Did you know that according to a study funded by Microsoft that Microsoft Windows is the fastest, cheapist server operating system on the planet??? Funny that...
It's a nice cheap machine for playing around with. Bare consoles go for $20 on eBay. There's plenty of emulators & homebrew software too (once you get the hang of burning bootable CDs - prepare to burn some coasters!).
Also, theres an article in Phrack that describes a method of writing cross-platform code. The idea is to write some code that e.g. does nothing on a x86 but on a Sparc branches to the Sparc specific code.
It's amazing how many people forget that Huffman encoding is the basis for pretty much all compression techniques. e.g. LZ encoding (and varients) generally use Huffman encoding to compress the dictionary. Huffman dreamt up his technique in the 50's.
Library systems have been working like this for decades, way earlier than 1999. Of course it wasn't the internet, rather green-screen dumb terminals linked to a central server.
Personally I find Usenet great for MS solutions. I'm a programmer by trade and Usenet has been a great help over the years (decades...) for VB, MS SQL, C, FoxPro and loads of MS based stuff. And thanks to Google (and Deja before that) we have an enormous library of IT troubleshooting tips.
My cheapo Chinese MP3 player supports recording to MP3 (as well as voice in some compressed WAV format). You can even use the headphone socket as a line-in. As they all use the same chipset, that probably means all the others do or will do soon.
I've used systems in Hotels where you need to use a browser to activate the service. Displaying *any* webpage results in the hotel's subscription webpage (a DNS trick?). Google's could work in a similar way.
It should be easy to port QEmu to the new Macs. The only problem would be the virtualisation module (optional, gives a big speed boost) which is closed source.
You're joking right??? Quicktime is a terrible piece of software. It's the first thing I uninstall. When was the last time you saw a QT movie file that required QT to play? You never see them anymore.
I know what you mean. My iPaq runs emulators pretty well, but the 'joystick' sucks. It's hard enough to play a simple left-right-jump game like donky kong. an IR joystick would be neat...
Yeah, yeah, you know what I mean! I thought that was wrong when I posted. ASF, WMV, WMF (nice idea, includes the player executable!) or whatever crappy format MS uses for music.
You're assuming there are no bugs or exploitable holes in your OS (highly unlikely IMHO).
Ever heard of the original internet worm? It infected a whole bunch of computers back in the 80s and effectively shut down the (pretty small back then) Internet. These computers were running BSD Unix derivatives. Like the Mac does today.
You really shouldn't be so complacent. Mac viruses *will* happen.
My mothers house in SE London has always had terrible coverage. Not sure why, I've used my phone all over the world and I got a better signal in the middle of the English Channel last time I was on a ferry to France.
Also, if you're ever on a train going through Richmond station (W London) look out for people on the phone. Invariably they lose their connection. Always gives me a chuckle.
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If you want to go back even further John Logie Baird was recording video on *wax* disks!
*Everyone* merits a trial. Otherwise the whole legal system falls down.
Dear Solkre,
I'm still waiting for that rubber gimp suit you sold me last week.
Did you know that according to a study funded by Microsoft that Microsoft Windows is the fastest, cheapist server operating system on the planet??? Funny that...
It's a nice cheap machine for playing around with. Bare consoles go for $20 on eBay. There's plenty of emulators & homebrew software too (once you get the hang of burning bootable CDs - prepare to burn some coasters!).
I wonder how much piracy hurt the Dreamcast.
Probably not as much as the lack of a DVD drive.
Also, theres an article in Phrack that describes a method of writing cross-platform code. The idea is to write some code that e.g. does nothing on a x86 but on a Sparc branches to the Sparc specific code.
but appears to be more based on never backing up the same data more than once.
What a cool idea! I think I'll patent it!
It's amazing how many people forget that Huffman encoding is the basis for pretty much all compression techniques. e.g. LZ encoding (and varients) generally use Huffman encoding to compress the dictionary. Huffman dreamt up his technique in the 50's.
Smells more like bullshit to me
Library systems have been working like this for decades, way earlier than 1999. Of course it wasn't the internet, rather green-screen dumb terminals linked to a central server.
Personally I find Usenet great for MS solutions. I'm a programmer by trade and Usenet has been a great help over the years (decades...) for VB, MS SQL, C, FoxPro and loads of MS based stuff. And thanks to Google (and Deja before that) we have an enormous library of IT troubleshooting tips.
My cheapo Chinese MP3 player supports recording to MP3 (as well as voice in some compressed WAV format). You can even use the headphone socket as a line-in. As they all use the same chipset, that probably means all the others do or will do soon.
I've used systems in Hotels where you need to use a browser to activate the service. Displaying *any* webpage results in the hotel's subscription webpage (a DNS trick?). Google's could work in a similar way.
This is a good example: http://sourceforge.net/projects/slashcode
It should be easy to port QEmu to the new Macs. The only problem would be the virtualisation module (optional, gives a big speed boost) which is closed source.
Shame QuickTime looks like shit, runs like shit and nobody uses the format...
You're joking right??? Quicktime is a terrible piece of software. It's the first thing I uninstall. When was the last time you saw a QT movie file that required QT to play? You never see them anymore.
I know what you mean. My iPaq runs emulators pretty well, but the 'joystick' sucks. It's hard enough to play a simple left-right-jump game like donky kong. an IR joystick would be neat...
Yeah, yeah, you know what I mean! I thought that was wrong when I posted. ASF, WMV, WMF (nice idea, includes the player executable!) or whatever crappy format MS uses for music.
It was probably converting them to WMV.
Amiga games from the 80s & 90s were very often copy protected (mangled disk sectors etc). I suspect the same was true for the Atari too.
VB6 has type enforcement too with 'Option Explicit'.
You're assuming there are no bugs or exploitable holes in your OS (highly unlikely IMHO). Ever heard of the original internet worm? It infected a whole bunch of computers back in the 80s and effectively shut down the (pretty small back then) Internet. These computers were running BSD Unix derivatives. Like the Mac does today. You really shouldn't be so complacent. Mac viruses *will* happen.
My mothers house in SE London has always had terrible coverage. Not sure why, I've used my phone all over the world and I got a better signal in the middle of the English Channel last time I was on a ferry to France. Also, if you're ever on a train going through Richmond station (W London) look out for people on the phone. Invariably they lose their connection. Always gives me a chuckle.