From why at poignantguide.net Mon Aug 1 17:24:36 2005 From: why at poignantguide.net (why the lucky stiff) Date: Mon Aug 1 17:18:50 2005 Subject: The Carefully Executed Soundtrack In-Reply-To: <1122675203.7865.156.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <42E58E31.1040702@poignantguide.net> <1122675203.7865.156.camel@localhost.localdomain> Message-ID: <42EE9314.9000301@poignantguide.net> MenTaLguY wrote: >On Mon, 2005-07-25 at 19:13 -0600, why the lucky stiff wrote: > > >>Whilst listening, you might wonder the following: >>* How will these be entwined with the online manual (vis-a-vis scrolling >>and listening)? >>(This I'm not sure. A miniature flash ghettoblaster?) >> >> >What I would probably recommend is adding links to stream and download >the chapter's song (i.e. a one-song .m3u pointing to the .mp3 and a >direct link to the .mp3, respectively) to the top and bottom of each >chapter, and leaving it at that. > > Do you think people will start futzing with their audio software, getting it to work right and get distracted? I know I would. >This lets them use their music player of choice, and isn't overly >intrusive. > > But there's this. Right. _why From red at mit.edu Mon Aug 1 17:44:58 2005 From: red at mit.edu (Rachel Elizabeth Dillon) Date: Mon Aug 1 17:39:31 2005 Subject: Anyone done a PDF conversation? In-Reply-To: <20050725214027.2078.qmail@web51608.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20050725214027.2078.qmail@web51608.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <20050801214458.GN30061@yiff.mit.edu> First, go to the printable copy: http://poignantguide.net/ruby/print.html Then, depending on your operating system, you should be able to spool the print job either to PDF or PostScript (which can then be converted to PDF, though most print shops should be able to handle PostScript as well). Under Windows: Select "Print" then, in the Print dialog box, select "Print to File" and save the file as wpgtr.ps. Then, if you have Acrobat Distiller or Acrobat installed, you can use one of those tools to turn the file into a PDF; if not, I am sure there are a plethora of free tools, but I cannot recommend one for you. Under Mac OS X: Select "Print" then, in the Print dialog box, select "Save as PDF..." It should be pretty self-explanatory from here on out. Under your favorite Linux/BSD/Solaris/Whatever: Select "Print" then, in the Print dialog box, select "Print to File" and save the file as wpgtr.ps. Then, you can run pstopdf or pd2pdf (at least one of these comes as part of the xpdf package) in order to produce a PDF file. The details of installing the xpdf package if you don't have it are left as an exercise to the reader. Warning: When I tried this with the xpdf out of backports on Debian woody, the images lost resolution, though everything was still legible. - If teaching you how to fish is failing for some reason, I'd be happy to go through this process myself and put a PDF up for you. I would do it on my Mac, if only because Macs speak PDF as a first language, while my Linux machine is clearly still learning. Hope this helps, -r. On Mon, Jul 25, 2005 at 02:40:26PM -0700, Jon Dodo wrote: > I'd love to print out a paper copy to savor, but there > aren't any local print shops willing or able to print > HTML with Firefox. > > By chance, has anyone already done a conversation to > PDF? > > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com > _______________________________________________ > poignant-stiffs mailing list > poignant-stiffs@rubyforge.org > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/poignant-stiffs -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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On 26/07/2005, at 7:40 AM, Jon Dodo wrote: > I'd love to print out a paper copy to savor, but there > aren't any local print shops willing or able to print > HTML with Firefox. > > By chance, has anyone already done a conversation to > PDF? > > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com > _______________________________________________ > poignant-stiffs mailing list > poignant-stiffs@rubyforge.org > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/poignant-stiffs > From why at poignantguide.net Mon Aug 1 18:18:44 2005 From: why at poignantguide.net (why the lucky stiff) Date: Mon Aug 1 18:12:55 2005 Subject: Anyone done a PDF conversation? In-Reply-To: <20050801214458.GN30061@yiff.mit.edu> References: <20050725214027.2078.qmail@web51608.mail.yahoo.com> <20050801214458.GN30061@yiff.mit.edu> Message-ID: <42EE9FC4.70406@poignantguide.net> Rachel Elizabeth Dillon wrote: >Then, depending on your operating system, you should be able to spool the >print job either to PDF or PostScript... > Escalators! That was magnificent. I'll find a place for this on the site. _why From why at poignantguide.net Mon Aug 1 18:20:48 2005 From: why at poignantguide.net (why the lucky stiff) Date: Mon Aug 1 18:15:00 2005 Subject: Anyone done a PDF conversation? In-Reply-To: References: <20050725214027.2078.qmail@web51608.