February 17, 2013
— Open Blogger Everyone uses a text editor of some sort, right? They've been around forever but seem to have gotten rather ummm...the German word would be Zaftig, perhaps even more than just Zaftig...
Its coming on 25 years now since I discovered this little gem of a plain text editor Sam Wilmott wrote. I even sent him some cash way back when because I was so impressed with its power/size ratio and its RAW FREAKING SPEED. I used it for many years while working at IBM. This tiny little editor (well under 20K), packed more functionality per byte than almost any piece of software I've ever seen. When other editors (like BRIEF) had text dribbling across a screen on an old 4.77mhz 8088 when you leaned on the PgDn key, SLED would make it fly by in a blur.
I continue to use it to this day occasionally (along with BRIEF) for plain text editing.
If you'd like to experience what a real software craftsman can do with a bit of code no larger than most avatar graphics images, download SLED and give it a try. Bits don't rot -- its every bit as good today as it was back in 1987, and that was very good indeed.
You can download SLED here. Its a plain DOS app, but will run fine under any version of Windows or anything that has a DOS emulation.
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Posted by: alex at February 17, 2013 03:16 PM (44kMb)
Anyone remember "ned" on a Unix system?
As nice as "brief" and only ten years earlier.
Posted by: Al at February 17, 2013 03:17 PM (V70Uh)
I tried.
Note: SLED does not work under DR-DOS 2.1
But that may be due to my overclocking the 8086.
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Posted by: BumperStickerist at February 17, 2013 03:19 PM (J8DGo)
Posted by: alex at February 17, 2013 03:19 PM (44kMb)
Posted by: harleycowboy at February 17, 2013 03:20 PM (+9AX9)
Posted by: Al at February 17, 2013 03:20 PM (8sCoq)
Posted by: Buzzsaw at February 17, 2013 03:20 PM (qo244)
Helloooooo, Ladies.
Posted by: Leisure Suit Larry at February 17, 2013 03:21 PM (J8DGo)
Posted by: @PurpAv at February 17, 2013 03:21 PM (1rU+d)
Posted by: alec at February 17, 2013 03:22 PM (usWYv)
Intel was behind it hard and put in on all their reference design motherboards.
Posted by: @PurpAv at February 17, 2013 03:23 PM (1rU+d)
Posted by: alex at February 17, 2013 03:23 PM (44kMb)
Posted by: Billy Bob, Pseudo Intellectual at February 17, 2013 03:23 PM (wR+pz)
Posted by: Gran at February 17, 2013 03:24 PM (0pcT0)
Posted by: alec at February 17, 2013 03:24 PM (usWYv)
Posted by: @PurpAv at February 17, 2013 03:24 PM (1rU+d)
Posted by: Rosie at February 17, 2013 03:25 PM (wR+pz)
Posted by: Buzzsaw at February 17, 2013 07:20 PM (qo244)
cheaper to implement and wider support
Posted by: The Dude at February 17, 2013 03:25 PM (vJdyz)
Posted by: alex at February 17, 2013 03:27 PM (44kMb)
Posted by: Billy Bob, Pseudo Intellectual at February 17, 2013 03:27 PM (wR+pz)
Posted by: The Dude at February 17, 2013 03:27 PM (vJdyz)
Posted by: alec at February 17, 2013 03:27 PM (usWYv)
Posted by: alex at February 17, 2013 03:27 PM (44kMb)
Posted by: alec at February 17, 2013 07:27 PM (usWYv)
Mid 90's or so, last time I've heard FTW being fuck the world was Tazz in ECW
Posted by: The Dude at February 17, 2013 03:29 PM (vJdyz)
Posted by: Sean Bannion at February 17, 2013 03:30 PM (fW/Ev)
Posted by: Colorado Alex at February 17, 2013 03:30 PM (hpDVh)
I'll toss out a couple of tech-blegs.
