Let's just see how geeky you think the IT department is after I format your drive, toss the backup, and submit your 'candid holiday snaps' to a few dozen gay singles websites, along with your name, address, work number, and personal cell number, shall we?
Nobody ever loved midi after formats like MOD or S3M came out. Who wants to be limited to a small set of instruments with hardly any effects avalible? You can't even load your own samples with most sound cards. The only good thing about it was the small file size.
I've had 2 liteon drives (both cd-rw) die on me. Each lasted about 9 months at the most and both dies from some mechcanial problem, since right before they died, they made some wierd grinding noise. They also got pretty hot quickly too. Right now I have a NEC dvd writer that runs much cooler for about the same price as the old liteon drives.
Um, if it was impossible, it wouldn't work. He seems to be having fun with his creation. As for VB/Windows, if it works, who cares how it was made? Would it make you happier if he switched over to a unixy system, maybe spending hours learning a new widget set and re-coded his menu in C++ or even Tcl/Tk for the same effect?
I just tried this with an Oracle/Perl script. Didn't work. Even Sqlplus doesn't like the ';' I put in there. These kinds of thing are most dangerious when running stuff from shell from within a script. The easiest way is to just remove any ';' from a string before processing it, so it just generates an error.
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"But Code Red II created virtual drives which allowed you to access cmd.exe directly via a corrupt explorer with root rights. So it had a pretty large back door to begin with - I look forward to the analysis of Code Red III if such a thing exists."
You sure about that? A friend of mine got infected (it's gone now) and told me about it. Just for kicks, I tried the exploit on him. Nothing dangerious, and I let him know in advance what I was doing. When I tried to do a simple "Copy file1 file2", I got a access denied error. Maybe I was doing it wrong, or something. Still, it was fun seeing everything on his hard drive. Anything that was text could be viewed with "type filename", dispite missing headers. Hell, with a web server log of infected machines and a port scanner to see if port 80 is still running, you can have lots of fun sneaking around.
Note: The last part is true with a lot of servers in Japan.
"You could download a whole book series from Gnutella in a matter of SECONDS, text would fly through the electronic ether faster than music ever did."
It's already happened. Use your fav file sharing tool (or course, you only use it for legal reasons, ha ha ha ha) and search for e-books or ebook. Not enough? Try some ebook websites/ftps. Try alt.binaries.ebook. Lots of stuff there. I COULD (*cough* could I said) get:
everything Douglas Adams has written
almost every O'Reilly book
All the works of Poe and Shakespeare
Fear and Loathing is Las Vegas
Steal this Book (by Abbie Hoffman) (heh)
Army Manuals
Tons of Lovecraft
Everything by Stephen King and Clive Barker
and about 200 compressed MB of other fun stuff.
Is it legal or right?
Meh.
People have been trading ebooks for a long time. Longer than MP3 trading has been around. Who DID'NT get a copy of The Cucoo's Egg from a BBS?What has the impact been?
"I don't remember very well, but I thought you could use only 8 sprites simultaneously. Am I wrong, or was it maybe a software limit?"
No, you could use 32 sprites. But you could only use 8 at a time on the same row, any more would cause some sprites to become clear in parts. The Colecovision had a simular chip with the same problems.
I doubt that Ms. Pac-Man would get that much demand. It's not a rare machine at all, since so many were made after the success of Pac Man. I've seen fixer-up Ms. Pac Man machines (that would need a new monitor/joystick) for about $200 or less if you are willing to help the seller move it. I think there's one in every small sub-shop in Baltimore. On the other hand, WORKING vector games are rare and damn expensive. Even the old Vectrex system will get you quite a bit on ebay, around $200. And that's due to the high failure rate of the displays.
Are you sure there was a "Speech Synth" cart? I had tons of TI-99/4A junk (some to be sold on Ebay), and never heard of it. I think you mean the "Extended Basic" cart. I had a later version of it from MircoPal, and it had a small list of words that could be used with the command CALL SAY("HELLO") and so on. If there was such a cart, it must have been a piece of junk.
