my Dad, a sportswriter, used to use a Model 100, and later Model 200 (bigger screen) to cover the Red Sox - he'd upload to the newspaper via the built-in 300 baud modem - those dreaded 'cups' for connecting to the phone didn't work too well when there was a lot of crowd noise but many phones at the time (early 80's) still were hardwired into the wall so you couldn't use the modular plug...i wrote a program for him in BASIC and Z-80 (i think?) machine code to compute the length of stories in newspaper column inches...i think he still has both machines - he used to carry the Model 200 along as a backup even after he got a 'modern' laptop...
A gripe I have with the memory is that it comes with 128 MB built-in and 128 MB on the memory placeholder, by default. I don't get that. Why didn't they include that 256 MB as built-in so it could free up the memory placeholder for the user to add a 512 module and go up to 768 MB of max RAM? The way it is now, the max is at 640 MB...
And besides, how do you do something like this in a GUI file manager?
find . -name "*.txt" -exec grep "foobar" {} \;
..hate to admit it but Windoze does this quite nicely with the 'Find...' utility..right click on a directory in Windows Exploder, select 'Find...' from the popup, then you can specify a wildcard, text to search for (i don't think regexps work)...and you can actually do something with the results (delete them, move them, open them etc.)...i don't use the cygwin find (as much) anymore since discovering this..
Knuth did not only 'develop TeX'. That was a small part of a larger project in which he
Developed METAFONT, a language for designing fonts
Invented the Web programming language and so-called 'literate programming' (TeX and METAFONT are both written in Web)
Documented all of the above in a series of books
Claiming that he doesn't deserve recognition because his books are not Open Source is ludicrous, but incidentally, I do remember getting the TeX source for the Metafont book with the TeX distribution (of course, the source for all of his software is open)
If NASA thought that Gus 'screwed the pooch' on Liberty Bell 7, his career as an astronaut would have been over. Yet, he was chosen as one of the first Gemini astronauts and one of the first Apollo astronauts. Therefore, I think his name has been sufficiently cleared.
Sad news...If anyone thinks this is off-topic, I would like to let them know that there is a Shel Silverstein poem entitled "The GNOME, the Gnat, and the GNU"!
Slashdot Mirror
my Dad, a sportswriter, used to use a Model 100, and later Model 200 (bigger screen) to cover the Red Sox - he'd upload to the newspaper via the built-in 300 baud modem - those dreaded 'cups' for connecting to the phone didn't work too well when there was a lot of crowd noise but many phones at the time (early 80's) still were hardwired into the wall so you couldn't use the modular plug...i wrote a program for him in BASIC and Z-80 (i think?) machine code to compute the length of stories in newspaper column inches...i think he still has both machines - he used to carry the Model 200 along as a backup even after he got a 'modern' laptop...
Well, 640MB ought to be enough for anybody.
that should be:
...and to 'furthur' that
it was posted under the Apache section, which doesn't show up on the main page for some reason...
And besides, how do you do something like this in a GUI file manager?
find . -name "*.txt" -exec grep "foobar" {} \;
..hate to admit it but Windoze does this quite nicely with the 'Find...' utility..right click on a directory in Windows Exploder, select 'Find...' from the popup, then you can specify a wildcard, text to search for (i don't think regexps work)...and you can actually do something with the results (delete them, move them, open them etc.)...i don't use the cygwin find (as much) anymore since discovering this..
- Developed METAFONT, a language for designing fonts
- Invented the Web programming language and so-called 'literate programming' (TeX and METAFONT are both written in Web)
- Documented all of the above in a series of books
Claiming that he doesn't deserve recognition because his books are not Open Source is ludicrous, but incidentally, I do remember getting the TeX source for the Metafont book with the TeX distribution (of course, the source for all of his software is open)...[Opera] would handle everything except Java...
Java works fine on Opera with the Java plug-in (after all, it can use Netscape plug-ins, as you mentioned)
Check your gnilleps! It's 'naht', not 'neht'!
If NASA thought that Gus 'screwed the pooch' on Liberty Bell 7, his career as an astronaut would have been over. Yet, he was chosen as one of the first Gemini astronauts and one of the first Apollo astronauts. Therefore, I think his name has been sufficiently cleared.
Sad news...If anyone thinks this is off-topic, I would like to let them know that there is a Shel Silverstein poem entitled "The GNOME, the Gnat, and the GNU"!