Re: Nominations (4) -> Re: Several ways you can delete a large avi file, and other files that might say they are in use.

From: Kadaitcha Man (***-you.ya.cunt_at_kiss-my-big-black-ass.com)
Date: 11/15/05 

Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 06:48:33 +0545

John Henry, <jhd@insurgent.orgy>, the stubby, rapacious hoofer, and worker
of the fish trap, inculcated:
> "relic" <complaints@relic211.cjb.net> wrote in
> news:Jx9ef.6934$QM5.5749 @tornado.socal.rr.com:
>
>> Kadaitcha Man wrote:
>>> Dustin Cook, <bughunter.dustin@gmail.com>, the money-grabbing,
>>> porcine great ape, and felt hat maker, ejected:
>>>
>>>> Are we talking about the coco3, or the intel clone trs80?
>>>
>>> BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
>>
>> He found those names while data mining.
>
> *chuckle*
>
>> <Scary, I predate those by a decade or so>
>
> Eh, I'm only 35. I happened to be a geeky kid who dug the hell out of
> computer gaming at a real young age, and got in tight with the geeks
> who ran the local Radio Shack (I suspect I'm one of a very small
> handful of people who understands that the adjective 'hosed' used in
> reference to a broken computer or IT component has its roots with
> Rick Moranis and Dave Thomas). They thought it would be entertaining
> to strap me to a Model II (mmm, amber screens and 8-inch floppies~)
> just to see what I'd do with it, so I ran with it, and developed an
> interest that continues to this day.
>
> And in spite of my batting Dustbin around like a toy mouse, I don't
> claim now, and never did claim, to be some great coder or anything -
> I know just enough to throw crumbs at him and let him make a fool of
> himself trying to prove how smott he am. (Notice how he cut out the
> majority of my questions, and gave meaningless diversionary answers
> to the rest of them...) The last time I wrote assembly code it was
> on an 8-bit CPU, and these days it'd be a real struggle to even
> manage 'Hi My Name Is John' in anything more complex than vbscript.

   *100
   STPTR, 0
   *290
CLA CLL
TAD (STRNG-A)
DCA STPTR
NEXT, CLA CLL
TAD I STPTR
SNA
HLT
TSF
JMP .-1
TLS
JMP NEXT
STRNG-A, 310
         311
         032
         324
         350
         032
         325
         301
         324
         305
         032
         311
         342
         032
         321
         326
         310
         324
         041
         0

Meh. "HI MY NAME IS JOHN!" in DEC PDP-8 assembler using EBCDIC.

I love this bit of code:

TSF
JMP .-1
TLS

TSF sends an ACK to the TTY and jumps to TLS, which outputs the character to
the TTY, if an ACK comes back from the TSF. It would look something like
this in a plain English conversation:

Computer: Are you busy, TTY?
TTY: Yes, I'm busy.
Computer: Are you busy, TTY?
TTY: Yes, I'm busy.
Computer: Are you busy, TTY?
TTY: Yes, I'm busy.
Computer: Are you busy, TTY?
TTY: No, I am not busy.
Computer: Ok, here is one character. Print it.
Computer: Are you busy, TTY?
TTY: Yes, I'm busy.
Computer: Are you busy, TTY?
TTY: Yes, I'm busy.
Computer: Are you busy, TTY?
TTY: Yes, I'm busy.
Computer: Are you busy, TTY?
TTY: No, I am not busy.
Computer: Ok, here is one character. Print it.
Computer: Are you busy, TTY?

> I just like to poke at self-styled 'gurus' like this who flap their
> wings trying to impress people asking simple questions that don't
> require such nonsense. The lady just asked how to install a font in
> Windows ME. The answer is 'copy it to your windows/fonts folder; for
> best results reboot' or 'get thee a copy of something like Bitstream
> Font Navigator.'
>
> But this yobbo is still stuck on proving that the OP wasn't REALLY
> using WinME because some dumbass called him on the desktop support
> helpline back in 2001 and gave a wrong ID for their OS. Surely this
> innocent and well-meaning but not particularly computer savvy newbie
> MUST be faking her user-agent header and misidentifying her OS,
> or...well, or....or Dustbin won't have a crutch to prop his
> over-inflated ego on.
>
> That kinda *** just cracks me up - moreso because he just keeps on
> talking about how right he was, and the whole point of the
> conversation just keeps on going right over his pointy little head.

Not to mention he just keeps on trying to convince someone other than
himself that he's some l33td0od to be reckoned with.

> People like Dustbin are the reason that the Germans had to invent the
> word 'schadenfreude.' 

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