The cool thing with KeePass is that each client is also a local backup. It's pretty neat.

Yeah. It was neat. But it rebooted in under a second so a complete crash was no biggie.

RAM wasn't even cleared so usually no (or limited) data loss.

I thought it was PR#6 (redirect output) to boot from the disk controller in slot 6. I wonder what redirecting input would do.

That was it at the AppleSoft BASIC prompt (or IN#6). But the parent poster commented on how to do it from assembly.

There is an even quicker way from the monitor:

6 CTRL+P

Will instantly divert output to slot 6. (and boot the disk if there is hardware there)

Both worked to start a boot from the disk controller in that slot.

It was always awkward to do low level disk stuff by basically "remoting" into the drive to execute code.

  OPEN 1,8,15,"N:NEWDISK,01":CLOSE 1

was always a weird way to format a floppy...

Knowing what I know now, I'd have appreciated it much more than I did at the time. (Also, fixing the link rate on the C64 would've been nice too.)

And if something didn't work he included a complete debugger inside "Apple II Machine Language Monitor" in ROM so you could always just disassemble and poke at things, pipe disassembly to the printer, read memory, change code, add own macros to CTRL+Y and rerun stuff. All that without extra software or a massive pile of printed assembly.

from BASIC:

  CALL -151 (short for CALL 65385, but BASIC can't handle unsigned INT so that wouldn't work)  
  F666G  

and the machine is your playground.

Renaming anything (without a manifest) setup.exe will cause Windows to ask for UAC elevation. The user cannot opt-out. There are a few other hard coded strings like "install" that cause this AFAIR. You can also use its_a_setup_mr_bond.exe for example.

Funny, you are right. But it needs to be something without correct .exe metadata. "you_are_an_install_wizard_harry.exe" also triggers different behaviour/query for UAC.

They also did this: https://web.archive.org/web/20160314132836/http://www.opnsen...

And WIPO had to take the domain away from them: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PfSense#OPNsense

AMD even had two of them. Their own: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMD_%C3%89lan and based on the Cyrix x586 after they acquired them: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geode_(processor)

They weren't even that bad considering the little power they needed.

I'm weird. I'm still using the RoR Plugins for NetBeans. It still works pretty great (including haml and coffee autocomplete and code highlighting) for maintaining some legacy apps if you don't intend to reinstall it from scratch (which is a nightmare).

I thought that was Gemini: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemini_(protocol)

Gemini is for hipsters who want to look like they like Gopher, but can't live without their cat pics.

(Said in jest, of course)

You reminded me that many years ago I gave some Microsoft sales folks grief for dropping Gopher from IIS, and then I wondered whether IIS still existed, and that led me to discover that iis.net was retired this summer.

https://www.iis.net/

And I still don’t know whether IIS itself still exists.

Gemini lives rent free in the heads of like 99% of HN users. It's really weird. Look at any Gemini network posts on here. So much hate for a little network that just sits there and does its thing.

It also has pretty neat support for emailing patches. And it's practically impossible to lose data as long as any single dev still has an intact .git directory.

Nobody is preventing the devs from just setting up a second "upstream" and pushing to both github and gitlab (for example) or any other service at the same time.