A quick look at the site didn't reveal that specific feature I was talking about (namely, command line editing/history for arbitrary programs reading from stdin). However I might have missed it. But given that according to the page, ANSI control sequence support is only for its own commands (i.e. the stdout from programs other than their own apparently isn't interpreted), I guess they'll not touch stdin for other programs either.
If it works like MS DOS, you need to have the ANSI.SYS driver loaded, and can then just use the ANSI code for inverse video: $E[7m (where $E generates an escape character)
You don't even have to avoid TSRs. Just avoid TSRs which take over hardware interrupts. A TSR which does nothing but sit there until you explicitly call it doesn't interfere with realtime.
Especially the integration of editing including history function not in the command line interface, but directly in the console was great. It meant you could get back old input in all programs reading from the console, not only when entering commands, automatically.
"Isn't any good"? Come on dude, both versions put text on the screen. Both completely fulfill the imaginary requirements.
Well, come back when you lost data because some programmer (or "Brogrammer"?) didn't properly handle errors. Then you might think slightly different about the usefulness of proper error handling.
(And yes, there was a backup. But that only restored the data up to the previous night. And yes, that meant that some data was irreversibly lost.)
It already is close enough to block the sun. That's called a solar eclipse. It's just that most of the time, it is not in the right position to block the sun.
One of the peculiar properties of gravitation is that the orbit doesn't depend on the mass of the object (well, that's not completely true, but it's true if the mass is small enough to neglect the gravitational pull of the object on the masses generating the gravitational field, but earth definitely has negligible mass compared to the sun). If you had a magic spell that replaced the earth/moon system with an apple without changing its speed (nor the rest of the solar system), that apple would still follow the same orbit.
Worse: They installed their own code on your computer. At root level, no less. They did so before sending the computer to you. It takes over the complete computer, so I'd say it's clearly a root kit. The name of that root kit is OS X.:-)
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A quick look at the site didn't reveal that specific feature I was talking about (namely, command line editing/history for arbitrary programs reading from stdin). However I might have missed it. But given that according to the page, ANSI control sequence support is only for its own commands (i.e. the stdout from programs other than their own apparently isn't interpreted), I guess they'll not touch stdin for other programs either.
That's because so many people get that wrong. Denial of Service is correctly abbreviated as DoS (note the lowercase o).
If it works like MS DOS, you need to have the ANSI.SYS driver loaded, and can then just use the ANSI code for inverse video: $E[7m (where $E generates an escape character)
You don't even have to avoid TSRs. Just avoid TSRs which take over hardware interrupts. A TSR which does nothing but sit there until you explicitly call it doesn't interfere with realtime.
what's better: DOS Box or sex with a mare?
That depends on whether you are a gamer or a donkey.
The Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary lists both alternatives.
I wonder in 2023 we will be having XPBOX or FreeXP since it has so many die hard users who refuse to leave kicking and screaming the whole time.
I think that one is called ReactOS.
This just makes me miss DR-DOS...
Especially the integration of editing including history function not in the command line interface, but directly in the console was great. It meant you could get back old input in all programs reading from the console, not only when entering commands, automatically.
Neither, UAE is the one to use.
Unrecoverable Application Error? :-)
Well, come back when you lost data because some programmer (or "Brogrammer"?) didn't properly handle errors. Then you might think slightly different about the usefulness of proper error handling.
(And yes, there was a backup. But that only restored the data up to the previous night. And yes, that meant that some data was irreversibly lost.)
Fahrenheit should die already. It's a historic relic.
With all the fluctuations over 4B years, how then have we remained in the zone to maintain life?
I'm not aware of large fluctuations of earth's orbit in that past 4B years.
It already is close enough to block the sun. That's called a solar eclipse. It's just that most of the time, it is not in the right position to block the sun.
One of the peculiar properties of gravitation is that the orbit doesn't depend on the mass of the object (well, that's not completely true, but it's true if the mass is small enough to neglect the gravitational pull of the object on the masses generating the gravitational field, but earth definitely has negligible mass compared to the sun). If you had a magic spell that replaced the earth/moon system with an apple without changing its speed (nor the rest of the solar system), that apple would still follow the same orbit.
You know what scares me? People who think like you.
They did that with Lehman Brothers. The result was that things got much worse.
Capitalism is healthy if it has many enemies? :-)
Look on the headlines of most newspapers, and you'll know what he's talking about.
(For AC's)
And for future readers finding your post long after you've changed your signature to something completely different.
Nobody should ever refer to sigs (not their own, and certainly not other people's) without quoting them.
And even the second foundation failed to do so when the Mule came.
Actually, the weather report for the next day is pretty accurate most of the time.
The shade of Asimov raises his head..... Does this seem a little like Psychohistory to anyone else? Where's the Mule?
More importantly, which is the empire that will break down?
And in the mean time, the employee cannot work. This may well be more costly than the risk of a malware attack in that time frame.
Worse: They installed their own code on your computer. At root level, no less. They did so before sending the computer to you. It takes over the complete computer, so I'd say it's clearly a root kit. The name of that root kit is OS X. :-)
You know, if you xor the file with the right key, you'll get a text demanding your soul and your first-born. :-)