Polesse #11 29 сентября 1999

Rotten Bazaar - On changes in the shell.

                         ROTS BAZAAR


(C) KVAZAR



   Pryvitannya pavazhanyya chytachy. Znou is Vami nastupny 
numar geta gazetki ;-)... If you have not noticed, I hasten to 
please you, that the envelope in our publication has undergone 
significant changes or rather changed at all. For this, we 
express our sincere appreciation to the SPECTRE / OB from 
Minsk. Yes, will not rust rim of your glasses, Andrew, like all 
OB'shnikov! 

   Describe the differences between the new listalovki here I 
am not going there built-in HELP, I note only that to the great 
joy UnBELIVER'a and other nasty bug with the mouse and joystick 
disappeared, and for those who can not read our paper before, 
to announce that loading must be kept down "CAPS SHIFT" in all 
ten editions. Long live the new enclosure! Hip, hip, hooray! 
:-) 

   Radical changes were also touched upon the inner content of 
the newspaper. Gone are some headings "the authors say," 
"Advertising", "Schedule ACS, "" Assembly language for 
beginners. "The last was forced to close because of poor 
presentation, moreover, that such information can be found in 
many electronic editions. But a new section "Rotten Bazaar, in 
which I will Bazaar with our readers about the various pressing 
issues ... 

   We are often criticized for being too "serious" and "lack
humorous material. "As regards the first, here's all right. Our 
newspaper is a news and entertainment, with focus on serious 
information, and entertainment - they are so casually. But on 
the second point, that no matter who said humor us enough, 
maybe too much. And today's edition is no exception from a good 
tradition. 

   By the way, if not frightening Gomel spektrumistov incipient
departure of our newspaper from a purely urban issues and 
questions. For coverage of the network beyond the Fighting 
Sheet. " This does not mean that we will pay less attention to 
their own "domestic" issues, just makes the situation more and 
more to deal with the scene. After all, until, unfortunately, 
our newspaper much bolsheh degree on demand outside the city 
than in very Gomel. And this fact can not disappoint ...



   Today, I'd like to share with you a very interesting
information. The fact that all these facts are so egregious,
I just can not gloss over them ...

   Fraudsters are always met at all times. Not spared a
phenomenon, and computers. Even on the Spectrum, especially in 
the initial during its evolution, there were people ready at 
the first opportunity to warm pocket expense of others. :-( 


   All, of course, remember the music editor of the "ASC SOUND 
MASTER" or simply "ASM". Has long been thought (and I thought 
so myself until recently) that its author is well-known Andrew 
Sendetsky from Dnepropetrovsk. Nobody, seemingly not 
embarrassed, clearly conspicuous "foreignness" as an interface 
editor, and the presence of some kind, it is unclear what is 
written by the operating system. " Imagine my surprise when I 
came upon a proprietary English version of "ASM", written by 
OCEAN in 1992. After comparing listings both programs, there 
could be no doubt of their identity. The most interesting thing 
that the logo OCEAN is in the body is absolutely All versions 
of this editor, apparently Andrew Sendetsky simply not noticed 
it or had forgotten to remove after the brazen write there own 
name. All anything, think big deal, many Hackers do so. But I 
wince more - as this same Andrew, nothing daunted, was able to 
shake for his plagiarism, the magazine spectrophone "almost $ 
200 :-((()))! 


   A similar situation occurred with the so-called 
'Novosibirsk' ELITE-3 '. An enterprising hacker - Vladimir 
Kladov managed get somewhere branded "ELITE-2, and after minor 
modifications, which were limited to the emergence of demo mode 
and install a new security release a new version is already 
under their copyright. How many able weld baggage on this fraud 
had remained a mystery. It is only known that his attempt to 
throw a "spectrophone" a huge sum failed miserably, the defense 
was quickly hacked and kraknutaya already the second time, Tver 
hackers "ELITE-3" went for a walk in the country.



   And here, dear readers, an example of the blatant and 
despicable fraud. In early 1997, a certain group of Kirov 
OVERFILE released a promotional video, which contained 
"significant" Information about supposedly issued by the group 
of the latest programs converted to the IBM PC: "DOOM", "MORTAL 
KOMBAT-2", "WARCRAFT" and a number of other, equally famous 
games. In the colorfully decorated brochure stated kordinaty 
group OVERFILE: city and a post office box (!) ought to send a 
certain amount, after which users promised floppy disk with 
these prog. Naturally, after sending money, the unfortunate 
user has did not get a PO Box with bribes smooth. Oddly enough, 
fallen into this trap a lot of famous people, including 
FIKUS-PIKUS from the Novosibirsk group FLASH. But STEP is not 
taken aback and immediately got to the core cheaters. In the 
end, the guys weld attendants, no less than fame Mednonogov ... 
So, dear users - Always be alert and stay away from these 
bastards ...