Unfortunately there is no easy way for we to play with open genera since its proprietary and expensive. The world would be a better place if this type of system popped up more often.
Re:Symbolics Lisp Machine UI Examples
by eschaton on Thursday August 28, 2014 @03:51AM
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Have you considered hosting the images on imgur or another such site, at least during HN traffic?
Until such time as people can reasonably get their hands on OpenGenera (which I gather might now be in the hands of CL-HTTP's author) people are going to be pretty interested in things like this and Kalman Reti's recent YouTube video.
Re:Symbolics Lisp Machine UI Examples
by networked on Thursday August 28, 2014 @04:03AM
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You could also use CoralCDN (http://www.coralcdn.org/) for the images on your page, which would mirror them automatically. Unfortunately, if you try to submit a link to *.nyud.net to HN directly it turns out dead.
Re:Symbolics Lisp Machine UI Examples
by zachrose on Thursday August 28, 2014 @01:33AM
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I would really like to see any pictures of Symbolics hardware or screenshots of Genera. I used to work with a guy who wrote CAD software on these in the 80s and he made it sound really cool.
Re:Symbolics Lisp Machine UI Examples
by angersock on Thursday August 28, 2014 @11:09AM
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I suspect a lot of the people who view servers as cattle probably haven't had to maintain bare metal hardware, or do serious ops work. It makes sense that you wouldn't get attached to an EC2 instance--most of the "fun" [sic] has been taken out of it.
Re:Symbolics Lisp Machine UI Examples
by scrumper on Thursday August 28, 2014 @09:47AM
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I came across this a couple of months ago. It's very interesting and worth a look: I'd urge anyone interested to bookmark the page and try again in a few days.
Re:Symbolics Lisp Machine UI Examples
by seanmcdirmid on Thursday August 28, 2014 @02:10AM
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It would be too late in the US for most of the user base to be from the US; the users posting begin shifting to Asia and in a few hours to Europe. Fascinating to watch how the comments change accordingly.
Since the website is not up I decided to fish for a video showing Open Genera stuff elsewhere to share with you fine folk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4-YnLpLgtk
Unfortunately there is no easy way for we to play with open genera since its proprietary and expensive. The world would be a better place if this type of system popped up more often.
For those interested in Lisp I recommend the book "Land of Lisp" http://landoflisp.com/ or if you're more like a Racketeer then "Realm of Racket" http://realmofracket.com/
Until such time as people can reasonably get their hands on OpenGenera (which I gather might now be in the hands of CL-HTTP's author) people are going to be pretty interested in things like this and Kalman Reti's recent YouTube video.
Come on, man. We're living in the era of clouds and virtual server images. Servers are cattle, not pets.
That is for the owner of the server to decide, not an universal truth.
Cuddles a server
EDIT:
Never mind: Great Firewall of China.
(and the link doesn't work for me either)
There have to be so many "night owls" on this site, I can't imagine why you would think it would be too late in the US to try at this hour.
No luck on Internet Archive/Google.
This page I think has some images from the same domain:
http://ffffound.com/home/fish2000/post/
Server used to be on lispm.dyndns.org previously, so that may be a clue as to why it's dead atm.