Company I work for uses software written back in 70's running on IBM beasts (what else). I talked with one of original designers regarding Y2K problems back in 1999. She told that when they planned it, potential Y2K problems were considered, but since no one belived that system would be still in use nearly 30 years later they wrote it non-Y2K compatible way to save couple bits.
Did some googling couple weeks ago when it came up on ebay for first time and found photos of same plane while disassembled and under restoration. Didn't find URL, but shouldn't be that hard. Just follow links from official Blue Angel's web page to list of decomissioned planes. It was somewhere over there.
They released kernel security update because it was patched ~17th December. They just had to wait until hole was officially published and fixed on kernel.org kernel before allowed to release it.
Who cares? Dual PPro 2500 + 768MB working just fine. All you need is couple kernel parameters. If you can't find answer using Google maybe you should leave old server hardware alone and go with new PCs instead.
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Device Estonian folks used was actually quite sophisticated. I saw short clip of it on YLE News on TV back then. From later news transmission that part where electronics and construction of device were shown was removed and on the one time they showed it some police came and moved device away from cameras. Guess cops said you're not allowed to show that on TV.
These are facts:
Device had card reader. It was placed on front of real card slot so when you inserted card magnetic stripe was read.
People who's cards got copied said it was difficult to get card out from ATM machine. This was because after transaction ejected card was partially blocked by extra reader device those guys installed.
Keypad had kinda sticks on bottom so when you pushed number on spying keyboard it pushed real button under it at the same time. Electronics connected to fake keyboard recorded your PIN and saved it to NVRAM among content of magnetic stripe it just read as well.
Card reader was connected to keypad module that had most of electronics using cable. Cable was covered with square plastic housing to keep it less obvious what was going on.
Since you got your money from ATM no-one suspected anything fishy until day or two later when your bank account was empty.
Crooks were waiting on nearby car. After some time they went to ATM and removed their device.
Ok, those were facts. There were some claims that device had also WLAN or some other wireless connectivity so card numbers and PIN codes would have been transferred to crooks realtime. However I think that's just rumour.
Device had factory made looking PCB inside. Probably some SBC development thingy.
If there's someone with Helsingin Sanomat archive access you could probably find more details from there. HS is Finnish newspaper so that part was for finnish readers.
That's incorrect. Apparently you haven't been working on company that has Microsoft Select with Enterprise Agreement.
You pay yearly fee for right to use ANY version of Windows, Office, BackOffice CALs, etc. You don't need to buy separate licenses for these products at beginning EXCEPT Windows license.
So when you buy new Compaq PC with OEM Windows 98SE and your company uses only Win2000 it's not a problem since you have necessary licenses. However if you somehow managed to buy new PC without Windows you'll need to buy separate Windows license from Microsoft or nearest PC store. Version doesn't matter since you have license to use any version you want.
Regarding Office etc. there's no such odd requirements. I suppose reason Microsoft requires you buy Windows with new PC is their deals with OEM's. If Compaq could sell PC's without Windows to large companies they would sell PC's without Windows to individuals as well which could eventually bring bigger market share for Linux and other alternative OS's.
Solution to companies selling their old PC's to employees is put Win95 OSR2 to all of them since all PC's have license to at least old Win95 (PC's with Win98 licenses can legally be installed with Win95 or Win3x), upgrade latest fixes, Internet Explorer 6 and StarOffice. All either already licensed or free.
Regarding actual license papers or codes it doesn't really matter. Microsoft says you can't move OEM Windows license from your old PC to your new PC. Therefore old PC will have valid license even if you lose media (if provided by OEM at all) or serial and license paper. New PC's have that license as a sticker on top or bottom so that problem doesn't even apply to them.
TightVNC does pretty bad job on screen updating and can produce really corrupted screen if you need to scroll VNC window (not client app window).
Speed is great tho.
Normal VNC can eat even 40% of cpu cycles when client active. These numbers are from quad xeon p3-700 with 2M cache so yeas, it's poorly optimized on windows.
Yeah. In Finland I paid 0 FIM / 3 months of free unlimited GPRS use. Sure it was just Pilot program for test users, but so is 99 FIM / month Sonera GPRS. It's not final product yet.
Same here. Been fighting with piece-of-shit #9 VLB/ISA/PCI cards based on S3 chips with non-standard ramdac and clockchip implementations at work. And when you got them finally working they're f*cking slow. Hate 'em. I can't say that they deserved what happened 'cause haven't tried any non-outdated products from them lately.
