I hear greatest hack... I think of the balloon popping out of the middle of the football field during the Harvard-Yale game. But then I'm biased... I went to MIT
As far as digital pranks, my best was done to a poor computer at Walmart. I wrote a 2-byte com program that was interrupt 13 (reboots the computer under DOS). I named it win.com and dir.com. I then edited the file with the dir reference(forgot which one it was... been a long time since I mucked with DOS) so that dir would run dir.com (don't forget to make sure it is in the path!) I always would giggle thinking of some poor guy trying to run windows and then when the machine rebooted trying to run dir to see what was up.
I think it is a good thing... not necessarily because it makes people a lot of money, but that it networks a lot of people together. Information has and will always be a valuable comodity and it has become 'cheaper' to obtain for people on the Internet. This lower barrier to information can only help people gain the background information needed to dream up further improvements for mankind.
Sidenote on jobs and the boom ending: I don't think wages will go down that much... what I think will happen is all the people who learned to program using those Learn Foo in 21 Days will finally be exposed and thrown out. Not to sound elitist but programming is not for everyone and requires certain kinds of thinking that many people just can not do.
I've always thought that any new technology first gets applied to a problem in the same way that the old tech is... and then gets applied in a new way that is much better.(or so we think)
A good example I always remember is electricity in drying clothes... first it was used to power a device that squeezed water out (as opposed to someone having to turn the crank)... later on someone made the dryer....
So far most people use computers as a glorified typewriter.
Computers are probably much better suited to assigning jobs to people (at least in the sectors where it is easier to quantify what a person can do in X amount of times) or in automating various tasks...
A good example in using computing that I could think of is if I had a largish retail store I could have a computer 'guesstimate' sales and preemptively order product to ensure there is something to sell and to minimize excess inventory.
I guess my point is that we need to figure out how best to use computers and then the productivity gains will come.
Background: I have a 16 month old Past Situation: Worked at home Current Situation: Bought a house and kept my apartment to work at.
I had to work somewhere else because I kept on wanting to go play with my kid. I truly do not understand why people would rather have a TV babysit their kid when I find playing with a toddler to be highly entertaining. The TV is rarely on.... I don't get many channels and I always seem to forget to order cable. Maybe if they regulate something it should be who can create offspring.. I mean if you aren't willing to spend time with your kids why have them?
Well this looks like an interesting law... howevere I'd like to see something a bit more like.... any transactions across state or federal borders being taxed by the feds and the money sent to the state (or states) involved. Locals would get their money without having to resort to making pacthwork of local sales tax laws. I guess we'd have to figure out what makes a state involved... probably state where item is purchased and state where web server exists would work. This would also allow local communities to recapture tax revenue lost through mail ordering/etc. Not sure if I'm too fond of feds dictating how money must be spent though... but paying the salaries of teachers is a rather noble thing.
Just keep track of your hours and when it's time to quit or move on go and file a complaint with the appropriate government office for back pay. Sure it's kind of a bastard thing to do, but hey the people you are working for are taking advantage of you.
First off, you can set up a scholarship to have any bloody criteria you want. If I wanted to set up a Nazi-Skinhead Computer Science scholarship, there is nothing anyone can do to stop me.
Second off, how many scholarships are 'unnofficially' for white males. Sure they may be available to all, but due to current conditions and circumstances, they end up always seeming to go to white males.
I have to laugh at any country that tries to somehow restrict access to the 'net via taxes or censorship. Considering the trend toward globalization, any roadblock to access to information could only harm a country in the long run.
Has anyone ever tried to use a sterling engine to cool a CPU? I know sufficiently powerful sterling engines can liquefy helium (~4 degress Kelvin I think?)
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I hear greatest hack... I think of the balloon popping out of the middle of the football field during the Harvard-Yale game. But then I'm biased... I went to MIT
As far as digital pranks, my best was done to a poor computer at Walmart. I wrote a 2-byte com program that was interrupt 13 (reboots the computer under DOS). I named it win.com and dir.com. I then edited the file with the dir reference(forgot which one it was... been a long time since I mucked with DOS) so that dir would run dir.com (don't forget to make sure it is in the path!) I always would giggle thinking of some poor guy trying to run windows and then when the machine rebooted trying to run dir to see what was up.
