Posts by Bitbeisser 296 publicly visible posts • joined 26 Aug 2011
80286 CPUs, from 3rd party manufacturers, ran as fast at 25MHz. I used to work on a computer with a 25MHz 80C286 made by Harris. And I used to run for a while Coherrent 3 on it, after CP/M-86 and derivatives proved to be too limited for practical use at that point. That was probably as close as a "fun" Unix (though independently developed) would be on such a machine. I just gave up on it back then when Commodore decided not to move ahead with their CBM 900 project, for which I was already developing/porting business software before they pulled the plug.
Well, the Russian were NOT the good guys during WW1. On the contrary. The tsar was one of the driving war mongering forces, have his greedy eyes on Galicia, then part of Austria-Hungary, and invaded Germany to keep it from coming to the aid of the rather inept Austrian military at that time in the east.
I have been using Firefox as my main browser, al Windows, Linux and macOS, ever since Netscape went under.
The only thing that has bothered me is that at some point they came up with doing searches in the address bar. But there are fixes for that.
A bit more of an issue was when they changed the way extensions are handled/to be programmed. I had gotten used to a couple of add-ons which either didn't become available at all under the new system or simply weren't functionally equivalent, when they finally came out. That's when I also installed WaterFox, which allowed me nicely to use those older extensions.
There is no real alternative. Opera, which was for a while (25 years ago) my alternate browser has gone down the drain, and everything else that has come up in those last +25 years simply s.u.c.k.s.! IE, in any version or the even more intrusive Edge don't cut it, neither does Chrome. Nor any of the other wanna-be niche developments like Brave, Vivaldi, or what your new-web-browser-de-jour today is...
And I give a rodent's posterior about any "artificial stupidity" when there is enough of that around these days in natural form. Nor have I ever bothered with Pocket, that's just one of the things that always got in the way of getting work done..
Well, he sold the source code of a game called Bastar in BASIC for the SpectraVideo SV-318 micro computer to a US computer magazine for publication. Beyond that, probably not much from him around. It is even questionable if he even did any coding working himself at his first company, Zip2, which he founded with his brother Kimbal and a guy call Greg Kouri, who put up the first money and probably did most, if not all of the programming for their "online city guide"...
It's a good thing as it requires you to think more about what you are doing, properly designing your program than just slapping something together.
There is more to programming than just slapping together some API stuff as all those Javascript/Python framework monkeys think...
>His colleague, the Citrix CEO, must now be hoping that it isn't terminal for himself.
Terminal? As in kinetically terminal, like falling out of an upper floor window? Well, those incidents might soon come to a high rise building near you... (if you live in the US of A)
Sorry, but "Outlook Rules" and "easy of creation" seem rather mutually exclusive.
I wish Outlook rules could be created as quick as I can create all my necessary rules in T-Bird. And it seems to be getting more and more convoluted with each version of Outlook (currently at work dealing with Outllook 2010, 2019 and 2021)...
One of the arguments often deployed for not switching to Linux is that it doesn't have an application comparable to .... and one of those things it doesn't have an application comparable to is Outlook. Remarkably this is seen as a disadvantage on Linux' part.
Well, that is only one. And there is some functionality of Outlook (in connection with Exchange) that just isn't available in any free alternative. Like sharing contacts, calendars, across groups in company.
Or Autodesk AutoCAD/Revit. Or Quickbooks. Or the many, many specialized vertical applications...
Sure, T-bird and LibreOffice can cover a lot of ground for a vast amount of home users, but unless it is a more lucrative and better supported alternative for business users, you just won't see a larger acceptance overall....
> Though I'd say the Betterbird fork lives up to its name. YMMV
Well, my mileage varies but quite a few nautical miles....
I tried it for maybe half an hour, then uninstalled it. It wasn't able to properly handle IMAP and changes across multiple devices. This was a year or so ago, so might try to take another look...
