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Assembly! I don't know 6502 assembly well, but I learned it enough to write simple programs in it, it helped me when making C64 cartridges. Assembly is mostly forgotten and removed from most IT teaching programs in may universities. If any is taught, it's ARM assembler, generally professors...

I started my programming with Pascal. Then Delphi. Then I even made a few programs in it, like manager for T64 Commodore files. After Delphi went to more enterprise solutions and Lazarus became unusable for smaller projects because of dependency hell, I started to look for something other. I had...

Quick update. Couldn't make drag-drop extracting in my DOS disk image manager. When I made it work with KDE, it failed on TDE, when I made it work on MATE, it failed on KDE and all methods failed in smaller file managers. Left as is and made it remember last extract location. Added a reasonable...

About problems with excess RAM and performance: Do we still have RAM access like in DOS era when there was a 64K memory window to see 4MB of upper RAM and software had to switch banks back and forth all time? About 2 vs 4GB I think it depends on how the machine will be used. Everyone has some...

8GB is a bit for virtualization, scientific computation or high-quality games. What can be virtualized on this CPU? Smaller Pyra? Better with chroot. I don't think about running FEM simulation (or even GA optimization) on this CPU. High-quality games... On this platform, are there? There will be...

There is another problem: No need to read books, because "Everything is on the internet". Invented by someone in late 1990s, when it was really done by scientists, not accountants. Now e.g. third year IT students don't know what CPU registers are, but can program in a higher-than-needed level...

First, if it would be possible to model us totally in AI, this won't be the result of AI going more smart, but result of humans going more dumb. The biggest problem here is that even open source movement won't help, as its model turns against it when it comes to interaction - in IM, voice chat...

By giving him a job, you'll piss off both sides, not only liberals. Radicals are trained to fully accept that job is another training tool like police or different "services" and "guards" - behave not as government wants and they'll fire you from your job. This is the bigger problem which still...

Times are a bit different for creators today. Although I don't know life of Kafka, I'll use some more local example. By the end of XIX century a poet C.K. Norwid died. He wanted his works and notes to be destroyed (and in fact a part was). Today his poems are published. Fortunately in unchanged...

@Haraldur Don't expect high accuracy from touch screen when using normal user interface. With Pyra it will be even more difficult as the resolution is higher. There must be a specific UI for touch screens and typical UI is better usable with stylus when used in touch systems. On the other hand...

If it will still work with stylus and fingers, well, I wouldn't be interested in changing. Even when multi-touch would be supported, there is a keyboard full of modifiers to hack substitutes. I remember also one more touchscreen technology but I think it's historical: Plain glass, thick, heavy...

In this weekend, I'm doing a small inventory checks of old computer-related stuff in my collection. To find what works, what doesn't, what has doubles, what can be sold or exchanged. Taking photos and making list of everything, sometimes with descriptions. But returning to the topic. Today I...

I was thinking about this GPD, but I found that for productivity applications there must be a thumb-typing possibility. Many manufacturers definitely underestimate this method. OK, it doesn't look nice in ads (I remember seeing someone NOT thumb-typing on a 200LX in some old ad, it was a pain to...

It's not about resolution, it's about cursor. My settings for TDE are really compact, even more compact than defaults. The smallest menu bar, small fonts, small buttons, minimum space around toolbars (I think leaving this modern "air" around glyphs or buttons is awful, it looks like one of these...

MATE has strong dependency on widgets (on its panels) and in most configurations there are many of these, so in every configuration the memory usage will be different. Also it depends how tightly these widgets are bound to DE, as using already loaded libraries may not increase memory footprint...

An adjustable power supply unit. After years of using my DIY 5A one (made from well known "Electronics lab" design) with small voltage instabilities, I decided to just buy some used one, anything cheap. I found something really cheap, unfortunately quite old - early 1970s. After cleaning, its...

I'm using TDE with Jessie, as there is no official release for Stretch yet. I don't see many problems with running software from Debian repos in TDE. The biggest problem is drag and drop incompatibility in some WxWidgets-based applications, e.g. I'm using a bit downgraded version of FileZilla...

I'm not sure about methodology of these measurements. Author launched DE in a separate X instance, so we have no idea was there a shared memory omitted for e.g. libraries? Recently I tried to get a total memory usage of Debian with different DEs, so I used 32-bit VirtualBox, installed Stretch...

The word "content" devalued much in recent years. In modern Internet "content" is a text made for insertion of advertisement. It has clickbait title, buzzword-filled header and keywords are inserted into it to make them links for SEO. Its value, as practical or theoretical knowledge, is not...

It is called PCB coating and was applied to most harsh-condition PCBs in 1980s and early 1990s (probably in special processes still is). Makes repairs almost impossible. I have a communications board with white powder-like coating applied. Replacing a broken line relay took more than 3 hours...