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by petecox 9y ago
I was at La Trobe 1992-6 and Manfred taught me in 95 or 96. I remember a mixture of VMS, Ultrix and I think SunOS. A monochrome screen with curses to do your email, browse gopher and text-only web, compile and run programs (in Manfred'
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by petecox 9y ago
Every staff member had one of those. They opened new computer labs at La Trobe in about 1995 but before that it was VTxxx terminals accessing a mixture of VMS or *nix, I believe. I remember using vi in typesetting a paper with LaTeX before
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by petecox 9y ago
He was a European gentleman in a remote land with a quirky sense of humour and generous spirit; not your typical stuffy academic in tweed. :) And he had an awesome beard, long before hipsters made them fashionable! The tribute pages below p
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by petecox 9y ago
Manfred taught me mathematical logic back in the mid 90s. It was only much later browsing functional programming topics that I discovered his language and that he had passed away. RIP.
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by petecox 9y ago
And after 3 years? (I'm using a Nexus 4)
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by petecox 9y ago
> we do not have control over our borders. Arguably, Portugal doesn't have much control either. They can control their ports but there are no checks of anyone entering from Spain by car and airport security isn't as tight in pa
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by petecox 9y ago
Bunnings (Wesfarmers) had a well-established lead. There was no compelling reason for Masters to enter the market except that Woolworths thought they needed a piece of the action. Such is our supermarket duopoly.
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by petecox 9y ago
Bookshops that are still around have already survived Amazon. Remember Borders Australia? They died spectacularly and it was only the niche players that survived.
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by petecox 9y ago
ebay from AUS sellers has served me well this year on their site-wide 10-15% off deals. e.g. Merrell, Colorado, Columbia and Timberland, $50 cheaper than at a physical shop. KEEN doesn't seem discounted much though.
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by petecox 9y ago
"Four and twenty" is idiomatic English in that it survives in the children's nursery rhyme Sing a Song of Sixpence . It was composed around the same time that William of Orange reigned as king of the UK, so maybe that's
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by petecox 9y ago
'Smart' displays? Where I worked they wall-mounted large screen TVs. Windows 10 casted to them over wifi just fine.
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by petecox 9y ago
My windows laptop has only VGA out, so I hook up a second monitor via displaylink (usb -> DVI). I tried plugging the cable into my KVM switch and it worked okay on the Windows 10 side but there was some hot-plugging kernel panic when swi
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by petecox 9y ago
Oh boy, the price! The article is lamenting the expense of 'modern' KVM switches. For reference, a switch with 'legacy' USB 2.0/VGA connectors that powers my ageing home PCs is this model: https://www.eba
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by petecox 9y ago
I bought a USB2.0/VGA switch online for < $10. I had a number of vga and USB type B (aka printer) cables lying in boxes that are now put to good use! A windows laptop and a linux NUC, 5 USB peripherals shared. 4K and all digital HDM
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by petecox 9y ago
Australia now too.
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by petecox 9y ago
100 days or it's free was the deal. The urgency was the arrival of summer and an ongoing spat between state and federal politicians.
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by petecox 9y ago
The DeX product page explicitly says Built-in cooling fan , so they're definitely aware of overheating.
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by petecox 9y ago
The obvious use is laptop bans on flights and docking your phone to your hotel room's TV. Why so hung up about a keyboard and mouse? Even the local supermarkets here sell them dirt cheap these days.
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by petecox 9y ago
Why would web browsing be any different to performance on a phone or iPad; it's just connecting an external display over USB-to-HDMI? As long as the phone's GPU supports that...
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by petecox 9y ago
I already have dual monitors, keyboard, usb audio and mouse. Via a KVM switch, they drive a Windows 10 laptop and a Linux box. So I don't need additional computers in my life but if my phone had docking support I'd seamlessly just
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by petecox 9y ago
Don't get hung up too much on the price. They charge that because they can. Expect Xiaomi to release a $25 knockoff for their phones if there's ever a demand for it. I suspect there's very little in the dock hardware itself o
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by petecox 9y ago
The model I'm using, Nexus 4, was released 5 years ago to the day. Via a community ROM it still receives monthly AOSP security patches, albeit on a prehistoric 3.4 kernel and vendor abandoned binary blobs. If I had a spare $600 I might
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by petecox 9y ago
Linux used to be a thing on the Playstation 3 too until Sony's management intervened.
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by petecox 9y ago
Firefox OS - IIRC, it rendered the entire UI using HTML drawing directly to the screen using Open GL ES with no 'native' toolkit to speak of, nor requiring any X11 or Wayland backend.
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by petecox 9y ago
The law is probably not much help if they're scammers calling from overseas. Criminals from India call us here in AUS pretending to be from some legitimate call centre, advising us of some non-existent government rebate.
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by petecox 9y ago
Lack of diversity! What happens to the Rpi and Librem 5 foss-friendly communities if Broadcom buy Qualcomm who buy NXP?
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by petecox 9y ago
It seems like such a small one method change, in the context of forking an entire distro. I wonder if PackageManagerService is hard coded in many places, rather than using XML dependency injection. If the latter then may it be possible to o
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by petecox 9y ago
And from the same web page there's an uninstall script to un-root the phone. This is handy if you only need root occasionally, e.g. Titanium Backup, and don't mind messing about in TWRP.
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by petecox 9y ago
There's a cathedral in Catalonia that began construction in 1882. Its practical purpose is to attract tourists to Barcelona; maybe some day it'll be fully completed as a place of worship.
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by petecox 9y ago
Some people like to know there's 'twist' ending and the thrill is figuring out who did it. I avoided spoilers for Blade Runner 2049; Harrison Ford was in it and if you've seen the first movie that's all you need kno

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