Hehe, glad I wasnt first to say it...Quote:
Originally Posted by Captain_Rightfoot
Take a look at this!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDNuq94Zg_8
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Hehe, glad I wasnt first to say it...Quote:
Originally Posted by Captain_Rightfoot
Take a look at this!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDNuq94Zg_8
I remember when you had to justify the code using multiple bytes to store or manipulate data and also looking at doing binary tranlation across word boundries to compress storage just so you could justify the programme consuming 4KB of RAM on execution and of course the system only had 64KB of RAM to do everything in anyway. To get it to 640KB would have cost over $50,000.Quote:
Originally Posted by Blknight.aus
Why did we stop writting in Assembler :confused:
I can't wait to use it at work... they've copied the eye candy rather well. The rest of it's probably same old #$@# different day, but I guess you've got to start somewhere.. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by tombraider
classic! plus 1!Quote:
Originally Posted by tombraider
Everybody register with ZDnet/security, and be very afraid. Or Cnet, or Computerworld news, or god only knows how many other security IT sites.
Vista is ME all over again, XP in a tarted up new dress.
Norton AV is not safe, Yellow Storm virus targets only Norton AV, mainly the commercial version at the moment.
MS Office 07 is riddled with security vulnerabilities, IE7 is a sieve, secure as a boy scout tent.
And now there has been threats of a virus attack directly on the Mac system.
I have used Linux for years, and am now about to install Sun Microsystems Solaris 10, as a try out, on a 64 bit server.
Vista? Not on my system, nothing mission critical, nothing in the way of personal data, kept on my machines. Does not matter. I at least can't be "phished over", can't be hacked and used to damage other systems or people. Hell, I just realised, I have become a responsible computer user.
Shorty.
id brag about having to progam a microbee 16 thats 16 as in 16k of system memory but that wouldnt be my crowning retro glory...Quote:
Originally Posted by dm_td5
hands up anyone whose programed on punch cards.... (it was a school excersion thing, dad came and then a week later we went back with a shoebox full of cardboard.)
Yep. In IITRAN - I had to at Uni of NSW back in 1966 when I was doing a BSc (Tech).Quote:
Originally Posted by Blknight.aus
In 1968 we were inputting data directly into the computer with a row of buttons on the front - that was a commercial HP system with 4K - that's right 4K, of memory. In 1969 we got an HP system with 16K and we could input from the front panel OR via punched tape reader. We typed it up on a Teletype (tm) and punched the tape at the same time.
Later in life (early '80s) I was in charge of a computer centre which still used punched cards. Storage was on a Fastrand drum. See http://www.fourmilab.ch/documents/univac/fastrand.html - that was soon after replaced by conventional mag disk packs.
Ron
Not quite as old as Ron but used FortranIV at UniNSW through a PDP11 which was about the same size as a domestic fridge, but then so was the printer.Quote:
Originally Posted by Blknight.aus
Martyn
so,, yes? no?
gees you guys make it difficult.
so do we upgrade xp?
or do a fresh install?
and if we go with the new install,, can we copy all our files across
will xp office work with vista?
so many questions
so few DX10 games,,:D:D:D
what makes you think solaris is safe :PQuote:
Originally Posted by shorty943
it is as vunerable as any other form of *nix before it is hardened, osx included.
but it is a not a bad thing to play with...