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| 1998/12/6 [Reference/RealEstate] UID:15077 Activity:nil 54%like:14690 |
12/5 Housing available. See /csua/pub/housing/GrizzlyPeak.txt |
| 1998/12/6 [Recreation/Activities] UID:15078 Activity:nil |
12/5 Snow damnit snow! |
| 1998/12/6 [Computer/SW/OS/Windows, Computer/SW/Unix] UID:15079 Activity:very high |
12/5 I want some funky kool scientific looking thing running on my
desktop with meters and stuff and rotating things, like in those
movies where somebody's using a computer to do stuff. Any ideas?
\_ which movies and scenes in particular are you refering to?
\_ I dunno. Any typical movie with some "computer dude"
doing something on a computer usually shows some
stuff on the screen which has nothing to do with
what the person is supposed to be doing, but looks
kinda cool anyway.
\_ I don't know how funky looking you want to get but I've seen
some really neat stuff running on unix like top/netstat
running on a transparent eterm. If you run windowmaker or
afterstep there are some really high-tech looking things
like wmclock, wmcdplay, asload, as/wmppp, as/wmeth, etc..
\_ For processes you can use something line perfmeter (solaris)
or procmeter (linux). Other possibilites include gmemusage,
loadmeter, qps, xosview, glload (an openGL based load meter)
\_ Anything for NT?
\_ probably not. Windows needs a huge makeover to even
look slightly kool/scientific/funky. The best is
probably winamp plugins but unless you want to be
playing mp3 constantly you're SOL.
\_ perfmon can show some rolling graphs of current system
usage. Better than nothing. What sort of look are
you trying for? Most movies use c64s.
\_ http://www.litestep.net is a substitute NeXTStep-ish shell for
Win32, with themes and all ala Afterstep/Windowmaker. My
personal favorite is Fallout2 theme. -muchandr |
| 1998/12/6 [Uncategorized] UID:15080 Activity:nil |
12/5 I need to hire someone to help clean my room. I am willing to pay 5/hr
It should take 2 or 4 hours at most. Anyone know some lib arts major
in need of money? -nesim |
| 1998/12/6 [Computer/SW/OS/Windows] UID:15081 Activity:kinda low |
12/5 Are there any good/new games that work on NT4.0 given that
there is no DirectX upgrade for NT? QuakeII will probably
work. Anything else?
\_ Install 95/98 in another partition. NT5/2k is sposed to have
directx6 or 7 in it but nt4 is dead. |
| 1998/12/6 [Uncategorized] UID:15082 Activity:nil |
12/5 What physically distinguishes serial cables and 10 baseT ethernet
cables (and any other types of communication cables) that allow
one to transmit at 10MHz and the other to only transmit at
115Khz?
\_ In some cases, it's just a matter of certification -- sometimes
a given cable can do a lot more than what it's rated for. But
there can be a lot of deep magic related to RF interference and
crosstalk under certain circumstances. (There are stories of
people running communications spec X on cables intended for some
other spec Y, and saving the day and lots of money. But if you
want to have confidence that weird RF problems won't pop up, you
should use cables for purposes for which they are rated.) |
| 1998/12/6 [Computer/SW/Editors/Emacs] UID:15083 Activity:nil |
12/5 Does anyone know how to get color coding on C/C++ on emacs. I
tried copying all the /usr/sww/share/emacs/2.02/list/cc* to
my home computer from the instructional machines but it doesn't
seem to do the trick. Any suggestions?
************************************************
(setq text-mode-hook (quote turn-on-auto-fill))
(setq find-file-hook (quote turn-on-auto-fill))
(load "hilit19")
(hilit-translate classes 'RosyBrown)
(hilit-translate stk-keyword 'MediumVioletRed-underline)
(hilit-translate defun 'red)
(hilit-translate list-procs 'Chartreuse)
(hilit-translate mutator 'red)
(hilit-translate conversion 'orange)
(hilit-translate define 'skyblue)
(hilit-translate comment 'yellow-italic)
(hilit-translate string 'thistle)
(hilit-translate type 'orange)
(hilit-translate keyword 'ForestGreen)
(hilit-translate include 'green)
(hilit-translate function-name 'purple)
(hilit-translate decl 'purple)
(hilit-translate args-list 'orange)
(hilit-translate label 'red-underline)
(hilit-translate caps 'blue4)
(set-foreground-color "white")
(set-background-color "black")
(set-cursor-color "green")
********************************* Next time, put an e-mail address -allenp |