Then the old lady should have the crap beat out of her for raising such theaving scum and making the rest of us suffer because she wanted an orgasm and dident take responsibility for the spawn she produced.
Just a humble suguestion from a die-hard c++ lover..
Give Borland's OO Pascal a second chance, it an ablosutly wonderfull language for getting GUI app up and running quickly. It compiles so damn fast, it will spoil you.
C++ is wonderfull for a lot of thing, and even works well for GUI apps, but there is something kinda pain free about making GUI apps in OO Pascal.
OO Pascal falls down when you need to do low level things, and can feel a bit stilted when you are used to Pearl et al.
Yeah... But the weird borland keywords in C++ Builder all begin in a double underscore (ex "__published" ) - and if you ignore the double underscore keywords,the compiler is more standards complient than MS Visual C++ . The best thing about the Borland C++ compiler is it's very fast compule times though... It's kinda a drag to go to anything else.
Even without a terrorist threat, planning for the next pague is smart.
Just in case the goatse.cx man starts stuffing dead monkey carcases up his bum and catches a nasty new virus and decides to take a trip to the US on his anus-mobile.
Some brave soul with a really nice setup, rip's the CD using the digital output and gets wave files with a the fair-use-denying bits of static.
The same person then rips the CD using the analog output. He/She then to compares the two files and generates a patch file that says somthing like this:
Track One, the 5th second should really be "452 231 232 3442 22322 etc" .
Then other people could rip their local cd quickly via the digital bus, and then apply the patch file to generate a listenable copy.
I figgured that the first thing that someone would do when the broke into my firewall and got a shell would be to do an "ls" - too bad for them, as the "ls" command now halts the computer if you don't pass in the argument "-normal".
I made daemon that monitors the state of the num-lock key on the local terminal - the computer halts if the num-lock hey is down and sombody plays with any number of files - including the password files.
When I need to remotely manage one of the firewalls - I have to call up the secretary and have her press the num-lock key untill the "little light stops glowing."
Both schemes can be easily bypassed by someone who knows they are there, as my coding skills probably suck, and I've probably reinvented the wheel (somebody else has probably made somthing better) - but I can rest a bit easier knowing that my schemes won't have a vunrability posted on Securityfocus;)
You could make the software a bit smarter - It could power up the drive and cache the MP3 onto memory, power down the drive and play the MP3 from memory.
I use a tiny USB-powerd hard drive made by Apricorn to backup my Laptop while on the road. I really don't care if someone steals my laptop beacuse I can cary the backup on my person. IBM Microdrives have been too expensive and not enoughf capacity, but this PC-Card size looks pretty good!
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Yow! These "*BSD is Dying" posts are getting weirder and weirder...
An advantage that an open-source version of.NET is that information flowing over the open-source version dosen't nesecarily have to pass though a Microsoft toll-booth. Eventually, Microsoft will try to make a bunch of money off of.NET and the open-source versions will be there to provide an alternative.
Re:The GPL is about as un-American as it gets.
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99.99999+% of Linux (l)users haven't ever contributed a single iota of code
Hmmm...
Ok, I'll admit it... I'm a BSD and GLP Leach Deluxe. And so are the people that hire me. So you have about 30 different computers running Free software and yep... I haven't contributed on line of code. But hear me out just a bit.
Because we use Free software we give it 'weight'. When on of my clients hears that someone else's WinNT server crashes, they tell that person that there is an alternative. So yeah, I do feel a bit guilty, but don't brush off freeloaders too much - we help with the evangelizing.
I've always told people to run around like crazed monkeys and pull the cords to their expensive electronic gear - but lately I've tempered that advice with the caveat that this should only be done when a storm is far away.
Un-screwing the connectors to a 10-meter antenna, by hand, during an active and immediate electrical storm doesn't sound like good risk management.
I can vouch for their support, even on small stuff.
I have a client that needed their frames bumped up from two channels to six. I fancied myself clever, and studidied all the Cicso FAQ's I could find, and proceded with the Qwest people to change the frames.
It dident work.
So the Qwest person, calles up a Cisco person on a conference call. Turns out - I'm an idiot. I had changed the label that the router uses to display information, not the actually amount of frames that it used. The Cisco guy was plesent and nice, took him a few seconds to fugure things out. We never received a bill from Cisco - and the router was only worth about $1100.
