Since the name NarCONon is a rip-off, that's no suprise. Since Narcotics Anonymous (or NA) doesn't actually use Narcanon, they can get away with this deception.
As for the Fishman affidavits, on the one hand they claim that it's a copyright violation, on the other hand they claim that it's all fake.
Perhaps they mean that they think they own the IP on fakery?
So that geeks can start a social network with themselves at the center of it? (Many are doomed to failure: "Great, we have a network! Who shall we invite?" "Ummm")
Nope. I mentioned the Atari ST ones because I knew exactly what they were doing and why they didn't work.
The ST BIOS had a Format Track call that would take a track of 1-99 regardless of the drive. So people would whip up a little format program around that. The default was usually 80 tracks, but could be rolled up to 99. The program would format track 82 18 times, then write "512 byte sector, 2 sides, 10/11 sectors/track, 99 tracks" into the boot sector. (Track 82 verified as good 18 times.) When GEMDOS calculated the diskette capacity, it blindly used those numbers and reported 1013760/1115136 bytes free.
The program authors didn't add checking because only a fool would try more than 80-82 without checking, and the users assumed that it worked because there were no error messages (and GEM said it was a 1M floppy). Convincing people to test the diskettes was near impossible, and you could certainly write 1M to them without errors. (Some of the previous files would be overwritten but you'd have to check for that.)
I guess my point was that tricks that magically change numbers usually just look like they work. The ones that explain the hard work and clever tricks used to make it work (like the Amiga) usually do work. This trick sounds like the first type. Testing and knowledge tells the difference.
Ha! If you thought that reply was a zing, you should have read the reply that I never sent to the one before yours about "read the article"/120M floppies. And I was smiling during the "back in the olden days of Linux" reply.:^)
The spam might move off-shore, but the "spam kings" stay right where they are. Just because it's coming through a Korean proxy for a Chinese-hosted site doesn't mean that anyone is really moving. With the legal muscle those ISPs have, the spammer's "off-shore" protection won't last five minutes.
Based on all those TV shows like Crossing Over, I'm working on a contact manager for afterlife contacts. It's going pretty good, but I'm having problems getting TAPI to dial the calls.
Just so long as you didn't use the utilities that formated out to track 99. (Explaining to people that GEMDOS just used whatever numbers were in the boot sector, and the drive had 82 physical tracks at most was a waste of time.)
Ah yes... Anyone else remember the "drive doubler" programs for MSDOS? They would hook into the INT 9 call and just double whatever number the BIOS returned as the drive size. I think the first one was a joke, but later ones (naturally) contained malware.
nobody who knows nothing about computers would possibly attempt to do this.
You wish. Floppy format programs that could magically get 1 meg from a 720k floppy were all the rage for the Atari ST. You could explain to people that there weren't really 99 tracks on the drive, that the displayed space remaining was bogus, that it just didn't work and might damage the drive by banging the head into the end stop for tracks 83 onwards. It never worked. They would swear that it worked, and swear at you for telling them it didn't. Even asking them to do a test of putting 1 meg on the floppy and checking if it was all really there didn't work.
They do it on ST:TNG. Possibly it's more noticable because I've seen those shows a few times before. The commercials they pack in the time they've shaved are pretty noticable too! I could get a lot of reading done watching that channel...
I can't watch Spike TV. They brag that they don't cut any minutes from shows, but they sure shave frames to fit in those commercials. The software they use makes it look like a broken graphics card.
Watching it for any length of time gives me a headache, either from eyestrain or that throbbing sensation of wanting to strangle those butchers. (I don't know if they do that to all their shows, but I'm not likely to find out.)
No worries. Nothing vital is going on that drive, just all the caches, temp directories, and stuff that can be reinstalled from CDROM fairly quickly. I didn't need quite that much space, but I'm expecting two big development packages, they didn't have the 80 that I wanted, and the price-point for smaller drives was terrible. Once I get a better idea of the drive use, I'll get another drive for the AuxCon machine.
Oddly enough, my 1.6GB drive was the worst I've had. I should use a low-level utility and see if I can reclaim some of the crater-field of bad sectors.
