As Steve Jobs proposed with iPhone 1.0, developers were urged to push the capabilities of web technology to develop web applications for the iPhone. Today there are 4293 tuned web pages that take advantage of the technology the iPhone has to offer. For instance, the Most Recent under All Categories web app that loaded for me this evening was one that used the web browser and the GPS. Web apps can take advantage of the iPhone's hardware and software and not have to be run through the App Store. I have always thought that the only failure of the iPhone was that nobody developed a richer Internet that took advantage of a mobile Internet device like the iPhone.
I particularly like BrainPop because the videos are appropriate for younger people and contain enough humor that they don't pander to adults. Have your family members watch this video so they better understand what a virus does to the computers and how they can avoid messing up their computers.
I understand there are some bugs in the TRS-80 Model 100 ROM Code that Bill put together. Perhaps with time away from Microsoft he might be able to track them down and patch them?
They interview the two senior officials who have reservations about the launch. What I found most interesting were the odds that one NASA employee mentions, which are definitely in favor of the launch and mission succeeding based upon the track record of the shuttles. Yes, it's a dangerous mission and NASA cannot guarantee that falling foam will not damage the shuttle, but in the hundred plus launches only two shuttles have been lost, which isn't a bad track record. However, from the sound of the article, NASA is ready to finish the planned missions and be done with the shuttles. Definitely worth a listen.
I remember first using Apple Network Assistant to administer a network of Macs. The default password was 'XYZZY' which is, of course, the 'password' for Zork. Fortunately, even back when said network was a mix of OS 7.6.1 and 8.1 Macs, the Zork reference was too far in the past for the middle school students to even have a clue about....
I had the fortune of meeting Bill Nye back when I was in high school, at an ice skating rink in Lynnwood, WA. My friends and I were there and we noticed Bill Nye, who we knew from the local "Almost Live" show, where he frequently did his "Science Guy" bit.
He took the time to come over when my friends and I flagged him down and he got into a rap about why golf balls have dimples, which led to a discussion of the merits of airplanes with a swept-forward wing design. His speech was spur of the moment and fascinating, even for a bunch of high school students.
I personally found all three of these distributions quite usable once set up properly--certainly much more so than the versions of SuSE, Mandrake and Lycoris that I reviewed two years ago, or the Red Hat release I tried out in late 2002--but that doesn't mean that, say, my brother or my mom would put up with the initial setup work. And I'd be lying to readers if I didn't tell them that.
And getting mom to run Linux is the battle worth winning.
Case in point: I spent the weekend on an island off the coast of Washington state with my mother, doing some yardwork, taking in the local 4th of July parade and fireworks display (2nd year running that they set the field on fire and had to shut down early) and trying to install Linux on the family's old Pentium 1 Packard Bell with a 1.2 GB hard drive and 16 MB of RAM that was _barely_ running Windows 98.
Now, granted, I was a masochist and chose to install Slackware 10 on this beast. However, I feel like I have a pretty good understanding of BSD and a working knowledge of Linux. My PC hardware skills are lacking, being a Mac user. My mom is a wicked good quilter, cooks a fine locally raised, never-off-the-island beef roast, but knows nothing about computers except what she uses them for as a paralegal: word processing and email. My parents use my old Mac 8600 at home. The weekend turned into a battle with the strange old hardware (the 2 cd drives (why 2, and not one of them a burner?) were hooked up via a Soundblast card, which precluded booting from the ISOs that I had burned. My mom actually took to coming by me in the corner, using the same computer desk I did back in the 80s with my Mac 512E, and checking in to see if Linux was installing properly.
Linux is pitched in some sense as being a great replacement for Windows on old boxes like the one my family has. Yeah, I didn't pick the easiest distro to get up and going, but there is something to be said about facilitating the transistion from Windows and the making easy the installation of Linux, which guarantees satisfation once it's up and going. Making it easier for mom to get Linux installed will only grow the user base.
My parents got an Apple ][+ with a 300 baud modem when I was in third grade, back in 1982. I remember the "Cracked" screens with the phone numbers for the BBSs of the pirates who had cracked the games I was playing (Drol, Snack Attack, Taipan, Escape to Atlantis). I also found local 'boards' where I would read what everyone who had logged on before me had posted in the various 'rooms' that I was interested in and I would reply appropriately. I can't remember downloading any warez, though early pr0n was available on CompuServe and my friend John and I racked up an inexcusably large bill after 'downloading' all night. My best friend Jason and I convinced our parents to buy us Mac 512s in 1985, when we were in 7th grade. Jason's parents moved during junior high and he got a second phone line installed and started running a BBS on a Mac Plus he'd picked up for the purpose.
