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If anyone has trouble reading this, there's also plain text versions of individual slides: http://www.openbsd.org/papers/eurobsdcon_2013_time_t/mgp00002.txt ht

If anyone has trouble reading this, there's also plain text versions of individual slides: http://www.openbsd.org/papers/eurobsdcon_2013_time_t/mgp00002.txt http://www.openbsd.org/papers/eurobsdcon_2013_time_t/mgp0000... http://www.openbsd.org/papers/eurobsdcon_2013_time_t/mgp00003.txt http://www.openbsd.org/papers/eurobsdcon_2013_time_t/mgp0000... etc. Here's the whole thing in one page, minus images: https://gist.github.com/anonymous/6757266/raw/3469464cb802e7c9a6cbe7c2508b252f7ad8ebdd/Theo+de+Raadt%3A+Going+long+long+on+time_t+to+cope+with+2%2C147%2C483%2C647%2B1 https://gist.github.com/anonymous/6757266/raw/3469464cb802e7...

simias 13y ago
My god, I'm not a fan of reading slides in general but this... this is a new dimension of horror. I can't shake the feeling that there's some sick humour in this.
- tiziano88 13y ago
  Comic saaaaaaaaans!
- parennoob 13y ago
  What's so horrible about it? Obviously, it isn't on the same level as any of the slide decks web designers put up that are in a sane format (HTML5+js / PDF) which don't require you to actually click through, but then a) Theo De Raadt works much further down the stack b) This is probably something put up by the EuroBSDCon folks after converting his slides (can someone who was at the Con weigh in on this? If he actually presented his talk like this, that's extra bad).
  - michaelhoffman 13y ago
    It might not be immediately obvious that you can zoom in on a slide by clicking on it.
  - p1mrx 13y ago
    > What's so horrible about it? It's Comic Sans with JPEG artifacts. The only consolation is that it doesn't blink.
    - claudius 13y ago
      It might have been difficult to combine blinking GIFs with JPEG artefacts – that said, it wasn't all that bad with the mouse on the ‘next’ link and tapping of the left mouse button to read the next slide, at least it works in Opera :)
    - spongle 13y ago
      The content was good though which after all is the main thing...
      - eddieh 13y ago
        True, but the font detracts from the technical content. Presentation of information is important. There are cognitive and psychologic implications that your reader will incur when reading a document written in Comic Sans. There is nothing to be gained from using Comic Sans and it's not difficult to simply not use the font.
  - mistercow 13y ago
    Not having any way to navigate without actually clicking the tiny "next" link is infuriating. I can't actually focus on the subject matter if I have to do that.
    - lloeki 13y ago
      > the tiny "next" link Once you zeroed in on the link, it's not like you have to move the mouse away, and its Fitt size becomes essentially infinite past the first slide.
      - mistercow 13y ago
        Only if your screen is large enough that you don't have to scroll down.
  - ciupicri 13y ago
    It's 2013 and there are tons of programs that can generate a decent HTML based presentation from a text file. Heck, I've encountered one just today while looking at the slides for "fedmsg - The Fedora Infrastructure Message Bus" [1]; the tool is named hovercraft [2]. Another nice tool is landslide [3]. [1]: http://threebean.org/presentations/fedmsg-flock13/ http://threebean.org/presentations/fedmsg-flock13/ [2]: http://hovercraft.readthedocs.org/ http://hovercraft.readthedocs.org/ [3]: https://github.com/adamzap/landslide https://github.com/adamzap/landslide
    - rwmj 13y ago
      Or just use HTML (rendered with Webkit): http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2012/01/31/tech-talk-pse-1-1-0/#content http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2012/01/31/tech-talk-pse-1-1-0/#co... and embed terminals and other programs along the way.
    - durin42 13y ago
      I've been using dzslides (https://github.com/paulrouget/dzslides https://github.com/paulrouget/dzslides) and been pretty happy. I wrote my own tool to take markdown and emit dzslides and I've not been upset yet, but my slides tend to be very minimalistic.
- deleted 13y ago
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- jensenbox 13y ago
  No humor at all, it is real and frankly, I am worried for my children. http://y2038.com/ http://y2038.com/
- enneff 13y ago
  WTF. I'm not sure I want to live in a world where plain text should elicit such a reaction!

simias 13y ago

My god, I'm not a fan of reading slides in general but this... this is a new dimension of horror. I can't shake the feeling that there's some sick humour in this.

tiziano88 13y ago
Comic saaaaaaaaans!
parennoob 13y ago
What's so horrible about it? Obviously, it isn't on the same level as any of the slide decks web designers put up that are in a sane format (HTML5+js / PDF) which don't require you to actually click through, but then a) Theo De Raadt works much further down the stack b) This is probably something put up by the EuroBSDCon folks after converting his slides (can someone who was at the Con weigh in on this? If he actually presented his talk like this, that's extra bad).
- michaelhoffman 13y ago
  It might not be immediately obvious that you can zoom in on a slide by clicking on it.
- p1mrx 13y ago
  > What's so horrible about it? It's Comic Sans with JPEG artifacts. The only consolation is that it doesn't blink.
  - claudius 13y ago
    It might have been difficult to combine blinking GIFs with JPEG artefacts – that said, it wasn't all that bad with the mouse on the ‘next’ link and tapping of the left mouse button to read the next slide, at least it works in Opera :)
  - spongle 13y ago
    The content was good though which after all is the main thing...
    - eddieh 13y ago
      True, but the font detracts from the technical content. Presentation of information is important. There are cognitive and psychologic implications that your reader will incur when reading a document written in Comic Sans. There is nothing to be gained from using Comic Sans and it's not difficult to simply not use the font.
- mistercow 13y ago
  Not having any way to navigate without actually clicking the tiny "next" link is infuriating. I can't actually focus on the subject matter if I have to do that.
  - lloeki 13y ago
    > the tiny "next" link Once you zeroed in on the link, it's not like you have to move the mouse away, and its Fitt size becomes essentially infinite past the first slide.
    - mistercow 13y ago
      Only if your screen is large enough that you don't have to scroll down.
- ciupicri 13y ago
  It's 2013 and there are tons of programs that can generate a decent HTML based presentation from a text file. Heck, I've encountered one just today while looking at the slides for "fedmsg - The Fedora Infrastructure Message Bus" [1]; the tool is named hovercraft [2]. Another nice tool is landslide [3]. [1]: http://threebean.org/presentations/fedmsg-flock13/ http://threebean.org/presentations/fedmsg-flock13/ [2]: http://hovercraft.readthedocs.org/ http://hovercraft.readthedocs.org/ [3]: https://github.com/adamzap/landslide https://github.com/adamzap/landslide
  - rwmj 13y ago
    Or just use HTML (rendered with Webkit): http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2012/01/31/tech-talk-pse-1-1-0/#content http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2012/01/31/tech-talk-pse-1-1-0/#co... and embed terminals and other programs along the way.
  - durin42 13y ago
    I've been using dzslides (https://github.com/paulrouget/dzslides https://github.com/paulrouget/dzslides) and been pretty happy. I wrote my own tool to take markdown and emit dzslides and I've not been upset yet, but my slides tend to be very minimalistic.
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jensenbox 13y ago
No humor at all, it is real and frankly, I am worried for my children. http://y2038.com/ http://y2038.com/
enneff 13y ago
WTF. I'm not sure I want to live in a world where plain text should elicit such a reaction!