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<hcf> hoy Fare
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<Fare> lo, hcf
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<Downix> wow, now THAT was a split
<eihrul> abi: seen core
<abi> core was last seen on IRC 2 days, 1 hours, 16 minutes and 26 seconds ago, saying: sort of :) [Sun Dec 19 08:56:51 1999]
<Fufie> anyone in here worked with the EDG c++ frontends?
<Downix> nope
* Downix/#tunes loves his ISP so much he's going to the competition tomorrow
10:20am
* Downix/#tunes is playing a nice CD
<Downix> Well, if you like Tom Waits
10:30am
<Fufie> got the frontend working :)
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<Downix> ok, back
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<Downix> Anyone awake?
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<smoke> downix; awake, but no news here :)
<Downix> ok
* Downix/#tunes is working on his sound system a bit
<Downix> FM Synth is so limited
12:30pm
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<Fare> Dx: sound system?
<Fufie> mibin: ya nick? :)
<icedfire> huh?
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<Fufie> ya?
<Fufie> abi: ya is 'yet another'
<mibin> ahh, like in yacc
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<Downix> hey smoke, got a q. for ya
01:30pm
<smoke> ah shoot :)
<Downix> I'm trying to classify SID
<Downix> it's not an FM Synth, so what the hell is it?
<smoke> `classify'?
<Downix> Well, usually sound chips are FM Synth's or DSP's
<Downix> I just got to pondering, "What the hell is SID?"
<icedfire> it is like fm synth
<Downix> like, but not quite
<icedfire> what do you mean?
<icedfire> that the sid chip had wavetable capabilities?
<smoke> it's just a synth i think
<smoke> or analog signal processor ?
<smoke> why classify it?
* smoke/#tunes is off to play rick dangerous
<Downix> No, it didn't use FM at all
<Downix> smoke:  Trying to explain to a potential investor about it
<Downix> smoke:  hard to classify it, since it doesn't use FM or DSP-like commands
* Downix/#tunes is stuck with non-techno potential investors, that understand common lexicon
01:50pm
<Downix> Oh well
<Fare> Downix: explain SID to me
<Downix> I can classify Paula, it's a combined FM/AM synth with control logic
<Fare> (never saw it programmed; only heard about it; and probably heard it long ago and/or in x64)
<Downix> Fare:  SID is at it's heart a customized 6502 processor that is focused on sound generation
<Fare> 6502, too? how many 6502's did the C64 have?
<Downix> Fare:  At maximum, over 800 different variations of the 6502
<Fare> uh?
* Fare/#Tunes learnt programming on the 6502
<Downix> Noone knows how many
<Downix> I've identified over 100 myself
<Downix> Between the models and patches
<Downix> the 6502 was a fantastic CPU
<Downix> too bad they never continued it past 16-bits
<Fare> even the 16-bit version was not so good
<Downix> I know
<Fare> and apple underclocked it, too
* Downix/#tunes nods
<Fare> (for compatibility with the remaining ancient circuitry, I guess)
<Downix> Commodore lost their best engineers when Tramiel left
<Fare> Commodore never understood zilch about mass storage
<Downix> Nope
<Downix> Tramiel understood, when he left, so did Commodore's vision
02:00pm
<Downix> Well, he understood that computers needed to be inexpensive enough and powerful enough for people
<Downix> His replacements made every mistake they could
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<Fare> apparently the mass storage requirement never made it into "powerful enough"
<Fare> How come his Atari's were so bad, then?
<Downix> Actually, that was due to the fact he didn't get the key engineers
<Fare> They were like souped down (but much cheaper) Amigas.
* Downix/#tunes nods
<Fare> and couldn't be naturally expanded with mass storage, either
<Downix> He rushed the Atari into production when he failed to get Amiga
<Downix> No
<Downix> He thought HD's were wasteful and expensive
<Fare> HDs were a key to the success of the PC
* Downix/#tunes nods
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<Downix> HD's were one key
<Fare> having cheaper and bigger HDs as a standard was an essential element for poeple to choose the PC in the office, and later for games
* Downix/#tunes nods
<Fare> a non-proprietary hardware system was the main key; the rest followed, albeit with an initial office bias
* Downix/#tunes nods
<Downix> not quite non-proprietory, but a widely-availible hardware system
<Fare> (the damn Macs had 3 times smaller HDs for three times the price)
<Downix> many of the parts in a PC are still proprietory
<Fare> ok, a mishmash of proprietary hardware interoperating through non-proprietary specifications with lots of competing chipsets.
