It sounds like you've got a blank slate and aren't sure where to start doodling plans. Make sure you test the system thoroughly and keep cell phones for when the system bombs.
Don't forget that back then hard disks were nonexistent
Actually I had a 10 MB hard disk from Sunol Systems on my Apple ][+ in ~1983-84. $2300CA if memory serves ("I'll never need more!") larger disk packs and other removable units were on mainframes for years before that.
if they were to have gone up to only 1MB ram then they could have had far more flexibility.
The original Mac had 128K of RAM; I bought one. The Mac Plus (with its megabyte of RAM) was available somewhat later, well after the design specs were done. Your idea sounds like it would consume all of that 1 MB.
Installing printers in Linux is pretty simple. Configuring our main workgroup printer was as simple as giving the machine name on the network and saying it's an HP whatever.
Nothing against this particular troll, err, I mean +5 insightfull post.
OK, we know where this is heading.
If a particular O/S is considered a bad choice or not worth supporting then explain why (examples: closed source, too few users). Don't just ignore it and then reply "because it sucks" when the pointy-haired manager makes "enquires", possibly in return for PHM's sponsored blow job.
I have worked as a developer for 15yrs in *nix and MS and have found a few bugs in both types of O/S's
I've got 20 years:P Anyhow, nowhere in my original post did I say 'it sucks because it's MS' All I suggested is that they're taking the easy way out. Microsoft has the resources to be proactive with their security. OpenBSD does it with a fraction of a percent of the developers. Why can't MS, with their billions in the bank, do the same? Because that costs money. Being a geek for 15 years you should know that re-writing huge chunks of code is no small task. It's easier (lazier?) in many cases to just buy a Band-Aid and slap it on.
The problem is that MS' stuff has Band-Aids on top of Band-Aids on top of Band-Aids when they should have just amputated the festering limb.
Are all these companies spending millions because Bill has cast some sort of evil marketing spell that renders them stupid and opens thier wallet?
Yes, it's called "advertising". That sells product to PHBs and gets some geeks to get MCSE or other useless paper for their walls.
At the risk of sounding trollish... I think it's more than a bit
ironic that MS is now going to bundle spyware when a good chunk of
spyware is installed thanks to bugs within the present code. Why not
deal with existing issues first?
Oh wait, new bells and whistles are good PR and prompt upgrades.
...in the late 70's I was hooked on a friend's TRS-80 with a funky cassette unit for saving/loading programs and data. A bit later I was hooked on another machine, this time a friend's Apple ][+.
A lot of the summer was spent at a nearby Radio Shack with my own cassette tape as I hacked up goofy things in their BASIC that was on the TRS-80 "business model", I forget the exact model number. (Yeah, that's truly nerdy. Spending a lot of your summer in Winnipeg, Canada at a Radio Shack). The guys there got to know me and I talked a couple of people into actually buying those things. Not bad for a 14 year old. So after playing with the TRS-80s all day and my friend's Apple ][+ at night I decided on the Apple in ~1980 and haven't looked back.
Taught myself the 2 BASICs Apple offered (Integer and Applesoft) and 6502 machine language. Installed a z80 card for CP/M, etc etc.
Back then it was pretty much only the geeks that had computers. Now they're just commodity items and every neighbours' kids think they're leet because they use kazaa or whatever.
So to sum it up: get the kids some educational software and a couple of good manuals. Let them learn at their own speed and they'll decide if it's right for them. Forcing them into computers will just relegate them to the throngs of Help Desk people.
Happy Birthday to Me,
Happy Birthday Grubby,
Happy Birthday to Meeeeee,
Don't forget your $699 license feeeeeee....
Re:More money than brains I guess
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It seems to me that it's just a way to stop the grieving process to some extent
Sure, it's natural to want to end personal suffering but the wait for the new animal and the eventual letdown of it not being identical to the clonee can't be healthy either. Grief is a natural part of being human. Yes, it sucks and that's why we have so many people medicated now (Feel Good Forever!)
