KolibriOS is is an operating system that fits on a single 1.44MB Floppy (many applications are compressed) and runs with 8MB of Ram !!! The surprise is that the system come with a graphical environment complete with text editors, system utilities, games, browser, media players and lots of other stuff.
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Anybody up to writing good directory software?
Tue, 2007-02-20 11:17 — David JonathanSince the very beginning, directories (of any kind) have had a very central role in the internet. (I have recently grown fond of Free Web Directory. Even Slashdot can be considered a directory: a collection of great news and invaluable user-generated comments. As far as software is concerned, doing a quick search on Google about software directories will return the free (as in freedom) software directories like Savannah, SourceForge, Freshmeat and so on, followed by shareware and freeware sites such as FileBuzz, PCWin Download Center and All Freeware (great if you're looking for shareware and freeware, but definitely less comprehensive than their free-as-in-freedom counterparts).
Is better education the key to finding better software?
Sat, 2007-03-03 03:25 — Edward RusselI read David Jonathon's article Anybody Up To Writing Good Directory Software? the other day, which got me thinking about software directories in general. As David mentioned, many of the software directories one finds when doing a quick google search are free as in beer, not as in freedom. But what interests me is the software directories that already exist, providing a combination of both free as in beer software, and open source software. Sites such as Freeware Downloads and Shareware Download don't advertise themselves as providing free as in liberty software, but each of them have a good selection of open source software available... if you know where to look.
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lozz
2 years 14 weeks 1 day 10 hours ago
Floppy disks!
I think I've still got an old IBM external floppy drive in a box in the shed. It never got used. Can you still buy floppy disks, though?
Rhapsody
2 years 14 weeks 1 day 4 min ago
Of course you can
A few seconds on Google, and would you look at that!
Also, when my current PC ended up being built without a floppy drive (because I forgot to specify one) I ended up getting an external USB floppy drive, which I now use through a seven port external USB hub. My BIOS sees it as boot device, meaning it's as functional as any internal drive. It's also about as fast as any internal drive since the USB spec provides more than enough bandwidth, and USB is about as future proof as any port is likely to get.
Given how reliable floppy drives have proven to be in the past, I'm unlikely to ever need another drive now.