ah yes, that was it exactly. Knew it was something like that. But it allowed you to edit the hex code. We used it to hack up our games with custom messages and change power ups. (unlimited resources in Moonbase! rawk! haha)
Ahh memories. When I was a senior in highschool, we got a spiffy new computer lab filled Mac LC II's. Pretty damn nice. well they put one of the advanced math teachers in charge of them. He even taught some simple programming classes. Well the computer lab was open to anyone at anytime. If you were in studyhall, all you had to do was ask to go use the lab. No monitors, nothing. You could play whatever games you brought in off a floppy. A friend and i discovered this lovely program in the math/programming folder called HexEdit. And it had this cool BLUE jack-in-the-box icon that was just screaming, "CLICK ME!!" It was literally 2 clicks in off the desktop. Well it did exactly what the title described. let you edit the hex code of any file you wanted. first thing we checked; disable the lockdown software on the macs. Yup. works fine. Change one little hex char and the computer was wide open. After (ahem) borrowing a couple of nice programs (sweet physics prog and couple math progs, and the hexedit prog); we reenabled the lockdown software.
We then went down the hallway that afternoon and TOLD THE TEACHER ABOUT IT.
He DID NOTHING.
Less than a week later, Macs were failing left and right. Not booting, crashing, etc. It didn't take a lot of brains to figure out that other people had found the program. However, people with less brains immediately cornered me and my friend. Cuz when the computers break, you blame the geeks, of course.:/ They completely suspended our computer use, and sent letters to our parents. We were threated with detention and suspension. This didn't happen. Particularly after we explained to the administration how we had informed the teacher of his stupidity and he did nothing. And it helped that my mother was on the school board at the time, and she knew more about computers than most of the administration. Still ended up with restricted use. No other students got even talked to. Even though my friend and I could name at least 6 obvious culprits. Most of the rest of our class thought it was the stupidest thing ever. Since they, and many of the teachers, relied on us for computer help.
The lab was no longer wide open, and they had a teacher/staff person in there all the time after this. too little, too late.
To quote another poster; People fear what they don't understand. I would add; And if you understand it, then they fear you, too.
But when the Generals follow the pres, and the colonels follow the generals, and the Majors, capts, and ltnts follow the colonels, etc... How much say does the average soldier actually have?
"Every soldier takes an oath to uphold the constitution, an none take an oath of personal loyalty to a specific man who happens to be president."
But when the president is the "commander-in-chief", effectively your ultimate boss, and you don't obey his orders, you get a courtmartial and thrown in jail.
Uhh... what? What insurrection? Last I knew we were fighting Al-Qaeda. Did I miss some mass violent uprising somewhere on this continent?
And making a bad analogy is a hell of a stretch of the meaning of aid and comfort to the enemy... Last time I checked, bad mouthing the government/country/president was a constitutional garuantee... Oh gee! it's the very first amendment!
Character assissination is nothing new. Welcome to American politics of the last 60 years.
Even though I don't agree with which side you're likely on, I have to unfortunately agree with your last 2 paragraphs. The country is heading downhill fast. I hope not to meet you across a field of craters.
Okay.. I watche dthe whole lame ass "interview" and I still didn't see the thing "working" I saw a desktop computer with a lame menu system, and a list of titles. And then some fancy logos flashing on the screen. but NOTHING ACTUALLY PLAYING; no games, no video, no music. NOTHING.
Sorry, I thought you were being sarcastic... Since we were talking about servers- It is much more fruitful to check the MS TechNet sites for the product you have then to wait for it to _maybe_ hit windows updates. With the added benefit on Technet of having actual information about what it is your getting. Windows Update is too much of a "Get this now! it's important! Really! Cuz we said so!" With no information on compatabilities, possible problems (exchange 2003 SP1 had 3 hotfixes less than a week after release), etc.
There have been several patches and hotfixed for server/exchange 2003 not listed on windows updates. And windows update will not push service packs, you have to manually get them. I'll clarify my statement by changing "windows" to "automatic".
And yes, I'm aware people would/could use server 2k3 as a workstation. Although I'd have to wonder why, unless you're a developer.