When my cat (Baby, 13 year old silver tabby I found as a wee kitten) dies, I know I'll be devastated. But having a Baby 2.0 running around isn't the same. I'd pick up another cat once I'm over grieving for her.
More money than brains I guess
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The technology looks promising but the $50,000 price tag will prove
to place the service out of the reach of most pet owners.
... and
they get a pet that looks like their deceased pet yet isn't. "Mittens
2.0 scratches my furniture, Mittens 1.0 didn't." If these people really
loved animals and would quit trying to relive the past with a facsimile-pet
the $50K (or less) would be better used if donated to a pet shelter for food
and sterilization programs. And while they're there they could take home an
animal currently on death row.
Does this mean AOL is trying to become something which it is
not?
Conversely I think AOL is trying to enforce what it is: a
portal to their own services and the internet. Once a user is using AOL's
mail package then AOL can put whatever it wants on their mail webpage much
like MS does with Hotmail. "Want to chat with Britney and Justin? Join AOL
for $FOO and be here Saturday night!"
AOL is a business,
businesses don't do "free" without some catch. Their free mail offering is
nothing more than a hook to get the AOL brandname back into peoples'
minds.
Yeah, exactly. And when Laura DiDio said: "The fate of SCO is one of the big question marks. New management at Canopy . . . may push [SCO] to try and settle." I was thinking "Settle for what? Not having IBM kick their collective asses into orbit around the sun?" I don't think they're in much of a position to try bargaining.
If it's not encrypting and just passing packets around then it sounds like the AT&T research Crowds proxy they were distributing a while ago. (it used to live at this page but I see it's gone now.)
Slashdot Mirror
It sounds like you've got a blank slate and aren't sure where to start doodling plans. Make sure you test the system thoroughly and keep cell phones for when the system bombs.
Don't forget that back then hard disks were nonexistent
Actually I had a 10 MB hard disk from Sunol Systems on my Apple ][+ in ~1983-84. $2300CA if memory serves ("I'll never need more!") larger disk packs and other removable units were on mainframes for years before that.
if they were to have gone up to only 1MB ram then they could have had far more flexibility.
The original Mac had 128K of RAM; I bought one. The Mac Plus (with its megabyte of RAM) was available somewhat later, well after the design specs were done. Your idea sounds like it would consume all of that 1 MB.
I used xcalc to verify his figures...
I was wondering how they industry would know what player it was that was compromised. Sounds like a bunch of suits have been sold some snake oil.
I can see the ads in the theaters already. "I'm John Weiner and I design ciphers for the movie industry. Downloading movies hurts me."
Grandma, would never use the word "workgroup"
What did Grandma enter in the "Workgroup" field in her Network Settings (assuming Windows)?
Grandma can't figure out how to print?
Installing printers in Linux is pretty simple. Configuring our main workgroup printer was as simple as giving the machine name on the network and saying it's an HP whatever.
Now that Linux is mainstream I'll have to turn my back on it and find another cause to fight for. Has Netcraft confirmed the BSD rumours?
Nothing against this particular troll, err, I mean +5 insightfull post.
OK, we know where this is heading.
If a particular O/S is considered a bad choice or not worth supporting then explain why (examples: closed source, too few users). Don't just ignore it and then reply "because it sucks" when the pointy-haired manager makes "enquires", possibly in return for PHM's sponsored blow job. I have worked as a developer for 15yrs in *nix and MS and have found a few bugs in both types of O/S's
I've got 20 years
The problem is that MS' stuff has Band-Aids on top of Band-Aids on top of Band-Aids when they should have just amputated the festering limb.
Are all these companies spending millions because Bill has cast some sort of evil marketing spell that renders them stupid and opens thier wallet?
Yes, it's called "advertising". That sells product to PHBs and gets some geeks to get MCSE or other useless paper for their walls.
At the risk of sounding trollish... I think it's more than a bit ironic that MS is now going to bundle spyware when a good chunk of spyware is installed thanks to bugs within the present code. Why not deal with existing issues first?
Oh wait, new bells and whistles are good PR and prompt upgrades.
