This repo contains the original source-code for Microsoft's GW-BASIC interpreter, as of 1983.

Is being released for historical reference/interest purposes, and reflects the state of the GW-BASIC interpreter source code as it was in 1983

Will not be modified - please do not submit PR's or request changes

Contains no build scripts, makefiles, or tools required to generate executable binaries, nor does it contain any pre-built binaries / executables

In this paper, I explore the rise and fall of Gopher as the dominant protocol for file search and retrieval over the Internet. After its creation in 1991 at the University of Minnesota, use of Gopher exploded. The popular press lauded it as an important step beyond File Transfer Protocol (FTP), in terms of both usability and ease of implementation. The growth of Gopher was soon overshadowed, however, by the World Wide Web. A major milestone is this direction was the release of the Mosaic graphical browser by the University of Illinois National Center for Supercomputing Applications [NCSA] in 1993.

Before Prince of Persia was a best-selling video game franchise and a Jerry Bruckheimer movie, it was an Apple II computer game created and programmed by one person, Jordan Mechner. Mechner's candid and revealing journals from the time capture his journey from his parents' basement to the forefront of the fast-growing 1980s video game industry... and the creative, technical and personal struggles that brought the prince into being and ultimately into the homes of millions of people worldwide.

Now, Stripe Press celebrates Prince of Persia's 30th anniversary and enduring legacy with a hardcover collector's edition, annotated and lavishly illustrated with archival visuals illustrating stages of the game's creation.

A journalist investigates the past, present, and future of computer crimes, as he attends a hacker convention, documents the extent of the computer crimes, and presents intriguing facts about hackers and their misdoings.

But most striking is her prediction that pandemic profiteering with seriously destabilize our society: "If America enters the next wave of coronavirus infections “with the wealthy having gotten somehow wealthier off this pandemic by hedging, by shorting…"

"And we come out of our rabbit holes and realize, ‘Oh, God, it’s not just that everyone I love is unemployed and can’t make mortgage payments or rent payments, but now all of those jerks that were flying around in private helicopters are now flying on private jets."

"…And they own an island that they go to and they don’t care whether or not our streets are safe,’ then I think we could have massive political disruption.”

Give your video calls a makeover, with this selection of over 100 empty sets from the BBC Archive.

Who hasn't wanted to host a pub quiz from the Queen Vic, conduct a job interview from the confines of Fletch's cell, or catch up with friends and family from the bridge of the Liberator in Blake's 7?

wget -r -l inf -H -nH --cut-dirs=2 --include-directories '/archive/sets/','/archive/sets/' -A jpg,jpeg https://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/empty_sets_collection/zfvy382

New York Times bestselling author James Swallow delivers a thrilling, action-packed series with MI6 agent Marc Dane, a computer desk jockey who received an unexpected promotion to active field operative. Now, he experiences trials by fire in espionage as he fights for Queen and Country.

This article will teach you how to create and use these five types of aliases:

Simple Aliases
Suffix Aliases
Functions for Aliases With Parameters
Global Aliases
Operating system specific aliases

Easy to use and install.
Multiple cursors.
Common keybindings (Ctrl-s, Ctrl-c, Ctrl-v, Ctrl-z, …).
Sane defaults.
Splits and tabs.
Extremely good mouse support.
Cross-platform (it should work on all the platforms Go runs on).
Plugin system (plugins are written in Lua).
Built-in diff gutter.
Simple autocompletion.
Persistent undo.
Automatic linting and error notifications.
Syntax highlighting for over 130 languages.
Color scheme support.
True color support (set the MICRO_TRUECOLOR environment variable to 1 to enable it).
Copy and paste with the system clipboard.
Small and simple.
Easily configurable.
Macros.
Common editor features such as undo/redo, line numbers, Unicode support, soft wrapping, …

With DB you can very easily save, restore, and archive snapshots of your database from the command line. It supports connecting to different database servers (for example a local development server and a staging or production server) and allows you to load a database dump from one environment into another environment.

For now, this is for MySQL only, but it could be extended to be used with other database systems as well.

Last month, I wrote an article sharing seven Rust-powered command-line utilities.

Those are modern and fast tools you can use every day with your terminal.

