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Screenshots from developers and Unix people taken in 2002

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Re: Screenshots from developers and Unix people taken in 2002

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Post by gmfawcett »

sasvari wrote: post #42
lighthawk wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

He also tends not to view websites like HN, GitHub, etc., at least as of a few years ago. I'm not sure if it is because he is still in text mode all the time, because he disagrees with using sites that might somehow involve something that isn't free source, or because he just delegates to others the task of surfing the web and getting information for him. He definitely spends a lot of time emailing though. I admire h…

He also tends not to view websites like HN, GitHub, etc., at least as of a few years ago. I'm not sure if it is because he is still in text mode all the time just as a side note, not that I think he's wasting his precious time like us anyway: at least for vim, there's a nice plugin [0] for reading HN. most probably there would be something for his emacs/org-mode as well. [0] https://github.com/ryanss/vim-hackernews

Yes, there is a hackernews package for Emacs. I've never used it, though.

https://github.com/clarete/hackernews.el

Re: Screenshots from developers and Unix people taken in 2002

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Post by trm42 »

vbezhenar wrote: post #60
mangecoeur wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> clean and neat Really? You miss that special "concrete gray and primary blue" feel? I think I used every MS operating system starting with DOS, and I miss exactly none of the "historic" interfaces. To the extent I get annoyed when institutional IT departments force you to use the "classic" theme on modern windows boxes ("It's faster!" - no, it isn't to any human perceptible degree, and I appreciate not having to st…

I still think that Windows NT 4 was the best Windows OS ever. And may be the best GUI ever. I always switch to classic theme, if I have to use Windows. In last versions it's not very classic, though.

For me, it was W2K. It has the stability of NT series better usability, drivers and it was quite fast. Windows XP made simple things a lot harder and slower :)

Re: Screenshots from developers and Unix people taken in 2002

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Post by nilved »

hoorayimhelping wrote: post #52
Bouncingsoul1 wrote: post #25

"Richard Stallman, july 2002: I don’t know how to make a screenshot, because I normally use my computer in text-mode." Classic RMS

aloof, self-centered, unhelpful. Classic.

You're right that it's unhelpful. 1/3 isn't that bad.

Re: Screenshots from developers and Unix people taken in 2002

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Post by dingaling »

mangecoeur wrote: post #45
72deluxe wrote: post #12

I really liked these. This makes me feel old. I look at those desktops (particularly the Windows 95 one) and think they look clean and neat, with few distractions. I also know that they ran speedily on rubbish hardware. After ditching my BBC B (I was poor), I remember using Win 3.1 on a 386SX with 4MB RAM that someone had thrown out and installing software to take over program manager and make it look like Win95 beca…

> clean and neat Really? You miss that special "concrete gray and primary blue" feel? I think I used every MS operating system starting with DOS, and I miss exactly none of the "historic" interfaces. To the extent I get annoyed when institutional IT departments force you to use the "classic" theme on modern windows boxes ("It's faster!" - no, it isn't to any human perceptible degree, and I appreciate not having to st…

> You miss that special "concrete gray and primary blue" feel?

Compared to aluminium-gray-and-no-blue OS X? I don't think mainstream UIs have much to boast about in terms of the evolution of colour palettes.

Re: Screenshots from developers and Unix people taken in 2002

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Post by michael_h »

a3n wrote: post #33
sengork wrote: post #6

So both creators of C used Windows...

Was probably the cheapest way to get a terminal to unix running at the time. I've been in lots of shops where the given computer is Windows, because that's what the rest of the company runs, and most of my time is spent in terminal windows to unix (Unix long ago, Linux these days). I recall trying to get actual unix on a PC, back around '94 or '95. I actually contacted the local Sun rep, and it was cumbersome and exp…

Me: How much is a sparcstation 10[1] without any accessories?

Sun Rep: Well, give me an idea of what kind of work you're doing and we'll make sure we can get you set up with the right workstation.

Me: How much is a sparcstation 10 without any accessories?

::Repeat::

[1] I gave configuration details - everything needed to ship me exactly the machine I wanted.

Re: Screenshots from developers and Unix people taken in 2002

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Post by donatj »

trm42 wrote: post #72
vbezhenar wrote: post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I still think that Windows NT 4 was the best Windows OS ever. And may be the best GUI ever. I always switch to classic theme, if I have to use Windows. In last versions it's not very classic, though.

For me, it was W2K. It has the stability of NT series better usability, drivers and it was quite fast. Windows XP made simple things a lot harder and slower :)

Yep. Win 2k will always hold a place in my heart. My family bought a computer that came with Windows ME, and of course it crashed constantly. After getting incredibly frustrated with this my friend had a copy of this bizarre OS called Windows 2000. It took a long time to get all the drivers for everything initially, but it was stable. Damn stable.

I honestly had a server running Windows 2000 untill about 4 years ago. In that time, it was only really rebooted for system updates. It's sitting in my spare room.

Re: Screenshots from developers and Unix people taken in 2002

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Post by SonicSoul »

72deluxe wrote: post #12

I really liked these. This makes me feel old. I look at those desktops (particularly the Windows 95 one) and think they look clean and neat, with few distractions. I also know that they ran speedily on rubbish hardware. After ditching my BBC B (I was poor), I remember using Win 3.1 on a 386SX with 4MB RAM that someone had thrown out and installing software to take over program manager and make it look like Win95 beca…

right on.

I still remember that day of someone on IRC boasting about running multiple instances of Netscape in addition to IRC. I was like.. wow! such luxuries! Maybe next year I can upgrade my cpu/ram to get to the multi browser instance club

Re: Screenshots from developers and Unix people taken in 2002

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Post by szastupov »

IgorPartola wrote: post #43
szastupov wrote: post #2

A good old Russian site linux.org.ru has a huge archive of Linux screenshots (1999-), you should check it out http://www.linux.org.ru/gallery/archive/

This is where I got started using Linux. Oh the memories. I even have some of my (terrible) screenshots on there and had submitted a bunch of news articles and hundreds of comments. Now I don't even remember my username.

Oh the memories of nights spent downloading sources on Dial-Up and nights compiling them on Gentoo. Back then we all had hope for the bright future for Linux on desktop, but it never made it, now we are all on OSX :/
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