First and foremost, the Freedom of Speech.
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Welcome You have journeyd to the land of Dagobah, a far-off star system with few inhabitants; a hiding place of magical wonders and mystical discoveries. So poke around and find what awaits here. |
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Bitscape Software Remember Final Fantasy in the old days when it ran on 8-bit Nintendo? The Warscape Editor allows you to create those maps you always dreamed about. |
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A Little Bit About This Place The Dagobah Hideout resides physically on my AMD-K5 running the Linux operating system. I recently added 32 megabytes of memory to my existing 16 to bolster system performance. Now I can happily type my web page with a couple instances of Netscape, a Gimp, and maybe a copy of Applixware open without even feeling a pinch. :-) This machine is wired to the Internet via Union College's T1 line. Let me tell you: I don't know how I'm ever gonna go back to using a modem. Let's just hope the telecommunications industry gets its butt in gear by the time I graduate, because I think I'd die on a 56k after experiencing this bandwidth. |
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Josta -- The Sacred Beverage As people who drink it already know, Josta is a substance bearing great "PRIMAL POWER." At the Dagobah Hideout, we and our friends like to think of Josta as a religous experience. As we drink it, we find our minds expanded and enlightened, the cosmic wonder engulfing us as we concieve of new ways to program on the fests. What's a Fest? A fest is one of the most glorious experiences a programmer can imagine. Imagine this: You, along with a few friends, bring your PCs together into a room, making sure you each have plenty of Josta, Mountain Dew, and optional snacking items. You then proceed to write code, converse, and learn how to program things you never thought possible. This continues throughout the night; sometimes extending into daylight hours. When you can no longer keep your head from plopping onto your keyboard, proceed to a couch, sleeping bag, or bed, and let the lines of code populate your dreams. |
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Linux -- an Elite's OS for Anyone A quality workstation with real multitasking, stability, and some decent software once costed tens of thousands of dollars for hardware; the OS and basic system software could cost thousands more. Fortunately, that has changed. Anybody can get a high-powered computer for less than $2k, and a full-featured OS for free! The Linux operating system provides the features one might expect from an expensive Unix workstation. It features 100% preemptive multitasking, a highly customizable GUI under XFree86, and tools to develop software included with most distributions. It can be downloaded for free off the Internet or purchased on CD-ROM for around $25. Want more info? I recommand reading the Linux FAQ. |
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Passing Time at the Wheel Ever since last May, I've been addicted to Robert Jordan's wonderfully imaginative book series, "Wheel of Time." Right now, I'm almost at the end of "Lord of Chaos," the sixth book. I'm trying to pace my reading so that I finish "A Crown of Swords" right before the eigth one comes out sometime next year. |
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Other stuff I might write about or put here later if I feel like it:
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First and foremost, the Freedom of Speech.
The Right to Privacy -- for everyone, not just
US citizens
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