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Posted by italianstallion on Thu Oct 23 16:33:23 2014, in response to Re: Anybody else here remember Jean Shepherd?, posted by FYBklyn1959 on Thu Oct 23 10:41:41 2014. I right-clicked it and opened it. |
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Posted by italianstallion on Thu Oct 23 16:33:51 2014, in response to Anybody else here remember Jean Shepherd?, posted by Express Rider on Thu Oct 23 03:32:13 2014. Wonderful humorist. |
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Posted by Fisk Ave Jim on Thu Oct 23 17:54:09 2014, in response to Anybody else here remember Jean Shepherd?, posted by Express Rider on Thu Oct 23 03:32:13 2014. I remember Jean Shepard well. I used to listen to show every night with my little Sears transistor radio under my pillow so my parents could hear it (school the next day).Sadly before he died, Jean turned on radio, hated what it degenerated to, corperate entities that was more concerned with the bottom line rather than quality broadcasting. Swore that he would never appear on radio again. He kept his word. |
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Posted by Express Rider on Thu Oct 23 19:14:00 2014, in response to Re: Anybody else here remember Jean Shepherd?, posted by TransitChuckG on Thu Oct 23 11:44:38 2014. and Gasser.... |
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Posted by TransitChuckG on Thu Oct 23 19:59:14 2014, in response to Re: Anybody else here remember Jean Shepherd?, posted by Express Rider on Thu Oct 23 19:14:00 2014. "I'm this kid, see".....One bit he did was,, "Hey ,gang, run over to your light switch and start flicking it on and off,then run to the window, look out and see who else is doing it". Then that laugh of his...... |
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Posted by Terrapin Station on Thu Oct 23 20:12:53 2014, in response to Re: Anybody else here remember Jean Shepherd?, posted by italianstallion on Thu Oct 23 16:32:54 2014. Or you can do what I said to do. |
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Posted by pd11604 on Thu Oct 23 22:18:27 2014, in response to Re: Anybody else here remember Jean Shepherd?, posted by Fisk Ave Jim on Thu Oct 23 17:54:09 2014. Excelsior you fathead |
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Posted by pd11604 on Thu Oct 23 22:23:45 2014, in response to Anybody else here remember Jean Shepherd?, posted by Express Rider on Thu Oct 23 03:32:13 2014. I sure do...Remember he used to tell people to go around and say "Flick Lives"? Well, I went to a Catholic high school and someone wrote Flick Lives on a locker door. The L and I were printed close to gether and it looked more like "FU*K Lives" than FLICK Lives. The whole floor got detention for a week since nobody would admit to the deed! |
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Posted by Express Rider on Fri Oct 24 03:13:51 2014, in response to Re: Anybody else here remember Jean Shepherd?, posted by Olog-hai on Thu Oct 23 03:39:37 2014. On my notebook, I have Internet Explorer. Came with it, already installed.I don't know how to, or if I can install another browser. I'm also not sure how much memory I have. I'm not at the nuts and bolts level of computer knowledge (yet). I have a Toshiba NB 505 notebook - got it January 2011, I don't know how long it's been on the market. I took it out, read the simple "get started" instructions and have been using it ever since. I did go over to the public library and use their PC's - they've got Mozilla Firefox. It's a county wide system (Suffolk, NY), so it's apps are probably quite extensive, and their operating system must be at the same level corporations use. Anyway, on their system, I tried what Terrapin Station suggested, dragging the tiny little square up to the URL address line, and it worked. The image came right up, and apparently remained in your post, since I cliced to other posts and then returned tot your earlier one, and the inage was still there. |
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Posted by SelkirkTMO on Fri Oct 24 03:30:42 2014, in response to IMDB issue, posted by Express Rider on Fri Oct 24 03:13:51 2014. Once the cache gets loaded with the image, it will remain there. Until you clear the cache. Issue though is that the sites want a direct visit to display the image, if you link to it without visiting the site (and get a COOKIE from it) then you're an unwelcome bandwidth stealer to the admins who write the code for those pages because they didn't get paid for the ad or malware their advertisers provided.That's how it works. IE is dumb as a box of bowing balls, and just as unsafe. Firefox is only slightly better, as is Gooble Chrome. Check out Midori, an up and coming SAFE browser ... we recommend it and it's in the next upcoming version of KNOS. Pale Moon browser is also something to look into if you like the whole Firefox look and feel. |
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Posted by B68 slow poke on Fri Oct 24 03:54:29 2014, in response to Re: Anybody else here remember Jean Shepherd?, posted by pd11604 on Thu Oct 23 22:23:45 2014. I bought the book last week.
