Ok, I’ll admit it. I really like system archaeology.
It’s like some strange combination of a system administrator, grey hat cracker, security expert, information archivist, hacker, propeller-hat role. I don’t know how to explain it.
And I’ve been doing it on my own system.
For years.
Note that “digital folklore” (native web culture, etc) is not related.
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was inp.nsk.su/~bolkhov/files/fonts/univga/index.html
A Unicode VGA font.
See also 9×15 versus DOSEMU’s vga font
Macromedia Adobe Flash is a stupid idea that has been implemented badly. Hell, since day 0 the entire concept of browser plugins has been shaky at best. Seriously.
was https://www.serverwatch.com/tutorials/article.php/3818511
Juliet Kemp
Sometimes you wind up taking over a machine for which the root password has been lost. Here are a couple of solutions.
Since I’m becoming more confident with shell programming every day, on a whim I jotted down some scripting ideas.
The notes sat there for only a day before I decided to stay up late and work on them. I actually managed to figure them out too!
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(on Wikipedia)
http://www.gnu.org/software/findutils/
“The GNU Find Utilities” is one of those packages that’s installed everywhere. find is one of those programs everyone ends up using and ends up being horrified at.
aka GNU Find Utilities
See also:
A misadventure to fix a video to stop its console error messages. Unsolved.
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Every once and a while I go through old notes, todo items and such. Today I bumped back into the GNU Proofreaders mailing list. It’s an effort which herds cats towards improving documentation.
