Bill gates resigned as CEO, and therefore probally doesn't have the power to push this through, even if he wanted to. This would be greatly interesting, and I wonder if caldera would make a distro of windows (OpenWindows?)? they already have companies with DOS and Linux versions that you can get free (www.lineo.com) What I'm thinking is that bill gates isn't in power any more (or not as much power anyways), so I'm not really sure he can do what they are talking about. (If he's got the shares of stock, anything's possible in that case) This could backfire, and it probally will eventually because it looks like he's stealing someone's idea and basically is. We could have a contest to repair segmentation faults and the memory leak error! Of course, this could also be a step in the evultion of software. with a commercial software company as big as M$
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The net provides social contact that these people don't realize. just because I don't call up someone and talk to them doesn't mean that I isolate myself. I get on IRC nearly every day to talk with friends that I have made. The net makes it easy to meet people. for instance, I can get on IRC and go to a room where I know people have similar interests to the ones I do. I don't have to worry about things like how I look and such. The net gives the social advantage that people live on the net without any social stereotypes involved. The only thing that matters is intelligence and what you say. Your true colors show on the net where they wouldn't show otherwise. It isn't isolation, it's just a different form of being social.
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They got an XT which makes em kinda OK in my book
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I'm a big fan of the IBM-XT computer. The XT started production the year I was born, and it has that antique computer charm. The case is really nifty too, and that 8088 just zooms while playing games like zork and such. If anyone asks, I'll post a link or two to some sites devoted to the XT and other vintage computers. (386es are getting pretty old, right?) I may be getting a couple more and I'll have Linux crankin on em, or mabye get some good dos games. (DRDOS rules!)
I think the DoSes that took place prove my point. The "Kiddies" have a knack for pissing off hackers and users alike. They piss off hackers because they only intend to destroy, while a true hacker intends to find information about sytems and gain access to discover. These ppl have become a rarity on the net and the group known as "script kiddies" have taken their place. This group makes admin and hackers alike mad because they can be anyone. anyone with a mouse and a keyboard can become a script kiddie easily. The real hackers are on a quest for information, something that the script kiddie yearns to mimick, but fails at so often. There are a few that change their ways, but these are few and far in between.
I think the DoSes that took place prove my point. The "Kiddies" have a knack for pissing off hackers and users alike. They piss off hackers because they only intend to destroy, while a true hacker intends to find information about sytems and gain access to discover. These ppl have become a rarity on the net and the group known as "script kiddies" have taken their place. This group makes admin and hackers alike mad because they can be anyone. anyone with a mouse and a keyboard can become a script kiddie easily. The real hackers are on a quest for information, something that the script kiddie yearns to mimick, but fails at so often.
Windows has more script kiddie level progs out for it like l0pht crack and cDc's BackOrfice, these programs are less prevelant in UN*X based systems. They didn't attack M$ boxes because the abilities that they had were watered down, and therefore they weren't as of much use. The admin of the colledges are partly to blame, too. There were probally a few open ports in the systems that shoulda been closed, and that's probally where they got in. an open port that isn't used is a great oppertunity for people to do this kind of thing. Closing ports on a UN*X is easy, and a M$ box is very hard from what I've heard. That's one of the key gripes about Windows boxes. I can close/open ports on my Linux box in a matter of a few mouse clicks in KDE. can you windows people say that? I'm also interesed in Mac servers, I've heard that they are pretty good but underrated. will they run on an X86, or is a Mac/Motorola (Do they still use those?) required?
This is definetly a case of big brother is watching you. They'd get their filthy hands on my box when they pried it from my cold dead fingers. Besides the fact that if they were wanting to do anything like that they needed to use something called Hotmail. It would be illegal for them to touch thier addresses at hotmail, as it would be considered "hacking". They also needed to get crypto. That's the only way to get any privacy on the net any more. They could crack the crypto, but the likelyhood would be very small with the right program. It's just evil that they can acess thier worker's computers like that. Aren't there laws against doing that anyways? I mean, like cyber tresspassing? This is taking the net way too far.