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As for the Fishman affidavits, on the one hand they claim that it's a copyright violation, on the other hand they claim that it's all fake.
Perhaps they mean that they think they own the IP on fakery?
Do browsers still support the blink attribute? I'm sure it doesn't get nearly enough use these days.
I wonder how he plans to keep all those satellites positioned correctly? They won't be in the same orbit, possibly not even the same orbital period.
And there was this guy, whose idea might be workable with a single high power installation rather than a million-zillion laser pointers.
You've got law-enforcement!
Never mind great works, how about soap operas?
So that geeks can start a social network with themselves at the center of it? (Many are doomed to failure: "Great, we have a network! Who shall we invite?" "Ummm")
Nonesense! I checked the membership page and you're not listed.
Exactly! How else will the contractors know what you want to hear?
This looks like a job for .. Schadenfreude Man!
The ST BIOS had a Format Track call that would take a track of 1-99 regardless of the drive. So people would whip up a little format program around that. The default was usually 80 tracks, but could be rolled up to 99. The program would format track 82 18 times, then write "512 byte sector, 2 sides, 10/11 sectors/track, 99 tracks" into the boot sector. (Track 82 verified as good 18 times.) When GEMDOS calculated the diskette capacity, it blindly used those numbers and reported 1013760/1115136 bytes free.
The program authors didn't add checking because only a fool would try more than 80-82 without checking, and the users assumed that it worked because there were no error messages (and GEM said it was a 1M floppy). Convincing people to test the diskettes was near impossible, and you could certainly write 1M to them without errors. (Some of the previous files would be overwritten but you'd have to check for that.)
I guess my point was that tricks that magically change numbers usually just look like they work. The ones that explain the hard work and clever tricks used to make it work (like the Amiga) usually do work. This trick sounds like the first type. Testing and knowledge tells the difference.
Ha! If you thought that reply was a zing, you should have read the reply that I never sent to the one before yours about "read the article"/120M floppies. And I was smiling during the "back in the olden days of Linux" reply. :^)
Which is why I said Atari ST. (rolls eyes)
Nah, I'll just buy a copy of DDoS for Dummies.
I'm tired, can I just have im.mobile?
Don't worry--politicians made it legal for politicians to send spam.
The spam might move off-shore, but the "spam kings" stay right where they are. Just because it's coming through a Korean proxy for a Chinese-hosted site doesn't mean that anyone is really moving. With the legal muscle those ISPs have, the spammer's "off-shore" protection won't last five minutes.
The Atari ST came out in 1985. Which "way back when" were you talking about? :^P
Based on all those TV shows like Crossing Over, I'm working on a contact manager for afterlife contacts. It's going pretty good, but I'm having problems getting TAPI to dial the calls.
Formating track 82. Verified.
Formating track 83. *SMACK* Verified.
Formating track 84. *SMACK* Verified... *ouch*
Yes, and those tools made it harder to explain why 1 meg was physically impossible. (By the 99 track method, at least.)
Ah yes... Anyone else remember the "drive doubler" programs for MSDOS? They would hook into the INT 9 call and just double whatever number the BIOS returned as the drive size. I think the first one was a joke, but later ones (naturally) contained malware.
You wish. Floppy format programs that could magically get 1 meg from a 720k floppy were all the rage for the Atari ST. You could explain to people that there weren't really 99 tracks on the drive, that the displayed space remaining was bogus, that it just didn't work and might damage the drive by banging the head into the end stop for tracks 83 onwards. It never worked. They would swear that it worked, and swear at you for telling them it didn't. Even asking them to do a test of putting 1 meg on the floppy and checking if it was all really there didn't work.
They do it on ST:TNG. Possibly it's more noticable because I've seen those shows a few times before. The commercials they pack in the time they've shaved are pretty noticable too! I could get a lot of reading done watching that channel...
Watching it for any length of time gives me a headache, either from eyestrain or that throbbing sensation of wanting to strangle those butchers. (I don't know if they do that to all their shows, but I'm not likely to find out.)
Oddly enough, my 1.6GB drive was the worst I've had. I should use a low-level utility and see if I can reclaim some of the crater-field of bad sectors.