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Greyfox wrote
in to say that a chunk of gnew gnome stuff
is up. Full set of 0.99.3 tar balls for those livin' on the edge.
In a related bit,
GVeloper wrote in
to mention the new cross referenced gtk documentation
at GTK Dev Central
Several other folks have commented that yet another Linux Kernel
2.2 prerelease is out. Hit the mirrors if you want it.
My favorite BSD Equal Time activist,
Jesse Shrieve wrote in to
tell us that you can get metal FreeBSD squares
to attach to your cases.
maphew sent us a link to milo
which claims to be a telnetable TRS-80. "I remember when" yada yada.
That was my first programming experience.
Next, a few Slashdot bits:
Epitaph sent us a interesting little
piece of Evidence of the Slashdot Effect in Effect: The
results of a
Petition against
Canadian CD-R Tax.
rive submitted
a simple perl script that converts Slashdot Headlines to Window Maker Menus.
Clever.
DGibson wrote in to
tell us that Slashdot rated Coolest site at Planet Click.
Last of all, insanity never stops:An anonymous joker sent
us a link to The All Squirrels Must Die page.
and William Tanksley sent us
a link to the shrunken heads HOWTO. Be
afraid.
Hmm.. I'm sub'd to linux-kernel and Linus hasn't /. seems to be
mentioned a 'release' pre8. There's a testing
pre-8 been around for a while.
very good at predicting kernel releases before
they actually happen these days..
Or does someone out there just constantly ftp
to ftp.kernel.org and check every few minutes
just so they can have a new kernel a few minutes
before everyone else? Is that the real reason it
got overloaded? Are these the same people that
always download the tarball rather than using
patch?
Wow, I just downloaded the full 2.2.0-pre8 from ftp.ca.kernel.org at over 65kbytes/s! That's astounding, especially considering my pitiful excuse for an ISP, and the fact that this is a brand-new release.
\\'
... at least, I just applied something that called itself "patch-2.2.0-pre8.gz" to my kernel tree, and I've got it compiling now...
ftp1.us.kernel.org, at least, has the patch.
Pluto is a PLANET, dammit!
:)
WTF is Goofy?
Oops, wrong thread
either way, don't bother.
...phil
"For a list of the ways which technology has failed to improve our quality of life, press 3."
Looks like the 64KB, 2 Floppy, expanded character set model. I learned how to program on these machines (used to hang around Radio Shacks alot).
:)
Why not hack a very specialized minimal Linux kernel and support packages that run from floppies. TRS-80s are still useful as microcontrollers for discrete hardware - security systems, gadgets, and gizmos. All you have to remember is to ground them well and you're safe.
Codifex Maximus ~ In search of... a shorter sig.
Posted by OGL:
Here come the KDE/GNOME flamewars, live from this thread...
Brace yourselves.
-W.W.
Posted by Mephie:
Wow those faceplaces are nifty. Anyone know who they got manufacturing them? I would love to take one of my rendered pics and slap it on a few (hundred)faceplates... =)
--Mephie
Also, anyone know of a good poster production house? I have a 151 meg targa that's just iching to be hung on a wall.
Posted by dbeutel:
;-). Model IV has no floppies, 64K RAM, standard graphics... hmm, wonder if i could run Minix on either of these... ;-)
Got a Model III and IV. Model III has dual 5.25" floppies and tape, 48K of RAM AND... (drumroll please) a 640x200 extended graphics card
Posted by dbeutel:
;-) (BTW... use really good labels or super glue, otherwise they *will* fall off... this is the voice of experience ;-)...
Well, being the cheapskate that I am, I came up with a faceplate solution that works fairly well. I just print a bunch 1"x1" pics onto standard label stock and cover them w/ clear packing tape. Looks almost as good as manufactured logo, AND you don't have to pay to have it full color
I could have sworn that I just saw GNOME 0.99.4 announced on gnome-announce. I think it was the "Preening Bonobo" release. No such mention on the web page, though. Am I mistaken, or have they just not updated things yet?
--Phil (Maybe I shouldn't delete mail after I read it.)
355/113 -- Not the famous irrational number PI, but an incredible simulation!
The Slashdot effect will probably reduce that TRS-80 to a pile of molten slag...
Hellelujah! Thanks be to GDEV! At last, cross-referenced documentation for GTK...
:-)
THANKYOU THANKYOU THANKYOU
Im thinking the guy just droped a PC motherboard into a TRS-80 case..and hooked the CRT upto a normal MDA card. This TRS-80 is using IBM style 5.25" and 3.5" floppy drives...and a IBM style TAPE drive,so i think its safe to say that this thing also has a HARDDRIVE! Come on. Ya i know the TRS-80's came with 5Meg HDs..BUT they where realy big and where EXTERNAL.
OR
maybe the guy is realy crazy and hacked the TRS-80 so much that it can realy do all this stuff..maybe ill Email him and ask for more info
I have to return some videotapes...
Somewhere, way back in that dumpster that I use for a brain, I remember reading that the TRS-80's, or at least the I and III, didn't have all their interrupts working - that the wires going to the CPU were only attached at one end, or some support logic was missing, or something. I'd think something like that would tend to prevent something like Minix from working.
~ radiographite: art by john shepard
I don't rememebr the link, but not long ago I went back and looked at the survey of favorite net personalities. I think it was on ZDnet someplace. When it first was posted here Jennie of Jennicam fame was by far the leader. Now number 1 in Linus closely followed by Jennie.
I guess a mention of E-Sense being released isn't important enough. Since there are more MS users visitors, i thought it could have been mentioned. E-Sense is the Windows lookalike to Enlightenment. Thsi is the first PreBeta release, so if you are stuck using windows for some reason or another you can feel right at home... I suggest if you are a linux junkie, but are using MS software, you should visit floach.pimpin.net
get shells (something like WindowManagers), and other goodies to hook up your desktop...
Its spelt "L-I-N-U-X", but pronunced as "Free Beer"
seriously tho.... kudos to the guys that did this :)
:) on the mighty c64, and both telnetd and a basic httpd on geckos for quite some time!.
:).
on that note tho, we've had telnetd in lunix (no, not linux, lunix
(i'm also writing a grafical www browser for it, too -> check my www page at http://alih.wow64.org
- Jaymz
Commodore 64, Loading up the dance floor!
The TRS-80's had a Zilogic Z80 CPU which was a simi clone (a superset to be more acurate) of the Intel 8080 CPU. TRS-80's were little more than fancy Altairs.
If I remember correctly, the Tandy/Radio Shack Color Computer refered to usually as a CoCo had a Motorola M6800 CPU in it. Or at least a chip from that generation of CPU. This is not to be confused with the M68000 series of chips which were entirely diferenct, thus the extra zero. 8-)
I need one of those t-shirts at this site.. Slashdot the hell out of this site so they'll get to printing the tshirts for me :)
i'm going to start making shrunken head apples for a living!
V
hmmmm . . . which is more important to me. Compiling the new kernel (which IS available) or running the DES client? Decisions, decisions, decision.
"Where is my mind?"