C:\windows\system\winlogo.rle
A run-length encoded bitmap file, 640x480x16
Actually, IIRC, it was something like 320x480x16. Either that or it was 640x480 but got shrunk. They did something weird to it.
And it wasn't that simple to mess with, either. You needed to create a new win.com file, by using the COPY command to concatenate a bunch of binary files...
The last time I messed with that was, believe it or not, just two and a half years ago. I was actually using Win3.1 on my (t)rusty 486 back then. Yikes! =)
Are you spewing FUD on purpose, or are you really that naieve? Just in case there's someone reading who actually believes you, lemme copy/paste directly from the UOL site.
This nicely explains why you could sign up:
Some UOL members will be PARTICPATING MEMBERS. They will be able to place listings and submit bids in UOL auctions. Non-participating members only have access to view certain information within the UOL system, including auction results (though not the actual auctions as they happen, which will only be private auctions limited to pre-approved participants).
Sign up all you want, guys. Good luck buying anything unless you've been approved, which you won't be.
And this should clear up a lot more:
Q: Does using UOL present a risk of nuclear proliferation?
A: Absolutely not. The handling, use and storage of nuclear fuel is highly regulated around the world. UOL is a simple system that allows participants in the nuclear fuel market to buy and sell nuclear fuel in an efficient and economical manner. Transactions within the UOL system do not occur within the system but involve transfers of nuclear fuel at different facilities around the world. Transfers are initiated by parties holding legitimate accounts with those facilities. These parties, generally utilities operating nuclear reactors or bonafide uranium suppliers or processors, have tight controls of what gets transferred and to whom. In addition, any party working with the UOL system in either a buyer or seller capacity, must have the appropriate licensing from their local, national and international authorities to be able to transact in nuclear fuel. UOL is run by New York Nuclear Corporation (NYNCO), a nuclear fuel broker in business since 1982, and well aware of all possible nuclear fuel market participants througout the world. An unknown entity or suspect entity would not be allowed to participate. As if this were not enough, a party not known to the facilities where nuclear fuel is stored, with an account in existence well before any UOL auction takes place, would not have a chance to an account at such facility into and out of which nuclear fuel can be transferred.
Its a lot easier to shadow buy at an online auction, due to the ease and anominity.
If you read the story (or even other comments) you'd see that there is no anonymity here. The auctions are by invitation only, and they're unlikely to invite a new buyer without some serious investigation. Also, any newcomers to the market can probably expect a visit from the FBI.
What if waitresses didn't get a salary but instead relied entirely on tips?
They pretty much do, at least in this state. The minimum wage for tip-based jobs is rather lower than the normal minimum wage because, well, it's expected that you'll get tips to cover the difference. And if you're good, it'll probably get you a bit more.
How many of you people actually read these articles? Because it's obvious you're not getting the full story. Let me enlighten you:
However, IBM does not have plans to commercialize the Linux watch itself, a spokeswoman said.
``This is just research prototype,'' said Takako Yamakura. ''Some say Linux cannot be scaled down. This is just to show Linux is capable of doing this.''
In other words...get over it, guys. Sorry, no linux watch for you. Not from IBM, anyway.
And as for Mr. "No good will come of this" (my third link) -- Judging from Takako's comment, I'd say this will help a lot more than it can harm. After all, if Linux can be scaled down to fit on a wristwatch, it can obviously be used for [insert name of portable device here].
Looks like someone hasn't read the licence. POV is not even close to being open source. In fact, there's almost nothing that you can do with it apart from use it or patch it.
The source for POVRay is freely available, right? Then it's open source. "open source" does not mean "GPL" or "here's my source, do what you want to with it." Maybe "Open Source" does, but that's not what we're talking about here.
My teacher had plans to have our class work on a program as a team. It never got past the planning stage, which was limited to exactly what I just told you, so I can't really give you details. But I can give you my ideas.
First you need to come up with an idea for the program. It should be fun or interesting (or both) so you'll keep their attention. You should probably write main() yourself, but:
Have the students write -- individually or in small groups -- the functions that actually make the program work. Each team/individual should only be given information necessary to writing their part of the program, probably limited to what inputs they need to take, and outputs they need to give. You'll probably need to write test programs for each of these functions, too.
The idea is to have everyone work on an independant part of the program, and then watch and see how their part helps out all the rest, even though they weren't involved in those parts, and probably don't even know what they're doing.
It's a great way to show how teamwork in programming can pay off.
I don't think much of your company's business acumen if you waited until two days before your product ships before filing for trademarks and patents...
I take it, then, that you've never seen the words "Patent Pending" stamped on a product? I see it all the time. Companies are greedy, and they want to start making money off their products as soon as possible. If that means releasing them before they've actually been issued the patent, then so be it.
Shows up in the most unlikely places, sometimes, too. Last time I went to a concert (Summer Sanitarum Tour at the Foxboro Stadium in Foxboro, MA, FWIW), the tiles that were covering the football field had "patent pending" stamped on them, if I remember right.
I'm replying to someone else's comment here, but since several people have said it, I think this post is better suited for the top level than hidden behind someone else's post.
There may be some SCO shops out there that will be using their products for some time, but they will be stuck in a time warp.
It's not just shops that use computer systems, don't forget. Here at Town Hall, we've got a SCO server in the basement that stores, well... everything. All the tax records for the town, for everyone in the town, and everyone owning property in the town. I'm pretty sure it also stores all the information for the town's spending, and payroll for all town employees.
In case anyone's heard of it, it's mostly done through a program called MUNIS. I don't know if there's a MUNIS version for any other OS, or what trying to port the database would be like. What I do know is that MUNIS is, in my experience, a miserable beast that works fine just so long as you don't touch it. Not to mention, the server runs some proprietary programs that have been written specifically for our use.
I hope that, when and if SCO OSR5 goes away, there will at least still be support for it. Because if there isn't, I'm not sure if migrating to a different OS -- even a similar one like Linux -- would be easy, or even possible. (I'm trying to think of what it would involve, and I'm not liking it.)
Maybe we will be stuck in a time warp. We don't really have much of a choice.
I'm going to Denver at the end of the month, and my pager is staying at home. In fact, even if Denver was in the service area, it would be staying at home.
I do wish I had a laptop to take with me, for entertainment on the plane and so I could keep hacking on a script I'm writing, but I'm doing that for fun anyway. I won't be checking my work email, I won't be telling them where I am (besides "Denver") or how to reach me (even I don't know that), because I'd rather relax and have fun. No way I'm gonna have any connection to the office for that week.
It's sad that other people don't know how to do the same thing. People have always been "overworked and underpaid," but when you throw in the amount of stress that a lot of people have these days (whether it's their own fault or not), people really need to learn how to take a vacation. It's like the stress is such a part of them that they can't just lay back in the sun for a while and soak up some cancer-causing rays without a death grip on their cell phone, just in case the office needs them.
You need your vacation time more than the office does. Remember that. If you're gonna stay tied to work, what's the point in leaving in the first place?
We had to sign an agreement saying we would not resell the software.
If I went to a German university and had software given to me for free does this mean I could turn around and sell it?
I don't think so. See, in this situation, you agreed to recieve a free copy of the software on the condition that you don't resell it. I can't be totally sure since IANAL, of course, but that's my take on it.
Which does me wonders when I'm trying to install printer drivers (a 2mb file) on a computer with a broken ethernet connection. Oops, can't use floppies for that one either.
What's this about Iomega's stuff being "almost obsolete when it comes out"?
Just because they don't come pre-installed in consumer setups (and they can be requested from several companies) doesn't mean they're obsolete. We've got one Zip drive at the office, and I'm considering getting another, because it's come in handy many many times in the past couple weeks.
Floppies are obsolete. I'm surprised something better hasn't fully replaced them yet.
Like a few other people have pointed out, don't be afriad to work for the school.
I spent a lot of time doing volunteer work for the school -- everything from cleaning out the servers (not files on the drives, dust in the cases) to helping teach senior citizens how to surf the web.
So when a job opened up at Town Hall, well...it would have taken some major effort on my part to not get hired. Fresh out of high school, and I'm the Technology Coordinator for Town Hall. Full-time job, salary-based, decent benefits. It's a government job, so the pay could be better (probably be making at least half again what I make now if this were a corporate setting), but I'm not about to complain.
So again, don't rule out working for the school (or in my case, town). If they know what you're capable of, you've got a pretty good shot.
