My 78 RPM Records are stored in the Victrola, LPs with the direct drive turntable. Eight tracks went to Goodwill, CDs are in the cabinet by the stereo, Cassette Tapes above the CDs. Sandwich into the VHS Drawer(s) by the TV are the 8mm tapes of the kid's birthday party, a new and small case on top has the MiniDV tapes in it. Beta tapes and the Sony are in the closet. DVDs and VCDs are on top of the player.
Why is it that the only media I have from 30 years ago that I can still use in the same format, in the same player, in the same way, without degradation of signal or data integrity... IS A BOOK?
There is another way, a cleaner way, and a safer way to get older computer gear but I will be d****d if I will reveal my motherload source!
I too have picked up machines with all sorts of sensitive data. By the way: One drive I recovered was loaded (about 12gbs) with mp3s. Most were things of no interest to me, some though were to my taste and I kept them. Will the RIAA bother me over such? I also picked up some used albums; same source. Are these also something I should never listen to? Tapes? Eight Tracks? How about recovered software? older books? What is the disposition of media AND ITS CONTENT if either recovered from the trash or purchased used (yard sale, thrift store, flea market etc)?
Well actually...
1. Yes I got the Vulcan and the Transwarp from different scrounging. Both were dysfunctional and in both cases chip replacements were needed to repair. I also had the ROM (GASP! I cloned a ROM!!PIRACY!)from my "Gold" Vulcan card copied so I could then install it on a "Black" Vulcan card I also have so I could get greater then 20mb drives on that early IDE technology controller. I am still trying to upgrade the 8k cache on the Transwarp to 32k so it can compliment the 14mhz '816 I installed so I can then attach a faster oscillator and push to 8 or maybe even 10mhz.......
2. In the case of slot 6: I use an Apple "Superdrive" card which is a controller that is specifically designed for the 1.4mb Floppy drive as vs. either the older 5.25 floppy controller (or the built-in Apple IIGS 5.25 controller mapped to slot 6), or the more rare "Liron" 3.5 800kb Apple floppy controller (or again, the built in 800kb controller on slot 5). I have this card in Slot 6 with a old 800k case that has a recovered from a Mac Sony 1.4 mechanism in it. On the GS controller in the back are attached two 800k cases, and one 5.25 case in Daisy Chain configuration. Thus, I Can use either the 1.4 drive or, after a trip to Control Panel, the 5.25...
One major beauty of "Retro- Computing" as a hobby is that equipment and add-ons that were only available to the filthy rich among us back in the day, now show up at Goodwill and yard sales for pennies. I can FINALLY build the SUPER MACHINE I always wanted.... 20 years too late;)
Simple Solution: Do not release a movie at all! If you lock up the reels in a dim dark vault then no one will EVER be tempted to copy it. Works for music too.
Personally I voted with my money by only going to 3 movies in the last decade. but then, I do not watch television either.
Make decent movies-music-TV and folks might be inclined to purchase. "intelectual property" seems to be an overstatement when it comes to the current crop of productions...
Hard core Apple II enthusiasts out here find these projects fascinating. Speaking as a long time Apple II fanatic and someone who purchased Joachim Lange's LANceGS ethernet card (referred to in the link), and an almost daily user of the OTHER TCP/IP effort on the Apple II (yes, there is more then one!) Marinetti, this is a way cool project! You can surf the web on an Apple II (I know of 2 browsers), use FTP (again, at least 2 clients), telnet (last count 4 different clients and growing), an IRC client, and even more!
Here are the specs on my Apple II screamer: Apple IIgs ROM3 with 5mbs main memory (1 on motherboard, 4mb on memory slot), a TranswarpGS at 6mhz CPU accelerator; Slots: 1: Vulcan IDE card on a 120mb Vulcan Gold Hard Drive/Power Supply, 2: Apple 1024kb "Slinky" Memory card (also switchable to Appletalk for filesharing on intranet) 3: TranswarpGS, 4: scanner card 5: Apple "Superdrive" card for 1.44mb Floppy access. 6: ComputerEyes card for video capture, (switchable to 5.25 floppy controller for the occasional old game), 7 LANceGS ethernet card.
Apple ][ FOREVER!
Agreed. Secure Enough. Question: What brand of deadbolt is on your front door? Master? Schiefer? other? I know some locksmiths who are absolute experts at opening whatever sort of lock protects you and yours..
A deadbolt, padlock, even a wedge under the door jam ONLY KEEP HONEST PEOPLE HONEST! All locks are painfully easy to bypass. WEP or other wireless security, or indeed ANY network security falls under the same catagory. Tech Geeks worry about the security of their net while leaving their Alienware and iPod physically secured by a hollow core door and a tinfoil knob lock. Priorities.. priorities..
