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The agonies and ecstasies of learning computers back then... My learning, in 1989.
We had a PC XT 286 in our University lab, and had Matlab installed. A senior told me that the PATH variable had been set, but I couldn't understand its implication. Therefore, I used to copy my program.m file from C:\User1 to the A:\ drive, and then copy this file from A:\ drive to the C:\Matlab folder (on the same PC XT), in order to run it. Then he came and saw, and had a big laugh. Only then did I understand the significance of PATH environment variable. An on-the-job kind of lesson.
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That's a great story. I was working in tech support in 1991-92 and having to set up people's autoexec.bat and config.sys files to support the company software. They were really so cryptic.
And sometimes I had to talk a person through editing their config.sys files using edlin (do you remember that one?).
Also, at times I'd have to tell the user where a key was. "The 's' key is on the left side in the middle.
It was a form of torture that I endured to get my foot inside the IT industry.
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raddevus wrote: edlin
Not exactly edlin, but vi.
When i learnt vi editor on Unix, there have been instances where I've lost/overwritten source files. Only to rewrite them again. Since they were only college project files, it was okay.
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Windows 11's built-in archive support is getting new features to give users more flexibility and customization when working with ZIP, 7zip, and TAR archives without relying on third-party apps. How small do you want it?
Sadly, still no password support
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Windows 11 can be reduced to a command-line interface, known as Minwin, resembling the graphically simple Command Prompt. I think they call that DOS
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Until autoupdate brings back the full experience. Right in the middle of a batch command...
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Isn't that sort of like reducing a C compiler to handle inline assembler only?
Religious freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make five.
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DOS never required 100MB of memory. Or disk space.
Furthermore, DOS could run any application built for it, including early versions of Windows. This abortion can't even run all Console applications, because some use DLLs that have been removed from the system.
Meh!
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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I have spent a good chunk of the past 6 months trying to bring Rust to .NET. In case you like your .NET a little rusty
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The JAXA space agency did say it managed to collect some data before it shut down the lander. They forgot to include a "This side up" label
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Perhaps they should have launched it from Australia.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Computer science teachers, software experts share their advice on ML assistants This news brought to you by the person that gets to fix your AI-generated code
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Google has just unveiled a game-changing AI upgrade for Android. But it has a darker side. As opposed to just Google reading them all
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great. I see no negative outcomes from this.
My iPhone is 4+ years old. About the only useful thing on it is the camera. But google or Apple is bad enough cyphering what I am doing. Going to update to a flip phone this month.
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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The commission wants to understand the tangled web of investments between cloud providers and AI startups. They'd rather those companies invest in the FTC
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Ingenuity has spent more than two hours flying above Mars since April 2021. "Now cracks a noble heart. Good-night, sweet prince; And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest."
OK, not heart but propellor. Still, it must be dusty in here.
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Upvoted for the Hamlet quote.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Errors with spreadsheets are not only frustrating but can have serious consequences. Excel deemed dangerous
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DError is in DLookup!
(DLookup/VLookup - big deal!)
modified 29-Jan-24 2:42am.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Excel deemed dangerous considered harmful
FTFY
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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How does a legacy test account grant access to read every Office 365 account? Testing, testing. One, two, boom
I apologize to the Microsoft management that I thought were to blame.
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More likely someone who was fired from Microsoft's QA teams simply didn't bother to close that account. This would be a way to legally get back at a company for firing them.
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Learn more on what, where and how enterprise developers work, share your insights and help shape developer landscape. Read it with your best David Attenborough impression
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I want rename ShiftMag to something more colorfully appropriate.
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