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Date: Sat, 2 Apr 2022 17:19:42 +0200
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A opus4/article-announce-open-admin-… | 30 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
M opus4/article-bitreich-2022-03-25T… | 2 +-
M opus4/article-bitreich-2022-03-26T… | 2 +-
M opus4/article-bitreich-2022-03-27T… | 2 +-
M opus4/article-bitreich-2022-03-31T… | 4 ++--
M opus4/article-tgtimes-bbc-reviving… | 8 ++++----
M opus4/article-tgtimes-bistromatik.… | 7 ++++---
M opus4/article-tgtimes-carrying-the… | 4 ++--
M opus4/article-tgtimes-high-tech-lo… | 37 +++++++++++++++----------------
M opus4/article-tgtimes-what-on-mars… | 6 +++---
M opus4/tgtimes4.mw | 5 +++--
M opus4/tgtimes4.pdf | 0
M opus4/tgtimes4.txt | 365 +++++++++++++++++--------------
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(DIR) diff --git a/opus4/article-20h-interview.mw b/opus4/article-20h-interview.mw
@@ -128,7 +128,7 @@ For example in the spirometry description, they say, that only some
bluetooth printers are compatible.
.
.PP
-This is due to the bluetooth standard not having defined, *what*
+This is due to the bluetooth standard not having defined, \fBwhat\fR
is sent to bluetooth printers.
.
.PP
@@ -164,7 +164,7 @@ I, as doctor, only see the printed out results and explain them to
patients.
.
.QP
-Do she does not have to use command line interface for that?
+Does she have to use command line interface for that?
.
.PP
No, it's all practical.
@@ -201,11 +201,6 @@ data for further research.
I am using a 25 yr old ECG and some 10 yr old spirometer.
.
.QP
-What could have motivated the designers to use something this-much
-cumbersome?
-[not asked, already answered]
-.
-.QP
Are there any similarities in other devices to reuse the existing
work you just did?
.
(DIR) diff --git a/opus4/article-announce-open-admin-position-in-france.mw b/opus4/article-announce-open-admin-position-in-france.mw
@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+.SH announce
+Linux Sysadmin Job Offer
+.
+.PP
+The web is hiring over and over.
+A lot of professions were converted from something,
+to something with online web tools and a lot of computer systems
+are using a webinterfaces that are just skins for a database.
+.
+.PP
+If you feel like giving a good sweep in all the dust of webservers,
+and transform fragile, complex, buggy ecosystems onto leaner, more
+stable systems, and are currently looking for a job as an Admin, we
+might have an offer for you.
+.
+.PP
+The offer is located in France, within a warm and horsing team in
+a 20-sized company powering a little part of the Internet (not only
+the Web), dealing with clients from local shops to international
+groups.
+.
+.PP
+Come and discover the culture of Lille, in North of France, one of
+the only places where you can taste both Carbonnade (Belgian, meat
+cooked onto Belgian beer) and Welsh (Great Britain, quality melted
+cheddar served on a dish).
+.
+.PP
+Contact \fIjosuah\fR on ircs://irc.bitreich.org/#bitreich-en to know
+more about it.
(DIR) diff --git a/opus4/article-bitreich-2022-03-25T18-32-52-134235.mw b/opus4/article-bitreich-2022-03-25T18-32-52-134235.mw
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.SH
+.SH 20h
FreeDOOMDay on 2022-03-27
.PP
In comemoration of the beginning summer time in central Europe, we will celebrate FreeDOOMDay! On 2022-03-27 20:00 CEST (be careful!), we will play chocolate-doom
(DIR) diff --git a/opus4/article-bitreich-2022-03-26T19-55-05-578948.mw b/opus4/article-bitreich-2022-03-26T19-55-05-578948.mw
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.SH
+.SH 20h
Memecache atom feed
.PP
Thanks to the innovation from the Netherlands,
(DIR) diff --git a/opus4/article-bitreich-2022-03-27T20-00-55-040395.mw b/opus4/article-bitreich-2022-03-27T20-00-55-040395.mw
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.SH
+.SH 20h
FreeDOOMDay results
.PP
Thanks to everyone participating in our first tryout to play doom over our bitreich infrastructure.
