I use black letters on a medium gray background. On an interlaced dispay ("way back when") I used a turquoise on beige. It seemed to flicker less than anything else, I guess cause of the lack of contrast.
Many many hours have been spent over decades tryig to work this question out and these colors are what I came up with.
It was Netsol first. When the guvmint split up the registry from the registrar, verisign bought the registrar, but not the registry.
People seem to forget that wild-carded tlds existed years before netsol did it..cc did it first and if I'm not mistaken a few still do (although I haven't checked recently)
Netsol had language in the icann agreement that said in effect "all registries must be treated the same" and this was their basis for wildcarding.com.
Icann got them to knock it off but left the others alone.
This is course is hardly the first time icann put one thing in writing then did the opposite. Usually they go and retroactivley change the rules/bylaws to reflect their new "consensus policy" that "reflects the will of the community" the next day. I've lost track of the number of time this has happened.
But this is irrelevant. Registrar is what we're concerned with here, you know the guys that take your money and make a domain work. Registry, that runs the actual.com zone is another company and by govmint order they can't even talk to each other. And they're the ones you're pissed at, not the registrar.
"If you're not trying to write a high-performance scalable computing cluster app, or an operating system, or a fancy computer game, then bloat really isn't an issue."
Spend 20(+) years fixing other peoples code then get back to me on that one.
Yabbut, as Nick Negroponte pointed out so many years ago some traffic is more valuable than others. You can drop voice packets if you need to. If you're talking to a pacemaker every damn packet HAS to get there.
I've taken a lot of shit over the years for suggesting Netsol is still the only safe place to have domains.
Congratulations, you caught one. Now what about the others? It's been a decade, after all.
I may not like Netsols rules but at least they stick to them, Even 12 years ago it was in the company rulebook said anybody doing this would be terminated instantly. And sued.
I've played with and written interpreted langaugesand for decades I've hels the fervent belief that the further away from C you go the worse the bloat.
Market forces correct that. What happens when your mom can't get to hotmail cause every kid in the neighborhood is downloading the movie that's gonna come out tomorrow in theatres?
Light pipes are indeed the hot tip - during the day at least, but, one guy around here has a single solar powered 400W halide arc lamp in his attic with light pipes from there to every room. One light bulb does his whole house.
To be sure lots of people around here have halide lights in their houses. But this guy actually uses his for lighting. Cough.
I guess you could do that. But I'm buessing he(she?) already has lights. Chasing down low voltage lights aint no fun either. Hard to get and not as many options...
I used led's in my solar setup. Now I use a lot of candles instead. LED lighting is damn damn ugly.
I use fluorescents if I need a lot of light.
The odd thing too is, once you stop using electric lights you tend ot go to sleep at night and wake up with the sun and I'm saying this as somebody whose been a night owl, a serious one, for decades. No longer.
Hook up solar cell to charge controller (so you don't overcharge the battery, they hate that).
Hook up the battery to an inverter (to make 115V AC)
Plug light into inverter.
If the battery or solar cell aren't big enough, you'll know real quick.
Wind and river turbines are a pig to hook up. Solar cels are stupid easy. Just hook up the wires.
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"Bottom line, put the dish in the back yard behind a fence or shed so it is not visible from any publicly accessible street/road/beach etc."
Exactly. Mine's 4' off the gound on the back of an outhouse way out back. It's got wood on 3 sides as a semi enclosuse and you can really only see it if you're sighting down the LNB. oh and there's a tree or two behind it. It's way out of "public view". In fact it's hard to find.
This is A solution but it's not quick and easy but might work in the long term and should probably scale.
The problem is you want somebody who is qualified to hit the ground running on your project. With the same OSS mindset. Chances are very high that person is already up to their ass in alligators with their own project.
Maybe some sort of cooperative agreement would work. I'll give you 40 hours to work on hyour project if you help me for 40 hours.
you'd toggle this into pdp-11 memory then see if it executed correctly.
