Posted by jpluimers on 2022/12/13
Today it is 5 years ago that Paweł passed away. For me it is hard to believe that I’m still around and this post feels like yesterday: R.I.P. Paweł Głowacki – you will be dearly missed, not just in the Delphi community
Thinking about you today Paweł!
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2022/09/26
This is too cool!
PSTN, ISDN, data communication, networking, Sendmail, Postfix, Exim, C, C++, Unix, Linux you name ancient but relevant stuff and it is there.
Some pictures below the signature.
The isotopp and PostScript explanation is in my post How isotopp became the online handle of Kristian Köhntopp.
Via: [Archive.is] Kristian Köhntopp on Twitter: “Weird Books: … “
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2022/09/01
Geocities is long dead, but luckily a lot has been archived: [Wayback] Archive.is: History of ASCII Art with a very comprehensive history ranging from ancient old hand painted art to contemporary computer made illustrations.
Via: [Wayback/Archive.is] ASCII art: The roots of ASCII art
--jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2022/06/30
Via [Wayback/Archive] Nick Bouwhuis on Twitter: “😢 “ (with OCR text below) via [Wayback/Archive] Kirsten Verdel on Twitter: “:(“:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2022/05/27
A while ago [Archive.is] Adam Jacob on Twitter: “Let’s say nice things about technology today. I’ll start. If it wasn’t for @lkanies and @puppetize, there is no way we would have been able to adapt as an industry to the rise of the cloud. Quote tweet me with your own.” sparked some interesting threads.
First posts are below; click on them to see the full threads.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2022/04/26
Need one day when archiving old floppies: [WayBack] GitHub – bbbradsmith/flompy: DOS floppy disk dumper
Via: [WayBack] Brad Smith on Twitter: “So I wrote a floppy disk dumper program for DOS. I dunno if this is really a very useful thing, but it’s open-source at least! 💾⚡🖥 “
Full thread at [WayBack] Thread by @bbbradsmith: “Hrm… why doesn’t the floppy controller status register have its non-DMA bit set, even though I’ve used a specify command to set it… and […]”:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2022/03/11
[Archive.is] Why 42 ? – Google Groups where Douglas Adams gave the answer himself:
The answer to this is very simple. It was a joke. It had to be a number, an
ordinary, smallish number, and I chose that one. Binary representations,
base thirteen, Tibetan monks are all complete nonsense. I sat at my desk,
stared into the garden and thought ’42 will do’ I typed it out. End of story.Best,Douglas Adams
The full thread is a nice read (:
Via many sources, including [WayBack] Why 42? Reported wrong, again and again, but … The answer to this is very simple. It was a joke. It had to be a number, an ordinary, smallish number,… – Jürgen Christoffel – Google+ which has a comment pointing to the below brilliant video.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2022/02/13
I almost missed this: [Wayback/Archive] Happy 20th Anniversary, .NET! – .NET Blog.
Given I am still recovering from the long period of cancer treatments, I am glad that Beth Massi reminded me (a “thank you” is below the signature):
To keep the story about myself short: currently I am cancer free, long term (i.e. 10 years) looks dim, but my mental focus has recovered and I am getting joy again doing technical stuff. I am still working on the increasing my mental and physical endurance, so real work is not yet possible but unlike half a year ago, I am confident I will be able to eventually.
Back to the .NET story (as I have learned when to conserve energy): I kept track of Anders Hejlsberg ever since Turbo Pascal 1.0 on CP/M (see The calculators that got me into programming (via: calculators : Algorithms for the masses – julian m bucknall)) and when after the Visual J++ lawsuits things a first got a bit too silent to my liking.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2022/01/24
Just found out about [Wayback] Lode Runner Web Game:
A HTML5 (CreateJS) remake of Lode Runner
I have played that way too much in my Apple ][ and //e days.
Hopefully I won’t be addicted to it as back in those days.
Just watching the demo mode is soooooo cool!
I remember designing my own lievens, then winning from the local Apple shop (Vlasveld Computers, which also had a country wide Apple magazine). Cool days!
–jeroen
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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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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 