I'm puzzled. What is the problem if it is there? Unless there is some scheduled task to do some nefarious thing autonomously malware is harmless on an isolated machine (except for wasted CPU cycles.)
Oof. I worked at Radio Shack during the winter of '93-'94, we were still selling the last few Tandy computers with dual 5 1/2" floppy drives and no hard drive. Northern Michigan, so they were able to foist that crap off on unsuspecting consumers there. Please note that **I** did not sell them and discouraged customers from even considering them, but my co-irkers had no such scruples.
That's where the Pentagon was buying parts for their herds of Vaxen in the late-'90s/early-'00s. I think the DECs are all gone now. they shredded most of them because the fucking brain surgeons that become generals thought there could be secret data somehow stored in memory and dumb terminals.
A lot of the communications, if not most of them, will be via serial ports. No encryption, minimal error checking, no possibility to ensure the continual continuity of the cabling. In the time period when these systems were installed no one monitored the integrity of j-boxes or conduit connections. If you have physical access then you have the ability to take over the communications channel, and the ability to splice into the comm channel to snoop it until you have a good understanding of the system. Not something that anyone would bother with in real life, but Ian Fleming could probably do something with it.
Started college in 1992, 5 1/4" drives were still the most common, most of the ones in the computer lab were only 360K. They refreshed half of the computers in the lab the next year, so most of the machines then could read dual sided disks, and half of them also had 3 1/2" drives. It was finally 1995 when all the machines could read double-sided double-density 3 1/2" drives, and quite a few of them still had 5 1/2" drives as well since that's what students (and most of the profs) still had in their home machines.
Actually you could attach Macs to an NT domain, it actually was a lot easier than plugging them into the Netware network IIRC. Of course that was when Apple still did all of their own OS work, rather than slap their GUI on someone else's kernel.
I used AD before I used NDS, and remember an awful lot of head scratching while thinking "Why the hell did they do it this way?" Having used Windows first I also tend to do the same when trying to work on a Mac or Linux machine, a lot of it is just what one uses first.
NetWare had a lot going for it, it must have taken a lot of work to sabotage that much of a head start. There were several other companies in that same time frame where management insisted on maintaining revenue levels or not adjusting pricing to match a changing market, and have ended up on the dust heap of history. Too bad that Novell was one of them.
loopholes closed and the tax code simplified as the Republicans have been proposing for a long time
Do you seriously believe that? Look at who porks up the budget with exemptions for corporate farms, weapons companies and fossil fuel industries. Each side has its pet industries, the Repugs may be "proposing" to simplify the tax code, but talk is cheap. They're not any better than the Dems on the subject, and considerably less honest about it.
Sure, I'll agree that we shouldn't tax your corporation, as long as your corporation agrees not to use the roads, airports, electrical grid, network protocols, postal system, patent and copywrite offices, ports, and all the other things that taxes pay for. Since according to Romney "Corporations are people my friend" the corporation that makes a million dollar profit should pay the same level tax as an individual with a million dollar paycheck.
I don't know what group of idiots was managing Novell at that time, but they screwed that company up just about every way that they could. They owned the PC networking space for years, there was nothing on the market with the capabilities or stability of Netware 3.1x for years and a Novell Netware certification was a ticket to the big paycheck. The move from Netware 3 to Netware 4 was years late, a huge amount of work, a complete paradigm shift, horrendously expensive, extremely risky, and notoriously flaky if it did manage to somehow successfully upgrade. And required IPX/SPX and did not support TCP/IP out of the box. In comparison Windows NT networking was easy, fairly reliable, free, and supported all the major networking protocols of the time, even Banyan Vines. Windows 2000 and Active Directory pretty much put the final nails in Novell's coffin as it delivered everything that Novell had been promising for years, did it easily, and did it much cheaper. Novell had no one to blame but themselves.
literally hundreds of billions of dollars of lobbying efforts
I don't think you understand what the word 'literally' means. You're off by at least three orders of magnitude. And "very old"??? Ford is an old company, US Steel is an old company, Barclays Bank is a very old company, Hudsons Bay Trading is a very old company. Microsoft barely makes it beyond "not new".
I'm sorry, but WTF??? Voice Of America??? The network which is funded 100% from the US Intel community? The network which was **conceived** as a US government propaganda source? I stopped listening when I heard them telling Cubans that anyone arriving in Florida would automatically get a good job and an apartment (late '80s).