<Downix> Right
<Downix> But it was WIDELY AVAILIBLE
<Downix> Proprietory works if it sticks to open standards and is widely availible
<Fare> the non-proprietary aspect was what made it widely available
* Downix/#tunes nods
<Downix> Depends
<Fare> s/works/works better/
<Downix> Anyways
<Fare> the market chooses choice. whatever gives most choice is chosen.
<Fare> most != a lot
* Downix/#tunes nods
* Fare/#Tunes considers his pile of old floppies
<Downix> However now companies are forgetting that
<Fare> shall I salvage their contents to harddisk, or just dump them?
<Fare> companies have little memory
02:10pm
<Downix> Well, I put all of my old floppies on a CD myself
<Downix> Fare:  indeed.  The key to Eddas will be an aherence to open standards even within our proprietory setup
<Downix> Namely we're just making chips
<Downix> 8)
* Fare/#Tunes considers that other people are more maniacal than me at saving stuff, so that whatever I may save may be mostly petty and redundant crap
<Fare> for instance, would it be worth saving pctools7 ?
<Downix> probably now
<Fare> or indiana jones 3 ?
<Downix> probably not
<Downix> Fare:  Things will get interesting over the next few years
<Fare> whaddyamean?
<Fare> like, saving old versions of linux installations?
<Downix> Fare:  Sure, Linux is cool to collect
<Fare> so that the 1.2 kernel isn't completely useless w/o its useland?
<Downix> hehe
<Fare> Hum. That just means keeping old SLS CDs to me.
<Fare> Hey, SLS CDs must be collectibles!
<Downix> hehe
<Fare> Too bad I don't have one.
<Fare> (and I scrapped my 50 floppy set long ago)
<Downix> oh man
<Fare> (actually, I only had 40 floppy -- skipped the OI section -- C++ sucks)
<Downix> ok
02:20pm
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<Fufie> indy3 was a really cool game :)
<Fufie> def. worth saving, pctools otoh I think I have still as well ;)
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<ultima_> hiya
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<icedfire> nemaste ultima
<ultima> Beggyerpardon?
<icedfire> nemaste is a greeting
<ultima> I see.
<Fufie> hi ultima
<ultima> Heya.
<ultima> What language is nemaste in?
<icedfire> hmm, i dunno, it is a buddhist greeting
<icedfire> tibetan?
<ultima> Ah.
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<ultima> May hate always find a place in your heart, for hate is strength.
<ultima> There's a nice corrupt-sounding greeting
<icedfire> which one?
<ultima> hiya eihrul
<icedfire> abi: nemaste is etsaman spelled backward
<abi> ...but nemaste is a greeting...
<icedfire> abi, forget nemaste
<abi> icedfire: I forgot nemaste
<icedfire> abi: nemaste is etsaman spelled backward
<icedfire> abi: etsaman is nemaste spelled backward
<Fufie> greeting?
<ultima> what is gakuk?
<ultima> abi, what is gakuk?
<abi> ultima: wish i knew
<ultima> abi, Gakuk is a greeting
<ultima> hmm =)
<ultima> abi, what is ultima?
<abi> no idea, ultima
<ultima> abi, ultima is king
<icedfire> king of what?
<ultima> The Universe.
<icedfire>  /me knockes
<Fufie> a modest king apparently
<icedfire> which universe?
<ultima> Perhaps, but at least I'm honest =)
<Fare> hum
<icedfire> hmm, perhaps the same i am in
<Fare> leisure suit larry in the land of lounge lizards
<Fare> game too old to have its solution on the net :(
<Fufie> fare: I have the ega and the vga version ;)
<Fare> cga
<Fufie> I probably have the solution as well
<Fufie> lsl1 in cga?  probably the ega version in cga mode
<Fare> maybe
<Fare> let's try it out in dosemu
<Fufie> ultima: every great king needs good dukes, counts and earls.. I'll make a good earl in the outback ;)
03:00pm
<Fufie> ultima: I'll settle for the earth :)
<Fare> hum. I/O errors in last sectors of pctools7. Is that copy-protection, or just bad floppy?
