I had a Vic-20 with the tape drive. I would code on that thing all the time. It got to the point where it was quicker to just key in the program than bring it in off of the tape. I even won some award at the science fair. My mom sent it in to K-Power magazine.
I did want a C64 but we couldn't afford one at the time.
4X4 Evolution 2 Alice Alien Crossfire BloodRayne Bugdom Colins Classic Cards Cro-Mag Rally Deus Ex Escape Monkey Island GR: Desert Siege HP Chamber / Secrets HP Sorcerer's Stone Jedi Knight II Kelly Slater Surfer Law & Order MH: Allied Assault MH: Spearhead Madden 2000 NASCAR 2002 NASCAR 2003 Otto Matic Return 2 Wolfenstein STV EliteForce Combo SWGB SWGB Clone Campaigns SimCity 4 Spider-Man Spy Hunter TR Chronicles TR Last Revalation The Sims The Sims Hot Date The Sims House Party The Sims Livin Large The Sims Unleashed The Sims Vacation Tiger Woods 2003 Tony Hawk 2 Tony Hawk 3 Tony Hawk 4 Undying Zoo Tycoon
Well the link to the/. article about "Phoenix, the Mozilla-based web browser, is forced to change name. The new name has not yet been decided, but it is being discussed . The reason is that the BIOS manufacturer Phoenix Technologies dislikes the trademark infrigment. Next week version 0.5 will be released, with a new name." worked pretty good.
Not to date myself too badly, but the term "geek" hadn't been invented yet.
Wow when did you go to school, early 1800's?
From Dictionary.com: geek n. Slang
1.
1. A person regarded as foolish, inept, or clumsy.
2. A person who is single-minded or accomplished in scientific or technical pursuits but is felt to be socially inept.
2. A carnival performer whose show consists of bizarre acts, such as biting the head off a live chicken.
[Perhaps alteration of dialectal geck, fool, from Low German gek, from Middle Low German.]geeky adj.
Our Living Language Our word geek is now chiefly associated with student and computer slang; one probably thinks first of a computer geek. In origin, however, it is one of the words American English borrowed from the vocabulary of the circus, which was a much more significant source of entertainment in the United States in the 19th and early 20th century than it is now. Large numbers of traveling circuses left a cultural legacy in various and sometimes unexpected ways. For example, Superman and other comic book superheroes owe much of their look to circus acrobats, who were similarly costumed in capes and tights. The circus sideshow is the source of the word geek, "a performer who engaged in bizarre acts, such as biting the head off a live chicken." We also owe the word ballyhoo to the circus; its ultimate origin is unknown, but in the late 1800s it referred to a flamboyant free musical performance conducted outside a circus with the goal of luring customers to buy tickets to the inside shows. Other words and expressions with circus origins include bandwagon (coined by P.T. Barnum in 1855) and Siamese twin.
Mmmm, I wonder if I can get Bob Young to sign my first issue of Linux Journal at Linuxworld in NYC and sell it on Ebay. Would it even be worth anything?
I am not even going to bother reading the other posts.
But I am typing this on a old keyboard called the Model M. It came off an old PS/2 that I got from school when they were going to throw it out. I also have another in the closet I got from Goodwill for $2. Anyone else know where I can find anymore? Maybe I'll check on Ebay, but I doubt there are even any still around since they quit making them years ago and everyone now needs the Windows keys.
Back when I did bulding maintenance and HVAC work I carried a toolbelt which carried several types of pliers; lineman, waterpump, locking, needle nose, several screwdrivers, and nutdrivers, an ohm meter, tape, utility knife, and a few custom tools - brake cable (makes a nice AC drain snake) and several other things that I can't remember now.
Plus on my regular belt: a Nextel phone, pager, big ass retractable key ring (chain not cable) with 30+ keys and an SOG geared multi-tool.
For those that do no explanation is needed. For those that do not, none is possible.
It's an old quote usually attributed to Harley riders. But it goes for anything really. People get "fanatical" over many things; cars, computers, OS's, breakfast cereal, video games, music, flash or no flash, religion, toys, comic books, etc. I suppose all the people griping "why" do not collect anything?
