Yes, but in Mozilla, there will be no porn-related pop-unders. (Nice "don't open unrequested windows" and "don't allow Javascript to raise/lower windows" options *do* help...)
Okay, so to search in Google, I type "g (keywords)". I also use Everything2, so I have "e2 (title)" there too. And dictionary.com is handy, so "d (word)" helps a lot. And being a movie freak, "imdb (name)" helps a lot...
Granted, this needs memorization of these abbreviateions, but the point is, there can be an unlimited number of them, and these shortcuts can be assigned to any bookmark (with or without the string argument)...
Yeah, google toolbar has all sorts of eye-catches and buttons, but that's only for one search engine/database, while keywords work for any site. =)
Didn't MSNBC have the same sort of problem? They were running some version of *nix. Then when M$ noticed, they were forced to switch to IIS on NT and had the same problems with the server going up and down.
I guess so. Also, Hotmail has had a record of running on *BSD or Solaris or whatever and being stable, and whenever MS has tried to move it on Win2K, it has made my hotmail-using friend curse its slowness and general quality of operation...
(Last I heard they had moved most of it on Win2k, except some parts...)
* This has always pissed me off. There seems to be no reason to switch from the time-honored index.html to default.htm, except MS having their way.
Well, could be worse - W3C's Offischyool reference httpd implementation uses "Overview.html"! (In case you have been wondering why HTML reference docs don't use "index.html" either...)
Agreed, "index.html" was used in Those Old httpds and since that in Apache, the Only Real One - but the way servers are supposed to keep files isn't standardized, and I think that's a good thing (except in case you all of sudden need to use another httpd, as in this case).
As to spam from Nigeria - I've never had any (that I know of) - how about everyone else?
I have. In fact, I've seen even more than usual of that spam this year! And, much to my relief, the spammers have bought a new keyboard - you know, ones that has lower-case letters too. =)
Xenix was that Evil Overlord who v-bombed the PCs in planet Iibee-em (the Earth), was vanquished by the Loyal Officers and is now trapped somewhere and will return some day.
The save game files and bones files are not portable! As far as I know, they never have been.
Actually, I think the bones files have always been build-dependent; If you recompile same version of the game for same architecture it will refuse to load the game. (I think it depends on build options...)
Yeah, I particularly miss that bones file of mine from 3.2 in which I had tons of artifacts and stuff from two characters in the bottom of the Gnomish Mines... Due to Technological Progress it's gone forever. =(
::drags the offender around the corner and slaps::
Should I fine you for false alarm? =)
(I thought of expanding RGRNCA to Slashdot, but considering Slashdot doesn't post too many stories of Nethack and the reader population is probably well enough educated, I think someone else should do the job. Moderators. Or something. =)
In this case, it could be argued that the joke was pretty obvious and not very original to begin with...
Funny, yes, but predictable =)
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Hey, let's not be unfair. At least we Perl users have terminal control libraries and something that looks like a programming language. Besides, using sed for "real" programming is hard and challenging and people stand in awe, but using Perl for real programming is just fun and no one notices if you program something infinitely cool with it, because Perl was made so that infinitely cool things could be made easily.
This hack is impressive because it was made in a toothless environment, not because it has not yet been implemented in some better language =)
I was under the impression that Blender had, somewhere in the website, a comment that said (basically) "if we go out of business, Blender goes open source; If we sell it, we won't sell it unless they promise to do the same thing". (I remember something vague about BSD lisence, but I could be wrong.)
I certainly hope they won't find anyone to sell it to so we get the thing =)
Anyway, as a long-time Blender user (but not long enough time, that's for sure), I have to say that it's a shame that they had to go. I hope they keep the word now and Blender will once again be visible, either still as freeware or under DFSG-compliant lisence.
Yeah, and know what's even worse than that? People actually buy cellphones because of the games.
I suppose there are people who buy it just for games, too... =(
I didn't "upgrade" my Nokia 9110 to 9210 to see KeWl colors and play kEwL new EPOC games; I "upgraded" my old GameBoy to GBA instead, and I still talk, SMS, E-mail and use Terminal happily with the 9110... =)
You may want to take a look at G-Cluster. I saw one demo of this stuff in local game program. Basically, it's a wireless game system that is based on streaming video - all game sessions are kept on the server.
They played Quake and TuxRacer in the demo. Pretty cool.
The phones out in Japan have large color screens, and the latest generation have cameras built in to them so you can take a picture and email it to someone!
