My university had a *wrokshoppe* that was way down in the belly of the monster the faculty became to be after those rosy introduction weeks.
Entering without fear would get you what you want, because the workers did not dislike the extra tax-free money you'd give them to produce just about any glass contraption.
So, we made a WP out of an erlenmeyer. Maybe you should check *where* they make all the neat stuff that u use in chem class!
-- I am posting this as Anonymous Coward in case someone believes what I wrote.
Where did it all start... with punch cards, except it wasn't punch card but you'd blacken certain areas with a pencil. IF A=2 THEN PRINT "hello" ELSE PRINT "bye" took 8 cards: 'IF' 'A' '=' '2' 'THEN' 'PRINT "hello"' 'ELSE' 'PRINT "bye"'
You'd put a stack of papers on the desk of the math teacher and he'd send it of to Utrecht, where they developed this Dutch version of BASIC. I think it was called 'ECOL' but I can't find it on Google. Anyone of the developers still alive? It was actually dutch language, so 'ALS' instead of 'IF' and 'DAN' instead of 'THEN'.
About a week later the stack came back with a bunch of chainfeed-paper, explaining that in line 63 there was a syntax error. Take the stack, lookup the offending card, discover you forgot the ; or an ", change it, put it back in the stack, and wait another week till they told you there was also a syntax error in line 87. That's debugging for you! (And picture me crying when one day the whole stack fell out my hands... try to get the thing back in order.....)
Later, I became friends with a guy who had a PET 2001. I almost lived at their house. They needed to feed me because I wouldn't go home come dinner time.
Even later, we moved to another town, and the new school bought a CMB8032. With 2 floppy drives and a Brother daisywheel electric typewriter that doubled as a printer (IEEE 1394? Ribbon cable connecting the monsters). A whopping speed of 20 cps ! rattatatatatata ting! Wrote my 'thesis' when I was 17, a 60 page piece about wome dutch writer, and enhanced the wordprocessor that I typed in (many hours of typing) form a magazine. Added a page numbering feature. That was so cool ! Except when I decided to write some more on page 7, spilling over to page 8, I had to print page 7 - 60 again! (at 20 cps). Lovely.
My parents bet me that I could up my average grade with one point. Still lazy and spending all the time at school (now to write a part of their administartion software, which need to have a fool-proof interface), I started drawing all kinds of statistics on spread sheets (note: plain old paper!) so I could still minimize the homework. The system was like this: 4 pre-exams and one final exam. The average of the 4 pre-exams averaged with the final exam would be your end note. Just work it out, I found out that even with a -0.2 on English Literature I'd end up with a 7 as end note. We needed to read 15 books so I compiled a random list, which I of course never read, but put 1984 on top. I'd figure they'd ask me something about it, I thought it had to do something with computers. They asked me indeed, about that book. What's the name of the main character ?... ehhh........eehhhhh..... Teacher chimes in: Winston.... Winston.... me: Churchill ? They gave me a 2.8 which was way above the -0.2 I needed. That's hacking pre-computer... Flip side is I stayed dumb...
Anyway, I lost the bet by 0.1 point but daddy still gave me my OWN computer (so I would come home before 23:00 from school where they had the Commodore Business Machine).
At that time, the 'VOLKSCOMPUTER' was sold in the shops. A (CBM!) VIC-20 with 4 k RAM. Sprites ? No sirree, just print the entire charset (ascii 0 - 255) on the screen in rows that where 22 wide, leaving the last row a half row. Then POKE around in the font ram (the characters or font where stored in ROM but loaded into ram when the thing booted). Every character was 8x8 bits (8 bytes). So fill the 255 * 8 bytes with zeroes - in basic that took quite a while, assembler to the rescue!
Then draw a line, let's say (0,0) to (100,100) Every point in that line was a baseaddress (where the font ram started) + 8 bytes for every (x mod 8), and the remainder needed to be a bit which was OR'd to the already existing byte. That's just for x, every Y was (y mod (22 *8)) and the remainder gave the byte that would have the OR'd bit form x in there.
Or something like that.
Still people where able to make games! (Not me!). I remember a
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My university had a *wrokshoppe* that was way down in the belly of the monster the faculty became to be after those rosy introduction weeks.
Entering without fear would get you what you want, because the workers did not dislike the extra tax-free money you'd give them to produce just about any glass contraption.
So, we made a WP out of an erlenmeyer. Maybe you should check *where* they make all the neat stuff that u use in chem class!
-- I am posting this as Anonymous Coward in case someone believes what I wrote.
