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[May. 16th, 2008|02:11 pm] |
So remember that whole need people to hand transcribe 1st edition unix asm to machine readable formats? I got all of one page done and checked in before others actually did a bang up job OCR'ing it and checking it, and it's totally running emulated inside SIMH!
<@newsham> not only bootable, patched to run 2e binaries, can build an
old version of the C compiler, the assembler, can build the
kernel and a selection of other cmds
Information on how to get it running in the Readme.
Go go first edition unix!
(Meanwhile I'm reading What the Dormouse Said and am still generally preoccupied with computing history more than present, because goddamn the present is full of fail, more elucidation later). |
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Damn financial stress! I've automated the mundane, but I want to do better. I'm tired of continually cutting it close. Gratefully, the ends do @least meet. |
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| unix, FIRST edition. |
[Apr. 24th, 2008|06:03 pm] |
So... my friend Tim Newsham pointed out a pdf of some OLD UNIX. When I say this I mean specifically it's from 1972 before the big C rewrite of 1973 and is PDP11/20 asm (with comments!).
Naturally my first question was - has anyone OCR'd this to make it machine readable so we can try emulating it!? (Tim already emulates some less old unix and it's fun to play on, so you know - this is more of a holy grail unless we found some crazy pre-being-called-unix code for PDP7). Anyway apparently there's a couple things that are digital, but not the whole thing - so he just started a page on googlecode where we're dividing things into 10 page sections and typing it in (and if you just want to review someone else's section that is also helpful). URL here:
http://code.google.com/p/unix-jun72/
If this is up your alley, pitch in! I'm working on section e08 right now. If all the sections are claimed by the time you read this, don't worry - we want people to review each section separately as well and make sure we got it right (or tab/whitespaced correctly or whatever)
Oh, and if you just want the pdf to peruse it's here (I coralized the link to reduce potential load @ bitsavers since it's about 12MB):
http://www.bitsavers.org.nyud.net/pdf/bellLabs/unix/PreliminaryUnixImplementationDocument_Jun72.pdf |
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| PG&E ftl |
[Apr. 24th, 2008|12:00 pm] |
Please wait while we find an agent to assist you...
This is PG&E Rep, how may I help you?
Grey: Hey, how's it going.
Grey: So, I moved into my new residence (myaddresshere) back in Novemeber.
Grey: aand the previous owner is getting complaints that he is getting billed.
Grey: II called in a month ago to make sure that everything was in my name and that he would be credited for everything from November, and that I would be charged.
PG&E Rep: What is your account number?
Grey: aand I'm looking, and I see that I still don't have anything due, even though the address is listed correctly.
Grey: mmy account # is ****************
Grey: sso I'm worried he's -still- getting charged.
Grey: which should've been fixed a while ago (I didn't even realize he was being charged until last month when my landlord heard from him; and I thought I'd gotten this all settled back in november and it was autopaying)
PG&E Rep: Please call Customer Service at 1-800-743-5000.
Grey: *groan* I've done that already.
Grey: what good is an online support if it's just telling me to use a phone?
PG&E Rep: The issue looks a bit complex. If you want to wait I can help you.
Grey: I would be happy if you helped me; it beats waiting on the phone again to get another runaround.
WOW, I AM ON HOLD, ONLINE! Epic fail. |
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[Apr. 19th, 2008|12:50 am] |
I love synchronicity. I left work late tonight and grabbed a burrito, then bumped into a friend while leaving place on way to BART to find out he was going to a last minute bday gathering for another friend. Continued to new location and saw bday friend + more and managed to hop on one of the last trains home. Realized I must've left my cell phone @ work and was all 'argh' only to be semi-accosted by some weird woman on the walk home who was hoping she could 'use' my cell phone (seemed super sketch) and I could honestly tell her I didn't have one on me and was able to avoid gosh knows what.
synchronicity - always ftw. |
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stressed, filled with desires without an outlet, but mostly life is OK.
One of these days... |
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[Apr. 7th, 2008|03:06 pm] |
Weekend was awesome, Absolute Body Control was fantastic, hanging with Billy & Geoffrey was great! Seeing my friend Nick & Tami and their new daughter was great (Sashya slept on my chest for like two hours, making me feel an awful lot like Totoro in the tree with Mei sleeping).
Car leaking diesel sucks, and it's in the shop waiting on a cap for the fuel injector - but at least that happened before San Jose so the trip was still on. Many thanks to Billy for driving!
The scene down in LA is fantastic, and makes me more bummed out to be returning to NorCal where it still feels dead dead dead for a number of reasons (which I may get into at another point), the ABC show venue was weird, and the crowd was weirder, but they were very diligently trying to recreate an 80's club, not just an 80's night - where honest to gosh deathrock fashions and hairstyles were being rawked along with all sortsa androgynous stripey geometric fashions + pump heels and new wavey face paint. I don't think I heard a single song newer than '87, it was a trip.
Oh and vegan tacos - doomie isn't vending @ bunker now (dunno why) but he was vending @ the ABC show, yay! There were still vegan hotdogs @ bunker, and some place called vegan village is opening up like basically downstairs there so next trip, more places to try.
I'm forgetting stuff.
I am in a hate relationship with twitter, but am still using it; and post to it more than I do here of late. I'd like to integrate the two, but srsly loudtwitter (as well as any site where I give my credentials for another site) leaves me super unsettled. I mean great idea guys, but I don't want to escrow my stuff, I'm leery enough about keychain, but at least it's a local app and I just need to worry about my own laptop getting pwn3d, whereas putting trust in some 3rd party website with lotsa other credentials in it? Sounds like a horrible idea.
Still, it's a useful problem to solve. Anyone know of better solutions or at least ones I can run on my own? [e.g. plaxo/loudtwitter/etc. that I run on my own servar] |
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[Apr. 3rd, 2008|04:58 pm] |
No braindumps of late, I disconnected the console so nothing's being logged.
Anyway tomorrow after work I'm heading to LA with Billy & Geoffrey I think we'll hit up Stromkern performing @ Das Bunker (and mmm VEGAN TACOS) and probably drop off a bike with Jesse and grab him too.
Saturday I'll spend some time meeting my god daughter (yes I'm a godfather if I hadn't mentioned and you've lived this long without waking up with a horse head in your bed, I hear they're going around), and then seeing my friend Nick give a lecture on Japanese film and horror @ UCLA. Eventually we'll all make it to see Absolute Body Control and I will go bonkers with excitement.
There's lotsa other stuff, but YEESH LIFE IS FULL OF STUFF!
Any of you people down in LA I hope to run into you @ Bunker or ABC.
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| what a weekend! |
[Mar. 23rd, 2008|11:27 pm] |
Seems like this weekend revolved around events involving or thanks to missorangegirl. There was tit4tat @ Hubba Hubba on Friday (which was bloody sexy, though the blood part wasn't tit4tat's [insert story about x-acto blades being dangerous here]).
Then Extra Action last night, which was fan-fuckingtastic, and it turns out contains several ex Crash Worship members [insert lots of how I never made it to a crash worship show being a big regret here, and quote "Their recordings suck. Compared to what they do live, that is!" from awesome review:http://garote.bdmonkeys.net/stories/scrashzg.html]
Then today was awesome zombie chocolate rabbit spring festival thing in Bodega on gorgeous peaceful land with wonderful peoples.
So tired, but sated in a lot of awesome moments.
[insert other stuff about xraids sucking ass and failing hard drives, and why are my finances still problematic and taxes and crapola some other time] |
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