It appeared that the OS for most apple2 applications was BASIC. There was the CP/M side as well, but I think at least 99% of my apple2 games, when you boot off the disk the OS is BASIC.
Well hopefully Zoe's bill can pass so we can have the same rights with digital media that we do in analog, and all this stupid encryption stuff wont happen.
Are you going to encrypt the signals that pass through the air in the form of sound waves? Are you going to build a device into the monitor that will turn it off when someone takes a photo or video of the screen?
Somewhere in the translation from digital data is the transformation into something that is analog. Even if the usb speaker connection is encrypted, eventually the music gets converted into electric pulses that drive the speakers. So all you have to do is connect the wires that go to the speakers to the input of a sterio, and poof you can copy it.
As long as the data isnt being directly fed into our brains by super encrypted streams (even those can be cracked), then total copy protection just IS NOT POSSIBLE. The modern copy "protection" just makes it more difficult to make a copy of something, not impossible.
You don't seem to see the actuall benefit of buying a cablemodem. Number one anything you have, that you own outright, you can sell (legal things of course). Buying a cablemodem is so you say $150 or so, which is about the average cost, so you are NOT PAYING the cable company for the modem, you are (key words here) NOT PAYING the extra $10 a month. So after 15 months, you have saved paying the cable company $150. Now there is where your point is almost valid. You are now at the point, as if you have never bought the cablemodem outright. But each month after that, you are still paying the cable company $10 less per month because you have the cablemodem. Who only gets cable for 15 months? I know I've had cable for more then 3 years now. So buying my modem was well worth it. Now what am I going to do when I move? Why sell it of course.
The point of a write once run anywhere, is not for writing operating systems. Its for writing software that can run on any operating system. Java is the perfect example, which can run on *nix/win/mac/etc anything that there is a java vm for. An operating system written in a CLR type language would be such a bad bad idea. It might be easy ot write, but it would be slow as hell compared to an os written in native code. Operating systems are, and will continue to be written in native code.
Actually I just recently purchased a fairly expensive >$500 digital camera that I could not get to work in linux. The usb-storage driver sees the camera but there is aparent supported filesystem on the card. Oh well, I have my windows boxes that I looked it up to, which work fine. And with my long experience of linux, I have found many many low grade and not so low grade hardware that will just not work on linux for lack of support. Just because you happened to buy 3 digital cameras that work under linux, dosnt mean that all digital camers work in linux. If you want your hardware to work in linux, you must go though the net, and make sure there is full support for the device you buy.
As we all know, or as we all should know, cell phones and other devices that use high frequencys (such as 900mhz, which is the same frequency that a microwave produces to cook food) to communicate are in fact harmful to humans. Now with wearable devices, this poses more of a danger than occasionaly cooking some brain cells with a cell phone. If you have a watch that is wirelessly communicating with some local relay to always give you te exact time, then you have fairly constent link where the antenna is right next to your skin for possibly all day long for many many months. As well as any other devices that would be wearable
No, if my hardware was fucked up, win98 would also barf, and linux would also barf. So clearly its not.
Here are most people's misconceptions about linux. Linux is the KERNEL, not the software. KDE/Gnome is software by third parties. Sure while they have their problems and may die, your base system rarely does. If your window manager dies, you juut load it up again and go back to where you were. As with windows, if explorer dies, its not so nice. When explorer dies your best bet is a reboot.
And with your comment:
Linux is really for people who want computing to remain in the 80s
Well, since you provide nothing to back this up its just a troll.
I'm 18 and had more then 5 years experience. Since I was about 9 I was helping my dad with his consulting buisness. When he would need to upgrade software on a large office, (this is back in the non-cdwriter days with loading floppy after floppy into each machine). I know this is grunt work, but eventually I learned how to fix software problems, and then on to fixing hardware problems, then came building computers, then programming. Well, I had been programming before, but just silly stuff, typeing things in from a book on my apple ][ E and changing the code around to do fun stuff. By the end of junior high I was a full fledged VB programmer. By the end of high school I knew perl, tcl, and a bunch of c. During high schoool I had two unix sysadmin jobs for local isps, along with another job at an internet cafe. Now being in college, I have a tremendous advantage over the people that keep asking me "how do you call a function".
