The Opinion Dominion - Episodes Tagged with “Retro”

Episode 42: The view into the Linspire Saga

JT Pennington — Mon, 05 Jul 2021 00:00:00 -0400

Jeff and JT have a guest this week to talk about Jeff's favorite topic... Linspire. Chris Waid of Think Penguin comes on the show to talk about his experience at Linspire.

Give us your thoughts...

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Special Guest: Christopher Waid.

Episode 41: Jeff can't get Doom running

JT Pennington — Mon, 28 Jun 2021 00:00:00 -0400

Jeff and JT discuss their Southeast Linuxfest 2021 Retro Linux Ragchew stream where Jeff was unable to get Doom running.

Links

Retro Linux Ragchew 2 : Failing to run Doom on Red Hat Linux v1.1 : Southeast Linuxfest 2021 Stream
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g290ApehvbQ

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Episode 32: Jeff's Spygames... and more...

JT Pennington — Mon, 15 Mar 2021 00:00:00 -0400

Jeff finds a spycam in his house...
Pics:
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Ulfnic's JS Code information:

What is 0.1 + 0.2? Wrong! It's 0.30000000000000004.
Getting JS to evaluate basic decimal math is a StackOverflow greasy rabbit hole of hacky solutions guaranteed to work for at least a week.
JavaScript needs a 3rd-party 24KB library to accomplish basic decimal math(1), alternatively you can use the new (and not well supported) BigInt() to pretend you're doing decimal math by
string hacking decimal points into super long integers.

(1) https://github.com/MikeMcl/big.js/blob/master/big.js
(2) https://dustinpfister.github.io/2019/09/06/js-bigint/
(3) https://javascriptinfo.com/view/3760151/native-bigint-and-intl-numberformat-for-accurate-currency-calculations-and-display

Steps to to reproduce 0.1 + 0.2:

# Option 1: https://jsconsole.com/
console.log(0.1 + 0.2)

# Option 2: In browser
# ctrl + shift + j # Chromium
# ctrl + shift + k # Firefox
# click on "Console" tab
console.log(0.1 + 0.2)

# Option 3: NodeJS
nodejs -e "console.log(0.1 + 0.2)"

Episode 6: Kernel Compiling

JT Pennington — Mon, 03 Aug 2020 05:00:00 -0400

Jeff and JT talk about the first time they compiled their kernels, and Jeff reflects back on how it used to be an achievement.

Episode 5: Jeff isnt inspired by Linspire

JT Pennington — Mon, 27 Jul 2020 06:00:00 -0400

Jeff opens up about his love/hate relationship with Linspire.

Episode 4: Building Computers in ye olden days

JT Pennington — Mon, 20 Jul 2020 07:00:00 -0400

Jeff and JT talk about building computers back in the days before the internet, or at least that's what Jeff thought this episode would be about.

Episode 3: Zealotry is bad mkay

JT Pennington — Tue, 14 Jul 2020 18:00:00 -0400

Jeff and JT talk about Zealotry in the Open Source Community, also JT promises never to make an init system.

Episode 2: Audio Trials

JT Pennington — Mon, 06 Jul 2020 15:00:00 -0400

Jeff and JT talk about audio on Linux back in the day

Links:
Pulse Audio Diagram:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Pulseaudio-diagram.svg

Polypaudio renaming:
http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/pulse.html

Lennart's Blog Post about PulseAudio being well received:
http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/foms-lca-recap.html

Episode 0: Bootstrapping Opinions

JT Pennington — Wed, 24 Jun 2020 23:15:00 -0400

A short introduction to who we are and what our goals are for this podcast.
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