You’ve all done it: installed some software, didn’t like it, uninstalled it, had its ghost on the right click “Open with” menu thereafter. Uninstall programs just leave so much shit behind. For me it was the Diamond text editor. If that name sounds familiar to you it is because I’ve written bout it many times before. Installed Diamond on this Optiplex 7070 and when I went to use it the thing bitched about not being … Remove Windows 11 Right Click Menu ItemRead more
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CopperSpice Experiments – Pt. 18 – The Pull Request
It has been a very long time coming, life kept getting in the way here, but my Diamond editor changes are ready for pull. For those who don’t give a rat’s behind about the pull request, here are the new packages. These are not official. I have tested these Diamond editor packages in bare installs of said operating systems. For Ubuntu installs you need to use the Software Installer, not dpkg from the command line … CopperSpice Experiments – Pt. 18 – The Pull RequestRead more
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CopperSpice Experiments – Pt. 16
Now we must create a minimal GUI “Hello World” to use testing out the theory. It will also be needed as a bug report test case if this turns out to be a bug rather than “should have had this switch on when building CopperSpice.” In a terminal I did the following: In both CMakeLists.txt files I changed all cs_hello to cs_gui_hello and changed all Cs_Hello to Cs_GUI_Hello. I also updated the README.md. Then I … CopperSpice Experiments – Pt. 16Read more
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CopperSpice Experiments – Pt. 15
I do apologize for the burstiness of these posts and sometimes skipping around. I don’t have much free time so I write these posts when something tends to piss me off or befuddle me. Today it was an animated gif. I got that gif from Icons8. Yes, a site generating nice simple “loading” and/or “busy” animated gifs that are free to use and even has a little tool on the site that allows you to … CopperSpice Experiments – Pt. 15Read more
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CopperSpice Experiments – Pt. 14
Why EDT? The short answer is “Because I wanted it.” The slightly longer answer is “I needed something of value to do while kicking the tires on CopperSpice. Adding themes and EDT keypad support to Diamond not only fit the bill but would benefit the world at large for as long as it could still compile.” The much longer answer is the rest of this post. I started out on the PDP 11/70 running RSTS/E. … CopperSpice Experiments – Pt. 14Read more