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Company I work for uses software written back in 70's running on IBM beasts (what else). I talked with one of original designers regarding Y2K problems back in 1999. She told that when they planned it, potential Y2K problems were considered, but since no one belived that system would be still in use nearly 30 years later they wrote it non-Y2K compatible way to save couple bits.
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Did some googling couple weeks ago when it came up on ebay for first time and found photos of same plane while disassembled and under restoration. Didn't find URL, but shouldn't be that hard. Just follow links from official Blue Angel's web page to list of decomissioned planes. It was somewhere over there.
They released kernel security update because it was patched ~17th December. They just had to wait until hole was officially published and fixed on kernel.org kernel before allowed to release it.
Who cares? Dual PPro 2500 + 768MB working just fine. All you need is couple kernel parameters. If you can't find answer using Google maybe you should leave old server hardware alone and go with new PCs instead.
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Device Estonian folks used was actually quite sophisticated. I saw short clip of it on YLE News on TV back then. From later news transmission that part where electronics and construction of device were shown was removed and on the one time they showed it some police came and moved device away from cameras. Guess cops said you're not allowed to show that on TV.
These are facts:
Device had card reader. It was placed on front of real card slot so when you inserted card magnetic stripe was read.
People who's cards got copied said it was difficult to get card out from ATM machine. This was because after transaction ejected card was partially blocked by extra reader device those guys installed.
Keypad had kinda sticks on bottom so when you pushed number on spying keyboard it pushed real button under it at the same time. Electronics connected to fake keyboard recorded your PIN and saved it to NVRAM among content of magnetic stripe it just read as well.
Card reader was connected to keypad module that had most of electronics using cable. Cable was covered with square plastic housing to keep it less obvious what was going on.
Since you got your money from ATM no-one suspected anything fishy until day or two later when your bank account was empty.
Crooks were waiting on nearby car. After some
time they went to ATM and removed their device.
Ok, those were facts. There were some claims that device had also WLAN or some other wireless connectivity so card numbers and PIN codes would have been transferred to crooks realtime. However I think that's just rumour.
Device had factory made looking PCB inside. Probably some SBC development thingy.
If there's someone with Helsingin Sanomat archive access you could probably find more details from there. HS is Finnish newspaper so that part was for finnish readers.
That's incorrect. Apparently you haven't been working on company that has Microsoft Select with Enterprise Agreement.
You pay yearly fee for right to use ANY version of Windows, Office, BackOffice CALs, etc. You don't need to buy separate licenses for these products at beginning EXCEPT Windows license.
So when you buy new Compaq PC with OEM Windows 98SE and your company uses only Win2000 it's not a problem since you have necessary licenses. However if you somehow managed to buy new PC without Windows you'll need to buy separate Windows license from Microsoft or nearest PC store. Version doesn't matter since you have license to use any version you want.
Regarding Office etc. there's no such odd requirements. I suppose reason Microsoft requires you buy Windows with new PC is their deals with OEM's. If Compaq could sell PC's without Windows to large companies they would sell PC's without Windows to individuals as well which could eventually bring bigger market share for Linux and other alternative OS's.
Solution to companies selling their old PC's to employees is put Win95 OSR2 to all of them since all PC's have license to at least old Win95 (PC's with Win98 licenses can legally be installed with Win95 or Win3x), upgrade latest fixes, Internet Explorer 6 and StarOffice. All either already licensed or free.
Regarding actual license papers or codes it doesn't really matter. Microsoft says you can't move OEM Windows license from your old PC to your new PC. Therefore old PC will have valid license even if you lose media (if provided by OEM at all) or serial and license paper. New PC's have that license as a sticker on top or bottom so that problem doesn't even apply to them.
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TightVNC does pretty bad job on screen updating and can produce really corrupted screen if you need to scroll VNC window (not client app window).
Speed is great tho.
Normal VNC can eat even 40% of cpu cycles when client active. These numbers are from quad xeon p3-700 with 2M cache so yeas, it's poorly optimized on windows.
Yeah. In Finland I paid 0 FIM / 3 months of free unlimited GPRS use. Sure it was just Pilot program for test users, but so is 99 FIM / month Sonera GPRS. It's not final product yet.
Same here. Been fighting with piece-of-shit #9 VLB/ISA/PCI cards based on S3 chips with non-standard ramdac and clockchip implementations at work. And when you got them finally working they're f*cking slow. Hate 'em. I can't say that they deserved what happened 'cause haven't tried any non-outdated products from them lately.