So, you want to skip by everything else that normal CS majors have to bear, and spend about a year in school? Good luck. The point of a degree is showing that you not only have the understanding of your field, but are what society calls a well rounded individual. A Computer Science degree is not just a series of programming classes. At least not in a trade school.
I have windows xp on one of my computers, and I am so sorry I bought the damn thing. I have to push the reset button on my computer at least 5 times daily. When I get back home, im going to get rid of this horror called windows xp, and go install win98. At least it crashes less.
Before you embarass yourself again, get a clue. The firewalling
properties you perceive in NAT are an illusion, a side-effect of its
primary function. NAT makes communication possible where it was not
possible before. This is the opposite of what a firewall is designed to
do, which is to make communication impossible where it would otherwise
have been able to take place.
Now, a majority of people that use NAT, don't set up a freebsd/linux box
or whathaveyou to add NAT to their lan. They buy a cable/dsl router
from some store and plug it in. There are no services to break, no data
to mangle, except those of which the user specificly sets up port
forwarding for. This is in fact an active firewall, everything gets
out, nothing gets in except what was requested.
A good size of the people that do in fact set up a machine with linux to
provide NAT for their network do know something about security and take
care of that part. As for the others, thats their problem.
NAT offers no protection against the very things you become
vulnerable to by not bothering to harden your machines (trojans can
communicate with the outside via NAT as well as your legit apps
can).
Actually, NAT gives you a very HIGH level of protection from trogins.
99.9% of the popular trogins that are around, sit on your box as a
daemon waiting to be connected to, from the outside. NAT makes
thease types of trogins have no effect. On the other hand, trogins that
periodicly check with an outside source as to what to do, would also be
a problem. To my knowledge, there arent any of thease types of trogins.
As I do not keep up in this sector of news, they very well may exist. As
for something such as the various iis worms running around, that do in
fact get their instructions from the outside, you have to be infected by
the worm first, and an iis server running behind a nat box, that does
not have its web server accessable from the internet is not
vulnerable.
NAT is not a firewall substitute...
Actually I agree with you there, but in only one occasion. NAT is not a
firewall substitute for a corperate network, with web servers, and email
servers and the like accessable from the internet. That you need a
firewall for. But for the home user, who knows nothing about NAT and
does not set up port forwarding from the NAT box, then NAT is the
closest thing to a firewall that that user will most likely use.
* Scrolling. You agree not to cause the screen to "scroll" faster than other subscribers or users are able to type to it, or any action to a similar disruptive effect on or through the Access Service.
This is the brain damaged term that AOL uses to describe "chat room flooding"
This is a computer system though. I dont want to reboot to play a game. I want to pop open a little window of the game or full screen, or whatever, and possibly do other things in the meantime, this is why i have a computer, not a console. Because I can use aim/icq have 30 mozilla's open along with my email program as well as running the game.
probebly would be cheaper then a land line. My school has a t1 for plus or minus 1500 students. They are getting their loop from a town 40 miles away, thats gotta be expensive. BTW, its slow as hell. Im lucky to be even surfing slashdot.
Who here wants to reboot every time they want to play a game, then reboot to play another game, THEN reboot to get back to your regular old system (*nix) raise you hand.
Re:It's not a simple copy...
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oh, didnt know that. But anyway multizilla is way more featurefull then the mozilla tabbed interface. Its very very well done.
Re:Q: Why should an IE user switch?
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Besids the complete lack of security of ie and the inherent problems of running a web browser that is part of the os, mozilla is just a personal choice. Every single major release of IE has had remote scripting vulnerabilities that leave the poor web surfer at script kiddies mercy.
Tabbed Interface To Mozilla
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For all of you using the new tabbed interface of mozilla, its just a simple copy of what the multizilla guys did
[http://multizilla.mozdev.org/] This is a much better interface with many many more features. Give it a try, and report those bugs.
"Starting an ISP in the USA nowadays is most likely a mistake. Here's why:"
You have an interesting post, but completely irrelevant. This guy is asking about starting an isp in Austrailia.
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Just curious, where can I find info on how OpenVMS is designed to prevent buffer overflow exploits.
It appeared that the OS for most apple2 applications was BASIC. There was the CP/M side as well, but I think at least 99% of my apple2 games, when you boot off the disk the OS is BASIC.