1. I'm looking for the equivalent of "FileTree" from back-in-the-day. I've looked at the recent versions and they don't do what I need them to do, namely "Search for Files based on text in fiels, Allow Tagging of Said Files, and then Copy Said Files"
2. I'm going to use Outlook until I die as my previous attempts at ThunderBird and GMail resulted in various infarctions. Any recommendations for Outlook extensions (besides Thunderbird and/or Google)?
3. 3D sketch/visualize software for, basically, outdoor artwork / scultpure? I don't need to generate CNC commands, but would like to be able to 'show' ideas to people who don't imagine too good.
Thanks,
and, no, I will not be talked out of Outlook. If I had my way we'd all be using WordPerfect 5.1 and hitting Shift-F7 to print, the way God intended us to.
Posted by: Leisure Suit Larry at February 17, 2013 03:30 PM (J8DGo)
Posted by: alec at February 17, 2013 07:30 PM (usWYv)
Extream Championship Wrestling or if you want to get older, it's original name, Eastern Championship Wrestling
Posted by: The Dude at February 17, 2013 03:31 PM (vJdyz)
Posted by: Assault Citizen Anachronda at February 17, 2013 03:33 PM (1c58W)
Posted by: Foghorn Leghorn at February 17, 2013 03:33 PM (n8LUb)
http://www.g-technology.com/
Posted by: Buzzsaw at February 17, 2013 03:34 PM (qo244)
To piss me off.
I understand this is only a problem for me and like eight other dudes in the world, but you know what USB cables can do that Fireware cables can't? Vibrate out of things. It's infuriating.
(Also, BBEdit 4 LYFE.)
Posted by: oblig. at February 17, 2013 03:35 PM (cePv8)
I just checked it and it worked OK with DOSBOX on Win7 x64
http://sourceforge.net/projects/dosbox/?source=dlp
Posted by: @PurpAv at February 17, 2013 03:36 PM (1rU+d)
Posted by: Flatbush Joe at February 17, 2013 03:36 PM (ZPrif)
Posted by: Truck Monkey at February 17, 2013 03:37 PM (jucos)
Posted by: Burn the Witch at February 17, 2013 03:37 PM (DvVVN)
Posted by: Assault Citizen Anachronda at February 17, 2013 03:38 PM (1c58W)
Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD. Take us away. at February 17, 2013 03:39 PM (Gk3SS)
Posted by: Assault Citizen Anachronda at February 17, 2013 03:40 PM (1c58W)
Posted by: Empire1 at February 17, 2013 03:40 PM (bVr4e)
Try OpenOffice for document interchange stuff. There's all sorts of load/store format filters that come with it.
Posted by: @PurpAv at February 17, 2013 03:41 PM (1rU+d)
Posted by: Icedog at February 17, 2013 03:42 PM (9ScGj)
Actually thinking about it I can fix my problem with a $20 firewire board I'm guessing you cant fix the vibration?
No wait I thought of that fix before but all the slots are filled with imaging and Ethernet boards to read other imaging devices. Crap I thought I had a drunken epiphany guess not.
Posted by: Buzzsaw at February 17, 2013 03:43 PM (qo244)
Posted by: t-bird at February 17, 2013 03:43 PM (FcR7P)
Posted by: @PurpAv at February 17, 2013 07:41 PM (1rU+d)
I was going to do that but I don't like dling stuff onto the work computers and I didn't have my laptop with me since the laptop has OpenOffice on it. I found the swearing at it a lot method to work out nicely.
I know I keep flogging it like Molly, but Scrivener is so so so wonderful for fiction writing. It does have a fuckton of features but those features are actually purposeful and/or assist with the very crucial pretend to be writing but actually be fucking around (name generator ftw [ both variants fit now that I think about it ] ). I got it for $20 with the half off coupon from NaNoWriMo in 2010 and it's worth every penny.
Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD. Take us away. at February 17, 2013 03:46 PM (Gk3SS)
Posted by: Assault Citizen Anachronda at February 17, 2013 03:47 PM (1c58W)
Posted by: t-bird at February 17, 2013 03:48 PM (FcR7P)
Using firewire only requires one cord for power and transfer and it is twice as fast (at least) than USB. I have installed Firewire for my high end microscope cameras too and get much better Frames per second for live viewing.
Posted by: Buzzsaw at February 17, 2013 03:48 PM (qo244)
http://document.online-convert.com/convert-to-txt
Not an exhaustive set of filters though...
Posted by: @PurpAv at February 17, 2013 03:52 PM (1rU+d)
I just checked it and it worked OK with DOSBOX on Win7 x64
http://sourceforge.net/projects/dosbox/?source=dlp
Posted by: @PurpAv at February 17, 2013 07:36 PM (1rU+d)
You can even associate COM files with dosbox if you want the random .com file to run easy.
Posted by: MetaThought at February 17, 2013 03:53 PM (7Z6aE)
Posted by: @PurpAv at February 17, 2013 03:54 PM (1rU+d)
Posted by: @PurpAv at February 17, 2013 03:57 PM (1rU+d)
Posted by: Honey BooBoo Proletariat at February 17, 2013 03:59 PM (FsUAO)
Posted by: HoboJerky, now with 75% more Assault & at February 17, 2013 03:59 PM (FsUAO)
Posted by: Infinite Hector at February 17, 2013 04:00 PM (ZPrif)
Posted by: alex at February 17, 2013 04:00 PM (44kMb)
Posted by: Clemenza at February 17, 2013 04:02 PM (Ihh1C)
Posted by: teej at February 17, 2013 04:03 PM (k4ET0)
Bet ya can't guess who that might be. Posted by: teej at February 17, 2013 08:03 PM (k4ET0)
Why do you have to hate on the hamsters? Why?
Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD. Take us away. at February 17, 2013 04:05 PM (Gk3SS)
Posted by: Chris M at February 17, 2013 04:06 PM (4lyMJ)
...on an old Osborne
Posted by: @PurpAv at February 17, 2013 07:54 PM
Silly, we learned our lesson and we're working on an upgrade - Heath/Zenith Z-100 with Peachtext and an acoustic-coupled modem. Vibrant and all networky and stuff!
Posted by: ORCA, LLC at February 17, 2013 04:06 PM (bGlsD)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith[/i] at February 17, 2013 04:07 PM (bxiXv)
Posted by: steevy at February 17, 2013 04:08 PM (9XBK2)
Original MP4 setup http://tinyurl.com/agh6nns
New Lens http://tinyurl.com/2vxncox
New Camera http://tinyurl.com/b9bhq6b
Posted by: Buzzsaw at February 17, 2013 04:09 PM (qo244)
Posted by: Sean Bannion at February 17, 2013 04:09 PM (7tVNd)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith[/i] at February 17, 2013 04:09 PM (bxiXv)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith[/i] at February 17, 2013 04:11 PM (bxiXv)
I always thought Zaftig meant pleasingly plump
Like if Megan McCain lost about 50-60 lbs. she might then be Zaftig
Stupid and pig-faced, but Zaftig...maybe
Posted by: Albie Damned at February 17, 2013 04:12 PM (Yhu4q)
merriam webster
Posted by: Jones in CO at February 17, 2013 04:14 PM (8sCoq)
The Ethernet port on my Toshiba laptop is strategically positioned right between the USB ports...
...I spent two hours one day with the Ethernet port under an illuminated magnifier using a little metal hook I fabricated unfucking the port pins.
Posted by: @PurpAv at February 17, 2013 04:15 PM (1rU+d)
Posted by: Richard Gere at February 17, 2013 04:15 PM (53riN)
Mpron Tech Support:
Switching to a Verizon system. need an email provider, a free one that Verizon provides...is gmail Google? Do not want. If so, anyone know a good one?
