a novel called "the bridge of beyond" by simone schwarz-bart. the description on the jacket is everything i would never want to read in a novel, but the reality of the reading is a top notch experience. would recommend to anyone, even to slashdot readers.
My boss is like that, he abuses cut-and-paste to the exclusion of proper factoring. The code is sometimes comical. He does it for the exact same reason, he wants to move on to testing/fixing/improving, rather than spending a lot of time dreaming-about-how-it-ought-to-be.
Sometimes, maybe 3 or 4 times in the decade that I've worked with him, I have needed to do a major re-factoring just to be able to shoe-horn in a new feature. He is glad I'm here to do that, because he doesn't enjoy re-factoring. I'm glad he's there to do his part, though, because a lot of times he can throw out a big *working* piece of garbage in just a few days, while I would still be arguing with myself about where to start.
The machine works. Therefore, I cannot point to any component that is broken. The machine works.
So I enjoy this, I look at all of the numerous insurmountable customer problems that we have dispatched over the years together, and it is beautiful to me. I love my boss.
That's my advice to you: learn to love this guy, to think of his foolish shortcuts and disorder as unique tools that a unique person uses to solve the problems in front of him. Consider it "local flavor." If you're being hauled up in front of management and they're blaming you for his bugs, that's one thing. But if the machine works, learn to love it. If you can't love it, quit programming and go into a less creative field.
Find the authors involved (people like british children's author Nick Mackie), and find their books on Amazon, and leave bad reviews stating that you shouldn't expose your children (or yourself) to the works of bad people. I vote we include Debbie Bennett in this little campaign, by virtue of the golden rule. Whine first, ask questions later. Maybe tomorrow we can apologize for being ignorant jerks, like she has, and that will make it all better.
The linuxdevices story is wrong, see http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/GTA02
Indeed, 400MHz 2.8in screen.
Further, the linuxdevices story doesn't say they have begun shipping, it says that they have announced distributors who they will ship to. The only thing they've begun shipping is contracts and red tape.
Call your senators and ask them to please gut the patent system.
But more directly, you can contact NTP. NTP is a legal fiction of a business invented by an author of legal fiction by the name of Donald Stout. He is a partner at Antonelli Terry Stout & Kraus, LLP. Their phone number is 703-312-6600.
A thousand polite calls will be more effective than a thousand rude ones. Though honestly a few dozen rude ones wouldn't start WWIII.
Once you call, ask for Don Stout and then say "Please stop abusing the patent system."
Keep in mind that it is illegal to use an interstate communications device to harrass someone anonymously. So give your name on request! Then it's legal!
not that I know what I'm doing, but: $ cvs -d ':pserver:user@anoncvs.publicsource.apple.com:/cvs /Darwin' login results in a password prompt. empty string and "user" don't work. Thanks anyways.
they have a password-protected cvs tree, it seems. to get the password you have to agree to their license. I have no interest in agreeing with their license, let's just say I'll only download the GPLed code they have there (agreeing with an apple license to download modified GPLed code seems antisocial, anyways). So would someone who has no interest in ever touching the code go and sign up and make an account like l/p: cypherpunks/cypherpunks, then post about it here? thanks.
Yeah, that sure is how I'd describe it. Worked on the first time: NOT! Was debuggable: NOT! Come on. I've worked with linux for about 5 years now and I've done a lot of things and I've/NEVER/ seen a shell archive freeze, but this one did. I've seen plenty of closed-source programs freeze before making any output, though, just like this one. Odds are it's some bizarre library interaction that will only be found on my system, but if I had source I might just bother to fix it.
there is source to aalib, and source to aavga. Both are mentioned on the ttyquake page though not available directly in teh ttyquake package. I think you're giving aavga too much credit...it is just an aalib wrapper to implement svgalib functionality, it certainly does not handle even a tiny subset of X, it's totally separate. If someone did write an X server that used aalib, that would be hella cool, though.:)
I want to clarify where credit is due: true ttyquake is just a distribution, but the fact of the matter is that aavga as I released it is very difficult to use and badly packaged. also, almost all of the work is in aalib. I don't think that it's fair to list aavga and aalib in the same sentence as similarly sized projects, aavga is a small piece of crappy code, and I'm rather embarrassed that so many people have seen it. The keyboard handling, espeically, could be done a thousand times better if I'd known people were gonna downlaod it.
