Gads! They're GONE! I didn't notice that when they stripped-down the UI, these went too! When it was a straight Slashcode site (minus karma and stuff) you saw your ID on ~ .
Yeah. I booted off an IDE, I think - with a "repurposed" sun SCSI external that hosted/usr and/var.
The battery issue eventually ate mine. I should have kept the 2.88 floppy drive! The whole rig ended up at the famous computer recycler, noted in another slashdot story as a CNN hero.
Back in the day, I was TERRIFIED that I wouldn't get my name in a site registry, or a webmail system. The Internet was small enough you could register almost everywhere "important".
It was - like all of them - and "alpha" theme. It tried an intriguing optical-illusion, where the window frames looked like depressions carved into a plate of steel. I'd like to find those bitmaps...
Like many themes of the day, there was a fascination for using a rendered skull, for the window "kill" button.
Gary sent the first unsolicited email in 1978 - to about 400 recipients. It was on a topic that - given the size and constitution of the ArpaNet community - could be reasonably assumed of some interest to the "audience".
The famous Green Card Lottery spam was sent to every available Usenet newsgroup. This was quickly termed "Spam" by the Usenet at large - in reference to its ubiquity, like the Spam in the Python sketch ("Bloody vikings!") This was the first wide-scale, flagrant dismissal of the assumed netiquette and the FAQs for each of the groups about crossposting and relevance.
It was some time after the Usenet spam, that unsolicited bulk mail was called "Spam", too. Thanks, AOL!
"Words matter, for words are the tools of thought, and you will often find that you are thinking badly because you are using the wrong tools, trying to bore a hole with a screw-driver, or draw a cork with a coal-hammer." -- A.P. Herbert, 1935:-)
They convey neither a perception and ready identification of the product's capability - nor do they associate with anything meaningful - allowing for that association to transfer value to the named object.
Just call them like motorcars and aeroplanes - when these were sensible.
"The Intel Mark VIII C" "The Intel Mark V plus"
They could at least be compared reasonably in relation to each other.
Slashdot Mirror
Props, my friend. From a guy who cut teeth on Some unknown Honeywell 'frame, and went to PDP 11/60's...
I still do. I log into Yahoo! Mail with .rm My wife does too!
mailto:jcorneli@rocketmail.com
Gads! They're GONE! I didn't notice that when they stripped-down the UI, these went too! When it was a straight Slashcode site (minus karma and stuff) you saw your ID on ~ .
Yes, Veruca dearest! But.. Daddy is about to earn his Darwin prize.
Yeah. I booted off an IDE, I think - with a "repurposed" sun SCSI external that hosted /usr and /var.
The battery issue eventually ate mine. I should have kept the 2.88 floppy drive! The whole rig ended up at the famous computer recycler, noted in another slashdot story as a CNN hero.
Heh! I showed up in a bundle of WM themes on RH5. Didn't notice for months...
Cool days.
You are a sparkling conversationalist.
Hourly... ;-)
Back in the day, I was TERRIFIED that I wouldn't get my name in a site registry, or a webmail system. The Internet was small enough you could register almost everywhere "important".
:-)
I'm 167 on Technocrat.net. Same disease.
Oh yeah. Adding COMMENTS was an innovation, at one point.
Wow. Do you still have "Surgical A-440"
It was - like all of them - and "alpha" theme. It tried an intriguing optical-illusion, where the window frames looked like depressions carved into a plate of steel. I'd like to find those bitmaps...
Like many themes of the day, there was a fascination for using a rendered skull, for the window "kill" button.
In those days, xkill was in my dock!
I had a 133 MHz. MILO bootloader! Overheating! KDE 1.0!
WindowMaker and Enlightenment
I still use the wallpapers from Rob's 2001-inspired, "Obsidian" theme.
Do you remember when building Enlightenment required the X-Free tools and xmkmf
'Cause CnD was a top-hit on AltaVista for "WindowMaker" and "Enlightenment".
Then, I think we complete your "loaf" story.
Huh-huh... He said ANAL, Beavis. Huh-huh...
Brilliant deduction of vector! I bet the Google FireFox toolbar is another source....
He said "Abused", Beavis. Self-abuse, get it? Huh, Huh.
and commented on by Dvorak. (God, did I just say that he confirmed anything!?!)
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,2188281,00.asp
Also, the Reg noticed - after my Slashdot posting, for once - so they are chasing this tail!
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/10/01/google_spam_infiltration/
Wheee!
Yeah. But this too, pre-dates the "Spam" in-joke and label. ;-)
Children is learning.
Academic point.
Gary sent the first unsolicited email in 1978 - to about 400 recipients. It was on a topic that - given the size and constitution of the ArpaNet community - could be reasonably assumed of some interest to the "audience".
The famous Green Card Lottery spam was sent to every available Usenet newsgroup. This was quickly termed "Spam" by the Usenet at large - in reference to its ubiquity, like the Spam in the Python sketch ("Bloody vikings!") This was the first wide-scale, flagrant dismissal of the assumed netiquette and the FAQs for each of the groups about crossposting and relevance.
It was some time after the Usenet spam, that unsolicited bulk mail was called "Spam", too. Thanks, AOL!
Too much egg & chips.
"Words matter, for words are the tools of thought, and you will often find that you are thinking badly because you are using the wrong tools, trying to bore a hole with a screw-driver, or draw a cork with a coal-hammer." :-)
-- A.P. Herbert, 1935
I like a Phantom V - I can tell it from a Phantom VI, or a Jag Mark 10 Saloon.
God. What stupid and uninformative names.
They convey neither a perception and ready identification of the product's capability - nor do they associate with anything meaningful - allowing for that association to transfer value to the named object.
Just call them like motorcars and aeroplanes - when these were sensible.
"The Intel Mark VIII C" "The Intel Mark V plus"
They could at least be compared reasonably in relation to each other.