But I won't sacrifice my ability to use my computer productively at the alter of free software.
I feel the same way, which is why I use Opera as a matter of course, as well as preference, when I'm forced to work under win*. MSIE and I just don't get along. Netscape for windows isn't much better.
and while I have used win98, it was truly a horror to get into until I unharfed it by removing a browser I don't even use from it.
I need something I can work with.
Perhaps MSIE works fine for you in win*... not a big deal. For Linux, you'll prolly be better off waiting for Opera.
(Until then, I'd personally use lynx if netscape gets edgy, which isn't often these days. This, even if there was a MSIE for Linux. It's all about perception, and MS has permanently earned my disdain on this one. I've given them many chances, even when I should've told them to piss off ages ago.)
That's all fine and dandy. I don't use win*, usually... however, what if I want to play a game of Tribes? What if I want to view _The Matrix_ on my phat new DVD reader? What if I want to use Opera to browse the web, so I don't go thru contortions with Netscape? What if I want to print colour pics out on my DeskJet 722c? What if I want to see how my website looks when viewed under MSIE?
Oh, right. Since I "don't have to use Windows," I certainly don't have to use those apps.
Spend a few minutes wondering what will happen to the people who would get thrown out of work...
Sure... MS will collapse just like AT&T tanked in 1984... or IBM (and nothing happened to them!).
The world will definitely not get *worse* if MS as we know them today vanished.
For SPARC v9 architectures, this is true. I believe the UltraSPARC II and above are 64-bit capable
HP-UX. Those PA-RISC machines are 64bit, right?
For HPPA 2.0, this is generally the case.
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Re:How to set up multiple mail folders in mutt?
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Kluuuuuuudge! Who wants to restart their MUA with a switch every time they want to check out a different folder?
Easy... you DON'T. Simply press "c" (for "change folder," oddly enough), and you may then do one of several things:
"?" will call up a LIST OF FOLDERS, where you can then use the arrows and ENTER to select one "=mailbox" will select folder mailbox "TAB" lets you TAB COMPLETE on a folder "^G" lets you cancel (^U followed by ENTER does same)
Oh no! The program is easier without taking away my flexibility! Easier! Oh, the horror!
For you, perhaps. For folks like me, who don't mouse unless REQUIRED to do so, it makes it harder.
*think* Hrrmm... oh, I don't have to use the mouse if I don't want to. Point taken.
To those out there craving mousable mail clients, I think there's balsa, netscape, and about 8 others that I can't name off the top of my head to choose among. I'm of the opinion that mutt doesn't really need mouse support (I'm not even certain it'd be easier to use with a mouse.)
KDE has locked up so tight (under Mandrake 6.0) that I had to alt-ctrl-backspace the server, but X has never crashed Linux... not in the 4+ years I've used X (going all the way back to XFree86 3.0).
(of course, KDE only locked up after I upgraded KDE from within KDE, so... duh?:o) GNOME, otoh, keeps forgetting my settings on the loptop... time to try October GNOME)
And ironically, although RamBus promises higher bandwidth than SDRAM, it's actually has *higher* latency.
Gee. . . just like Quantum Bigfoot drives promised more capacity, yet had higher latency... >:o)
I guess we should never underestimate the power of a behemoth like Intel to force acceptance of poor technologies:-/
Fine... I'll just try affording something non-Intel (and non-encumbered)... I haven't bought an Intel CPU since 1994. I haven't had such super luck avoiding Intel chipsets, however. I still run a TX in one of my house systems.
Pity the NT sysadmins whose users fill their desktops with huge files then complain that logging in and out takes forever.
ooers. . . roaming profiles gone bad. I finally remembered to change my profiles to "local" FIRST THING when logging into a foreign system... and then taking all the junk that shouldn't be in the roaming profile anyway (like all that app data) out of the profile on the server.
/me thinks about playing a while with his Apple//c
I've been doing same with my old ][e... great to get back into where I started.
I knew I should've NEVER got rid of all my apple docs... anyone have copies of _What's Where in the Apple_, _ProDOS 8 Technical Reference_, _Beneath Apple DOS_, and _Beneath Apple ProDOS_ they're willing to part with?
For god's sake, people, at least give me the option of using a POSIX-compatible PS!!
Turns out that this is about my only real beef with *BSD... tho I can switch to something like "ps auxwww" if I think enough in advance. I'd imagine that anyone at all working with SysV-type systems would have the same beef.
(oh... and the init scripts in *BSD feel really weird to me for the same reason.)
There exists a complete package management system for FreeBSD, at last stat. It's called pkg_add (and friends). It's similar to SunOS pkgadd, I believe. It's time for me to tinker with my freebie system at home again:o)
Oh yes... Linux can stand to benefit from FreeBSD's advancements (/usr/ports completely ROCKS, End Of File.)
