New Section!

I've added a new section to the page. It is #insult which is a "fight" after the style of Josh and Ryland's fight. The result was pretty good. This section will probibly be one that likes to grow. I'm thinking of adding a section that is lists. Fun lists like 500 ways to annoy your room mate. Hey, I'll bet my typing and coherence aren't so good this late at night, I mean look at that segui! If #insult becomes a regular thing, I may put a Java IRC client on here, or at least a link to one. Well, enjoy the page.

My uptime is usually ended by me adding hardware while the pc is on, (I swear that I am doing that on purpose) or recompiling a kernel. High Uptime? That is correct, we are talking about linux here folks. I run Slackware 7.1. Slackware, and other distributions, can all be obtained from Metalab, yeah I know that they changed their name, but I don't really remember it. If you want slackware packages, you should try Linux Mafia, they're cool.

Freeservers has been error free (AFAIK) for the past few weeks, so updatelessness is my fualt. Ok, now for some updates. The ascii program I was working on was completed up to a point where it was ready to be included in one of my programs at school. It was only 1/2 point off! I included it as math.h I did did it like this:

#include "math.h" ... dips_decode("Arbitrary String");

As you can tell, it was very interesting. It's purpose was to tell you whether you had an obtuse, acute, or right triangle. I made a new function this weekend that allows us to span multiple lines. It expects you to know how many characters that can fit across the screen. On a screen that is 80 characters wide, 13 will fit as each character takes up 6 spaces. All we do is make a function call like show_by_row("Arbitrary string",width); width is how wide. Here is a nice sample running of the program!!!

$ ascii
kirkoff.itgo.com
k  k  iiiii rrrr  k  k   ooo  ffff  ffff        iiiii ttttt  gggg  ooo        
k k     i   r   r k k   o   o f     f             i     t   g     o   o       
kk      i   rrrr  kk    o   o fff   fff           i     t   g  gg o   o       
k k     i   r r   k k   o   o f     f             i     t   g   g o   o       
k  k    i   r  r  k  k  o   o f     f     ..      i     t   g   g o   o ..    
k   k iiiii r   r k   k  ooo  f     f     ..    iiiii   t    ggg   ooo  ..    

 cccc  ooo  mm mm 
c     o   o m m m 
c     o   o m m m 
c     o   o m   m 
c     o   o m   m 
 cccc  ooo  m   m 

As you may have noticed, I decided to use the component letters to make up the Big Ascii letters themselves. The other option would be to use a character like '#' or '@'. That is easily changeable in the source, and I don't know if I'll keep it, but I wanted the option so I made sure it worked. I've broken it down in to a few source files and headers, but I haven't uploaded that yet. I did this at the time that I decided that I needed an input function that properly detects the EOF character. I've also added code to allow it to be called on the command line.

$ascii Kirkoff.itgo.com

That's fun.