I doubt if it's possible to make a legal.exe without nulls, and IIRC "copy con" doesn't allow those. As for.com, try this one: Alt-239 Alt-240 Alt-240 Alt-240 Alt-240.
Practically speaking, DOS is so simple that there's not much that it could do that couldn't be easily worked around.
I'd rather say: DOS is so simple it provides nothing that can't be implemented from scratch in less time that it takes to work around its downsides.
The only worthwhile thing it gives you is a filesystem. A filesystem that doesn't work on modern machines (disks above 2GB, GPT partition tables, UEFI, sectors bigger than 512 bytes), gets corrupted on a crash, suffers from a ridiculous level of fragmentation, has bizarre limitations on file names (8.3, all caps, half of ASCII banned), and so on.
I'm not sure what's the modern equivalent of INT 13 (some EFI calls?), but otherwise, writing a simple but adequate filesystem without those flaws is something any half-decent programmer can do in less than a day. Writing filesystems is like writing a compiler: a good optimized one takes a team a decade, something that works can be done really quickly.
I've done so myself (filesystem-in-a-file rather than filesystem-on-sectors, though), with crash resiliency, transactions and zlib compression, although with some other limitations that fit my particular use case. And if you don't want to reinvent the wheel, there should be plenty of code to reuse around.
DosBox also works on non-x86 hardware. You can run it on any cheap electricity-conserving piece of ARM with more than enough oomph for anything that was written for DOS.
edit.exe is for spoiled kids. Real {M,Wom}en(TM) used edlin.com!
Well, strictly speaking I hardly ever used edlin, and ed's source code is pretty much "while read x;do echo ?;done", but on a MUD I've coded for over a decade, you could either muck around with FTP (not compatible with any fuse stuff) or use ed. As their ed was vastly improved over both edlin and Unix ed, it was pretty comfortable once you got used to it.
and says that nuclear energy is, "dirty, dangerous and expensive, and should be precluded on all of those counts", when the actual data shows just the opposite.
If you take into account all of the government subsidies, including covering the industry's uninsurable risks, I'm not sure whether at least the cost argument holds.
You forgot that it's the only form of energy that's currently regulated to include all of externalities in its cost. For a fair comparison, you'd need to require coal to catch everything (CO2, sulphur, other toxins, more radioactive isotopes than a nuclear plant, etc) from all chimneys, transport and store that securely for hundreds of years. And despite that, nuclear is still competitive and causes many orders of magnitude less deaths.
The Brits didn't behave like Europeans even before the vote.
For one, they blocked most initiatives which would make the EU consistent and united. If not for their interference, we'd have means to deal with neo-nazi governments in Poland and Hungary (who now can block any "unpatriotic" legislation).
Malware free, easy download without fake download buttons, extras like artwork, lossless encoding...
Malware in pure data like flac, ogg, opus or mp3, how? Use a reputable site like The Pirate Bay. Most music torrents include artwork. If you want lossless encoding, you're far more likely to find it in a torrent rather than a pay site.
Plus, try to find actual music on a pay site -- all you get is corporate prolefeed apparently indeed made with a versificator, because that's what sells. Most music I prefer was made in 80's-90's and it wasn't mainstream even then, so good luck finding the copyright holder, as the band disbanded and so did the label.
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And no, censoring Received: headers in mboxes on the web view wouldn't solve problems, as anyone can subscribe to debian-bugs-dist@lists.debian.org and receive all BTS mails as a mailing list.
Then let's take a look at LKML, especially patches submitted via git send-email.
Hmm... perhaps there's nothing that special in this Ubuntu leak?
In most of the world these two are synonyms, with the latter being virtually unknown. Handegg is an almost entirely american thing.
And both need to die. I have enough of shouting drunks spilling out of pubs (there's a pub right outside my house), cities demolished by hooligans, mainstream news spammed out, most of tuition money (US univs) or taxes (here) being wasted. When I was a kid, on 95% of phys edu lessons we were given a ball and put on the pitch, with fatties and the likes of me being expected to not get in the way -- with obvious effects for my health. Now imagine all that money and effort put to some actual good use, like, say, actually promoting public health instead of circenses for the plebs.
The flat end and cross end screwdrivers. Don't they teach kids anything in school these days?
Then say "flat end" and "cross end" screwdivers, instead of naming a particular manufacturer who, I guess, makes both. That manufacturer's name is local to your parts, while "cross end" is recognized globally.
