This is one of the most outrageous actions I have ever seen. I found the essay to be the most interesting reverse engineering tutorial I have ever read. I am mirroring the web site and I would encourage everyone else to do so.
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If you believed that, you clearly have no business watching the daily show:). That episode was a clear pun on the lovegetty. "gaydar". it was a pretty funny episode though.
Why the hell are they releasing their own distribution?!?!?! Miguel (head of HelixCode) RUNS Gnome. What's wrong with just using gnome's official distribution? It is like Miguel is forking his own project unofficially.
Also, beware that gnome will be adding Visual Basic support and a registry soon. These are not unconfirmed rumors (one was told to me by Miguel). Since I don't feel like the GNOME people are innovative and I feel like they are trying to emulate Microsoft as closely as they can, I have stopped using gnome.
Nautilus is the future GNOME filemanager/webbrowser. It is very preliminary right now but it looks like it will be cool. Who wants to use Mozilla seeing how bloated it is and all of this theme shit... Why can't developers just use the widgets so the app will use the global theme the user has selected!!!
There seems to be so much debate over IDE vs. SCSI. I use both SCSI and IDE (IDE for hard drives, SCSI for CD-ROMS and scanners). I think its time for a better interface, like FireWire.
IDE's problems are well known. It takes up more CPU than it should, it is an ancient technology, and you can only hook up 2 per bus (each bus takes an IRQ). You can't hook up external drives via IDE. You need to jumper them for slave or master. Ugghhh...
SCSI is better in some respects, but has its shortcomings. It is expensive. There is a maximum cable length and those cables are dang expensive! You need to set SCSI ID's which is a total pain and should be a thing of the past. Termination is one of the biggest hassles.
FireWire doesn't have any of these limitations or hassles. It seems to have the bandwidth it needs. If only there was an internal interface...
I nominated Havoc. He is always around on IRC to answer my dumb questions. If it weren't for Havoc, I'm sure much of GNOME would not exist or be in a much worse state due to his value to newbie GTK/Gnome hackers.
I nominated Havoc. IMHO, he's the greatest newbie helper around. Every time I have a GTK or GDK question he is around to help and has always given me the answer to every stupid question I've asked. Havoc is not known very well outside the developer community but is the main reason that a lot of GTK-related software exists.
I'm happy to hear that Carmack is interested in making useful contributions to the world. Aside from some work on GLX, most of his development work has been on extremely violent, stupid games that incite idiots to go around shooting people.
I don't know about the rest of you, but I'm trying to replace all of the non-free software on my system. I use Debian GNU/Linux, which makes this very easy (apt-get install vrms). Netscape Communicator is one of the only non-free applications I still use, and last time I checked, I was only a few mozilla milestones away from replacing it. Netscape is pretty darn buggy itself, and I haven't the slightest idea why I would want to use a new web browser that has lame HTML support and doesn't even have the source available when:
Netscape communicator does pretty much everything, and is reasonably stable. And guess what, it's FREE BEER! (unlike Opera, which doesn't aproach it in capabilities).
Soon I will use Mozilla and show my support for a company that made their product truly free software. Mozilla supports even more stuff than Communicator, and I hope they will be able to make it faster and more stable. The source is available under a free license.
To top it off, I use lynx a lot. For those of you that don't use lynx, well, you're missing out. Lynx is WAY faster than any graphical web browser, and it doesn't show ads or annoying graphics. When you visit/., how many of you REALLY want to see the Slashdot logo and all the topic graphics? Lynx gives you a simple view of a web page. And it takes less than half a second to start up (on my computer).
He would LOVE this. Since his doomsday predictions have failed (consistant with all of his other predictions), he can now predict widespread economic collapse becuase of a black hole.
The Z80 is an awesome processor. It's great for beginners at assembly programing - it has a nice, simple, clean architecture and instruction set. It has thousands of uses in embedded applications and is plenty fast for most of them. The Z80 is available for $1.50 a piece (at Fry's) and even takes very little power and produces very little heat.
Prodigy was my first on-line experience. I was about 6 or 7 years old and my dad used to use it on his Mac SE (@16mhz) to check stock quotes mostly. I didn't use it very much but I remember it being SLOOOOWWW. Because my dad was the president of a well-known Mac modem company, we always had the latest modem available. I remember when we first got a 14.4 modem.... Prodigy didn't support it yet so we had to use it at 9600 baud. Even 9600 baud was shaky with prodigy - it kept on defaulting back to 2400 baud.
As mac lovers, we hated prodigy's interface. It was not a mac application at all - it took over the screen to emulate a PC and had its own interface conventions for everything. There were ad banners on every screen.
I didn't use prodigy much. I prefered BBSs. Shortly before the internet became available to the masses, we began to beta test E-World (apple's online service based on AOL... Long dead AFAIK). As soon as the beta period was over, we used AOL through my dad's company in the event that we needed to find Myst walk-throughs or something.
We were on the internet at this point, so I wonder why we used AOL for that. It must have been 1993 or 1994 when my dad's company got a T1 and set up a dial up system. I was about 8. We were using a 14.4 kbps modem. My dad taught me HTML and basic UNIX, which I practiced on his company's mail server. BTW, we were using Mosaic and MacWeb. When Netscape 1.1 beta came out we installed it and it was pretty amazing. We eventually upgraded to 28.8, and got an ISDN once it became available in the SF Bay area. It took about 6 months for PacBell to get it working.
As for Prodigy, it was never very good. It's slow. They read and censor your email (!). It's slow. There are ads on every page. IMHO it should have been taken down a long time ago. No one who is still using Prodigy Classic can be in their right mind.