5 years later you'd be burning this into an eprom to see if a microprocessor was doing the right things when it ran. this would be about 1980.
i worked on a program on an ibm 1130 once called "pnews" in 1971, but it's no relation to Henry Spencers work other than being done in the same area code.
Thank you. Your eyes cannot distinguish more than 14 shades of any color and I really don't get why we need more than 24 bits per pixel. I'd have to see a screen in 30 bit that you can't replicate in 24 but to buy into this, but it sounds like nonsense to me.
"Gasoline engines are going to forever power cars. The oil industry will see to it that no alternative fuels will ever gain mainstream support, or at least no alternative fuels that do not rely on oil in some way"
Now that Canola oil is cheaper than diesel I use half andf half if nothing else to reduced demand on diesel.
It's nice to see that a 25 yr old jalopy Merdeces oilburner has gone from on average $500 to $5000 in 6 months.
Hope it holds up as well for the next half million miles.
The canonical referece of font copyright status was written by Chuck Bigelow (of Lucida fame) back in the late 80s on comp.fonts (brag) which I created (/brag).
Piece of cake then. If it were me I'd write a quick assembly program to twiddle the chip and read all the tracks and sectors one by one; get the data into somewhere useful then reconstruct the filesystem from there.
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I use black letters on a medium gray background. On an interlaced dispay ("way back when") I used a turquoise on beige. It seemed to flicker less than anything else, I guess cause of the lack of contrast.
Many many hours have been spent over decades tryig to work this question out and these colors are what I came up with.
It was Netsol first. When the guvmint split up the registry from the registrar, verisign bought the registrar, but not the registry.
People seem to forget that wild-carded tlds existed years before netsol did it. .cc did it first and if I'm not mistaken a few still do (although I haven't checked recently)
Netsol had language in the icann agreement that said in effect "all registries must be treated the same" and this was their basis for wildcarding .com.
Icann got them to knock it off but left the others alone.
This is course is hardly the first time icann put one thing in writing then did the opposite. Usually they go and retroactivley change the rules/bylaws to reflect their new "consensus policy" that "reflects the will of the community" the next day. I've lost track of the number of time this has happened.
But this is irrelevant. Registrar is what we're concerned with here, you know the guys that take your money and make a domain work. Registry, that runs the actual .com zone is another company and by govmint order they can't even talk to each other. And they're the ones you're pissed at, not the registrar.
" If you're not trying to write a high-performance scalable computing cluster app, or an operating system, or a fancy computer game, then bloat really isn't an issue."
Spend 20(+) years fixing other peoples code then get back to me on that one.
Yabbut, as Nick Negroponte pointed out so many years ago some traffic is more valuable than others. You can drop voice packets if you need to. If you're talking to a pacemaker every damn packet HAS to get there.
Exteme example, I know, but you get the point.
I've taken a lot of shit over the years for suggesting Netsol is still the only safe place to
have domains.
Congratulations, you caught one. Now what about the others? It's been a decade, after all.
I may not like Netsols rules but at least they stick to them, Even 12 years ago it was in the company rulebook said anybody doing this would be terminated instantly. And sued.
I've played with and written interpreted langaugesand for decades I've hels the fervent belief that the further away from C you go the worse the bloat.
And "hello world" is how many bytes in this pig?
Market forces correct that. What happens when your mom can't get to hotmail cause every kid in the neighborhood is downloading the movie that's gonna come out tomorrow in theatres?
Larry Roberts very very seldom has bad ideas.
"Taking DOS which was bought, and advancing it to Windows and then NT "
NT was a clean-room effort spearheaded by Dave Cutler who did Vax VMS; that's why NT sorta works.
http://slash.dot/ worked ten years ago for a few days. .dot was the very first alternative tld. it came out of the BOFH.* usenet effort.
Light pipes are indeed the hot tip - during the day at least, but, one guy around here has a single solar powered 400W halide arc lamp in his attic with light pipes from there to every room. One light bulb does his whole house.
