I'm Jeff Relf in Seattle, ２０６/420-5767, Late 2013, ＜ME＠Jeff-Relf.ME＞.
I was born in Seattle, start of 1960.
＜Here＞ is photo of Me. ＜Here＞ is my location, in Seattle.
＜Here＞ is a sample of my voice, .MP3.
＜Here＞ are the settings for the email/Usenet/Web app I wrote.
＜╱╲⋅N.TXT＞ my posts to Usenet, since February, 2012.
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Money is funny. Marriage is funny.
Time is your only -real- treasure.
Nothing is sadder than ＜sacrificing -your- time＞[*]
for money/kids, only to see it gone in a flash.
[ *: like a prisoner, consigned to breaking rocks ]
Once you realize this, you'll have a life of leisure,
i.e. free time, time to do what -you- want.
Soon, there will be 11 billion of these "prisoners",
each wanting ten kids, luxury cars, fine homes and travel.
In ＜"The World As I See It", 1931＞, Einstein said: ＜＜
In human freedom, in the philosophical sense,
I am definitely a disbeliever.
Everybody acts not only under external compulsion
but also in accordance with inner necessity.
Schopenhauer's saying, that
" A man can do as he will, but not will as he will. ",
has been an inspiration to me since my youth up, and
a continual consolation and unfailing well-spring of
patience in the face of the hardships of life, my own and others'.
This feeling mercifully mitigates
the sense of responsibility which so easily becomes paralyzing, and
it prevents us from taking ourselves and other people too seriously;
it conduces to a view of life in which
humor, above all, has its due place. ＞＞
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For me, ＜Sergey Vlasov's Visual Commander, Professional Edition＞[*]
solves the "missing macros" problem.
[ *: http://vlasovstudio.com/visual-commander/professional_edition.html ]
It lets me assign up to 99 macros to keys/buttons[*];
without that, I simply could -not- use Visual Studio 2013.
[ *: My assignments:
http://Jeff-Relf.Me/Visual-Studio-2013-Toolbars.PNG
http://Jeff-Relf.Me/Snippets.TXT
After making changes to my hand⋅crafted macros ( Snippets.TXT ),
I copy it to the file that Visual Commander uses:
C:\__\AppData\Sergey Vlasov\Visual Commander\1.0\Snippets.vCmd
My "Open File" macros are in a "New Menu", on my toolbar.
"File > Recent Files List" fills a similar "New Menu". ]
Also, Visual Commander comes with a super⋅nice/essential,
"Hide the 'Sign in' and 'Feedback' buttons" extension.
The macro editor uses the standard text/code editor;
so you get ＜the fonts you want＞[*], properly colored/sized[**].
[ *: I use Apple's "Menlo" font, Microsoft's "MS Mincho" font.
Menlo has the best '0' glyph, see: http://Jeff-Relf.Me/X.PNG
**: For me, C# macros ( .CS files ) are C++ colorized ]
Unlike VS⋅2010, the Macro editor is a tab, not an app;
so debugging macros is a real joy.
For me, F7 starts/stops recording, F8 plays it.
The macro recorder has many faults; but recording isn't essential.
FYI, This toggles "ShowHorizontalScrollBar" On/Off:
EnvDTE.Property hScroll
= DTE.get_Properties( "TextEditor", "C/C++" )
.Item("ShowHorizontalScrollBar");
hScroll.Value = !(bool)hScroll.Value ;
VS⋅2013 bugs:
1.) This no longer works properly[*]:
DTE.Find.Execute();
[ *: it changes your find⋅history/find⋅settings ]
Use: DTE.Find.FindReplace();
By the way, I put "not found" messages
in the ＜StatusBar＞, like this:
DTE.StatusBar.Text = @" Not a ■⏎⏎■⏎ file." ;
2.) This no longer works properly[*]:
DTE.ItemOperations.OpenFile("C:/__/X.TXT");
[ *: these tabs aren't updated when changed outside the editor ]
Use: DTE.ExecuteCommand("File.OpenFile", "C:/__/X.TXT");
3.) This no longer works properly[*]:
DTE.ExecuteCommand("File.SaveAll");
DTE.ExecuteCommand("Tools.ExternalCommand1");
[ *: modified tabs aren't updated ]
Use:
DTE.ExecuteCommand("File.SaveAll");
DTE.ExecuteCommand("Tools.ExternalCommand1");
System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(2000);
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Click a newsgroup to see who's posts I read first:
＜Sci.Physics＞, ＜Comp.OS.Linux.Advocacy＞ and ＜News.Software.Readers＞.
Some of the Usenet threads/topics I've been in:
＜Alt.Free.Newsservers＞, ＜News.Software.Readers＞,
＜Comp.OS.Linux.Advocacy＞, ＜Sci.Physics＞
＜Here＞ is my web presence, last 3 Months, Google ranked, not by date.
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Photos of my rooming house ( I'm the manager ):
Front of House, Back, Bath, the Kitchen, a Room.
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I don't need a jet to get "jet lag".
If, today, I sleep from 6 AM to 2 PM;
then, likely, it'll be 9 AM to 5 PM next week.
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I have a lot of respect for Albert Einstein.
Still, someone else would've done what he did, eventually.
Like the internet, you are a market.
You buy and sell "products" ( ideas, goods and services ).
Some products are more likely to be bought and sold;
i.e. it's "semi⋅random", semi⋅predictable;
it's a "bell curve"; i.e. Gaussian, stochastic.
The center of the bell curve is your "Center of Gravity",
and its course ( through time ) is semi⋅predictable.
The smaller you are, the less predictable,
like the path of a photon in the "double slit experiment"
( unless⋅and⋅until it's measured, the path is semi⋅random, Gaussian ).
The path of larger objects, like the moon, are more predictable.
General Relativity is precise, not semi⋅random, not Gaussian.
"Life" is virtual, nominal, not real.
"(Semi)Randomness" is virtual, nominal, not real.
March 1955, speaking of the death of his closest friend, Michele Besso,
Albert Einstein said: ＜＜
Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me.
That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that
the distinction between past, present, and future
is only a stubbornly persistent illusion. ＞＞
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Once, I could use Google to see who was talking about me... no longer.
Usenet is like those "Bum Fight" videos, it's a free for all.
As such, it's not worth indexing; in contrast, Wikipedia ⋅is⋅ worth indexing
-- Google likes it, because it's moderated, filtered.
So Google has been pulling out of the "Usenet search" thing, slowly;
worse, no one wants to take their place... no one.
Effectively, Google now confines your search to a particular newsgroup.
But it only tells you what thread you're in, not where in the thread,
and it's sorted by the age of the thread's most recent post.
You can use Google Groups to point to a Usenet article, like this:
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!original/News.Software.Readers/dId7J3Kp3Hk/01ZkN9-Q8vUJ
Which is a link to the source, header and all, unformatted.
But, when you hit the big "Back Arrow" button,
it places you on the proper article, in the thread/topic,
properly formatted, on the proper page of the thread/topic ! !
It's so slow ( the JavaScript ), FireFox asks me if I want to continue.
Search by Message-ID never really worked,
and you can't really seach all of Usenet ( it's VERY poorly indexed ),
but you can still find/link to your articles, in your newsgroups.
Articles that spawn a huge thread/topic, lots of replies,
are more likely to be indexed, so they appear in a normal Google Search.
Few posts meet that criteria, so don't get your hopes up.
Low⋅Cost, Text⋅Only servers are the fastest and most reliable; to wit:
Glorb: Sign up ＜Here＞, ask for "unfiltered access".
When not overloaded, ＜some binary servers＞[*] are good too; for $5/life,
you get more than enough gigs, assuming you don't download binaries.
[ *: "usNews.BlockNews.NET:119" and "News.US.Usenet-News.NET:119" ]
BlueWorldHosting is ⋅nearly⋅ text⋅only; see:
Sign up ＜Here＞
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From my ＜UserContent.CSS ( for FireFox, to skin web pages )＞,
here's some RegEx you might like:
@-moz-document regexp("^(?!https?://[^.]*?.google).*") {
:not(#▲):not(#▲)
{ Position: Static !important; Z-Index: auto !important; } }
"^(?!https?://[^.]*?.google).*" matches non⋅Google URL's.
[ Google's stuff is handled separately, via "@-moz-document" statements.
"Position: Static !important;" stops shit from overlapping,
blocking stuff behind it, when the size of objects change to much.
Google Maps, and Google's fly⋅out menus, can't have this style/CSS. ]
"^(?!)" means: "Any URL that doesn't start like this".
"https?" matches "http" and "https".
Here, the "?" matches zero|one "s" letters.
"[^.]*?" matches "www" and "map", i.e. the sub⋅domain, before the dot.
Here, the "?" stops the "[^.]*" from being "greedy";
otherwise, the parser might skip past the first match.
You see, '^' and '?' have MULTIPLE uses, depending on the context.
In a dark room, like mine, bright⋅white backgrounds SUCK !
Sadly, my ＜"High Contrast, Light⋅on⋅Black", Windows⋅8 theme＞
removes background images from FireFox's web pages !