As other people said, it was the TE2 Cart that provided good text-to-speech. Someone else posted that you had get/feed numbers for that to work with TE2. I think he is confusing it with the "Extended Basic" cart. There was a hackish workaround of getting small samples of speech published in some magazine (Home Computer Mag I think), but was a bitch to use. The TE2 cart let you do this in it's modified version of BASIC(from my memory):
10 open #1,speech (I think thats what you use)
20 print #1, "Fart Fart Yams Hobo in my room"
Or it was something simular to that. It's text to speech was VERY good for the time, I only needed to modify some words to better speech rarely.
you could also modify the speech tone/speed by doing:
30 print #1,"//30 59"
or something close. If you used values outside valid ranges (It never checked), you could get some crazy hissing and growling sounds.
It was the easy version of basic that the TI had that got me interested in programming. God Bless 'em.
Yeah, RealMedia streaming is basicly watch/listen now, but don't bother downloading. When you have a slow modem connectiom, it sucks. If you could download the whole thing, you could watch it when you wanted, and you wouldn't be concerned with server/phone mess-ups, just the speed of your hard drive which is lightyears better.
There was/is some software that would do it for ya. It's called StreamBox VCR, and it can download most streaming content (Real, MS Media, etc.) and does both video and audio. I have a few Art Bell shows saved on my hard drive, along with some stuff from ifilm.com. I even have a copy of "City of the Living Dead" downloaded from those free movie websites. All due to VCR. he main problem is that VCR is Windows only, and it very beta. The only useable versions are cracked betas, which tells you have reliable it is. Even the software has strange options like "Keep trying untill program crashes". The streaming movies take a little bit of "hacking" to use in some cases. You have parse their goofy javascript stuff and do abit of work to find the address of their streaming server.
The funny thing is, the tab thst I have got from OLGA sites have been better than most published sheet music. Yes, sometimes people seem to mistake a Am chord for a C major chord, but lots of popular songs on OLGA have more than one submission, so you can look at each one and decide for your self on which is correct, or combine bits of each.
When I was in high school, I spent $25 (which is alot when you don't have a real job) on a deluxe copy of Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon Tab Book. And guess what? A good deal with it was wrong. The opening of "Brain Damage" is not as complex as the book claimed (it's just D and G7 chords with a FEW extra notes). The cheap version of the same book (just sheet music , no tab) of the same leaves out the solo to Time (among other things) and includes a song called "Wots Uh the Deal" that isn't even on the Dark Side of the Moon album. To be fair, I got a better understanding of how to play "Us and Them", better than I have seen on OLGA, but that seems to be rare.
I have been downloading tab since the days that you had to sniff out FTP sites. I was just starting out and I didn't know a 1-4-5 progression if it bit me on the ass. For a newbie, a lot of songs that I liked were hard to figure out, and the Tab books were watered down versions that were hardly useful to me. How was I to know that using a capo would make the opening part to Jethro Tull's "Thick as a Brick" so easy to play?
Since then I posted a bit to OLGA (no job at the time), mostly Ween and Beck songs. And I loved it when people emailed me back with thanks, or requests to post my stuff on their web sites (which I always agreed to). When I was starting, I didn't even have a computer. I just went down to the college computer labs and printed out what I wanted to learn (using very small fonts to save paper), took it home and got to it. How cheap and easy could you get?
And how the hell is this stealing any money from the artists? Most tabs say ( as well as I did) to listen to th CD to get the timing right, as plain text tab is very limited in showing note lengths. Trying to play a song by using tab and ot having a CD or tape of the music in question is almost impossible. I wated to learn songs on CDs that I PAYED FOR AND OWNED. They (whoever) already got my money. It's just sometimes my ears needed a bit of help playing what I like. What the big idea about that?
Yes, I do agree. There has been software that claimed to do this, and they have only worked in the simple cases.
A windows program called Awave music takes a sound sample of one note (piano, guitar) and then you give it a whole sang and it was supposed to convert it into MIDI data. It worked somewhat with very simple data (Major and Minor chords with no filters or effects), but anything else would produce wierd stuff.
There is also something called Lateral Guitar Synth that is a software version of those MIDI enabled guitars you see. You have to spend awhile tweeking it just to have it reconize simple chords, nevermind the latency that takes effect.