You shouldn't be browsing the web from your server anyway!
yes, let's lower the security settings on my server so I can go read Yahoo! and check my email.
The only "browsing" you should be doing from the server is to Windows Updates. And you can usually skip that, since most of the really important patches and service packs aren't even listed there.
It's called liquid breathing... And although is nothing like what is described in the article, it is pretty cool technology. Research started on animals (mice) in the 1960's, and has progressed to the point where it's being used to assist premature babies with respiratory problems. http://www.answers.com/topic/fluid-breathing
"gave two typical home users PCs with fresh installs of XP Home and a variant of Linux I think we both know which PC would end up being used,"
And that has nothing to do with Windows being the dominant operating system for the last 10+ years does it... And thereby something that the home users are familiar with, having at least seen it from 3.1 to 95 to 98.
A much better experiment would be to find people who have NEVER used computers in ANY form or OS. Give them a configured Windows machine, and a configured Linux machine. THEN see which one gets used more.
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ah yes, that was it exactly.
Knew it was something like that. But it allowed you to edit the hex code.
We used it to hack up our games with custom messages and change power ups. (unlimited resources in Moonbase! rawk! haha)
Ahh memories.
:/
When I was a senior in highschool, we got a spiffy new computer lab filled Mac LC II's. Pretty damn nice.
well they put one of the advanced math teachers in charge of them. He even taught some simple programming classes.
Well the computer lab was open to anyone at anytime. If you were in studyhall, all you had to do was ask to go use the lab. No monitors, nothing. You could play whatever games you brought in off a floppy.
A friend and i discovered this lovely program in the math/programming folder called HexEdit. And it had this cool BLUE jack-in-the-box icon that was just screaming, "CLICK ME!!" It was literally 2 clicks in off the desktop. Well it did exactly what the title described. let you edit the hex code of any file you wanted.
first thing we checked; disable the lockdown software on the macs. Yup. works fine. Change one little hex char and the computer was wide open.
After (ahem) borrowing a couple of nice programs (sweet physics prog and couple math progs, and the hexedit prog); we reenabled the lockdown software.
We then went down the hallway that afternoon and TOLD THE TEACHER ABOUT IT.
He DID NOTHING.
Less than a week later, Macs were failing left and right. Not booting, crashing, etc. It didn't take a lot of brains to figure out that other people had found the program.
However, people with less brains immediately cornered me and my friend. Cuz when the computers break, you blame the geeks, of course.
They completely suspended our computer use, and sent letters to our parents. We were threated with detention and suspension. This didn't happen. Particularly after we explained to the administration how we had informed the teacher of his stupidity and he did nothing. And it helped that my mother was on the school board at the time, and she knew more about computers than most of the administration.
Still ended up with restricted use. No other students got even talked to. Even though my friend and I could name at least 6 obvious culprits. Most of the rest of our class thought it was the stupidest thing ever. Since they, and many of the teachers, relied on us for computer help.
The lab was no longer wide open, and they had a teacher/staff person in there all the time after this. too little, too late.
To quote another poster; People fear what they don't understand.
I would add; And if you understand it, then they fear you, too.
no, dumbass... it's now 5O7r3x13r.
oh, crap.
But when the Generals follow the pres, and the colonels follow the generals, and the Majors, capts, and ltnts follow the colonels, etc...
How much say does the average soldier actually have?
"Every soldier takes an oath to uphold the constitution, an none take an oath of personal loyalty to a specific man who happens to be president."
But when the president is the "commander-in-chief", effectively your ultimate boss, and you don't obey his orders, you get a courtmartial and thrown in jail.
Lovely catch-22.
"aid and comfort to an enemy insurrection"
Uhh... what?
What insurrection? Last I knew we were fighting Al-Qaeda. Did I miss some mass violent uprising somewhere on this continent?
And making a bad analogy is a hell of a stretch of the meaning of aid and comfort to the enemy... Last time I checked, bad mouthing the government/country/president was a constitutional garuantee... Oh gee! it's the very first amendment!
