Posted by jpluimers on 2020/07/13
I wish this keyboard was still on the market [WayBack] ThinkPad USB Keyboard With TrackPoint – Overview.
Known as 55Y9053, 55Y9003 and 57Y4641 (and a few others like the English/EUR 55Y9042 if you count the various localised layouts at [WayBack] ThinkPad USB Keyboard with TrackPoint – Service parts), it was one of the best keyboards made apart from the big delete key (that was better in the predecessor, but that one lacked windows keys: [WayBack] Lenovo ThinkPad USB Keyboard Review | NotebookReview).
It is about the same as the Thinkpad25, which added a touchpad: [WayBack] The 25th-anniversary ThinkPad: Every laptop should add some retro appeal | Ars Technica Review: A seven-row keyboard? Matte screen? TrackPoint? The all-business black body? Swoon
--jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2020/07/13
How retro can you get? [WayBack] Level 29: The BBS gets very far: it runs on an Apple IIgs and provides access via modem (via a landline!), telnet or web to the same text interface.
Web access via [WayBack] Shell In A Box
Welcome to the *NEW* Level 29 BBS!
916 965 1701 - bbs.fozztexx.com
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The official BBS of
RetroBattlestations.com
Enter your username or NEW or VISITOR
User:
It
Related:
Via: [WayBack] Got this TV yesterday at a garage sale and hooked up the Apple II through the Sup R Mod and installed the Hayes Micromodem IIe to call Level 29 BBS. No … – Chris Osborn – Google+
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2020/07/10
I am still a bit ambivalent on remapping keys on a keyboard, mainly because of two reasons:
- Without remapping, tools used for virtualisation, remote access and shells already get it wrong every now and then. Finding causes is already tough, so adding more degrees of freedom complicates this more.
- Switching systems or assisting people without the tools can be cumbersome. I vividly remember the really hard times when I had switched from Windows Explorer to Windows Commander (now Total Commander) and could not use it on a sequence of contracting jobs.
Just in case I am going to use it:
–jeroen
Via:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2020/07/10
Hopefully by now the extensions below still work, as Google removed the “View Image” button in Google Image Search a few years back.
When not: these might help finding an updated method (:
Via:
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2020/07/09
For my link archive: [WayBack] openSUSE:Standards Rpm Metadata – openSUSE: Repository layout.
It is not fully up to date any more on primary.xml.gz, so here are my notes for the aarch64 version of Tumbleweed:
- Inspect http://download.opensuse.org/ports/aarch64/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/repomd.xml [WayBack] for the name of
*-primary.xml.gz (in this case http://download.opensuse.org/ports/aarch64/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/d701c298b21d0b995c9560f9cfcc84685cb916deacc4f4c4a613a9b9d8f5aa57-primary.xml.gz [WayBack]
- Download that
.gz file and uncompress it
- Inspect the
*-primary.xml from it, look inside the metatadata root element for a package having a name element with value openSUSE-release: that package element now has a version element having a ver attribute containing the version text.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2020/07/09
Various ways are explained at [WayBack] linux – How do I use sudo to redirect output to a location I don’t have permission to write to? – Stack Overflow.
Some are for simple commands and can be a one liner (for instance using tee, or executing a secondary shell).
Others are more suited for longer command sequences.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2020/07/08
Since GetIt is hardly, if at all documented, but has quite a few of problems, I will likely need to use this another time: [WayBack] delphi – How to reset the download when the GetIt package manager fails? – Stack Overflow
TL;DR:
Luis Navarro from Embacadero just explained to me:
Close the IDE, then delete the OmniThread folder from MyDocuments\Embarcadero\Studio\17.0\CatalogRepository After that, you have to edit the registry and delete also the Omnithread folder from HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Embarcadero\BDS\17.0\CatalogRepository\Elements
Related: [RSP-12387] GetIt does not reset the download when Delphi crashes whilst downloading. – Embarcadero Technologies
Via:
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2020/07/08
Cool historic stuff: [WayBack/Archive.is] Edsac Simulator.
It simulates the 1949 built EDSAC computer.
Via: EDSCA Simulator – Computerphile (video below) which explains concepts like the mercury memory “tank” used for memory.
Related:
–jeroen
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