I remember me and the other geeks who logged on (and who spent time redialing when somebody else was tying up the single phone line) pushing the BBS software Jason was running to the limit; the big hit was being able to fuck with the text display and simulate "animation" by forcing the page of text you were reading to refresh by issuing different backslashes in the text posts. Dumb shit that would take over your text display until it played itself out, but which was amusing nervertheless.
It's an awesome idea to transmorgify the internet to a C64 BBS, but just imagine a website that tracks either realtime (i.e.. http://npds-tracker.continuity.cx:3680) or better yet just lists possible BBSs and lets people with the old school hardware break it out and dial up to phone numbers that might or might not be busy. There's nothing quite like the end user experience of old BBS software whatever the OS it ran on; I propose the excitement is better created by setting up real BBSs on original hardware as a better alternative to trying to connect old, old boxes to the internet. I for one would consider the thankless process of getting an additional phone line to set up a dial-up BBS on my trusty Mac Plus (formerly a Mac 512 before my roommate pour a beer through it when I cut him off on Tetris) with a HD20 and a 33.6 modem should the demand be there (and methinks it probably isn't).
Wouldn't it best be experienced as it was originally experienced?
I recently picked up a IIGS ROM 3 because the computer was so ahead of its time (and so I could play again the games on my old 5.25 inch floppies from my ][+). I continue to be amazed by the IIGS and its operating System GS/OS version 6.0.1.
To give you an example of how ahead of its time this computer was: I am actually netbooting the computer from a Mac Plus running AppleShare File Server 3.0. No disks needed: the IIGS starts up over the network and runs its operating system from the Mac's hard drive. It's certainly not the fastest, but it gives me a 500 MB hard drive for my IIGS.
Information on setting up a netboot network for a IIGS ROM 3 can be found here:
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I'm surprised it has taken AT&T and Excite so long to block port 80. In the agreement each subscriber must sign when she or he enrolls for the service the cable cos. explicitly state that you are forbidden to run a web server on their lines. But from the number of cable carracho servers I have seen, as well as other web servers running from cable, it is clear that many users simply ignore this rule.
Granted, many people running Win2K or NT and IIS might not realize the service is running, their computer is infected, they are part of the problem. So it makes sense that in an effort to contain this worm the providers would block port 80.
It's just weird that, in light of their stated policy, they have thus far allowed for people to run web servers, etc., on port 80, ignoring the users' abuse of the service just as the users have ignored the rule.
All it took was a few careless individuals running unpatched software that shouldn't have had such a nasty exploit in the first place to ruin this wonderful state of denial between the cable cos. and people who want to run a web server on their nice, zippy cable connections.
I suppose that's what port 8080 is for....
In eighth grade, perhaps because of my pestering interest, my pre-algebra teacher gave me a nice slide rule. I took it home, with the manual and carrying case it came with, and figured out how to do pretty basic math with it: multiplication, division.
From what I understand, my uncle was quite the slide rule wizard back in the day. Supposedly people were able to crank on them as fast as others now use calculators.
What an interesting progression, from abacus to adding machine to slide rule to calculators to computers....
After reading the article I recalled an old application for the Mac from the early '90s: Stego 1a2. It was written by a woman who worked at Apple and allowed you to hide a short text document in a Macintosh PICT document. I worked well the couple of times I tried it. It still runs on my Mac OS 9.1 box, as well.
I found a copy at TuCows, under the Macintosh section.
...and it was great. Laugh-out-loud funny at parts, heady at others, Mike is a genuine performer with something intelligent to say during these crazy times. Mike has picked up quite a bit of positive media coverage from this latest work, and though the web site might be "primitive" according to some standards, it's the show and what Mike is saying about himself and his relation to Amazon.com that really matters.
