First By: Anonymous ( 19 Mar 2000 08:16 ) ( reply to comment )
Problem being, of course, that M-net is the second. Chinet, http://www.chinet.comwas the first. Up in june 1982 with a Compaq lunchbox, xenix and a pair of 300 baud modems. Sitting next to the first ever BBS, CBBS, invented by Ward Christensen and Randy Suess in Feb, 1978.
I took a completely different spin off the whole discussion. (Maybe that's because I set my threshold higher, I don't know)
What I got out of it was the eternal config debate. GUI vs text file. linuxconf vs YaST (actually I didn't see anyone mention YaST, but you see my point).
And that, I think was the sad thing; they all missed the point. It doesn't matter *how* you configure something. There will be a learning curve either way. What does matter (to me) is how do I find out *what* to configure.
I can man -k, or apropos, or info, or linuxconf, or YaST, or blaah all day. But if I don't know what I'm looking for I'm stumped.
Say I've just come out of a lifetime of Windows using.. And I want to setup a Direct Cable Connection in Linux.. How would I know to use PLIP or SLIP? Or what the commands were? Or where to look for them?
What I think is needed is a better help system. Or a more unified one. Or something. Something that's setup with keywords and such and so forth from Windows/MacOS/RiscOS/etc and their unix/linux counterparts (This would be the tedious part). So if I brought up the help thingie, and searched for Direct Cable Connection it'd come up with a short description of what DCC was (Clearly stating, that it was a Windows thing), and it would also explain breifly how it was done in Linux, and have pointers to the relevant howtos, or just the keywords to search for, or the relevant commands.
Such a thing would solve alot of problems for people like me who spend days banging their heads against brick walls trying to do the simplest things. And when I find the command I'm looking for, it couldn't have been simpler; I just didn't know what I was looking for. Or I was looking for the wrong thing.
You get my point. And yes, I am just one of those people who say, "What we need is X," and doesn't actually do anything about it.
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This is something that annoys me, everything to do with configuring X assumes you have the relevant documentation for your monitor; or access to such information.
If you don't, you're stuffed. Or get to spend hours trying every possible combination of numbers you can think of.
I've yet to get higher than 640x480 on either of my monitors (and I've been trying on and off since Slackware 2.1). Maybe I'm just doing something horribly wrong.
My monitors are both 14", both handle 800x600 without problems in Win95.
If anyone's managed to come up with a Modeline that achieves 800x600 on a Compaq Prolinea Net1/[25|33]S. Let me know.
At the local arcade about 1/3 of the games have gun like controllers, 1/2 of those are force feedback.
Yes, but, they're rather on the light side. And you can get quite sore arms from using them, I'm asuming real guns are heavier and have more kickback and don't have unlimited ammo. (I have, however never actually handled a real gun; so correct me if I'm wrong).
Hate to correct you, but you're wrong.. It's both. (In british english, at least)
At least, according to my New Zealand dictionary.. (of which I would name, but the cover's ripped off and it starts at alphanumeric.....).
chilliorchili ('tfili) n., pl. chilliesorchilies. the small red or green hot-tasting pod of a type of capsicum, used in cookery, often in powdered form. [Mexican Indian]
And dictionary.com, which I'd assume is American English tends to agree. chilli or chili.
I suppose that they impose GPL or something else. I looked around but I couldn't find a word this though. Can somebody tell me if they enforce a liscence or can you choose something like a BSD liscence or a GPL liscence or can you make your own half-breed liscence?
If I remember correctly the Herc went up to 720x480.
According to the Programmers Guide to the EGA, VGA and Super VGA Cards : Third Edition, page 101...
The Hercules adapter is based on the Motorola MC6845 Graphics Controller Chip. The Hercules Corporation quickly dominated the field of monochrome graphics and established the Hercules standard. The Hercules board provides a standard 80-character-by-25-row alphanumeric display and a relatively high resolution in the graphics mode of 720 horizontal by 348 vertical pixels. The outputs drive a digital monochrome monitor with sync frequencies of 50Hz vertical and 18.4kHz horizontal.
The Hercules board was the third display format standardized for the PC family of computers, following the Monochrome Display Adapter (MDA) and Color Graphics Adapter (CGA).
