Ugh, you're kidding, right? Clear where left arrow (backspace) should be? Backspace right next to (reduced in size) enter key?! No, the CoCo 3 layout is pretty awful. I like that they added a real control key (in the right place, but presumably only useful in OS-9 or with a terminal emulator), but the placement of some of the others is just wrong.
Even lacking a control key, the old CoCo 2 layout is better - and the Dragon keyboard is even nicer to type on: better quality keyboard, CoCo 2 layout.
Which is why the GNU system + the kernel of Solaris (SunOS) should, in the name of accurate representation, be named GNU/SunOS.
That really wasn't any sort of joke post, it was based on the fact that the Solaris kernel is, *actually*, called SunOS. Of course, I've not really been paying attention , so the official name for the Free release could have a totally different naming convention for all I know.
The open and close brackets are on 8 and 9 respectively.
As they always used to be! It took quite a while to make the transition from Dragon keyboard (or that of pretty much any old 8-bit that actually had something like a real keyboard) to PC. Of course now I wouldn't have it any other way (it's now quite confusing using an emulator not in translation mode).
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On this (Sun Type-5 US Unix) keyboard and indeed my Happy Hacking at home (which, by the way, you can get with blank caps), '~' is top-right, above backspace, and '|' is right next to it on the left.
On top of that, Control is next to 'A' and Escape is top-left, next to '1'. This is my preferred layout. The only remapping I have to do is swap '@' and '"' (the latter should be Shift+'2').
They show movies, but intersperse them with so many adverts, animated station ID's, "what's next" scrolling banners and the like that you lose any sense of the 'magic' that a good movie can bring. Maybe British TV has gone to hell since I left, but I doubt it can be as bad as commercial Australian TV.
Even the BBC have started splitting films in two, putting the news between the two halves, which is something ITV managed to screw up many years before. You'd think we'd have learnt. I can't remember whether they took that opportunity to show a bunch of BBC trailers though (people are critical of those trailers, accusing them of being "just like the adverts on ITV", but at least they don't normally interrupt a running programme with them).
They decided that since their R&D department is not bringing in any cash, they'll flog it to the highest bidder... I'm not sure if they've already finished getting rid of the department.
Not true. They're selling off BBC Technology, which handle various things essential in the broadcast chain, Internet Services and (incidentally) PC desktop support.
I asked him about their recent OGG trials, and he said that not only did he know nothing about it, his dept. didn't even play any part or have any influence. Crazy big corporations!
True, although the dept. that did were in the same building!
While HG Wells was an enthusiastic supporter of many of the film adaptations of his work
Bob knows why. I have a half-memory of a black & white film that may only have existed in my dreams that seemed right to me, but the colour film with the hovering machines was just nonsense.
the likely attitude that Orson Welles might have had to another director taking one of the works with which he became most closely associated, can only be a matter of conjecture.
Who cares enough to indulge in such conjecture? It wasn't his story. Just like it wasn't Jeff Wayne's story (although I've heard rumours that he effectively tries to claim as much these days... "That's just what I heard somewhere". Though I do really like that musical.).
Their familiarity with pico lead me to attempt to use pine as their email client. This went well although users complained that they had lost some of the discussion ability. They asked if there was some program that could read mail "by discussion". Time constraints meant I avoided attempting to teach them old-school Unix mail but I suggested they read the man page.
The author might have found the 'MH' suite (or nmh, its modern successor) filled this role amply. I love it myself because I don't have to dedicate an xterm to running a mail client. If xbiff beeps at me, I can just 'inc' as the next thing I do in whichever terminal I happen to be using at the time.
Indeed. I got a mail today from someone using evilwm saying that if they use Gnome with it, things like the panel, etc. end up in weird places. Best I can guess is that Gnome apps are using new-fangled fd.o _NET_MOVERESIZE_WINDOW messages to position their windows rather than old-fangled ConfigureRequest events, assuming the window manager will send the correct events for it!
Shouldn't the Gnome libs see that I don't support their method and fall back to the one everyone else uses? I think so, but apparantly they don't, which means I'm going to have to implement the new stuff at some point.
Bah!
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Agreed, I learnt on the 6809 and remember being bemused by the limitations of 6502 when I came to try it!
Oddly I read this while having a text editor open on m6809.c :)
Let's hope we get a similar ruling in this country some time (seems unlikely under the yoke of Mandelson, but still).
Get developing!
A completely black page?
Oh, wait, do I need to whitelist something in noscript for that? Pass.
Ugh, you're kidding, right? Clear where left arrow (backspace) should be? Backspace right next to (reduced in size) enter key?! No, the CoCo 3 layout is pretty awful. I like that they added a real control key (in the right place, but presumably only useful in OS-9 or with a terminal emulator), but the placement of some of the others is just wrong.
