I have a Tandy 1000 SX. Yeah, I've used DeskMate. Nice music comp tools.;) BTW, the 1000 makes a real sux0r Windows box, but you can run Windows 3.00a on the SX's HDD in real mode, and that lets you play Solitaire *g*
>Anti-aircraft going off above Saddam Hussein >International Airport now. (At least in the US we >wait until after a president is out of office or >dead before we name public places for him, e.g. >Reagan National Airport in DC.);)
Should be "Saddam Hussein International Terminal" - makes a nicer acronym. *g*
>CNN reported this morning that there is concern >that Iraq knew our F-117 Stealths were coming and >started anti-aircraft fire. This is a huge >concern, as they are supposed to be undetectable >(a.k.a. "stealthy").
!!!
>If this is true, there is no way the technology >to detect our stealths was developed in Iraq. It >begs the question: did one of the countries that >opposes the war pass this advanced technology, >obviously developed since the 1991 Gulf War, to >Iraq as an underhanded way of flipping the bird >to the US and Bush?
I think all computer programs that cease to be maintained, or are replaced by significant rewrites and are no longer in print (significant -> Windows 3.11 to 95 or 2K to XP) for two years.
The Me$$yDO$ kernel, certainly, is ASM. But many of the tools are obviously written in C.
I'd kill for the sources to be opened. Beats having to don my pegleg and rip open fourteen.RAR files, and delete the stuff because I didn't have room to transfer it to my home PC.
ok, I'm a potential user - your crappy dapple
emulator is written for MS-DOS. what kind of
moron develops anything for MS-DOS??? why doesn't
it work on Linux? post back when you've done it.
</sarcasm>
Sarcasm duly noted. *g* I don't have a Linux box at this time to test with. I do know firsthand that Dapple ][ works on Windoze 98 SE. It's mostly written in C; the remainder is a single.o file built with nasm. I don't think a Linux port, theoretically speaking, would be *too* difficult.
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this document is mostly about comments on bugs.
so someone has filed a report, and then posts
back a week later saying "why is this not done
yet? when are you going to have this finished?"
Then I'd put a note saying "Well, I'm only one person (two in the case of Dapple), and I do have a life (well, kinda-sorta), so I only have so much time to hack. If I agree that there is a problem needing to be fixed, as soon as I am able to fix it, I will do so." That is my policy. Others seem not to be as willing.
Beyond that, IMHO it's discriminatory. Can you safely assume that these are all kids? Couldn't a guy in his 40s be doing it to? But that's beside the point - jailing people JUST FOR USING FILE SHARING SERVICES?! What the fsck, is this 1984 or something? Like these services only exist to be exploited, so go after everyone who uses them? What if I wanted to send someone a copy of Debian via Kazaa?
>I guess I'm just stuck in the last century, >because I don't really understand the whole >thing. I didn't have the patience to read the >draft, but I read the press release, and I'm >scratching my head over the whole idea of >software patents. I bet.
>It's been a long time since I did any coding >(anyone working with the 6502 any more?) I write a program that emulates a 6502-based computer (Apple//e with 3136K RAM).
>but I seem to remember that there were always an >infinite number of ways to accomplish any >programming task. PERL - There's More Than One Way To Do It *g*
>How do you patent one way, and then claim that no >one's allowed to use another way to do the same >thing? Or am I completely confused here? (I admit >that this is almost a certainty.) No, you're not confused; corporation droids can be real morons sometimes.
>As a writer, I can't help but make comparisons >with copyright law, another form of abstract >intellectual property protection. If you're a >writer, you can't copyright ideas. If I want to >write a book about a great white whale, I can. I >can even call it Moby Dick, and not just because >Melville's copyright has expired. Titles cannot >be copyrighted. So how come, for example, the >.gif standard can be patented? What is patented is the LZW compression used in.gif files. Then again I think that's a bunch of bolshevik.
If some luser is saying "Damn you to hell for this fscking program that won't take my clothes out of my dresser and put them on my naked A - I hope your dog dies", well, yeah, they should be ignored or plonked.
If it's "Can't SOMEBODY get this thing to work right on a Tandy?!" Well, that's different. I do think that some effort should be made, even if J. Random Luser can't convey his thoughts in an appropriate manner. A warning maybe, but every bug report should be important to a developer. And I do mean *every* bug report.
I listen to my users and potential users, even if they do flame me.
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Red on white. :) I like configurability
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I have a Tandy 1000 SX. Yeah, I've used DeskMate. Nice music comp tools. ;) BTW, the 1000 makes a real sux0r Windows box, but you can run Windows 3.00a on the SX's HDD in real mode, and that lets you play Solitaire *g*
-uso.
The full-screen editors used in both M$-DOS and DR DOS are both based on WordStar.
DR-DOS's especially. Press ^J and see what I mean.
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IMHO, Win95 was a rip-off of OS/2 2.1. So was New Trash. And dreXP, don't get me started. :( Give me GS/OS!!
-uso.
>Anti-aircraft going off above Saddam Hussein ;)
>International Airport now. (At least in the US we
>wait until after a president is out of office or
>dead before we name public places for him, e.g.