(apologies if there're multiple copies of this post; the connection seems to be a bit dodgy)
Uhm, AOL already published the TOC protocol that AIM uses.
I thought AIM used OSCAR (which MS reverse-engineered). TOC is just a translator protocol to OSCAR. If MS would've used TOC, I don't see how AOL would have a problem, but apparently, it didn't work that way. ..
EVERY news story I've seen has failed to make this distinction. Perhaps they're not wanting to confuse anyone?
AOL has published TOC, but not OSCAR. Two protocols. Simple enough. GAIM and those other Unix clients use TOC, afaik. MSN Messenger does not.
Not once in several years do I remember email for the R&D people being down.
This is amusing. The same setup is used here (OpenMail MAPI on the enterprise; sendmail for the entire Unix side I admin), and this is the norm. OpenMail goes down randomly while my single sendmail hub keeps accept()'ing away *tail wag*
Of course, I must occasionally check in with OpenMail because the win* folks generally don't know better. All I have to say is "Vive VMware!" It let me get rid of the dual-boot and shoehorn NT and all its crud into a 1.6GB partition.
I should note that Unix in general exhibits weird problems under certain conditions. Just try typo'ing the lockd line in/etc/services one day... if you have NFS, all hell will break loose. If you use NFS'd mailspools, oops. >:o)
TOC (TOC to OsCar) is different from OSCAR itself according to the TOC FAQ
Seeing as how MS apparently reverse-engineered OSCAR, and OSCAR isn't open... it's like StarDivision reverse-engineering the.doc format for the latest incantation of Office. *shrug*
(unless.doc is indeed open and there's a publication detailing it somewhere. Highly doubtful, tho)
This is true, however, I have about zero interest in helping Micros~1 win. I think those who don't know what I'm referring to should look up the word "choice" in the same dict:o)
So now I get some land from which I can hunt, fish, and watch the sunsets. Quite a change from the city life!
You can do the same in KCMO (just not in KC Metro), but you'd prolly have to live east of Lee's Summit! (the horrors of I470 and that f<beep>ing Grandview Triangle are reasons alone to move. ..)
God help you if you work in Johnson County (heh, I work in Office Park). They drive like freaking idiots here. No wonder Overland Park police are out at Metcalf and {College,115th,119th,I435} EVERY day cleaning up wrecks while I watch from the 9th floor of Vader:o) It's just a bowl of hell during rush hour. The only reason I survive is because I time-shift to drive AFTER rush-hour by a couple hours.
(Last "girlfriend" cost me lots of money (several thousand over a few years) in the "keep in touch" department, and I LOST anyway.)
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Re:Visions of Canadian women dancing in their head
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Because I know some positively adorable Canadian geekesses who would love to meet an intelligent man.
Odd how not only my "intelligence" is a huge liability, I seem to be on the other side of the world from those who would even bother appreciating it. For the "stupidity" factor, non-geeks seem to have all the money and other assorted perks... hrrmm... oh well, I won't trade being a geek for anything else, damn it to Hell if I remain poor for the rest of my life.
Yes, you deserve it. Even though I'm happy that the right folks are going places, it puts my little non-life into perspective. I am at a loss as to what to do. I have no money, and what I do have, I can't spend. I'd love to hack away at Linux and perl and php3 and do neat things with mysql all day every day, but I'm stuck here wiping users' asses. I work absurd hours and get shit on for my efforts.
(And I just heard from my co-worker that some guy's giving his whole staff BMWs (with insurance) just to retain them. I'm in the wrong fucking place.)
Oh well, I'll crawl back into my hole and spare you the rest.
Printed a character via CSWL.CSWH (an indirect JMP to wherever $36.$37 pointed to, in fact, usually $FDF0)
Disassembled, it's "JSR $FDED"
2.What routine was at $FCA8?
Waited an amount of time based on what was in the Accumulator. Forgot the quadratic equation for the wait time, but. ..
3.What were the RESET interrupt vectors?
$3F2.$3F3 is the actual place jumped to when CTRL-RESET is pressed. $3F4 is a checksum (EORd with $A5) of $3F3 that makes CTRL-RESET reboot if it's wrong.
In the back of the Apple ][ Reference Manual, they published the source code for the system monitor.
Had "S JOBS" at its head, afaik. . . I think both Steves wrote the monitor, tho...
I had to suffice with the "What's Where" book.
I'd love to have a copy of _What's Where in the Apple_ again... very nice reference.
Lack of inner workings for the "PC" class of computers turned me off to hacking on it, as I was used to scraping the bare metal. Only now am I getting into programming again (Thank You, Linux!).
