For all the cleanup afterwards, he could probably use a pair of good work boots.. Or is that not your style?
Nothing like a big pair of black steel-toed size thirteen stompers, I think.
But anyway, I hereby add my voice to the sympathetic crowd. Sorry bad stuff happens to good people. If ya need 'em, Hemos, I'l loan you a pair of my boots. (never underestimate the importance of proper footware!) And my copy of Micromachines 2 to run on all the 386's people are offering you.
Leapfrog (who's bored, at work, in the middle of nowhere Iowa, at 18:30 on a Saturday.)
Nothing like completely and utterly incompatible standards.. At least on my NTSC set I can almost get a PAL signal.. (black & white, distorted, and scrolling vertically, tho.)
It doesn't make sense that the SECAM set would be less expensive based on true cost of building the set, though. SECAM decoding hardware is a lot more complex than NTSC or PAL, requiring an analog delay line and some other complex bits.
Sorry, there, but that's "mome raths", not womraths. A quick google search for "Jabberwocky" reveals the truth. No womraths present at all; it is the mome raths who outgrabe.
Now, if only I could find myself a vorpal sword (which is really a lot like a regular sword, except it goes "snicker-snack!") and make myself more manxome.
I'm absolutely sure there is; I never saw Acidwarp until I saw the svgalib version. It did a lot of palette-rotating, so an X version wouldn't work quite as well unless you were in 8-bit mode with a private palette.
This seems a lot like the "warper", of acidwarp fame. There was a certain commandline option to the program which described a very similar box, except it was designed to be used as a projector. The setup worked surprisingly well when you shut off all external lights and cranked the brightness. Pretty swirly colors. Not bright enough for text or gaming, though.
But, in the last book, Mostly Harmless the vogons finally managed to destroy the earth, turning it into a sausage or something similar (its been a while.)
So that makes the whole issue of creating the h2g2 moot, seeing as how we don't really exist anyway. Just have to wait around for Earth Mark 2, I guess.
"A man went to a party where he was offered something to drink by a cute girl. The drink was spiked with some pretty heavy drugs. When he woke up, he was in a bathtub full of ice and his HEAD was gone! He had the words 'you're screwed, sucker' written in lipstick on his chest! This is very dangerous, there's a big black market for heads, my husband is a firefighter and he sees this happening all the time!! Send this message on to all your friends!" blah blah blah.
Hm. Let me think here. Edit config files, like I'm used to doing, or wade through endless configuration dialog boxes with buttons and fill-in blanks which are designed solely to hide complexity but end up making it just as complex because you now have Yet Another Configuration Tool to learn. And then, the next time I upgrade my window manager, I now have to upgrade my System Configuration Tool and hope that its smart enough for the new version. Or suppose I decide that I really want to use FVWM 1.0 instead. Oh, whoops, that version isn't supported anymore. Let's see... um.. NO.
Just because it has a console interface doesn't mean I want to go through a dozen flippin' menu screens to find the right dang box to bang in my hostname. I happen to like being able to edit config files. It's powerful. I'm perfectly willing to sacrifice checkboxes and buttons and menus and goooeeeees in order to have full configurability at my fingertips. Hostname? lets see here... could that be in.. um... maybe... /etc/hostname????? Let me fire up my all-purpose sysadmin tool... I call it "vi". Imagine that. Someone likes configurability more than ease of use. Heh. never would've guessed
What bothered me most was knowing that I was doing it the Right Way (tm) but the configurator conspiracy was undoing it every time. Once I read the manual pages for "hostname" on every Unix system I could. The results were pretty much the same. "The current name of the host is stored in/etc/hostname. Editing/etc/hostname, then running the 'hostname' command is a good way to change the name of the host." Except Redhat, which had the same manual pages, except it didn't work.
And tomorrow, when someone decides it won't be/etc/hostname anymore, but rather/etc/this_is_what_I_call_my_system, I'll be able to find a manual page for that. But we'll be working in reverse to hack up linuxconf to support the new standard and the old standard because some people are still running the old standard.
Hm. Makes "/bin/vi" look more and more like a universal configuration tool, doesn't it?
I don't know too much about international tax law, but I do know that if a person is a citizen of one country but works in a second country, generally both countries try to get their sticky fingers into it.
