Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 5th May 2008 21:00 UTC
Ever since I started using computers, I've been baffled by the relative clumsiness of installing applications. Whether we are talking the really old days (launching the Rambo game off a tape), the '90s (running Keen or using installers in Windows 95), or the modern days (still those installers, but now also package management and self-contained applications); it's all relatively cumbersome, and they all have their downsides. I decided to put my money where my mouth is, and come up with my idealistic, utopian method of installing, running, updating, and uninstalling applications.
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RE[2]: Call me old-fashioned, but
by umccullough on Mon 5th May 2008 21:31
in reply to "RE: Call me old-fashioned, but"
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"//Whether we are talking the really old days (launching the Rambo game off a tape)// er ... i thought the "really old days" was when I typed three dozens lines of Pascal into a PDP-11 in order to get a simple tax calculation to run ...tapes? You're high-tech!
Yeah, punch cards and paper tape baby! None of that high-tech magnetic media for me! "
Give him a break, he hasn't even been alive for 3 decades yet (IIRC)
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Yeah, punch cards and paper tape baby! None of that high-tech magnetic media for me!
Edited 2008-05-05 21:14 UTC