[ instead, it should detect bright⋅white images and invert the colors ]
So, much of the CSS in my "UserContent.CSS" is there
to give web pages better backgrounds.
To see pages "as intended", I use Google Chrome,
because it ignores my Windows⋅8 theme.
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Like ＜Einstein here＞, I say:
"God" is nature, nothing more, nothing less.
"Randomness" is just ignorance, "God/Nature doesn't play dice";
so ALL of nature, the entire timescape, never changes.
[ Points along the timescape differ, obviously ]
Time is a spatial dimension, though we don't perceive it that way.
So God/Nature is at once everything and "nothing",
changeless and choiceless.
"free will" and "eternal life" are feel⋅good delusions.
Women are all about it, truth be damned. Or so it seems to me.
Sadly, so⋅called "science" shows also indulge.
People enjoy the "Guilty/Innocent" roller coaster a bit too much;
truth is, most people have no idea what caused what.
Still, anything that consumes eXergy is notionally "alive".
＜eXergy＞ ( i.e. quality energy, energy that can do work )
is forever being consumed away, never to return;
i.e. net, net, entropy only ever goes up, never down.
＜Gravitational eXergy＞ is equal and opposite to all other forms of eXergy.
As you peer closer to the start of the big bang ( from here, on earth ),
you see clocks ticking slower ( more redshifted ).
Also, you see a denser Universe, with less entropy.
From here, on earth, we see clocks slow to a hault at:
A.) The event horizon of a black hole.
B.) The cosmic horizon ( the start of the big bang ).
Currently, the cosmic horizon is 47 giga⋅light⋅years away
( and growing exponentially ) and 13.8 giga⋅years ago.
As the giga⋅years passed, clocks ran faster and 3⋅D space accrued.
"giga⋅parsec distances" accrued length because entropy accrued.
Entropy straightens out "warped space", elongating it.
＜Here＞ WikiPedia says: ＜＜
A much anticipated feature of a theory of quantum gravity
is that it will not feature singularities or event horizons
( and, thus, no black holes ). ＞＞ ＜＜
Since the average density of a black hole inside its Schwarzschild radius
is inversely proportional to the square of its mass,
supermassive black holes are much less dense than stellar black holes
( the density of a 108 solar mass black hole is comparable to water ).
Consequently, the physics of matter forming a supermassive black hole
is much better understood, and the possible alternative explanations
for supermassive black hole observations are much more mundane.
For example, a supermassive black hole could be modelled by
a large cluster of very dark objects. ＞＞
To a human observer, a true black hole ( if, indeed, one could exist ),
takes infinite time to form -- INFINITE.
So, how could uber⋅powerful black holes form so soon after the big bang,
and where are they now ?
Obviously, they dissipated, entropy increased;
i.e. most of their eXergy/fuel has been consumed way, never to return.
Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington wrote: ＜＜
If someone points out to you that your pet theory of the universe
is in disagreement with Maxwell's equations...
then so much the worse for Maxwell's equations.
If it is found to be contradicted by observers...
well, these experimentalists do bungle things sometimes.
But if your theory is found to be
against the second law of thermodynamics... I can give you no hope;
there is nothing for it but to collapse in deepest humiliation. ＞＞
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Without ＜Stagflation＞, ＜Sustainable Living＞ is impossible.
Yet politians/bankers, U.S. and China, avoid this at all costs.
Live faster, die sooner.
The faster you consume, the sooner you die.
This is true for all of humanity, not just you.
Those who breed like rabbits are doomed to die like rabbits.
Better Societies have higher standards, lower birthrates,
higher taxes and tougher regulations.
The surest way to retire early with a large net worth
is to sign up for a government job ASAP.
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I love Usenet ( and Google Groups makes my ideas more accessible );
but, when I want to make a serious contribution, I use Wikipedia.
At times, last 9 years, I've had trouble editing parts of Wikipedia;
but, always, either I won ( thanks to the admins )
or the end result, years later, was far better than what I had in mind.
There's some REAL talent on Wikipedia, much better than me.
Imagine that, I'm NOT the smartest person on the planet, far from it.
We long to feel special, even when it makes no sense.
That's why porn and romance novels are so popular.
Women WISH men loved romance novels too, but they don't.
Re: "Palestine", I've only this to say:
Those who breed like silly rabbits, die like silly rabbits.
When "Habib" breeds "happy go lucky", he dies unhappy, go sad.
Global Government is the new religion, not Islam,
and it should stop letting jack asses breed.
1.4 billion people have less than $1.25 a day.
Raising kids should be a profession, NOT A LONG SERIES OF MISTAKES.