About making music on the Apple just by toggling a flip-flop for the speaker: it was incredible!
something like:
spkr = $C030;speaker toggle wait = $FCA8 ; mon wait routine cass = $C020;use as a 2nd speaker instead of cassette out
(here, reading the spkr toggle and creative use of wait will whap speaker once... writing to spkr whaps it twice. Lots of groovy ways to make sound with ONE bit! _Robotron 2084_ was a prime example of exploiting this to its fullest. Oh yes, you can fake "stereo" sound by using the cass toggle connected to another speaker.)
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try telnet
telnet's useful for things like a quick "HEAD / HTTP/1.0" on a given site.
Jezus, People still think text based stuff is all they'll ever need. Crawl out of your holes and stop blocking progress.
Things like the above really annoy me. Do you define "progress" as things like:
Now, seeing how lynx is very useful on more than occasion, here's how I use it:
I invite you to take off your blinders.
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I feel the same way, which is why I use Opera as a matter of course, as well as preference, when I'm forced to work under win*. MSIE and I just don't get along. Netscape for windows isn't much better.
and while I have used win98, it was truly a horror to get into until I unharfed it by removing a browser I don't even use from it.
I need something I can work with.
Perhaps MSIE works fine for you in win*... not a big deal. For Linux, you'll prolly be better off waiting for Opera.
(Until then, I'd personally use lynx if netscape gets edgy, which isn't often these days. This, even if there was a MSIE for Linux. It's all about perception, and MS has permanently earned my disdain on this one. I've given them many chances, even when I should've told them to piss off ages ago.)
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That's all fine and dandy. I don't use win*, usually... however, what if I want to play a game of Tribes? What if I want to view _The Matrix_ on my phat new DVD reader? What if I want to use Opera to browse the web, so I don't go thru contortions with Netscape? What if I want to print colour pics out on my DeskJet 722c? What if I want to see how my website looks when viewed under MSIE?
Oh, right. Since I "don't have to use Windows," I certainly don't have to use those apps.
Spend a few minutes wondering what will happen to the people who would get thrown out of work...
Sure... MS will collapse just like AT&T tanked in 1984... or IBM (and nothing happened to them!).
The world will definitely not get *worse* if MS as we know them today vanished.
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For SPARC v9 architectures, this is true. I believe the UltraSPARC II and above are 64-bit capable
HP-UX. Those PA-RISC machines are 64bit, right?
For HPPA 2.0, this is generally the case.
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Easy... you DON'T. Simply press "c" (for "change folder," oddly enough), and you may then do one of several things:
"?" will call up a LIST OF FOLDERS, where you can then use the arrows and ENTER to select one
"=mailbox" will select folder mailbox
"TAB" lets you TAB COMPLETE on a folder
"^G" lets you cancel (^U followed by ENTER does same)
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For you, perhaps. For folks like me, who don't mouse unless REQUIRED to do so, it makes it harder.
*think* Hrrmm... oh, I don't have to use the mouse if I don't want to. Point taken.
To those out there craving mousable mail clients, I think there's balsa, netscape, and about 8 others that I can't name off the top of my head to choose among. I'm of the opinion that mutt doesn't really need mouse support (I'm not even certain it'd be easier to use with a mouse.)
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(of course, KDE only locked up after I upgraded KDE from within KDE, so... duh? :o) GNOME, otoh, keeps forgetting my settings on the loptop... time to try October GNOME)
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Gee. . . just like Quantum Bigfoot drives promised more capacity, yet had higher latency... >:o)
I guess we should never underestimate the power of a behemoth like Intel to force acceptance of poor technologies :-/
Fine... I'll just try affording something non-Intel (and non-encumbered)... I haven't bought an Intel CPU since 1994. I haven't had such super luck avoiding Intel chipsets, however. I still run a TX in one of my house systems.GO VIA and ALI!
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ooers. . . roaming profiles gone bad. I finally remembered to change my profiles to "local" FIRST THING when logging into a foreign system... and then taking all the junk that shouldn't be in the roaming profile anyway (like all that app data) out of the profile on the server.
NT: It stays crashy, even in milk!
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I did this with my 730, but it's been a year since I traded up to a T8000...
Now I'm looking to get one of those Tecra 8000s!
Linux works great on this machine. I haven't tried Cardbus-anything on it, but the display is nice in X, and it flies.
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I've been doing same with my old ][e... great to get back into where I started.
I knew I should've NEVER got rid of all my apple docs... anyone have copies of _What's Where in the Apple_, _ProDOS 8 Technical Reference_, _Beneath Apple DOS_, and _Beneath Apple ProDOS_ they're willing to part with?
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Turns out that this is about my only real beef with *BSD... tho I can switch to something like "ps auxwww" if I think enough in advance. I'd imagine that anyone at all working with SysV-type systems would have the same beef.
(oh... and the init scripts in *BSD feel really weird to me for the same reason.)
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I'm a Freebie Newbie, but. . .
