rants and (hopefully) useful info
Historically… (ie. I have been doing this for a while) my first programming language was FORTRAN77 using punchcards (via an archaic mainframe). my first PC was a dual floppy drive XT (8088) with DOS and Lotus123/WordStar2000. I switched to WordPerfect after WS2k trashed my ~50 page thesis (at the speed I could type, that represented…
If you’re looking to switch, maybe start by changing your day-to-day WinX apps to the multiOS ones…get used to using those, and then you’ll be (more) comfortable when you change the underlying O/S. I started this note/article >1 year ago – got sidetracked doing things (some of which are the point of it). It’s…
This is a blog. Here you’ll find arbitrary bits of information which may or may not be useful. The intention is to share knowledge and information about things that I have failed or succeeded with – in the hope of helping others or getting others to help wherever possible. In some cases I have just…