Re: old games

2022-10-04 Thread Harold Hartley via PLUG-discuss
Most of those games were dos games and I use to play lots of those games on freedos. But I was able to get doom and wolfenstein to run on my Linux box. But most ran on my freedos box. On Mon, Oct 3, 2022, at 12:34, Michael via PLUG-discuss wrote: > what I meant by 'how do I install them to the /

Re: Why is PHP not a "real" language?

2022-10-04 Thread James Dugger via PLUG-discuss
Hi Steve, Perhaps the example I used of comparing microservices to breaking up a framework is too simplistic and a bit contrived. There is no direct comparison. You're not going to gain anything by breaking up a framework into its basic parts. That said, what do you do when you have a large comp

Re: old games

2022-10-04 Thread Daniel Stasinski via PLUG-discuss
What about old infocom games like Zork, etc? All you need is a z-machine like frotz. People are still writing for it. See https://ifarchive.org/ *Daniel P. Stasinski* dan...@genericinbox.com ✞ *Jesus Is King *✞ On Mon, Oct 3, 2022 at 10:18 AM Michael via PLUG-discuss < plug-discuss@lists.phx

Re: hows the weather over in PHX?

2022-10-04 Thread Jim via PLUG-discuss
I like to know what the weather's like back home, so I keep this site bookmarked https://www.accuweather.com/en/us/phoenix/85003/weather-forecast/346935 On 10/2/22 14:22, Michael via PLUG-discuss wrote: A hurricane just blew through here. Here in ocala we didn't even get a lot of rain or wind.

Change color in plasma message windows

2022-10-04 Thread Jim via PLUG-discuss
I have Kubuntu 22.04 installed.   I have one problem with the appearance of the text in the message windows that pop up.  The background is black.  The text is almost as black.  Here is an example.  Look below Copying and to the left of Home/desktop. There's some   very dark text that you might

Re: old games

2022-10-04 Thread Michael via PLUG-discuss
uhhh oh I forgot to mention that the games can't require a gpu. Games like oolite . On Mon, Oct 3, 2022 at 5:07 PM James Mcphee via PLUG-discuss < plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote: > afaik, the only way to do this with apt is with a chroot. there's no > equivalent to --relocate as

Re: hows the weather over in PHX?

2022-10-04 Thread Stephen Partington via PLUG-discuss
Nice brisk 57 with a high of 73 today. But I am in Bloomington now. On Sun, Oct 2, 2022, 7:01 PM Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss < plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote: > > Dry 95 degrees at 4pm. Overnight is projected to get down to 73. We > had probably what I would call a little less than no

Re: Why is PHP not a "real" language?

2022-10-04 Thread Steve Litt via PLUG-discuss
On Tue, 2022-10-04 at 00:26 -0700, James Dugger via PLUG-discuss wrote: > Microservices are nothing more than a way to break apart each piece of a > bigger framework that is tightly coupled (dependent on each other), create > an agreed to interface between the services freeing you up to write each

Re: secondary hard drive

2022-10-04 Thread Eric Oyen via PLUG-discuss
Well, it’s a bit complicated. Yes, an external drive can be used in this fashion. However, if there is a problem (like say the drive not being connected), it could cause the boot process to fail or hang. Also, at what point are the mount points initiated? If after the driver module load, then n

Re: Why is PHP not a "real" language?

2022-10-04 Thread James Dugger via PLUG-discuss
Just getting back to having time to respond. > Given the current environment can a 12 year old or a small business > owner take PHP and create a business web app? It was possible 15 years > ago but not today. The stack has gotten deeper and more extensive. But that is why the industry has mo