skwiddor

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by skwiddor 17y ago
C and C++ are two languages that share a base syntax. They are used in different problem domains. To randomly pick one for you to learn now is not a question we can answer. Your friend's reasoning isn't sound.
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by skwiddor 17y ago
> Not particularly impressive Text pattern matching from the mouse in all apps is the real strength of the Plan 9 interface, the chording on Acme is only part of the picture
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by skwiddor 17y ago
Linux, there's another error
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by skwiddor 17y ago
blimey, I forgot about that, my friend __20h__ will be annoyed considering the channel I hang out in irc is called #gopher and we promote gopher uri's in the title!!
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by skwiddor 17y ago
My OS isn't very good at reading the side of trucks
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by skwiddor 17y ago
file:// rtsp:// mailto:// irc:// (if you have chatzilla or similar installed)
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by skwiddor 17y ago
Exim is the default on Debian
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by skwiddor 17y ago
Privileged ports are a mistake.
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by skwiddor 17y ago
Try this one in Awk http://www.proweb.co.uk/~matt/awk/smtpd.awk
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by skwiddor 17y ago
Another x86 VM is vx32 which runs 9vx, a version of Plan 9 From Bell Labs as an application. We promote it to new users as an alternative to finding compatible hardware or running Qemu. vx32 : http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/~baford/vm/ 9vx :
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by skwiddor 17y ago
The Plan 9 from Bell Labs file system is called Fossil, due to it's snapshot capabilities. Unfortunate name clash.
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by skwiddor 17y ago
Where was I "bitching"? One time production costs are still costs. We're hoping to be recompensed for our time and effort and recoup our costs plus some profit to invest in the next film. It's how all business works. $5 a month is a very
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by skwiddor 17y ago
Have you ever made a feature film? The one we're making has cost us $50k so far and we've not even got a master yet, even with most people working for points not hard $. The catering alone was $2k. Fruit isn't free.
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by skwiddor 17y ago
We haev free Wifi in our cafe bar, so do the other 3 cafe bars on our street. All four use Ch. 11! I told our techs but they can't work out how to change it sigh .
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by skwiddor 17y ago
I have an EEEPC 901 with Xandros. At first I was quite enamoured with it's distro but it's not that great. The updater fills it up with updates until it runs out of system disk space and I have to reset it, even though I have a 20Gb version
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by skwiddor 17y ago
The best way to solve the browser wars.. [Javascript required to view Flash movie, please turn it on and refresh this page] WIN!!
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by skwiddor 17y ago
I'd happily pay $20 a month for all my food, but in reality it takes something like $500 to fill me up.
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by skwiddor 17y ago
I already pay for my online nusic feed http://dfm.nu/ via the paypal donate button if I had a good month on the freelancing, my good fortune is theirs. But when things are down they are stil there for me and I appreciate that.
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by skwiddor 17y ago
Because it's spelled "maths" :)
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by skwiddor 17y ago
The Plan 9 crew had another run-in with Stallman later on, and much to our (the Plan9 users and devs) this one worked out in the favour of FOSS http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/plan-nine.html The wave of FOSS came at just the wrong time for
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by skwiddor 17y ago
It's a palindrome and I'm going to use it as a document mirroring service, not finished yet so not posting the name.
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by skwiddor 17y ago
-- Wired: By contrast, e-book readers are good at basically one thing: Storing and displaying monochrome text and simple graphics. And that's why they are a win. I have a 15" laptop, a 10" laptop, a Sony Ebook, a G1, a 5.1mp camera and an M
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by skwiddor 17y ago
But I'm getitng more into Privoxy as I can use it with Chrome / Opera / I.E / and one day my phone when Opera Mini / Chrome allows proxies! And it's not because of the existence of ads but their flashing / attention grabbing nature. I've bo
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by skwiddor 17y ago
Oberon was one of the inspirations for Plan 9 From Bell Labs, of which I am very happy user.
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by skwiddor 17y ago
RDA's and food labelling http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reference_Daily_Intake Then you can hide the fact they are doing math while teaching them about healthy eating. Incorporate things like http://www.sugarstacks.com/ and http://www.wi
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by skwiddor 17y ago
> it really isn't applicable to most real life situations the irony is that as 1 liter of water weighs 1 kilogram estimates of various things is made much easier. I've often used that relation to my benefit.
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by skwiddor 17y ago
ls -Q
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by skwiddor 17y ago
This was the front page of the print version of The Independent today (Sunday 3rd May) !
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by skwiddor 17y ago
CGI, then use what you like. A few of my friends are building http://werc.cat-v.org/ but it's teaching me CGI still has a lot to offer.
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by skwiddor 17y ago
and the moon on a stick too please

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