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Thanks, this is exactly the content I come here for. Apt handle :P I am very not comfortable with the situation, as a seller. I mailed out the stuff that was paid for before the ou…

We all know that's what it is, I don't know why people aren't willing to just say it. It has a domain, it has a logo, they were going for maximum impact because it's their business…

Yeah this sucks, I have a bunch of hobbyist orders stuck in limbo since last week -- customers have paid, but I can't pull the orders down even through the API. I really like Tindi…

Nothing wrong with Rails in 2026. We still use it for both internal and customer projects. I haven't yet encountered anything that made me feel like switching. I'm also not interes…

End of an era. We used to get it on CD in school.

And it'll be open sourced once everything is done!

I don't always play UT2K4, but when I do, it's usually with Ballistic Weapons mod + Sergeant Kelly's weapon packs. I agree that the UT2K4 weapons just don't quite do it like UT99.

Still the FPS I play the most! We organize LAN parties at some of the vintage computer events.

Probably the most likely explanation, given so many things do inherit idiosyncrasies from C. I'd always assumed it was from Perl, given its heavy use in CGI back then -- like $_ be…

"I dunno...is magic " (engineering Calculus II GTA, Virginia Tech, 2006)

We're redoing some of our application servers to bring everything under Ansible management, modernize, etc. Most of what we write gets deployed on OpenBSD. It's mostly been a painl…

Same basic experience. The colo ISP soaks up most actual DDoS. We had a couple mid-sized ones when we were hosting irc.binrev.net from salty b& users. No real effect other than the…

Plus, learning PDP-11 ASM explains some of the idioms from C as they map directly onto the architecture! "Pointer to a pointer" is just a native addressing mode, for instance.

Agree, I like the 6502 architecture but tend to steer newcomers in vintage computers away from it if they have no previous ASM experience. I started on PIC16 assembly, and dabbled …

Judging from former jobs, yeah, kinda lost :/ We still colo, it's way more cost effective than PaaS or VMs or someone else's bare metal.

Email sent, we can probably host you.

Indeed, we donate to several open source projects on which we depend, but we're also a small two-person operation. No medium/large company I've worked for ever donated monetarily t…

Oh man that sucks! I wonder if we could pull Alpine into our colo, we recently upgraded to a full rack from 2U (it was cheaper than a quarter rack!) and have a ton of space. Plus a…

There's an old LCM (Living Computer Museum, RIP) video where they run off a card deck of a risque ASCII art program on an IBM mainframe's line printer. It feigns a printer fault af…

Yup, that's why they were such useful devices! Even if you were ending up with inefficient storage (punching ASCII vs. binary, or expanded BASIC source vs. tokens), it was built-in…

Rails still gets the job done. That's what you get paid to do -- the job!

Important point not really expanded upon in the article: Roger Melen was one of the founders of Cromemco, a very successful microcomputer company that started with S-100 products!

Or: why I still drive to a lot of customer on-site visits, so I can take the hardware with me personally.

It's not 150 LBS, even fully kitted out (which wasn't possible at the time!), but it definitely didn't fit in the luggage compartment. The first portable to do that was the Osborne…