today's leftovers
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Debian Family
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Thorsten Alteholz ☛ Thorsten Alteholz: My Debian Activities in January 2024
FTP master
This month I accepted 333 and rejected 31 packages. The overall number of packages that got accepted was 342.
Hooray, I already accepted package number 30000.
The statistic, where I get my numbers from, started in February 2002. Up to now 81694 packages got accepted. Given that I accepted package 20000 in October 2020, would I be able to accept half of the packages that made it through NEW?
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GNOME Desktop/GTK
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Ubuntu Pit ☛ Ant GTK Theme: A Flat and Light Theme with a Modern Look
As you are a GNU/Linux or Ubuntu user, you might have tried a set of modern flat Themes like Arc, Numix, or Adapta. But still, you can try a different flavor of another flat and beautiful Ant GTK Theme on your System. Ant GTK Theme is made for Ubuntu and other Gnome-based GNU/Linux distributions.
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Games
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Hackaday ☛ Breaking Through The 1 MB Barrier In DOS With Unreal Mode And More
The memory map of the original 8086 computer with its base and extended memory made the original PC rather straightforward, but also posed countless issues for DOS-based applications as they tried to make use of memory beyond the legacy 1 MB address space. The initial ways to deal with this like EMS, XMS and UMB were rather cumbersome and often impractical, but with the arrival of the 80286 and 80386 processors more options opened up, including protected mode. More interestingly, this led to unreal mode, DOS extenders and the somewhat more obscure LOADALL instruction, as covered by [Julio Merino] in a new article.
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Events
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Hackaday ☛ FOSDEM Saved, With 3D Printing
If you were to consider what the most important component of a hacker event might be, the chances are you’d pick something that’s part of the program, the ambiance, or the culture. But as the organizers of FOSDEM in Brussels found out, what’s really the most important part of such an event is the toilet paper.
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