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RiscOS patience
In the UK on Acorn's old RiscOS machines; RiscOS was the first multitasking GUI, and it took a bit of getting your head around as a programmer. Factor into that the fact that the ARM chips were RISC processors - ie. they had a reduced instruction set, and were also 32 bit processors not the more familar 16 or 8 bit; then people found it a bit hard ...
Posted to Procrastination by captainfun on May 19, 2008
Solitaire, Schmolitaire
Solitaire is a bonified time/mind killer. I have uninstalled it from every computer to enter my home since 1999. Don't get me wrong, I still procrastinate and my family still procrastinates or wastes time, but my time waster is forums/blogs/news-sites/chess. I just cannot stand solitaire. And I agree... Slate is the thinking person's ...
Posted to Procrastination by WrenchDevil6 on May 15, 2008