I wonder if any of the Apricot-era software is still going? If the services side became ACT, which was bought by Misys, Misys bought by Vista Equity and merged with Canada’s D+H to form Finastra - still a going concern…
The author writes: "I discovered the IBM Model M in 1993 ... It took me many years to find one. I vividly remember the Craigslist ad for a dilapidated computer shop in a Toronto suburb. Inside I found piles of them,…
I agree - it's worth doing just for fun. I did the same recently just for fun - I really enjoyed "Gravity Force" on the Amiga - itself a lunar lander variant. Could a model build a Gravity Force like game I could run…
Yeah, this is so bad - I struggled with this as well, why did they make it hard?
this It drives me nuts, I look at cumulative CPU time, and this is all my work laptop does.
Agree - but even for the basic use case, it has not been trouble free for me. With a simple 1080p display on a desktop running LTS Ubuntu on an older 3060: - I've had updates where stuff just stopped working and I had…
- IBM creates PC and its BIOS - Phoenix creates clone of BIOS - At some point, IBM/Lenovo stopped using its own BIOS - IBM spins out Lenovo - Lenovo buys Phoenix In-house firmware, outsource, then in-house again.
Same experience here. Was getting flats all the time on my commute, bike shop recommended Schwalbe Marathons, haven't had an issue since.
Safari still supports MV2
Just FYI - That defect only impacted systems which boot from ZFS - mine did not. The installer would stop an upgrade if it found a mounted volume - it apparently checks for zfs volumes as follows: sudo zpool list -H I…
I hit this recently - nVidia issues with a Flatpak, I spent about half an hour on it, gave up, and just decided to try the app out on another laptop.
May be of interest - here's what running Linux and NetBSD on Amiga is like these days: https://sandervanderburg.blogspot.com/2025/02/running-netbsd... https://sandervanderburg.blogspot.com/2025/01/running-linux-...
The way Find My has been built, it doesn't really matter what they do with the tags, it's fairly straightforward to build your own tags, or modify tags, that bypass any stalking detection. A phone's stalking detection…
Story to share - my kids are well into her their teens now, but my youngest, in particular, loved Tux Paint, and used it long before she could read, she'd just click away. One day, she's playing in Tux Paint, and a…
I have been buying Brooks Adrenaline GTS shoes for 20 years. My first pair, they were just on sale, so I bought them. When they wore out, I bought a different brand/design. And I noticed that I was wearing the…
Related: for fun over the holidays, I created an ePub of a paperback copy of "I Brought The Ages Home", by Charles T. Currelly, which went out of copyright in Canada in 2007 (copyright in Canada changed from 50 to 70…
In my experience, no, but still worth doing. You end up finding and chatting (often off-mesh!) with people who are within Lora-mesh-distance of you, who have similar interests.
Maybe a centralized Op Ed page?
Like my primary storage, with the old storage in a sub folder. There's still a WP51 folder in there somewhere...
I had equipped the family with identical corporate-refurb laptops - when you have any of 4 laptops in a family room, it was a way of not getting my laptop taken by my kids to school one day... Back in the office days,…
I am not a huge gamer - maybe a dozen hours a year. But I feel that, say, Mario responds differently to controls in an emulator than how I remember Mario responding on an NES with a CRT. But I was never very good, and…
Funny to have read this today - I read this this morning, and just happened to go to a small gallery in Guelph (small town near Toronto) presenting similar ideas:…
May be of interest to this thread - I created a script that drives the Kindle web reader, captures screenshots, runs OCR, and creates an ePub - this wouldn't be as good as the pixelmelt solution, as it requires OCR.…
Flinks is also an often-used aggregator in Canada. "Connecting" savings accounts from EQ Bank or Wealthsimple to an account at TD Bank requires providing TD credentials to Flinks.
