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Uh, what do you mean, you can't use a scanner via USB? Did they stop putting USB ports on computers? (I haven't bought a new one in a while.) Or does your OS not provide the softwa…

What a horrible web site. I hit "reload", and I now have two copies of the LH Menu. In IFRAMEs. I was able to see a couple of the items, then that broke. I click and nothing happen…

OK, so way at the bottom it says this: "This title does not impose liability on an operating system provider, a covered application store, or a developer that arises from the use o…

"For the purpose of....covered application stores." I'd like to see that definition. My OS doesn't have an "application store", so I doubt it's impacted by this law.

This is no longer true. Most obvious example is Firefox. The Debian Project allows Firefox to update outside the packaging system, automatically, at the whim of Firefox. And there'…

I've done something similar at my job. I don't think it implicates privacy because 1) it's a list of misses from the (public) dictionary, and 2) the email is sent as the program, n…

I'm using it now. It's my primary wm for all my machines. I don't need a "desktop"; I just want something to manage windows. I don't "drag-n-drop". And I don't systemd, plus I kill…

A lot will depend on where you are in your maturity as a programmer. And what sort of work you want to do. I've always done well following Don Lancaster's advice: Hit the basics, H…

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If you liked this article, Henry Petroski's "The Book on the Bookshelf" is worth reading. He goes into great detail about the history, explaining why books were usually chained to …

Look at the earliest computers, that is, those around the time of ENIAC. Most were electro-mechanical, some were entirely relay machines. I believe EDSAC was the first _electronic_…

Use the darknet. Get a list of possible texts, then download them. Figure out which one teaches the way you need to learn, then go buy that one. Used.

I think it's important to note that his work used the proper materials and workmanship. It was essentially an "official" sign, just done by a volunteer. I remember driving through …

Don Lancaster had a software-only method for syncing to the video scan, called the Vaporlock. Which is a play on "genlock", which TV production systems called their hardware to syn…

Even if you never RYOMS, this book shows you how email actually works, down to the bare metal. That's knowledge worth having.

That's interesting as a programming exercise, but HP's plotters all had a built-in language called HP-GL. And there's a GPL'ed tool that will emit HP-GL. I just can't recall what i…

There's a bug in the detection script. The line: if [ "$path" == "" ] should be if [ "$path" = "" ]

If he's "searching Earhart's plane", doesn't that imply that he's found it? Or is he searching a plane he _thinks_ was Earhart's, trying to find confirmation from the contents of i…

Thanks for that. I can't read the article, probably because I block WASM (and Javascript) for security. None of my ebook readers have Internet access (for security and for privacy)…

...and now you know why I don't run systemd. I believe their thought process is: what would Windows do? This is an example. For instance, the desktop shell still crashes often. In …

Glad to be of help. I think the only one I have (yes, I kept all my SBS books) is Miss Pickerell Goes To Mars.

I read these as a child in the 60's. When Purple House Press re-issued them, I snapped them up. They've also re-issued some other favorites, like the Alvin Fernald series. I like t…

What's wrong with Pic? Been around for decades.

I scrolled to the bottom to find his bottom line, which is that "you can't run an email server". Which is interesting, since I do exactly that. I've been running from a low-cost VP…

They had (have?) some Hopper's on display at the Huntington Museum. I realized that even the best art books are unable to reproduce the stunning colors of the originals. It was the…