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January/February/March Newsletter Released
Posted by Michael on 1 April 2006, 03:39 GMT

Having run out of suitable adjectives to describe our newsletter editor, I will simply say that "lazy bum Jon" has finally published the ticalc.org newsletter for January - March. To add to his humiliation, he wrote "an open-source Windows emulator on Linux" instead of "an open-source program that allows you to execute Windows programs on Linux." Open source fanatics: Attack!

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Re: January/February/March Newsletter Released
240-185  Account Info

Nice April Fool.

But at least, just put a tiny tiny link to the real site...

Reply to this comment    1 April 2006, 10:59 GMT


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Magnus Hagander  Account Info
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You need to look more carefully, because links exist...

Reply to this comment    1 April 2006, 11:13 GMT


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240-185  Account Info

Thanks, I've spotted it :)

Reply to this comment    1 April 2006, 11:48 GMT


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Person Dude  Account Info

Me too. ☺

Reply to this comment    1 April 2006, 14:26 GMT


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Person Dude  Account Info
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Something happened to my smile. That is what the numbers and other things are. :P

Reply to this comment    1 April 2006, 14:28 GMT

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jujaga  Account Info

Funny April Fool's joke... I eventually figured it out, after clicking the links. I do have to say, that graish bar at the top looks shiny. ^_^ Nice work.

Reply to this comment    1 April 2006, 16:31 GMT


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Num Account Info

That fake webpage seriously confused me. I really thought that ticalc.org hadn't paid their dues...

Oh well, I'm gullible!

Reply to this comment    1 April 2006, 16:37 GMT

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c_plus_plus Account Info

I was searching around and I got the briliant idea to check the scource. I wasn't fooled even though this was the first time this year I've been on TI-calc.org. I was just aware of the date.

Reply to this comment    1 April 2006, 20:33 GMT


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c_plus_plus Account Info

ps: the icon for the page gave it away too

Reply to this comment    1 April 2006, 20:34 GMT


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tmshu1 Account Info

Heheheh... [sarcasm]I wasn't fooled at all by the fake webpage...[/sarcasm]

I also liked http://www.detachedsolutions.com/'s April Fool's Day joke. Oh, and have you seen the new Google Romance? ;)

Reply to this comment    1 April 2006, 21:08 GMT


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elfprince13 Account Info
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it doesn't allow html.

Reply to this comment    4 April 2006, 03:41 GMT

Re: January/February/March Newsletter Released
RB46 Account Info

Nice newsletter (which I originally thought was going to be an April Fool's joke on top of anoh April Fool's joke to catch me off guard).

I like the suggestions for programs to be made this year (let's see how many of them actually show up). Some good laughs in the humor section. Looking foreward to the next newsletter (when it does come out(.

Reply to this comment    1 April 2006, 19:24 GMT

Re: January/February/March Newsletter Released
Travis Evans Account Info

My first reaction was that ticalc.org finally decided to change the look of their site (before I took a closer look at the fake page). :-)

Ironically, I was just about to come to ticalc.org to see what their April Fools joke was this time. But in the several minutes it took me to do it (I was doing several other things at the same time, so it took a while), I sort of forgot the reason I was coming in the first place. So I was close to being fooled this time, but I knew what was happening after a couple of seconds.

Reply to this comment    2 April 2006, 01:09 GMT


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Person Dude  Account Info

Same here.

Reply to this comment    2 April 2006, 17:40 GMT

Re: January/February/March Newsletter Released
Travis Evans Account Info

By the way, the fake index page is cool. I definitely recognize the "popular searches". ;-)

Reply to this comment    2 April 2006, 01:15 GMT

Re: January/February/March Newsletter Released
nyall Account Info
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>>So in short:: TI-projects may help you get a job!

It certainly helped me. When I interviewed for my job, I met with 6 people over 4 hours (5 engineers and 1 HR) and I spent a 1/2 of it talking about various assembly languages (68k, atmel, 6800, z80, sparc).

>>If the CPU core is generated by a separate program, the duplicate code only needs to be created and maintained once by hand.

You could use macros.

Reply to this comment    2 April 2006, 02:09 GMT


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Ben Ingram  Account Info

Yeah, macros work too, but I like being able to see the actual m68k instructions for each opcode, instead of a list of macros. It makes it easier for me to spot optimisations and bugs. Many CPU cores are built from macros though, and it's probly less initial work...so whatever =)

Reply to this comment    2 April 2006, 20:38 GMT

Re: January/February/March Newsletter Released
elfprince13 Account Info
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did anyone else notice the spelling error of Texzas and Tezxas?

Reply to this comment    2 April 2006, 02:09 GMT


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Jonathan Katz  Account Info
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Yup, thanks for pointing it out. It will be reflected in the archive on the website.

Reply to this comment    2 April 2006, 02:28 GMT


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leginuoh  Account Info

for those of you who found it too hard to find ticalc's homepage, you'll never make it here

http://3564020356.org/index.html

Reply to this comment    2 April 2006, 14:59 GMT


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Rezek Account Info
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That first one was ridiculously easy.

Reply to this comment    2 April 2006, 16:56 GMT

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