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• [ 2.3.36 ] - Released 04-Jan-00 14:00 (patch [bz2]) (source [bz2])

  Notes: I'm not dead, just slow.

The fact it's out now doesn't mean it's any less late.
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"'Is not a quine' is not a quine" is a quine.

Yes, I KNOW they're NOPs on big-endian, but they actually DO stuff on little-endian... the problem is that a lot of code out there assumes the endianness of the machine, so rather than storing it in network byte order it stores in host byte order. The reason I said to properly-encapsulate all data in ntohl and htonl is so that the same code would work on both types of platform, which is, of course, the whole POINT.
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"'Is not a quine' is not a quine" is a quine.

Why do people keep on saying this? It's untrue. In Quake, the only difference between the various models and skins is, well, the model and skin. The female characters aren't any faster or more agile, don't have any difference in the amount of armor, aren't any harder to hit (the collission bounding box is the SAME FOR EVERYONE)... granted, they're a little harder to see because the MODEL is slightly smaller, but as far as gameplay goes, there's *NO DIFFERENCE*.
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"'Is not a quine' is not a quine" is a quine.

Not quite the same userbase. I know several people who still have old 68k-based macs which they try to keep using, mostly because they don't want to go to x86 but they don't want to spend too much money on a modern Mac (or because of other circumstances, like my housemate who doesn't want to upgrade from his old and dying '040-based Performa because after this semester he's going to have to sell everything since he's going on an outreach program where he needs to be very mobile).
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"'Is not a quine' is not a quine" is a quine.

I never said it was a good justification. :) After all, in situations like that, you usually aren't using pointers anyway...

Unfortunately, because of x86's influence, a lot of other vendors have bastardized their architectures. For example, newer Alphas have both big- and little-endian modes, and apparently AlphaLinux runs in the little-endian mode simply for easy compatability with x86. IMO, they should do it in big-endian so that fun bugs show up causing them to need to properly ntohl() and htonl() all their data. It'd make for much more consistency with the porting efforts to REAL platforms, such as PPC and Sparc (that isn't to say that Alpha isn't a real platform, of course, but it can hardly be treated with respect when it's got a little-endian mode simply to pander to x86 apologists).

At least IA-64 is switchable endian, though (except in IA-32 mode, obviously), so at least there's some validation on that front. Hopefully the IA-64 Linux porting effort is doing the Right Thing and using the big-endian mode.
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"'Is not a quine' is not a quine" is a quine.

As long as all of your libraries are LGPLed (and most of them out there are), you're fine, and you only have to distribute modifications to the libraries you're using.
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"'Is not a quine' is not a quine" is a quine.

Imagine you don't want that to happen, so you go to the library, and do a search on homosexuality, and because of the word 'sex' in your search terms, SurfWatch automatically blocks your Google query.

This example is trite and hackneyed, but it seems that people like you, my AC friend, just don't get it and need to have this same argument drilled into your collective heads.
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"'Is not a quine' is not a quine" is a quine.

Of course, I'm busy with other things right now, but if someone like, say, andover.net were to offer me funding to setup a site like this... ;)
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"'Is not a quine' is not a quine" is a quine.

Of course, I'm busy with other things right now, but if someone like, say, andover.net were to offer me funding to setup a site like this... ;)
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"'Is not a quine' is not a quine" is a quine.

And, of course, being open source, people can submit patches to it, like the one I immediately got sent after posting this recipe, suggesting adding mirin and bonito flakes to the broth. :)
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"'Is not a quine' is not a quine" is a quine.

One package ramen noodles
One Steak-um philly steak
One egg, beaten
Green onions, finely chopped
Soy sauce

Bring 2 cups water to a boil. Add ramen noodles, stir occasionally for two and a half minutes. While noodles are cooking, cut philly steak into strips and fry in its own juices; drain fat. Pour egg into noodles and stir for 30 seconds, reduce heat, add steak and onions. Add soy sauce to taste (I usually use 2-3 tablespoons), remove from heat, and serve. Serves 1.

I've been thinking of starting up an open recipe archive which caters to the geek population (none of that "better homes and gardens"-type crap as you find on recipes.com and the like). Anyone interested?
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"'Is not a quine' is not a quine" is a quine.

Personally, I love Quaker Corn Bran. That's one hell of a kick-ass cereal, and most people don't know about it simply because they gloss over it while shopping. It's not as nutritionally-complete as Total, but IMO it's very geeky - how many cereals out there are also a topology experiment? (Get some and cut them in half if you want to understand what I mean.) It's also high in fiber. I could probably live on corn bran, peanuts, and vitamin pills for basic nutrition and high-sugar, caffeinated beverages for energy, maybe with an occasional sports bar.
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"'Is not a quine' is not a quine" is a quine.

Actually, the cereal you're thinking of was called "King Vitaman." I vaguely remember that being available when I was a kid, but I never had the pleasure(?) of trying it.
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"'Is not a quine' is not a quine" is a quine.

No hidden data. You can see my (very sparse) site for the engine at http://www.cs.nmsu.edu/~joshagam/Solace/ though. More screenshots, at least. :)
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"'Is not a quine' is not a quine" is a quine.

