Impractical on what?! Let me see you run WinNT or Linux in 64K of RAM on a 1-5MHz 8-bit CPU with useful productivity applications including word processing, database, spreadsheet, C-compilers, PASCAL environments, etc, etc.
This gives away that you are out of your element. 100% security is impossible.
Of course it is with modern systems and humans playing any role. But if you can hack the 8-bit microcontroller in my 10 year old microwave remotely I'll personally hand you a solid gold trophy. Part of the problem is that people think that every single device on the planet needs to be connected to a network and run a clone of what was intended to be a multiuser timesharing system on a lightswitch.
You can get very near 100% with a lot of money and effort on simple systems however.
The chains of code that bypass in nulls, aka Lamdas, monads etc. are just shit programming. Deal with the error where you made the error. Do it clearly and well commented. Making compact code isn't useful, the computer has plenty of space to hold your code.
So have those 2 salaried employees learn how to lock down the system better? It doesn't take a specialized security consultant to learn typical IT best practices for locking down a public-facing system to reduce the likelihood of it getting pwned by a script kiddie.
If it's radio-based and uses DTMF tones and we're partying like it's 1979 it may be a little more interesting but not impossible to tackle. You'd probably have to replace some control systems with ones that support some form of authentication. Maybe using some kind of OTP that gets updated every so often to avoid pad reuse.
Either way, locking it down 100% might be expensive but to do a MUCH BETTER JOB would be trivial.
If it only costs them $800 to properly secure the civil defense alarms.... that won't buy your HS an arts program and they should lock it down. And when these alarms go off, we don't want people desensitized to them. It means get in your bomb shelter.
The last thing you want is to get nuked and have these alarms disabled beforehand. Few survivors beats no survivors.
Bullshit. You could get SL/IP access for a few years prior to 1994 and UNIX shell accounts on internet connected systems LONG before that. Windows systems were at a disadvantage in that timeframe because you needed a buggy third party TCP/IP stack. MacTCP worked just fine though.
That's OK.... I have an Atari 400, 800, 600XL, 800XL, 130XE all with some sort of RAM upgrades.... a 1050 Happy drive.... 850 Parallel/4xserial interface with serial-to-ethernet adapter that emulates a modem.... IDE controller (with 2 CF cards hooked up).... SIO2SD SD-card interface.... a 1010 cassette drive.... an SIO2PC Atari SIO-to-USB (USB to TTL serial basically) interface....
So yeah, I hoard a bit. Only 2 of those machines are hooked up though but most of the peripherals are on the 800XL. The 400 lives in the living room with the SIO2SD so the kids can play old-ass games when they feel like it.
The only vintage test gear I have is because I'm broke and can't afford new shit.... a Tektronix 2235 scope, an old 70's lab power supply and a shitty function generator.
Most of the 8/16-bit BBS's popping back up are using things like Lantronix UDS or iPocket232 serialethernet adapters that emulate a modem. You actually telnet to them. For extra authenticity you can use something like Syncterm to get real ANSI, PETSCII or ATASCII support.
Many of these BBS's simply run on emulators but the die-hards use real hardware. I connect to a couple to play old-ass online door games. Normally I use SyncTerm but I have a tricked out 800XL (576K RAM, Happy 1050 floppy, IDE interface and Atari 850 RS232/Parallel interface w/ iPocket232) that I connect with occasionally.
Another option with Atari 8-bit machines is using something like APE or SIO2OSX and using your PC to emulate devices.... the adapter can be built for $5 using an FTDI FT232RL USBTTL serial breakout board. This is convenient for transferring or running real disk images/files as well as printer emulation and modem emulation. Makes running "backups" of all those old games you could never find or afford very easy. The Atari 8-bit machines are the easiest to pull this off on.
This is nothing new. It's just most people under 30 couldn't give a shit less.
Most of the 8/16-bit BBS's popping back up are using things like Lantronix UDS or iPocket232 serialethernet adapters that emulate a modem. You actually telnet to them. For extra authenticity you can use something like Syncterm to get real ANSI, PETSCII or ATASCII support.
And how many low cost x86 tablets are "already there" when it comes to driver support in an X11-based Linux distro? Most of the ones I've seen have Win8 and maybe Win10 driver support before the rug was pulled out from under them. MANY MANY of them used 32-bit EFI which is a nightmare when it comes to getting any mainstream Linux distros or BSD running.
Hell, how many laptops with impressive sales figures have full Linux or BSD support these days where EVERY FEATURE of the machine is actually supported? I'd say the x86 front has gotten worse.
If I were Linux/BSD/X11 devs I'd be focused on getting GLES support in X11-based apps to be mainstream and busting ass on open-source ARM MALI drivers. I'd wager more ARM boards can run Linux than modern cheap laptops.
