hmng

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by hmng 1mo ago
I know things have become much more complicated, but still remember fondly the good intentions of the original USB spec, which, for instances, forbade any extension cables (ignored, as expected, by many), with the reasoning that users shoul
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by hmng 4mo ago
Not to mention more water resistant, when printing things like envelopes.
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by hmng 8mo ago
I'm not the only one then! :-)
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by hmng 9mo ago
Yes, but I was replying to the above, using redirection and tail -f.
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by hmng 9mo ago
Isn't that what tee is for? Like $ prog | tee /tmp/log.txt
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by hmng 9mo ago
As others have said, it is easy enough for a child in the 80s, with only a BASIC manual to come up with it. Been there, done that. Didn't even had a name for it. Later I read a magazine explaining several algorithms and found the name
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by hmng 9mo ago
If cassettes are still around, then the standard icons for 'play', 'rewind', etc will still make sense for a younger generation :-)
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by hmng 10mo ago
The Spectrum did feel slightly better, but the most annoying thing of the ZX81 was the lack of autorepeat. Moving the cursor on a long line was real physical exercise :-)
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by hmng 10mo ago
There should be a t-shirt for that ;-) I remember paying insane prices that year.
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by hmng 10mo ago
Version 1 of Time Machine was great, you could travel to the past and see how your documents looked like! Too bad that they never released version 2. Would have been great to be able to travel into the future and see how your documents woul
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by hmng 1y ago
My first email usage was at University, pre-WWW. After that I briefly used some ISP email service, but that was on a time of very limited storage and POP only accounts, so I started hosting my own email even before having an always-on inter
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by hmng 1y ago
Those wore the days :-) I remember playing on a University lab with half a dozen Unix workstations, sending an email with the path of server1!server2!server3 etc and hearing the email flowing from server to server by the noise of the disks!
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by hmng 1y ago
Ironic that a big telecom does not believe in decentralized protocols. Oh wait….
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by hmng 1y ago
Not really, SMTP relays will only send messages once, to one server. But it’s not receiving that is the problem, that is generally fine, if ports are open at ISP / network level. It is the sending that is often tricky. Sending email on
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by hmng 1y ago
My first email usage was at University, pre-WWW. After that I briefly used some ISP email service, but that was on a time of very limited storage and POP only accounts, so I started hosting my own email even before having an always-on inter
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by hmng 1y ago
Spoiler alert, it’s Postfix. So not really 1984 software. But then again, neither is Linux…
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by hmng 2y ago
From one of the blog posts: > 8080 assembly (Altair 8800) > > First time I've heard of binary-coded decimals I’m really surprised with that, that someone with such broad interests never heard of BCD. I mean, there’s is always
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by hmng 2y ago
“Give at least five rules to be observed in maintaining good health.” It would be interesting to know what was the “right” answer to this in 1912.
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by hmng 10y ago
Hope this goes viral in some way. I think it can make non technical people aware of the problem.
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X-Plane's founder exposing patent troll scams(youtube.com)
6 points by hmng 10y ago|1 comments
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by hmng 13y ago
No.