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Play with directories to find the X-rated version. Remember the Interactive Fiction Contest mentioned here a while ago? Andrew Plotkin writes with some results: "After six weeks of judging, the results of this year's text adventure competition are in. The top three places go to "Kaged", "Metamorphoses", and "Being Andrew Plotkin". But personally I'd be happy to recommend any of the top ten entries.... and not just because my entry (which was not called "Being Andrew Plotkin"!) came in tenth. Heh. Many of the lower-down placers are worth a look, too -- this is one of the best competition rosters we've ever had."
And speaking of contests ... chongo writes: "The International Obfuscated C Code Contest, the oldest Internet based contest, is not ready to go on the cart as some may had feared. With the addition of Simon Cooper as the 4th IOCCC judge and my early vacation return the IOCCC is moving forward again.
We (the judges), have been processing a near record number of entries. We have now entered the final judging out of which the IOCCC winners will be selected. We apologize for the delay and would like to assure all the contestants and the spectators that the IOCCC 2000 winners will be announced prior to the end of the true millennium. :-) Watch the IOCCC news for further development.
P.S. The rumor that some judges are considering opening up the 2001 IOCCC to C++ programs is true."
(Or try the Perry-Casteneda Library at the really big U) Thanks to xFoz you can rest easy in the knowledge that "you won't have to spend big bucks to put that long lost out of print Neal Stephenson book under the tree this year. But you will have to wait for next year for your very own less than $500 a copy of "The Big U." Preorder now and save $2.60! Amazon has the listing here" mattdm points out that "You can pre-order from Barnes and Noble," as well.
Apparently, this is not Stephenson's favorite of his works. In fact, it's also the only one of his books that I didn't read compulsively with little more than breaks for micturation and nutrition, but it's hard to complain about having some more Neal Stephenson to read! (Thanks to my brother for turning me on to The Diamond Age, too.)
Straight up, no chaser LunarOne writes "I accidentally found the real direct link to downloading Netscape 6, without using their annoying little setup app. Thought I would contribute this since I hadn't seen the link anywhere here on /. I found it while downloading the Windows version of Netscape 6. I protect my Windoze box with BlackIce Defender and this firewall-ish program reported back to me the real download site. Anyways, I had low expectations of NS6 due to some negative comments I had heard here earlier. But, I gotta say I really like it. I have been downloading Mozilla builds regularly for a very long while, and still have high hopes for Mozilla. However, right now I'm enjoying Netscape 6, despite the included commercialisms previously condemned in this forum."
... C++ is obfuscated enough on its own. Furthering its obfustification is an exercise in futility.
And I know, obfustification probably isn't a word.
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For me it is more the challenge of it all. I have never submitted an entry to the contest, but quite a few times I have started on that path, just for the fun of it....
On the other hand, Open source hackers do get more recognition as well they should. Paul Vixie, Bill Joy, Henry Spencer, Vinton Cerf, Eric Raymond, Linus Torvald, Miguel de Icaza. Those names stick like glue to my memory cells...
Anyone know how to get rid of it?
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You can also read many of the reviews at interactfiction.about.com.
probably pretty lame.
BUT, you just never know...
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Some kind soul has OCR'd the Big U and put it up for download:
http://server3003.freeyellow.com/neilbury/
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It's okay. (if you really can't wait, do what I did - check with your local library, and failing that, use the Interlibrary Loan System) Certainly it helps if you're familiar with Boston University, upon which the novel is loosely based. while I didn't attend BU, I did nearly run over a number of BU students while driving down Comm. Ave. like everyone else in Boston
There are some parts that are a bit dated, there are little bits here and there that you'll notice in later novels (e.g. the name of the fake band in Cryptonomicon is the name of a computer used by role-players), and the ending is, as usual, not as good as the set up.
But for the compulsive N.S. reader who even has the magazine articles and the Stephen Bury novels, it's worth it.
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uhhhhh just open installer.ini it has a list of different ftps right there and i think the install shows what site its downloading from.
I guess that's the PCL at the University of Texas at Austin.
I spent way too much time there, though I seem to have spent most of my time in the UGL or in the Physics-Math Library rather than the PCL.
It's great! Unexpectedly! After using the various Mozilla builds on Linux, and having the NS6 installer crash/hang/etc, I wasn't expecting much. But it's actually really fast. And themes available are not too shabby.
