(And since it uses Microsoft's own version of remote desktopping they'll have a hard time breaking it without breaking themselves. B-) ) ... or being invited to "dinner" again by the EU commission.
From the linked page http://www.rdesktop.org/:
rdesktop was initially written by Matthew Chapman based on various scarce documentation, wire sniffs, and trial-and-error. To me, this pretty much sums up the reason why Neelie Kroes and the EU commission took the anti-trust case so seriously.
This guy's not a geek, he's just rich enough to afford some expensive toys, a fast car, and not enough common sense or respect for others. Haven't we been here before? - http://www.jonhs.com/mugshots/gates.htm
Not quite. When 6.10 came out, all the geeks thought it was terrible and wanted to use 6.06 instead, because chances are they were already using it. The people that didn't care about computers loved 6.10, because they were coming from 5.10. Now people are coming from 6.10, which is decent, and even the average consumer doesn't like 7.04, not just the geeks.
No one gets in without passing though the 4.5-ton steel door and then a three-step process. A scanner uses radio frequency to read the would-be entrant's skin as a biometric identifier. He then... ... "ALERT! ALERT! Radio scanners indicate Female Stormtroopers have penetrated the base - visually confirmed by the PFY on gate. This is the real thing boys, it's what you've been trained for"...
You missed out 2017:
Moore's Law holds, Google patents "mobile matchbox data-centres", largest ever eBay auction held for bulk sale of 800 billion shipping containers,/. debates the meaning of a twentieth birthday now we're all universally spaced out of time, Amiga OS 5 "nearly ready", Microsoft releases Vista SP1.
It wouldn't surprise me if copies are loanable in UK public libraries (along with other "munitions" such as the "Dummies Guide" to GCSE Chemistry). Certainly books detailing DES encryption algorithms and (heavy-duty) cracking techniques etc. are on the shelves. The reason the latter are made publicly available for loan for free provided by the UK government is presumably to allow security conscious businesses and individuals to improve their own security against cyber-terrorists (which they do - I used to think that Synack was a baddie in Star Wars). Well, I'm being generous - it's just as likely to be some clueless librarian who bought said books because they had a geeky-looking cover even though they hadn't the faintest idea what they were about or a plant by "they" to track who borrows them.
TFA indicates that this is not the only evidence used to charge the individual(s) and I would sincerely hope that it's not.
The http://dopewars.sourceforge.net/ (Afghani-fork) i18n team is working hard to ensure these laptops are put to a more profitable use such as learning about the world through play.
In other news:
Negroponte joins the lunar race by announcing the $100 "One Lander Per Child" programme but admits costs may escalate depending on demand and launch costs.
It looks like you're trying to eject a live nuclear bomb due to detonate in 2 seconds from the ship. As the ejection system is not Vista-certified, I thought I'd check if you really want to eject it as DOING SO MAY CAUSE INSTABILITY TO YOUR SYSTEM.
# YES! YES! YES!
Are you su...
Microsoft: "Where do you want to blow today?"
"But if our four million + cameras save the life of one abducted child then surely it's worth spending billions of pounds on the system. You can't put a price on life. Ask Rodney King."
Back to reality. If the same billions had been poured into child poverty, healthcare and community crime prevention (e.g., repairing streetlights and youth clubs etc.), the positive impact would dwarf the benefits of the cameras.
Pah, 640k is more than enough for real hackers.
P.S., At 14+ PB, the command line to unsplit the 2GB FAT splits is itself going to exceed 2GB. Anyone got a workround? (I'm running Vista SP0 I think).
The last entry in the archive seems to indicate that he was preparing a new book:
"Once upon a time a very large meteorite was heading directly for SCO. It was like a million miles across and filling the sky. Even then Darl didn't notice as he was too bust trying to kick the company server back to life..."
It ends there but there's a footnote:
"This will undoubtably destory my Santa Cruz Library archive too but it's a price worth paying".
It's amazing how he could predict the future with such accuracy. Then, mysteriously he died. RIP RH.
A word perceived by some to be rude or offensive in one language may be entirely innocuous in another language. For example sex.ie might be registered by a Swede living in Ireland ("sex" is the Swedish word for "six"). Similarly, a Swedish word for a Sami tent also means "horny", "Fart" means fast in many germanic languages etc. The authorities / state should have no place in censoring like this.
Think I'll register nook.ie for my site about the nooks and crannies of censorship policy;-)
I personally waded through every line of code in 43 databases written in some cruddy obselete proprietary version of SQL that I shan't name very nearly getting RSI in the process.
For those here who weren't involved in this, it wasn't just a case of looking at the code and saying "Oh, that's a 19xx date, that's a 20xx date", but (of course) fixing all the logic (including, frustratingly, having to use ugly hacks on the assumption that the same crud wouldn't still be around in the year 3000) and *testing* everything.
