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Sounds like Ernest Adams, but I can't find the talk from a quick search.

Seeing Wolf3d running on PC screens in those computer shows at the Cow Palace was what finally convinced me to move from the Amiga to PC.

I usually end up using podbay.fm for finding rss feeds for shows which don't list them on their web pages (or anywhere else). https://podbay.fm/p/software-unscripted

I've been using FreshTomato, which I got pre-installed from a seller on ebay, but IIRC DD-WRT has better support for some Broadcom chips because they allow binary blobs which have …

Still inspiring hackers today! Behold the movie in C: http://bloerp.de/code/tempel/hackers/hackersFinal.c.html

Yes, there were so many little details like looking for pigeons leaving to see if there is a spy in your town.

I feel his strength was being an endless fountain of interesting ideas combined with ability to inspire lots of hard work from his development team. I forget if it was Dungeon Keep…

The early EA games on the Amiga really had some magic about them, down to the box designs and the tone of their ads. It really felt like a whole new era with new possibilities was …

I was just watching another mostly Molyneux centered documentary: 30 Years of God Game History | Populous, Dungeon Keeper, Black & White, Spore and more https://youtu.be/gt4-tBFIcs…

What's the likelihood of getting hassled by your ISP for running this? I always assume that the main target is torrent traffic these days and all the rest is mostly being ignored, …

I also remember a green pc set up which used one of the low power x86 clones (Via?) in the 90s which used the bios battery double as a mini ups similar to that.

On my iphone the problem is solved by restarting the app. My assumption was either the keyboard or the app updated and lost contact with the other, but I find killing the app solve…

I keep thinking about all the philosophy of the Mythical Man Month and proverbial PM who thinks nine women can make a baby in one month, when it comes to this idea that entertainme…

Indeed. I'm not sure why WSL has consistently required some bleeding edge version of Windows to run. I remember trying to get on a managed desktop at work a couple of years ago and…

PWS Weather looks good, but I don't see if you can query it, specifically from Home Assistant. I've been looking for a decent replacement since Apple bought DarkSky.

DD-WRT is has access to some proprietary (Broadcom?) code which enables NAT acceleration on some models which, at least in my case, greatly improved performance over OpenWRT.

It always seems that the drivers or something could say what the cable did or if it was detecting a signal or something. I had a ton of octopus cable swag and took a bunch without …

Web browsing is my biggest concern with these lower powered devices. People always blame the browsers, but its really the whole ecosystem, but odds are you're going to need to acce…

War for the Overworld https://wftogame.com/ is basically DK3, down to having the original narrator from DK1/2. I'm a big fan and played WFTO quite a bit at to the point it's hard t…

Hey EA, how about the Bullfrog games next?

Made me think of the Dancers at the End of Time books, although they're more philosophical than sci-fi. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dancers_at_the_End_of_Time

My preference is history podcasts with single narrators which are generally a fixed length 45 minutes to an hour. You Must Remember This A good podcast on the history of Hollywood …

I'm in NYC and have been having trouble loading YouTube videos seem like they fail about half the time. I don't recall ever seeing that before last week.

Well if history is any indicator that may change. https://www.history.com/news/spanish-flu-second-wave-resurge...

This only detracts from the best mystery in the movie which was why is there a laptop running XP!?!?!