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <42EEA040.3010804@poignantguide.net> Leon Spencer wrote: > I have, right here. I actually proofread the damn thing all the way > through to get the page breaks right (Firefox printed nastily, only > Safari was nice and it didn't process page break css directives). > Then I manually inserted page breaks so as to ensure the page doesn't > cut off text or end a sidebar right at the top of the page, or break > a page in half. It represents about 5 hours work. Good and gracious moving walkways! Can you share this? _why From ckhoge at mac.com Mon Aug 1 20:21:20 2005 From: ckhoge at mac.com (ckhoge) Date: Mon Aug 1 20:19:12 2005 Subject: A FORTRAN Coloring Book In-Reply-To: <42EE9314.9000301@poignantguide.net> References: <42E58E31.1040702@poignantguide.net> <1122675203.7865.156.camel@localhost.localdomain> <42EE9314.9000301@poignantguide.net> Message-ID: Has this been said Why? Am I shouting shouts from a near past? Behold, a book from 1978, that I would have read as a three year old computer prodigy. A Fortran Coloring Book http://www.seas.gwu.edu/~kaufman1/FortranColoringBook/ ColoringBkCover.html Perhaps the foxes are related to the ducks and geese in that book. -Chris From red at mit.edu Tue Aug 2 14:24:19 2005 From: red at mit.edu (Rachel Elizabeth Dillon) Date: Tue Aug 2 14:18:51 2005 Subject: Anyone done a PDF conversation? In-Reply-To: <42EE9FC4.70406@poignantguide.net> References: <20050725214027.2078.qmail@web51608.mail.yahoo.com> <20050801214458.GN30061@yiff.mit.edu> <42EE9FC4.70406@poignantguide.net> Message-ID: <20050802182419.GT30061@yiff.mit.edu> Thank you! For completeness, here's a recommendation for a free Windows PDF creation program: http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator/ It acts a printer driver, so instead of printing to file and then running the application on the postscript file, you print to the PDF Creator printer, and get a PDF out. This has the same problems as the pstopdf method with regard to losing image quality (I assume because they are both based on the same version of GhostScript). Interestingly, the commercial product Acrobat Distiller also has these problems; I'll have to try on my Mac (which lives at home, while I am at work, or I would do it now) and see if those problems happen there too. -r. On Mon, Aug 01, 2005 at 04:18:44PM -0600, why the lucky stiff wrote: > Rachel Elizabeth Dillon wrote: > > >Then, depending on your operating system, you should be able to spool the > >print job either to PDF or PostScript... > > > Escalators! That was magnificent. > > I'll find a place for this on the site. > > _why > _______________________________________________ > poignant-stiffs mailing list > poignant-stiffs@rubyforge.org > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/poignant-stiffs -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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The agenda itself looks fantastic: _why From murphy at cYcnus.de Mon Aug 8 21:22:45 2005 From: murphy at cYcnus.de (murphy) Date: Mon Aug 8 21:16:13 2005 Subject: Chunky Bacon Server - Obfuscated Message-ID: <42F80565.1010308@cYcnus.de> Hi! I like to present an obfuscated Ruby script dedicated to the Two Foxes and their Funny Phrase: http://ruby.cycnus.de/chunky_bacon.rb Zoom out to watch the gag :-Y It runs a WEBrick server, and if you now visit http://localhost:203, you have your browser window filled with CB. http://localhost:203/200 gives you even more CB, http://localhost:203/10000 might crash your system (if you are on Windows.) CB overflow. By the way: port 203 seems to be "AppleTalk Unused"; I declare it to be the Chunky Bacon port from now on. 0xCB == 203. I hope your browser supports "position: fixed"; at least Firefox does. Thanks to why for the image, RMagick for the Ascii-art, Ruby herself for creating the obfuscated code. If the triumphal procession of CB goes on, it may be more famous than Ruby one day. Books will be written, RPGs will be invented, commercials and movie trilogies will pop up everywhere; maybe you can study ChunkyBaconology in 10 years! Ruby changed the world. [murphy] From danny at