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Re:VMMouse for NT 3.x: QEMU/VMware mouse integration driver on Thursday October 22, 2026 @03:02PM (#50199618)
$ claude

> write me a USB driver for Windows NT. qemu is at /usr/bin/qemu-system-i386 and a local NT installation is at nt.img

* Doing Something...

Re:Global Shortage Has Led to Motor Oil Rationing at Costco on Sunday September 13, 2026 @03:55PM (#49688005)
Older Porsche 911s take about 11 quarts.
> good guy,

> she

Re:Quake – 30th Anniversary Update on Thursday August 06, 2026 @05:42PM (#49202988)
Nine Inch Nails also has some new merch and soundtrack album for the 30th anniversary:

https://shop.nin.com/

Re:Running Doom on Our Custom CPU and Going Viral on Tuesday July 21, 2026 @11:07AM (#48993263)
> instagram

> random social media website

Re:Microsoft Comic Chat is now open source on Thursday July 16, 2026 @12:07PM (#48936440)
Direct link to GitHub repo: https://github.com/microsoft/comic-chat
Re:Stripe, Advent offer to buy PayPal for more than $53B on Wednesday July 15, 2026 @06:22PM (#48927908)
What's so important about retaining your existing account? Remove payment methods, change the account email address, then close the account and open a new one.
And yet practically every Mac after 1986 had SCSI onboard. Why the PC industry didn't embrace it to avoid having to wait until USB is beyond me...
Re:1-Bit Hokusai's "The Great Wave" on Saturday April 25, 2026 @12:51PM (#47902798)
Snow
Re:SSH Secret Menu on Wednesday March 11, 2026 @10:11AM (#47335819)
I'm pretty sure the ~ command style came from cu(1) which had it in at least 4.1BSD. I don't think rsh (which came in 4.2BSD) ever had such commands.

Stathat Is Shutting Down

I received this email (nothing on their website though):Hi XX,We have some difficult news to share: StatHat will be shutting down in 30 days on April 4, 2026.Until then, you can export all of your data. Instructions are at https://www.stathat.com/manual/exportKey dates:• Data export available now through: April 3, 2026 • Service shuts down: April 4, 2026If you have any questions, please...

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How many languages are using LLVM as its backend vs Go's?
Re:Show HN: Echo, an iOS SSH+mosh client built on Ghostty on Wednesday February 18, 2026 @04:10PM (#47066448)
It looks like you set a startup command in the "Advanced Configuration" menu for the host
That's not true and wouldn't work on OpenBSD anyway (binaries are not compatible). The files you're copying from another device are just encryption keys.

OpenWV is implementing the decryption itself:

https://github.com/tchebb/openwv

Re:Postal Arbitrage on Monday January 12, 2026 @04:38PM (#46594646)
There are also things on eBay with a starting price of less than a dollar with free shipping that never get bids. I "won" two auctions like this the other week for brand new USB-C cables, each of them costing me 13 cents shipped.

I have no idea why sellers would do this with eBay fees and USPS small package shipping costing well over 13 cents.

From the headline, one might assume he directly edited or locked the page when he just commented on the article's discussion page that it should have a more neutral tone.
Re:Apple's Favoritism to Fastmail on Friday August 08, 2025 @09:45AM (#44836878)
Yes, though you still need to renew the certificate through OS X Server.
Re:Blueos written in Rust, compatible with POSIX on Sunday July 27, 2025 @10:44PM (#44706719)
Maybe hardware should start offering virtio interfaces

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