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It took almost 30 years since the kernel was released, but Microsoft is officially releasing something with a Linux based operating system. Pretty wild to think about.

I have a strange memory about these games. Whenever I was a kid I was looking through some boxes and found a bunch of my older video game magazines. I saw an ad in GamePro for these games and Philips CD-i. I was shocked! How could I have missed multiple Zelda games being released on a console that used CDs? Why had I never heard of this? I am pretty sure that this would have been in 1998/1999 or so, but the magazine was much older.

It had a 1-800 number, which I called immediately to see if they were still selling the games and the system. Someone answered and they were still selling them, but I seem to remember the price being pretty high despite the age of the games and the system. Soon after I must have searched on the internet and discovered that it was mainly a system for edutainment games and lost interest.

Now I have to go look to see if there are any GamePro scans in the Internet Archive that have that ad.

Time to update your BCHS stack: https://learnbchs.org/index.html

I'm a long time emacs user and switched to VSCode for the same reasons (the amazing JS support in VSCode). For keybindings, I'm using the Emacs Friendly Keymap extension and didn't find it to be quite as buggy as the author describes (I might just be using less key combinations though).

I used emacs for writing JS for years, and for the time js2-mode was amazing, but the JS I'm writing now is quite a bit different. JSX and Vue templates complicate the situation as well.

Since VSCode is written in JS, I suspect that it will always have advantages when writing JS in the same way that emacs will probably always have an advantage when writing Lisp.

I think I would love this.

I've really been enjoying reading Brent Simmons blog about his efforts to get Frontier running on modern macOS:

http://inessential.com/frontierdiary

I suppose that Apple Dylan was similar to Frontier in the sense that they were programming environments built around an object databases. Frontier was a shipping product though!

You could think about it as MediaGoblin, but for academic institutions.

A place to store images, video, or other kinds of digital stuff.

Hyrax comes with an interface for uploading/searching/viewing the files that are stored in the repository.

In a certain sense it is like VCS in that it does versioning.

WebTorrent Desktop: https://webtorrent.io/desktop/

One thing that I noticed when looking around was that screen resolution didn't seem to be a big focus.

The Panasonic models still have optical media. I can't think of a single western laptop that has a Blu-Ray burner in it. There might be some gaming laptops with that, but they would probably be 17 inch monsters and not extremely lightweight laptops.

I think this is the only time I've ever visited a real estate site that didn't cause me immense suffering. It's amazing how much more usable it is if you remove all the marketing site style fluff.

Cubase in an Atari ST emulator works great with MIDI devices. I wonder if in the future there could be integration in these web emulators with the Web MIDI API.

It's easier to setup a Tor hidden service than it is to set up a server with a domain. You don't have to know anything about DNS or firewalls. I'm surprised that they aren't more common.

This is a very interesting discussion of the pros and cons of HAMMER and ZFS: https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/49789/

I've been considering using DragonFlyBSD for a home NAS because of the seemingly smaller system requirements for HAMMER.