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Re:Rob Grant, creator of Red Dwarf, has died on Friday February 27, 2026 @04:57PM (#47186223)
Stoke me a Clipper... I'll be back for Christmas!
Re:The Impact of Jungle Music in 90s Video Game Development on Thursday November 14, 2024 @03:04AM (#42134040)
Tune!
Re:The Impact of Jungle Music in 90s Video Game Development on Thursday November 14, 2024 @03:02AM (#42134030)
Didn't think 90's Jungle / DnB would be on HN... Yes!

Add these to the list...

Saint Etienne - The Sea (PFM Mix): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1JrnoEbQDE

Funky Technicians - Airtight (Original) (1996): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwC43QSY94A

Re:Vinyl set to outsell CDs for first time since 1986 on Sunday September 08, 2019 @12:14PM (#20911400)
I always see the degradation argument.

I look after my vinyl with a properly calibrated turntable.

I will degrade faster than my records!

Re:FreeBSD Turns 26 on Thursday July 04, 2019 @07:26AM (#20353571)
Been using FreeBSD for years as well and donate to the Foundation annually. It's always my go to OS mainly because it's changes are never too dramatic!
Re:Inkscape launches versions 0.92.4 and 1.0 alpha on Friday January 18, 2019 @01:27PM (#18941494)
ArtWorks is still around, and it works on Risc OS on the Raspberry Pi.

http://www.mw-software.com/

The Quake 3 source was fairly good...
Re:Sony plans to make vinyl records again on Friday June 30, 2017 @04:40PM (#14673490)
I had a habit of collecting white labels and test pressings of house and dance tracks, I have no idea what most of them are called or who they are by, but I can think of one and remember where it is in the crates.

If I had a load of Track 1's in iTunes, I wouldn't have a clue!

When HT first started appearing on P4 chips I was looking after NetWare, 2K and XP boxes, they would freak out with HT enabled all kinds of oddities, I suspect most because of the OS's not fully supporting it.

To this day I disable it by reflex on everything!

I have deployed LTSB in a few schools I look after, it's far easier because of the minimal feature set especially in smaller environments where full enterprise management tools like System Centre and WSUS are not installed.

Go old school and customise the default profile in the build for best results!

The best part is that if you have education volume License You get both EDU and Ent LTSB editions!

I have children with communication and social issues (ASD).

My side projects have changed from web apps things to:

Learning makaton.

Making and laminating pictures (PECS) so my youngest can use them to communicate.

Attending various classes relating to ASD.

Fixing IT and Telecoms for the various local charity organisations that support us.

You just have to play the hand your delt the best you can.

Re:PfSense 2.5 and AES-NI on Monday May 01, 2017 @04:12PM (#14241086)
I look after a pfsense box for a school on a 9 year old E2200 that is obsolete by this.

On one hand I cannot complain because the server is 9 years old and lasted well, but on the other hand, why not an option for those just needing a packet filter to bypass this?

Am I missing something?

Re:Apple’s new APFS file system on Monday April 17, 2017 @11:46AM (#14131752)
With a little calibration of the TT once in a while it will esily outlast me!
Re:Apple’s new APFS file system on Monday April 17, 2017 @03:51AM (#14129734)
Yep, I had a similar thing with audio files corrupting on my old MacBook, I was using time machine to backup and guess what.... the copy in the backup was fried too!

Switched back to vinyl for my music, my 20 year old Texhnics 1210 will probably out last my current laptop and the next!

A category for task management or project management would be good.
Originally when the vote was announced I was pro staying in, but like the above, the more I looked on to how the EU is run, how decisions are made, the more I didn't like it.

I have no issues with immigration, I'm all for people settling in whatever country the like!

I'm pro leaving the EU because I do not agree with how it is run and the direction it is heading.

Re:WordStar: A Writer's Word Processor (1996) on Tuesday March 14, 2017 @02:05AM (#13865388)
I'm an writer in my spare time, my writing PC is a basic text only FreeBSD install.

I use joe or vim and put everything in git for easy transfer and backup.

For me, I need as little destruction as possible, I even find auto spell check with its red underlining completely destructive when it comes to my flow of thoughts.