I am a Debian user and a Mac user. I don't consider myself super fanatical about either one. All thought I do have the Debian logo tattooed on my neck. No Apple/Mac logo though. I just like the design of the Debian logo as well as the OS.
I work as a Web Developer/Designer so I can call all of my surfing at work "research". Plus my boss has very poor eyesite anyway. He uses a 19" flat-panel at 800x600 and still has to wear glasses and be 6' from the monitor.
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I used to have a couple disposable, white clean-suits I got when I did HVAC work at a hospital. They came in pretty handy for quick Halloween costumes. One year I gutted and old monitor and went as a computer and the next year I found a stocking hat with flames on it and went as a match.
You could just put a plant on your head and go as a root, or a spoon and be "crazy-spoon-head-man".
I always make sure and keep and extra foil hat for just this reason. I also run a keyboard/keystroke logging tool to see exactly what secret messages he is sending back to base. The hidden web cam also gets a visual on anyone that gets on my 1337 Linux computer thats dual OC'd Athlons runnig @ 3ghz with 2 OC'd Nvida video cards on dual 24" flat panel monitors with 5.3 Dolby surround sound connected to 8 Martin Logan speakers and Sub and a giant modded case with windows and flashing neon and black lights and 22 fans and 3 120g hard drives and a DVD burner. with wireless Dvorak keyboard and wireless, optical, rechargable mouse.
You should see the look on their faces when I ask em to take off thier shoes and put on the foil hats. Priceless.
Well, at least we don't get advertising beamed into our dreams. Only on TV and radio and movies and billboards and the internet and clothes and on cars and magazines and newspapers and coffee cups and fruit. But not in our dreams, no way.
Considering most Americans don't know what a scrapheap is or a rubbish bin for that matter. Also Americans tend to like a good war rather than a challange. Junkyard Wars is a more suitable name for us.
I love it how all these rednecks over here say stuff like "This is 'Merica speak English." When actually we speak American. Anyone can see the difference.
OK, I should have dug around on that guy's site some more. Here are some pics of Henry sans tattoos with Black Flag in 1981. This was probably before most of you kids bitchin were even born. http://ccwf.cc.utexas.edu/~edge/idle_time/flag.htm l
I never paid much attention to Henry Rollins after Black Flag. So I can't say much about his poetry and books. But that guy was punk-fuckin-rock. Here's photo of him with Black Flag back in '84. http://ccwf.cc.utexas.edu/~edge/idle_time/black_fl ag.html. Damn, that was a good show. This was around the time he started beefin up. I tried to find some early Black Flag photos when he was long-haired, skinny and smiled a lot. Yes I am old, I remember Black Flag.
Accessibility is not just for the blind. A Web site builder needs to think about if someone like Stephen Hawkings or Christopher Reeves could navigate the site as well, without just "tabbing" through every link. Also Web standards does not equal accessibility either.
I don't think Flash should go away, but designers need to decide when is an appropriate time to use it. Games sites like NickJr.com and PBS Kids make good use of Flash and shockwave(I have kids). But band sites and company sites that are all in Flash do little but get real annoying fast and alienate those who can't use the site.
Wired just recently did a complete redesign of their site to follow Web standards and use XHTML and CSS. More info is here.
"An equal opportunity disease afflicts nearly every person now on the Web, from the humblest instant messenger to the multi-million-dollar-salaried heads of corporate giants. Cunning and insidious, the disease goes largely unrecognized because it is based on centuries of convention and grammar-school education. Though these users don't know it yet, 99% of the grammar they type is obsolete."
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I had a Vic-20 with the tape drive. I would code on that thing all the time. It got to the point where it was quicker to just key in the program than bring it in off of the tape. I even won some award at the science fair. My mom sent it in to K-Power magazine. I did want a C64 but we couldn't afford one at the time.
Why not go way oldschool and build yourself and original keyboard.
Gotta scroll down to see it.
Woz also has a good reason to get a Segway.
Mac Games = Aspyr
4X4 Evolution 2
Alice
Alien Crossfire
BloodRayne
Bugdom
Colins Classic Cards
Cro-Mag Rally
Deus Ex
Escape Monkey Island
GR: Desert Siege
HP Chamber / Secrets
HP Sorcerer's Stone
Jedi Knight II
Kelly Slater Surfer
Law & Order
MH: Allied Assault
MH: Spearhead
Madden 2000
NASCAR 2002
NASCAR 2003
Otto Matic
Return 2 Wolfenstein
STV EliteForce Combo
SWGB
SWGB Clone Campaigns
SimCity 4
Spider-Man
Spy Hunter
TR Chronicles
TR Last Revalation
The Sims
The Sims Hot Date
The Sims House Party
The Sims Livin Large
The Sims Unleashed
The Sims Vacation
Tiger Woods 2003
Tony Hawk 2
Tony Hawk 3
Tony Hawk 4
Undying
Zoo Tycoon
Could Ozzy figure out how to use this one?
Looks like a bad copy of a 15" TiBook with some blue trim added.
I remember playing D&D back then. Back when it took imagination to play a good RPG.
Well the link to the /. article about "Phoenix, the Mozilla-based web browser, is forced to change name. The new name has not yet been decided, but it is being discussed . The reason is that the BIOS manufacturer Phoenix Technologies dislikes the trademark infrigment. Next week version 0.5 will be released, with a new name." worked pretty good.
Not to date myself too badly, but the term "geek" hadn't been invented yet.
Wow when did you go to school, early 1800's?
From Dictionary.com:
geek
n. Slang
1.
1. A person regarded as foolish, inept, or clumsy.
2. A person who is single-minded or accomplished in scientific or technical pursuits but is felt to be socially inept.
2. A carnival performer whose show consists of bizarre acts, such as biting the head off a live chicken.
[Perhaps alteration of dialectal geck, fool, from Low German gek, from Middle Low German.]geeky adj.
Our Living Language Our word geek is now chiefly associated with student and computer slang; one probably thinks first of a computer geek. In origin, however, it is one of the words American English borrowed from the vocabulary of the circus, which was a much more significant source of entertainment in the United States in the 19th and early 20th century than it is now. Large numbers of traveling circuses left a cultural legacy in various and sometimes unexpected ways. For example, Superman and other comic book superheroes owe much of their look to circus acrobats, who were similarly costumed in capes and tights. The circus sideshow is the source of the word geek, "a performer who engaged in bizarre acts, such as biting the head off a live chicken." We also owe the word ballyhoo to the circus; its ultimate origin is unknown, but in the late 1800s it referred to a flamboyant free musical performance conducted outside a circus with the goal of luring customers to buy tickets to the inside shows. Other words and expressions with circus origins include bandwagon (coined by P.T. Barnum in 1855) and Siamese twin.
Why not use Ogg Vorbis?
Mmmm, I wonder if I can get Bob Young to sign my first issue of Linux Journal at Linuxworld in NYC and sell it on Ebay. Would it even be worth anything?
I am not even going to bother reading the other posts.
But I am typing this on a old keyboard called the Model M. It came off an old PS/2 that I got from school when they were going to throw it out. I also have another in the closet I got from Goodwill for $2. Anyone else know where I can find anymore? Maybe I'll check on Ebay, but I doubt there are even any still around since they quit making them years ago and everyone now needs the Windows keys.
Haha, I took took some pictures to remember. But I forgot where I put them.
Back when I did bulding maintenance and HVAC work I carried a toolbelt which carried several types of pliers; lineman, waterpump, locking, needle nose, several screwdrivers, and nutdrivers, an ohm meter, tape, utility knife, and a few custom tools - brake cable (makes a nice AC drain snake) and several other things that I can't remember now.
Plus on my regular belt: a Nextel phone, pager, big ass retractable key ring (chain not cable) with 30+ keys and an SOG geared multi-tool.
For those that do no explanation is needed.
For those that do not, none is possible.