<Fufie> probably bad floppy
<Fufie> was there ever a good floppy?
* Fare/#Tunes wonders how he will finish "the last express", with the 4th CD being kaput
* Fare/#Tunes also had to get a pirat copy of ultima6 after the original one passed out
<eihrul> Fufie: kings need enemies as well
<eihrul> Fufie: they're politicians, don't forget
<Fare> intellectual property sucks. It means you supposedly can't freely exchange copies of your programs when the media fail
<Fufie> eih: but in a monarchy the enemies and friends are bound to be the nobility and there is no such thing as a noble politician.. oxymoron :)
<icedfire> anarchy is the way to go
* Fare/#Tunes saw branded floppies fail, and no-brand, hand-holed DD->HD floppies last
<Fufie> it seems as a plane with the french flag on it has crashed in guatemala
<eihrul> Fare: the people who can afford brand names probably want their floppies to fail so that people need to buy more
<Fare> Fufie: F. Bastiat was a noble politician, at least in the moral sense.
<Fufie> fare: there has been several politicians who came from the nobility, and yes there supposedly exist politicians with the heart in the right place
<Fare> Fufie: my brother almost went to south america, and escaped a crash and a deadly flood.
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<ultima> Fufie: I have yet to see any of the latter.
* Fare/#Tunes notices that an ad for Chirac in 1986 said "He has the heart to the right"
03:10pm
<Fufie> ultima: they are a rare species, but they do exist I think
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<Fare> ultima: I know a few ones in France, but they've been systematically let at secondary places in their respective parties.
<Fufie> I think maybe JS Mill qualified as a decent politician
<Fare> sure. Before I learnt about Bastiat, Mill was my favorite.
<smkl> they are selected to EU parliament?
<Fufie> JS Mill is an ex-parrot
<Fare> parrot?
<Fufie> ex-parrot is an expression from a monty python skid and is used in english to refer to something which "has ceased to be", ie dead
<Fufie> even Margaret Thatcher has used the phrase in the english parliament when referring to communism
<Fare> "God is dead -- Fred" "Fred is dead -- God"
<Fufie> Poor Friedrich
<icedfire> haha
<Fare> why poor?
<zarq> hehe
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<icedfire> anybody here has studied Wittgenstein?
<Fare> briefly tried to read some of it, and decided he focused too much on irrelevant problematics.
<zarq> i had a course on him once.. scored a 3 on the test
<Fufie> Friedrich was maltreated in his last years by his (nazi) sister
<Fufie> ice: some, but it's not the philosopher I know best.  the wittgenstein archives are here in town though
<icedfire> Fufie: you have his archives?
<Fufie> ice: no, they're in the town where I live, I could drop by if you need anything though
<Fufie> http://www.hd.uib.no/wab/
<icedfire> thanks for the url, Fufie
03:20pm
<icedfire> Wittgenstein lived in norway?
<Fare> he lived in Austria, then in England
<icedfire> why they have that stuff on an .no site then?
<Fufie> norwegians are somewhat interested in philosophy
<icedfire> norway rules!
<Fufie> the famous contemporary philosopher Arne Nęss is norwegian and the popular writer Josteing Gaarder wrote "sophie's world" which sold pretty well
<Fufie> -g
<Fufie> the greeks, germans, blimeys and the french have a more impressive track record though :)
<hcf> abi: class warfare is at http://www.laputan.org/reflection/warfare.html
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<Fare> Jostein Gaarder sucks!
<Fare> the basic idea behind "sophie's world" is nice, but the implementation plain sucks
<icedfire> what the implementation would be?
<Fufie> I am not a big fan of it, but it has introduced philosophy to a lot of readers who would find university philosophy too tough
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<Fare> university philosophy sucks
<Fare> plus it's not philosophy, it's just history of philosophy
<Fare> and pseudo-philosophy
<Fufie> you can't really give John Doe a copy of Kierkegaard or Nietzche
<icedfire> everyone is a philosopher, but some are more famous than others
<Fufie> ice: some are more original and some are mor thorough
<icedfire> Fufie: like?
