Software: On & Off the Web
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Started a new game in NMS (I really need to stay on a single game for more than a few weeks :P) and started in a system with an Earth-like planet. Going to explore it soon now that I need to return to the system and will likely toss a base on it. In another system, there’s a very mountainous desert world that I quite like the aesthetics of. I’ll probably toss a base on that one as well 🙂
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Did some looking and NMS doesn’t include planet cores. They’re just empty space surrounded by bedrock that you can’t dig through. 🙁
Windows at the moment. May try out gaming support on Linux at some point.
Yep, used to enjoy seeing their NMS posts over there. Starfield is on the wishlist but, from what I gather, it’s a completely different type of game. I’m sure I’ll try it out eventually 😛
The current expedition in NMS has you bug hunting. It reminds me of fighting the Zerg in StarCraft 😛
Great!
You should probably go ahead and play it. A lot of folks over here rave about it. And if you want something that’s just plain relaxing, here’s another one that folks seem to enjoy 🙂
While searching through Dostips (mentioned previous page) came across this post:
DOS is an old operating system. DISK OPERATING SYSTEM. What you mean is batch is old but in reality as far as scripting languages and shells go it is not even as old as CSH or TCSH or Korn for that matter.
He forgot to mention Thompson on primordial Unix back in ’71. The only recollection of it now is the trusty Abort Retry Fail:
Hilarious. In that case, the “Tips” in DosTips isn’t Tips at all, maybe stands for “Taken in Playful Sense” or something between pejorative and playful? It’s kind of existential, help them out please. 😛😀
Back on my old Mac from the 90’s, we had to perform a system restore at least once a year or it’d crap out. Never did figure out why 😛
Use Bash myself though I know a lot of people these days love C Shell or even Zsh. Probably need to give C shell a whirl one day. 🙂
I remember years ago when I was first learning about how computers work I was having trouble on Windows 95 getting the disc drive to work properly with some games. Support had me use XCOPY to copy the disc to the local drive to help diagnose the issue. Can’t remember any details other than that 😛
And Google is moving Chrome to Manifest V3 so uBlock Origin will no longer function properly. They have a pared down Lite version that will work but it leaves big open spaces in the content where the main version didn’t 🙁
Oh my Zsh looks like a really friendly interface for terminal wrox, with the added bonus of batteries included, they say. 🙂
Yeah, a spaceship simulator to navigate the wide open parsecs, guess that’s all in NMS – heaps of others around like Universe Sandbox for instance.
Hibernation has reared its hiber-finicky visage yet again, now N++ will drop loaded files. 🙁
Oh, and this documents the origins of the Bourne Shell, fascinating.All the way back from ’97, and now only three comments. There was Backyard Skateboarding in 2005 apparently, – and what’s Dr. Octogonapus got to do with it? 😛
Have you noticed that Explorer windows active in W11 shutdown are not restored after boot?Restore Previous folder windows at log-onis broken. Someone somewhere suggested PowerToys offer a solution, couldn’t find a reference in the docs other than WorkSpaces. Not a bad idea though, other than that, there’s an old AHK script on Reddit where it should be simple enough to configure. 🙂
Edit: Whoah, another one bites the dust. The mighty CodeProject has finally succumbed to the vicissitudes of time and costs. Don’t understand the bit about bandits though – are they supposed to be anything like the programmer bandits described in The Psychological Reasons for Software Project Failures?Huh, never knew they also released a Backyard Skateboarding game. Looking at Wiki, it looks like they’ve been trying to get it going again. They could definitely try making at least adding one sport to the series: lacrosse. Wasn’t popular back then but it’s now popular enough to warrant a game. Could be fun.
Not familiar with that feature. Is that a new one? Mostly live in Linux land 😛
CodeProject will be missed. Used to use it often when I was just beginning to learn C++ 🙁
They may just be upset. Reddit isn’t exactly the friendliest of sites. Certain boards are better than others but it’s still there.
What’s the best way to remove a stuck entry in the Install/Uninstall programs list in Windows? Updated a piece of software and it added a new entry for the new version but kept the entry for the old version, which is now a broken link. Tried to remove it using Settings – Apps but it just says the link is broken and won’t remove it.
Side note: I still haven’t gotten Power Toys set up :/ One day!
Done with regedit, try this:
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/removing-invalid-entries-in-the-add-remove-programs-tool-0dae27c1-0b06-2559-311b-635cd532a6d5
Some of the programs in subscription have of late developed a tendency to want their users to click buttons rather than use the pull-down menus. Even if you end up using just the buttons, they won’t provide an option to hide the menus for whatever reason. On the other hand, clearing the clutter of useless buttons, gets a nice ribbon of wasted space – as mentioned here:
https://forum.emclient.com/t/repositioned-search-box
https://forums.getpaint.net/topic/127184-top-ribbon-whitespace-hide-common-actions-buttons
it’s fair to say that from the programmers’ perspective, these issues aren’t as easy as they first appear. 🙁
Edit: The HP did nag for a BIOS upgrade related restart a few weeks back, and after declining on 3 or 4 occasions, it then rebooted without prompting for saved files in N++. This time, it again prompted for a BIOS update, which went without a hitch – and without rebooting. Cool, … if there is a black screen or BSOD next restart, we’ll have a good indication as to the cause. 😛
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