So maybe use NVRAM instead? (self-battery-powered RAM, allowed interval between recharges - 10 years.) Or maybe store it all in a plain RAM chip and provide enough extra power to commit the changes to disk (flash?) on powerdown?
1) Use battery-powered one. And two sets of accumulators, plus auto-off charger. Replacement procedure is exchanging the two sets between the mouse and the charger. 2) If it's used often, it will be caught before it gets to flee anywhere out of reach.
Well, he WAS 8 on Feb 16 2004. Now, in Jul 15 2005 he is certainly at least 9, possibly 10, which may (though doesn't have to) mean the girl in question is -currently- the youngest.
Surely it's not bad that the kid got the cert. That just shows the level of the certificate - and its worth. If you hire a guy who claims to be a computer professional and supports this claim with such a certificate, you can bet he's a liar and a moron, because even 9yo kid can learn all that - and that's certainly NOT enough to pass as "pro".
1) No local software installation required? 2) Over HTTP, port 80, accessible from any webbrowser. FTP is way too often blocked (or even just unconfigured) at firewall/router.
Maybe in your place. Here (Poland) an average floppy is 2PLN (0.5 Eur, $0.66) and a blank no-name CDs (50-pack) can be found as cheap as 0.50PLN (0.025 EUR, $0.03) a piece.
Ah the fun with modern computer cases with deep floppy slots.
"Can I use your computer? I need to download a network card driver, my net is down." "Sure, no problem." 4 minutes later "Ok, got it. Just saving and I'm done." *Plang* "You don't have a floppy drive?!?" "No, I don't. Here's a screwdriver if you want your floppy back."
A friend freshly installed Linux on his box and was exploring the possiblities. I needed some project from him. But, oops, it's 6MB and I have only one floppy. So, compression - and we're down to 1.5M. "Uh, that's so pity." - So I say, let me play with your Linux. Some manpage reading, mknod, fdformat, mkdosfs, and here we are, 1.6M free. Worked like a charm when read at home. Clean 6 megabytes of data transported on a single floppy.
Yes... If they only made bigger capacity versions of iButtons. Great stainless, Fire-proof, acid-proof, frost-proof, smash-proof, EMP-proof, and a few others-proof, likely to survive nuclear explosion with just a bit of shadow to protect it from evaporating, guaranteed to operate in quite harsh conditions, size and shape of a bigger watch battery, rather inexpensive, shiny, reasonably fast, comes in password-protected versions, easy to interface (just touch the reader)... Superb, wonderful indestructible data storage. Whole 8 kilobytes of it.
More likely all your floppies went stiff over the time - the drive was fine, but a floppy disk, used or not, 5-6 years old has good 60% or so chance of failing. (and "no, I just bought it in the store" is not an excuse. Nobody manufactures floppies now, but there are vast stores filled with these, and they need to be emptied. So it's a good bet the brand new floppy you buy in a shop is already a few years old.
Most of computers have access to the net. Even devices without drives often do. And most of them have access to WWW. Now just keep a "floppy webpage" where you can easily upload/download your files...
The problem is most of available software solutions are cumbersome if you want to upload more than 1 file (and those that aren't, need to be installed locally, say, FTP client with HTTP GET/POST capablity). Any suggestions about good remote file storage software?
(or a CD-R and an infinite supply of discs) About 30MB wasted on opening new session, 1.44M written, you get about 22 "floppy writes" on a single CD. For a price of a floppy, you get 4 CDs. That's equivalent of writing to a floppy 90 times - Many floppies don't live that long.
Now just give me software that makes doing it as easy as writing to a floppy.
the floppy era was supposed to be gone in 1998 (iMac). Part of the problem is that there is no replacement for floppies that's as cheap and disposable a media. the other problem is that too much stuff still depends on floppies.
Single-use CDs are 1/4 the price of a floppy. Definitely more disposable. And with 700M they provide more "rewrite" capacity than your floppy would survive. (just don't close the session) But they are definitely too cumbersome to use.
I think what we really need is an USB key with replaceable media. Maybe SD cards? These are damn slick as storage, tiny, fast, reliable, and they come in a range of sizes, from 2-4MB to gigabytes. Unfortunately they are all way too expensive to be considered "disposable media", and I feel the price is artificially overblown. If you could get these to run with MP3 players, through USB-drive-alike dongles etc, that could become the media of the future. But as long as a flash-based MP3 player that can act as a USB drive is cheaper than an SD card of equivalent capacity, forget it.
Everyone says this hack is uncool because it's lame, that the cardboard will crash, that he didn't use the freed up space...
Why doesn't anybody notice one more FUNDAMENTAL thing: Try typing measy 4KB of text on this laptop. The functionality is ruined. If you rest your hands on it, it will go down, crashing. You must keep your hands suspended in air, about 20cm above reasonable, comfortable height, and type like that. Hiding this laptop under the desk will have lesser impact on functionality, free up desk space better, will be cheaper and certainly safer.
'cause if every chineese tossed his hat at the US, the whole US army would get buried 30 feet deep? Or because of the prices they could accept for their wares? Pray and beg the Chineese government to remain communist, because their full opening to free market would mean the end of economy in the Western World as we know it. Consider they are running at maybe 5% of their capacity, already flooding us with their wares.
