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cabcat, only triggur stands in the way of my nibbling at your tail in the ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
us_furries statistics. Unless you're accumulating points faster than I think you are, you'll see my dust trail in two to three days at the present rate.
DECWindows is now installed and working on the [older] Alpha, and I succeeded in getting it to display applications on my Linux screen. Now for the language compilers (it came with a bunch: ada, pascal, c, c++, basic, cobol, fortran, etc.) and editing/debugging environment. In one sense, this is just a sandbox because I don't really need it. Linux already is working on the Alpha and has everything I need. But using VMS is an interesting challenge, and because it is a DEC-native OS and was designed with their equipment in mind, it should in theory be much more efficient on this machine. That's what I'd like to see. I want to port over some amateur radio-related modeling applications and see how they crunch on the famous number cruncher of the 90s.
So... You've probably already seen or heard that J. K. Rowling announced yesterday that Dumbledore is gay. *shrug* So what? I don't find that it explains anything important or significant to the story, or that it matters at all except that it gives extra credibility to some of Rita Skeeter's nastier suggestions. There are many other characters in the books who almost certainly are gay, I'd say, including Profs. Flitwick and Slughorn. Some of the students might also be, and in particular I'd have thought that (no, DID think that) about Neville Longbottom. But saying it of Dumbledore does nothing in my opinion that further enlightens or explains his actions, any more than the pensieve revelations about Snape's attraction to Lily Evans did anything to explain his behavior really. Neither seems a large enough revelation to explain the observed facts, in my opinion.
What I really DO find amusing in the Rowling story is the fact that she had to tell the screenwriters not to invent a female romantic interest for the young Dumbledore. Of course, given the nature of movie making, I also won't be surprised to learn that they rode roughshod over the author's intentions and gave Dumbledore such a love interest anyway.
cabcat, only triggur stands in the way of my nibbling at your tail in the us_furries statistics. Unless you're accumulating points faster than I think you are, you'll see my dust trail in two to three days at the present rate.DECWindows is now installed and working on the [older] Alpha, and I succeeded in getting it to display applications on my Linux screen. Now for the language compilers (it came with a bunch: ada, pascal, c, c++, basic, cobol, fortran, etc.) and editing/debugging environment. In one sense, this is just a sandbox because I don't really need it. Linux already is working on the Alpha and has everything I need. But using VMS is an interesting challenge, and because it is a DEC-native OS and was designed with their equipment in mind, it should in theory be much more efficient on this machine. That's what I'd like to see. I want to port over some amateur radio-related modeling applications and see how they crunch on the famous number cruncher of the 90s.
So... You've probably already seen or heard that J. K. Rowling announced yesterday that Dumbledore is gay. *shrug* So what? I don't find that it explains anything important or significant to the story, or that it matters at all except that it gives extra credibility to some of Rita Skeeter's nastier suggestions. There are many other characters in the books who almost certainly are gay, I'd say, including Profs. Flitwick and Slughorn. Some of the students might also be, and in particular I'd have thought that (no, DID think that) about Neville Longbottom. But saying it of Dumbledore does nothing in my opinion that further enlightens or explains his actions, any more than the pensieve revelations about Snape's attraction to Lily Evans did anything to explain his behavior really. Neither seems a large enough revelation to explain the observed facts, in my opinion.
What I really DO find amusing in the Rowling story is the fact that she had to tell the screenwriters not to invent a female romantic interest for the young Dumbledore. Of course, given the nature of movie making, I also won't be surprised to learn that they rode roughshod over the author's intentions and gave Dumbledore such a love interest anyway.
