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Monday Quickies 45

Posted by CmdrTaco from the stuff-to-kill-time-on dept.
Greyfox wrote in to say that a chunk of gnew gnome stuff is up. Full set of 0.99.3 tar balls for those livin' on the edge. In a related bit, GVeloper wrote in to mention the new cross referenced gtk documentation at GTK Dev Central Several other folks have commented that yet another Linux Kernel 2.2 prerelease is out. Hit the mirrors if you want it. My favorite BSD Equal Time activist, Jesse Shrieve wrote in to tell us that you can get metal FreeBSD squares to attach to your cases. maphew sent us a link to milo which claims to be a telnetable TRS-80. "I remember when" yada yada. That was my first programming experience. Next, a few Slashdot bits: Epitaph sent us a interesting little piece of Evidence of the Slashdot Effect in Effect: The results of a Petition against Canadian CD-R Tax. rive submitted a simple perl script that converts Slashdot Headlines to Window Maker Menus. Clever. DGibson wrote in to tell us that Slashdot rated Coolest site at Planet Click. Last of all, insanity never stops:An anonymous joker sent us a link to The All Squirrels Must Die page. and William Tanksley sent us a link to the shrunken heads HOWTO. Be afraid.
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  • Hmm.. I'm sub'd to linux-kernel and Linus hasn't
    mentioned a 'release' pre8. There's a testing
    pre-8 been around for a while. /. seems to be
    very good at predicting kernel releases before
    they actually happen these days..

    Or does someone out there just constantly ftp
    to ftp.kernel.org and check every few minutes
    just so they can have a new kernel a few minutes
    before everyone else? Is that the real reason it
    got overloaded? Are these the same people that
    always download the tarball rather than using
    patch?
  • Wow, I just downloaded the full 2.2.0-pre8 from ftp.ca.kernel.org at over 65kbytes/s! That's astounding, especially considering my pitiful excuse for an ISP, and the fact that this is a brand-new release.
  • ... at least, I just applied something that called itself "patch-2.2.0-pre8.gz" to my kernel tree, and I've got it compiling now...

    ftp1.us.kernel.org, at least, has the patch.
  • Pluto is a PLANET, dammit!

    WTF is Goofy?

    Oops, wrong thread :)

  • either way, don't bother.
  • Looks like the 64KB, 2 Floppy, expanded character set model. I learned how to program on these machines (used to hang around Radio Shacks alot).

    Why not hack a very specialized minimal Linux kernel and support packages that run from floppies. TRS-80s are still useful as microcontrollers for discrete hardware - security systems, gadgets, and gizmos. All you have to remember is to ground them well and you're safe. :)
  • Posted by OGL:

    Here come the KDE/GNOME flamewars, live from this thread...

    Brace yourselves.


    -W.W.
  • Posted by Mephie:

    Wow those faceplaces are nifty. Anyone know who they got manufacturing them? I would love to take one of my rendered pics and slap it on a few (hundred)faceplates... =)
    --Mephie

    Also, anyone know of a good poster production house? I have a 151 meg targa that's just iching to be hung on a wall.

  • Posted by dbeutel:

    Got a Model III and IV. Model III has dual 5.25" floppies and tape, 48K of RAM AND... (drumroll please) a 640x200 extended graphics card ;-). Model IV has no floppies, 64K RAM, standard graphics... hmm, wonder if i could run Minix on either of these... ;-)
  • Posted by dbeutel:

    Well, being the cheapskate that I am, I came up with a faceplate solution that works fairly well. I just print a bunch 1"x1" pics onto standard label stock and cover them w/ clear packing tape. Looks almost as good as manufactured logo, AND you don't have to pay to have it full color ;-) (BTW... use really good labels or super glue, otherwise they *will* fall off... this is the voice of experience ;-)...
  • I could have sworn that I just saw GNOME 0.99.4 announced on gnome-announce. I think it was the "Preening Bonobo" release. No such mention on the web page, though. Am I mistaken, or have they just not updated things yet?


    --Phil (Maybe I shouldn't delete mail after I read it.)
  • The Slashdot effect will probably reduce that TRS-80 to a pile of molten slag...
  • Hellelujah! Thanks be to GDEV! At last, cross-referenced documentation for GTK...

    THANKYOU THANKYOU THANKYOU :-)
  • Comment removed based on user account deletion

  • TRS-80 (Score:1)

    by Squid ( 3420 )
    Somewhere, way back in that dumpster that I use for a brain, I remember reading that the TRS-80's, or at least the I and III, didn't have all their interrupts working - that the wires going to the CPU were only attached at one end, or some support logic was missing, or something. I'd think something like that would tend to prevent something like Minix from working.
  • I don't rememebr the link, but not long ago I went back and looked at the survey of favorite net personalities. I think it was on ZDnet someplace. When it first was posted here Jennie of Jennicam fame was by far the leader. Now number 1 in Linus closely followed by Jennie.
  • I guess a mention of E-Sense being released isn't important enough. Since there are more MS users visitors, i thought it could have been mentioned. E-Sense is the Windows lookalike to Enlightenment. Thsi is the first PreBeta release, so if you are stuck using windows for some reason or another you can feel right at home... I suggest if you are a linux junkie, but are using MS software, you should visit floach.pimpin.net
    get shells (something like WindowManagers), and other goodies to hook up your desktop...
  • seriously tho.... kudos to the guys that did this :)

    on that note tho, we've had telnetd in lunix (no, not linux, lunix :) on the mighty c64, and both telnetd and a basic httpd on geckos for quite some time!.

    (i'm also writing a grafical www browser for it, too -> check my www page at http://alih.wow64.org [wow64.org] :).

    - Jaymz

  • The TRS-80's had a Zilogic Z80 CPU which was a simi clone (a superset to be more acurate) of the Intel 8080 CPU. TRS-80's were little more than fancy Altairs.

    If I remember correctly, the Tandy/Radio Shack Color Computer refered to usually as a CoCo had a Motorola M6800 CPU in it. Or at least a chip from that generation of CPU. This is not to be confused with the M68000 series of chips which were entirely diferenct, thus the extra zero. 8-)
  • I need one of those t-shirts at this site.. Slashdot the hell out of this site so they'll get to printing the tshirts for me :)
  • i'm going to start making shrunken head apples for a living!
  • hmmmm . . . which is more important to me. Compiling the new kernel (which IS available) or running the DES client? Decisions, decisions, decision.


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