On Thu, 3 Aug 1995, Dr. Dimitri Vulis wrote:
I once was a consultant at a small financial services firm, and a (young, disturbed) user was going around playing stupid pranks on unattended PCs. I mandated the use of screenblankers that kicked in after 3 minutes of inactivity and required a password to get back. The user would then reboot the PCs; some password was needed to get onto the LAN, but he'd mess with the local config.sys's. He eventually got fired and I do something else.
Unfortunatly, the lusers here are brain-dead and don't care about anything. They don't even know the first things about DOS. We do have a couple of geniuses who think they know Windoze (or want to learn it) who occasionally play with the icons and groups: one such genious once closed a group window, then claimed someone "erased it." What a dork! The worse is that I have to clean up after them no matter how stupid they are.
I guess byte values>255 are the IP equivalent of 555. Better than 127.0.0.1 - someone might telnet to 127.0.0.1, then ask mgm/ua whose address this is. :)
Well, the loopback is only a single IP address. If they used that, every net.entity would have the same IP. Not too good. :-)
My 6yr-old's IBM Aptiva comes with a sound board and the software that reads English text and pronounces it in much more lifelike manner than the gizmo in the movie. That gizmo sounded annoyingly computer-like, but had intonations obviously coming from a human actor.
Nope, sounded right the like the Apple MacinTalk II Pro voices. They've got some really cool voices, some even human sounding. Check it out if you get a chance. Real intonations: you can hear the voice flex, etc. There are some voices that follow songs or other tones. (i.e. Big Ben, Bells, etc.) They sound like they're singing.
The notion is very realistic (but the flashy displays in the movie were not). At the recent PC Expo at the Javitz Center in NYC, there were tens of PCs running various Web browsers to try out. No one was watching over most of them. I entered the URL telnet://uunet.uu.net:119, and sure enough, got connected. It accepted 'IHAVE', but I was too lazy to type in an entire Usenet article. I (and the heroine) could have telnetted to someone's port 25 just as easily.
Yep. Those be the same machines where I dropped my Cypherpunx PC EXPO V2.0 disks. Just left a few dozen infront of each machine as I used them. Sort of the sleight of hand that theives use to lift stuff; only I didn't take, I put. >;-)
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