Character assissination is nothing new. Welcome to American politics of the last 60 years.
Even though I don't agree with which side you're likely on, I have to unfortunately agree with your last 2 paragraphs. The country is heading downhill fast. I hope not to meet you across a field of craters.
"The guy is a seditious asshole."
I think you need to refresh your definition of seditious/sedition...
I didn't hear anything in either of his statments that was inciting a rebellion or insurrection.
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=sedition
It may have been an inappropriate analogy, but it wasn't anywhere close to sedition.
I am totally using this method the next time I have to do a presentation!
In Albany, NY, my numbers for May are;
3.9219 cents per kWh delivery charge x 150 = 588.285 cents = $5.88
plus
6.8590 cents per kWh supply charge x150 = 1028.85 cents = $10.29
For a total of $16.17 per month.
This is usage alone and does not include taxes, stupid little surcharges, etc. Which probably bring the total closer to $25.
But in Soviet Russia; Friends do it like you!
or something...
And since our lovely administration has a hardon for corporations, we'd probably have India under an embargo in 2 weeks.
Okay.. I watche dthe whole lame ass "interview" and I still didn't see the thing "working"
I saw a desktop computer with a lame menu system, and a list of titles. And then some fancy logos flashing on the screen. but NOTHING ACTUALLY PLAYING; no games, no video, no music. NOTHING.
It's still bullshit.
Only if it got distracted right before it hit the desk...
(/is finishing tHHGttG...)
" Lisa gets married to a computer nerd and Maggie is a high school slut."
I think someone is channeling their personal fantasies...
Sorry, I thought you were being sarcastic...
Since we were talking about servers- It is much more fruitful to check the MS TechNet sites for the product you have then to wait for it to _maybe_ hit windows updates.
With the added benefit on Technet of having actual information about what it is your getting. Windows Update is too much of a "Get this now! it's important! Really! Cuz we said so!" With no information on compatabilities, possible problems (exchange 2003 SP1 had 3 hotfixes less than a week after release), etc.
There have been several patches and hotfixed for server/exchange 2003 not listed on windows updates.
And windows update will not push service packs, you have to manually get them. I'll clarify my statement by changing "windows" to "automatic".
And yes, I'm aware people would/could use server 2k3 as a workstation. Although I'd have to wonder why, unless you're a developer.
You shouldn't be browsing the web from your server anyway!
yes, let's lower the security settings on my server so I can go read Yahoo! and check my email.
The only "browsing" you should be doing from the server is to Windows Updates. And you can usually skip that, since most of the really important patches and service packs aren't even listed there.
It's called liquid breathing...
And although is nothing like what is described in the article, it is pretty cool technology.
Research started on animals (mice) in the 1960's, and has progressed to the point where it's being used to assist premature babies with respiratory problems.
http://www.answers.com/topic/fluid-breathing
My initial thought upon reading the summary was that he built it sideways- thus using one of the "wings" as the desktop.
But I must admit it does look pretty good. And far more usability than other case mods I've seen.
no, no...
It was the people on the inside drilling out to see what's there!
Wait, you mean the earth isn't a Dyson Sphere?
precisely my point...
but they're putting it like they "cleaned it all up and it's good as new!" like washing your car or something.
BS.
"Microsoft said it cleaned the Web site, www.msn.co.kr, and removed the dangerous software code... "
I got $5 that says this translates to "formatted and reinstalled the OS..."
" Hey man! The MirrorDot page you are looking for is not here."
maybe we need a mirror for mirrordot?
bah.. /. stripped my "sarcasm" tags from the first two sentences.
"gave two typical home users PCs with fresh installs of XP Home and a variant of Linux I think we both know which PC would end up being used,"
And that has nothing to do with Windows being the dominant operating system for the last 10+ years does it... And thereby something that the home users are familiar with, having at least seen it from 3.1 to 95 to 98.
A much better experiment would be to find people who have NEVER used computers in ANY form or OS. Give them a configured Windows machine, and a configured Linux machine. THEN see which one gets used more.
Now that would actually be a USEFUL study.