No one has mentioned Calgary's inter-office skyway: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plus_15 10 miles/16 km. I've actually never been, but saw it featured in a CanCon movie, waydowntown, where a group of office workers…
I wonder if any of the Apricot-era software is still going? If the services side became ACT, which was bought by Misys, Misys bought by Vista Equity and merged with Canada’s D+H to form Finastra - still a going concern…
The author writes: "I discovered the IBM Model M in 1993 ... It took me many years to find one. I vividly remember the Craigslist ad for a dilapidated computer shop in a Toronto suburb. Inside I found piles of them,…
I agree - it's worth doing just for fun. I did the same recently just for fun - I really enjoyed "Gravity Force" on the Amiga - itself a lunar lander variant. Could a model build a Gravity Force like game I could run…
Yeah, this is so bad - I struggled with this as well, why did they make it hard?
this It drives me nuts, I look at cumulative CPU time, and this is all my work laptop does.
Agree - but even for the basic use case, it has not been trouble free for me. With a simple 1080p display on a desktop running LTS Ubuntu on an older 3060: - I've had updates where stuff just stopped working and I had…
- IBM creates PC and its BIOS - Phoenix creates clone of BIOS - At some point, IBM/Lenovo stopped using its own BIOS - IBM spins out Lenovo - Lenovo buys Phoenix In-house firmware, outsource, then in-house again.
Same experience here. Was getting flats all the time on my commute, bike shop recommended Schwalbe Marathons, haven't had an issue since.
Safari still supports MV2
Just FYI - That defect only impacted systems which boot from ZFS - mine did not. The installer would stop an upgrade if it found a mounted volume - it apparently checks for zfs volumes as follows: sudo zpool list -H I…
I hit this recently - nVidia issues with a Flatpak, I spent about half an hour on it, gave up, and just decided to try the app out on another laptop.
May be of interest - here's what running Linux and NetBSD on Amiga is like these days: https://sandervanderburg.blogspot.com/2025/02/running-netbsd... https://sandervanderburg.blogspot.com/2025/01/running-linux-...
The way Find My has been built, it doesn't really matter what they do with the tags, it's fairly straightforward to build your own tags, or modify tags, that bypass any stalking detection. A phone's stalking detection…
Story to share - my kids are well into her their teens now, but my youngest, in particular, loved Tux Paint, and used it long before she could read, she'd just click away. One day, she's playing in Tux Paint, and a…
I have been buying Brooks Adrenaline GTS shoes for 20 years. My first pair, they were just on sale, so I bought them. When they wore out, I bought a different brand/design. And I noticed that I was wearing the…
Related: for fun over the holidays, I created an ePub of a paperback copy of "I Brought The Ages Home", by Charles T. Currelly, which went out of copyright in Canada in 2007 (copyright in Canada changed from 50 to 70…
In my experience, no, but still worth doing. You end up finding and chatting (often off-mesh!) with people who are within Lora-mesh-distance of you, who have similar interests.
Maybe a centralized Op Ed page?
Like my primary storage, with the old storage in a sub folder. There's still a WP51 folder in there somewhere...
I had equipped the family with identical corporate-refurb laptops - when you have any of 4 laptops in a family room, it was a way of not getting my laptop taken by my kids to school one day... Back in the office days,…
I am not a huge gamer - maybe a dozen hours a year. But I feel that, say, Mario responds differently to controls in an emulator than how I remember Mario responding on an NES with a CRT. But I was never very good, and…
Funny to have read this today - I read this this morning, and just happened to go to a small gallery in Guelph (small town near Toronto) presenting similar ideas:…
May be of interest to this thread - I created a script that drives the Kindle web reader, captures screenshots, runs OCR, and creates an ePub - this wouldn't be as good as the pixelmelt solution, as it requires OCR.…
Flinks is also an often-used aggregator in Canada. "Connecting" savings accounts from EQ Bank or Wealthsimple to an account at TD Bank requires providing TD credentials to Flinks.
No one has mentioned Calgary's inter-office skyway: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plus_15 10 miles/16 km. I've actually never been, but saw it featured in a CanCon movie, waydowntown, where a group of office workers…