Example: Say I happen to be a resident of the United States of America. (God bless her; she needs it) But, I'm taking advantage of our good relations with our northern neighbor, Canada, and driving 'cross the border to go work for a lumber company. ("Oh, I'm a lumberjack and I'm okay.. sleep all night and I work all day")
So who gets to tax that income? Canada gets first dibs, because the work was done there, paid for there, etc. The US can (and would) tax me again because I'm a citizen, and more importantly, a resident.
Like I said, I'm not exactly sure how it works, but you can get into some pretty sticky situations that way. (citizen of US, living in Canada, working for a Japanese corporation, etc, etc)
When I installed RedHat 4.2 it took me 2 weeks to figure out how to change my hostname.
Okay, yes, laugh at the fool. At the time, my video card was incapable of running X so I had no way to use the "configurator". So I edited/etc/hostname like you do under any reasonable unix like thing. That didn't work, when I rebooted it automagically reset/etc/hostname to "localhost.localdomain". So I found the place in the rc directories where it was being changed. And I removed the line where it was blowing away my changes. That still didn't work. There were a few other bits doing similar things, like removing the changes I had made to the startup scripts!
After nearly endless frustration, I started X in 320x200 (thats how much the Diamond Stealth 32 sucked in those days) and ran the configurator, thinking to myself the whole time how odd it was that I had to use a GUI, complete with checkboxes and menus and pop-up windows asking "are you sure" when the lack of those little gui (in)conveniences was just exactly what made me prefer other Linuxen to Windows. Oh, and Fvwm-95 didn't help much either.
Yup. Two weeks. And of course, setting the hostname should be considered part of an installation. And that says nothing of how long it took me to figure out why/bin,/usr/bin, and/usr/local/bin had been left out of root's path.
Nowadays I use Debian, which usually takes around 5-6 hours to download everything over ftp. Off the CD, picking packages alone typically takes me 30 minutes. (after all, there are 2500+ to choose from)
Looks like someone broke it. I keep getting this message: Logon failure: user not allowed to log on to this computer. It happens no matter what page I try to hit, even some really obvious 404's. I guess we really showed 'em. Or something. Didn't last very long, now did it?
Apologies for my inexperience with automatic firearms. Perhaps it was an Uzi. At that point, he was walking around with quite a nice sackful of guns, so presumably he just grabbed whatever was most convenient.
I think the movie could best be described as a bitter sarcastic look at everything thats wrong with American society, focused around the journey of one man "going home" through Los Angeles. The bit with the anti-tank rocket was amusing, but I think the director was trying to bring in one more sting against the state of urban decay; a young child knows more about using weapons of mass destruction than a man who has worked his whole life in the defense industry. I especially liked the bit where he goes nuts in the convenience store, smashing up everything, and then pays for his soda.
"Maybe if you wrote it in f*cking English, I could understand it."
I use mutt to read e-mail, mostly. Occasionally elm, and even more rare these days, pine. And all three of those spawn separare editors, typically the editor of your choice, to edit the mail. I use vi as my editor because its ubiquitous, lightweight, and fast. Emacs may be scaleable, but as I see things, emacs offers me nothing that I can't get using vi. (mustn't forget the:! command)
To write a file, I use ':w', simple as that. No need to make sure my terminal thinks meta means the same thing as my host. Control-x control-s? Yes, flamewars will start. Everyone's got their own favorite pet editor, which happens to be their favorite because of personal preference.
If you scale down emacs, you're left with just a plain old text editor. Kudos to you! I had that to start with. 'Meta-x eliza' never meant much to me.
Ah, Emacs. It's not just a text editor, it's a calculator, web browser, mail reader, lisp interpreter, integrated development environment, psychologist, word processor, dictionary, and King James Edition all in one! gack. I'm a big fan of the theory that a mail reader is for reading mail, and a text editor is for editing text; never shall the twain meet. Give me vi anyday.
As for fast lean web browsers, chimera, arena, and amaya all come to mind, except they've all been in beta-state with no development since 1996. Arena would be great if it didn't segfault trying to load most web pages. Amaya would be even better if it didn't try to be something I don't need (an html editor) and crash whenever I try to follow a hyperlink. Chimera looks nice but I have yet to see it do anything Mosaic couldn't do. And the newest version won't even compile for me. Of course, the newest version was released over 2 years ago. I'd be willing to work on some of those older browsers, trying to get them to a functional state, if there was any interest. Anyone else? mail me if you're interested in something like that. I don't want the newest and shiniest with all the features, like the Mozilla team, just something that works right and doesn't take up more than 4 megs of ram to run.
