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I'm really a bigger fan of 1983-1985. 86-89 were rough years for me, all things considered, and I liked the music less and less every year... That whole dirty hippy thing was starting to catch on as New Wave and Punk moved out... it finally morphed into Grunge, but that was the early to mid 90s... which were also awesome times for me.
Well, new wave was awesome... There are some modern artists that capture a very 80s new wave sound on some of their tracks.
1987 happens to be the year that I and one of my friends invented the digital music player during some idle time in 11th grade.
We had been playing around with recording little sound clips and playing them on the computers of that era. I owned a Commodore 64, whose volume control could be used as a 4-bit DAC, and an Amiga 1000, which had four 8-bit DACs. We were sketching a bunch of different ideas and came up with a portable music player consisting of little more than a DAC and a headphone amplifier. The only limitation we saw was storage density. We envisioned music being distributed on ROM cartridges. I'll be the record company pigopolists would have loved that.
Totally the wrong room for music lol but I'm super in love with this sound: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gg2pS9KN28U
Mon Jun 17 2019 06:48:38 MST from IGnatius T Foobar1987 happens to be the year that I and one of my friends invented the digital music player during some idle time in 11th grade.
We had been playing around with recording little sound clips and playing them on the computers of that era. I owned a Commodore 64, whose volume control could be used as a 4-bit DAC, and an Amiga 1000, which had four 8-bit DACs. We were sketching a bunch of different ideas and came up with a portable music player consisting of little more than a DAC and a headphone amplifier. The only limitation we saw was storage density. We envisioned music being distributed on ROM cartridges. I'll be the record company pigopolists would have loved that.
That is pretty cool. But I bet a lot of people were coming up with these kind of ideas - and storage was the limitation for everyone at the time. I know when I heard the Purple Haze demo - I knew it WOULD happen - but I also knew that the demo took up an entire 800k floppy - and that was just a little loop with a lot of noise and distortion. But you could see what the future was going to bring.
I invented it first and I want $$$$millions in royalties from teh Apple!!!!!!1
Apple has a long list of people wanting to sue them for stealing ideas.
Like the Mac, which they stole from Xerox.
But it just didn't seem right for Xerox to sue someone for copying.
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Bwahaha!
Xerox *is* who I was thinking of when I posted this, though. ;)
Also.. the company that made radios that look just like Macs.
I had the pleasure of spending some time working with a Xerox STAR system in the early 1980's. It had a level of sophistication in the UI that would take years for Apple to match, combined with networking that was so transparent, it made the network f eel like one big computer.
Many people in IT know that Apple stole most of their Mac ideas from Xerox, but only the most hardcore (and at this point, oldest) network nerds know that Novell stole most of the design for their network stack from Xerox as well. IPX/SPX was based on XNS.
I still can't believe that in 2019 Windows doesn't network well. XP was probably the closest they ever got to a reliable home networking solution without paying for an enterprise solution. Half the time I can't get my two computers in the same room on the same wifi to see each other. It's maddening and makes me want to buy a network switch and a bunch of cat-6 cable and load linux onto my old laptop to control the network.
If I wanted to learn white hat hacking, where should I start?
Mon Dec 16 2019 01:43:37 MST from TheDaveIf I wanted to learn white hat hacking, where should I start?
This one is good:
https://www.udemy.com/course/penetration-testing/
Mon Dec 23 2019 13:30:50 MST from ParanoidDelusions
Mon Dec 16 2019 01:43:37 MST from TheDaveIf I wanted to learn white hat hacking, where should I start?
This one is good:
https://www.udemy.com/course/penetration-testing/
And Kali is what you want to learn on.
Mon Dec 23 2019 13:31:43 MST from ParanoidDelusionsMon Dec 23 2019 13:30:50 MST from ParanoidDelusionsMon Dec 16 2019 01:43:37 MST from TheDaveIf I wanted to learn white hat hacking, where should I start?
This one is good:
https://www.udemy.com/course/penetration-testing/And Kali is what you want to learn on.
What's Kali?
Wed Jan 01 2020 20:12:58 MST from TheDave
Mon Dec 23 2019 13:31:43 MST from ParanoidDelusionsMon Dec 23 2019 13:30:50 MST from ParanoidDelusionsMon Dec 16 2019 01:43:37 MST from TheDaveIf I wanted to learn white hat hacking, where should I start?
This one is good:
https://www.udemy.com/course/penetration-testing/And Kali is what you want to learn on.
What's Kali?
Kali is a Linux distribution geared toward penetration testing.
Wed Jan 08 2020 17:27:35 MST from ParanoidDelusions
Wed Jan 01 2020 20:12:58 MST from TheDave
Mon Dec 23 2019 13:31:43 MST from ParanoidDelusionsMon Dec 23 2019 13:30:50 MST from ParanoidDelusionsMon Dec 16 2019 01:43:37 MST from TheDaveIf I wanted to learn white hat hacking, where should I start?
This one is good:
https://www.udemy.com/course/penetration-testing/And Kali is what you want to learn on.
What's Kali?
Kali is a Linux distribution geared toward penetration testing.
Awesome. I'll switch my old gaming laptop over as soon as I've transferred all the old data off it.