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by fredoralive 12y ago
It must require an Xserve, they had serial ports. :-) (But more seriously, USB->Serial converters work with Mac OS X, I used one to connect a Palm m105 to a G3 iBook running Mac OS X 10.1 way back when. More currently, it seems the OS it
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by fredoralive 12y ago
That site does seem to show an odd disconnect, it seems to mention "init-freedom" alongside "...the first goal of removing systemd...". Surely true "init-freedom" would be to give the end user a choice between
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by fredoralive 12y ago
The Windows 7 version of ftp.exe still has a University of California copyright string buried inside it...
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by fredoralive 12y ago
I'll be a pedant and point out that bit of hyperbole has a bit of an odd timeline issue. It seems to say he jumped ship to Android when the app store was announced. But iPhone OS 2 which introduced the walled garden app store came out
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by fredoralive 12y ago
People did tend to use those "modem" things back in the days.
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by fredoralive 13y ago
The device is by IBM, not IIX. The site below has some better pictures of the device's logo (and some other bits of “IBM” hardware), along with lots of pictures of Kubrick's preference for san-serif fonts: http://typese
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by fredoralive 13y ago
The MacPorts version has now been updated to 1.0.1g.
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by fredoralive 13y ago
iWork '09 works on Mavericks.
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by fredoralive 13y ago
In this case it's the RSS feed itself, not the reader. The image in the feed is just a static PNG: http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/frequency.png Which did somewhat confuse me as well until I looked at the actual websi
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by fredoralive 13y ago
Wasn't it Canon that actually made the printer? The internals at least, the original Laserwriter used the same Canon LBP-CX print engine as the original HP LaserJet. Both had unique control hardware / software, and somewhat diff
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by fredoralive 13y ago
That's the logo of a defunct courier company, not the browser. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LYNX_Express
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by fredoralive 13y ago
I had to use ye olde magnetic stripe and signature at a Morrison's a couple of weeks ago. The card reader was broken for some reason. Naturally the magnetic stripe on the first card I tried was also broken and wouldn't swipe...
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by fredoralive 13y ago
It's an undocumented binary format rather than a documented XML one. The format seems to have been designed with low RAM / CPU usage (ie: iOS) in mind. But seeing as nobody else seems to have bothered to actually add support for t