themadturk

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by themadturk 5mo ago
Mine as well. Felt like I imagined a Mac felt like (I was Mac-envious in those days).
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by themadturk 5mo ago
That was my first GUI, on the Commodore 64 with RAM expansion (don't remember if I had the 128kb or 256kb expansion). I wrote and laid out my user group newsletter on GeoPublish. I felt like I was running a Mac.
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by themadturk 5mo ago
Probably the same thing you do in the states if you have high blood pressure: make do with lesser medications, pain killers, lots of liquids, and push through it.
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by themadturk 5mo ago
I was school newspaper editor in high school, back in 1973-74. We didn't have a Composer, but one of the other high schools did, and they produced the output we pasted up. I went to their school to see the Composer in action once, it w
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by themadturk 5mo ago
On Safari the type is almost too small to read and the page does not reflow when I increase the magnification. Fortunately I can (with some effort) save it to Instapaper to read outside the browser.
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by themadturk 5mo ago
The site is fine. Doesn't show up as anything bad on Firefox on Mac. I've been reading the site for months, never had a problem.
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by themadturk 6mo ago
Kaboom! and Tempest...a perfect combination!
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by themadturk 6mo ago
I don't use it (or need it) myself, but when I was working for a sporting equipment manufacturer a number of years ago, every salesman had a cellular dongle for their laptop. We had to remind them they had direct ethernet connections w
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by themadturk 6mo ago
You're one of the (relatively) few who found the iPad useful for getting actual work done. There are others like you, just not that many. (I tried and failed to make the iPad + Magic Keyboard my only machine.)
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by themadturk 6mo ago
Either I've gotten so used to lagginess on the Kobo that I don't notice it anymore, or it no longer is a problem. It seems to turn pages just fine, which is the only place I'm concerned about performance. I've got a Clar
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by themadturk 6mo ago
Yes, it's not hard to do both.
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by themadturk 6mo ago
Most, if not all, ebook stores have "issues" with DRM because publishers demand it (and authors too often simply go along with it). Amazon and Kobo (and other ebook stores as well) let authors of self-published books decide whethe
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by themadturk 6mo ago
Glad to have gotten off Kindle and onto Kobo years ago. Enshittification continues on. Now, we just have to wait for the publishers to put the screws to Rakuten...
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by themadturk 6mo ago
This may seem like a stupid question...but what about when it was cloudy? Can I assume the BFF was flying above the clouds most (or all) of the time?
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by themadturk 6mo ago
The B-52 is one of my favorite aircraft, and the one at the Museum of Flight is an absolute beast -- I never thought it was small, but it's still bigger than I expected.
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by themadturk 6mo ago
One only needs to read current medieval historians like Eleanor Janega (just to name one who's easily accessible) to know that this view of history as been pretty thoroughly debunked. The basis from which he or she argues is outdated.
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by themadturk 6mo ago
I moved to Kobo a couple of years ago, as it started getting harder and harder to add de-DRM'd books I'd bought from other sellers to the device. It was easier to just abandon Kindle as an ereader. I'm really happy with Kobo
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by themadturk 6mo ago
GWBASIC was bundled (free) with MS-DOS before QBASIC was made available (DOS 5, if I remember right).
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by themadturk 6mo ago
Is one picture of a mountain derivative of another? Are two pictures of a specific human being derivative? No, they are individual creations, even if made using the same camera by the same photographer. Each is an individual work of art, th
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by themadturk 7mo ago
The only coffee we keep around is Walmart's 100% Columbian Arabica instant, a freeze-dried coffee that tastes great and, despite recent rises in price, is under $10 for a 7 oz. jar. I sometimes mix it with a tablespoon of Stephen'
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by themadturk 7mo ago
But aren't they pretty hard to hide? I mean, they cover a lot of grounds, they have lots of infrastructure leading right to them...even if someone makes a few wrong guesses, it's going to be easy to find where the data centers are
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by themadturk 7mo ago
KOReader works just as easily, and just as well, on my much newer Kobo Clara BW. I'm not unhappy with the built-in reader software, but keep KOReader installed just in case I want or need it.
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by themadturk 7mo ago
Works great on my M3 MacBook Air under Safari. GPU core temps got into the 130-160 degrees F. range. Fun demo!
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by themadturk 7mo ago
I love _The Soul Of A New Machine_. It was one of the books that got me started loving computer history (the other being Steven Levy's _Hackers,_ which I read afterward). A truly great writer.
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by themadturk 7mo ago
I like my Apple Watch loads. Yes, it tells me the time and the date. And the weather. It has a timer. (It can't make a call by itself.) It will tell me if I have AFIB. I'm getting older -- it will detect a fall, or a car wreck. An
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by themadturk 7mo ago
When I do use a mouse, I use a Logitech Lift because horizontal grip mice are uncomfortable, but now that I've retired and 99% of my time is on my MacBook Air, it's all trackpad, and my hands don't seem to mind it.
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by themadturk 7mo ago
Is it, though? The trajectory right now is to remove the choice of parenthood. If some people in power have their way, it will not only be illegal to end a pregnancy, it will also be illegal to prevent it to start with. If a male and female
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by themadturk 7mo ago
This reminds me of someone I knew slightly back in the late 70s: Robert Shields, who kept the world's longest diary [0]. He was eccentric but very nice...but he wrote 33 million words, filling 90+ boxes, of every detail of his life for
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by themadturk 8mo ago
There is a new version for Sonoma and Sequoia! I am so happy.
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by themadturk 8mo ago
I was fortunate to have friends who worked for AT&T back then and they were able to get the 1200 baud modem for nothing. It was soooo speedy!

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