>Reagan National Airport in DC.)
Should be "Saddam Hussein International Terminal" - makes a nicer acronym. *g*
>CNN reported this morning that there is concern
>that Iraq knew our F-117 Stealths were coming and
>started anti-aircraft fire. This is a huge
>concern, as they are supposed to be undetectable
>(a.k.a. "stealthy").
!!!
>If this is true, there is no way the technology
>to detect our stealths was developed in Iraq. It
>begs the question: did one of the countries that
>opposes the war pass this advanced technology,
>obviously developed since the 1991 Gulf War, to
>Iraq as an underhanded way of flipping the bird
>to the US and Bush?
Could very well be...
-uso.
You really should have put a disclaimer on that link, IMHO, in case some 16-year-old came by and clicked it. ;)
-uso.
Mu, hen ne. What's the difference between an Al-Samud and a Scud?
-uso.
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I think all computer programs that cease to be maintained, or are replaced by significant rewrites and are no longer in print (significant -> Windows 3.11 to 95 or 2K to XP) for two years.
-uso.
The Me$$yDO$ kernel, certainly, is ASM. But many of the tools are obviously written in C.
.RAR files, and delete the stuff because I didn't have room to transfer it to my home PC.
I'd kill for the sources to be opened. Beats having to don my pegleg and rip open fourteen
-uso.
Two words: FREE USE.
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No such thing as unlawful carrying of a weapon of any kind. Read the 2nd Amendment.
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AOL !!!!!
Look up good ol' Tom Jefferson.
And what did Patrick Henry say?
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You mean crackers. A hacker would never break into someone else's computer.
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Proud hacker!
AOL !!!
;)
If we feel a law is unjust - it's our DUTY to defy it.
-uso.
I'll be wielding AK47s just to spite the cops.
No, I don't have any AK47s.
Beyond that, IMHO it's discriminatory. Can you safely assume that these are all kids? Couldn't a guy in his 40s be doing it to? But that's beside the point - jailing people JUST FOR USING FILE SHARING SERVICES?! What the fsck, is this 1984 or something? Like these services only exist to be exploited, so go after everyone who uses them? What if I wanted to send someone a copy of Debian via Kazaa?
-uso.
>I guess I'm just stuck in the last century,
//e with 3136K RAM).
.gif files. Then again I think that's a bunch of bolshevik.
>because I don't really understand the whole
>thing. I didn't have the patience to read the
>draft, but I read the press release, and I'm
>scratching my head over the whole idea of
>software patents.
I bet.
>It's been a long time since I did any coding
>(anyone working with the 6502 any more?)
I write a program that emulates a 6502-based computer (Apple
>but I seem to remember that there were always an
>infinite number of ways to accomplish any
>programming task.
PERL - There's More Than One Way To Do It *g*
>How do you patent one way, and then claim that no
>one's allowed to use another way to do the same
>thing? Or am I completely confused here? (I admit
>that this is almost a certainty.)
No, you're not confused; corporation droids can be real morons sometimes.
>As a writer, I can't help but make comparisons
>with copyright law, another form of abstract
>intellectual property protection. If you're a
>writer, you can't copyright ideas. If I want to
>write a book about a great white whale, I can. I
>can even call it Moby Dick, and not just because
>Melville's copyright has expired. Titles cannot
>be copyrighted. So how come, for example, the
>.gif standard can be patented?
What is patented is the LZW compression used in
-uso.
Personal preference. What about a P5/133 or so then? As long as I can program it, it's fine with me ;)
;) And it's been GPL'd too!
btw, GEM wasn't M$ - it was DR.
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Does it *really* have to be posted fifty million times here? ;)
-uso.
AOL
If some luser is saying "Damn you to hell for this fscking program that won't take my clothes out of my dresser and put them on my naked A - I hope your dog dies", well, yeah, they should be ignored or plonked.
If it's "Can't SOMEBODY get this thing to work right on a Tandy?!" Well, that's different. I do think that some effort should be made, even if J. Random Luser can't convey his thoughts in an appropriate manner. A warning maybe, but every bug report should be important to a developer. And I do mean *every* bug report.
I listen to my users and potential users, even if they do flame me.
-uso.
LOL. They think they're 13370-h4x0rz and they're just 13370-sux0rz. *g*
-uso.
Who cares about a computer in your shirt anyway. *g*
IMHO I'd like to see cheap, portable, handheld 8086 machines proliferate - running FreeGEM 3.00 on top of FreeDOS.
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Wackware, LMAO. If Maro$haft came out with a *x clone (other than XENIX - they've done that already), it would certainly be wackware.
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- From address has garbage sequences in it, or numbers immediately preceding the @ (YMMV)
- Subject line has trailing garbage
- Reply to nonexistant message (eg: "re: buy viagra!"), especially with the above
- Obviously commercial messages
;)
- Any message over 36K, unless it is from a friend
- Any message with HTML formatting, unless it is from a friend
I see 'em, I delete 'em, often 30 or more a day.-uso.