--Ask the Gatekeeper to tap the Keymaster for you, and find out where the Drawbridge is (it should be near the moat.) Watch out for the Duck. And don't forget to pay the troll... HTH!
(j.k. Inspired by Ghostbusters, the Adventure game from Atari, and Homestar Runner;-)
"Somebody get this freakin' duck away from me!" == StrongBad
--Dude, Xtree Pro Gold was Da Bahmb back in the late 80's. ' mc ' is still my favorite sysadmin tool in Linux to this day. I absolutely do NOT need GUI tools to run my system - give me curses and commandline any day.
--I used to code REXX back in the day on a VM mainframe. Ah, good old VM/CMS, with REXX and Xedit; it was the Best environment in the whole Sysplex. Nothing I've seen even comes *close* to the Help system it had. It beat the tar out of MVS/Jes2/TSO/ISPF, hands down.
--REXX has syntax close to (compiled) Basic but has more powerful string-handling functions built-in. And CMS Pipelines... I haven't seen ANYTHING that compares to it in PC-land; it was very easy to use and had all-in-one power. I wish to God they'd port it to Linux; just thinking about it brings back fond memories.
--Of course, the VM sysadmin prolly had a lot to do with VM being my favorite system back then. Props to Mike W; djbechte sez hi if you're reading!:)
--BTW, Rexx is available for Linux: ' apt-get install regina-rexx '
--I've since "gone on" to Bash coding, but I should seriously take a look at getting my Rexx skillz back online... Prolly easier to pick it back up than to try learning, say, Python or Perl from scratch.
--I agree; but since he's apparently not open to doing anything related to WHO anymore (I sent him an email asking if he would consider trying out for the role of The Master in the new series) it would have been nice to see what Sean Bean might have done with the role:
--Although I bought and liked the book, the movie version - with Robin Williams, no less - was one of the WORST movies I've ever seen. Walked out 3/4ths of the way through, and demanded my money back. It was *almost* as bad as The Avengers. >:(
--I remember having a lot of fun playing Merc's predecessor, MW2: Ghost Bear's Legacy. That one had a type of Streak SRM "Inferno" missile that would set an enemy mech on FIRE. Group about 3-6 of those and fire all at once - the enemy mech would **shut down** due to overheating; you could either wait for it to explode, keep firing until it blew up, or pick off one of its legs and leave it standing there while you hunted down another (idling) enemy party that wasn't on the active radar yet.
--OMF 2097 was a *great* DOS game. Well worth paying to get the full version.
--If you really look around, you might still be able to get the original Mechwarrior 2 and Mw2: Ghost Bear's Legacy on CD. GBL plays great on my p166 laptop; but you might have issues with sound depending on the chipset.
--Try compiling 2.4.x or 2.6.x on a Pentium 300 MHz - or worse, a P166 laptop. Be prepared to wait **several hours,** even with ' alias make=make -s -j 3 '.
--Oh, and did I mention that kernels compiled on a 900MHz AMD Duron **will not work** on the slower Intel boxes mentioned above? [/grumble]
--Would you mind if I asked for a copy of the script (and which DNS service you use)? A friend of mine has dynamic IP (changes every couple of days) and might benefit from it.
--They died out. Mostly 2.88 drives came as OEM equipment on certain IBM servers; IIRC the 2.88 disks were too expensive compared to 1.44 floppies, and around that time Iomega was coming out with their 100MB Zip disks.
--$200 for 100MB over a parallel port connection effectively killed the 2.88 tech, IMHO. (I was using an 80286 processor at the time, and 486's were just coming out. My original HD for that '286 was 20MB, and I could backup the upgraded 100MB HD to 1 Zip disk with compression.) Since then, nobody has really felt the need to upgrade the "standard" 1.44MB floppy much, until LS-120 tech came out.
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--Ask the Gatekeeper to tap the Keymaster for you, and find out where the Drawbridge is (it should be near the moat.) Watch out for the Duck. And don't forget to pay the troll... HTH!
;-)
(j.k. Inspired by Ghostbusters, the Adventure game from Atari, and Homestar Runner
"Somebody get this freakin' duck away from me!" == StrongBad
--Dude, Xtree Pro Gold was Da Bahmb back in the late 80's. ' mc ' is still my favorite sysadmin tool in Linux to this day. I absolutely do NOT need GUI tools to run my system - give me curses and commandline any day.
--I used to code REXX back in the day on a VM mainframe. Ah, good old VM/CMS, with REXX and Xedit; it was the Best environment in the whole Sysplex. Nothing I've seen even comes *close* to the Help system it had. It beat the tar out of MVS/Jes2/TSO/ISPF, hands down.
