If you're an old geezer like me, doesn't this "AI revolution" remind you of the "BASIC revolution" in the 70s and 80s, i.e. when the BASIC language was new and hot. BASIC at that time was heralded as a much simpler and…
I've heard the next version will be called "Visual Active NET Copilot".
I still have my copy of Lego Universe, hope this new initiative will fare better.
Sometime in the late 80's I was working in MSDOS and needed more working RAM for an app, so we bought the Phar Lap DOS extender. Got the box and started reading the manual when someone stopped and asked "Why are you…
In one of the stories of Sherlock Holmes he asks Dr. Watson how many steps there are in the stairs leading up to their door. Watson replies he doesn't know and Sherlock gives the exact number and says "You see but you…
Since they would have "their pick of the litter" why did they then include kill switches? A scary scenario is a rerun of the Viasat hack https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viasat_hack I.e. wipe all servers worldwide at the…
If the RCE is Russian, it could be used a communication kill-switch on the morning of an attack outside Ukraine, similar to the Viasat hack https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viasat_hack
Also read that book when it came out, among other things it taught me about "mushroom management" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mushroom_management
I remember as a kid reading Foundation by Asimov, when you arrived in Trantor, you had a boarding pass with a glowing arrow pointing which way to go. Almost there now.
Long time ago I read a novel called Brain Wave by Paul Anderson https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain_Wave (it predates Flowers for Algernon by about 10 years). It has a similar theme of suddenly acquired intelligence but…
Also forgotten: Microsoft Popfly https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Popfly
Yes the data bits were 2-way toggles, but one important switch was a 3-way toggle: the Examine (press down) and Deposit (press up) switch.
PDP 11/34 had a bootrom and an octal keyboard, which is kind of cheating. I grew up using the older PDP 11/45 where you had to key in (using binary toggles) a boot program. Or, the way I did it, manually enter write…
Hmmm one reason for Google stumbling re. GitLab might be: I was on GitHub for over 10 years (and GeezerEdit was there too) but when Microsoft bought it I fled to GitLab.
Long live WordStar and it's many brethren! I got addicted to it when coding Z80 assembler on CP/M in the late 70's and my life since then has been on a constant lookout for an equally good program in other OS's. In…
There's a Doom cartridge/game for Nintendo 64, I remember playing it say 20 years ago. Think it's still around here somewhere, I can take a photo if you want... Edit: found it here…
The article just briefly mentions it, but the game I remember most from my AppleII days was RobotWar https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RobotWar We were a couple of guys (and one AppleII) staying up all night designing…
Good read but class template argument deduction is not mentioned.
Agree 100%. I had a bunch of legacy Winform apps and faced the same dilemma. Solved it by switching to Qt. It's excellent even if you just use it for Windows development, i.e. never use any of its crossplatform…
2nd that! First machine I learned assembler on was a 11/45, still remember toggling in a bootloader to load RSTS/E from the RK05-disk :-)
Agree, good article. Thanks to it I think I understand more why cryptography based on elliptic curves (like Curve25519) is considered pretty safe for now.
There's also a huge, ever increasing, technical debt that's dragging down the quality of Windows. For example, switching from Windows\System to Windows\System32 for Chicago made 100% sense, but how did we end up with…
It's easy to do a pessimistic forecast: In order to sway the opinion Trump will need a fake attack on US soil around October, something big and spectacular. Then join our TTT movement: "Trump for a third term!"
I remember cracking A2FS1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWIuTP_A6IQ This was before floppy disks, the game came on a cassette, but it had the same style of boot0/boot1 encryption. Starting the game from a copied…
Have you tried fail2ban? It really helps to keep the hacking attempts down on your ssh-server(s), especially if you increase the bantime from the default 600 seconds to a couple of million...
If you're an old geezer like me, doesn't this "AI revolution" remind you of the "BASIC revolution" in the 70s and 80s, i.e. when the BASIC language was new and hot. BASIC at that time was heralded as a much simpler and…
I've heard the next version will be called "Visual Active NET Copilot".
I still have my copy of Lego Universe, hope this new initiative will fare better.
Sometime in the late 80's I was working in MSDOS and needed more working RAM for an app, so we bought the Phar Lap DOS extender. Got the box and started reading the manual when someone stopped and asked "Why are you…
In one of the stories of Sherlock Holmes he asks Dr. Watson how many steps there are in the stairs leading up to their door. Watson replies he doesn't know and Sherlock gives the exact number and says "You see but you…
Since they would have "their pick of the litter" why did they then include kill switches? A scary scenario is a rerun of the Viasat hack https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viasat_hack I.e. wipe all servers worldwide at the…
If the RCE is Russian, it could be used a communication kill-switch on the morning of an attack outside Ukraine, similar to the Viasat hack https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viasat_hack
Also read that book when it came out, among other things it taught me about "mushroom management" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mushroom_management
I remember as a kid reading Foundation by Asimov, when you arrived in Trantor, you had a boarding pass with a glowing arrow pointing which way to go. Almost there now.
Long time ago I read a novel called Brain Wave by Paul Anderson https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain_Wave (it predates Flowers for Algernon by about 10 years). It has a similar theme of suddenly acquired intelligence but…
Also forgotten: Microsoft Popfly https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Popfly
Yes the data bits were 2-way toggles, but one important switch was a 3-way toggle: the Examine (press down) and Deposit (press up) switch.
PDP 11/34 had a bootrom and an octal keyboard, which is kind of cheating. I grew up using the older PDP 11/45 where you had to key in (using binary toggles) a boot program. Or, the way I did it, manually enter write…
Hmmm one reason for Google stumbling re. GitLab might be: I was on GitHub for over 10 years (and GeezerEdit was there too) but when Microsoft bought it I fled to GitLab.
Long live WordStar and it's many brethren! I got addicted to it when coding Z80 assembler on CP/M in the late 70's and my life since then has been on a constant lookout for an equally good program in other OS's. In…
There's a Doom cartridge/game for Nintendo 64, I remember playing it say 20 years ago. Think it's still around here somewhere, I can take a photo if you want... Edit: found it here…
The article just briefly mentions it, but the game I remember most from my AppleII days was RobotWar https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RobotWar We were a couple of guys (and one AppleII) staying up all night designing…
Good read but class template argument deduction is not mentioned.
Agree 100%. I had a bunch of legacy Winform apps and faced the same dilemma. Solved it by switching to Qt. It's excellent even if you just use it for Windows development, i.e. never use any of its crossplatform…
2nd that! First machine I learned assembler on was a 11/45, still remember toggling in a bootloader to load RSTS/E from the RK05-disk :-)
Agree, good article. Thanks to it I think I understand more why cryptography based on elliptic curves (like Curve25519) is considered pretty safe for now.
There's also a huge, ever increasing, technical debt that's dragging down the quality of Windows. For example, switching from Windows\System to Windows\System32 for Chicago made 100% sense, but how did we end up with…
It's easy to do a pessimistic forecast: In order to sway the opinion Trump will need a fake attack on US soil around October, something big and spectacular. Then join our TTT movement: "Trump for a third term!"
I remember cracking A2FS1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWIuTP_A6IQ This was before floppy disks, the game came on a cassette, but it had the same style of boot0/boot1 encryption. Starting the game from a copied…
Have you tried fail2ban? It really helps to keep the hacking attempts down on your ssh-server(s), especially if you increase the bantime from the default 600 seconds to a couple of million...