Back in High School, I used to have a modified version of Apple ][ DOS on all my floppies that would ask for a password during the boot process. Every wrong character you entered would result in one more character from "You are a rotting, slime-covered filth." displaying. Ah, those were the good olde dayes... My copy of "Beneath Apple DOS" saw a lot of use... Basically there were some unused chunks of memory in Apple DOS, where you could stick some of your own code and call it at the right point in the boot process.
I agree with you about the reasons for despising Microsoft. I had no particular feeling for or against them at first. I learned contempt through using their products and watching their corporate behavior over the last 16 years or so...
There's no doubt in my mind that they would do it if they thought they could get away with it. The MPAA members would be quick to develop goggle that do the same...
Posted for nostalgia purposes, others which may or may not have been left off the list, but are worth recalling anyway...
Land of the Lost
U.F.O.
Fantastic Voyage (or was it Fantastic Journey?) Bunch of people lost in Bermuda Triangle.
I don't remember the name, but it was a live-action show about a scientist and his family(?) travelling in a high-tech RV-type vehicle in a post-apocalyptic world (years later it reminded me a lot of "The Morrow Project" RPG).
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Forget Michael Jackson. I want to bribe someone at Blizzard to make WoW emit that sound periodically...
Ah, yes, the September that never ended.
Leave him alone. Are you you so perfect your shio doesn't stink?
Does your chewing gum lose it flavor
At the Command Post overnight?
If your sergeant says don't chew it, do you swallow it in spite?
From: cpu1@localhost
To: cpu0@localhost
Subject: ssh (pid 1485)
Hi, how's it going? I was thinking about maybe giving this process a time slice, what do you say?
Thanks,
cpu1
Back in High School, I used to have a modified version of Apple ][ DOS on all my floppies that would ask for a password during the boot process. Every wrong character you entered would result in one more character from "You are a rotting, slime-covered filth." displaying. Ah, those were the good olde dayes... My copy of "Beneath Apple DOS" saw a lot of use... Basically there were some unused chunks of memory in Apple DOS, where you could stick some of your own code and call it at the right point in the boot process.
Or just make sure the cruise ship hires the proper cook, in case it comes under siege or something.
I have it, buried somewhere in my apartment... Along with the early supplements.
You are, in fact, my hero.
Wierd Al rules!
I agree with you about the reasons for despising Microsoft. I had no particular feeling for or against them at first. I learned contempt through using their products and watching their corporate behavior over the last 16 years or so...
And when you record media outlaws, only the media will outlaw records.
Yes. We definitely need an "Age 35+" server.
Eh? Talk to the plants and algae, I don't manufacture air...
> The software maker will compete 'the good old-fashioned way, with innovation,' he said.
In the language of Redmond, compete means spread FUD, and innovate means copy shoddily, that is plain.
Quantum Muse is a web magazine along those lines.
Yes, with Windows 2000 Professional, all the latest patches.
He may be referring to a certain breakfast cereal. I'd call it "product placement" as the specific type of advertising.
2600 magazine They don't have ads, except for classifieds, which are free to subscribers.
There's no doubt in my mind that they would do it if they thought they could get away with it. The MPAA members would be quick to develop goggle that do the same...
I use VFP under Virtual PC 6 and 7, and it runs well. FWIW.
Everyone knows computing attained perfection in 1984.
That would be perfect, if it had a "disintegrate" setting.
Yes! Ark II is the name of the show. Thank you.
I've been saying that for a while about the term "music industry". That *should* be an oxymoron...
Posted for nostalgia purposes, others which may or may not have been left off the list, but are worth recalling anyway...
Land of the Lost
U.F.O.
Fantastic Voyage (or was it Fantastic Journey?) Bunch of people lost in Bermuda Triangle.
I don't remember the name, but it was a live-action show about a scientist and his family(?) travelling in a high-tech RV-type vehicle in a post-apocalyptic world (years later it reminded me a lot of "The Morrow Project" RPG).