Hope I did this fast enough
I think it is a good thing... not necessarily because it makes people a lot of money, but that it networks a lot of people together. Information has and will always be a valuable comodity and it
has become 'cheaper' to obtain for people on the Internet. This lower barrier to information can
only help people gain the background information needed to dream up further improvements for mankind.
Sidenote on jobs and the boom ending:
I don't think wages will go down that much... what I think will happen is all the people who learned to program using those Learn Foo in 21 Days will finally be exposed and thrown out. Not to sound elitist but programming is not for everyone and requires certain kinds of thinking that many people just can not do.
If that test says I'm violent I'm gonna shoot someone.
And when it gets really pissed at you does it turn blond and shoot lots of energy at you?
:)
Sorry... couldn't resist
I personally would hold out for something better to clone like maybe a Serra Angel.
How long until Kryotech sells a helmet so you can
cool your brain to -36 degrees celsius so you can overclock it?
I can't but help feel a loss... I have a well used
copy of Unix Network Programming and was looking at his TCP/IP book just the other day.
John Casey
p.s. I can't but help feel people are now going to list all the books they own that he wrote
I've always thought that any new technology first
gets applied to a problem in the same way that the
old tech is... and then gets applied in a new way
that is much better.(or so we think)
A good example I always remember is electricity in
drying clothes... first it was used to power
a device that squeezed water out (as opposed to someone having to turn the crank)... later on someone made the dryer....
So far most people use computers as a glorified typewriter.
Computers are probably much better suited to assigning jobs to people (at least in the sectors where it is easier to quantify what a person can do in X amount of times) or in automating various tasks...
A good example in using computing that I could think of is if I had a largish retail store I could have a computer 'guesstimate' sales and preemptively order product to ensure there is something to sell and to minimize excess inventory.
I guess my point is that we need to figure out how best to use computers and then the productivity gains will come.
Maybe I can finally make my robot with the suicide
device... (MIT 2.670 contest organizers frowned on
that idea)
Background: I have a 16 month old
Past Situation: Worked at home
Current Situation: Bought a house and kept my
apartment to work at.
I had to work somewhere else because I kept on
wanting to go play with my kid. I truly do not
understand why people would rather have a TV babysit their kid when I find playing with a toddler to be highly entertaining. The TV is rarely on.... I don't get many channels and I always seem to forget to order cable. Maybe if they regulate something it should be who can create offspring.. I mean if you aren't willing to spend time with your kids why have them?
In case one site fails miserably we have a spare.
John Casey
Gif Rotater
Andover.Net
Well this looks like an interesting law... howevere I'd like to see something a bit more like.... any transactions across state or federal borders being taxed by the feds and the money sent to the state (or states) involved. Locals would
get their money without having to resort to making
pacthwork of local sales tax laws. I guess we'd have to figure out what makes a state involved... probably state where item is purchased and state where web server exists would work. This would also allow local communities to recapture tax revenue lost through mail ordering/etc. Not sure if I'm too fond of feds dictating how money must be spent though... but paying the salaries of teachers is a rather noble thing.
Just keep track of your hours and when it's time to quit or move on go and file a complaint with the appropriate government office for back pay.
Sure it's kind of a bastard thing to do, but hey
the people you are working for are taking advantage of you.
Well according to my big book Unix Network Programming, IPv5 is the Internet Stream protocol. :)
I have no bloody idea what that is
Makes me think of Space Balls.
Slashdot the breakfast cereal!
Slashdot the flamethrower! (I'd buy that)
John Casey
Gif Frobber
Andover.net
First off, you can set up a scholarship to have any bloody criteria you want. If I wanted to set
up a Nazi-Skinhead Computer Science scholarship, there is nothing anyone can do to stop me.
Second off, how many scholarships are 'unnofficially' for white males. Sure they may be
available to all, but due to current conditions and circumstances, they end up always seeming to go to white males.
I have to laugh at any country that tries to somehow restrict access to the 'net via taxes or censorship. Considering the trend toward globalization, any roadblock to access to information could only harm a country in the long run.
Has anyone ever tried to use a sterling engine to
cool a CPU? I know sufficiently powerful sterling
engines can liquefy helium (~4 degress Kelvin I think?)