He has done a very nice job in documenting it. That is what is so great about his site.
But doing it is not new...
In 1980 as class project, my lab partner and I took 20 chips and built a 4 bit computer in about 3 hours. The instruction set was based on the 4 bit ALU. We were trying to prove the possiblity of new course for the collage. The course was to take people who wanted to be computer science to get their hands dirty and build a machine. Also taught alot about low and high logic.
My first emulator was for a Z-80A processor and was written in tiny basic on Attena 8085 machine. It had three programs, an editor, a 1-2-3 compiler and the emulator. My college advisor (was also one of the profs in mathimatics and computers) had hours of fun with it.
Replay believes it a ReplayTV. So you push shows or pull shows. Allows you access to unlimited storage.
It is JAVA based so work about every where.
Other cool features include remote control of a ReplayTV. So do can run a video cable from the replay in one room to another and still turn it on/off change stations by using a a local PC.
So I looked up Jeans and found "made from denim", looked up denim "100% cotton twill"
I found a blend of 70% cotton and 30% - so not Jeans.
Then was called for that. Pointed out that legal base. They then tried:
Lapped Seams -- showed 2 people in the room wore pants for that type.
Cotton Twill - showed them cords in the room.
"rivets" -- showed 2 more that had those.
"color and look" -- pointed out the Head of HR a skirt on that was all of that -- a converted blue jeans pants.
I got suppended for "bad attitude" without pay for the weekend. It was late Friday when it happend, I shouldn't have to work the weekend, anyway. I could not come into work, had to take the weekend off. And this was during a year I put in 3000+ hours of work. Documented! and got a great bonus at the end of year.... I thanked them for the vacation time, and went home. At 6am on Saturday my manager called and asked if the release was ready for Monday Morning shipping. I said no, that was what I was going to doing this weekend, but you sent me home. He asked if I could come in a get it ready, he would give me whole week-off next week with pay and get me an exeption to rules.
So the rule became: "No looking Jean pants of the colors blue, white or red."
I had Black Jeans:-).
I did point out the head of HR would have to give up wearing the fadded Jeans (blue w/ white patches) - he smiled and said "Yes".
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Please remember:
XENIX was a microsoft product.
SCO (original) took hold of XENIX and MS owned part of the company and SCO paid MS for IP rights.
I loved that game. We updated ours to have an M5 command - was hard to break out of - but allowed your ship to continue until you got back from the bathroom. Also changed all the this limits. main was 200 units of fuel to 200,000 made the game go for a long time.
As I know else where it is easy to decompile the program. To think about one way - THAT IS WHAT THE COMPUTER DOES TO RUN IT.
It you write a program that simulates the functions of the processors. YOU KNOW THEY ARE WELL KNOWN ELSE NO COMPILERS. And load the program the way the load it. AGAIN WELL KNOWN. And now follow all the branches and data pointers, you have a ness map of the binary.
Once you have that pattern matching and known funciton calls (say printf for example) you have map worked out quite well.
Add back know inputs and function symbolic names and the code appears.
One note: it is not the original code. But it the 100% functional equivilent.
It all those "stand" things that make it work very well. yeah variable names can be helpful. But those standard calls give me allow of variables names of extact meaning. Very helpul.
I wrote reverse compilers on IBM midrange equipment. where there are not stacks and self modifing code is VERY commom place. It is easy to do:
Create a program that preforms / understands the opcodes for the processor and addressing. And it follows both sides of a branch.
Now "run" the program, that maps out the all opcode and data areas.
Once done. Look at that Assemmebler equivatlent, map out commom subroutines and function calls. Data Storage become very clear. Lastly, commom storage with show external and internal common structures - so naming of fields and visualable.
It is striaght forward, can be time comsuming - and very helpful is understnad hinden or loss information.
In the US, anything you write is copyrighten, period. So your clause "definition isn't copyrighted" is not true.
The question is in anyone respecting your copyright. When some one answers your email with parts of your words included... that falls under fair used.
Now assigning a copyright to public domain is different. What AOL is trying to say is that by your posting with this back clause - you have assigned your work to the public/them.
Now the issue will they update the submit button to remind you for each email or other method of posting.
Their intent is clear... and you pointed it out they distribute other parties personal copyrighten data AS WELL AS create their own. If there is conflict and the third parties content was first then they pay and pay big. They are in the business of copyrighten works so THEY SHOULD KNOW BETTER.
It is one reason AOL and Time/Warner should be broken up... conflict of interest.
Instead they claim, they can use your work any way they want. Just like M$ did. THAT IS STEALING. But since they are warning you first via what amounts to hidden terms (like a form with White Ink on Off-White Paper) they are in clear.
Maybe this whole thread should titled "Dumb Corporate Lawyers".
Look at the direct mailers filling the land fills with credit card offers and other equally unneed things.
