olgeni

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by olgeni 14y ago
> They make great devices that just work. After learning that the App Store actually uses Spotlight (!) to find out what's in /Applications, and that sometimes you need to reindex to get an upgrade, or change permissions set by App Stor
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by olgeni 14y ago
When I was 14, time had not yet been discovered so I didn't even know I was 14.
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by olgeni 14y ago
Of course, Apple clearly offers the best design, performance, user experience, documentation, reliability, and overall quality. (pause) Can I have my UIGlassButton now? Even Genius-blue-only would be a start.
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by olgeni 14y ago
> Teletext (Ceefax on Channel 4) had some games you could play 'through your TV!' :) Some broadcasters even had "apps" that you could "run" through an assigned Teletext page and your phone (using DTMF), including home banking and silly
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by olgeni 14y ago
Back in the old days I had to write a firmware for an ISA board using the IAR C compiler (where changing comment text could break the build) and I used to feel dizzy even without drugs...
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by olgeni 14y ago
And the weird video memory layout of the 48k... :)
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by olgeni 14y ago
Maybe it is boring, but receiving app submission feedback always brings on a sense of renewed wonder...
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by olgeni 14y ago
Well... can we associate it to iTunes without using the dumb USB cable at last?
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by olgeni 14y ago
On Samsung devices you can programmatically configure the hotspot without being punished too hard. (oh well)
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by olgeni 14y ago
Trivia corner: I got the same dialog box without changing account or IP address. It turned out that the App Store wants to use the Spotlight index (!) for some reason, and that "Fix permissions" somehow botched it. "sudo mdutil -i on -E /"
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by olgeni 14y ago
After seeing the GDM screenshot I'm actually glad that the CDE sources were released.
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> and compiling most everything from source. You may also set up a ports tinderbox, get freshly baked binary packages with custom options, and catch any build issue before it bites.
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Enough is enough. Samsung: I'm willing to go to all thermonucular over this.
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by olgeni 14y ago
Back in 1996 I used to maintain a custom device driver for SCO OpenDesktop (which we actually used as a server). The actual userland software was mostly written in Perl 4.036. I still remember space.c and the "hidden" compiler we used to bo