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  1. PCXT

    What have you bought recently?

    A really interesting thing, I found it in a box of e-waste on a flea market and bought because I was curious what is it. The black box, with 6 LEDs and 2 DIN sockets on front, and 2 DIN sockets on rear. The ribbon cable goes from between shells of the metal casing and ends with C64 cartridge...
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    What have you bought recently?

    Finally a nice workbench power supply. I have a "small" one, made by myself, with a maximum of 20V at 4 amps with more or less good regulation, and the 10A monster which is too big for my workbench. Unfortunately the thing I bought is a bit old, but I got it for the scrap metal price. It is...
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    What have you bought recently?

    Two interesting things from the flea market: 1. The unusually flimsy tape recorder If they are cheap, I buy these small tape recorders as they look nice with retro computers. Many of them are from 1970s, and some are even earlier - a few months ago I got a Philips EL, this with the "three sides"...
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    Share your projects

    And another proof that Perl is not obsolete yet! I use it constantly, as it gives me lots of freedom in programming. It is a handy "algorithmic notepad" - all programming techniques accessible at any moment. UNFORTUNATELY all techniques... A small part of the project I was doing a few years...
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    What have you bought recently?

    You remember that I restored the audio player and speakers some time ago? So, well, I decided that I will buy some CDs if they will be cheap in a flea market. The good thing is that I have a complete information what I like, so I know what to look for, so I bought a dozen of CDs. And here is...
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    Share your projects

    Yes, it was about IR remote. And I had no remote to copy at all. The protocol used by chip was Denon/Sharp. Generally there are two things sent with each keypress: ID of device I want to command and the command itself. However, if you look for example in these codes, this is a similar remote...
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    Share your projects

    Interesting fact: Today I tried to find this remote or replacement. And... I can't find it! There are similar version clones, but for an earlier version of the stereo, without volume control motor, and none in my country. And the fun was when I repaired the power amp. Some "genius" decided to...
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    Share your projects

    An interesting observation: The laziness has a critical mass above which it decays to a few projects. Some time ago I repaired an old audio set I got and I had no remote controller for it. I wanted to have a remote as after an operation with a jigsaw on speakers it started to have a nice sound...
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    Open Source Audio Editor Audacity Has Become 'Spyware'

    That's interesting, about this "active prevention". I am not a lawyer too, but it looks like it can be more or less comparable to the somewhat cute situation that every software is open source as there's a disassembler. If only ReactOS team could know it they would not bother with removing parts...
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    Open Source Audio Editor Audacity Has Become 'Spyware'

    from Audacity Privacy Notice. Wait, isn't this directly violating the GPL? Because it looks like it certainly violates DFSG point 5.
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    This is the thing I had when trying to implement drag and drop between different programs. Decades ago there were some draft standards, rather poor to be honest. Currently there are almost no standards, so the best thing they came with was sending mimetype and data. It works when sending some...
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    OK, after my experiments with X's Primary, there is the advise: Verify EVERYTHING. If it works in GTK applications, check Qt. And Wx too. Maybe even FLTK. There's also an X text editor named CoolEdit. Its GUI seems to be not made with any typical library (although looks MOTIF-ish), the authors...
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    Share your projects

    I fight with another problem preventing the release of my project as open source. The thingy for Linux which allows to insert non-keyboard characters. I could not find any good character selector, i.e. better than Windows 98 "Character table". To enter foreign characters, you can use overly...
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    What have you bought recently?

    I had an interesting situation. I have some AT mainboards and 3 ATX mainboards, as I have space I decided to get some casings and make computers, especially that I have all other components. I found 3 cheap ATX casings from early 2000s to put Athlon and Pentium II into, and decided to buy them...
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    Share your DESKTOP!

    I meant made in e.g. C or C++ and Qt/GTK, and available to any program through clipboard or text file. I made this thing because inconsistent or non-existing spell checking under Linux was troublesome so with this script I can write the text everywhere, then copy it to clipboard, lanuch the...
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    What have you bought recently?

    Ah, it's 4-diode, full-wave rectifier, in such units it's usually packaged in SMD form. And of course I messed the spelling again, it's Graetz bridge. In my language such type of rectifier is still called "Graetz bridge" for historical reasons.
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    What have you bought recently?

    A roof window. Really, two people came in, installed and another team fixed the ceiling around, I painted it around. Now I have more light in the attic. Temporarily I had to move my "goatpen" to the room below, fortunately I have permission to keep all my retrocomputinng stuff there temporarily...
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    World News Thread (Politics,whatever)

    And that's why I don't own a smartphone... or better I'm not owned by smartphone. The idea of the WWW was to get out of these company-controlled walled gardens CompuServe, AOL, Prodigy, Minitel, TG and other sold. It just was no matter what is used to process the incoming data, it was important...
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    Share your DESKTOP!

    Me when I explain Linux to my Students: "With complete desktop environments, we can see that Linux machines have a very modern-looking GUIs." Also me, on machine using to show examples during the same course: This environment is called TDE and is a very outdated DE based on KDE3, I use this...
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    Covid-19 (Coronavirus) - Please stay safe, y'all

    Although at the start of pandemic conditions the vaccine initiatives were going quite well, currently I would be VERY alert about buying it right off the batwhen it appears. Every day we have news from companies that they're going to invent a vaccine "in a moment" or they are "doing final...
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