Even lacking a control key, the old CoCo 2 layout is better - and the Dragon keyboard is even nicer to type on: better quality keyboard, CoCo 2 layout.
That all looks about right.
Which is why the GNU system + the kernel of Solaris (SunOS) should, in the name of accurate representation, be named GNU/SunOS.
That really wasn't any sort of joke post, it was based on the fact that the Solaris kernel is, *actually*, called SunOS. Of course, I've not really been paying attention , so the official name for the Free release could have a totally different naming convention for all I know.
GNU/SunOS, surely?
My (open, easy to dev for) GP32 plays all those but the SNES games (well, it does those, just quite slowly).
I'd buy a PSP if I could port my emulator to it and rely on the fact I'd still be able to use it after the next commercial game I played.
And Ideal. That rocked, even with Johnny Vegas.
The open and close brackets are on 8 and 9 respectively.
As they always used to be! It took quite a while to make the transition from Dragon keyboard (or that of pretty much any old 8-bit that actually had something like a real keyboard) to PC. Of course now I wouldn't have it any other way (it's now quite confusing using an emulator not in translation mode).
On this (Sun Type-5 US Unix) keyboard and indeed my Happy Hacking at home (which, by the way, you can get with blank caps), '~' is top-right, above backspace, and '|' is right next to it on the left.
On top of that, Control is next to 'A' and Escape is top-left, next to '1'. This is my preferred layout. The only remapping I have to do is swap '@' and '"' (the latter should be Shift+'2').
They show movies, but intersperse them with so many adverts, animated station ID's, "what's next" scrolling banners and the like that you lose any sense of the 'magic' that a good movie can bring. Maybe British TV has gone to hell since I left, but I doubt it can be as bad as commercial Australian TV.
Even the BBC have started splitting films in two, putting the news between the two halves, which is something ITV managed to screw up many years before. You'd think we'd have learnt. I can't remember whether they took that opportunity to show a bunch of BBC trailers though (people are critical of those trailers, accusing them of being "just like the adverts on ITV", but at least they don't normally interrupt a running programme with them).
If MS provided decent after-sales support to people that bought legitimate copies, this would actually be a very useful tool to some of those people.
I mean that's the only reason anyone would pay for an operating system, right?
Hmm, missed that one. Probably because I spent most of my time around the Wales & West stall :)
And no, I'm not new here ;)
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EvidentlyThey decided that since their R&D department is not bringing in any cash, they'll flog it to the highest bidder... I'm not sure if they've already finished getting rid of the department.
Not true. They're selling off BBC Technology, which handle various things essential in the broadcast chain, Internet Services and (incidentally) PC desktop support.
R&D is safe for now.
I asked him about their recent OGG trials, and he said that not only did he know nothing about it, his dept. didn't even play any part or have any influence. Crazy big corporations!
True, although the dept. that did were in the same building!
While HG Wells was an enthusiastic supporter of many of the film adaptations of his work
Bob knows why. I have a half-memory of a black & white film that may only have existed in my dreams that seemed right to me, but the colour film with the hovering machines was just nonsense.
the likely attitude that Orson Welles might have had to another director taking one of the works with which he became most closely associated, can only be a matter of conjecture.
Who cares enough to indulge in such conjecture? It wasn't his story. Just like it wasn't Jeff Wayne's story (although I've heard rumours that he effectively tries to claim as much these days... "That's just what I heard somewhere". Though I do really like that musical.).
The author might have found the 'MH' suite (or nmh, its modern successor) filled this role amply. I love it myself because I don't have to dedicate an xterm to running a mail client. If xbiff beeps at me, I can just 'inc' as the next thing I do in whichever terminal I happen to be using at the time.
I wouldn't be at all surprised if this bug was in the PAM library or a module.
Neither would I. From the patch details:
Indeed. A quick round of chmod o-x /usr/bin/passwd to start with though.
For example the BBC has not embraced Open Source, even for their own in house products, even under a non-commercial-use-only license.
Not embraced per se, but:
Indeed. I got a mail today from someone using evilwm saying that if they use Gnome with it, things like the panel, etc. end up in weird places. Best I can guess is that Gnome apps are using new-fangled fd.o _NET_MOVERESIZE_WINDOW messages to position their windows rather than old-fangled ConfigureRequest events, assuming the window manager will send the correct events for it! Shouldn't the Gnome libs see that I don't support their method and fall back to the one everyone else uses? I think so, but apparantly they don't, which means I'm going to have to implement the new stuff at some point. Bah!