"I still see "Internal Server Error" more often with Perl than with PHP (maybe I'm not using CGI::Carp 'fatalsToBrowser' correctly? The Perl programs I work with call subroutines spread out over many files - does CGI::Carp 'fatalsToBrowser' need to be in each file?)"
Nope, just the main file. Here's what I use. It might be different from you.
#!/usr/local/bin/perl -w
use CGI;
use DBI;
use CGI::Carp qw{fatalsToBrowser};
do "SubsCommon1.pl"; #has some subs
do "CGIStuff.pl"; #and mo' subs
I don't get Server Error messages that often at all.
The Discovery Store is cool, but is way overpriced for most stuff. What you really want is American Science and Surplus:
www.sciplus.com
They also have lots of cheap toys, usally much cheaper than places like Archie McPhee, including a complete collection of slime and glow-in-the-dark toys.
This is creepy, right now I have on a old blue SGI/Cray tee-shirt. Got it at Goodwill for $1.00. Goodwill seems the best place to fond these.
Front: (With SGI logo) "My other computer is a Cray"
Back: (With Cray logo) "My other computer is a SGI"
I even have an old WOW by Compuserve t-shirt. They sent it out after the service went down. Yes, I did use that service for about 3 months. In addition, there's my old XYvision shirt I store from my father.
While not geeky, a great shirt I have to wear at bars has a few masks of angry faces and underneath:
"there is only one..."
And under that has the Xanax logo! It seems to be an offical company shirt. Yet another great Goodwill find. I guess I have to photograph and scan some of these.
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I think you got "geeky" confused with "fired".
Nobody ever loved midi after formats like MOD or S3M came out. Who wants to be limited to a small set of instruments with hardly any effects avalible? You can't even load your own samples with most sound cards. The only good thing about it was the small file size.
Yeah, go on and rock out to CANYON.MID, grandpa.
I've had 2 liteon drives (both cd-rw) die on me. Each lasted about 9 months at the most and both dies from some mechcanial problem, since right before they died, they made some wierd grinding noise. They also got pretty hot quickly too. Right now I have a NEC dvd writer that runs much cooler for about the same price as the old liteon drives.
Settle down, Mr. Trudeau.
I guess the flagpole metaphor would make sense if a flagpole was a security device.
TO: Helpdesk
SUBJECT: HELP can't get access to office
Please remove flagpole ASAP i keep hitting my head on it thx
However, it does nothing for:
1) Malicious users (OK they're pretty hard to stop no matter what)
Um... maybe companies shouldn't hire malicious employees.
Oh boy, another form of media to not give a shit about.
No wait, it's just home movies with meta tags wow.
Hey look at me I name things recursively because I'm fucking retarded.
Dude, you are supposed to paint the tubes with a green magic marker. Everyone know that makes them sound better.
A wizard did it
Using string comparisons for dates stored as seconds since the epoch is not a very good idea.
Use the Date format that your database has, as it should be able to do much better comparisons with dates in SQL, instead of seconds stored as text.
Did I miss anything?
Um, if it was impossible, it wouldn't work. He seems to be having fun with his creation. As for VB/Windows, if it works, who cares how it was made? Would it make you happier if he switched over to a unixy system, maybe spending hours learning a new widget set and re-coded his menu in C++ or even Tcl/Tk for the same effect?
Geez...
I just tried this with an Oracle/Perl script. Didn't work. Even Sqlplus doesn't like the ';' I put in there. These kinds of thing are most dangerious when running stuff from shell from within a script. The easiest way is to just remove any ';' from a string before processing it, so it just generates an error.
"But Code Red II created virtual drives which allowed you to access cmd.exe directly via a corrupt explorer with root rights. So it had a pretty large back door to begin with - I look forward to the analysis of Code Red III if such a thing exists."
You sure about that? A friend of mine got infected (it's gone now) and told me about it. Just for kicks, I tried the exploit on him. Nothing dangerious, and I let him know in advance what I was doing. When I tried to do a simple "Copy file1 file2", I got a access denied error. Maybe I was doing it wrong, or something. Still, it was fun seeing everything on his hard drive. Anything that was text could be viewed with "type filename", dispite missing headers. Hell, with a web server log of infected machines and a port scanner to see if port 80 is still running, you can have lots of fun sneaking around.
Note: The last part is true with a lot of servers in Japan.
"You could download a whole book series from Gnutella in a matter of SECONDS, text would fly through the electronic ether faster than music ever did."
It's already happened. Use your fav file sharing tool (or course, you only use it for legal reasons, ha ha ha ha) and search for e-books or ebook. Not enough? Try some ebook websites/ftps. Try alt.binaries.ebook. Lots of stuff there. I COULD (*cough* could I said) get:
everything Douglas Adams has written
almost every O'Reilly book
All the works of Poe and Shakespeare
Fear and Loathing is Las Vegas
Steal this Book (by Abbie Hoffman) (heh)
Army Manuals
Tons of Lovecraft
Everything by Stephen King and Clive Barker
and about 200 compressed MB of other fun stuff.
Is it legal or right?
Meh.
People have been trading ebooks for a long time. Longer than MP3 trading has been around. Who DID'NT get a copy of The Cucoo's Egg from a BBS?What has the impact been?
Maybe none?
"I don't remember very well, but I thought you could use only 8 sprites simultaneously. Am I wrong, or was it maybe a software limit?"
No, you could use 32 sprites. But you could only use 8 at a time on the same row, any more would cause some sprites to become clear in parts. The Colecovision had a simular chip with the same problems.
I doubt that Ms. Pac-Man would get that much demand. It's not a rare machine at all, since so many were made after the success of Pac Man. I've seen fixer-up Ms. Pac Man machines (that would need a new monitor/joystick) for about $200 or less if you are willing to help the seller move it. I think there's one in every small sub-shop in Baltimore. On the other hand, WORKING vector games are rare and damn expensive. Even the old Vectrex system will get you quite a bit on ebay, around $200. And that's due to the high failure rate of the displays.
Are you sure there was a "Speech Synth" cart? I had tons of TI-99/4A junk (some to be sold on Ebay), and never heard of it. I think you mean the "Extended Basic" cart. I had a later version of it from MircoPal, and it had a small list of words that could be used with the command CALL SAY("HELLO") and so on. If there was such a cart, it must have been a piece of junk.
As other people said, it was the TE2 Cart that provided good text-to-speech. Someone else posted that you had get/feed numbers for that to work with TE2. I think he is confusing it with the "Extended Basic" cart. There was a hackish workaround of getting small samples of speech published in some magazine (Home Computer Mag I think), but was a bitch to use. The TE2 cart let you do this in it's modified version of BASIC(from my memory):
10 open #1,speech (I think thats what you use)
20 print #1, "Fart Fart Yams Hobo in my room"
Or it was something simular to that. It's text to speech was VERY good for the time, I only needed to modify some words to better speech rarely.
you could also modify the speech tone/speed by doing:
30 print #1,"//30 59"
or something close. If you used values outside valid ranges (It never checked), you could get some crazy hissing and growling sounds.
It was the easy version of basic that the TI had that got me interested in programming. God Bless 'em.
Yeah, RealMedia streaming is basicly watch/listen now, but don't bother downloading. When you have a slow modem connectiom, it sucks. If you could download the whole thing, you could watch it when you wanted, and you wouldn't be concerned with server/phone mess-ups, just the speed of your hard drive which is lightyears better.
There was/is some software that would do it for ya. It's called StreamBox VCR, and it can download most streaming content (Real, MS Media, etc.) and does both video and audio. I have a few Art Bell shows saved on my hard drive, along with some stuff from ifilm.com. I even have a copy of "City of the Living Dead" downloaded from those free movie websites. All due to VCR. he main problem is that VCR is Windows only, and it very beta. The only useable versions are cracked betas, which tells you have reliable it is. Even the software has strange options like "Keep trying untill program crashes". The streaming movies take a little bit of "hacking" to use in some cases. You have parse their goofy javascript stuff and do abit of work to find the address of their streaming server.