Over at orkut, in the 'spam' community, there's some nice spam poems.
i c>
Here's one:
</labial></conant>
</gunk></wart></monochromat
</posthumous></snowshoe>
my comment:
it had to be done
my dear. haiku composed
of bogus end-tags
And, very long ago, I stumbled upon nsdap but didn't quite know what to think of it. Liked Lennongrad, though.
Maybe checkout net-art.org, it claims to be a portal to net-art...
Say no more. And a bit more subtle then the omnipresent rm -rf /
Maybe this info can help you: http://k12ltsp.org/phpwiki/index.php/Hardware Ace (www.suares.com)
Where did it all start... with punch cards, except it wasn't punch card but you'd blacken certain areas with a pencil. IF A=2 THEN PRINT "hello" ELSE PRINT "bye" took 8 cards: 'IF' 'A' '=' '2' 'THEN' 'PRINT "hello"' 'ELSE' 'PRINT "bye"'
... ehhh.... ....eehhhhh..... Teacher chimes in: Winston.... Winston.... me: Churchill ? They gave me a 2.8 which was way above the -0.2 I needed. That's hacking pre-computer... Flip side is I stayed dumb...
You'd put a stack of papers on the desk of the math teacher and he'd send it of to Utrecht, where they developed this Dutch version of BASIC. I think it was called 'ECOL' but I can't find it on Google. Anyone of the developers still alive? It was actually dutch language, so 'ALS' instead of 'IF' and 'DAN' instead of 'THEN'.
About a week later the stack came back with a bunch of chainfeed-paper, explaining that in line 63 there was a syntax error. Take the stack, lookup the offending card, discover you forgot the ; or an ", change it, put it back in the stack, and wait another week till they told you there was also a syntax error in line 87. That's debugging for you! (And picture me crying when one day the whole stack fell out my hands... try to get the thing back in order.....)
Later, I became friends with a guy who had a PET 2001. I almost lived at their house. They needed to feed me because I wouldn't go home come dinner time.
Even later, we moved to another town, and the new school bought a CMB8032. With 2 floppy drives and a Brother daisywheel electric typewriter that doubled as a printer (IEEE 1394? Ribbon cable connecting the monsters). A whopping speed of 20 cps ! rattatatatatata ting! Wrote my 'thesis' when I was 17, a 60 page piece about wome dutch writer, and enhanced the wordprocessor that I typed in (many hours of typing) form a magazine. Added a page numbering feature. That was so cool ! Except when I decided to write some more on page 7, spilling over to page 8, I had to print page 7 - 60 again! (at 20 cps). Lovely.
My parents bet me that I could up my average grade with one point. Still lazy and spending all the time at school (now to write a part of their administartion software, which need to have a fool-proof interface), I started drawing all kinds of statistics on spread sheets (note: plain old paper!) so I could still minimize the homework. The system was like this: 4 pre-exams and one final exam. The average of the 4 pre-exams averaged with the final exam would be your end note. Just work it out, I found out that even with a -0.2 on English Literature I'd end up with a 7 as end note. We needed to read 15 books so I compiled a random list, which I of course never read, but put 1984 on top. I'd figure they'd ask me something about it, I thought it had to do something with computers. They asked me indeed, about that book. What's the name of the main character ?
Anyway, I lost the bet by 0.1 point but daddy still gave me my OWN computer (so I would come home before 23:00 from school where they had the Commodore Business Machine).
At that time, the 'VOLKSCOMPUTER' was sold in the shops. A (CBM!) VIC-20 with 4 k RAM. Sprites ? No sirree, just print the entire charset (ascii 0 - 255) on the screen in rows that where 22 wide, leaving the last row a half row. Then POKE around in the font ram (the characters or font where stored in ROM but loaded into ram when the thing booted). Every character was 8x8 bits (8 bytes). So fill the 255 * 8 bytes with zeroes - in basic that took quite a while, assembler to the rescue!
Then draw a line, let's say (0,0) to (100,100)
Every point in that line was a baseaddress (where the font ram started) + 8 bytes for every (x mod 8), and the remainder needed to be a bit which was OR'd to the already existing byte. That's just for x,
every Y was (y mod (22 *8)) and the remainder gave the byte that would have the OR'd bit form x in there.
Or something like that.
Still people where able to make games! (Not me!).
I remember a
From the qmail-ldap mailinglist: New: Fix Versign Breakage for standard qmail and for for qmail-ldap (Updated 20030916!). With this patch we treat wildcard responses (*.com) from the GTLD servers as NX_DOMAIN, like the DNS system did before Verisign broke it for us all. To the hell with these geedy bastards! http://www.nrg4u.com/