(DIR) diff --git a/opus4/article-bitreich-2022-03-31T18-15-46-415338.mw b/opus4/article-bitreich-2022-03-31T18-15-46-415338.mw
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-.SH
-Bitreich migrating to Windows Server 2022
+.SH 20h
+Bitreich migrating to Windows Server
.
.PP
Yesterday the last SSH.com license we had expired.
(DIR) diff --git a/opus4/article-tgtimes-bbc-reviving-the-radio.mw b/opus4/article-tgtimes-bbc-reviving-the-radio.mw
@@ -42,8 +42,8 @@ can be in comparison to fragile, high-tech interdependent ecosystems.
.
.PP
Radio is also trivially interfaced with high-tech: Any person with
-access to a source of information and an analog emitter may start
-reading a daily digest of news read from web newspapers.
+access to an analog emitter may start reading a daily digest of
+news read from forbidden newspapers.
.
.PP
Given instructions, a receiver is also very easy to build with
@@ -52,8 +52,8 @@ signal, that after demodulation, becomes a sound signal to be fed
to a speaker.
.
.PP
-It also shows the benefits of putting all the technically difficult
-parts onto the side of the content producer helps with adoption of
+It also shows benefits of putting all the technically difficult
+parts onto the side of the content producer. It helps with adoption of
a new technology: Making the client device/software trivial and safe
to build, setup and use.
.
(DIR) diff --git a/opus4/article-tgtimes-bistromatik.mw b/opus4/article-tgtimes-bistromatik.mw
@@ -2,8 +2,9 @@
Beerware: Hardware for Beer
.
.PP
-Old hardware power-recycled into a bartender. Such is the project of
-the Bistromatik, born in Brittany, now visiting countries abroad.
+Retreated industrial robot hardware recycled into a bartender.
+Such is the project of the Bistromatik, born in Brittany, now
+visiting countries abroad.
.
.PP
A mechanical robot arm was built for the industry, but while still working,
@@ -24,7 +25,7 @@ the curious crowd passing by.
.
.PP
And if you feel hungry too, you may ask it for a treat, it can also
-prepare some \fIcrepes\fR, the Bretons's favorite dessert.
+prepare some \fIcrepes\fR, the Bretons' favorite dessert.
.
.DS
https://bistromatik.com/
(DIR) diff --git a/opus4/article-tgtimes-carrying-the-cross.mw b/opus4/article-tgtimes-carrying-the-cross.mw
@@ -7,8 +7,8 @@ wooden cross, tall as three persons, painted in blue, a recognisable
cross shaped as an 'f', the 'f' of facebook.
.
.PP
-This is the project Filipe Vilas-Boas, inviting any watching the unrealistic
-scene to question themself on the weight of social media, and beliefs associated
+This is the project Filipe Vilas-Boas, inviting anyone to watch the unrealistic
+scene, and question themself on the weight of social media, and beliefs associated
with technology.
.
.QP
(DIR) diff --git a/opus4/article-tgtimes-high-tech-low-life.mw b/opus4/article-tgtimes-high-tech-low-life.mw
@@ -3,10 +3,9 @@ High-Tech, Low-Life
.
.IP "High-Tech"
Refers to the ability to use complex tools created by engineering,
-or in the absence of a large corporation to build them, hacking
-things together.
+or hacking things together.
.
-.PP "Low-Life"
+.IP "Low-Life"
Refers to those put aside by society, such as criminal or drug
dealer, making itself edgy; or hobos and beggars, pushed to the
edge by more or less everyone.
@@ -14,7 +13,7 @@ edge by more or less everyone.
.PP
One way to develop the idea of High-Tech Low-Life would be a
criminal using modern tools such to empower its crimes.
-A transaction giving the bad guys the big guns. Not helpful.
+A transaction giving the bad guys the big guns. Not good.
.
.PP
But another way to portray it is someone rejected by its surroundings,
@@ -25,22 +24,22 @@ revolts in China.
.
.PP
The "High Tech, Low Life" (2012) documentary shows us that it is
-not an alternate science-fiction plot, but a phenomenon happenning
-today.