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Generally, when I see a .XML file, I assume it's data.
Most settings files these days are .XML, not .INI or .REG.
But there's countless variants: .xHTML, .HTML5, .XUL, etc.
Today, many people use cell phones, instead of Microsoft Windows.
Androids are mostly Java, running on top of Linux.
Java sucks, I don't own a cell phone, nor would I ever.
I use VoIP ( Bria⋅3 ) on my Windows⋅8 desktop PC.
My 20 Watt PC is ALWAYS ON; it has no fans and no spinning disks.
It has 8 gigabytes of fast RAM, and a 256 gigabyte, 6 gigabits/sec SSD.
Besides annoying the shit out of your friends,
cell phones are NOT always on, so you miss "missed calls";
i.e. they're too "smart" to be a MERE PHONE.
One of my SIP/VoIP providers is free, the other is $8 per LIFETIME.
Now, if you're so STUPID that you'd spend $90/month on a device
that's more of an annoyance than a phone...
...well, God bless you, because you're going to need it.
Meanwhile, I'll be enjoying my never⋅off PC/phone,
my high⋅resolusion monitors ( soon 4 kilo⋅pixels high, I hope ),
and my 35 button mouse.
Sans keyboard, my Logitech g600 mouse has 35 LOGICAL "Buttons"
that can be assigned complex "Macros" ( i.e. Lua scripts ).
A far⋅right gShift button, to the right of the Right⋅Click button,
nearly doubles the number of logical buttons ( Screenshot ).
For example, hitting one button ( perhaps gShifted ),
Right⋅Clicks ( up and down ) and hits "q" to invoke
FireFox's "Page Inspector" from the context menu.
The Right⋅Click gives the page/window the keyboard "focus"
because, too often, it doesn't have it.
Similarly, hitting one button: Left⋅Clicks ( up and down )
and then does a Ctrl⋅D; so the location of the text⋅caret
( i.e. the insertion point ) changes before the Ctrl⋅D, to "cut" a post.
Also, ＜ gShift Left⋅Click ＞ can be assigned to Shift⋅Click,
Ctrl⋅Click or Alt⋅Click, to select blocks of text in Visual Studio.
Since 1993, "Visual C / DevStudio" macros ( i.e. VBA scripts )
have been an essential part of my daily life.
I have mouse buttons, and toolbar buttons, that invoke macros.
Toolbar buttons: http://Jeff-Relf.Me/Visual-Studio-2013-Toolbars.PNG
Visual Studio 2013 Macros: http://Jeff-Relf.Me/Snippets.TXT
Visual Studio 2010 Macros: http://Jeff-Relf.Me/Visual_Studio_Macros.TXT
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Usenet isn't WikiPedia or CraigsList, so Google doesn't fully index it.
Apparently, the first post of a long/interesting thread is well indexed.
You can improve a Google search by
limiting yourself to more recently indexed pages.
Take, for example, ＜This Search＞[*].
[* "Jeff Relf" on the web, last 3 months, Google ranked ]
Note the URL:
Google.COM/search?q= "Jeff-Relf.ME" | "Jeff Relf" &num=50&tbs=qdr:m3&filter=0
Links to my website (Jeff-Relf.ME) are boosted above "Jeff Relf".
"|" means "OR".
"filter=0" shows more results; duplicates are NOT filtered out.
"tbs=qdr:m3" gives me the last 3 Months, Google ranked.
Nicely, the "indexed date" is listed for each search result.
Search Usenet, last 2 Weeks, like this:
Google.COM/groups/search?q= "Jeff Relf" &num=50&sitesearch=google.com&scoring=d&as_qdr=w2
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97% of Climate Science Papers Agree, Global Warming Is Man-made.
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In FireFox, my "Search-Bar" has 20 Search "Providers" ( i.e. methods ).
＜screen⋅shot＞
To install one of the following search methods,
bookmark it ( i.e. a "javascript: window.exter..." URL, below )
and click on the bookmark. "Global" JavaScript must be enabled.
