mesrik

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by mesrik 4d ago
Right, it's true that if there is an amplifier stage then it doesn't work. But some devices have had also tiny speakers used for for user interface audio feedback mechanism also used beeping error codes etc. Those SoC can drive th
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by mesrik 4d ago
Many common SOC's MediaTek, Realtek, and Broadcom SOC's quite often used modern audio capable devices analog pins can be software defined either input or output. IIRC I saw already Bruce Schneider's blog some team proof of co
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by mesrik 26d ago
Yes, you are correct. But when Turbo C with assembler (TASM) came out those were just great. And by that asm output generating feature it was often way faster way to write something first in C, translate to asm and go from there do what you
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by mesrik 26d ago
First thing came now from long time ago my former aussie colleagues (mates) in Saudi when we worked there. That when you get out plane and are asked to show passport by the border guards. And they usually ask some the usual questions and th
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Netgate Released PfSense Community Edition Version 2.9.0(netgate.com)
2 points by mesrik 26d ago|2 comments
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by mesrik 26d ago
It was released yesterday Aug. 20th. BTW in about two months they have 20th year anniversary from first production release.
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by mesrik 29d ago
Right, that ROM BASIC was such a waste for them for years. Some clone makers quickly found out ways take advantage of that space adding more RAM there. Then bit later it came area where you could even map over 1MB placed memory blocks there
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by mesrik 29d ago
>This isn't so much a cmd thing as a fundamental Windows API thing. CreateProcess takes in the entire command line as a single string. So is that CreateProcess much different from nix execve() which passes just a pointer to string
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by mesrik 29d ago
>Yes there were alternatives. Yes, mostly proprietary third party systems which abtracted complexities away from programmers placing their trust to that often not even sure your language vendor was not belly up or with good luck purchase
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by mesrik 29d ago
Sure, it wasn't uncommon feature at all, but many fellows I knew had not noticed it before I suggested using it when a colleague or a friend was wondering how he would write that function assembler and try to make it faster. It tells m
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by mesrik 29d ago
I think I did have some time early -90's someone did alternative C0.lib which actually when you linked it with your programs it made much easier porting some *nix software to MS-DOS. No need to make modifications command line handler,
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by mesrik 29d ago
>Why do you think Windows is currently such a mess? There have been some writings and posts here about Microsoft. Here is one from last spring, from a guy that was long time Windows core developer and moved to Azure group. It's well
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by mesrik 29d ago
Oh my, I'm sorry how many typos I made and forgot to fix. s/ARAIC/AFAIC/g s/70kb/720kB/g
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by mesrik 29d ago
It is, but some tools like Turbo C did provide asm generating switch (-S AFAIK) directly you to use and saved you from using debug.com or any better disassembler.
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by mesrik 1mo ago
And file handles stdin, stdout, stderr same file numbers also. There was and still is overlapping features with Microsoft later and current operating systems. Linked post is quite good and had forgotten completely XEDOS mentioned Byte artic
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by mesrik 1mo ago
It did, and also up till 3.0 (thus 2.10 and 2.11) had also SWITCHAR which you could change command options character / to - like in it was in UNIX convention, from CONFIG.SYS definition. The problem with changing / to - was, that
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by mesrik 3mo ago
Agreed what you wrote. It's great and well written book. I did read the book again last fall after couple decades. Then few weeks after finishing book I ran into his LinkedIn post (bit OT sure) if what book told was his recollection st
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by mesrik 3mo ago
Bit late to reply, but seems ^A and ^E (jumping line begin and end) at least do work in Firefox. But for example ^T (letter transpose) do not work on macOS Firefox, which I'm quite accustomed to use also. But ^T works fine same macOS S
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by mesrik 3mo ago
Well, I've got to admit I've haven't read HN using emacs. Is there such a .el thing avalabnle somewhere? It would be great to read HN as it was with usenet news. Not joking, that would be excellent tools I'd like to hav
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by mesrik 3mo ago
Vi is fine. It's superior and to bare ed - The Standard Editor*, when you don't have anything else available. I made much of my living coding vi 7 years in -80's. And I still use vi, when emacs is not there or system has so l
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by mesrik 3mo ago
I just tried, and my macOS up todateFirefox (still Sonoma few weeks), doesn't work. Nor does Waterfox (Firefox derivativ) that I've been using more lately. Could it be some setting I need to set before it works?
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by mesrik 3mo ago
Yes, emacs keystrokes became kind of cli lingua franca, which apparently many do not know. I don't remember my self ever read about those supported explicitly anywhere, but accidentally I found out long time ago and then whenever I try
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by mesrik 3mo ago
Sure. Browser autocorrect there just tried to be helpful :/
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by mesrik 3mo ago
"Is anyone still using emacs?" Yes, 34 years and no plans to switch. Emacs cursor movement keystrokes are quite widely supported elsewhere too which use GNU readline or implement at least subset themselves. Those work well also be
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by mesrik 3mo ago
Oh, and there were more than just UUCP bang paths. IBM Memo, Novel Netware etc. groupware and such X.400 and routing those required also odd email conventions. VAX VMS addresses did have % left side routing in too.
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by mesrik 3mo ago
There is one more 'lie' missing and not included in that writing which only looks email addresses what is are limits of valid destination addresses. But if used as a senders source address there are even less limits. For example y
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by mesrik 3mo ago
I've last seen those in older Cisco ASA firewall's up to OS version 8.something which had internal or external CompactFlash with VFAT16 filesystems. Usually caused by end of useful life of that CF or if already replaced by someone
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by mesrik 3mo ago
OK, I found bit more from UNIX System Administration Handbook Third Edition (Evi Nemeth, Garth Snyder, Scott Seebass, Trent R. Hein, with even more authors mentioned) 2001 book following: "134 UNIX System Administration Handbook
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by mesrik 3mo ago
Foxleys book does not actually claim reason why it need to be preallocated. I've got the book also. Index mentions fsck only page 52, where it reads: "52 UNIX FOR SUPER-USERS ... The filestore consistency check is performe
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by mesrik 4mo ago
I understand that while small kids or baby then there is lot of laundry. But I've heard some people wash same fav clothes every day just to be able to use them fresh clean every day. Gosh, but there are other ways to solve that issue l

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