My PHBs were so overawed by the scale of the whole problem that for once, they just said "Do whatever you have to to fix it" - a rare event.
When asked to explain my prioritising of which systems to fix first, I explained it thus:
1. Licensing systems 2. Registration systems 3. Environmental systems... 43. Electoral systems
and then simplified that for them to:
It's New Year!
1. Pubs, taxis, sex shops and massage parlours 2. Burying dead people (the first of 20 questions on the form asks "Are they dead?":-) 3. Rubbish collection... 43. They're rigged anyway so who cares or will notice?
Given that Mac OS X is based largely on FreeBSD, I'd be interested to hear Apple's take on the current software patent debate in Europe - will they be providing a "patent missile shield" to the BSDs? It would seem to be in their interest to do so.
I was at school just as the home computer boom was taking off in the early eighties. We had Sinclair Spectrums, VIC 20s, Commodore 64s, BBC Micros, Atari 800s followed later by Acorn RISC machines, Amigas and Atari STs. Many of these machines were used in schools, often with many different models being used together in the same school.
This encouraged competition amongst students to write and share better hacks than each other (initially in BASIC, then in hex edited machine code or assembly if you could afford the RAM). Forth was also popular and later C on the 68000-based machines.
At University, we had a DEC Vax cluster, NextStep machines (for Mathematica), another console based UNIX system for using PINE, ftp, telnet, TeX and producing graphs as well as Macs for general word processing and doodling + hypercard. Students of the home computer generation had no problems adapting to this heterogenous computing environment. Many of us moved on to be open source developers - including some (non-CS) teachers who would happily write custom educational software in whichever language they liked.
Students pretty much learnt computing by themselves as they had an incentive to out do other students' hacks. CS teachers performed a background role of maintenance and coughing up dosh for copies of 6502 programming manuals, C compilers or whatever.
Sir Tim Berners-Lee created the web whilst here. The important point is that he didn't try to make all hardware and GUIs identical, on the contrary, he realised that what was needed was a platform independent way of exchanging data. Of course, as a "mere" student, Tim was humble enough to know that had he stormed into the University IT offices and thrown a tantrum demanding Windows on every machine (had it existed at the time) - he'd have been laughed at. Microsoft either doesn't understand this, or more likely, they do, but all they really care about is money which requires power and control. This is why the world-wide "desktop" standard is the web.
Today's students are still perfectly happy to use different interfaces, be it on computers, mobile 'phones, games consoles or their skinned mp3 player. What does / would annoy them is if e.g., mp3 file formats were tied to a particular manufacturer's hardware or software.
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Not quite. When 6.10 came out, all the geeks thought it was terrible and wanted to use 6.06 instead, because chances are they were already using it. The people that didn't care about computers loved 6.10, because they were coming from 5.10. Now people are coming from 6.10, which is decent, and even the average consumer doesn't like 7.04, not just the geeks.
Hmm!
You missed out 2017: Moore's Law holds, Google patents "mobile matchbox data-centres", largest ever eBay auction held for bulk sale of 800 billion shipping containers, /. debates the meaning of a twentieth birthday now we're all universally spaced out of time, Amiga OS 5 "nearly ready", Microsoft releases Vista SP1.
It wouldn't surprise me if copies are loanable in UK public libraries (along with other "munitions" such as the "Dummies Guide" to GCSE Chemistry). Certainly books detailing DES encryption algorithms and (heavy-duty) cracking techniques etc. are on the shelves. The reason the latter are made publicly available for loan for free provided by the UK government is presumably to allow security conscious businesses and individuals to improve their own security against cyber-terrorists (which they do - I used to think that Synack was a baddie in Star Wars). Well, I'm being generous - it's just as likely to be some clueless librarian who bought said books because they had a geeky-looking cover even though they hadn't the faintest idea what they were about or a plant by "they" to track who borrows them. TFA indicates that this is not the only evidence used to charge the individual(s) and I would sincerely hope that it's not.
The Russians will see that coming, oh hang on ...
The http://dopewars.sourceforge.net/ (Afghani-fork) i18n team is working hard to ensure these laptops are put to a more profitable use such as learning about the world through play.
In other news: Negroponte joins the lunar race by announcing the $100 "One Lander Per Child" programme but admits costs may escalate depending on demand and launch costs.
Frum: Lunch Commander @ Cape
Subject: Are we go for F7 spellcheck b4 lunch?
Can I have a consonant and a vowel please Carol before we countdown?
formattedAsWord95DoesItIfYou'reUsingOOXML
28.8 seconds of fame left according to Excel 2007 then ...
It looks like you're trying to eject a live nuclear bomb due to detonate in 2 seconds from the ship. As the ejection system is not Vista-certified, I thought I'd check if you really want to eject it as DOING SO MAY CAUSE INSTABILITY TO YOUR SYSTEM. # YES! YES! YES! Are you su ...