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Posted by Express Rider on Fri Oct 24 03:59:25 2014, in response to Re: IMDB issue, posted by SelkirkTMO on Fri Oct 24 03:30:42 2014. re: "or malware their advertisers provided." advertisers provided?I thought that maleware, was a purposely intrusive program whose function is to screw up or slow down your PC, either just to be schmucky, like a virus, or it infects / slows down your PCr in order to istall intrusive, hacking programs of its own that your PC will infect other PC's with. Also how versatile are some of the new browsers you mentioned, in their ability to access any kind of attachments or links that may use different formats or apps (don't know more precise words for these) to make the attachment or link accessible. I ask, because I was at the library's PC doing an on-line application. One of the tests I just couldn't access. It gave a help number. I called it, we tried a bunch of things that didn't work to access it. I told him the library's browser was Firefox, he said it may be accessible only by Internet Explorer. That's exactly what the problem was. I went home, brought up the on-line test site, on my notebook, with IE, and was able to access the attachment. Also, as a user, I don't see what the difference is between IE and Firefox, to me they both pretty much are doing the same thing. I asked the computer tech. at the library about the difference. All he told me was that Firefox was more powerful and faster. |
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Posted by Express Rider on Fri Oct 24 04:01:49 2014, in response to Re: Anybody else here remember Jean Shepherd?, posted by pd11604 on Thu Oct 23 22:23:45 2014. Ah, old Shep would have loved a story like that! |
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Posted by Express Rider on Fri Oct 24 04:07:58 2014, in response to Re: Anybody else here remember Jean Shepherd?, posted by B68 slow poke on Fri Oct 24 03:54:29 2014. Wow! A biography and/or an examination of his work? Cool!The front cover picture was sold back in the day as a large poster maybe 3 & 1/2' by 2&1/2' (yes, Nigel that's feet not inches!). Personality posters they were called. I had that poster up on the wall of my rrom freshman year, fall '68; along with a similarly large poster of Cream. |
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Posted by Nilet on Fri Oct 24 04:15:05 2014, in response to Re: IMDB issue, posted by Express Rider on Fri Oct 24 03:59:25 2014. I thought that maleware, was a purposely intrusive program whose function is to screw up or slow down your PC, either just to be schmucky, like a virus, or it infects / slows down your PCr in order to istall intrusive, hacking programs of its own that your PC will infect other PC's with.That's pretty much what malware is, but websites can exploit glitches in your operating system or browser or any related software to install malware on your PC without you even knowing it. And they can exploit innocent websites by purchasing ad space on those sites to run their malicious code— when you visit a website, the ads come off a remote server, so they're basically like mini-websites of their own. The owner of the site you visit has no knowledge or control over what ads are displayed, so a Russian hacker can infect your PC through an ad on the New York Times website. |
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Posted by SelkirkTMO on Fri Oct 24 04:22:51 2014, in response to Re: IMDB issue, posted by Nilet on Fri Oct 24 04:15:05 2014. Thanks, bro ... saved me a crapload of typing. THANKS! :) |
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Posted by SelkirkTMO on Fri Oct 24 04:25:14 2014, in response to Re: IMDB issue, posted by Express Rider on Fri Oct 24 03:59:25 2014. Quite possible that both machines got infected. LEGITIMATE attachments will work. Malware will PRETEND not to work, but hit the mark anyway. Windows users are so used to things going sideways on them that they never give a second thought to something that they click on that doesn't work. In most cases, yeah it did, but not what you expected it to do. :(That'why we built KNOS back in 2007. |