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<Fufie> ice: I find Marx to be somewhat original and Locke was also important
03:30pm
<Fufie> ice: as for thorough you have Kierkegaard and Wittgenstein
<Fare> next question is: what to do with all these scrap floppies?
<Fare> is anyone in the world accepting them?
<Fufie> I also liked Hume a lot, he ruined everything the philosophers till then had "agreed" on..
<Fare> hum. Maybe one of those romanian guys...
<Fufie> and it was Kant's job to try to patch it together afterwards
<Fare> I've heard lots of good about Hume, but haven't read anything by him yet
<firedice> i think i am more into philosophy than philosophers
<Fare> What I could read of Kant was nice; but most of it, I couldn't manage to read.
<Fufie> Hume is the guy who clearly explains that nothing can be proven which it takes centuries before Russel and Popper makes accessible to others
<firedice> Kant uses a lot of words to say nothing ;)
<Fufie> Kant is difficult to read
<Fufie> most philosophers are hard to read though :-/
<firedice> have you ever read some Nietzche writings?
<Fufie> I have just read explanations of Nietzche, not the real books
<firedice> or whatever it is spelled
<Fufie> let's call him Friedrich :)
<firedice> hehe
<Fufie> Kierkegaard was more accessible as he was available in the original language, danish, which is easy to read for norwegians
<Fare> Nietzsche is nice, but he destroys a lot, and doesn't construct much.
<Fufie> my philosophy vocubalary is in norwegian so I don't know terms in english
<Fare> He mostly ascertained the ruin of old dogmatic christian morality.
<zarq> is spoken Danish as easy as written Danish to you?
<Fare> Fufie: mine is in french.
<firedice> Fare: mine is yet in another language
<Fufie> zarq: no
<Fufie> zarq: danes speak with a potato in their mouth, but they write understandably ;)
<Fare> firedice: which?
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<zarq> hehe.. i never heard a Dane speak.. so i wouldn't know :) i heard enough Norwegians though
<firedice> i have read some his writing on Zarathustra
<Fufie> dutch isn't that different from norwegian I think
<firedice> some extracts from his writings, that is
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<Fare> ouch. Where's my second prince of persia disk gone???
<zarq> fufie; it is not really that different, no.
<eihrul> prince of persia wasn't one of the best games though... not something i'd mind losing
03:40pm
<zarq> fufie; we have a dialect here that is even pronounced almost as if it were norwegian
<Fufie> zarq: friesich?
<zarq> jup
<Fufie> talking to people in Groningen was not difficult ;)
<icedfire> zarq: sweden?
<zarq> icedfire; netherlands
<icedfire> ahh
<Fare> pop was a great game. I always loved the author's works, since Karateka.
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<icedfire> i am crazy for xjump
<Fufie> time for bed.. have a good night.. (afk)
<icedfire> natta
<zarq> good idea
* zarq/#tunes is away: zzz
* icedfire/#tunes isnt still
* Fare/#Tunes remembers cracking prince.exe under turbo debugger
* eihrul/#tunes favors textual adventures more.
<eihrul> graphics, even 2D, can ruin a game, sometimes
<zarq> not when that game is chip's challenge =)
03:50pm
* Fare/#Tunes cannot understand how graphics ruin lode runner championship
<Fare> hcf: if your URLs aren't in the Review/Reflection.html yet, can you mail them to review@ ?
<eihrul> text is easier to manipulate from the stand point of making a game
<eihrul> gives the person more creative freedom as its easier sometimes to sling prose than to use draw :)
<eihrul> s/use draw/draw/g
<icedfire> hmm
<icedfire> i like games that stress your reflexes and concentration
<Fare> Hum. Wing Commander 2. Is it worth salvaging?
<icedfire> how can a graphicless game require them?
<Fare> eihrul: arcade games are definitely better with graphics
<Fare> eihrul: but I agree graphical nethack just sucks.
<icedfire> Fare: why is there a non graphical nethack?
* Fare/#Tunes remembers his first hi-res adventures from sierra on-line. "Time Zone" -- yummy.
<icedfire> text graphics is still graphics
<Fare> (actually, my dad&bro played "Mystery House" first)
04:00pm
<Fare> Hey, ultima7! Now this was a good game, but too much processor-speed dependent.
