On Tuesday, 19 May 2020 02:05:52 CEST Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:

On Tue, May 19, 2020 at 12:43 AM Pičugins Arsenijs crimier@yandex.ru

wrote:

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https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68/micro-desktop/updates/command-not-found

Note on the 'lsusb' thing: I personally like the 'dmesg -Hw &' command, it stays in the background and prints the dmesg info in realtime - in particular, letting you see detailed data about newly-connected devices.

ah! thank you :)

Any word on the shipment? I guess these things will be taking rather longer than usual.

Hope everything is otherwise fine (with everyone)!

Paul

On Wed, May 20, 2020 at 9:02 AM Philip Hands phil@hands.com wrote:

David Niklas doark@mail.com writes:

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https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68/micro-desktop/updates/command-not-found

Dear luke, You didn't need email, you can use wall(1).

That dredges up memories of supporting users (via 1200 baud modem, thus occupying the only land line) by communicating via write(1) in each direction, which then lead to the memory of the joy of discovering talk(1) as a better alternative.

ha, i remember that. and trying to write a better alternative (multi-user, tokenring style) as a way to learn c, except i didn't use select and on trying to kill it, it left a zombie process running at 100% CPU on the SunOS 4.1.3 minicomputer. as it was during the inter-term break, i went to see one of the sysadmins in the Imperial College Dept of Computing to sort it out. he was later severely told off for rebooting the machine.

Thanks for the moment of Proustian nostalgia. :-)

:)

l.