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Screenshots from developers and Unix people taken in 2002
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#92Earlier quoted context omitted.
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 :/
Gentoo: My linux educator.
The fact that you needed to make your own kernel and configure a lot of things on your own made me learn a lot about Linux and GNU. Much more than debian or redhat. There is great value in that I think.
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I believe you have replied to the wrong news post. Were you referring to the one about uBlock Origin being denied on the Chrome Web Store by chance?
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#94That smoking spy icon in Ritchie's screenshot gives me flashbacks to mid-90s childhood. I remember seeing it around quite a bit for a while, but can't remember where. Anyone know where it's from?
It is a face, aka picon. It reminds me of the GameSpy logo. It appears to be the default face for unknown.
Info about faces in Plan 9: http://plan9.bell-labs.com/wiki/plan9/Adding_your_face/index... doesn't seem to load but is cached is http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:CkBURro...
Database of faces/picons: http://www.cs.indiana.edu/pub/faces/picons/
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#95I 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…
> I also know that they ran speedily on rubbish hardware
This is not consistent with my memory of the time.
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#96I miss my fluxbox wm and my Linux dev box. I stick to OS X now for my Desktop, though I do think back wistfully sometimes.
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#97Earlier quoted context omitted.
RTCW:ET is still well and alive thank you.
Yeah, there's lots of active servers - but it's dying. I think many servers are filled more by bots than people. That said, it's great fun if you know where to play. RTCW is also fun on singleplayer mode.. and it runs natively on GNU/Linux.
It's been dying for the past decade. People still play it.
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#98Reminds me how bad anti-aliasing on the fonts was back then.
More like non-existent than bad.
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#99You know you've made it when you can casually say “I don’t know how to make a screenshot, because I normally use my computer in text-mode.” Badass Richard.
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…
For personal reasons he doesn't have a personal internet connection at all.
He has some sort of bot that he emails links to and it sends the source (or plaintext?) back to him for reading.
(At least it was like that a couple of years ago)
I believe he also has issues with non-free JavaScript which I suppose precludes him from using websites that use JavaScript (or I guess he could block it).
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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.…
I always liked 2k as well, and it was a good halfway point if you wanted to play games on Windows but not be stuck with a completely crap OS. It was relatively stable, as anyone who also admin'd Unix/Linux boxes at the time could tell you. It crashed just infrequently enough to be forgivable, which was a new thing for MS in my experience (Win 95c was a not-so-close second).