Big deal. Nokia's new models already do those. =)
I only have the 9110, which has a grayscale display, but that has a digicam interface of some sort... 9210 has color, and a couple of cool multimedia features too. It had damn video player in it. (E-mail some movie clips over GPRS in future? =)
(Note from grumpy e-mail user:) And E-mailing images and videos is soooo annoying. Put the damn things to web pages, please (and yes, it can be done with the Communicator too =)
Well, Cosmo runs WinNT 3.51 and Excel on a Cray supercomputer in Sneakers. (It was the only really surreal computer-related thing in the movie, apart of the widget they were handling, of course. The rest of the movie was somewhat more credible =)
(Of course, maybe he had a PC by the desk and the supercomputer was there for corporate use or something...)
Actually, most people cite the Buache Map (also shown in the images of the site you mentioned) as the example of "hey, they made maps that showed subglacial Antarctica in 1700s!"... but Buache himself didn't know of that, he specifically wrote to the corner of the map, "We saw some Pænguins and those Glacier things and some pretty nasty Icebergs", but since he wrote that in French instead of English, most people thought he was way ahead of time when he (supposedly) published a map of Antarctica without ice.
Pretty good the theorists are wrong. Otherwise, New Zealand would be under the ice, too. =)
Some time before I got Linux, I was writing games for DOS in Turbo Pascal 7. Then I slowly downloaded DJGPP 1.2something, because I wanted to learn C - and I knew the Linux dev tools would be similar, so that was just a bonus.
I found one Linux game that I wanted to make to run on DOS with DJGPP.
The Dungeon, the game later known in commercial form as Zork. It was written in Fortran.
The tarball had the Fortran sources and the shell script used to compile the thing (no makefile).
I decided to port the build script to.bat. My first reaction when I saw the script?
"Wow. UNIX shells have sane-looking loops!"
Ended up doing a massive copy-edit-replace job because.bat loops are entirely braindead. =)
The game played just fine after I got it built, though...
kernel: Kernel panic: Ththththaats all folks. Too dangerous to continue.
Good that the OS softens the blow somewhat. I mean, I was usually somewhat amused by the "Aiee, killing interrupt handler" message. This sort of messages are much better than "a really big screw-up has been detected"...
And what comes to calming error messages in user space, Perl's "Coy" module rocks. =)
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Yes, but in Mozilla, there will be no porn-related pop-unders. (Nice "don't open unrequested windows" and "don't allow Javascript to raise/lower windows" options *do* help...)
Something similar?
Okay, so to search in Google, I type "g (keywords)". I also use Everything2, so I have "e2 (title)" there too. And dictionary.com is handy, so "d (word)" helps a lot. And being a movie freak, "imdb (name)" helps a lot...
Granted, this needs memorization of these abbreviateions, but the point is, there can be an unlimited number of them, and these shortcuts can be assigned to any bookmark (with or without the string argument)...
Yeah, google toolbar has all sorts of eye-catches and buttons, but that's only for one search engine/database, while keywords work for any site. =)
I guess so. Also, Hotmail has had a record of running on *BSD or Solaris or whatever and being stable, and whenever MS has tried to move it on Win2K, it has made my hotmail-using friend curse its slowness and general quality of operation...
(Last I heard they had moved most of it on Win2k, except some parts...)
Well, could be worse - W3C's Offischyool reference httpd implementation uses "Overview.html"! (In case you have been wondering why HTML reference docs don't use "index.html" either...)
Agreed, "index.html" was used in Those Old httpds and since that in Apache, the Only Real One - but the way servers are supposed to keep files isn't standardized, and I think that's a good thing (except in case you all of sudden need to use another httpd, as in this case).
I have. In fact, I've seen even more than usual of that spam this year! And, much to my relief, the spammers have bought a new keyboard - you know, ones that has lower-case letters too. =)
Oh, yeah. definitely not a coincidence.
Xenix was that Evil Overlord who v-bombed the PCs in planet Iibee-em (the Earth), was vanquished by the Loyal Officers and is now trapped somewhere and will return some day.
Or something like that =)
The save game files and bones files are not portable! As far as I know, they never have been.
Actually, I think the bones files have always been build-dependent; If you recompile same version of the game for same architecture it will refuse to load the game. (I think it depends on build options...)
Yeah, I particularly miss that bones file of mine from 3.2 in which I had tons of artifacts and stuff from two characters in the bottom of the Gnomish Mines... Due to Technological Progress it's gone forever. =(
::drags the offender around the corner and slaps::
Should I fine you for false alarm? =)
(I thought of expanding RGRNCA to Slashdot, but considering Slashdot doesn't post too many stories of Nethack and the reader population is probably well enough educated, I think someone else should do the job. Moderators. Or something. =)
In this case, it could be argued that the joke was pretty obvious and not very original to begin with...
