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DA is one of the web's icons and it complemented the rise of CGI extremely well.

For me the site was at times educational helping explore software tools others used to create their works of art. Screenshots on the other hand were extremely useful in desktop customisation and seeing what was possible to do across OS platforms.

There is another throwback for me here when one of our clients had disabled Citrix file transfers and only allowed text based clipboard (due to imposed security policies).

So we had to:

  - zip a directory hierarchy or a single file uuencode

  - copy to shared clipboard

  - paste into a terminal on the other end using a here document

  - uudecode the output

  - checksum the source/destination copy for file integrity purposes

This worked on Windows too (using Notepad and saving the file as .uu for use with WinZip). Luckily file transfers were not a frequent use case.

Thanks that's the form of the function I was referring to.

Indeed as previously mentioned there are xmodem/uuencode alternatives but none of them would be as efficient and reliable as native SFTP/SCP.

I wish they would finally implement file transfers via copy/paste mechanism inside an active terminal window. As far as I know this feature would be unique across platforms.

If someone does know of an SSH terminal client that does this, please reply.

I would love to see manufacturers enable this feature instead of artificially crippling the software/hardware found in the phones.

Tuning into local tourist information broadcast is something that you cannot completely substitute with a data connection.

I wonder what impact (if any) this will have to Samsung's vast customer base. Somehow I think there would be contingency plans in place from risk management perspective.

Samsung is a large competitor in many industries and that on its own benefits even those who are not their customers.

I certainly hope that the performance/price is on par with the competition Intel used to get from AMD back in the Duron and Athlon XP days. Ryzen seems to be fairly low power consumption as well which should help with lowering the cooling requirements compared to Intel's CPUs.

Yes the shaped skins with the notion of "big" "medium" and "small" window sizes are quite unique notion to Sonique. Personally I have not seen this 3 way size concept in other applications (it was very handy utility at the time when screen space was small).

Winamp has seemingly reached its final version and it still does the job just as well as for the past 20 odd years. Even more so than its defunct competotor Sonique https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonique_(media_player)

Part of this longevity has no doubt to do with Windows' lasting APIs.

For the most part Winamp is able to do so as not much has changed when it comes to music listening on computers. For example audio cards are fundamentally the same devices they used to be decades ago and basic I/O workflow has not changed either. Same goes for the majority of music file formats with which Winamp is natively compatible.

What I do miss is Winamp's vast library of plugins (visualisation, tools, file format compatibility and countless others). To my knowledge the ability to source plugins today has gotten harder as the library hasn't carried over to the new website/owners. For me this is where Foobar2000 closes the gap. Unfortunately Archive.org is not the remedy in such situations where Winamp.com/robots.txt disallowed fetching of the plugin binaries. Example: http://web.archive.org/web/20120505234347/http://download.nu...

Glad to see Sonique being remembered by someone other than myself!

I second this choice. So far Vivaldi has had very frequent updates and the navigational GUI aspect of the browser have the swiss army knife feel to it (not quite up to the par of Opera 12.x days but getting there quickly).

Vivaldi's native tab management far surpasses both Chrome and Firefox. Likewise native mouse gestures work in every place including the speed dial (unlike plugins which attempt to do so on other browsers).

The only thing I miss is tab synchronisation across mobile and desktop devices.

Each to his own but checking email should be done strategically. There are plenty of people who are more than happy to elect to clean out low attention and no value emails inside their work inboxes even when on leave via mobile phones. It makes their 1st day/week back at work all that much less involved in email.

I suspect that you know of this already, but here it is anyway: https://otter-browser.org/

Personally I still have Opera 12.18 installed on every computer as it still is the most swiss-army-knife browser out there for countless reasons. Most of the webpages can be made to work properly in it by adjusting the site preferences.

One thing I am yet to see any of the new browsers be capable of is complete popup blocking. Opera 12.x excelled at this and a complete blackout of popups is 100% achieveable.

Google should figure out a way to better expose the features of their web services. Most often we seem to find out about a Google feature by chance alone.

I agree, the Presto engine was (and still is) super efficient.