I hope you've realized this from other messages by now, but if not...
COPA was struck down,
Yes, it was. What does that have to do with COPPA, the law we're concerned with here?
and even if that was the reason, what of children outside the US? They wouldn't have been influenced by COPA one bit...
Yes, they would. American companies, due to COPPA, are not allowed to gather information from children under 13. Not just Americans under thirteen... anyone under 13.
Yes, but that works just as well with the IP hidden. You don't need to know it, just your copy of the client.
netstat -a
This leads to one of two scenarios:
1) You're chatting with the avearge user on ICQ. They won't know if netstat, so if your IP is hidden, they'll never know it (not from ICQ, anyway), and if it's not hidden, they'll have no idea what to do with it.
2) You're chatting with does know about netstat, which means that whether you tell ICQ to hide your IP or not, they can find out what it is.
Okay, here's my issue. I just bought a Rio 500. Somehow, I doubt it can be updated to support new formats (correct me if I'm wrong). So if, by some miracle, Vorbis replaces MP3, you know what's gonna happen? I'm gonna resave my.ogg files as.wav, and reencode them as.mp3. So...what's the benefit? To me, there is none -- in fact, it's a hassle.
Sure, it might be better. There are people who insists Betamax was better, but VHS got control of the market. Well, guys, MP3 has control of the market...
[ ] Bladder enhancement (through minor chemical alteration of your digestion system and bladder, your urine may instantly be recycled into Mt. Dew(tm), ready for consumption upon urination).
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Actually, IIRC, it was something like 320x480x16. Either that or it was 640x480 but got shrunk. They did something weird to it.
And it wasn't that simple to mess with, either. You needed to create a new win.com file, by using the COPY command to concatenate a bunch of binary files...
The last time I messed with that was, believe it or not, just two and a half years ago. I was actually using Win3.1 on my (t)rusty 486 back then. Yikes! =)
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Sign up all you want, guys. Good luck buying anything unless you've been approved, which you won't be.
And this should clear up a lot more:
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If you read the story (or even other comments) you'd see that there is no anonymity here. The auctions are by invitation only, and they're unlikely to invite a new buyer without some serious investigation. Also, any newcomers to the market can probably expect a visit from the FBI.
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Please please please tell me you're not serious...
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Check out Jed. Works like Emacs, without all the Emacsy features, meaning it's tiny. (The newest source tarball is 700kb)
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They pretty much do, at least in this state. The minimum wage for tip-based jobs is rather lower than the normal minimum wage because, well, it's expected that you'll get tips to cover the difference. And if you're good, it'll probably get you a bit more.
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Of course.
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How many of you people actually read these articles? Because it's obvious you're not getting the full story. Let me enlighten you:
In other words...get over it, guys. Sorry, no linux watch for you. Not from IBM, anyway.
And as for Mr. "No good will come of this" (my third link) -- Judging from Takako's comment, I'd say this will help a lot more than it can harm. After all, if Linux can be scaled down to fit on a wristwatch, it can obviously be used for [insert name of portable device here].
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Nobody ever said you could get a funtioning Windows boot off a floppy. Let's read this again...
That's right. DOS.
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The source for POVRay is freely available, right? Then it's open source. "open source" does not mean "GPL" or "here's my source, do what you want to with it." Maybe "Open Source" does, but that's not what we're talking about here.
We're talking about source. Open source.
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My teacher had plans to have our class work on a program as a team. It never got past the planning stage, which was limited to exactly what I just told you, so I can't really give you details. But I can give you my ideas.
First you need to come up with an idea for the program. It should be fun or interesting (or both) so you'll keep their attention. You should probably write main() yourself, but:
Have the students write -- individually or in small groups -- the functions that actually make the program work. Each team/individual should only be given information necessary to writing their part of the program, probably limited to what inputs they need to take, and outputs they need to give. You'll probably need to write test programs for each of these functions, too.
The idea is to have everyone work on an independant part of the program, and then watch and see how their part helps out all the rest, even though they weren't involved in those parts, and probably don't even know what they're doing.
It's a great way to show how teamwork in programming can pay off.
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I take it, then, that you've never seen the words "Patent Pending" stamped on a product? I see it all the time. Companies are greedy, and they want to start making money off their products as soon as possible. If that means releasing them before they've actually been issued the patent, then so be it.
