"Charities and institutions think they need [expensive] special hardware and Windows based software. It's up to geeks to show what can be done with a bit of intelligence and applied engineering"
Due to the relatively small market and high support costs, products made for disabled people are usually pretty expensive. This doesn't only apply to hospital-grade wheelchairs etc., but also to software like screenreaders.
;---- TEST FOR CONTROL KEY AND RESET KEY SEQUENCE (CTL ALT DEL)
K29: ; TEST-RESET TEST @KB_FLAG,CTL_SHIFT ; ARE WE IN CONTROL SHIFT ALSO JZ K31 ; NO RESET CMP AL, NUM_KEY ; CHECK FOR INVALID NUM_LOCK KEY JE K26 ; THROW AWAY IF (ALT-CTL)+NUM_LOCK CMP AL, SCROLL_KEY ; CHECK FOR INVALID SCROLL_LOCK KEY JE K26 ; THROW AWAY IF (ALT-CTL)+SCROLL_LOCK CMP AL, DEL_KEY ; CTL_ALT STATE, TEST FOR DELETE KEY JNE K31 ; NO_RESET
;---- CTL-ALT-DEL HAS BEEN FOUND
MOV @RESET_FLAG,1234H ; SET FLAG FOR RESET FUNCTION JMP START_1 ; JUMP TO POWER ON DIAGNOSTICS
No hardware signal, but it must noisy in those IBM programming labs with all that shouting...
or indeed, gain a lot of sales to geeks with no interest in the music but a strong desire to find out how the copy protection works. Maybe it isn't protected at all..
The NYT article mentions 70Hz, but the technology white paper says:
'Refresh rate : approximately 2 seconds'
2 seconds is more like the response time I heard last time I looked at this sort of technology.. so have MagInk made some huge stride to get it to 70Hz or is this fiction ?
My workplace's practices require documents in Word format, but I find even a simple commercial spec falls apart after a few edits (especially if bits of other Word docs are pasted in). I generally write the text in emacs, then paste it into Word at the end to prettify the section headings.
I can't conceive of writing a whole textbook in Word, especially if complex formatting is involved.
Wasn't TeX written for just this job ? And has real typesetting output ? Why would someone able to write a maths book use a program written for office support staff and MBAs to compose memos with ?
While Netcraft shows IIS a very poor second to Apache on PUBLIC servers, I wonder what the situation is on PRIVATE (intranet) servers that Netcraft can't see. I suspect IIS has a much stronger share there, and all those amateur webmasters may eventually feed their preference into the outside world.
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Yup. Give them a standard tip, then doubletake and give them more.
It's a reverse lookup : if you reverse-lookup an IP address w.x.y.z you actually query the DNS for z.y.x.w.in-addr.arpa, though typical tools hide this stuff from you.
How do you identify email that comes from your friends ? If you use their From-address, your filter will be fooled by spammers that raid address books (standard virus technique) to create their own from-addresses.
So the spam looks like it came from your friend : not only does it get past your filter, but you're inclined to open it, too.
Although there are lots of people who never copy a music CD, or copy one only rarely, there's no way that the stacks of blanks in supermarkets and discount stores are all going for hackers backups. There must be a substantial portion (perhaps 75% ?? more ??) used for music copies.
I don't condone a blanket tax that uses this as a justification, but those sales of blanks to music copiers have a very significant effect on the media price. If the copiers didn't exist, there would be no excuse for a tax. But how much do you think the blank media would be costing you ? How much were they 5 years ago ?
Elsewhere in this thread, someone suggests that motherboards with one ISA slot are still available.
However, there are lots of applications of data acquistion cards where several cards are needed. For these, an industrial rack PC is a possibility - they typically have a passive ISA (optionally PCI) backplane and a slot-in motherboard.
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"In all, he says he's collected about $6,000 in three years. "
Now there's a thought. A self-financing spambait honey trap.
May I be among the many who will wish Mr. Bush all the best for his trip, and offer him a free seat on Beagle 3 ?
Be reasonable : if it was a year late and didn't work properly until the third attempt, THEN you might think it was MS.
As can the Sun .. not a good thing for radio contact
"I just wonder what kind of games the big CEOs of Enron, Worldcom and other criminals played when they were kids. "
Monopoly ?
Since piracy has been regarded as a hanging offence for several hundred years, they're getting off pretty lightly.
Unless, of course, they weren't guilty of violent maritime theft. In which case, why accuse them of it ?
I read it as :
"Charities and institutions think they need [expensive] special hardware and Windows based software. It's up to geeks to show what can be done with a bit of intelligence and applied engineering"
Due to the relatively small market and high support costs, products made for disabled people are usually pretty expensive. This doesn't only apply to hospital-grade wheelchairs etc., but also to software like screenreaders.