Netscape is bloated because of the mail, news, composer, instant messenger, and everything else even vaguely internet-related built in. I remember that 3.0 was a lot better for not using up as much ram but I had to dump it because it was hideously unstable. Heh. Now I can't even surf without filling up my 32 megs of ram and watching netscape fandango on core.
I'm really looking forward to Opera's linux release. Unfortunately, it's payware, but if the linux version is as good as the windows version, I'll shell out the $20. It's definately worth the money. Until then, I'm finding Mozilla to my liking. Everything except the hideous "chrome" bits. When I use mozilla, I only use the "viewer" part, with the bare-minimum user interface and the "my, that's alpha" feel. And it only consumes 10 megs of ram running. (heh. Only. I seem to recall running netscape 2.0 in 4 megs of ram sometime long, long ago.)
Maybe I need to try Mosaic again. If I remember my specs right, it didn't support any of the things I dislike about the "modern web", things like animated gifs, java(script), CSS, dhtml, and frames. Maybe I should just get off my duff and start coding something better. Mozilla tries too hard to be like netscape. I want something for just plain old browsing the web. Is that too much to ask? Oh, and it has to have pictures. lynx is great, but I need to get my pr0n somehow.
Enough of my ranting. Please feel free to point me in the direction of any other projects like this, or if there isn't any, I can damn well do it myself. Or die trying.
Everyone who uses a Sun Microsystems computer uses Forth, kind of. It's burned into the PROM's. Oh, and the Postscript printer language is heavily based on Forth, too. I seem to recall hearing a theory that one could create a postscript document that when sent to an HP laserjet (with the ethernet card installed) would turn the printer into a web server.
Gee... And I thought I was the only slashdotter living out here in the "breadbasket of America". Maybe this state isn't as backwards as I thought it was. But yeah, I've been seeing this stuff in HyVee for several months now, and I'm not too impressed.
Now, Jones soda, there's some good stuff. Green apple is my fave, with cherry a close second.
Not bloody likely. Caffeine is considered one of the safest drugs on the market because the LD50 is so abnormally high. (LD50 is the typical measure of toxicity in drugs, the amount of the drug which would kill 50 percent of the subjects given that amount, typically tested on rats.) Caffeine has an LD50 of about 150 milligrams per kilogram of body weight. Supposing that this stuff is as powerful as coffee, you'd have to drink 50 to 100 bottles of it before you started getting into the lethal range.
However, speaking from experience, non-lethal doses (in the 500 to 2000mg range) can be extremely unpleasant. The hallucinations are very much not fun, and the cardiac arrythmia can be most disturbing. But at least it won't kill ya.
Big Fat Disclaimer: I'm not a doctor, so don't even think of using this information as any sort of accurate reference. Don't even think about taking any kind of drugs based on my advice. You may wind up very silly-looking, very dead, or quite possibly both. I got this information from another possibly inaccurate source. Don't go messing around with your body chemistry and then come whining to me about it.
Playing basketball is a choice. I can choose whether or not I want to persue sports for that sort of scholarship.
I cannot, on the other hand, readily choose my own gender. That was something handed down to me from my genetic structure. The same way with my ethnicity, my eye color, and my big feet.
I should not be discriminated against for my gender. Isn't that the basic tenet of the so-called "feminist" movement? As for the lack of women in the CS field, that's not my problem. If women in general don't want to be CS majors, fine. There is nothing holding them back from joining the ranks. Any woman who wants to be a CS major can do so, and the addition of yet another women only scholarship in the field won't induce any more to join.
Let me emphasize this: I am not against women in Computer Science. In fact, I think I'll repeat that. I am not against women in Computer Science. Or in any field. I'm all for equal rights. Sometimes, though, I wonder when the door will swing the other way, providing equal rights protection for both genders.
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Nothing like a big pair of black steel-toed size thirteen stompers, I think.
But anyway, I hereby add my voice to the sympathetic crowd. Sorry bad stuff happens to good people. If ya need 'em, Hemos, I'l loan you a pair of my boots. (never underestimate the importance of proper footware!) And my copy of Micromachines 2 to run on all the 386's people are offering you.
Leapfrog (who's bored, at work, in the middle of nowhere Iowa, at 18:30 on a Saturday.)
Nothing like completely and utterly incompatible standards.. At least on my NTSC set I can almost get a PAL signal.. (black & white, distorted, and scrolling vertically, tho.)
It doesn't make sense that the SECAM set would be less expensive based on true cost of building the set, though. SECAM decoding hardware is a lot more complex than NTSC or PAL, requiring an analog delay line and some other complex bits.