Exactly, there is a reason most IT work in my area is outsourced to "consulting companies" who pay pennies on the dollar for overworked 1099 "subcontractors" who get screwed out of benefits and overtime pay. And if convenient and feasible they'll outsource everything they can to India and use 1099 monkeys here as a pair of cheap hands.
It will always be an issue with certain games. If you "see" yourself moving but you really aren't, you can experience motion sickness. No bumps in frame rates or detail will ever fix that.
It was never a big deal to me, even with 90's era VR HMDs. I never really got sick. Some people will lose their lunch quick but those people can't deal with 3D movies for any length of time either. Sometimes certain types of tech aren't for everyone. It doesn't have to be for everyone though. A product doesn't have to move a billion units to be worth getting or investing in.
Try one out, if it works for you and you enjoy it, buy it.
It's gen 1 and clunky still but it's making games wonderful and new again. VR is far from a fad. It's total immersion!
AR is also going to be huge. There is a place for both.
Gen1?! More like Gen3. I have a set of VirtualIO iGlasses from the 90's. The resolution sucked but PC's of the day couldn't spit out 1024x768 @ 30fps with all the detail cranked much less 1080p. VR has been around a long time, the tech is just now catching up with the dream at a price mere mortals can afford.
As for AR, I don't see it being incredibly useful for gaming other than cheesy ass find-the-pokemon style bullshit or AR chess. As a tool it could be neat for CAD and such and I can see some industrial use cases.
What's annoying is the fact that the coolest use for VR would be flight and space sims but nobody has bothered updating their engines to deal with it and took shortcuts that cause issues with things like TriDef3D drivers, etc. I'd love to play the IL2 and Rise of Flight series with VR and headtracking, I don't care about the motion sickness.
What about the people who aren't privileged enough to have the high-end education and class benefits to make $100k in IT but have still worked their entire lives to get what they have and develop amazing skillsets? What about the people in the $40k-$60k range in the small to mid-sized businesses who have now lost their niche due to overseas outsourcing to India for pennies on the dollar or at the very least are subject to greater abuse and reduced benefits due to the THREAT of being outsourced?
A lot of people making over $100k are safe. It's the working poor and lower middle class who are screwed these days.
"The company cares about my well being and if I work 80 hours per week to complete this project I've poured my heart and soul into, it will all pay off in the end and I'll be a well paid rockstar and get my fair share!"
"Shareholders really care about me and appreciate my hard work."
Do you have a vested interested in traditional media conglomerates? If they get the eyeballs, why shouldn't they get their share of the revenue? Funding these people keeps them producing videos which gets them millions of eyeballs which gets advertisers business.
No, Trump won. You're just butt-hurt because California doesn't get to decide who the president is for the rest of the United States. You seem to forget that the US is really 50 countries that decided to form a union. The Electoral College was set up to make sure one state can't exert undue influence over the rest of the US. While Clinton got more in the popular vote due to rabid idiots in a few blue states, the majority of the US did not want her ass in office.
Gary Johnson didn't win but you don't see me trying to alter reality to make it seem like he did and it's all a big conspiracy by neo-nazi, misogynist, homophobic, transphobic, islamophobic racists.
It's funny, the same sort of people who rail against corporations and want free speech curtailed are exactly the same ones who decide they want to replace government tyranny with corporate tyranny when it fits their agenda.
If a private business has a right to limit offensive speech on a social media platform in the name of moral righteousness, they have just as much right to deny service to people they find objectionable on the same grounds such as homosexuals or muslims. That's not a world I want. Everyone is offended by SOMETHING.
Would you be OK with ISP's being pressured by moral crusaders to not provide connectivity to people who host "offensive" content because the moral crusaders decide to label everyone they don't agree with "neo-nazis"?
If certain advertisers don't want their ads showing up on a certain channel's content, whatever, that's fine. But to demonetize a channel's videos entirely because some snowflake finds it offensive, that's bullshit.
It's a BSD variant that will run on just about any oddball vintage hardware you have at your disposal..... 68K Macs, Atari TT's, VAX, Alpha, SPARC, UltraSPARC, sgi, DECstations, GE Microwaves, Sharp Can Openers, Compaq iPaq.
Emphasis is on portability but performance isn't bad.
I would also advise against doing business his company as well because by his own admission he hires inexperienced kids because he prefers to burn babies than hire a team of established professionals that know what they're doing.
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Hey CPM is fast to boot too but unpractical.
Impractical on what?! Let me see you run WinNT or Linux in 64K of RAM on a 1-5MHz 8-bit CPU with useful productivity applications including word processing, database, spreadsheet, C-compilers, PASCAL environments, etc, etc.
This gives away that you are out of your element. 100% security is impossible.