Their targeting doesn't seem to work for me at all. If I just bought a new pair of shoes they'll generally try to sell me something like fertilizer or romance novels.
Someone who shows off trinkets? If you have to spend hundreds or thousands of dollars on a fashion accessory to feel unique then I think you need to check sense of self-worth.
I wear a watch because I want to know what time it is at a glance. I have a nice-looking watch because my wife bought it for me. I don't need to project an image of wealth to impress people, and I really don't give a shit if people think I'm rich or poor at a glance. If people want to know if I'm interesting they can talk to me to find out. I don't want them talking to me because they think I have money to waste.
Wireless recharging might get over that hurdle. I always take my watch off and put it in the same place (I'm not awake and functional enough in the morning to find it or probably even to remember it otherwise). If there were a recharger pad or something that I could put in that spot I might consider a smart watch if I had a use for the extra functionality.
"Always" for values of 'always' that are less than eight years. I think I can safely assume you're under 30 years old. Nine years ago the VOIP people tried to convince my employer to go for IP telephony, and my boss asked the execs, "What happens to this business when the phones are down? How much downtime has our analog phone system had over the last year? Three and a half minutes for a firmware upgrade on a weekend evening. How much downtime has our Internet connection had over the last year? Thirty nine hours, thirty of them during normal business hours. You just need to decide if the VOIP savings are worth that much downtime."
I think your "compensation" is assumed to be that the ads you get are now more targeted and pertinent to what they think are your interests. Hell of a reward.
If I paid that much money for something it would sit in a fully-alarmed display case where water could never get near it. Of course if I were stupid enough to pay that much for a watch I would probably be stupid enough to wear it while snorkeling on my private island, so never mind.
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Now the professional speculators will trash it for good. Get the amateurs out of the way, time for a REAL pump-and-dump cycle!
I'm puzzled. What is the problem if it is there? Unless there is some scheduled task to do some nefarious thing autonomously malware is harmless on an isolated machine (except for wasted CPU cycles.)
Oof. I worked at Radio Shack during the winter of '93-'94, we were still selling the last few Tandy computers with dual 5 1/2" floppy drives and no hard drive. Northern Michigan, so they were able to foist that crap off on unsuspecting consumers there. Please note that **I** did not sell them and discouraged customers from even considering them, but my co-irkers had no such scruples.
If my back door is 85 feet underground and secured by a battalion of Marines I'm not going to worry about locking it.
That's where the Pentagon was buying parts for their herds of Vaxen in the late-'90s/early-'00s. I think the DECs are all gone now. they shredded most of them because the fucking brain surgeons that become generals thought there could be secret data somehow stored in memory and dumb terminals.
Probably shouldn't Google that from work, and do NOT do an image search. Well, unless you're into that . . .
A lot of the communications, if not most of them, will be via serial ports. No encryption, minimal error checking, no possibility to ensure the continual continuity of the cabling. In the time period when these systems were installed no one monitored the integrity of j-boxes or conduit connections. If you have physical access then you have the ability to take over the communications channel, and the ability to splice into the comm channel to snoop it until you have a good understanding of the system. Not something that anyone would bother with in real life, but Ian Fleming could probably do something with it.
Started college in 1992, 5 1/4" drives were still the most common, most of the ones in the computer lab were only 360K. They refreshed half of the computers in the lab the next year, so most of the machines then could read dual sided disks, and half of them also had 3 1/2" drives. It was finally 1995 when all the machines could read double-sided double-density 3 1/2" drives, and quite a few of them still had 5 1/2" drives as well since that's what students (and most of the profs) still had in their home machines.
Wang word processors had 2 1/2" floppies, IIRC. A co-irker was complaining that he had to find some special equipment to "examine a 2 1/2 inch Wang".
Actually you could attach Macs to an NT domain, it actually was a lot easier than plugging them into the Netware network IIRC. Of course that was when Apple still did all of their own OS work, rather than slap their GUI on someone else's kernel.
I used AD before I used NDS, and remember an awful lot of head scratching while thinking "Why the hell did they do it this way?" Having used Windows first I also tend to do the same when trying to work on a Mac or Linux machine, a lot of it is just what one uses first.