+not a science-fiction plot, but a phenomenon happenning today.
.
.PP
Giving High-Tech toys to poor population sounds more like a GAFAM
+(Google, Amazon, Facebook, Apple, Microsoft)
plan to rule over the thirld-world while looking like a humanitarian
-hero saving the world, but a bit of honesty would reveal that it is
-closer to offering the Low-Life people to the High-Tech corps, by
-extending further the frontiers of ad-tech.
+hero saving the world. But another way to see it is surrending the
+Low-Life people to the claws of High-Tech corps, extending further
+the frontiers of ad-tech.
.
.PP
Giving entertainment platform is probably not the most urgent kind
of technology people without a meal a day is going to need. What
about a tractor though? In its simplest form, in China again, a 55
-years-old lady farmer started to use a hoverboard (board onto which
-to stand, with a wheel on left and right) to change 3 hours of daily
+years-old lady farmer started to use a hoverboard (board to stand on
+with a wheel on left and right) to change 3 hours of daily
walk to carry the vegetables harvested, into 40 minutes riding this
board.
.
@@ -51,24 +50,24 @@ https://www.chinanews.com.cn/tp/hd2011/2018/02-13/800254.shtml
.
.PP
Or what about deploying long-range point-to-point wireless links
-in west Africa to circumvent the poor power and inexistant cable
-infrastructure, as well as escape the lobby and regulations that
-take over the few IT resources of that country?
+in west Africa to circumvent the poor cable infrastructure? This
+would help escaping the lobby and regulations that take over the
+few IT resources of that country?
.
.DS
http://www.melissadensmore.com/papers/m4d08-mho-reassessing.pdf
+https://www.resilience.org/stories/2015-10-27/how-to-build-a-low-tech-internet/
.DE
.
.PP
-Or even trying to figure out how to make small solar or wind-power
-stations that are affordable enough for the budget of a small
-off-grid village (with a few subventions)? Or an on-street display
+Or even inventing affordable small solar or wind-power stations for
+the tights budgets of off-grid villages? Or an on-street display
continuously showing live job offers?
.
.QP
-Open-sourced a driver for the community?
+Did you open-source a driver for the community as part of your job?
Installed Linux on an old laptop for someone in need?
Convincing the boss to make the project open-source?
Attended a surprising situation of that kind?
Tell us your story of High-Tech given to Low-Life on #bitreich-en
-IRC channel on the irc.bitreich.org server
+IRC channel on the irc.bitreich.org server.
(DIR) diff --git a/opus4/article-tgtimes-what-on-mars.mw b/opus4/article-tgtimes-what-on-mars.mw
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ https://www.cs.unc.edu/~anderson/teach/comp790/papers/mars_pathfinder_long_versi
At its core, most operating systems are built around a scheduler
that orchestrates execution of many tasks onto one or several CPUs.
It is a critical piece of software in the case of real-time operating
-systems, that must ensure to deliver some actions right on time.
+systems, that must ensure to trigger some actions right on time.
.
.PP
Complex systems may be unfit for such purposes, and software
@@ -36,9 +36,9 @@ simplicity has found its way through experimenting how complex
systems may end-up in difficult-to-debug situations.
.
.PP
-Picturing oneself in charge of reproducing a bug on earth for
+Imagine yourself in charge of reproducing a bug on earth for
something that went wrong on another planet, with a patch expected
-for next Monday is a strong pressure toward keeping systems simple
+for next Monday. A strong argument toward keeping systems simple
and easier to debug.
.