Thunderbird isn't perfect, but I had few of those problems that other reported. And I use it as my main email client, across 3 different OS (Windows, Linux, macOS) on more than half a dozen different hosts...
Rewrite: "Microsoft, fuck off."
I see you are using profanity here. Which of the following options do you want to use instead:
1) "Microsoft, buzz off"
2) "Microsoft, pop off"
3) "Microsoft, sod off"
Those kiosks are utterly useless, at least that are in the local MickeyD's here in LA. And thus one more reason to boycott them (and any other chain that tries to force them on their customers).
It takes several times longer for a simple order, more mistakes made in the "kitchen" and thus more aggravation when you try to actually get hold of your "food"...
Why is anyone surprised that there is a huge difference between what the Muskrat says and what he (or his companies) is actually doing?
Business as usual, big promises.with arm thick ropes (rather than strings) attached...
It's not only the case with StarLink, but also applies to Tesla and X. Only SpaceX seems to kind of on track, but then that is primarily run by others anyway and Elon is just providing the mouthpiece...
The Med certainly is NOT a tranquil body of water. And this was kind of a freak storm, a very localized hurricane/tornado that struck right where that ship was and with it's huge mast, those hurricane force winds apparently just pushed the boat over to capsize and sink rather quickly.
There was nothing that any forecasting could have done...
Boeing 707, 747, never liked the 727) and the earlier 737 models were quite OK. Problem is that they assumed that they cash in on those 2 models (707 and 727 are out of action/production for a really long time) as long as they could, and when they had to stop producing the 747 due to waning demands, the 737 alone just couldn't provide for shareholder satisfaction. 757 was kind of a bust, 767 and 777 were mediocre at best, and the 787 another bust. And then they tried to mess with the 737(max) in order to try and keep the same type certificate rather than develop a competitive model in a market dominated by Airbus and they even would be hard pressed to compete with Bombardier and Embraer. That's when the proverbial soft brown matter hit that fast rotating appliance.
If it's Boeing, I ain't going! (even recent astronauts are chiming in on that one now) >:)
I don't think that the availability of the CPU was an issue here.68000 were available in production numbers since late '79. By 1980, I used 68k based systems from Sage and Cromemco and even a pre-series model of the HP-9816 desktop computer...
What made a (cost) difference was that with the 8088, it was possible to use a large number of existing (and thus cheap) 8 bit peripheral chips, while offering up to 10x the amount of RAM than the then prevailing 8 bit CP/M systems and micros like the Apple II, Tandy TRS-80 and Commodore CBM 3000/4000/8000 were capable of. For more of a side show project at IBM, that seemed good enough and with the subsequent evolution of 80286/80386/486 CPUs by Intel, any initial advantage that using an 68k chip quickly vanished, even considering that Motorola very quickly dropped the price of the 68k chips and IBM could have easily gotten a similar sweetheart deal as Apple got for using the CPU in the Lisa and then Macintosh series...
And at the same time as IBM in Boca Raton developed the IBM PC, another IBM department was developing the IBM 9000 lab/instrumentation/process control system, based on the Motorola 68000, trying to compete with IBM and DEC in that market.
What a clown statement! Sorry, but this is on a military vessel, a place where very strict rules apply. That is something you are aware of from the very first day you join the military, something you quite obviously never did.
Installing such an unauthorized technology on a warship can endanger the whole crew and the mission of the ship in more ways that you can possibly imagine. In addition to the possibility to enable spying and other ways of allowing unauthorized access to shipboard functions...
Somehow your post doesn't make much sense. Beside that on a 17" Framework laptop, you could upgrade an existing one, if GPU and the display itself would become available as modules by them.
But in general, you claim you need a large monitor due to age, but then you still can see the pixels on a 1920x1080 display?
Well, it sounds as if you have never create a single, non-trivial program in BASIC.
Yes, there are a lot of BASIC spaghetti code programs out there, but in my experience, they are, specially in recent years, outnumbered by the badly designed Java, C++ or Python programs out in the wild...
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