The big-endian question comes up on those Internet chat places young techies like to hang out in. To us old-timers it falls under the heading of “Kids these days!” Here is the tale for those too young to remember. Around 1987 AST Research introduced the AST Premium which won the InfoWord Editor’s Choice award. There were many different models differing in memory and hard drive capacity. If you had the Model 140 shown in the … Why is network-byte-order defined to be big-endian?Read more
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Iowa Caucus 2020 – AGILE’s Third Mega-Failure
Because AGILE allows companies to commit SOX accounting fraud companies are adopting it in droves. Because it is yet another name for hacking on the fly without a plan kids, not professionals, kids, love it. No. Getting paid to do something doesn’t make you a professional. Winning $20 shooting hoops in the park does not make you a member of the NBA and neither does getting paid to hack on the fly without a plan. … Iowa Caucus 2020 – AGILE’s Third Mega-FailureRead more
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Some LibreOffice and OpenOffice Differences
Regular readers of this blog will note I posted about the ham fisted decision of the Ubuntu world to force in the “O” versions of Linux Libertine fonts instead of the “G” versions which come bundled by default with LibreOffice. Some of my fellow authors and people I “know” on-line asked me to kick the tires on OpenOffice. I had a Ubuntu 18.04 Mate minimal VM set up so I decided to kick the tires. … Some LibreOffice and OpenOffice DifferencesRead more
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OpenSUSE Leap 15.1
At some point I will learn to not get into conversations with people who are either new to programming or have done only one thing all of their lives. One such person suggested I should use OpenSUSE Leap for my Linux desktop. What they knew not was that I used to use SuSE Linux back when we only had dial-up Internet and the entire distro came shipped on a box of CDs. The one thing … OpenSUSE Leap 15.1Read more
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Secret to Fixing Virtualbox VM ISO
If you haven’t done it yet, you will. Setting up many VMs for testing or development will make you happy click past the ISO choice when you click start. Then startup fails because you have no media. Most people cuss, delete the new VM entry, then start again from scratch, going slower this time. You don’t have to. Choose the Empty CD icon. Click the down carrot next to the CD image. Select “Choose … Secret to Fixing Virtualbox VM ISORead more