monsterwm with chromium, gedit, and terminal

monsterwm is a tiny dynamic tiling window manager. According to c00kiemon5ter, its creator:

The project aims to be a usable as small as possible tiling wm. I use it personally everyday.
It’s like dwm with gridlayout, bstack, pertag, dwmreturn patches, but without floating mode (minimum mouse support).

monsterwm is fully operational at just 643 lines of C. It must be configured before compilation through a file named ‘config.h’. The default ‘config.h’ sets the following keybindings:

Next Window              Alt+j

Prev Window              Alt+k

Reduce Master            Alt+h

Expand Master            Alt+l

Reduce Stack             Alt+o

Expand Stack             Alt+p

Change Mode:

 Tile                    Alt+Shift+t

 Monocle                 Alt+Shift+m

 Bottom Stack            Alt+Shift+b

 Grid                    Alt+Shift+g

Switch to Next Desktop   Alt+Shift+[Right]

Switch to Prev Desktop   Alt+Shift+[Left]

Stop X                   Alt+Ctrl+q

In tile mode:

 Change Master Window    Alt+Return

The modifier keys can be changed individually or across the board in ‘config.h’.

The github repository can be found here.

uemacs in xterm.

For his text editor, Linus Torvalds uses uemacs/PK, which is based on MicroEMACS 3.9e. As would be expected, Linus uses a modified editor. In my experience, uemacs is faster than Emacs.

To download uemacs, use git to clone the repository:

git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/editors/uemacs/uemacs.git

Then, do the standard (as superuser):

cd uemacs

make

make install

uemacs installs as em. This works in Linux and should work in any other Unix-like operating system.

Of course, uemacs uses standard Emacs keyboard shortcuts.

Assembly is similar to many other languages in that code is preprocessed before running. This is done using an assembler. If you use Linux, I strongly recommend you use the Netwide Assembler. NASM, is it is usually called, is used in most tutorials, and is not difficult to learn. If you are on Windows, your best bet is likely Flat Assembler. FASM is nearly identical to NASM, as far as syntax. When you write your code in assembly, your assembler processes it to object code.

Once you have your assembler, you need to learn to write assembly. While there are a number of tutorials for x86 assembly, Dr. Paul Carter’s PC Assembly Language, a free textbook, provides a great starting point. After you read that, you should definitely take a look at some open source programs/operating systems to get an idea of how you can implement assembly. MikeOS, MenuetOS, and the Linux kernel v.01 (Note: Windows users need 7zip to extract that) all are good to read. Finally, websites like OSDever and OSDev are classic OS development websites that include dozens of tutorials.

Good luck with your pursuits!

Magenta: 11,625 landings - 11.6%
Purple: 1443 landings - 1.4%
Red: 10,434 landings - 10.4%
Railroads: 12,201 - 12.2%
Orange: 7173 - 7.2%
Blue: 7279 - 7.3%
Cyan: 5264 - 5.3%
Yellow: 3673 - 3.7%
Green: 3338 - 3.3%
Utility: 3342 - 3.3%

From this, it looks like Magenta, Red and the Railroads are the most landed on. This would suggest that the Railroads might be worth owning, if you own 3 or 4. For each color group, not owning all nullifies the meager rent you can collect without a monopoly, though. Now let’s examine the individual properties’ landings:

GO: 10,206 - 10.2%
Mediterranean: 522 - .5%
Community Chest [all]: 4411 - 4.4%
Baltic: 921 - .9%
Income Tax: 1372 - 1.4%
Reading Railroad: 7783 - 7.8%
Oriental: 1603 - 1.6%
Chance [all, only non-directing cards]: 2900 - 2.9%
Vermont: 1816 - 1.8%
Connecticut: 1845 - 1.8%
Jail: 12,938 - 12.9%
St. Charles Place: 8007 - 8%
Electric Company: 1997 - 2%
States: 1658 - 1.7%
Virginia: 1960 - 2%
Pennsylvania Railroad: 2321 - 2.3%
St. James: 2354 - 2.4%
Tennessee: 2480 - 2.5%
New York: 2339 - 2.3%
Free Parking: 1914 - 1.9%
Kentucky: 1777 - 1.8%
Indiana: 1287 - 1.3%
Illinois: 7370 - 7.4%
B&O Railroad: 1295 - 1.3%
Atlantic: 1225 - 1.2%
Ventnor: 1274 - 1.3%
Water Works: 1345 - 1.4%
Marvin Gardens: 1174 - 1.2%
Pacific: 1306 - 1.3%
North Carolina: 1171 - 1.2%
Pennsylvania Ave: 861 - .9%
Short Line Railroad: 802 - .8%
Park Place: 555 - .6%
Luxury Tax: 487 - .5%
Boardwalk: 6724 - 6.7%

Knowing the odds for each space allows us to know the actual worth of a property. For example, Park Place amounts to only .6% of all the landed upon spaces. It might not be landed on once in a typical game, but owning Park Place along with Boardwalk, which holds almost 7% of all landed on spaces, allows a player to double the normal rent without houses and take in significant cash with houses and hotels on the Blue spaces. St. Charles Place, holding 8% of all landings, makes States Ave and Virginia Ave worth owning alongside.

So there we have it: certain spaces are more likely to be landed on than others. Should this factor into your strategy? I know it will mine.

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