.PP
(DIR) diff --git a/opus4/tgtimes4.mw b/opus4/tgtimes4.mw
@@ -13,14 +13,15 @@ Opus 4 - Gopher news and more - Apr. 2022
.so opus4/article-tgtimes-carrying-the-cross.mw
.so opus4/article-ganssle-fortran-compiler.mw
.so opus4/article-tgtimes-high-tech-low-life.mw
-.so opus4/article-tgtimes-bistromatik.mw
.so opus4/article-bitreich-2022-03-25T18-32-52-134235.mw
-.so opus4/article-tgtimes-national-library-medecine.mw
+.so opus4/article-tgtimes-bistromatik.mw
.so opus4/article-bitreich-2022-03-26T19-55-05-578948.mw
.so opus4/article-tgtimes-st-lazare-transforms.mw
.so opus4/article-bitreich-2022-03-27T20-00-55-040395.mw
.so opus4/article-tgtimes-what-on-mars.mw
+.so opus4/article-tgtimes-national-library-medecine.mw
.so opus4/article-bitreich-2022-03-29T17-17-55-362953.mw
.so opus4/article-tmpout-2.mw
.so opus4/article-bitreich-2022-03-31T18-15-46-415338.mw
+.so opus4/article-announce-open-admin-position-in-france.mw
.so opus4/footer.mw
(DIR) diff --git a/opus4/tgtimes4.pdf b/opus4/tgtimes4.pdf
Binary files differ.
(DIR) diff --git a/opus4/tgtimes4.txt b/opus4/tgtimes4.txt
@@ -143,9 +143,9 @@ ____________________________________________________________
high-tech interdependent ecosystems.
Radio is also trivially interfaced with high-tech: Any
- person with access to a source of information and an
- analog emitter may start reading a daily digest of
- news read from web newspapers.
+ person with access to an analog emitter may start
+ reading a daily digest of news read from forbidden
+ newspapers.
Given instructions, a receiver is also very easy to
build with scavenged parts. An antenna is simply a
@@ -153,11 +153,11 @@ ____________________________________________________________
demodulation, becomes a sound signal to be fed to a
speaker.
- It also shows the benefits of putting all the
- technically difficult parts onto the side of the
- content producer helps with adoption of a new
- technology: Making the client device/software trivial
- and safe to build, setup and use.
+ It also shows benefits of putting all the technically
+ difficult parts onto the side of the content producer.
+ It helps with adoption of a new technology: Making the
+ client device/software trivial and safe to build,
+ setup and use.
https://hackaday.com/2022/03/17/owning-a-shortwave-radio
@@ -330,7 +330,7 @@ ____________________________________________________________
that only some bluetooth printers are compatible.
This is due to the bluetooth standard not having
- defined, *what* is sent to bluetooth printers.
+ defined, what is sent to bluetooth printers.
It should be the minimum, to define this, as it is in
the USB printing standard.
@@ -361,8 +361,8 @@ ____________________________________________________________
I, as doctor, only see the printed out results and
explain them to patients.
- >> Do she does not have to use command line interface
- for that?
+ >> Does she have to use command line interface for
+ that?
No, it's all practical. The spirometer starts its
bluetooth client for rfcommd and rfcommd runs the
@@ -394,10 +394,6 @@ ____________________________________________________________
for further research. I am using a 25 yr old ECG and
some 10 yr old spirometer.
- >> What could have motivated the designers to use
- something this-much cumbersome? [not asked, already
- answered]
-
>> Are there any similarities in other devices to
reuse the existing work you just did?
@@ -464,9 +460,9 @@ ____________________________________________________________
painted in blue, a recognisable cross shaped as an
'f', the 'f' of facebook.
- This is the project Filipe Vilas-Boas, inviting any
- watching the unrealistic scene to question themself on
- the weight of social media, and beliefs associated
+ This is the project Filipe Vilas-Boas, inviting anyone
+ to watch the unrealistic scene, and question themself
+ on the weight of social media, and beliefs associated
with technology.
>> investigating global interconnection utopia,
@@ -516,17 +512,17 @@ ____________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________
High-Tech Refers to the ability to use complex tools
- created by engineering, or in the absence of a large
- corporation to build them, hacking things together.
+ created by engineering, or hacking things together.
- Refers to those put aside by society, such as criminal
- or drug dealer, making itself edgy; or hobos and
- beggars, pushed to the edge by more or less everyone.
+ Low-Life Refers to those put aside by society, such as
+ criminal or drug dealer, making itself edgy; or
+ hobos and beggars, pushed to the edge by more or
+ less everyone.
One way to develop the idea of High-Tech Low-Life
would be a criminal using modern tools such to empower
its crimes. A transaction giving the bad guys the big
- guns. Not helpful.