Yes, but only for secure transactions. In most cases login.php would be encrypted, but it's probably allowable that the login form page is insecure and only submits to a secure page (form method="post" action="https://....
Chalk one up for the people who can't even get a constitution done. You're saying this like "can't get shoelaces tied". Do you really think a -good- constitution, encompassing so many so fundamentally different nations is easy to create? This is one simple regulation, thing of the kind they make 10 daily. Constitution is "law above laws", not something you write during a lunch break.
let the project be discussed by politicians, artists and fans. Lock all the managers, producers, studio owners etc in a dungeon, take their phones away from them, close the exit with a concrete wall, and don't let them contact the outside world until the project is ready. Otherwise it will be another horrible "all your base" takeover of your rights.
Actually, once the project is over, don't let them out either.
Well, I've seen 2-player implementation of Game of Life. In Populous 2. A spell called "fungus". You plant fungus in given pattern on your land, and the cells start growing according to rules of Game of Life. Upon contact with a human being, the human dies, fungus lives on. But it can't spread over hills or water etc. The trick is to make it grow in direction of the enemy settlements to kill the enemy people. Send floaters there, plant some exploding pattern, or grow a floater gun on your own land, directing it at the enemy territory. Fun!
Well, not very dangerous. To affect someone directly, the client browser would have to be compromised to send doctored HTTP requests. If this happens to you, you're already 0wn0red, this little trick might at worst add insult to injury:)
But imagine this: luser.isp.net connects daily to bank.com through proxy.isp.net evil.isp.net has tapped into the same LAN as Luser. evil.isp.net sends a doctored request to secure http://bank.com/login.php with exploit-redirection to insecure http://bank.com/demo.html, through proxy.isp.net From now on, proxy.isp.net will serve demo.html to anyone who wants to access login.php. So luser happily types his real password and login into demo submit form (not looking at the lock icon) and happily clicks "submit", while evil.isp.net just sniffs the LAN and captures unencrypted POST request containing real password and login.
That's about as far as it goes. You can't do much if bank.com has DEMO with wide letters across the demo page. You can't redirect to offsite pages, and generally your possiblities are low...
Hmm. So we know both are "evil". What happened to other players in the x86 market? Cyrix is dead, Transmeta is dead, are there any others left? Any one NOT evil?
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So maybe use NVRAM instead? (self-battery-powered RAM, allowed interval between recharges - 10 years.)
Or maybe store it all in a plain RAM chip and provide enough extra power to commit the changes to disk (flash?) on powerdown?
1) Use battery-powered one. And two sets of accumulators, plus auto-off charger. Replacement procedure is exchanging the two sets between the mouse and the charger.
2) If it's used often, it will be caught before it gets to flee anywhere out of reach.
Well, he WAS 8 on Feb 16 2004. Now, in Jul 15 2005 he is certainly at least 9, possibly 10, which may (though doesn't have to) mean the girl in question is -currently- the youngest.
Surely it's not bad that the kid got the cert. That just shows the level of the certificate - and its worth. If you hire a guy who claims to be a computer professional and supports this claim with such a certificate, you can bet he's a liar and a moron, because even 9yo kid can learn all that - and that's certainly NOT enough to pass as "pro".
1) No local software installation required?
2) Over HTTP, port 80, accessible from any webbrowser. FTP is way too often blocked (or even just unconfigured) at firewall/router.
Maybe in your place. Here (Poland) an average floppy is 2PLN (0.5 Eur, $0.66) and a blank no-name CDs (50-pack) can be found as cheap as 0.50PLN (0.025 EUR, $0.03) a piece.
Ah the fun with modern computer cases with deep floppy slots.
"Can I use your computer? I need to download a network card driver, my net is down."
"Sure, no problem."
4 minutes later "Ok, got it. Just saving and I'm done." *Plang* "You don't have a floppy drive?!?"
"No, I don't. Here's a screwdriver if you want your floppy back."
Burn the floppy image to RW as el-torrito bootloader, then boot from CD. The system won't know the difference.
Request replacement of the floppy because it has a bad sector :D
A friend freshly installed Linux on his box and was exploring the possiblities. I needed some project from him. But, oops, it's 6MB and I have only one floppy.
So, compression - and we're down to 1.5M. "Uh, that's so pity." - So I say, let me play with your Linux. Some manpage reading, mknod, fdformat, mkdosfs, and here we are, 1.6M free. Worked like a charm when read at home. Clean 6 megabytes of data transported on a single floppy.
Yes... If they only made bigger capacity versions of iButtons.
Great stainless, Fire-proof, acid-proof, frost-proof, smash-proof, EMP-proof, and a few others-proof, likely to survive nuclear explosion with just a bit of shadow to protect it from evaporating, guaranteed to operate in quite harsh conditions, size and shape of a bigger watch battery, rather inexpensive, shiny, reasonably fast, comes in password-protected versions, easy to interface (just touch the reader)...
Superb, wonderful indestructible data storage. Whole 8 kilobytes of it.
