Yeah but who can change that default password to something else? I've seen Unix systems that assign a generic password like "ABCDEF" or "PASSWORD" to users and they have to log in and use the password command to change them. Most of them didn't. Real secure, right?
My point is that it takes more than security patches to make a system secure. Users have to be trained to change their password after logging in for the first time, and to change them peroidically. Also not to use common words for their password and mix in numbers and letters with an ocassional symbol (!,@,#,$,%,etc) to throw off the dictionary cracker programs.
Or just use a Mac, because True Hackers wouldn't touch a Mac with a ten foot pole!:) Just kidding folks.
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I agree, Comp Sci 101 should teach the humble beginnings of the computer. I have a painting in my basement that dates back to Blaise Pascal and Charles Babbages, etc. But we need something that gets more detailed. One that shows the mistakes that companies made, like Osborne annoucing a new system before it gets released to market and thus killing the current product line. Or Commodore nickel and diming its computer line to death. Or Apple with good marketing, but not able to get enough third party companies to support its Lisa or Apple/// platform.
We can even document the rise and fall of the Microsoft empire!;)
Well Linux is getting very popular, and it takes popularity to win over companies to support another platform. Remember when IBM's PC become popular and won over the CP/M and Apple// market? Then companies found that Microsoft was the real power behind the PC as it licensed MS-DOS to Compaq and others to make IBM PC Clones. That was the start of one paradigm shift, the Linux frenzy is the start of another.
So what are our other choices? OS/2, BeOS, Freedows, MacOS, DR-DOS?
OS/2 great ideas, IBM did a good job on designing the OS and picking up where Microsoft left off. The problem ends up being third party support, or lack thereof. Once even Wordperfect bailed from the OS/2 platform, I knew things would not go well for the OS.
BeOS, the AmigaDOS of the 1990's. It has its niche market, but still has a long road to walk down before it gets more marketshare. Don't get me wrong, I like BeOS, its a fresh new technology and it is powerfull, just not popular enough to get the third party support behind it needed to get adopted by other PC companies.
Freedows, not ready for prime-time. I am not sure when they will even get an Alpha test out. Is that cache kernel done yet?
MacOS, this is going away once OSX comes out. The problem here is that it only runs on the Macintosh Platform, the most recent PowerPC Macs that is. The old 68K Macs can't run it, and there are no plans to port it to the WINTEL platform like BeOS was ported. All I see OSX as is just yet another BSD Unix hack. Might as well use BSD on PC systems then, you may not have that Aqua interface, but at least you can have multiple platforms BSD can run on and have the scalability that Mac hardware lacks.
DR-DOS, the OS that refuses to die. How many hands did DR-DOS pass over? DRI, Novell, Caldera. I don't really see this OS doing much, unless a majority of the market rejects Windows and its GUI and gets back to basics to run DOS programs.
BSD Unix (FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD) would be a good alternative to Linux and Windows. I don't hear as much Hoo-Haa about BSD as I do Linux from the PC Makers. I guess maybe that GPL license makes the difference, or is it that Linux gets most of the good press from the media?
I took old business cards that got fuzzy on the edges and ran the edges between the keys. They acted like a lint magnet and pulled up lint and hair that stuck to the fuzzy part of the business cards. A can on compressed air flushed the rest of the particles out after I took off the keycaps.
The best keyboard I have ever seen is from those old IBM PC-AT systems, mostly metal. They just don't make them like that anymore.
For $20 and under keyboards, you might as well just buy another one.:)
Make a simple Word Processor, don't add in features that the average user might not need. Keep the code tight and compact, so the programs will run fast even on slower systems.
What we need is something like this, also have them develop new user interfaces to enhance GNOME that don't look like Windows or the Mac interface. We need fresh ideas.
Also a X-Window replacement program would be great if it can get beyond the many X limitations and bugs.
Go to http://www.usedpalmpilots.com/ and see if you can sell it or trade it in for a new one? It is a lot simplier than messing with solder and possibly messing up your IIIe.
