I don't AFAIK have ADHD, but if I'm working on some job which I have done a million times and is pretty mechanical; i.e. click - cut - click - paste - click - click -click - repeat - then I tend to find my attention being diverted to something else rather easily. If I'm deep in the larval stage hacking on some new program or such then I can go for hours and hours. I find that getting enough sleep and drinking coffee helps me stick to the boring jobs so that I can bang them out pretty quick, but if I'm whooped then they take forever because I keep flitting around to other things.
Horrible hives from Wellbutrin
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I tried it once (as Zyban) in an attempt to quit smoking. It takes a few weeks to build up in your system. So about two weeks after I started I suddenly developed severe hives (large extremely itchy red patches all over your body) and my chest got kind of tight -- hard to breathe. I went to the emergency room for a shot of Epinephrin which worked for about a day, and then the hives were back in spades. I popped Benadryl like it was candy for the two weeks it took for the Wellbutrin to get out of my system. It was a horrible experience. They say 5% develop severe allergic reactions like I did. YMMV.
BTW -- I run "Graphite" theme for Gnome
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... which totally rocks, but is hard to find. Lets see if I can post the thing on my wee server, ah yes, I will post in into my/misc dir. You want to install the gnome pixmap theme first, which will give you support to run this awesome thing. Look at my "Gimp" window - used it to make my screenshot.
Graphite 1.2.x Get it or you suck! (Its only a theme, you can switch them at your whim).
hehe twm has saved my butt sooo many times. I'm a Debian guy, and I tend to install it for my friends if they ask, so I don't bother installing a window manager until I can get X working to my satisfaction. Once I have hacked XF86Config enough to get a screen for their horrible laptop video chipsets and undocumented lcd screens, then I fire up twm and load xvidtune to tweak the config. Then when I get it optimized I install some other window manager, usually Gnome is popular with linux n00bs. Personally, I run Enlightenment-16 with the "Hand of God" theme... its almost exactly like twm except they kind of extended it a little.
My very first experience with X, Penn State 1990
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Somehow I managed to wheedle an account on the ultra-elite IBM RT, ostensibly to learn CADAM, and was pissing around with it and I found this mysterious "startx" command which looked promising. I was actually able to start an xterm! In fact I could start as many xterms as I wanted to... in fact there wasn't anything else I could do except start an xterm. But d00d, I had as many xterms as I wanted! Wow! And it was, like, fast! No click MS-DOS Prompt on Windows 2.1 and wait a minute for a shell where I couldn't do anything, instead I had the mysterious $ prompt, with its unlimited possibilites... and unlimited xterms! Wow!
This was thirteen years ago, mind you. I was 3l337 just because I was _using_ the RT, nevermind there wasn't jack shit installed on it except CADAM:-)
Heh, I bet they sold high, then shorted their own stock. Next step is for all them to acknowledge their mistake, the stock will plummet, and they buy off their short-sells. After that everybody retires and leaves the public stockholders holding the bag.
Clever. If they were as talented as programmers as they were investors, they might give TRS-DOS a run for its money.
I agree. Those "info" pages truly suck. They seem to have been some half-assed attempt at hypertext which went horribly wrong.
Even still, the --help thing will usually give you the latest options for a utility even if the man page is out of date. AFAIK --help is a totally GNU thing, don't expect that on your grandfather's UNIX. There are just tons of cool features in GNU's implementation of the utilities which are completely lacking in other UNIXes (like SCO). After you get used to GNU, going back to OpenServer is like a boot to the head.
Besides, the man pages are rarely installed on SCO boxes at all because nobody is expected to really use them. They mainly run serial terminals and some business app programmed in BASIC. Very low-tech. SCO OpenServer can barely run Apache, and it is buggy as hell.
Actually, RMS is kind of like a Jesus to computer software. A lot of people don't like his radical views, but the fact is that he has done more for computing than anybody else in history.
