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I was at Intel when Krzanich was shown the door. After some time Bob Swan was announce as the new CEO. A bean counter, that was a first for Intel leadership. On the internal employee bulletin board the company posted how Bob is the right choice to which someone replied "If Bob was the right choice why did it take seven months?"

Win95 sale started at midnight on the release day. I recall going to a local Fry's Electronics store (out of business now) roaming around and at 12:01 am grabbing a box of the upgrade. I still have the box and its contents. Full version was too expensive for me back then. There was a big pile of Win95 boxes at the entrance of the store. A local TV crew was there interviewing people about the new OS. I came home and upgraded Win 3.1 and by morning I was watching in amazement the screen savers. There was one of an airplane flying around the screen.

The issue with AsahiLinux is its dependency on macOS.

The article is about BSD Unix which had a final release in June of 1995. So BSD is sayonara!

Long live FreeBSD, OpenBSD and NetBSD, the stepchild(s) of BSD.

Mum's??? Good it wasn't mom's money!

The Linux kernel took off after Linus receive the MINIX book, a.k.a Operating System Design and Implementation by Tanenbaum, which include the source code of MINIX. Until the arrival of the book Linus was playing "Prince Of Persia" on his new 386AT desktop.

Give 10% to less fortunate people. Avoid charities. Invest the remaining 90% in real estate.

If your primary residence is mortgaged you're paying interest that compounds to a lot of money diminishing your $700K sitting under the mattress. Pay off the house and save + invest the interest you'd pay each month. That will afford a lot of food and doctor's visits later.

This is a good release, IMO. It finally brings WSLg to Windows 10, KB5020030 required.

"wsl --update --web-download" will pull version 1.0.0

Apple I was priced at $666.66. Look at what Apple became, a beast!

Socialist Romania did not pay to license Western chip technologies. All production was based on stolen IP. Ceausescu had a vast spy network stealing everything they could from abroad. The spy network was dismantled when Pacepa, the mastermind behind it, defected to US in 1978.

DOJ press release https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/ukrainian-arrested-and-charge...

John 8:6-7 "Jesus bent down and wrote with his finger on the ground..."

C'mon man, that was 5-6 years ago!

Java was supposed to "write once, run anywhere". Instead it became write once, debug anywhere.

The Hole-Hawg drill is the IDE equivalent. Recently discussed on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28015229

Arch Linux is great! As a rolling release it needs "Patch Tuesday" type of updates. Falling behind just few weeks leads to a broken system. Over time too many .pacold, .pacsave and .pacnew files are polluting the filesystem, requiring manual intervention.

C language is the Hole Hawg, IMO. UNIX is just the hole(s).

To see some ASCII art (I think that's Ballmer!) type "cat w:/dearCommunity.txt" in the terminal. If you open the file in the file manager the output is garbled.

Type "bsod" in the terminal. An input box will pop-up asking for a message. After that a BSOD with your message will happen. Just like in the old times of DOS.

To see all available commands in the terminal type "help" or "bins".

Meteoroid: rock in space smaller than asteroid.

ELinks and Lynx, awesome web browsers for the terminal I still use today. And Amaya, a GUI web browser from the dawn of Internet.

Forget about CCP (don't confuse it with Chinese Communist Party). Mr. Nicolici just wants you to download his unfinished "Dr. Programming" booklet.

I am waiting for the headline "AMD to buy Intel!"

It's not a done deal! Intel is just exploring a deal to buy GlobalFoundries. This is from the WSJ article: "It isn’t guaranteed one will come together, and GlobalFoundries could proceed with a planned initial public offering."

Years ago before Oracle swallowed Sun Microsystems, Sun's motto was "The network is the computer." MS could use "The cloud is the computer" now!

The pictures are from "Basil & Tracy Brooks" Flickr photo stream:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/basilb/with/5758744231/

While there look at the art of cheese making, like in this photo:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/basilb/5758744231/

Lots of "arts" are fading away quick in Romania. Young generation is more interested in TikTok and other social media platforms than haystacks or cheese.

Looking at those pictures brings back happy childhood memories.

"China ordered app-store operators to remove the app of ride-hailing giant Didi Global Inc. ’s China arm, saying it has serious problems involving illegal collection of personal data"

I had to check my calendar to make sure it's not April 1st. Isn't CCP illegally collecting user's data? Maybe Didi didn't share enough with CCP.

Trivia: Trabants were never painted black to avoid being mistaken for a Mercedes.