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Thread: Try and review tools.
Post: RE: Try and review tools.
| For some time now I've been accumulating bookmarks in a folder labeled "Things I Might Use". This seems like an appropriate thread to share some of them. These are just some little tools that caught... |
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ckester |
Community & Forums Related Discussions
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21-03-2024, 01:21 AM |
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Thread: What are you working on?
Post: RE: What are you working on?
| Today I received my copy of the new edition of AWK book from the original authors. It's immediately going to the top of my reading stack for computer-related topics. |
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ckester |
Programming On Unix
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29-09-2023, 07:36 PM |
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Thread: What shell do you guys use?
Post: RE: What shell do you guys use?
| Oops, I was thinking of AppleScript not AppleTalk. It's been that long since I've looked at anything Apple. ($$$) |
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ckester |
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18-09-2023, 06:00 PM |
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Thread: What shell do you guys use?
Post: RE: What shell do you guys use?
| AppleTalk might have been the best example of how to script a GUI application. But I haven't been on an Apple system in years and don't know what they have along those lines now. |
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ckester |
BSD
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18-09-2023, 02:21 PM |
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Thread: What shell do you guys use?
Post: RE: What shell do you guys use?
| The biggest advantage of CLIs is probably their scriptability.
They're all about the functionality, not the user interface. In fact, I think they're at their best in contexts like a crontab where ... |
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ckester |
BSD
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75,978 |
16-09-2023, 09:56 PM |
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Thread: What shell do you guys use?
Post: RE: What shell do you guys use?
| (13-09-2023, 06:18 PM)jkl Wrote: I know that this might sound heretic, especially on Nixers, but the best possible way to do actual work in a non-emergency situation is not the CLI. This is not rela... |
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ckester |
BSD
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14-09-2023, 12:07 AM |
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Thread: What's everyone's daily driver device?
Post: RE: What's everyone's daily driver device?
| I have an old Thinkpad T410 I use occasionally, but my everyday machine is an old (but still newer than the laptop) tower running KDE on MX Linux:
Code:System:
&nb... |
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ckester |
Hardware talk
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09-08-2023, 07:22 PM |
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Thread: What are you working on?
Post: RE: What are you working on?
| Quote:But it's fun and that's what matters. :)
I'm finding that to be true more and more nowadays. |
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ckester |
Programming On Unix
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09-08-2023, 07:09 PM |
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Thread: RIP, Bram Moolenaar
Post: RIP, Bram Moolenaar
| https://news.itsfoss.com/vim-creator-passed-away/
I'd noticed that updates to vim's git repository has recently been more sporadic than usual. Now I know why and I'm even sadder. |
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ckester |
Off topic
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08-08-2023, 12:44 AM |
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Thread: What are you working on?
Post: RE: What are you working on?
| Minor tweaks to my mpg123 frontend.
Also working on a few other programming projects, big and small, that I'm not ready to discuss. |
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ckester |
Programming On Unix
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21-05-2023, 08:38 PM |
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Thread: Unix screen-shots thread!
Post: RE: Unix screen-shots thread!
| (24-01-2023, 12:28 PM)cyr4x3 Wrote: switched from xmonad to cwm a couple of months ago and i can't go back now
That wallpaper goes very well with those terminal windows. An elegant, subdued colorsc... |
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ckester |
Desktop Customization & Workflow
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25-01-2023, 03:39 PM |
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Thread: industry buzzwords
Post: RE: industry buzzwords
| https://thenewstack.io/serverless-archit...n-patterns
Reading this stuff makes me realize how much the industry has passed me by. As someone who's mostly into home computing rather than web, mobile,... |
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ckester |
Off topic
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22-01-2023, 04:14 PM |
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Thread: industry buzzwords
Post: RE: industry buzzwords
| Since only fuddy-duddies like me are interested in old-fashioned desktop software making no use whatsoever of a network connection, I doubt that's what they mean by "serverless".
If I had to guess, I... |
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ckester |
Off topic
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11-01-2023, 01:57 AM |
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Thread: industry buzzwords
Post: RE: industry buzzwords
| CI in this context is apparently "Continuous Integration", referring to a mechanism by which the members of a software development team can merge (i.e., integrate) their individual work with work done... |
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ckester |
Off topic
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03-12-2022, 03:56 PM |
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Thread: industry buzzwords
Post: RE: industry buzzwords
| In this case I felt like I needed to learn an API before I could understand their marketing pitch. An API that their target audience presumably already knows. I haven't attended any of the right co... |
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ckester |
Off topic
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15-11-2022, 04:28 PM |
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Thread: industry buzzwords
Post: industry buzzwords
| I picked up a thread on lobste.rs about this, thinking it might be a historical note about Microsoft Bob, but of course it wasn't:
https://bob-cd.github.io
Unfortunately there are so many unexplaine... |
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ckester |
Off topic
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14-11-2022, 05:29 PM |
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Thread: First Time you used 'Linux' ?
