I would have to agree. This was the first Microsoft GUI that "got it right". The first version that I kept using for more than a few hours after installing it. Win 3.1 really polished it off with TTF fonts and networking.
Printer manufacturers tried this several years ago with chips in ink cartridges. The supreme court ruled it was ok to reverse engineer the code on these chips if it was required to allow other companies to make make compatible cartidges. I would think the same would apply to cars and after market parts and upgrades.
The video produced by the Apple II is not interlaced at all. Many video devices used to mix and overlay video in studios had trouble with this fact. True the video memory is not sequential but that's not the same thing as interlacing. Way back in 1983 I had lunch with Woz and a half dozen or so mostly game developers at the Independent Developrs conference. I asked him if he would want to change anything about the design of the II. He said he might add the two chips needed to make the video memory map sequential. Several of us including myself said that most of us would still use a lookup tables for updating video memory anyway (it was faster) and that didn't really matter much. In the end he agreed.
As far as the 6502 being the shittiest processor of it's generation I would have to disagree. True it has fewer registers and instructions (RISC?) than most even older designs like the 8080, but it did have some unique adressing modes that made it the perfect processor for the graphics the Apple did. This coupled with the fact you can use the 256 bytes of zero page much faster and much like processor registers (indexed memory referencing) made it one neat machine.
There are still a few of these in use. I was at a medical office installing their Wirleless Internet connection a couple of months ago and was taken back by the sound. Seems they still use them for multi part forms.
I bought a bunch of model M's a few years ago at the Miami Hamfest. Payed $3 each for them. Still have about 8 of them. Been using them ever since. My wife Lesley who is a touch typest at around 70/80 words per minute loves hers. Newer machine require a USB adapter thats cost around $5 but they all still work great. I play CounterStrike, TF2 and Mech Warrior Online with mine.
It's true that my system has been somewhat upgraded. The GPU is faster than anything I could have gotten in 2006 (maybe twice the speed). Still that a basic system could still be viable after 8 years is unprecidented. I would have been nuts to be using a computer built in 1986 (386 16MHz) in 1994 (486 100MHz) or a system bult in 1996 (Pentium 133MHz) in 2004 (2.4GHz P4). These improvements have been on the order of 10X or more over 8 years. Performance gains since then have maybe been double, a big slowdown.
I'm not sure where all these extra transistors are being used but it doesn't seem to have enhanced overall system performnace to nearly the degree it did in the past.
I have been in computers since the very early 80's starting with an Apple II. From then to about 2008 I have aquired or upgraded my computer about every 3 years or less. I am currently using a machine that is over 8 years old. Quad core Dell Precision 390. Still performs well enough to play modern game titles like Mech Warrior online. At no previous time could I say I would be satisfied using an 8 year old computer. Moores law has slowed to a crawl compared to what it was doing in the 90's. So a 12 years old computer today is closer to modern perfomance that at any time I can remember.
Plenty of companies do. This is standard Operating procedure for ISP's and online services. Google, Facebook, Ebay all do. If your server needs to be accessible from the public Internet then yes. Firewalls are overrated as a protection measure. If you can run them from behind a firewall then I see no reason not to unless you have to open a bunch of ports to allow access to the server in which case the firewall won't help much. This is usually port 80 and it's where most of your attacks will come from anyway.
If only a select group of people will be accessing this server from the Internet then the safest way may be to make it accessible only via VPN. Users would have to log into the VPN first. Much stronger protection than a server behind a firewall with ports open.
Just how is my phone "leaking" this information. I you get my phone then you may know where I have been but I am not going to give you my phone if I want to conceal this information.
Not a large amount of bandwidth involved. If I am a student there all I will do is activate the MyFi on my phone. Why breach a firewall when you can step around it?
Great! As if one transmission was not enough. Now I will have to worry about the cost of repairing two. The last one that failed cost me over $3k. I think that's one of the great things about hybrids, no transmission.
