Stijn!!

[HHI944]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

It sounds like the federal government is in charge of your paperwork. Only a federal bureaucrat could be that slow.

Bingo.

[RKDinOKC]

Oh man, All i needed was G54.

How's yer puppy doin?

Pepper is getting really clingy last couple of days. Have not taken her for a ride with me when I run errands since I got the Cayenne detailed to sell this weekend.

[GH85Carrera]

Good Hump day morning.

We had some thunderstorms roll through last night. It gets silly with the warnings. I have my phone set to with one app to tell me if there is a weather watch or warning in Oklahoma City, and for my current location. I end you with two warnings for a thunderstorm watch, a warning or hail, or tornado watches and warnings. Of course my wife gets the same warnings on her phone and iPad. In the end we got a nice /4 inch of rain and a few dozen alerts.

It is real handy when we are out of town to know a storm is approaching and be able to see it on radar and plan accordingly. When the car is safe in the garage not as much.

[Outback Porsche]

Bwahahaha

A mate has dragged me into a titty bar

[Outback Porsche]

BTW, dressed up in a bag of fruit tonight. Won a state gov export award for exporting digital technology. Wooohooo!

[Porsche-poor]

morning all. 24 hour bug got me yesterday. today I should have stayed home for the hell of it. got crowded at and intersection by a semi and now have a busted left front tire. Can I go home yet?

[flipper35]

Jeff, you dressed up as a fruit bag because you won or you won because you dressed as a bag of fruit?

[Oh Haha]

Congrats Jeff!

I think.

[RKDinOKC]

I thought maybe dressed up in a bag of fruit was some Australian slang for wearing a suit. ie suit - fruit.

Whew. Just spent the last day tracking down a hacker that got into my Mac web server. Wasn't able to actually do anything except put some files on the server. It was easy to remove the files. They were Unix files that send spam triggered on when the google bots read the site to index it. Since it is MacOS and not Unix it didn't actually send anything. The hard part was figuring how how they were able to drop the files onto the server in the first place. It was something I had missed when setting the server up. Hole all plugged up now. *&$#@!! SPAMMERS.

[flipper35]

I thought maybe so as well, but coming form Jeff...

[Porsche-poor]

send them back with a note saying "I think you lost these"

[RKDinOKC]

I liked the original mac server software. If you tried to log onto a server and didn't have access or the service was not turned on or the port was not set to listen it would respond with "Service Not Available" in Klingon.

The first modem I had was an Apple 300 baud modem. All of the software available at first you had to open a serial connection to the modem and type in the command ATDT then the phone number. AT was to get the attention of the modem that a command was being typed and DT was the command to Dial Tone, versus DP which was Dial Pulse. If you accidentally typed ET instead of AT the modem would type back "Phone Home"

If you had an Apple Newton and set your location to Groom Lake, NV. It would change all the icons to Space Invaders game graphics.

Those were the way geeky nerdy fun days.

[GH85Carrera]

I remember "back in the good ol days" of my 300 Baud modem. It was not an auto-dial so I had to dial the phone number with my finger on the phone and then flip a switch on the side of the modem. It would auto-answer if the switch was in that mode, but it could not dial out.

I met a new guy at a computer club meeting back in 1982. He had just gotten his Commodore 64 and I had mine for a few weeks after upgrading from my Commodore Vic 20 in 1980 or so with cassette tape drive storage. The C-64 had the "huge" 170 Kilobyte storage capacity per floppy so I knew I had to go for that. Anyway I got his phone number and told him I would call at a certain time. He fired up his C-64 and I read him three or four lines of code to type in. That put his C-64 in a mode that I could send him a file, and he could save that file to his floppy. That was a Terminal program that he could then log onto the BBSs of the day and download other programs.

At 300 baud it took a LONG time to download a few KB file.

It still astonishes me to see the regular updates for files that are hundreds of MB now days. I had gone through at least 4 or 5 computer upgrades before I ever had one that had a 100 MB hard drive.

[RKDinOKC]

My first exposure to computers was in HS. I was one of 3 at our HS that had access and 4K of space on the school system main frame. It was an IBM selectric typewriter/terminal with an acoustical phone hookup. You dialed the phone then set hand set on the modem. You and the computer both typed on paper, no monitor. Wrote programs in basic. Wrote a program to play pinball as a text game. And yes, we could get to grades and attendance. Administrators/teacher etc wrote down their passwords and left them laying around. Okay, they were in their grade books. One of the administrators did leave his login and password on a stack of papers he was working on the the closet they kept the terminal in. There was only one terminal.

[GH85Carrera]

At my first job we had a machine that was supplied by AP for us to send photos to newspapers on the "wire" and it lookd a lot like this gizmo.

This is How Press Photos Were Transmitted Back in the 1970s

The one we had just used the acoustic coupler and we just snapped the handset into place and hit send. It took a while to transmit a photo and of course it was usually long distance which was expensive. They would sometimes send it back to us with cropping instructions so we could send the biggest photo possible. It was way cool to see a picture I took picked up on buy the Associated Press. Back then UPI was the competitor.

The unit in the web article was newer than ours.

[Jim Richards]

Originally Posted by RKDinOKC

My first exposure to computers was in HS. I was one of 3 at our HS that had access and 4K of space on the school system main frame. It was an IBM selectric typewriter/terminal with an acoustical phone hookup. You dialed the phone then set hand set on the modem. You and the computer both typed on paper, no monitor. Wrote programs in basic. Wrote a program to play pinball as a text game. And yes, we could get to grades and attendance. Administrators/teacher etc wrote down their passwords and left them laying around. Okay, they were in their grade books. One of the administrators did leave his login and password on a stack of papers he was working on the the closet they kept the terminal in. There was only one terminal.

Yeah, in HS, I took a FORTRAN IV class at the community college, programming an IBM 360. We used keypunch machines to create a card deck that we handed to the operator. We, the unwashed masses, were not able to see that exalted machine. I kept thinking about the Wizard of Oz when I was there.

[Porsche-poor]

pay no attention to the monkey behind the curtain!!!!!

[Oh Haha]

Awesome

The dumba$$ clown trend has come to our school district and other surrounding cities.

We received a letter from the school superintendent regarding "sightings" and "false claims" by the public which is causing the police to spend resources on those calls.


I tell you, someone is going to get hurt one of these times.

There will be real "Tears of a Clown". I know, that was bad. Sorry.

[Porsche-poor]

fire away I say

[GH85Carrera]

The entire scary clown thing has be baffled. Why are people freaking out about someone dressed up as a clown? I have heard some cities will arrest people dressed as clowns. WTF?

I guess it is another thing I just don't understand.