🚀 go-pugleaf

After some discussion with a user wanting the pathname,
I realized I was amiss in tantalizing all of you;
therefore, you can locate xbill at sunsite.unc.edu
at /pub/Linux/games/x11/video or something like that.

In article <405usa$dp3@oddball.sjc.MENTORG.COM>, ewill@hpewill.sje.mentorg.com (Eric Williams @ PCB x5577) writes:
|> In article <petrichDCoC8t.7F2@netcom.com>, petrich@netcom.com (Loren Petrich) writes:
|> |> In article <3vlchl$pof@sundog.tiac.net>,
|> |> Jim Williams  <williams@tiac.net> wrote:
|> |> >jdredd@eagle.ns.net (James DeBenedetti) wrote:
|> 
|> [snippage]
|> 
|> |> 
|> |> >>-GUI:  Keeps me from having to type in dozens of 10+ character
|> |> >>filenames when I want to delete a portion of what's in a directory. 
|> |> >Aside from the fact that just about every CLI has a way to avoid doing
|> |> >this -- I find it far too easy to have accidents with every GUI I've
|> |> >ever used.
|> |> 
|> |> 	I think you need some mouse practice :-) Xerox PARC once had a 
|> |> mouse-practice game called "Fly" in which the cursor becomes a flyswatter 
|> |> and you're suppost to get the cursor over the fly and click. I have a Mac 
|> |> version of that called "Bash Big Blue", in which one tries to get an IBM 
|> |> logo, but it breaks in System 7. Has anyone come up with some updated 
|> |> version -- say, "Bash Bill Gates"?
|> 
|> There's an X-windows game named xbill which allows you to
|> practice your buttonclicking on Bills walking around
|> trying to install Microsoft on PC's, Apples,
|> and NeXT boxes.  I doubt it will be ported to Macs though. :-(
|> 
|> [more snippage]
|> 
|> 
|> |> 	Yawn all you want, but if you want to see what an image *really*
|> |> looks like, you'll have to have 24-bit color. Otherwise, you'll be stuck
|> |> with dithering, which is pixel-level fakery, and a waste of CPU time. 
|> |> That's one reason I prefer to look at images with a Macintosh instead of a
|> |> SparcStation at work -- the SparcStation only has an 8-bit video board
|> |> (how much does a 24-bit video board for a SparcStation cost?), while my
|> |> home Mac has a 16-bit video board and my office Mac has a 24-bit video
|> |> board. 
|> 
|> Even with 24-bit color you may still need to dither on
|> occasion (0.4% intensity variation between levels).
|> 
|> |> 
|> |> 	[...]
|> |> -- 
|> |> Loren Petrich, the Master Blaster	Happiness is a fast Macintosh
|> |> petrich@netcom.com			And a fast train
|> |> Visit ftp://ftp.netcom.com/pub/pe/petrich
|> |> Or ftp to ftp.netcom.com, then go to /pub/pe/petrich
|> 
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|> eric_williams@mentorg.com
|> My views!

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