...in the late 70's I was hooked on a friend's TRS-80 with a funky cassette unit for saving/loading programs and data. A bit later I was hooked on another machine, this time a friend's Apple ][+.
A lot of the summer was spent at a nearby Radio Shack with my own cassette tape as I hacked up goofy things in their BASIC that was on the TRS-80 "business model", I forget the exact model number. (Yeah, that's truly nerdy. Spending a lot of your summer in Winnipeg, Canada at a Radio Shack). The guys there got to know me and I talked a couple of people into actually buying those things. Not bad for a 14 year old. So after playing with the TRS-80s all day and my friend's Apple ][+ at night I decided on the Apple in ~1980 and haven't looked back.
Taught myself the 2 BASICs Apple offered (Integer and Applesoft) and 6502 machine language. Installed a z80 card for CP/M, etc etc.
Back then it was pretty much only the geeks that had computers. Now they're just commodity items and every neighbours' kids think they're leet because they use kazaa or whatever.
So to sum it up: get the kids some educational software and a couple of good manuals. Let them learn at their own speed and they'll decide if it's right for them. Forcing them into computers will just relegate them to the throngs of Help Desk people.
Scientists have discovered a food that takes away a woman's sex drive. Wedding cake.
if memory serves: Logan 5.
1) Live in big domes with fake skies.
2) Watch the crystal in your hand turn black on your 30th birthday.
3) Go to Carousel.
10 dollar Amazon gift certificate to the first person to name the movie in this thread! Can't be an AC.
Slashdot should have a team developing a client.
Yeah but it'd be written in Perl.
And what do you want to bet they had a visit from their local FBI field office? Purchase records subpoenaed?
Yup, I was thinking the same thing. We must buy our tinfoil hats from the same shop.
Happy Birthday to Me,
Happy Birthday Grubby,
Happy Birthday to Meeeeee,
Don't forget your $699 license feeeeeee....
It seems to me that it's just a way to stop the grieving process to some extent
Sure, it's natural to want to end personal suffering but the wait for the new animal and the eventual letdown of it not being identical to the clonee can't be healthy either. Grief is a natural part of being human. Yes, it sucks and that's why we have so many people medicated now (Feel Good Forever!)
When my cat (Baby, 13 year old silver tabby I found as a wee kitten) dies, I know I'll be devastated. But having a Baby 2.0 running around isn't the same. I'd pick up another cat once I'm over grieving for her.
The technology looks promising but the $50,000 price tag will prove to place the service out of the reach of most pet owners.
... and they get a pet that looks like their deceased pet yet isn't. "Mittens 2.0 scratches my furniture, Mittens 1.0 didn't."
If these people really loved animals and would quit trying to relive the past with a facsimile-pet the $50K (or less) would be better used if donated to a pet shelter for food and sterilization programs. And while they're there they could take home an animal currently on death row.
Does this mean AOL is trying to become something which it is not?
Conversely I think AOL is trying to enforce what it is: a portal to their own services and the internet. Once a user is using AOL's mail package then AOL can put whatever it wants on their mail webpage much like MS does with Hotmail. "Want to chat with Britney and Justin? Join AOL for $FOO and be here Saturday night!"
AOL is a business, businesses don't do "free" without some catch. Their free mail offering is nothing more than a hook to get the AOL brandname back into peoples' minds.
Yeah, exactly. And when Laura DiDio said: "The fate of SCO is one of the big question marks. New management at Canopy . . . may push [SCO] to try and settle." I was thinking "Settle for what? Not having IBM kick their collective asses into orbit around the sun?" I don't think they're in much of a position to try bargaining.
If it's not encrypting and just passing packets around then it sounds like the AT&T research Crowds proxy they were distributing a while ago. (it used to live at this page but I see it's gone now.)
I would love to see Microsoft not do business outside the United States.
In that scenario I'd think it would be only US government contracts that would keep them afloat. True corporate welfare.
Timely and semi-related riddle.
Q - Why do computer geeks celebrate Halloween on Christmas?
A - Because OCT 31 equals DEC 25.
Thank you, thank you. I'm here all week.