I have a few dozen machines in various states of use at home, too. I suppose I could install it on all of them and count it as 'twenty five installs' if I wanted.
Part of good coding practice is to keep your code portable. That means your source should be written to build on different platforms, and with different compilers. Code to the ANSI standard.
To rephrase what you said in your comment:
"it's best not go get in the habit of becoming locked into any specific platform." Writing GCC-only code is just as bad as writing ICC-only code.
Hey, my first computer was a TRS-80 without the expansion interface. I wrote a full-screen editor for it in Assembly language. You could fill the screen with text, and then stream it over to the cassette tape, if you wanted. I used the debugger to write it, because the full Assembler took about 20 minutes to load off cassette tape. An expansion interface and disk drive were a luxury I couldn't approach.
For newer computer users: think about having to download any program you're going to run over a 300 baud serial link to get it into memory to run.
We've gotta (really, we've gotta) be only a short time away from Norton Ghost being made illegal (but your Slackware boot floppies and the dd command are your friend).
My set of GEM installation floppies also has a set of DR-DOS floppies in it's box. (all original-label diskettes, mind you. Am I off topic in a piracy thread?)
I don't remember anybody being stupid enough to use a no-HD XT system in a single-floppy configuration. Dual floppies ruled, and were a hell of a good arrangement (one drive for the OS, the second you swap in and out your apps with)
One gets the impression you weren't there, and/or you've forgotten quite a bit.
Naw. Slack's on a 'street roller' bike on the way home from the coop grocery. It bought a nice fresh baquette and some organic banannas. It's eating chunks of bread off the end of the baguette and pedaling freely.
Bike race? You mean those rich kids with the spandex pants and the $3000 bikes??
So the fun thing to do instead is fuck up the (un)locking mechanism, then trip the alarm and watch rich-boy try to get his Porche started.
It's similar to the thing that some anarchist types do to fancy bikes on campus. They don't steal them, or attempt to steal them. They run their boot through the spokes a few times.
(not Bakunin-type anarchists, except in a few special cases, mindyou)
To be fair to George Lucas: He slapped on the 'Episode 4' on The Star Wars movie after it's first theatrical release, when he realized he had something he could milk. Then he wrapped in a bunch of Joseph Campbellesqe hooey-booey to give it a degree of credibilty.
I was there. I saw Star Wars in the theatre when it came out. It didn't have the 'Episode 4' crap. That was revisionist history.
You're far better of to do it somewhere outside, and a few metres away from anything flamable and even further from anything that generates sparks I'd even suggest doing it after dusk. That way, if you do manage to light the stuff on fire, you'll have some hope of noticing it before you have 3rd degree burns over vast parts of your body.
Yes. And stumbling around in the dark is a safe practice.
The outdoors part is a valid suggestion. But for the lack-of-light part to help you see it if it ignites.... hmmmm...
I have a 'Cold Quartz Ultraviolet and Ozone Apparatus' here. Its a desk-lamp sized thing, with a quartz column, and after it's run for awhile it reeks of ozone around the room it's in. I use it to erase EPROMs sometimes. It's from the scary-old 1950's and was apparently originally intended as a Medical Device for some sort of quack medicine. Absolutely no guards or covers for the lamp. You just learn to leave it with the cover down sealed over whatever you're exposing to it. You really don't want to stare into the glow of a powerful UV lamp.
For it's stepup power supply, it uses a 117L7GT vacuum tube. I've always gotten a kick out of using 1950's vacuum tube equipment to erase EPROMs.
But it's not the kind of thing you operate in a sealed room.
It all depends on the quality of the gear, and what it was intended to survive. A lot of the old Military avionics from the tube era was designed to get a through washing periodically. The old-school Tektronix scopes, meaning the tube ones with the ceramic/silver wiring, go through a washing well too. I suspect my old Tek scopes will survive forever, with proper care.
Cheaper consumer-grade things aren't made to last forever, though.
If you read Stephenson's early works it becomes obvious that he's a science-geek sort, with Academic origins (read his two psuedonym novels, and 'The Big U'- my favorite Stephenson novel, btw).