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Posted by terRAPIN station on Fri Oct 24 08:37:36 2014, in response to IMDB issue, posted by Express Rider on Fri Oct 24 03:13:51 2014. Anyway, on their system, I tried what Terrapin Station suggested, dragging the tiny little square up to the URL address line, and it worked.Of course it worked! I don't post lies here and I am happy to help out nice people here and correct the incorrect or overly complicated solutions provided by other people. |
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Posted by Nilet on Fri Oct 24 08:40:21 2014, in response to Re: IMDB issue, posted by terRAPIN station on Fri Oct 24 08:37:36 2014. ... correct the incorrect or overly complicated solutions provided by other people.Which ones? Provided by who? |
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Posted by SelkirkTMO on Fri Oct 24 13:24:45 2014, in response to Re: IMDB issue, posted by Nilet on Fri Oct 24 08:40:21 2014. Aw, let the boy have his cookie. I didn't know that trick either, and it works on KNOS too. |
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Posted by pd11604 on Fri Oct 24 19:17:21 2014, in response to Re: Anybody else here remember Jean Shepherd?, posted by Express Rider on Fri Oct 24 04:01:49 2014. Jerry Seinfeld has said that Shep formed his comedic sensibility—"I learned how to do comedy from Jean Shepherd." (Wikipedia Article) Further evidence of that statement is that the first name of Seinfeld's third child is Shepherd. |
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Posted by Express Rider on Sat Oct 25 00:43:25 2014, in response to Re: Anybody else here remember Jean Shepherd?, posted by pd11604 on Fri Oct 24 19:17:21 2014. He was so different, so unique, And yeah, he influenced people, didn't know about Seinfeld though but that's a cool story.One of Steely Dan (Becker or Fagen, don't remember) was/is a fan of his. And Garrison Keiler's monoglogue stories on Prarie Home Companion, though certainly "gentler" owe a heck of a lot to Shepherds style and content. |
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Posted by SelkirkTMO on Sat Oct 25 00:47:59 2014, in response to Re: Anybody else here remember Jean Shepherd?, posted by Express Rider on Sat Oct 25 00:43:25 2014. A LOT of creative people loved him. I'm just sorry I never listened when he was doing his thing, too busy with my own radio shows. But I *have* enjoyed some of his books and short stories ... |
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Posted by Express Rider on Sat Oct 25 00:53:06 2014, in response to Re: Anybody else here remember Jean Shepherd?, posted by SelkirkTMO on Sat Oct 25 00:47:59 2014. Jean Shepherd's stories in Playboy were the reason my parents finally allowed me to buy that magazine when I was 15 or 16, as long as there was a story by Shep in it.So yes, I did buy it to read the article! (and of course that wasn't all |
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Posted by Express Rider on Sat Oct 25 01:01:40 2014, in response to Re: IMDB issue, posted by Nilet on Fri Oct 24 04:15:05 2014. Thanks for your explanation! :) |
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Posted by SelkirkTMO on Sat Oct 25 01:02:15 2014, in response to Re: Anybody else here remember Jean Shepherd?, posted by Express Rider on Sat Oct 25 00:53:06 2014. Heh. Wow ... I usually had to BORROW my copies. :)And no ... no soap on that. Although I DID buy the copy that had the story of John Draper (a/k/a Captain Crunch of blue box fame). Look the name up if you don't recognize it, one of Apple's original heroes and is in bad shape and needs help these days. |
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Posted by Express Rider on Sat Oct 25 01:03:54 2014, in response to Re: IMDB issue, posted by terRAPIN station on Fri Oct 24 08:37:36 2014. Again thanks for the tip! :) |
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Posted by Express Rider on Sat Oct 25 01:06:23 2014, in response to Re: Anybody else here remember Jean Shepherd?, posted by SelkirkTMO on Sat Oct 25 01:02:15 2014. yeah, I will, definately. |
