... a game called the Teenies ?
I've played this game on macintosh, a really great fun (it used to make me laugth to tears) and also challenging.
I remember it after 12 years and I still wonder how could I find it somewhere to play again (google isn't relevant for this name).
It has the same kind of look as Kirby Canvas Curse, with animals (balls of hairs with arms and big feet); but from a closer and upper view of the puzzle/maze.
I have the same problem, I want to read my mail archives but I no longer have the proper tools/software.
Since we are not alone facing this problem I suggest we join as a task force to setup a bunch of virtual machine with the proper tools installed to read those archives.
Some people reading us may have the required software.
We can get a vwmare trial licence and setup a Linux drive and a Win 3.11 drive (guest drives are host files, philes are easy 2 share and plug somewhere else, got it?).
I can't tell everything right away here, but we need a common keyword to find each other safely: let say MAIRCHIVEL (0 at google today).
hum... BTW does anybody remember this mail client running with the scheduler on windows 3.11 ?
it would be nice to see it with a brand new name;-)
(if you find me too cryptic you may be not enough interested by a solution, perhaps some other nerds here will explain more zan me)
I have 1GHz via proc, 3 eth, 2 usb (but usb 1.1), up to 512MB RAM, and sound.
Storage: I've chosen a very silent hard disk: seagate momentus 40GB 2.5" and Linux is tuned to spin down the drive: it only runs 15s every 10mn.
No CD/floppy drive: OS install with PXE and another PC on LAN.
You can have a real 0db system with LAN boot or using a compact flash for storage.
Of course network boot means another PC, noisy, but in another place;-)
Believe me, I'm currently posting on Slashdot using this system, I really apreciate deep silence.
I have 1GHz via proc, 3 eth, 2 usb (but usb 1.1), up to 512MB RAM, and sound.
Storage: I've chosen a very silent hard disk: seagate momentus 40GB 2.5"
No CD/floppy drive: OS install with PXE and another PC on LAN.
You can have a real 0db system with LAN boot or using a compact flash for storage.
Of course network boot means another PC, noisy, but in another place;-)
Directories can now be marked as synchronous using chattr +S, so that all changes will be immediately written to disk. Note, this does not guarantee atomicity, at least not for all filesystems and for all operations. You *can* be guaranteed that system calls will not return until the changes are on disk; note though that this does have has some significant performance impacts.
GREAT!
This is what I've been waiting for many years.
Did you noticed how long it takes to start actualy writing to disk when you copy a big file?
It goes to cache write first, that's wasted cache and wasted time.
From now:
cp huge_file/backup
will end much sooner than before;-))
I'd like to have it as an option for cp, tar,...
Palm ECG, pocket ECG, handheld solution...
on
Build Your Own ECG
·
· Score: 1
In a few days please post the same project with a Palm as display and an optoisolated circuit. I've search the threads, nobody as yet mentioned it: wouldn't it be nice to jog/run/roll and graph the ECG ? (Keep the handheld device taped aside so it doesn't jump with you) Also record the ECG with it and see when there is a 'step-over':
Yes: thanks to your question we see that it's common and you are right!
You might also search for the bootstrap encyclopedia...
What to do in case human kind re-start from nothing but knowledge ?
Imagine if there is no steel, no electricity, no tools, nothing but you in the wild nature with
the bootstrap process in your brain.
First find food (ok), then wood (easy) and minerals (how?) and start the process with some other
folks.
How many weeks for your first steel tool ?
How many months will you need to get electricity ?
How many years to get a real power plant ?
Many games ( Civ, AOE ) simulate this but who really knows enougth to complete this start from
scratch ?
Is there a how-to-do-it-all-from-scratch encyclopedia ?
As as geek I often wonder if anyone else in the geekdoom tried to find it or to gather pieces of
it.
Any feedback anyone ?
Your question and the number of replies show that geeks often have a hacking around spirit,
creation oriented, and easily imagine themselves in an analog process I mentioned above.
