You could get an expansion card for the Apple ][ which has a Z-80 chip on it. We used this to run CP/M back in about 1982-3, ISTR.
I still think that the BBC Micro was the best 6502 based machine available: tons of built in i/o, good graphics, a structured basic *with the assembler built in*.
Picture it: A far-off shot of the moon base, cuts to a close up of one of the satellite dishes. "Drink Coke", emblazoned vividly on the dish, competes with the "Reebok" emblem on the side of the lunar rover sitting next to it.
"That's one small step for a man, but thanks to my NikeBok MoonBoots (TM), one giant leap for mankind."
Universities ought to be using Windows and teaching the skills that are most in demand (like VB), so as to produce marketable graduates.
There is a huge difference between education and training.
Training is showing someone how to use Word/Excel/Gnumerics/whatever.
Education is teaching someone how to think independently, solve problems and have an analytical mindset.
A trained person may or may not be able to work outside their training. An educated person can and will constantly learn new things and add to their skillset.
Personally, I don't think that you should come out of university 'trained'. You should have been exposed to lots of stuff: *nix, VMS, Win*, Mac and whatever weird things are lurking in the depts of the CS or Engineering depts. You should come out of university with the ability to sit down in front of something and figure it out damn quick.
Somehow I think MS will get away with their use of Old Glory with a claim that innovation is a 'great American Tradition' or some such. I can just picture billg standing proud in court defending his right to use the flag with a stirring speech while the massed microsoft minions(tm) hum "mine eyes have seen the glory and the coming of the lord" behind him.
It seems like that I did not start to receive spam until I started to post on Slashdot.
When I set up this account, the above email address got persistently spammed from home.net. No amount of complaining worked. I guess home.net aren't too clued in.
The spam I receive is not to any email address I have, but rather to another dumbqwerty@msn.com, how can this be so???
You need to look at your "Recepient:" line in the headers. That'll tell you which email address it was really sent to. Most spammers put a fake address in the "To:" field and bcc to their victims.
Every spam has a different 'remove email address' meaning that I must be on a million spam lists and me getting off them all is not a tractable possiblity. Why can't there be one list that these 'generic' spammers would have to check before doing my inbox?? Perhaps it could be federal law.
Never, EVER reply to a "remove" address. They only exist to harvest working email addresses.
Why can't there be a way to 'triangulate' packets to find a physical location for lawbreakers, and give them hard time so other spammers would be scared?? (is scared spammer an oxymoron??)
Nope, spammers are such lower order life forms that they're incapable of fear. They're about four steps below script-kiddies and have many of the same traits. They don't understand how to do what they do; they're just running someone else's program. Despite the fact that they keep losing accounts (and getting verbally abused if they post 1-800 numbers) they *still* think that spamming works.
Doesn't MSN and AOL have ways to keep track of ip addresses they assign dynamically, and thus trace spam??
Yes they do, or at least they have logs and can tell who posted what and when. You need to complain to the right people and send them the full mail headers. Check out http://www.samspade.org for info on how to track through headers.
I actually heard one time if an ISP doesn't/refuses to stop illegal activity coming from their ISP, there are 'higher-ups' who you can contact (More then likely their provider of the line) who can give them an ultimadum(sp) to either take action or loose their lines. I think this can also be done through a gov office of one type or another. Sorry I don't have any names, but it's another thing to think about.
That was pretty uninformative.
If complaints get no answers or have no action taken on them, you complain the the upstream provider. When you run out of upstream providers to complain to, you still have a few options:
MMF or anything spam-scam which involves someone else making money off you: report him to the IRS. (spammers are almost all USAn)
Stock market scams: the fcc.
For addresses, chase up some antispam pages: look for "cancel moose" or "anti spam".
Also, check out the net.admin.net.abuse.* newsgroup FAQs at http://www.faqs.org
Here's an idea: why not have a posting filter which counts the uppercase and lowercase and will reject based on that ratio? Should get rid of the lamer script kiddies and warez doodz out there, not to mention the sort of scum-sucking, bottom-feeding lowlife I'm replying to.
The license is open in that you can develop the game for non-commercial purposes. There have been great game developments done for DOOM, Hexen, Heretic.
