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At least gimme a Fry's index, although some people would consider that "points off".

Looked nothing like Nostromo. Look at real space stations, which are often white inside.

Um, Nostromo was WHITE inside. Bland yes, but white and well-lit. Several posters here seem to have forgotten that many of the interior living space (as opposed to garage/plumbing) rooms were painted a uniform beige.

Looked nothing like Nostromo. Look at real space stations, which are often white inside.

Um, Nostromo was WHITE inside. Bland yes, but white and well-lit. Several posters here seem to have forgotten that many of the interior living space (as opposed to garage/plumbing) rooms were painted a uniform beige.

Looked nothing like Nostromo. Look at real space stations, which are often white inside.

Um, Nostromo was WHITE inside. Bland yes, but white and well-lit. Several posters here seem to have forgotten that many of the interior living space (as opposed to garage/plumbing) rooms were painted a uniform beige.

I hadn't hear of Evolvotron -- here's yet another such program and its gallery. It's in C using libsdl.

I've written an extension of unittest that adds random unit testing in the style of Haskell's QuickCheck: pickcheck.

It's kind of funny- McCarthy didn't intend Lisp to keep the ultra-simple paren-based syntax, but to add an algol-ish syntax down the line. Mmmm, parse tree! :)

Also, in the case you anti-parensers don't actually have any experience programming (which is often the case), you can get pre-made packages for a number of Scheme and other Lisp implementations which allow you to use C- or Python-like syntax. There is one for KSM, , and python/haskell/C syntaxes for Scheme, among others.

From the article:

If you are running a server and do not want to waste money on buying a monitor that you will only use probably once a week then you will definitely see the value here. If it's coolness factor you're looking for, then by all means go ahead and install the 5-inch LCD. But if it's "value" that you're looking for, as the article suggests, there are cheaper ways of doing it.

Headless comes to mind, of course. Nearly all new server hardware supports keyboardless/displayless operation. Or you can do "nearly headless" -- do a serial console. Again, nearly all new server hardware supports running the BIOS/POST to a serial port, and Linux supports a serial console with no trouble at all.

Of course, if you're running a Windows server, then you'd better just pony up the $100-300 for a real monitor (or in a large multi-server environment, a big KVM switch) because you're going to be spending a lot of time sitting at the console fixing broken Microsoft crap.

And before you mod me down as a zealot, please know that this is based on my experience at a mid-size managed hosting facility. Our sysadmins are constantly babysitting the Windows boxen, so we have to dedicate expensive KVM ports to each one. Linux just runs and runs without ever having a problem that requires console access, so we go serial, and we hook them up with really inexpensive used terminal servers.

Man, this guy had better watch out... what if Fry's came up with the same idea? Of course, CA has a *REAL* anti-SLAPP law...

The SL-5500 is on display at Fry's Electronics (I saw it in Fountain Valley, CA).

If you buy one there, don't let them make you suffer the Final Indignity.

Yes, but this is Fry's Electronics we are talking about here. You may get Linux pre-installed on your system, but you also have to deal with scratched-up Taiwanese RAM, repackaged returned equipment, and salespeople who would just as soon file Linux under "Games". Support your local PC company instead.

You might check out idel too. It was designed with security in mind from the beginning, and to be easy to compile instead of interpret (so it does have a separation of code and data). OTOH it's not under active development and too underfeatured to be very useful as is -- no C compiler, for example.

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