Another superpower? could we be seeing the rise of Linux based communities to positions of power? They own Word Perfect, and now they own Borland. They have a C++ prog, which could have implications on programs like cc and gcc. What other programs does Boreland make, as I forget?
It could do things we never imagined, and it could make people able to fit 5 gbs of RAM in the space that one chip was in. Your Palm Pilot could be even more powerful than the Pentium IIIs/Athlons that's sitting on many desktops currently. It could be damaging, however because if one piece was to go bad, you'd probally have to replace the whole thing. Another thing is that the interfce is currently iffy at this time. The chip is small enough that it'll take them a few years at the least to design the boards and get them into production. IBM rocks, I wish I had another one. XTs rock too.
From what I was reading, they engineered at least part of this "bug" at orders from AOL. The software and the programmers don't need to be liscensed. The companies that release lemons that major should be fined and made to pay for the damages. This costed people major money. ISPs lost out big, because it would mess up people's connection. It is a software producers (In this case AOL's) responsibility to notify people of potential stability problems. when a new experimental Linux kernal is released for example, they do state that it is potentially unstable. Mabye software companies need to start doing the same or getting it right. I do believe that the software messing up the other software was deliberate and it was ordered by AOL corp. MS tried to do something similar with the win 3.1 beta and nearly got away with it too. They deliberately engineered software "Bugs" into Win 3.1 beta to have the FUD factor to their advantage. Caldera put a fast stop to them getting away with it. They settled with MS out of court from what I heard.
Do you think that a reason that the MPAA is pursueing this so hard is that they are trying to cover up the fact that the encryption was ever broken. They were making some claims about how great their encryption was, and mabye they don't want the world to find out that they can't live up to thier claims as far as CSS goes. Is this because they got greedy and lost, therefore they lash out at evryone?
There are groups devoted to preservation of obsolete tech out there. I am a member, I hold on to a pair of 286s, and 386s. These computers though obsolete, are not useless. People need to realize that an XT will do many useful things, but you need to look a little for software. The key advantge of this is you can generally get freeware off the net and it costs yo nothing. These machines are stable too. The only problems I have with my 386s is that they have too little hard drive space for all the apps I want to run. These are some of my of my personal favorite vintage computing sites. Uncreative Labs. 386 worldThe Ultimate 386 Page
These computers are forgotten by most, but not by us. People throw them away, and we take them home.
I use telenet on AOL. I'm trying to get an account at the local colledge so I can use a UN*X shell. I've got Linux on my other box, but my parents won't switch to a real ISP/Earthlink, which would make me very happy. (For some reason, I don't like getting cut off every five minutes) I can't use AOL with Linux, so I'm gonna rig up a 386 with an NE-1000 LAN card, got another NE-1000 card in my linux box, and I'm just gonna use the 386 for my connection. I'm hoping to get it going smoothly later. AOL supposedly doesn't work well with WINE though:(. Oh well.
With a user interface like X11, such features are easily removed. You can use what you want/need, and nothing more. I'm going to strip down an install without X11 and run in on an 89 MB hdd.
AOL doens't need another company to spend $$$ on. They need to get their R&D department together and build some decent (and anti monopolistic) software. If they are so great, then why do they need to mess with the competition like they did with 5.0 software? If they had decent R&D, then it wouldn't crash boxes like it reportedly did. They are going cheap on the R&D and trying to get glitz and fluff. This is where Microsoft went wrong. They have a candy-apple shell, but on the inside there is little but blackened leftovers. No matter what people say, there were some decent versions of Windows untill Microsoft got greedy, like they did in the windows 98 "Integration" of IE. AOL is soon to have the candyapple shell too, and by then it'll be too late. Stability has gone down the drain for glitz and fluff.
