I was about to post the same thing. Also approved by Jerry Pournelle. I have two different versions of them somewhere, one with the F-keys both at the top and the left. A year or so ago I dumped and started disassembling their EPROMs in hopes that someday when I get around to it, I could make my own keyboard controller for USB. I still need to catch up on the USB side, but I've made an STM32F103-based device be a keyboard before, so I have a pile of "bluepill" boards ready while I get the USB code going.
About 15 years ago, a print comic (as in newspapers, remember them?) mentioned a name of a hypothetical web site for a joke. It basically matched the name of a domain that I have had since 2000. The initial spike wasn't much (like 100 hits a day for the first week, to nothing after the second week), but this was also 15 years ago, before every normie had a web browser in their pocket, especially the kids.
So do I, but I don't keep the only copy on my ISP's e-mail server.
I don't get if he's mad about losing the address or losing the mails. But if it's the latter, he's an idiot, since you can just drag them across between servers if you have a decent mail client that supports IMAP.
If he had them in something like an AOL database file, then he might deserve some sympathy. Holy hell, the local database for the Mac version was "designed" by a madman.
A few months ago I finally moved my old web server to Apache 2 (yes, seriously, I was still running it on a Blue & White G3, and my new DSL modem broke OS X 10.4's NetInfo stuff!) and was pleasantly surprised to find that while reusing Perl interpreter instances was the default in mod_perl 1, it wasn't even an option in mod_perl 2. Sure, 20 years ago people might sometimes have needed the extra performance, but it could really screw things up if you didn't pay attention all of the time.
But we didn't "provide healthcare", we simply required people to buy health insurance at higher premiums and with higher deductibles than before. Thanks for putting the insurance companies in our pockets, guys! And Obamacare is crumbling, most of the "exchanges" will be defunct by next year if it is left just as the Democrats (it was passed by a partisan super-majority) and Obama intended. Except for the bit where they expected a Democrat to be in the White House to declare it defunct so they could replace it with something worse.
Wannabe DJs these days can use a laptop and a midi controller. They can't afford the equipment to spin and mix vinyl (a good turntable isn't cheap, and you need two of them and a mixer), and they probably don't have space for crates with a decent amount of music.
I doubt it; 8-track has two big problems. First, the tape play speed is slower to fit more stuff on tape, and second, the tape transport is complete shit because the tape is a giant slip loop. And then they've squeezed in eight tracks where normally only four (two in each direction) are used. 1/4" reel-to-reel isn't bad, but it's still subject to tape hiss without using a noise reduction system.
I was surprised at how the quality of the turntables don't seem to match the quality of 35 years ago. My previous turntable was a direct drive Technics that was built from solid aluminum castings; Shure cartridge and I can't remember who made the needle.
You can still find quality turntables, but only old-school DJs need that quality, so they're expensive, and you won't find them sold in big box stores. It's entirely possible that if you still had that old Technics, it might be worth a couple hundred dollars.
Mine did up until about three weeks ago. The the article hide thresholds went wonky and couldn't be changed in preferences (the Save button didn't). Now they are stuck at +3/+3 and I have to adjust the threshold controls for every article.
The first thing I thought was that I had somehow activated a mobile mode by making my browser window narrower than some threshold. Then I realized it was real, someone had unironically pushed a mobile layout to a desktop browser.
By the way, when you were typing, you might have noticed a little red squiggly line under 'traveling'. That's because you spelled it wrong.
No squiggly line here. How did you think it should be spelled? With two 'l's? Because that gives a squiggly line for me. What's next, adding a silent 'u' to 'color'?
The trackpad has supported gestures for years. I know this because I'm always turning them all off (I only use 2-finger scroll, which can't be disabled) when I set up a new OS install. The only difference is you don't have a finger between your eyes and what you're gesturing at.
Or they could ask their victims to make random posts on/. and have the codes look like the Baynesian spammer with stuff like "goat.cx" and "frist post" in certain combinations. Then nobody will ever know what they're doing.
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I was about to post the same thing. Also approved by Jerry Pournelle. I have two different versions of them somewhere, one with the F-keys both at the top and the left. A year or so ago I dumped and started disassembling their EPROMs in hopes that someday when I get around to it, I could make my own keyboard controller for USB. I still need to catch up on the USB side, but I've made an STM32F103-based device be a keyboard before, so I have a pile of "bluepill" boards ready while I get the USB code going.
Well that "GO" thing is probably trademarked so let's add another letter to it and call it "GEO".
