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by reidrac 7y ago
This is not how I remember it. Default background colour in Netscape Navigator was not white but #c0c0c0 (and IIRC it wast that colour in Mosaic too). And yes, lots of pages relied on the default. For example, this post has some screenshots
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by reidrac 7y ago
"[..]only have the goal of creating a bootstrapping path to a C compiler capable of compiling GCC, with only the explicit requirement of a single 1 KByte binary or less." I believe the "size" refers to the binary size of
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by reidrac 7y ago
You can use Chrome (or Chromium) for development and Firefox for regular browsing. Is that a big deal?
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Unencumbered Open Source Commodore 64 ROMs(github.com)
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by reidrac 7y ago
At the moment I can't change the password. It fails with "Failed to save password" error, no more information. EDIT: it finally worked, 4th attempt, and very slowly. Looks like something isn't working 100% as it should E
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by reidrac 8y ago
For personal use (I host my own domain and mail server) I use Thunderbird and, occasionally, mutt. At work we're a Google G-Suite shop, so Gmail web interface.
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by reidrac 8y ago
I played it when it was PLIB based. It is amazing how how it looks now compared to how it looked back then.
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by reidrac 8y ago
I think the comment was referring to work remotely for a Spanish company. In Spain, remote work culture is almost nonexistent.
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by reidrac 8y ago
It would be matter of not working for a Spanish company. It makes taxes a bit more complicated though. (Ironically, I did some remote work for a Spanish company when I was living in the UK)
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by reidrac 8y ago
It may be tricky to do remote work from one of these places. In Spain, rural areas may not have broadband at all. You may have phone line, but the quality is so bad that not even ASDL is usable.
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by reidrac 8y ago
After giving a fair chance to Gnome 3 and Unity I decided to seek refuge in XFCE 4. I was a happy user of Gnome 2, but I'm not sure how things are today. How does it compare to XFCE?
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by reidrac 8y ago
I'm just guessing here, but Chrome is not packaged by the distro whilst Firefox is. Personally I like the tar. That's my preferred way to use Firefox in Debian. I untar on ~/apps/firefox, symlink to my ~/bin and it
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by reidrac 8y ago
It doesn't look like they were signing releases until two days ago with 1.10.10.
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by reidrac 8y ago
I'm Debian user and I usually install the packages, and the shipped version of the software is just fine for me. Occasionally I may want to use the newest version of a particular application and I've found that instead of installi
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by reidrac 8y ago
I'm not familiar with the console anyway, but I remember it had a ridiculous amount or RAM, so I assumed BASIC was out of question. Thanks, that sparkled my curiosity and turns out the source code is available!
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by reidrac 8y ago
Fair enough, looks like viability (or being "totally useless") didn't stop people back then!
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by reidrac 8y ago
The 2600 didn't have BASIC. Not viable with only 128 bytes of RAM. It was written in assembler: http://atariage.com/forums/topic/185693-halo-2600-source/
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by reidrac 8y ago
That's right. Sorry, English is not my first language.
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by reidrac 8y ago
Author here. Nice to see this on HN again. Since the first time, the design has been validated by another hobbyist (and ported to NTSC, original composite video is PAL). If anyone is interested, I have a NTSC patch that I've meaning to
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by reidrac 8y ago
That's an excellent summary of the book. Someone bought me this a a gift, I can't remember who. I read it and, although it has some interesting ideas, it felt like there was no enough content and it repeated the same points over a
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by reidrac 8y ago
Sorry if I misunderstood you, but you said you were using Brave. Perhaps you should review how you evaluate the products you use because your record isn't great. If you were wrong about Brave, your concerns about Firefox and Mozilla co
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by reidrac 8y ago
Duplicati uses C# and I use it on Linux, but I know few people using it on windows too. On Linux the UI is via the browser (the service has a web interface). I think this is the only C# project I use currently.
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by reidrac 8y ago
Someone posted a comment on an open issue, I got the mail, but there's nothing on the web interface. What I don't understand is why they don't set it all to "read only" until the problem is sorted. Looks like any up
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by reidrac 8y ago
That's right. My first PC had 512K (and a NEC V40 CPU, 80188 compatible). The first time I met someone at school owning a PC with 640K I found it really weird, like it was an usual number coming from a ZX Spectrum 8-bit with 128K of RA
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by reidrac 8y ago
I had to leave Firefox for Chrome at the office because Meet and Hangouts; I missed this: https://blog.mozilla.org/webrtc/firefox-is-now-supported-by-... Since Firefox 60 you don't need Chrome for that, so I'
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by reidrac 8y ago
You may find this interview interesting then: https://theretrohour.com/the-making-of-myst-and-riven-with-r... (I won't spoil you if there will be or not a Myst VR, go and listen to it)
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by reidrac 8y ago
Never played the game, but someone bought me the novels in a pack for my birthday and because back then I would read anything , I read them without many expectations, and they were quite alright. All the world rules and the lore was intere
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by reidrac 8y ago
Perhaps you should read it, your TL;DR is incorrect. What the post says is that Redis add-ons won't be open source, but the core will be (which is Redis). Basically this is a Open Core business model and they could have been clearer in
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by reidrac 8y ago
Any pointers on why is this that? It says "currently only offered as direct download", does that mean that it'll be available as an update later on?
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by reidrac 8y ago
I think you meant "Lesser GPL with the static linking exception". IIRC glibc is "stock" LGPL 2.1 without any linking exception, so I may have misunderstood your comment and you mean just LGPL. The LGPL is not viral but i

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