I said that AOhell didn't need to sink $ into Time/Warner, they needed to upgrade their R&D. I hate to say it but I said so. I use AOhell 4.0 (I'm 16, don't flame me. If I had the choice, I'd be local so I could use my Linux box) It crashes all the time. Did they go to Bill Gates for their software models, or is it just me? 3.0 was probally one of the more stable versions, even thought on my site I've got AOL version 1.6 for DOS. I'm gonna try to install it on my XT, hope it doesn't screw it up. It'll be cool to have it on there though. Roboto's page Note:cannot be viewed in IE. This will re-direct you to another page. Applet courtesy MSBC. It's in the downloads section, if anyone is interested.
I think that Hollywood is embarresd that they fucked up by using easily cracked encryption, and that they don't have controll over people any more. This tech could possibly be used for "ripping" your own movies, for instance. They spent millions on R&D for this, and they are embarresed to see some guy from Sweeden crack their encryption. They can't seem to get it through their head that you don't need the original software/hardware to reverse eingeneer something. This is probally due to arrogance. They probally thought that the encryption would take years to decode, but they were proven wrong. They have already tried to keep it out of the media, and are doing quite good at it.
I've got several MFM/RLL Hard disks at my place, mainly in XT class comps. They are good for the applications that I run on them. Sure, the speed is slow, but they work well. I like SCSI because it's easy to install on comps. Sometimes the Stats for HDDs when autodetected are wrong. there isn't any config probs with SCSI, because it uses firmware to controll drives. Win boxes have made SCSI server hardware, because IDE is much cheaper. SCSI will generally run at least %25 or more than IDE. SCSI is better, but I'm 16 and strapped for cash, so I'll take what I can get. Maxtor is supeiror anyways, but Seagate makes good drives. I'm running two medalists, and am waiting to upgrade. You can have many more SCSI hdds on a system, anyways. (I heard a guy talking about having capability to put 42 on his, the bios would take forever to use) This makes it much more pratical for applications such as net servers. SCSI will become more popular as the OSes get larger and larger, because IDE will take longer to load. IDE is what I can get for $100 for 17 GB (The advertised them at Staples, but they don't have it in stock), so I'll be buying one of those if they have it in before the rebate runs out.
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Bill gates resigned as CEO, and therefore probally doesn't have the power to push this through, even if he wanted to. This would be greatly interesting, and I wonder if caldera would make a distro of windows (OpenWindows?)? they already have companies with DOS and Linux versions that you can get free (www.lineo.com) What I'm thinking is that bill gates isn't in power any more (or not as much power anyways), so I'm not really sure he can do what they are talking about. (If he's got the shares of stock, anything's possible in that case) This could backfire, and it probally will eventually because it looks like he's stealing someone's idea and basically is. We could have a contest to repair segmentation faults and the memory leak error! Of course, this could also be a step in the evultion of software. with a commercial software company as big as M$
The net provides social contact that these people don't realize. just because I don't call up someone and talk to them doesn't mean that I isolate myself. I get on IRC nearly every day to talk with friends that I have made. The net makes it easy to meet people. for instance, I can get on IRC and go to a room where I know people have similar interests to the ones I do. I don't have to worry about things like how I look and such. The net gives the social advantage that people live on the net without any social stereotypes involved. The only thing that matters is intelligence and what you say. Your true colors show on the net where they wouldn't show otherwise. It isn't isolation, it's just a different form of being social.
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I'm a big fan of the IBM-XT computer. The XT started production the year I was born, and it has that antique computer charm. The case is really nifty too, and that 8088 just zooms while playing games like zork and such. If anyone asks, I'll post a link or two to some sites devoted to the XT and other vintage computers. (386es are getting pretty old, right?) I may be getting a couple more and I'll have Linux crankin on em, or mabye get some good dos games. (DRDOS rules!)
