I saved a boxed copy of Win1.0 from the trash recently.. it comes on a floppy disk, and Write comes on a 2nd disk. I haven't booted it in anything yet, because my computer is linux (no dos support at all) and my brother's computer doesn't have a 5 1/4" floppy. I can put it up somewhere for download, if someone wants to mirror it when MS comes knocking:)
Hi.. a macintosh ought to be relatively safe from attacks. Most single-user operating systems are safe from destructive attacks- all you'd have to watch out for are denial-of-service attacks. Some of these, the IP stack is responsible for (bugtraq has had several 95/98/98se/2k exploits floating around recently), but some (smurf), you will lose the connection until it's over. Fortunately, though, DOS attacks oughtn't cause local data ruination; only connection-issues.
Hi.. I have some NT experience- i'm a student employee for the dept that keeps the labs running at my university.. but i'm not sure if this'll work, because i can't test it now. (disclaimer here!) anyway..
Could you stick the ISP's dns server into the tcp/ip properties control panel as the 2nd or 3rd entry in the list (assuming you've got one dns server listed for your lan already)?
Because, depending on what you do, they can make a lot of things a whole lot easier. Example: say you have to move a whole bunch of files that don't have an easy wildcard mask (eg, not *.gif) into another directory seven levels deep off your root partition. Kfm may let you select and drag the files from one window to another faster than a command line, and you don't have to use the command-line history like a maniac to get everything shuffled easily.
Here's another example - I run windowmaker and kfm, and have a large image library. I use xv to view the images, but since they were taken from my digital camera (go Olympus! woo!), they often end up with non-descriptive names (pic00001.jpg, pic00040.jpg, etc), and yeah, I should rename them, but how often do you organise your paper photos, either?;) So I use the kfm-feature "show thumbnails" and can browse into a directory and find the single, poorly-named image I want by examining the thumbnails, rather than xv the whole dir and search by hand. Then I can drag it onto my nfs-mounted web directory, and voila- it's there.
So, that's one reason to support desktop environments (or anything that makes operations less cumbersome.) As always, if you don't like it, don't use it.
Comparing Win2k to Drunken Master 2 is like comparing something really lame to something really cool! Where did you come up with that one? DM2 had that unbelievably choreographed four-on-one drunken boxing fight near the beginning, as well as the phenomenal stuntwork near the end (let's not forget the axe gang!) Jacky is definitely getting on in years [the man _STILL_ does his own stunts!], but this is some of his best stuff ever.
If you like kung fu, or Jacky Chan, or action, or anything, go see this movie. You won't be disappointed!!
Did anyone else notice all the broken images and links? Or that empty table in the middle of the right-hand frame? The top-right-hand image linking to #test1? What exactly is that site supposed to be, an honest-to-God attempt to sell some services? It was a rather mediocre one, if it was...
Maybe AOL blocked it because it was lousy! Why oh why did slashdot provide us a link to it?
can you respond to the points he brought up? What _is_ the story with tits.com? Was someone testing? Can you provide assurance of that? Your conjecture is useless... it doesn't matter what/could/ have happened.
200 mb of logs a day isn't that much.. if you weren't keeping logs of who did whois lookups, then obviously you couldn't sell that information. Do you do any kind of logging? Is there any information of value that register.com could be selling?
less misdirection (you check your sources), more answers... if you're a company representative, you're a lousy one.
So you're willing to engage in fisticuffs about being called a name (more properly, not being called the name)? This is slashdot, not ultimatefighting- you've already proven enough about yourself.
If the thing communicates by radio waves at all, why couldn't you wear a second ring that sends out massive rf interference?
What happens if we start dropping little "rf bombs" around town? next to every little grocery? They don't have to be tricky devices.. just something with a battery and an antenna, sending out garbage as loud as it can.
(Would using a reception system like GPS units use defeat the bombardment of noise?)
Yeah, when I got out of high school I was farmed into a growing isp's HTMl department (yuck), and when I learned perl, they set me on that too (had self-taught C knowledge).. got burned out on that, quit, and found another perl job. I love the language and write all my own web hacks in it, but writing code for several hours straight just isn't fun.
So I went back to school and am on the proper track never to _have_ to write code again. Of course I will continue to write code, because it's so fun. But I won't have to.
Just to comment- I have a winchip 200mhz running in a cheapo motherboard (430tx?), and its performance under linux is very snappy. I've got 64 mb of ram and run KDE and am constantly impressed with how reliable and fast it is.
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I saved a boxed copy of Win1.0 from the trash recently.. it comes on a floppy disk, and Write comes on a 2nd disk. I haven't booted it in anything yet, because my computer is linux (no dos support at all) and my brother's computer doesn't have a 5 1/4" floppy. I can put it up somewhere for download, if someone wants to mirror it when MS comes knocking :)
Hi.. a macintosh ought to be relatively safe from attacks. Most single-user operating systems are safe from destructive attacks- all you'd have to watch out for are denial-of-service attacks. Some of these, the IP stack is responsible for (bugtraq has had several 95/98/98se/2k exploits floating around recently), but some (smurf), you will lose the connection until it's over. Fortunately, though, DOS attacks oughtn't cause local data ruination; only connection-issues.
Could you stick the ISP's dns server into the tcp/ip properties control panel as the 2nd or 3rd entry in the list (assuming you've got one dns server listed for your lan already)?
Here's another example - I run windowmaker and kfm, and have a large image library. I use xv to view the images, but since they were taken from my digital camera (go Olympus! woo!), they often end up with non-descriptive names (pic00001.jpg, pic00040.jpg, etc), and yeah, I should rename them, but how often do you organise your paper photos, either? ;) So I use the kfm-feature "show thumbnails" and can browse into a directory and find the single, poorly-named image I want by examining the thumbnails, rather than xv the whole dir and search by hand. Then I can drag it onto my nfs-mounted web directory, and voila- it's there.
So, that's one reason to support desktop environments (or anything that makes operations less cumbersome.) As always, if you don't like it, don't use it.
oh my, Thank you for the hilarious subject-line. I laughed out loud.
(first time i've gotten first post! tee hee!)
If you like kung fu, or Jacky Chan, or action, or anything, go see this movie. You won't be disappointed!!
Maybe AOL blocked it because it was lousy! Why oh why did slashdot provide us a link to it?
can you respond to the points he brought up? What _is_ the story with tits.com? Was someone testing? Can you provide assurance of that? Your conjecture is useless... it doesn't matter what /could/ have happened.
200 mb of logs a day isn't that much.. if you weren't keeping logs of who did whois lookups, then obviously you couldn't sell that information. Do you do any kind of logging? Is there any information of value that register.com could be selling?
less misdirection (you check your sources), more answers... if you're a company representative, you're a lousy one.
So you're willing to engage in fisticuffs about being called a name (more properly, not being called the name)? This is slashdot, not ultimatefighting- you've already proven enough about yourself.
What happens if we start dropping little "rf bombs" around town? next to every little grocery? They don't have to be tricky devices.. just something with a battery and an antenna, sending out garbage as loud as it can.
(Would using a reception system like GPS units use defeat the bombardment of noise?)
thanks,
So I went back to school and am on the proper track never to _have_ to write code again. Of course I will continue to write code, because it's so fun. But I won't have to.
Just to comment- I have a winchip 200mhz running in a cheapo motherboard (430tx?), and its performance under linux is very snappy. I've got 64 mb of ram and run KDE and am constantly impressed with how reliable and fast it is.