... "newaol" ... hmmm ...
And that guy's URL was perhaps too specific. All platforms are at ftp://ftpnscp.newaol.com/pub/ net scape6/english/6.0
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Napster-to-go says "Fill and refill your compatible MP3 player", which is a lie. It's not MP3. It's WMA with DRM.
I've had no luck getting it. I tried using the setup app twice and it died both times so I went and downloaded the complete gz file and when I tried to unzip it gunzip said the file was corrupted. :-(
Wade.
ftp://ftp6.n ets cape.com/pub/netscape6/english/6.0/unix/linux22/se a/
/ sea/
ftp://ftp6. net scape.com/pub/netscape6/english/6.0/windows/win32
(ftp6 is one I chose at random; ftp2 through ftp9 should all work)
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Netscape's always maintained a pretty quick FTP server. Try ftp://ftp13.netscape.com/pub /ne tscape6/english/6.0/ for pretty quick downloads. ; Here the Windows self-installer.
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BSD is NOT open source. it doesn not meet the open-source license critera as designed by bruce perins.
But the BSD License, version 2.0, does meet Eric S. Raymond's Open Source Definition (the Debian free software guidelines are nearly identical) as well as being a non-copyle ft GPL-compatible free software license according to Richard M. "Goat ScanDisker" Stallman
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I really dont understand why netscape (and IE for that matter) require an annoying setup app to be able to download the product. It would save the heck out of bandwidth if they made the download links avalible to the public. A company with 100 workstations that need browser upgrades could just as easily download one copy of the browser, and keep it on the lan, thats 99 less downloads of a huge file.
The book is worth a couple of hundred $US even in semi-crappy condition. You really think a library copy would have lasted more than a couple of weeks before getting pinched? I have a copy of the original and until I sell it, I won't be letting it out of the house. ;)
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micturition
not micturation
Im beginning to think they do it as a joke...
At first I had trouble getting the linux version
to download from behind a firewall. I poked around and found the sea version and the install miraculously worked fine.
Also the windows version would always crap out
during the install. (missing sdinst.dll) I
tried it a couple of days later and it just
started working. That's windows.
No, the crapping out was Windows; the 'started working' was sheer miracle.
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I found The Big U in .txt format on Gnutella (or was it alt.binaries.ebooks?) Poke around and you may be able to find it yourself... the_big_u.txt
Holy leaping sheepshit. When I opened my bookstore in 1994, I had three copies of "Big U" that I had bought from some Notre Dame students. It had the yellow infinite-regression-and-college-boobs cover and I sold them for 30% off cover.
There ain't no loathing like self-loathing.
My only guess is that the PCL is the largest library at the biggest university in the USA.
I live in the Seattle area and had no trouble whatsoever getting a copy of The Big U through the I.L.L. system. I know that there's one around here, I know there's one at Brown University in Rhode Island (if I hadn't moved when I did I would have arranged to check out that copy), and I'm sure that if you look a bit, you'll find one no problem.
It'll kill you to look?
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Geepers, don't you people ever use FTP?!?!?!
When ever I upgrade, I just ftp to ftpx.netscape.com, replacing "x" with a single digit, non-zero number.
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Past winners Larry Wall and David Korn spring to mind, but more for their achievements in other fields.
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"Neal Stephenson's Animal House"
I read a copy, it's really not terribly good, I'm surprised Stephenson is allowing it to be reprinted as it's not a patch on any of his later works from Zodiac onwards.
Hacker: A criminal who breaks into computer systems
"Information wants to be paid"
I got The Big U through inter-library loan with no problem. Since I thought that Stephenson wasn't going to let it be reprinted, I went to the trouble of photocopying it. Now I'll be able to soothe my conscience and buy a copy. Quite nice.
"That fat, dumb, and bald guy sure plays a mean hardball."
And I'd be a Libertarian, if they weren't all a bunch of tax-dodging professional whiners.
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This is the same one as the above link,
but on a much more reliable connection.
If you need a LaTeX, PostScript, or plain-text
look at his web page
OK, I stand corrected. However, I still find it suprising. Usually something worth that much isn't going to stay put once sufficiently sticky fingers pass over it.
At least I don't have to look; as I said, I have a copy, though I'm looking to sell it.
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