We may see something similar come out of the Vivaldi project which is headed by folk who led the Opera <= v12 development who know very well what was lost when Opera moved to Chromium based web engine.

This entire ordeal would have been so much less impactful to both Samsung and the end users if they simply went down the old and proven replaceable battery route. Not to mention it'd very likely be much more economical and eco-friendly from overall end-to-end perspective. It has consumed the time and resources they could have otherwise devoted to innovating for next generation of the phone lines.

All they needed to sacrifice is about ~1mm of phone thickness...

Free form paper still fills in the gap where computers/tablets/phones are too cumbersome and just slow the process down.

Sometimes the simplest tool happens to be the most effective tool (paperless office hasn't fully happened yet).

Another aspect to consider is the process of writing often leads to insights that you may not have stumbled upon whilst using a keyboard/touch screen for writing the same message. This may be due to the speed of writing relative to the speed of creative thought. It may also stem out of less distractions encountered during the paper writing process vs a busy computer screen.

There are a few of those non-antibiotic based approaches discussed in the following BBC Horizon programme:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01ms5c6

For those that would like to visualise how the bacteria vs anitbiotics evolve in an experiment over 11 days, have a look at this video from Harvard:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plVk4NVIUh8

So going forward for corporate users it's going to be either Linux or AIX considering the way HP-UX, Irix and now Solaris is slowly seemingly heading to.

What I'd really like to see is harnessing of the knowledge, principles and methods of solid system management and stability that have been built and field tested on Unix platforms over the decades. This would benefit whichever platforms remain (and are created/update) going forwards.

In some form and fashion parts of Solaris and its concepts will live on in FreeBSD and Linux, namely ZFS, zones/containers, Dtrace and SMF.

I hope that SPARC itself can live on after Solaris itself tend to go hand in hand though...

And optical media is also immutable (read only) when you need it to be immune to any data changes.

I find that read only point in time backups gain value over time. Especially if you need to pull a file that would have been long rotated and replaced by newer backups on read write media (eg. HDDs).

Unfortunately the market for this use case is not large and this is greatly reflected in the prices and relatively hard to source high quality optical media. For BD this would be (inorganic) HTL Panasonic media which only has a market inside Japan itself. M-Disc is the other alternative although it only has proven itself within the DVD market, as classical HTL BD media is expected to be very similar in endurance to what M-Disc has on offer in the BD range.

No RAM/Memory specifications? Surely it ought to showcase at least 64GB DDR4 RAM.

For those who are looking for a more in depth and technical + real world power user review of this CPU, I highly recommend seeing Techreport's latest published article:

http://techreport.com/review/31179/intel-core-i7-7700k-kaby-...

Or those who run non-vendor-supported OS on their computer, FreeDOS is often their only way to upgrade BIOS/UEFI.

This internal demonstration of NeXTSTEP shows just how much this similarity applies to what the end-user sees in macOS/OS X as well:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gveTy4EmNyk

It'd be interesting if Apple resurrected the old fan-less Cube design/concept for the desktops: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_Mac_G4_Cube

The time is right now especially given the age and non-expandability of the Mac Pro.

I've seen Lotus Notes client installation's folder being migrated from Windows XP to Windows 7 then onto RHEL and finally onto macOS.

Suffice to say that all of the user settings were preserved and the data was readily usable on each platform. This happened over the span of 10 years.

Given the observation, I wonder how many other applications with similar complexity would last even one migration, let alone rolling migration across 4 completely different platforms.

I wish they implemented text reflow on mobile devices, it'd make the web so much more readable for end-users and websites which are not mobile optimised.

Thank you for compiling this set of OS images. Being always on the lookout for obscure and non-mainstream OS I was pleased to find a few more and possibly even more in the days to come.

It was always fun to see MnuetOS run a very usable GUI with comprehensive programs all from a single floppy drive back in the days.

For me the above routine has now been replicated by booting macOS, starting VirtualBox Ubuntu VM and installing QEMU inside the VM just to see it boot MenuetOS even faster than bare metal boot ever did.