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This website has lately been totally unusable, due to the dark-ux workflow at "https://guce.oath.com/collectConsent/partners/vendors"... I hope they're conscious of the traffic they lose. There's no obvious way to dismiss/slip through and be sure that consent has not been given to third-party data collection. Just saying, not the first time I stumble on that f*ckery. Schade!

I tought iTunes was based on SoundJam MP.

Anybody got a list of the countries where it's going to be available? (I'm tired of refreshing pages)

Maybe they lost access to their infrastructure and twitter account. Who posted this (to-date) last message? Better be cautious, activists.

Urchin 4 continued our tradition of supporting way, way too many random platforms (Google still has Urchin 4 help: check out the OS support… ever heard of Yellow Dog Linux?).

Heck yeah! Yellow Dog was one of first GNU/Linux distro I attempted to use, back in 2k2 (Or was it SUSE 6.4? Both ran too sluggishly for desktop use on my 5400/120, tho.)

Here's the trial Urchin 5 for RedHat 6, btw. https://web.archive.org/web/20060223041140/http://download.u...

This raises a question: What compilers/toolchains did MS Macintosh Business Unit use during the second part of the 1990s?

There might be a naming clash here. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_event

As an aside, they did a marketing video for the commodore Amiga https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JjRNAndfFEY :)

That spiked my curiosity. If anybody has more on this, I believe it should be shared somewhere.

Besides a PC Mag excerpts and a listing on some russian utilities compilation CD page, the interwebs look devoid.

https://books.google.com/books?id=LYp7r6OrMdIC&pg=RA1-PA172&...

No; "choose sensible defaults"

On one hand, it was easy to overlook this issue, and you'd end up with catastrophic data loss (been there, done that).

On the other hand:

1. it's the sort of mistake you tend to learn quickly not to redo ;(

2. a variety of encoding schemes were pretty common, and usually integrated in Mac browsers, mail clients, ftp clients. See for example this page from the Fetch website (http://fetchsoftworks.com/fetch/help/Contents/Concepts/Uploa...), or the hexbin(1) man page.

My personal take on what killed MacOS is this.

The MacOS was, for the start, a clever pile of kludges, for 68K series CPUs. Hot patching of routines was how you fixed bugs, introduced support for new hardware, etc. (See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macintosh_Toolbox#Advent_and_i...) (Btw, a System 7.1 source code archive leaked years ago.)

I can imagine debugging and extending it became more and more painful. And core data structure choices (16-bit-friendly) might have been becoming wasteful as architectures came and went...

So Apple had people grinding at Copland (apparently didn't quite make it), and then NeXT was bought, .

TL;DR: IMHO, that's not the main point (not either a notable one, once you're educated about it). MacOS grew to a point where it became a fragile, quite complex, house of cards.

I'll add, "behaviour of Windows regarding floppy disk drives".

Fixed it invoking as "antimony -style gtk"

According to https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Uniform_Look_for_Qt_and... qt5 attempts to be smart with guessing the desktop environment under wich it is running.

Meh Wtf!? From .ch I get:

"[USSC logo] APPLICATION BLOCKED

You have attempted to access a blocked website. Access to this website has been blocked for operational reasons by the DOD Enterprise-Level Protection System.

APPLICATION: qos-mission-critical-pan"

Yup.

You'll want to add something in the lines of

xsetwacom set "Wacom Serial Penabled 1FG Touchscreen touch" Area 104 26074 115 16374

for proper calibration to your .xinitrc (as it doesn't survive reboots). As always, RTFM ;-)

If you're on a budget, you could get a lenovo X200 Tablet, fit a new battery and 8GB of RAM. You get a nice touchscreen which you can orient as you please and 2 minipcie expansion slots.

That is, if you don't require modern OpenGL/gpgpu features, nor plan on doing massively parallel jobs on it (It sports a Core(TM)2 Duo CPU L9400 @ 1.86GHz)

Hypothetically, you _could_ solder a faster processor (not realistically for most of us tho).

Why the X200 and not a more recent one? They changed the keyboard / buttons afterwards, for the worst :(

NB: you might want to patch the bios to remove the mpcie whitelist ibm/lenovo put in. Misewell flash coreboot (requires in-circuit programming, due to flash block write protection)

After updating qt5base-dev using debian experimental, and adding -fPIC to the CXXFLAGS, it compiled nicely :)

edit: there seems to be a slight problem with text rendering tho(only lowercase 'a' and bullet points are drawn), see http://imgur.com/MiX1hvL More of a qt5 issue I think

#define M_PI and M_2_PI in three headers

add --std=c99 to CFLAGS and --std=c++11 to CXXFLAGS in Makefile

Still doesn't build, see: http://pastebin.com/T17kCyG3

This looks _very_ interesting (from a DIYer point of view), however building under GNU/Linux amd64 isn't seamless. (Missing --std statements in the Makefile, notably)

I find openscad quite painful to use, I whish I learned about Antimony before. I think this has lot of potential, as a lightweigth, intuitive, free software, notably in the maker/diyer scene.

https://www.youtube.com/profile?user=justinrotnluk Funny to notice the profile was suspended... Twists.

Edit: that user was especially thanked by YouTube on the latter IA blog post.

French president Hollande is visiting Lausanne, Switzerland this afternoon. His trains supposedly arrives at 3:20 at Prilly-Malley station. He will then proceed to the EPFL (Polytechnic school). [Full schedule http://files.newsnetz.ch/story/3/0/0/30072626/11/topelement.... ]

Allegedly to protect the people, the object of that law is rather to decriminalize and widen the PM's surveillance capabilities.

The law just exempted french agents for any illegal data acquisition done on foreign targets. One of the seven goals the law encompasses is "major scientific and economic interests". Don't deal with France, starting from may 6th.

Kudos to the couple deputies that show concern and bear with the long hours and kafkaesque atmosphere.

Mandatory handling of encryption keys on request is also part of the package. Hosters and ISPs like it.

"DPI algorithms shall remain secret, for they'll lose their effectiveness otherwise." Such StO.

Oversight over it all will be restricted to a 7-ish member court.

We must not remain silent as France openly turns into a police state.