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by bitsavers 4y ago
Whoever wrote this managed to poorly express the design philosophy and also didn't mention that the fork of the earlier version exists. At first it wasn't even clear about what version of Gnome they were even talking about.
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by bitsavers 4y ago
When Jobs came back he couldn't find someone because they were on sabbatical, so he ended them. https://www.spokesman.com/stories/1997/aug/14/jobs-axes-sabb...
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by bitsavers 4y ago
and server boosts
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by bitsavers 4y ago
They are both walled gardens that you have to subscribe to. Since none of the messages can be seen by the public, they both are knowledge silos. Discord has some wonderful instances with smart people, but by its structure even Usenet thread
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A History of Early Microcontrollers, Part 1(eejournal.com)
99 points by bitsavers 4y ago|7 comments
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by bitsavers 4y ago
The whole series is interesting
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by bitsavers 4y ago
Eudora sources were released by the Computer History Museum in 2018 https://computerhistory.org/press-releases/eudora-source-cod...
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Interview with Eudora founders [video](youtube.com)
35 points by bitsavers 4y ago|11 comments
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A Conversation with Aaron Giles(youtube.com)
1 points by bitsavers 4y ago|2 comments
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by bitsavers 4y ago
Aaron is known for his work on MAME and his LucasArts games Oh... there's that Microsoft stuff he did too.
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by bitsavers 4y ago
“Every step that is ‘jay’ is defiance in the face of the automobile machine.” huh? https://unevenearth.org/2022/02/a-jaywalking-manifesto/
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Jaywalking Legal in California(ktla.com)
5 points by bitsavers 4y ago|0 comments
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by bitsavers 4y ago
2013, but this story never gets old. And it isn't the first time the architect did this.
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by bitsavers 4y ago
There is an extremely rare Apple tee shirt the people who worked on the SCSI manager made that says: I do not like the SCSI bus I do not like it "Hax R Us"
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by bitsavers 4y ago
My car's license plate has been HAXRUS since the mid 80's. I've had people ask me if it is a golf reference.
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by bitsavers 4y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Professionals_for_Soc... Fortunately, the Risks Digest is still around https://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/
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by bitsavers 4y ago
The plan NASA is going after now is establishing an orbiting lunar station and a permanent lunar base near the south pole where hopefully water can be recovered. If you watched the video runup to the Artemis 1 launch they made the plan very
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by bitsavers 4y ago
The twitter comments are mind boggling
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by bitsavers 4y ago
Is it common practice for not providing any context for what this is used for as a comment when it is submitted?
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by bitsavers 4y ago
Since the pandemic started, most of my meals have been microwaved in some fashion. Fun adventures in trying new things. https://oldbytes.space/tags/NerdFood They mention making scrambled eggs. I do this almost every da
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The innovation Jobs brought to Apple: content to consumer devices(inc.com)
3 points by bitsavers 4y ago|1 comments
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by bitsavers 4y ago
The transformation from products for content-producing to content-consuming along with a distribution company is what drove Apple's exponential growth in the 21st century. NeXT wasn't as important as Pixar to this happening.
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by bitsavers 4y ago
A one sentence description "El Camino Real" would have saved me the trouble of having to start YouTube. "Fixing" ECR is a no-brainer if you are willing to disrupt one of the most dense roads going up the peninsula. If th
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by bitsavers 4y ago
The reconing for silicon valley techno-libertarianism. https://www.salon.com/2015/04/12/rise_of_the_techno_libertar... https://openyls.law.yale.edu/handle/20.500.13051/7831
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by bitsavers 4y ago
By the time that happened, those papers were with Agilent. This is what happened to the archive of HP. Summary is they outsourced it and didn't hire a new archivist when Anna retired. Recent news is that company in Georgia just acquire
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Corporate Archives in Silicon Valley(digitalcommons.usu.edu)
4 points by bitsavers 4y ago|3 comments
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What happened to HP's archive after the breakup
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by bitsavers 4y ago
"The chamber rotated, holding the corn kernels close to the infrared lamps" That's the magic, separating the kernels so they are heated more efficently and aren't blocked by the kernels that have popped, blocking the hea
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by bitsavers 4y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reason_and_Emotion Interesting they compare it to Pixar's "Inside Out"
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Xerox SDD and the Star were tasked with turning PARC's research into a product. http://bitsavers.org/pdf/xerox/sdd/ and they did it slightly ahead of Apple but the big difference was their use of PARC&#x

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