law too.
(I'm not advocating this of course, just thinking it's curious no such organization exists)
W
Meanwhile, here in the US, a foreign citizen is still held hostage not for anything as serious as spying, but for challenging the authority of a corporation.
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Is there a PHP class or something that everyone's using for this? I saw a couple offerings at freshmeat that relates to ODP and some some tools and code are here, but I'm curious what most people are using.
W
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Investigative journalists-- there's a Pulitzer waiting for you in here somewhere.
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