My experience has been the exact opposite. We started way back in the day with all Windoz servers. These were a constant source of headache. They would crash and need reboots weekly. Sometimes things would fail for no apparent reason without any means of fixing them short of reinstalling Windows. We started installing a few Linux servers for radius, DNS, HTTP. These didn't fail and one by one we replaced the Windoz boxes with Linux boxes.
Life is much better now and I spent very little time with server maintenance vs when we ran Windoz boxes. The few Windoz servers we still run take 90% of my time to keep running.
I look back now at what a mistake not using Linux from the start was.
My wife, who started programming in the late 1970's went back to College in 2008 to complete her BS degree. She learned PHP, Java, Java script, CSS. Graduated with honors from UCF. She is very skilled at web development now. She is 53.
She even completed a MS style Thesis in the honors in the majors program.
I run a very small WISP. We have around 200 residential customers. Most other alternate ISP (not Comcast or CenturyLink) will not sell residential Internet. Why? Less money, more bandwidth. Streaming video uses up to 100 times more bandwidth that typical web surfing does. Comcast gets Level3 (Netflix's bandwidth provider) to pay them extra to deliver there video streams to there customers. We are so small, how are we supoosed to get Level3/Netflix to compensate us without getting laughed out of the room?
The situation is bad enough that we are considering discontinueing our sales of residential Internet.
At least if Comcast was not allowed to charge Level3 for the delivery of there streaming data (Shouldn't Comcast customer my fees cover this?), net neutrality, they would have to pass that expense on to the customer. If there rates went up so could ours. Level playing field.
While things have slowed down here the other regional IP registars have run out. APNIC and RIPE both have no IP addresses left. Arin has only about 1.4/8's left.
She will need to look up the laws in her state but here in Florida the statute of limitations is 5 years for a written contract. This should be easy to make go away.
Slashdot Mirror
Cat 6 cable, lots of Cat 6 cable.
I would have to agree. This was the first Microsoft GUI that "got it right". The first version that I kept using for more than a few hours after installing it. Win 3.1 really polished it off with TTF fonts and networking.
My wife did this as her thesis.
http://explorer.cyberstreet.co...
Printer manufacturers tried this several years ago with chips in ink cartridges. The supreme court ruled it was ok to reverse engineer the code on these chips if it was required to allow other companies to make make compatible cartidges. I would think the same would apply to cars and after market parts and upgrades.
The video produced by the Apple II is not interlaced at all. Many video devices used to mix and overlay video in studios had trouble with this fact. True the video memory is not sequential but that's not the same thing as interlacing. Way back in 1983 I had lunch with Woz and a half dozen or so mostly game developers at the Independent Developrs conference. I asked him if he would want to change anything about the design of the II. He said he might add the two chips needed to make the video memory map sequential. Several of us including myself said that most of us would still use a lookup tables for updating video memory anyway (it was faster) and that didn't really matter much. In the end he agreed.
As far as the 6502 being the shittiest processor of it's generation I would have to disagree. True it has fewer registers and instructions (RISC?) than most even older designs like the 8080, but it did have some unique adressing modes that made it the perfect processor for the graphics the Apple did. This coupled with the fact you can use the 256 bytes of zero page much faster and much like processor registers (indexed memory referencing) made it one neat machine.
Didn't the FCC Net Neutrality ruling pre-empt the sates bans on municipal fiber networks?
You could try a Raspberry pi. Store in on a SD card. No electrolytic capacitors (only solid state caps as far as I can see).
My wife did her thesis on this subject
The case for the creation of a reliable digital archive for the preservation of personal digital objetcs
http://explorer.cyberstreet.co...
You can get 5+ megapixel camera for PI from MCM Electronics for $25.
There are still a few of these in use. I was at a medical office installing their Wirleless Internet connection a couple of months ago and was taken back by the sound. Seems they still use them for multi part forms.
I bought a bunch of model M's a few years ago at the Miami Hamfest. Payed $3 each for them. Still have about 8 of them. Been using them ever since. My wife Lesley who is a touch typest at around 70/80 words per minute loves hers. Newer machine require a USB adapter thats cost around $5 but they all still work great. I play CounterStrike, TF2 and Mech Warrior Online with mine.