That or you could sell it on eBay. Apparently I've seen a IIIe sell for as much as $200 because people buying them there don't know the value of a Palm computer. Either that or they got shills bidding on Palms to raise the prices for the buyers?
I often take breaks and switch projects when I get bored. Sometimes I do some research on another project or catch up on my online Internet computer news.
If I get stuck Experts Exchange works fine, tell them Cable4096 sent you.
Some hard stuff includes Recurring Dates and Outlook Integration. Just learning the Outlook object can take weeks or months.
So my post got lowered to a troll status because I asked a question about developer moving away from one platform to another?
Anyway the company would have to support every platform they port to. I thought we were discussing commercial programs and not GPL programs? Lets say if I wrote a program, say WidgetWacker for Linux, and then I ported it to OSX, I would have to have staff support both OSX and Linux in case there is any problems, right? Or I could drop Linux and only support OSX?
Apple got rid of the floppy by not making it standard on an iMac. Apple also got rid of ADB and serial ports. Apple is also getting rid of the old MacOS with OSX which is BSD Unix based and will run the old code.
Windows ME runs old DOS code, I ran the RC1 and was able to run DOS programs like PKZIP. I just couldn't use the SYS command or the FORMAT/S options. MS disabled them. I'd be willing to bet that third party programs might be able to get around this?
If Apple gets rid of something, it is innovation, but if Microsoft gets rid of something it is BS? WTF? Has the MacJihad gone bonkers?
Apple also buys up technologies. I believe there was a stock swap with Xerox to get the Xerox GUI and build on it, was there not?
Also Apple bought out NeXT for the OS and GUI because MacOS was becoming a dead-end and getting old real fast. But ironically it is all called Innovation if Apple does it, and stealing if Microsoft does it?:)
OSX is based on BSD Unix and OpenStep with some modifications from MacOS and Rhapsody code. I predict that eventually Linux will bury MacOSX in about five to ten years.
You want a date when Apple will be DOA? How about January 2016? Apple will either finally die or get bought out by another company. I figure by then they will have run out of BS marketing ideas and phoney Bytemarks and will run out of ideas for new case designs and wacko slogans like "Think Different". See the SF Journal for more info on the future of Apple and the Apple Doomsday Clock.
I just hope that the MacJihad doesn't flame me for telling the truth about Apple?
MAME, for example, allows you to enter "Cheat Codes" so you can make PacMan move faster, or give you unlimited lives, etc. For those who couldn't finish a level to see the more advanced features of the game, these emulators are for you.
Also MAME allows you to take the arcade with you on a Laptop, or even a Windows CE / PocketPC no PalmOS support yet. The PalmOS devices can bearly emulate a Gameboy much less an arcade machine.
Anyway the advantage of the real deals is that they have the original Controllers. The controllers for MAME stink unless you have one like the arcade has with spinners and so forth.
Also some goobers, possibly MacJihadists, started a Yahoo Club Linux S*cks and they totally started flamewars on it.
Ironic that MacOS and MacOS X so very little bugs in security. OSX being based on BSD Unix, yet BSD Unix has more security exploits? WTF? Or is it that nobody even bothers to check OSX for security exploits?
Will it be the makers of the network filtering software? They stand to make a bundle if this law passes. Not only will schools and libraries buy it, but so will home users to block their kids from accessing stuff on the net.
On the IWETHEY forums, the MacJihad have been after me for some unknown reason. Maybe it is because I keep posting articles that talk negatively about Apple and all the bad stuff they are doing. Like mucking with its VAR chain, OEM chain, rumor chain, etc. That bad karma is going to come back to haunt Apple sooner or later. But how do you get the MacJihad off your back?
Remember when they used Bytemarks to show how a G3 was faster than a Pentium II? The PII had run a DOS based C compiler with 386 optimazations and the G3 ran a state of the art PowerPC C++ compiler with G3 optimizations for that ByteMark.