Yeah, that aalib stuff is great. I'm surprised someone noticed that this could be applied to almost anything with svgalib. caveats: aavga is a horrible hack and won't support the calls for many other programs (in other words, you'll find yourself adding to the library for every new program) linux doom is originally linked against libc4 svgalib so it can't be used with this hack
I authored aavga (horrible hack), so it is me who is to blame for the keyboard input not working properly. As to it being linked against libncurses3...you can just recompile it all yourself...I'm not even sure if that's what I linked it against.:) It only exists in black and white. you can add a bold attribute and make it go 8-bit if you compile aalib right (I again don't know how it's default compiled), but that doesn't add much. For some graphical improvement, zaphraud@anorexia.org has posted a message on the aalib mailing list saying improvement can be gained with random+dithering with a small patch.. If anyone wants, I can forward that email to them.
A MicroWorkz employee emailed me anonymously after I sent an email to their sales address warning them about the implications of the GPL (or, alternatively, trademark law if Linux is not involved). The email included the mail I had sent -- so presumably the person is really an employee of MicroWorkz. The email said that the iToaster does not include Linux at all and that it is hoped that another party will be able to do something about this problem. So, it's official. We just need to decide how we would like our retraction served.
It is true that winamp started as just a cheap amp port with a GUI... And I do consider it very annoying that he charged for a product that wasn't even made by him. However, he paid royalties to Tomislav Uzelac throughout that time period, so at least until he stopped paying those royalties, he was covered. He probably may be in huge trouble still, though, because he didn't bother to really make it a clean operation -- he both wrote the new code/and/ saw the old code. I don't know how that works in the software application world, but at least in the world of cloning BIOS ROMs, that was a significant no-no.
The war is not over. These are problems with KDE that are not had with gnome: * Clean object model added as an afterthought * KDE uses not just C++, but Qt's stupid little preprocessor * Qt is actually an inferior widgetset since it needed not only C++ but EVEN MORE in order to implement useful functionality * and because I needed to post something stupid to test a cookie feature.:)
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a novel called "the bridge of beyond" by simone schwarz-bart.
the description on the jacket is everything i would never want to read in a novel, but the reality of the reading is a top notch experience. would recommend to anyone, even to slashdot readers.
My boss is like that, he abuses cut-and-paste to the exclusion of proper factoring. The code is sometimes comical. He does it for the exact same reason, he wants to move on to testing/fixing/improving, rather than spending a lot of time dreaming-about-how-it-ought-to-be.
Sometimes, maybe 3 or 4 times in the decade that I've worked with him, I have needed to do a major re-factoring just to be able to shoe-horn in a new feature. He is glad I'm here to do that, because he doesn't enjoy re-factoring. I'm glad he's there to do his part, though, because a lot of times he can throw out a big *working* piece of garbage in just a few days, while I would still be arguing with myself about where to start.
The machine works. Therefore, I cannot point to any component that is broken. The machine works.
So I enjoy this, I look at all of the numerous insurmountable customer problems that we have dispatched over the years together, and it is beautiful to me. I love my boss.
That's my advice to you: learn to love this guy, to think of his foolish shortcuts and disorder as unique tools that a unique person uses to solve the problems in front of him. Consider it "local flavor." If you're being hauled up in front of management and they're blaming you for his bugs, that's one thing. But if the machine works, learn to love it. If you can't love it, quit programming and go into a less creative field.
Find the authors involved (people like british children's author Nick Mackie), and find their books on Amazon, and leave bad reviews stating that you shouldn't expose your children (or yourself) to the works of bad people. I vote we include Debbie Bennett in this little campaign, by virtue of the golden rule. Whine first, ask questions later. Maybe tomorrow we can apologize for being ignorant jerks, like she has, and that will make it all better.
The linuxdevices story is wrong, see http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/GTA02
Indeed, 400MHz 2.8in screen.
Further, the linuxdevices story doesn't say they have begun shipping, it says that they have announced distributors who they will ship to. The only thing they've begun shipping is contracts and red tape.
nerdyH, you're a fucktard.
Call your senators and ask them to please gut the patent system.
But more directly, you can contact NTP. NTP is a legal fiction of a business invented by an author of legal fiction by the name of Donald Stout. He is a partner at Antonelli Terry Stout & Kraus, LLP. Their phone number is 703-312-6600.
