Talk:Alan Cox (computer programmer)

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AlanCox (talk · contribs) / Cox, Alan Cox, Alan

This is fascinating and amusing at the same time somehow: There exist persons, who have a) their own user page in Wikipedia and b) a Wikipedia page about them. I'm quite curious, if there are more of them than Alan Cox and User:AlanCox. (Not yet filled with content, but possible, but see User talk:AlanCox. :-) --XTaran 22:51, 16 Mar 2004 (UTC)

How about Jimmy Wales and User:Jimbo Wales? 69.68.55.237

Well, there's Theodore Ts'o and User:Tytso (but I'm not going to edit my own Wikipedia page; that would be too weird!) Ted 19:57, 15 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

So that Alan you wrote a computer Game called Seas of Blood in 1986 based on the fighting fantasy book of the same name? Htaccess 07:14, 8 Jun 2004 (UTC)

I worked on Robin of Sherwood, Seas of Blood, Blizzard Pass, Personal Nightmare and bits of Elvira, also Demons of the Deep (never released). The only one of them I did the full game design for is Blizzard Pass. Seas of Blood was done by a team of people led by Mike Woodroffe. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by AlanCox (talk • contribs) 02:12, 3 November 2005 (UTC)

Programming freedom

Article references "programming freedom." What does this refer to, specifically? Free (GNU-style) software? Can we turn this phrase into a link to a Wikipedia article? Jdavidb 19:24, 9 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Yes, that would be correct. Possibly a link to the League for Programming Freedom, but that's not quite right. Ted 19:57, 15 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Closer would be the fsf.org discussion on 'free software' but it really spans both AlanCox

Programming experience

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adventure_Soft

"Blizzard Pass" (a single player game closely related to AberMUD) by Alan Cox and "Kayleth" (by Stefan Ufnowski and Ann Ufnowski) followed as the company diversified the game range. Adventure Soft also began producing games for Tynesoft including the game of Supergran and "Terraquake" (featuring He-Man).

Alan Cox doing MUD games? Wow!

born?

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Image

I changed the image to a clearer one I found at http://learn.clemsonlinux.org/wiki/Image:Cox.png

--Achitnis 15:05, 4 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Response from ClemsonLinux.org

This image was originally obtained around 20 July 2004 from a google image search for Alan Cox. I've gone back to google now to try and find the original home, but didn't find it in the first 11 pages of search results. (did find us, which is where I imagine you found us as well).

Therefore I do not know where it originally is from, but it at least was somewhere out on the web. I imagine this does not help your burden of copyright information. Apologies that I do not have the additional information you requested.

OK, have reverted back to the original picture until we can find a better one of Alan with clear copyright info.

--Achitnis 19:46, 20 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

"Dense" comments?

Is that an attempt to literally translate a word from another language? According to a dictionary, this meaning is:

slow to learn or understand; lacking intellectual acuity

Let's change it to something that more accurately represents the meaning?

Actually it can also mean

1.1 Having relatively high density.

1.2 Crowded closely together; compact: a dense population.

2 Difficult to understand because of complexity or obscurity: a dense novel.

And more I think the point that the writer was trying to make was that the comments were highly imformative (lots of facts "crowded closely together"). It's actually standard English, no foreign languages needed at all: generally the idea conveyed is of a lot of complex facts and other information compacted together into one small work. It doesn't look like it needs much changing to me - Bryan

another Alan Cox

Actor, starred as young Watson in Young Sherlock Holmes, 1985. Actually there may be four actors by this name, according to imdb.

There is also another Alan Cox who works on FreeBSD which causes confusion —The preceding unsigned comment was added by AlanCox (talk • contribs) 22:26, 14 February 2006 (UTC)

While vs. whilst

I'd much prefer "while", as I have never seen "whilst" before. Whilst this is not the "simple English" encyclopedia, we shouldn't needlessly scare away readers.

PS: I tried googling for whilst, and it seems the (major) hits are mostly people explaining the word, whilst the hits for while are people using the word.--Per Abrahamsen 19:38, 22 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Whilst is in very common usage in the U.S.

Exploding Laptop

http://zeniv.linux.org.uk/~telsa/boom/ indicates that the batteries, although purchased on e-bay, appear to be authentic IBM. See the footnote alan added to that page.

Is this relevent at all? 201.2.133.88 20:27, 24 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

exploding laptop

Why is the exploding encyclopedia-worthy? Ok, so it was on slashdot--is that really reason enough? --Bringa 09:56, 25 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]