I think the DoSes that took place prove my point. The "Kiddies" have a knack for pissing off hackers and users alike. They piss off hackers because they only intend to destroy, while a true hacker intends to find information about sytems and gain access to discover. These ppl have become a rarity on the net and the group known as "script kiddies" have taken their place. This group makes admin and hackers alike mad because they can be anyone. anyone with a mouse and a keyboard can become a script kiddie easily. The real hackers are on a quest for information, something that the script kiddie yearns to mimick, but fails at so often. There are a few that change their ways, but these are few and far in between.
I think the DoSes that took place prove my point. The "Kiddies" have a knack for pissing off hackers and users alike. They piss off hackers because they only intend to destroy, while a true hacker intends to find information about sytems and gain access to discover. These ppl have become a rarity on the net and the group known as "script kiddies" have taken their place. This group makes admin and hackers alike mad because they can be anyone. anyone with a mouse and a keyboard can become a script kiddie easily. The real hackers are on a quest for information, something that the script kiddie yearns to mimick, but fails at so often.
Windows has more script kiddie level progs out for it like l0pht crack and cDc's BackOrfice, these programs are less prevelant in UN*X based systems. They didn't attack M$ boxes because the abilities that they had were watered down, and therefore they weren't as of much use. The admin of the colledges are partly to blame, too. There were probally a few open ports in the systems that shoulda been closed, and that's probally where they got in. an open port that isn't used is a great oppertunity for people to do this kind of thing. Closing ports on a UN*X is easy, and a M$ box is very hard from what I've heard. That's one of the key gripes about Windows boxes. I can close/open ports on my Linux box in a matter of a few mouse clicks in KDE. can you windows people say that? I'm also interesed in Mac servers, I've heard that they are pretty good but underrated. will they run on an X86, or is a Mac/Motorola (Do they still use those?) required?
This is definetly a case of big brother is watching you. They'd get their filthy hands on my box when they pried it from my cold dead fingers. Besides the fact that if they were wanting to do anything like that they needed to use something called Hotmail. It would be illegal for them to touch thier addresses at hotmail, as it would be considered "hacking". They also needed to get crypto. That's the only way to get any privacy on the net any more. They could crack the crypto, but the likelyhood would be very small with the right program. It's just evil that they can acess thier worker's computers like that. Aren't there laws against doing that anyways? I mean, like cyber tresspassing? This is taking the net way too far.
I've got a friend that's obsessed with building a tesla coil. He actually convinced his former science teacher to let him bring it to class if he did!
Another superpower? could we be seeing the rise of Linux based communities to positions of power? They own Word Perfect, and now they own Borland. They have a C++ prog, which could have implications on programs like cc and gcc. What other programs does Boreland make, as I forget?
Would you really trust the results, or would you have doubts?
It could do things we never imagined, and it could make people able to fit 5 gbs of RAM in the space that one chip was in. Your Palm Pilot could be even more powerful than the Pentium IIIs/Athlons that's sitting on many desktops currently. It could be damaging, however because if one piece was to go bad, you'd probally have to replace the whole thing. Another thing is that the interfce is currently iffy at this time. The chip is small enough that it'll take them a few years at the least to design the boards and get them into production. IBM rocks, I wish I had another one. XTs rock too.
From what I was reading, they engineered at least part of this "bug" at orders from AOL. The software and the programmers don't need to be liscensed. The companies that release lemons that major should be fined and made to pay for the damages. This costed people major money. ISPs lost out big, because it would mess up people's connection. It is a software producers (In this case AOL's) responsibility to notify people of potential stability problems. when a new experimental Linux kernal is released for example, they do state that it is potentially unstable. Mabye software companies need to start doing the same or getting it right. I do believe that the software messing up the other software was deliberate and it was ordered by AOL corp. MS tried to do something similar with the win 3.1 beta and nearly got away with it too. They deliberately engineered software "Bugs" into Win 3.1 beta to have the FUD factor to their advantage. Caldera put a fast stop to them getting away with it. They settled with MS out of court from what I heard.
Do you think that a reason that the MPAA is pursueing this so hard is that they are trying to cover up the fact that the encryption was ever broken. They were making some claims about how great their encryption was, and mabye they don't want the world to find out that they can't live up to thier claims as far as CSS goes. Is this because they got greedy and lost, therefore they lash out at evryone?
These computers are forgotten by most, but not by us. People throw them away, and we take them home.
I use telenet on AOL. I'm trying to get an account at the local colledge so I can use a UN*X shell. I've got Linux on my other box, but my parents won't switch to a real ISP/Earthlink, which would make me very happy. (For some reason, I don't like getting cut off every five minutes) I can't use AOL with Linux, so I'm gonna rig up a 386 with an NE-1000 LAN card, got another NE-1000 card in my linux box, and I'm just gonna use the 386 for my connection. I'm hoping to get it going smoothly later. AOL supposedly doesn't work well with WINE though :(. Oh well.
With a user interface like X11, such features are easily removed. You can use what you want/need, and nothing more. I'm going to strip down an install without X11 and run in on an 89 MB hdd.
AOL doens't need another company to spend $$$ on. They need to get their R&D department together and build some decent (and anti monopolistic) software. If they are so great, then why do they need to mess with the competition like they did with 5.0 software? If they had decent R&D, then it wouldn't crash boxes like it reportedly did. They are going cheap on the R&D and trying to get glitz and fluff. This is where Microsoft went wrong. They have a candy-apple shell, but on the inside there is little but blackened leftovers. No matter what people say, there were some decent versions of Windows untill Microsoft got greedy, like they did in the windows 98 "Integration" of IE. AOL is soon to have the candyapple shell too, and by then it'll be too late. Stability has gone down the drain for glitz and fluff.
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I said that AOhell didn't need to sink $ into Time/Warner, they needed to upgrade their R&D. I hate to say it but I said so. I use AOhell 4.0 (I'm 16, don't flame me. If I had the choice, I'd be local so I could use my Linux box) It crashes all the time. Did they go to Bill Gates for their software models, or is it just me? 3.0 was probally one of the more stable versions, even thought on my site I've got AOL version 1.6 for DOS. I'm gonna try to install it on my XT, hope it doesn't screw it up. It'll be cool to have it on there though. Roboto's page Note:cannot be viewed in IE. This will re-direct you to another page. Applet courtesy MSBC. It's in the downloads section, if anyone is interested.
I think that Hollywood is embarresd that they fucked up by using easily cracked encryption, and that they don't have controll over people any more. This tech could possibly be used for "ripping" your own movies, for instance. They spent millions on R&D for this, and they are embarresed to see some guy from Sweeden crack their encryption. They can't seem to get it through their head that you don't need the original software/hardware to reverse eingeneer something. This is probally due to arrogance. They probally thought that the encryption would take years to decode, but they were proven wrong. They have already tried to keep it out of the media, and are doing quite good at it.
I've got several MFM/RLL Hard disks at my place, mainly in XT class comps. They are good for the applications that I run on them. Sure, the speed is slow, but they work well. I like SCSI because it's easy to install on comps. Sometimes the Stats for HDDs when autodetected are wrong. there isn't any config probs with SCSI, because it uses firmware to controll drives. Win boxes have made SCSI server hardware, because IDE is much cheaper. SCSI will generally run at least %25 or more than IDE. SCSI is better, but I'm 16 and strapped for cash, so I'll take what I can get. Maxtor is supeiror anyways, but Seagate makes good drives. I'm running two medalists, and am waiting to upgrade. You can have many more SCSI hdds on a system, anyways. (I heard a guy talking about having capability to put 42 on his, the bios would take forever to use) This makes it much more pratical for applications such as net servers. SCSI will become more popular as the OSes get larger and larger, because IDE will take longer to load. IDE is what I can get for $100 for 17 GB (The advertised them at Staples, but they don't have it in stock), so I'll be buying one of those if they have it in before the rebate runs out.
If he's running a processor that big, he'd better have a big heatsink, mabye a fan too. Don't forget the grease!!
My virtual body is in C, but my hair is C+++++++ :)