Posted by jpluimers on 2022/01/17
[Wayback] A Redditor visits the iconic Windows XP “Bliss” hill in Microsoft Flight Simulator and recaptures the magic – NotebookCheck.net News
XP:
2020:
Via: (note the wrong Windows version) [Archive.is] Stonehead on Twitter: “Zo ziet het Windows 95-bureaublad er tegenwoordig uit trouwens. Klimaatverandering is overal… “
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2022/01/17
On VMware ESXi, with the Busybox ash/dash shell, I wanted to get the current UTC timestamp in ISO 8601 format without dashes (-) or especially colons (:) and plus-signs (+) you have to back-slash escape colons or double quote parameters, which is often can be a pain).
In this article, we will see how to create, copy, move and delete filenames that starts with spaces and special characters (say #, *, &, =, etc.) in Linux.
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[]()^ #%&!@:+={}'~and [`] all have special meanings in many shells, and are annoying to work around, and so should be avoided. They also tend to look horrible in URLs.…
This is why we can’t have good things: Getting the UTC 8610 timestamp was far less easy than I hoped for.
First of all, Busybox only allows for a precision of seconds, not milliseconds, and the specification format needs better documentation as per [Wayback] embedded linux – How to get ISO8601 seconds format from “date” in busybox? – Stack Overflow:
Posted in *nix, *nix-tools, ash/dash, ash/dash development, Development, ESXi6, ESXi6.5, ESXi6.7, ESXi7, Power User, Scripting, sed, sed script, Software Development, Virtualization, VMware, VMware ESXi | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2022/01/17
Sebastian Bergmann documented his Twitch streaming setup using digital output from his Amiga 1200 retrocomputing machine: [Wayback] Streaming Setup, Iterated
This might hold for other retro-hardware too, so here is the schema he uses:
–jeroen
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 