Hacker News: itsoggy

New comment by itsoggy in "Rob Grant, creator of Red Dwarf, has died"

itsoggy — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 21:57:04 +0000

Stoke me a Clipper... I'll be back for Christmas!

New comment by itsoggy in "The Impact of Jungle Music in 90s Video Game Development"

itsoggy — Thu, 14 Nov 2024 08:04:19 +0000

Tune!

New comment by itsoggy in "The Impact of Jungle Music in 90s Video Game Development"

itsoggy — Thu, 14 Nov 2024 08:02:11 +0000

Didn't think 90's Jungle / DnB would be on HN... Yes!

Add these to the list...

Saint Etienne - The Sea (PFM Mix): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1JrnoEbQDE

Funky Technicians - Airtight (Original) (1996): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwC43QSY94A

New comment by itsoggy in "Vinyl set to outsell CDs for first time since 1986"

itsoggy — Sun, 08 Sep 2019 16:14:27 +0000

I always see the degradation argument.

I look after my vinyl with a properly calibrated turntable.

I will degrade faster than my records!

New comment by itsoggy in "FreeBSD Turns 26"

itsoggy — Thu, 04 Jul 2019 11:26:24 +0000

Been using FreeBSD for years as well and donate to the Foundation annually. It's always my go to OS mainly because it's changes are never too dramatic!

New comment by itsoggy in "Inkscape launches versions 0.92.4 and 1.0 alpha"

itsoggy — Fri, 18 Jan 2019 18:27:14 +0000

ArtWorks is still around, and it works on Risc OS on the Raspberry Pi.

http://www.mw-software.com/

New comment by itsoggy in "Ask HN: What open source project, in your opinion, has the highest code quality?"

itsoggy — Fri, 21 Sep 2018 06:57:15 +0000

The Quake 3 source was fairly good...

New comment by itsoggy in "TWiT is suing Twitter, alleging breach of contract and copyright infringement"

itsoggy — Wed, 17 Jan 2018 06:27:10 +0000

https://identi.ca/

New comment by itsoggy in "Sony plans to make vinyl records again"

itsoggy — Fri, 30 Jun 2017 20:40:06 +0000

I had a habit of collecting white labels and test pressings of house and dance tracks, I have no idea what most of them are called or who they are by, but I can think of one and remember where it is in the crates.

If I had a load of Track 1's in iTunes, I wouldn't have a clue!

New comment by itsoggy in "Intel Skylake/Kaby Lake processors: broken hyper-threading"

itsoggy — Sun, 25 Jun 2017 20:49:04 +0000

When HT first started appearing on P4 chips I was looking after NetWare, 2K and XP boxes, they would freak out with HT enabled all kinds of oddities, I suspect most because of the OS's not fully supporting it.

To this day I disable it by reflex on everything!

New comment by itsoggy in "Windows 10 Without the Cruft: Windows 10 LTSB (Long Term Servicing Branch)"

itsoggy — Sat, 24 Jun 2017 20:55:49 +0000

I have deployed LTSB in a few schools I look after, it's far easier because of the minimal feature set especially in smaller environments where full enterprise management tools like System Centre and WSUS are not installed.

Go old school and customise the default profile in the build for best results!

The best part is that if you have education volume License You get both EDU and Ent LTSB editions!

New comment by itsoggy in "Ask HN: Did your life as a parent affected your life as a developer?"

itsoggy — Thu, 04 May 2017 21:58:05 +0000

I have children with communication and social issues (ASD).

My side projects have changed from web apps things to:

Learning makaton.

Making and laminating pictures (PECS) so my youngest can use them to communicate.

Attending various classes relating to ASD.

Fixing IT and Telecoms for the various local charity organisations that support us.

You just have to play the hand your delt the best you can.

New comment by itsoggy in "PfSense 2.5 and AES-NI"

itsoggy — Mon, 01 May 2017 20:12:49 +0000

I look after a pfsense box for a school on a 9 year old E2200 that is obsolete by this.

On one hand I cannot complain because the server is 9 years old and lasted well, but on the other hand, why not an option for those just needing a packet filter to bypass this?

Am I missing something?

New comment by itsoggy in "Apple’s new APFS file system"

itsoggy — Mon, 17 Apr 2017 15:46:55 +0000

With a little calibration of the TT once in a while it will esily outlast me!

New comment by itsoggy in "Apple’s new APFS file system"

itsoggy — Mon, 17 Apr 2017 07:51:20 +0000

Yep, I had a similar thing with audio files corrupting on my old MacBook, I was using time machine to backup and guess what.... the copy in the backup was fried too!

Switched back to vinyl for my music, my 20 year old Texhnics 1210 will probably out last my current laptop and the next!

New comment by itsoggy in "Show HN: A directory of the best free resources for remote workers and nomads"

itsoggy — Wed, 12 Apr 2017 16:25:33 +0000

A category for task management or project management would be good.

New comment by itsoggy in "U.K. to Trigger Brexit March 29, Starting Two Years of Talks"

itsoggy — Mon, 20 Mar 2017 13:31:03 +0000

Originally when the vote was announced I was pro staying in, but like the above, the more I looked on to how the EU is run, how decisions are made, the more I didn't like it.

I have no issues with immigration, I'm all for people settling in whatever country the like!

I'm pro leaving the EU because I do not agree with how it is run and the direction it is heading.

New comment by itsoggy in "WordStar: A Writer's Word Processor (1996)"

itsoggy — Tue, 14 Mar 2017 06:05:31 +0000

I'm an writer in my spare time, my writing PC is a basic text only FreeBSD install.

I use joe or vim and put everything in git for easy transfer and backup.

For me, I need as little destruction as possible, I even find auto spell check with its red underlining completely destructive when it comes to my flow of thoughts.