NO, let me explain: Normal TV is in PAL format NTSC is used for junk that is sold to Americans, who don't know any better.
However, a minor change to the MPeg standard would allow P&S to be derived from the full screen MPeg on-the-fly. It would add a trivial amount of bits - probably averaging two or three per frame (I-frames dont need it anyway), and the whole problem is solved.
In the olden days, during and shortly after WW2, food was rationed in England. As a result, it was common for restaurants to offer menus with all kinds of exotic food, but when you ordered "Lobster and Caviar", you would be told "Lobster's off today", and so on down the menu, until you got to Spam and Eggs. The ration of Spam was so huge, no one could ever use it up. So Spam was never off.
Peter Sellers did a comedy sketch about this in about 1954, which was later released on his album "The Best of Sellers", together with the sketich about "Balham, Gateway to the south" - a spoof on Travelogues (you don't need to know about this, trust me:-)
Another sketch on the same album, more relevant perhaps was the children's radio show feature...
Up on the chair behind the door,
hey diddle diddle
Here comes Papa, so up with the chopper, and
Split 'im down the middle
Now children, gather up all of Daddy's nasty stocks and shares, and send them to me at...
Anyway, to get back on topic, the point of Spam was that you always got it, what ever you ACTUALLY ordered.
However, the reference is lost on anyone who wasnt in England in the 1950's.
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If there is any reason why you dont need it, its becauwe People using 7-bit for pass-though traffic should be excommunicated.
7-bit died BEFORE THE PC- That's over 20 years ago. I seriously doubt there are any PDP11s still on the internet, and AFAIK nothing else felt the need to pack three 6-bit chaaracters into a 3 character file extension. Apart from that, it was a 16 bit machine and did 8-bit chars. Almost all other 7-bit hacks were dead before the PDP-11 was even launched. (except POCSAG pagers - now there is a seriously SAD protocol!)
The best answer is dotn compress for transmission - let the modem/imodem/NIC/why do it IF THERE IS A SUITABLE STANDARD, and if not, let the appropriate standards committee fix it, cos they have the tools for negotiation a compatible standard at run time.
Even if/. actually do use MD5s, why do you
think other sites get this right?
Lets face it,
anything that was a SMB server before Win98 was invented probably stores the passwords in plain text, and leaks like a sieve.
Many of the owners of this clapped out cr*p are still in business, but cant afford to pay a sysadmin who even knows what MD5 is.
Lets face it, you don't use the same password on different systems.
but you are excused from using truely lame passwords on lame systems if you don't use them elsewhere.
SCO was the Santa Cruz Operation (Of Microsoft).
They produced Xenix.
Xenix was a not very good Unix. It was not expecially bloated. It was not especially reliable, and not especially expensive. In fact, it was average.
However, it was promoted by MS, until they got bored with it, and sold it. I think it was a management buy-out, which involved MS agreeing never to make a competitive Unix - obviously, otherwise the management would have been shafted in weeks, when MS would have launched ZooNix or something and stolen the market, using a copy of the user base which they had "forgotten about" on a server somewhere.
The Xenix name was later used for a version which could run on machines with little or no memory management - eg a 286. (Like Minix and Idris) This was a lame idea from the start, and did not survive the introduction of the 386 commercially.
If your airforce is spending money on this technology, you need a new government!
The physics is electrostatics - a technology known in the time of ancient Greece. Scrap TV parts were a little scarse in the time of Aristotle and Ptolemy, because NO ONE watched daytime TV, and no one made UFOs.
I used to regularly make UFOs myself in the 1970s. Me made wierd shaped kites out of metallised polyester, (used gas balloons) and then flew them at night with car headlights pointed up at them! They go higher than this electrostatic stuff, and real big ones can carry a man My grandad flew in a kite in the 1920's. Most technical stuff is not as new as Americans think!
I sent an e-mail to an organisation well known to/.ers, indicating that I wished a business relationship for our mutual benefit. It was submitted via their web page's "mailto" link.
Unfortunately it was bounced as spam by their whitelisting procedures!
And what percentage of Windows users can understand the words "indirectly" and free reign"? (Violate is probably within their vocabulary, and paying too, I guess.
Joe average user just think "I wish PCs were easier to use, I sure as hell won't switch to Linux, Windows is hard enough for me!"
In cases of exhaustive search, it is well known that parallelism reduces the total amount of work done, as poor solutions are abandoned with less processing.
