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by jmclnx 10y ago
I forgot about that. Was an interesting concept. Question, how can one tell if a UN*X newbee came from VMS ? You get a question from them "How to I change an environment variable for the parent process ?" :) That was allowed
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by jmclnx 10y ago
I was 'exiled' to VMS for a couple of years, though a very nice system there was lots more typing on VMS's command line. Anyway I think it was scaling and software that allowed UNIX take over. I had a useful UNIX on a 8086
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by jmclnx 10y ago
Well I heard NASA will no longer be able to do weather research under the new admin, nothing like hiding ones head in the sand and we all know only earth has weather :)
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by jmclnx 10y ago
at school we had a CDC, not sure if it was a 6200 or 6500. Wonder if I still have a deck or two in an old box :)
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by jmclnx 10y ago
One thing I do not see mentioned, Democracy depends upon a educated voters and that education has been eroded greatly over the last 50 or so years. Voters also need to review real facts, not facts created by "Reality TV" shows we
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by jmclnx 10y ago
Well: > Another noteworthy cause of C’s weakening > is its lack of a corporate sponsor A big plus for me, how are the java API law suits going ? > Over the years, C developers have shepherded C on > a path to improved performa
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by jmclnx 10y ago
I guess Samsung will keep a lonely Sony company on my "do not buy list", too bad. BTW, in the US, last I heard Parodies is a protected form of speech. So I think DoctorGTA has the law on his/her side (assuming he is living
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by jmclnx 10y ago
> I use X's network transparency daily Same here, it is the one feature I need. Then again I have seen 'tearing', but only when using nouveau, I still have hopes of nouveau, I really wish NVIDA would help out more than th
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by jmclnx 10y ago
Congratulations to the Slackware team for their hard work!
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by jmclnx 10y ago
Have companies ran out of people who can train
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by jmclnx 10y ago
Massachusetts cannot build/maintain bridges or roads period. One example, within 3 to 4 months New Hampshire build a large bridge over the Merrimack to their airport. About 30 miles down river there is a 'temporary' bridge
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by jmclnx 11y ago
funny, slack seems to be just like IRC, but on the 'WEB'. Wonder what other text based utilities' functionality can be converted/copied/retrofitted to the WEB and make someone rich :)
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by jmclnx 11y ago
Thanks for the link, giving it a whirl now