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<p>If you look real close, you can see the HP 9000/715 being properly used as
a stand for the 811 enclosure and the 2 bitty boxen.</p>
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<p>/dev/sbs/lame</p>
[http://sinfest.net|Comic][http://www.megatokyo.com/|Strips]<br>
[http://www.penny-arcade.com/view.php3?date=2000-07-21|Kool-Aid]
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<p>/opt/weirdo</p>
[http://grace.speakeasy.org/~eslingc/pl/|My perl stuff]
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<p>/usr/local</p>
[Message Inbox]<br>
[dystrophy|Tk chatterbox scrollpos fixes]<br>
[id://11590|There can only be one!]<br>
[id://48579|How to debug]
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<p>/pics/older</p>
[http://www.floop.org/img/yjfsmall.gif|the fox]<br>
[http://www.floop.org/img/themug.jpg|the mugshot]<br>
[http://www.floop.org/img/bluex.gif|the X]<br>
[http://www.floop.org/img/thesign.jpg|the sign]<br>
[http://www.floop.org/img/themenu.gif|the menu]<br>
[http://www.floop.org/img/thebars.gif|the bars]
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<h3>/var/tmp</h3>
You can set vi preferences on a per-file basis. For instance, this homenode
has
<code>
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</code>
as the first line. This sets wraparound at col 78. Similar tactics work in
any file. For a perl program, you may have something like
<code>
#!/usr/bin/perl -wT
# ex: set ts=2 ai:
</code>
to set tabstops to 2 cols, and to autoindent.
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<h3>/dev/nonsense</h3>
<p>Interests and other useless facts:</p>
<p>My computing timeline is roughly:</p>
1982: First saw an Apple][<br>
1984: First programmed the Apple][ using FPBASIC. Fascinated with
the "Apple presents Apple" demo. Didn't know any better.<br>
1986: Met my first TRS-80; rediscovered the Apple at the library<br>
1987: Taught myself 6502 asm, later learned you don't forget this sort of
stuff<br>
1987: Met my first PC. "Why the HELL won't CATALOG work on this ()#$$ thing?!
How do I get to the f<beep>ing monitor?"
<p>
(a few years go by, during which I buy a LASER 128 and 2 //e's, drool over the
IIgs but lack the cash for one, get my first PC, etc.. etc...)
</p>
1994: swear to never again buy a prefab pooter; build my own, start hating
Windoze about then, discover the internet and get bewildered at this
<code>Slackware</code> crap that keeps showing up on all my <code>archie</code>
searches<br>
1995: Start running this "Slackware Linux" stuff by getting it precariously
transferred from 80 floppies
<p>
(more years go by, basically getting into Unix, writing bad bash scripts,
trying my hand at this "perl" thing...)
</p>
1997: Get my first Unix job for real money. Learned the true evil of HP-UX.
Started writing all perl programs with <code>-w</code> enabled...<br>
1997: My first perl script that accepts luser input from the web, ported from
bash. No concept of what <code>CGI.pm</code> was other than to rip the
<code>escape</code> function out of it<br>
1998: ported last year's perl spaghetti to PHP3; was much better for it<br>
1999-2000: floundered around in perl and PHP (woo, <code>DBI</code> is
nifty)... code improves after I get the corporate to send me on a junket to
take a Perl class<br>
2001: found this site, learned all about <code>use {strict,CGI}</code>, and
gained friends and enemies alike. The rest is history.
<p>And now for something completely random:</p>
Between [neshura] and [http://grace.speakeasy.org/~eslingc/|I], we're bringing
that poor web server at [http://www.speakeasy.net/|my ISP] to its knees :o)
<p>Some nagging observations:</p>
<ul>
<li>Why does [kudra] look a tad more red in [id://966|her thumbnail] than on
her home node? (two reasons: 1) it was a Halloween costume; 2) [kudra] herself
blames it on a really bad sunburn. :o)
<li>This place has replaced a [http://slashdot.org/|certain other place] as my
main web activity
<li> A lot of folks like [id://45812|Monty Python] here, apparently... _Holy
Grail_ specifically... life is good.
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<p>Snippets that have made it out the door:</p>
<ul>
<li>[id://53380|Provide ^U to input widget in Perl/Tk chatterbox client]
<li>[id://56262|URL escape fix for Perl/Tk chatterbox]
</ul>
<p>OK, here's some work in progress on the
[id://22273|Perl/Tk Chatterbox client]
by [Shendal]...</p>
Things to work on:
<ul>
<li>Roll a diff against the original node and link it here
<li>I have to read up on some way to avoid all these zombies as a result of
clicking on links which launch the browser. Right now, it costs one zombie per
click.
<li>scrollpos fixes need to be tweaked to not scroll as text comes in, when
scrolled back
<li>The GUI goes catatonic at times, endlessly adjusting the widget that
contains the user names. Haven't looked into that yet
<li>Last, but not least: all Netscape cookies saved after the chatterbox starts
up are not written to the cookies file. As far as I can tell, not Tk
chatterbox's fault; may be in the PerlMonks modules
</ul>
Things already fixed, or somewhat:
<ul>
<li>colours can now be saved
<li>Browser executable can take opts
<li>[id://] links are properly linked instead of flat-out resolved
<li>[google://] and [lucky://] support
</ul>
<p>Code currently being worked on:</p>
<ul>
<li>[http://grace.speakeasy.org/~eslingc/pl/insds|65C02 disassembler] ... will
make it into the [Code Catacombs] if I ever get done improving it long enough
to post it (which is gradually starting to mean "If I ever divert time to
finishing it). In the meantime,
[http://grace.speakeasy.org/~eslingc/digital/insds.png|a screenshot]
[http://grace.speakeasy.org/~eslingc/digital/insds-sym.png|symbols!]
[http://grace.speakeasy.org/~eslingc/digital/insds-mli.png|ProDOS MLI calls!]
to satisfy the curious
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the obligatory "mail me" block:
<code>
my$adr=q{M97-L:6YG8T!F;&]O<"YO<F<@>6%K:V]`>6%L;'`N8V]M(&1E=G1E<FUA0
&YE<='-C87!E+FYE="!E<VQI;F=C0&UA:6PN8V]M"@```};$adr=~s|\n||;
print unpack("u",$adr),"\n";
</code>
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<h3>/usr/bin/thanks</h3>
<p></p>
[N-Wing] ... for a good .sig block suggestion.<br>
[WebHick] ... for some [http://zone.msn.com/alchemy/|great diversions]. Oh,
may as well [http://zone.msn.com/bejeweled/|get addicted] to Bejeweled, while
you're at it. :o)<br>
[merlyn] ... for helping me out of my cargo-cult misery, both directly and
non-directly<br>
[NodeReaper] ... for cherry pie and taking abuse with good humour<br>
... and everyone who inspired various little hacks to the Tk chatterbox
client.
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