He's sorta got a head swelling problem lately, and perhaps that's why he's writing so much historical-fantasy now. Hope it isn't spoiling his muse....
After hearing about him and seeing derivative works for years, I finally just sat down and read a George Bernard Shaw play. Namely: 'Man And Superman.'
Whoah. Good stuff. There are riches to be had in 'the classics' of the last several centuries. And much of it is public domain now, so you can enjoy it freely.
I like a lot of SF also, and will continue to read it. But there's such a rich body of work out there that it's not that important to worry anymore about what is to be written next. There's more than a lifetime of reading out there already to enjoy.
I read the July issue of Fantasy and Science Fiction magazine this summer. Cover to cover, which I've not done often in the past. Now I'm wondering if I should subscribe, to 'stay current' in a way.
Furthermore, HURD is essentially complete, and in fact there's a Debian distribution that uses the HURD as it's kernel. It can safely be said that the current release of the HURD implemented in the Debian rollout meets most of the original GNU project goals. It isn't as robust and widely-supported as Linux and a number of other Kernels, but it exists, and it's usable.
It's a documented fact that he said it. But it's widely taken out of context.
The context in which he said it is similar to a spokesman for Nike or New Balance saying 'You, Joe Athlete will wear our shoes when crossing the finish line.'
The company spokesperson can say such a thing without the sneakers having some special property that allows the athlete to cheat.
The fact that the Diebold president's statement is taken wildly out of context detracts from the real issues here of the durabilty of the voting system his company offers. It makes the people bending his statement in such a fashion seem like demagogues.
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I have a few dozen machines in various states of use at home, too. I suppose I could install it on all of them and count it as 'twenty five installs' if I wanted.
Part of good coding practice is to keep your code portable. That means your source should be written to build on different platforms, and with different compilers. Code to the ANSI standard.
To rephrase what you said in your comment:
"it's best not go get in the habit of becoming locked into any specific platform." Writing GCC-only code is just as bad as writing ICC-only code.
Hey, my first computer was a TRS-80 without the expansion interface. I wrote a full-screen editor for it in Assembly language. You could fill the screen with text, and then stream it over to the cassette tape, if you wanted. I used the debugger to write it, because the full Assembler took about 20 minutes to load off cassette tape. An expansion interface and disk drive were a luxury I couldn't approach.
For newer computer users: think about having to download any program you're going to run over a 300 baud serial link to get it into memory to run.
Gary Kildall copied UNIX features in CP/M. Does that mean he 'stole' said features?
Google can reveal just about any truth you seek. The net is just like that.
We've gotta (really, we've gotta) be only a short time away from Norton Ghost being made illegal (but your Slackware boot floppies and the dd command are your friend).
My set of GEM installation floppies also has a set of DR-DOS floppies in it's box.
(all original-label diskettes, mind you. Am I off topic in a piracy thread?)
I don't remember anybody being stupid enough to use a no-HD XT system in a single-floppy configuration. Dual floppies ruled, and were a hell of a good arrangement (one drive for the OS, the second you swap in and out your apps with)
One gets the impression you weren't there, and/or you've forgotten quite a bit.
Hmm? Could it be because Microsoft copied their OS from another popular operating system that was under copyright?
You have a funny way of putting things. Does your historical revisionism also extend to a claim that SCO is right in their claim against Linux?
I bought a pretty substancial collection of Commercial Linux apps back in about 1998. ApplixWare Office, Wabi, a commercial Motif.
None of it works without significant tweaking and messing around on a modern Linux.
It actually works better in a Linux compatability mode on NetBSD. Hmmm....
Naw. Slack's on a 'street roller' bike on the way home from the coop grocery. It bought a nice fresh baquette and some organic banannas. It's eating chunks of bread off the end of the baguette and pedaling freely.
Bike race? You mean those rich kids with the spandex pants and the $3000 bikes??
Yes. I was about to comment about this being a feature that tags specific coordinates at which whatever is being photographed are not at.
So the fun thing to do instead is fuck up the (un)locking mechanism, then trip the alarm and watch rich-boy try to get his Porche started.
