Comments | razinaber: Vintage code retrospective

razinaber

Vintage code retrospective

Apr 22, 2012 00:44

Backing up your data is important. Early trials and tribulations experimenting with Linux (Redhat 2, Slackware and Caldera) and OS/2 Warp when I was a teenager quickly taught me that. I screwed up my PC on more than one occasion which got me into the habit of making sure I had copies of my important stuff stashed away on floppies, then removable ( Read more... )

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whitepaw April 23 2012, 09:50:34 UTC

It's nice to see old-but-good projects like this. You have reminded me, I really should open-source PictureEdit at some point; there is no way I'm going to get around to finishing it.

razinaber April 23 2012, 14:46:26 UTC

Oh I remember that, you were working on that when we first met at university right?

whitepaw April 26 2012, 18:09:41 UTC

Yeah. File modification dates say I've not done any work on it since 22nd Feb 2006 and the last compile I made no longer runs because PPC code is no longer supported.

scatmania April 23 2012, 13:53:16 UTC

Awesome post. Great to get this insight into some of the things you used to hack, in the way-back-when. I've got a blog post or two of my own in the making, for some point in the future, too!