AFAIK, one of the complications is that id don't hold the copyright/distribution rights for all of their games and so can't fully release all of the old artwork/music/maps, etc.
It's another protocol, yeah? Go home, make her a cup of tea/coffee/wine/beer/whatever. Tell her you like her. Nibble her collarbones. Etc... No different from telnet pop3.isp.net:119, yadda, yadda.
Dude, make girls laugh and they'll put up with any old crap. They'll even put up with you letting them sleep while you play with linux until four in them morning.
Stay away from golddiggers and go for nerd chicks or those who like you for yourself.
> my girlfriend wants to learn tantric sex. Will > that affect my productivity?
Yes. Your forehead will swell with retained sperm and you'll develop exotic mental powers which will gain in strength in porportion with your period of not coming.
that's the directory you look in because that's the directory where the kernel source is and you have to be in there to compile it. of course you don't need it to install NT. but if you were *compiling* NT, you'd bloody well read the docs.
as for not reading docs, if you don't know how to do something, you RTFM! blaming the system for your ignorance is pathetic.
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*Anything* Clarke has written with Gentry Lee is drivel. Mindless pap.
Most multi-author fiction is crap, with the possible exception of niven and pournelle[1].
dave
[1] which is at least entertaining space opera.
You could get an expansion card for the Apple ][ which has a Z-80 chip on it. We used this to run CP/M back in about 1982-3, ISTR.
I still think that the BBC Micro was the best 6502 based machine available: tons of built in i/o, good graphics, a structured basic *with the assembler built in*.
Great games too: remember the original Elite?
dave "vdu 19,4,0,0,&ff"
Picture it: A far-off shot of the moon base, cuts to a close up of one of the satellite dishes. "Drink Coke", emblazoned vividly on the dish, competes with the "Reebok" emblem on the side of the lunar rover sitting next to it.
"That's one small step for a man, but thanks to my NikeBok MoonBoots (TM), one giant leap for mankind."
dave
Universities ought to be using Windows and teaching the skills that are most in demand (like VB), so as to produce marketable graduates.
There is a huge difference between education and training.
Training is showing someone how to use Word/Excel/Gnumerics/whatever.
Education is teaching someone how to think independently, solve problems and have an analytical mindset.
A trained person may or may not be able to work outside their training. An educated person can and will constantly learn new things and add to their skillset.
Personally, I don't think that you should come out of university 'trained'. You should have been exposed to lots of stuff: *nix, VMS, Win*, Mac and whatever weird things are lurking in the depts of the CS or Engineering depts. You should come out of university with the ability to sit down in front of something and figure it out damn quick.
dave - just my hkd 0.16
Nah, palms don't need colour. What they need is 150dpi, 256 greyscale displays.
A seriously high quality lcd display would be really sweet.
And it might even make up for having to carry around a car-battery to power the thing...
dave
Somehow I think MS will get away with their use of Old Glory with a claim that innovation is a 'great American Tradition' or some such. I can just picture billg standing proud in court defending his right to use the flag with a stirring speech while the massed microsoft minions(tm) hum "mine eyes have seen the glory and the coming of the lord" behind him.
dave "mmm, mmm, mmmmmm, mmmmm"
> I didn't know that you were the United States of Stars ;)
Why do you think all those alien superheroes live in the US?
dave
Appo-loagies.
I was thinking of SEC, not FCC.
dave
*sigh*
And that's the sad thing. They'll also write off the annoyed emails they get as 'just internet whingers'.
I live in Hong Kong, where the largest ISP (Hong Kong *Telecom*) nearly got RBLd because they didn't think there was anything wrong with spam...
dave
It seems like that I did not start to receive spam until I started to post on Slashdot.
When I set up this account, the above email address got persistently spammed from home.net. No amount of complaining worked. I guess home.net aren't too clued in.
The spam I receive is not to any email address I have, but rather to another dumbqwerty@msn.com, how can this be so???
You need to look at your "Recepient:" line in the headers. That'll tell you which email address it was really sent to. Most spammers put a fake address in the "To:" field and bcc to their victims.
Every spam has a different 'remove email address' meaning that I must be on a million spam lists and me getting off them all is not a tractable possiblity. Why can't there be one list that these 'generic' spammers would have to check before doing my inbox?? Perhaps it could be federal law.
