DrTung

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by DrTung 4mo ago
If you're an old geezer like me, doesn't this "AI revolution" remind you of the "BASIC revolution" in the 70s and 80s, i.e. when the BASIC language was new and hot. BASIC at that time was heralded as a much sim
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by DrTung 5mo ago
A remnant of the old GitHub still remains, try surfing to a non-existing repositor like https://github.com/NowIsTheTimeForAllGoodMenToComeToTheAidOf... (however the parallax scrolling of the background is gone, maybe when M
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by DrTung 8mo ago
I've heard the next version will be called "Visual Active NET Copilot".
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by DrTung 1y ago
Reminds me of the push of U2's 'Songs Of Innocence" into everyone's iPhones maybe 10 years ago.
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by DrTung 2y ago
I still have my copy of Lego Universe, hope this new initiative will fare better.
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by DrTung 2y ago
Sometime in the late 80's I was working in MSDOS and needed more working RAM for an app, so we bought the Phar Lap DOS extender. Got the box and started reading the manual when someone stopped and asked "Why are you reading about
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by DrTung 2y ago
In one of the stories of Sherlock Holmes he asks Dr. Watson how many steps there are in the stairs leading up to their door. Watson replies he doesn't know and Sherlock gives the exact number and says "You see but you do not obser
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by DrTung 2y ago
I think PowerShell is a bit scary, for example I could never get curl to work in it, say a simple POST command: curl -X "POST" google.com should return Error 411 (Length required) from google (as it does in CMD.EXE) When I try it
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by DrTung 2y ago
Since they would have "their pick of the litter" why did they then include kill switches? A scary scenario is a rerun of the Viasat hack https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viasat_hack I.e. wipe all servers worldwi
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by DrTung 2y ago
If the RCE is Russian, it could be used a communication kill-switch on the morning of an attack outside Ukraine, similar to the Viasat hack https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viasat_hack
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by DrTung 4y ago
Also read that book when it came out, among other things it taught me about "mushroom management" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mushroom_management
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by DrTung 4y ago
The sidesweep you do on your iPhone to change the page of app icons or when you switch fullscreens on your Mac I am sure is inspired by the Switcher.
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by DrTung 4y ago
I remember as a kid reading Foundation by Asimov, when you arrived in Trantor, you had a boarding pass with a glowing arrow pointing which way to go. Almost there now.
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by DrTung 4y ago
Long time ago I read a novel called Brain Wave by Paul Anderson https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain_Wave (it predates Flowers for Algernon by about 10 years). It has a similar theme of suddenly acquired intelligence bu
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by DrTung 4y ago
Also forgotten: Microsoft Popfly https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Popfly
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by DrTung 5y ago
It seems incomplete, I don't see .io
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by DrTung 5y ago
Microsoft should change their BSOD screen background color to this.
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by DrTung 5y ago
My escape plan is to use Wine for the apps that exist on Windows only. Wine can be a bit lacking though :-( But there's hope on the horizon: Valve's SteamDeck is aiming to make available all Valve's games, even the Windows-on
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by DrTung 5y ago
Yes the data bits were 2-way toggles, but one important switch was a 3-way toggle: the Examine (press down) and Deposit (press up) switch.
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by DrTung 5y ago
PDP 11/34 had a bootrom and an octal keyboard, which is kind of cheating. I grew up using the older PDP 11/45 where you had to key in (using binary toggles) a boot program. Or, the way I did it, manually enter write address and by
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by DrTung 5y ago
Born i Stockholm, I remember taking the ferry to Finland as a young boy for some cheap vodka (and you only had to be 18 years old, not 20). This was in the late 70's and my first visit to Helsinki, I tried to order a drink in a bar. Bu
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by DrTung 5y ago
This was the movie that finally cured me out of the bad habit of reading the Swedish subtitles instead of actually listening to the spoken English. I remember watching it in Stockholm's most renowned theater at that time, all seats tak
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by DrTung 5y ago
Hmmm one reason for Google stumbling re. GitLab might be: I was on GitHub for over 10 years (and GeezerEdit was there too) but when Microsoft bought it I fled to GitLab.
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by DrTung 5y ago
https://gitlab.com/tungware/geezeredit
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by DrTung 5y ago
Long live WordStar and it's many brethren! I got addicted to it when coding Z80 assembler on CP/M in the late 70's and my life since then has been on a constant lookout for an equally good program in other OS's. In Linux
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by DrTung 6y ago
There's a Doom cartridge/game for Nintendo 64, I remember playing it say 20 years ago. Think it's still around here somewhere, I can take a photo if you want... Edit: found it here https://store.steampowered.com&#x
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by DrTung 6y ago
I've used the ImportExportTools NG Thunderbird addon to do the migration. I.e. right-click on all folders I want to download, start a new Thunderbird for the new mail provider, right-click on the new, empty folders and upload to them.
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by DrTung 7y ago
Every time I opened a network share or similar "slow" device on Windows XP's File Explorer (alas not in Windows 7 or 10) I'm reminded of After Dark, since that sweeping flashlight (that goes left/right) is more or l
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by DrTung 7y ago
The article just briefly mentions it, but the game I remember most from my AppleII days was RobotWar https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RobotWar We were a couple of guys (and one AppleII) staying up all night designing robo
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by DrTung 7y ago
Does this mean Bluetooth is dead, if UWB can do all the stuff that Bluetooth did?

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