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The free sample is good reading and makes me want to read more. However Amazon has only made the book available as a free Kindle download (to Kindle devices) or as a $$$ paperback.…

I remember BBSes as having much more polite conversations than you find these days on social media, too!

Does your aunt or f-i-l really need to know? I know older nerds who only use a smartphone for texts and voice calls, and who can't be bothered wasting time on social media. So far …

See https://www.datafix.com.au/cookbook/ and https://www.datafix.com.au/BASHing/

"The look on the faces of a fresh crop of 20-something developers"... My equivalent is doing a data reformat or analysis on a big dataset that someone has been struggling with in (…

Dinosaurs of UNIX?

VM/CMS still exists in some form in the IBM world, I think, but it would be hard to find a device that still runs RSTS/E. I haven't used Windows since 2007 and don't miss it.

A minor annoyance for some of us older folk is seeing so many "digital help" courses for seniors. All too often the spiel implies something like this: "You grew old before digital …