If I wasn't the upstanding citizen that I am, I would just comment out the offending lines and compile. My point is that OT Zmodem is not your typical Shareware, and they shouldn't call it as such.
I have no problem with shareware publishers that are up front about what features are limited about their shareware. The thing I do have a problem with, is when software authors bundle nasty surprises with their software, and then turn around and say that it's shareware.
Case in point: Omen Technology claims that their zmodem implementation is shareware, but has an extremely restrictive license that prohibits actually using the software unless it's used with their other products. And then it attempts to email home when it's used. How exactly is this "shareware"?
I quite like the Herbert film as well, especially the director's cut they play on SciFi sometimes. Wish they would release that as a DVD. There's about a half hour of additional footage that brings the whole movie together and makes it more accessible.
Nice elitist attiture you got there. It's true that there still appear to be jobs for highly experienced programmers. But where are the entry-level jobs? How does one become highly qualified, when no company is willing to hire a local candidate with less than 5+ yrs experience and a Masters degree?
And by the way, I'd love to go back into the Electronics/Communications industry. Too bad that's dead here also. Apparently all the time, effort, and money I put into an education was for naught. I guess by your logic I should go back to flipping burgers.
lots of the time troublesome clients aren't worth keeping without changes if you actually can cost them completely
Glad I'm not the only one who sees things this way. My last company wasted mucho development time bending over backwards to support a few whiny clients instead of improving the overall quality of their product. They went bankrupt shortly after, mainly due to huge debt. And no, they weren't a dot com but an established office supply business.
On the Commodore 64, 128, VIC-20, and possibly plus/4, decimal address 646 is where the Basic OS looks to get the current cursor color. So by putting a zero in 646, it will make the cursor black. Whoo.
By the way, I'm posting this message with my C128. (really!)
I guess you're right. We were attempting to do some photo/image manipulation with it. I didn't realize that Draw was meant mainly for vector drawing. (I'm not a graphic artist, I just play one on occasion)
I'll say. At my last job, I had the misfortune of being dictated to use Corel Draw even though we already had Photoshop, simply because the PHB used it once in college. In my opinion, even The GIMP has a superior user interface.
I'm no scientist but it seems to me that a comet that big would throw the earth out of it's orbit. Why haven't we crashed into the sun yet?
I'm no scientist either, but who's to say it didn't move Earth from it's orbit? I'm sure an impact of that magnitude would affect the speed, attitude, spin, and position of the planet to some extent.
However, let's not assume that it would push the planet closer to the sun. It would be just as likely to push it away, or into an eccentric orbit. It probably took millions of years but Earth's orbit seems to have stabilized, perhaps due to gyroscopic effects?
Assuming a sufficiently strong password, I think enforced password rotation hurts more than it helps. As a user, it's not easy to come up with a good password. Then you want me to make up a new one every 90 days? Right. How about I just start using the same password and incrementing a number at the end ('password1, password2, password3,...).
If that is disallowed, and I have to choose some different incomrehensible string every 90 days, then what I will do is write down the password, because there is no way in hell that I'm going to memorize something like that on an ongoing basis. What's more secure, a strong (but static) password, or a password on a post-it in my desk drawer?
It's pretty hard to do proportional fonts on the Commodore 64 due to it's screen layout. Even in bitmapped mode, the screen is still addressed in square 64-pixel blocks.
I suppose you'd need a relatively large abstraction layer to do proportional fonts properly. This would explain the high system requirements for the Wave browser, which does do proportional fonts and runs under GEOS/Wheels. (requires SuperCPU w/1 MB SuperRAM)
I'm sitting here desperatly trying to get settlers to run under dosemu..
Have you tried DOSBox yet? For me, it works approx. 1000 times better than Dosemu. Great for those old DOS games. Only thing lacking is real mode support.
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Yeah, but why play the neutered NES version when the game was available *uncensored* on many other platforms?
If I wasn't the upstanding citizen that I am, I would just comment out the offending lines and compile. My point is that OT Zmodem is not your typical Shareware, and they shouldn't call it as such.
I have no problem with shareware publishers that are up front about what features are limited about their shareware. The thing I do have a problem with, is when software authors bundle nasty surprises with their software, and then turn around and say that it's shareware.
Case in point: Omen Technology claims that their zmodem implementation is shareware, but has an extremely restrictive license that prohibits actually using the software unless it's used with their other products. And then it attempts to email home when it's used. How exactly is this "shareware"?