Microsoft: "Where do you want to blow today?"
"But if our four million + cameras save the life of one abducted child then surely it's worth spending billions of pounds on the system. You can't put a price on life. Ask Rodney King." Back to reality. If the same billions had been poured into child poverty, healthcare and community crime prevention (e.g., repairing streetlights and youth clubs etc.), the positive impact would dwarf the benefits of the cameras.
Pah, 640k is more than enough for real hackers. P.S., At 14+ PB, the command line to unsplit the 2GB FAT splits is itself going to exceed 2GB. Anyone got a workround? (I'm running Vista SP0 I think).
The last entry in the archive seems to indicate that he was preparing a new book: "Once upon a time a very large meteorite was heading directly for SCO. It was like a million miles across and filling the sky. Even then Darl didn't notice as he was too bust trying to kick the company server back to life ..."
It ends there but there's a footnote:
"This will undoubtably destory my Santa Cruz Library archive too but it's a price worth paying".
It's amazing how he could predict the future with such accuracy. Then, mysteriously he died. RIP RH.
A word perceived by some to be rude or offensive in one language may be entirely innocuous in another language. For example sex.ie might be registered by a Swede living in Ireland ("sex" is the Swedish word for "six"). Similarly, a Swedish word for a Sami tent also means "horny", "Fart" means fast in many germanic languages etc. The authorities / state should have no place in censoring like this. Think I'll register nook.ie for my site about the nooks and crannies of censorship policy ;-)
Agreed.
...
:-) ...
I personally waded through every line of code in 43 databases written in some cruddy obselete proprietary version of SQL that I shan't name very nearly getting RSI in the process.
For those here who weren't involved in this, it wasn't just a case of looking at the code and saying "Oh, that's a 19xx date, that's a 20xx date", but (of course) fixing all the logic (including, frustratingly, having to use ugly hacks on the assumption that the same crud wouldn't still be around in the year 3000) and *testing* everything.
My PHBs were so overawed by the scale of the whole problem that for once, they just said "Do whatever you have to to fix it" - a rare event.
When asked to explain my prioritising of which systems to fix first, I explained it thus:
1. Licensing systems
2. Registration systems
3. Environmental systems
43. Electoral systems
and then simplified that for them to:
It's New Year!
1. Pubs, taxis, sex shops and massage parlours
2. Burying dead people (the first of 20 questions on the form asks "Are they dead?"
3. Rubbish collection
43. They're rigged anyway so who cares or will notice?
Do you do sums? What's so special about Maths that requires it to be "free" (as in speech and beer)?
Software is a branch of mathematics. Why should anyone be allowed to patent stuff that you can do in your head?
Given that Mac OS X is based largely on FreeBSD, I'd be interested to hear Apple's take on the current software patent debate in Europe - will they be providing a "patent missile shield" to the BSDs? It would seem to be in their interest to do so.
I was at school just as the home computer boom was taking off in the early eighties. We had Sinclair Spectrums, VIC 20s, Commodore 64s, BBC Micros, Atari 800s followed later by Acorn RISC machines, Amigas and Atari STs. Many of these machines were used in schools, often with many different models being used together in the same school.
This encouraged competition amongst students to write and share better hacks than each other (initially in BASIC, then in hex edited machine code or assembly if you could afford the RAM). Forth was also popular and later C on the 68000-based machines.
At University, we had a DEC Vax cluster, NextStep machines (for Mathematica), another console based UNIX system for using PINE, ftp, telnet, TeX and producing graphs as well as Macs for general word processing and doodling + hypercard. Students of the home computer generation had no problems adapting to this heterogenous computing environment. Many of us moved on to be open source
developers - including some (non-CS) teachers who would happily write custom educational software in whichever language they liked.
Students pretty much learnt computing by themselves as they had an incentive to out do other students' hacks. CS teachers performed a background role of maintenance and coughing up dosh for copies of 6502 programming manuals, C compilers or whatever.
Sir Tim Berners-Lee created the web whilst here. The important point is that he didn't try to make all hardware and GUIs identical, on the contrary, he realised that what was needed was a platform independent way of exchanging data. Of course, as a "mere" student, Tim was humble enough to know that had he stormed into the University IT offices and thrown a tantrum demanding Windows on every machine (had it existed at the time) - he'd have been laughed at. Microsoft either doesn't understand this, or more likely, they do, but all they really care about is money which requires power and control. This is why the world-wide "desktop" standard is the web.
Today's students are still perfectly happy to use different interfaces, be it on computers, mobile 'phones, games consoles or their skinned mp3 player. What does / would annoy them is if e.g., mp3 file formats were tied to a particular manufacturer's hardware or software.