Ariel Millennium Thornton @arielmt@computerfairi.es

Spooky time reminder: "The cloud" always means "someone else's computer."

Need a quick ruler to line up text columns or ASCII art in ed(1)?

!printf "....#....\%s" 1 2 3 4 5 6 7

(GNU ed didn't properly strip the '\' from the '\%' escape until version 1.18. In GNU ed 1.17 & earlier, use only 3 dots after the # sign.)

YouTube recommended a video on that time when the Dutch ate their Prime Minister, & it ran two pre-watch ads. Both ads were for food. Good job, Internet Boob Tube.

#FreeBSD If #LazarusIDE stops with this debugger error, check that your system isn't *too* hardened: `sysctl security.bsd.unprivileged_proc_debug=1` should let gdb/lldb attach & debug-run your program.

LB: Incomplete progress is still progress.

A lot of Microsoft Knowledge Base articles linked to Hotfix programs downloadable from the Microsoft Download Center. The MSKB was culled, & the MSDC is gone. MSKB article archives exist, but they have only dead links, no files.

Does anyone have an archive of MSDC files?

And on SourceForge, which is newer?? FreeDOS edlin: https://sourceforge.net/projects/freedos-edlin/

I also forgot FreeDOS wrote their own EDLIN port: https://github.com/FDOS/edlin

I've just been corrected by dosnostalgic on birdsite: DOS 6 and Windows 9x didn't have EDLIN, either. Oops.

It's only 64-bit versions of (x86) Windows that don't come with EDLIN installed.

Also, in Vista, 7, 8, 8.1, & 10, you need to install NTVDM separately in order to run EDLIN. Typing the command for the first time brings up a Windows Troubleshooter Wizard to do just that for you.