It's a lovely set of sentiments. I think another aspect of UI that has been lost is discoverability - finding out how to do things in a new interface seems harder than it used to be when there was one app-level menu…
I couldn’t afford software in the 90s, but I would definitely have registered PowerMenu from Brown Bag software (DOS front end and program launcher). It was really powerful and enjoyable to use, and the interface was…
Also an extremely happy Zim user for desktop notes, projects & work journal. Recently I was looking for a self-hosted equivalent to Google Keep (which I use mainly for lists, quick notes and web snippets), and tried out…
Take a look at Gemini: https://gemini.circumlunar.space/
Same here - I was a Cakewalk user back in the 90s, and decided on a whim to find out if it was still around.
There are parts of it that have aged really badly, though. I was working on an NNTP-related project last year. Article numbers and threading are a bit crappy. The conflation of messages and commands (like cancel) also…
I'm running one for calendar syncing (cyanogenmod and iOS clients), personal file storage and as a limited photo gallery. The automatic file sync from my phone is good too. It's running at home on my server. Setup was…
As an aside to your edit, I have also seen "different than" used more and more often of late. I'm not sure if it is an Americanism that I was just unaware of. It's not that "different than" is wrong, it's just different…
One of my previous companies was producing a Digital TV set-top box based on a Via mini-ITX board. When using component output, the overscan on the image was way too big and we were losing a significant portion of the…
I have trouble finding any candidates I can believe in. The only benefit (for me) of the two main parties is that their stance on any issue is widely known regardless of who the individual candidate is, so I can avoid…
I was also pleased to find that in version 1.4 a MySQL login health check was added "option mysql-check".
It surprises me how much the closing paragraph sounds like certain elements of Buddhist philosophy.
You can also use: $ TZ=CST date -d "Sun Mar 3 18:05:17 UTC 2013" Sun Mar 3 18:05:17 CST 2013 which doesn't invoke a subshell. env vars can always be prepended to the executable name for use with just that program (not…
I'm currently a reasonably happy puppet user, but I do like the look of Salt. Puppet's configuration DSL always struck me as a little over-wrought (and slightly too inconsistent to remember easily). I would have…
As a UK resident, I feel a pang of embarrassment and sadness and anger as I see how non-residents are treated when going through immigration control. Heathrow immigration is the worst. It's depressing, oppressive, cold…
I'd definitely agree. I guess more specifically (and more charitably), I'm thinking of the section of the audience that uses photoshop but doesn't need any of its intermediate or advanced features, whether they paid for…
I'm not sure about photoshop killer ... although I do suspect that outside of the professional class of photoshop user (webdevs, print designers etc), a great many people who have a less-than-legitimate copy of…
XML also has the advantage of declaring the character set of the content.
Just a quick note on those HP microservers - I have one, and I'm fond of it, but the e-SATA port doesn't support hotplug and the inbuilt ethernet doesn't support jumbo frames (at least, under versions of Linux that I've…
I was an OS/2 user from 1993 - 1996 or so. I have very fond memories of it - for those lucky enough to have a supported machine, it felt indestructable. You could do the most obnoxious things inside a DOS session, and…
It's a shame that your post is disappearing into the gray background - I feel something similar every time I have to use Javascript & HTML for a rich interface. Every time that happens, I wish I was using GTK or QT…
That might have been fluxbox (fluxbox.org), from the BlackBox family.