<eihrul> which one was 7?
<eihrul> serpent isle?
<eihrul> or was that 8?
<Fare> yup, serpent isle, I think. The first one with characters in perspective.
<Fare> introducing the evil guardian
<Fare> actually, the only real good ultimas were 4,5,6
04:10pm
* Fare/#Tunes invokes a shortened .au of Jacques Brel
<Fare> It seems to me that shorten is better quality than mp3, although also much bigger.
<eihrul> that would make sense
* Fare/#Tunes admits he just bought a CD reaper for backup purposes
<Fare> I haven't made a full tape backup for years, and I'm sick of DAT.
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<Fare> darn, I lost my Ultima 6 map and stone!
<Fare> what's the use of having the box, if not for the map and stone!
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<eihrul> the map was not very useful though, atleast in ultima 8
* Fare/#Tunes doesn't remember u8 having a map
<Fare> lemme check the box
<eihrul> yes, and it also came with a coin with a pentagram on it
04:20pm
<Fare> u8 sucked. Was too slow on my 'puter, and despite that, I couldn't ever cross those jump-over-the-lava passageways
* Fare/#Tunes regrets the purchase.
* Fare/#Tunes doesn't remember the map, because I never had any use for it :(
<eihrul> it took me an hour just to get it right
<eihrul> very tricky to get all four of the deities into the black rock
<smkl> nethack is the only good game
* Fare/#Tunes quickly abandoned u8 for other activities
<eihrul> at the time, i had no other actitivities to abandon to... so excuse me
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<Downix> Ok, Mozilla is weird
<zarq> is it?
<Downix> It doesn't compile for me
05:20pm
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<Downix> hey air
<air> hey
<Downix> what's up?
<air> not much, just swapping out a motherboard
<Downix> ok
<air> damn win98 locks up every other boot
<Downix> yup
<air> er, it locks up every cold boot
<air> but if u press reset it boots fine, if u then tell windows to restart it locks up but then works after pressing reset
<Downix> hehe
<air> i exchanged every part in the machine except the mobo so i know it is the problem
<Downix> oh man
<air> i even checked the power supply :)
<air> what sucks is that this mobo just came out of another computer where it worked fine
<Downix> lol
<air> i hate computers
<Downix> I love them when they work
<air> ya
<Downix> My Amiga's work
<Downix> Except the A500
<air> my tandy 100 works
<air> er 1000
<Downix> Heheh
<Downix> THey used to make such nice computers in the past
<Downix> modern systems suck
<air> systems of the past where made by hackers for hackers
05:30pm
<Downix> Yup
<air> systems of today are made by idiots for idiots
<Downix> Agreed
* Downix/#tunes is no idiot
<air> ya and u have no successful line of computers
<Downix> I have not introduced it yet
<Downix> 8)
<air> bbiaf
<Downix> hehe
05:40pm
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<Kaufmann> Shalom!
<Downix> hey
<eihrul> okay... i need a descriptive name
<eihrul> to distuingish a generalized thread scheduling class that is used for many purpose
<Kaufmann> for what?
<Downix> hehehe
<eihrul> from one that derives that scheduler to schedule threads to run
<Kaufmann> What, "Foo_12534" is too good for you?
<eihrul> but i can't think of anything
<eihrul> well, descriptive would be nice :)
<Kaufmann> "GeneralizedThreadScheduler"
<eihrul> well...
<Downix> hmm
<eihrul> the generalized was is already called Scheduler
<Kaufmann> or, in true Lisp fashion, "generalized-thread-scheduler"
<eihrul> i need to figure out what to call the specific one :)
<Downix> hmm
<Kaufmann> So M12 is looking good, eh?
<Downix> No, M12 isn't compiling for me
<Kaufmann> download the binary?
<Downix> No binary
06:00pm
<Downix> and they link the binary against RH, using a single file that's RH-only
<Kaufmann> pooh guy
<Downix> yup
<Downix> stupid mozilla
* Kaufmann/#tunes is back to learning Haskell
<smkl> that can't help you anymore ... you need to learn Charity to purify yourself from bad karma caused to slashdot postings
<smkl> caused by
<Downix> lol
<Kaufmann> LOL
* Kaufmann/#tunes is a Slashdot junkie
* Downix/#tunes is too
<Kaufmann> admitting it is the first step
<Downix> lol
<Downix> M12 compile dammit!
