User: superfly

Re:Mod up parent

On: Slashdot Turns 5

I'm still here lurking. I've had to go from reading every comment on every story to reading some stories at a threshold of 3...

username auction (offtopic)

On: Package Shipping From USA To Russia?

I looked at your auction page and it doesn't have your full username (ie, the 12 characters that Slashdot cut off). Wouldn't that (and the story about how it came about) boost the price?

Well, maybe not. But it would be interesting.

Re:Linux and Copyright-Free ENGLISH DICTIONARY ?

On: Giving Project Gutenberg Recognition

Take a look at WordNet. You can use their online version or download it.

It has also been formatted for the DICT protocol. I wrote a web interface that accesses WordNet and a number of other dictionaries. (dict.org has one too, but I like mine more... and also I noticed theirs after I was finished.)

Perl/Curses viewer

On: Star Wars, in stunning ASCII-mation

I'm working on an alternative viewer using Perl and Curses. Right now it supports pausing and multiple forward speeds (even though they aren't accurate). I plan to add reverse play once I fix the speed control.

Re:bad architectural decisions

On: Review:Star Wars:The Phantom Menance

I think the ex-Trade Federation engineers were hired by the Empire to build the Death Stars.

another mp3 cd player project

On: Do it yourself MP3 Stereo

A similar project, posted in a Slashdot discussion a while back. It has some interesting notes about running Linux in RAM only, so it can be shut down like any other stereo component.

POKEY is Dead

On: The end of Pokey the Penguin

GUN

web dictionaries

On: Running To The Internet (California Chapter) Two

Take a look at dict.org's dictionary server at http://www.dict.org/bin/Dict, or my version at http://okcomputer.antiflux.org/~s uperfly/dict.cgi.