It's similar to the thing that some anarchist types do to fancy bikes on campus. They don't steal them, or attempt to steal them. They run their boot through the spokes a few times.
(not Bakunin-type anarchists, except in a few special cases, mindyou)
You can have fun explaining that to the other people in your jail cell. They have a great sense of humor and will enjoy your company.
Right. And there's no AMD processor in the Mac. The choice is: Macintosh or Intel.
To be fair to George Lucas: He slapped on the 'Episode 4' on The Star Wars movie after it's first theatrical release, when he realized he had something he could milk. Then he wrapped in a bunch of Joseph Campbellesqe hooey-booey to give it a degree of credibilty.
I was there. I saw Star Wars in the theatre when it came out. It didn't have the 'Episode 4' crap. That was revisionist history.
Yes. And stumbling around in the dark is a safe practice.
The outdoors part is a valid suggestion. But for the lack-of-light part to help you see it if it ignites.... hmmmm...
I have a 'Cold Quartz Ultraviolet and Ozone Apparatus' here. Its a desk-lamp sized thing, with a quartz column, and after it's run for awhile it reeks of ozone around the room it's in. I use it to erase EPROMs sometimes. It's from the scary-old 1950's and was apparently originally intended as a Medical Device for some sort of quack medicine. Absolutely no guards or covers for the lamp. You just learn to leave it with the cover down sealed over whatever you're exposing to it. You really don't want to stare into the glow of a powerful UV lamp.
For it's stepup power supply, it uses a 117L7GT vacuum tube. I've always gotten a kick out of using 1950's vacuum tube equipment to erase EPROMs.
But it's not the kind of thing you operate in a sealed room.
It all depends on the quality of the gear, and what it was intended to survive. A lot of the old Military avionics from the tube era was designed to get a through washing periodically. The old-school Tektronix scopes, meaning the tube ones with the ceramic/silver wiring, go through a washing well too. I suspect my old Tek scopes will survive forever, with proper care.
Cheaper consumer-grade things aren't made to last forever, though.
If you read Stephenson's early works it becomes obvious that he's a science-geek sort, with Academic origins (read his two psuedonym novels, and 'The Big U'- my favorite Stephenson novel, btw).
He's sorta got a head swelling problem lately, and perhaps that's why he's writing so much historical-fantasy now. Hope it isn't spoiling his muse....
Is it somehow surprising that someone with my nickname would "play the fool"???
No, it's certainly not. And I just played along with you. Hope there are no hard feelings.
My 'handle' back in the BBS days was 'Puck' btw.
After hearing about him and seeing derivative works for years, I finally just sat down and read a George Bernard Shaw play. Namely: 'Man And Superman.'
Whoah. Good stuff. There are riches to be had in 'the classics' of the last several centuries. And much of it is public domain now, so you can enjoy it freely.
I like a lot of SF also, and will continue to read it. But there's such a rich body of work out there that it's not that important to worry anymore about what is to be written next. There's more than a lifetime of reading out there already to enjoy.
I read the July issue of Fantasy and Science Fiction magazine this summer. Cover to cover, which I've not done often in the past. Now I'm wondering if I should subscribe, to 'stay current' in a way.
Who answers when you dial 451?
If you're going to make a joke about the ignorance of the grandparent comment, at least make it obvious you understood how ignorant he is.
Furthermore, HURD is essentially complete, and in fact there's a Debian distribution that uses the HURD as it's kernel. It can safely be said that the current release of the HURD implemented in the Debian rollout meets most of the original GNU project goals. It isn't as robust and widely-supported as Linux and a number of other Kernels, but it exists, and it's usable.
It's a documented fact that he said it. But it's widely taken out of context.
The context in which he said it is similar to a spokesman for Nike or New Balance saying 'You, Joe Athlete will wear our shoes when crossing the finish line.'
The company spokesperson can say such a thing without the sneakers having some special property that allows the athlete to cheat.
The fact that the Diebold president's statement is taken wildly out of context detracts from the real issues here of the durabilty of the voting system his company offers. It makes the people bending his statement in such a fashion seem like demagogues.
Yep. Fascist now means 'somebody baaaaaad who I don't like, and I am a leftist.'