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by ralphc 4y ago
You must have run Clozure a while back, I went to the App Store and the version of CCL there hasn't run properly since Sierra, according to reviews. I myself can't run it on Mojave or Catalina.
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by ralphc 4y ago
I miss wobbly windows. It's not something I have on all the time but they're fun. They were all the rage back in the mid 2000's, especially on Knoppix but I don't see any tutorials for doing it in modern Linuxes. Can any
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by ralphc 4y ago
Does this modernish Pascal have any provisions for OOP or FP?
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by ralphc 4y ago
Put Adelie Linux on it, and you'll still be able to browse when the cyberattacks take down all the x86 machines.
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by ralphc 5y ago
Running the old hardware the main thing missing is modern web browsing, with security, certificates, https, tls, and javascript.
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by ralphc 5y ago
Not only do I remember 20 years ago but I collect vintage hardware and I run Windows 2000 on several Pentium III machines. It's faster on that old hardware than windows 10 on my i7's. File explorer is especially a culprit here, of
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by ralphc 5y ago
Yes, this is the book that got me interested in computer science.
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by ralphc 5y ago
I'll give the generic advice you hear here and on Twitter about programming and data science - learn with a project in mind. Pick a project you want to accomplish and learn the parts of programming, Python etc. you need to get the proj
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by ralphc 5y ago
All I hear about is how in ios there are a few giant apps and the rest don't even make money. I suppose you could work on corporate apps but that sounds remarkably similar to line of business .NET appslications.
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by ralphc 5y ago
This is Hacker News, I think about workarounds and ways to hack "the system". The article talks about a pat on the shoulder to stealthily check for the Brahmin white thread. What's to prevent someone from wearing a thread und
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by ralphc 5y ago
Can this be a base for Windows 3.1, 95 or 98?
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by ralphc 5y ago
Windows 2000 evokes a time when Windows was still enjoyable, or at lease useable. File Manager made sense, the UI elements were distinguishable enough that it's easy to tell what you're doing, the look was consistent. Definitely n
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by ralphc 5y ago
A place with a strip club and a school in essentially the same building, that wouldn't fly in the US.
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by ralphc 5y ago
This happened at place that I worked as well. Phone interview, went well, guy shows up and can barely speak English. We pretty quickly figured out what happened, escorted him out on day one.
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by ralphc 5y ago
Yeah, I wanted to sign up for Oracle's free cloud, I tried a pre-paid credit card and it was disallowed.
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by ralphc 5y ago
Yes, vintageapple is the main one. There's also powerpc, with some rare appearances in vintagecomputing.
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by ralphc 5y ago
I have one, and the main takeaway from me is that the software is dog slow. Other people here have talked about installing debian, what distros are available, and are they peppier?
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by ralphc 5y ago
In the vintage apple groups and subreddits Tiger is preferred over Leopard because it runs on more hardware and it's the last version that allows Classic mode that runs classic Mac OS applications.
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by ralphc 5y ago
I have my own version of "Bill Gate's" quote , "640K Ought to be Enough for Anyone". An i7 with 16GB of memory ought to be enough for anyone. "Anyone" in this case is the typical office worker or home surf
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by ralphc 5y ago
I haven't watched the move 100 times, but there is something I think isn't addressed. If the "war" ended tomorrow, and all the humans are freed, freed into what? You wind up with billions of naked hungry adults wandering
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by ralphc 5y ago
I had (have, I put Win98 on it for gaming) an eMachines that came with ME and it worked fine, but that meant they tested it and had all the drivers for it so ymmv.
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by ralphc 5y ago
Check out https://macintoshgarden.org/ and https://macintoshrepository.org/ for isos and software for os9.
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by ralphc 5y ago
Can someone explain this sentence to me? "In fact, WG14 makes WG21 look like tech’s Che Guevera."
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by ralphc 5y ago
You can still set up Windows 11 home without a Microsoft account, I just did it today on a new PC setup. You get connected at first, get the updates, then when the computer wants you to put in your account info you unplug Ethernet, or put t
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by ralphc 5y ago
Yes, new music makes me try to listen to it to decide if I like it or not. My go to is Yes's "Tales from Topographic Oceans". Peak progressive rock, a double album, four sides, four songs.
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by ralphc 5y ago
Late '90s I worked on Java software that got installed on several Unix platforms, including Linux for IBM mainframes. When you deal with the default en/de-coding of Unicode to EBCDIC you never have trouble with Java byte encodings
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by ralphc 5y ago
Barney Blaster!
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by ralphc 5y ago
This is from 10+ years ago, but my biggest gripe with SOAP was that if you didn't have the exact same library on both ends then you have problems. Apache Axis vs CSF vs soap-ws, and that's just Java. Java to .NET was almost imposs
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by ralphc 5y ago
Where are they going to? I've been out of the Java loop for a few years, maybe they landed where I did.
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by ralphc 5y ago
I'm out of the job market myself (retired) but isn't every developer's job stability above average? Isn't everyone looking for developers now? If you're one to take a stand then now is the perfect time. Unless you&#

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