What a horrible web site. I hit "reload", and I now have two copies of the LH Menu. In IFRAMEs. I was able to see a couple of the items, then that broke. I click and nothing happens. Some people just can't be trusted…
OK, so way at the bottom it says this: "This title does not impose liability on an operating system provider, a covered application store, or a developer that arises from the use of a device or application by a person…
This is no longer true. Most obvious example is Firefox. The Debian Project allows Firefox to update outside the packaging system, automatically, at the whim of Firefox. And there's the inclusion of non-Free software in…
I've done something similar at my job. I don't think it implicates privacy because 1) it's a list of misses from the (public) dictionary, and 2) the email is sent as the program, not as the user. So if the user…
I'm using it now. It's my primary wm for all my machines. I don't need a "desktop"; I just want something to manage windows. I don't "drag-n-drop". And I don't systemd, plus I kill as much of the rest of their…
A lot will depend on where you are in your maturity as a programmer. And what sort of work you want to do. I've always done well following Don Lancaster's advice: Hit the basics, HARD. Most modern software "innovations"…
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If you liked this article, Henry Petroski's "The Book on the Bookshelf" is worth reading. He goes into great detail about the history, explaining why books were usually chained to their shelves, etc. If you don't know…
There's a bug in the detection script. The line: if [ "$path" == "" ] should be if [ "$path" = "" ]
If he's "searching Earhart's plane", doesn't that imply that he's found it? Or is he searching a plane he _thinks_ was Earhart's, trying to find confirmation from the contents of it? On the other hand, if he's…
Thanks for that. I can't read the article, probably because I block WASM (and Javascript) for security. None of my ebook readers have Internet access (for security and for privacy), so none of those internet-only epub…
Glad to be of help. I think the only one I have (yes, I kept all my SBS books) is Miss Pickerell Goes To Mars.
What's wrong with Pic? Been around for decades.
I scrolled to the bottom to find his bottom line, which is that "you can't run an email server". Which is interesting, since I do exactly that. I've been running from a low-cost VPS for 10-15 years, and have zero…
They had (have?) some Hopper's on display at the Huntington Museum. I realized that even the best art books are unable to reproduce the stunning colors of the originals. It was the visual equivalent of CD audio versus…
Wanted to bump this. It's the book I recommend when someone asks, "How can I learn networking". My next favorite is the Top-Down book everyone above mentions. I like that it starts with loading a web page, instead of…
Wordpad was essentially just the Text Edit control, wrapped in some GUI cheese. Unless they plan to remove that control, it's trivial to re-constitute the program. When I took a Windows programming course, this was…
"Of what use is a new-born baby" Michael Faraday, asked about electricity. There's also David Pye, and his thoughts on "useless work", and how that builds a better world. See "The Nature and Art of Workmanship".
At one time when the router was powered up, it would attempt to send your IP address and router serial number back to GL.iNet. Theoretically, that was to enable a Dynamic DNS service that they ran. It could be turned…
There was a project back in 2013 called PORTAL. "Personal Onion Router to Assure Liberty". It used a GL.iNet travel router. At that time, there were no model numbers. I bought one ($18 on the 'Zon), and upgraded the…
Came here to say: me, too. When I see something like Kindle or Audible, the first thing I do is check to see if I can strip off the DRM. If I'm buying it, I have the right to use it anyway I see fit (short of copying…
I think killing a reader is a serious crime in every jurisdiction on the planet...
I also took away a different bottom line. I think the focus was that, by allowing programmers to have access to the machine for long periods, they could stay "in the zone", and thus you completed the work much faster. I…
"The Chip" by T. R. Reid. Get the second edition, which updates the story with more recent developments. A history of the integrated circuit, starting from vacuum tubes and ending with the politics of today (-ish; it's…
This thread is getting expensive. ;) I had no idea he had written this up. Thanks for posting!
What a horrible web site. I hit "reload", and I now have two copies of the LH Menu. In IFRAMEs. I was able to see a couple of the items, then that broke. I click and nothing happens. Some people just can't be trusted…
OK, so way at the bottom it says this: "This title does not impose liability on an operating system provider, a covered application store, or a developer that arises from the use of a device or application by a person…
This is no longer true. Most obvious example is Firefox. The Debian Project allows Firefox to update outside the packaging system, automatically, at the whim of Firefox. And there's the inclusion of non-Free software in…
I've done something similar at my job. I don't think it implicates privacy because 1) it's a list of misses from the (public) dictionary, and 2) the email is sent as the program, not as the user. So if the user…
I'm using it now. It's my primary wm for all my machines. I don't need a "desktop"; I just want something to manage windows. I don't "drag-n-drop". And I don't systemd, plus I kill as much of the rest of their…
A lot will depend on where you are in your maturity as a programmer. And what sort of work you want to do. I've always done well following Don Lancaster's advice: Hit the basics, HARD. Most modern software "innovations"…
[flagged]
If you liked this article, Henry Petroski's "The Book on the Bookshelf" is worth reading. He goes into great detail about the history, explaining why books were usually chained to their shelves, etc. If you don't know…
There's a bug in the detection script. The line: if [ "$path" == "" ] should be if [ "$path" = "" ]
If he's "searching Earhart's plane", doesn't that imply that he's found it? Or is he searching a plane he _thinks_ was Earhart's, trying to find confirmation from the contents of it? On the other hand, if he's…
Thanks for that. I can't read the article, probably because I block WASM (and Javascript) for security. None of my ebook readers have Internet access (for security and for privacy), so none of those internet-only epub…
Glad to be of help. I think the only one I have (yes, I kept all my SBS books) is Miss Pickerell Goes To Mars.
What's wrong with Pic? Been around for decades.
I scrolled to the bottom to find his bottom line, which is that "you can't run an email server". Which is interesting, since I do exactly that. I've been running from a low-cost VPS for 10-15 years, and have zero…
They had (have?) some Hopper's on display at the Huntington Museum. I realized that even the best art books are unable to reproduce the stunning colors of the originals. It was the visual equivalent of CD audio versus…
Wanted to bump this. It's the book I recommend when someone asks, "How can I learn networking". My next favorite is the Top-Down book everyone above mentions. I like that it starts with loading a web page, instead of…
Wordpad was essentially just the Text Edit control, wrapped in some GUI cheese. Unless they plan to remove that control, it's trivial to re-constitute the program. When I took a Windows programming course, this was…
"Of what use is a new-born baby" Michael Faraday, asked about electricity. There's also David Pye, and his thoughts on "useless work", and how that builds a better world. See "The Nature and Art of Workmanship".
At one time when the router was powered up, it would attempt to send your IP address and router serial number back to GL.iNet. Theoretically, that was to enable a Dynamic DNS service that they ran. It could be turned…
There was a project back in 2013 called PORTAL. "Personal Onion Router to Assure Liberty". It used a GL.iNet travel router. At that time, there were no model numbers. I bought one ($18 on the 'Zon), and upgraded the…
Came here to say: me, too. When I see something like Kindle or Audible, the first thing I do is check to see if I can strip off the DRM. If I'm buying it, I have the right to use it anyway I see fit (short of copying…
I think killing a reader is a serious crime in every jurisdiction on the planet...
I also took away a different bottom line. I think the focus was that, by allowing programmers to have access to the machine for long periods, they could stay "in the zone", and thus you completed the work much faster. I…
"The Chip" by T. R. Reid. Get the second edition, which updates the story with more recent developments. A history of the integrated circuit, starting from vacuum tubes and ending with the politics of today (-ish; it's…
This thread is getting expensive. ;) I had no idea he had written this up. Thanks for posting!