Google, Google ranked:
www.google.com/search?q= {searchTerms} &num=50
javascript: window.external.AddSearchProvider("http://Jeff-Relf.Me/G.XML");
Google, Last 3 Months, Google ranked:
www.google.com/search?q= {searchTerms} &num=50&tbs=qdr:m3
javascript: window.external.AddSearchProvider("http://Jeff-Relf.Me/rG.XML");
Google WikiPedia:
www.google.com/search?q= {searchTerms} site:WikiPedia.ORG &num=50
javascript: window.external.AddSearchProvider("http://Jeff-Relf.Me/Wiki.XML");
Google images:
images.google.com/images?q= {searchTerms}
javascript: window.external.AddSearchProvider("http://Jeff-Relf.Me/Images.XML");
Google.Define a word or term:
www.google.com/search?q= define:{searchTerms}
javascript: window.external.AddSearchProvider("http://Jeff-Relf.Me/Spell.XML");
Find a word or term in the "Urban" dictionary:
UrbanDictionary.COM/define.php?term= {searchTerms}
javascript: window.external.AddSearchProvider("http://Jeff-Relf.Me/U.Dict.XML");
Find a word or term in a normal dictionary:
Dictionary.COM/search?q= {searchTerms}
javascript: window.external.AddSearchProvider("http://Jeff-Relf.Me/Dictionary.XML");
Thesaurus:
Thesaurus.COM/search?q= {searchTerms}
Thesaurus.XML
Google a YouTube video:
www.google.com/search?q= {searchTerms} site:youtube.com &num=50
javascript: window.external.AddSearchProvider("http://Jeff-Relf.Me/YouTube.XML");
Google Newspapers:
news.google.com/news/search?q= {searchTerms}&scoring=n
javascript: window.external.AddSearchProvider("http://Jeff-Relf.Me/nG.XML");
Given Map:
maps.google.com/maps?q= {searchTerms}
javascript: window.external.AddSearchProvider("http://Jeff-Relf.Me/GM.XML");
Google MicroSoft ( for help ):
www.google.com/search?q= {searchTerms} site:microsoft.com
javascript: window.external.AddSearchProvider("http://Jeff-Relf.Me/MicroSoft.XML");
IP simple:
Private.dnsStuff.COM/Tools/ipAll.ch?ip={searchTerms}
IP simple.XML
IP Addresser:
ip-whois-lookup.com/lookup.php?ip= {searchTerms}
javascript: window.external.AddSearchProvider("http://Jeff-Relf.Me/IP_Addresser.XML");
IP to Domain:
IP-Address-Lookup-v4.COM/lookup.php?ip= {searchTerms}
javascript: window.external.AddSearchProvider("http://jeff-relf.me/IP.to.Domain.XML");
IP to City:
www.GeoBytes.COM/IpLocator.htm?GetLocation&ipaddress= {searchTerms}
javascript: window.external.AddSearchProvider("http://Jeff-Relf.Me/IP.to.City.XML");
Search for a Torrent:
KAT.PH/usearch/{searchTerms}/?field=time_add&sorder=desc
javascript: window.external.AddSearchProvider("http://Jeff-Relf.Me/Kick.XML");
Google "Alt.Free.Newsservers" (a Usenet newsgroup), Last 2 Weeks, newest first:
groups.google.com/forum/#!topicsearchin/Alt.Free.Newsservers/{searchTerms}|sort:date
javascript: window.external.AddSearchProvider("http://Jeff-Relf.Me/GG.XML");
Find post by its Message⋅ID ( it seldom works ):
groups.google.com/forum/#!search/messageid:{searchTerms}
javascript: window.external.AddSearchProvider("http://Jeff-Relf.Me/G+mID.XML");
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Screenshots of some apps I wrote:
Regular Posters of "Comp.OS.Linux.Advocacy", ranked [ Text ]
Virtual keyboard, Fast/Mindless Monoply, Fast/Mindless Chess
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emacs is backwater because it doesn't understand HTML/UTF・8.
Thunderbird can because:
Mozilla Thunderbird and Firefox are joined at the hip.
hey're delevopled in tandom. They're a fork of Netscape.
My IE / Win_8 "Theme".
Registry Settings to change font faces/sizes.
Change the color of Web Pages, FireFox and (DOS) "Console 2".
To skip the Start Screen ( Metro ), see: WinAero.COM
My 20 watt PC/VoIP⋅phone boots to a blank Windows⋅8 desktop; Screenshot.
The taskbar has one "pinned" icon; i.e. my "Start Button"
( I used Visual C++ ); Screenshot.
To add a command/app to my "Start Button" app ( X.EXE ), I edit X.HTM.
Like this:
\\ App /Windows/eXplorer.EXE /n,\__
jEd App /__/EXEs/Visual-Studio-2013/Common7/IDE/devEnv.EXE \__\_Source\X.SLN
// jEd0 App /__/EXEs/Visual_Studio_2010/Common7/IDE/devEnv.EXE \__\_Source\X.SLN
Web App /__/EXEs/FireFox/Firefox.EXE
InEx App "/Program Files (x86)/Internet Explorer/IExplore.EXE"
ME App /__/EXEs/FileZilla/filezilla.EXE -c 0/Me
Bac App /__/EXEs/FileZilla/filezilla.EXE -c 0/Bac
JXH App /__/EXEs/FileZilla/filezilla.EXE -c 0/JXH
ABA App /__/EXEs/FileZilla/filezilla.EXE -c 0/ABA
WinAmp App /__/EXEs/WinAMP/CLamp.EXE /Random ON /PLclear /PLadd \__\MP3\*.MP3 /Next /Play
Bria App /__/EXEs/Bria/Bria3.EXE
DOS App /__/EXEs/Console2/Console.EXE -r "/K"
unDel App /Windows/eXplorer.EXE /n,\$Recycle.Bin\S-1-5-18
unIns App Control appWiz.CPL
⏉ App /__/_Source/EXE/Games.EXE
ClrPck App /__/EXEs/ColorPicker/ColorPix.EXE
Thun App /__/EXEs/Thunder/Thunderbird.EXE -news news://usNews.BlockNews.NET:119/l5qno0$7g2$1@dont-email.me
╳ App @/__/X /__/Backup/X.EXE
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Like Alcohol, Xanax lowers your inhibitions;
so, in the entertainment industry, drug/sex addiction is a job hazard.
It's OK, I guess, so long as no one gets harmed.
THIS is the question, Shakespeare:
＜＜ Live faster, or live longer ? ＞＞
Oxygen is slowly killing you, but you don't you stop breathing.
Food is slowly killing you, but you don't you stop eating.
Drugs are slowly killing you, but you don't you stop doping.
Sex is slowly killing you, but you don't you stop "dating".
Kids simply can, and do, live life a little faster; it's no sin.
My moral code: ＜＜
There's a fine line between "blissful ignorance" and "idiocy".
Alcohol can make you too foolish, as can religion and "dating". ＞＞
Horrid thoughts/feelings appear at night because you're EXHAUSTED.
"Depression" is actually "exhaustion", to tell the truth.
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Newtonian gravity is a "good enough" approximation
to the real thing: General Relativity.
Newtonian gravity's "instantaneous action at a distance" is wrong.
Likewise, Quantum Mechanics is a "good enough" approximation
to the real thing: QED ( Quantum electrodynamics ).
Quantum Mechanics' "instantaneous action at a distance" is wrong.
"entangled photons" are like left and right shoes.
Ship the right shoe to China, and the left one to Brazil;
tell them the shoes are part of a pair, one in China, one in Brazil.
The instant the Brazilian sees a left shoe,
he knows the right shoe is in China.
Observing the left shoe doesn't "cause" the right shoe in China.
Not once did the INFORMATION travel faster than light.
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Most often, the best code ( for me, and only me ) is the code I wrote.
As a programmer, text comparison is like water; an essential, daily thing.
So I wrote my own diff routine ( it's part of X.EXE, my console/newsreader ).
At it's heart, and right off the bat, it skips past the unchanged part
at the beginning and ends of lines/files; top, bottom, left and right.
I call this "the Pinch".
Then it "peels off" ( and prints ) the differences at the ends...
Pinching and Peeling, from the edges to the middle.
Although the algorithm is simple, the finer deatials are not.
Nothing in the upper half can match anything in the lower half,
for example; "a b" is not equal to "b a" because it's been shuffled.