Posted by: USS Diversity at February 17, 2013 04:16 PM (QLJPW)
Stupid and pig-faced, butZaftig...maybe>>
So you're saying if there was a way to remotely plug Meggy Macs pie hole she would be good?
Posted by: Buzzsaw at February 17, 2013 04:16 PM (qo244)
I've heard good things about HushMail. Online email with 50% less evil.
Posted by: @PurpAv at February 17, 2013 04:19 PM (1rU+d)
Anyone know who forked over the dough for Butch Harmon's $1000 hourly rate to correct President Putts-a-Lot feminine yet spastic golf swing?
Hope the fucker doesn't try to sneak it in his expense report
Posted by: Albie Damned at February 17, 2013 04:24 PM (Yhu4q)
Posted by: RovingCopyEditor at February 17, 2013 04:25 PM (/S5ss)
Posted by: steevy at February 17, 2013 08:08 PM (9XBK2)
shit like this just makes me glad that I jumped on Alcoa stock at a good price
Posted by: The Dude at February 17, 2013 04:26 PM (vJdyz)
terry-farrell-14.jpg (JPEG Image, 684x1280 pixels)
Posted by: steevy at February 17, 2013 04:29 PM (9XBK2)
Posted by: Jake at February 17, 2013 04:30 PM (vOqw+)
Posted by: steevy at February 17, 2013 04:31 PM (9XBK2)
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Yeah, but it has one virtue: it runs on bloody almost anything.
Haven't seen it for CP/M, but I use it on MacOS, Windows, VMS, and a variety of Unices.
Posted by: Assault Citizen Anachronda at February 17, 2013 04:31 PM (1c58W)
Posted by: Mirror-Universe Mitt Romney at February 17, 2013 04:32 PM (O8sZf)
Posted by: seamrog at February 17, 2013 04:33 PM (ITCDq)
They would be the owners, except for Jordan.
Posted by: Pederast Harry Reid at February 17, 2013 04:40 PM (wR+pz)
Posted by: Steve Jobs at February 17, 2013 04:44 PM (e8kgV)
Posted by: Steve Jobs at February 17, 2013 04:46 PM (e8kgV)
Posted by: CanaDave at February 17, 2013 04:46 PM (x+fpf)
Posted by: @PurpAv at February 17, 2013 04:47 PM (1rU+d)
Tomorrow you will not be allowed to speak of the future or the past.
Congress has designated it as " Present tense Day"
Posted by: constiitutional skolar at February 17, 2013 04:47 PM (ITCDq)
Posted by: Socratease at February 17, 2013 04:48 PM (tvpaS)
Posted by: Bildo (Crash Test Assoc at VETSA) at February 17, 2013 04:52 PM (eToum)
Posted by: @PurpAv at February 17, 2013 04:52 PM (1rU+d)
Posted by: constiitutional skolar at February 17, 2013 04:53 PM (ITCDq)
The Ace of spades by Motorhead Just cause.
http://tinyurl.com/b5zedyt
Posted by: Buzzsaw at February 17, 2013 08:51 PM (qo244)
you know I'm born to lose and gamblins for fools, but that's the way I lik it baby, I don't want to live forever
Posted by: The Jackhole on Ventura Highway at February 17, 2013 04:53 PM (/7Xis)
Posted by: Truman North and his tired thumbs at February 17, 2013 04:54 PM (I2LwF)
vim. inside. of. emacs.
for those that like their editors on the um, bbw side.
big. bloated. words.
now with vim for that double text editing juiced in goodness.
huzzah!
Posted by: make it stop! at February 17, 2013 04:54 PM (/QreE)
Posted by: Buzzsaw at February 17, 2013 04:54 PM (qo244)
Posted by: Burn the Witch at February 17, 2013 04:56 PM (DvVVN)
Posted by: @PurpAv at February 17, 2013 04:56 PM (1rU+d)
Posted by: USS Diversity at February 17, 2013 04:56 PM (QLJPW)
"When other editors (like BRIEF) had text dribbling across a screen on an old 4.77mhz 8088 when you leaned on the PgDn key,"
**************
Okay so if I'm understanding this correctly, and I'm pretty technologically savvy that if I press certain key I will start dribbling in my briefs? Because I've already changed my briefs once today.