Curious.
Now, if only I could find myself a vorpal sword (which is really a lot like a regular sword, except it goes "snicker-snack!") and make myself more manxome.
So that makes the whole issue of creating the h2g2 moot, seeing as how we don't really exist anyway. Just have to wait around for Earth Mark 2, I guess.
comment() {return(NULL)};
Or in perl:
undef $comment;
"A man went to a party where he was offered something to drink by a cute girl. The drink was spiked with some pretty heavy drugs. When he woke up, he was in a bathtub full of ice and his HEAD was gone! He had the words 'you're screwed, sucker' written in lipstick on his chest! This is very dangerous, there's a big black market for heads, my husband is a firefighter and he sees this happening all the time!! Send this message on to all your friends!" blah blah blah.
better heads than kidneys, I say.
Just because it has a console interface doesn't mean I want to go through a dozen flippin' menu screens to find the right dang box to bang in my hostname. I happen to like being able to edit config files. It's powerful. I'm perfectly willing to sacrifice checkboxes and buttons and menus and goooeeeees in order to have full configurability at my fingertips. Hostname? lets see here... could that be in.. um... maybe... /etc/hostname????? Let me fire up my all-purpose sysadmin tool... I call it "vi". Imagine that. Someone likes configurability more than ease of use. Heh. never would've guessed
What bothered me most was knowing that I was doing it the Right Way (tm) but the configurator conspiracy was undoing it every time. Once I read the manual pages for "hostname" on every Unix system I could. The results were pretty much the same. "The current name of the host is stored in /etc/hostname. Editing /etc/hostname, then running the 'hostname' command is a good way to change the name of the host." Except Redhat, which had the same manual pages, except it didn't work.
And tomorrow, when someone decides it won't be /etc/hostname anymore, but rather /etc/this_is_what_I_call_my_system, I'll be able to find a manual page for that. But we'll be working in reverse to hack up linuxconf to support the new standard and the old standard because some people are still running the old standard.
Hm. Makes "/bin/vi" look more and more like a universal configuration tool, doesn't it?
Example: Say I happen to be a resident of the United States of America. (God bless her; she needs it) But, I'm taking advantage of our good relations with our northern neighbor, Canada, and driving 'cross the border to go work for a lumber company. ("Oh, I'm a lumberjack and I'm okay.. sleep all night and I work all day")
So who gets to tax that income? Canada gets first dibs, because the work was done there, paid for there, etc. The US can (and would) tax me again because I'm a citizen, and more importantly, a resident.
Like I said, I'm not exactly sure how it works, but you can get into some pretty sticky situations that way. (citizen of US, living in Canada, working for a Japanese corporation, etc, etc)
Okay, yes, laugh at the fool. At the time, my video card was incapable of running X so I had no way to use the "configurator". So I edited /etc/hostname like you do under any reasonable unix like thing. That didn't work, when I rebooted it automagically reset /etc/hostname to "localhost.localdomain". So I found the place in the rc directories where it was being changed. And I removed the line where it was blowing away my changes. That still didn't work. There were a few other bits doing similar things, like removing the changes I had made to the startup scripts!
After nearly endless frustration, I started X in 320x200 (thats how much the Diamond Stealth 32 sucked in those days) and ran the configurator, thinking to myself the whole time how odd it was that I had to use a GUI, complete with checkboxes and menus and pop-up windows asking "are you sure" when the lack of those little gui (in)conveniences was just exactly what made me prefer other Linuxen to Windows. Oh, and Fvwm-95 didn't help much either.
Yup. Two weeks. And of course, setting the hostname should be considered part of an installation. And that says nothing of how long it took me to figure out why /bin, /usr/bin, and /usr/local/bin had been left out of root's path.
Nowadays I use Debian, which usually takes around 5-6 hours to download everything over ftp. Off the CD, picking packages alone typically takes me 30 minutes. (after all, there are 2500+ to choose from)
Logon failure: user not allowed to log on to this computer.
It happens no matter what page I try to hit, even some really obvious 404's. I guess we really showed 'em. Or something. Didn't last very long, now did it?
I think the movie could best be described as a bitter sarcastic look at everything thats wrong with American society, focused around the journey of one man "going home" through Los Angeles. The bit with the anti-tank rocket was amusing, but I think the director was trying to bring in one more sting against the state of urban decay; a young child knows more about using weapons of mass destruction than a man who has worked his whole life in the defense industry. I especially liked the bit where he goes nuts in the convenience store, smashing up everything, and then pays for his soda.
