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The grand old days when every computer manufacturer had a different pinout on their serial cables and you had to resolder the cable to work with different printers or to communicate between two computer, the floppy disks came in 3 or 4 different sizes and different densities. When every computer manufacturer had different way of locating characters on the screen and making things bold. The one good thing that ibm and microsoft did was dominate and if you wanted to play the game you had to follow the defacto standards. And mozilla and tcp/ip and 10baseT helped the rest of the way going forward. But I didn't have the pleasure of using paper tapes or or toggle switches to code, just the hollerith puch cards.
Reply to @Accipiter: "But I didn't have the pleasure of using paper tapes or or toggle switches to code...."
Ah, you are deprived indeed. Don't tell me - no pdp-8; no LSI; no PET; surely a bit of wire-wrapping your own.
The good old days, indeed. In a way crawling through the ceilings throwing lines, making those cables (I never had enough), trying to get one thingy-ma-jig to talk to another thingy-ma-dig, what fun!!!
You know once things got easy, I quit having fun and had to actually work. Growing up was not in the plan.
Reply to @Accipiter: They insisted that I carry a pager but I always "forgot" to change the battery, so they got mad and punished me by giving it to someone else "who will appreciate it".
Reply to @Maurice: Mo, I agree with you opt-in should be the default. In fact, that is the law in those big government high regulation European countries.
Your thoughts about this; of which, I have been following this story for several days. MS claims to have an IE fix in place tomorrow.........Friday, Sept 21.
Personally, I would keep java (as opposed to javascript) turned off, when it is not needed and only enable it for certain websites that i needed it for when i needed it.
as for the zero-day (maybe these articles will give you more insights)
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The grand old days when every computer manufacturer had a different pinout on their serial cables and you had to resolder the cable to work with different printers or to communicate between two computer, the floppy disks came in 3 or 4 different sizes and different densities. When every computer manufacturer had different way of locating characters on the screen and making things bold. The one good thing that ibm and microsoft did was dominate and if you wanted to play the game you had to follow the defacto standards. And mozilla and tcp/ip and 10baseT helped the rest of the way going forward.
But I didn't have the pleasure of using paper tapes or or toggle switches to code, just the hollerith puch cards.
Ah, you are deprived indeed. Don't tell me - no pdp-8; no LSI; no PET; surely a bit of wire-wrapping your own.
The good old days, indeed. In a way crawling through the ceilings throwing lines, making those cables (I never had enough), trying to get one thingy-ma-jig to talk to another thingy-ma-dig, what fun!!!
You know once things got easy, I quit having fun and had to actually work. Growing up was not in the plan.
The good thing about the good old days - IE v6 thru v8 didn't exist
Once they invented the pager and cell phone - things went south
Hee..hee..hee...
Your thoughts about this; of which, I have been following this story for several days.
MS claims to have an IE fix in place tomorrow.........Friday, Sept 21.
MS IE, zero day cootie
We do run Java on home pc's, per some company needs.
Thank you,
Catch
Personally, I would keep java (as opposed to javascript) turned off, when it is not needed and only enable it for certain websites that i needed it for when i needed it.
as for the zero-day (maybe these articles will give you more insights)
http://arstechnica.com/security/2012/09/google-hackers-carry-on/
http://www.informationweek.com/security/attacks/google-aurora-attackers-still-on-loose-s/240006930
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-57508807-83/experts-googles-aurora-hackers-still-at-it-years-later/
my switch to firefox many years ago and not using IE at home is how i deal with IE problems.