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by ddingus 2y ago
That is just fine with me. I realize our current national politics leave a lot to be desired. That sucks. But, as long as we are advancing and stuff bleeds out to where mere mortals can access them, game on! I am not here to wish it were b
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by ddingus 2y ago
I love(d) it. Makes the menu stand right out. My current Raspi 400 desktop has that same setup. Menu items all italic and bold.
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by ddingus 2y ago
FlexLM dev tools were supplied as part of the operating system distribution. One could make a simple app to parse, check in, out, licenses and work from there. Sure beats breaking out the low level tools! Indy sound is great! I agree and h
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by ddingus 2y ago
I have been working with various e-ink displays and most of them offer these capabilities: (1bpp black and white or 4bpp 16 shade scale from black to white displays are what I am writing about here. Color displays and or very basic display
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by ddingus 2y ago
I commented a one up above. SGI IRIX computers connected to SGI DAT drives will gladly save audio off those as well. Lol, just had to. :]
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by ddingus 2y ago
Ok, how about the same with a DAT drive? If you connect an SGI DAT drive to an IRIX machine, you can save the tracks in the same way. And they get saved in the faster, native DAT sample rate. 48Khz, I believe.
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by ddingus 2y ago
Now I should have known that. Fact is amazingly, I have never played an audio CD on a Mac. Ever. So, that leaves Windows basically as the odd one out. Love this place for threads line this. Nice catch to you as well, and I am going to go
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by ddingus 2y ago
Yes! Be had it. A friend and I setup a Be station in the late 90's and really liked it. Nice catch.
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by ddingus 2y ago
Pretty sure that app ended up in IRIX 5.3.
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by ddingus 2y ago
Man, I sure hope this project can get traction. The Indigo Magic Desktop coupled with the 4DWM X window manager was among the top computing experiences I've had! At my peak, I was a sysadmin for our setup where I worked and as a resel
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by ddingus 2y ago
>"Severance is a completely optional practice that is based entirely on what the company wants to do. I would argue that severance is more accurately based on "The lowest safe number to pay to this particular employee to make s
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by ddingus 2y ago
I love your comment on this. Perfection. Once, while traveling in an RV for some work related marketing thing, the discussion turned to the lack of fuel economy... The RV might perform better if the engine powered the RV by blowing fuel ri
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by ddingus 2y ago
Maybe. Just trying to see it from other points of view. A decade ago, Apple was on Intel and Microsoft had not advanced many plans in play today. Depending on the smoke they are blowing people's way, one could get an impression ARM i
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by ddingus 2y ago
Does this not depend on how one sees the Arm transition matter playing out? It at least conceivable and IMHO, plausible for Qualcomm to see Apple, phones on ARM and aging in demographics all speaking to a certain Arm transition?
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by ddingus 2y ago
I found a band I really like by searching on the ampersand, "&" https://youtu.be/pLJ85XExZtQ?si=75ZykQeUjgItcpDM Not sure what triggered it, but I began odd searches a while ago and want to echo many of the &q
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by ddingus 2y ago
Cool! I have done that myself a time or two. Ever get a good response back? I have been surprised a time or two ending up in a conversation with someone who took the time same as I did. Just because we could.
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by ddingus 2y ago
I never ran QNX, but my experience with BeOS were similar to yours in that a Pentium 90 felt great! Another data point: SGI IRIX has an unusually good scheduler. I ran a 30Mhz machine for a while and it's desktop was pretty snappy. On
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by ddingus 2y ago
That has to be the correct reading.
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by ddingus 2y ago
Good catch! Maybe that is the disconnect! I see close to ortho. Closer to ortho than it is anything else, but it just is not an ortho projection.
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by ddingus 2y ago
It is (almost) orthographic and people apparently expect perspective of some kind, or want to see a proper projection. That is the cube clash as I see it.
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by ddingus 2y ago
Comment below not intended as direct rebuttal to parent comment. It is just a relevant riff on the tired if you don't vote, don't complain BS. Soap box mode = 1 Yes you do get to complain same as anyone does whether you or anyone
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by ddingus 2y ago
I am going to let the confirmation link expire. Not sure I will come back to this. Many others have said things I agree with. I would make the submit button the higher button and make it a more compelling color. The very first link I input
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by ddingus 2y ago
Yeah, I was moving fast on mobile and really could have done more. People able to do stuff -->(other people would prefer they not do.) Hacking of all kinds -->(software, hardware, processes, nature, the OSS mindset brings with it some
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by ddingus 2y ago
I doubt the ban will have the intended positive impact needed to overcome what a solid majority of students see as seriously negative. Quite some time ago, the CEO of a company I worked for could not seem to manage his fascination with his
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by ddingus 2y ago
I do not believe I understand your comment. Early, you mention people defending Apple security in a relative sense. Later, you mentioned Apple refusing user actions to verify security makes them no more safe in a relative sense. Are you jus
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by ddingus 2y ago
People really like that machine. Mine is sticky. As in when others get hold of it, next thing I hear is usually, "oooh" and then it takes some time for it to come back! I got mine for a song. Sweet deal, but it is the 8GB 256GB
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by ddingus 2y ago
Yep. I agree! Sorry, it just popped out. Your primary point is solid. Seconded.
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by ddingus 2y ago
Yeah, it is not perfect. Nothing is. I find explaining a few good computing practices coupled with a tour of the many fine OSS tools available literally for the asking, does real good for anyone willing to invest a bit of their time. MS Off
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by ddingus 2y ago
Exactly. I always have at least one machine setup with all local tools and storage. Any new ideation and certainly anything private gets done on that computer first.
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by ddingus 2y ago
That is a great skill to have. When I set Win 11 or earlier version PCs for others, I always load up Void Tools "Everything" and then swing by FossHUB for the full set of tools. Libre Office, Inkscape, and many more all go on the

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