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Ariel Millennium Thornton

CDE was commercial software born in the Unix Wars, so it was expected to have an integrated online user-oriented manual. One that's complete, comprehensive, and written for the end user, accessible from a very lightweight hypertext browser utility, is a high standard programmers and technical writers should strive for even today.

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I am presently torturing myself with CDE. It's in FreeBSD's pkg repo and ports tree, and it provides a functional desktop, but it's too broken to be usable. The right-click menu is often incomplete, some tools crash and dump core, and Information Manager errors out with a configuration-related error message the 'Net has never written about.

That last one is sad because its command, dtinfo, runs just fine from the terminal emulator and reveals a complete and comprehensive help system library.

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TIL Apple iOS will sometimes randomly alter a Mail account's IMAP settings, changing the SMTP authentication method from "Password" to "NTLM" for no reason.

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Alice Averlong🏳️‍⚧️

Happy Aromantic Visibility Day from VGAPride

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Alex Keane

So apparently Fred Rogers Productions just started a new YouTube channel where they'll be uploading every episode of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood

youtube.com/@misterrogersneigh

#Television #Children #Parenting #MisterRogers

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Niko

spike drew this and i really liked it

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Ninji @ Cambridge

me: i would like to see more dogs when i’m out and about. it really brightens up my day

the universe: say no more chief

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unnick

posix protogens blushing: >////<
windows protogens blushing: >\\\\<

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qurlyjoe

#gayPride #gay

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A random stranger said I reminded her of a girlfriend she had in her younger years. I don't know how I should be feeling, but I feel gender and happy.

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Inspirational Skeletor💀
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Mel

The enemy in feminism is the patriarchy and toxic masculinity.

Not men.

Read that again.

Men also suffer under patriarchy and plenty of women reinforce toxic masculinity in men.

Hating men is not in fact part of feminism.

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Jasper Fox :therian:

Tell your friends

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Lauren✍️🌻

Happy pride 👨‍❤️‍👨

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Fiona

Why is it called "selfhosting" and not "subsistence server farming"? ​:neocat_think_owo:​

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:neofoxrainbow: Every Hour

The perfect donut - Via flickr https://flic.kr/p/111e5A57q (Josh More)
#Fox #Bot

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Irenes (many)

oh right, it's June, time for the prophylactic wards...

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Ariel Millennium Thornton

Some POSIX resources I've had bookmarked since before the question needed to be asked:

Rich’s sh (POSIX shell) tricks: etalabs.net/sh_tricks.html

GitHub - dylanaraps/pure-sh-bible: 📖 A collection of pure POSIX sh alternatives to external processes. · GitHub: github.com/dylanaraps/pure-sh-

POSIX Shell Tutorial: grymoire.com/Unix/Sh.html

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(eval 'Toast)
I want smaller programs with fewer features that take longer to write by people who are happier to do so and I’m not kidding
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vga256

after years of digging and research, i finally found the toolkit that was used to make MS multimedia software Encarta, Dinosaurs and Dangerous Creatures.

when i fell in love with these programs, i imagined they were built with a rich multimedia authoring environment/IDE like Macromedia Director. e.g. dragging and dropping images, sounds, text and video onto a stage, animating it with keyframes, and then scripting it for interaction.

the toolkit used was, as it turns out, a very roughly hewn collection of individual programs. there was no IDE. all of the content was written in RTF files, which were then compiled with links to external resources like wavs and avi's.

i cannot imagine what a nightmare this was for the MS Home teams to work with. there is no drag and drop of any kind, no object linking and embedding (OLÉ!), nor animation editor. this is a dog's breakfast of individual programs written by different people.

i'm frankly amazed that the MS Homes teams put together such well-designed programs *despite* how painful this toolkit is to use

the one thing i can say in its favour is that it has one badass tetricube logo for cover art :D

huge thank you to @philpem for archiving this extremely obscure piece of software

archive.org/details/microsoft-

#multimedia #cdrom #retrocomputing #win31

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