I certainly am not ashamed to say "GNU" because, I love it. I love "ls --color=auto" just try that with SCO OpenServer and you are in for a rude awakening.
Like the BASH shell? Yeah its pretty awesome isn't it. Like being able to append --help to a command if the man page is missing? The fact is, if you boot Hurd, you are in fact running GNU. No GNU/Hurd, really not "just Hurd", just GNU.
Stallman's crew had completly re-written every UNIX utility program from scratch and that was "GNU". When a kernel became available, they were in -- totally.
Linus & Associate's awesome kernel was of course key, but I suggest you remove all GPL licensed code except the kernel and see what kind of an OS you have. Essentially nothing, you would have to port BSD to the Linux kernel, and then you would have BSD/Linux.
GNU is something to be proud of, mainly because it totally rocks. It is the "NEW" Operating System.
The vmlinux kernel when combined with, say, Debian, is supposedly very close to meeting the IEEE POSIX specification.
Now my question is, if there was some kind of problem of legality, shouldn't the POSIX founders, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers be in fact liable. All of the Linux guys are trying to create the POSIX OS, not UNIX. UNIX is pretty much dead AFAIK. POSIX is where its at.
Any IEEE experts out there who can elaborate? Maybe the IEEE will be SCO's next target after they have become sufficiently pelted with rotting vegetables.
My spiffy Asus A7N8X motherboard has yet to crash, you are probably running some junk from Compaq/Dell/Gateway etc. I guess you don't understand that the "big" pc manufacturers are in a mega price war and they buy the cheapest they can get. You will never see a top-quality motherboard in a "big-name" vendor's system.
[post troll="on"] I just saw you post because it was above mine. Really, I say -- why?? Like who cares? Linux, BSD, Hurd, its all a big happy family. Linux is your full-featured "got it" OS with all the multimedia crap, BSD is more like a lean and mean server OS, and Hurd is the one we don't talk about.
BSD on "cool" devices -- naah. My Coolometer is flat-lining on BSD. Hurd is cooler than BSD.
That being said, BSD is awesome, it just isn't all that cool. [/post]
Yeah, its somewhat clunky as a PDA (according to the Experts - I like it) but slap in a 256Mb SD card and load it up with mp3's, get a aux audio cable or cdrom-cassette adapter, and it is an awesome mp3 player for your car. Doesn't skip, can set to random shuffle repeat, all your favorite songs, etc. An expensive mp3(ogg) player but it runs Linux, has a Arm/RISC processor, and the James Bond keyboard is slicker than shit through a tin horn.
I have a Brother HL6 laser printer that I bought at the Thrift Shop for $15. I replaced the drum for about $130 and it has been serving me for about three years and who knows how many bricks of paper. I think I get 3000 or so sheets per toner, at $45 a cartridge. I have it set up as my home network printer using one of those little ethernet print server gadgets, and my wife has thanked me ever since.
Maybe, but if every Linux developer is hardcore, then there a lot more of us every day. IDE's suck anyways. They don't support autotools and how are you going to get your program to compile on every little architecture out there with out using the autotools? Don't give me the "X86" only thing because there are now probably 10-15 somewhat incompatible varieties of X86.
For Debian at least, you can use GNOME, KDE, GTK, whatever you want because the package will pull in all the required libs when you go to install it. It's a no-brainer for the user, and not much more work for the developer either.
That seems to be the issue here to me. This guy can blow fiber through these old steam pipes cheap, he found a conduit system just ready to go. Excavating in these old cities is a nightmare, pipes and heaven knows what just everywhere underground, and probably in bad decay. You don't want to go digging in these kinds of places.
Hmm... might have to give it a try. I don't have much trouble with the Sharp ROM, but if you shell to BASH and start mucking about there is a high likelyhood that you will fsck it up. I found mine became unstable if I installed telnetd.
