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The Cube was so cool for its time and it still looks good, a lot better than most of the modern PC gear. Opening it was also really cool. It just felt like magic when everything else in the market was basically big, ugly beige boxes which required force, trickery and bloody fingers to open and modify the components.

I wish they would make a new version with some Mac Mini hardware.

Funny thing about the Cube. It has a place for a fan but as the article mentioned, it didn't have it in production builds. There are still some aftermarket kits to retrofit the fan in place :)

Been still thinking about buying one to run Mac OS PPC Classic apps...

(of course I'm working on other stuff in the meantime but splices focus unnecessarily)

Oh and the spatial file navigation with Finder worked perfectly. Haven't seen anything so awesome ever since Classic got obsolete.

At work place I was drinking about 2-4 x 450 ml per work day. Now at isolation home it's 2-3 cups (maybe 200-250ml per cup) every work day.

Not sure, if the reason for lesser tea consumption at home is because my 450ml pot is at the work place or because I have better concentration at home and less distractions compared to the noisy open office...

https://www.vincit.fi/en/software-development-450-words-per-...

One of the interesting things here is the mention of web frontend frameworks which may make the frontend work possible even without seeing the frontend.

Hope you'll get through the life change. Take care.

I would like to start using zsh but that would introduce too much of variation from the remote envs I might encounter.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thoriated_glass

https://camerapedia.fandom.com/wiki/Radioactive_lenses

Those lenses have good metal encasing and the radiation is so small that there’s no real problem except the lenses start to turn to yellow with age.

Both Linux and current Mac OS X can read HFS formatted floppies and CDs nice and dandy.

Of course using some version of Mac OS is better than using Linux as it handle's HFS resource forks without problems and you get the file associations based on forks. With Linux you need to figure out file types and then add some file type endings.

This is fine for cross platform stuff like images and text documents but Mac only stuff like Hypercard files is hard as then you probably need to add missing resource type data with ResEdit with old or emulated Mac.

There might be a way to to map file endings to resource types with Mac's File Exchange or so but it was so long ago I'm not sure if I remember the Control Panel's name used for this correctly.

In addition of being still alive in one form or another, their film business is getting better as people end up more and more getting into film photography. They actually announced that they cannot meet the current demand and are raising film prices and investing into new capacity[3].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kodak_Alaris [2] https://www.kodakalaris.com/ [3] https://kamerastore.com/breaking-news-kodak-to-raise-prices-...

This books goes into the gritty details which one needs to be able to get good film photos and to repro them as paper photos etc. Things photographers just had to know when working with film.

Earlier you had to either test and document these details by yourself (one didn't have the luxury of Exif image data, one would need to jot the settings per photo into notebook etc), read them or be taught by someone who knew them, so in that sense not the typical intro textbook (ie. John Hedgecoe's Photography Basics etc). This is more akin to SDK reference + combined with Stack Overflow).

You can find old repair manuals for old vintage cameras. Found one for my dad's Kowa Super 66 which I broke after 11 rolls.

https://www.swoole.co.uk/docs/modules/swoole-http-server-doc

Before Microsoft bought Bungie, They open sourced the Marathon code and gave the game data for free. Luckily people have been working on bunch ports for modern OSes:

https://alephone.lhowon.org/

* QA seems lacking. Our whole team has company sponsored QC 35 ii's and one came as DOA, couple of them have suffered the same fate within a year * Noice-cancellation is good. It's so good that I can't keep it fully on for more than 15 minutes and the lower cancellation level leaks more sound. Maybe personal problem but annoying still * Audio quality through bluetooth is lacking. The integrated amp doesn't have the oomph for the elements and the sound sounds a bit muddy * AQ problem can be remedied with the provided cable which is short. And what's the point of wireless headphones if it lacks on that side? * In the plane I have bunch of other stuff with me so I don't want to reserve so much of space for the headphones

I like my own AKG NC60 sound quality, size and the noise cancellation is usually enough (although not so all encompassing as the Bose's) but AKG's problem is really bad mechanic quality. With even lightweight usage they end up breaking badly, so I'm going to need to buy a ned headphones and for that I'm looking forward for Sennheiser's and Sony's. Stay away from AKG and Bose ;)

http://ictbanking.com/LJ/035/1374.html

Actually Metro-X server sounds quite cool for its time. Multi-display support, X-based GUI for configuration (anyone remember xf86config stuff?)...

I actually bought the Red Hat Linux 3.0.3 (and used it and its successors Until Red Hat 7) but the Metro-X didn't support my video card so I was stuck with the XFree86.

Does anyone know if the later Redhat versions (than 3.0.3) offered Metro-X? Probably not in the free, downloadable ISOs but was it bundled in the sold CDs or was this one time thing only?

And no, in my opinion WSL is not real solution if the OS still makes life harder and more weird. Just a new twist to the cygwin/mingw/virtualisation scheme when running the real thing would be a lot better option.

And no, Macs and Linux are not perfect either, but they both are more friendly and humane options for developers.

I’ve visited Oodi a lot more than traditional libraries as I already have the need for books satiated with Kindle and such.

Currently using Jira with "next-gen" project. It's slicker (but still slower to use than Wrike) to use and admin but lacks lots of useful features and is buggy. This morning our project lost epics for few hours without any explanation. Fffuun!

But yep, almost everything is better than Jira if you have the possibility to switch.

Knowing the holy trinity (aperture, shutter speed and ISO) is still good to know and learning to use them in manual or in priority modes makes you understand the basic idea, how everything is related and what kind of settings are good for different situations.

I ended up being serious photography enthusiast. For me the currently most interesting thing to learn, is to try to make good photos with all-mechanical film Hasselblad without any automatics. That actually forces to think and plan a lot more about what you want before taking the photo. Also, really calculating holy trinity values in your head is fun (especially when you need to take into account additional nd filters and polarizers etc.

So if you photograph, try to shoot with different kind of gear and ways of photography. That teaches you a lot.

Edit: The problem is that PDFs are basically usability wise readable only on iPad and even then not that spectacular. Also my iPad usually stays at home so no reading from laptop or from phone either.