PDP-8/E Simulator

February 10, 2004 – 12:00 am

Nostalgic for computing in the 1960’s? Run a simulation of a Digital Equipment PDP-8 on your Mac. The PDP-8 was the most important small computer of the era.
Benchmarks show that the PDP-8/E Simulator outperforms a hardware PDP-8/E in orders of magnitude when running on reasonable current Macs. There are options to slow down the CPU [...]

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RMS @ Stanford.edu

October 18, 2002 – 12:00 am

Richard Stallman’s speaking at Stanford next Wednesday. Should be entertaining.

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Mac GNU Privacy Guard

September 16, 2001 – 12:00 am

Get while you can: GNU Privacy Guard for Mac OS X.
And if you’re having second thoughts about encryption, consider this: the bad guys are attacking computers. If you keep sensitive material for your work or family on a machine, then encryption helps protect you.

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History of the World Part N+1

August 23, 2001 – 12:00 am

I don’t know why Userland indexed this as a potential hit when I was looking up info on copying large tables in Frontier, but it’s too good to be left unblogged. Here is the History of the World as seen by Slashdot.
A.D. 1420: Johann Gutenberg invents the printing press. He is immediately sued by monks [...]

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The GPL and Buddhist ethics

June 25, 2001 – 12:00 am

Hum, a self-described Buddhist says that he cannot GPL his code because it places obligations on the users of that code. A self-described Christian says that’s bunk. Interestingly, the religous context of the node is really BSD v. GPL.

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XEmacs for Mac OS X

May 30, 2001 – 12:00 am

Yes! XEmacs for Mac OS X.

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An XML IDE for Emacs

January 26, 2001 – 12:00 am

It’s cheaper than $200 a throw for XML-SPY.
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XSL mode for Emacs

February 29, 2000 – 12:00 am

Mulberry Technologies has an XSL editing mode for Emacs.

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Runing Emacs on a Personal Computer

October 23, 1999 – 12:00 am

Phil Agre asked about PC and Mac ports of Emacs, G_D’s perfect editor. He reported the responses.

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Stallman finaly makes his appearance in the User Friendly GNU Saga

December 19, 1998 – 12:00 am

But it’s just a cameo.
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The IE Logo Decoded

December 14, 1998 – 12:00 am

The GNUwars saga continues at “User Friendly.”
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Refcards.com

November 17, 1998 – 12:00 am

Cribsheets for Apache server configuration and the mod_perl object model.
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An Interview with Free Software Founder Richard Stallman [ via Slashdot ]

November 12, 1998 – 12:00 am

Stallman started working on a open-source UNIX back in the 80’s. Much of Linux and NetBSD inherited from his work. This interview outlines the factions on the free software/open source community as well.
I have a great meeting Stallman story that I’ll relate later.
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