It was a bomb designed to take out the Germans' hydroelectric(?) dams. Basically it was a round bomb, dropped from a Lancaster. The bomber would fly towards the damn (at a set height/altitude/whatnot), drop the bomb, the bomb would bounce (hence the name) and hit the dam.
Very effective considering the other option was just to drop bombs and hope they'd hit. Although it was more dangerous, as it required lower level flight etc.
And for those who prefer pictures.
key o = bomb ~ = water level * = impact . = formatting kluge
My ascii art sucks, and you can fill in your own plane. And if anyone wishes to correct me, feel free as my memories a tad vague, the jist of it's there though.
If a small A-bomb detonated on the oceans surface can produce a thirty foot wall of water five miles from zero, imagine the devastating effect of a H-bomb several powers of magnitude larger.
Nope. Wouldn't work.
` "You can't confine the energy. Once the explosion gets big enough, all of its energy goes into the atmosphere and not into the water. But one of the things we discovered was if you had a series of explosions in the same place, it's much more effective and can produce much bigger waves." '
- NZ Herald : Devastating tsunami bomb viable, say experts
I read this is Saturdays' paper, both the web articles are a bit of a hack job. If only I'd kept the paper. Had a few more details.
Butanyway. The problem with "funny" is that it's easy to abuse, but I don't think the solution is to get rid of "funny" as a moderation option. I'm not sure how to encourage better-quality satire, however
I don't think that it's too easy to abuse, I think that one persons' funny is another persons' offtopic. So alot of moderation points go to waste. For example, moderators wasted 9 moderation points on this post of mine.
I would have been quite happy for it to have been a -1. (Although it was on topic, and I thought it was funny)
lol. Reminds me of the last (good (there's still one running..)) multi-line BBS down here in Auckland, New Zealand. I went over to check it out (read: piss up), and the guy opens up his hot water cupboard...and there it is, in all it's glory 6 assorted motherboards (and associated peripherals), 4 modems, etc.... All caseless.. Ahh...memories.
Hey.. Just noticed this Post Anon check box...what's this all about...hmm.
The couldn't trademark it because they didn't trademark it early enough (ie: 8086,80186,etc). And there were already clones of previous generations, and 586 was generic (in context with pervious generations)..
Then again, ask yourself why a DX4/100 was really triple the speed, not four times the speed?:)
There were two types of DX?/100. The DX3, 33Mhz * 3 = 99Mhz + 1MarketingHz and the DX4, 25Mhz * 4 = 100Mhz.
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Your logic is equally flawed.
In the case of copying a song, after the fact we have n + 1 copies of a song.
In the case of tangible goods, after the fact we have n - 1 tangible goods.
http://www.citylink.co.nz/faq/index.html
Yes, an assembly product like this exists. It's been around for a quarter of a century. It's called "C".
Down the bottom, in the comments:
I took a completely different spin off the whole discussion. (Maybe that's because I set my threshold higher, I don't know)
What I got out of it was the eternal config debate. GUI vs text file. linuxconf vs YaST (actually I didn't see anyone mention YaST, but you see my point).
And that, I think was the sad thing; they all missed the point. It doesn't matter *how* you configure something. There will be a learning curve either way. What does matter (to me) is how do I find out *what* to configure.
I can man -k, or apropos, or info, or linuxconf, or YaST, or blaah all day. But if I don't know what I'm looking for I'm stumped.
Say I've just come out of a lifetime of Windows using.. And I want to setup a Direct Cable Connection in Linux.. How would I know to use PLIP or SLIP? Or what the commands were? Or where to look for them?
What I think is needed is a better help system. Or a more unified one. Or something. Something that's setup with keywords and such and so forth from Windows/MacOS/RiscOS/etc and their unix/linux counterparts (This would be the tedious part). So if I brought up the help thingie, and searched for Direct Cable Connection it'd come up with a short description of what DCC was (Clearly stating, that it was a Windows thing), and it would also explain breifly how it was done in Linux, and have pointers to the relevant howtos, or just the keywords to search for, or the relevant commands.
Such a thing would solve alot of problems for people like me who spend days banging their heads against brick walls trying to do the simplest things. And when I find the command I'm looking for, it couldn't have been simpler; I just didn't know what I was looking for. Or I was looking for the wrong thing.
