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classrooms and home computers… an office suite, web browser, educational programs and network services for an entire school, all set up out of the box.” Fjords guitars and Linux B
Alterslash picks the best 5 comments from each of the day’s Slashdot stories, and presents them on a single page for easy reading.

Index of /unifont

http://czyborra.com/unifont/

and burdened British computers with silly German letters. What do you mean by distributed effort? Unicode is obviously too big and tiring for one or two persons to design a whole

The Kermit 95 2.0 GUI

https://www.kermitproject.org/k95gui.html

Host computers, in general, are totally ignorant of character sets. They simply store and send bytes blindly. The interpretation is up to the display device, such as a terminal, t

TAKEDOWN: (Re-)Construction

http://www.takedown.com/timeline/re-construction/

one of Tsutomu's computers, fooling it into believing that messages were being sent from a trusted source. By understanding the attack, Tsutomu is able to improve his defenses, an

What is root? -- definition by The Linux Information Project (LINFO)

https://www.linfo.org/root.html

system because personal computers did not yet exist and each user was connected to the mainframe computer (i.e., a large, centralized computer) via a dumb (i.e., very simple) term

Installing and Configuring A Windows 98 Network

http://networkers.freeservers.com/win98.htm

to ensure that other computers on the network will recognize it. You install the hardware and software that enables your computer to connect to the network, and then you configure

Digital Research - Home

http://www.digitalresearch.biz/

system for personal computers and Dorothy was instrumental in bringing it to market. Their company sold and promoted the software, which gave life to a fledgling computer industry
Gary & Dorothy Kildall (Dorothy McEwen)founded Digital Research Inc. in 1974. DRI quickly became the first successful PC OS Company.

Julia Evans

https://jvns.ca/

More drawings about computers Nov 2016 A few drawings about Linux Sep 2016 New zine: Linux debugging tools you'll love Jul 2016 A few sketches Apr 2015 A zine about strace Exe
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CK10TUTOR - C-Kermit 10.0 Tutorial

https://www.kermitproject.org/ckututor.html

of different computers and OS's of the 1980s-90s has dwindled to just a handful today, primarily Unix (Linux, Mac OS, BSD, etc), (Open)VMS, and Microsoft Windows. C-Kermit 10.0 is

userland: a book about the command line for humans

https://p1k3.com/userland-book/

but in the meanwhile computers have become relatively cheap and free software is abundant. If you’re reading this on the web, you can probably get access to a shell. Some op

Free as in Freedom: Chapter 1

https://www.oreilly.com/openbook/freedom/ch01.html

knew plenty about computers, he was not an expert in translating binary files. As a hacker, however, he had other resources at his disposal. The notion of information sharing was

Project 2038 FAQ

http://maul.deepsky.com/~merovech/2038.html

in 2038 due to the way computers store and process time data. According to William Porquet's writings, the issue arises from the fact that many computer systems use a 32-bit repre


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