I love the idea the someone in the multiverse CP/M, GEM, MacOS and Unix happily coexist on the inexpensive, powerful Intel pc hardware platform along with sparc, 680x0, mips, ppc and a whole plethora of intercompatible hw and sw system choices, where vendors make great efforts to work with other systems, and Bill Gates had to take a tech support job to pay the rent.
Your right, I'm not! That's why I switched to OpenBSD. Actually I just did the install and put it online, before getting a chance to DO anything, bang, passwords were changed - my remote account didn't work and at the console root had no password! So at least it was rooted by an incompetant cracker who didn't conceal it very well.
Pfft - used to be you'd have to sell a million copies to get a gold record - now any billionair can just put it out there and declare it 'gold' - the whole disgusting process just cheapens the precious metal and the achievements of all the others who earned their gold records legitimately.
But it is OPEN meaning a COMPETANT admin can MAKE it very secure. About the closest thing to 'out of the box' security is OpenBSD. My Linux (RH71) box was rooted in less than a day after putting it on the 'net. My OpenBSD box has lasted for almost a year.
MACBETH: It should have died hereafter; There would have been bandwidth for such requests. Page after page after page Creeps in this petty pace from client to client To the last tag of a slashdotted site, and all our access logs have lighted admins to way to budget denials. Out, out router activity light! The web's but a dancing banner ad, a poor merchandiser that struts and frets his hour upon the screen and then is heard no more: it is an offer made by an idiot, full of grandiose promises, signifying nothing.
Here's a discussion quesiton: if the DMCA had be in force in 1980, would Compaq computer's PC clone have been illegal? If not, wouldn't a simple XOR encryption make cloning 'circumvention' and thus illegal? What effect would the DMCA have had on the fantastic growth of the PC clone industry if clones were illegal, not to mention Microsoft's fantastic profits?
Next: The Lexmark toner cartridge case. Isn't it dangerous to allow manufacturers to totally lock in parts and supplies simply by putting a microcontroller in it, which must be reverse engineered to create? Consider this hypothetical: GM makes 'smart' brake shoes, with embedded controllers and software (say they monitor temperature and wear). Couldn't GM then use the DMCA to make any competitive brake shoes illegal, thus creating a monopoly on replacement parts and charging whatever price they want for them? Would you want to have to buy a 'smart air filter' for your car for $250, with only one legal source of them?
here is my classic game - Space War on a MITS Altair (8080), two DAC channels, a 'scope, and two 4 switch boxes for CW, CCW, Fire and Thrust and a lot of assembly language. Get the quicktime movie to see it in action.
Not quite - yes it is like bashing a people using swords and arrows, but they deserve it because AT THE SAME TIME there are other people using gunpower and way more advanced weapons. There were many contemporaries of the 'pc' that had far better features, they just didn't enjoy the IBM Compatible seal of approval.
Speaking of which, I have another discussion question that's rather off topic: If the DMCA was in force in 1980, would the Compaq clone of the IBM bios have been illegal? I.e., would the DMCA have prevented the huge pc clone business market phenomena?
Here's a fun game to play - think of all the aftermarket 'fixes' for Winblow$ and the marketing metaphore. For example:
1) First Aid - Windows is a sick person hemorraging blood and needs 'first aid' while waiting for the 'doctor' or ambulance. It is also succeptible to 'viruses' and diseases. Adherents to this metaphone often say, "My computer is sick!"
2) Oil Change - Windows is an automobile that need regular perodic 'maintenance', as if there were metal parts in there rubbing together and need lubricant. They also often need a cheap muffler, tire rotation, etc. See Also "Tune Up". Adherents to this metaphone say their computer is "In the shop" being repaired, or "Hey Jim! Put 'er up on the rack again - the transmission's still acting up!".