"Maybe if you wrote it in f*cking English, I could understand it."
as I recall, though, it was a machine gun, not a shotgun, in the fast food restaurant. On the golf course, it was a shotgun. I think.
"I'm going home."
But, as usual, I was right. So neener neener neener. And I didn't even have to hit a man page.
To write a file, I use ':w', simple as that. No need to make sure my terminal thinks meta means the same thing as my host. Control-x control-s? Yes, flamewars will start. Everyone's got their own favorite pet editor, which happens to be their favorite because of personal preference.
If you scale down emacs, you're left with just a plain old text editor. Kudos to you! I had that to start with. 'Meta-x eliza' never meant much to me.
I believe 'command | tail -1' will do it. Or something very like that. Read the manual page.
As for fast lean web browsers, chimera, arena, and amaya all come to mind, except they've all been in beta-state with no development since 1996. Arena would be great if it didn't segfault trying to load most web pages. Amaya would be even better if it didn't try to be something I don't need (an html editor) and crash whenever I try to follow a hyperlink. Chimera looks nice but I have yet to see it do anything Mosaic couldn't do. And the newest version won't even compile for me. Of course, the newest version was released over 2 years ago. I'd be willing to work on some of those older browsers, trying to get them to a functional state, if there was any interest. Anyone else? mail me if you're interested in something like that. I don't want the newest and shiniest with all the features, like the Mozilla team, just something that works right and doesn't take up more than 4 megs of ram to run.
Netscape is bloated because of the mail, news, composer, instant messenger, and everything else even vaguely internet-related built in. I remember that 3.0 was a lot better for not using up as much ram but I had to dump it because it was hideously unstable. Heh. Now I can't even surf without filling up my 32 megs of ram and watching netscape fandango on core.
I'm really looking forward to Opera's linux release. Unfortunately, it's payware, but if the linux version is as good as the windows version, I'll shell out the $20. It's definately worth the money. Until then, I'm finding Mozilla to my liking. Everything except the hideous "chrome" bits. When I use mozilla, I only use the "viewer" part, with the bare-minimum user interface and the "my, that's alpha" feel. And it only consumes 10 megs of ram running. (heh. Only. I seem to recall running netscape 2.0 in 4 megs of ram sometime long, long ago.)
Maybe I need to try Mosaic again. If I remember my specs right, it didn't support any of the things I dislike about the "modern web", things like animated gifs, java(script), CSS, dhtml, and frames. Maybe I should just get off my duff and start coding something better. Mozilla tries too hard to be like netscape. I want something for just plain old browsing the web. Is that too much to ask? Oh, and it has to have pictures. lynx is great, but I need to get my pr0n somehow.
Enough of my ranting. Please feel free to point me in the direction of any other projects like this, or if there isn't any, I can damn well do it myself. Or die trying.
Leapfrog, (pfitzger@fyiowa.infi.net)
The blood of the martyrs shall water the fields of the Free!
Now, Jones soda, there's some good stuff. Green apple is my fave, with cherry a close second.
However, speaking from experience, non-lethal doses (in the 500 to 2000mg range) can be extremely unpleasant. The hallucinations are very much not fun, and the cardiac arrythmia can be most disturbing. But at least it won't kill ya.
Big Fat Disclaimer: I'm not a doctor, so don't even think of using this information as any sort of accurate reference. Don't even think about taking any kind of drugs based on my advice. You may wind up very silly-looking, very dead, or quite possibly both. I got this information from another possibly inaccurate source. Don't go messing around with your body chemistry and then come whining to me about it.
to wind a piece of string around"
heh. I wonder how many other people caught that reference.
I cannot, on the other hand, readily choose my own gender. That was something handed down to me from my genetic structure. The same way with my ethnicity, my eye color, and my big feet.
I should not be discriminated against for my gender. Isn't that the basic tenet of the so-called "feminist" movement? As for the lack of women in the CS field, that's not my problem. If women in general don't want to be CS majors, fine. There is nothing holding them back from joining the ranks. Any woman who wants to be a CS major can do so, and the addition of yet another women only scholarship in the field won't induce any more to join.
Let me emphasize this: I am not against women in Computer Science. In fact, I think I'll repeat that. I am not against women in Computer Science. Or in any field. I'm all for equal rights. Sometimes, though, I wonder when the door will swing the other way, providing equal rights protection for both genders.