What's that "free country" you're talking about? While in countries other than North Korea, Russia, China, Saudi Arabia you can often get away with criticizing the government on superficial matters, there isn't a single country that won't punish you for revealing news that truly hurts those in power.
Case in point: Assange -- Sweden tries to pass as a free country. Or, show me those "free countries" supporting Snowden; Ecuador and Russia stepped up because of a grudge against USA rather than of good will.
You're talking about a guy who has made multiple false-flag terrorist attacks for political gain, and then, when a FSB whistleblower dared to come up with evidence, not only had the guy murdered but also took extra steps to sign the murder to send a message to would-be dissidents. I wouldn't even suspect him to not have a deeply thought out scheme here.
Also, at this point, he doesn't really care about a thin cover anymore, he has the population thoroughly intimidated into submission.
You want x32 for that. The actual speed benefit is hardly ever better than several percent, or none at all for many common tasks, though -- it's worth the hassle only for significant memory savings. Memory is cheap, though -- so you want to bother only if you run many containers per machine. Only then it is a big gain.
I'd expect the real number being somewhere between 100 and 1000 times as big. Such incidents are published only in exceptional cases; even if detected, it's in the police force's interest to sweep this under the carpet.
Then use Debian. While discouraging i386 as default download is long overdue, judging from other old architectures, it'll be a long long time until i386 is retired from the first class arch set, and even then it'll be welcome in second class (AKA debian-ports), among stuff like m68k, alpha or sh4.
Or, use Debian-hurd. It's available for i386 only!
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Real programmers used COPY CON MYPROGRAM.EXE
I doubt if it's possible to make a legal .exe without nulls, and IIRC "copy con" doesn't allow those. As for .com, try this one: Alt-239 Alt-240 Alt-240 Alt-240 Alt-240.
Practically speaking, DOS is so simple that there's not much that it could do that couldn't be easily worked around.
I'd rather say: DOS is so simple it provides nothing that can't be implemented from scratch in less time that it takes to work around its downsides.
The only worthwhile thing it gives you is a filesystem. A filesystem that doesn't work on modern machines (disks above 2GB, GPT partition tables, UEFI, sectors bigger than 512 bytes), gets corrupted on a crash, suffers from a ridiculous level of fragmentation, has bizarre limitations on file names (8.3, all caps, half of ASCII banned), and so on.
I'm not sure what's the modern equivalent of INT 13 (some EFI calls?), but otherwise, writing a simple but adequate filesystem without those flaws is something any half-decent programmer can do in less than a day. Writing filesystems is like writing a compiler: a good optimized one takes a team a decade, something that works can be done really quickly.
I've done so myself (filesystem-in-a-file rather than filesystem-on-sectors, though), with crash resiliency, transactions and zlib compression, although with some other limitations that fit my particular use case. And if you don't want to reinvent the wheel, there should be plenty of code to reuse around.
DosBox also works on non-x86 hardware. You can run it on any cheap electricity-conserving piece of ARM with more than enough oomph for anything that was written for DOS.
edit.exe is for spoiled kids. Real {M,Wom}en(TM) used edlin.com!
Well, strictly speaking I hardly ever used edlin, and ed's source code is pretty much "while read x;do echo ?;done", but on a MUD I've coded for over a decade, you could either muck around with FTP (not compatible with any fuse stuff) or use ed. As their ed was vastly improved over both edlin and Unix ed, it was pretty comfortable once you got used to it.
That'll work only until you actually invoke any feature of DOS. Ie, you're operating on bare metal rather than DOS.
and says that nuclear energy is, "dirty, dangerous and expensive, and should be precluded on all of those counts", when the actual data shows just the opposite.
If you take into account all of the government subsidies, including covering the industry's uninsurable risks, I'm not sure whether at least the cost argument holds.
You forgot that it's the only form of energy that's currently regulated to include all of externalities in its cost. For a fair comparison, you'd need to require coal to catch everything (CO2, sulphur, other toxins, more radioactive isotopes than a nuclear plant, etc) from all chimneys, transport and store that securely for hundreds of years. And despite that, nuclear is still competitive and causes many orders of magnitude less deaths.
Its title reminds me... what else is strength? You do the math.
The goal is to trick you into launching an executable, like "music.mp3.exe".
Crap, I got both wine and wine-binfmt installed, I'm vulnerable! Not sure how the torrent will chmod +x it, though.
