Wow. That must've sucked (but I would have been ROTFLMAO if it wasn't me). I picked up cards on purpose, too. I needed three blank cards to fix a syntax error in a Fortran program 3am one morning at Chico State Univ. (Calif). Uh-oh--NO blank cards. Damn!
Ended up picking up each of a hundred cards scattered on the floor, and running them again & again through the 81-column card sorter. I essentially did a radix sort by the blank column, and after cycling through all 80 columns, any left over in the last bin must be blank!
The following year I returned to find all the keypunch machines had been replaced with dozens of Heathkit H-19 terminals...JUST like the one I had built in my dorm room the previous semester! Cool.
My family had to live in the core memory of a mainframe to stay warm. We couldn't sleep whenever a program was running--every time the memory was read, we got a 100V shock! We washed ourselves with tape-head cleaner, brushed our teeth with those tiny sponges on sticks, and dried off by rubbing our bodies against the line printer paper as it came out.
For me, taping was a hassle. Sure, it's cheap, but you can't quickly hunt down a particular show you want to watch, you have to remember to swap out tapes as they fill, you have to manage your tape collection ("I can't reuse this tape because there is one show in the middle I still haven't watched").
Arrrgh! That's exactly the problem I run into with the VCR. Short of setting up a full-blown tape library/database (geek alert!), I don't always remember how many shows got onto a particular tape (% full), and if I get interrupted when watching a taped show, or get close to the time of another show I want to tape, I eject the first tape. Can I re-record over the first 3 hours of that tape? Hmmm. No time to rewind. Find another tape. I need 4 hours...can't use that tape. Later...what the heck was on that tape? No distributed table of contents either!
Simply put, VCR tape management for weekly recording/time-shifting is a hassle.
...using the embedded time signal present in most local TV stations. It's automatic in my Sony, but you can force it to search for the time signal across channels, or even specify the channel if you know which carries it.
With my VCR on a UPS, I'm guaranteed at least one correct clock in the house after a power failure.
Shields against such a weapon would be simple. Just detect the charge of the beam being fired at you and produce a large electric field of the same charge. This system would be ideal for defending earth from asteroids and the borg.
...cycle their shield frequency, so who's to say they wouldn't cycle their weapon frequency as well?
A place I worked had a so-called "disintegrator" into which we'd pile books, manuals, 11x14-7/8" greenbar paper, etc. for destruction. A favorite was a full tape reel, because it made a horrific grinding/clattering noise. We once opened up the equipment to see what the ground-up results looked like: white powder for the paper, and a pile of cocoa for the tape!
Back in 1982, I was going to toss a bad Scotch Black Watch tape reel, but instead, as a joke, I unreeled and stuffed it into a box, sealed it up, and sent it through company mail to a co-worker...in a classified gov't facility.
He laughed, until he realized he had to destroy the tape (no unclass mag storage could leave the building, even in the trash).
Being loose tape, he couldn't degauss it on a machine, and continuous tape would jam the shredder, so the Security People made him chop it into 6" pieces. All 2400 feet of tape.
Boy, was he ever *pissed off* at me (while grudgingly admitting it was a good joke).
They already exist: Corso Enterprises. Combine these with the chemical freeze-packs (bend them, chemicals mix and they get cold), and you wouldn't need to worry about keeping them cold ahead of time.
Anything that filters the power can disrupt the signal, so using the same rule of thumb as an X-10 box, I wouldn't plug it into a filtering surge protector and definitely not a UPS.
Naa, just drop a planeload of the B-52's bootleg "Cosmic Thing" CD. That'd cause more damage.
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Overheard at a M$ presentation today: Microsoft to provide free support with virus problems associated with Microsoft products.
Call 866-PCSafety (866-727-2338) or visit
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Phone excerpt: "Welcome to Microsoft Technical Support...this number has been established to assist customers with virus-related issues." Gaah! Still calling them issues?? I suppose they could have renamed M$-supported viruses to something like Microsoft Covert Replicating Autonomous Processes.
You can always use a wired/wireless stealth-type camera, the ones that hide in wall clocks, books, behind mirrors, in real or fake smoke detectors, in fake light switches, clock radios, etc.
Some of these are infrared cameras with integral IR-LED light sources, to record in complete darkness. Doubtful many burglars would carry around an IR detector...or would they?
Those combined with the storage of only images that have changed (software can watch a door or window image within the whole screen image and initiate the image storage cycle), you could have a movie of the perp. to give to the cops.