<Downix> I just want a damned web browser that doesn't stink
<smkl> doesn't it take 600 megs to compile?
<Downix> Yup
<smkl> perhaps much less w/o debugging info?
<Downix> Yup
* Downix/#tunes has debugging off
<Kaufmann> so, anything interesting going on?
<Kaufmann> waitaminnit... it takes 600 megs to compile?
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<Kaufmann> Or was this just hyperbole?
<Downix> Kaufmann:  yes, it does
<smkl> well glibc takes 300 megs
<Downix> glibc needs a major overhaul
<Kaufmann> ... we're talking about temporary storage, right?
<Downix> Yes, temporary
<Downix> most of the 600 meg is debugging info
<Kaufmann> good God
!irq:*! I know the temperature of STP is 273 kelvin, but what is standard pressure? (in kPa please) </wallops-abuse>
* Downix/#tunes is pondering an algor for a total debugging utility
<Kaufmann> "total"?
<Downix> isolating memory leaks, interactive problems, core dumps, etc.
* Downix/#tunes figured out a way to spot memory leaks in BASIC and COBOL before
<Downix> Figured the same proceedure would work for C
<Downix> even if it's horribly slow
<Kaufmann> ah well
<Downix> Pondering if it'll work with C
06:20pm
<Kaufmann> Well, I gotta go... gotta get some downtime
<Downix> ok
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<Downix> hey eihrul
06:30pm
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* water/#tunes watches the tumbleweed roll by...
* eihrul/#tunes hears the crickets chirp.
<Downix> hehe
* Downix/#tunes hears a faint musical tune play
<water> mmm... ambient electronica
* Downix/#tunes is reading up on Dr Who
06:50pm
<air> Downix: if u want a web browser that doesnt stink then get navigator 3.0
<Downix> air:  Navigator 3.0 still stinks, it doesn't browse XML
<air> bleh
<Downix> I give up on Mozilla
07:10pm
<water> but open directory is still pretty cool
<Downix> yup
07:20pm
<water> whoa!
<water> Quake->open-source
<Downix> Where?
<water> now, i can write DKD3D!
<Downix> Since when is Quake open source?
* Downix/#tunes feels so out of date
<water> today
<water> check /.
<Downix> I was just on there
<water> it's the top story on my layout
<Downix> let me see
<Downix> whoah, just submitted
<Downix> slashdotted already, damn
<water> heh
<water> of course :)
<Downix> Man, this is cool
<Downix> I'd rather have Quake 2 tho
* water/#tunes has tried to curb his auto-clicking habits on news services
* Downix/#tunes has been tinkering with an idea in his head on turning Quake2 into a way to remote login to a computer
<water> heh
<Downix> complete with a customized interactive 3D map of the host system
<Downix> 8)
<Downix> So I could make mine into a midevil castle
<Downix> 8)
<Downix> Wouldn't that be so cool
<Downix> ?
<air> no
* Downix/#tunes thinks Air isn't seeing the potential
<Downix> Ok, got to be going
<Downix> see you all later
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07:30pm
!lilo:*! Could someone please explain to me the problem with hattas?  Thanks.
* eihrul/#tunes yawns.
<air> damn, it so much easier to swap a mobo when u bribe someone else to do it for u :)
08:10pm
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<water> hey ruiner
<_ruiner_> hi
<eihrul> water: so, how's your paper coming?
<water> steadily, except for the implementation explanation :)
<eihrul> still pondering over primitives?
<water> yep
<eihrul> hmm, why not just arbitrarily one of the possible schemes that might work? or are you still deciding if they work?
08:20pm
<water> i am still deciding whether they work
<water> this mostly centers around how to describe abstract models of languages within arrow
<water> and use them, of course
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* eihrul/#tunes wonders why he is omitting major words from sentences today.
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<air> can anyone tell me howto make pico use more than 24 lines?
<rares> helooooooooooooo
<water> heh
<rares> run pico after you maximize the window I think
<rares> water! ltns man
<air> it was using all the lines until a few weeks ago
<water> can anybody tell me why anyone would want to be running pico in the first place?
