Today! It used the Intel 8088 running at 4.77 MHz. Ram was 16K, 64K or 256K. Bill Gates made a deal with IBM for a programming language and then the OS…MS-DOS, which MicroSoft bought, after a deal for CP/M fell through…a story in itself.
Category Archives: Computer
Javascript Learning
I must have tried learning Javascript many, many times. Starting with O’Reilly books in the 1990s. Way before YouYube! I think the main reason I never stuck with Javascript is because in the past it was only used in web pages. And web design has never been a focus of mine. However because of node.js …
GitLab
Created account.
Solution to the VS Code CWD problem
I left a comment, with the solution concerning opening a terminal in the Current Working Directory [CWD]. I talked about here. I’m repeating the solution here. I solved my own problem. I was sure it worked for me before, and this idea popped into my head. However I never saw this response/solution (which certainly could …
Followup to previous post
Or…I can just install Atom. Which was not in any Tumbleweed supplied install method. And press Ctrl+Shift+B.
Tumbleweed applying 38 updates!
Success!
VS Code frustrations
Opening a terminal in VS Code doesn’t open it in the directory I’m working in. I want to be competent in Javascript, not VS Code. So I google and get stuff like this… Yeah…and? What am I supposed to do with this? I looked at it and it still didn’t work, so obviously I can’t …
Javascript
Decided to dig into Javascript. Install node.js on Tumbleweed.
OpenSuse File create
Today I copied on OpenSuse a directory from another drive to the OpenSuse home dtive. And I noticed the Created date was today, I don’t remember seeing that before. I wanted it to retain the original dates. I looked up the CLI cp command and it says the -Pr flag will retain the old date. …
Underrated distro
I was listening to Destination Linux #237, yesterday. Episode aired 8/2/2021. Topic “What’s the most underrated distro in Linux? Surprisingly almost every host said OpenSuse. Good to hear since I recently started using it again. One thing they said that really pleased me was how you could update it after not for months, and it …