For my use, Cisco is a bit expensive - I can afford to tinker around. But for the my clients that depend on me, I'm sticking with Cisco for the time being.
CmdrTaco confirmed this week that *BSD trolls account for less than a fraction of 1 percent of all Slashdot posting. This news serves to reinforce what we've known all along; *BSD trolls are collapsing in complete disarray.
You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict a *BSD Troll's future. The hand writing is on the wall: *BSD Trolls face a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for *BSD Trolls because sooner or later, their Windows95 boxes will hang. As many of us are already aware, *BSD Trolls continues to be moderated down to -1. Red ink flows like a river of blood. Anonymous Coward is the most endangered of them all.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
Amiga Troll leader Anonymous Coward states that there are 7,000 Amiga Trolls on Slashdot . How many *BSD Trolls are there? Let's see. The number of Amiga versus Emacs Trolls roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7,000/5 = 1,400 Emacs Trolls. Hot-Grits Trolls on Slashdot are about half of the volume of Emacs Trolls. Therefore there are about 700 Hot-Grits Trolls. A recent article put *BSD Trolls at about 10 percent of the Hit-Grits Trolls. Therefore there are 700*.10 = 70 *BSD Trolls. This is consistent with the number of *BSD Troll postings.
Due to the troubles of *BSD Trolls karma and so on, Anonymous Coward went down this weekend, and was taken over by by a small shell script. That shell script was running on a leased Dell, and was taken back by the Dell Leasing for failure to pay. The computer was re-leased to a charnel house.
All major surveys show that *BSD Trolls have steadily declined in market share. *BSD Trolls are very sick, and look vaguly like the goatse.cx guy. Their prospects are very dim. If *BSD Trolls are to survive at all it will be among Microsfot-OS dabblers.. Nothing short of a miracle could save them at this point in time. For all practical purposes, *BSD Trolls are dead.
You're not gonna like this...
Most likely your condo association signed an exclusive contract with a cable company or satelite company in order to get wired up for TV. These contracts usually have a non compete clause that prevents other companys from providing serice to you - if the people that your condo association signed up with can't provice internet access than you are kinda screwed. Same for apartments buildings, when the owner signs up with a satelite company, and the cable people are prohibited from offering service to the tenents.
I actually purchased a 2.9 CD - just to make sure that I had a OpenBSD distribution with a working and tested packet filter. I could have grabbed IPF by itself, but I might have missed out on any patches on IPF that the OpenBSD folk have done to it. And it was about time I supported OpenBDS with a little bit of money.
NetBSD guru's have ported their OS to Microsoft's.NET platform. Specualtion abounds as to whther to call it ".NetBSD" or "NetBSD-NET", though sources inside Microsoft we reported to be screaming "Damn this Unix virus - it's everwhere!"
Screw the Hague, Lets just go ahead with the Oceania union with the UK and US as charter members. Cut out all the bullshit with the EU and NATO and the UN - then we can get on with the war with Eurasia and form our alliance with Eastasia.
Actually, unless you sign somthing, you don't need an EULA to use software. Just like you don't need an EULA to use a car, or use a book.
The EULA only comes into play when you want to do somthing that the copyright holder has exclusive rights to - namely copying,modifying and creating deritive works.
Some people have argued that un-signed software EULAs are enforcable beacuse you must make a temporary copy of the software on your hard-drive or RAM in order to use it. Hopefully the court system will see that that argument is rather dumb.
Of course, IANAL
Re:This was started back in 1995
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Actually the idea was floating around before that - I did a small program in Turbo Pascal that tweaked the rather small encoding of a virus strain into *horible* music. I found the sequence in a 1987 issue of Scientific American and coded my program in 1990.
I don't remember where I got the idea from - but I know I got it from sombody else in the 1989 time frame.
Makeing tones on the PC-buzzer using the viral code was easy - coaxing them into music was hard. Turbo Pascal came in handy because I could tweek the code recompile quickly.
I remember how hard it was for me to find out the diference in Hz between notes and what Hz "middle c" started at- this was before the internet made it's way into my life and I had no musical training.