<rares> convenience
<rares> I use it
<water> "convenience"?!?
<air> water: yer a winluser u wouldnt understand
<rares> the bitch is up before you can say command line editor
<water> i have editors that responsive
<water> and they're wysiwyg
<water> in X
<rares> pico + edit + F2 + y + filename + enter
<water> doubleclick on filename
<water> :)
<rares> f2 is for exiting
<water> or right-click and pick editor of choice
<rares> i type faster than I click
<water> i want to keep my wrists beyond age 30
<water> :)
<rares> the problem is you're ignoring the clicks required to wade through directory trees
<water> yeah true
<rares> i hate that
<rares> command line autocomplete with tab is heaven
<water> but changing paths any other way isn't easier
<rares> you don't have to vchange paths
<water> autocomplete with tab?
<rares> for example /home/files/Projects/f-cpu/fcpu.h
<water> geez. yet another hidden feature
<water> sorry, of course it's in the man page
<water> i'm jsut too stupid to look it up, of course ;)
<rares> you just do /h +Tab /fi + tab /P +tab /f +tab /f +tab eneter
<water> uhh
<water> yeah whatever
<rares> actually every book intro tells you about it
<water> you mean even if i get a book on java programming, it tells me this?
<water> :)
<air> autocomplete is the most useful feature of linux
<water> you mean, of bash
08:50pm
<rares> it's faster than ruining your eyes swimming in icons
<rares> bash yes he's got a point there
<water> ok, i'll ruin my eyes scanning console text
<air> water: well u dont have bash in windows
<rares> they copied autocomplete and added it to browsers
<water> yes, there's a bash for pmode dos
<rares> actually console text you can skim icons not so easily
<water> there's also gcc and a full set of unix commands
<rares> but let's not beat up on water
<rares> he was missing for like a month
<rares> no water the Equestrians 101 ways to lure chicks guide does not tell you about bash
<water> i have no books about computers, and don't ever want one or wnt to need one
<water> s/computer/using computers
<rares> SLACKER :)
<rares> sorry about the caps
<rares> unintented
<water> sorry, i like to be intimately acquainted with women, not machines
<water> ;)
<rares> see now you're just spreading the myth computers are rocket science
09:00pm
<water> huh?
<rares> there's nothing intimate avbout knowing shell commands
<water> yeah, it's arbitrary and stupid knowledge
<rares> I mean come on it's the closest thing to talking to the machine to tell it what to do
<water> because it's not the Thing I Want To Do, it's the Thing I Have To Learn To Do To Get The Computer On My Side
<rares> that's only because DOS was a castrated imbecile interface
<water> huh?
<water> we're talking about bash+commands
<water> not dos. dos really sucks
<rares> yes but the backlash against command line comes from DOS
<water> oh
<water> so?
<rares> sure any GUI is better than DOS
<water> who cares about the f***ing backslash?
<rares> look i'm working on a program that configures everything you ever need configured without searching for icons nor commands
<water> heh
<rares> the plain and simple truth is shells give me better tools to build that product
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<water> "eveerything you ever need configured"
<water> famous last words of an os-installation process
<rares> you have to specify
<rares> but otherwise it does its work
<water> yeah, infecting your machine with a means to cripple it unnecessarily
<water> (boy i'm on a real rant tonight)
<rares> same here :)
<rares> my experience has been this:
<water> brb sorry
09:10pm
<rares> Using Windows, I bitched and never got anything done and just whined abourt all kinds of tools unavailable to me
<rares> Using Linux, I have options other than bitching or waiting for Micerosoft or Symantec to read my mind
<water> back
<water> yeah, open source rocks, but i hate c and the things made from it
<water> which is why i'm so much into squeak
<rares> the thing is C is the only language a person could possibley remember all the details about
<water> huh?
<rares> what's squeak?
<abi> i think squeak is a cool language descended from Smalltalk, at http://squeak.cs.uiuc.edu/ or at http://www.squeak.org/ or The open source mouse that roars!
<water> it runs on at least 12 oses
<water> it's a smalltalk/80 style system
<rares> is smalltalk lispish?
<eihrul> in a sense...
