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Posts Tagged ‘25’

More Apple ][*, //* II* and classic Macintosh hardware upgrades

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/11/14

The mini micro classic Apple emulators related post last week became way too big, so here is the classic Apple 2/Macintosh hardware upgrade part follow-up I announced in Some notes on mini/micro Apple //e emulators.

Last week, I mentioned [Wayback/Archive] ARC Javmaster – YouTube. Let’s continue from there for an even bigger post (:

Javmaster actually has a shop at [Wayback/Archive] Welcome to the 8-bit stuff store – 8 bit stuff cool retro computer 3D gadgets and geekery with a lot of interesting (mainly Apple ][ era related) retro things like:

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Figuring out the RSS feed of a web-site

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/10/10

RSS feed icon (source: Wikipedia)

RSS feed icon (source: Wikipedia)

The main way I consume news is through RSS feeds using Feedly as reader (after Google killed one of their best products: Google Reader in 2013). Many web-site do not show an RSS link or RSS icon on their home pages or other pages.

Below samples of sites followed by steps on how to find RSS Feeds.

From local examples I encountered most didn’t show they had RSS feeds or had not RSS feed at all:

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gsudo (sudo for windows)

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/09/01

Not that long ago, I bumped into [Wayback/Archive] Home | gsudo (sudo for windows)

I wish I had bumped into this much longer ago (:

Source at [Wayback/Archive] gerardog/gsudo: Sudo for Windows.

One installer package (there are others like winget and scoop on the documentation site): [Wayback/Archive] Chocolatey Software | gsudo – a sudo for windows.

Via [Wayback/Archive] windows – How can I auto-elevate my batch file, so that it requests from UAC administrator rights if required? – Stack Overflow (thanks [Wayback/Archive] Gerardo Grignoli)

Edit 20250901 (thanks [Wayback/Archive] mterwoord (Matthijs ter Woord) · GitHub):

Windows 11 has a built-in sudo which has different semantics, and is disabled by default.

Enabling Windows 11 sudo

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More early Pascal history (way before Delphi; before Turbo Pascal and Quick Pascal)

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/05/07

The people knowing about the really early Pascal history are a dying breed. So before I pass away (see the posts on my rectum cancer), let me post a few more links here that based on yesterday’s Trip down memory lane: book on p-Code based UCSD Pascal which I ended with:

I learned a few more things from [Wayback/Archive] What do you think about something like Pascal bytecode? (Page 2)

Here we go:

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GitHub – randomaccess3/googleURLParser: parser for Google search strings

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/05/01

Back when I observed the Google Search sei parameter which I hadn’t seen before yet, I bumped into [Wayback/Archive] GitHub – randomaccess3/googleURLParser: parser for Google search strings

It covers a truckload of parameters, including the sei one, which isn’t as new as I thought, as it was at least 2017 old: [Wayback/Archive] [Neat URL] Yet another Google parameter… · Issue #25 · Smile4ever/firefoxaddons · GitHub

Links referred from the parser tool for further reading:

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