Yet it seems engineering is always close to the lost art studied by the geek ( metalsmithing,
sewing, making soap rather than some old kind of music, painting, poetry ).
You see, your fellows aren't really hacking outside of engineering, it's an other way to exercise
the same mind thinking "how to do this?" and then "yes I've made it!"
Great post of you, I'm looking for answers to my own question in the threads.
The left one is going up, the right one is going down.
So the man is in fact climbing more steps than he would have with the stairs in the midle. Good training.
Is there any utility to build a pratical C/H/S - LBA map ?
Accessing the disk through LBA at low level with precise timing let you discover when heads seek.
Thus you can compute actual C/H/S geometry and the mapping to LBA. Write once the map to a file along with disk id. Use the map with ad-hoc driver which optimize reads and writes accordingly.
Compute this map will be time consuming but it need to be done only once.
"The ability to create ways to preprocess pages before they display would be a welcome addition to Mozilla's capabilities."
"TS is based on the idea of a very simple, open API, and the use of various modules which users may install and configure through the preferences panels. These modules would receive the webpage before it is fully parsed, and transform it as they are programmed, passing the transformed webpage either to the next module (they may be chained), or to the rendering/parsing engine. Naturally, users may want to run more than one module at a time, perhaps one that acts as a HTML filter to remove hostile tags (like BLINK and EMBED), and another as a simple lingual translation engine. Similarly, users may wish for modules to be applied to only some webpages, perhaps those in a foreign language or with a hostile PICS rating, and not other.
"
Mozilla team seems reluctant to implement this, do they fear something from sites hosting advertizing ?
I can already imagine my favorite pages customized on the fly by Mozilla with my preferences, or even colaborative preferences. ( cnn, zdnet,... with no more ads, popup, useless side columns or top rows. Oops: unsubscribed user has the ads gone on slashdot! )
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I've played this game on macintosh, a really great fun (it used to make me laugth to tears) and also challenging.
I remember it after 12 years and I still wonder how could I find it somewhere to play again (google isn't relevant for this name).
It has the same kind of look as Kirby Canvas Curse, with animals (balls of hairs with arms and big feet); but from a closer and upper view of the puzzle/maze.
You must be joking or you're really not a scientist:
Depending on people, the retina persistency may vary, thus some will notice flicker, others not.
Human eyes are not devices with a sample rate, they have continuous acquiring, but with some persistency.
I also agree: * THIS IS NOT HUMANOID *
It was my first reaction when I saw the robot, so I search the discussion until I found your post (I don't want to be redundant)
It seems almost no readers noticed that this humanoidism claim is unjustified.
Aren't you afraid of the /. effect overwhelming you by gmail account requests ?
Since we are not alone facing this problem I suggest we join as a task force to setup a bunch of virtual machine with the proper tools installed to read those archives.
Some people reading us may have the required software.
We can get a vwmare trial licence and setup a Linux drive and a Win 3.11 drive (guest drives are host files, philes are easy 2 share and plug somewhere else, got it?).
I can't tell everything right away here, but we need a common keyword to find each other safely: let say MAIRCHIVEL (0 at google today).
hum... BTW does anybody remember this mail client running with the scheduler on windows 3.11 ? it would be nice to see it with a brand new name ;-)
(if you find me too cryptic you may be not enough interested by a solution, perhaps some other nerds here will explain more zan me)
Neo case from lex system
I have 1GHz via proc, 3 eth, 2 usb (but usb 1.1), up to 512MB RAM, and sound.
Storage: I've chosen a very silent hard disk: seagate momentus 40GB 2.5" and Linux is tuned to spin down the drive: it only runs 15s every 10mn.
No CD/floppy drive: OS install with PXE and another PC on LAN.
You can have a real 0db system with LAN boot or using a compact flash for storage. ;-)
Of course network boot means another PC, noisy, but in another place
Believe me, I'm currently posting on Slashdot using this system, I really apreciate deep silence.
BTW, this is old news.
Neo case from lex system
I have 1GHz via proc, 3 eth, 2 usb (but usb 1.1), up to 512MB RAM, and sound.