To be sure lots of people around here have halide lights in their houses. But this guy actually uses his for lighting. Cough.
I guess you could do that. But I'm buessing he(she?) already has lights. Chasing
down low voltage lights aint no fun either. Hard to get and not as many options...
I used led's in my solar setup. Now I use a lot of candles instead. LED lighting is damn damn ugly.
I use fluorescents if I need a lot of light.
The odd thing too is, once you stop using electric lights you tend ot go to sleep at night and wake up with the sun and I'm saying this as somebody whose been a night owl, a serious one, for decades. No longer.
Hook up solar cell to charge controller (so you don't overcharge the battery, they hate that).
Hook up the battery to an inverter (to make 115V AC)
Plug light into inverter.
If the battery or solar cell aren't big enough, you'll know real quick.
Wind and river turbines are a pig to hook up. Solar cels are stupid easy. Just hook up the wires.
"Bottom line, put the dish in the back yard behind a fence or shed so it is not visible from any publicly accessible street/road/beach etc."
Exactly. Mine's 4' off the gound on the back of an outhouse way out back. It's got wood on 3 sides as a semi enclosuse and you can really only see it if you're sighting down the LNB. oh and there's a tree or two behind it. It's way out of "public view". In fact it's hard to find.
ISDN is indeed good. (looks around, Oh look, two Ascend P50's)
You can also get multilpe POTS lines and bond them.
I don't buy the "it'll ruin the character of the place" bit. My place is about thatg old an there's lots of places to hide a dish if you're creative.
This is A solution but it's not quick and easy but might work in the long term and should probably scale.
The problem is you want somebody who is qualified to hit the ground running on your project. With the same OSS mindset. Chances are very high that person is already up to their ass in alligators with their own project.
Maybe some sort of cooperative agreement would work. I'll give you 40 hours to work on hyour project if you help me for 40 hours.
Or sommething like that.
Just a thought.
It was my Internic handle and I can remember it. Unlike other identifiers. Plus it was the year I moved to LA. Which is why I can remember it.
There's a lot of code that predates embedded code. As soon as you said "embedded code" I went "too recent".
If I had to guess I'd say it was the NASTRAN stress analysis code written in FORTRAN; it was an old package when I worked on it in the mid 80s.
5 years later you'd be burning this into an eprom to see if a microprocessor was doing the right things when it ran. this would be about 1980.
i worked on a program on an ibm 1130 once called "pnews" in 1971, but it's no relation to Henry Spencers work other than being done in the same area code.
" Esther Dyson is one of the investors. "
Is there anything she's invested in that's done well? AFAIK so far, no.
" our eyes are more like 21 bit/pixel"
Thank you. Your eyes cannot distinguish more than 14 shades of any color and I really don't get why we need more than 24 bits per pixel. I'd have to see a screen in 30 bit that you can't replicate in 24 but to buy into this, but it sounds like nonsense to me.
" The National Post is one of the national dailies up here, it's not a bloody tabloid."
Matter of opinion. Conrad Blacks little rag is just a tabloid with bigger words IMO.
" Gasoline engines are going to forever power cars. The oil industry will see to it that no alternative fuels will ever gain mainstream support, or at least no alternative fuels that do not rely on oil in some way"
Now that Canola oil is cheaper than diesel I use half andf half if nothing else to reduced demand on diesel.
It's nice to see that a 25 yr old jalopy Merdeces oilburner has gone from on average $500 to $5000 in 6 months.
Hope it holds up as well for the next half million miles.
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" If they came up with a vector-based online font creation tool, that would be something I could get excited about."
Um, yeah. Call me when they do PS Type 1 fonts with hinting.
The canonical referece of font copyright status was written by Chuck Bigelow (of Lucida fame) back in the late 80s on comp.fonts (brag) which I created (/brag).
Piece of cake then. If it were me I'd write a quick assembly program to twiddle the chip and read all the tracks and sectors one by one; get the data into somewhere useful then reconstruct the filesystem from there.