-=> Ed Vance wrote to mark lewis <=-   
      
    EV> 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:   
    EV> -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...   
      
    EV> Howdy! Mark,   
      
    EV> When I wrote "Script Kiddies" I was thinking of someone who just began   
    EV> learning how to write Programs.   
      
    EV> Not someone Shucking and Jiving portions of other Programs to make   
    EV> their own.   
      
    EV> Back in My Commodore Basic Daze I learned how to use the Print #   
    EV> Command and I would add a modification to a lot of Basic Programs that   
    EV> had a screen output, where I could select "S" for displaying on the   
    EV> Screen which sent the Output to Print #3, or selecting "P" would send   
    EV> it to the Printer by way of Print #4 .   
    EV> 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 ;)   
      
    EV> My Greatest accomplishment (I Think) was when I modified a QBasic   
    EV> Program that I made for the PC at my Church, with a Routine that   
    EV> printed Three Names across one line on each of the first three labels   
    EV> on Avery Label paper, and then the info for the 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th   
    EV> lines for those labels, because the Church couldn't use the Tractor   
    EV> Feed Label paper that was used with their Dot-Matrix printer for that   
    EV> job after someone gave them a Ink-Jet printer for their office.   
      
    EV> Originally my little Program just took a few entries from a Data Base   
    EV> file to make a temporary Text File.   
      
    EV> Then the Text File was Read by the Program to have a Dot-Matrix printer   
    EV> print Labels to be placed on attendance cards for each person who went   
    EV> to Sunday School, instead of some folks having to write the Name and   
    EV> Address info by hand on the card(s) that were used during the 12 month   
    EV> "September to August" Sunday School Year.   
      
    EV> Their Data Base Program didn't have a "FEATURE" to allow selected items   
    EV> to be printed out, and I had learned enough that I was of help back in   
    EV> 1993 while I still used a C=64 at home, but played with a Compatible PC   
    EV> at work.   
      
    EV> It was in 1997 that they got the Ink-Jet Printer and luckily I had the   
    EV> same model Ink-Jet printer at home so I could scratch my head over how   
    EV> to Modify my Program.   
      
    EV> Here is what the Routine I figured out to sort out the info Read from   
    EV> the Text File that was made from the Data Base, to be printed on three   
    EV> labels at a time on the Avery Label paper looked like:   
      
    EV> FOR B = 0 TO 2   
    EV> FOR A = 0 TO 4   
    EV> NEXT   
    EV> NEXT   
    EV> FOR A = 0 TO 4   
    EV> FOR B = 0 TO 2   
    EV> PRINT A$(B,A),   
    EV> NEXT   
    EV> PRINT   
    EV> NEXT   
      
    EV> It's not Rocket Science but I was proud figuring out how to do it.   
    EV> My only problem with being proud of myself is that everytime I pat   
    EV> myself on the back I hurt my wrist, elbow and shoulder.   
      
    EV> ... Have you checked your smoke detector batteries, LATELY?!   
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