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by prosaic-hacker 4y ago
I have used a similar windows trick. I wanted to add to the default window system a place for my library of tools. Most are "portable" cmd apps from various sources (sysinternals, nirsoft). I put them all into a directory called
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by prosaic-hacker 4y ago
During commutes and chores. Mostly really geeky tech podcast. Computer Security, embedded systems, networking. Twit.tv, packetpushers.net, theamphour.com embedded.fm, unnamedre.com. www.cbc.ca/radio/spark. Grazed through dozen
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by prosaic-hacker 4y ago
Freedom.net was the platform. Zeroknowledge.net was the company. The first big "purge" happened in spring 2001 , not long after the Freedom.net 2.0 release. One morning logins did not work. Big all hands meeting with the message:
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by prosaic-hacker 4y ago
Over twenty years ago I worked for a company who tried to sell Pseudonymity. http://www.zeroknowledge.com ( https://web.archive.org/web/20010203195700/http://www.zerokn... ) You got 5 "Ny
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by prosaic-hacker 4y ago
One mans suggestion. Get back to using your skills (for pay or volunteer) with real people. The first world has lots ills. Work in medical, legal, educational, environmental, or social service organizations as close as you can to where yo
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by prosaic-hacker 5y ago
This is a scaled up version of my setup for my adult son, who is legally blind. We setup 2 of these as our "zoom" stations at the beginning of the pandemic. A good chair/sofa up close the TV, 55" UHD TV connected to a Le
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by prosaic-hacker 5y ago
Well if anyone can come up with a less toxic cleaner for my toaster oven pan (and similar heavily baked grime on baking pans) it would raise my happiness level. Baking soda, vinegar and other listicle cleaning solution (pun intended) haven
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by prosaic-hacker 5y ago
I quickly looked through the list (1970s and 1980s) and the definition of 1HW must be very a specific chart listing thing because there are musician who have had who had careers independent of the hit. Chris de Burgh filled 2000 seat venues
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by prosaic-hacker 5y ago
As I mentioned above I teach IT for $, I fix things for fun(not bicycles, yet?) Satisfaction ROI much higher fixing. Tears of joy for a rewired glazed pottery lamp they made themself 50 years before From teaching :tidbits from Admin, occasi
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by prosaic-hacker 5y ago
Day Job: Training Programming and Sysadmin (between 500 and 1000 workdays till retirement) Hobbies: Repairing thing for others to save money and not throw out stuff too soon (rewired lawnmower battery for $50 instead buy new $500 mower.
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by prosaic-hacker 5y ago
I have the T1000 in my storage closet under the stair. (with SWTP CT-82 and Cat Novation acoustically coupled 300 baud modem. The T1000 had a boot Rom disk with DOS 2.11 on it. I had a memory upgrade to 512 or 640K which I used as ram disk
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by prosaic-hacker 5y ago
Bugs in production software existed in all generations. In the mid 80s I worked on DEC Vax VMS systems. Our code was mostly written in FORTRAN and Assembly Language. Our group dealt with the failures of the dev tools and bugs in the OS. On
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by prosaic-hacker 5y ago
In fall 1975 in my senior year of High school, I toured the local Junior College (Vanier CEGEP) and saw a lab with a HP 9830A driving a HP flatbed plotter producing Biorhythm plots. I applied to that college and a year later the lab become
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by prosaic-hacker 5y ago
Not the OP. In my case the client want many all-in-ones.I proposed a small CPU to fit into the notches on the back of a Specific monitor. I used an Intel Compute stick which only needs power, an HDMI cable and a powered USB hub. This gave
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by prosaic-hacker 5y ago
Very elegant and very unimplementable at the time. The make They seem to avoid the under sized address ranges which time and again plague computing. eg. -IBM mainframe OSs with below/above the line addressing. -The 1MB 8086 & Do
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by prosaic-hacker 5y ago
I hope this gets read by more that the cadre of people who already program in Perl. As I am writing this there are no other comments. I hope someone beats me for first comment. (Just checked I am first and alone) I first used Perl in 1991i
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by prosaic-hacker 5y ago
TOC and Index method If I have to test on a topic I know sort of intuitively but look thing up each time I do it because I do it infrequently I do the follow to have all the details current. I take a trusted source of information on the top
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by prosaic-hacker 5y ago
I was a new programmer in the late 70's. I remember hanging in local computer stores and trying out the programming capabilities of the system they had on display. Mostly basic, one had FORTRAN. Inadvertently helped to sell a 10k-ish (
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by prosaic-hacker 5y ago
The best set of videos explain how hardware can display video is in Ben eater site. It assumes VGA. https://eater.net/vga I don't what monitor type was assumed in this design but a similar approach could create a cla
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by prosaic-hacker 5y ago
Part Time Lecturer in Vocational Computer Support Program in a Community College. Three digits worth of work days to retirement. Post work hobbies already prepared. Family of 3. Seven year old paid off car that's getting 20% 1st 5 yea
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by prosaic-hacker 5y ago
Same Issue for me. Using Firefox beta.
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by prosaic-hacker 5y ago
"Most companies do not keep their books in spreadsheets." Iceberg issue (only n% visible). Most companies do not have the self awareness to know that their ERP systems and server class database apps are shadowed by an enormous vol
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by prosaic-hacker 5y ago
I have an handicapped adult son and have been debating what to do in the long run. For those who can understand support them to the max. Just from the people I know with adult children who CANNOT understand legal and financial issues ther
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by prosaic-hacker 5y ago
I have played this game for months at a time and then abandon it. I have a backup file of a Level 66 character on one of my backup keys from 2014 . Maybe time to continue the game.
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by prosaic-hacker 5y ago
Being an ordinary success is fine too. Been there, done that, more than once. Being fierce worked sometime and not others. Found the sweet spot in some companies, fired in others. Moderate success as a consultant (made a living for 7 years)
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by prosaic-hacker 5y ago
I have a First Gen iPad with a dozen or so contemporary applications the still work because they do not touch the net at all. I also have hundreds of books that were legally downloaded. (humble bundles and creative common). It is my Replac
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by prosaic-hacker 5y ago
Note my screen name. I have been doing, learning, and teaching system admin and programming for a very long time. It has always been by Hacking. It does have another description in my mind : Learning by trying things out. This has nothing
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by prosaic-hacker 6y ago
Viral expansion of any tool depends on (pardon the pandemic reference) a super spreader event or 10. Success needs: 1 A killer app. Pascal/Turbo Pascal, Email/nascent Internet, VisiCalc/Apple II, 123/IBM PC. 2 decad
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by prosaic-hacker 6y ago
Box line Text sort of does what I want. https://github.com/jncraton/box-line-text The blank or edit file can be saved locally as URL or .HTM file and can be reloaded and continue to be edited. The UI is missing help, i
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by prosaic-hacker 6y ago
I don't know where you live but companies have been leasing computer equipment for decades. Usually for 3 to 5 years or monthly for special projects. Over 20 years ago I joined a company as Director of IT. In the first 10 days I cance

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