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  1. Sticky: Automatic F for stdio

    I had a prof like that.


    I still can't figure out how to implement a "press any key to continue" functionality without appeal to getchar()


    There just doesn't seem to be anyway to do it from...
  2. Sticky: Languages and Stuff

    At my school, the current computer teacher (this is a high school) and I are trying to figure out how to implement a less brain damaged (my term, not his) way to teach programming to the kiddos that...
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    SGI Boxen

    It's just so much fun to do GL on an SGI box...

    Sorta like old-fashioned 3b2 assembly... gotta love that...

    rom-calls for printf()...

    /em goes to the old-programmers home, takes out his...
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    A couple of years ago, a couple of guys decided...

    A couple of years ago, a couple of guys decided they'd start one of the first wireless internet companies in Colorado. The decided to go with Raylink cards and were going great guns until they needed...
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    NeXTs...

    My NeXT is still up and humming... An original 030 cube upgraded to an 040 with 64MB of ram in it.

    If I have to write a document over 10 pages long, I'll still go and sit in front of the next...
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    That your runway Casey?

    Heck of a lot wider than mine...
    (Jeez! KAUS! Bigass airport! you could... you could land like a REALLY BIG PLANE THERE!)


    Must feel like landing on a big parking lot...

    /em squirms with...
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    No kidding...

    My old roomate wrote a text-based WWW browser for Newdos-80.

    It was, of course, incapable of actually going out and getting PACKETS, owing to the lack of TCP/IP on the TRS-80, but it would sorta...
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    Er.

    I, personally (not some friend of a friend story, or an apocryphal tech-support urban legend) had to talk a lady on the phone through a particular problem (for context -- was back in mid 80s...)

    ...
  9. Thread: Ummm...

    by mxedisn
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    Or...

    I put SEQ into \Program Files\Everquest and when I asked a GM how to get it to work I got booted to desktop and now I can't login.

    HELP!
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    Differences between flammable and nonflammable questions...

    As a high school teacher, I frequently answer the same questions over and over and over again.

    Granted, though I am a technical sort (before teaching math, I was a perfeshinal kampyooter geek), I...
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    Huzzah

    Some posters to some of these forums do seem overly fond of flaming. I'll not deny that.

    Is there a place for flaming? Certainly there is.

    Many of us, I suspect, are so far beyond the ken of...
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    Honor Harrington

    The Honor Harrington books would be kinda neat seen on a big screen...

    Sean Young as Honor Harrington? Some kinda badass CGI for Nimitz?
    Personally, I found the Honor Harrington books to be...
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    Re: Re: minimum GPS functionality

    When I first saw the EDB0, I started thinking, "Z80?"

    hehe.

    LD HL,3C00
    LD BC, 3FF
    LD DE,3C01
    LD (DE), BF
    LDIR
    JP 402D
  14. Thread: /bye EQ?

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    Intent of post (interpreted by me)

    IMHO, the intent of the post was what it appeared to be: to express personal feelings about SEQ, Verant, and the universe in general.

    Cbreaker, I'm glad it wasn't a flame.

    On the subject of...
  15. Thread: /bye EQ?

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    I concur

    Though I doubt I'll stop playing without the GPS, I do sorely miss it.

    And Cbreaker: Was that an attempt to flame? How feeble.

    stty -cbreak
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