Posted by jpluimers on 2020/05/25
It looks like OpenSuSE has stopped supporting Raspberry Pi 1, so the best likely is to recycle it into a Pi-Hole as basically it’s been dead since mid 2017: [WayBack] Raspberry Pi 1B OpenSuSE Tumbleweed zypper upgrade problem · GitHub.
Build status for armv6l support: [WayBack] Project openSUSE:Factory:ARM Status Monitor – openSUSE Build Service
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2020/05/21
Almost 20 years old, but still a very nice read [Archive.is] David Korn Tells All – Slashdot.
Another funny story involving David Korn during the not-so open source times of Microsoft late last century: [WayBack] Korn Shell Story
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2020/05/15
With the demise of G+, I am glad that most of the [WayBack] mos6502 posts were archived at [WayBack] 6502.org • Search: mos6502 G+ posts
Via [WayBack] This week, OUP/M, a 6502 CP/M-ish operating system from 1983, in the process of recovery from Jian-Xiong Shao’s Masters Thesis into Github. And a reques… – mos6502 – Google+
6502 posts – new projects and interesting old projects from the archives
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2020/05/13
Though the shirt is not available on Amazon [WayBack] any more, still – after 25 years – so many recruiters still get it wrong.
Not just recruiters, so: [WayBack] Why is JavaScript called JavaScript, since it has nothing to do with Java? – Stack Overflow, thanks to CMS [WayBack]:
From an interview made to its creator Brendan Eich:
InfoWorld: As I understand it, JavaScript started out as Mocha, then became LiveScript and then became JavaScript when Netscape and Sun got together. But it actually has nothing to do with Java or not much to do with it, correct?
Eich: That’s right. It was all within six months from May till December (1995) that it was Mocha and then LiveScript. And then in early December, Netscape and Sun did a license agreement and it became JavaScript. And the idea was to make it a complementary scripting language to go with Java, with the compiled language.
he continues on the relation of ECMAScript based languages:
JavaScript, was originally named Mocha, later it was renamed to LiveScript, and then to JavaScript.
The LiveScript to JavaScript name change came because Netscape and Sun did a license agreement.
The language was then submitted for standarization to the ECMA International Organization. By that time, Netscape didn’t allow the use of the “JavaScript” name, so the standarized language is named ECMAScript.
JavaScript isn’t actually an open name. Now it’s a trademark of Sun (now Oracle).
There still a lot of confusion, some people still think that JavaScript, JScript, and ECMAScript are three different languages.
ECMAScript is the “standards” name for the language.
JavaScript is technically a “dialect” of ECMAScript, the Mozilla Foundation can use “JavaScript” as the name of their implementations (currently present on the Rhino and SpiderMonkey engines).
In the early days, Microsoft decided also to do what Netscape was doing on their own browser, and they developed JScript, which is also an ECMAScript dialect, but was named in this way to avoid trademark issues.
–jeroen
via: [WayBack] Does it bug you when people say Java when they actually mean JavaScript? https://www.amazon.com/dp/B06Y3XK69B – Jeroen Wiert Pluimers – Google+
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Posted by jpluimers on 2020/04/30
This is a nice joke: [WayBack] The Invention of C++ – Nice bit of net lore.
But the actual interview linked from the article is quite nice: [WayBack: The Real Stroustrup Interview]
By the name, I found the actual (hopefully still online when this gets out of the blog post queue) version at [WayBack] Stroustrup: Interviews under [WayBack] stroustrup.com/ieee_interview.pdf
–jeroen
Via: [WayBack] The invention of C++ – Thomas Mueller (dummzeuch) – Google+
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Posted by jpluimers on 2020/04/10
Such a cool device: [WayBack] Sprites mods – Miniature Macintosh Plus – Result.
The whole project:
Sources: [WayBack] GitHub – Spritetm/minimacplus: Source code, PCB artwork and firmware for a tiny Macintosh Plus
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2020/04/06
This was an awesome thread: [WayBack] Thread by @Foone: Someone (I think in the replies to the LGR “no thrifting during the crisis” tweet) suggested we do VIRTUAL THRIFTING! which is a great idea… saved from this [Archive.is] Twitter thread.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2020/04/01
[WayBack] Ladies and gentlemen, Tim Berners-Lee and Vint Cerf. – Steven Vaughan-Nichols – Google+
Related:
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2020/03/25
Blast from the past machine generated code by the various assembly versions of the [WayBack] Windows BitBlt function [WayBack] Optimizing BitBlt by generating code on the fly – The Old New Thing.
Via: [WayBack] Rodrigo Ruz on Twitter: “Optimizing BitBlt by generating code on the fly https://t.co/gWmKjex20i”
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2020/03/06
I came across some 20 year old Unix stuff a while ago, so I needed an historic reference of filenames starting with a dot (like .newsrc).
This is a pretty good one: [WayBack] In Unix, what are some common dot files?
–jeroen
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 