The funny thing is, the tab thst I have got from OLGA sites have been better than most published sheet music. Yes, sometimes people seem to mistake a Am chord for a C major chord, but lots of popular songs on OLGA have more than one submission, so you can look at each one and decide for your self on which is correct, or combine bits of each.
When I was in high school, I spent $25 (which is alot when you don't have a real job) on a deluxe copy of Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon Tab Book. And guess what? A good deal with it was wrong. The opening of "Brain Damage" is not as complex as the book claimed (it's just D and G7 chords with a FEW extra notes). The cheap version of the same book (just sheet music , no tab) of the same leaves out the solo to Time (among other things) and includes a song called "Wots Uh the Deal" that isn't even on the Dark Side of the Moon album. To be fair, I got a better understanding of how to play "Us and Them", better than I have seen on OLGA, but that seems to be rare.
I have been downloading tab since the days that you had to sniff out FTP sites. I was just starting out and I didn't know a 1-4-5 progression if it bit me on the ass. For a newbie, a lot of songs that I liked were hard to figure out, and the Tab books were watered down versions that were hardly useful to me. How was I to know that using a capo would make the opening part to Jethro Tull's "Thick as a Brick" so easy to play?
Since then I posted a bit to OLGA (no job at the time), mostly Ween and Beck songs. And I loved it when people emailed me back with thanks, or requests to post my stuff on their web sites (which I always agreed to). When I was starting, I didn't even have a computer. I just went down to the college computer labs and printed out what I wanted to learn (using very small fonts to save paper), took it home and got to it. How cheap and easy could you get?
And how the hell is this stealing any money from the artists? Most tabs say ( as well as I did) to listen to th CD to get the timing right, as plain text tab is very limited in showing note lengths. Trying to play a song by using tab and ot having a CD or tape of the music in question is almost impossible. I wated to learn songs on CDs that I PAYED FOR AND OWNED. They (whoever) already got my money. It's just sometimes my ears needed a bit of help playing what I like. What the big idea about that?
Yes, I do agree. There has been software that claimed to do this, and they have only worked in the simple cases.
A windows program called Awave music takes a sound sample of one note (piano, guitar) and then you give it a whole sang and it was supposed to convert it into MIDI data. It worked somewhat with very simple data (Major and Minor chords with no filters or effects), but anything else would produce wierd stuff.
There is also something called Lateral Guitar Synth that is a software version of those MIDI enabled guitars you see. You have to spend awhile tweeking it just to have it reconize simple chords, nevermind the latency that takes effect.
"I still see "Internal Server Error" more often with Perl than with PHP (maybe I'm not using CGI::Carp 'fatalsToBrowser' correctly? The Perl programs I work with call subroutines spread out over many files - does CGI::Carp 'fatalsToBrowser' need to be in each file?)"
Nope, just the main file. Here's what I use. It might be different from you.
#!/usr/local/bin/perl -w
use CGI;
use DBI;
use CGI::Carp qw{fatalsToBrowser};
do "SubsCommon1.pl"; #has some subs
do "CGIStuff.pl"; #and mo' subs
I don't get Server Error messages that often at all.
The Discovery Store is cool, but is way overpriced for most stuff. What you really want is American Science and Surplus:
www.sciplus.com
They also have lots of cheap toys, usally much cheaper than places like Archie McPhee, including a complete collection of slime and glow-in-the-dark toys.
Why not just put this in your PROFILE EXEC?
'CP SET TIMEOUT OFF'
By default, our system kicks you off after 1 hour.
This is creepy, right now I have on a old blue SGI/Cray tee-shirt. Got it at Goodwill for $1.00. Goodwill seems the best place to fond these.
Front: (With SGI logo) "My other computer is a Cray"
Back: (With Cray logo) "My other computer is a SGI"
I even have an old WOW by Compuserve t-shirt. They sent it out after the service went down. Yes, I did use that service for about 3 months. In addition, there's my old XYvision shirt I store from my father.
While not geeky, a great shirt I have to wear at bars has a few masks of angry faces and underneath:
"there is only one..."
And under that has the Xanax logo! It seems to be an offical company shirt. Yet another great Goodwill find. I guess I have to photograph and scan some of these.