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by mkovach 3y ago
I use to goto this conference on the regular (even talked at it a few times). To be fair, I knew the people that originally started it. Always had a great experience. Interesting talks and I have sat down and had conversions with Maddog, Zo
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by mkovach 3y ago
Ahh, Lovely Ada. When I was a wee lad, toiling as an Email consultant, having my mind slowly destroyed by Sendmail configurations, the constant fear induced by anything related to Microsoft and Email, and, well, let's not mention Lotus
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by mkovach 3y ago
"a typedef name was a complete surprise to me at this point in your program" Ah, the joys of fun compiler messages. I miss those days. I remember getting one from a vendor compiler that was: "No! But they'll
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by mkovach 3y ago
I'll recommend a video series on it also, for the same reason. While I enjoy the content, the presentation just didn't click.
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by mkovach 3y ago
Une Histoire Populaire du Baseball https://blacklephant.com/ouvrage/une-histoire-populaire-du-b... Yes, a book about baseball written by a Frenchman. Interesting that did focus on the "big names" (Ruth, Gehri
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by mkovach 3y ago
As, I said, things remain that same. The cover-up is always a bigger story. Ask Nixon :)
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by mkovach 3y ago
Seems to me this might be plain old intimidation. The folks involved, which includes the Police Chef, see that somebody is leaking information to the press and a trying very hard to find they leak(s). Since they can't figure out who, a
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by mkovach 3y ago
I still get a bit impressed with myself when I build a new Cigar Box guitar. Build something that can actually make music, using nothing but, usually, spare parts and almost completely out of wood is pretty cool. One of my neighbors recentl
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by mkovach 3y ago
Swig was quite nice and I used it often when I was doing some larger TCL projects. Didn't take very long to easily integrate many of the C (or FORTRAN libs wrapped by C) into TCL (or specifically, TK). Made putting serviceable graphica
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by mkovach 3y ago
Drew has commented on the origins of fark.com. Basically, he was drunk and looking for a funny name. Fark.com come was available. So, basically, a "here, hold my beer" domain name.
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by mkovach 3y ago
Actually, I have been doing this for some stuff now. I wrote my copy of tangle (based on noweb's notangle). I'm starting to write markdown files to that a literate programs for Dockerfile images (as well as the support scripts use
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by mkovach 3y ago
The TI99/4A was awesome. My parents seen my interest in computing and got my the FORTH cartilage for it. It was a fun little machine. I still haven't quite forgiven them for that.
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by mkovach 3y ago
DejaGnu has been around forever. https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/dejagnu.git/tree/ I still use it for testing software. Add in expect and it is fairly simple to write tests against TCL applications (I do it
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by mkovach 3y ago
The gold old days. My first real corporate gig was programming (Fortran, DCL, and odd bits of Ada) AND operations on various VMS clusters. Fun times. I have occasionally created a Hobbyist cluster and played around with it just long enough
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by mkovach 4y ago
Oh good heavens. Arcnet! When I first learned about writing Linux device drivers, it was trying to get a decent driver for some Arcnet cards that the company I worked at as using in some client installations. Can't remember exactly why
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by mkovach 4y ago
Always liked Rexx. Worked at a fairly big IBM shop (mainframes, AIX, desktop, etc) were all Big Blue. Although Rexx was a bit cranky on AIX, almost all system level scripts used (or called) Rexx. It wasn't a world buster, but then I di
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by mkovach 4y ago
Same here! When I started off in the UNIX world, the shop had a collection of AIX, SunOS, Solaris, HP/UX and Digital UNIX. the x-hack was standard form and I spent a few years fixing errors with the x-hack (or converting the scripts to
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by mkovach 4y ago
We'll agree to disagree then, but remember nothing is set in stone. That is an article from 1980. I spent 10 years working at Radio Shack, and the TRS was typically referred to as 'trash' but more people I spoke with. Of cour
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by mkovach 4y ago
Yep, TRS = Trash. It was a nickname. They are pretty good computers. I still use my TRS Model 102 (portable computer, includes basic and a few decent apps). Tandy Radio Shack (TRS) make some decent computers. My first IBM compatible PC was
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by mkovach 4y ago
Trash 80s were a nickname based on the TRS (Tandy Radio Shack) name. Nothing bad about them. In fact, the TRS Model III - 102, that I still own is still used. (And has a basic written by Bill Gates). They were great computers!
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by mkovach 4y ago
Oh by, Trash 80s! I learned FORTRAN programming on a collection of TRS-80 Model III/IV in high school. (Yes, for the programming class we were not allowed to use basic, so we used FORTRAN). Seen my old computer/math teacher last s
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by mkovach 4y ago
Kermit could be pretty good. Used it for VMS stuff for quite a bit. Really lost track of it when I moved to mainly Unix setups.
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by mkovach 4y ago
I will always have a fondness for UUCP. I eventually moved to qmail (a bit hacked up to handle for some unusual requirements) for all the UUCP related stuff. UUCP had it's issues, but it was (and still is) one of the best was to transf
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by mkovach 4y ago
Worked at a place with OpenVMS and a UUCP setup. Yep, I've used mail11. I've use to setup UUCP mailers. I've hand configured sendmail with fingertips scarred from thumbing through the bat book. I've worked with sendmail
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by mkovach 4y ago
Ahh, FORTRAN. I have fun, memories of FORTRAN. Write out of college in the mid to late 90's I worked with the language quite a bit. I was working for a logistics company and we spent a lot of time calculating routes, costs (fuel, maint
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by mkovach 4y ago
30 years ago. Man. I was working at a OpenVMS shop, cranking out DCL code and writing mainly in FORTRAN. Books and manuals littered my wee little cubicle. I had a vt220 and vt420 terminals because Reflections rarely worked correctly on my h
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by mkovach 4y ago
Well, if you says so! Gonna order those up, given the source of the recommendation :)
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by mkovach 4y ago
I love this bit of code. It saved my butt in '99 when I had to implement searches for potential "Y2K" coding issues. Some where, collecting dust in CVS repository, probably saved on tape is some storage bunker, is a modified
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by mkovach 4y ago
Doc Searls and The Cluetrain Manifesto. Man, I have thought about both in quite a while. I guess I'll have to find my dusty copy hidden in some forgotten corner.
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by mkovach 4y ago
I wonder what they mean by "notable". Notable folks from my town include announcers for major sports teams, a famous cartoonist, a former director of an international organization, and a Grammy winning musician (among others). The

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