Well hopefully Zoe's bill can pass so we can have the same rights with digital media that we do in analog, and all this stupid encryption stuff wont happen.
Hopefully...
Are you going to encrypt the signals that pass through the air in the form of sound waves? Are you going to build a device into the monitor that will turn it off when someone takes a photo or video of the screen?
Somewhere in the translation from digital data is the transformation into something that is analog. Even if the usb speaker connection is encrypted, eventually the music gets converted into electric pulses that drive the speakers. So all you have to do is connect the wires that go to the speakers to the input of a sterio, and poof you can copy it.
As long as the data isnt being directly fed into our brains by super encrypted streams (even those can be cracked), then total copy protection just IS NOT POSSIBLE. The modern copy "protection" just makes it more difficult to make a copy of something, not impossible.
You don't seem to see the actuall benefit of buying a cablemodem. Number one anything you have, that you own outright, you can sell (legal things of course). Buying a cablemodem is so you say $150 or so, which is about the average cost, so you are NOT PAYING the cable company for the modem, you are (key words here) NOT PAYING the extra $10 a month. So after 15 months, you have saved paying the cable company $150. Now there is where your point is almost valid. You are now at the point, as if you have never bought the cablemodem outright. But each month after that, you are still paying the cable company $10 less per month because you have the cablemodem. Who only gets cable for 15 months? I know I've had cable for more then 3 years now. So buying my modem was well worth it. Now what am I going to do when I move? Why sell it of course.
The point of a write once run anywhere, is not for writing operating systems. Its for writing software that can run on any operating system. Java is the perfect example, which can run on *nix/win/mac/etc anything that there is a java vm for. An operating system written in a CLR type language would be such a bad bad idea. It might be easy ot write, but it would be slow as hell compared to an os written in native code. Operating systems are, and will continue to be written in native code.
Forgive me for not doing a preview first :(
Actually I just recently purchased a fairly expensive >$500 digital camera that I could not get to work in linux. The usb-storage driver sees the camera but there is aparent supported filesystem on the card. Oh well, I have my windows boxes that I looked it up to, which work fine. And with my long experience of linux, I have found many many low grade and not so low grade hardware that will just not work on linux for lack of support. Just because you happened to buy 3 digital cameras that work under linux, dosnt mean that all digital camers work in linux. If you want your hardware to work in linux, you must go though the net, and make sure there is full support for the device you buy.
As we all know, or as we all should know, cell phones and other devices that use high frequencys (such as 900mhz, which is the same frequency that a microwave produces to cook food) to communicate are in fact harmful to humans. Now with wearable devices, this poses more of a danger than occasionaly cooking some brain cells with a cell phone. If you have a watch that is wirelessly communicating with some local relay to always give you te exact time, then you have fairly constent link where the antenna is right next to your skin for possibly all day long for many many months. As well as any other devices that would be wearable
No, if my hardware was fucked up, win98 would also barf, and linux would also barf. So clearly its not.
Here are most people's misconceptions about linux. Linux is the KERNEL, not the software. KDE/Gnome is software by third parties. Sure while they have their problems and may die, your base system rarely does. If your window manager dies, you juut load it up again and go back to where you were. As with windows, if explorer dies, its not so nice. When explorer dies your best bet is a reboot.
And with your comment:
Linux is really for people who want computing to remain in the 80s
Well, since you provide nothing to back this up its just a troll.
I'm 18 and had more then 5 years experience. Since I was about 9 I was helping my dad with his consulting buisness. When he would need to upgrade software on a large office, (this is back in the non-cdwriter days with loading floppy after floppy into each machine). I know this is grunt work, but eventually I learned how to fix software problems, and then on to fixing hardware problems, then came building computers, then programming. Well, I had been programming before, but just silly stuff, typeing things in from a book on my apple ][ E and changing the code around to do fun stuff. By the end of junior high I was a full fledged VB programmer. By the end of high school I knew perl, tcl, and a bunch of c. During high schoool I had two unix sysadmin jobs for local isps, along with another job at an internet cafe. Now being in college, I have a tremendous advantage over the people that keep asking me "how do you call a function".
So, you want to skip by everything else that normal CS majors have to bear, and spend about a year in school? Good luck. The point of a degree is showing that you not only have the understanding of your field, but are what society calls a well rounded individual. A Computer Science degree is not just a series of programming classes. At least not in a trade school.