I personally don't think Propaganda's tiles are all that pleasant to look at. They're all the same damn swirly-theme-with-some-random-set-of-colors-in-som e-boring-pattern motif. I personally find my background pleasing to my odd tastes. I didn't say that others had to like it too. No accounting for taste, of course, but I just don't see what the big deal is about Propaganda's stuff that it has to get (likely extraordinary) funding from VA Linux, among other things. It's not something to get all worked up about.
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"'Is not a quine' is not a quine" is a quine.

Look, playing with GIMP and making their own tiles isn't exactly difficult. I whipped up the imagery on my fvwm2 setup without much effort. Why do we need to hype up and drool over a collection of images done by basically combining random plugins? How does it show creativity to use someone else's stuff for this purpose?
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"'Is not a quine' is not a quine" is a quine.

Oh, go fuck a diamond-encrusted spork.
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"'Is not a quine' is not a quine" is a quine.

Yeah, even in meditation, brain activity is quite high. In fact, while I'm meditating and clearing my conscious mind is when my subconscious seems to be the most active, coming up with cool shit...
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"'Is not a quine' is not a quine" is a quine.

Yeah, even in meditation, brain activity is quite high. In fact, while I'm meditating and clearing my conscious mind is when my subconscious seems to be the most active, coming up with cool shit...
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"'Is not a quine' is not a quine" is a quine.

In OpenGL, there's a few functions for copying the framebuffer from one place to another (such as glReadPixels() and glCopyPixels()). There's no guarantee that the framebuffer as displayed on the screen will be available in a screencapture, and the framebuffer is typically only available to the process which owns the OpenGL context (though, as usual, this is implementation-specific).
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"'Is not a quine' is not a quine" is a quine.

Not quite. It was a series of animated shorts which appeared during the Tracey Ullman show.
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"'Is not a quine' is not a quine" is a quine.

Notice how they've been posting a lot of editorials and features lately?
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"'Is not a quine' is not a quine" is a quine.

Yah, the author probably thought "We're in the 21st century now, and this was 400 years ago, so that puts him in the 17th century" or some similar brainfart. Go easy on him, the century enumeration is arbitrary and stupid anyway.
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Now it seems to have mysteriously dropped down to -1, as well as many of my posts from that time period. I emailed Rob asking him what could have happened, but he hasn't yet responded to me. I really have no idea what's going on with that.

(Note: I am not a karma whore. I just happen to have a high karma, mostly because of the stupid knee-jerk moderators who mistake quantity for quality.)
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"'Is not a quine' is not a quine" is a quine.

As I said in my writeup and previous ramble, GalaxyQuest, with all the perverse cleavage that it has, rated quite highly.
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"'Is not a quine' is not a quine" is a quine.

Yet strangely, it sorta fits...
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"'Is not a quine' is not a quine" is a quine.

Firewire is peer-to-peer. Any two devices on a firewire bus can communicate without any mediation from a 'host'; the computer is just another host.

So what's to stop one computer from directly reading - and perhaps FUBARing - the hard drive of another?

I wouldn't have a problem with pervasive firewire as long as a single computer had separate buses - one for internal devices, one for external devices, and one for networking purposes. Of course, this also helps to avoid other nasty problems, such as not being able to put in a new harddrive because there's already 64 people on your firewire segment each with 4 devices total (not too far-fetched in, say, a university setting). Not to mention I really don't want skript-kiddies bypassing the need to packetsniff when they can just read my data directly...
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"'Is not a quine' is not a quine" is a quine.

What's SSA? I hadn't heard of this before, and I'm curious to know more.
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"'Is not a quine' is not a quine" is a quine.

IMO, although a trivial webserver could have fit on the PIC, I doubt the PIC was actually doing the PPP and TCP/IP as they claimed. More likely they had a pseudo-PPP which was arbitrated mostly by the DECstation it was connected to "for a router."
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• 1. Serial ATA is an internal standard, Firewire is an external standard (although it can be used internally). Explain to me why Apple includes ATA drives inside the G4 when it has an internal Firewire port?

• 2a. You do not need topology internal to the computer. So hubs and daisychaining is meaningless.

• 2b. Since four ports of Serial ATA could technically operate in parallel (the bandwidth is not shared), four devices have a combined available bandwidth of 600 MB/s, as opposed to firewire's 400 Mbps (~40 MB/s)

• 2c. The max bandwidth of firewire, 3.2 Gbps, is ~320 MB/s, making it about the same speed as two Serial ATA ports running at the initial speed (which is not the maximum bandwidth)

• 3. Serial ATA is a point to point protocol. There is no master.

• 4. Serial ATA is already supported under both windows and linux, past the extent of IEEE1394. This is because Serial ATA uses the same protocol as regular ATA, and thus works exactly the same on an OS level. Unless you look at the chipset, the OS probably will not know it isn't using parallel ATA.

• 5. ATA is a cheaper solution than Firewire. Currently all firewire drives are actually ATA drives with a ATAFirewire chip inside, so Serial ATA reduces their cost, as well as requires a smaller engineering cost to change the chips on the drive to be native Serial ATA.