NetWare had a lot going for it, it must have taken a lot of work to sabotage that much of a head start. There were several other companies in that same time frame where management insisted on maintaining revenue levels or not adjusting pricing to match a changing market, and have ended up on the dust heap of history. Too bad that Novell was one of them.
loopholes closed and the tax code simplified as the Republicans have been proposing for a long time
Do you seriously believe that? Look at who porks up the budget with exemptions for corporate farms, weapons companies and fossil fuel industries. Each side has its pet industries, the Repugs may be "proposing" to simplify the tax code, but talk is cheap. They're not any better than the Dems on the subject, and considerably less honest about it.
Sure, I'll agree that we shouldn't tax your corporation, as long as your corporation agrees not to use the roads, airports, electrical grid, network protocols, postal system, patent and copywrite offices, ports, and all the other things that taxes pay for. Since according to Romney "Corporations are people my friend" the corporation that makes a million dollar profit should pay the same level tax as an individual with a million dollar paycheck.
I don't know what group of idiots was managing Novell at that time, but they screwed that company up just about every way that they could. They owned the PC networking space for years, there was nothing on the market with the capabilities or stability of Netware 3.1x for years and a Novell Netware certification was a ticket to the big paycheck. The move from Netware 3 to Netware 4 was years late, a huge amount of work, a complete paradigm shift, horrendously expensive, extremely risky, and notoriously flaky if it did manage to somehow successfully upgrade. And required IPX/SPX and did not support TCP/IP out of the box. In comparison Windows NT networking was easy, fairly reliable, free, and supported all the major networking protocols of the time, even Banyan Vines. Windows 2000 and Active Directory pretty much put the final nails in Novell's coffin as it delivered everything that Novell had been promising for years, did it easily, and did it much cheaper. Novell had no one to blame but themselves.
literally hundreds of billions of dollars of lobbying efforts
I don't think you understand what the word 'literally' means. You're off by at least three orders of magnitude. And "very old"??? Ford is an old company, US Steel is an old company, Barclays Bank is a very old company, Hudsons Bay Trading is a very old company. Microsoft barely makes it beyond "not new".
The aircraft itself actually suicided when a Vogon computer dumped its owner's poetry collection into the flight control computer's data storage.
And it's even CLINICALLY TESTED as well!!
I'm sorry, but WTF??? Voice Of America??? The network which is funded 100% from the US Intel community? The network which was **conceived** as a US government propaganda source? I stopped listening when I heard them telling Cubans that anyone arriving in Florida would automatically get a good job and an apartment (late '80s).
Their targeting doesn't seem to work for me at all. If I just bought a new pair of shoes they'll generally try to sell me something like fertilizer or romance novels.
I want my watch to show who am i.
Someone who shows off trinkets? If you have to spend hundreds or thousands of dollars on a fashion accessory to feel unique then I think you need to check sense of self-worth.
I wear a watch because I want to know what time it is at a glance. I have a nice-looking watch because my wife bought it for me. I don't need to project an image of wealth to impress people, and I really don't give a shit if people think I'm rich or poor at a glance. If people want to know if I'm interesting they can talk to me to find out. I don't want them talking to me because they think I have money to waste.
Wireless recharging might get over that hurdle. I always take my watch off and put it in the same place (I'm not awake and functional enough in the morning to find it or probably even to remember it otherwise). If there were a recharger pad or something that I could put in that spot I might consider a smart watch if I had a use for the extra functionality.
"Always" for values of 'always' that are less than eight years. I think I can safely assume you're under 30 years old. Nine years ago the VOIP people tried to convince my employer to go for IP telephony, and my boss asked the execs, "What happens to this business when the phones are down? How much downtime has our analog phone system had over the last year? Three and a half minutes for a firmware upgrade on a weekend evening. How much downtime has our Internet connection had over the last year? Thirty nine hours, thirty of them during normal business hours. You just need to decide if the VOIP savings are worth that much downtime."
I think your "compensation" is assumed to be that the ads you get are now more targeted and pertinent to what they think are your interests. Hell of a reward.
If I paid that much money for something it would sit in a fully-alarmed display case where water could never get near it. Of course if I were stupid enough to pay that much for a watch I would probably be stupid enough to wear it while snorkeling on my private island, so never mind.
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Institutionalized bribery was a Roman invention?