Their business model INCLUDES the mailing cost cost (less than what you can pay) and the print costs. The USPS helps them to get in business.
Last I heard 80% of all mailings was junk mail.
Now a tax to send email... The ISP gets a cut, so they can increase network bandwidth. We pay as users to increase network bandwidth. They SPAMERS would pay too, it is included in their costs.
So what do you get... The same model as the USPS.
Now that shows why a price per email is not going to stop anything.
You sound just like software vendor "It is NOT broken on my machine."
There are two of us telling you about the crap we have seen on the screen.
You keep posting as Anonymous Coward, showing you are not backing up what you say.
Hell even your local (has national reader and veiwer-ship) claim how bad Star Wars II looked. That got Beoing to install a new digital projector and guess what... Still big pixel blocks on the screen.
Digital is still less projection quaility than 35mm. It is only good for the home market.
My eyes saw square blocks all over the place and the credits - you can watch every pixel on the screen (digial). When you watch the same movie duped to 35mm the same garage is on the screen, but now with slight rounding from the transfer.
I would suggest you get better eyes. The digial camera used was less quailty than a 35mm for the big screen.
With Star Wars II film with a camera that had a resulation less than 35mm film. All three verisons of the film 35mm, digital, and IMax, looked bad and blocky.
If they did that here too... IMax and most big screen would be a waste of space.
There is a worst issue than just external names... it is directory, setup files, and other configurations on a box. Then later configurations tools confusing one software for the other becuase they both used the same name for some file.
Standards are required to be up held. Whether via Trademark Law or SourceForge rules something must be put into place that two groups keep the mess from tangling deeper.
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He has done a very nice job in documenting it. That is what is so great about his site.
But doing it is not new...
In 1980 as class project, my lab partner and I took 20 chips and built a 4 bit computer in about 3 hours. The instruction set was based on the 4 bit ALU. We were trying to prove the possiblity of new course for the collage. The course was to take people who wanted to be computer science to get their hands dirty and build a machine. Also taught alot about low and high logic.
My first emulator was for a Z-80A processor and was written in tiny basic on Attena 8085 machine. It had three programs, an editor, a 1-2-3 compiler and the emulator. My college advisor (was also one of the profs in mathimatics and computers) had hours of fun with it.
Laser Turn Table and a review
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DVArchive Very nice tool.
Replay believes it a ReplayTV. So you push shows or pull shows. Allows you access to unlimited storage.
It is JAVA based so work about every where.
Other cool features include remote control of a ReplayTV. So do can run a video cable from the replay in one room to another and still turn it on/off change stations by using a a local PC.
Though playing the video stream is easier.
I had that...
... I thanked them for the vacation time, and went home. At 6am on Saturday my manager called and asked if the release was ready for Monday Morning shipping. I said no, that was what I was going to doing this weekend, but you sent me home. He asked if I could come in a get it ready, he would give me whole week-off next week with pay and get me an exeption to rules.
:-).
It was "No Jeans"
So I looked up Jeans and found "made from denim", looked up denim "100% cotton twill"
I found a blend of 70% cotton and 30% - so not Jeans.
Then was called for that. Pointed out that legal base. They then tried:
Lapped Seams -- showed 2 people in the room wore pants for that type.
Cotton Twill - showed them cords in the room.
"rivets" -- showed 2 more that had those.
"color and look" -- pointed out the Head of HR a skirt on that was all of that -- a converted blue jeans pants.
I got suppended for "bad attitude" without pay for the weekend. It was late Friday when it happend, I shouldn't have to work the weekend, anyway. I could not come into work, had to take the weekend off. And this was during a year I put in 3000+ hours of work. Documented! and got a great bonus at the end of year.
So the rule became: "No looking Jean pants of the colors blue, white or red."
I had Black Jeans
I did point out the head of HR would have to give up wearing the fadded Jeans (blue w/ white patches) - he smiled and said "Yes".
Please remember:
XENIX was a microsoft product.
SCO (original) took hold of XENIX and MS owned part of the company and SCO paid MS for IP rights.
We had hacked ours to be multi-terminal... I still have the paper-tape with you got a reader :-)
But would that not be a "trade-secret" issue?
They created an interface that supported a GOD option and did not program it into user interface. A bug? An oversite?
So someone found it and fixed it and enjoyed the game better.
Now, if it was never to be there, then they made a big programming mistake, but not check bounds on character development.
The cake said "Eat Me"... Alice did, and grew and grew.
Was that Trek73 ? on a HP 2000 F in Berkeley?
I loved that game. We updated ours to have an M5 command - was hard to break out of - but allowed your ship to continue until you got back from the bathroom. Also changed all the this limits. main was 200 units of fuel to 200,000 made the game go for a long time.
And if the "break-in" was not really a server break-in but a software bug that allow a player to become GOD?
Like an undocumented bit/byte pattern in the interface.
