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5 Sep 2019 2 minute read 1 comment BTCghost $0.10
At times, it can be difficult when you are a "hardware guy" and a "software guy" instead of one or the other. By that I mean, sometimes it's difficult separating those two schools of thought, physically and mentally. The desk in my office is very ref...
12 Jul 2019 1 minute read 0 comments Jared York $0.03
In this guide, we will learn how to work with the file system. Let's cut to the chase. We can start by opening the terminal. Now by default, your shell is looking in the home directory. A shell is a program that processes commands and returns outp...
9 Jul 2019 3 minute read 2 comments Daniel Goldman $0.12
Reading Cabe Atwell’s article on the Z80 CP/M emulator running on Adafruit’s new Grand Central board made me feel nostalgic for my early days with computers. However, Atwell already covered a decent amount about CP/M. I could go into its derivative...
13 Jun 2019 1 minute read 0 comments CosmicCitadel $0.04
Autodraw I recently came across a website called Autodraw, which is an AI experiment by Google. With this website you draw various things and the software tries to guess what it is you’re trying to draw. Clicking on one of the guesses will replace wh...
12 Jun 2019 6 minute read 2 comments Solominer $0.06
The last three or four days have been spent working full time in the terminal. Working with my LBRY Spee.ch Server that hosts all of my photography on the blockchain you see on my blogs. My lbrynetapplication was pretty outdated and I was experienci...
18 May 2019 7 minute read 2 comments mad_cat $0.31
Since this is my first post for Old-School Power User, I want to quickly tell you a bit about who I am. When it comes to Cryptocurrency, I'm a Schmo, but when it comes to computers, I'm a Power User. I have a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Networking....
14 May 2019 1 minute read 0 comments gduran $0.02
Back in the 70's and 80's I lived in what was then a small and relatively backward town , in the 70's I was in secondary school and finished high school, for most of the '80's I was a bum. But I had some talents that were very useful to me and made m...
4 May 2019 1 minute read 0 comments CosmicCitadel $0.01
The classic game of Paperboy on the Commodore 64. The game controls aren’t the best, with the NES version being better. This is one of those games that was really only ported to the Commodore 64 because it was such a popular game and sold so well th...
4 May 2019 1 minute read 0 comments CosmicCitadel $0.02
This is Lazy Jones on the Commodore 64. This is certainly a different sort of game. In this game, you play the part of a hotel worker going from room to room playing all the little mini-games that are in them while earning points. It’s arguably not...
4 May 2019 1 minute read 0 comments CosmicCitadel $0.01
Lately I’ve been using Krita (https://krita.org) to do my pixel art, so this time I decided I wanted to give Gimp (https://www.gimp.org) a try. I’ve used Gimp before with other projects, just not pixel art, and I can say that both Gimp and Krita are...
