The original was made in HyperCard with a lot of plug-ins. For one thing, HyperCard didn't have color support. Of course they needed a new engine for the Windows version.
At night I prefer to just set my backlight to minimum level. The only thing worse than dark mode is forced dark mode. I have made custom CSS for a couple of web sites I regularly read (one of them is Hackaday) to override that eye cancer.
Considering that Apple has changed the main OS theme skin in every other release, without any option to use the old one, I'd say that was headline news. Two themes at the same time? What's next, UI sound effects?
That was Macsbug, a machine-language monitor. I would hardly call that a "command line mode", since all it let you do was examine and change the CPU registers.
The best part for me was how you had to wait nine whole seconds after waking up your laptop before you could do anything with it. This was because the Open Transport networking sat around twiddling its fingers. I installed OS X Public Beta, and it let me use my laptop right away. But it also ran the battery down because it didn't sleep all the hardware properly. So OS X really did "broke my mac", because they hadn't learned yet to stop trickle charging until the battery went below 95%. The battery was dead in a year.
It depends on where you live. I was born in a small town that got its second exchange in the 1970s. For the past 10 years or so, I've been living in cities that have had a second area code as an overlay, with 10-digit dialing required. The only other number I know of with my current exchange was printed on the side of a work truck I saw one day while I was driving around. My number has been with this house since the mid '90s, and is one of the old wireline exchanges for this part of town from the days before number portability.
...like which card you have. They say they're calling "about your credit card", expecting (correctly) that most people are idiots and assume that they actually know.
There are few if any reasons to allow a caller to spoof a number that they don't actually own.
...and even fewer reasons to spoof a different number in every call. They should be required to register the numbers that they will be calling from, at least down to the exchange level (for business PBX systems). Any calls originating with CNID not matching that list should be blocked. The FTC and FCC should also be able to search the lists of registered numbers in response to complaints.
I saw another post here today where someone mentioned invoking the scammers' parents. I like that better than my current line, "Why are one billion people unable to eat with their left hand?" That one disconnected just as I finished saying it. The response you got seems much more satisfying.
It doesn't matter that the FMcB loophole got patched in thin PS2s, I'd rather use a 3xxxx and stick an SSD drive in there with a SATA adaptor. The main problem with the "fat" units is the optical drive going out of alignment, but even if you can't get it working, it is possible to rip games on a PC and download them to the hard drive.
There is a white gear that you can often tweak to get the optical drive working again on a "fat" PS2, but it is such a pain in the ass to disassemble, and will eventually go out of alignment again, that it wasn't worth it for me to do again. I'd much rather rip my discs and play them on an emulator.
They "force" software companies to stop supporting older OS versions by simply dropping support in Visual Studio. A software company may still keep using an older version of VS for a while, but eventually they will need another seat, and won't be able to buy a new copy of the older full version. If MS knows what they're doing, the newer versions of VS won't even be able to use the old support files if you somehow sneaked them in, but there's certainly no target-OS UI checkbox to use them. Apple isn't quite so bad; you're still allowed to use older versions of Xcode... if you can find them.
I learned this back when W2K became unsupported by an online game I was playing at the time, so I upgraded to W7Pro. Now I face a similar situation except that my current favorite online game has Linux support. If Apple doesn't get their act together and stop spackling their "pro" computers together with glue and solder, and supports a decent GPU without an expensive screen glued to it, I'm on target for some kind of Linux soon.
Don't worry, unless you pay money to CBS you probably won't catch that particular STD. But I've heard that some Europeans can catch it through Netflix. Scary!
That "data" recording sure sounds like telemetry. It even seems to have some regular structure to it that you would expect from telemetry. Looking at the waveform, it's a 1KHz carrier with amplitude modulation. Out of every 10 waves, either 2, 5, or 8 of them are higher amplitude, so it's a 100 baud signal. The 8-wave pulses may be framing, because they are every tenth burst, but sometimes the first of the other 9 bursts is also 8 waves.
The problem is that if it is telemetry, it may be impossible to determine what the data means without knowing what produced it. It is also likely that even then, the base value and scale can't be determined without finding original documentation. As an example, here is what the AMSAT 7 Oscar telemetry looked like, and that apparently even used ASCII to encode individual characters. It would be impossible to determine those equations, much less what each value represents, without having the original documentation.
First, you're not even going to be able to read/dev/sdb unless you're root. Second, if you simply use stat to get basic file attributes (something that dates back to the dawn of Unix), you can see which files are character or block or pipe nodes, without even having to know that "/dev" is the usual place where they live. It doesn't matter what FS you are using.
My go-to example is The Orville. I have a screen shot from shortly after it started running, with a "critics" score of 11% and an audience score of 90%. Meanwhile, STD was the other way around, though with not quite so much of a disparity.
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They shut down my desire to watch more Star Trek a long time ago, with the "reboot" movies. But ST:D made me want to watch it even less.
The good news is that season 2 of the Orville starts in three months.
I think the microscopic space fleet puzzle was much more subtle.
The original was made in HyperCard with a lot of plug-ins. For one thing, HyperCard didn't have color support. Of course they needed a new engine for the Windows version.
