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by Annatar 7y ago
Yep, it was a great time. If you had been there for it, being in the U. S. wasn't quite all that but it was still pretty exciting importing fresh European cracks and doing NTSC fixing, an arcane art that even only a few North American
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by Annatar 7y ago
"Compared to Europe these Commodore machines were never as popular in the United States, where consumers preferred the superior computing power of IBM clones and other PCs." That's hilarious: up to mid-'90's, a P. C
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by Annatar 7y ago
A500 could always do Slip and PPP, but it's awfully slow over serial and parallel ports. Even plipbox manages only about 53 KB/s. I also use cnet.device in my A1200.
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by Annatar 7y ago
Atari ST will also run a normal EtherNet TCP / IP stack with Netusbee (I have one): https://youtu.be/m3Lk96knpI0
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by Annatar 7y ago
Amiga runs just fine as a dumb terminal in just about any combination of serial (PPP / Slip / straight serial). PCMCIA cards enable it to run regular SSH and NFS to a host (best used in combination with Solaris or illumos systems)
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by Annatar 7y ago
I could use that. What's the X11 archive for Amiga called on "AmiNet"?
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Atari ST has an alternative operating system called MiNT and RPM-based SpareMiNT, which is a UNIX-like operating system, but still TOS compatible. http://sparemint.org/Welcome-to-SpareMiNT
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by Annatar 7y ago
Wait, we're in Nerdopolis Central here, and you just called a car enthusiast a dork ? What. The. Hell!!! O tempora, o mores...
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by Annatar 7y ago
As another car guy, I agree. Never quite thought of it that way but it's true.
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"And, if the tech is, in fact old and outdated, and the tradeoff from replacing it is lower than the tradeoff of keeping it, we shouldn’t be jumping to replace it with the latest and greatest. While we should evaluate new tools evenhan
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by Annatar 7y ago
English in that scam is so bad. It matches South Asia profile. I hear it every day. Exact same bad grammar and 100% identical broken sentence structure pattern. It is pathological. If I were to scam people I'd do my homework. But the i
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by Annatar 7y ago
"Singh appeared tired, but a leader who was confident in his position and who saw a bright future for his company." A company (Docker) selling a product which you don't need because you can simply package your application and
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by Annatar 8y ago
Yes. Have to be a contractor with 20 - 30 years of serious experience under your belt and well, very well connected. And with very rare exceptions (like being the next Bryan Cantrill) you have to be Swiss else you better be speaking the l
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by Annatar 8y ago
My free time is the most precious, most treasured, dearest thing I have ever had.
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by Annatar 8y ago
I've used them too. Clunky but they worked just fine, the music got transported between my Apple laptop and my Apple telephone. What's the problem?
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by Annatar 8y ago
I won't, because I've been building applications for over 30 years; I know what's best, as I've had ample time to find out what works and what is sheer idiocy. The various software I've written is small, fast, light
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by Annatar 8y ago
So what if it is snobbery? If someone can't configure and manage their own OS and yet they are employed in IT, they have no grounds on remaining employed and no their ability to hack-together a semi-working program does not entitle or
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by Annatar 8y ago
I will never be grateful for someone else's ignorance or incompetence causing me unnecessary work. It won't happen. I'd rather drop dead. I'm interested in doing things the best way possible and neither Windows nor GNU&#
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by Annatar 8y ago
I hate web frameworks, absolutely despise those horrible, over-complicated, bloated monstrosities. If writing for "Flask" or "Django" is considered an advantage, then I'm deeply glad I didn't fall for that garb
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by Annatar 8y ago
You are arguing for Python and speed in the same breath? If you want portable speed, you better "warm up a chair" and master Fortran. Bonus: modern Fortran is a joy to develop in, far more fun than Python. And you get to compile t
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by Annatar 8y ago
"It doesn't make sense to invest time into R if one already knows python unless one specifically focusing on academia pure stats type stuff." Ha! I knew it! So it is familiarity with Python then! R does have something else go
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I cannot understand why I would use Python over R. R is designed from the ground up for massive amounts of data processing at speed and with ease. Even if Python continues accreting computational functionality, it will never be as fast or a
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by Annatar 8y ago
Vertica did as well.
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by Annatar 8y ago
I maintain R and Shiny where I work. With Shiny, one can now build any web application imaginable, even a completely generic one. R has such a huge library of software now, that it has gone far and wide outside of statistics and analytics -
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by Annatar 8y ago
This answer makes no sense. Why does an IRC bot have to update the database? What does geolocation have to do with choosing database replication over AXFR? With every answer you raise more questions than you answer.
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by Annatar 8y ago
"If you don't like it don't use it" fallacy doesn't work because I'm not talking about private but professional use. Look what happened with GNU/Linux, one cannot "not use it if one doesn't like
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by Annatar 8y ago
What's really absurd is that there are people still attaching any importance to Windows, which is the worst operating system in computing history. Even more absurd is that those people don't know any better. That's the sad, d
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by Annatar 8y ago
Why the hell would I reveal my private details on some random website like this one? My faculties have not yet left me.
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"From the point of view of everyone else, "Don't trust anyone on the Internet" applies to you." That's what I wrote, but it seems you got into a tizzy over "is Windows still a thing?" and it was &quot
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by Annatar 8y ago
And why wouldn't normal AXFR's between servers work in this scenario?

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