[geeks] broken software

Sandwich Maker adh at an.bradford.ma.us
Wed Dec 21 13:57:51 CST 2005


" From: Charles Shannon Hendrix <shannon at widomaker.com>
" 
" der Mouse wrote:
" >>The clock applet won't load.  Checking its library dependencies [...]
" > 
" > []
" 
" That doesn't have to be at the app level.  It can be in the X server and 
" the app never needs to care about it.

i jsut experienced a sudden wave of nostalgia.  the very first c
program i wrote was a clock that displayed the time on the status line
of my terminal and updated it every 15s.  if i let it run all day, it
consumed just 1 cpu-s on an 11mips amdahl.
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