Windows NT, VMS, and Unix
Windows NT and VMS: The Rest of the Story
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Canvas LMS
Canvas LMS is an open source learning management system. Not to be confused with Canva (which Google does all the time). Canvas can be downloaded and installed from the Canvas Github repository. It can also be used with a free teacher account which does not have all features (pdf), but many.
Roblox for Education
Getting started for developers - Education Roblox developer onboarding How to monetize games More on monetization Roblox business case Roblox for Education Roblox is considered part of the emerging metaverse. For children it is the main multi-player virtual world.
Scratch Programming Comments
Comments can be added through right-clicking in the code area, then typing into the small window that opens. These windows can be resized and minimized.
Create Wordle Clone in Scratch
Wordle is a popular five letter guessing game, akin to Hangman but guessing five letters at a time. A confusing implementation which shows how things should be worked out on paper first, to save time and frustratoin. More complicated implementation, include creating a word list.
Windows XP Theme for Linux
Make Linux look exactly like Windows XP
Fig and Bash-it
At first glance, Fig seems to be re-inventing the wheel when it comes to autocomplete, but it is actually doing this at the OS level, and not integrating into the shell. Linux is not yet supported (10 April 2022), but coming soon. This means a faster implementation of extending the shell. Bash-it is the great ... Read more
Window Managers
Beneath every window-based Desktop Environment (DE) there is a windows manager. And beneath the windows manager, is a display server protocol such as X.org, Mir, and Wayland. When choosing a Desktop Environment, one can simply choose a windows manager and then add various other utilities such as menus, panels, search interfaces, configuration interfaces, etc. This ... Read more
Gutenprint printer drivers
Previously named Gimp Print, Gutenprint is a high quality package of printer drivers for CUPS on Linux, Macintosh OS X, and other POSIX-compliant operating systems. This project also maintains an enhanced Print plug-in for GIMP 2.x from the same code base. Gutenprint includes a large number of printer drivers for Canon, Epson, Lexmark, Sony, Olympus, ... Read more
Ob Khan National Park
Ob Khan National Park is about 40 minutes from Hang Dong market. Starting at the road which goes West from the Rectangle Coffee X Tower, it is more or less a straight (meandering) drive of 22 minutes (according to Google). In the Alltrails site, there are several different hikes with Ob Khan in the name, ... Read more