Your preferred text editor and terminal?

Unread post by **4eyes** » Fri Feb 28, 2014 4:53 pm

:sigh:

So many topics to be schismatic about - so hard to decide.

Unread post by **hinto** » Fri Feb 28, 2014 4:58 pm

machinebacon wrote:^ Hey, i use one too! :) Logitech T-BB18 -- of course trackballs do NOT count as mice :)

Mine is the MS Trackball Explorer, which goes for $200-$300 on ebay since MS no longer makes them.
It's about 10-12 yrs old and works like a champ. It's about the only thing MS did worthwhile... Why did they quit making them?
-Hinto

Unread post by **wuxmedia** » Fri Feb 28, 2014 5:34 pm

^ Duh, exactly because they worked so well for ages.
There's never any need to upgrade or replace something that works for ever.
So there's no cash in it. Ergo it has to be sold at a decent price to begin with to offset the 2 or three inferior trackballs over the same time as you've owned yours.
You've heard the (old) story about VCR's stopping working a day after the warranty has ended.

Unread post by **bones** » Fri Feb 28, 2014 5:38 pm

^ My thoughts exactly, wux.

Unread post by **wuxmedia** » Fri Feb 28, 2014 5:56 pm

Actually - yes I remember you talking about your old Hi-Fi gear still rocking after 30 odd years. Find me an Aiwa multidisc thing that made it past three years.

Unread post by **machinebacon** » Fri Feb 28, 2014 6:01 pm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planned_obsolescence

Really funny, we had a Fisher VCR, made in the early 1980s, I believe it was 1983 or so. Meanwhile, I bought a Grundig VCR somewhere around 1995. Guess which one broke in around 2000, and which one still works.

Unread post by **wuxmedia** » Fri Feb 28, 2014 6:17 pm

wow, never realised it was actually a credo.
I'm glad we are on the forefront of planned sustainability (in computing)

Unread post by **machinebacon** » Fri Feb 28, 2014 6:18 pm

The BBQ says: as long as it builds, it will run on any old iron. I will always make it work on anything like an IBM Txx. If people need something more progressive, there's a lot to choose from...

Unread post by **hinto** » Fri Feb 28, 2014 8:40 pm

^I'd like a LinuxBBQ port to my Palm m515 that I keep docked next to my buggy whip ;)
-Hinto

Unread post by **wuxmedia** » Fri Feb 28, 2014 8:52 pm

heheheh, you were the one that brought up 15 yo technology 8p
oh PS. for your 18 yo palm pilot -http://www.uclinux.org/

Unread post by **hinto** » Fri Feb 28, 2014 11:30 pm

Sweet!!! http://www.uclinux.org/pub/uClinux/uClinux-2.0.x/
-H

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