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Posted by SelkirkTMO on Sat Oct 25 01:12:21 2014, in response to Re: Anybody else here remember Jean Shepherd?, posted by Express Rider on Sat Oct 25 01:06:23 2014. John's a really interesting guy. Lost contact with him back in the late 70's because well ... I already got visited by FBI on some political matters and last thing I wanted was to have them have to lease more floor space for all those files from when I was covering Nixon. :) |
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Posted by SelkirkTMO on Sat Oct 25 01:24:19 2014, in response to Re: Anybody else here remember Jean Shepherd?, posted by SelkirkTMO on Sat Oct 25 01:12:21 2014. For anyone ELSE who would like to help John out, here's a fundraising site which we encourage you to contribute to as well ...https://www.qikfunder.com/crowdfund/help-john-draper-captain-crunch |
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John Draper Link |
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Posted by Express Rider on Sat Oct 25 02:08:46 2014, in response to Re: Anybody else here remember Jean Shepherd?, posted by SelkirkTMO on Sat Oct 25 01:24:19 2014. Thank for the link Selkirk. The site gave me the info. as to who John is. Maybe there's another site/wiki article where I can learn some more?Now for the stupid part. When you first wrote that John Draper was Captain Crunch, I had no idea who he was. I thought you meant he was the guy who did voiceovers for that cereal commercial as the Captain. |
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Posted by SelkirkTMO on Sat Oct 25 02:14:40 2014, in response to John Draper Link, posted by Express Rider on Sat Oct 25 02:08:46 2014. Just look up "Captain crunch" ... his first public interview turned up in Playboy. For all us geeks, he's right up there with Woz and Linus as visionaries. :)(we have our own patron saints for coding and electronics and whatnot) Greta story to follow if you didn't know. John was as legendary as another John I knew ... McAfee. Heh. We were all more interested in the tech than the possible repercussions - before security became an issue, we just tried shit and built shit and that gave birth to that whole tubes and dump trucks thing that you're using now. :) |
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Posted by 3-9 on Sat Oct 25 03:00:13 2014, in response to Re: John Draper Link, posted by SelkirkTMO on Sat Oct 25 02:14:40 2014. John Draper wouldn't be the Draper of Draper Pascal fame, would he? I remember that as an alternative to using the VAXes and the CYBER mainframe at NYU. Always preferred the latter 2 though - the games were more fun. :-)That's amazing, if he really routed a phone call around the world. :-) |
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Posted by SelkirkTMO on Sat Oct 25 03:06:18 2014, in response to Re: John Draper Link, posted by 3-9 on Sat Oct 25 03:00:13 2014. Yeah, one and the same. Told you if you looked around, this guy deserves being taken care of. But yeah, to the morons, he's just a "lib" in case anyone wonders why bingbong and I are so intolerant of morons. Him, and others like him (including us) changed the world so the likes of Drudge, Beck and FOX News could do their Goebbels thing with what WE built. :( |
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Posted by SelkirkTMO on Sat Oct 25 03:07:07 2014, in response to Re: John Draper Link, posted by SelkirkTMO on Sat Oct 25 03:06:18 2014. And for the morons, COLLECTIVELY built. |
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Posted by Nilet on Sat Oct 25 18:14:44 2014, in response to Re: IMDB issue, posted by SelkirkTMO on Fri Oct 24 13:24:45 2014. Safari doesn't like that, so for me it's "open image in a new window." |
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Posted by pd11604 on Sat Oct 25 20:11:33 2014, in response to John Draper Link, posted by Express Rider on Sat Oct 25 02:08:46 2014. an excellent book on the whole phone phreaking story is calledExploding the Phone - by Phil Lapsley. The author tells the story of phone phreaking from the begging including information on Captain Crunch, Joe "Joy Bubbles" Engressia, and others. Phone Phreaks were the original 'hackers" |