+ guns. Not good.
But another way to portray it is someone rejected by
its surroundings, seeking support through
@@ -536,85 +532,54 @@ ____________________________________________________________
happen with the late revolts in China.
The "High Tech, Low Life" (2012) documentary shows us
- that it is not an alternate science-fiction plot, but
- a phenomenon happenning today.
+ that it is not a science-fiction plot, but a
+ phenomenon happenning today.
Giving High-Tech toys to poor population sounds more
- like a GAFAM plan to rule over the thirld-world while
- looking like a humanitarian hero saving the world, but
- a bit of honesty would reveal that it is closer to
- offering the Low-Life people to the High-Tech corps,
- by extending further the frontiers of ad-tech.
+ like a GAFAM (Google, Amazon, Facebook, Apple,
+ Microsoft) plan to rule over the thirld-world while
+ looking like a humanitarian hero saving the world. But
+ another way to see it is surrending the Low-Life
+ people to the claws of High-Tech corps, extending
+ further the frontiers of ad-tech.
Giving entertainment platform is probably not the most
urgent kind of technology people without a meal a day
is going to need. What about a tractor though? In its
simplest form, in China again, a 55 years-old lady
- farmer started to use a hoverboard (board onto which
- to stand, with a wheel on left and right) to change 3
- hours of daily walk to carry the vegetables harvested,
- into 40 minutes riding this board.
+ farmer started to use a hoverboard (board to stand on
+ with a wheel on left and right) to change 3 hours of
+ daily walk to carry the vegetables harvested, into 40
+ minutes riding this board.
https://nextshark.com/chinese-farmer-hoverboard-life/
https://www.chinanews.com.cn/tp/hd2011/2018/02-13/800254.shtml
Or what about deploying long-range point-to-point
wireless links in west Africa to circumvent the poor
- power and inexistant cable infrastructure, as well as
- escape the lobby and regulations that take over the
- few IT resources of that country?
+ cable infrastructure? This would help escaping the
+ lobby and regulations that take over the few IT
+ resources of that country?
http://www.melissadensmore.com/papers/m4d08-mho-reassessing.pdf
+ https://www.resilience.org/stories/2015-10-27/how-to-build-a-low-tech-internet/
- Or even trying to figure out how to make small solar
- or wind-power stations that are affordable enough for
- the budget of a small off-grid village (with a few
- subventions)? Or an on-street display continuously
- showing live job offers?
-
- >> Open-sourced a driver for the community? Installed
- Linux on an old laptop for someone in need?
- Convincing the boss to make the project open-source?
- Attended a surprising situation of that kind? Tell
- us your story of High-Tech given to Low-Life on
- #bitreich-en IRC channel on the irc.bitreich.org
- server
-
-
-
- Beerware: Hardware for Beer tgtimes
-____________________________________________________________
-
- Old hardware power-recycled into a bartender. Such is
- the project of the Bistromatik, born in Brittany, now
- visiting countries abroad.
-
- A mechanical robot arm was built for the industry, but
- while still working, was removed from production, and
- collected dust in a warehouse.
-
- Jean-Marie Ollivier took this bored machine that he
- named "Nestor", got it to move again, and rather than
- servicing the industry, was programmed it to serve
- beers.
-
- >> It is not rare to see Jean-Marie make Nestor dance
- on a violin melody.
-
- Moving from town to town, this iron giant, taller than
- any human, goes on display grabbing gobelets, filling
- them at the tap, and offering them to the curious
- crowd passing by.
-
- And if you feel hungry too, you may ask it for a
- treat, it can also prepare some crepes, the Bretons's
- favorite dessert.
+ Or even inventing affordable small solar or wind-power
+ stations for the tights budgets of off-grid villages?
+ Or an on-street display continuously showing live job
+ offers?
- https://bistromatik.com/
+ >> Did you open-source a driver for the community as
+ part of your job? Installed Linux on an old laptop
+ for someone in need? Convincing the boss to make the
+ project open-source? Attended a surprising situation
+ of that kind? Tell us your story of High-Tech given
+ to Low-Life on #bitreich-en IRC channel on the
+ irc.bitreich.org server.
