Bazza Posted October 6, 2007 Author Report Share Posted October 6, 2007 Re: The Last Word World of Warcraft? Nah, I'll give that a miss. Thanks all the same. I prefer my sanity. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted October 6, 2007 Author Report Share Posted October 6, 2007 Re: The Last Word Macspeek. Only for initiates. wrong subculture. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted October 6, 2007 Author Report Share Posted October 6, 2007 Re: The Last Word . . . My mistake -- it's the Cult of the Penguin. Still jibberish, though. Wrong again. Not Penguin, BSD. Only wrong by about 15 years (late 70s as apposed to early 90s). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted October 6, 2007 Author Report Share Posted October 6, 2007 Re: The Last Word Looks like this thing is OS 10.4.9. I've used tarballs and make before' date=' but not since about 1997, and that was on a Sparcstation, so the knowledge has eroded to just about nil.[/quote'] Hey, Cancer. I understood your post on the first reading. Just wanted to let you know. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted October 6, 2007 Author Report Share Posted October 6, 2007 Re: The Last Word No' date=' not macspeak; if anything, *nixspeak. Unless I'm mistaken about what you are taking as macspeak.[/quote'] No, I can vouch they LM and AtO aren't speaking "macspeak". I know, I've been using the Macintosh since 1991 and have dabbled in Unix at uni late 90s and a bit since. I turned out all right. and the FSJ blog is okay too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted October 6, 2007 Author Report Share Posted October 6, 2007 Re: The Last Word The reference to OS was quoting the operating system version of the Mac machine I have to work with now. The current version of the OS is 10.4.10. "Tarball" is slang, a reference to tar (which originally stood for "tape archive"), which is the *nix utility to wrap lots of files together in a compressed form in a single file. "Make" is the *nix utility to assemble working executable binary files from a collection of source (and other) files. I got that Make is the command line utiliy/app to create apps from source code (I've never done it, so can't help) and I remember tar is tape archive, but tarbell was lost on me. Stupid slang And my association with Unix dates to long, long, long ago ... well before Linux existed ... back in the old BSD (Berkeley) Unix days of the early 1980s. Unfortunately, I haven't had a *nix machine to work with since 2000; that was a Sun Sparcstation that I had on my desk. And I last used "make" to install something on that machine in late '96 or early '97, so I've just about forgotten all about it. That's aggravated by the fact that even then I just executed a script someone else had put together. Mac OS X (that computer on your desk) is a BSD machine. It differs from the other BSD Unix distros is that it is uses the a modern version of the Mach kernel (you remember the Mach microkernel project at Carnegie Mellon University?). Another difference is that Mac OS X is based on NeXTStep/OPENSTEP -- the OS the World Wide Web was first built on. That Sparcstation and the Mac on your desk now have a lot in common. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted October 6, 2007 Author Report Share Posted October 6, 2007 Re: The Last Word Well ... this afternoon I go to the jeweler again and finish picking out the rocks for my wife's anniversary/birthday present. Wahoo, congrats on another year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted October 6, 2007 Author Report Share Posted October 6, 2007 Re: The Last Word Oh, my mother has a ring like that. It has an amethyst (my birthstone), a sapphire (my oldest sister's birthstone), a pearl (my older sister's birthstone) and a peridot (my younger sister's birthstone). It's very pretty, and it's in ABCD order. (My sister's names are Beth, Cindy and Debbie.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted October 6, 2007 Author Report Share Posted October 6, 2007 Re: The Last Word Ah. Can we talk about something interesting now? review of Stardust, shortly. Saw it last night. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted October 6, 2007 Author Report Share Posted October 6, 2007 Re: The Last Word Man, I had a weird dream/thought while dozing today. I don't know what is worse or embarrasing, the thought itself, or that it could be entirely plausible. I blame L. Marcus. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lemming Posted October 6, 2007 Report Share Posted October 6, 2007 Re: The Last Word Wrong again. Not Penguin' date=' BSD. Only wrong by about 15 years (late 70s as apposed to early 90s). [/quote'] So one would use a BSD Daemon. And Cancer, I had to use a Mac sometime ago, and it was a pain in the butt to install stuff. But then, I was trying stuff that wasn't available and I had a bare bones system. I wound up saying "screw it" and used a linux laptop I had at home. Building *nix boxes for most of the late 80s thru 2004 really ingrained the how-to in me. I liked the fact that at one point, one Unix was owned by Kodak. Interactive IIRC. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted October 6, 2007 Report Share Posted October 6, 2007 Re: The Last Word Man, I had a weird dream/thought while dozing today. I don't know what is worse or embarrasing, the thought itself, or that it could be entirely plausible. I blame L. Marcus. . . . . . . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted October 6, 2007 Author Report Share Posted October 6, 2007 Re: The Last Word So one would use a BSD Daemon. Or Hexley which would be more relevant as Cancer is using Mac OS X/Darwin. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted October 6, 2007 Author Report Share Posted October 6, 2007 Re: The Last Word . . . . . . yes, you are sneaky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AliceTheOwl Posted October 7, 2007 Report Share Posted October 7, 2007 Re: The Last Word Man, I had a weird dream/thought while dozing today. I don't know what is worse or embarrasing, the thought itself, or that it could be entirely plausible. I blame L. Marcus. I've had some pretty odd dreams, myself. Something about a deadly unicorn, in one of them. It's usually a symptom of my not getting enough sleep, for several days in a row. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted October 7, 2007 Author Report Share Posted October 7, 2007 Re: The Last Word I've had some pretty odd dreams, myself. Something about a deadly unicorn, in one of them. It's usually a symptom of my not getting enough sleep, for several days in a row. I don't have that problem. ps: I still think mine is worse. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SatinKitty Posted October 7, 2007 Report Share Posted October 7, 2007 Re: The Last Word Well, don't keep us in suspense. Tell ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted October 8, 2007 Author Report Share Posted October 8, 2007 Re: The Last Word Well' date=' don't keep us in suspense. Tell ![/quote'] Warning: the second spoiler below could be interpreted as an attack on a person in a position of power. It is not meant to be (see posts above; note: I was dozing at the time). The first spoiler contains the broad concept, the second, a specific example. Spoiler 1 dinosaur (pacifists & aggressors), ..., reincarnation, us (doves & hawks). I'll let you add in the missing words. Spoiler 2 T.Rex, reincarnation, Bush. As above, I'll let you add in the missing words. that said. I still don't know which is worse, the concept in the spoilers above or the plausibility it could be true. Remember, I did say it was embarrassing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted October 8, 2007 Report Share Posted October 8, 2007 Re: The Last Word Feh, that's much more boring than I expected. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AliceTheOwl Posted October 8, 2007 Report Share Posted October 8, 2007 Re: The Last Word And here I thought weekends were for resting and catching up on sleep. Silly me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted October 8, 2007 Report Share Posted October 8, 2007 Re: The Last Word Well, I try to do that, but the kittens have other ideas. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AliceTheOwl Posted October 8, 2007 Report Share Posted October 8, 2007 Re: The Last Word As does mine. Well, actually, I don't think getting the end of her tail torn off was really planned out. Nonetheless, it contributed to a not-restful weekend. That and the other cat's feverish delirium. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted October 8, 2007 Report Share Posted October 8, 2007 Re: The Last Word All cats belong to Delirium. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AliceTheOwl Posted October 8, 2007 Report Share Posted October 8, 2007 Re: The Last Word Really? Well, she doesn't keep very good track of them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted October 8, 2007 Report Share Posted October 8, 2007 Re: The Last Word She tattoos them with invisible ink. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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