Interesting - I thought that ALL PowerBooks use the keyboard as a part of the cooling system.
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The black covering on the pismo keyboard that melts when it get…
Computers back then were designed for office use and not home use correct (TV interference wasn't a major concern).
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Not true, most MICRO-Computers were desig…
I fixed the problem of the CRT not outputting Edge to Edge image, there is a small know on the back.
WackyMacs: I won't solder [incorrectly ] this machine this is so far my mos…
Hmm, sounds like an interesting solution. However, as I said above, we have had virtually no spam-bot registrations since adding the anti-spam questions to the registration form, t…
68kMLAPowerPCby Mike RichardsonTue, 7 Jul 2009 - 23:07
I started at that exact same screen for 15 years
yes there should be a knob on it somewhere to make it black again, altho it might be inside, if memory serves me correct there wer…
That keyboard also lacked an escape key, control key, numeric keypad (though you could buy an external one)...it was truly a "keyboard for the rest of us"!!!
68kMLATroubleshootingby Scott BaretTue, 7 Jul 2009 - 22:56
Hmm, sounds like an interesting solution. However, as I said above, we have had virtually no spam-bot registrations since adding the anti-spam questions to the registration form, t…
That suggestion you have about the input form has merit. In fact, you don't even need to put a value in it. Just leave it blank by default, and it if gets filled in, then abort the…
68kMLAPowerPCby Mike RichardsonTue, 7 Jul 2009 - 22:26
That suggestion you have about the input form has merit. In fact, you don't even need to put a value in it. Just leave it blank by default, and it if gets filled in, then abort the…
Most phpBB bots are pretty basic. Even if you have a bot that can beat the CAPTCHA, the bot will be confused if you make a simple modification to the sign up form.
On the actual s…
68kMLAPowerPCby Mike RichardsonTue, 7 Jul 2009 - 22:10
Does the forum registration here not employ use of a CAPTCHA?
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It does. But there are two types of forum spam – automated and human. The CAPTCHA should stop a…
It does, but the captcha can be beaten using crafty image manipulation techniques and the use of OCR. The achilles' heel of captcha is that it must be possible to be read by humans…
phpbb has really loose security and a captcha system a blind mand could break without a keyboard
i am a member of a phpbb forum for a game engine, it got so bad over there i had s…
One Sunny morning in Hopewell NJ, Me an my dad went out to breakfast. As we were driving, we took the wrong road... As we drove along that [wrong] road we noticed it was yard sale …
Congratulations ray11 on being our 1000th member
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I reported his one and only post as spam. So, no congratulations from this user. xx(
It's too bad most of those members never post. One has to wonder why they register in the first place...
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I wonder if maybe they are spam bot registrations, b…
68kMLAPowerPCby Mike RichardsonTue, 7 Jul 2009 - 19:21