With a fast link, you can even view certain webcams in near-real-time, say, from work. ("Hey Joe--lookit the creep who's breakin' into my house! Heh-heh. Watch this!" Click.) He presses a remote-control button that releases (a) sleeping gas; (b) an ultraviolet ink mister (for later tracking); (c) pepper spray; (d) brightly-colored Nair at head level.; (e) heat-seeking Dobermans.
If situation C occurs, simply have a stretcher-bot with flashing lights and low siren come out onto the now-silent floor, zero in on the collapsed/croaked dancer, and carry him/her off the floor to be revived (whilst simultaneously calling an ambulance). Afterwards, the music continues. People would love it!
Ahh, the Series 30 console (wooden-desktop minicomputer), where crossing one's legs could trip the unguarded internal memory power switch.
You always knew when the system went down because all the programmers would come out of their offices into the hall like prairie dogs coming out of their holes. The SE's at the (ack!) HP Response Center (who needed occasional correction).
MPEX and SECURITY/3000 were wonderful utilities for MPE. I remember getting MPEX update tapes directly from Eugene Volokh (or his dad, Vladimir) in their little combination house/office off Melrose Avenue in Hollywood, a few blocks from my home. One of the funniest things I heard Vladimir say was when he was talking about providing SECURITY/3000 software to government installations, specifically, the CIA:
Vladimir (in a thick Russian accent): "When we come to U.S., the CIA make file on us. Now we sell them our software, and we make file on them! Ha Ha Ha!"
Getting PRIV MODE on the MPE systems was a neat hack (learned it at CSU, Chico State), and using it + a Contributed Library pgm to change someone else's login/group was a kick... "What the?! How did I get logged on as *this* person? What's going on?" You change it back while they find someone to help them and they look like a loony.
Chico State's hands-on computer lab had HP1000's and a 2100MX that booted from either toggled-in locations (or if a really bad crash, paper tape). I'm not sorry to see those punch cards go!
That 3000 and teletype console was behind a glass wall (ooh!) so we couldn't muck with it.
Ahhh, those were the days (the early 80's).
Thanks for the memories, HP.
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Ended up picking up each of a hundred cards scattered on the floor, and running them again & again through the 81-column card sorter. I essentially did a radix sort by the blank column, and after cycling through all 80 columns, any left over in the last bin must be blank!
The following year I returned to find all the keypunch machines had been replaced with dozens of Heathkit H-19 terminals...JUST like the one I had built in my dorm room the previous semester! Cool.Ahh, I dreamed of an open road to sleep on.
My family had to live in the core memory of a mainframe to stay warm. We couldn't sleep whenever a program was running--every time the memory was read, we got a 100V shock! We washed ourselves with tape-head cleaner, brushed our teeth with those tiny sponges on sticks, and dried off by rubbing our bodies against the line printer paper as it came out.For me, taping was a hassle. Sure, it's cheap, but you can't quickly hunt down a particular show you want to watch, you have to remember to swap out tapes as they fill, you have to manage your tape collection ("I can't reuse this tape because there is one show in the middle I still haven't watched").
Arrrgh! That's exactly the problem I run into with the VCR. Short of setting up a full-blown tape library/database (geek alert!), I don't always remember how many shows got onto a particular tape (% full), and if I get interrupted when watching a taped show, or get close to the time of another show I want to tape, I eject the first tape. Can I re-record over the first 3 hours of that tape? Hmmm. No time to rewind. Find another tape. I need 4 hours...can't use that tape. Later...what the heck was on that tape? No distributed table of contents either!Simply put, VCR tape management for weekly recording/time-shifting is a hassle.
With my VCR on a UPS, I'm guaranteed at least one correct clock in the house after a power failure.
Shields against such a weapon would be simple. Just detect the charge of the beam being fired at you and produce a large electric field of the same charge. This system would be ideal for defending earth from asteroids and the borg.
Or do we just continue to pay in cash and not get tracked?
Too late, at least for those using the Euro. Recall the Europe Adding RFID Tags to Euro Currency ?
How long until US currency has this "feature?"I think the password got munged. It asked me 3 times, so I bailed.
The 5-1/4" Wang disks were hard sectored. They also put little dots (instead of spaces) between words in their word processors.
