Does every fscking thing have to be about marketing and dinero?? I mean, I write software for fun. That is why I open-source it. If I were to write something for someone else, I probably wouldn't open-source it. I don't do it for the money; therefore, I expect no money. If people scratch an itch, they ought to release what they want when they want how they want, free or for cost (or both), and that's their fscking prerogative.
I agree that a "luggable" PC might be an interesting thing. If I had the parts I'd build one of my own. I move my PC from room to room quite often, because garbage accumulates around it *g*, and because my den lacks heat:(
There are Mac clones. Motorola...Power Computing...that's just two. Seen 'em. Used 'em. PowerPC based. Not state-of-the-art by a longshot, but they're non-Apple Macs.;)
The full text is:
http://danny.oz.au/danny/humour/one-ring
Recently one of my friends, a computer wizard, paid me a visit. As we were talking I mentioned that I had recently installed Windows on my PC, I told him how happy I was with this operating system and showed him the Windows CD. Too my astonishment and distress he threw it into my micro-wave oven and turned it on. I was upset because the CD had become precious to me, but he said: 'Do not worry, it is unharmed.' After a few minutes he took the CD out, gave it to me and said: 'Take a close look at it.' To my surprise the CD was quite cold and it seemed to have become thicker and heavier than before. At first I could not see anything, but on the inner edge of the central hole I saw an inscription, in lines finer than anything I have ever seen before. The inscription shone piercingly bright, and yet remote, as if out of a great depth:
'I cannot read the fiery letters,' I said. 'No,' he said, 'but I can. The letters are Hex, of an ancient mode, but the language is that of Microsoft, which I shall not utter here. But in common English this is what it says:'
One OS to rule them all, One OS to find them,
One OS to bring them all and in the darkness bind them.
"They came first for the communists and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a communist. Then they came for the Jews and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists and I didn't speak up because I was not a trade unionist. Then they came for the Catholics and I didn't speak up because I was a Protestant. And then they came for me and by that time no one was left to speak up." - Martin Niemöller
Okay, so that's a bit extreme in context, but still...
It's a shame really. Then again since InfoZip is open-source, it's possible to write your own WiZ. I use a copy of Norton Commander I dug off an old 386 I used to have to selectively delete files from ZIP archives;)
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Does every fscking thing have to be about marketing and dinero?? I mean, I write software for fun. That is why I open-source it. If I were to write something for someone else, I probably wouldn't open-source it. I don't do it for the money; therefore, I expect no money. If people scratch an itch, they ought to release what they want when they want how they want, free or for cost (or both), and that's their fscking prerogative.
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Rants "R" Me.
There is unity in numbers...how many for and how many against the DMCA? Want to march on Washington?
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ROTF LMAO !!!!!
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I am working on developing for CP/M-86 4.1 ;)
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No, seriously, I have figured out how to leeto-haxor Turbo C++ 1.01 into building for CP/M. Unfortunately, I have to roll the entire library myself
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It's 9, not 6. ;) Even today under Doze, strings printed using AH=9 must end with a $.
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Compaq ?-> Phoenix Associates
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45? :\ I thought W=AV. *forgets his HS physics*
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!!! hontou wa ne???
Adam Osborne wrote the 4004 manual?! *confused*
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AOL for the A.O.L.!!! ;)
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I agree that a "luggable" PC might be an interesting thing. If I had the parts I'd build one of my own. I move my PC from room to room quite often, because garbage accumulates around it *g*, and because my den lacks heat
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Dosius' Ideal Luggable (DIL) - 8086, 640K RAM, MDPA, 504MB HDD, 720K FDD, running DOSPLUS 1.2-je3 (=CP/M 4.1 with DOS emulation) *g*
There are Mac clones. Motorola...Power Computing...that's just two. Seen 'em. Used 'em. PowerPC based. Not state-of-the-art by a longshot, but they're non-Apple Macs. ;)
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Not quite hardly.
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Recently one of my friends, a computer wizard, paid me a visit. As we were talking I mentioned that I had recently installed Windows on my PC, I told him how happy I was with this operating system and showed him the Windows CD. Too my astonishment and distress he threw it into my micro-wave oven and turned it on. I was upset because the CD had become precious to me, but he said: 'Do not worry, it is unharmed.' After a few minutes he took the CD out, gave it to me and said: 'Take a close look at it.' To my surprise the CD was quite cold and it seemed to have become thicker and heavier than before. At first I could not see anything, but on the inner edge of the central hole I saw an inscription, in lines finer than anything I have ever seen before. The inscription shone piercingly bright, and yet remote, as if out of a great depth:
'I cannot read the fiery letters,' I said. 'No,' he said, 'but I can. The letters are Hex, of an ancient mode, but the language is that of Microsoft, which I shall not utter here. But in common English this is what it says:' From email, author unknownMod this guy up for Insightful! Okay, he sounds a little like a troll, but he's not ;)
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"They came first for the communists and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a communist. Then they came for the Jews and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists and I didn't speak up because I was not a trade unionist. Then they came for the Catholics and I didn't speak up because I was a Protestant. And then they came for me and by that time no one was left to speak up." - Martin Niemöller
Okay, so that's a bit extreme in context, but still...
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You're right about WiZ :\
;)
It's a shame really. Then again since InfoZip is open-source, it's possible to write your own WiZ. I use a copy of Norton Commander I dug off an old 386 I used to have to selectively delete files from ZIP archives
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Just thinking... :\
Maybe if we copy the Aqua API and apply it to Darwin we can finally have our MacOS on x86.
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Jaguar: dj-à-g''-w-á-r
Panther: p-à-n''-th-r
(That's my upstate NY accent. à as in "at", á as in "father".)
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IMHO, Apple should go to a strict XFree86 (!) system and ditch Aqua.
;) Er... (FreeBSD is *officially* _not_ UNIX, and I kind-of like tinkering with Linux sans X, only way I've ever used it)
What's *x without X?
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And Jobs bought Pixar from George Lucas - I swear!!! Go to Pixar's or Lucasfilm's sites. ;)
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OMG, 640K iBook?!! *joking*
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MacOS X first versions predated MacOS 9 BTW. ;) It is X - in the sense of Extended? - not 10.
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It's usually oil, not lard. (Lard? What's that? LOL)
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I like Wings, a GPL'd space shooter for DOS. ;)
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Give me Sky Castle Laputa again! ;)
;)
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Hmm, why can't I grok "Mononoke-hime" ? Could it be because I'm watching it in Japanese?
I only use PKZIP when InfoZip doesn't work (rarely). Why use shareware when there's a perfectly good open-source freeware solution?
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