Off to work... sorta...

[wolfwings]

...actually I'm going down the street to monitor a connection while we run a buncha tests on a video-conferencing rig over one of our satellite connections.

At least it pays as well as anything else. =^.^= And at least I get a nice `net connection to play on while the test's being run. :-)

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[lionman.livejournal.com]

But just what will you do with your 'net connection? Will you use your powers for ..good, or ..for evil? ;-)

Why... for chaos and entropy, of course!

[wolfwings.livejournal.com]

Dug up a *REALLY* old piece of code I wrote back in the days of the Tandy 1000EX computer...

Lets me render ~640x200 16-colour graphics on anything from a CGA card on up, by abusing a little-known port command to only show the top two character rows of the 8-pixel-tall font. So I'm limited in which pixels can be on or off, and only two colours per 8x2-pixel area... but it's surprisingly effective even today. :-)

So I'm playing with updating the effect to work on modern computers, just so I can update my NES emulator to run using this funky 'video mode' in real-time, allowing me to show almost a full-resolution NES in colour in text-mode. :-)

Re: Why... for chaos and entropy, of course!

[lionman.livejournal.com]

Old code never goes out of style, does it? It just gets recycled later, to make another job shorter, huh? :-)