Ah yes... telling your deepest, darkest secrets to a machine so they can be stored on a remote system somewhere that you have no control over.
What would you want to bet that data gets used against you or is simply sold to the highest bidder... what could possibly go wrong indeed?
Daylight saving time has always been a horrible idea.
If you want an extra hour of daylight in the evening then you can get up an hour earlier if you want to but don't force an entire nation to share in the delusion that you somehow saved time by doing so.
Now that we're back on STANDARD time we should stay put.
I took a typing class in high school during the early 70's thinking it would be a good skill to have (and oh boy did I guess right on that one!). That was the last time my typing speed was measured and I have no clear memory of how fast I was back then.
I type reasonably quickly as I've been typing on one thing or another for 50 years now but have no idea have fast I am these days. I may be as fast as 60wpm but I don't know (and don't particularly care 8^)
I do know that my slowest typing speed was on teletype machines. Those keyboards just didn't let me get any real speed going.
I've had WordStar 7 installed on my computers (DOS, win & Linux) since it came out... it's still there on my win & Linux systems and runs fine in DOXBox.
But then I started with WordStar 3.0 (or maybe that was 3.3) on CP/M (a Kaypro II). It wasn't my first word processor but it was the first I used for an extended period of time. I still have a bunch of old files created with WordStar which is one of the reasons for keeping it alive on my current system.
This was a fully functional and (for me) easy to use word processor that ran well in under 64KB of memory. When I finally made the move to DOS (starting around v0.9) I kept using WordStar because it just worked and continued to be easy to use. While I started using Windows with v1.0 I'm pretty sure I didn't make the move to WordPerfect until the early 90's. I recall doing a research paper in WordPerfect in '94, so for sure by then.
I've used a fair number of different word processors over the years but have most of my word processing files in WordStar, WordPerfect, Word and now, Open Document formats.
I didn't care for Word at all in the early years but was forced into using it as it gained predominance with later windows versions. I still avoid it whenever possible. I currently use the LibreOffice suite of tools on both my win & Linux systems. But that's just personal preference.... as always, use what works best for you 8^)
You can pretty much quit reading after "House Republicans this week accused"....
Any accusation from a repugnant is really a confession and those responsible need to be in court, then in jail, as soon as possible.
Sounds like it’s once again time for the Galaxy Song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
....now we have the fox guarding the hen house.
I sure do miss my Kaypro II.
I was working with analog and digital computers running flight simulators for the Air Force so I got my computer fix at work. As a result, I got into the "PC" craze a little later than some of my compatriots.
My biggest problem was as an airman I had little money left over for the likes of an Altair when they came out. By the time the Kaypro came to my attention I was a sergeant and had a little more disposable cash for buying my own computers to play with.
I sure do miss those days and those early microcomputers.
I purchased a Kaypro II sometime in late '84 or early '85 and pretty quickly started working with Turbo Pascal, along with a fair bit of dBase II mixed in.
My last major Turbo Pascal effort was my senior project for my undergrad degree (computer science, of course) working on a PC XT. I also picked up copies of Turbo C, Turbo Assembler, Power Basic, dBase III and Clipper to round out my preferred tools for playing around.
In my professional career I got pretty heavy into FORTRAN IV, COBOL and dBase IV. I sure do miss those days 8^)
Which reminds me of the classic statement....
Fast, cheap, good: pick two.
The more complicated you make something, the easier it is to break
...and in mine I tend to use pen and paper for many of my note taking needs.
When it comes to note taking on the computer I use TextPad on windoze boxes and vi/vim on UNIX or Linux boxes. If I need to take notes that require any kind of formatting then I head to LibreOffice.
Using a reasonable file naming scheme in directories that make logical sense takes care of the organizing bit.
And if my notes need to be "portable" then I put them on a thumb drive.
I NEVER store important files in the cloud and rarely put anything else out there.
Putting your personal (or work) files in the cloud means they are on someone else's computer and you no longer own the date... they do! And if your hosting provider goes away and/or your data disappears then you are just shit out of luck. Store locally and do proper backups means never having to say good bye to your files.
That's just me and YMMV...
Joined the Air Force in '74 and went to the flight simulator maintenance school at Chanute AFB. After getting thru the 11 weeks of basic electronics training we started in learning to operate and maintain analog simulators (T-38 and T-37).
Only after we finished with that did we get to digital and the first digital computer I had a chance to work with was a Raytheon 703. Finger in the boot (using switches on the front panel) then load the loader tape (paper of course) so we could load the program from another paper tape. Output was lights on the front panel.
I went on to work on four analog simulators (KC-135, B-52, F-4D and the C-130E). And then was part of the transition team installing a new digital C-130E sim which I also helped maintain & operate.
About that time I bought my first personal computer, a Commodore 64. Went on to work on a F-111 digital sim and during that time I bought my second personal computer, a Kaypro 2-84. After that assignment I cross trained to become a programmer but continued mucking about with PCs. I started building my personal computers (DOS & win) instead of buying more often than not.
Retired from the service and spent a couple of decades as a network and system admin and today I'm fully retired and have two home built boxes (win7 & linux), a purchased laptop (win10 but will convert to linux some day) and a Raspberry Pi (FreeBSD).
No mod points today but definitely a +100 for you if I had them!
And, yes, I do use VLC for video but never much cared to use it for audio. Winamp handles audio much better for me (with the Pimeer_Modern_v2 skin 8^).
I have tried a lot of different tools for audio and video play back over the decades but I've not yet found anything that works as well for me like Winamp and VLC.
Just my opinion and everyone has to find what works best for them...
Yup.... or to put it another way:
Q: What do you call the medical student who graduates last in their class?
A: Doctor
Economists state their GNP growth projections to the nearest tenth of a percentage point to prove they have a sense of humor. -- Edgar R. Fiedler
