Its for a rather small open source project with less than 100 users, but yea, I screwed up on the version number code and now its kind of a baked in mis-feature.
Atari BASIC is what prepared me for C, and its string handling was very similar to Apple Integer BASIC, not to be confused with the far more popular MicroSoft style BASIC most people used.
There are really only three kinds of adds that I block and I consider myself "justified" in all three.
Popups for a large number of reasons.
Anything that flashes or blinks. I have borderline seizure disorder and some days ANY blinking is too much.
Any ad (or DHTML window) that doesn't play nice with my browser (Firefox). I'm not at my normal machine right now so I can't give specific URLs, but I know at least two sites that I could only navigate after using an ad blocker to 'free up' the screen.
Gads... I wish I/could/ forget that horrible excuse for a film. Though I saw WotW first, I realized the movie had been badly botched and made no sense what-so-ever. Watching a fan-dubbed version of the origional made everything clear and came as a relief.
It is amazing how I can go from disliking someone (Miyazaki) and transferring that dislike to the correct person (Charles Masek -- spelling guessed at).
If you really need a lightweight web browser for an older machine, I would recommend
Dillo - a nice lightweight browser, but no CSS or Javascript. Requiress GTK something.
Links 2 - Runs in X, frame buffer, SVGA. Some CSS and Javascript support.
Both are very lightweight and I've used both on ancient machines that needed "something." I'll usually include Firefox as a backup for sites that really need it.
Not all projects work well in a highly distributed kind of setting.
Tasks that can be worked on pretty much independently such as finding primes or the SETI@HOME will work find on whatever system can be cobbled together. (To see if n is a prime you don't care of n-2 or n+2 is also a prime. Every integer can be tested for primeness regardless of other numbers.)
Other kinds of computing need to share a great deal more information between the processors. Weather simulation, geological studies, etc. (To understand what data you have at point x,y it is useful to check the areas around that for something similiar.)
For these kind of tasks, the best system we have come up with far is a super computer with the processors jammed as close to each other as we can put them.
I remember trying to get bang paths set up between Usenet and Fidonet. Back in the days when three days to send email was still "pretty darn quick" and you used Snail Mail (just called "mail" back then) if you were in a rush.
The worst was trying to get through mailing relays, those where horrid...
I'd be tempted to add moria/angband to that list. That program runs on a -WHOLE LOT- of platforms including rather interesting kMoria for the Palm Pilot.
After getting VERY burned out as a programmer I decided that my hobbies should be as low tech as I could possibly ever make them.
Somehow, after a hard day of coding it feels good to get changed into my kilt, throw a set of bagpipes over my shoulder and walk off towards the woods.
(A compromise, you might say, with my neighbors. I won't play more than 10 minutes in the back yard and they won't threaten my life.)
I also play the Irish Whistle (AKA tin whistle, tin flute, penny whistle) and meet with a couple of other musicians (one plays guitar the other dulcimer) and we'll jam for a few hours or so.
I'm activily involved in my local Tourette's Support group and am always doing research for both myself and the kidlets that we have gathering around.
My father is a bardic story teller and I carry on that tradition though I've also tried to add the written word onto that list.
I also cook, though its a self-taught rather unique style do to a large number of food allergies but I seldom get complaints.
Unlike most of the/. crowd, I do *not* enjoy taking things apart and finding putting them back together again to be a VERRY difficult task. The saying is "We have two kinds machines in this house. Those that work and those that Jeremy messed with."
Actually, thats not quite true, at least not in my city.
When I was an assistant manager at a local retail store we found one of the employees had stolen several thousand dollars from the company. This brought the "Asset Protection" people into play and they came to the store.
An arrest was made but because the employee made an agreement to pay back the money, the local police *would* *not* charge her with a criminal offense.
I've been a long time fan of EvilWM. Found myself in possession of an old Toshiba Laptop with only 16M of RAM and a 1.3G drive.
Found its quite possible to run a basic useable system but I had to choose my software carefully. Links (configured for graphics) and/or dillo make a useable web browser while I use run GAIM for a chat client. (Gaim is a bit too heavy weight for what I like, but oh well.)
EvilWM is the window manager that makes this possible, but I did couple that with a basic menuing system written using bash and xmessage. Just because most computer users fall into the "norm" doesn't mean there are no uses outside the box, so to speak.
How true this is. I've managed to get Xfree86, the "Evil Window Manager" (evilwm), dillo and graphical links running on a P75 laptop with 16M ram and a 1.2G hard drive.
Throw on GAIM and I've got a wonderful machine to keep tucked beside the couch in the living room to just surf the web when I get tired of being in the computer room. Not to mention its nice for sitting in the shade of the backyard doing my research.
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I *DO* this!
Its for a rather small open source project with less than 100 users, but yea, I screwed up on the version number code and now its kind of a baked in mis-feature.
Hey now...
Atari BASIC is what prepared me for C, and its string handling was very similar to Apple Integer BASIC, not to be confused with the far more popular MicroSoft style BASIC most people used.
Check out
http://thedailywtf.com/
They have a whole section on screen captures.
Fool? No-one.
Learn what fsck means.
If you HAVE to run fsck, then it means that things are fsck'd up.
(Hint: Windows users have the rather boring name of Scandisk.exe)
We are the electrons.