Storage: I've chosen a very silent hard disk: seagate momentus 40GB 2.5"
No CD/floppy drive: OS install with PXE and another PC on LAN.
You can have a real 0db system with LAN boot or using a compact flash for storage. ;-)
Of course network boot means another PC, noisy, but in another place
Jesus Lizard
Then think of the tee-shirt:
On the logo the lizard run from water to dirt and the text reads
NetBSD: It can run everywhere!
Mod the parent up for this good idea, since this is one of the main characteristics of NetBSD.
GREAT!
This is what I've been waiting for many years. Did you noticed how long it takes to start actualy writing to disk when you copy a big file?
It goes to cache write first, that's wasted cache and wasted time.
From now:
will end much sooner than beforeI'd like to have it as an option for cp, tar, ...
In a few days please post the same project with a Palm as display and an optoisolated circuit.
I've search the threads, nobody as yet mentioned it: wouldn't it be nice to jog/run/roll and graph the ECG ? (Keep the handheld device taped aside so it doesn't jump with you)
Also record the ECG with it and see when there is a 'step-over':
| | | | |
___/|___/|____.___/|___/|___/|
' ' ' ' '
^- here!
It seems to happen to me sometimes - I guessed it with my pulse - and I'd like to make sure.
You might also search for the bootstrap encyclopedia...
What to do in case human kind re-start from nothing but knowledge ?
Imagine if there is no steel, no electricity, no tools, nothing but you in the wild nature with the bootstrap process in your brain.
First find food (ok), then wood (easy) and minerals (how?) and start the process with some other folks.
How many weeks for your first steel tool ?
How many months will you need to get electricity ?
How many years to get a real power plant ?
Many games ( Civ, AOE ) simulate this but who really knows enougth to complete this start from scratch ?
Is there a how-to-do-it-all-from-scratch encyclopedia ?
As as geek I often wonder if anyone else in the geekdoom tried to find it or to gather pieces of it.
Any feedback anyone ?
Your question and the number of replies show that geeks often have a hacking around spirit, creation oriented, and easily imagine themselves in an analog process I mentioned above.
Yet it seems engineering is always close to the lost art studied by the geek ( metalsmithing, sewing, making soap rather than some old kind of music, painting, poetry ). You see, your fellows aren't really hacking outside of engineering, it's an other way to exercise the same mind thinking "how to do this?" and then "yes I've made it!"
Great post of you, I'm looking for answers to my own question in the threads.
That's a fitness center remember ! ;-)
Yet that's a funny picture .
Is there any utility to build a pratical C/H/S - LBA map ?
Accessing the disk through LBA at low level with precise timing let you discover when heads seek. Thus you can compute actual C/H/S geometry and the mapping to LBA. Write once the map to a file along with disk id. Use the map with ad-hoc driver which optimize reads and writes accordingly.
Compute this map will be time consuming but it need to be done only once.
Quote:
"The ability to create ways to preprocess pages before they display would be a welcome addition to Mozilla's capabilities."
"TS is based on the idea of a very simple, open API, and the use of various modules which users may install and configure through the preferences panels. These modules would receive the webpage before it is fully parsed, and transform it as they are programmed, passing the transformed webpage either to the next module (they may be chained), or to the rendering/parsing engine. Naturally, users may want to run more than one module at a time, perhaps one that acts as a HTML filter to remove hostile tags (like BLINK and EMBED), and another as a simple lingual translation engine. Similarly, users may wish for modules to be applied to only some webpages, perhaps those in a foreign language or with a hostile PICS rating, and not other. "
http://www.mozilla.org/blue-sky/extension/199805/p reprocess.html
Mozilla team seems reluctant to implement this, do they fear something from sites hosting advertizing ? ... with no more ads, popup, useless side columns or top rows. Oops: unsubscribed user has the ads gone on slashdot! )
I can already imagine my favorite pages customized on the fly by Mozilla with my preferences, or even colaborative preferences.
( cnn, zdnet,