1st
08:50 pm

Hardware reality: assigning variables I



2nd
06:00 am

Hardware reality: a computer is not more intelligent than a toaster



07:50 am

Hardware reality: counting with switches I



06:27 pm

Hardware reality: counting with switches II



09:42 pm

Hardware reality: assigning variables II



10:04 pm

Hardware reality: what a computer is



10:21 pm

Hardware reality: sufficient for now - back to C!



3rd
06:47 pm

C & Hardware: a second book



08:44 pm

Setting up cygwin I



11:27 pm

Setting up cygwin II



4th
10:36 pm

The programmer's development paradigm



5th
12:50 am

My development paradigm



06:16 pm

The difficulty of categorizing computer development stages



07:20 pm

Vim



6th
10:52 am

What is POSIX?



02:34 pm

C loves POSIX



06:16 pm

Backward-compatibility 1: Linux is not good at it



06:51 pm

Wow I went on a deep, DEEP trip again with platform choices



09:16 pm

First C, then anything else?



7th
12:02 am

C was never really embraced by MS Windows, the platform quickly moved on to C++

- 7 comments

12:15 am

No way around it: C was made for Unix. C, Unix & GNU are part of the POSIX standard

- 4 comments

09:12 pm

Backward-compatibility 2: Linux is not good at it



09:26 pm

Backward-compatibility 3: Classic Windows is good at it



09:30 pm

Backward-compatibility 4: Windows vs Linux



09:38 pm

Backward-compatibility 5: Conclusion



8th
01:32 am

Decision: C total OR C moderate OR retro software moderate OR retro software total



02:27 am

My development setting going forward: C+Vim+GCC, in Alpine Linux, in VirtualBox, in WinXP



03:19 pm

Proudly GNU



04:30 pm

Systemd debate



07:43 pm

RETRO ATTACK



07:46 pm

C development: Alpine Linux > Antix Linux



9th
04:45 am

Back & forward compatibility 1



07:20 am

Back & forward compatibility 2



08:07 am

Backward & forward compatibility 3



10:30 pm

IDEA! Windows XP 32bit > 64bit



10th
07:43 am

If you wonder, where I am going with using old Windows



11th
03:34 pm

Only one post but a LOT of work done!

- 3 comments

12th
02:53 pm

Is learning through older systems a waste of time?



03:20 pm

Where I am at



10:53 pm

Windows 7 updating for 5 - 6 hours!



13th
07:10 pm

Thus, to re-iterate, these are the 2 books I am following



07:32 pm

Installing GCC and other development tools in my Linux VM



08:00 pm

Vim ready to go!



09:00 pm

"I Love Music" - The O'Jays



10:16 pm

CPaMA 1Ed - Program 001: gcc -ansi dweight.c -o dweight



20th
02:34 pm

Green leaf head breaker



27th
01:40 pm

CPaMA 1Ed - Page 009 to 020 - 4.19% Completion



28th
10:23 am

Smoothing out my work flow



29th
08:50 am

Smoothing out my work flow II



09:31 am

Won't do it. They can x my y and my z



04:00 pm

Devuan Linux



31st
07:12 am

Fedora Linux



07:18 am

Today I will be offline while installing Linux



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