Hacker News: zandorg

New comment by zandorg in "Read J.D. Salinger’s first short story to feature Holden Caufield"

zandorg — Mon, 27 Dec 2021 22:27:39 +0000

I was only just saying to a relative that Catcher in the Rye has been made obsolete by LiveJournal.

New comment by zandorg in "Ask HN: Does anyone have a backup of Aaron Swartz' site: theinfo.org?"

zandorg — Tue, 07 Dec 2021 11:46:06 +0000

Let's not forget jottit.com. Aaron's website to make notes. It was useful back in the day.

New comment by zandorg in "Gigablast Search Engine"

zandorg — Fri, 03 Dec 2021 13:16:17 +0000

I tried to submit my website to Gigablast, but apparently it costs 25 cents.

This doesn't make any sense to me for a search engine.

New comment by zandorg in "Ask HN: Why doesn't anyone create a search engine comparable to 2005 Google?"

zandorg — Fri, 03 Dec 2021 00:04:06 +0000

I wanted to add my site to Gigablast, but it said it would cost 25 cents. How is this a good thing?

New comment by zandorg in "Ask HN: Whatever happened to Wolfram Alpha?"

zandorg — Sat, 06 Nov 2021 21:51:24 +0000

Fair enough. I was definitely searching comments (not stories), but I might not have filtered by Date, hence the lack of recent results.

New comment by zandorg in "Ask HN: Whatever happened to Wolfram Alpha?"

zandorg — Sat, 06 Nov 2021 18:08:11 +0000

My meaning was just that I saw it sometimes referenced on HN, but I haven't seen it mentioned for a while now. Hence my search and results showing 8 years since.

I guess what I should be doing is looking at the Alexa ranking of Wolfram Alpha.

Ask HN: Whatever happened to Wolfram Alpha?

zandorg — Sat, 06 Nov 2021 17:11:06 +0000

I did a search on comments on HN for Wolfram Alpha. Most posts are 8 years old, none newer, some older.

What's going on? Did Wolfram Alpha stop being useful, or did people just forget about it?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29131931

Points: 340

# Comments: 264

New comment by zandorg in "Atari ST in daily use since 1985 [video]"

zandorg — Wed, 29 Sep 2021 17:34:33 +0000

I had Ultima 6 for the Atari ST. Running off floppies was kind of slow. My friend's Atari ST machine had 4MB of memory. So I set up a 3MB RAM disk. And installed the game to 'hard disk' with the RAM disk as the hard disk. Then all I had to do was format some floppies to really high density. The entire U6 installation fitted on (I think) 2 floppies. I also used a rapid file copy program.

I copied the files to RAM disk, played the game, saved the game, quit the game, and saved the files back to floppies.

Just thought it would interest someone.

New comment by zandorg in "Ask HN: What is going wrong at Amazon?"

zandorg — Sat, 25 Sep 2021 21:51:38 +0000

I ordered 2 books from Amazon last week. An email said 'delivered' but nothing in the letterbox or outside the house. A chat to a friendly neighbour revealed he had a parcel put in between his dustbins. I went to my bins and there were the books. Not pleased at this, I expect a sane experience.

New comment by zandorg in "Nano98: Windows 98 that boots and runs under 5MB (2003)"

zandorg — Mon, 20 Sep 2021 23:14:59 +0000

XP had no modern browser... Until now!

    http://www.mypal-browser.org

800,000 users can't be wrong (out of 240 million XP users worldwide).

This project is important because Firefox stopped working on XP 4 years ago - and you can't do things like captchas without a modern browser.

New Modern Up-to-Date Firefox Browser for Windows XP

zandorg — Wed, 18 Aug 2021 19:31:23 +0000

Article URL: https://mypal-browser.org/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28226026

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by zandorg in "Nokia 9000 Communicator was launched 25 years ago"

zandorg — Mon, 16 Aug 2021 22:36:30 +0000

I use an Epoc32 emulator on my PC so I can do Agenda on that, and it beeps me my reminders.

I got sick of buying Psion 5's and 5MX's because they always broke in 6 months.

New comment by zandorg in "Personal Computing on an Amiga in 2021"

zandorg — Thu, 05 Aug 2021 22:13:39 +0000

I had an Amiga 1200 and got it working with a VGA monitor soldered onto the connector (like a VGA adapter on Ebay now) and a setup VGA file in Workbench 3. It looked great in 640x480, no chunkiness. So it is possible.

New comment by zandorg in "Personal Computing on an Amiga in 2021"

zandorg — Thu, 05 Aug 2021 21:59:28 +0000

I once emailed Bob Yannes in 1998 about the C64 SID chip. I mentioned my soft synth (SoftSID) and the Elektron Sidstation. But all he was bothered about was his Ensoniq Fizmo. I'd love to get my hands on one of those now.

I told him of the bad review in Future Music. He was a bit annoyed but explained what they had missed in the review.

A nice guy.

New comment by zandorg in "Berkeley Systems “After Dark” screensavers recreated in CSS"

zandorg — Fri, 30 Jul 2021 12:53:51 +0000

Don't forget JWZ of Netscape fame.

https://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/

New comment by zandorg in "Time Travel: Running Python 3.7 on XP (2018)"

zandorg — Mon, 26 Jul 2021 21:59:49 +0000

Good article, I enjoyed it.

Can anyone get the latest Firefox working on XP?

Show HN: Mapfinder (Frequency Search) on GitHub

zandorg — Fri, 29 Jan 2021 14:43:24 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/jeremylsmith/mapfinder

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25957694

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by zandorg in "Bitcoin: Newport man's plea to find £210m hard drive in tip"

zandorg — Thu, 14 Jan 2021 14:38:18 +0000

Sounds oddly like Russ Hanneman from TV show Silicon Valley. Wonder if they got the story from this.

Guy throws away stick with hundred million on it and goes to the tip to find it.

"That's not a thumb drive, that's a thumb! Put it back!"

New comment by zandorg in "Ted Nelson argues the importance of personal computing (1979) [video]"

zandorg — Sun, 13 Sep 2020 18:06:35 +0000

I worked with Ted a few years from 2001 and though we kind of stopped working together, I knew him! So I do know him personally. He's a great guy though intolerant of nonsense.

New comment by zandorg in "Aphex Twin Speaks to Tatsuya Takahashi (2017)"

zandorg — Sat, 13 Apr 2019 18:14:02 +0000

Seen him live in Leeds in 1998. Sat in the cubicle he vacated when he left the place at a Rephlex gig he didn't play at in 2001 (At the Leeds Brudenell Social Club). And I played live at the same venue as a previous Rephlex gig in Edinburgh (the University) in 2001.