Oil and gas are basically the only things they don't need to buy.
The Brits didn't behave like Europeans even before the vote.
For one, they blocked most initiatives which would make the EU consistent and united. If not for their interference, we'd have means to deal with neo-nazi governments in Poland and Hungary (who now can block any "unpatriotic" legislation).
That's UK not Europe.
Malware free, easy download without fake download buttons, extras like artwork, lossless encoding...
Malware in pure data like flac, ogg, opus or mp3, how? Use a reputable site like The Pirate Bay. Most music torrents include artwork. If you want lossless encoding, you're far more likely to find it in a torrent rather than a pay site.
Plus, try to find actual music on a pay site -- all you get is corporate prolefeed apparently indeed made with a versificator, because that's what sells. Most music I prefer was made in 80's-90's and it wasn't mainstream even then, so good luck finding the copyright holder, as the band disbanded and so did the label.
Leaked IP address, username and email address. Hmm... Let's take a look at any Debian bug report submitted using reportbug:
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And no, censoring Received: headers in mboxes on the web view wouldn't solve problems, as anyone can subscribe to debian-bugs-dist@lists.debian.org and receive all BTS mails as a mailing list.
Then let's take a look at LKML, especially patches submitted via git send-email.
Hmm... perhaps there's nothing that special in this Ubuntu leak?
Crap, a hoodie! I knew I've forgotten something in order to be a real hacker!
I'd say it takes an average intelligent person just around 30 data loss events to learn the basics about importance of backups.
Football or soccer?
In most of the world these two are synonyms, with the latter being virtually unknown. Handegg is an almost entirely american thing.
And both need to die. I have enough of shouting drunks spilling out of pubs (there's a pub right outside my house), cities demolished by hooligans, mainstream news spammed out, most of tuition money (US univs) or taxes (here) being wasted. When I was a kid, on 95% of phys edu lessons we were given a ball and put on the pitch, with fatties and the likes of me being expected to not get in the way -- with obvious effects for my health. Now imagine all that money and effort put to some actual good use, like, say, actually promoting public health instead of circenses for the plebs.
located about 20 times farther away from the sun than Neptune
It's perihelion is only 34 AU, aphelion 120 AU. Ie, it's between 1.13 and 4 times as far as Neptune.
I need both a Standard and Phillips screwdriver.
The flat end and cross end screwdrivers. Don't they teach kids anything in school these days?
Then say "flat end" and "cross end" screwdivers, instead of naming a particular manufacturer who, I guess, makes both. That manufacturer's name is local to your parts, while "cross end" is recognized globally.
What's that "free country" you're talking about? While in countries other than North Korea, Russia, China, Saudi Arabia you can often get away with criticizing the government on superficial matters, there isn't a single country that won't punish you for revealing news that truly hurts those in power.
Case in point: Assange -- Sweden tries to pass as a free country. Or, show me those "free countries" supporting Snowden; Ecuador and Russia stepped up because of a grudge against USA rather than of good will.
Hmm... let's compare some code written by a newbie, with comments that are of no use, with the asm equivalent.
You're talking about a guy who has made multiple false-flag terrorist attacks for political gain, and then, when a FSB whistleblower dared to come up with evidence, not only had the guy murdered but also took extra steps to sign the murder to send a message to would-be dissidents. I wouldn't even suspect him to not have a deeply thought out scheme here.
Also, at this point, he doesn't really care about a thin cover anymore, he has the population thoroughly intimidated into submission.
You want x32 for that. The actual speed benefit is hardly ever better than several percent, or none at all for many common tasks, though -- it's worth the hassle only for significant memory savings. Memory is cheap, though -- so you want to bother only if you run many containers per machine. Only then it is a big gain.
I'd expect the real number being somewhere between 100 and 1000 times as big. Such incidents are published only in exceptional cases; even if detected, it's in the police force's interest to sweep this under the carpet.
Then use Debian. While discouraging i386 as default download is long overdue, judging from other old architectures, it'll be a long long time until i386 is retired from the first class arch set, and even then it'll be welcome in second class (AKA debian-ports), among stuff like m68k, alpha or sh4.
Or, use Debian-hurd. It's available for i386 only!
A better car analogy would be the dealership repossessing your car if you become an Uber driver.
Unlike robbing a bank which is rather hard to defend, those "pirate" sites merely run afoul a dubious regulation that's not universal.