This Happens to me when I quake myself. But more often, it happens when i type at a keyboard for a while, my hands get ice cold.
I have windows xp on one of my computers, and I am so sorry I bought the damn thing. I have to push the reset button on my computer at least 5 times daily. When I get back home, im going to get rid of this horror called windows xp, and go install win98. At least it crashes less.
Actually, you just embarrassed yourself:
Before you embarass yourself again, get a clue. The firewalling
properties you perceive in NAT are an illusion, a side-effect of its
primary function. NAT makes communication possible where it was not
possible before. This is the opposite of what a firewall is designed to
do, which is to make communication impossible where it would otherwise
have been able to take place.
Now, a majority of people that use NAT, don't set up a freebsd/linux box
or whathaveyou to add NAT to their lan. They buy a cable/dsl router
from some store and plug it in. There are no services to break, no data
to mangle, except those of which the user specificly sets up port
forwarding for. This is in fact an active firewall, everything gets
out, nothing gets in except what was requested.
A good size of the people that do in fact set up a machine with linux to
provide NAT for their network do know something about security and take
care of that part. As for the others, thats their problem.
NAT offers no protection against the very things you become
vulnerable to by not bothering to harden your machines (trojans can
communicate with the outside via NAT as well as your legit apps
can).
Actually, NAT gives you a very HIGH level of protection from trogins.
99.9% of the popular trogins that are around, sit on your box as a
daemon waiting to be connected to, from the outside. NAT makes
thease types of trogins have no effect. On the other hand, trogins that
periodicly check with an outside source as to what to do, would also be
a problem. To my knowledge, there arent any of thease types of trogins.
As I do not keep up in this sector of news, they very well may exist. As
for something such as the various iis worms running around, that do in
fact get their instructions from the outside, you have to be infected by
the worm first, and an iis server running behind a nat box, that does
not have its web server accessable from the internet is not
vulnerable.
NAT is not a firewall substitute...
Actually I agree with you there, but in only one occasion. NAT is not a
firewall substitute for a corperate network, with web servers, and email
servers and the like accessable from the internet. That you need a
firewall for. But for the home user, who knows nothing about NAT and
does not set up port forwarding from the NAT box, then NAT is the
closest thing to a firewall that that user will most likely use.
* Scrolling. You agree not to cause the screen to "scroll" faster than other subscribers or users are able to type to it, or any action to a similar disruptive effect on or through the Access Service.
This is the brain damaged term that AOL uses to describe "chat room flooding"
This is a computer system though. I dont want to reboot to play a game. I want to pop open a little window of the game or full screen, or whatever, and possibly do other things in the meantime, this is why i have a computer, not a console. Because I can use aim/icq have 30 mozilla's open along with my email program as well as running the game.
probebly would be cheaper then a land line. My school has a t1 for plus or minus 1500 students. They are getting their loop from a town 40 miles away, thats gotta be expensive. BTW, its slow as hell. Im lucky to be even surfing slashdot.
Who here wants to reboot every time they want to play a game, then reboot to play another game, THEN reboot to get back to your regular old system (*nix) raise you hand.
oh, didnt know that. But anyway multizilla is way more featurefull then the mozilla tabbed interface. Its very very well done.
Besids the complete lack of security of ie and the inherent problems of running a web browser that is part of the os, mozilla is just a personal choice. Every single major release of IE has had remote scripting vulnerabilities that leave the poor web surfer at script kiddies mercy.
For all of you using the new tabbed interface of mozilla, its just a simple copy of what the multizilla guys did
[http://multizilla.mozdev.org/] This is a much better interface with many many more features. Give it a try, and report those bugs.
if anyone wants to know, here are lists of the buisnessness at the world trade center
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1 World Trade Center (North Tower): http://www.morrisville.edu/Library/wtc/tenants1.h
2 World Trade Center (South Tower): http://www.morrisville.edu/Library/wtc/tenants2.h
"Starting an ISP in the USA nowadays is most likely a mistake. Here's why:" You have an interesting post, but completely irrelevant. This guy is asking about starting an isp in Austrailia.
what the heck is this guy talking about, the united states moon landing? That for sure was real.