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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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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
BSD
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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 |
BSD
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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 |
BSD
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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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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 |
Community & Forums Related Discussions
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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 |
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Thread: Scripts to be "quick and efficient"
Post: RE: Scripts to be "quick and efficient"
| Going back to a question asked earlier in this thread:
> At what point does customization stop being an investment into your productivity, and start stealing productivity?
I don't think it was ev... |
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ckester |
Servers Administration, Networking, & Virtualization
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23-06-2021, 12:00 AM |
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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...
| (05-06-2021, 09:49 AM)phillbush Wrote: The chapter then explains where configuration should be read from.
• Run-control files (in /etc and dotfiles in ~/).
• Environment variables.
• Argument option... |
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ckester |
Community & Forums Related Discussions
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05-06-2021, 02:12 PM |
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Thread: What is your coding style?
Post: RE: What is your coding style?
| I confess, I've always been sloppy when it comes to coding style. But I recently added an autocommand to my vimrc to reformat my code before saving it, using astyle(1):
Code:function! Format()
... |
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ckester |
Programming On Unix
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25-05-2021, 02:49 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...
| (22-05-2021, 09:24 AM)phillbush Wrote: Well, I'm doing wrong then.
Heh. I'm getting the same feeling a lot while reading this book! |
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ckester |
Community & Forums Related Discussions
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22-05-2021, 07:45 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...
| (01-05-2021, 11:11 AM)venam Wrote: Another sentence that caught my attention and which we should reconsider
today with all the tech-paparazzi, drama, absolutism, and purism
happening:
Quote:If some... |
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ckester |
Community & Forums Related Discussions
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09-05-2021, 01:17 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...
| OK, got it. Pulling my copy off the shelf for some after-dinner reading. |
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Community & Forums Related Discussions
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01-05-2021, 09:06 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...
| (26-04-2021, 06:22 PM)phillbush Wrote: Our first session will be May, 8 (in two weeks), when we will discuss the first two chapters.
See you there!
Where is "there"? Is the discussion on the IRC ch... |
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ckester |
Community & Forums Related Discussions
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01-05-2021, 04:53 PM |
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Thread: What's your oldest piece of hardware that's still alive?
Post: RE: What's your oldest piece of hardware that's st...
| After struggling to fix yet another paper-jamming issue, I finally retired my LaserJet 4+. So the oldest hardware that's still in use at my house is now my ThinkPad T410.
(The PowerPC Mac Mini is ba... |
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ckester |
Old school stuff
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19-04-2021, 01:55 PM |
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Thread: What are you working on?
Post: RE: What are you working on?
| I'm not working on it (yet), but nvlr's post about writing a new toolkit reminded me of something I've had on my ideas list for a while now: implementing the ncurses API directly on top of X and cutti... |
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ckester |
Programming On Unix
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10-04-2021, 02:08 PM |
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Thread: Alternative formats
Post: RE: Alternative formats
| (03-10-2020, 04:03 PM)opFez Wrote: (03-10-2020, 02:50 PM)z3bra Wrote: I just wished there was a format to concatenate music or videos with cat(1).
That would actually be so cool. Probably possible... |
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ckester |
Unix Related Arts & Image Manipulation Software
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06-04-2021, 05:09 PM |