Shows up in the most unlikely places, sometimes, too. Last time I went to a concert (Summer Sanitarum Tour at the Foxboro Stadium in Foxboro, MA, FWIW), the tiles that were covering the football field had "patent pending" stamped on them, if I remember right.
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Maybe you will, but we can't.
Having said that, I'll look into iBCS if the need arises. Thanks.
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It's not just shops that use computer systems, don't forget. Here at Town Hall, we've got a SCO server in the basement that stores, well ... everything. All the tax records for the town, for everyone in the town, and everyone owning property in the town. I'm pretty sure it also stores all the information for the town's spending, and payroll for all town employees.
In case anyone's heard of it, it's mostly done through a program called MUNIS. I don't know if there's a MUNIS version for any other OS, or what trying to port the database would be like. What I do know is that MUNIS is, in my experience, a miserable beast that works fine just so long as you don't touch it. Not to mention, the server runs some proprietary programs that have been written specifically for our use.
I hope that, when and if SCO OSR5 goes away, there will at least still be support for it. Because if there isn't, I'm not sure if migrating to a different OS -- even a similar one like Linux -- would be easy, or even possible. (I'm trying to think of what it would involve, and I'm not liking it.)
Maybe we will be stuck in a time warp. We don't really have much of a choice.
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I do wish I had a laptop to take with me, for entertainment on the plane and so I could keep hacking on a script I'm writing, but I'm doing that for fun anyway. I won't be checking my work email, I won't be telling them where I am (besides "Denver") or how to reach me (even I don't know that), because I'd rather relax and have fun. No way I'm gonna have any connection to the office for that week.
It's sad that other people don't know how to do the same thing. People have always been "overworked and underpaid," but when you throw in the amount of stress that a lot of people have these days (whether it's their own fault or not), people really need to learn how to take a vacation. It's like the stress is such a part of them that they can't just lay back in the sun for a while and soak up some cancer-causing rays without a death grip on their cell phone, just in case the office needs them.
You need your vacation time more than the office does. Remember that. If you're gonna stay tied to work, what's the point in leaving in the first place?
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I don't think so. See, in this situation, you agreed to recieve a free copy of the software on the condition that you don't resell it. I can't be totally sure since IANAL, of course, but that's my take on it.
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Which does me wonders when I'm trying to install printer drivers (a 2mb file) on a computer with a broken ethernet connection. Oops, can't use floppies for that one either.
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Just because they don't come pre-installed in consumer setups (and they can be requested from several companies) doesn't mean they're obsolete. We've got one Zip drive at the office, and I'm considering getting another, because it's come in handy many many times in the past couple weeks.
Floppies are obsolete. I'm surprised something better hasn't fully replaced them yet.
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I spent a lot of time doing volunteer work for the school -- everything from cleaning out the servers (not files on the drives, dust in the cases) to helping teach senior citizens how to surf the web.
So when a job opened up at Town Hall, well...it would have taken some major effort on my part to not get hired. Fresh out of high school, and I'm the Technology Coordinator for Town Hall. Full-time job, salary-based, decent benefits. It's a government job, so the pay could be better (probably be making at least half again what I make now if this were a corporate setting), but I'm not about to complain.
So again, don't rule out working for the school (or in my case, town). If they know what you're capable of, you've got a pretty good shot.
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Um...probably because I was still dazed from the concert the night before. Heh.
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Yes, it was. What does that have to do with COPPA, the law we're concerned with here?
Yes, they would. American companies, due to COPPA, are not allowed to gather information from children under 13. Not just Americans under thirteen... anyone under 13.
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netstat -a
This leads to one of two scenarios:
1) You're chatting with the avearge user on ICQ. They won't know if netstat, so if your IP is hidden, they'll never know it (not from ICQ, anyway), and if it's not hidden, they'll have no idea what to do with it.
2) You're chatting with does know about netstat, which means that whether you tell ICQ to hide your IP or not, they can find out what it is.
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Sure, it might be better. There are people who insists Betamax was better, but VHS got control of the market. Well, guys, MP3 has control of the market...
But isn't Mt. Dew carbonated?
Yeowch!
I'll pass, thanks.