Anyone remember the the undocumented instructions in 8085? or the Z-80? or IBM Midranges?
This is funny.
Now hacking into a system and getting GOD authority. Sounds like a fun thing for a game.
It sounds more like a movie. Any of these guys called Bruce?
Been doing it for twenty years. It is easy to do.
Stop trying to use logic... actually do it.
As I know else where it is easy to decompile the program. To think about one way - THAT IS WHAT THE COMPUTER DOES TO RUN IT.
It you write a program that simulates the functions of the processors. YOU KNOW THEY ARE WELL KNOWN ELSE NO COMPILERS. And load the program the way the load it. AGAIN WELL KNOWN. And now follow all the branches and data pointers, you have a ness map of the binary.
Once you have that pattern matching and known funciton calls (say printf for example) you have map worked out quite well.
Add back know inputs and function symbolic names and the code appears.
One note: it is not the original code. But it the 100% functional equivilent.
It all those "stand" things that make it work very well. yeah variable names can be helpful. But those standard calls give me allow of variables names of extact meaning. Very helpul.
I wrote reverse compilers on IBM midrange equipment. where there are not stacks and self modifing code is VERY commom place. It is easy to do:
Create a program that preforms / understands the opcodes for the processor and addressing. And it follows both sides of a branch.
Now "run" the program, that maps out the all opcode and data areas.
Once done. Look at that Assemmebler equivatlent, map out commom subroutines and function calls. Data Storage become very clear. Lastly, commom storage with show external and internal common structures - so naming of fields and visualable.
It is striaght forward, can be time comsuming - and very helpful is understnad hinden or loss information.
It did take the wind out of sail.
In the US, anything you write is copyrighten, period. So your clause "definition isn't copyrighted" is not true.
The question is in anyone respecting your copyright. When some one answers your email with parts of your words included... that falls under fair used.
Now assigning a copyright to public domain is different. What AOL is trying to say is that by your posting with this back clause - you have assigned your work to the public/them.
Now the issue will they update the submit button to remind you for each email or other method of posting.
Their intent is clear... and you pointed it out they distribute other parties personal copyrighten data AS WELL AS create their own. If there is conflict and the third parties content was first then they pay and pay big. They are in the business of copyrighten works so THEY SHOULD KNOW BETTER.
It is one reason AOL and Time/Warner should be broken up... conflict of interest.
Instead they claim, they can use your work any way they want. Just like M$ did. THAT IS STEALING. But since they are warning you first via what amounts to hidden terms (like a form with White Ink on Off-White Paper) they are in clear.
Maybe this whole thread should titled "Dumb Corporate Lawyers".
All an email tax gets you... IS SPAM.
Look at the direct mailers filling the land fills with credit card offers and other equally unneed things.
Their business model INCLUDES the mailing cost cost (less than what you can pay) and the print costs. The USPS helps them to get in business.
Last I heard 80% of all mailings was junk mail.
Now a tax to send email... The ISP gets a cut, so they can increase network bandwidth. We pay as users to increase network bandwidth. They SPAMERS would pay too, it is included in their costs.
So what do you get... The same model as the USPS.
Now that shows why a price per email is not going to stop anything.
You sound just like software vendor "It is NOT broken on my machine."
There are two of us telling you about the crap we have seen on the screen.
You keep posting as Anonymous Coward, showing you are not backing up what you say.
Hell even your local (has national reader and veiwer-ship) claim how bad Star Wars II looked. That got Beoing to install a new digital projector and guess what... Still big pixel blocks on the screen.
Digital is still less projection quaility than 35mm. It is only good for the home market.
I guess you just look at the copies in "view finder" displays during the conversion.
I watch them from on a view screen that is 20+ feet high and sit about 30+ ft from the screen, so it fills my total vision.
A pixel error looks different when it is a couple of inches tall.
My eyes saw square blocks all over the place and the credits - you can watch every pixel on the screen (digial). When you watch the same movie duped to 35mm the same garage is on the screen, but now with slight rounding from the transfer.
I would suggest you get better eyes. The digial camera used was less quailty than a 35mm for the big screen.
For a home TV - it would be just find.
With Star Wars II film with a camera that had a resulation less than 35mm film. All three verisons of the film 35mm, digital, and IMax, looked bad and blocky.
If they did that here too... IMax and most big screen would be a waste of space.
There is a worst issue than just external names... it is directory, setup files, and other configurations on a box. Then later configurations tools confusing one software for the other becuase they both used the same name for some file.
Standards are required to be up held. Whether via Trademark Law or SourceForge rules something must be put into place that two groups keep the mess from tangling deeper.
You can tell...
The amount of traffic entering the router is less than the amount of traffic leaving.
So say you are tapping 1Mb stream. And there are 10 other taps. There will be 12Mb stream leaving the router.
Electric Flow:Bad
Electric Flow though Smart Card:Not Smart Card