Post: RE: First Time you used 'Linux' ?
| The question was about Linux, but as long as we're reminiscing about first installs I'll add that the first time I installed a BSD was sometime around 2003 or 2004. FreeBSD, which I'd been aware of e... |
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ckester |
GNU/Linux
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06-11-2022, 05:25 PM |
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Thread: Microsoft GitHub is being sued for stealing your code
Post: RE: Microsoft GitHub is being sued for stealing yo...
| Expanding jkl's quotation to highlight the crux of the complaint (emphasis added):
Quote: (...) Which licenses? A set of 11 popular open-source licenses that all require attribution of the autho... |
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ckester |
Off topic
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03-11-2022, 06:48 PM |
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Thread: Community gopher hole
Post: RE: Community gopher hole
| Just a heads-up: The gopher proxy on vulpes.one hasn't been working lately, so any http links to gopherholes that use it will be broken.
The g.nixers gopher server, on the other hand, is running wit... |
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ckester |
Community & Forums Related Discussions
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29-10-2022, 11:07 PM |
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Thread: Historical GUI Websites
Post: RE: Historical GUI Websites
| If old computer ads and tutorials are your thing, the Internet Archive has copies of some of the magazines we cut our teeth on back in the 80's and 90's. Some of my favorites were:
https://archive... |
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ckester |
Desktop Customization & Workflow
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11-10-2022, 02:38 PM |
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Thread: What spoken languages do you know?
Post: RE: What spoken languages do you know?
| (06-10-2022, 12:50 PM)jkl Wrote: (02-10-2022, 01:54 PM)venam Wrote: That's a lot of languages.
Not really, unless you’re from the US where even a second language is a lot. :-p
Immigration is chang... |
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ckester |
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06-10-2022, 02:46 PM |
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Thread: What are you working on?
Post: RE: What are you working on?
| Cool stuff, seninha!
Me, I've been making some more updates to my (much more boring) ncplay frontend for mpg123.
Mostly coding style and some UI changes to clean things up and address some of the ... |
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ckester |
Programming On Unix
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01-10-2022, 11:26 PM |
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Thread: What are you working on?
Post: RE: What are you working on?
| I should probably take back what I said about sfeed's code being "clean". It's static-linkable C, true, but after making a more serious attempt to understand its algorithm, I have to say I find it in... |
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ckester |
Programming On Unix
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05-09-2022, 02:01 PM |
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Thread: Self-introduction
Post: RE: Self-introduction
| Welcome, and thanks for keeping those old laptops out of the landfill! I only use old machines myself -- some would say they're obsolete, but Linux or one of the BSDs gives them a new life. Kinda lik... |
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ckester |
Community & Forums Related Discussions
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04-09-2022, 01:15 PM |
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Thread: What are you working on?
Post: RE: What are you working on?
| sfeed_html(1) doesn't quite do what I want. It does create a "river of news" when I give it several different feeds combined and sorted, but it omits the content of each feed item and doesn't identif... |
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ckester |
Programming On Unix
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31-08-2022, 03:14 AM |
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Thread: What are you working on?
Post: RE: What are you working on?
| Taking a break from ncplay this week in order to work on replacing my use of the python-based rawdog rss feed aggregator with some scripts built around sfeed.
Pursuant to my comments in another threa... |
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ckester |
Programming On Unix
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29-08-2022, 02:43 PM |
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Thread: Favorite Terminal Applications
Post: RE: Favorite Terminal Applications
| (23-08-2022, 05:11 AM)venam Wrote: As for the language, I often avoid installing applications that require a specific language I haven't configured on my machine. Sometimes I feel it's ironic to set... |
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ckester |
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26-08-2022, 06:35 PM |
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Thread: What Do You Do for a Living
Post: RE: What Do You Do for a Living
| I'm retired -- which probably explains why I often seem to be the only one with time to spend posting here on nixers. (grin)
I already posted my technical bio in my introduction and won't repeat it h... |
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ckester |
Off topic
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24-08-2022, 06:55 PM |
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Thread: Favorite Terminal Applications
Post: RE: Favorite Terminal Applications
| (11-03-2021, 05:56 PM)ckester Wrote: (10-03-2021, 10:18 PM)freem Wrote: (10-03-2021, 07:50 PM)Ramiferous Wrote: (10-03-2021, 10:49 AM)phillbush Wrote: image viewer: sxiv (I want to fork sxiv a... |
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ckester |
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23-08-2022, 11:06 AM |
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Thread: Favorite Terminal Applications
Post: RE: Favorite Terminal Applications
| Here's something I posted years ago on reddit, where I went under the nickname "CorkyAgain". It's pertinent to the discussion in this thread and I'd like to get the nixers' thoughts about these crite... |
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ckester |
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23-08-2022, 04:12 AM |
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Thread: Community gopher hole
Post: RE: Community gopher hole
| I can't get the email-to-phlog thing working.
I tried sending from both my comcast and gmail accounts (after updating .forward accordingly) and checked to make sure I was sending plain text.
