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On Tuesday, we dusted off the source code for early versions of MS-DOS and Word for Windows. With the help of the Computer History Museum, we are making this code available to the public for the first time. Oh great, now people are going to fork it, and we'll end up with all those clones around
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News so good it's printed twice.
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It hadn't popped up in my feed yet. Dang, one day I'll beat the people with fast fingers.
TTFN - Kent
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Quote: Error 503 Service Unavailable
Service Unavailable
Guru Meditation:
XID: 1121965662
Varnish cache server No downloading after all
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
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I'm horrifyingly excited to download them when they're actually available.
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Me too - imagine a full OS in only 118 files, and even some of them contain documentation!
I'm wondering if it compiles on VS 2013?
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
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That sums up my exact reaction.
I actually reckon it'll be neat and well written. Let's place our bets...
cheers
Chris Maunder
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On Tuesday, Microsoft dusted off the source code for early versions of MS-DOS and Word for Windows. With the help of the Computer History Museum, they are making this code available to the public for the first time. Where were you when I needed you in 1981?
/ravi
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They're killing XP and reviving MS-DOS. Only you, Microsoft.
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Ravi Bhavnani wrote: Where were you when I needed you in 1981? I'm going to say not in existence. The first version rolled out in 1983.
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Actually it was released in August 1981, under the moniker "PC DOS". Same bits, different bottle.
/ravi
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Doh. For some reason I missed the MS DOS bit, and concentrated on the Word version.
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Researchers have created Mylar, which creates Web applications and services that always encrypt server data and decrypt it only in the browser.
Data stored on servers should always be encrypted? That doesn't sound right...makes way too much sense.
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A filing widely reported today includes an anecdote from Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg, indicating that Google once approached her to propose a détente of sorts between the firms.
"It's our party, we can do what we want" -Facebook circa 2008.
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cereal takes arbitrary data types and reversibly turns them into different representations, such as compact binary encodings, XML, or JSON. I thought C++ developers never used libraries?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: I thought C++ developers never used libraries?
I'm glad to say you're misinformed there. The standard library is pervasive, and in many ways superior to those shipped with most languages. It doesn't support as many scenarios (C++ file access is just making it into the standard) but what it does support is frequently as good as, or superior to, hand-coded solutions. Most other libraries trade efficiency for ease-of-use.
Further, the BOOST library covers a wide range of areas not covered by the standard libraries. There are GUI toolkits, Networking libraries, and many, many more.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Thank you. Lesson learned. I always thought you lot chiseled all your stuff out of silicon (after purifying it from sand), hand-crafting your quicksort like Jedis and light sabers.
TTFN - Kent
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There's actually an emacs key binding we use for that.
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Comment of the week. +5
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Doesn't stop them from writing them.
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Though the “Flappy Bird” craze may be winding down — currently, there’s only one “Flappy Bird” knock-off in the top 20 on the iTunes App Store — the longer-lasting effects of the viral game and all its many variations that followed, still continue to the point of ridiculousness. Repeat after me: photocopiers should not be development tools
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To realize what we've given away, imagine going totally offline. Better yet, believe in what a truly secure online life might look like. "Hold tight, we're in for nasty weather"
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I don't think I've read such drivel in a long, long time.
So we break the internet and suddenly the spooks can't spy on us anymore? Wow - I wonder what they did before 1990.
And nowhere do I see the words "Give you your credit cards, stop collecting air miles and stop filling in your details on magazine subscriptions."
ARGH! I think what has been done by the NSA and the rest is insanely dangerous, but if I see another blog post complaining about privacy while telling everyone to tweet and Facebook-like their stuff I'm going to puke.
"Break" the internet? How about "fixing the internet". Really, it should be "educate people" but I know that's never going to work. #getoffmylawn.
Regardless, the fixes are happening. The Snowden Affair was a trigger for a set of actions that were going to happen anyway. If not today, then tomorrow or the next. Talk about "the internet" in this manner makes me think they are talking about "the phone" in a sense of the 1970's when it was a household item that no one really knew how it worked nor ever envisaged that it would evolve into something completely unrecognisable - and effectively unneeded (the phone, that is; not the internet that took it's place).
Things evolve. Bad things happen. Things evolve. Bad things will always find a way to happen, but a lot of really, really wonderful, society changing things also happen, and as long as they outweigh the bad then we're winning.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Of course we all know you're saying that because the NSA has paid you too, and you make your living running a large web site
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Oh, I dream of being important enough to be paid off by the NSA!
cheers
Chris Maunder
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