If you disagree with de Raadt, you can always fork the code.
That said I am using OpenBSD as the base for a *x-like environment on DOS-16 (FreeDOS), more because it's easier to find the BSD sources there. Of course programs have to go through varying levels of modding...
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Everything the n00b needs should be two or three clicks away, and clearly named, well organized into categories. I like the simplistic nature of Susan Kare's icons, too, personally.
IMHO anything "mission-critical" should run on an incompatible OS/hardware setup, so people cannot transfer software to it, and be totally detached (no floppy drives, no CD-ROM drives, no Internet) from the rest of the world - a CD-ROM drive perhaps can be plugged into the printer port or something if it's needed, but only an admin should be able to get that far - if a computer is 100% an island, it is entirely feasible.
Niagara Falls, NY. You think we don't get earthquakes here? I've lived here since 199-fsckin'-5 and lived through TWO earthquakes. Not big ones, but certainly earthquakes.
Yes, it's JUST like Microsoft. I said so myself;) - and hey, we don't want to be like M$, do we?
And BTW, I do like the metric system - except for temperature, where I like to claim that Fahrenheit is just as metric as Celsius - an average year around here will have temperatures ranging from near 0F to near 100F - 100F range. Celsius is better for measuring the temps of liquids, but I prefer F for outside, just personally, otoh, I do prefer cm, km, L and so forth. It's just that "How dare you change!" mentality of us Americans that is teh sux.
I do get the occasional HTML message, and I usually say "Look, please send TEXT next time". Unfortunately these n00bs don't know or care how to do this, so I'm stuck getting HTML messages. It is fortunately rare. I'd rather send an auto-reply on all HTML messages:
Subject: You Fail It!
This e-mail address accepts only TEXT mail. All other mail will be rejected. If you wish for the recipient, myname@mydomain.com, to read your message, please RESEND it in TEXT mode. Instructions for Outlook and Outlook Express follow...
Note: I don't know how to do it in Outlook and OE but those are the major HTML spewers. The person in question uses OE6. As for the international client thing...it's only Mojibake if you can't read it, and I'd only block it if it is Mojibake to me (note: I can read French and Spanish just fine)
HTML trix0ring is useless in uPOP though - if I were to get HTML at my new address, it wouldn't do any harm, since my e-mail client displays only as text. (It's also incredibly st00pid, but what can I say - I wrote it in VB6 in a couple hours, and it's quite unpolished.)
With all non-alphanumeric characters removed, certain case-insensitive keyword matches can detect spam
E-mail is a forward or looks like chainmail / Nigerian scam
E-mail contains junk strings in subject or sender
E-mail comes from you, but header doesn't match your send name
E-mail is excessively large (>20K) and unsolicited (whitelist)
E-mail headers and/or text contain Mojibake, if unsolicited (whitelist) - this will block anything in Chinese or Russian, for example
Badly formed headers
Address doesn't match reverse lookup
If ANY of these apply, then, IMO, YOU FAIL IT!!
I think, this would be a perfect filter system, if it could be coded. I have a homemade POP3 client that I could stand to add some of this to, I guess...
International English follows the British spelling. We Americans should just grin and bear it, and accept the fact that our "English" is nonstandard. (Like Microsoft's implementation of Java, perhaps) In any case, if your target audience is wider than the US (and maybe Japan as the English they use there tends toward American), it is best to use the international spellings - colour, flavour - than our utterly made up spellings. (Damn you Noah Webster! It's all your fault! No, seriously.) I think people gravitate to the US spelling because they are simpler, but they are not more correct. But no one else here in the US is likely to agree with me; I'm probably going to get modded (-1, Flamebait) for this one. Heh.
In short, we should just accept that our English is nonstandard, and use the English every other English-speaking country uses.
I have read that the SuperCPU chips contain overclocked 14 MHz parts, which the company making the SuperCPU has rated at 20 MHz. WDC doesn't make 20 MHz 65816s.
Are you kidding? Does anyone actually RTFA before posting (j/k!)
As for 65816 being a "high-speed" 16-bit 6502, heh, if you call 2.8 MHz "high-speed"...then again, there are 14 MHz 65816s. Of course there were only two well known systems using 65816s...maybe 3, I'm not sure if the TurboGrafx used a 65802...the Apple IIgs and the Super NES. And it's really a bag on the side of the 65C02.
An ideal gaming system would probably be 68060 based *ducks*, and would have a true-color bitmapped display with a "foreground layer" and a color sprite overlay mechanism...perfect for just about any game, IMHO. And of course, you need good CLASSIC-STYLE games.;)
Didn't RTFA, but "16-bit Motorola" CPU sounds like a reference to the 68000.
68000 isn't really a 16-bit processor, any more than the 80386SX is. It's a 32-bit CPU internally.
And let's face it, the Apple ]['s video hardware was teh sux (I had to write emulation for that b*stard, and MY code was a fscking nightmare), so I don't see why anyone would want to emulate it (it was basically a braindead monochrome CGA, and faked color). C64 tho I can see, a little better.
euphemism n. The act or an example of substituting a mild, indirect, or vague term for one considered harsh, blunt, or offensive: "Euphemisms such as 'slumber room'... abound in the funeral business" (Jessica Mitford).
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Uh, Bobcat?
That would run in 640K, might run in 512 if you pushed it...
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The original appears to be "...television watches you", an obvious 1984 reference.
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If you disagree with de Raadt, you can always fork the code.
That said I am using OpenBSD as the base for a *x-like environment on DOS-16 (FreeDOS), more because it's easier to find the BSD sources there. Of course programs have to go through varying levels of modding...