amelang.net Mon Aug 8 21:36:39 2005 From: danny at amelang.net (Daniel Amelang) Date: Mon Aug 8 21:30:36 2005 Subject: Chunky Bacon Server - Obfuscated In-Reply-To: <42F80565.1010308@cYcnus.de> References: <42F80565.1010308@cYcnus.de> Message-ID: <42F808A7.4010501@amelang.net> Good show! murphy wrote: > Hi! > > I like to present an obfuscated Ruby script dedicated to the Two Foxes > and their > Funny Phrase: > > http://ruby.cycnus.de/chunky_bacon.rb > > Zoom out to watch the gag :-Y > > It runs a WEBrick server, and if you now visit http://localhost:203, > you have > your browser window filled with CB. http://localhost:203/200 gives you > even more > CB, http://localhost:203/10000 might crash your system (if you are on > Windows.) > CB overflow. > > By the way: port 203 seems to be "AppleTalk Unused"; I declare it to > be the > Chunky Bacon port from now on. 0xCB == 203. > > I hope your browser supports "position: fixed"; at least Firefox does. > > Thanks to why for the image, RMagick for the Ascii-art, Ruby herself for > creating the obfuscated code. > > If the triumphal procession of CB goes on, it may be more famous than > Ruby one > day. Books will be written, RPGs will be invented, commercials and movie > trilogies will pop up everywhere; maybe you can study ChunkyBaconology > in 10 years! > > Ruby changed the world. > [murphy] > > > _______________________________________________ > poignant-stiffs mailing list > poignant-stiffs@rubyforge.org > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/poignant-stiffs > > From murphy at cycnus.de Tue Aug 9 10:40:52 2005 From: murphy at cycnus.de (murphy) Date: Tue Aug 9 10:34:22 2005 Subject: Chunky Bacon Server - Obfuscated In-Reply-To: <42F808A7.4010501@amelang.net> References: <42F80565.1010308@cYcnus.de> <42F808A7.4010501@amelang.net> Message-ID: <42F8C074.8010602@cYcnus.de> Oh, it seems that Linux doesn't like my Chunky Bacon port :( alternative: 3258 = 0xCBA. patched version (thx to malte): http://ruby.cycnus.de/chunky_bacon_patch.rb I could start a petition to open 203 to the public in the Linux kernel. 203! [murphy] From aaron at munge.net Tue Aug 9 13:41:59 2005 From: aaron at munge.net (Aaron Malone) Date: Tue Aug 9 13:32:43 2005 Subject: Chunky Bacon Server - Obfuscated In-Reply-To: <42F80565.1010308@cYcnus.de> References: <42F80565.1010308@cYcnus.de> Message-ID: <200508091242.00561.aaron@munge.net> On Monday 08 August 2005 20:22, murphy wrote: > If the triumphal procession of CB goes on, it may be more famous than > Ruby one day. Books will be written, RPGs will be invented, > commercials and movie trilogies will pop up everywhere; maybe you can > study ChunkyBaconology in 10 years! Chunky bacon ice cream! The future is today! http://www.apostropher.com/blog/archives/002641.html -- Aaron Malone aaron@munge.net From ryan.platte at gmail.com Tue Aug 9 13:58:49 2005 From: ryan.platte at gmail.com (Ryan Platte) Date: Tue Aug 9 13:52:33 2005 Subject: Chunky Bacon Server - Obfuscated In-Reply-To: <200508091242.00561.aaron@munge.net> References: <42F80565.1010308@cYcnus.de> <200508091242.00561.aaron@munge.net> Message-ID: <718693F2-9BE4-417A-9E81-6A2C77FD6015@gmail.com> Skipped content of type multipart/alternative-------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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The future is today! > > http://www.apostropher.com/blog/archives/002641.html Or, for the animatronic lovers: http://www.baconrobots.com/ -- Bil http://fun3d.larc.nasa.gov From caiomoritz at gmail.com Wed Aug 10 08:24:26 2005 From: caiomoritz at gmail.com (Caio Moritz Ronchi) Date: Wed Aug 10 08:18:21 2005 Subject: Chunky Bacon Server - Obfuscated In-Reply-To: <42F8C074.8010602@cYcnus.de> References: <42F80565.1010308@cYcnus.de> <42F808A7.4010501@amelang.net> <42F8C074.8010602@cYcnus.de> Message-ID: have you tried running the script as the root user? i did that and it worked just fine (I'm running Ubuntu Linux 5.04) cheers, On 8/9/05, murphy wrote: > Oh, it seems that Linux doesn't like my Chunky Bacon port :( > > alternative: 3258 = 0xCBA. > patched version (thx to malte): > > http://ruby.cycnus.de/chunky_bacon_patch.rb > > I could start a petition to open 203 to the public in the Linux kernel. > > 203! [murphy] > _______________________________________________ > poignant-stiffs mailing list > poignant-stiffs@rubyforge.org > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/poignant-stiffs > -- Caio Moritz Ronchi From sl33p3r at free.fr Thu Aug 11 15:22:00 2005 From: sl33p3r at free.fr (Frederick Ros) Date: Thu Aug 11 14:56:09 2005 Subject: Chunky Bacon Server - Obfuscated In-Reply-To: References: <42F80565.1010308@cYcnus.de> <42F808A7.4010501@amelang.net> <42F8C074.8010602@cYcnus.de> Message-ID: <20050811192200.GA8401@hal.void.org> Caio Moritz Ronchi wrote : | have you tried running the script as the root user? i did that and it | worked just fine (I'm running Ubuntu Linux 5.04) Errr ... do you always run obfuscated scripts as root ? .. because that quite a big risk on your data ... ;) -- Frederick Ros aka Sleeper -- sleeper@jabber.org Use data arrays to avoid repetitive control sequences. - The Elements of Programming Style (Kernighan & Plaugher) -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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In-Reply-To: <42EEA040.3010804@poignantguide.net> References: <20050725214027.2078.qmail@web51608.mail.yahoo.com> <42EEA040.3010804@poignantguide.net> Message-ID: <239CC1AD-D8C7-484E-B677-82971215E1A4@gmail.com> On 02/08/2005, at 8:20 AM, why the lucky stiff wrote: > Leon Spencer wrote: > >> I have, right here. I actually proofread the damn thing all the >> way through to get the page breaks right (Firefox printed >> nastily, only Safari was nice and it didn't process page break >> css directives). Then I manually inserted page breaks so as to >> ensure the page doesn't cut off text or end a sidebar right at >> the top of the page, or break a page in half. It represents about >> 5 hours work. >> >> > > Good and gracious moving walkways! Can you share this? > For you, Why, anything. I'd also like to take the opportunity to come out of my little lurker box to thank you profusely for doing such a thing. (The rest of you may scroll down to the location of the files). Undertaking a task such as mine for any other work would inevitably leave me with a deep and abiding hatred for the author and subject matter, but I find myself closer to Poignicity than ever before. I have to admit something, Why. I've been stalking you. Rummaging through your garbage. Reading your stories. Tapping your phone conversations. I'm quite tall, at 6 feet, 6 inches, with long dark hair; you may have spotted me out of the corner of your eye as you were writing another RedHanded post, or maybe when you were working on the new CSS for the guide. And here's the reason: your writing is far, far too addictive. And, despite all your blogs and all of your archives and six chapters of the guide (beautifully page-breaked), the cravings aren't going away, no matter how many RSS feeds I throw at it, no matter how many Googled mailing list archives, I desire more. I need it. So, here's the rub: having a soundtrack, and a new blue thing around the pages, and everything, is all really spiffy, sure. But I'd kill for you, Why, if you would put chapter seven up there. Or even part of the chapter, you know, kind of beta-book-ey? If it follows the same pattern as the last one's, it's probably even longer. I know what creative procrastination looks like, because that's what I spend most of my time doing and spend the rest of my time hating myself for it. I've introduced many friends, programmers and non-programmers; professors, even god help me, parents to your little poignant guide. They snapped it up, you see, and got addicted, just like you wrote, just like you warned us all little smotchkkisses. Don't hold out on us now, man! We want to do all of those cool things you promised. And we'll work for it, too. This little pagebreaking extravaganza is just the beginning of the tireless work I and many others like me (who are reading this very sentence on the mailing list!) will do. We'll happily solve little problems, proofread, recruit music artists, talk to publishers, maintain forums, test out examples, even impersonate your signature for autographs. We'll take care of all the mundane crap. What we all want *you* to do, Why, is write! Write down those fantastic worlds of word inside your head and share them, because we all want to play in them. Delegate to your loyal legions of smotchkkisses that you created, that you trained, and that are addicted to your very words! Keep this in mind, and you'll always remember why, Why, you're the luckiest of all stiffs. The files may be found here. Each chapter is there, along with guide.pdf, which is the joining together of all the chapters. The individual files are of higher quality, but you only have to download one file. The classic conundrum. You are all free to share the files of course, but please, don't share the links. I've gotten enough notice from the administrators, thank you. http://void.arch.usyd.edu.au/~lspe7954/poignantpdf/ Rabidly, -- Leon Spencer.