lakkal

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by lakkal 5y ago
There is a saying, "Neither a lender nor a borrower be.". At some point I twisted that in my mind to "Neither a leader nor a follower be" and have tried to live by both.
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by lakkal 6y ago
Not really lines of code as such, but in Visual Foxpro, opening a DBF (database table file) on a fileserver, from an application running on that fileserver, referring to the file using its local path rather than a mapped network drive file
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by lakkal 6y ago
In the 80s the malls usually had 1) an arcade, 2) at least one bookstore, sometimes two, 3) a toy/hobby store where you could buy RPGs and wargames, 4) a music store or two, and 5) 'food' of some kind. Good memories, though
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by lakkal 6y ago
Oh, that's very interesting. Thanks!
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by lakkal 6y ago
Still using VFP9 to this day. Our application originated in ~1986 in dBase II, then we switched to FoxBase, then the various version of FoxPro. Currently in VFP 9. But, we still have to invoke Foxpro for DOS 2.5 (in DosBox) to edit some
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by lakkal 6y ago
There's something called Scener ( https://scener.com/about ) that does something similar but it requires streaming service subscriptions. I love that this would work to share a DVD with friends, but there are probably l
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by lakkal 6y ago
This has been posted here before. The hardware logs are really fun to read. (at https://www.saildart.org/allow/pdf/index.html )
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by lakkal 6y ago
The reason the mural was so so noteworthy was because the last war fought on that particular planet happened at such an early level of development (cavalry charges, armored knights, etc).
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by lakkal 6y ago
I agree - I hate advertising in general, but that in niche magazines (as long as it isn't too obtrusive) servers a very useful purpose and I'm ok with it.
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by lakkal 6y ago
Yeah - and I get the impression that 5.0 isn't anything like 4.0, so maybe it wouldn't be as unpleasant as I've been fearing. I had been with two very long-lasting gaming groups (~35 years each) which both dissolved in the l
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by lakkal 6y ago
WotC has been dead to me since 4.0. I stayed on 3.5 and switched to Pathfinder for some new games. I don't particularly want to learn 5.0, but I'm feeling I might be forced to if I want to join/start any current games...
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by lakkal 6y ago
There was some advertising, especially toward the back of the magazine, but since Dragon was published by TSR, they probably weren't relying on the ads for financial support.
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by lakkal 6y ago
In my case, I loved my Atari 800 and 800XL, but when the Amiga came out and someone brought theirs in to the university lab where I was working, I knew I had to have one. I finally got a 500 a couple of years later and still have it.
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by lakkal 6y ago
One of my professors joked that they were so fast, they could run an infinite loop in 2.2 seconds.
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by lakkal 6y ago
Back in the 90s, I semi-seriously considered building a pizza order module into our software. On Fridays our 25-person office usually got pizza, and I usually wound up spending a good 20 minutes going around and tabulating how many of wha
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by lakkal 6y ago
I don't spend much time on Facebook, but I use a Firefox extension from here: https://www.fbpurity.com/ which lets you get rid of (hide) a lot of the junk, including sponsored stuff. It would be unbearable for me othe
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by lakkal 6y ago
Same here, and it really sharpened my typing skill.
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by lakkal 6y ago
The style really reminds me of old Chaosium maps, from the 1980s.
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by lakkal 6y ago
You can use the Blank New Tab Add-on - I've been using it since setting my 'home page' to about:blank stopped working.
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by lakkal 6y ago
That crunchy sound of the VT1xx terminal and the other keyboards in this video are giving me an intense feeling of nostalgia.
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by lakkal 6y ago
I cracked a couple of games (that I owned - Fort Apocalypse, and some other one) by disassembling (by hand) the boot code and NOPing out the copy protection checks with a hex editor - I think I actually used a Forth utility to do that part.
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by lakkal 6y ago
I had a similar one I'd type in hex at $300, something like: CALL -151 300:B5 00 20 ED FD E8 AD 30 C0 4C 00 03 300G (that's a recreation I just worked out, but I think what I used to use was a little different - I forget what tech
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by lakkal 6y ago
I was a subscriber for a few years in the 2000s but let it lapse. Just got a lifetime subscription. I hope they survive.
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by lakkal 6y ago
I bought an NSA mug at the National Cryptologic Museum in 2000 or so. I was amused when it developed cracks and started leaking around the time Snowden was just getting into the news.
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by lakkal 7y ago
Sounds like "huddling" together might be an English word that conveys the meaning slightly better than "cuddling".
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by lakkal 7y ago
At 00:05 there's a credit for 'Ambience sound by guy jones', so I think as someone else said, the sound was added later.
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by lakkal 7y ago
There's something similar associated with people from the state of Maine in the US: "You can't get there from here."
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by lakkal 7y ago
I used to do that sometimes myself (and have also donated)!. One thing that always seemed strange was how often the random page would be for a soccer/football team or player, or for a random town in Poland.
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by lakkal 7y ago
I use a Firefox extension called "F.B. Purity". It gives you a lot of control over what you see on Facebook. You can hide "People You May Know", among many other things. https://www.fbpurity.com/
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by lakkal 7y ago
I just cancelled my WoW subscription. It did ask for reasons; in the free-form text box, I just typed 'Hong Kong'.

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