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A copy editor might even have employed suspended hyphens: "Apple-supplied and -managed hardware" —only to be quickly overruled by the marketing folks, who’d probably frown upon suc…

You’ve just described e-commerce circa 1990! On Usenet newsgroups and BBS conferences, sellers would post forms that looked exactly like that, except for the ads of course. Buyers …

Furthermore, the helicopters covering the Tour are not flying for 4-5 hours straight; they make scheduled refueling stops during the race.

Fun fact: up until a couple of years ago, whenever you saw a helicopter shot on the Tour de France, a fake chopper noise soundtrack would play faintly in the background. The host b…

>>Sometimes these images have been filmed during spring. The helicopter shots are always live.¹ There is however some prerecorded drone footage, filmed earlier in the year, that ge…

>> With regards to the camera helo -> relay helo -> fixed wing -> truck workflow, it's likely based on the ability for the camera helos not being able to 'see' the fixed wing aircr…

Satellite links are actually used rather sparingly, precisely due to the high latency they introduce. None of the planes, helicopters and motorcycles are equipped with satellite up…

As luck would have it, the very same site under discussion also happens to host a neat online "IDE" for learning all about the 6502-based Atari 2600¹. It is a companion to the book…

Tail employs a large read buffer as well, but it does not matter because you wouldn't use it in the same manner. Tail is the right tool for the job here. But if you wish to stick w…

I ran TriBBS for years as a kid in the Maryland/DC metro area (301). My OS of choice was OS/2 Warp. It could handle a full-time, two-node BBS and still allow me to do other tasks w…

Much like email, finger was a service usually hosted by your ISP/university/workplace. The daemon did not run on your own machine.

Funny thing: finger and .plans were what you are doing. Twitter is what you are doing. Even more apropos was finger's .project file: it was meant to be a single-line status update …

A shame finger died out :-) To be fair, it never had much of a life to begin with. I bet I can count on one finger (sorry) the number of folks who ever saw the cute ASCII art in my…

I use Caps Lock as an extra general-purpose function key (F20), which I can then bind as I please depending on the application. Mapping it as an extra modifier seems a tad unergono…

Indeed. On my bog standard US+International layout I can simply do: AltGr + e = é AltGr + p = ö Adding Shift to the mix produces É and Ö, respectively, as one would expect.

>> Why isn't there a Linux distro like this? Debian stable is that distro in my case. I agree that you shouldn't have to put up with an annoying bug or missing functionality until …

Sure enough, my first shot at installing Slackware also resulted in LILO trashing my MBR. I was attempting a dual-boot setup with Windows 95 at the time and, being too inexperience…

That's an interesting tidbit of Minitel lore that I did not know about until today, thanks! But I'm afraid that even in the DC metro area, among French embassy personnel no less, f…

Growing up in France in the late eighties, I once read an article in the gaming magazine Joystick that piqued my interest to no end. It was all about the wonderful world of télécha…

Is there a cleaner/more idiomatic way to do this? I'm afraid this is the C idiom for assigning a void pointer to a function pointer: *(void **) &fptr = getvoidptr(); Without the si…

Additionally, here is a thread of Linus Torvalds pointing out even more of the confusing nature of arrays and sizeof in C: I really like the idiom for passing sized arrays suggeste…