Ever come home from a long day and thought: "Humm. I was SURE I left that magazine on the RIGHT side of the coffee table...."
There is one Mac manual I treasured:
Macweek Upgrading and Repairing Your Mac by Lisa Lee. This book covers the Macintosh from the early 128 through iirc the 7500-8500 604e PPC based boxes. Lee is an EXCELLENT writer and inclused everything from motherboard lay-outs ofr easy memory upgrades, to a section on Sad Mac error codes and early viri (remember nVIR-A?). I have read many technical books, but this one was well organized, well thought out, easy and pleasureable to read and an excellent source for looking up that obscure memory SIMM needed to upgrade a MAC IIfx later. I wish she would write a update.
Rather then government, we should allow the marketplace to decide this issue: Personally I favor the employment of a small offshore mercenary army that stands ready at a moment's notice to kneecap a Netsky, bugger a Bugbear, Silence a Sasser, blow away a Beagle.. etc.
In any endover it is always best to employ a professional who specializes in the specific field...
Personally I do not think Aliens ever built a US Government. I find such a unlikely place as Washington too far fetched. Why would the all knowing Ga'zur'bk in the Mothership ever create something so silly?
"That's one small step for Z'nargh, one giant slither for Z'narghkind!"
and... Ray Bradbury is the youngest and I do believe the last of a select group of young writers: The Lovecraft Circle. These were writers who shared an interest in macabre fiction. They traded letters with and sent stories for review and editing to the "Gentleman of Providence": Howard Philip Lovecraft. HPL was the inventor of the Cthulu Mythos. If you have never read any of the works in this genre, well then! draw the drapes, light a good reading lamp, curl up in favorite comfy chair..and prepare to have the Bejeezus scared out of you!
Personally I think Ray just wants to join the pan-galactic Memorial Old Ones Bowling League and pizza fest. Azathoth and Nyrlathotep run the concession stands on the Dark Side of the Moon ya know...
That is not dead which eternal doth lie/ and with strange Aeons, even death may die. - pizza too
If Paul Allen and Rutan and the team do succeed in getting people up there without $800 toilet seats and 18 bureaucrats to occupy each one.. then...almost ALL sins of Redmond will be forgiven
Researcher X has a "inie" bellybutton. Researcher Y has an "outie". Politician A is left handed, Politician B is right.
Different folks, different strokes. What DIFFERENCE does it make if a Man (woman, gender neutral expression denoting primate, whatever) is Gay, Straight, or prefers something else? I can see a discussion of someone's sexual preference, ethnicity, height, weight, country of origin, hair style, fashion sense, etc in the proper context, but, what has it to do with
(to use a saying of that age) the price of tea in China?
Yes previous generations treated homosexuality as a disease. They also treated Asthma with heroin... and an earlier crop of doctors treated you with leeches for almost anything. This should teach us to be somewhat wary of doctors in ANY era. Placing our modern mindset, morals and the like on an earlier era serves little imho.
Turing was a great man. All geeks today owe him their gratitude. Yes he was mistreated and abused, more so if viewed by today's standards. Where this abuse, or even his preference reflects on the story of his research and discoveries, it pertains. Where it reflects more on someone's "agenda", it does not.
The way it works is: they "hold" (meaning invest in money market accounts at current interest rates, using this money as colateral for other borrowings) the funds for a "reasonable time" (read that, till soon after the next election cycle and the hub-bub on this issue has calmd down, and, no one else is watching), at which point the funds will be surrendered (stolen) by the state government for the good of all the "peepul"
Government by the lawyers of the lawyers and for the lawyers shall not perish from the earth
Speaking as an artist who never got paid when I should have back in my rocker days... I have no sympathy for the RIAA. I also hear they have not paid other artists to the tune of 70 some odd millions in New York, which the NY government will now take since such people as John Fogerty or ELton John are missing persons with no hope at this late stage in finding...
And if the consumer buys a Dell, HP, Compaq, Gateway...all the friendly Free With Your Purchase software preinstalled on the box...includes a wealth of adware and spyware.
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My 78 RPM Records are stored in the Victrola, LPs with the direct drive turntable. Eight tracks went to Goodwill, CDs are in the cabinet by the stereo, Cassette Tapes above the CDs. Sandwich into the VHS Drawer(s) by the TV are the 8mm tapes of the kid's birthday party, a new and small case on top has the MiniDV tapes in it. Beta tapes and the Sony are in the closet. DVDs and VCDs are on top of the player. Why is it that the only media I have from 30 years ago that I can still use in the same format, in the same player, in the same way, without degradation of signal or data integrity... IS A BOOK?
