For the last month or maybe longer Firefox has been giving me problems. Problems that don’t exist on Google Chrome. A few biggish ones lately. A few days ago it just stopped loading pages even after restart. Today after watching many YouTube videos, sound stopped working on one…just one…so far. It almost seems like selective …
Monthly Archives: March 2023
Backups
Just watched a YouTube video that touts the Synology 4-Bay DiskStation DS923+ for backup. He points out that removable hard drives are great…but they are a single point of failure. This maybe true however for me the the Synology solution…or others like that…are expensive! If you have the money it could be great. But there …
Git commits
Squashing the Last N Commits into One Commit Here!
Laptops
I’ve been using computers for more than a few years. But I never bought a laptop. Always wanted one…never had one. I’ve put Linux on other peoples laptops though. Obviously my laptop would have to run Linux. Lately I’ve been interested in the Framework Laptop. I like that they say “We love Linux at Framework” …
Gordon Moore
Intel co-founder Gordon Moore, author of ‘Moore’s Law’ that helped drive computer revolution, dies at 94
Go integers
I’ve written Go programs before and thought I understood integers better than I did. The instructor said “just use int”. And I was going to prove him wrong because of overflows. Sometimes I make an assumption based on what I know from another language. var i int16=32767 (OK)var i int16=32768 (Not OK overflow)However I didn’t …
Go string backticks
I didn’t realize I could use backticks for strings. Makes building a string with double quotes easier. A small but useful feature. Especially when I can’t see many circumstances where I need to use backticks in a string. Single quotes are for one character. s := “This is a string” s = `This is a …
Thunderbird RSS feeds
I’ve noticed this for a while. Thunderbird has this feature (pause) where you can pause updates. I have several feeds I am no longer interested in so I paused them. However the feed still shows the new articles. However the feed is dimmed out…pretty stupid.
Adventure’s PDP connection with the TRS-80
Similar to Startrek being ported from a PDP-11 to a TRS-80. Scott Adams who saw and played Colossal Cave Adventure on, as he called it the DEC mainframe (probably a PDP-10 later marketed as the DECsystem-10) created a very successful Adventure series, inspired by the Colossal Cave Adventure, for the TRS-80. Here is Scott talking …
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Got Adventure running on PDP-11…with help
I opened a issue with the guy who supplied the RSTS/E games pack…here, describing my problem. After I created a [100,102] account with REACT [it’s been so long that I didn’t remember REACT]…I followed his instructions with a slight change. Below is his response… Because of the way the support files are opened by ADVENT …
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