It's true that my system has been somewhat upgraded. The GPU is faster than anything I could have gotten in 2006 (maybe twice the speed). Still that a basic system could still be viable after 8 years is unprecidented. I would have been nuts to be using a computer built in 1986 (386 16MHz) in 1994 (486 100MHz) or a system bult in 1996 (Pentium 133MHz) in 2004 (2.4GHz P4). These improvements have been on the order of 10X or more over 8 years. Performance gains since then have maybe been double, a big slowdown.
I'm not sure where all these extra transistors are being used but it doesn't seem to have enhanced overall system performnace to nearly the degree it did in the past.
I have been in computers since the very early 80's starting with an Apple II. From then to about 2008 I have aquired or upgraded my computer about every 3 years or less. I am currently using a machine that is over 8 years old. Quad core Dell Precision 390. Still performs well enough to play modern game titles like Mech Warrior online. At no previous time could I say I would be satisfied using an 8 year old computer. Moores law has slowed to a crawl compared to what it was doing in the 90's. So a 12 years old computer today is closer to modern perfomance that at any time I can remember.
Plenty of companies do. This is standard Operating procedure for ISP's and online services. Google, Facebook, Ebay all do. If your server needs to be accessible from the public Internet then yes. Firewalls are overrated as a protection measure. If you can run them from behind a firewall then I see no reason not to unless you have to open a bunch of ports to allow access to the server in which case the firewall won't help much. This is usually port 80 and it's where most of your attacks will come from anyway.
If only a select group of people will be accessing this server from the Internet then the safest way may be to make it accessible only via VPN. Users would have to log into the VPN first. Much stronger protection than a server behind a firewall with ports open.
I think we kind of figured this already.
Just how is my phone "leaking" this information. I you get my phone then you may know where I have been but I am not going to give you my phone if I want to conceal this information.
Not a large amount of bandwidth involved. If I am a student there all I will do is activate the MyFi on my phone. Why breach a firewall when you can step around it?
Great! As if one transmission was not enough. Now I will have to worry about the cost of repairing two. The last one that failed cost me over $3k. I think that's one of the great things about hybrids, no transmission.
My experience has been the exact opposite. We started way back in the day with all Windoz servers. These were a constant source of headache. They would crash and need reboots weekly. Sometimes things would fail for no apparent reason without any means of fixing them short of reinstalling Windows. We started installing a few Linux servers for radius, DNS, HTTP. These didn't fail and one by one we replaced the Windoz boxes with Linux boxes.
Life is much better now and I spent very little time with server maintenance vs when we ran Windoz boxes. The few Windoz servers we still run take 90% of my time to keep running.
I look back now at what a mistake not using Linux from the start was.
My wife, who started programming in the late 1970's went back to College in 2008 to complete her BS degree. She learned PHP, Java, Java script, CSS. Graduated with honors from UCF. She is very skilled at web development now. She is 53.
She even completed a MS style Thesis in the honors in the majors program.
http://explorer.cyberstreet.co...
Not biting....Nice try.
I am for this.
That's the reason to have stamps with them. Education.
I run a very small WISP. We have around 200 residential customers. Most other alternate ISP (not Comcast or CenturyLink) will not sell residential Internet. Why? Less money, more bandwidth. Streaming video uses up to 100 times more bandwidth that typical web surfing does. Comcast gets Level3 (Netflix's bandwidth provider) to pay them extra to deliver there video streams to there customers. We are so small, how are we supoosed to get Level3/Netflix to compensate us without getting laughed out of the room?
The situation is bad enough that we are considering discontinueing our sales of residential Internet.
At least if Comcast was not allowed to charge Level3 for the delivery of there streaming data (Shouldn't Comcast customer my fees cover this?), net neutrality, they would have to pass that expense on to the customer. If there rates went up so could ours. Level playing field.
While things have slowed down here the other regional IP registars have run out. APNIC and RIPE both have no IP addresses left. Arin has only about 1.4 /8's left.
She will need to look up the laws in her state but here in Florida the statute of limitations is 5 years for a written contract. This should be easy to make go away.