Of course it is with modern systems and humans playing any role. But if you can hack the 8-bit microcontroller in my 10 year old microwave remotely I'll personally hand you a solid gold trophy. Part of the problem is that people think that every single device on the planet needs to be connected to a network and run a clone of what was intended to be a multiuser timesharing system on a lightswitch.
You can get very near 100% with a lot of money and effort on simple systems however.
The chains of code that bypass in nulls, aka Lamdas, monads etc. are just shit programming. Deal with the error where you made the error. Do it clearly and well commented. Making compact code isn't useful, the computer has plenty of space to hold your code.
You were born in the 90's weren't you?
So have those 2 salaried employees learn how to lock down the system better? It doesn't take a specialized security consultant to learn typical IT best practices for locking down a public-facing system to reduce the likelihood of it getting pwned by a script kiddie.
If it's radio-based and uses DTMF tones and we're partying like it's 1979 it may be a little more interesting but not impossible to tackle. You'd probably have to replace some control systems with ones that support some form of authentication. Maybe using some kind of OTP that gets updated every so often to avoid pad reuse.
Either way, locking it down 100% might be expensive but to do a MUCH BETTER JOB would be trivial.
And otters rape baby seals. What's your point. Life is a cancer in general but it is intriguing and I want to see it persist.
If it only costs them $800 to properly secure the civil defense alarms.... that won't buy your HS an arts program and they should lock it down. And when these alarms go off, we don't want people desensitized to them. It means get in your bomb shelter.
The last thing you want is to get nuked and have these alarms disabled beforehand. Few survivors beats no survivors.
Bullshit. You could get SL/IP access for a few years prior to 1994 and UNIX shell accounts on internet connected systems LONG before that. Windows systems were at a disadvantage in that timeframe because you needed a buggy third party TCP/IP stack. MacTCP worked just fine though.
It was dull unless you were awake when it actually found something.... then you practically shit your pants.
That's OK.... I have an Atari 400, 800, 600XL, 800XL, 130XE all with some sort of RAM upgrades.... a 1050 Happy drive.... 850 Parallel/4xserial interface with serial-to-ethernet adapter that emulates a modem.... IDE controller (with 2 CF cards hooked up).... SIO2SD SD-card interface.... a 1010 cassette drive.... an SIO2PC Atari SIO-to-USB (USB to TTL serial basically) interface....
So yeah, I hoard a bit. Only 2 of those machines are hooked up though but most of the peripherals are on the 800XL. The 400 lives in the living room with the SIO2SD so the kids can play old-ass games when they feel like it.
The only vintage test gear I have is because I'm broke and can't afford new shit.... a Tektronix 2235 scope, an old 70's lab power supply and a shitty function generator.
Oh and if you want a real dialup board.... magicjack or similar bargain-basement voip boxes should handle 2400bps just fine.
Most of the 8/16-bit BBS's popping back up are using things like Lantronix UDS or iPocket232 serialethernet adapters that emulate a modem. You actually telnet to them. For extra authenticity you can use something like Syncterm to get real ANSI, PETSCII or ATASCII support.
Many of these BBS's simply run on emulators but the die-hards use real hardware. I connect to a couple to play old-ass online door games. Normally I use SyncTerm but I have a tricked out 800XL (576K RAM, Happy 1050 floppy, IDE interface and Atari 850 RS232/Parallel interface w/ iPocket232) that I connect with occasionally.
Another option with Atari 8-bit machines is using something like APE or SIO2OSX and using your PC to emulate devices.... the adapter can be built for $5 using an FTDI FT232RL USBTTL serial breakout board. This is convenient for transferring or running real disk images/files as well as printer emulation and modem emulation. Makes running "backups" of all those old games you could never find or afford very easy. The Atari 8-bit machines are the easiest to pull this off on.
This is nothing new. It's just most people under 30 couldn't give a shit less.
Most of the 8/16-bit BBS's popping back up are using things like Lantronix UDS or iPocket232 serialethernet adapters that emulate a modem. You actually telnet to them. For extra authenticity you can use something like Syncterm to get real ANSI, PETSCII or ATASCII support.
And how many low cost x86 tablets are "already there" when it comes to driver support in an X11-based Linux distro? Most of the ones I've seen have Win8 and maybe Win10 driver support before the rug was pulled out from under them. MANY MANY of them used 32-bit EFI which is a nightmare when it comes to getting any mainstream Linux distros or BSD running.
Hell, how many laptops with impressive sales figures have full Linux or BSD support these days where EVERY FEATURE of the machine is actually supported? I'd say the x86 front has gotten worse.
If I were Linux/BSD/X11 devs I'd be focused on getting GLES support in X11-based apps to be mainstream and busting ass on open-source ARM MALI drivers. I'd wager more ARM boards can run Linux than modern cheap laptops.
