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by zafiro17 12y ago
A slightly different target audience, but here is my Woodnotes Guide to Emacs for Writers (not Coders). It will get you used to the editor, at least. I use Firefox plus the "It's all text" extension (configured to call emac
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by zafiro17 12y ago
Yes! There's a healthy community at comp.misc where we post stuff like this article, and sci.misc where we post non comp stuff. In fact you'll see a healthy correlation between articles posted to Ycombinator that are subsequentl
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Making communities, breaking communities(therandymon.com)
1 points by zafiro17 12y ago|0 comments
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by zafiro17 12y ago
I just read it last week by chance and second the recommendation. It's not as good a book once the DEC era ends (I think Ceruzzi kind of loses interest in the modern era) but his coverage of mainframes and minicomputing era are really
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by zafiro17 12y ago
I've been a KDE user since KDE1 and I think, despite its flaws, it's still better than Gnome. I personally like the deep configurability, love the keybindings, WM tweakability, and so on. I'm not a huge fan of Plasma but th
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by zafiro17 12y ago
I buy music because I now have legal avenues to do so. It's much harder to get movies. I don't live in the USA or Europe and have sporadic bandwidth with frequent cuts. Streaming solutions are almost impossible. I want a servi
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by zafiro17 13y ago
That lampshade imac was one of the coolest bits of hardware ever. I find it more interesting than the new "trashcan" model. I had a friend with a lampshade imac and I was very envious. It still seems more useful to me than the
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by zafiro17 13y ago
I know it's old-fashioned, but Usenet is still out there and is still good for communicating and sharing, with no one out there building a profile of your stuff and trying to make money off of it. Change your name and email address -
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by zafiro17 13y ago
You ought to give it another look then. I'd recommend Bodhi Linux, which is an Ubuntu foundation and E17 as desktop. It's stellar. (I'd tried E17 on opensuse and didn't like it as much just because opensuse hadn'
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by zafiro17 13y ago
Jeez, that's the single most interesting, insightful, and well-written piece I've read on the internet in a long time. Imagine what things are capable when "being different" causes you - and enables you - to reflect dee
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2013, the year of Usenet(therandymon.com)
65 points by zafiro17 13y ago|73 comments
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by zafiro17 14y ago
This was great. I'm a big fan of mutt. For all the advances in GUI software, my favorites remain at the console: mutt, slrn, newsbeuter, links, and so on. I wrote a guide to Mutt as well. It's geared for the less-tech inclined than your
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by zafiro17 15y ago
"When you are ready, the teacher will appear" - Buddhist saying. Getting through a PhD is easier and more fun if your mind is into it. Yours is clearly not, so why try to swim upstream? Go where your mind and soul are telling you that yo