08-28-14 19:33 mark lewis wrote to Ed Vance about Flash Player

 ml> {at}MSGID: 
 ml>  On Thu, 28 Aug 2014, Ed Vance wrote to mark lewis:
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 EV> Script Kiddies?

 ml> hehe... nah... but the idea is similar... flash stuff is script
 ml> (activescript i think they call it) that is then "compiled" and
 ml> fed to the flash engine for execution...

 ml> most script kiddies are using scripts or code that they are
 ml> throwing together with no clue how it works... some of them are
 ml> not even using scripts but pre-compiled stuff... in either
 ml> case, they can't even fix it since they don't understand it...
 ml> they are generally trying to break into systems for various
 ml> purposes...

Howdy! Mark,

When I wrote "Script Kiddies" I was thinking of someone who just began
learning how to write Programs.

Not someone Shucking and Jiving portions of other Programs to make
their own.

Back in My Commodore Basic Daze I learned how to use the Print #
Command and I would add a modification to a lot of Basic Programs that
had a screen output, where I could select "S" for displaying on the
Screen which sent the Output to Print #3, or selecting "P" would send
it to the Printer by way of Print #4 .
IIRC??????, 'tis been a long time...


 EV> With MY Knowledge I'd probably write scripts that behave that way
 EV> and cause problems for Bob and Others Too.

 ml> it only takes time to perfect one's skills ;)

My Greatest accomplishment (I Think) was when I modified a QBasic
Program that I made for the PC at my Church, with a Routine that
printed Three Names across one line on each of the first three labels
on Avery Label paper, and then the info for the 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th
lines for those labels, because the Church couldn't use the Tractor
Feed Label paper that was used with their Dot-Matrix printer for that
job after someone gave them a Ink-Jet printer for their office.

Originally my little Program just took a few entries from a Data Base
file to make a temporary Text File.

Then the Text File was Read by the Program to have a Dot-Matrix printer
print Labels to be placed on attendance cards for each person who went
to Sunday School, instead of some folks having to write the Name and
Address info by hand on the card(s) that were used during the 12 month
"September to August" Sunday School Year.

Their Data Base Program didn't have a "FEATURE" to allow selected items
to be printed out, and I had learned enough that I was of help back in
1993 while I still used a C=64 at home, but played with a Compatible PC
at work.

It was in 1997 that they got the Ink-Jet Printer and luckily I had the
same model Ink-Jet printer at home so I could scratch my head over how
to Modify my Program.

Here is what the Routine I figured out to sort out the info Read from
the Text File that was made from the Data Base, to be printed on three
labels at a time on the Avery Label paper looked like:

FOR B = 0 TO 2
FOR A = 0 TO 4
NEXT
NEXT
FOR A = 0 TO 4
FOR B = 0 TO 2
PRINT A$(B,A),
NEXT
PRINT
NEXT

It's not Rocket Science but I was proud figuring out how to do it.
My only problem with being proud of myself is that everytime I pat
myself on the back I hurt my wrist, elbow and shoulder.

... Have you checked your smoke detector batteries, LATELY?!
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