Hehe... I am probably the first person that ever ran Dillo on Debian/Hurd. I hacked the shit out of Gnu Portable Threads and got it to compile under Hurd about a year ago. This gave me pthread emulation. I compiled Dillo as my test app. It kind of worked but was not really usable. An aside, I submitted my Pth Hurd patch and it was incorporated upstream!:-)
Dunno if Dillo can be compiled with QPE. It would probably work great with Debian/Zaurus though. I would be running Debian on it now ( I'm a Debian old-timer ), except QToptia works fine and for a PDA, its pretty spiff. I still use this gadget at work a lot and need QPE so I can do stupid crap like beam files via the IR port to my boss's Sony Clie' and sync with MS Outlook, etc.
Well, #1 the Zaurus is a glorified alarm clock as well. That is really one of the best PDA features. You punch all your meetings in and the sucker beeps and buzzes when its time to go. This is handier than you would believe.
Secondly, you stick it in your pocket and go to the meeting without grabbing a pad and pencil since you have the stealth kb to make quick notes and such.
As far as doing awesome Linux programming on a Zaurus,.. uh... well whats the point? Load it up with games, and just use it. Its a handy little gadget. Take it to the doctor's and play backgammon or spades in the waiting room, etc. Punch in your shopping list and take it to Wally Mart if you want to be a show-off. Load it up with multimedia on a SD card and its a mini entertainment system.
The Opera Browser, BTW is OK, but I never surf live with mine ( no 802.11 ). It has problems with a 1Mb text file, very very sluggish.
Overall though, well worth it. I paid $325 for mine and it still serves me well. I will never buy another laptop since these gizmos do 90% of the job and are much more portable.
They are nice, I have one. Very nifty toy, although I really haven't used mine to its full potential yet. Certainly blows away most other PDA's. I routinely use the spreadsheet, text editor, calendar, and address book. The stealth kb is great! For me battery life is ok. I don't run it continously, just whip it out, type something in, and pocket it.
BTW... these ought to make real spiffy auto mp3/ogg players with the right cabling. One of my future projects!
I wouldn't say that. Porting to Linux from Windows is a hell of a thing. Going from Linux to OSX ought to be a piece of cake.
Really, OSX could have killed Linux. Remember A/UX? I almost bought a Quadro in '93 just to run A/UX. However, that year Linux popped out and I had my cheapie (compared to a Quadro) 386-40 cranking with DesqView and my BBS. When Debian popped up on the university via ftp I was on it like flies on shit. Unfortunately, my ultra-expensive EGA card (which I scrounged) didn't run X at all:-(
I always longed for DesqView-X but it was too little too late. I was running OS/2 Warp long before DesqView-X ever became viable. And after OS/2, the logical move was --> Linux!
Yeah, I got a copy of WinDOS, but fsck if I like it. Gates has fscked me so many times I will never forgive MacroSucks. Gaah all the horrible buggy crashes and undocumented low grade crap, and the worst is... aah... enough.
BioWare rocks!
Best Linux Game Companies...
#1 ID Software #2 BioWare
FWIW, Running Athlon XP2400+, ASUS A7N8X/nForce2, GeForce4MX-440SE 8X AGP, 1GB PC2700 DDR SDRAM, Western Digital WD1200-JB 120Gb, Creative SB Live! Value, and IBM P200 monitor.
Yeah, I can run it at 1024x768 with full quality and Quincunix full screen antiailiasing with no noticable slowdowns. Haa haa... really though, the AthlonXP / nForce2 combo is great for Linux! And its pretty cheap! I rolled about $500USD into this upgrade and I got an ultimate Linux game machine. It was pretty easy to install the new motherboard and CPU.
Yeah, they are going to provide the data as a download. Presumably this is for Mac users who are by no means going to be able to access a Windows partition.
You still need your cd-key which is an ungodly long unhackable looking thing.
