How Usable is Windows 98 in 2026?

How Usable is Windows 98 in 2026?

With the RAM and storage crisis hitting personal computing very hard – along with new software increasingly suffering the effects of metastasizing ‘AI’ – more people than ever are pining for the ‘good old days’. For example, using that early...

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xargs Cheatsheet

Basic Syntax # Core xargs command forms. Command Description xargs command Read stdin and pass items to a command printf '%sn' a b c | xargs...

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Hiding a Bomb in Plain Sight

You are at war. Trains are key to keeping your army supplied with fuel, ammunition, food, and medical supplies. But, inexplicably, your trains keep blowing up....

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Huston: Revisiting time

Geoff Huston looks at the network time protocol, and efforts to secure it, in detail. NTP operates in the clear, and it is often the case...

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Instant Photography For The Maker

Instant photography is a miracle of the analog age, chemical photographs that develop in your hands moments after the shutter has been pressed. You can buy...

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Is AI Killing Open Source Software?

“It’s complicated” can be used to describe relationships and how AI works — or doesn’t — with open source development. According to longtime open source leader...

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Choice, Control, and Interruption

We were talking about [Maya Posch]’s rant on smartphones, “The Curse of the Everything Device”. Maya’s main point is that because the smartphone, or computer, can...

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DIY 3D Pen is Born To Weld

Depending who you ask, 3D pens are silly toys or handy tools. Those who use them as tools find them handy to fill gaps in printed...

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wc Cheatsheet

Basic Syntax # Core wc command forms. Command Description wc file.txt Show lines, words, and bytes for a file wc file1 file2 Show counts per file...

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2026.10: Higher Powers and Lower Macs

Del Frisco’s Double Eagle Steakhouse in Philadelphia is John Gruber’s favorite steakhouse; Ben owes John a steak after losing a multi-month bet as to whether or...

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Anthropic and the Pentagon

OpenAI is in and Anthropic is out as a supplier of AI technology for the US defense department. This news caps a week of bluster by...

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OpenWrt 25.12.0 released

Version 25.12.0 of the OpenWrt router distribution is available; this release has been dedicated to the memory of Dave Täht. Changes include a switch to the...

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Security updates for Friday

Security updates have been issued by Debian (chromium), Fedora (freerdp, libsixel, opensips, and yt-dlp), Mageia (python-django, rsync, and vim), Red Hat (go-rpm-macros and osbuild-composer), SUSE (7zip,...

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This phone starts fires on purpose

Until now, most mobile phone companies have worked to ensure their phones won’t start fires. (Occasional Samsung devices excepted, of course.) But this week at Mobile...

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useradd Cheatsheet

Basic Syntax # Core useradd command forms. Command Description sudo useradd username Create a user account with defaults sudo useradd -m username Create user and home...

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Russell Coker: Links March 2026

Krebs has an interesting article about the Kimwolf botnet which uses residential proxy relay services [1]. cory Doctorow wrote an insightful blog post about code being...

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Linux Hotplug Events Explained

There was a time when Linux was much simpler. You’d load a driver, it would find your device at boot up, or it wouldn’t. That was...

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Claude Used to Hack Mexican Government

An unknown hacker used Anthropic’s LLM to hack the Mexican government: The unknown Claude user wrote Spanish-language prompts for the chatbot to act as an elite...

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Why Is Alexa+ So Bad?

I stuck Amazon’s Echo Show 15 and its Alexa+ AI assistant in my kitchen for a month. Things have not gone well.

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Planet News Roundup

This is a roundup of articles from the openSUSE community listed on planet.opensuse.org. The community blog feed aggregator lists the featured highlights below from Feb. 27...

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How to Install Git on Debian 13

Git is the world’s most popular distributed version control system used by many open-source and commercial projects. It allows you to collaborate on projects with fellow...

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Ebike Charges At Car Charging Stations

Electric vehicles are everywhere these days, and with them comes along a whole slew of charging infrastructure. The fastest of these are high-power machines that can...

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Friday Five — March 6, 2026

Red Hat MWC Barcelona NewsroomFollow Red Hat’s news from the world’s largest mobile industry event including customers and partners like Bell Canada, Telenor AI Factory, Telefónica,...

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