Fidonews Page 5 6 Oct 1986 By Joaquim Homrighausen Sysop at Future Hacker Central 501/4609 September 24th, 1986 at 10:25 pm. A couple of weeks ago I just ran into a problem with my own FIDO. It was a user who couldn’t figure out that …
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Netbooks have been up ‘n comers for a while now, and the markets is beginning to look both interesting and flooded at the same time. Some manufacturers are putting out new models before the previous model has been noticed by its intended audience. As with …
Happy Birthday Mom, you would have been 62 today, and been able to see the date and time align at 09-09-09, 09:09:09. Miss ya!
For what it’s worth, here’s my contribution to the Chuck Norris Facts list: – Nobody has ever sent spam to Chuck Norris and lived to tell the tale And in fairness, since Alain did tip me about this, here’s Alain’s contribution: – Chuck Norris never …
A lovely “brick” from Nokia. Not too heavy, but fairly big and bulky. It still works! Surprisingly, today’s smartphones are approaching the weight and bulk of the Nokia 3110; of course, they feature somewhat more powerful components 🙂
A software package that’ll allow you to make a backup, locally or over a network, move the backup to a DVD (or several) and then be able to restore that backup on another machine using a Live Linux DVD .. yes, that is pretty much …
I’ve previously written about ZenPhoto, a very nice web photo album written in PHP. I’ve been using it for a while now and still like it very much, mainly due to its fairly straightforward design and functionality. One area, however, where ZenPhoto isn’t all that …
Many Linux command-line people use the VI editor; but if you’re like me and prefer Emacs, you often run into the “problem” that Emacs creates backup files using the original filename and appending a tilde (~) to the end of the filename. E.g. “secret.conf.php” becomes …