Good thing this Bus runs on Windows... It should therefore be...crash proof...
There is another way, a cleaner way, and a safer way to get older computer gear but I will be d****d if I will reveal my motherload source! I too have picked up machines with all sorts of sensitive data. By the way: One drive I recovered was loaded (about 12gbs) with mp3s. Most were things of no interest to me, some though were to my taste and I kept them. Will the RIAA bother me over such? I also picked up some used albums; same source. Are these also something I should never listen to? Tapes? Eight Tracks? How about recovered software? older books? What is the disposition of media AND ITS CONTENT if either recovered from the trash or purchased used (yard sale, thrift store, flea market etc)?
Well actually... 1. Yes I got the Vulcan and the Transwarp from different scrounging. Both were dysfunctional and in both cases chip replacements were needed to repair. I also had the ROM (GASP! I cloned a ROM!!PIRACY!)from my "Gold" Vulcan card copied so I could then install it on a "Black" Vulcan card I also have so I could get greater then 20mb drives on that early IDE technology controller. I am still trying to upgrade the 8k cache on the Transwarp to 32k so it can compliment the 14mhz '816 I installed so I can then attach a faster oscillator and push to 8 or maybe even 10mhz. ......
2. In the case of slot 6: I use an Apple "Superdrive" card which is a controller that is specifically designed for the 1.4mb Floppy drive as vs. either the older 5.25 floppy controller (or the built-in Apple IIGS 5.25 controller mapped to slot 6), or the more rare "Liron" 3.5 800kb Apple floppy controller (or again, the built in 800kb controller on slot 5). I have this card in Slot 6 with a old 800k case that has a recovered from a Mac Sony 1.4 mechanism in it. On the GS controller in the back are attached two 800k cases, and one 5.25 case in Daisy Chain configuration. Thus, I Can use either the 1.4 drive or, after a trip to Control Panel, the 5.25. ..
One major beauty of "Retro- Computing" as a hobby is that equipment and add-ons that were only available to the filthy rich among us back in the day, now show up at Goodwill and yard sales for pennies. I can FINALLY build the SUPER MACHINE I always wanted.... 20 years too late ;)
Simple Solution: Do not release a movie at all! If you lock up the reels in a dim dark vault then no one will EVER be tempted to copy it. Works for music too. Personally I voted with my money by only going to 3 movies in the last decade. but then, I do not watch television either. Make decent movies-music-TV and folks might be inclined to purchase. "intelectual property" seems to be an overstatement when it comes to the current crop of productions...
I heard of an experiemnt wheret they fed water in 20 gallon increments to labratory mice... and they all drowned.....
Remember: Swish and Flick! Swish and Flick!
Hard core Apple II enthusiasts out here find these projects fascinating. Speaking as a long time Apple II fanatic and someone who purchased Joachim Lange's LANceGS ethernet card (referred to in the link), and an almost daily user of the OTHER TCP/IP effort on the Apple II (yes, there is more then one!) Marinetti, this is a way cool project! You can surf the web on an Apple II (I know of 2 browsers), use FTP (again, at least 2 clients), telnet (last count 4 different clients and growing), an IRC client, and even more! Here are the specs on my Apple II screamer: Apple IIgs ROM3 with 5mbs main memory (1 on motherboard, 4mb on memory slot), a TranswarpGS at 6mhz CPU accelerator; Slots: 1: Vulcan IDE card on a 120mb Vulcan Gold Hard Drive/Power Supply, 2: Apple 1024kb "Slinky" Memory card (also switchable to Appletalk for filesharing on intranet) 3: TranswarpGS, 4: scanner card 5: Apple "Superdrive" card for 1.44mb Floppy access. 6: ComputerEyes card for video capture, (switchable to 5.25 floppy controller for the occasional old game), 7 LANceGS ethernet card. Apple ][ FOREVER!
Agreed. Secure Enough. Question: What brand of deadbolt is on your front door? Master? Schiefer? other? I know some locksmiths who are absolute experts at opening whatever sort of lock protects you and yours.. A deadbolt, padlock, even a wedge under the door jam ONLY KEEP HONEST PEOPLE HONEST! All locks are painfully easy to bypass. WEP or other wireless security, or indeed ANY network security falls under the same catagory. Tech Geeks worry about the security of their net while leaving their Alienware and iPod physically secured by a hollow core door and a tinfoil knob lock. Priorities.. priorities.. Ever come home from a long day and thought: "Humm. I was SURE I left that magazine on the RIGHT side of the coffee table...."
