Yep. oldversion.com rocks. I recently got Sygate Personal Firewall onto that website by working with the site owner. Sygate Personal Firewall is a really nice free personal firewall for Windows that Symantec pulled from the market when they scarfed up Sygate.
Exactly. In the same way that some hardware engineers still swear by 8 bit cpu's because they know them inside out (even the BUGS), some software engineers still swear by Jovial because it runs on known hardware (with all its known bugs) and they know the ins and outs of the language because it's been around so long. I can't confirm this but I believe the first operational (and still?) Air Traffic Control system was written completely in Jovial. Can somebody confirm that for me?
That was my point. IRC is a safer, simpler, more robust (imho) protocol. It gets the same job done as IM does. And yes, it can be abused just like any other Internet protocol, unfortunately. Sure, someone could trick you into visiting a website if you are stupid enough. And no, they don't always get your IP address: on some networks you can mask you hostname/ip address (Undernet comes to mind with it's +x mode.) And no, I am not one of them. Those are LIES! ALL LIES!!!!!!
And yes, I have a 1995 Jeep Wranger. It gets me around town. I don't want to buy a new Jeep because the stuff being put out today by Chrysler sucks.
I've added anti-theft protection to my 1995 Wrangler. I keep it in tip top mechanical condition so it's safe. And a new jeep costs a shitload more than what I paid for my Jeep in 1995.
Yes, it does. My Win 98 SE box is behind a stout hardware Linux firewall that has a shitload of ports blocked off. The Win box itself has a software firewall, grisoft avg, and several malware/spyware removers. I simply won't run a Windows box on an external IP address, no matter what version of the operating system. I just don't trust Microsoft. I also have a Win 2K Pro box btw and I take the same precautions with it.
Why? I have an older computer. Win 98 SE does everything I need just fine. Why do I want to buy a new computer just so I can pay Microsoft for a newer operating system that I don't need?
Yes, but Microsoft certainly knows that perhaps millions of people still use 98, SE, and ME. Microsoft sucks for not putting out a patch for these OS's.
Where are the patches for Win 98, Win 98 SE, and Win 98 ME? Microsoft rates this as a critical exploit and is supposed to release patches for critical exploits so where are they? Millions of people still use these operating systems.
I think successful projects get done in spite of the government, and they are usually done by one person or a small team of people. I know. I single-handedly developed a database integration projection for a government agency back in the mid 1980's that is still in use today. I doubt if a team could have done it. It was me working 18 hour days and weekends that did it. And I did it in spite of some lazy bastard government types who stood in my way.
All of my Model 204 work was in the Washington D.C. area, except for a stint in Massachusetts and 6 months in Akron. Gotta wonder how many Model 204 installations are left out there.
What I remember about REXX is that it was one of the few languages (along with Model 204 User Language) that made programming IBM mainframes FUN. Of course, nowadays IBM mainframes can be tweaked to run Linux and that opens up a whole slew of scripted languages to choose from.
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Yep. oldversion.com rocks. I recently got Sygate Personal Firewall onto that website by working with the site owner. Sygate Personal Firewall is a really nice free personal firewall for Windows that Symantec pulled from the market when they scarfed up Sygate.
More Sarcasm: Did they include the Sony BMG DRM Root Kit in the tally?
Exactly. In the same way that some hardware engineers still swear by 8 bit cpu's because they know them inside out (even the BUGS), some software engineers still swear by Jovial because it runs on known hardware (with all its known bugs) and they know the ins and outs of the language because it's been around so long. I can't confirm this but I believe the first operational (and still?) Air Traffic Control system was written completely in Jovial. Can somebody confirm that for me?
I don't see l33t sp34k at all on irc these days. Of course I guess it depends on which channels you hang out on.
That was my point. IRC is a safer, simpler, more robust (imho) protocol. It gets the same job done as IM does. And yes, it can be abused just like any other Internet protocol, unfortunately. Sure, someone could trick you into visiting a website if you are stupid enough. And no, they don't always get your IP address: on some networks you can mask you hostname/ip address (Undernet comes to mind with it's +x mode.) And no, I am not one of them. Those are LIES! ALL LIES!!!!!!
Amen.
And yes, I have a 1995 Jeep Wranger. It gets me around town. I don't want to buy a new Jeep because the stuff being put out today by Chrysler sucks. I've added anti-theft protection to my 1995 Wrangler. I keep it in tip top mechanical condition so it's safe. And a new jeep costs a shitload more than what I paid for my Jeep in 1995.
That's easy. Just burn new copies of your CD collection every year or so.
how about customer goodwill?
Yes, it does. My Win 98 SE box is behind a stout hardware Linux firewall that has a shitload of ports blocked off. The Win box itself has a software firewall, grisoft avg, and several malware/spyware removers. I simply won't run a Windows box on an external IP address, no matter what version of the operating system. I just don't trust Microsoft. I also have a Win 2K Pro box btw and I take the same precautions with it.
Why? I have an older computer. Win 98 SE does everything I need just fine. Why do I want to buy a new computer just so I can pay Microsoft for a newer operating system that I don't need?
That's why systems and platforms like these are written in a tried and true language like JOVIAL.
Yes, but Microsoft certainly knows that perhaps millions of people still use 98, SE, and ME. Microsoft sucks for not putting out a patch for these OS's.
Where are the patches for Win 98, Win 98 SE, and Win 98 ME? Microsoft rates this as a critical exploit and is supposed to release patches for critical exploits so where are they? Millions of people still use these operating systems.
some get diagnosed late in life with bipolar disorder, never knew they had it for years, and it destroyed their lives
No Open Defecation By 2010. Puts a whole new spin on the phrase "outsourcing".
pen and paper, and sometimes pen on the back of my hand.
and we have microsoft to thank for all of this.
I think successful projects get done in spite of the government, and they are usually done by one person or a small team of people. I know. I single-handedly developed a database integration projection for a government agency back in the mid 1980's that is still in use today. I doubt if a team could have done it. It was me working 18 hour days and weekends that did it. And I did it in spite of some lazy bastard government types who stood in my way.
All of my Model 204 work was in the Washington D.C. area, except for a stint in Massachusetts and 6 months in Akron. Gotta wonder how many Model 204 installations are left out there.
What I remember about REXX is that it was one of the few languages (along with Model 204 User Language) that made programming IBM mainframes FUN. Of course, nowadays IBM mainframes can be tweaked to run Linux and that opens up a whole slew of scripted languages to choose from.