Photoshop results vary, based on the video card used. If the Althon or PIII system has a crappy video card that is slow, of course a G4 will appear to be faster with an ATI Rage 128 video card.
But hey, falsified benchmarks or unfair benchmarks are nothing new to the MacJihad.
Apple is working on a dual G4 Mac. OSX server should support multiple processors. Apple has not yet released a multiple processor Mac yet, IIRC.
Sad thing about the OSX system is that it only runs on Macs. No CHRP/POP, RS/6000, or other platforms. Linux and BSD are really cross-platform, and that is one thing that OSX won't ever match up to unless Apple decides to start porting and drops the whole Mac Hardware spiel.
Should Apple port OSX to other platforms, I'm talking the whole OS not Darwin, I'm talking Aqua, the whole 9 yards! Or will the MacJihad get angry that their Mac Hardware could get downsized?
What good would a suit do? Just get someone to monitor it, and drop the connection when the "Script Kiddies" start playing the DoS games. Get the ISP to drop the account of whomever is doing this after the monitoring programs catch the IP address of the attacking system. Nail the suckers who did the attack.
Do you suppose it was some sort of SuitJihad against the people running the site not having suits on there?;)
What about those >$500 WINTEL PC boxes that run Linux or FreeBSD? <p> The $799 iMac with OSX will be the bottom system for OSX, but how much does one of those G4 systems cost? How about Dual G4 processors? <p> Also since when is an iMac a OSX Server? Where is the RAID devices? How do you stack hard drives in it? Even those >$500 WINTEL PC systems have an option to stick in a SCSI 3 UW card and RAID harddrives to upgrade the server to better hardware. <p> So like the other MacJihad, you compare oranges to apples? They talk about PC systems running FreeBSD or Linux, and you use an overpriced Sun workstation as an example of that?:( <p> For more info on the Jihad, visit <a href="http://normad.webhostme.com/jihad.asp">http: //normad.webhostme.com/jihad.asp</a>
Did Woz get the shaft from Apple, or did he just quit after seeing the company he founded get turned into a High Tech Religion where the Mac Developers fought with the Apple// Developers? Maybe he didn't want to get caught up in the Mac Jihad that was taking over at Apple?
Hey, Joe Sixpack, tired of Windows crashing on you? Here is a Linux CD for free, included with your favorite magazine and mailed to you with that junkmail you always get. The automatic installation Druid will partition your hard drive for you and install LILO so you can also boot to Windows as well as Linux. If you want games, Linux is coming out with them, talk to your gaming companies about supporting Linux. Pass on the Linux CD to a few friends, because after all, it is free. Help us put Microsoft out of business. By the way did I mention this CD also has a free copy of StarOffice and Quake for Linux?;)
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My point is that it takes more than security patches to make a system secure. Users have to be trained to change their password after logging in for the first time, and to change them peroidically. Also not to use common words for their password and mix in numbers and letters with an ocassional symbol (!,@,#,$,%,etc) to throw off the dictionary cracker programs.
Or just use a Mac, because True Hackers wouldn't touch a Mac with a ten foot pole! :) Just kidding folks.
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I agree, Comp Sci 101 should teach the humble beginnings of the computer. I have a painting in my basement that dates back to Blaise Pascal and Charles Babbages, etc. But we need something that gets more detailed. One that shows the mistakes that companies made, like Osborne annoucing a new system before it gets released to market and thus killing the current product line. Or Commodore nickel and diming its computer line to death. Or Apple with good marketing, but not able to get enough third party companies to support its Lisa or Apple /// platform.
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We can even document the rise and fall of the Microsoft empire!
But what about OSX and Darwin? Doesn't Apple allow either to be downloaded for free?
Well Linux is getting very popular, and it takes popularity to win over companies to support another platform. Remember when IBM's PC become popular and won over the CP/M and Apple // market? Then companies found that Microsoft was the real power behind the PC as it licensed MS-DOS to Compaq and others to make IBM PC Clones. That was the start of one paradigm shift, the Linux frenzy is the start of another.
