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by ddingus 1y ago
It is showcased in the SGI Indigo Magic Desktop. You can build similar GUI apps with FLTK today
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by ddingus 1y ago
Great skill building times! I bought Redhawks 5.2 or .3 in the big box, bought the Linux Bible and went to town. Was running Sgi IRIX full time back then. When Linux booted, I had two thoughts! (Glances at spiffy Sgi Indigo Magic Desktop)
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by ddingus 1y ago
Seriously? It must be in combination with one or more of the intersex conditions, yes? I just wrote up thread about a recurring chat between my wife and I all about what if Men got this disease... the law would change quickly!
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by ddingus 1y ago
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by ddingus 1y ago
I just viewed the one linked above, and the coupla second render delay at first aside, the post displayed nicely, at full frame rate. Old Note 9, Chrome and Firefox. Non flagship mobile devices could very well choke on one of those pages, b
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by ddingus 1y ago
Great! Maybe the idea of a cyclical universe will gain traction. In my view, there is one universe. We are in it. It cycles from maximum to minimum condition endlessly. This cycle is much longer than any entity lifespan and for any enti
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by ddingus 1y ago
That will do what? One experiment? Kidding! (Though there is truth in my snark) Always happy to see research funded.
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by ddingus 1y ago
Heh, I fired up Libre Office a while back. Built up a home machine that does run Windows 10 (some embedded dev tools I want to run with low hassle), but all software on it is either OSS, or free beer type software. No 365, lol and the Win
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by ddingus 1y ago
Sure you can! Ask me how I know. (Has cleared overgrowth consisting of both vines and grasses roughly a meter high give or take some) What you do is tip the mower up, holding the handle near the ground and push it right into the mess. The
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by ddingus 1y ago
I just converted my home stereo. Pioneer, so lots of brushed metal. It looks really great at 2560x1440. Great dither.
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by ddingus 1y ago
I do remember my life and I am not fine. I remember a lot. One oddity with me is I seem to remember an unusual amount when it is connected to a question. I seem to record for a while, then can play back. And this sticks, sometimes for yea
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by ddingus 1y ago
Because their income does not fund basic needs which leaves no real power to invest. That is also why very large numbers of people do not participate in many areas of the economy.
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by ddingus 1y ago
Nobody needs formatting in notepad. Guess I will now always fetch a text editor. Having the simple character only notepad is great. It is general purpose stripping tool. Paste there, pick up just text, move on. Doing that, and editing te
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by ddingus 1y ago
We had both red blue and active shutter. My TV is 3D. Bought it because of that and my SGI experiences. Sadly, we botched 3D TV and few owners ever really got to use that tool to potential.
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by ddingus 1y ago
Very interesting! I am likely to have ADHD. Was never diagnosed as a youth because I never allowed it. Seriously! Growing up during the late 70's and 80's was a weird time for these things. My mistrust in all of that came from
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by ddingus 1y ago
Yes. It shows. I like that quarter century stuff.
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by ddingus 1y ago
Well, after a bit of fiddling, Textual also worked on my Android running Termux. Spiffy! I like this one a bit less than I do the all text mode, though I will have to go through a bunch of widgets to see if that remains true. Requiring Pyth
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by ddingus 1y ago
I know someone who uses FLTK for cross platform development. That one has a dated look too, and it's roots go back to that SGI Indigo Magic desktop I wrote about elsewhere in this discussion. Sometimes it can be hard because people wa
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by ddingus 1y ago
On my Note phone, I just tried dialog. Spiffy! I used Termux, and did this for a hello world: pkg install dialog dialog "hello there" 20 3 And BAM! There it is rendered in text, easy peasy. Thanks for the referenc
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by ddingus 1y ago
Nice! Way back when I was daily driving an SGI IRIX box, I was struck by how SGI often made IRIX system programs dual mode, command line and or GUI. On the command line, one could specify -v or --verbose or -GUI and generally get the desire
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by ddingus 1y ago
About damn time!
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by ddingus 1y ago
Your disclaimer adds value. Well done and appreciated!
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by ddingus 1y ago
Oh man! Mandrake 8! That was my first really fun Linux setup. At the time, I had RedHat running at work and was running SGI IRIX daily along with WinNT 3.51 then Win 2k. I had setup Ogle to play DVD media and at that time DECSS was a cont
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by ddingus 1y ago
I do haveba problem with that. Basically, if we are going to allow single humans to have so much buying power, that needs to come with some clear expectations. Risks must be taken. Pick something and advance society. Or, empower others in
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by ddingus 1y ago
It is. I have experienced others reference it as an early 3d Title too. Great work by that team! Seriously. The graphics are great, and for the time period, excellent enough to be lumped in with the real 3d games.
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by ddingus 1y ago
It is a fun era NOW. I love the pre VGA PC and earlier systems, like Apple 2, Atari. Am building a CGA system with a K2 CPU to go hacking on to see what was possible. I have, as do many, unfinished business :) Back then, it was fun at ti
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by ddingus 1y ago
I was old enough to see it as the passing fad it was. Niche, style points first kind of thing for sure. Meta: old enough that getting either a new color not intended, or an additional one visible on screen and having the machine remain abl
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by ddingus 1y ago
I expected a moderate amount of heat directed at my comment. No worries. I've friends in various industries doing production who hate the change. I like it, of course. Losing the volume knob is a direct result of the many abuses.
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by ddingus 1y ago
I took the post about the same way. Thought it excellent because of depth. Often, we don't get that and this topic, plus my relative ignorance on it, welcomed the post as written.
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by ddingus 1y ago
Yes, and I love it! Finally, the volume knob control was pulled from producers all about gimmicks to push their productions. There are still gimmicks, but at least they do not include music so badly clipped as to be unlistenable... hint:

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