Baldur's Gate etc was not that great for modding. Hey if you just got NwN for the "smallish stock module" then you are missing out. There are thousands of new modules made by aspiring Dungeon Masters out there now, and this is just the start. Not happy with the stock, well make your own! I agree that BG I / ToTSC / II / ToB are really great, but NwN is a rather ambitious undertaking in that you can make your own adventures, and even DM them if you want. Even still, I like the stock module. I like zooming in and watching my warrior hack those monsters to bits in full OpenGL splendor, and be sure to enable "Special Violence Mode" for extra fun!
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I don't AFAIK have ADHD, but if I'm working on some job which I have done a million times and is pretty mechanical; i.e. click - cut - click - paste - click - click -click - repeat - then I tend to find my attention being diverted to something else rather easily. If I'm deep in the larval stage hacking on some new program or such then I can go for hours and hours. I find that getting enough sleep and drinking coffee helps me stick to the boring jobs so that I can bang them out pretty quick, but if I'm whooped then they take forever because I keep flitting around to other things.
I tried it once (as Zyban) in an attempt to quit smoking. It takes a few weeks to build up in your system. So about two weeks after I started I suddenly developed severe hives (large extremely itchy red patches all over your body) and my chest got kind of tight -- hard to breathe. I went to the emergency room for a shot of Epinephrin which worked for about a day, and then the hives were back in spades. I popped Benadryl like it was candy for the two weeks it took for the Wellbutrin to get out of my system. It was a horrible experience. They say 5% develop severe allergic reactions like I did. YMMV.
... which totally rocks, but is hard to find. Lets see if I can post the thing on my wee server, ah yes, I will post in into my /misc dir. You want to install the gnome pixmap theme first, which will give you support to run this awesome thing. Look at my "Gimp" window - used it to make my screenshot.
Graphite 1.2.x Get it or you suck! (Its only a theme, you can switch them at your whim).
E-16 + "Hand of God" + Gnome "Graphite" = Beauty!
Try it... you'll like it!
Here is a link to the screeshot running on my little Debian/Arm Netwinder Apache webserver:
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Er... yeah that FVWM looks pretty nice (snicker).
You blew our cover. You're fired!
hehe twm has saved my butt sooo many times. I'm a Debian guy, and I tend to install it for my friends if they ask, so I don't bother installing a window manager until I can get X working to my satisfaction. Once I have hacked XF86Config enough to get a screen for their horrible laptop video chipsets and undocumented lcd screens, then I fire up twm and load xvidtune to tweak the config. Then when I get it optimized I install some other window manager, usually Gnome is popular with linux n00bs. Personally, I run Enlightenment-16 with the "Hand of God" theme... its almost exactly like twm except they kind of extended it a little.
This was thirteen years ago, mind you. I was 3l337 just because I was _using_ the RT, nevermind there wasn't jack shit installed on it except CADAM
Clever. If they were as talented as programmers as they were investors, they might give TRS-DOS a run for its money.
What losers. Bah!
Even still, the --help thing will usually give you the latest options for a utility even if the man page is out of date. AFAIK --help is a totally GNU thing, don't expect that on your grandfather's UNIX. There are just tons of cool features in GNU's implementation of the utilities which are completely lacking in other UNIXes (like SCO). After you get used to GNU, going back to OpenServer is like a boot to the head.
Besides, the man pages are rarely installed on SCO boxes at all because nobody is expected to really use them. They mainly run serial terminals and some business app programmed in BASIC. Very low-tech. SCO OpenServer can barely run Apache, and it is buggy as hell.
I certainly am not ashamed to say "GNU" because, I love it. I love "ls --color=auto" just try that with SCO OpenServer and you are in for a rude awakening.
Like the BASH shell? Yeah its pretty awesome isn't it. Like being able to append --help to a command if the man page is missing? The fact is, if you boot Hurd, you are in fact running GNU. No GNU/Hurd, really not "just Hurd", just GNU.
Stallman's crew had completly re-written every UNIX utility program from scratch and that was "GNU". When a kernel became available, they were in -- totally.
Linus & Associate's awesome kernel was of course key, but I suggest you remove all GPL licensed code except the kernel and see what kind of an OS you have. Essentially nothing, you would have to port BSD to the Linux kernel, and then you would have BSD/Linux.
GNU is something to be proud of, mainly because it totally rocks. It is the "NEW" Operating System.
Now my question is, if there was some kind of problem of legality, shouldn't the POSIX founders, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers be in fact liable. All of the Linux guys are trying to create the POSIX OS, not UNIX. UNIX is pretty much dead AFAIK. POSIX is where its at.
Any IEEE experts out there who can elaborate? Maybe the IEEE will be SCO's next target after they have become sufficiently pelted with rotting vegetables.
My spiffy Asus A7N8X motherboard has yet to crash, you are probably running some junk from Compaq/Dell/Gateway etc. I guess you don't understand that the "big" pc manufacturers are in a mega price war and they buy the cheapest they can get. You will never see a top-quality motherboard in a "big-name" vendor's system.
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I just saw you post because it was above mine. Really, I say -- why?? Like who cares? Linux, BSD, Hurd, its all a big happy family. Linux is your full-featured "got it" OS with all the multimedia crap, BSD is more like a lean and mean server OS, and Hurd is the one we don't talk about.
BSD on "cool" devices -- naah. My Coolometer is flat-lining on BSD. Hurd is cooler than BSD.
That being said, BSD is awesome, it just isn't all that cool.
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Yeah, its somewhat clunky as a PDA (according to the Experts - I like it) but slap in a 256Mb SD card and load it up with mp3's, get a aux audio cable or cdrom-cassette adapter, and it is an awesome mp3 player for your car. Doesn't skip, can set to random shuffle repeat, all your favorite songs, etc. An expensive mp3(ogg) player but it runs Linux, has a Arm/RISC processor, and the James Bond keyboard is slicker than shit through a tin horn.
I have a Brother HL6 laser printer that I bought at the Thrift Shop for $15. I replaced the drum for about $130 and it has been serving me for about three years and who knows how many bricks of paper. I think I get 3000 or so sheets per toner, at $45 a cartridge. I have it set up as my home network printer using one of those little ethernet print server gadgets, and my wife has thanked me ever since.
Maybe, but if every Linux developer is hardcore, then there a lot more of us every day. IDE's suck anyways. They don't support autotools and how are you going to get your program to compile on every little architecture out there with out using the autotools? Don't give me the "X86" only thing because there are now probably 10-15 somewhat incompatible varieties of X86.
For Debian at least, you can use GNOME, KDE, GTK, whatever you want because the package will pull in all the required libs when you go to install it. It's a no-brainer for the user, and not much more work for the developer either.
That seems to be the issue here to me. This guy can blow fiber through these old steam pipes cheap, he found a conduit system just ready to go. Excavating in these old cities is a nightmare, pipes and heaven knows what just everywhere underground, and probably in bad decay. You don't want to go digging in these kinds of places.
No, Debian are Anarchists. "Everybody does what they think is right, to their own eyes."
Total Anarchy... and It's great!
Hmm... might have to give it a try. I don't have much trouble with the Sharp ROM, but if you shell to BASH and start mucking about there is a high likelyhood that you will fsck it up. I found mine became unstable if I installed telnetd.
Will scope it out.
Hehe... I am probably the first person that ever ran Dillo on Debian/Hurd. I hacked the shit out of Gnu Portable Threads and got it to compile under Hurd about a year ago. This gave me pthread emulation. I compiled Dillo as my test app. It kind of worked but was not really usable. An aside, I submitted my Pth Hurd patch and it was incorporated upstream! :-)
Dunno if Dillo can be compiled with QPE. It would probably work great with Debian/Zaurus though. I would be running Debian on it now ( I'm a Debian old-timer ), except QToptia works fine and for a PDA, its pretty spiff. I still use this gadget at work a lot and need QPE so I can do stupid crap like beam files via the IR port to my boss's Sony Clie' and sync with MS Outlook, etc.