- FreeDOOMDay on 2022-03-27
+ FreeDOOMDay on 2022-03-27 20h
____________________________________________________________
In comemoration of the beginning summer time in
@@ -643,94 +608,39 @@ ____________________________________________________________
- Gopher for Medical Research tgtimes
+ Beerware: Hardware for Beer tgtimes
____________________________________________________________
- The National Institute of Health is well used to the
- Gopher protocol, for it used it as a way to publish
- medical documentation. You named it: PubMed itself
- have been delivering documents through Gopher:
-
- Phone books with name, phone number and e-mail
- addresses of those willing to submit it,
-
- Images like weathermaps,
-
- Audio such as 1992 presidential debates,
-
- Books and all kind of publcations, also proposed to
- users as a way to publish their own content,
-
- Videos short ones, but also on-demand movies!
-
- Telnet interfaces with login and password,
-
- Search engines For browsing this entire content.
-
- The technical bulletin of March-April 1994 reveals as
- much. While 1994 does not sounds like a world gifted
- with nowadays unlimited technology, equivalents to
- modern tools, with less bells and less whistles, were
- already widespread among providers, but much less used
- as they are today:
-
- Spotify were files through Gopher.
-
- Netflix were files through Gopher.
-
- PubMed, ResearchGate were files through Gopher.
-
- Instagram were files through Gopher.
-
- Facebook were publication as files through Gopher.
-
- Amazon Kindle were text files through Gopher.
-
- Office365 were telnet interactive session, or
- WordStar, PostScript, and ASCII files through
- Gopher.
-
- Google was either gopher search, or interactive telnet
- sessions, with sometimes powerful query languages,
- permitting to filter the result held in the
- databases: Searching for references about Italians
- with AIDS that are not indexed with ITALY (MH)
-
- This showcases that a lot of thing declared as
- possible today thank to the advances of technology
- were available since as early as 1994. With much less
- bells and much less whistles. With much less bandwidth
- for everyone, but existing bandwidth much less used as
- well.
+ Retreated industrial robot hardware recycled into a
+ bartender. Such is the project of the Bistromatik,
+ born in Brittany, now visiting countries abroad.
- Interactive database querying languages would look a
- bit uninviting, and TurboGopher (showcased in the
- document) has not all the font, layout, media
- integration features of modern day web browsers.
+ A mechanical robot arm was built for the industry, but
+ while still working, was removed from production, and
+ collected dust in a warehouse.
- Under that perspective, the race to technology looks
- like not a quest for new use-cases, but taking what
- was possible in the early days to in a crude format
- and only to some initiated, to the masses, in an
- inviting layout, packed onto small, shiny objects that
- fit on a mere pocket.
+ Jean-Marie Ollivier took this bored machine that he
+ named "Nestor", got it to move again, and rather than
+ servicing the industry, was programmed it to serve
+ beers.
- https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/archive/nlm_technical_bulletin_march_april_1994.pdf
+ >> It is not rare to see Jean-Marie make Nestor dance
+ on a violin melody.
- One year later, the Gopher for Science and Medecine
- project still is blown at full steam, as the National
- Library of Medecine publishes a bibliography for
- setting-up gopher servers for collaborating on
- specific medical topics.
+ Moving from town to town, this iron giant, taller than
+ any human, goes on display grabbing gobelets, filling
+ them at the tap, and offering them to the curious
+ crowd passing by.
- >> Developing a subject-specific Gopher at the
- National Library of Medicine
+ And if you feel hungry too, you may ask it for a
+ treat, it can also prepare some crepes, the Bretons'
+ favorite dessert.
- https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/7599590/
+ https://bistromatik.com/
- Memecache atom feed
+ Memecache atom feed 20h
____________________________________________________________
Thanks to the innovation from the Netherlands, we can
@@ -747,6 +657,7 @@ ____________________________________________________________
+
St-Lazare's Paris Train Station tgtimes
____________________________________________________________
@@ -791,7 +702,7 @@ ____________________________________________________________
- FreeDOOMDay results
+ FreeDOOMDay results 20h
____________________________________________________________
Thanks to everyone participating in our first tryout
@@ -859,7 +770,7 @@ ____________________________________________________________
scheduler that orchestrates execution of many tasks
onto one or several CPUs. It is a critical piece of
software in the case of real-time operating systems,
- that must ensure to deliver some actions right on
+ that must ensure to trigger some actions right on
time.
