I used it in a university course in '95, not sure what distro, but customising your shell prompt, and setting automatic timed updates for the wallpaper in tvwm certainly felt like the future. Different and electric.
We would play the linux shareware first release of quake in 12-16 player. Hiding the executable by renaming it ekauq... didn't work, still got removed from our directories.
There were installfests at the local LUG, which were a fun way to share tips and help others.
One Linux support business existed in our town in the 90s, installing and fixing Linux boxen for businesses. Mostly home/hobby use though.
Slashdot.org was covering the majority of Linux news. Either MS FUD or the nonsense SCO lawsuit, amongst all the positive advances.
Linux conferences were a fun way to make it more real and see many of the big names behind the movement and technologies.
Installed RedHat 4 or 5.1 around 98 and then found the power of Debian. Currently running Trisquel GNU/Linux because it is a fully libre distro with no proprietary blobs or other obfuscated parts.
Many thanks to RMS and all FLOSS contributors, there is such an incredible spectrum of tools available for free use. It has been great to see the progression and expansion over the decades.
So, which locations on Mars' surface are the most hospitable for this moss? (considering radiation, temperature and water levels)
Also, is a highly irradiated monoculture going to be a stable O2 producer, or is the species going to experience some mutated spinoffs?
Probably a simpler way would be to just start-the-reactor.
In the arcade it was infuriating and seemed a highly difficult 1CC, but compared to the whole spectrum of 80s arcade games it was good.
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Was a good 2 player monster beat-em-up.
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Caramel flan
Here are some less mentioned FLOSS games, that are excellent quality:
Fillets-ng (2D fish sokoban)
The Dark Mod (3D stealth game, bow and sword)
Crrcsim (3D model glider flightsim, slope soaring)
Those soakable cloth neck-wraps work as a cheap personal cooler($5).
The Coolify2 works as an expensive personal cooler(~$200).
If you have a fridge, freeze 2 litre ice-cream containers filled with water to make large ice blocks. Then put the block in a tub to melt, and sit your feet on it to stay cool(budget-mode, $cost of tap water)
Plot-twist: The paper was authored by a competing LLM.
Only birds.
Ack ack ack.
Yes, it's glorious 🤗
Everything that is good about 90s FPS crammed into one free download.
Dropdown menu at top for other modes.
This one at least describes the 1400 partners they will share your information with.
Has an opt-out option too.
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Know your enemy.
This video is an interesting behind-the-scenes look into the capabilities and senses of each different enemy in the 1993 videogame DooM.
- Bonus content and nostalgia:
A look at where consumer available FPS began with Maze Wars+ (1987)
Maze Wars+ was the first experience of a networked-multiplayer-graphical-game for many people, and completely mindblowing for the era.
- For a current quality FPS experience, see Cube 2: Sauerbraten
I'm interested if anything was visible from the Perth metro area. Will it only show up in dark-sky places away from towns.
Can also post if you saw it anywhere else in WA too. Location, day and time etc.
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TIL - The RTRFM 4 O'clock Classic intro is from here.
c/comics says no NSFW in the community info.
Where is an appropriate place to post this? Can be on any instance.
More info: It is a one off art piece. Not an ongoing webcomic.
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A video by mathematician Matt Parker describing the workings of a toy automaton.
I remember there being no text or speech, some fire-extinguishers sprayed all over the place, someone hunting with a bow and arrow across an office desk.
It was in a step-by-step airliner-safety-card style of art.
First saw this about 10 years ago on some other site.
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Timestamps are
Perth: 1-40seconds
Australian saying: 11:55min
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90's Thrash metal. Always delivered a quality live show! Big \m/
(Full disclosure, I learned this yesterday.)
Found in this video, at the 1min mark:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHN2eNigz3o
Surprise find of the week.
Huntington Beach street-culture writ large. Deanna Templeton and husband Ed share their photos from the last 20 years. (Yes, that Ed Templeton of Toy Machine)
https://artgallery.wa.gov.au/whats-on/exhibitions/death-metal-summer
Gallery with Photo editor. No Ads, Open-source, Private. No strings attached.
Congratulations to the team. Nice to see.
Your Face is a Saxophone is an animated series - a bizarro-surreal satire of the advertising industry, and the people who work in it because they couldn't...
This is an animation from the great but gone vodo.net , a Creative Commons video sharing website.
A satire about the advertising and marketing industries.
Licenced under CC by. Available for free download and sharing.
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Happy New Year!
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Has a loud crescendo. Lower the volume if sensitive to noise.
What were you introduced to recently, would you play it again, and what is a sentence that sums the game up?