:)
--REXX has syntax close to (compiled) Basic but has more powerful string-handling functions built-in. And CMS Pipelines... I haven't seen ANYTHING that compares to it in PC-land; it was very easy to use and had all-in-one power. I wish to God they'd port it to Linux; just thinking about it brings back fond memories.
--Of course, the VM sysadmin prolly had a lot to do with VM being my favorite system back then. Props to Mike W; djbechte sez hi if you're reading!
--BTW, Rexx is available for Linux:
' apt-get install regina-rexx '
--I've since "gone on" to Bash coding, but I should seriously take a look at getting my Rexx skillz back online... Prolly easier to pick it back up than to try learning, say, Python or Perl from scratch.
--So are you saying great Dhammage will be wrought??
:b
Shall... We... Play... A... Game...?
> meaning that if someone hit the button by mistake, all that would be nuked was this piece of water.
--Sure that's great and all, but it would well and truly SUCK to be anywhere near that piece of water when the bomb hit--!
"OMFG they Nuked Nemo!! J00 Bathturds!!" == Dory
--God help us if they ever had a child...
Scenario 1: Drunk-ass, brilliant but slightly suicidal HV Specialist (that can slice beer cans.)
Scenario 2: The next Tesla / Edison.
Scenario 3: Combine Scenarios 1 and 2.
Scenario 4: PROFIT!
--Back in my day, Doctor Who used to be the ONLY reason to send money to PBS... :b
--Here's something to think about - how about this guy as a potential Doctor? ;-)
--Sorry; if that post wasn't clear, I meant Sean Bean should try out for the role of the DOCTOR...
--I agree; but since he's apparently not open to doing anything related to WHO anymore (I sent him an email asking if he would consider trying out for the role of The Master in the new series) it would have been nice to see what Sean Bean might have done with the role:
http://imdb.com/name/nm0000293/
--Although I bought and liked the book, the movie version - with Robin Williams, no less - was one of the WORST movies I've ever seen. Walked out 3/4ths of the way through, and demanded my money back. It was *almost* as bad as The Avengers. >:(
--Holy crap, TWELVE med lasers?
--I remember having a lot of fun playing Merc's predecessor, MW2: Ghost Bear's Legacy. That one had a type of Streak SRM "Inferno" missile that would set an enemy mech on FIRE. Group about 3-6 of those and fire all at once - the enemy mech would **shut down** due to overheating; you could either wait for it to explode, keep firing until it blew up, or pick off one of its legs and leave it standing there while you hunted down another (idling) enemy party that wasn't on the active radar yet.
--Good times, good times.
--Yes, but that "car" definitely has More than Meets the Eye...
:b
--In Outsourced India, Giant Intelligent Rat takes job from YOU!
:b
--See this movie reference for my take on it all:
http://imdb.com/title/tt0149261/
--OMF 2097 was a *great* DOS game. Well worth paying to get the full version.
--If you really look around, you might still be able to get the original Mechwarrior 2 and Mw2: Ghost Bear's Legacy on CD. GBL plays great on my p166 laptop; but you might have issues with sound depending on the chipset.
--The True Original Old-Skool OG can remember playing Pong - on an oscilloscope.
(bows) Repeat after me:
I am not that 1337.
( http://www.emuunlim.com/doteaters/play1sta1.htm )
--Only once. ~:-b
--Try compiling 2.4.x or 2.6.x on a Pentium 300 MHz - or worse, a P166 laptop. Be prepared to wait **several hours,** even with ' alias make=make -s -j 3 '.
--Oh, and did I mention that kernels compiled on a 900MHz AMD Duron **will not work** on the slower Intel boxes mentioned above? [/grumble]
--Don't forget "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead":
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( http://imdb.com/title/tt0100519/
http://hollywoodbitchslap.com/review.php?movie=14
)
--Would you mind if I asked for a copy of the script (and which DNS service you use)? A friend of mine has dynamic IP (changes every couple of days) and might benefit from it.
TIA
--Thanks for the links.
--Remember to do something Really Nice for Mother's Day this year. HTH. ;-)
--They died out. Mostly 2.88 drives came as OEM equipment on certain IBM servers; IIRC the 2.88 disks were too expensive compared to 1.44 floppies, and around that time Iomega was coming out with their 100MB Zip disks.
--$200 for 100MB over a parallel port connection effectively killed the 2.88 tech, IMHO. (I was using an 80286 processor at the time, and 486's were just coming out. My original HD for that '286 was 20MB, and I could backup the upgraded 100MB HD to 1 Zip disk with compression.) Since then, nobody has really felt the need to upgrade the "standard" 1.44MB floppy much, until LS-120 tech came out.