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by reidrac 12y ago
I'm not surprised. For the same reason OpenSSH should be very well founded, and if I recall correctly it's not the case. One of the points of open source is that software becomes a commodity, and that will always hurt OSS founding
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by reidrac 12y ago
After finishing my "One Game a Month" challenge in 2014 I got back to my plan to learn (again) some electronics and I'm building a AVR based 8-bit 80s style microcomputer. On January I got the video driver (composite video, P
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by reidrac 12y ago
Thanks for the clarification. I'm not familiar with Microsoft programs and I didn't know what "IoT platform" was (in fact, didn't know that IoT was "Internet of Things").
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by reidrac 12y ago
I have a success story with that. I moved abroad and I have a chat with my parents using Skype from time to time. After the Microsoft acquisition Skype had to be upgraded and the old version stopped working. My parents aren't tech-savv
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by reidrac 12y ago
I'm building an 8-bit microcomputer myself using the popular AtMega328p (basically and Arduino board), as an excuse to learn electronics. Turns out I'm mostly learning AVR stuff, because the MCU will do most of the work; but I dig
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by reidrac 12y ago
The problem is that the process is good for the software but it won't be good for the users in the early iterations. I use Fedora at home and I love it, but sometimes it is a little bit too experimental and in this case I'm afraid
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by reidrac 12y ago
I can relate to this. I started with ZX Spectrum 128K's Basic and then moved to GWBasic on a Nec V40 (80186 compatible), my first PC. When I got a computer good enough to run QBasic (or anything newer than DOS 3.3), it could compile C
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by reidrac 12y ago
To be fair it was a beta of the "Ubuntu Netbook Remix" and that bug was shortly fixed. I took some screenshots because I really liked the interface, but none of them show the bug because I usually stick to en_GB and the problem wa
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by reidrac 12y ago
Slightly OT, mi favourite localization error was in Ubuntu when they had that nice netbook interface (that later would become Unity). The network icon label was "Rojo" in the Spanish localization, that is the word for "red&qu
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by reidrac 12y ago
I love how the author found consumer components and put them together to build the handheld. Looks really good! There are a lot of inspiring projects over the web, but very often they require tools that aren't available to everybody or
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by reidrac 12y ago
You can use pigz with SSH as you can pipe commands over SSH (google it). If nc is faster than scp, I guess encryption is a factor, but then they're not comparable solutions to the same problem.
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by reidrac 12y ago
"Bookmark this page, and then set a reminder to check in soon." That made me chuckle. If just there was a technology based in XML that could be used to do that...
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by reidrac 12y ago
I'm not sure if I understand, is this abandonware? From Wikipedia: "Abandonware is a product, typically software, ignored by its owner and manufacturer, and for which no product support is available. Although such software is usua
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by reidrac 12y ago
I usually make it available on localhost and use an SSH tunnel to access to it. Nothing fancy, but effective.
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by reidrac 12y ago
I don't agree. Desktops matter. I use the same XFCE version in Ubuntu and Fedora, and they look/behave the same. You need to get to install software to find differences. I guess Unity is only available in Ubuntu, but that's j
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by reidrac 12y ago
I'm not an expert but AFAIK it makes sense: he's using an AVR and that's Harvard architecture, meaning code and data use different buses so all you can run must be in the flash of the microprocessor. So emulation is a way to
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by reidrac 12y ago
This guy is amazing, look at his projects! Really inspiring. Related (you may know it already): https://github.com/EtchedPixels/FUZIX Implementing a VM is an interesting way to workaround some Harvard architecture&#x27
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by reidrac 12y ago
"and realize just how much we take things for granted today" Well, Z88DK has some... bugs. It is definitely a new experience when the compiler segfaults because a syntax error ;) To be fair, I'm glad it exists, but it got me
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by reidrac 12y ago
There are some pixel art tutorials: http://www.pixelprospector.com/the-big-list-of-pixel-art-tut... For me it really helped to configure Gimp for pixel art: set the pen to 1 pixel, save some palettes, set the grid to 8x8 wh
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by reidrac 12y ago
I use Gimp mostly, once I learnt how to tweak it for pixel art it is quite good. For me all starts with the right palette. It really helps to get what you're looking for. I usually work with 64 colors (unless there's any special r
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by reidrac 12y ago
OP here! Sorry about that. It could be a problem with SoundJS lib, because the volume is really low in my Moto G for some reason. Now that I think of it, I didn't try it with headphones.
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by reidrac 12y ago
OP here. Thanks for that! I'm a little bit better now, but I guess it looks different when you see the end result. Believe me when I tell you the process was quite painful and it involved starting over several times :)
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by reidrac 12y ago
OP here! I can't really tell, but I had to be very effective using my free time. Sometimes is 30-45 minutes before going to bed, sometimes is waking up early on weekends. I don't watch TV, I read only a couple of books this year,
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by reidrac 12y ago
OP here! I found Z80 assembler quite interesting (I had previous experience with Intel 16 and 32 bit), and Z88DK supports inline asm so it wasn't too bad if you can restrict the assembler code to small routines and still do the main bi
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Post mortem of my one game a month(usebox.net)
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by reidrac 12y ago
Oh, you're almost right. What you're describing has been happening in Spain for years with a blank media tax called "canon”, and more recently (2007) with its last iteration as "digital canon": http://en.
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by reidrac 12y ago
S3 as object storage doesn't have a hierarchical structure compared with most file system and it won't support all the operations expected in a POSIX file system (eg, no write append, renaming is implemented as copy-then-delete, .
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by reidrac 12y ago
But S3 is not a file system, is an object storage :) The requirements are different.
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by reidrac 12y ago
"Most devices already include or will include hardware HEVC support, so we suggest to use it if patents are an issue." I don't know if that suggestion makes much sense, but you missed it in your quote.
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by reidrac 12y ago
I find amusing that being made in 2004 still works! I made a couple canvas 2D games in Jan/Feb this year and I tried the HTML5 gamepad API in Chrome, and now (10 months after that) it is deprecated. My experience doing "complex&qu

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