A place I worked had a so-called "disintegrator" into which we'd pile books, manuals, 11x14-7/8" greenbar paper, etc. for destruction. A favorite was a full tape reel, because it made a horrific grinding/clattering noise. We once opened up the equipment to see what the ground-up results looked like: white powder for the paper, and a pile of cocoa for the tape!
No, I didn't taste it.Back in 1982, I was going to toss a bad Scotch Black Watch tape reel, but instead, as a joke, I unreeled and stuffed it into a box, sealed it up, and sent it through company mail to a co-worker...in a classified gov't facility.
He laughed, until he realized he had to destroy the tape (no unclass mag storage could leave the building, even in the trash). Being loose tape, he couldn't degauss it on a machine, and continuous tape would jam the shredder, so the Security People made him chop it into 6" pieces. All 2400 feet of tape. Boy, was he ever *pissed off* at me (while grudgingly admitting it was a good joke).They already exist: Corso Enterprises. Combine these with the chemical freeze-packs (bend them, chemicals mix and they get cold), and you wouldn't need to worry about keeping them cold ahead of time.
Anything that filters the power can disrupt the signal, so using the same rule of thumb as an X-10 box, I wouldn't plug it into a filtering surge protector and definitely not a UPS.
Naa, just drop a planeload of the B-52's bootleg "Cosmic Thing" CD. That'd cause more damage.
Overheard at a M$ presentation today: Microsoft to provide free support with virus problems associated with Microsoft products.
Call 866-PCSafety (866-727-2338) or visit here Phone excerpt: "Welcome to Microsoft Technical Support...this number has been established to assist customers with virus-related issues." Gaah! Still calling them issues?? I suppose they could have renamed M$-supported viruses to something like Microsoft Covert Replicating Autonomous Processes.
--If you give a person a fish, they'll fish for a day. But if you train them to fish, they'll fish for a lifetime.
...and if you sell fake fishing licenses you can afford to buy a boat!
You can always use a wired/wireless stealth-type camera, the ones that hide in wall clocks, books, behind mirrors, in real or fake smoke detectors, in fake light switches, clock radios, etc.
Some of these are infrared cameras with integral IR-LED light sources, to record in complete darkness. Doubtful many burglars would carry around an IR detector...or would they?
Those combined with the storage of only images that have changed (software can watch a door or window image within the whole screen image and initiate the image storage cycle), you could have a movie of the perp. to give to the cops.
With a fast link, you can even view certain webcams in near-real-time, say, from work. ("Hey Joe--lookit the creep who's breakin' into my house! Heh-heh. Watch this!" Click.) He presses a remote-control button that releases (a) sleeping gas; (b) an ultraviolet ink mister (for later tracking); (c) pepper spray; (d) brightly-colored Nair at head level.; (e) heat-seeking Dobermans.
to the ol' computer "Crash and Burn."
If situation C occurs, simply have a stretcher-bot with flashing lights and low siren come out onto the now-silent floor, zero in on the collapsed/croaked dancer, and carry him/her off the floor to be revived (whilst simultaneously calling an ambulance). Afterwards, the music continues. People would love it!
Ahh, the Series 30 console (wooden-desktop minicomputer), where crossing one's legs could trip the unguarded internal memory power switch. You always knew when the system went down because all the programmers would come out of their offices into the hall like prairie dogs coming out of their holes. The SE's at the (ack!) HP Response Center (who needed occasional correction).
MPEX and SECURITY/3000 were wonderful utilities for MPE. I remember getting MPEX update tapes directly from Eugene Volokh (or his dad, Vladimir) in their little combination house/office off Melrose Avenue in Hollywood, a few blocks from my home. One of the funniest things I heard Vladimir say was when he was talking about providing SECURITY/3000 software to government installations, specifically, the CIA:
Vladimir (in a thick Russian accent): "When we come to U.S., the CIA make file on us. Now we sell them our software, and we make file on them! Ha Ha Ha!"
Getting PRIV MODE on the MPE systems was a neat hack (learned it at CSU, Chico State), and using it + a Contributed Library pgm to change someone else's login/group was a kick... "What the?! How did I get logged on as *this* person? What's going on?" You change it back while they find someone to help them and they look like a loony.
Chico State's hands-on computer lab had HP1000's and a 2100MX that booted from either toggled-in locations (or if a really bad crash, paper tape). I'm not sorry to see those punch cards go! That 3000 and teletype console was behind a glass wall (ooh!) so we couldn't muck with it.Ahhh, those were the days (the early 80's). Thanks for the memories, HP.