Topic: R.I.P. Sir Terry Pratchett (Read 2487 times)

Nemesis · « **on:** March 12, 2015, 10:24:13 pm »

Quote

Sir Terry Pratchett, author of more than 70 books including the hugely popular Discworld series, has died at his home in the company of his family and cat. He was 66.

May the Death you met be the one you wrote of, a friendly helpful one.

Sirgod · « **Reply #1 on:** March 13, 2015, 12:23:12 pm »

RIP indeed. was a wonderful writer.

Nemesis · « **Reply #2 on:** March 13, 2015, 03:13:12 pm »

I was looking forward to a 3rd Moist von Lipvig novel with Moist as the Tax man.

Back when I read Going Postal I had it at work and a coworker who hadn't seen the cover asked what I was reading, I showed him the title on the spine and claimed it was a How To book. I think Terry would have approved

.

Nemesis · « **Reply #3 on:** March 25, 2015, 09:18:05 pm »

I haven't yet read Raising Steam but apparently it is another Von Lipwig novel. Have to read all 3 in sequence I guess.

Web Geeks have honoured Sir Terry in a way that he inspired. They are keeping him alive in the overhead.

Link to full article

Quote

After a discussion on 4chan-for-beginners Reddit, Pratchett fans devised a similar tribute: injecting X-Clacks-Overhead: GNU Terry Pratchett into server-sent HTTP headers. This can be accomplished with almost every web server by tweaking configuration files to reference the late author in all outgoing traffic. Plugins to inject the custom header into outgoing HTTP requests are also available for the big four browsers.

The GNU part comes from the Pratchett universe. In clacks code, G is an instruction to send a message, N instructs the clack operator not to log it, and U instructs the recipient to turn it round at the end of the line and send it back.

News: