Ah thanks for that. It looks like the JR is quite a bit different to the JX... JX had a 3.5" 360K drive, and only the CGA modes (although it did have the cartridge slots). Crusty PC Speaker sound too, and i'm pretty sure it was around before 1984.
One of my first computers was an IBM PC JX (which I understand is similar to the PC JR). This was the first Personal Computer (ie. box with drives, monitor, keyboard) that I ever encountered - a big step up from the old cpu-under-keyboard micros. The 256K RAM was a big step up too. It was made in 1980 AFAIK, but had a 3.5" diskdrive and a cordless keyboard (features which never came along in other computers for several years).
Why does the article talk about it as if it was a bad thing?
Anyone who clicked that link didn't bother to engage their brain today. Since when do Google links not say [google.com] after them, or contain other website addresses in the middle?
If you try and install SQL Server 2000 Service Pack 1 on Windows 98, it proceeds for a while and then fails with a messagebox:
"Unable to run the script files."
Of course, they didnt think to mention which files, or why they couldnt run...
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That's why you make every "never-see" error message slightly different. For example, "Error: You should not see this", "Error: You won't see this", etc. Then you just grep for the exact error message and you know where it was, without having to bombard the user with gobbledygook like "Exception 035 occured at ab098643:e80sd98, eax was 09843609" etc. If I were a dumb user I'd rather see something I can read
Well, this is all well and good, but humans use a neural network (according to current theory anyway)... VK certainly hasn't seen every possible chess move, and he does not fall for silly sacrifices
Yeah. Even the old Kasparov's Gambit software (late 80s I think..) would select annoying quotes to give at you. All it has to do is, say, pick out a quote about a knight when you move your knight
The taunting didn't occur, it was a joke by chessbase.com.
You can't blame Kasparov for whining, given the horrible conditions he had to face:
- the Deep Blue programmers changed the computer between games (rumours they even changed it during a game)
- it was loaded with all of GK's past games but GK had seen none of its past games
Incidentally, RC4 has this weakness too (which I discovered to my horror after using it in a commercial situation..) it turns out that encrypting A with key B under RC4 means that B gets transformed into a OTP and is then applied to A.
So as soon as you have sent two messages with the same key, people can XOR them. Also, if there is a one-digit typo in the encrypted version, then there is a one-digit typo in the unencrypted version too (which may be impossible to detect).
Oh for heaven's sake. Are we going to have yet another Slashdot story full of people going on and on about how open source is so cool cos you can fix it yourself and all this other rubbish?
It may be true but it's tiresome to see people repeating it over and over on every story. I'm afraid to read the rest of the comments on this story now.
Not really, you'd still get the "Syntax error" message sometimes.
Also, did you notice how slow this made things? If you had a line that was 600 characters long, and you hit a key, there'd be a 2-second pause while it parsed the line.
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Ah thanks for that. It looks like the JR is quite a bit different to the JX... JX had a 3.5" 360K drive, and only the CGA modes (although it did have the cartridge slots). Crusty PC Speaker sound too, and i'm pretty sure it was around before 1984.
One of my first computers was an IBM PC JX (which I understand is similar to the PC JR). This was the first Personal Computer (ie. box with drives, monitor, keyboard) that I ever encountered - a big step up from the old cpu-under-keyboard micros. The 256K RAM was a big step up too.
It was made in 1980 AFAIK, but had a 3.5" diskdrive and a cordless keyboard (features which never came along in other computers for several years).
Why does the article talk about it as if it was a bad thing?
Why you?
Start a courtcase against slashdot then..
Anyone who clicked that link didn't bother to engage their brain today. Since when do Google links not say [google.com] after them, or contain other website addresses in the middle?
The rubber band would shoot off the apple as soon as you had moved it a few millimetres..
there should be a $1m prize for taking an apple with a rubber band on it and getting the rubber band to a point
Aww, I thought Linux users were too clever to run viruses..
Someone tell that to the guys who wrote Internet Explorer
Hey, don't bring the Og People into this, they didn't do anything..
How would Windows have an OS monopoly? what about Linux, Solaris, BSD... Lots of people use them.
If you try and install SQL Server 2000 Service Pack 1 on Windows 98, it proceeds for a while and then fails with a messagebox:
"Unable to run the script files."
Of course, they didnt think to mention which files, or why they couldnt run...
That's why you make every "never-see" error message slightly different. For example, "Error: You should not see this", "Error: You won't see this", etc.
Then you just grep for the exact error message and you know where it was, without having to bombard the user with gobbledygook like "Exception 035 occured at ab098643:e80sd98, eax was 09843609" etc. If I were a dumb user I'd rather see something I can read
Well, this is all well and good, but humans use a neural network (according to current theory anyway)... VK certainly hasn't seen every possible chess move, and he does not fall for silly sacrifices
I recommend Crafty (look for crafty and x-board at www.tim-mann.com). There is GNUchess but it's pretty weak.
Yeah. Even the old Kasparov's Gambit software (late 80s I think..) would select annoying quotes to give at you. All it has to do is, say, pick out a quote about a knight when you move your knight
The taunting didn't occur, it was a joke by chessbase.com.
You can't blame Kasparov for whining, given the horrible conditions he had to face:
- the Deep Blue programmers changed the computer between games (rumours they even changed it during a game)
- it was loaded with all of GK's past games but GK had seen none of its past games
The number of possible games is finite, if you enforce the option players have to claim a draw after 50 moves without a pawn move or a capture
Incidentally, RC4 has this weakness too (which I discovered to my horror after using it in a commercial situation..) it turns out that encrypting A with key B under RC4 means that B gets transformed into a OTP and is then applied to A.
So as soon as you have sent two messages with the same key, people can XOR them. Also, if there is a one-digit typo in the encrypted version, then there is a one-digit typo in the unencrypted version too (which may be impossible to detect).
you aren't meant to send stuff straight to crontab files, are you ? you're meant to edit a temp copy and then install it? (or use crontab -e)
Oh for heaven's sake. Are we going to have yet another Slashdot story full of people going on and on about how open source is so cool cos you can fix it yourself and all this other rubbish?
It may be true but it's tiresome to see people repeating it over and over on every story. I'm afraid to read the rest of the comments on this story now.
Yes, and mod_php is compiled from MySQL, GD, ImageMagick, etc., so all of these must be thread-safe to make mod_php thread-safe.
Not really, you'd still get the "Syntax error" message sometimes.
Also, did you notice how slow this made things? If you had a line that was 600 characters long, and you hit a key, there'd be a 2-second pause while it parsed the line.
Learn how to use pointers, dude
I agree totally. Don't you hate segfaults in systems because glibc was the wrong version?