Funny, yes, but predictable =)
Hey, let's not be unfair. At least we Perl users have terminal control libraries and something that looks like a programming language. Besides, using sed for "real" programming is hard and challenging and people stand in awe, but using Perl for real programming is just fun and no one notices if you program something infinitely cool with it, because Perl was made so that infinitely cool things could be made easily.
This hack is impressive because it was made in a toothless environment, not because it has not yet been implemented in some better language =)
Except that according to stat, /dev/zero and /dev/random both have size of 0...
nighthowl:~$ perl -e 'print -s "/dev/random", "\n";'
0
Besides, what's easier to report with a long type: "zero size" or "infinite size"? =) Sure, it'd be neat to return LONG_MAX...
I was under the impression that Blender had, somewhere in the website, a comment that said (basically) "if we go out of business, Blender goes open source; If we sell it, we won't sell it unless they promise to do the same thing". (I remember something vague about BSD lisence, but I could be wrong.)
I certainly hope they won't find anyone to sell it to so we get the thing =)
Anyway, as a long-time Blender user (but not long enough time, that's for sure), I have to say that it's a shame that they had to go. I hope they keep the word now and Blender will once again be visible, either still as freeware or under DFSG-compliant lisence.
Yeah, and know what's even worse than that? People actually buy cellphones because of the games.
I suppose there are people who buy it just for games, too... =(
I didn't "upgrade" my Nokia 9110 to 9210 to see KeWl colors and play kEwL new EPOC games; I "upgraded" my old GameBoy to GBA instead, and I still talk, SMS, E-mail and use Terminal happily with the 9110... =)
You may want to take a look at G-Cluster. I saw one demo of this stuff in local game program. Basically, it's a wireless game system that is based on streaming video - all game sessions are kept on the server.
They played Quake and TuxRacer in the demo. Pretty cool.
Big deal. Nokia's new models already do those. =)
I only have the 9110, which has a grayscale display, but that has a digicam interface of some sort... 9210 has color, and a couple of cool multimedia features too. It had damn video player in it. (E-mail some movie clips over GPRS in future? =)
(Note from grumpy e-mail user:) And E-mailing images and videos is soooo annoying. Put the damn things to web pages, please (and yes, it can be done with the Communicator too =)
Listening to the digital whispers of the spirits of the Machine. =) Ah, how cute...
Well, Cosmo runs WinNT 3.51 and Excel on a Cray supercomputer in Sneakers. (It was the only really surreal computer-related thing in the movie, apart of the widget they were handling, of course. The rest of the movie was somewhat more credible =)
(Of course, maybe he had a PC by the desk and the supercomputer was there for corporate use or something...)
Actually, most people cite the Buache Map (also shown in the images of the site you mentioned) as the example of "hey, they made maps that showed subglacial Antarctica in 1700s!"... but Buache himself didn't know of that, he specifically wrote to the corner of the map, "We saw some Pænguins and those Glacier things and some pretty nasty Icebergs", but since he wrote that in French instead of English, most people thought he was way ahead of time when he (supposedly) published a map of Antarctica without ice.
Pretty good the theorists are wrong. Otherwise, New Zealand would be under the ice, too. =)
One of the things that bug me in Links is the mouse support. I liked Lynx before it make the disabling of xterm mouse support Painful!
(I don't want any of this silly mouse clickin' action, especially if it interferes with xterm cut-and-paste!)
For textual browsing, I prefer w3m.
Well, I'm not dead yet, and Slashdot still carries some interesting stuff, so, uh, here I am. =)
I assume you meant WWW, not Internet =)
(Then again, pr0n is often found in FTP, too... but let's not split hairs further, okay?)
Can't be. BillG does not use more than 5 words in E-mail replies. =)
They already had a story about that! =)
.BATs are powerful now? =)
Some .BAT nostalgy:
Some time before I got Linux, I was writing games for DOS in Turbo Pascal 7. Then I slowly downloaded DJGPP 1.2something, because I wanted to learn C - and I knew the Linux dev tools would be similar, so that was just a bonus.
I found one Linux game that I wanted to make to run on DOS with DJGPP.
The Dungeon, the game later known in commercial form as Zork. It was written in Fortran.
The tarball had the Fortran sources and the shell script used to compile the thing (no makefile).
I decided to port the build script to .bat. My first reaction when I saw the script?
"Wow. UNIX shells have sane-looking loops!"
Ended up doing a massive copy-edit-replace job because .bat loops are entirely braindead. =)
The game played just fine after I got it built, though...
Good that the OS softens the blow somewhat. I mean, I was usually somewhat amused by the "Aiee, killing interrupt handler" message. This sort of messages are much better than "a really big screw-up has been detected"...
And what comes to calming error messages in user space, Perl's "Coy" module rocks. =)