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Exactly tverbeek: I immediately thought of the iPhone webapps when I read about Mozilla's "threat."
http://apple.com/webapps
As Steve Jobs proposed with iPhone 1.0, developers were urged to push the capabilities of web technology to develop web applications for the iPhone. Today there are 4293 tuned web pages that take advantage of the technology the iPhone has to offer. For instance, the Most Recent under All Categories web app that loaded for me this evening was one that used the web browser and the GPS. Web apps can take advantage of the iPhone's hardware and software and not have to be run through the App Store. I have always thought that the only failure of the iPhone was that nobody developed a richer Internet that took advantage of a mobile Internet device like the iPhone.
BrainPop has a fun free video about computer viruses, worms, and trojan horses:
http://www.brainpop.com/technology/computersandinternet/computerviruses/
I particularly like BrainPop because the videos are appropriate for younger people and contain enough humor that they don't pander to adults. Have your family members watch this video so they better understand what a virus does to the computers and how they can avoid messing up their computers.
I understand there are some bugs in the TRS-80 Model 100 ROM Code that Bill put together. Perhaps with time away from Microsoft he might be able to track them down and patch them?
NPR's Morning Edition did an interesting articleon June 22 about the impending launch:
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http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?stor
They interview the two senior officials who have reservations about the launch. What I found most interesting were the odds that one NASA employee mentions, which are definitely in favor of the launch and mission succeeding based upon the track record of the shuttles. Yes, it's a dangerous mission and NASA cannot guarantee that falling foam will not damage the shuttle, but in the hundred plus launches only two shuttles have been lost, which isn't a bad track record. However, from the sound of the article, NASA is ready to finish the planned missions and be done with the shuttles. Definitely worth a listen.
I remember first using Apple Network Assistant to administer a network of Macs. The default password was 'XYZZY' which is, of course, the 'password' for Zork. Fortunately, even back when said network was a mix of OS 7.6.1 and 8.1 Macs, the Zork reference was too far in the past for the middle school students to even have a clue about....
I had the fortune of meeting Bill Nye back when I was in high school, at an ice skating rink in Lynnwood, WA. My friends and I were there and we noticed Bill Nye, who we knew from the local "Almost Live" show, where he frequently did his "Science Guy" bit.
He took the time to come over when my friends and I flagged him down and he got into a rap about why golf balls have dimples, which led to a discussion of the merits of airplanes with a swept-forward wing design. His speech was spur of the moment and fascinating, even for a bunch of high school students.
He is a terrific ice skater, by the way.
I personally found all three of these distributions quite usable once set up properly--certainly much more so than the versions of SuSE, Mandrake and Lycoris that I reviewed two years ago, or the Red Hat release I tried out in late 2002--but that doesn't mean that, say, my brother or my mom would put up with the initial setup work. And I'd be lying to readers if I didn't tell them that.
And getting mom to run Linux is the battle worth winning.
Case in point: I spent the weekend on an island off the coast of Washington state with my mother, doing some yardwork, taking in the local 4th of July parade and fireworks display (2nd year running that they set the field on fire and had to shut down early) and trying to install Linux on the family's old Pentium 1 Packard Bell with a 1.2 GB hard drive and 16 MB of RAM that was _barely_ running Windows 98.
Now, granted, I was a masochist and chose to install Slackware 10 on this beast. However, I feel like I have a pretty good understanding of BSD and a working knowledge of Linux. My PC hardware skills are lacking, being a Mac user. My mom is a wicked good quilter, cooks a fine locally raised, never-off-the-island beef roast, but knows nothing about computers except what she uses them for as a paralegal: word processing and email. My parents use my old Mac 8600 at home. The weekend turned into a battle with the strange old hardware (the 2 cd drives (why 2, and not one of them a burner?) were hooked up via a Soundblast card, which precluded booting from the ISOs that I had burned. My mom actually took to coming by me in the corner, using the same computer desk I did back in the 80s with my Mac 512E, and checking in to see if Linux was installing properly.
Linux is pitched in some sense as being a great replacement for Windows on old boxes like the one my family has. Yeah, I didn't pick the easiest distro to get up and going, but there is something to be said about facilitating the transistion from Windows and the making easy the installation of Linux, which guarantees satisfation once it's up and going. Making it easier for mom to get Linux installed will only grow the user base.