Posted by: Guido at February 17, 2013 04:56 PM (XLuH2)
Posted by: David C. or W. at February 17, 2013 04:56 PM (1zS8Y)
Let the "man" know we want a new set of threads !
Speak up people, speak truth to flowers, or sumthin.
Posted by: community activist at February 17, 2013 04:57 PM (ITCDq)
Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD. Take us away. at February 17, 2013 04:57 PM (Gk3SS)
Posted by: The Jackhole on Ventura Highway at February 17, 2013 04:58 PM (/7Xis)
Posted by: @PurpAv at February 17, 2013 04:58 PM (1rU+d)
Posted by: Truman North and his tired thumbs at February 17, 2013 04:58 PM (LjmG/)
If anyone's looking for text editor suggestions for Linux, try 'Nano'...it's one of the most DOS like, if you came from that world.
The editor that comes with Midnight Commander file manager is not bad too.
Posted by: CanaDave at February 17, 2013 05:01 PM (x+fpf)
You can do this.
Posted by: Truman North and his tired thumbs at February 17, 2013 08:58 PM (LjmG/)
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Why bother? You said yourself they stole this one and they'll steal the next one.
Posted by: USS Diversity at February 17, 2013 05:02 PM (QLJPW)
C'mon folks, I gocha back. C'mon hope, change, free shit
Aw screw it, I gotta golf tomorrow.
Hey Reg. Will you wash my balls ?
Posted by: community activist at February 17, 2013 05:09 PM (ITCDq)
Posted by: Thorvald at February 17, 2013 05:12 PM (1V6Pv)
She commented that she'd been a programmer on the old IBM punchcard systems, but left to work as a tech/admin for a school district back in the early 70s.
She had one of the first connections to a mainframe located in California for data entry/reporting.
Said she managed to spend a lot of time looking busy but actually playing a mainframe version of Battleship.
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Posted by: BumperStickerist at February 17, 2013 05:15 PM (J8DGo)
Posted by: t-bird at February 17, 2013 05:16 PM (FcR7P)
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Yeah, well, don't forget that emacs was originally a set of Editing MACros for TECO.
Posted by: Assault Citizen Anachronda at February 17, 2013 05:16 PM (1c58W)
Posted by: Thorvald at February 17, 2013 05:17 PM (1V6Pv)
Who penned the Badfinger hit " Come and Get it"?
Who penned Bonnie Raitt's " Let's give them something to talk about"?
What country music star was in "Slingblade "?
Posted by: boring music trivia at February 17, 2013 05:20 PM (ITCDq)
Posted by: Gran at February 17, 2013 05:36 PM (0pcT0)
Posted by: David Gillies at February 17, 2013 05:49 PM (wscOM)
Phillipe Khan is the anti-Christ and Delphi is a poorly designed knock off of Interface Builder.
Posted by: rfichoke at February 17, 2013 06:08 PM (CcIvJ)
Posted by: Comrade Arthur at February 17, 2013 06:13 PM (mJkp9)
Steve Jobs screwed the pooch big time. He decided that the world should pay big time for the privilege of using Firewire. He wanted a ridiculous amount per port to be paid to Apple for their IP. This amount went down a few times but by then the hardware industry had gotten tired of explaining that most people didn't have a use for this. The primary application of connecting to digital video cameras still had years to go before becoming a mainstream application.
If you've notice how a lot of 1394 ports are the four pin variety with no power (a plug previously most familiar to users of the Nintendo Gameboy) it's because Sony got fed up waiting for Apple to finalize the spec and went ahead with a version of their own based on the portions that were final and really mattered in terms of the signaling and such. (I have an old Sony laptop that had a four pin port and a separate power port along with an adapter to connect both to a six pin cable.)
