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I remember the same from my childhood: being told off by my Mum for staring at something out of the window while she was doing the same. Mentioned it, got told off by my Dad. Did it affect me? I remember it 40 years later!
I have such fond memories of my time back in the day owning a MegaDrive. It wasn't my first or last games console, but it was my formative one. It was a time in my life when I was into video games (Sonic 2 being the only game I ever played to completion). It pleases me to realise there's still a community around the MegaDrive and - as others has said - this is so crazy but wonderful to see!
I do not and have never owned a C64, but Monkey Island is (in my opinion) one of the pinnacles of gaming so this effort to extend it to yet another platform is wonderful to see!
Fidonet was my thing from that era. I know it's nostalgia and I know it was a simpler time but I loved Fidonet and I've not come across any Usenet group, discussion email list or web forum that quite hits the same mark. Mind you, that was probably 30 years ago now...
NNW definitely restored my faith in RSS readers. Amazing software, I just use it and sync to iCloud, works flawlessly. Thank you NNW!
Sorry for an empty response but this, 100% this. As a person who is WELL over 6' tall, the very idea that the person in front of me might recline is enough to give me significant anxiety throughout a flight. I once saw a design for seats where the base slides forward if you want to recline - the idea being, if you're going to recline you're going to do so into your own space, not the person behind you. I'd be a big advocate of that change in seat design...
Oh that was way more fun than I expected! I feel I shall be playing this regularly!
Have you ever found anything which loads & plays *MED files properly? Specifically MMD2 format files from SoundStudio. I've also got loads I created back in the Amiga days, and I've still got SS itself running on an old laptop but would prefer something that could play/render them to WAV on macOS.
Haven't used this tool for many years, but when I needed to help a friend migrate his business email from the email services provided by a web host to Google Workspace (or whatever it was called at the time) this tool worked perfectly (admittedly, only about 3 fairly tame mailboxes).
That's amazing! My son is also 9 and while I haven't even attempted to teach him coding, he would probably enjoy playing this game more than writing one! My only comment is to join in with the rest of the comments here and say how wonderful it is to see this (genuinely fun!) game and to encourage him to do more!
I did a similar thing once (off my own back - I was young and naive) on a dead simple web app I wrote. I put a footer that said something like "all access is logged, unauthorised access will be investigated" with the current IP address to try to demonstrate that I had the data to do it. I didn't. And nothing of the sort was logged or investigated. I just hoped it would put people off!
Interesting (and cool) to see some support for tracker files in this. Probably a niche ask, but I would love to find a tool that can reliably convert files saved from MED/OctaMED/SoundStudio from the Amiga days. libopenmpt does support some older files of this type (and you can compile ffmpeg with libopenmpt support) but the stash I have of my own music from back in the day are newer and I have been unable to find anything to convert them short of getting OctaMED running again.
When I was about 16 and considering spending my hard-earned money on my first computer, I was drooling over the Falcon. I wanted to make music, so the built-in MIDI ports on the Atari computers was very compelling. However... my best friend at the time was big into the Amiga so in the end I got an A1200 (and never regretted it). But I still drool when I see the Falcon!
Yeah, I used to work at a large UK university and I saw (helped manage) a vast Excel spreadsheet which calculated students' final degree classifications. It was so complex I never managed to unpick the algorithms, just assumed it was right.
Massive, MASSIVE fan of John and his work. I use a set of apps at home and at work, not because I can't install stuff but for convenience. Things like the auto-prompt for updates are a blessing when installing stuff on non-technical family member's computers. That's reminded me, I've been meaning to go and donate, they deserve some of my money.
That literally happened, they blogged about it recently. https://www.backblaze.com/blog/recent-outages-why-we-acceler...
+1 for IMAPSync, used it a few times to migrate business and personal email, including into G Suite. It enabled me to offer a very smooth transition for people, entirely hiding from them the complexities of what "move my email" really entails!
As much as I dislike 123-reg, they weren't the only ones who did the 'auto-registration' thing. I don't feel like dropping my registrar in it but they did the same (only it was at the end of the .uk reservation period - I gained 2 domain names, both of which ought to belong to clients of mine). I haven't ever checked if they set them to auto-renew in fairness, my account settings are to NEVER auto-renew so I suspect they followed that.
I had a Toshiba MSX (in the UK) as my first computer. My parents bought me that, convinced by the salesman's hype, when everyone else was buying Spectrums and Commodores. At the time it was a pain because not all the good games came out on MSX, but I loved that thing. It taught me BASIC, got me interested in computer-based music (BASIC programmes with endless PLAY statements) and got me into computing rather than just using a computer. I'll always have a soft spot for MSX.
I was in branch the other week and they were doing exactly that... from Windows XP. Staff member told me they were upgrading to Windows 10 soon and they couldn’t wait.
I know, I'm just waiting for the day they announce the shutdown of FeedBurner. That's going to create a LOT of broken feeds if they do...
Where do tools like the Automatic adapter [1] fit in to this? I don't own one but it connects to OBD-II and my understanding is can be used to do things such as clear warnings etc.
This. It might seem odd to some to combine BASIC and assembler but a programmer friend of mine used that ability to start playing with assembler (which he'd never done before) and experimented with replacing some BASIC routines in his games with assembler. As a relative newbie his socks were blown off at the speed-up he could achieve, I feel sure that it spurred him on in his programming career. (Ironically he is now a contract programmer writing corporate software in Java, but there you go...!)
I remember reading that putting "click here" in banner adverts produced better click-through rates, as sad as it may sound. I can well believe that the same is true of links, though it ruins the page for screen readers (I went on some training for this once, which advocated link text exactly like your former example, and was told that its common practise for experienced people with visual disabilities to simply listen through the list of links to more quickly navigate to the information they need).
I remember being taught never to use "Click here" (which has the same issues) about 15 years ago. It staggers me that in this day and age of responsive design and tableless layouts, we've still got the same old problems...
We read and studied "Guards! Guards!" at school, and we were fortunate enough that he visited and spoke to a group of us, answering questions. I seem to recall that I asked a fairly dumb question... This was about 25 years ago, but I'm honoured to have met him and will always remember his enthusiasm and charisma.
I had the same experience while on a trip out near Uluru some years ago. Camping out in the middle of nowhere, looked up and.... wow. Never seen anything like it, and at this point in my life I conceivably won't again.
That isn't the point, if they can send it in plaintext then they have it in a recoverable form. They shouldn't be storing your password at all. They should be storing a hash of your password.
And on top of all that, sending it plaintext via email, itself a largely open format, means they've broadcast it to all kinds of other potentially bad actors.
Plus it indicates (to me) a questionable grasp of security, not a great sign for a VPN provider.
Its just wrong.
Try to remind yourself that your perception of others is warped.
I am a strong believer in this effect. I saw it expressed well once in a book, paraphrased: "You are comparing your inside with other people's outside."
I've held on to that concept and its been an important part of me keeping my natural self-pessimism in check.
I'll leave others more knowledgeable in such things to comment on the legitimacy of this, but one practical thing I'll note: the assertion on the site that Windows Vista/7/8 has support for encrypted disks is only half true. Quoting from Wikipedia [1] "BitLocker is available in the Enterprise and Ultimate editions of Windows Vista and Windows 7. It is also available in the Pro and Enterprise editions of Windows 8."
Since a lot of domestic users will be using Home or Home Premium versions of Windows, and as one of those users who uses Truecrypt for full disk encryption, this does not leave us with as easy a migration path as this site now suggests.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitLocker_Drive_Encryption