This is not news. Its been well known at least since the 1970's.
This applies to factorising and block cyphers, which probably explains why ICL built a military version of the DAP.
Why does everyone asume TLA agencies know the most? If you knew how to factorise products of large primes, who would you tell? (If you want to live to tell the tale!)
I am using FreeBSD to write this, but surely Google can justify using mainframes - maybe with Linux? This has to be a case for more powerful architecture.
Does NetBSD run on IBM big iron? If not, there's always Sun kit with NetBSD.They don't have to use Linux (or DOS 4.0).
In the olden days, I had to work on some military computers (pre pentium). They were made by Grid, and were a bit bigger than today's laptops, and slow as hell.I think the cases were made of cast iron.
The spec said they had to survive being used as ramps for armoured personel carriers, because squaddies are not very bright! The rep drove his estate car over one, and it survived that OK, but it was not running at the time. He said the airforce was considering driopping them on Saddam from a great height. Obviously they didn't drop very many, because Grid went out of business before I earned enough to buy one.
I believe IBM use titanium for the cases for the more expensive models. Not sure about bomb proof, but it could be close!
PT Barnum was right... "there's one born every minute"
The fact is that 90% of PC users are as thick as a ton of bricks, and think that if they have a computer that runs Windows, it is NOT PHYSICALY CAPABLE of running another OS (not that they know what an OS is).
They think that if the have MS Windows, they must buy MS word, anything else is not compatibubble, Hell more than half can't tell Word from Windows anyway.
Yes folks its true - half of all PC users are of below average intelligence!
Even when you tell them "the reason you get the message Your application has committed an imoral act, and will go directly to hell" is because they bought software from William Gates, they respond "I have to, I use Windows". (These are probably the same morons that buy Ford cars. I have a Mondeo, so I should know:-)
The SAA4000 (or was it SAA6000) actually DID catch fire:
It had separate control over pull-up and pull-down transistors on one of the IO ports, so it was possible to enable pull-ups and pull-downs together. This would allow the entire output of the power supply to be dissipated in the output port.
This was a processor targeted at portable equipment (we used it in pagers). The CPU could easily set fire to the PWA and plastic case.
I forget who made the chip, but it was appalling rubbish in many other ways too: The same opcode did different things according to which memory page it was loaded in (so forget relocating linkers). I heard rumours that programmers' brains would catch fire trying to debug the thing, as the program counter did not increment, but used a grey code sequence to avoid having to have a carry look-ahead.
HCF was certainly not new technology when the 6800 came out. Early LSI logic "Naked Minis", and some models of DG Nova could burn out core memory by looping on a "JMP $" instruction, as sustaining the drive current through a single location would, over a period of seconds, burn out the drivers, wires, or both.
After working on sh*te like this, the 6800 was a programmers dream come true (until the 6501 came out).
Incidentally, Motorola was noe for a sense of humour: in the early days of the 6800, probably 1975, they issued a data sheet for a compatible 68xx Write Only Memory "Ideal for implementing/dev/null". It featured a "Not Chip Destruct" pin, which, if not grounded, would cause the chip to self-destruct. I guess it found volume sales with Mission Impossible. They also used to sell a 1-bit CPU. Does anyone know whether this was a serious product, or another 1 April release?
Don't bother with BIOS Passwords - that would require a bios hack, to say the least.
The boot sector is replaced with a BSD style boot selector, set to boot from the "stolen" partition by default (ie if you are using the machine yourself, you select BSD or Windows - thief has 5 secs to figure out what is wrong, and cant, so gets default behaviour.
After the initial boot sector process, control passes to a next stage, "Stolen"... This displays a message "Unable to start Windows... perhaps modem cable is not connected to the phone?... Please connect cable to phone, and press return"
The average thief will understand this, and connect the phone cable. The real owner would press CTL-ALT-DEL.
When the thief connects the cable and presses "enter" the phone dials the owner, his mates, his mobile, his dog, cat, ma, pa, and the 911, 999 (in case its in Europe), FPI's private number, SWAT, the US Marines, Bin Laden, the Mafia hit-man hot line, and that number the Gas Company reserves for reporting leaking gas mains.
Not only that, the boot sequence will auto-hack so this is the ONLY boot option, and disable CTL-ALT-DEL. The dialling sequence will repeat till the battery runs out.
Someone will be pissed enough to find out who owns the unlisted number and send the boys with big sticks round for a visit.
It would be really neat - we could use it to reduce the amount of spam in circulation.
