will have additional poignancy this year. Of all the ACC versions that I've seen it was the best. Possibly because it stuck pretty closely to the book.
My other favorite was They Might Be Giants. Neither film got the attention they deserved.
Many people only read the first couple of paragraphs in a story and think they know the whole thing. That's why news stories are written in an "inverted triangle" putting the most important stuff first. Did you notice that in the first paragraph he says the "revolution is over go back to windows" and only later in the story (much less likely to be read) he says the revolution isn't over the leader is just tired of stupid questions. Might be accidental I guess...
It's there to help keep newbie users from deleting the entire drive. Don't laugh, I've seen it done. It's the difference between rm -r/junk and rm -r / junk (one space).
If you are positivie you know what you are doing, you have two choices. 1) Edit/root/.bashrc and remove the alias "alias rm='rm -i'" or 2) type unlias rm at the command line whenever you intend to delete a lot of files.
I can't believe that Bill Joy intended people to use the key marked Esc. After all the whole phillosphy behind vi is not taking you hands off the home row. I believe he meant people to use Ctrl-[ which is quite reachable from the home row - if you have a Ctrl key to the left of your A key.
As in many things, the journey is the reward. The whole miniturization trend (tubes to transistors to high-density chips) came out of the sixties space program. You do like your PC, portable CD player, and affordable stereo? These things would not exist if it wasn't for the first space program. They weren't the goal. They were byproducts. We're guaranteed to learn interesting things if this project proceeds.
On another note, it would be great to have a new frontier. It might even kindle a new spirit of hope and cooperation. Anyway its better than just sitting around just selling each other things. (what the world is basically doing now).
While the other folks are participating in the bogus message flame wars the real news is here. When enough average user apps are ported to Linux, the move will really be on.
There was a game in the early 90's for DOS and Mac called The Incredible Machine. The premise was that you were given a number of items - basketball, ropes, pulleys, balloons, ramps, etc. A different list for each game. You had to build a rube goldberg-like machine to perform some task. It was a lot of fun and the logical thinking that went into getting the machine to work is the exact sort of thing that hooks a person on programming.
Just checked. You can buy The Incredible Machine 2 or 3 from Sierra. 2 runs on DOS 3 runs on Win 3.1.
Remember the premise for the Terminator movies? I know this all sounds cool in a comic book kind of way, but anyone who has coded anything longer than a CSC assignment know how hard it is to make clean code. Would you really want to hook yourself up to buggy code?
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When I registered my Xpert 128 a couple of weeks ago I added a comment requesting greater support for Xfree. That must be the reason. grin.
Seriously, we should all be doing this sort of thing to make hardware manufacturers aware of how many people are using linux.
will have additional poignancy this year. Of all the ACC versions that I've seen it was the best. Possibly because it stuck pretty closely to the book.
My other favorite was They Might Be Giants. Neither film got the attention they deserved.
Many people only read the first couple of paragraphs in a story and think they know the whole thing. That's why news stories are written in an "inverted triangle" putting the most important stuff first. Did you notice that in the first paragraph he says the "revolution is over go back to windows" and only later in the story (much less likely to be read) he says the revolution isn't over the leader is just tired of stupid questions. Might be accidental I guess...
Oh yeah. That Huia hat craze in the '20s was an entirely natural phenomena.
Xfree86 should be easy to paste on.
It's there to help keep newbie users from deleting the entire drive. Don't laugh, I've seen it done. It's the difference between rm -r /junk and rm -r / junk (one space).
/root/.bashrc and remove the alias "alias rm='rm -i'" or 2) type unlias rm at the command line whenever you intend to delete a lot of files.
If you are positivie you know what you are doing, you have two choices. 1) Edit
Ack.Ack.Plbbth. [Takes nasty taste from mouth.]
Just do the visual select. Then press >. Works in vim and elvis at the least.
dar
The fine print clearly says the respective posters own their comments. I wonder if ZDNet got permission from "Anonymous Coward" to quote his stuff?
.. and they all stink.
I can't believe that Bill Joy intended people to use the key marked Esc. After all the whole phillosphy behind vi is not taking you hands off the home row. I believe he meant people to use Ctrl-[ which is quite reachable from the home row - if you have a Ctrl key to the left of your A key.
As in many things, the journey is the reward. The whole miniturization trend (tubes to transistors to high-density chips) came out of the sixties space program. You do like your PC, portable CD player, and affordable stereo? These things would not exist if it wasn't for the first space program. They weren't the goal. They were byproducts. We're guaranteed to learn interesting things if this project proceeds.
On another note, it would be great to have a new frontier. It might even kindle a new spirit of hope and cooperation. Anyway its better than just sitting around just selling each other things. (what the world is basically doing now).
While the other folks are participating in the bogus message flame wars the real news is here. When enough average user apps are ported to Linux, the move will really be on.
There was a game in the early 90's for DOS and Mac called The Incredible Machine. The premise was that you were given a number of items - basketball, ropes, pulleys, balloons, ramps, etc. A different list for each game. You had to build a rube goldberg-like machine to perform some task. It was a lot of fun and the logical thinking that went into getting the machine to work is the exact sort of thing that hooks a person on programming.
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Just checked. You can buy The Incredible Machine 2 or 3 from Sierra. 2 runs on DOS 3 runs on Win 3.1.
Here's a couple of urls:
http://www.sierra.com/store/quicksheet?SKU=8364
http://www.sierra.com/store/quicksheet?SKU=8367
Let me know if you try it. I'd like to know how it works out.
dar
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Oh yeah, them movers love working at night.
dar "Not a slave to fashion."
Remember the premise for the Terminator movies? I know this all sounds cool in a comic book kind of way, but anyone who has coded anything longer than a CSC assignment know how hard it is to make clean code. Would you really want to hook yourself up to buggy code?