Hi Bob.

18-Mar-04 16:13:06, Bob Lawrence wrote to Niels Petersen

 BL>  It seems to me that the same philosophy Gates used in his BASIC has
 BL> spread right through everything Microsoft does. He adopted the Big
 BL> Brother approach to BASIC, where you were only allowed to do certain
 BL> things, and if you are stupid enough (or desperate enough) to
 BL> write in BASIC, you spend half your time trying to work out how to get
 BL> around things!

yeah, C is much better but I've not seen any interpreters :)
I've seen a pascal interpreter though (mac pascal - barf!) .

 BL>  I've finally worked out how to LOCK my small partition so I can wipe
 BL> it with a direct write and strangely, it's really fast! What I have to
 BL> do, is write the lock program in DOS using BP7 Pascal and assembler,
 BL> and run it in Win98 in a DOS window. I can't use the CRT unit, because
 BL> that barfs in 32-bit.

!

CRT doesn't like processors faster than about 200 MHZ either.
hmm. BP7 is a 16-bit compiler.

 BL> I can't write it in Win31 because the Win31 API
 BL> doesn't recognise the LOCK assembler (it seems to be specific to
 BL> 32-bit),

you mean windows console, right? (looks like a dos window)

 BL> and I can't write it in Win98 because Win98 won't let me make
 BL> the int26h calls. I can't use a DOS7 batch file becasue LOCK is owned
 BL> by the window that calls it.

??? can't run it in the same dos window as the app.

 BL>  It's fucking crazy!

 BL> But it works really well (so long as I don't
 BL> expect to see anything on the screen). It beats the hell out of me. To
 BL> wipe the 32Mb drive takes 4 seconds in DOS6 native, but it seems to do
 BL> it in 2 secodns in Win98...

32-bit vs 16 bit disk accesses.

 BL> except that it takes 6 seconds to LOCK and UNLOCK the drive.

D'oh!

 BL>  Thank you, Bill Gates. May the bluebird of ugly fly up your fat
 BL> arse.

NP>> Sitting your windows machines behind a Linux server seems to
NP>> block intruders.

 BL>  Yair... but how do you do that? You can run Linux out of Windows,
 BL> but how do you run Windows out of Linux?

vmware or wine...

but to answer your first question, use a linux pc as a firewall.


  [ISP] -------- [modem etc]  ---- [linux pc] --lan--  [windows pc]

If the modem connects to the PC via ethernet you need two ethernet adaptors
on the linux machine.

 -=> Bye <=-

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