Mail filters could be really effective.
Or maybe that needs an embedded nuclear weapon.
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I think you've lost the plot here - the server (as its running OSS) is in all probability a used 486, on the end of a 300 baud modem. When overloaded, it delivers an error message.
If it was an MS operation, it would be on $10k worth of hardware, connected via T3. When over stressed, it would collapse in a heap and wait for a re-boot.
In all known tests, OSS delivers more power on less kit, and fails cleaner, or someone was bribed.
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NO, let me explain: Normal TV is in PAL format NTSC is used for junk that is sold to Americans, who don't know any better.
However, a minor change to the MPeg standard would allow P&S to be derived from the full screen MPeg on-the-fly. It would add a trivial amount of bits - probably averaging two or three per frame (I-frames dont need it anyway), and the whole problem is solved.
"R" is for Rubbish!
Peter Sellers did a comedy sketch about this in about 1954, which was later released on his album "The Best of Sellers", together with the sketich about "Balham, Gateway to the south" - a spoof on Travelogues (you don't need to know about this, trust me:-)
Another sketch on the same album, more relevant perhaps was the children's radio show feature ...
Anyway, to get back on topic, the point of Spam was that you always got it, what ever you ACTUALLY ordered.However, the reference is lost on anyone who wasnt in England in the 1950's.
Roswell is what happens when men from Utah refuse to stop and ask the way!
Definitely lifeless, and cheaper and safer too.
7-bit died BEFORE THE PC- That's over 20 years ago. I seriously doubt there are any PDP11s still on the internet, and AFAIK nothing else felt the need to pack three 6-bit chaaracters into a 3 character file extension. Apart from that, it was a 16 bit machine and did 8-bit chars. Almost all other 7-bit hacks were dead before the PDP-11 was even launched. (except POCSAG pagers - now there is a seriously SAD protocol!)
The best answer is dotn compress for transmission - let the modem/imodem/NIC/why do it IF THERE IS A SUITABLE STANDARD, and if not, let the appropriate standards committee fix it, cos they have the tools for negotiation a compatible standard at run time.
Lets face it, anything that was a SMB server before Win98 was invented probably stores the passwords in plain text, and leaks like a sieve. Many of the owners of this clapped out cr*p are still in business, but cant afford to pay a sysadmin who even knows what MD5 is.
Lets face it, you don't use the same password on different systems. but you are excused from using truely lame passwords on lame systems if you don't use them elsewhere.
Xenix was a not very good Unix. It was not expecially bloated. It was not especially reliable, and not especially expensive. In fact, it was average.
However, it was promoted by MS, until they got bored with it, and sold it. I think it was a management buy-out, which involved MS agreeing never to make a competitive Unix - obviously, otherwise the management would have been shafted in weeks, when MS would have launched ZooNix or something and stolen the market, using a copy of the user base which they had "forgotten about" on a server somewhere. The Xenix name was later used for a version which could run on machines with little or no memory management - eg a 286. (Like Minix and Idris) This was a lame idea from the start, and did not survive the introduction of the 386 commercially.
The physics is electrostatics - a technology known in the time of ancient Greece. Scrap TV parts were a little scarse in the time of Aristotle and Ptolemy, because NO ONE watched daytime TV, and no one made UFOs.
I used to regularly make UFOs myself in the 1970s. Me made wierd shaped kites out of metallised polyester, (used gas balloons) and then flew them at night with car headlights pointed up at them! They go higher than this electrostatic stuff, and real big ones can carry a man My grandad flew in a kite in the 1920's. Most technical stuff is not as new as Americans think!
Unfortunately it was bounced as spam by their whitelisting procedures!
So no business deal.
Joe average user just think "I wish PCs were easier to use, I sure as hell won't switch to Linux, Windows is hard enough for me!"
I'd rather have it on NetBSD - Workplace shell on a Dreamcast ... ROFLMAO
And while we are at it, ban pens and paper, because they can be used to plan bank robberies!
This is not news. Its been well known at least since the 1970's.
This applies to factorising and block cyphers, which probably explains why ICL built a military version of the DAP.
Why does everyone asume TLA agencies know the most? If you knew how to factorise products of large primes, who would you tell? (If you want to live to tell the tale!)
Does NetBSD run on IBM big iron? If not, there's always Sun kit with NetBSD.They don't have to use Linux (or DOS 4.0).
Or maybe Google are stupid?
