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Rediscover

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About Rediscover

Embedded Linux wrangler & GP R&D lab rat

daryl.bunce@gmail.com

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    Comment #48817319

    About the Nintendo Switch 2: Maybe try perusing https://www.reddit.com/r/NintendoSwitch/comments/1l3vqkv/sol... Uni has an adapter for USB to Ethernet (if wired is an option) that …

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    Comment #48166648

    WKRP's handling of the Who concert at Riverfront Coliseum (Cincinnati, 1979) really sticks out in my memory. The radio station was portrayed as promoting a big concert through most…

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    Comment #48130451

    OpenBSD has had support for a bit over four years (v7.1, though the earlier v7.0 had /some/ support). OpenBSD 7.1, 2022-04-21 -- https://www.openbsd.org/71.html R/AsahiLinux postin…

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    Comment #47762656

    I thought I read something similar in Levy's book "Hackers" but the following is from https://www.gnu.org/gnu/rms-lisp.en.html "It was Bernie Greenberg, who discovered that it was …

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    Comment #46829704

    The NITECORE UM10 is an "in/out" charger too - it handles various sized LiIon batteries one-at-a-time. A switch on the end determines if it is charging or discharging. Their site s…

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    Comment #46643990

    Who else was rdev'ing the Linux kernel to tell it where the root ext2(?) partition was long before they were using RAM disks? Like with SLS or MCC?

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    Comment #46472823

    Maybe I missed it, is there no love for the piping to an external command? I set a mark, move to somewhere else, then save the area between where I am and the mark: ma(assign mark …

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    Comment #46320872

    I've been led to believe those video thumbprints exist, but I know the hash of the perceived audio is often all that is needed for a match of what is currently being presented (mov…

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    Comment #45895132

    Cash-only here. I have not (generally) accepted pennies since the mid 1980's. Many of the local places (Seattle - Belltown & the Market) are cool with rounding transactions to the …

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    Comment #45656980

    > Why Slackware specifically? To me, coming from Unix, it's mostly sane.

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    Comment #45512209

    > ... vocal cord development ... I've read, from a few separate sources that were not research papers, something similar that claimed the development was a result of existing in se…

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    Comment #45404110

    > crappy java UI wizard Nicely put (oof!). I believe it also enforced a minimal color depth, which none of our machines could directly support on their own hardware, forcing the us…

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    Comment #45177863

    OLPC XO1 and the MNT Reform both use LiFePO4.

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    Comment #44980805

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    Comment #44730894

    Jack Parsons' Lab? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Parsons

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    Comment #44397309

    It's time for me to re-read the man page for bash. I was not aware of BASH_REMATCH, wow. It's in the first snippet on the linked page, and would save the hassle of using multiple v…

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    Comment #44352451

    And all heavy lynx users know about changing that on the fly to Mozilla for screwy websites that claim they won't work with lynx. I'm happy that I am encountering such behavior les…

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    Comment #44352422

    There's a better explanation in the last comment on the page You linked. ISTR that Netscape used to have in it's README or INSTALL (or maybe an "about"-like menu entry) a note that…

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    Comment #44252581

    Thanks for the formatted/expanded:) repost!

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    Comment #44242993

    Or maybe like when the virtual desktop is larger than the viewport? OLVWM-ish.

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    Comment #44201950

    Two prehensile thumbs up - your HISTCONTROL or HISTIGNORE='m:??:info STARHERE:info:[bf]g:exit:[bf]g %[0-9]:help STARHERE:date:cal:cal ????:exec env ENV\STARHERE' (replace STARHERE …

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    Comment #44057209

    Interesting! Now I'm wondering if Leighton or Feynman was aware of these stamps (my ddg/google-fu is bad today).

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    Comment #43957931

    > ...survive repeated spilling of drinks on their keyboard... Panasonic's "Let's Note" series, too. Their machines from ~2002 were quite impressive to me.

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    Comment #43828478

    The closest I found, which partially matches my memory, was from SOS Children that claims "This selection of articles from Wikipedia matches the UK National Curriculum ..." and "..…

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    Comment #43822350

    Didn't England or GB do (does?) a curated dump precisely for that purpose? I'll pull up the info tonight if no one else chimes in.