* Posts by Fred Bernal

7 publicly visible posts • joined 21 Jul 2010

Staff in a huff, personal call with Trump, picking fights with Twitter, upsetting civil-rights groups – a week in the life of Facebook's Zuckerberg

Fred Bernal

Re: I still, to this day

You get an upvote... You get an upvote... And you get an upvote... Everyone gets an upvote!!

Fred Bernal

Re: I still, to this day

And just for that, you get an upvote from me. How did that make you feel? Good? You're welcome. ;-)

Micros~1? ClippyZilla? BSOD Bob? There can be only one winner. Or maybe two

Fred Bernal

Re: 8.3

Do you mean LaCie, purveyors of expensive external storage devices?

Guess who's back, back again. SE's back, tell a friend: 2020 reboot looks like an iPhone 8 and even shares components

Fred Bernal

The Mac SE/30 was the successor to the Mac SE. Among the hardware improvements, the CPU was updated from a Motorola 68K to the 68030. Macs equipped with 68030 CPU's had the "x" appended to the model (e.g., IIx, IIfx). Adhering to this naming convention meant that the SE/30 would have been the "SEx", instead. The "SEx" moniker would have been awesome, IMHO. It would have made the SE/30 even more of a collector's item than it is now.

The SE/30 was the best of the all-in-one 68K Macs (the IIfx was drool-inducing, but that was an entirely different beast). I did my work and played games on them during my school years as a kid. Fond memories... and amazing how productive one was with what is now considered a diminutive amount of computing resources.

Web pages a little too style over substance? Behold the Windows 98 CSS file

Fred Bernal

Re: Well I'm glad it's not just me

... and let's not overlook the awful fonts that a lot of sites with trendy minimalist designs use nowadays. They are difficult enough to read on a computer screen, much more so on a phone. And to make it more aggravating, some sites use a color scheme that make the text blend in with the background (e.g., grey text on a light background).

Archos 7 Android tablet

Fred Bernal
Badgers

And on a related note...

We love to hate and spit on Apple, but at the same time, use their (overpriced boutique <insert offensive terms here>) products as the baseline when evaluating similar offerings from other manufacturers.

Tsk... tsk... we are just an implacable bunch, plain and simple.

1984's MacPaint source code hits web

Fred Bernal
Paris Hilton

So true...

Nowadays, computers are rendered to their knees by bloated, badly written (Microsoft / Adobe) applications.

Perhaps programmers need a refresher's course on lean and efficient ("tight") coding methods.

- Paris, 'cos tight she ain't.