• 6.
• What should be done? IMNSHO, they should scrap the proprietary Serial-ATA interface, and adopt 1394 as the official Serial ATA standard. What makes you think that Serial ATA is a proprietary interface?? Why would it be any less of an open standard than Parallel ATA? At least you don't need to pay licensing fees for ATA.

Did you see them in the theatres though? Rentals don't count; it's in the theatre where movies make all their real money, and where NC-17s aren't normally shown, which is at least the implication of what was being discussed.
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"'Is not a quine' is not a quine" is a quine.

Bah, nothing new there. Alt.rock stations have been uncensored for years... even as far back as 1994 I recall several Alice In Chains, Pearl Jam, and Pink Floyd songs being completely uncensored on the air. (This was back when I listened to the radio.)
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"'Is not a quine' is not a quine" is a quine.

Oh, right, forgot about that.
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"'Is not a quine' is not a quine" is a quine.

Hm, there must be some other system then, since the one I had looked at before was quite different. Maybe e-postage or something like that... a cursory glance at stamps.com indicates that yeah, you're right about the pricing structure. The fact that the software requirements are quite different also indicates that I'm probably thinking of someone else then. My bad.
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"'Is not a quine' is not a quine" is a quine.

Ooh, where can I get one? On Pricewatch the lowest price for one is $400.
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"'Is not a quine' is not a quine" is a quine.

Whatever. The service doesn't apply to me, and I'd rather just occasionally buy a $6.60 pack of stamps at my local post office anyway. It's easier to deal with and a hell of a lot cheaper.
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"'Is not a quine' is not a quine" is a quine.

I wonder how forgeable they are...
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"'Is not a quine' is not a quine" is a quine.

But Apple was in the late 70s. Oh well.
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Orgazmo doesn't appear to be on DVD yet (according to DVD Express) anyway but "Cannibal: The Musical" has been for quite some time, FYI.
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"'Is not a quine' is not a quine" is a quine.

However, I wasn't aware that the word 'tits' had become acceptable. 'Teats' maybe... 'Piss' I'd believe though.
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"'Is not a quine' is not a quine" is a quine.

"Up There" didn't have any cussing in it. Neither did the "La Resistance" montage tune. I prefer the theory someone else posted about it being a way of silently honoring Mary Kay Bergman, one of the most talented voice actresses to ever live.
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"'Is not a quine' is not a quine" is a quine.

Basically, if a movie isn't deemed suitable for a 5-year-old to watch with an adult present, it's doomed to fail in the eyes of our high-and-mighty motion picture association.
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"'Is not a quine' is not a quine" is a quine.

Though if we're going to assume Disney will win, why not the music from Tarzan?
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"'Is not a quine' is not a quine" is a quine.

Little known fact... they're making fun of a particular recording of "It's a small world after all" done many years ago where, after a few verses in English, they said "And if you went to another country, the kids singing it might sound like this!" and then proceeded to have various renditions of the song in very bad pigeon caricatures of the languages. That is, in French it wasn't really French but French-sounding jibberish, and same for Hebrew and Japanese and the like. Very stereotypical, stupid, and completely contrary to the point of the song (for what that's worth).
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"'Is not a quine' is not a quine" is a quine.

Funny, I could have sworn he was saying "King kong mega mega beeeyotch."
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"'Is not a quine' is not a quine" is a quine.

BTW, I go a bit more into detail lambasting his and other such websites on Everything2 (go to the node entitled "Christian movie reviews", look for the writeup authored by Magenta), in case you care.
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"'Is not a quine' is not a quine" is a quine.

Yeah, South Park was certainly one of the more profound movies of 1999, and it was nicely self-referentially self-aware. I appreciate that in a movie, what with my love for quine-ish things and all that. It's also funny to see the various so-called Christian movie review sites' treatments of it; they're giving exactly the same response which the movie parodies and provocatively makes fun of. It's too bad that the Christian Coalition etc. completely miss the point, but then again, them missing the point is part of the point, so...

I think probably the funniest thing in the CAPcare Project's review (www.capalert.com) is that they focus totally on the depravity, cursing, Satanism, homosexuality (when they're portraying evil people as homosexual and vice-versa - they should be LAUDING it if they don't want to be hypocrites!) and the like, but only make a passing reference to the racism ("Operation Human Shield/Get Behind the Darkies," "All those times I called you a stupid Jew, I didn't mean it; you're not a Jew" and so forth).

At least they're consistent. Their review of GalaxyQuest places it at wholesome even though there's cleavage, sex and violence, while Bicentennial Man is evil because a machine is implied to have a soul. They lambaste movies for having supposedly-Buddhist practices (see "Anna and the King"), when the word "God" is used in a positive sense that's still a bad mark against it, and "A Bug's Life" is bad because a bird chases against the bugs (come on, it's what birds DO!).
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"'Is not a quine' is not a quine" is a quine.

More like still recovering from the spammer attack. :/
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echo `pwgen 8`@`pwgen 8`.net

or whatever.
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