Complex systems may be unfit for such purposes, and
@@ -867,10 +778,10 @@ ____________________________________________________________
experimenting how complex systems may end-up in
difficult-to-debug situations.
- Picturing oneself in charge of reproducing a bug on
+ Imagine yourself in charge of reproducing a bug on
earth for something that went wrong on another planet,
- with a patch expected for next Monday is a strong
- pressure toward keeping systems simple and easier to
+ with a patch expected for next Monday. A strong
+ argument toward keeping systems simple and easier to
debug.
Although, the Mars operating system landscape is not
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+ Gopher for Medical Research tgtimes
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+
+ The National Institute of Health is well used to the
+ Gopher protocol, for it used it as a way to publish
+ medical documentation. You named it: PubMed itself
+ have been delivering documents through Gopher:
+
+ Phone books with name, phone number and e-mail
+ addresses of those willing to submit it,
+
+ Images like weathermaps,
+
+ Audio such as 1992 presidential debates,
+
+ Books and all kind of publcations, also proposed to
+ users as a way to publish their own content,
+
+ Videos short ones, but also on-demand movies!
+
+ Telnet interfaces with login and password,
+
+ Search engines For browsing this entire content.
+
+ The technical bulletin of March-April 1994 reveals as
+ much. While 1994 does not sounds like a world gifted
+ with nowadays unlimited technology, equivalents to
+ modern tools, with less bells and less whistles, were
+ already widespread among providers, but much less used
+ as they are today:
+
+ Spotify were files through Gopher.
+
+ Netflix were files through Gopher.
+
+ PubMed, ResearchGate were files through Gopher.
+
+ Instagram were files through Gopher.
+
+ Facebook were publication as files through Gopher.
+
+ Amazon Kindle were text files through Gopher.
+
+ Office365 were telnet interactive session, or
+ WordStar, PostScript, and ASCII files through
+ Gopher.
+
+ Google was either gopher search, or interactive telnet
+ sessions, with sometimes powerful query languages,
+ permitting to filter the result held in the
+ databases: Searching for references about Italians
+ with AIDS that are not indexed with ITALY (MH)
+
+ This showcases that a lot of thing declared as
+ possible today thank to the advances of technology
+ were available since as early as 1994. With much less
+ bells and much less whistles. With much less bandwidth
+ for everyone, but existing bandwidth much less used as
+ well.
+
+ Interactive database querying languages would look a
+ bit uninviting, and TurboGopher (showcased in the
+ document) has not all the font, layout, media
+ integration features of modern day web browsers.
+
+ Under that perspective, the race to technology looks
+ like not a quest for new use-cases, but taking what
+ was possible in the early days to in a crude format
+ and only to some initiated, to the masses, in an
+ inviting layout, packed onto small, shiny objects that
+ fit on a mere pocket.
+
+ https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/archive/nlm_technical_bulletin_march_april_1994.pdf
+
+ One year later, the Gopher for Science and Medecine
+ project still is blown at full steam, as the National
+ Library of Medecine publishes a bibliography for
+ setting-up gopher servers for collaborating on
+ specific medical topics.
+
+ >> Developing a subject-specific Gopher at the
+ National Library of Medicine
+
+ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/7599590/
+
+
+
+
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- Bitreich migrating to Windows Server 2022
+
+ Bitreich migrating to Windows Server 20h
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+ Linux Sysadmin Job Offer announce
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+
+ The web is hiring over and over. A lot of professions
+ were converted from something, to something with
+ online web tools and a lot of computer systems are
+ using a webinterfaces that are just skins for a
+ database.
+
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+ of webservers, and transform fragile, complex, buggy
+ ecosystems onto leaner, more stable systems, and are
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+ an offer for you.
+
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+
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+
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+ to know more about it.
+
+
+
+
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