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by akoster 23d ago
Quote from the bottom: “To keep up with decreasing computer memory capacity and disk space, many other functions and files have been eliminated in Emacs 30.2.” Honesty, not such a wild proposition in 2026 with new hardware generations offer
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by akoster 1y ago
Nice Eternal September reference: http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/S/September-that-never-ended...
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by akoster 1y ago
Sometimes I’ll search .edu or .ac.* domains for tutorials, code, old physics and math graphics and Java applets. Often these sites are narrow in scope, but every once in a while, you come across a gem like this! I wonder if there’s a direct
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by akoster 1y ago
Thankfully their forums are quite active with folks sharing lots of sample code [0]. I was able to get some assistance with getting their SQLite library to work. Also the wiki has quite a few tutorials - when I get some more time I hope t
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by akoster 1y ago
Thanks for sharing! I'm glad Microsoft is still providing active development for WinForms and on recent .NET Core versions and not just .NET Framework, although the later seems to still be supported indefinitely (for now?). [0] [0] ht
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by akoster 1y ago
I agree! I still sometimes use LibreOffice Base for quick prototyping [0] or Microsoft Access if I am on Windows. It uses HSQLDB by default but you can connect to several external JDBC, ODBC and ADO compatible databases, though I often use
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by akoster 1y ago
Interesting given NYC's population still hasn't recovered from its early 2020 high [0], rent and home prices keep rising (and fast). There are many reasons discussed here: pied-a-terre's, foreign investors, lack of new const
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by akoster 1y ago
Housing is also pricey in NJ adjacent to NYC in cities like Jersey City and Hoboken, but its a ferry / PATH train away from Manhattan.
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by akoster 1y ago
I think I found MYOB but not Best Books here: https://www.macintoshrepository.org/2021-m-y-o-b-v5-0-1 Is the interface similar for Best Books? and also in color?
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by akoster 1y ago
They are part of the "smolnet" if I am using that terminology correctly (including the Gemini protocol https://geminiprotocol.net/ ). Other sites I will browse or lurk include, Lemmy (join-lemmy.org) Reddit alterna
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by akoster 3y ago
I still put DVD and/or Blu-ray drives in all PCs I personally build for myself and my family. This is due to the fact that we transferred dozens of old captured 16 mm and 8 mm film reels, scanned photo prints, negatives and slides as
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by akoster 3y ago
I used to use M-DISCs [0] since they advertise using a more robust recording technology, but they have been harder to find at Micro Center [1] and the manufacturing process may have changed with a certain manufacturer [3]. [0] https:/
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StudyPlan.dev: Free Online Gaming-Focused C++ and SDL Tutorials(studyplan.dev)
1 points by akoster 3y ago|1 comments
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Study shows 38% of Java apps still affected by Log4j vulnerability log4shell(theregister.com)
38 points by akoster 3y ago|8 comments
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by akoster 3y ago
From the release notes, it appears this may be the last release with i386 / 32-bit Intel x86 (as well as 32-bit armv6 and PowerPC) support. “FreeBSD 15.0 is not expected to include support for 32-bit platforms other than armv7. The arm
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by akoster 3y ago
When I moved to New York City, I began talking to people on the bus, subway and while running errands. I met so many interesting people- a man who was originally from the same town as some of my ancestors, many people from my native SoCal a
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Bitcoin P2P e-cash paper (2008)(metzdowd.com)
2 points by akoster 3y ago|2 comments
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One door opens, another one closes, and this one kills a mainframe(theregister.com)
3 points by akoster 3y ago|0 comments
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by akoster 3y ago
That must have been painfully slow but rewarding if and when everything finally worked! I definitely was spoiled trying Fedora Core 6 on a Pentium III with 512MB of RAM, a SoundBlaster Live!, an ATI Rage 128 graphics card, a WD Caviar 40GB
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by akoster 3y ago
Great story and thanks for sharing! As someone newer to mailing lists, how did (or do) you use them without flooding your inbox? Lots of rules/filters and directories? Using mutt, alpine or gnus? I appreciate the USENET newsgroups pe
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by akoster 3y ago
Thanks for sharing! And glad to hear you are still using Slackware! (which still seems to have drivers for just about everything!) If you recall, where did you purchase your Slackware and BSD disk sets? I recall Micro Center and Fry'
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by akoster 3y ago
I agree! Although I just had a kernel panic on my first boot after installing Slackware 15.0 on a Ryzen 5700G chip / B550 board. Likely due to LILO + EFI (or defaulting to CSM / legacy BIOS boot?) + an NVMe SSD + MBR partition t
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by akoster 3y ago
I'm thankful I never experienced that. My family switched from AOL dial up to an AT&T ADSL connection (either started out as 128, 256 or 512kbps down circa 2006 IIRC). It still didn't make downloading FreeBSD and Fedora Core
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by akoster 3y ago
I guess not unlike the software sets [0] Slackware seems to still use these days. Hearing this definitely makes me understand how spoiled we are to have reliable and inexpensive flash media, optical disks and network connections! I imagin
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by akoster 3y ago
Thanks for sharing! This is the first I've heard of Lasermoon / Linux-FT but it appears that was a popular option back in the day based on these references [0][1][2][3][4][5][6]. How did it compare with Slackware? Or Yggradsil [
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by akoster 3y ago
Thanks for sharing! I take it that was a hand-me-down laptop? My first PC I could call my own was a hand-me-down 6-year-old Toshiba Tecra Pentium II laptop with a 5GB IDE HDD and 192 MB of RAM running Windows 98 SE I received when I was ma
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by akoster 3y ago
> I've been working with Linux in one form or another for 30 years now! I almost can't believe it's been that long. Congrats on that personal milestone! Quite amazing for something community-developed and supported throug
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by akoster 3y ago
Great story and thanks for sharing! $400 is a lot for a RAM upgrade! Did that upgrade double your ram to 8MB or something greater perhaps?
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by akoster 3y ago
Likewise! I appreciate how the developers set sensible defaults and a descent package selection for general productivity within the installer defaults but I have often found myself building many packages from scratch from scripts on SlackB
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by akoster 3y ago
A small world indeed! I'm in the process of rebooting my engineering career and hoping forcing myself to use Slackware may help in a small way! Back in 2015, I worked with Pentium III -class Cyrix processors on a legacy but still supp

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