Actually, It's quite beneficial to have a woman as your partner when coding in the pair methodology. There are some not so subtle diferances between our two sexes that make it the pair processes more effective. Typically I find that my female partner helps the code work from the Users point of view. And she helps me spell my vairable names correctly;)
My Uncle was a comercial pilot and summed it up best when he said "Women are horrable pilots in emergency situations - they freak out. But they never *get in* emergency situations - they follow the pre-flight checklist and they don't take unnessesary risks just to show off."
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Yes they can price WinXP to the OEM at $1000.
Have you checked out the prices of WinXP "Professional" with 10 CAL's?
Give Borland's OO Pascal a second chance, it an ablosutly wonderfull language for getting GUI app up and running quickly. It compiles so damn fast, it will spoil you.
C++ is wonderfull for a lot of thing, and even works well for GUI apps, but there is something kinda pain free about making GUI apps in OO Pascal.
OO Pascal falls down when you need to do low level things, and can feel a bit stilted when you are used to Pearl et al.
Yeah... But the weird borland keywords in C++ Builder all begin in a double underscore (ex "__published" ) - and if you ignore the double underscore keywords,the compiler is more standards complient than MS Visual C++ . The best thing about the Borland C++ compiler is it's very fast compule times though... It's kinda a drag to go to anything else.
Even without a terrorist threat, planning for the next pague is smart. Just in case the goatse.cx man starts stuffing dead monkey carcases up his bum and catches a nasty new virus and decides to take a trip to the US on his anus-mobile.
Some brave soul with a really nice setup, rip's the CD using the digital output and gets wave files with a the fair-use-denying bits of static.
The same person then rips the CD using the analog output. He/She then to compares the two files and generates a patch file that says somthing like this:
Track One, the 5th second should really be "452 231 232 3442 22322 etc" .
Then other people could rip their local cd quickly via the digital bus, and then apply the patch file to generate a listenable copy.
I made daemon that monitors the state of the num-lock key on the local terminal - the computer halts if the num-lock hey is down and sombody plays with any number of files - including the password files.
When I need to remotely manage one of the firewalls - I have to call up the secretary and have her press the num-lock key untill the "little light stops glowing."
Both schemes can be easily bypassed by someone who knows they are there, as my coding skills probably suck, and I've probably reinvented the wheel (somebody else has probably made somthing better) - but I can rest a bit easier knowing that my schemes won't have a vunrability posted on Securityfocus ;)
You could make the software a bit smarter - It could power up the drive and cache the MP3 onto memory, power down the drive and play the MP3 from memory.
I use a tiny USB-powerd hard drive made by Apricorn to backup my Laptop while on the road. I really don't care if someone steals my laptop beacuse I can cary the backup on my person. IBM Microdrives have been too expensive and not enoughf capacity, but this PC-Card size looks pretty good!
Yow! These "*BSD is Dying" posts are getting weirder and weirder...
An advantage that an open-source version of .NET is that information flowing over the open-source version dosen't nesecarily have to pass though a Microsoft toll-booth. Eventually, Microsoft will try to make a bunch of money off of .NET and the open-source versions will be there to provide an alternative.
Ok, I'll admit it... I'm a BSD and GLP Leach Deluxe. And so are the people that hire me. So you have about 30 different computers running Free software and yep... I haven't contributed on line of code. But hear me out just a bit.
Because we use Free software we give it 'weight'. When on of my clients hears that someone else's WinNT server crashes, they tell that person that there is an alternative. So yeah, I do feel a bit guilty, but don't brush off freeloaders too much - we help with the evangelizing.
Un-screwing the connectors to a 10-meter antenna, by hand, during an active and immediate electrical storm doesn't sound like good risk management.
I have a client that needed their frames bumped up from two channels to six. I fancied myself clever, and studidied all the Cicso FAQ's I could find, and proceded with the Qwest people to change the frames.
It dident work. So the Qwest person, calles up a Cisco person on a conference call. Turns out - I'm an idiot. I had changed the label that the router uses to display information, not the actually amount of frames that it used. The Cisco guy was plesent and nice, took him a few seconds to fugure things out. We never received a bill from Cisco - and the router was only worth about $1100.
For my use, Cisco is a bit expensive - I can afford to tinker around. But for the my clients that depend on me, I'm sticking with Cisco for the time being.