So what are our other choices? OS/2, BeOS, Freedows, MacOS, DR-DOS?
OS/2 great ideas, IBM did a good job on designing the OS and picking up where Microsoft left off. The problem ends up being third party support, or lack thereof. Once even Wordperfect bailed from the OS/2 platform, I knew things would not go well for the OS.
BeOS, the AmigaDOS of the 1990's. It has its niche market, but still has a long road to walk down before it gets more marketshare. Don't get me wrong, I like BeOS, its a fresh new technology and it is powerfull, just not popular enough to get the third party support behind it needed to get adopted by other PC companies.
Freedows, not ready for prime-time. I am not sure when they will even get an Alpha test out. Is that cache kernel done yet?
MacOS, this is going away once OSX comes out. The problem here is that it only runs on the Macintosh Platform, the most recent PowerPC Macs that is. The old 68K Macs can't run it, and there are no plans to port it to the WINTEL platform like BeOS was ported. All I see OSX as is just yet another BSD Unix hack. Might as well use BSD on PC systems then, you may not have that Aqua interface, but at least you can have multiple platforms BSD can run on and have the scalability that Mac hardware lacks.
DR-DOS, the OS that refuses to die. How many hands did DR-DOS pass over? DRI, Novell, Caldera. I don't really see this OS doing much, unless a majority of the market rejects Windows and its GUI and gets back to basics to run DOS programs.
BSD Unix (FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD) would be a good alternative to Linux and Windows. I don't hear as much Hoo-Haa about BSD as I do Linux from the PC Makers. I guess maybe that GPL license makes the difference, or is it that Linux gets most of the good press from the media?
I took old business cards that got fuzzy on the edges and ran the edges between the keys. They acted like a lint magnet and pulled up lint and hair that stuck to the fuzzy part of the business cards. A can on compressed air flushed the rest of the particles out after I took off the keycaps.
:)
The best keyboard I have ever seen is from those old IBM PC-AT systems, mostly metal. They just don't make them like that anymore.
For $20 and under keyboards, you might as well just buy another one.
Make a simple Word Processor, don't add in features that the average user might not need. Keep the code tight and compact, so the programs will run fast even on slower systems.
What we need is something like this, also have them develop new user interfaces to enhance GNOME that don't look like Windows or the Mac interface. We need fresh ideas.
Also a X-Window replacement program would be great if it can get beyond the many X limitations and bugs.
That or you could sell it on eBay. Apparently I've seen a IIIe sell for as much as $200 because people buying them there don't know the value of a Palm computer. Either that or they got shills bidding on Palms to raise the prices for the buyers?
http://www.linux-hacker.net/imod/imod.ht ml
If I get stuck Experts Exchange works fine, tell them Cable4096 sent you.
Some hard stuff includes Recurring Dates and Outlook Integration. Just learning the Outlook object can take weeks or months.
Anyway the company would have to support every platform they port to. I thought we were discussing commercial programs and not GPL programs? Lets say if I wrote a program, say WidgetWacker for Linux, and then I ported it to OSX, I would have to have staff support both OSX and Linux in case there is any problems, right? Or I could drop Linux and only support OSX?
Windows ME runs old DOS code, I ran the RC1 and was able to run DOS programs like PKZIP. I just couldn't use the SYS command or the FORMAT /S options. MS disabled them. I'd be willing to bet that third party programs might be able to get around this?
If Apple gets rid of something, it is innovation, but if Microsoft gets rid of something it is BS? WTF? Has the MacJihad gone bonkers?
For more info see JihadSpeak
Also Apple bought out NeXT for the OS and GUI because MacOS was becoming a dead-end and getting old real fast. But ironically it is all called Innovation if Apple does it, and stealing if Microsoft does it? :)
OSX is based on BSD Unix and OpenStep with some modifications from MacOS and Rhapsody code. I predict that eventually Linux will bury MacOSX in about five to ten years.