I eve... |
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ckester |
Community & Forums Related Discussions
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23-08-2022, 01:20 AM |
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Thread: What are you working on?
Post: RE: What are you working on?
| (21-03-2021, 04:03 PM)ckester Wrote: Beginning yet another rewrite of ncplay, my ncurses-based frontend for mpg123. I'm going to scrap the linked-list design I inherited from mcplay and replace it ... |
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ckester |
Programming On Unix
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21-08-2022, 08:37 PM |
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Thread: Idea for a "week of the vintage OS"
Post: RE: Idea for a "week of the vintage OS"
| (31-05-2021, 09:55 AM)seninha Wrote: 1985 would be too limiting.
CP/M might be an interesting choice for circa 1985.
Bonus points for anyone who has an old Morrow MD1, MD2, or MD3 machine, but mayb... |
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ckester |
Old school stuff
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20-08-2022, 01:54 PM |
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Thread: Favorite Terminal Applications
Post: RE: Favorite Terminal Applications
| I like TUIs for tasks where awareness of context helps guide or inform a sequence of actions. A text editor is the classic example. File managers are also helpful for those of us who tend to lose our... |
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ckester |
BSD
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17-06-2022, 12:00 AM |
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Thread: What shell do you guys use?
Post: RE: What shell do you guys use?
| ksh93, nowadays for no other reason than familiarity after many years of use. |
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ckester |
BSD
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24-04-2022, 03:35 PM |
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Thread: First Time you used 'Linux' ?
Post: RE: First Time you used 'Linux' ?
| Too long ago to remember exactly when, but I remember having to setup modelines in order to get X Windows working with my monitor.
Checking my bookshelves, I see that I have the 4th edition (1996)o... |
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ckester |
GNU/Linux
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21-04-2022, 07:08 PM |
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Thread: [Assembly] Need a good resources to start
Post: RE: [Assembly] Need a good resources to start
| You might try this book:
Ray Seyfarth, Introduction to 64 Bit Assembly Programming for Linux and OS X: For Linux and OS X 3rd Edition
https://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Bit-...1484921909
There doe... |
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ckester |
Programming On Unix
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25-03-2022, 12:25 AM |
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Thread: Recommended UPS?
Post: Recommended UPS?
| I'm looking for an uninterruptable power supply for my desktop machine.
What are you guys using?
I need both battery backup and surge protection. |
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ckester |
Hardware talk
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08-03-2022, 01:01 AM |
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Thread: New Year Resolutions [2021 Edition]
Post: RE: New Year Resolutions [2021 Edition]
| I misread the subject line. Those are my resolutions for 2022. |
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ckester |
Community & Forums Related Discussions
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6,886 |
30-11-2021, 06:30 AM |
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Thread: New Year Resolutions [2021 Edition]
Post: RE: New Year Resolutions [2021 Edition]
| Buy a few Raspberry Pi's and use them to build some servers for various things around the house.
Build a new desktop machine to replace my old Gateway PC.
Learn how to write some elinks hooks to f... |
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ckester |
Community & Forums Related Discussions
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29-11-2021, 06:03 PM |
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Thread: Community gopher hole
Post: RE: Community gopher hole
| (15-09-2020, 02:59 AM)z3bra Wrote: There are a few ones already:
lynx browser
sacc
clic (for emacs)
bombadillo
Many more
The elinks browser also supports the gopher protocol.
Not available i... |
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ckester |
Community & Forums Related Discussions
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23-11-2021, 11:30 PM |
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Thread: Nixers Book Club - Book #5: Computer Science from the Bottom Up
Post: RE: Nixers Book Club - Book #5: Computer Science f...
| Basic CS stuff, yes, and presented briskly like a refresher. It's good to go back and revisit these things now and then, to fill in any gaps in our understanding.
I really liked its beginning with t... |
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ckester |
Community & Forums Related Discussions
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21-08-2021, 01:58 PM |
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Thread: What are you working on?
Post: RE: What are you working on?
| Yeah, I'm coming to think that for most TUI's stdio and escape sequences are sufficient. |
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ckester |
Programming On Unix
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04-08-2021, 05:22 PM |
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Thread: Nixers Book Club - Book #4: The Art of UNIX Programming
Post: RE: Nixers Book Club - Book #4: The Art of UNIX Pr...
| (03-07-2021, 12:14 PM)jkl Wrote: I wonder what C standards will be named in 60 years from now. C11 is - in theory - before C89.
Any C programmer worth his salt should have no problem with a circular... |
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ckester |
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04-07-2021, 12:28 AM |
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Thread: A Week of Trial [June Events 2021]
Post: RE: A Week of Trial [June Events 2021]
| Apropos of life in the TTY, vermaden referenced this interesting file manager in his latest "Valuable News":
https://github.com/leo-arch/clifm
I'm definitely going to give this one a try!
(I'd al... |
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ckester |
Community & Forums Related Discussions
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29-06-2021, 11:25 AM |