CmdrTaco confirmed this week that *BSD trolls account for less than a fraction of 1 percent of all Slashdot posting. This news serves to reinforce what we've known all along; *BSD trolls are collapsing in complete disarray.
You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict a *BSD Troll's future. The hand writing is on the wall: *BSD Trolls face a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for *BSD Trolls because sooner or later, their Windows95 boxes will hang. As many of us are already aware, *BSD Trolls continues to be moderated down to -1. Red ink flows like a river of blood. Anonymous Coward is the most endangered of them all.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers. Amiga Troll leader Anonymous Coward states that there are 7,000 Amiga Trolls on Slashdot . How many *BSD Trolls are there? Let's see. The number of Amiga versus Emacs Trolls roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7,000/5 = 1,400 Emacs Trolls. Hot-Grits Trolls on Slashdot are about half of the volume of Emacs Trolls. Therefore there are about 700 Hot-Grits Trolls. A recent article put *BSD Trolls at about 10 percent of the Hit-Grits Trolls. Therefore there are 700*.10 = 70 *BSD Trolls. This is consistent with the number of *BSD Troll postings.
Due to the troubles of *BSD Trolls karma and so on, Anonymous Coward went down this weekend, and was taken over by by a small shell script. That shell script was running on a leased Dell, and was taken back by the Dell Leasing for failure to pay. The computer was re-leased to a charnel house.
All major surveys show that *BSD Trolls have steadily declined in market share. *BSD Trolls are very sick, and look vaguly like the goatse.cx guy. Their prospects are very dim. If *BSD Trolls are to survive at all it will be among Microsfot-OS dabblers.. Nothing short of a miracle could save them at this point in time. For all practical purposes, *BSD Trolls are dead.
You're not gonna like this... Most likely your condo association signed an exclusive contract with a cable company or satelite company in order to get wired up for TV. These contracts usually have a non compete clause that prevents other companys from providing serice to you - if the people that your condo association signed up with can't provice internet access than you are kinda screwed. Same for apartments buildings, when the owner signs up with a satelite company, and the cable people are prohibited from offering service to the tenents.
I actually purchased a 2.9 CD - just to make sure that I had a OpenBSD distribution with a working and tested packet filter. I could have grabbed IPF by itself, but I might have missed out on any patches on IPF that the OpenBSD folk have done to it. And it was about time I supported OpenBDS with a little bit of money.
NetBSD guru's have ported their OS to Microsoft's .NET platform.
Specualtion abounds as to whther to call it ".NetBSD" or "NetBSD-NET", though sources inside Microsoft we reported to be screaming "Damn this Unix virus - it's everwhere!"
Screw the Hague, Lets just go ahead with the Oceania union with the UK and US as charter members. Cut out all the bullshit with the EU and NATO and the UN - then we can get on with the war with Eurasia and form our alliance with Eastasia.
The EULA only comes into play when you want to do somthing that the copyright holder has exclusive rights to - namely copying,modifying and creating deritive works.
Some people have argued that un-signed software EULAs are enforcable beacuse you must make a temporary copy of the software on your hard-drive or RAM in order to use it. Hopefully the court system will see that that argument is rather dumb. Of course, IANAL
I don't remember where I got the idea from - but I know I got it from sombody else in the 1989 time frame.
Makeing tones on the PC-buzzer using the viral code was easy - coaxing them into music was hard. Turbo Pascal came in handy because I could tweek the code recompile quickly.
I remember how hard it was for me to find out the diference in Hz between notes and what Hz "middle c" started at- this was before the internet made it's way into my life and I had no musical training.
Mototola deserves every bit of cash that it can squeaze out of Apple after Apple screwed Motorola on the mac-clone business.
Actually, It's quite beneficial to have a woman as your partner when coding in the pair methodology. There are some not so subtle diferances between our two sexes that make it the pair processes more effective. Typically I find that my female partner helps the code work from the Users point of view. And she helps me spell my vairable names correctly ;)
My Uncle was a comercial pilot and summed it up best when he said "Women are horrable pilots in emergency situations - they freak out. But they never *get in* emergency situations - they follow the pre-flight checklist and they don't take unnessesary risks just to show off."