Notices by François 🇺🇦 (frankaulux@mastodon.social)

@nixCraft You're very generously assuming they will continue learning chinese for more than 2 days, which I doubt very much...

@nixCraft

Don't know what you use it for, but for a really barebone server on my internal network, I just use

busybox httpd -h /www/data -p 8080

@mntmn

just what you need for

https://vocore.io/v2u.html 😜

@nixCraft

Pascal UCSD. Because it was the only thing available on the mainframe terminal I had access to.

Does that show my age ?

@mntmn

well done you !

@nixCraft

:wq

@nixCraft

The IT version of pest or cholera ? 😉

@nixCraft

1) Don't
2) no it won't
3) told you
4) not today
5) have you tried switching it off and on again ?

@mntmn @vjousse

sorry 😉

@mntmn if you are using vim you can re--assing keys. See @vjousse most exellent guide here: https://vimebook.com/

@mntmn

that that is is a a brilliant briliiant idea idea !!!

@nixCraft

Yes! 8' floppies. One for the system, one for the data.
As far as I remember there were2 systems: one word processor and one database.
Must have been ca 1984

@nixCraft
baker, dentist, surgeon,...

@nixCraft

why, you printed a copy, of course !!!!

@nixCraft

Of course the real question is:

Did the code make any sense the next day ?

Spoiler: no. I have a php script which has been running for years, it does the job. I have thought several times about re-writing it, but if it ain't broken...

@mntmn

I use alpine.

https://alpineapp.email/

@mntmn

if you do find, please share 😉

@emmah

Anybody who's been in the industry for a while laugh at the cycles. I had my laugh when Java reinvented the "executing everywhere" first introduced with pascal's pcode 😉 (that should give you a hint about my age !)