The core of it looks like this:
LnP F, _F ; LnA BBx, EEx, _BBx, _EEx, BB_Sync, EE_Sync, _BB_Sync, _EE_Sync ;
#define Same ( F && _F && Eq( F, _F ) )
#define Same⋁Sync ( Data⋁( F, EEx, EE ), Data⋁( _F, _EEx, _EE ), Same )
#define Same⋀Sync ( Data⋀( F, BBx, BB ), Data⋀( _F, _BBx, _BB ), Same )
#define Same⋁Pinch ( Data⋁( F, BBx, EE ), Data⋁( _F, _BBx, _EE ), Same )
#define Same⋀Pinch ( Data⋀( F, EEx, BBx ), Data⋀( _F, _EEx, _BBx ), Same )
#define EoFS_Dwn ( S = BB_Slow <= EE_Slow, _S = _BB_Slow <= _EE_Slow, F = BB_Fast <= EE_Fast, _F = _BB_Fast <= _EE_Fast )
#define EoFS_Up ( S = EE_Slow >= BB_Slow, _S = _EE_Slow >= _BB_Slow, F = EE_Fast >= BB_Fast, _F = _EE_Fast >= _BB_Fast )
#define Top_Fast ( BB_Fast = BB_Slow, _BB_Fast = _BB_Slow )
#define Bot_Fast ( EE_Fast = EE_Slow, _EE_Fast = _EE_Slow )
Data⋁( LnP &P, LnA &PP, LnA EE ) { while( ( P = ++PP >= EE ? 0 : *PP ) && !*P ); }
Data⋀( LnP &P, LnA &PP, LnA BB ) { while( ( P = --PP < BB ? 0 : *PP ) && !*P ); }
int SyncDwn( LnA BB, LnA EE, LnA _BB, LnA _EE ) {
BB_Sync = EEx = BB, _BB_Sync = _EEx = _BB, EEx--, _EEx-- ; return Same⋁Sync ; }
int SyncUp( LnA BB, LnA EE, LnA _BB, LnA _EE ) { EE_Sync = BBx = EE, _EE_Sync = _BBx = _EE ; return Same⋀Sync ; }
Pinch( LnA BB, LnA EE, LnA _BB, LnA _EE ) {
BBx = BB - 1, _BBx = _BB - 1 ; while ( Same⋁Pinch ); EEx = EE, _EEx = _EE ; while ( Same⋀Pinch ); EEx++, _EEx++ ; }
Peel( LnA BB, LnA EE, LnA _BB, LnA _EE ) { int rv, Top, Bot, S, _S, F, _F ; LnP t, _t ;
LnA BB_Slow, _BB_Slow, BB_Fast, _BB_Fast, EE_Slow, _EE_Slow, EE_Fast, _EE_Fast ;
Top = Bot = 0, BB_Slow = BB, _BB_Slow = _BB, EE_Slow = EE, _EE_Slow = _EE, Top_Fast, Bot_Fast ;
⋅Top: if ( Top ) goto ⋅Bot ; EoFS_Dwn ; if ( !S && !_S ) { Top = 1, BB_Sync = 0 ; goto ⋅Bot ; }
if ( F && _S ) if ( SyncDwn( BB_Fast, EE, _BB_Slow, _EE ) ) { Top = 1 ; goto ⋅Bot ; } else BB_Fast++ ;
if ( S && _F ) if ( rv = SyncDwn( BB_Slow, EE, _BB_Fast, _EE ) ) { Top = 1 ; goto ⋅Bot ; } else _BB_Fast++ ;
if ( EoFS_Dwn, !( F && _S || S && _F ) ) BB_Slow += S, _BB_Slow += _S, Top_Fast ;
⋅Bot: if ( Bot ) goto Skip ; EoFS_Up ; if ( !S && !_S ) { Bot = 1, EE_Sync = 0 ; goto ⋅Top ; }
if ( F && _S ) if ( SyncUp( BB, EE_Fast, _BB, _EE_Slow ) ) { Bot = 1 ; goto ⋅Top ; } else EE_Fast-- ;
if ( S && _F ) if ( rv = SyncUp( BB, EE_Slow, _BB, _EE_Fast ) ) { Bot = 1 ; goto ⋅Top ; } else _EE_Fast-- ;
if ( EoFS_Up, !( F && _S || S && _F ) ) EE_Slow -= S, _EE_Slow -= _S, Bot_Fast ;
Skip:
if ( Top && Bot ) {
if ( !BB_Sync && !EE_Sync ) BB_Sync = EE, _BB_Sync = _EE, EE_Sync = EE, _EE_Sync = _EE ;
else if ( !BB_Sync ) BB_Sync = EE_Sync, _BB_Sync = _EE_Sync ;
else if ( !EE_Sync ) EE_Sync = BB_Sync, _EE_Sync = _BB_Sync ; return ; } goto ⋅Top ; }
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I wrote a super⋅fast, mindless version of Monoply.
Good Old⋅Fashsion "Assets and Liablities".
It comes with a fast, mindless chess variant, included.
To download it, Click Here.
It uses the Menlo and MS Mincho fonts.
[ Once you have the font, check it out Here ( ScreenShot ) ]
Initially, the pieces are set up semi⋅randomly.
Pawns start one row ahead, both sides.
I'm always "white" ( pinkish, actually ).
I have a queen, but no king, so I can't lose.
My opponent, "Mr. PC", has a king but no queen.
Often, I let Mr. PC give me hints;
middle⋅click starts the calculation, left⋅click ends it.
The main thing, of course, is to expose the king.
A flick of the mouse wheel un⋅does/re⋅does moves.
unLike real chess, the goal is to capture all but the king,
and wind up with as many queens possible. Checkmate must be avoided.
Left⋅Clicking with the right mouse button down removes pieces.
To add pieces, notch the mouse wheel while the right mouse button is down.
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I close apps I'm not using, to free my mind;
don't even want them "pinnned" to the taskbar, as icons.
