krylon

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1. 301.▲
   by krylon 3y ago

   At the time I was a Windows user who used his PC mainly for video games. Other than Minesweeper and Solitaire, the gaming situation on Windows for Alpha was probably not great.
2. 302.▲
   by krylon 3y ago

   I remember some PC vendors selling Alpha based workstations running NT in the mid- to late 1990s. I don't know how well they performed, but the price put them out of my range by such a wide margin I did not really care. I'd just l
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   by krylon 3y ago

   I found "Showstopper!" a very good read that portrays both the people involved, the environment the NT project grew out of, and some technical aspects of its development.
4. 304.▲
   by krylon 3y ago

   If you are using ZFS on a single drive, they reside on the same drive by necessity. Which was the case the parent posters were talking about.
5. 305.▲
   by krylon 3y ago

   IIRC, it was also frequently used for arcade games, and office printers, too.
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   by krylon 3y ago

   The last time I used PHP was in 2004 or 2005, PHP was at version 4.something, and I did not like it. That kind of formed my opinion on the language, even though I know it's come a long way since. OTOH, I have no reason currently to tak
7. 307.▲
   by krylon 3y ago

   I loved the passage where two guys in a club argue - and nearly fight - over HTML tables vs CSS for page layout.
8. 308.▲
   by krylon 3y ago

   Back in the day, when I had a Minidisc player, I heard in Japan, there were Minidisc drives for PCs as data storage. I would have liked to have one of those, but if that was true, they didn't find their way to Europe. They were very pr
9. 309.▲
   by krylon 3y ago

   As a bonus, if you pass NULL for the first argument, its return value tells you how much memory it would have used, so you can allocate a buffer that's the right size. Bigger performance hit, but in practice, I found the impact negli
10. 310.▲
    by krylon 3y ago

    If it's generational , ZGC Junior would be more appropriate. ZGC II, maybe. (SCNR)
11. 311.▲
    by krylon 3y ago

    But it's not the standard editor! (SCNR)
12. 312.▲
    by krylon 3y ago

    I thought that was deprecated since Windows Vista or 7.
13. 313.▲
    by krylon 3y ago

    GPU or chipset drivers, maybe?
14. 314.▲
    by krylon 3y ago

    They are talking of "vCPUs", so I suspect that is an LPAR.
15. 315.▲
    by krylon 3y ago

    To my mild dismay, it's not part of the base system in FreeBSD anymore[1]. It is easily installed, of course, but that means #!/usr/bin/perl does not work without manually creating a link. [1] I think it used to be par
16. 316.▲
    by krylon 3y ago

    That joke hasn't aged terribly well, emacs on my desktop is currently at 269MiB. "Eventually Mallocs All Computer Storage" still applies, though.
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    by krylon 3y ago

    Thank you very much! IIRC, Nixdorf was - alongside Fujitsu - an early investor in Amdahl. Both companies went on to resell Amdahl machines under their own brands in their respective home countries. I didn't know about TCSC, though.
18. 318.▲
    by krylon 3y ago

    I still find BS2000 to be the coolest name of any OS out there. Siemens being a German company, and the system going back to the 1970s, I'm almost certain it stood for "Betriebssystem 2000" originally (Betriebssystem being Ge
19. 319.▲
    by krylon 3y ago

    Intel has its ME which last I heard runs Minix, AMD has the PSP, though I don't know what kind of software that runs.
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    by krylon 3y ago

    But I wouldn't count the Venus probes as failures. Initially, they had no idea what the conditions would be like, so they built more and more robust probes until they did manage to land on the surface without dying immediately.
21. 321.▲
    by krylon 4y ago

    IIRC, the USSR had really bad luck with the various probes they sent to Mars. A couple crashed, and I think one or two got off course and were lost.
22. 322.▲
    by krylon 4y ago

    I agree, it would be so cool if we could get there in a couple of weeks. At least once the spacecraft arrives, it will (assuming everything goes well) do some very interesting exploring. So something to look forward to, even if it takes a l
23. 323.▲
    by krylon 4y ago

    Years ago, I wrote a primitive portscanner that was deliberately slow to avoid upsetting anyone. It would store hosts and results for scanned ports in a database (it was my toy project for learning SQL) and make sure to only connect to any
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    by krylon 4y ago

    PS: I think it was GNOME 1 with the sawfish window manager. KDE2 did support theming the windows decorations, but on second thought, I don't think one could set different looks per window.
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    by krylon 4y ago

    I used to use KDE2 back then, I loved that you could set different Windows decorations for each Window (or is my memory tricking me?) and have a global menu bar optionally. I did not like KDE3 as much bc they removed these features and ende
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    by krylon 4y ago

    The last time I did was around the time PC-BSD became TrueOS, forcing me to reinstall. Running X11 gave me some kind of trouble afterwards, so installed vanilla FreeBSD, which gave me trouble, too. So I installed Debian and haven't loo
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    by krylon 4y ago

    I vaguely recall some interview with or blog post / talk by an OpenBSD developer, where they said that POSIX tended towards adopting whatever GNU/Linux did, and that the BSD crowd's interests were not taken into consideration
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    by krylon 4y ago

    I wonder what benefit the certification has these days. IIUC, it used to be a requirement for contracts from large corporations and government agencies, but these days the number of commercial Unix systems is fairly small, and RHEL is so co
29. 329.▲
    by krylon 4y ago

    But they do have ed, vi (plus ex), and mg (which is not standard but nice to have) in their base system.
30. 330.▲
    by krylon 4y ago

    (slaps forehead) Of course. Thank you!