08-28-14 19:33 mark lewis wrote to Ed Vance about Flash Player   
      
    ml> @MSGID: <54005883.13199.windowsa@capcity2.synchro.net>   
    ml>  On Thu, 28 Aug 2014, Ed Vance wrote to mark lewis:   
   -snip-   
    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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