Well, #1 the Zaurus is a glorified alarm clock as well. That is really one of the best PDA features. You punch all your meetings in and the sucker beeps and buzzes when its time to go. This is handier than you would believe.
.. uh ... well whats the point? Load it up with games, and just use it. Its a handy little gadget. Take it to the doctor's and play backgammon or spades in the waiting room, etc. Punch in your shopping list and take it to Wally Mart if you want to be a show-off. Load it up with multimedia on a SD card and its a mini entertainment system.
Secondly, you stick it in your pocket and go to the meeting without grabbing a pad and pencil since you have the stealth kb to make quick notes and such.
As far as doing awesome Linux programming on a Zaurus,
The Opera Browser, BTW is OK, but I never surf live with mine ( no 802.11 ). It has problems with a 1Mb text file, very very sluggish.
Overall though, well worth it. I paid $325 for mine and it still serves me well. I will never buy another laptop since these gizmos do 90% of the job and are much more portable.
They are nice, I have one. Very nifty toy, although I really haven't used mine to its full potential yet. Certainly blows away most other PDA's. I routinely use the spreadsheet, text editor, calendar, and address book. The stealth kb is great! For me battery life is ok. I don't run it continously, just whip it out, type something in, and pocket it.
BTW... these ought to make real spiffy auto mp3/ogg players with the right cabling. One of my future projects!
I wouldn't say that. Porting to Linux from Windows is a hell of a thing. Going from Linux to OSX ought to be a piece of cake.
:-(
... aah ... enough.
Really, OSX could have killed Linux. Remember A/UX? I almost bought a Quadro in '93 just to run A/UX. However, that year Linux popped out and I had my cheapie (compared to a Quadro) 386-40 cranking with DesqView and my BBS. When Debian popped up on the university via ftp I was on it like flies on shit. Unfortunately, my ultra-expensive EGA card (which I scrounged) didn't run X at all
I always longed for DesqView-X but it was too little too late. I was running OS/2 Warp long before DesqView-X ever became viable. And after OS/2, the logical move was --> Linux!
Yeah, I got a copy of WinDOS, but fsck if I like it. Gates has fscked me so many times I will never forgive MacroSucks. Gaah all the horrible buggy crashes and undocumented low grade crap, and the worst is
BioWare rocks!
Best Linux Game Companies...
#1 ID Software
#2 BioWare
FWIW, Running Athlon XP2400+, ASUS A7N8X/nForce2, GeForce4MX-440SE 8X AGP, 1GB PC2700 DDR SDRAM, Western Digital WD1200-JB 120Gb, Creative SB Live! Value, and IBM P200 monitor.
Yeah, I can run it at 1024x768 with full quality and Quincunix full screen antiailiasing with no noticable slowdowns. Haa haa... really though, the AthlonXP / nForce2 combo is great for Linux! And its pretty cheap! I rolled about $500USD into this upgrade and I got an ultimate Linux game machine. It was pretty easy to install the new motherboard and CPU.
BioWare -- New Gaming Superpower!
Yeah, they are going to provide the data as a download. Presumably this is for Mac users who are by no means going to be able to access a Windows partition.
You still need your cd-key which is an ungodly long unhackable looking thing.
Baldur's Gate etc was not that great for modding. Hey if you just got NwN for the "smallish stock module" then you are missing out. There are thousands of new modules made by aspiring Dungeon Masters out there now, and this is just the start. Not happy with the stock, well make your own! I agree that BG I / ToTSC / II / ToB are really great, but NwN is a rather ambitious undertaking in that you can make your own adventures, and even DM them if you want. Even still, I like the stock module. I like zooming in and watching my warrior hack those monsters to bits in full OpenGL splendor, and be sure to enable "Special Violence Mode" for extra fun!