The spec said they had to survive being used as ramps for armoured personel carriers, because squaddies are not very bright! The rep drove his estate car over one, and it survived that OK, but it was not running at the time. He said the airforce was considering driopping them on Saddam from a great height. Obviously they didn't drop very many, because Grid went out of business before I earned enough to buy one.
I believe IBM use titanium for the cases for the more expensive models. Not sure about bomb proof, but it could be close!
1) Ship code filled with bugs.
2) Release a new version, with new bugs.
2)Give away the old version, bundled with an "upgrade to the present version with massive discount"
3)Wait for users of the free version to discover bugs, and pay for an upgrade.
4) Release another version, with even newer bugs, ready for when the users spot the bugs in release 2.
I'll stick with G++, thanks.
So when are iBM going to announce that FreeBSD 4.5 is not yet available for mainframes?
The fact is that 90% of PC users are as thick as a ton of bricks, and think that if they have a computer that runs Windows, it is NOT PHYSICALY CAPABLE of running another OS (not that they know what an OS is).
They think that if the have MS Windows, they must buy MS word, anything else is not compatibubble, Hell more than half can't tell Word from Windows anyway. Yes folks its true - half of all PC users are of below average intelligence!
Even when you tell them "the reason you get the message Your application has committed an imoral act, and will go directly to hell" is because they bought software from William Gates, they respond "I have to, I use Windows". (These are probably the same morons that buy Ford cars. I have a Mondeo, so I should know :-)
Wasn't this a case of Knuth copying Unix? Or rather, using the well-known Unix source code as an example?
It had separate control over pull-up and pull-down transistors on one of the IO ports, so it was possible to enable pull-ups and pull-downs together. This would allow the entire output of the power supply to be dissipated in the output port.
This was a processor targeted at portable equipment (we used it in pagers). The CPU could easily set fire to the PWA and plastic case.
I forget who made the chip, but it was appalling rubbish in many other ways too: The same opcode did different things according to which memory page it was loaded in (so forget relocating linkers). I heard rumours that programmers' brains would catch fire trying to debug the thing, as the program counter did not increment, but used a grey code sequence to avoid having to have a carry look-ahead.
HCF was certainly not new technology when the 6800 came out. Early LSI logic "Naked Minis", and some models of DG Nova could burn out core memory by looping on a "JMP $" instruction, as sustaining the drive current through a single location would, over a period of seconds, burn out the drivers, wires, or both.
After working on sh*te like this, the 6800 was a programmers dream come true (until the 6501 came out).
Incidentally, Motorola was noe for a sense of humour: in the early days of the 6800, probably 1975, they issued a data sheet for a compatible 68xx Write Only Memory "Ideal for implementing /dev/null". It featured a "Not Chip Destruct" pin, which, if not grounded, would cause the chip to self-destruct. I guess it found volume sales with Mission Impossible. They also used to sell a 1-bit CPU. Does anyone know whether this was a serious product, or another 1 April release?
The boot sector is replaced with a BSD style boot selector, set to boot from the "stolen" partition by default (ie if you are using the machine yourself, you select BSD or Windows - thief has 5 secs to figure out what is wrong, and cant, so gets default behaviour.
After the initial boot sector process, control passes to a next stage, "Stolen" ... This displays a message "Unable to start Windows ... perhaps modem cable is not connected to the phone? ... Please connect cable to phone, and press return"
The average thief will understand this, and connect the phone cable. The real owner would press CTL-ALT-DEL.
When the thief connects the cable and presses "enter" the phone dials the owner, his mates, his mobile, his dog, cat, ma, pa, and the 911, 999 (in case its in Europe), FPI's private number, SWAT, the US Marines, Bin Laden, the Mafia hit-man hot line, and that number the Gas Company reserves for reporting leaking gas mains.
Not only that, the boot sequence will auto-hack so this is the ONLY boot option, and disable CTL-ALT-DEL. The dialling sequence will repeat till the battery runs out.
Someone will be pissed enough to find out who owns the unlisted number and send the boys with big sticks round for a visit.
I believe Bill Gates has a aptent on that - its called WinXP.
Mail filters could be really effective.
Or maybe that needs an embedded nuclear weapon.
If it was an MS operation, it would be on $10k worth of hardware, connected via T3. When over stressed, it would collapse in a heap and wait for a re-boot.
In all known tests, OSS delivers more power on less kit, and fails cleaner, or someone was bribed.
If you can read this, thank a troll.