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Yeah, Catwoman is teh r0x (and Michelle Pfeiffer especially!!!)
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phenotype
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Just like EULAs.
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Usability should be this.
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Everything the n00b needs should be two or three clicks away, and clearly named, well organized into categories. I like the simplistic nature of Susan Kare's icons, too, personally.
And for the pros, there's always Win-R
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IMHO anything "mission-critical" should run on an incompatible OS/hardware setup, so people cannot transfer software to it, and be totally detached (no floppy drives, no CD-ROM drives, no Internet) from the rest of the world - a CD-ROM drive perhaps can be plugged into the printer port or something if it's needed, but only an admin should be able to get that far - if a computer is 100% an island, it is entirely feasible.
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Niagara Falls, NY. You think we don't get earthquakes here? I've lived here since 199-fsckin'-5 and lived through TWO earthquakes. Not big ones, but certainly earthquakes.
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No, it's "jackass". "Arse" is a completely separate word; "jackass" is a type of ass==donkey.
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Yes, it's JUST like Microsoft. I said so myself ;) - and hey, we don't want to be like M$, do we?
And BTW, I do like the metric system - except for temperature, where I like to claim that Fahrenheit is just as metric as Celsius - an average year around here will have temperatures ranging from near 0F to near 100F - 100F range. Celsius is better for measuring the temps of liquids, but I prefer F for outside, just personally, otoh, I do prefer cm, km, L and so forth. It's just that "How dare you change!" mentality of us Americans that is teh sux.
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HTML trix0ring is useless in uPOP though - if I were to get HTML at my new address, it wouldn't do any harm, since my e-mail client displays only as text. (It's also incredibly st00pid, but what can I say - I wrote it in VB6 in a couple hours, and it's quite unpolished.)
- E-mail contains HTML tags of any sort, except for <A>
- E-mail contains attachments (unless solicited; whitelist)
- With all non-alphanumeric characters removed, certain case-insensitive keyword matches can detect spam
- E-mail is a forward or looks like chainmail / Nigerian scam
- E-mail contains junk strings in subject or sender
- E-mail comes from you, but header doesn't match your send name
- E-mail is excessively large (>20K) and unsolicited (whitelist)
- E-mail headers and/or text contain Mojibake, if unsolicited (whitelist) - this will block anything in Chinese or Russian, for example
- Badly formed headers
- Address doesn't match reverse lookup
If ANY of these apply, then, IMO, YOU FAIL IT!!I think, this would be a perfect filter system, if it could be coded. I have a homemade POP3 client that I could stand to add some of this to, I guess...
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I can't use my WinTV Go! in Win98SE, at all...but it worked out of the box in Red Hat 8.0 Linux.
;)
So for me, yeah, it's easier to grab video with Linux.
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"Sulfur" is in fact the correct spelling here...
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Furrfu, why can't we have some consistency?
In fact correct: the US form is "curb".
International English follows the British spelling. We Americans should just grin and bear it, and accept the fact that our "English" is nonstandard. (Like Microsoft's implementation of Java, perhaps) In any case, if your target audience is wider than the US (and maybe Japan as the English they use there tends toward American), it is best to use the international spellings - colour, flavour - than our utterly made up spellings. (Damn you Noah Webster! It's all your fault! No, seriously.) I think people gravitate to the US spelling because they are simpler, but they are not more correct. But no one else here in the US is likely to agree with me; I'm probably going to get modded (-1, Flamebait) for this one. Heh.
In short, we should just accept that our English is nonstandard, and use the English every other English-speaking country uses.
-uso.
I have read that the SuperCPU chips contain overclocked 14 MHz parts, which the company making the SuperCPU has rated at 20 MHz. WDC doesn't make 20 MHz 65816s.
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No, but it's Beer Thirty, Honky-Tonk Time!
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Are you kidding? Does anyone actually RTFA before posting (j/k!)
;)
As for 65816 being a "high-speed" 16-bit 6502, heh, if you call 2.8 MHz "high-speed"...then again, there are 14 MHz 65816s. Of course there were only two well known systems using 65816s...maybe 3, I'm not sure if the TurboGrafx used a 65802...the Apple IIgs and the Super NES. And it's really a bag on the side of the 65C02.
An ideal gaming system would probably be 68060 based *ducks*, and would have a true-color bitmapped display with a "foreground layer" and a color sprite overlay mechanism...perfect for just about any game, IMHO. And of course, you need good CLASSIC-STYLE games.
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Stuck in the SNES era.
Still, its command set and register set were 32-bit. As I read - and I am not alone - 68000 is a 32-bit processor in that sense.
68000 is a "16/32 bit processor" - that is correct. But so is the 80386SX.
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Didn't RTFA, but "16-bit Motorola" CPU sounds like a reference to the 68000.
68000 isn't really a 16-bit processor, any more than the 80386SX is. It's a 32-bit CPU internally.
And let's face it, the Apple ]['s video hardware was teh sux (I had to write emulation for that b*stard, and MY code was a fscking nightmare), so I don't see why anyone would want to emulate it (it was basically a braindead monochrome CGA, and faked color). C64 tho I can see, a little better.
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1080 interlaced scanlines is effectively 540 scanlines.
Not to mention, interlacing gives you a migraine (me, it does, anyway...)
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You must be European (or at least, not American).
8' ~~ 2.4m
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Maybe not but it sure as hell runs Debian!
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euphemism n. The act or an example of substituting a mild, indirect, or vague term for one considered harsh, blunt, or offensive: "Euphemisms such as 'slumber room'... abound in the funeral business" (Jessica Mitford).
Look it up yourself
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