Those lists go back to Usenet, and pre-date Slashdot.
About 15 years ago, a print comic (as in newspapers, remember them?) mentioned a name of a hypothetical web site for a joke. It basically matched the name of a domain that I have had since 2000. The initial spike wasn't much (like 100 hits a day for the first week, to nothing after the second week), but this was also 15 years ago, before every normie had a web browser in their pocket, especially the kids.
So do I, but I don't keep the only copy on my ISP's e-mail server.
I don't get if he's mad about losing the address or losing the mails. But if it's the latter, he's an idiot, since you can just drag them across between servers if you have a decent mail client that supports IMAP.
If he had them in something like an AOL database file, then he might deserve some sympathy. Holy hell, the local database for the Mac version was "designed" by a madman.
You're soaking in it*. Slashdot was written in mod_perl, and still is for all I know.
*now there's an old meme, does any millennial know who Madge is?
A few months ago I finally moved my old web server to Apache 2 (yes, seriously, I was still running it on a Blue & White G3, and my new DSL modem broke OS X 10.4's NetInfo stuff!) and was pleasantly surprised to find that while reusing Perl interpreter instances was the default in mod_perl 1, it wasn't even an option in mod_perl 2. Sure, 20 years ago people might sometimes have needed the extra performance, but it could really screw things up if you didn't pay attention all of the time.
So is Slashdot still running on mod_perl?
When I was his age, I had to solder in an extra RAM chip to get lower-case!
But we didn't "provide healthcare", we simply required people to buy health insurance at higher premiums and with higher deductibles than before. Thanks for putting the insurance companies in our pockets, guys! And Obamacare is crumbling, most of the "exchanges" will be defunct by next year if it is left just as the Democrats (it was passed by a partisan super-majority) and Obama intended. Except for the bit where they expected a Democrat to be in the White House to declare it defunct so they could replace it with something worse.
Summary says it lights up and plays music when you spin it.
Fisher Price had stuff that did that back in the 1980s. It may not have been MP3s, but it was music. And it didn't catch on fire.
Wannabe DJs these days can use a laptop and a midi controller. They can't afford the equipment to spin and mix vinyl (a good turntable isn't cheap, and you need two of them and a mixer), and they probably don't have space for crates with a decent amount of music.
In other words, the mix is still compromised, only in a different way.
I doubt it; 8-track has two big problems. First, the tape play speed is slower to fit more stuff on tape, and second, the tape transport is complete shit because the tape is a giant slip loop. And then they've squeezed in eight tracks where normally only four (two in each direction) are used. 1/4" reel-to-reel isn't bad, but it's still subject to tape hiss without using a noise reduction system.
I was surprised at how the quality of the turntables don't seem to match the quality of 35 years ago. My previous turntable was a direct drive Technics that was built from solid aluminum castings; Shure cartridge and I can't remember who made the needle.
You can still find quality turntables, but only old-school DJs need that quality, so they're expensive, and you won't find them sold in big box stores. It's entirely possible that if you still had that old Technics, it might be worth a couple hundred dollars.
8-Track decks and tapes are very good at collecting dust.
Mine did up until about three weeks ago. The the article hide thresholds went wonky and couldn't be changed in preferences (the Save button didn't). Now they are stuck at +3/+3 and I have to adjust the threshold controls for every article.
The first thing I thought was that I had somehow activated a mobile mode by making my browser window narrower than some threshold. Then I realized it was real, someone had unironically pushed a mobile layout to a desktop browser.
By the way, when you were typing, you might have noticed a little red squiggly line under 'traveling'. That's because you spelled it wrong.
No squiggly line here. How did you think it should be spelled? With two 'l's? Because that gives a squiggly line for me. What's next, adding a silent 'u' to 'color'?
The trackpad has supported gestures for years. I know this because I'm always turning them all off (I only use 2-finger scroll, which can't be disabled) when I set up a new OS install. The only difference is you don't have a finger between your eyes and what you're gesturing at.
They're probably using unsigned long. :(
I am also not among the 2 billion, but I suspect that about 1.5 billion of that number are bots and sock puppets.
Or they could ask their victims to make random posts on /. and have the codes look like the Baynesian spammer with stuff like "goat.cx" and "frist post" in certain combinations. Then nobody will ever know what they're doing.
And do they get a check box saying "no stories from this submitter"?
The thing is, it used to be weirder.
The more important question is, were those responsible sacked?