My young John Connor is learning Java. I did set up a vscode assuming it could help.

Wrong. This world is so lost:

I can chose a project to be of type Maven, Spring, Quarkus, or MicroProfile. M'kay, I heard "Maven" somewhere before.

Now chose from a dozen Maven templates. M'kay, "maven-archetype-quickstart" because it has "apache" near it.

Now chose from half a dozen versions. M'kay, pick the "biggest".

Now it downloads ~50 files?!

--

No, this is not going to fly.

What's wrong with us?

Cool down menu.

@Dee ... with a FREE trial subscription that would play ads every minute.

@cpi Media literacy?

To play on the #Atari #Portfolio I just needed to

- own an Atari Portfolio
- buy the serial interface from Best Electronics
- buy a serial-to-USB cable
- buy a CD with "all" programs for the Portfolio (the PHOENIX game)
- buy a memory card with Portfolio DOS utilities (xterm for file transfer)
- re-learn about xmodem to send/receive files via serial

and that's it. Easy money.

Heading for the Boulder Dash clone tomorrow.

#retrogaming

https://toobnix.org/videos/watch/ed902f04-4569-405a-9a71-8bbf66772975

[X] Description: Iomega ZIP disks
[X] Size: 100MB
[X] Brand: Iomega
[X] Rating: 5 stars

I'm still undecided.

I do not think so.

@rickwayne Aperture Science test chamber.

Getting a bit bored from Linux I tried to set up my old Thinkpad T60 with #OpenBSD for the 1st time ever.

And failed spectacularly.

No wifi at install time, fair enough.

But editing a partition table based on 512 blocksize? (I had hoped for multibooting with other OSes.) I really forgot all those things I did back in the 90s.

And even when I gave up and let it use all disk, X11 failed (missing drivers?).

I need an easier step into BSD world. #FreeBSD is said to be easier, let's see...

Ok, installing #FreeBSD with #ZFS and encrypted swap was very easy with its guided menus, similar to the #Debian installer, inclusive wifi availability out of the box.

I still think I did something wrong on #OpenBSD - I originally chose it for it's movie related release artwork - the most important point for the clueless me.

I also already downloaded installers for #NetBSD and #DragonflyBSD and will probably try them all while at it.

Any other #BSD I should try?

Another terminal that looks like it should.

Teleram P-1800

http://mccworkshop.com/computers/comphistory10.htm

#retrohardware

...and its companion

Teleram 3100

#retrohardware

One year in home office isolation.

@rek Strong David Lynch vibes. Very Inland Empire. Nice.

ESCAPE NO
DELETE YES

#retrohardware

@mdhughes Is it real... or is it Mimecom?

@mdhughes Does "Rubber" (2010) count? Car reduced to the max.

@phooky @th @galaxis I regularly think of xv. Whenever I look into my old backups I find .xvpics subdirs with thumbnails. A short while (10 years?) ago, I even downloaded it again from somewhere. There were only binaries then, not sure what the current situation is...

@cypnk I was about using those as the (fake) visuals on my #6502portable before I went with the Alien 1 emergency destruction system instructions.

Using the Aliens sentry visuals is still on my wishlist though.

@mdhughes @cypnk ...and with the right POKE to automatically press RETURN on a generated DATA line together with a CONTINUE to jump back into the program you can even auto-extend the program itself. I did my first database this way. :-)

#nostalgia

@mdhughes @cypnk I only had tape at that time. And CSAVE was faster for some reason than dedicated data SAVE. It used shorter gaps. I never found out how to do those with SAVE.

Here they say it's because it used tokens:

https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/a/267

I'm on a search for #retrocomputing #movies for which I forgot the details. Boost ok.

Part 1.

A (british?) 70s or 80s series with a guy who learns about something criminal going on.

In the end he needs to implement kind of a virus which makes sure he is still alive by entering a key once in a while, otherwise it publishes the story by printing it on every newspaper office's printer.

The intro had a walking figure which duplicates over the screen.

Any ideas?

More search for #retrocomputing #movies for which I forgot the details. Boost ok.

Part 2.

Some hacker breaks into a bank or data center. For some reason he has color on the outside of his hands and presses it against the wall doing a "middlefinger".

This becomes a logo for him in the movie and is repeated by doing 4 bars like

***
***
*******
***

(but fingers upwards, rotated left).

I think 80s, maybe older, not 90s.

Not even sure it is really a hacker, but remember it that way.

Ideas?

@bagder It's a pity they didn't use youtube-dl in the Mars mission.

With the DMCA strike hitting at launch time.

I would watch a Hackers 3 movie by Michael Bay about setting up a git mirror on the red planet. The climax would focus on a button labeled "Ignore" on a self-signed certificate warning.

I don't fear getting vaccine-chipped by Bill Gates because I will chose the DR-DOS variant.