3) Power Tools - Windows is a decrepit old house that just needs a little 'fixing up' and 'sweat equity' to fix the drafty windows, broken stair steps, etc. This metaphore suggests a 'do it yourself' person more willing to tinker with their system than the Sick Human or Broken Automobile metaphore, who must call a Dr. or mechanic. But sometimes users of 'power tools' just make things worse and have to call in a 'contractor' to reinstall a whole new house.
Seems like ViewSonic would release a box that turns only ViewSonic monitors into HDTVs. Boggle. That's like Msft releasing software that runs on Linux. Come on ViewSonic! Get with the vendor lock-in program. Give KDS, Samtron, etc a kick in the shins like any smart business would do, consumer convience be damned.
Gas guzzlers <snip> have helped to further create our dependence on countries like Iraq.
At least part of the blame for foreign turmoil dependancy lies with the irrational US enviros and greens who won't permit US oil use (i.e., Alaska, offshore, etc). Also see France's nukes for a good example of not being dependant on foreigners energy, with all the inevitable politics and military threats when it goes sour.
Huh? Talk about screwy logic - where does it say "for every song purchase you get to steal one" ?! If you purchased 100 cd's great. If you've pirated 99 mp3's, you've committed 99 felonies, no matter how many you bought legally. No, obeying the law doesn't make you eligible to commit crimes;)
What's so funny about that? Being the One True Religion® as intended by the creator and it's profit, Linus, even the rocks and trees shall shout "Install Linux on me"!
Here here. One of my teachers, in English Language actually, wrote on the board "Every great idea is only one generation away from oblivion". Another one taught us the SCIENTIFIC METHOD:
1. Observation and description of a phenomenon or group of phenomena.
2. Formulation of an hypothesis to explain the phenomena. In physics, the hypothesis often takes the form of a causal mechanism or a mathematical relation.
3. Use of the hypothesis to predict the existence of other phenomena, or to predict quantitatively the results of new observations.
4. Performance of experimental tests of the predictions by several independent experimenters and properly performed experiments.
Well, actually a six grade version of it. Anyway, years later, I use it all the time when faced with some unexplained phenomena, like Windows 98.
(Server Room, DP) A hole was found in 'cypress', one of the principle Linux file, email and web servers of Brapco Corp early today. "We were dusting out around the back", said Mike Koyro, IT manager of Brapco, "and there it was, right by the power supply." The hole was quickly verified by other members of the IT dept as "really there". Speculation that it may be a screw hole was quickly dispelled when Frank, chief scripting officer, pointed out it didn't have any threads, and no screws were found loose anywhere nearby. "If someone got in here and drilled it during the night, they sure did a clean job - there's no shavings on the floor and the hole has no burrs" observed Mike. "It was either a professional job, with a sharp bit and machining oil, or a manufacturing defect". Calls to Linux Security were unanswered as of press time.
I know I should have been there this time of night but we had this party, anyway, I was walking down 8th street and this guys jumps out of the alleyway, points this box at me, it had these glowing lights, like, oh, you know, those led thingys? And it went 'beep beep' - I didn't think anything of it but now my smart card is empty!! I had $89.45 in it and now it's all gone!!
Well, what d'ya expect when govt oppression jacks the black market price up so that it's more valuable than GOLD?? (i.e., over $300 / oz. ) Of course gangs of criminals are going to get involved, just like they did during the alcohol prohibition years. That's a BIG temptation to allocate a large parcel of land and become a grower, and take the risk, because the payoff is so damn large. If US drug policies made any sense it would be a controlled substance sold in liquor stores just like booze, over 21 only, quality controlled, etc.
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I love the idea the someone in the multiverse CP/M, GEM, MacOS and Unix happily coexist on the inexpensive, powerful Intel pc hardware platform along with sparc, 680x0, mips, ppc and a whole plethora of intercompatible hw and sw system choices, where vendors make great efforts to work with other systems, and Bill Gates had to take a tech support job to pay the rent.
I'm really going to miss Baghdad Bob's enthusiam and nightly broadcasts of how Iraqi forces were kicking our coalition asses.