At night I prefer to just set my backlight to minimum level. The only thing worse than dark mode is forced dark mode. I have made custom CSS for a couple of web sites I regularly read (one of them is Hackaday) to override that eye cancer.
Considering that Apple has changed the main OS theme skin in every other release, without any option to use the old one, I'd say that was headline news. Two themes at the same time? What's next, UI sound effects?
That was Macsbug, a machine-language monitor. I would hardly call that a "command line mode", since all it let you do was examine and change the CPU registers.
The best part for me was how you had to wait nine whole seconds after waking up your laptop before you could do anything with it. This was because the Open Transport networking sat around twiddling its fingers. I installed OS X Public Beta, and it let me use my laptop right away. But it also ran the battery down because it didn't sleep all the hardware properly. So OS X really did "broke my mac", because they hadn't learned yet to stop trickle charging until the battery went below 95%. The battery was dead in a year.
If you have more imagination, you would register "fucked.us" and sell sub-domains.
It depends on where you live. I was born in a small town that got its second exchange in the 1970s. For the past 10 years or so, I've been living in cities that have had a second area code as an overlay, with 10-digit dialing required. The only other number I know of with my current exchange was printed on the side of a work truck I saw one day while I was driving around. My number has been with this house since the mid '90s, and is one of the old wireline exchanges for this part of town from the days before number portability.
...like which card you have. They say they're calling "about your credit card", expecting (correctly) that most people are idiots and assume that they actually know.
There are few if any reasons to allow a caller to spoof a number that they don't actually own.
...and even fewer reasons to spoof a different number in every call. They should be required to register the numbers that they will be calling from, at least down to the exchange level (for business PBX systems). Any calls originating with CNID not matching that list should be blocked. The FTC and FCC should also be able to search the lists of registered numbers in response to complaints.
I saw another post here today where someone mentioned invoking the scammers' parents. I like that better than my current line, "Why are one billion people unable to eat with their left hand?" That one disconnected just as I finished saying it. The response you got seems much more satisfying.
It can tell from the pixels, and from having seen deepfakes before.
Remember how there were some places in the World Trade Center that kept their "off-site" backups in the other tower?
It doesn't matter that the FMcB loophole got patched in thin PS2s, I'd rather use a 3xxxx and stick an SSD drive in there with a SATA adaptor. The main problem with the "fat" units is the optical drive going out of alignment, but even if you can't get it working, it is possible to rip games on a PC and download them to the hard drive.
There is a white gear that you can often tweak to get the optical drive working again on a "fat" PS2, but it is such a pain in the ass to disassemble, and will eventually go out of alignment again, that it wasn't worth it for me to do again. I'd much rather rip my discs and play them on an emulator.
They "force" software companies to stop supporting older OS versions by simply dropping support in Visual Studio. A software company may still keep using an older version of VS for a while, but eventually they will need another seat, and won't be able to buy a new copy of the older full version. If MS knows what they're doing, the newer versions of VS won't even be able to use the old support files if you somehow sneaked them in, but there's certainly no target-OS UI checkbox to use them. Apple isn't quite so bad; you're still allowed to use older versions of Xcode... if you can find them.
I learned this back when W2K became unsupported by an online game I was playing at the time, so I upgraded to W7Pro. Now I face a similar situation except that my current favorite online game has Linux support. If Apple doesn't get their act together and stop spackling their "pro" computers together with glue and solder, and supports a decent GPU without an expensive screen glued to it, I'm on target for some kind of Linux soon.
She just has to change her name to Carlos Danger. Problem solved!
Don't worry, unless you pay money to CBS you probably won't catch that particular STD. But I've heard that some Europeans can catch it through Netflix. Scary!
That "data" recording sure sounds like telemetry. It even seems to have some regular structure to it that you would expect from telemetry. Looking at the waveform, it's a 1KHz carrier with amplitude modulation. Out of every 10 waves, either 2, 5, or 8 of them are higher amplitude, so it's a 100 baud signal. The 8-wave pulses may be framing, because they are every tenth burst, but sometimes the first of the other 9 bursts is also 8 waves.
The problem is that if it is telemetry, it may be impossible to determine what the data means without knowing what produced it. It is also likely that even then, the base value and scale can't be determined without finding original documentation. As an example, here is what the AMSAT 7 Oscar telemetry looked like, and that apparently even used ASCII to encode individual characters. It would be impossible to determine those equations, much less what each value represents, without having the original documentation.
"Two wrongs don't make a right, but three rights make a left."
First, you're not even going to be able to read /dev/sdb unless you're root. Second, if you simply use stat to get basic file attributes (something that dates back to the dawn of Unix), you can see which files are character or block or pipe nodes, without even having to know that "/dev" is the usual place where they live. It doesn't matter what FS you are using.
My go-to example is The Orville. I have a screen shot from shortly after it started running, with a "critics" score of 11% and an audience score of 90%. Meanwhile, STD was the other way around, though with not quite so much of a disparity.
I don't know whether this is more a sign of the irrelevance of the Hugo Award or of Slashdot.
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