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Yesterday, 08:34 PM

commodorejohn replied to a thread Buying Windows 98SE in Vintage Computer Software

Yeah, this is definitely skirting forum restrictions, but I can't conceive of any good reason to go shelling out for physical media of an OS that you...

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Yesterday, 12:24 PM

commodorejohn replied to a thread A pretty good rant! in General Vintage Computer Discussions

I rather doubt that - or, at least, I'd imagine that it's only true on platforms where HLLs were not generally available or feasible for a certain...

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September 21st, 2018, 10:04 PM

commodorejohn replied to a thread Nerds in Humor

Just because they made one thing better doesn't make it cool that they made everything else worse, man.

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September 21st, 2018, 07:45 PM

commodorejohn replied to a thread Nerds in Humor

Sure. The problem is the part where it's actually harder to find things without the search bar than it was in Windows 95. Like the way they moved...

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September 21st, 2018, 05:59 PM

commodorejohn replied to a thread Can't stand the bugs in Linux, so i'm switching back to Windows, quick questions in Rants

The first two are definitely true, and unavoidable. However, the third is a design issue - and yes, I know it's a design issue inherited from Unix,...

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September 21st, 2018, 05:03 PM

commodorejohn replied to a thread Can't stand the bugs in Linux, so i'm switching back to Windows, quick questions in Rants

Ah, okay, found the article I read describing the issue: https://lwn.net/Articles/572911/ The essential issue comes down to the memory manager...

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September 21st, 2018, 10:06 AM

commodorejohn replied to a thread Can't stand the bugs in Linux, so i'm switching back to Windows, quick questions in Rants

Particular issues I've had are things like NetBSD getting stuck with a blank screen on certain Radeon models or OpenBSD not wanting to connect to...

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September 21st, 2018, 09:26 AM

commodorejohn replied to a thread Can't stand the bugs in Linux, so i'm switching back to Windows, quick questions in Rants

The BSDs are generally solid (minus a few corner cases, I've had fewer technical issues on any of them than on Linux,) but they haven't had nearly...

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September 21st, 2018, 07:57 AM

commodorejohn replied to a thread Can't stand the bugs in Linux, so i'm switching back to Windows, quick questions in Rants

Yeah, I've experienced that copying slowdown issue myself; as far as I've read, it has something to do with whether cached writes are enabled on...

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September 20th, 2018, 04:48 AM

commodorejohn replied to a thread Nerds in Humor

Yep - and the larger point, as with 90% of all complaints about Win8/10, is that there was no conceivable reason to change it in the first place.

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September 19th, 2018, 04:49 PM

commodorejohn replied to a thread Windows Server 2008 r2 - 2012 r2 - 2016 - 1709 - 2019 in General Off Topic

By and large most knowledge from 2008 R2 onwards will apply at least up through 2016, in my experience. The biggest changes are the craptastic Win8...

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September 18th, 2018, 07:03 PM

commodorejohn replied to a thread For Sale: spotted on Craigslist (continuous sightings) in Vintage Computer Items For Sale or Trade

Hah, that's even more absurdly compact than my contemporary Celeron micro-tower. I shudder to think what it must be like trying to work inside that...

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September 18th, 2018, 02:43 PM

waltermixxx started a thread Looking for an Option Key for an Apple IIc+ please. in Early Apple (I, ][, ///, etc.)

Hi folks, I recently purchased a lovely Apple IIc+. Unfortunately the Option Key sort of came off. the post broke off and was stuck in the...

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September 16th, 2018, 07:27 PM

commodorejohn replied to a thread Anybody here actually collect Unix stuff? in Unix/Xenix/Linux Workstations

Nope - despite the worst efforts of the Haiku community, BeOS Ain't Unix ;)

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September 15th, 2018, 04:16 PM

commodorejohn replied to a thread Why do most web browsers ask to be your default browser? in General Off Topic

More like Coke popping up a message on vending machines telling you not to buy Pepsi products that you have to manually dismiss before you're allowed...

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September 15th, 2018, 11:30 AM

commodorejohn replied to a thread Why do most web browsers ask to be your default browser? in General Off Topic

It's a step taken to directly inhibit (however minorly) the use of competing products.

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September 15th, 2018, 09:55 AM

commodorejohn replied to a thread Why do most web browsers ask to be your default browser? in General Off Topic

Well that's an antitrust lawsuit waiting to happen.

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September 10th, 2018, 06:45 PM

commodorejohn replied to a thread Rationale for 16-bit browsers lacking PNG support in Vintage Computer Software

I think this is the most likely explanation. I don't recall PNGs being particularly common until the early 2000s, well after 3.1 was no longer...

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September 9th, 2018, 10:11 AM

commodorejohn replied to a thread Why I hate SW as a service... in Rants

Yeah, they've been pushing toward this for years, and now that they've decided, post-Win10, that they don't care if everyone in the world hates them,...

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September 9th, 2018, 05:32 AM

commodorejohn replied to a thread A simple "hello" from Tennessee in Introductions

Welcome aboard!

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September 8th, 2018, 05:54 AM

commodorejohn replied to a thread Why are standalone vintage ASCII keyboards so hard to find? in General Vintage Computer Discussions

Why are ASCII keyboards getting hard to come by? Easy: the time travellers have finally abandoned APL.

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September 7th, 2018, 07:24 PM

commodorejohn replied to a thread Modern Computer Games in Rants

They cost too much money to make because AAA gaming refuses to get out of the constant generic-graphics-horsepower arms race and every single major...

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September 7th, 2018, 01:42 PM

commodorejohn replied to a thread Why Microsoft. Why? in Rants

This is correct; the fact that most of the accelerators still work as normal is about the only saving grace in modern versions of Office. Though it...

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September 6th, 2018, 07:51 PM

commodorejohn replied to a thread Who's granpa. in General Off Topic

D'awww :)

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September 6th, 2018, 07:50 PM

commodorejohn replied to a thread Why Microsoft. Why? in Rants

Everything in the Win10/MS2016 generation is complete garbage. There is no hope of fixing this; there is only the search for a viable alternative.

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September 5th, 2018, 06:48 AM

commodorejohn replied to a thread what is the weirdest piece of hardware/software in your possession? in General Vintage Computer Discussions

I have a QBUS controller board for a mass spectrometer; I pulled it, not knowing what it was, out of an 11 that I was allowed to salvage but not to...

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September 3rd, 2018, 03:44 PM

commodorejohn replied to a thread Pdp-11/23 in DEC

Yeah, my 11 started life as an 11/23 in a BA-23.

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September 3rd, 2018, 08:39 AM

commodorejohn replied to a thread HTTPS not working properly on here in Vintage Computer Forum Support

^ What he said.

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August 31st, 2018, 03:45 PM

commodorejohn replied to a thread Is Moore's Law on its deathbed? in General Off Topic

It'd be kind of amazing and hilarious if that led to a return to bit-serial CPU designs.

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August 30th, 2018, 07:39 PM

commodorejohn replied to a thread Is SSE2 really that important? in General Off Topic

It really depends on what you need out of a computer. In 2000 or thereabouts, I knew at least one family that was still making semi-regular use of...

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