Never, EVER reply to a "remove" address. They only exist to harvest working email addresses.
Why can't there be a way to 'triangulate' packets to find a physical location for lawbreakers, and give them hard time so other spammers would be scared?? (is scared spammer an oxymoron??)
Nope, spammers are such lower order life forms that they're incapable of fear. They're about four steps below script-kiddies and have many of the same traits. They don't understand how to do what they do; they're just running someone else's program. Despite the fact that they keep losing accounts (and getting verbally abused if they post 1-800 numbers) they *still* think that spamming works.
Doesn't MSN and AOL have ways to keep track of ip addresses they assign dynamically, and thus trace spam??
Yes they do, or at least they have logs and can tell who posted what and when. You need to complain to the right people and send them the full mail headers. Check out http://www.samspade.org for info on how to track through headers.
dave
I actually heard one time if an ISP doesn't/refuses to stop illegal activity coming from their ISP, there are 'higher-ups' who you can contact (More then likely their provider of the line) who can give them an ultimadum(sp) to either take action or loose their lines. I think this can also be done through a gov office of one type or another. Sorry I don't have any names, but it's another thing to think about.
That was pretty uninformative.
If complaints get no answers or have no action taken on them, you complain the the upstream provider. When you run out of upstream providers to complain to, you still have a few options:
MMF or anything spam-scam which involves someone else making money off you: report him to the IRS. (spammers are almost all USAn)
Stock market scams: the fcc.
For addresses, chase up some antispam pages: look for "cancel moose" or "anti spam".
Also, check out the net.admin.net.abuse.* newsgroup FAQs at http://www.faqs.org
dave
Here's an idea: why not have a posting filter which counts the uppercase and lowercase and will reject based on that ratio? Should get rid of the lamer script kiddies and warez doodz out there, not to mention the sort of scum-sucking, bottom-feeding lowlife I'm replying to.
dave
The license is open in that you can develop the game for non-commercial purposes. There have been great game developments done for DOOM, Hexen, Heretic.
AFAIK, one of the complications is that id don't hold the copyright/distribution rights for all of their games and so can't fully release all of the old artwork/music/maps, etc.
dave
:119?
sheesh, meant 110.
> don't go home and check your e-mail.
It's another protocol, yeah? Go home, make her a cup of tea/coffee/wine/beer/whatever. Tell her you like her. Nibble her collarbones. Etc... No different from telnet pop3.isp.net:119, yadda, yadda.
dave "just call me sid..."
> She laughed and I got free beer.
Dude, make girls laugh and they'll put up with any old crap. They'll even put up with you letting them sleep while you play with linux until four in them morning.
Stay away from golddiggers and go for nerd chicks or those who like you for yourself.
dave
mate, tell him to fuck off.
please, it's in your best interest.
you can always get another job. you work better when you're not horny as hell anyway.
nothing is worth sacrificing yourself for.
dave "sex? again?"
> my girlfriend wants to learn tantric sex. Will
> that affect my productivity?
Yes. Your forehead will swell with retained sperm and you'll develop exotic mental powers which will gain in strength in porportion with your period of not coming.
HTH. HAND.
> bgates@microsoft.com
YM billg@microsoft.com. HTH. HAND.
You really want microsfot talking to your ISP about you forging billg's email?
Transport modelling has been boing on for many years. I've been doing it professionally for the last ten.
This sort of micro modelling was starting to come about over five years ago in Scotland.
dave
Well, you had your choice: Red pill or Blue pill. You went and ate both, what did you expect?
dave
Goddamn, you've got me scared now.
Will tinfoil helmets stop this invasion?
that's the directory you look in because that's the directory where the kernel source is and you have to be in there to compile it. of course you don't need it to install NT. but if you were *compiling* NT, you'd bloody well read the docs.
as for not reading docs, if you don't know how to do something, you RTFM! blaming the system for your ignorance is pathetic.
dave
A good place to look for Pratchettian things is www.lspace.org.
T-shirts and a.f.p. stuff will be under Fandom.
Nope, you don't have to see it at all.
Just go into c:\progra~1\micros~1\office\actors and delete all the files in there. Viola! Hitting F1 now brings up the proper help menu.
dave "hoping this isn't *too* useful" o