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Posted by pd11604 on Sat Oct 25 20:12:09 2014, in response to John Draper Link, posted by Express Rider on Sat Oct 25 02:08:46 2014. beginning |
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Posted by SelkirkTMO on Sat Oct 25 20:29:37 2014, in response to Re: IMDB issue, posted by Nilet on Sat Oct 25 18:14:44 2014. I won't blaspheme, but Safari is table scraps from the "Epiphany" browser, tossed into a blender with Konquerer. Check out when those last were maintained. I'd use anything else, and frankly do. I don't sweat the userland stuff ... anything from springboard upward is somebody else's worry. :) |
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Posted by SelkirkTMO on Sat Oct 25 20:34:52 2014, in response to Re: John Draper Link, posted by pd11604 on Sat Oct 25 20:11:33 2014. And many of them ended up working for @stake and telephone companies. :) |
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Posted by pd11604 on Sat Oct 25 20:35:56 2014, in response to Re: John Draper Link, posted by SelkirkTMO on Sat Oct 25 20:34:52 2014. yep |
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Posted by SelkirkTMO on Sat Oct 25 20:38:25 2014, in response to Re: John Draper Link, posted by pd11604 on Sat Oct 25 20:35:56 2014. A few of the original group went to Boston. One of them is Home Depot's security guy who kept warning them about intrusions and got MBA'd to death over it until everything blew. He's in charge now. :) |
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Posted by Nilet on Sat Oct 25 22:08:10 2014, in response to Re: IMDB issue, posted by SelkirkTMO on Sat Oct 25 20:29:37 2014. And my version of Safari is absurdly out of date anyway since Apple cuts off support after six months. |
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Posted by SelkirkTMO on Sat Oct 25 22:20:39 2014, in response to Re: IMDB issue, posted by Nilet on Sat Oct 25 22:08:10 2014. But it still needs work today. :) |
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Re: Anybody else here remember Jean Shepherd? |
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Posted by pd11604 on Sun Oct 26 02:20:30 2014, in response to Re: Anybody else here remember Jean Shepherd?, posted by SelkirkTMO on Sat Oct 25 01:24:19 2014. Thanks for posting this Kevin. I just sent him something |
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Posted by SelkirkTMO on Sun Oct 26 02:25:47 2014, in response to Re: Anybody else here remember Jean Shepherd?, posted by pd11604 on Sun Oct 26 02:20:30 2014. THANKS for that! John's a really great guy and I'm a little dismayed that the industry both of us have spent the better part of our lives in hasn't done him better than this. That's why I posted that.THANKS! :) |
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Posted by pd11604 on Sun Oct 26 03:58:07 2014, in response to Re: Anybody else here remember Jean Shepherd?, posted by SelkirkTMO on Sun Oct 26 02:25:47 2014. Back in the day I enjoyed reading TAP magazine and 2600. Somewhere along the line I was distracted away, but I didn't forget about the old days. Glad I'm able to help him just a little bit now - Paul |
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Posted by Express Rider on Sun Oct 26 04:08:29 2014, in response to Re: Anybody else here remember Jean Shepherd?, posted by TransitChuckG on Thu Oct 23 19:59:14 2014. Yep. remember the opening line welll.Never heard him do the light switch routine, but it certainly sounds like him! |
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Posted by Jeff Rosen on Sun Oct 26 12:04:03 2014, in response to Re: IMDB issue, posted by SelkirkTMO on Fri Oct 24 03:30:42 2014. I've been using IE since 2001 and never had any problems with it. I do have other browsers on my computer and only use them if a certain app or extension doesn't work with IE. |
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Posted by SelkirkTMO on Sun Oct 26 13:13:20 2014, in response to Re: Anybody else here remember Jean Shepherd?, posted by pd11604 on Sun Oct 26 03:58:07 2014. Yeah, the really good stuff happened on the alt.news.phreak and alt.news.2600 newsgroups. And once again, THANKS! |
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