My parents got an Apple ][+ with a 300 baud modem when I was in third grade, back in 1982. I remember the "Cracked" screens with the phone numbers for the BBSs of the pirates who had cracked the games I was playing (Drol, Snack Attack, Taipan, Escape to Atlantis). I also found local 'boards' where I would read what everyone who had logged on before me had posted in the various 'rooms' that I was interested in and I would reply appropriately. I can't remember downloading any warez, though early pr0n was available on CompuServe and my friend John and I racked up an inexcusably large bill after 'downloading' all night. My best friend Jason and I convinced our parents to buy us Mac 512s in 1985, when we were in 7th grade. Jason's parents moved during junior high and he got a second phone line installed and started running a BBS on a Mac Plus he'd picked up for the purpose.
I remember me and the other geeks who logged on (and who spent time redialing when somebody else was tying up the single phone line) pushing the BBS software Jason was running to the limit; the big hit was being able to fuck with the text display and simulate "animation" by forcing the page of text you were reading to refresh by issuing different backslashes in the text posts. Dumb shit that would take over your text display until it played itself out, but which was amusing nervertheless.
It's an awesome idea to transmorgify the internet to a C64 BBS, but just imagine a website that tracks either realtime (i.e.. http://npds-tracker.continuity.cx:3680) or better yet just lists possible BBSs and lets people with the old school hardware break it out and dial up to phone numbers that might or might not be busy. There's nothing quite like the end user experience of old BBS software whatever the OS it ran on; I propose the excitement is better created by setting up real BBSs on original hardware as a better alternative to trying to connect old, old boxes to the internet. I for one would consider the thankless process of getting an additional phone line to set up a dial-up BBS on my trusty Mac Plus (formerly a Mac 512 before my roommate pour a beer through it when I cut him off on Tetris) with a HD20 and a 33.6 modem should the demand be there (and methinks it probably isn't).
Wouldn't it best be experienced as it was originally experienced?
I recently picked up a IIGS ROM 3 because the computer was so ahead of its time (and so I could play again the games on my old 5.25 inch floppies from my ][+). I continue to be amazed by the IIGS and its operating System GS/OS version 6.0.1.
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To give you an example of how ahead of its time this computer was: I am actually netbooting the computer from a Mac Plus running AppleShare File Server 3.0. No disks needed: the IIGS starts up over the network and runs its operating system from the Mac's hard drive. It's certainly not the fastest, but it gives me a 500 MB hard drive for my IIGS.
Information on setting up a netboot network for a IIGS ROM 3 can be found here:
http://www.mandrake.demon.co.uk/Apple/ltalk/iig
Truly geeky stuff.
I'm surprised it has taken AT&T and Excite so long to block port 80. In the agreement each subscriber must sign when she or he enrolls for the service the cable cos. explicitly state that you are forbidden to run a web server on their lines. But from the number of cable carracho servers I have seen, as well as other web servers running from cable, it is clear that many users simply ignore this rule. Granted, many people running Win2K or NT and IIS might not realize the service is running, their computer is infected, they are part of the problem. So it makes sense that in an effort to contain this worm the providers would block port 80. It's just weird that, in light of their stated policy, they have thus far allowed for people to run web servers, etc., on port 80, ignoring the users' abuse of the service just as the users have ignored the rule. All it took was a few careless individuals running unpatched software that shouldn't have had such a nasty exploit in the first place to ruin this wonderful state of denial between the cable cos. and people who want to run a web server on their nice, zippy cable connections. I suppose that's what port 8080 is for....
In eighth grade, perhaps because of my pestering interest, my pre-algebra teacher gave me a nice slide rule. I took it home, with the manual and carrying case it came with, and figured out how to do pretty basic math with it: multiplication, division. From what I understand, my uncle was quite the slide rule wizard back in the day. Supposedly people were able to crank on them as fast as others now use calculators. What an interesting progression, from abacus to adding machine to slide rule to calculators to computers....
After reading the article I recalled an old application for the Mac from the early '90s: Stego 1a2. It was written by a woman who worked at Apple and allowed you to hide a short text document in a Macintosh PICT document. I worked well the couple of times I tried it. It still runs on my Mac OS 9.1 box, as well. I found a copy at TuCows, under the Macintosh section.
...and it was great. Laugh-out-loud funny at parts, heady at others, Mike is a genuine performer with something intelligent to say during these crazy times. Mike has picked up quite a bit of positive media coverage from this latest work, and though the web site might be "primitive" according to some standards, it's the show and what Mike is saying about himself and his relation to Amazon.com that really matters.