It's an old quote usually attributed to Harley riders. But it goes for anything really. People get "fanatical" over many things; cars, computers, OS's, breakfast cereal, video games, music, flash or no flash, religion, toys, comic books, etc. I suppose all the people griping "why" do not collect anything?
I am a Debian user and a Mac user. I don't consider myself super fanatical about either one. All thought I do have the Debian logo tattooed on my neck. No Apple/Mac logo though. I just like the design of the Debian logo as well as the OS.
I work as a Web Developer/Designer so I can call all of my surfing at work "research".
Plus my boss has very poor eyesite anyway. He uses a 19" flat-panel at 800x600 and still has to wear glasses and be 6' from the monitor.
I used to have a couple disposable, white clean-suits I got when I did HVAC work at a hospital. They came in pretty handy for quick Halloween costumes. One year I gutted and old monitor and went as a computer and the next year I found a stocking hat with flames on it and went as a match.
You could just put a plant on your head and go as a root, or a spoon and be "crazy-spoon-head-man".
Gimme some candy!
I always make sure and keep and extra foil hat for just this reason. I also run a keyboard/keystroke logging tool to see exactly what secret messages he is sending back to base. The hidden web cam also gets a visual on anyone that gets on my 1337 Linux computer thats dual OC'd Athlons runnig @ 3ghz with 2 OC'd Nvida video cards on dual 24" flat panel monitors with 5.3 Dolby surround sound connected to 8 Martin Logan speakers and Sub and a giant modded case with windows and flashing neon and black lights and 22 fans and 3 120g hard drives and a DVD burner. with wireless Dvorak keyboard and wireless, optical, rechargable mouse.
You should see the look on their faces when I ask em to take off thier shoes and put on the foil hats. Priceless.
Well, at least we don't get advertising beamed into our dreams. Only on TV and radio and movies and billboards and the internet and clothes and on cars and magazines and newspapers and coffee cups and fruit. But not in our dreams, no way.
Run Linus, Run! [nylug.org]. No, really, RUN!!!
Now I remember where I saw this.
Photoshop the New York Linux Users Group
Considering most Americans don't know what a scrapheap is or a rubbish bin for that matter.
Also Americans tend to like a good war rather than a challange.
Junkyard Wars is a more suitable name for us.
I love it how all these rednecks over here say stuff like "This is 'Merica speak English." When actually we speak American. Anyone can see the difference.
OK, I should have dug around on that guy's site some more. Here are some pics of Henry sans tattoos with Black Flag in 1981. This was probably before most of you kids bitchin were even born.m l
http://ccwf.cc.utexas.edu/~edge/idle_time/flag.ht
Hardly a "muscle-bound jock".
I never paid much attention to Henry Rollins after Black Flag. So I can't say much about his poetry and books. But that guy was punk-fuckin-rock. Here's photo of him with Black Flag back in '84. http://ccwf.cc.utexas.edu/~edge/idle_time/black_fl ag.html.
Damn, that was a good show. This was around the time he started beefin up. I tried to find some early Black Flag photos when he was long-haired, skinny and smiled a lot. Yes I am old, I remember Black Flag.
Accessibility is not just for the blind. A Web site builder needs to think about if someone like Stephen Hawkings or Christopher Reeves could navigate the site as well, without just "tabbing" through every link. Also Web standards does not equal accessibility either.
A good example of an accessible site is the one for the School for the Blind.
I don't think Flash should go away, but designers need to decide when is an appropriate time to use it. Games sites like NickJr.com and PBS Kids make good use of Flash and shockwave(I have kids). But band sites and company sites that are all in Flash do little but get real annoying fast and alienate those who can't use the site.
Wired just recently did a complete redesign of their site to follow Web standards and use XHTML and CSS. More info is here.
"An equal opportunity disease afflicts nearly every person now on the Web, from the humblest instant messenger to the multi-million-dollar-salaried heads of corporate giants. Cunning and insidious, the disease goes largely unrecognized because it is based on centuries of convention and grammar-school education. Though these users don't know it yet, 99% of the grammar they type is obsolete."
Read the rest.