Some folks compare the situation to the scene in Monty Python and the Holy Grail with the Black Knight
We can even run 'edlin' in Windows XP! It's like the editor you used with a teletype machine on a pdp8.
Spotted this on the list: U.S. Military helps fund Calgary Hacker
I know someone that was audited by the BSA and decided to fight it.
So, how long a prison sentence did s/he get?
Your right, I'm not! That's why I switched to OpenBSD. Actually I just did the install and put it online, before getting a chance to DO anything, bang, passwords were changed - my remote account didn't work and at the console root had no password! So at least it was rooted by an incompetant cracker who didn't conceal it very well.
Pfft - used to be you'd have to sell a million copies to get a gold record - now any billionair can just put it out there and declare it 'gold' - the whole disgusting process just cheapens the precious metal and the achievements of all the others who earned their gold records legitimately.
But it is OPEN meaning a COMPETANT admin can MAKE it very secure. About the closest thing to 'out of the box' security is OpenBSD. My Linux (RH71) box was rooted in less than a day after putting it on the 'net. My OpenBSD box has lasted for almost a year.
Ok, I'll give it a shot:
-+-+-+-+
SEYTON: The server, my lord, is dead!
MACBETH: It should have died hereafter;
There would have been bandwidth for such requests.
Page after page after page
Creeps in this petty pace from client to client
To the last tag of a slashdotted site,
and all our access logs have lighted admins
to way to budget denials. Out, out router activity light!
The web's but a dancing banner ad, a poor merchandiser
that struts and frets his hour upon the screen
and then is heard no more: it is an offer
made by an idiot, full of grandiose promises,
signifying nothing.
Here's a discussion quesiton: if the DMCA had be in force in 1980, would Compaq computer's PC clone have been illegal? If not, wouldn't a simple XOR encryption make cloning 'circumvention' and thus illegal? What effect would the DMCA have had on the fantastic growth of the PC clone industry if clones were illegal, not to mention Microsoft's fantastic profits?
Next: The Lexmark toner cartridge case. Isn't it dangerous to allow manufacturers to totally lock in parts and supplies simply by putting a microcontroller in it, which must be reverse engineered to create? Consider this hypothetical: GM makes 'smart' brake shoes, with embedded controllers and software (say they monitor temperature and wear). Couldn't GM then use the DMCA to make any competitive brake shoes illegal, thus creating a monopoly on replacement parts and charging whatever price they want for them? Would you want to have to buy a 'smart air filter' for your car for $250, with only one legal source of them?
The laughter is overwhelming - so far there's 57 +4/5 Funny comments.
"Smithers, are they laughing at me?"
here is my classic game - Space War on a MITS Altair (8080), two DAC channels, a 'scope, and two 4 switch boxes for CW, CCW, Fire and Thrust and a lot of assembly language. Get the quicktime movie to see it in action.
strangely enough, my site about Spacewar (1961 game) on the Altair (1975 computer) got one hit yesterday from usmc.mil.
Not quite - yes it is like bashing a people using swords and arrows, but they deserve it because AT THE SAME TIME there are other people using gunpower and way more advanced weapons. There were many contemporaries of the 'pc' that had far better features, they just didn't enjoy the IBM Compatible seal of approval.
Speaking of which, I have another discussion question that's rather off topic: If the DMCA was in force in 1980, would the Compaq clone of the IBM bios have been illegal? I.e., would the DMCA have prevented the huge pc clone business market phenomena?
Here's a fun game to play - think of all the aftermarket 'fixes' for Winblow$ and the marketing metaphore. For example:
1) First Aid - Windows is a sick person hemorraging blood and needs 'first aid' while waiting for the 'doctor' or ambulance. It is also succeptible to 'viruses' and diseases. Adherents to this metaphone often say, "My computer is sick!"