More likely all your floppies went stiff over the time - the drive was fine, but a floppy disk, used or not, 5-6 years old has good 60% or so chance of failing.
(and "no, I just bought it in the store" is not an excuse. Nobody manufactures floppies now, but there are vast stores filled with these, and they need to be emptied. So it's a good bet the brand new floppy you buy in a shop is already a few years old.
What would you like to replace it? A cross maybe?
(my fav. from GTA, save point - a church with big JESUS SAVES on the roof.)
Most of computers have access to the net. Even devices without drives often do. And most of them have access to WWW. Now just keep a "floppy webpage" where you can easily upload/download your files...
The problem is most of available software solutions are cumbersome if you want to upload more than 1 file (and those that aren't, need to be installed locally, say, FTP client with HTTP GET/POST capablity).
Any suggestions about good remote file storage software?
(or a CD-R and an infinite supply of discs)
About 30MB wasted on opening new session, 1.44M written, you get about 22 "floppy writes" on a single CD. For a price of a floppy, you get 4 CDs. That's equivalent of writing to a floppy 90 times - Many floppies don't live that long.
Now just give me software that makes doing it as easy as writing to a floppy.
the floppy era was supposed to be gone in 1998 (iMac). Part of the problem is that there is no replacement for floppies that's as cheap and disposable a media. the other problem is that too much stuff still depends on floppies.
Single-use CDs are 1/4 the price of a floppy. Definitely more disposable. And with 700M they provide more "rewrite" capacity than your floppy would survive. (just don't close the session)
But they are definitely too cumbersome to use.
I think what we really need is an USB key with replaceable media. Maybe SD cards? These are damn slick as storage, tiny, fast, reliable, and they come in a range of sizes, from 2-4MB to gigabytes. Unfortunately they are all way too expensive to be considered "disposable media", and I feel the price is artificially overblown. If you could get these to run with MP3 players, through USB-drive-alike dongles etc, that could become the media of the future. But as long as a flash-based MP3 player that can act as a USB drive is cheaper than an SD card of equivalent capacity, forget it.
Everyone says this hack is uncool because it's lame, that the cardboard will crash, that he didn't use the freed up space...
Why doesn't anybody notice one more FUNDAMENTAL thing:
Try typing measy 4KB of text on this laptop.
The functionality is ruined.
If you rest your hands on it, it will go down, crashing. You must keep your hands suspended in air, about 20cm above reasonable, comfortable height, and type like that.
Hiding this laptop under the desk will have lesser impact on functionality, free up desk space better, will be cheaper and certainly safer.
'cause if every chineese tossed his hat at the US, the whole US army would get buried 30 feet deep? Or because of the prices they could accept for their wares? Pray and beg the Chineese government to remain communist, because their full opening to free market would mean the end of economy in the Western World as we know it. Consider they are running at maybe 5% of their capacity, already flooding us with their wares.
Yes, but only for secure transactions. In most cases login.php would be encrypted, but it's probably allowable that the login form page is insecure and only submits to a secure page (form method="post" action="https://....
Chalk one up for the people who can't even get a constitution done.
You're saying this like "can't get shoelaces tied". Do you really think a -good- constitution, encompassing so many so fundamentally different nations is easy to create? This is one simple regulation, thing of the kind they make 10 daily. Constitution is "law above laws", not something you write during a lunch break.
let the project be discussed by politicians, artists and fans. Lock all the managers, producers, studio owners etc in a dungeon, take their phones away from them, close the exit with a concrete wall, and don't let them contact the outside world until the project is ready. Otherwise it will be another horrible "all your base" takeover of your rights.
Actually, once the project is over, don't let them out either.
Well, I've seen 2-player implementation of Game of Life.
In Populous 2. A spell called "fungus". You plant fungus in given pattern on your land, and the cells start growing according to rules of Game of Life. Upon contact with a human being, the human dies, fungus lives on. But it can't spread over hills or water etc. The trick is to make it grow in direction of the enemy settlements to kill the enemy people. Send floaters there, plant some exploding pattern, or grow a floater gun on your own land, directing it at the enemy territory. Fun!
Well, not very dangerous. :)
To affect someone directly, the client browser would have to be compromised to send doctored HTTP requests. If this happens to you, you're already 0wn0red, this little trick might at worst add insult to injury
But imagine this: luser.isp.net connects daily to bank.com through proxy.isp.net
evil.isp.net has tapped into the same LAN as Luser. evil.isp.net sends a doctored request to secure http://bank.com/login.php with exploit-redirection to insecure http://bank.com/demo.html, through proxy.isp.net
From now on, proxy.isp.net will serve demo.html to anyone who wants to access login.php. So luser happily types his real password and login into demo submit form (not looking at the lock icon) and happily clicks "submit", while evil.isp.net just sniffs the LAN and captures unencrypted POST request containing real password and login.
That's about as far as it goes. You can't do much if bank.com has DEMO with wide letters across the demo page. You can't redirect to offsite pages, and generally your possiblities are low...
Hmm. So we know both are "evil".
What happened to other players in the x86 market? Cyrix is dead, Transmeta is dead, are there any others left? Any one NOT evil?