Exactly, there is a reason most IT work in my area is outsourced to "consulting companies" who pay pennies on the dollar for overworked 1099 "subcontractors" who get screwed out of benefits and overtime pay. And if convenient and feasible they'll outsource everything they can to India and use 1099 monkeys here as a pair of cheap hands.
There is a reason I bailed on the entire field.
It will always be an issue with certain games. If you "see" yourself moving but you really aren't, you can experience motion sickness. No bumps in frame rates or detail will ever fix that.
It was never a big deal to me, even with 90's era VR HMDs. I never really got sick. Some people will lose their lunch quick but those people can't deal with 3D movies for any length of time either. Sometimes certain types of tech aren't for everyone. It doesn't have to be for everyone though. A product doesn't have to move a billion units to be worth getting or investing in.
Try one out, if it works for you and you enjoy it, buy it.
I'm not going to go through the effort of throwing on $800 headgear to play a jigsaw puzzle game. Dollar general has the real thing for $1.50.
Dollar general does NOT have a Messerschmidt Bf109 I can strafe Russians in for $1.50 so a Rift is probably as close as I'll get.
It's gen 1 and clunky still but it's making games wonderful and new again. VR is far from a fad. It's total immersion!
AR is also going to be huge. There is a place for both.
Gen1?! More like Gen3. I have a set of VirtualIO iGlasses from the 90's. The resolution sucked but PC's of the day couldn't spit out 1024x768 @ 30fps with all the detail cranked much less 1080p. VR has been around a long time, the tech is just now catching up with the dream at a price mere mortals can afford.
As for AR, I don't see it being incredibly useful for gaming other than cheesy ass find-the-pokemon style bullshit or AR chess. As a tool it could be neat for CAD and such and I can see some industrial use cases.
What's annoying is the fact that the coolest use for VR would be flight and space sims but nobody has bothered updating their engines to deal with it and took shortcuts that cause issues with things like TriDef3D drivers, etc. I'd love to play the IL2 and Rise of Flight series with VR and headtracking, I don't care about the motion sickness.
Those guys were outsourced ages ago.
What about the people who aren't privileged enough to have the high-end education and class benefits to make $100k in IT but have still worked their entire lives to get what they have and develop amazing skillsets? What about the people in the $40k-$60k range in the small to mid-sized businesses who have now lost their niche due to overseas outsourcing to India for pennies on the dollar or at the very least are subject to greater abuse and reduced benefits due to the THREAT of being outsourced?
A lot of people making over $100k are safe. It's the working poor and lower middle class who are screwed these days.
"The company cares about my well being and if I work 80 hours per week to complete this project I've poured my heart and soul into, it will all pay off in the end and I'll be a well paid rockstar and get my fair share!"
"Shareholders really care about me and appreciate my hard work."
Do you have a vested interested in traditional media conglomerates? If they get the eyeballs, why shouldn't they get their share of the revenue? Funding these people keeps them producing videos which gets them millions of eyeballs which gets advertisers business.
No, Trump won. You're just butt-hurt because California doesn't get to decide who the president is for the rest of the United States. You seem to forget that the US is really 50 countries that decided to form a union. The Electoral College was set up to make sure one state can't exert undue influence over the rest of the US. While Clinton got more in the popular vote due to rabid idiots in a few blue states, the majority of the US did not want her ass in office.
Gary Johnson didn't win but you don't see me trying to alter reality to make it seem like he did and it's all a big conspiracy by neo-nazi, misogynist, homophobic, transphobic, islamophobic racists.
Perhaps the DNC shouldn't have screwed Bernie?
It's funny, the same sort of people who rail against corporations and want free speech curtailed are exactly the same ones who decide they want to replace government tyranny with corporate tyranny when it fits their agenda.
If a private business has a right to limit offensive speech on a social media platform in the name of moral righteousness, they have just as much right to deny service to people they find objectionable on the same grounds such as homosexuals or muslims. That's not a world I want. Everyone is offended by SOMETHING.
Would you be OK with ISP's being pressured by moral crusaders to not provide connectivity to people who host "offensive" content because the moral crusaders decide to label everyone they don't agree with "neo-nazis"?
If certain advertisers don't want their ads showing up on a certain channel's content, whatever, that's fine. But to demonetize a channel's videos entirely because some snowflake finds it offensive, that's bullshit.
It's a BSD variant that will run on just about any oddball vintage hardware you have at your disposal..... 68K Macs, Atari TT's, VAX, Alpha, SPARC, UltraSPARC, sgi, DECstations, GE Microwaves, Sharp Can Openers, Compaq iPaq.
Emphasis is on portability but performance isn't bad.
I would also advise against doing business his company as well because by his own admission he hires inexperienced kids because he prefers to burn babies than hire a team of established professionals that know what they're doing.