From the AT bios listing :
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;---- TEST FOR CONTROL KEY AND RESET KEY SEQUENCE (CTL ALT DEL)
K29: ; TEST-RESET
TEST @KB_FLAG,CTL_SHIFT ; ARE WE IN CONTROL SHIFT ALSO
JZ K31 ; NO RESET
CMP AL, NUM_KEY ; CHECK FOR INVALID NUM_LOCK KEY
JE K26 ; THROW AWAY IF (ALT-CTL)+NUM_LOCK
CMP AL, SCROLL_KEY ; CHECK FOR INVALID SCROLL_LOCK KEY
JE K26 ; THROW AWAY IF (ALT-CTL)+SCROLL_LOCK
CMP AL, DEL_KEY ; CTL_ALT STATE, TEST FOR DELETE KEY
JNE K31 ; NO_RESET
;---- CTL-ALT-DEL HAS BEEN FOUND
MOV @RESET_FLAG,1234H ; SET FLAG FOR RESET FUNCTION
JMP START_1 ; JUMP TO POWER ON DIAGNOSTICS
No hardware signal, but it must noisy in those IBM programming labs with all that shouting
or indeed, gain a lot of sales to geeks with no interest in the music but a strong desire to find out how the copy protection works. Maybe it isn't protected at all ..
Or an Xbox with a new disc drive ?
The NYT article mentions 70Hz, but the technology white paper says:
.. so have MagInk made some huge stride to get it to 70Hz or is this fiction ?
'Refresh rate : approximately 2 seconds'
2 seconds is more like the response time I heard last time I looked at this sort of technology
Hardly.
More expensive CDs to pay for the fine, I'd have thought.
My workplace's practices require documents in Word format, but I find even a simple commercial spec falls apart after a few edits (especially if bits of other Word docs are pasted in). I generally write the text in emacs, then paste it into Word at the end to prettify the section headings.
I can't conceive of writing a whole textbook in Word, especially if complex formatting is involved.
Wasn't TeX written for just this job ? And has real typesetting output ? Why would someone able to write a maths book use a program written for office support staff and MBAs to compose memos with ?
Would that be a choir ?
While Netcraft shows IIS a very poor second to Apache on PUBLIC servers, I wonder what the situation is on PRIVATE (intranet) servers that Netcraft can't see. I suspect IIS has a much stronger share there, and all those amateur webmasters may eventually feed their preference into the outside world.
Yup. Give them a standard tip, then doubletake and give them more.
It's a reverse lookup : if you reverse-lookup an IP address w.x.y.z you actually query the DNS for z.y.x.w.in-addr.arpa, though typical tools hide this stuff from you.
.. look at one of the mirrors
Don't worry - it'll just be one of .mil's free domains
I liked this one particularly :
le1 @0:1 b 207.171.0.104,1221 -> xx.xxx.xxx.xxx,1434 PR udp len 20 404 IN
bash-2.05a$ host 207.171.0.104
Name: secure.pacificnet.net
Address: 207.171.0.104
How do you identify email that comes from your friends ? If you use their From-address, your filter will be fooled by spammers that raid address books (standard virus technique) to create their own from-addresses.
So the spam looks like it came from your friend : not only does it get past your filter, but you're inclined to open it, too.
Although there are lots of people who never copy a music CD, or copy one only rarely, there's no way that the stacks of blanks in supermarkets and discount stores are all going for hackers backups. There must be a substantial portion (perhaps 75% ?? more ??) used for music copies.
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I don't condone a blanket tax that uses this as a justification, but those sales of blanks to music copiers have a very significant effect on the media price. If the copiers didn't exist, there would be no excuse for a tax. But how much do you think the blank media would be costing you ? How much were they 5 years ago ?
A lot more than a dollar extra
Yes, there are lots of problems with this (like, the key switches will wear out after a few hundred keystrokes) but be reasonable.
He's obviously a newbie at hardware hacking and, like all of us, has to learn by re-doing it until it works.
Erik, for your next attempt, look at non-contact switches such as optoswitches, hall effect or even reed relays.
Elsewhere in this thread, someone suggests that motherboards with one ISA slot are still available.
However, there are lots of applications of data acquistion cards where several cards are needed. For these, an industrial rack PC is a possibility - they typically have a passive ISA (optionally PCI) backplane and a slot-in motherboard.
> Plus, there's nothing near the GIMP that's free in Windows
The Gimp itself is still free in Windows, isn't it ?