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This is one of the most outrageous actions I have ever seen. I found the essay to be the most interesting reverse engineering tutorial I have ever read. I am mirroring the web site and I would encourage everyone else to do so.
If you believed that, you clearly have no business watching the daily show :). That episode was a clear pun on the lovegetty. "gaydar". it was a pretty funny episode though.
Now the author of XKoules should do something similar :)
Why the hell are they releasing their own distribution?!?!?! Miguel (head of HelixCode) RUNS Gnome. What's wrong with just using gnome's official distribution? It is like Miguel is forking his own project unofficially.
Also, beware that gnome will be adding Visual Basic support and a registry soon. These are not unconfirmed rumors (one was told to me by Miguel). Since I don't feel like the GNOME people are innovative and I feel like they are trying to emulate Microsoft as closely as they can, I have stopped using gnome.
Nautilus is the future GNOME filemanager/webbrowser. It is very preliminary right now but it looks like it will be cool. Who wants to use Mozilla seeing how bloated it is and all of this theme shit... Why can't developers just use the widgets so the app will use the global theme the user has selected!!!
Ouch. That new dumb law strikes back
I joined too.
You can also help a lot by giving a donation to the EFF. They are playing a big part in the legal defense for DeCSS distribution.
There seems to be so much debate over IDE vs. SCSI. I use both SCSI and IDE (IDE for hard drives, SCSI for CD-ROMS and scanners). I think its time for a better interface, like FireWire.
IDE's problems are well known. It takes up more CPU than it should, it is an ancient technology, and you can only hook up 2 per bus (each bus takes an IRQ). You can't hook up external drives via IDE. You need to jumper them for slave or master. Ugghhh...
SCSI is better in some respects, but has its shortcomings. It is expensive. There is a maximum cable length and those cables are dang expensive! You need to set SCSI ID's which is a total pain and should be a thing of the past. Termination is one of the biggest hassles.
FireWire doesn't have any of these limitations or hassles. It seems to have the bandwidth it needs. If only there was an internal interface...
I nominated Havoc. He is always around on IRC to answer my dumb questions. If it weren't for Havoc, I'm sure much of GNOME would not exist or be in a much worse state due to his value to newbie GTK/Gnome hackers.
I, too, was faced with this question. That's why I wrote GtkGraph. Check it out at http://gtkgraph.linuxbox.com. I like it better than my TI-85.
I nominated Havoc. IMHO, he's the greatest newbie helper around. Every time I have a GTK or GDK question he is around to help and has always given me the answer to every stupid question I've asked. Havoc is not known very well outside the developer community but is the main reason that a lot of GTK-related software exists.
That's crazy! Anyone can invent a set of characters with one stroke per char.
Until now.
I'm happy to hear that Carmack is interested in making useful contributions to the world. Aside from some work on GLX, most of his development work has been on extremely violent, stupid games that incite idiots to go around shooting people.
Umm, in case you didn't know, Tom Christianson is one of the perl gods.
Thank you Macromedia! Flash is truly cool and if it was made an open standard under a DFSG-compliant license it would be really cool for everyone!
The person who made that spoof obviously had a pirated version of the matrix, the Z's on the upper-left corners were put on on some illegal VCD's.
Wow
Now that would be cool
(Don't get it? http://www.garynorth.com
There's a funny commentary at http://www.garysouth.com, and another supposedly at http://garynorth.shadowscape.net, which appears to be down now :(. )
How do you know that "gods of Egypt" doesn't just mean the fictional gods that the Egyptians believed in? That's what I've been taught.
The Z80 is an awesome processor. It's great for beginners at assembly programing - it has a nice, simple, clean architecture and instruction set. It has thousands of uses in embedded applications and is plenty fast for most of them. The Z80 is available for $1.50 a piece (at Fry's) and even takes very little power and produces very little heat.
Prodigy was my first on-line experience. I was about 6 or 7 years old and my dad used to use it on his Mac SE (@16mhz) to check stock quotes mostly. I didn't use it very much but I remember it being SLOOOOWWW. Because my dad was the president of a well-known Mac modem company, we always had the latest modem available. I remember when we first got a 14.4 modem.... Prodigy didn't support it yet so we had to use it at 9600 baud. Even 9600 baud was shaky with prodigy - it kept on defaulting back to 2400 baud.
As mac lovers, we hated prodigy's interface. It was not a mac application at all - it took over the screen to emulate a PC and had its own interface conventions for everything. There were ad banners on every screen.
I didn't use prodigy much. I prefered BBSs. Shortly before the internet became available to the masses, we began to beta test E-World (apple's online service based on AOL... Long dead AFAIK). As soon as the beta period was over, we used AOL through my dad's company in the event that we needed to find Myst walk-throughs or something.
We were on the internet at this point, so I wonder why we used AOL for that. It must have been 1993 or 1994 when my dad's company got a T1 and set up a dial up system. I was about 8. We were using a 14.4 kbps modem. My dad taught me HTML and basic UNIX, which I practiced on his company's mail server. BTW, we were using Mosaic and MacWeb. When Netscape 1.1 beta came out we installed it and it was pretty amazing. We eventually upgraded to 28.8, and got an ISDN once it became available in the SF Bay area. It took about 6 months for PacBell to get it working.
As for Prodigy, it was never very good. It's slow. They read and censor your email (!). It's slow. There are ads on every page. IMHO it should have been taken down a long time ago. No one who is still using Prodigy Classic can be in their right mind.
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