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It’s ok I am sure John would appreciate the discussion. They both are treasures.

Started reading John’s columns in InfoWorld in the 80’s when my parents scraped together the money for a subscription.

After that I never stopped reading his work, watching his shows, and listening to him (up till last Sunday’s excellent show).

Thank God for John C. Dvorak What a loss.

atlanta90210on I Owe My Life to the Commodore 64

Same!

atlanta90210on Microsoft builds MacBook Pro rival with NVIDIA-powered Surface Laptop Ultra

I have had the 15" Surface Laptop 6 as my daily driver and love it. Very reliable. The new one has a lot more ports so I am happy to see that.

atlanta90210on The 1987 game “The Last Ninja” was 40 kilobytes

The original arcade version of Pac-Man is 24 kilobytes

atlanta90210on John C. Dvorak – heart attack – in hospital

Been a fan since his InfoWorld columns in the 80's. Then PC Magazine and now his No Agenda podcast for decades. Thank you for 40 years of computer knowledge Mr. Dvorak and I wish you a fast recovery.

atlanta90210on FBI raids Washington Post reporter's home

They raided Trump's wife's underwear drawer too so Trump is a victim of this FBI overreach as well.

atlanta90210on U.S. mandates more foreign travelers to pay $15,000 visa bond deposits

VR is dead.

atlanta90210on Gatekeepers of Law: Inside the Westlaw and LexisNexis Duopoly

The state of Georgia tried to copyright its public written laws. They lost.

https://www.bfvlaw.com/supreme-court-rules-georgia-cannot-cl...

atlanta90210on Scammed out of $130K via fake Google call, spoofed Google email and auth sync

If you have an iPhone, the latest iOS 26 will answer unknown numbers not in your address book for you and ask what they want and then alert you to see if you want to take the call.

atlanta90210on How Not to Buy a SSD

Steve Gibson also does a show called Security Now with Leo. One of the best IT security podcasts out here. He knows so much about IT and IT security it is amazing.

https://twit.tv/shows/security-now

Long Live Steve Gibson

atlanta90210on Microsoft unveils Majorana 1 quantum processor

Great question are people predicting we will have enough computing power to "break" bitcoin? How much is needed?

atlanta90210on Migraine is more than a headache – a rethink offers hope

Stop all forms of coffee for 3 months you will be amazed at how few you get after that. Tea is fine, just no coffee. Life changer for me.

atlanta90210on Autodesk partially restores old forum posts

What is the best free Autocad alternative?

atlanta90210on ZX Spectrum Documentary 'The Rubber Keyed Wonder' Gets London Premiere

Commodore VIC 20 and Atari 400 better. :)

atlanta90210on PC Floppy Copy Protection: Softguard Superlok

Thank you for your service.

atlanta90210on Apple's Latest Macs and iPads Have Hidden Smart Home Thread Radio

I was hoping this was going to be an FM/AM radio in iPads and iPhones.

I wish all phones and tablets had an FM/AM tuner to play over the air content without an internet or cell connection.

atlanta90210on What's the most radical book you've read?

Steal This Book by Abbie Hoffman

atlanta90210on Rumble rejects MP's 'disturbing' letter over income

Mr Brand is innocent until proven guilty in a court of law or he admits his crimes.

Google taking down his YouTube income before a guilty verdict is horrible.

For some reason Google/Youtube have not demonetized R. Kelly, and he was found guilty. Or Cardi B. She admitted to drugging men and stealing from them.

atlanta90210on Microsoft to kill off third-party printer drivers in Windows

Yes iphone wireless printing works great esp PDF attachments in emails. I use it quite a bit.

atlanta90210on A History of the Amen Break: From the Winstons to Futurama and Om Unit

17 Years ago this audio/video explained it all. Props to the artist Landon for laying down the audio to a record and playing the audio (with examples) from the record. 6.8 millions views - the Winstons will never be forgotten.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SaFTm2bcac&t=3s

atlanta90210on A History of the Amen Break: From the Winstons to Futurama and Om Unit

Last remaining member received $22k. Not enough.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/rmje4q/amen-breakbeat-fundra...

atlanta90210on Kevin Mitnick has died

https://www.mitnicksecurity.com/kevin-mitnicks-famous-lockpi...

A link to his famous business card which doubled as a lock pick kit. Rip Kevin.

atlanta90210on Seinfeld Transcripts

Maybe the downloadable text of the script was generated by OCR with minor errors?

atlanta90210on MSFT is forcing Outlook and Teams to open links in Edge and IT admins are angry

“DOS ain't done till Lotus won't run"

atlanta90210on Ask HN: Science Fiction books that predict where ChatGPT might lead us?

The adolescence of P-1 by Thomas J. Ryan

https://openlibrary.org/works/OL6668634W/The_adolescence_of_...

atlanta90210on State Farm Won't Insure Theft-Prone Hyundai and Kia Models in Louisiana

Or a tow truck.

atlanta90210on Adobe tricks users into a 12 month contract

I manage adobe subs for my company. When you log into the adobe user management portal you can see all of your users and the products we pay for but you can’t pull up a “last used date”. This way I would know who to cancel if not used in a long time.

I have complied to adobe about this for years and they say it would violent the privacy of the users we are paying for - yet I have their email addresses.

I try all the time to get users to try others products when they ask for an adobe product subscription.