<water> it's lispish, but entirely oo
<water> sort of a 'pure' oo language
<water> (one of the very few)
<rares> pure oo hmm
<rares> i've always had this feeling lisp was for nurture oo for nature
<rares> which is why gcc is horribly unmaintainable
09:20pm
<water> smalltalk is nothing like c++
<rares> they tried doing it purely by nurture
<rares> i'm not saying it is
<water> squeak definitely would be on the "nature" side
<rares> c++ has soime fuzzy stuff
<eihrul> C++ is all fuzzy...
<rares> it workls but it's so fucking easy to go too far
<water> "go too far"?
<rares> abstract beyond the point of sanity
<water> oh
<rares> though Java should have multiple inheritance
<water> well, the smalltalk style is ridiculously easy to "take to far", but i don't think that there's a downside to it
<water> don't like interfaces?
<rares> it's redundant
<water> why?
<rares> just use multiple inheritance
<water> but multiple inheritence gets dirty
<rares> because an interface is just a sheell anyway
<water> er.. kinda
<water> if you treat it like one, yes
<rares> you still have to define separate play functions for different media
<water> sure, in java
<water> you should try squeak
<water> it's much simpler to code in
<rares> interfaces serve merely as a reminder to the programmer
<water> sure, but so does inheritance in a sense
<rares> i'll look into it
<rares> well then it's even worse to rename multiple inheritance
<rares> :)
09:30pm
<water> bah
<eihrul> water: with slots, are interfaces even needed?
<water> dunno
<water> probably not
<rares> i guess i'm finding out that a lot of peple who don't get involved a little bit in the tools they use are just nasty people to be arpound
<rares> just my experience
<eihrul> water: because by virtue of the hash table nature of them, you get interfaces and polymorphism for free
<water> rares: referring to me? :)
<rares> no
<water> oh
<rares> i work at a cellular phone directory service
<water> eih: yeah, i guess so
<rares> and I will tell you now that it's not just enter name ghet num,ber
<water> heh
<rares> it's bizzarely more complicated than that
<water> must it be?
<rares> 1. The south has no conception of towns
<rares> people say Northern Virginia
<water> you mean townships
<water> oh
<rares> 2. Lot's of businewsses like to use Initials
<rares> Initials take forever to search
<rares> lot's of businesses use the name of the town they're in
<rares> Again eons to search
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<rares> and whwen you say still searching peiople think you didn't find their item instead of the machine hasn't finished the previous request
<rares> so then whiule you're waiting for the machine they give you thre different town's names which an hour later when the ,machine responds you have askl for againm which makes you look like an idiot
<water> i haven't been subjected to the general public as a help desk type worker
<rares> well now you know why I prefer to read learn and get on with things
<rares> I'm not a hobbyist
<rares> I don't go around on websites stringing random pieces of code
<water> computers are tools, not subjects, for me
<rares> same here
<rares> the difference is for me
<rares> computers are an environment and software the tools
09:40pm
<water> no, software are computers, too
<rares> true software is the new machinery
<water> computers being "just an environment" is just an excuse to accept them without question
<rares> all I care about is: power to the people meaning demystify computers not cripple them
<rares> the hardware isn't like a car it doesn't do anything on it's own
<rares> I accept computers like accept the laws of physics
<water> sure, but demystifying them does not mean making everyone aware of how current pc designs work
<water> foo
<rares> i don'rt mean that kind of demystifying
<rares> heck no
<water> computers don't have to be the way they are
<rares> the way they are is because of corporate foot dragging
<water> so what are you talking about?
<rares> whhy do you think Gameboy color didn't come out until a while ago
<rares> $$$$$$$$$$$$$$
<water> sure
<water> just like my cassiopeia cost $500
<rares> like for my future game machine project
<water> (but it runs Doom and emulates the GameBoy color :)
<rares> It's going to connect to your tv and work as a portable in one unit no hassle no gimmicks you want to play you play
<rares> no extra connectors
<water> have you talked to Downix?
<rares> no hidden connectors
<rares> no hfunkiness in http ports
<rares> yup
<rares> he knows
<water> k
<rares> I'm using his hardware if he can make it both big and small
09:50pm
<rares> well cya
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<hcf> abi: smalltalk online is at http://www.phaidros.com/DIGITALIS/
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