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The Hacker‘s Dictionary has a definition for #retrocomputing …

Die TU München ist das Spiegel Online unter den Universitäten.

What I miss today: A really hefty book which I can read, and afterwards I KNOW that topic and can USE the knowledge. The era of proper documentation and structured learning seems... over?
#oreilly #books #coding

So tired so soon
What happened to you
What happened to you
You got lost
Somewhere between
#martinlgore #arecordeveryday

Quick question: Polyplay lists Hibernated 2 as "in stock", however I have not seen anyone play this yet, and our order from May has not been delivered yet. Problem is that Polyplay is often EXTREMELY unresponsive.
#retrogaming #interactivefiction

Tiny GameBoy is CUTE!
#nintendo #gameboy #retrogaming

Wow. There is a new security update for my iPhone XR!
#apple #iphone

So the other day someone linked to this article, which describes Apple's knowledgeconstructiond daemon.
https://8rank.ai/game/apple-intelligence-personal-knowledge-graph
It seems to build a database / graph of highly personal data for Apple Intelligence use. I just checked on my Mac, and it is not running on my machine. I think this is probably only enabled on machines that have Apple Intelligence enabled, which I haven't. So if you don't want or require Apple Intelligence, it is probably better turned off.
#apple #siri #privacy

I believe in the power
I believe in soul
I believe in the power
Of rock 'n roll
#client #arecordeveryday

For the specific case of The X11 manuals volume 6A I found both the book, the book SOURCES and the example programs here: https://pacific-imperial.com/motif/download/book_download.html

I guess the ftp.uu.net site is not available anymore. It used to host the O'Reilly example programs from their books. Does anyone know if there are mirrors? Couldn't find it on archive.org yet.
#oreilly #unix #ftp

And now we can code Motif X11 programs! I think we will have a new Let's Code series coming up.

And for printing on macOS, I set up a network printer in SuSE pointing to the host machine. SuSE 5.2 only supports lpd style printing, and macOS Tahoe does not support that anymore, so here is a small Python lpd emulator:
https://codeberg.org/root42/lpd-server/src/branch/main/lpd_server.py

...but it seems there was a StarOffice 5.1a by SUN Microsystems, which removed the need for registration. Yay!

So, it does work, and I managed to kludge together an lpd emulator on macOS, so I can even print! But: StarOffice 5.1 requires a registration, which of course is not available anymore. After 30 days this will be non functional...

What else do we need? And office suite, obviously! This one needs to have an additional glibc installed, but it came with that provided on the CD.
#staroffice #linux #retrocomputing

When the C++ compiler is so old, that it did not support ISO C++98 or the std:: library correctly.

Oh, I never managed to finish the game!
#nintendo #ocarinaoftime #n64 #retrogaming

And web browsing works, too!