User talk:Loadmaster

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1 Archives of this page
2 My username (User:TKD)
3 Fair use for PGP images
4 Image:PGPgui1.png
5 Change to Real-time clock
6 User exit == callback?
7 Archimedes Plutonium
8 AfD: Ctime

[edit] Archives of this page

2006

[edit] My username (User:TKD)

It's actually neither my initials nor an abbreviation for taekwondo. Long story, but it's actually shorthand for triskaidekaphobia. I'm not phobic, but it was a nice long word :) — too long, in fact: Someone on another site suggested a long time ago that I shorten it because it would be hard for people to remember how to spell. As it turns out, people still occasionally botch the order of the letters, perhaps because there is a company called TDK. — TKD::Talk 17:31, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Fair use for PGP images

[edit] Image:PGPgui1.png

Thanks for uploading Image:PGPgui1.png. I notice the 'image' page specifies that the image is being used under fair use, but its use in Wikipedia articles fails our first fair use criterion in that it illustrates a subject for which a freely licensed image could reasonably be found or created that provides substantially the same information. If you believe this image is not replaceable, please:

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This is a violation of the first rule since GNU PGP [1] has a free GNU licensed version of PGP so it violates the first rule of fair use. A helpful addition to wikipedia would be to use a screenshot from GNU PGP and add it to the article. SirGrant 03:18, 13 February 2007 (UTC)

True, a similar image could be created from GPG, but I don't have a GUI version of GPG, or even a working command-line version of it. So unless someone else creates a replacement image, I'm out of luck. — Loadmaster 06:24, 13 February 2007 (UTC)

I found this here [2] I think I'm going to upload that as a replacement since it is freely licensed SirGrant 06:35, 13 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Change to Real-time clock

In Real-time clock you changed system clocks to system clocks. But you've changed the meaning dramatically, and inappropriately, in my opinion. The system time article does in fact discuss real time (something measured in seconds or something like it e.g. BOGOMIPS), but the link should point to a system clock, (one which is governs the timing of components and doesn't relate to any sort of time.) If you missed the meaning I intended when I wrote the sentence, then others very probably will too. I'm going to reword the sentence and change the link back. Let me know what you think. Codeczero 03:24, 17 February 2007 (UTC)

Your edit in "real-time clock" is fine. However, I think there should be some link to "system time" in the article somewhere, because the two are related concepts. So I simply added a "See also" section. — Loadmaster 21:42, 17 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] User exit == callback?

I've just noticed your edit to the callback article. I don't agree that a user exit is the same thing as a callback. I've started a thread on the discussion I would be interested in your thoughts. Thanks. --Bleveret 11:39, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the doing the mods, I'll try to expand the user exit article if I have some time --Bleveret 19:24, 14 March 2007 (UTC)