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cable2600

847karma·750submissions·August 2, 2017
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I checked Telegram and they had a facebook.txt 3.6K file that won't download. Did they nerf it? I can't find the real file as I don't read Russian. Edit: Nevermind I found the pastebin …
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That is good, giving prisoners a big break to learn a degree in something and use it when they get released so they don't have to face the same hardships that put them in prison in the first plac…
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I used to have an Amiga Hardware book and gave it to a friend. Nice to see there is a web version of it.
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Microsoft Coffee was supposed to be the answer to Sun's Java. Dotnet is the Java killer and it is no joke.
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Consider who paid for his campaign money and went to promote him by fact checking Trump statements during the election. Big Tech.
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In the middle of battle: Your Windows is updating, do not turn off your computer.
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You got to find an unpopular language or platform and support that so you don't have much competition. Like COBOL, FORTRAN, Pascal, Ada, ARM assembly, X86 assembly, etc. Learn how to make drivers…
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I used to pirate games until Steam made them affordable and solved the lost CD/DVD issues. So I bought some games for my friends to make up for my past piracy of those games.
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I'll go to a different service. I doubt Valve will pull the plug on Steam they are doing very well.
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QAnon has caused a lot of trouble, even invading DC. They worship Trump as a Messiah and are a cult. No doubt they would be banned from HN if they came here for violating the rules.
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Someone can fork your code, but the copyrights are yours, right?
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These systems were not designed to last. Which is why I am a member of the PC Master race. I upgrade my PC to specs above video game consoles and use Steam for my games. My PC is a Steam Machine.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QAnon I don't know much about QAnon except that it started at 4Chan or 8Chan and parts of Reddit. I figure the Wikipedia article ought to have …
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They do it for the ratings and advertisement.
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In Software Psychology they try to avoid using words in software that triggers others. For example abort or kill might offend someone because it could be used for ending life. Yet I am certain Cancel …
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eDuke32 uses the DOS data files to run on Windows, Linux, and MacOS: https://www.eduke32.com/
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I run Windows 95 in a Virtual Machine and it runs really fast. Got Office 95 installed too. Took less than a minute to install. You can use DOSBOX as well: http://dosbox95.darktraveler.com&…
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Apple needs an expandable Mac. Maybe make the Macintosh Seed a Raspberry PI type Mac with hats for expansion and USB ports?
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I would like to see AmigaOS ported to a RISC-V platform for new RISC based Amigas, it would be cheaper than the PowerPC Amigas.
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http://web.mit.edu/Emacs/source/emacs/lisp/emulation/ws-mode... You can use Wordstar commands with that code in Emacs.…
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It is cross platform and easy to learn. It is the modern standard for beginners replacing Java and BASIC. It is free software, you don't have to pay for it and you get the source code to it. It h…
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It is on Gog for $6, a real good deal. https://www.gog.com/game/wing_commander_3_heart_of_the_tiger …
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https://youtu.be/4ZhA0C2YVw0
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Wars over, the ultra-left won via social network and Internet. They will ban more stuff. You ever heard of good people banning books and banning words? It is mostly dictators doing that.
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Even the Lincoln statues got pulled down. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/portland-protesters-tea... …
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Anything to do with aborted human fetal cells is considered a sin in the Catholic faith.
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Catholic Bishops are concerned about the Johnston and Johnston vaccine because it was made with aborted fetal cells. So there is an ethic concern with Catholics on the Johnston and Johnston vaccine. N…
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Microsoft and Apple copied AmigaOS GUI and OS/2 Warp GUI features. Even BeOS had a start menu of sorts.
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MS-DOS was programmed using CP/M API calls for the DOS Interrupts. AROS uses AmigaOS 3.1 API calls for the DOS Interrupts.
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