You get my point. And yes, I am just one of those people who say, "What we need is X," and doesn't actually do anything about it.
I *hope* we'll have the option of doing both!
Check it out, I'm still drooling over it. Haven't actually bought one. But I want one. TW-8200 series. It's the purple and black one. Mmm.
The question on my lips is, "Will it be all expenses paid???" (Note the TLD).
But what if there is no manual (for the monitor)?
This is something that annoys me, everything to do with configuring X assumes you have the relevant documentation for your monitor; or access to such information.
If you don't, you're stuffed. Or get to spend hours trying every possible combination of numbers you can think of.
I've yet to get higher than 640x480 on either of my monitors (and I've been trying on and off since Slackware 2.1). Maybe I'm just doing something horribly wrong.
My monitors are both 14", both handle 800x600 without problems in Win95.
If anyone's managed to come up with a Modeline that achieves 800x600 on a Compaq Prolinea Net1/[25|33]S. Let me know.
Similarly for a KTX 14", Model CAD-135.
Hate to correct you, but you're wrong.. It's both. (In british english, at least)
At least, according to my New Zealand dictionary.. (of which I would name, but the cover's ripped off and it starts at alphanumeric.....).
And dictionary.com, which I'd assume is American English tends to agree. chilli or chili.You didn't look very hard, did you?
Did you try the FAQ??
According to the Programmers Guide to the EGA, VGA and Super VGA Cards : Third Edition, page 101...
Check out www.empeg.co.uk.
You've never watched Dam Busters??
It was a bomb designed to take out the Germans' hydroelectric(?) dams. Basically it was a round bomb, dropped from a Lancaster. The bomber would fly towards the damn (at a set height/altitude/whatnot), drop the bomb, the bomb would bounce (hence the name) and hit the dam.
Very effective considering the other option was just to drop bombs and hope they'd hit. Although it was more dangerous, as it required lower level flight etc.
And for those who prefer pictures.
.o..........[air]...............___
....o......o......o.......o....|...|
.......o......o.......o.......*....|
............................/.[dam]|
........[water]............/.......|
key o = bomb
~ = water level
* = impact
. = formatting kluge
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~/.....|
My ascii art sucks, and you can fill in your own plane. And if anyone wishes to correct me, feel free as my memories a tad vague, the jist of it's there though.
Nope. Wouldn't work.
I read this is Saturdays' paper, both the web articles are a bit of a hack job. If only I'd kept the paper. Had a few more details.
I don't know about the states. IIRC, in my country it's not (New Zealand). Of course the distribution (IIRC, in any quantity) is.
IANAL. And I'm not condoning it.
Does anyone but me find it odd that under "favourite linux webpage" slashdot's the only one to not have a link to it?
Oh. Now. Don't I look foolish. It's the link right under the front cover.
For the life of me I can't find any mention of this on their webpage.
I'm taking for granted this is a real-world dead-trees thing? (the blurb thing wasn't terribly clear about it)
I don't think that it's too easy to abuse, I think that one persons' funny is another persons' offtopic. So alot of moderation points go to waste. For example, moderators wasted 9 moderation points on this post of mine.
I would have been quite happy for it to have been a -1. (Although it was on topic, and I thought it was funny)
lol. Reminds me of the last (good (there's still one running..)) multi-line BBS down here in Auckland, New Zealand. I went over to check it out (read: piss up), and the guy opens up his hot water cupboard...and there it is, in all it's glory 6 assorted motherboards (and associated peripherals), 4 modems, etc.... All caseless.. Ahh...memories.
Hey.. Just noticed this Post Anon check box...what's this all about...hmm.
The couldn't trademark it because they didn't trademark it early enough (ie: 8086,80186,etc). And there were already clones of previous generations, and 586 was generic (in context with pervious generations)..
There were two types of DX?/100. The DX3, 33Mhz * 3 = 99Mhz + 1MarketingHz and the DX4, 25Mhz * 4 = 100Mhz.
This, of course, got confused in marketing.
Well, I read alan's diary entry. And then came back to see what everyone had to say. And there were no comments. So I thought, hey...what the hell.