I Did Not Kill Stanley Lieber: How to draw (with 9front)

The penultimate paper on paint(1) and the 9front art machine.

https://triapul.cz/automa/i_did_not_kill_stanley_lieber

#unix_surrealism #plan9 #9front #art #guide #computers #oldcomputerchallenge

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poster for "I Did Not Kill Stanley Lieber: How to draw (with 9front)" there's some characters or something, I can't tell

#computers

@lproven on how we lost more advanced #computers:
https://liam-on-linux.dreamwidth.org/98868.html

"So we went backwards. [...] Out went multiple different purpose-built OSes for different purposes and platforms. Out went using the best language for the job and the best platform and OS for the job. And out went #GUI-only OSes.

Instead, in came the lowest-common-denominator, stupidest, simplest, but !!FREE!! #OS that could with a tonne of work do everything.

[...]

1980s computers were all amazing and very cool.

1990s ones turned into boring beige boxes, as dull as staplers, but there were occasional flashes of brilliance - most of which you couldn't afford.

Then by the 2000s nothing was left but staplers. It's all just office equipment now.

Devices like modern phones and the #ReMarkable make me want to cry, they are so stupid and so clunky.

[...]

I watched my chosen field go from bold and innovative to a sad bunch of efforts to polish turds. It is heartbreaking."

#macOS #Windows #Linux #UNIX

daughter asks me to look over a web site she did and sends me a copy of a bunch of static files.

Me, surprised that it works in Chrome but not in Safari, checks the logs of a locally running Apache.

And now, boys and girls, I will pop a container of FuckItAll pills into my mouth and wash them down with a gin & tonic.

Same web server. Same files. They load in Chrome and Ffox, but Safari crashes the SERVER.

#computers

Free computer user cheat sheet

#unix_surrealism #art #poster #propaganda #mastoart #computers #motivation

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Computer Basics Quick reference card fig a: gripping motion, up and down fig b: middle and index finger, side-to-side fig c: come hither motion with the middle finger

Anyone who logs onto to the fediverse slightly later than the show, this episode (scroll up for the archive) (and bonus 15 minutes extended cut on #peertube ) is a really really good one and significant, in Kent's historical document release beginning (scroll up). #boost the above toots if you are a

@kentpitman

fan!

https://toobnix.org/w/1z43HJ2YboZUuE2U8LKRMj
https://toobnix.org/feeds/videos.xml?accountId=580185 #RSS

#lisp #computers #computerHistory #archive

Here's some #vintage #tech for you. This is the Data General Nova 2. These 16-bit #minicomputers were very popular in the 1970s. Coincidentally this #photo was taken in the office of my last job, the #basement of a #government #research facility. I didn't take the photo but the link to the post is below.

I spent just over two years here managing #Linux and #Solaris servers. My #cubicle was just around the corner from these #machines, below flickering fluorescent lights. Exactly what you'd expect from working in the basement of a government building.

While these systems haven't been in use for decades and should have been in a museum, they were still on the books and inventoried annually. 🤦‍♂️

https://www.reddit.com/r/retrocomputing/comments/drhpzk/data_general_nova_chilling_out_in_the_basement_of/

#computers #history #old #datageneral #nova #16bit

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Photo of two of three Data General Nova 2 minicomputers in the basement of a government research facility.

Bought a cheap network card branded "Glotech" online.

What does Glotech stand for?

Well, "Glorious Technology Blitz and Sourcing Limited"

Very modest.

#computers

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Product description and manufacturer name of cheap network card