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by krylon 2y ago
I have been a Thunderbird user since very shortly after its birth. I don't claim to have been there on the first day, but it wasn't long after that. (crazy to think it has been this long - our perception of time is weird). The sta
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by krylon 2y ago
Honest question: Is this satire?
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by krylon 2y ago
"indefinitely" might be a better name. (But I think loop is indeed a better name.)
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by krylon 2y ago
I run OpenBSD on an ancient laptop that I use to play videos. In about 7 years, I have had no bad experiences with it. Upgrading from release to release has been painless, hardware support is fine. Playing HD videos is out of the question,
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by krylon 2y ago
Back in the day, I made an attempt at LFS but gave up halfway through. In my defense, I had done a gentoo stage 1 emerge earlier that year. ;-) I never intended to end up with a usable system, I was just in it for the learning experience. A
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by krylon 2y ago
Until very recently, dot matrix printers were still common in doctors' offices in Germany (for reasons), and the sound they make always gives me huge wave of nostalgia, even bigger than hearing a fax/modem emitting its handshake s
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by krylon 2y ago
A C-64 fits on your desk easily. A PDP-11 or a Cray-1 does not. This surely isn't the entire answer, but I suspect it does play a role.
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by krylon 2y ago
I thought this was going to be about using smart geese as a deterrence, e.g. against burglars or obnoxious neighbors. FWIW, as a mechanism for keeping the geese in check, I like it.
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by krylon 2y ago
I have not, but I shall! Thank you!
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by krylon 2y ago
From what I heard, the filesystem was very cool. You could attach arbitrary key-value pairs to files, and e.g. rather than store song metadata in ID3 tags or whatever, it was stored as filesystem metadata, making it searchable by any progra
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by krylon 2y ago
I doubt it. With WordStar/WordPerfect, the original developers and vendors are no longer in the game. If Microsoft did that, they would be admitting, basically, the last 20 years were mostly wasted on useless gadgets. Some users, of co
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by krylon 2y ago
Good thought. Familiarity and muscle memory are a big asset. As a long time emacs user, I feel the same about my tool of choice. It's not always about being the absolute best tool there is, but about being one that you know inside and
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by krylon 2y ago
Copyright issues aside - which can be quite thorny for software this old - I imagine the people who created WordStar must take great pride in the fact that more than thirty years later, people still make good use of their creation.
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by krylon 2y ago
Thanks to the author for making the effort! I don't use FreeBSD on my desktop myself, but I think it's important to have options.
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by krylon 2y ago
I'm not a big fan of Windows, but I'm a bit sad that the project didn't go anywhere forever and then was cancelled. They had some pretty ambitious and interesting ideas for it. E.g. the only public beta of Vista that had it e
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by krylon 2y ago
Sometimes you just gotta love the German language. We joyfully smash words together to make new words, like a linguistic particle accelerator. :-)
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by krylon 2y ago
Those are pretty beefy spec for the listed price. I may be drooling a little over here.
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by krylon 2y ago
If I was still using a Mac as my desktop, my productivity would be completely gone now. =D
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by krylon 2y ago
Diary from the late 1990s. The original timestamps haven't survived moving across machines repeatedly, of course, but the files are named after the date I wrote them.
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by krylon 2y ago
I am so glad I'm not the only one whose brain pulls such pranks. Thank you!
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by krylon 2y ago
The first two times, my brain wanted to read Futamura as Futurama . Silly me.
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by krylon 2y ago
I was about to complain that my hometown is missing, but then remembered it didn't exist back then.
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by krylon 2y ago
I never heard of ULA before, and it sounded a bit overwhelming at first. But on a Fritz!Box with recent firmware, it's very easy to enable, and voila! - just works.
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by krylon 2y ago
I was surprised, too. Knowing little about physics, this was a pleasant surprise, however.
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by krylon 2y ago
My first multiprocessor system was one of those! Two Duron CPUs, "upgraded" to think they were AthlonMPs. Worked pretty well, but it used a lot of power. I burned through two PSUs in 18 months (admittedly, both were not exactly to
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by krylon 2y ago
None of my computers have floppy drives. :blushing-emoji:
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by krylon 2y ago
Thank you very much!!!
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by krylon 2y ago
Agreed. Over the past couple of years, I have stumbled across numerous indicators that a wide variety of animals have at the very least more complex inner processes and experiences than naturalists of old would have given them credit for. A
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by krylon 2y ago
I didn't know I needed this.
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by krylon 2y ago
Apparently Oracle has stopped caring, new Solaris releases haven't been certified in a few years, says Wikipedia. I don't really know what the certification gets you these days other than bragging rights. I imagine in the past, go

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