The original intent for USB was pretty modest. It was largely inspired by Apple's ADB (Apple Desktop Bus) that had a lot of applications planned for it but was rarely used for anything other than connecting keyboards and mice. Compaq, DEC (later absorbed into Compaq), IBM, Intel, Microsoft, NEC, and Nortel all saw a need for a more versatile port for a wide range of application combined with the OS support that allowed for users to just plug in to any open socket and have it work. This was a pretty big deal in the early 90s, between growing complexity and the looming problem of IRQ availability.
It was expected that USB and Firewire would co-exist with Firewire handling the heavy data loads and USB being the low-speed catch-all. But Jobs almost single handedly guaranteed FireWire would not be included on a majority of new PCs. The digital video market wasn't enough to justify it for most OEMs and once USB 2.0 became a reality camera makers soon decided to go with the numbers.
A few years later, when Apple was becoming seriously profitable, Jobs might have realized it was a bad idea to try to monetize Firewire. But such is history.
Posted by: epobirs at February 17, 2013 06:40 PM (kcfmt)
Microsoft was far too trusting of developers back in the early days of Windows. There were always guidelines available to show devs how to do things nice and neat, especially after Win95 established a directory just for software installations.
They didn't really wise up until Vista when a lot of stuff that formerly been mere recommendation became enforced laws. Though not nearly as much as I'd like. The problem is how much old stuff that was badly designed but business critical would be broken. For instance, they finally started having separate directories for program code and program data that was subject to change, like configuration files. This is a basic safety design, minimizing the write activity to areas that should very rarely be changed. A properly designed app should be able to work if its directory in Program Data is wiped out. It just reverts to default state until new data is established.
This is something most OSes coming from the mainframe and mini end of the industry have done for decades. Microsoft came out of the flying by the seat of your pants micro end of the business. It made things a lot more accessible for beginning users and coders but the platform badly needed some adult supervision after so many years.
Posted by: epobirs at February 17, 2013 06:59 PM (kcfmt)
What are you running on? Those search functions are largely built-in on recent Windows versions and there are similar features on Mac.
Posted by: epobirs at February 17, 2013 07:02 PM (kcfmt)
Posted by: and irresolute at February 17, 2013 07:19 PM (DBH1h)
BRIEF, will spill to disk, and the later versions will use EMS too, so it can handle much larger files.
Posted by: @PurpAv at February 17, 2013 07:44 PM (1rU+d)
Posted by: @PurpAv at February 17, 2013 11:44 PM (1rU+d)
Have used BRIEF. Danke Vielmals for the info re SLED. Using Mono and VS at present, but knowing is good.
Posted by: and irresolute at February 17, 2013 07:55 PM (DBH1h)
The Gameboy connector is keyed differently. Different corners of the connector lopped off.
The original intent for USB was pretty modest. It was largely inspired by Apple's ADB (Apple Desktop Bus) that had a lot of applications planned for it but was rarely used for anything other than connecting keyboards and mice.
ADB was, as I recall, pretty much i2c with a higher-level protocol imposed. DEC swiped it pretty much outright for some of its MIPS-based workstations, but still only used it for keyboards and mice.
The USB protocol is more like bisync with different CRC polynomials. Annoyingly, USB uses different polynomials for different parts of the transaction. Had they stuck with bisync, they could have leveraged off-the-shelf IP for anything from 8051s on up.
Posted by: Assault Citizen Anachronda at February 17, 2013 08:07 PM (1c58W)
Posted by: Former Lurker at February 17, 2013 08:46 PM (Yoym7)
Posted by: GalosGann at February 18, 2013 06:21 AM (T3KlW)
Vi. Sine qua non (esp for programmers). The mouse is for pussies.
Posted by: Huusker at February 18, 2013 07:00 AM (PaKLC)
Posted by: jbarntt at February 18, 2013 04:59 PM (UNFot)
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