You want a date when Apple will be DOA? How about January 2016? Apple will either finally die or get bought out by another company. I figure by then they will have run out of BS marketing ideas and phoney Bytemarks and will run out of ideas for new case designs and wacko slogans like "Think Different". See the SF Journal for more info on the future of Apple and the Apple Doomsday Clock.
I just hope that the MacJihad doesn't flame me for telling the truth about Apple?
For more info visit Jihad Speak
Also MAME allows you to take the arcade with you on a Laptop, or even a Windows CE / PocketPC no PalmOS support yet. The PalmOS devices can bearly emulate a Gameboy much less an arcade machine.
Anyway the advantage of the real deals is that they have the original Controllers. The controllers for MAME stink unless you have one like the arcade has with spinners and so forth.
Ironic that MacOS and MacOS X so very little bugs in security. OSX being based on BSD Unix, yet BSD Unix has more security exploits? WTF? Or is it that nobody even bothers to check OSX for security exploits?
For more info visit Jihad Speak
Will it be the makers of the network filtering software? They stand to make a bundle if this law passes. Not only will schools and libraries buy it, but so will home users to block their kids from accessing stuff on the net.
Anyway: The Apple Doomsday Clock has also been a target of the MacJihad trying to shut it down.
See Jihad Speak for more info.
Photoshop results vary, based on the video card used. If the Althon or PIII system has a crappy video card that is slow, of course a G4 will appear to be faster with an ATI Rage 128 video card.
But hey, falsified benchmarks or unfair benchmarks are nothing new to the MacJihad.
See Jihad Speak for more info.
Sad thing about the OSX system is that it only runs on Macs. No CHRP/POP, RS/6000, or other platforms. Linux and BSD are really cross-platform, and that is one thing that OSX won't ever match up to unless Apple decides to start porting and drops the whole Mac Hardware spiel.
Should Apple port OSX to other platforms, I'm talking the whole OS not Darwin, I'm talking Aqua, the whole 9 yards! Or will the MacJihad get angry that their Mac Hardware could get downsized?
For more info, visit JihadSpeak
So explain to me once again what the benefit of having Pointy Haired Bosses running your web site does for a company again? ;)
Do you suppose it was some sort of SuitJihad against the people running the site not having suits on there? ;)
For more info on the Jihad, visit http://normad.webhostme.com/jihad.asp
What about those >$500 WINTEL PC boxes that run Linux or FreeBSD? :( : //normad.webhostme.com/jihad.asp</a>
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The $799 iMac with OSX will be the bottom system for OSX, but how much does one of those G4 systems cost? How about Dual G4 processors?
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Also since when is an iMac a OSX Server? Where is the RAID devices? How do you stack hard drives in it? Even those >$500 WINTEL PC systems have an option to stick in a SCSI 3 UW card and RAID harddrives to upgrade the server to better hardware.
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So like the other MacJihad, you compare oranges to apples? They talk about PC systems running FreeBSD or Linux, and you use an overpriced Sun workstation as an example of that?
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For more info on the Jihad, visit <a href="http://normad.webhostme.com/jihad.asp">http
They rejected my submissions but they accepted this one? WTF?
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So like, do I have to ask stupid questions to get accepted as an article writer?
Jihadspeak for more info.
From my experience, the more emulators you run under emulators, the slower the performance and the more likely the system will crash. :(
Hey, Joe Sixpack, tired of Windows crashing on you? Here is a Linux CD for free, included with your favorite magazine and mailed to you with that junkmail you always get. The automatic installation Druid will partition your hard drive for you and install LILO so you can also boot to Windows as well as Linux. If you want games, Linux is coming out with them, talk to your gaming companies about supporting Linux. Pass on the Linux CD to a few friends, because after all, it is free. Help us put Microsoft out of business. By the way did I mention this CD also has a free copy of StarOffice and Quake for Linux? ;)