mkovach

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by mkovach 4y ago
My thoughts exactly. I love using expect, but why would I write a C program when I quick and simple TCL script (expect is build with TCL and is threaded and easy to make thread-safe scripts). There are also expect clones in Python and Perl
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by mkovach 4y ago
Yea, it has it quirks (every language does) and does show it's age in things. I didn't mind the language itself, but the application I worked on was inventory related, which was mind-numbingly boring.
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by mkovach 4y ago
Have spent a couple years about 20 years ago dealing with a COBOL applications, I can tell you. Pick up COBOL (GNUCobol is fine) and a book. It isn't that hard of a language to pick up. Then, learn about mainframes since most of the CO
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by mkovach 4y ago
Serling was TV's first angry young man. But he really thought that TV was an important medium and there were things he wanted to say. He just found out that science fiction allowed him to get around censorship. There are plenty of runn
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by mkovach 4y ago
https://www.baseball-reference.com/ One of the most complete sources of baseball stats including game logs. Yes much of the data is from other sources (MLB, Retrosheet.org, etc) but they really ties things together nicely
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by mkovach 4y ago
We also owe a bit to Peter Junger ( https://web.archive.org/web/20061012211535/http://samsara.la... ). He did quite a bit of work (and had a similar lawsuit) that code was speech. He use to attend the Linu
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by mkovach 4y ago
That part I couldn't tell you, but I haven't look into it much lately.
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by mkovach 4y ago
I'm a bit out of the loop on RHEL, but a large reason for the specific kernel versions is to maintain API/ABI compatibility. One of the reason, at the place were we ran about 100's of RHEL/CentOS instances, he stayed wit
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by mkovach 4y ago
Lee Richmond threw the first perfect game in history in 1880. He later became a school teacher in Toledo, Ohio. One of his students was Norman Joss. Norman's dad was Addie Joss. Addie Joss threw the fourth perfect game in MLB history,
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by mkovach 4y ago
When I maintained uptime.openacs.org ( https://gitlab.com/siddfinch/uptime ) and MyTurl (both running AOLserver) I wrote internal versions for a place I was working at. I switched from Postgres to SQLite for a couple of
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by mkovach 5y ago
/SQY .. ah, the Q.E.D of the early 80s.
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by mkovach 5y ago
I use to run an uptime server ( http://uptime.openacs.org ) and a tiny url server ( http://myturl.com ) on an old SparcStation pizza box until 2006, when the final hard drive I was going to buy for the best finally dead.
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by mkovach 5y ago
You can try to buy your way to greatness, but it really works as a long term solution. Signing at 28 year-old star to a 10 year contract means you have to managed an expensive older player that will under-perform at the end of the contract.
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by mkovach 5y ago
Awesome stuff.
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by mkovach 5y ago
I still have a Slackware install that runs some really old stuff I have. I remember working at AN ISP in the 90s and slack was are secure distro. All the important stuff (authentication, configs, etc.) were stored and served from our '
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by mkovach 5y ago
FORTRAN is pretty easy to learn. One of my first programming gigs was, basically, writing a CGI program to present scientific reports on an OpenVMS system that used Apache. I had zero to do with the setup and FORTRAN was used because they h
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by mkovach 5y ago
TCL was a popular scripting language for IRC bots. Eggbot was done really nicely.
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by mkovach 5y ago
Baseball banned the spitball for many reasons, but the main one was to increase home runs (Babe Ruth was proving to be pretty popular.) Another reason given reason, which I only give partial merit to, is because of the Spanish Flu Epidemic
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by mkovach 5y ago
AOLserver is effectively dead. Naviserver, AOLservers original name, is being actively developed https://wiki.tcl-lang.org/page/NaviServer . I still have a few internal apps that use Naviserver.
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by mkovach 5y ago
I love this. When I was 17 my dad got me a summer job on the plant he worked at. 40 hours a week in the parts shop, ordering parts, getting parts, and running around to different places to pickup parts. Actually I didn't mind it, but i
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by mkovach 5y ago
When I had a requirement to do this, I used the one true awk and compiled it statically. Didn't require mucking around with all the libraries.
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by mkovach 5y ago
I do an awful lot of baseball stats work .. for fun .. and quite a bit of it is done in FORTRAN. Working with numbers, large matrices and some pretty hairy calculations is much easier, to me, that using R or Python. There are also some real
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by mkovach 5y ago
https://github.com/chadwickbureau/chadwick but it would be nothing without some data, so ... https://retrosheet.org and specifically https://www.retrosheet.org/game.htm
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by mkovach 6y ago
When I worked at Radio Shack in the late 90s, the entire POS was running as a main Xenix server and the terminals connecting to it. Backups were done on tape. Updates would come in over night and usually required a reboot at the worst times
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by mkovach 6y ago
I ended up working a few ex-controllers in my IT career. They has some interesting stories to tell.
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by mkovach 6y ago
rc shell is still maintained for Plan9 (in both 9legacy and 9front) and for UNIX in plan9port. I have used it has my daily shell for almost a decade now. There are also native UNIX ports available, usually based on https://github
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by mkovach 6y ago
Ahh Forth .. I remember after I finally got a disk drive for my TI-99/4a, I ordered some software and they included TI Forth. This was around 1985 or so. In 1990 I ended up writing a small Forth kernel to run a micro-controller in one
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by mkovach 6y ago
Building cigar box guitars ( and other similar ) instruments. Mainly out of scrap parts and wood I find.
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by mkovach 6y ago
Don't know if it has been mentioned, but the name Rocky is from Rocky McGaugh, co-founder of CentOS. He passed away and they named the new effort after him.
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by mkovach 6y ago
Ahh, the good old 99/4a. I wrote many a game on the best and actually had the Forth cartridge for it. I had a dual drive setup which actually worked into about 3 years ago.

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