Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> writes:
On 10/02/2013 03:04 PM, Sampsa Laine wrote:
Reading a manual for a NCD X terminal and it interestingly supports X11 over DECNET.
Anybody have much experience with this?
I ran it very briefly between a MicroVAX-II and a VAXstation-2000 a
long time ago, just to play with it. It was neat when I got it working,
but then it dawned on me that it really wasn't any different from
running it over TCP/IP. ;)
Save that there's more information in the DECnet for authentication.
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Sampsa Laine <sampsa at mac.com> writes:
Reading a manual for a NCD X terminal and it interestingly supports X11 =
over DECNET.
Anybody have much experience with this?
Lots. Over DECnet, the node and username are part of the X11 authentication.
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Sampsa Laine <sampsa at mac.com> writes:
Been reading the NOTES thread, there seems to be one person vaguely wary =
due to security reasons (valid, but overly paranoid IMHO) and the other =
posts seem relatively positive.
Brian, how do you think this is going? Are we going to get them to hook =
up?
I do believe so. There are some other things concerning Eisner that need
to be addressed before connection to HECnet (not involving the connection)
but I'm not at liberty to discuss them publicly. It's nothing ominous, so
just sit tight.
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Well I speak to machines with the voice of humanity.
How about SOS? Perhaps EDT's line mode is close enough
(or my ZX81 port), but it would be nice to have an Emacs emulation
mode where the cursor neatly always stays in the minibuffer...
On Wed, Oct 02, 2013 at 09:18:39PM +0200, Sampsa Laine wrote:
On 2 Oct 2013, at 21:11, Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote:
On 10/02/2013 03:10 PM, Cory Smelosky wrote:
Emacs has too high of a learning curve for me...with vi I prefer vim.
Emacs has an OBSCENE learning curve. But if you give it the time that
it takes, it will reward you for the rest of your life.
I full agree with that sentiment, I can use Emacs to a basic degree (I don't progam in elisp or anything) and it is a very effective editor.
Shame it doesn't come as standard on all *nix boxes, I have to revert to vi (UNIX) or nano/pico (most Linux distros)
On Wed, 2 Oct 2013, Sampsa Laine wrote:
This book is hilarious, and can be copied from CHIMPY::UGH.PDF over HECnet.
I just bought a paperback copy today. Along with a hardback copy of The Cuckoo's Egg. (Said hardback copy was like $4 shipped)
sampsa
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On Wed, 2 Oct 2013, Sampsa Laine wrote:
On 2 Oct 2013, at 21:11, Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote:
On 10/02/2013 03:10 PM, Cory Smelosky wrote:
Emacs has too high of a learning curve for me...with vi I prefer vim.
Emacs has an OBSCENE learning curve. But if you give it the time that
it takes, it will reward you for the rest of your life.
I full agree with that sentiment, I can use Emacs to a basic degree (I don't progam in elisp or anything) and it is a very effective editor.
Shame it doesn't come as standard on all *nix boxes, I have to revert to vi (UNIX) or nano/pico (most Linux distros)
My love of pico could be related to my love of Alpine, too.
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http://gewt.net Personal stuff
http://gimme-sympathy.org Projects
On Wed, 2 Oct 2013, Dave McGuire wrote:
On 10/02/2013 03:16 PM, Cory Smelosky wrote:
I ran it very briefly between a MicroVAX-II and a VAXstation-2000 a
long time ago, just to play with it. It was neat when I got it
working,
but then it dawned on me that it really wasn't any different from
running it over TCP/IP. ;)
Meaning it works for a few minutes and then breaks completely? ;)
Not at all. I've run X since X10R4 (yes, X *TEN* release four), and
have never seen it actually break. What are you up to? ;)
Trying to use it on a PeeCee. ;)
Oh good heavens. Life's too short, man.
I need to GET workstations first! ;)
If I used a real workstation that worked I'd have an excuse to be
productive.
Productivity is a good thing.
Now that I've run out of stuff to do, agreed.
-Dave
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http://gewt.net Personal stuff
http://gimme-sympathy.org Projects
On 2 Oct 2013, at 21:11, Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote:
On 10/02/2013 03:10 PM, Cory Smelosky wrote:
Emacs has too high of a learning curve for me...with vi I prefer vim.
Emacs has an OBSCENE learning curve. But if you give it the time that
it takes, it will reward you for the rest of your life.
I full agree with that sentiment, I can use Emacs to a basic degree (I don't progam in elisp or anything) and it is a very effective editor.
Shame it doesn't come as standard on all *nix boxes, I have to revert to vi (UNIX) or nano/pico (most Linux distros)
On 10/02/2013 03:16 PM, Cory Smelosky wrote:
I ran it very briefly between a MicroVAX-II and a VAXstation-2000 a
long time ago, just to play with it. It was neat when I got it
working,
but then it dawned on me that it really wasn't any different from
running it over TCP/IP. ;)
Meaning it works for a few minutes and then breaks completely? ;)
Not at all. I've run X since X10R4 (yes, X *TEN* release four), and
have never seen it actually break. What are you up to? ;)
Trying to use it on a PeeCee. ;)
Oh good heavens. Life's too short, man.
If I used a real workstation that worked I'd have an excuse to be
productive.
Productivity is a good thing.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA
