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dilleraon The Computer Church – Pennsylvania Computer and Technology Museum

it's super easy- just call. I've done it twice.

dilleraon This G15 is the Oldest Running Digital Computer in America [video]

It's been said on previous YT videos - the system probally ran civil engineering calculations for building bridges and roads. They may have even been for work in Maryland (the state) where the Bendix 'lives' - at the System Source Museum outside of Baltimore MD. It's down in Texas to get fixed by Usagi.

dilleraon I continue to no longer attend vintage computer festivals

Hilarious that the 1st person other-side account of this bizarre cry for attention from Scott is being down-voted here.

Scott may feel he needs some attention-- so dredging up something he already posted a few years ago is somehow a good faith folksy rumination that will help people? I wish him well if he believes that.

Kids: Pay your Taxes!

dilleraon Atari 800XL Remake

If it accurately emulates the SIO port and timings, FujiNet will just work on it. There is no need for something similar....

dilleraon Xerox Star Keyboard

The DB alto is now in Baltimore, MD- and you can touch it! https://youtu.be/xoAkqEjnNK0?t=46

dilleraon The M1 MacBook Air: Perfection

I have a surfaceBook- I never take off the keyboard. I would never use a touch-screen on a laptop as finger marks on the screen are not optimal for working.

dilleraon Atlassian Acquires AgileCraft for $166M

I still run the Confluence 3.5 version (off the open net). The WYSIWYG runined Confy. It's an awesome, easy, fast wiki if you just stay at 3.5. And you edit it all in text.

dilleraon Countdown to Python 2 EOL

I just gave us 4 more days, whew.

dilleraon Twitter, It’s Time to End Your Anything-Goes Paradise

He joined way after that was created.

dilleraon 1Password X: A look at the future of 1Password in the browser

Agile Keychain - 41.9 MB

Created Wednesday, September 2, 2009 at 5:15 PM

Modified Tuesday, November 14, 2017 at 10:02 PM

I really don't like the idea of ever putting all my passwords on a server that requires Agilebits to run it. You guys are a dev shop. Let users keep their passwords themselves and keep the stand-alone version (and extensions for it!) going with simple version upgrade fees.

dilleraon 1Password X: A look at the future of 1Password in the browser

be sad

dilleraon 1Password X: A look at the future of 1Password in the browser

Just charge an upgrade fee for the next stand-alone version and then you can get your revenue back.

But not charging for stand-alone upgrades you make it seem like the only choice for a revenue stream is cloud-hosting.

Will you charge an upgrade fee or not? (for stand-alone)

dilleraon Why I left Mac for Windows: Apple has given up

Well I have to use chocolately with W10.. which is the same thing as HB for OSX. The LSW is a totally sep system in there- an install of python on LSW cannot work with the python installed in windows.

This is completley not true of Home Brew on OSX.

dilleraon Why I left Mac for Windows: Apple has given up

I don't understand what the author wants to actually do with his Mac other than screw around with VR.

What feature is lacking today in OSX that stops any developer from uh actually coding and working? What do you want Apple to add? Oh, wait for it....

Stickers in iMessage? You really want that? I did a spit take when I read this and then I realized this was nothing but some click-bait.

dilleraon Why I left Mac for Windows: Apple has given up

The WSL is absolutely not integrated at all. It's pretty horrible.

What terminal do you use with it? Powershell? How do you cut and paste between terminals? Tabs? I found the only way to have a decent Unix terminal experience was to run an Xserver and connect to it from powershell.

Install git in WSL, clone down some projects and then access those files you just cloned down from Windows Explorer. Show the integration there...

The MacOS/Unix integration is light-years ahead of WSL- because the MacOS actually runs Unix, it's not just bolted on.

The people that claim that WSL is integrated with W10 can't have used it for more than 30 min. Otherwise they wouldn't comment about it.

dilleraon Apple Said to Plan First Pro Laptop Overhaul in Years

I'm not sure about that. I got my wife the 1st gen MacBook, and I have a 2012 i5 11" MBA. I like the size of the Macbook, I don't mind the keyboard but it's very much laggier than the 2012 MBA. MUCH. Once you have something running it's ok, but sometimes starting an app like FF the MB will sit there for 5 sec with no feedback. I haven't seen Mac's do that since the PPC days.

dilleraon Apple Said to Plan First Pro Laptop Overhaul in Years

I agree, a touch-screen on a 'pro' laptop (unless it's a 2-in-1) is useless.

Also: Please don't ever, ever touch my laptop's screen.

dilleraon Half a year later, the Apple Watch feels like a stalled platform

This is my case exactly. What else can it possibly do? It tells me the time, wiggles my wrist for all my appts, reminders, messages, slacks, and even answer phone calls. Oh and it tracks my pathetic exercise and motion as a bonus.

I can now leave my iPhone6 on my desk at work, and on a table and home and never have to carry it around with me (at those locations). It does exactly what a >Watch< should do. It's not a computer it's a 2nd screen for my phone.

dilleraon Abuse is indefensible

this

dilleraon Sam Soffes open sources Cheddar for iOS

the app reviews in iTunes store seem to hilight some deficiencies

dilleraon Observing traffic prioritization in Comcast’s network

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Cable_Communications_Policy_A...

Cable transmissions are not 'internet video' transmissions. They are different. Your cable tv is a 'video streaming service' too. Xfinity tv is probably a cable communications ie. cable tv, not an internet communication (i.e. streaming tv). It's how you define it to the FCC.

dilleraon Show HN: Briquette, a Mac OS X client for 37signal's Campfire app

Wondering: how can you be 'not even a little attached to it' yet 'REALLY LIKE' it- which one is it?