"Gentlemen do not read each other's mail." -Secretary of State Henry Stimson around 1931(?)
There is one Mac manual I treasured: Macweek Upgrading and Repairing Your Mac by Lisa Lee. This book covers the Macintosh from the early 128 through iirc the 7500-8500 604e PPC based boxes. Lee is an EXCELLENT writer and inclused everything from motherboard lay-outs ofr easy memory upgrades, to a section on Sad Mac error codes and early viri (remember nVIR-A?). I have read many technical books, but this one was well organized, well thought out, easy and pleasureable to read and an excellent source for looking up that obscure memory SIMM needed to upgrade a MAC IIfx later. I wish she would write a update.
Rather then government, we should allow the marketplace to decide this issue: Personally I favor the employment of a small offshore mercenary army that stands ready at a moment's notice to kneecap a Netsky, bugger a Bugbear, Silence a Sasser, blow away a Beagle.. etc. In any endover it is always best to employ a professional who specializes in the specific field...
Personally I do not think Aliens ever built a US Government. I find such a unlikely place as Washington too far fetched. Why would the all knowing Ga'zur'bk in the Mothership ever create something so silly? "That's one small step for Z'nargh, one giant slither for Z'narghkind!"
Forget Episoder III. What I want to know is: When is a sequel to the Ewok Adventure coming out?
and... Ray Bradbury is the youngest and I do believe the last of a select group of young writers: The Lovecraft Circle. These were writers who shared an interest in macabre fiction. They traded letters with and sent stories for review and editing to the "Gentleman of Providence": Howard Philip Lovecraft. HPL was the inventor of the Cthulu Mythos. If you have never read any of the works in this genre, well then! draw the drapes, light a good reading lamp, curl up in favorite comfy chair..and prepare to have the Bejeezus scared out of you! Personally I think Ray just wants to join the pan-galactic Memorial Old Ones Bowling League and pizza fest. Azathoth and Nyrlathotep run the concession stands on the Dark Side of the Moon ya know... That is not dead which eternal doth lie/ and with strange Aeons, even death may die. - pizza too
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? someone once asked. He had a British cousin if I recall correctly...
seltzer carborata as in carbonated?
If Paul Allen and Rutan and the team do succeed in getting people up there without $800 toilet seats and 18 bureaucrats to occupy each one.. then...almost ALL sins of Redmond will be forgiven
Query: Speaking of Patents, and related subjects... is the BSOD covered by copywrite?
Researcher X has a "inie" bellybutton. Researcher Y has an "outie". Politician A is left handed, Politician B is right. Different folks, different strokes. What DIFFERENCE does it make if a Man (woman, gender neutral expression denoting primate, whatever) is Gay, Straight, or prefers something else? I can see a discussion of someone's sexual preference, ethnicity, height, weight, country of origin, hair style, fashion sense, etc in the proper context, but, what has it to do with (to use a saying of that age) the price of tea in China? Yes previous generations treated homosexuality as a disease. They also treated Asthma with heroin... and an earlier crop of doctors treated you with leeches for almost anything. This should teach us to be somewhat wary of doctors in ANY era. Placing our modern mindset, morals and the like on an earlier era serves little imho. Turing was a great man. All geeks today owe him their gratitude. Yes he was mistreated and abused, more so if viewed by today's standards. Where this abuse, or even his preference reflects on the story of his research and discoveries, it pertains. Where it reflects more on someone's "agenda", it does not.
The way it works is: they "hold" (meaning invest in money market accounts at current interest rates, using this money as colateral for other borrowings) the funds for a "reasonable time" (read that, till soon after the next election cycle and the hub-bub on this issue has calmd down, and, no one else is watching), at which point the funds will be surrendered (stolen) by the state government for the good of all the "peepul" Government by the lawyers of the lawyers and for the lawyers shall not perish from the earth
Speaking as an artist who never got paid when I should have back in my rocker days... I have no sympathy for the RIAA. I also hear they have not paid other artists to the tune of 70 some odd millions in New York, which the NY government will now take since such people as John Fogerty or ELton John are missing persons with no hope at this late stage in finding...
And if the consumer buys a Dell, HP, Compaq, Gateway...all the friendly Free With Your Purchase software preinstalled on the box...includes a wealth of adware and spyware.
Indeed, but, to War Drive on THIS protocol would definitly be....a feather in one's bonnet...
Forget Commodore! I am sticking with the only truely secure network protocol and platform: RFC1149!