#vaccine #DRDOS

The #Atari600
Prototype Computer System
Crazy-8 / Sweet-8 / "Liz NY"
 
《The [...] "Other 600" [...] was NOT the prototype of what was to be the Atari 600XL.  [It] is actually where the Atari 1200XL had come from. This is LIZ-NY.》

http://www.atarimuseum.com/computers/8bits/1200xl/600_proto/600proto.html

"[The #Atari] #A300 project [...] involved a new series of Atari computers which would work as modules and plug together to form a complete computer system.

[...] an evolution of the A-300 project [...] shed all of the expansion and modular design for a low profile, high tech computer system which became the Atari 1200XL"

#conceptart

http://www.atarimuseum.com/computers/CONCEPTS/1200/concepts.html

A very oldschool website, happily ignoring the mobile trend. And yet this guy has all the cool devices in his little museum.

Grab your HotJava browser and "Click on the rotating banner"(tm).

http://www.minotaurz.com/compmuse/

#retrocomputing #retrohardware

#memes

Yet another gorgeous #retrohardware terminal: The LexisNexis UBIQ from around 1979.

See also

  https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/LexisNexis

  https://www.computerhistory.org/revolution/the-web/20/383/2188

  https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wGpP6n2XHCg

Nice pictures of #soviet #retrohardware

http://www.vonhagen.org/soviet.html

I found it. It took me multiple hour-long retries. The answer is:

 Bird of Prey (1982, BBC)

That movie is extremely difficult to search nowadays due to its generic name *and* title re-use. I will create a separate thread about it.

Bird of Prey (1982, BBC)

There is a good chance that this series was my first "computer movie".

"Bird Of Prey was made up of a pair of four part thriller serials that focused on the beginnings of the computer industry. Civil servant Henry Jay working in computer fraud uncovers a massive financial conspiracy that implicates a prominent Euro Mp."

More:

  https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0168510/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

  https://www.memorabletv.com/tv/bird-prey-bbc-1-1982-1984-richard-griffiths-nigel-davenport/

  https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bird_of_Prey_(TV_serial)

Intro:

  https://www.ravensbourne.ac.uk/bbc-motion-graphics-archive/bird-prey-1982

  https://www.ravensbourne.ac.uk/bbc-motion-graphics-archive/bird-prey-1984

Bird of Prey (1982, BBC)

Intro music:

  https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IDk48rYfk_Y

Reviews:

  https://www.theregister.com/2012/11/07/monitor_bird_of_prey_retrospective/?page=1

  http://www.screenonline.org.uk/tv/id/1044237/

Bird of Prey (1982, BBC)

Tags for above thread:

#retrocomputing
#movies
#80s

@yogthos ...but only to keep its value for potential reselling.

@mdhughes Back in ~2000 I was responsible for a software plus its installer and the support of it, Windows 98 & NT.

I had no control over the calculation of the progress bars which that installer maker produced. We reached up to 300%.

What I *got* proficient in, however, was finding creative explanations to the nervous customers who called me in the middle of the install mess.

I became the "psychiatrist for install madness"(tm).

My only super power, now that I think about it...

@mdhughes I came to a similar conclusion.

For me it's also yet another example that a clever idea better doesn't get big funding. Primer (2004) has comparable time mechanics doing a lot more with a lot less money.

Bonus points for My Cocaine. :-)

@mdhughes So you already are beyond https://xkcd.com/2347/ yet in the same situation.

Just got my jab. As planned I took the DR-DOS chip which should improve my task switching.

The ViewMAX update in few weeks will enable me to defer using glasses to the ... max.

#vaccine
#DRDOS

Though Sputnik V was tempting according to the #memes.

@yogthos I appreciate your toots and refreshing my knowledge on Marx, Engels, etc.

Do you also collect sources *how* the western world could get out of this mess despite some countries feel already burnt by socialist experiments and are unlikely to retry it (I lived in one but I don't talk about it publicly).

It's not even a country's decision anymore, thanks to globalization.

And some aspects *were* wrong, like secret polices.

Maybe you come across ideas. I just follow reading.

Regards.

@yogthos I often think about the early capitalism uprisings like

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weavers%27_Uprising

and their relative futileness and the hundred years it still took for a real new start, an those hundred years were spent with blood, fascism and the biggest blood.

@yogthos Capitalism learned its lessons better than the workers, spreads into everywhere dividing and conquering us, and is now so extremely global that even when Marx was right again with "Workers of the world, unite!" it's hard to believe how countries' workers should find together when in fact they are shielded from each other by their governments pretending to "represent" them.

@yogthos History seems to repeat itself but I'm a bit lost how to overcome the mess without repeating the world wide blood baths...

Anyway, maybe we do learn our lessons, too, and find a clever way.

Regards.

@cypnk This reminds me of the lesser known late art of H.R. Giger (the "Alien guy") about arm/leg hybrids.

There is a chapter about it in the book "H.R. Giger's Film Design":

https://pittrarebooks.tumblr.com/post/154376526424/hr-giger-is-an-artist-whose-work-youre-probably

How well does the "Knockout Fun Book" prepare me for my next bare knuckle fight? Let's ask K.O. Patrol...

Hitting, shooting, swastikas, and tights - the definition of fun.