2) Oil Change - Windows is an automobile that need regular perodic 'maintenance', as if there were metal parts in there rubbing together and need lubricant. They also often need a cheap muffler, tire rotation, etc. See Also "Tune Up". Adherents to this metaphone say their computer is "In the shop" being repaired, or "Hey Jim! Put 'er up on the rack again - the transmission's still acting up!".
3) Power Tools - Windows is a decrepit old house that just needs a little 'fixing up' and 'sweat equity' to fix the drafty windows, broken stair steps, etc. This metaphore suggests a 'do it yourself' person more willing to tinker with their system than the Sick Human or Broken Automobile metaphore, who must call a Dr. or mechanic. But sometimes users of 'power tools' just make things worse and have to call in a 'contractor' to reinstall a whole new house.
Seems like ViewSonic would release a box that turns only ViewSonic monitors into HDTVs. Boggle. That's like Msft releasing software that runs on Linux. Come on ViewSonic! Get with the vendor lock-in program. Give KDS, Samtron, etc a kick in the shins like any smart business would do, consumer convience be damned.
Gas guzzlers <snip> have helped to further create our dependence on countries like Iraq.
At least part of the blame for foreign turmoil dependancy lies with the irrational US enviros and greens who won't permit US oil use (i.e., Alaska, offshore, etc). Also see France's nukes for a good example of not being dependant on foreigners energy, with all the inevitable politics and military threats when it goes sour.
Huh? Talk about screwy logic - where does it say "for every song purchase you get to steal one" ?! If you purchased 100 cd's great. If you've pirated 99 mp3's, you've committed 99 felonies, no matter how many you bought legally. No, obeying the law doesn't make you eligible to commit crimes ;)
Sheesh.
What's so funny about that? Being the One True Religion® as intended by the creator and it's profit, Linus, even the rocks and trees shall shout "Install Linux on me"!
Here here. One of my teachers, in English Language actually, wrote on the board "Every great idea is only one generation away from oblivion". Another one taught us the SCIENTIFIC METHOD:
1. Observation and description of a phenomenon or group of phenomena.
2. Formulation of an hypothesis to explain the phenomena. In physics, the hypothesis often takes the form of a causal mechanism or a mathematical relation.
3. Use of the hypothesis to predict the existence of other phenomena, or to predict quantitatively the results of new observations.
4. Performance of experimental tests of the predictions by several independent experimenters and properly performed experiments.
Well, actually a six grade version of it. Anyway, years later, I use it all the time when faced with some unexplained phenomena, like Windows 98.
How about:
Creation: The Forbidden Theory
(Server Room, DP) A hole was found in 'cypress', one of the principle Linux file, email and web servers of Brapco Corp early today. "We were dusting out around the back", said Mike Koyro, IT manager of Brapco, "and there it was, right by the power supply." The hole was quickly verified by other members of the IT dept as "really there". Speculation that it may be a screw hole was quickly dispelled when Frank, chief scripting officer, pointed out it didn't have any threads, and no screws were found loose anywhere nearby. "If someone got in here and drilled it during the night, they sure did a clean job - there's no shavings on the floor and the hole has no burrs" observed Mike. "It was either a professional job, with a sharp bit and machining oil, or a manufacturing defect". Calls to Linux Security were unanswered as of press time.
get a 10 year head start on all the CIO's who are just discovering it.
I know I should have been there this time of night but we had this party, anyway, I was walking down 8th street and this guys jumps out of the alleyway, points this box at me, it had these glowing lights, like, oh, you know, those led thingys? And it went 'beep beep' - I didn't think anything of it but now my smart card is empty!! I had $89.45 in it and now it's all gone!!
Well, what d'ya expect when govt oppression jacks the black market price up so that it's more valuable than GOLD?? (i.e., over $300 / oz. ) Of course gangs of criminals are going to get involved, just like they did during the alcohol prohibition years. That's a BIG temptation to allocate a large parcel of land and become a grower, and take the risk, because the payoff is so damn large. If US drug policies made any sense it would be a controlled substance sold in liquor stores just like booze, over 21 only, quality controlled, etc.