This is your chance! Prove your worth as a reviewer, with the First Ever Tag Team Review! This Friday (tomorrow), join with the throngs of wannabe-reviewers for a collaborative review session.
All you need is a copy of Hydra, and the ability to banter wittily about various humorous things. Tomorrow at 8:00 PM CDT, fire up Hydra and use its Join via Internet feature to connect to ladd.dyndns.org.
The subject of ridicule will be Apple’s Help Viewer.
If you aren’t familiar with Hydra, it’s a realtime collaborative text editor. Which means you can have several people editing a text document, AT THE SAME TIME. It’s a revolution in your head!
Note that we haven’t actually tried Hydra with more than 3 people, so it might just bomb and be a horrible disaster.
Posted by jan at April 17, 2003 04:37 PM | TrackBackI wish I could play with the grown-ups ...
Posted by: aussie boy on April 17, 2003 06:31 PMyour gonna break the internet....
Posted by: Ross on April 17, 2003 06:39 PMDoesn't Hydra support a maximum of 7 clients?
Posted by: wiseguy on April 17, 2003 07:11 PMWe should be using iEdit!
Posted by: Adam Atlas on April 17, 2003 07:39 PMOh God It Burns!
Posted by: Bobby the Booby on April 17, 2003 07:54 PMwiseguy:
It's quite possible. If it does actually fill up, then I'll just have to boot anyone who isn't writing to make room for more.
Posted by: Jan on April 17, 2003 08:53 PMI don't have a hydra, can I still win a badger?
If you break the internet, do I still get a doughnut?
Hello?
is this thing on?
Err, is there a Hydra FOR WINDOWS!?
Posted by: hugo l on April 18, 2003 07:24 AMYou guys seem pretty desperate for friends if the only way you can get invited to a party is to invite imaginary friends over to review Apple's help viewer. Have you guys ever kissed a girl (or a guy if you're a girl, or a french kissed an aluminum flag pole in the middle of winter)? Seems to me that the licking of the giant snail incident has more had side affects than your doctor was willing to tell you. It seems to me that if you really want to "make this thing go" (as the paclids would say), you're going to have to offer free beer and lap dances.
Posted by: Angry Old Viagra Elf on April 18, 2003 09:06 AMhugo:
No.
Angry Old Viagra Elf:
You obviously don't understand the REVOLUTION in your HEAD!
Actually the whole idea is to get out of having to write the review myself.
Posted by: Jan on April 18, 2003 10:50 AMI think you ungrateful wretches should be offering US the free beer and lap dances. I was going to stay out of the Hydra wordfest and give someone else a chance to exercise their fingers, but just for that, I will sign on using THREE SEPARATE PERSONAS and they will DESTROY YOU.
1. Mavis Scruples is 73 years old and walks with a cane, but only for effect. She disapproves of anything she cannot touch and thinks the internet is a cesspool of filth. Her favorite color is lavendar and she is secretly a pothead.
2. Pooky Shebazz is 24 years old and believes that aliens abducted JFK so they could clone him. She has six tattoos: a butterfly, a Chinese dragon, a rosebud, and three penises (erect, semi-erect, and flaccid but waking up). She sometimes forgets to wear clothes.
3. Christmas Tree Larry is 49 years old and a reactionary libertarian. He hates all types of government handouts except the ones that benefit him directly. He does not pay taxes or vote, and spent April 15 in a drunken stupor trying to teach his parakeet to sing the chorus to "God Bless America."
Be very afraid.
Dammit man, I missed it...
Sounds fun; maybe a weekly event? :p
Posted by: Squidgee on April 18, 2003 01:59 PMHey Naomi,
How about you, me, and Pooky go out and have a three way, if you know what I mean. We can get Mavis to watch us over the internet and we can get Larry to do color commentary in realtime streaming video. We can also hire a bunch of 400 pound one legged strippers to give us lap dances in the background. For the beer we can piss in a bottle of Everclear until it turns yellow and foams.
OK Jan, you can sit behind the big black curtain and watch as long as you don't make to many groaning noises (unless of course you are still trying to pry your tongue off that aluminum flag pole).
...OH GOD IT BURNS...make the voice of the angry old viagra elf stop speaking in my head...I don't understand the REVOLUTION going on in my HEAD!!! Somebody please help me!
To late you sniveling little weasel, I control your body and mind...me and Naomi are going to do it and there is nothing you can do about it. So shut up and lick that giant snail.
I think I'm in love with Pooky Shebazz.
Posted by: wilberforce on April 18, 2003 03:39 PMHands off wilberforce! You can't have my Pooky.
OK, you can have her, but NOT when she forgets to wear clothes.
Posted by: Angry Old Viagra Elf on April 18, 2003 03:52 PMAll of this gutter talk is very upsetting to Pooky. If you want her to love you, you'll have to learn to behave like a gentleman.
Mavis says this just confirms her worst fears about the internet. Now she has a perpetual right of "I told you so," and believe me, she will use it. Thanks a lot.
Larry plans to take you out to the parking lot for an instructional session of mano-a-crowbar, as soon as he sobers up enough to find the door. He's a mean drunk.
Apparently we're having trouble with Hydra. The *ahem* person who is hosting, went off to a party, and now it appears to have malfunctioned. Resulting in everyone being cut off from everyone else. So you're probably all typing, wondering why everyone else isn't typing. If someone with broadband steps forward soon, we can continue, but otherwise we'll call it a night.
Posted by: Jan on April 18, 2003 08:20 PMAnd here I was, upset because I was going to miss it. You guys couldn't run a root in a brothel!
Posted by: aussie boy on April 18, 2003 08:39 PMIf you're still there, try joining doogul.dyndns.org as the host name. I have it on, and I can host. I've got broadband. (If someone already has the existing review, copy and paste it in :))
Posted by: Doug Brown on April 18, 2003 08:59 PMDoug:
I'm trying to join, but it's just hanging. Perhaps you have Access Control on?
Posted by: Jan on April 18, 2003 09:10 PMI see you joining and leaving. Access control is off. 2 others are in there too. I'm going to restart the sharing because I think it got messed up.
Posted by: Doug Brown on April 18, 2003 09:12 PMYeah, it seems to be non-working. Too bad we can't run it on sancho.opendarwin.org since they're asleep :)
Posted by: Feanor on April 18, 2003 09:52 PMI'm sorry to say, that we had some Issues in Hydra, that sometimes appeared when using Hydra with more than 2 users over the internet. We'll soon do a 1.01 release in which all these issues are addressed.
Posted by: Dominik Wagner on April 19, 2003 01:59 AMThank you, good Coding Monkeys! We wait on tenterhooks for your next release.
Hydra is so nice and elegant, and I would like to commend you (bravo!) for resisting the temptation to use a many-headed monster as the icon. Little blue people are much better. I have decided that Jan is the one swinging (in a monkey-like fashion, hmmm) from the eraser end, while Ladd is manfully struggling to get to the point. I am the one in the middle, pretending to help.
I feel awful I missed it. Someone will have to set up an open document on an always-on server somewhere. That way, we could come and go as we please. If you would like to host an always on document, send me an email at pixelcort@mac.com and I will take care of evangelism for it.
Posted by: Cortland Haws on April 19, 2003 06:06 PMCortland:
I suggest waiting for the next version of Hydra before attempting that.
Posted by: Jan on April 19, 2003 06:57 PMGod Bless America
hoot lee hoot
Posted by: Christmas Tree Larry on April 23, 2003 02:53 PM