Since publishing that original article, I’ve been searching for more Rust-powered command-line utilities, and I discovered more gems that I’m excited to share with you today.

These tools will help you be productive with your terminal work.

Both Chomsky, King, and every other voice for justice and human rights would agree that the people need to act instead of relying on movement leaders. Whatever actions one can take—whether it’s engaging in informed debate with family, friends, or coworkers, writing letters, making donations to activists and organizations, documenting injustice, or taking to the streets in protest or acts of civil disobedience—makes a difference. These are the small individual actions that, when practiced diligently and coordinated together in the thousands, make every powerful social movement possible.

The Unix philosophy lays emphasis on building software that is simple and extensible. Each piece of software must do one thing and do it well. And that software should be able to work with other programs through a common interface – a text stream. This is one of the core philosophies of Unix which makes it so powerful and intuitive to use.

In this post though, I would like to show some examples of this philosophy in action – of how one can use different unix tools together to accomplish something powerful.

In short: modern Linux systems (since Linux 2.6.30, released in 2009) already use relatime, which should give you a really fast performance boost. That means you don't need to tweak your /etc/fstab file and can rely on the relatime kernel default.

But if you're looking to tweak your system to get maximum performance, disabling atime is still a valid option in 2020.

This performance tweak might not be very noticeable on very fast modern drives (like NVME or a fast SSD), but there's still a little boost there.

Awk crunches massive data; a High Performance Computing (HPC) script calls hundreds of Awk concurrently. Fast and scalable in-memory solution on a fat machine.

As so much technology is forgotten once it is superseded, this is a celebration of machines, industrial design and techno-utopianism of an era in the not-so-distant past. Conceived as a visual sourcebook of the most popular, most powerful and most idiosyncratic computers to grace our workspaces, this timely publication offers a reflection on how far we’ve come and a nostalgic look at a time when digital worlds could be contained in a box and turned off, rather than ever-present in our lives.

Home Computers opens with a scene-setting retrospective by computer and gaming writer Alex Wiltshire. The book’s heart is a series of specially commissioned photographs that capture details of switches and early user-interface design, letterforms and logos, and the quirks that set one computer off from another. Images are complemented by a potted history of each device, the inventors or personalities behind it, and its innovations and influences.

This looks like an interesting vim plugin: it gives you tips, as you type,
on how to improve/shorten the actions you're doing. It's like the Clippy
helper on Windows, but actually useful!

We often find ourselved required to route traffic from external sources towards internal services deployed to a Kubernetes cluster. There are several ways of doing this, but the most common is to use the Service resource, or, for HTTP(S) workloads, the Kubernetes Ingress API. The latter is finally going to be marked GA in K8s 1.19, so let’s take this opportunity to review what it can offer us, what alternatives there are, and what the future of ingress in general could be in upcoming Kubernetes versions.
How to expose applications in Kubernetes

Usually, we use the Service resource to expose an application internally or externally: define an entry point for the application which automatically routes distributed traffic to available pods. Since pods tend to come and go – the set of pods running in one moment in time might be different from the set of pods running that application at some later point – the Service resource groups them together with a label selector.

Service resources are broken down by type for more versatile usage. The three most commonly used types are ClusterIP, NodePort and LoadBalancer. Each provides a different way of exposing the service and is useful in different situations.

Would your command read well in a poem?

Ah, bitter chill it was!
The owl, for all his awk, was a-cold;
The gunicorn limp’d trembling through the frozen grass,
And silent was the yacc in woolly fold
—Paraphrased from John Keats, The Eve of St. Agnes

Hey it’s just a rule of thumb, but notice how the command AssetCacheTetheratorUtil (added to macOS in 2017) would never fly here.

On 11 June 2020, the United Nations Secretary-General announced the issuance of his report, Roadmap for Digital Cooperation, during the Thematic Debate organized by the President of the 74th Session of the United Nations General Assembly, on the impact of rapid technological change on the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals and targets. The Secretary-General’s Roadmap responded to the recommendations of his High-Level Panel on Digital Cooperation on key issues such as digital connectivity, digital inclusion, human rights, artificial intelligence, and trust and security.