I never see the "Start Screen" ( Windows 8, Metro ); I boot to
the desktop where only X.EXE greets me, instead of the start button ( Win7 ).
I re⋅boot once every few months, I suppose. My 30 watt, full-size desktop PC
is diskless and fanless, including a 500 watt fanless power⋅supply.
My app launcher/toolbar now ⋅TOTALLY⋅ stops newly launched apps
from stealing the "foreground" ( i.e. the keyboard/mouse focus )
and blinding me with that nasty "Black to White", bright flash.
For a taste (yuck!), see below. "⏉Win" is the Top⋅Most window.
#define ⏉modeOn ( prev＠⏉ = ⏉mode = 1, ⏉most( HWND_TOPMOST ) )
#define Norm ( ⏉mode = 0, ⏉most( HWND_NOTOPMOST ) ) // No Top Most.
#define ⏉most( TM ) ( \
SetWindowPos( Win, TM, 0,0,0,0, SWP_NOMOVE | SWP_NOSIZE ), \
LockSetForegroundWindow( TM == HWND_TOPMOST ? LSFW_LOCK : LSFW_UNLOCK ) )
#define ⏉ SetForegroundWindow(Win)
#define ＠⏉ ( _＠⏉ = ( ⏉Win = GetForegroundWindow() ) && Win == ⏉Win )
My launcher must rapidly request the Foreground, 30 times a second;
otherwise, Windows takes it from me without notice, the fucker.
Windows tells me that I've lost the keyboard/mouse AFTER the fact,
not before, so I have to bombard it with SetForegroundWindow() ASAP.
This seems wrong, of course, but I see no alternative.
Moving the cursor to Win8's taskbar stops this "Top⋅Most, Bombarding",
giving me easy access to my newly launched app, sans White⋅Flash.
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« Jeff Relf was the programmer for the project and
contributed to the design of administrative processes. »
−− BankExec™ 2009 Decision Manual, Copyright © 2011 (PDF)
To this day, and beyond, I'm coding BankExec™. 20 years now.
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FireGestures JavaScript to magnify images 1.667 times
" var node = FireGestures.sourceNode ;
if ( ! ( node instanceof HTMLImageElement ) ) return ;
node.width *= 1.66666667 ; ".
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Who I am ( Personal info )
I was born in Seattle at the start of 1960.
My dad, after being a WWII pilot ( catching the very end of it )
became a tool and die maker, first in partnership with Jeff Fluke,
later on the team that designed and built the 747.
My dad's dad ( Gerald Relf ) was a banker for the Federal Reserve.
Back in the day ( in Seattle, 1940 ),
bankers sat around a table and exchanged each bank's bags.
My mom's dad ( Robert Grass ) was a Washington state senator
and a lawyer, working out of what was, at the time,
the tallest building west of the mississipi, the Smith Tower.
Seattle has always been a boom/bust town
and Boeing had hit hard times in 1971,
people were leaving en masse.
Also, being Mormons, my dad felt the Seattle/University drug scene
had engulfed two of his kids... one of my brothers is/was
a paranoid schizophrenic... so, in 1972, he moved us to Utah.
My first programming was on HP/TI calculators starting around 1973-74.
By 1976, I was programming the HP 67 with it's magnetic strips.
Me ( Jeff Relf ), back in 1976, when I was 16 ( Orem Utah ).
My mom, dad ( Bill ), and a brother ( Pete, age 18 ), in 1976 ( Orem Utah ).
My dad's mom ( age 73 ) holding her GREAT⋅grand⋅daughter, in 1976 ( Seattle ).
My sole sister ( Diana, then 22, Seattle ) and her first daughter.
My brother ( Bill Jr. ) born in Seattle, 1956, in Provo Utah.
Here is a photo of Sarah ( Wallace ) Pruse ( my friend )
visiting her daughters, Gianna and Ginette.
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Work:
JianXin Huang < HarryQH<@>Hot Ξ Mail.COM > // Seattle
ChipH<@>UW.EDU // Tucson
TSchrank<@>ABA.COM // Washington DC
Family:
Diana ( Relf ) Harkcom < Harkcom<@>Hot Ξ Mail.COM > // Kirkland WA
Peter.Relf<@>EMC.COM // Sandy Utah
Friends:
Melaney Petty < Spam4mel<@>g Ξ Mail.COM > // Seattle
Sarah ( Wallace ) Pruse < ICantForTheLifeOfMe<@>Ya Ξ hoo.COM > // Tampa
Michael Brickler < MBrick02<@>Ya Ξ hoo.COM > // Eagle-Rock VA 24085
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