There exists a complete package management system for FreeBSD, at last stat. It's called pkg_add (and friends). It's similar to SunOS pkgadd, I believe. It's time for me to tinker with my freebie system at home again :o)
Oh yes... Linux can stand to benefit from FreeBSD's advancements (/usr/ports completely ROCKS, End Of File.)
(apologies if there're multiple copies of this post; the connection seems to be a bit dodgy)
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I thought AIM used OSCAR (which MS reverse-engineered). TOC is just a translator protocol to OSCAR. If MS would've used TOC, I don't see how AOL would have a problem, but apparently, it didn't work that way. . .
EVERY news story I've seen has failed to make this distinction. Perhaps they're not wanting to confuse anyone?
AOL has published TOC, but not OSCAR. Two protocols. Simple enough. GAIM and those other Unix clients use TOC, afaik. MSN Messenger does not.
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This is amusing. The same setup is used here (OpenMail MAPI on the enterprise; sendmail for the entire Unix side I admin), and this is the norm. OpenMail goes down randomly while my single sendmail hub keeps accept()'ing away *tail wag*
Of course, I must occasionally check in with OpenMail because the win* folks generally don't know better. All I have to say is "Vive VMware!" It let me get rid of the dual-boot and shoehorn NT and all its crud into a 1.6GB partition.
I should note that Unix in general exhibits weird problems under certain conditions. Just try typo'ing the lockd line in /etc/services one day... if you have NFS, all hell will break loose. If you use NFS'd mailspools, oops. >:o)
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Seeing as how MS apparently reverse-engineered OSCAR, and OSCAR isn't open... it's like StarDivision reverse-engineering the .doc format for the latest incantation of Office. *shrug*
(unless .doc is indeed open and there's a publication detailing it somewhere. Highly doubtful, tho)
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This is true, however, I have about zero interest in helping Micros~1 win. I think those who don't know what I'm referring to should look up the word "choice" in the same dict :o)
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You can do the same in KCMO (just not in KC Metro), but you'd prolly have to live east of Lee's Summit! (the horrors of I470 and that f<beep>ing Grandview Triangle are reasons alone to move. . .)
God help you if you work in Johnson County (heh, I work in Office Park). They drive like freaking idiots here. No wonder Overland Park police are out at Metcalf and {College,115th,119th,I435} EVERY day cleaning up wrecks while I watch from the 9th floor of Vader :o) It's just a bowl of hell during rush hour. The only reason I survive is because I time-shift to drive AFTER rush-hour by a couple hours.
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I must really be dead, then.
(Last "girlfriend" cost me lots of money (several thousand over a few years) in the "keep in touch" department, and I LOST anyway.)
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Odd how not only my "intelligence" is a huge liability, I seem to be on the other side of the world from those who would even bother appreciating it. For the "stupidity" factor, non-geeks seem to have all the money and other assorted perks... hrrmm... oh well, I won't trade being a geek for anything else, damn it to Hell if I remain poor for the rest of my life.
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Yes, you deserve it. Even though I'm happy that the right folks are going places, it puts my little non-life into perspective. I am at a loss as to what to do. I have no money, and what I do have, I can't spend. I'd love to hack away at Linux and perl and php3 and do neat things with mysql all day every day, but I'm stuck here wiping users' asses. I work absurd hours and get shit on for my efforts.
(And I just heard from my co-worker that some guy's giving his whole staff BMWs (with insurance) just to retain them. I'm in the wrong fucking place.)
Oh well, I'll crawl back into my hole and spare you the rest.
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Printed a character via CSWL.CSWH (an indirect JMP to wherever $36.$37 pointed to, in fact, usually $FDF0)
Disassembled, it's "JSR $FDED"
2.What routine was at $FCA8?
Waited an amount of time based on what was in the Accumulator. Forgot the quadratic equation for the wait time, but. . .
3.What were the RESET interrupt vectors?
$3F2.$3F3 is the actual place jumped to when CTRL-RESET is pressed. $3F4 is a checksum (EORd with $A5) of $3F3 that makes CTRL-RESET reboot if it's wrong.
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Had "S JOBS" at its head, afaik. . . I think both Steves wrote the monitor, tho...
I had to suffice with the "What's Where" book.
I'd love to have a copy of _What's Where in the Apple_ again... very nice reference.
Lack of inner workings for the "PC" class of computers turned me off to hacking on it, as I was used to scraping the bare metal. Only now am I getting into programming again (Thank You, Linux!).
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something like:
spkr = $C030 ;speaker toggle ;use as a 2nd speaker instead of cassette out
wait = $FCA8 ; mon wait routine
cass = $C020
(here, reading the spkr toggle and creative use of wait will whap speaker once... writing to spkr whaps it twice. Lots of groovy ways to make sound with ONE bit! _Robotron 2084_ was a prime example of exploiting this to its fullest. Oh yes, you can fake "stereo" sound by using the cass toggle connected to another speaker.)
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