No it doesn't. Start your own business. Better than working for a committee of idiots.
Is that an offer of VC, mister AC? I appreciate the sentiment though.
Ah, the joys of programming by committee.
Will you accept an unstable job, working in constant fear of the next day and the ability to pay rent?
Sure, it beats being unemployed.
I quite like the Herbert film as well, especially the director's cut they play on SciFi sometimes. Wish they would release that as a DVD. There's about a half hour of additional footage that brings the whole movie together and makes it more accessible.
Or maybe because they prefer a unix based system?
Nice elitist attiture you got there. It's true that there still appear to be jobs for highly experienced programmers. But where are the entry-level jobs? How does one become highly qualified, when no company is willing to hire a local candidate with less than 5+ yrs experience and a Masters degree?
And by the way, I'd love to go back into the Electronics/Communications industry. Too bad that's dead here also. Apparently all the time, effort, and money I put into an education was for naught. I guess by your logic I should go back to flipping burgers.
No, that would be most of the "other" line combined with what Google has mistakenly labeled as "Netscape 5".
lots of the time troublesome clients aren't worth keeping without changes if you actually can cost them completely
Glad I'm not the only one who sees things this way. My last company wasted mucho development time bending over backwards to support a few whiny clients instead of improving the overall quality of their product. They went bankrupt shortly after, mainly due to huge debt. And no, they weren't a dot com but an established office supply business.
On the Commodore 64, 128, VIC-20, and possibly plus/4, decimal address 646 is where the Basic OS looks to get the current cursor color. So by putting a zero in 646, it will make the cursor black. Whoo.
By the way, I'm posting this message with my C128. (really!)
I'm a troll, am I? God forbid anyone express an opinion around here.
I guess you're right. We were attempting to do some photo/image manipulation with it. I didn't realize that Draw was meant mainly for vector drawing. (I'm not a graphic artist, I just play one on occasion)
I'll say. At my last job, I had the misfortune of being dictated to use Corel Draw even though we already had Photoshop, simply because the PHB used it once in college. In my opinion, even The GIMP has a superior user interface.
I'm no scientist but it seems to me that a comet that big would throw the earth out of it's orbit. Why haven't we crashed into the sun yet?
I'm no scientist either, but who's to say it didn't move Earth from it's orbit? I'm sure an impact of that magnitude would affect the speed, attitude, spin, and position of the planet to some extent.
However, let's not assume that it would push the planet closer to the sun. It would be just as likely to push it away, or into an eccentric orbit. It probably took millions of years but Earth's orbit seems to have stabilized, perhaps due to gyroscopic effects?
Assuming a sufficiently strong password, I think enforced password rotation hurts more than it helps. As a user, it's not easy to come up with a good password. Then you want me to make up a new one every 90 days? Right. How about I just start using the same password and incrementing a number at the end ('password1, password2, password3, ...).
If that is disallowed, and I have to choose some different incomrehensible string every 90 days, then what I will do is write down the password, because there is no way in hell that I'm going to memorize something like that on an ongoing basis. What's more secure, a strong (but static) password, or a password on a post-it in my desk drawer?
Remember, nothing is worth saying in Entish, unless it takes a long time to say. I guess they must use COBOL or something..
I think the cruel joke is on cable subscribers who are inundated with commercials for a service that they pay for..
Opera 7? Wake me when they make it cross platform.
Let me know when they've managed to fit Emacs in there too.
Sorry, no Emacs yet. Will vi do?
It's pretty hard to do proportional fonts on the Commodore 64 due to it's screen layout. Even in bitmapped mode, the screen is still addressed in square 64-pixel blocks.
I suppose you'd need a relatively large abstraction layer to do proportional fonts properly. This would explain the high system requirements for the Wave browser, which does do proportional fonts and runs under GEOS/Wheels. (requires SuperCPU w/1 MB SuperRAM)
Slight correction: protected mode is not yet supported by DOSBox. The real mode support is just dandy.
I'm sitting here desperatly trying to get settlers to run under dosemu..
Have you tried DOSBox yet? For me, it works approx. 1000 times better than Dosemu. Great for those old DOS games. Only thing lacking is real mode support.
With Windows apps writing to portions of the boot sector wiping the HD and starting clean might not work anymore in the not to distant future.
And here's how you fix that little problem: