All frozen in time movies have a fluttering calendar (or a changing shop window) to show the passage of time. They probably just looked at the date on the month at the bottom of the heap.
Some of them try malware exploits. Perhaps not this bunch, but a few months ago, I did see a group picking up expired domains and directing to a site that would try to load a relative of CoolWeb.
You know, if you keep sending traffic to that site (by posting a link on/.), it'll be that much longer before they stop passing it around and let you get it back.;)
This was testing Windows Firewall as close to naked as possible in a configuration that many people would use. No question a router and layers of security make more sense--but that wasn't what I was checking.
A few years ago, I did play around with a voice/telephone front-end for Zork. It was strictly a Rube Goldberg demo. Windows SAPI code connected to Dungeon on a Linux box via telnet. It kind of worked...:)
Text adventures (spiffed up with sound and graphics towards the end) might not be what the OP is looking for, but they're an option.
I notice that whenever they come out with their latest quad-blade teflon-coated lemon-fresh system that I get more bad batches of blades for my handle that's a few cycles behind. Unless they're making the blades out of old Yugos, I don't see why they'd have sudden quality-control problems making blades that have been fine for years before that.
Yeah.:) There are better solutions that cost nothing, and since they're not from Microsoft, it's harder for MS apps/services to open ports without asking for permission. (Not that a desktop firewall will stop everything.)
That wasn't an exact quote. They might have used tonnes. The thing is, the unit was probably kilograms, but they forgot to shave a few zeros when converting to tonnes for the story. ("747-400ER family has an increased takeoff weight of 910,000 pounds (412,770 kg)") 20,000 tonnes is towards the low end of displacement of WWII battleships. (The Yamato displaced 65,027 tonnes, but she was a big mamma!)
You won't find many 20,000 tonne aircraft outside 1930s Super Science-Fiction.
(If the English seems broken, I suspect that it's a user problem. Try rebooting.) Go and set up a LAN subnet with Windows Firewall and see what addresses it assigns. When I tried it, it used the DHCP-assigned address of the PPPoE connection rather than the address set for the NIC to use with the LAN. Using Custom and doing it by hand worked. I didn't see a warning to disconnect the PPPoE connection first.
It'd be more likely a move to block and kill MAME entirely...
Ah well, in that case he'd be evil scum rather than a wanker.
I know that MAME supports Intrepid because I played it a few years ago. It was very cool to see it running again! (They even had the Intrepid II ROMs -- A good trick since it was never released. Those had to be from Bruno who did the sequel, heh.)
Ummm, no. It stops applications from opening server ports for listening unless okay'ed. (I could be wrong, it's been a couple of months since I played with it.)
SP2 comes with a firewall..?:) (They might call it a firewall, but a lot of home users will be surprised when they use subnet for file-sharing and open it up to a 255.255.255.0 on their ISP. And the lack of egress blocking is bad when all MS software wants to talk to the Internet.) "Better than nothing" isn't much of a selling point, except for very small values of nothing.
They'd still be wrong. There was a US company selling software on records in the back of Byte in the 70s. (Firesale or something? The ad with the guy with the exploding hair. I could fish out an issue and check, but nah!)
Intrepid by Nova Games. Not that anyone would play it these days; it was on pretty crummy hardware even for its day. The rights might theoretically belong to someone, but the paperwork proving ownership is probably lost. And since it only hit 14th on the charts for a few weeks, no one is going to go to the trouble of tracking down the rights and working out a deal after 22 years.
If this guy has gone to the trouble to get rights for the use of some hit games, I can see why he'd be miffed when other people sell pirate copies. However, I bet that this wanker will try block the use of MAME for all games unless bought from him.
Not even the excuse of metric/imperial conversion. Innumeracy is a problem these days. A few weeks ago there was a story in the Toronto Star that said the new European plane was 20,000 tons heavier than the 747. Didn't anyone stop to think about the big hole that would make in the runway, never mind the takeoff problems?
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All frozen in time movies have a fluttering calendar (or a changing shop window) to show the passage of time. They probably just looked at the date on the month at the bottom of the heap.
They been chilled longer than the chicken in the back on my fridge, but yeah, you're probably right.
The $1000 was just a last-ditch attempt to distract him from reading the really important part of the EULA.
Some of them try malware exploits. Perhaps not this bunch, but a few months ago, I did see a group picking up expired domains and directing to a site that would try to load a relative of CoolWeb.
Yesss, but it's harder to have an invalid contact address in that case.
You know, if you keep sending traffic to that site (by posting a link on /.), it'll be that much longer before they stop passing it around and let you get it back. ;)
This was testing Windows Firewall as close to naked as possible in a configuration that many people would use. No question a router and layers of security make more sense--but that wasn't what I was checking.
Text adventures (spiffed up with sound and graphics towards the end) might not be what the OP is looking for, but they're an option.
I notice that whenever they come out with their latest quad-blade teflon-coated lemon-fresh system that I get more bad batches of blades for my handle that's a few cycles behind. Unless they're making the blades out of old Yugos, I don't see why they'd have sudden quality-control problems making blades that have been fine for years before that.
Yeah. :) There are better solutions that cost nothing, and since they're not from Microsoft, it's harder for MS apps/services to open ports without asking for permission. (Not that a desktop firewall will stop everything.)
I'd feel more comfortable if so many idiots hadn't managed to follow the directions to open encrypted zips and run the malware inside. :)
You won't find many 20,000 tonne aircraft outside 1930s Super Science-Fiction.
(If the English seems broken, I suspect that it's a user problem. Try rebooting.) Go and set up a LAN subnet with Windows Firewall and see what addresses it assigns. When I tried it, it used the DHCP-assigned address of the PPPoE connection rather than the address set for the NIC to use with the LAN. Using Custom and doing it by hand worked. I didn't see a warning to disconnect the PPPoE connection first.
Ah well, in that case he'd be evil scum rather than a wanker.
I know that MAME supports Intrepid because I played it a few years ago. It was very cool to see it running again! (They even had the Intrepid II ROMs -- A good trick since it was never released. Those had to be from Bruno who did the sequel, heh.)
Ummm, no. It stops applications from opening server ports for listening unless okay'ed. (I could be wrong, it's been a couple of months since I played with it.)
You let managers have access inside the firewall?! (Okay, maybe you have to let them inside the outer firewall, but still!)
Any shareware programs that use a hash of Microsoft's key for their licence key are probably better off in the bit bucket.
SP2 comes with a firewall..? :) (They might call it a firewall, but a lot of home users will be surprised when they use subnet for file-sharing and open it up to a 255.255.255.0 on their ISP. And the lack of egress blocking is bad when all MS software wants to talk to the Internet.) "Better than nothing" isn't much of a selling point, except for very small values of nothing.
Maybe it's "help desk personnels" with dating ads? "M tek sks F 4 lvl 2 sprt"
They'd still be wrong. There was a US company selling software on records in the back of Byte in the 70s. (Firesale or something? The ad with the guy with the exploding hair. I could fish out an issue and check, but nah!)
If this guy has gone to the trouble to get rights for the use of some hit games, I can see why he'd be miffed when other people sell pirate copies. However, I bet that this wanker will try block the use of MAME for all games unless bought from him.
What we need now is a lot of vodka, a large glass, and a big lemon!
Not even the excuse of metric/imperial conversion. Innumeracy is a problem these days. A few weeks ago there was a story in the Toronto Star that said the new European plane was 20,000 tons heavier than the 747. Didn't anyone stop to think about the big hole that would make in the runway, never mind the takeoff problems?
Supreme Being: Do be careful! Don't lose any of that stuff. That's concentrated evil. One drop of that could turn you all into hermit crabs.