strace can do it (Linux). Watch out for "open", "read","write","unlink" in the output - these are some of the filesystem operations. inotifywatch (from inotify-tools) can show you changes made to files in a particular…
"Microsoft believes that WebGL will become an “ongoing source of hard-to-fix vulnerabilities” in its current form. " If only they'd had the same insight with ActiveX, and all of the other attempts to turn Internet…
There is a temptation to use MySQL message queues to provide more complex queueing strategies - prioritization, retries, folding multiple queues into one table, claim tokens to avoid the global lock, and in the very…
It's a lovely set of sentiments. I think another aspect of UI that has been lost is discoverability - finding out how to do things in a new interface seems harder than it used to be when there was one app-level menu…
I couldn’t afford software in the 90s, but I would definitely have registered PowerMenu from Brown Bag software (DOS front end and program launcher). It was really powerful and enjoyable to use, and the interface was…
Also an extremely happy Zim user for desktop notes, projects & work journal. Recently I was looking for a self-hosted equivalent to Google Keep (which I use mainly for lists, quick notes and web snippets), and tried out…
Take a look at Gemini: https://gemini.circumlunar.space/
Same here - I was a Cakewalk user back in the 90s, and decided on a whim to find out if it was still around.
There are parts of it that have aged really badly, though. I was working on an NNTP-related project last year. Article numbers and threading are a bit crappy. The conflation of messages and commands (like cancel) also…
I'm running one for calendar syncing (cyanogenmod and iOS clients), personal file storage and as a limited photo gallery. The automatic file sync from my phone is good too. It's running at home on my server. Setup was…
As an aside to your edit, I have also seen "different than" used more and more often of late. I'm not sure if it is an Americanism that I was just unaware of. It's not that "different than" is wrong, it's just different…
One of my previous companies was producing a Digital TV set-top box based on a Via mini-ITX board. When using component output, the overscan on the image was way too big and we were losing a significant portion of the…
I have trouble finding any candidates I can believe in. The only benefit (for me) of the two main parties is that their stance on any issue is widely known regardless of who the individual candidate is, so I can avoid…
I was also pleased to find that in version 1.4 a MySQL login health check was added "option mysql-check".
It surprises me how much the closing paragraph sounds like certain elements of Buddhist philosophy.
You can also use: $ TZ=CST date -d "Sun Mar 3 18:05:17 UTC 2013" Sun Mar 3 18:05:17 CST 2013 which doesn't invoke a subshell. env vars can always be prepended to the executable name for use with just that program (not…
I'm currently a reasonably happy puppet user, but I do like the look of Salt. Puppet's configuration DSL always struck me as a little over-wrought (and slightly too inconsistent to remember easily). I would have…
As a UK resident, I feel a pang of embarrassment and sadness and anger as I see how non-residents are treated when going through immigration control. Heathrow immigration is the worst. It's depressing, oppressive, cold…
I'd definitely agree. I guess more specifically (and more charitably), I'm thinking of the section of the audience that uses photoshop but doesn't need any of its intermediate or advanced features, whether they paid for…
I'm not sure about photoshop killer ... although I do suspect that outside of the professional class of photoshop user (webdevs, print designers etc), a great many people who have a less-than-legitimate copy of…
XML also has the advantage of declaring the character set of the content.
Just a quick note on those HP microservers - I have one, and I'm fond of it, but the e-SATA port doesn't support hotplug and the inbuilt ethernet doesn't support jumbo frames (at least, under versions of Linux that I've…
I was an OS/2 user from 1993 - 1996 or so. I have very fond memories of it - for those lucky enough to have a supported machine, it felt indestructable. You could do the most obnoxious things inside a DOS session, and…
It's a shame that your post is disappearing into the gray background - I feel something similar every time I have to use Javascript & HTML for a rich interface. Every time that happens, I wish I was using GTK or QT…
That might have been fluxbox (fluxbox.org), from the BlackBox family.
strace can do it (Linux). Watch out for "open", "read","write","unlink" in the output - these are some of the filesystem operations. inotifywatch (from inotify-tools) can show you changes made to files in a particular…
"Microsoft believes that WebGL will become an “ongoing source of hard-to-fix vulnerabilities” in its current form. " If only they'd had the same insight with ActiveX, and all of the other attempts to turn Internet…
There is a temptation to use MySQL message queues to provide more complex queueing strategies - prioritization, retries, folding multiple queues into one table, claim tokens to avoid the global lock, and in the very…