Resistance is voltage / current.
Gads... I wish I /could/ forget that horrible excuse for a film. Though I saw WotW first, I realized the movie had been badly botched and made no sense what-so-ever. Watching a fan-dubbed version of the origional made everything clear and came as a relief.
It is amazing how I can go from disliking someone (Miyazaki) and transferring that dislike to the correct person (Charles Masek -- spelling guessed at).
Actually, I think the plural of 'house' should be 'hice.'
Bah, finally got mod points and something I /feel/ deserved modded and what do I do?
:(
I hit the wrong option and post this to undo my mod effects.
My apologies.
If you really need a lightweight web browser for an older machine, I would recommend
Dillo - a nice lightweight browser, but no CSS or Javascript. Requiress GTK something.
Links 2 - Runs in X, frame buffer, SVGA. Some CSS and Javascript support.
Both are very lightweight and I've used both on ancient machines that needed "something." I'll usually include Firefox as a backup for sites that really need it.Sometimes words aren't enough...
Not all projects work well in a highly distributed kind of setting.
Tasks that can be worked on pretty much independently such as finding primes or the SETI@HOME will work find on whatever system can be cobbled together. (To see if n is a prime you don't care of n-2 or n+2 is also a prime. Every integer can be tested for primeness regardless of other numbers.)
Other kinds of computing need to share a great deal more information between the processors. Weather simulation, geological studies, etc. (To understand what data you have at point x,y it is useful to check the areas around that for something similiar.)
For these kind of tasks, the best system we have come up with far is a super computer with the processors jammed as close to each other as we can put them.
I remember trying to get bang paths set up between Usenet and Fidonet. Back in the days when three days to send email was still "pretty darn quick" and you used Snail Mail (just called "mail" back then) if you were in a rush.
The worst was trying to get through mailing relays, those where horrid...
Ohhh.. my! I have to agree mate.. wish I had some mod points, even if I couldn't give you Karma.
You know whats really bad? As a dyslexic, I had to read this three or four times to realize there was something wrong.
I'd be tempted to add moria/angband to that list. That program runs on a -WHOLE LOT- of platforms including rather interesting kMoria for the Palm Pilot.
After getting VERY burned out as a programmer I decided that my hobbies should be as low tech as I could possibly ever make them.
/. crowd, I do *not* enjoy taking things apart and finding putting them back together again to be a VERRY difficult task. The saying is "We have two kinds machines in this house. Those that work and those that Jeremy messed with."
Somehow, after a hard day of coding it feels good to get changed into my kilt, throw a set of bagpipes over my shoulder and walk off towards the woods.
(A compromise, you might say, with my neighbors. I won't play more than 10 minutes in the back yard and they won't threaten my life.)
I also play the Irish Whistle (AKA tin whistle, tin flute, penny whistle) and meet with a couple of other musicians (one plays guitar the other dulcimer) and we'll jam for a few hours or so.
I'm activily involved in my local Tourette's Support group and am always doing research for both myself and the kidlets that we have gathering around.
My father is a bardic story teller and I carry on that tradition though I've also tried to add the written word onto that list.
I also cook, though its a self-taught rather unique style do to a large number of food allergies but I seldom get complaints.
Unlike most of the
Actually, thats not quite true, at least not in my city.
When I was an assistant manager at a local retail store we found one of the employees had stolen several thousand dollars from the company. This brought the "Asset Protection" people into play and they came to the store.
An arrest was made but because the employee made an agreement to pay back the money, the local police *would* *not* charge her with a criminal offense.
You can also move windows with CTRL-ALT-[key] using the same keysets as the Angband "Rouge" set.
example
Ctrl-alt-n moves to the bottom right corner
ctrl-alt-y moves to the upper left
ctrl-alt-j moves a window down a line
ctrl-alt-x maximise
Thank you a lot for the info on that.
Looking it up now!
I've been a long time fan of EvilWM. Found myself in possession of an old Toshiba Laptop with only 16M of RAM and a 1.3G drive.
Found its quite possible to run a basic useable system but I had to choose my software carefully. Links (configured for graphics) and/or dillo make a useable web browser while I use run GAIM for a chat client. (Gaim is a bit too heavy weight for what I like, but oh well.)
EvilWM is the window manager that makes this possible, but I did couple that with a basic menuing system written using bash and xmessage. Just because most computer users fall into the "norm" doesn't mean there are no uses outside the box, so to speak.
Of course my time is worth something, but its not enough to just go out and buy a new keyboard.
Not to mention that my preferred keyboard is no longer made..
(A NUFORM keyboard by Adesso. A Natural shaped keyboard with a mouse pointer in the middle. I can't find anything else to replace it with.)
How true this is. I've managed to get Xfree86, the "Evil Window Manager" (evilwm), dillo and graphical links running on a P75 laptop with 16M ram and a 1.2G hard drive.
Throw on GAIM and I've got a wonderful machine to keep tucked beside the couch in the living room to just surf the web when I get tired of being in the computer room. Not to mention its nice for sitting in the shade of the backyard doing my research.
Yea, that rm -rf /tmp/.* bit me once too.
Heard the old MFM hard drive start cranking and I dove for the power switch. Some days I miss that Minix box.
I know!
"eh?" is the official pronunciation of the ";" character.