A thousand polite calls will be more effective than a thousand rude ones. Though honestly a few dozen rude ones wouldn't start WWIII.
Once you call, ask for Don Stout and then say "Please stop abusing the patent system."
Keep in mind that it is illegal to use an interstate communications device to harrass someone anonymously. So give your name on request! Then it's legal!
not that I know what I'm doing, but: $ cvs -d ':pserver:user@anoncvs.publicsource.apple.com:/cvs /Darwin' login results in a password prompt. empty string and "user" don't work. Thanks anyways.
they have a password-protected cvs tree, it seems. to get the password you have to agree to their license. I have no interest in agreeing with their license, let's just say I'll only download the GPLed code they have there (agreeing with an apple license to download modified GPLed code seems antisocial, anyways). So would someone who has no interest in ever touching the code go and sign up and make an account like l/p: cypherpunks/cypherpunks, then post about it here? thanks.
Yeah, that sure is how I'd describe it. Worked on the first time: NOT! Was debuggable: NOT! Come on. I've worked with linux for about 5 years now and I've done a lot of things and I've /NEVER/ seen a shell archive freeze, but this one did. I've seen plenty of closed-source programs freeze before making any output, though, just like this one. Odds are it's some bizarre library interaction that will only be found on my system, but if I had source I might just bother to fix it.
there is source to aalib, and source to aavga. Both are mentioned on the ttyquake page though not available directly in teh ttyquake package. I think you're giving aavga too much credit...it is just an aalib wrapper to implement svgalib functionality, it certainly does not handle even a tiny subset of X, it's totally separate. If someone did write an X server that used aalib, that would be hella cool, though. :)
I want to clarify where credit is due: true ttyquake is just a distribution, but the fact of the matter is that aavga as I released it is very difficult to use and badly packaged. also, almost all of the work is in aalib. I don't think that it's fair to list aavga and aalib in the same sentence as similarly sized projects, aavga is a small piece of crappy code, and I'm rather embarrassed that so many people have seen it. The keyboard handling, espeically, could be done a thousand times better if I'd known people were gonna downlaod it.
Yeah, that aalib stuff is great. I'm surprised someone noticed that this could be applied to almost anything with svgalib. caveats: aavga is a horrible hack and won't support the calls for many other programs (in other words, you'll find yourself adding to the library for every new program) linux doom is originally linked against libc4 svgalib so it can't be used with this hack
I authored aavga (horrible hack), so it is me who is to blame for the keyboard input not working properly. As to it being linked against libncurses3...you can just recompile it all yourself...I'm not even sure if that's what I linked it against. :) It only exists in black and white. you can add a bold attribute and make it go 8-bit if you compile aalib right (I again don't know how it's default compiled), but that doesn't add much. For some graphical improvement, zaphraud@anorexia.org has posted a message on the aalib mailing list saying improvement can be gained with random+dithering with a small patch.. If anyone wants, I can forward that email to them.
A MicroWorkz employee emailed me anonymously after I sent an email to their sales address warning them about the implications of the GPL (or, alternatively, trademark law if Linux is not involved). The email included the mail I had sent -- so presumably the person is really an employee of MicroWorkz. The email said that the iToaster does not include Linux at all and that it is hoped that another party will be able to do something about this problem. So, it's official. We just need to decide how we would like our retraction served.
Um, loopback mounting doesn't use LAN at all. mount -o loop cdimage.iso /mnt at least, that works on my box.
is there a clause in the macos license that allows us to get a refund for the macos on this laptop?
It is true that winamp started as just a cheap amp port with a GUI... And I do consider it very annoying that he charged for a product that wasn't even made by him. However, he paid royalties to Tomislav Uzelac throughout that time period, so at least until he stopped paying those royalties, he was covered. He probably may be in huge trouble still, though, because he didn't bother to really make it a clean operation -- he both wrote the new code /and/ saw the old code. I don't know how that works in the software application world, but at least in the world of cloning BIOS ROMs, that was a significant no-no.
The war is not over. These are problems with KDE that are not had with gnome: :)
* Clean object model added as an afterthought
* KDE uses not just C++, but Qt's stupid little preprocessor
* Qt is actually an inferior widgetset since it needed not only C++ but EVEN MORE in order to implement useful functionality
* and because I needed to post something stupid to test a cookie feature.