Always Chaotic Evil Sorcerer

I have worked for a short period on a IBM S/36 with RPG II some 30 odd years ago. Forgot all about it besides the fact that it looked a lot like assembler and after checking your link doesn't even remotely resemble RPG IV. After some 4 months I switched to the client side development which was done in Clipper 5 synchronising data with the S/36.

Always check protondb.com to find out if it runs on steam. The full Sniper Ghost Warrior series runs on Linux.

Like Jeremy said, don't go for a rolling release (OpenSuse, Fedora and their derivatives). Best choice for development is, imho, a distro like Debian or Ubuntu (or their derivatites) which have LTS releases. Most derivatives are just based upon Debian or Ubuntu (which is Debian-based but with tons of changes/additions) with a different desktop environment. So that is another choice to make. I personaly prefer a distro with a Cinnamon desktop, simple and not in the way. KDE is too graphical for me as is Gnome (this may not be the best term to describe it, maybe visualy intrusive is better). As stated in an other thread about Linux I use LMDE (Linux Mint Debian Edition). A stable Debian release with the Cinnamon desktop. I leaves out all of the middle man (Ubuntu) stuff which is in the standard Linux Mint and goes straight to the base. Before LM I used Fedora with Mate as desktop but that was not a very stable environment for me, certain applications (Eclipse comes to mind) didn't like the combo of Fedora with Mate and caused all kinds of UI problems. I don't care about Wayland or X11 on my development machine as it is not relevant nor do I need a heavy AMD or NVidia graphics, I am not gaming on my development machine. I use a dedicated computer for that. To find a distro that is to your likings just download a few live images, make a bootable USB-stick and boot your computer with it and play around. That's what I did and so I found out that Cinnamon is best for me but maybe not for someone else. Support in case of trouble is never far away. You can even most of the time fall back to the base distro (LMDE -> Debian, LM -> Ubuntu -> Debian) And finally, don't go for a more advanced distro like Arch. It is a very good distro but absolutely not for beginners.

Evolution as e-mail client. I use it not only for work related stuff (Exchange Server connection for one customer via EWS, works sooooo much better than Outlook) but also to connect to my personal e-mail (Proton Mail). And it is a standard package. Other things depend on what you do. I also use Remmina as RDP-client For Teams I use the flatpak version, it seems more stable than the native package. Perhaps OnlyOffice as Word/Excel replacement if you only need the basics, it does all that I need, otherways I'd suggest LibreOffice. If you need to edit pdf-files you should take a look at MasterPDF Editor (not free but doesn't cost too much).

Romany Gilmour is his daughter

I have been running on Linux for over 20 years now. Started with Fedora and switched some years back to Linux Mint for my gaming machine and LMDE for my development machine. Experimented with SUSE in the early 90's but that was not a real succes, just had too little time to really get into it. Last month I changed my gaming machine from an old Intel system to a brand new AMD gaming monster. Just take the SSD-drive from the old hardware and plug it in the new one and all is well. Try that with Windows. Same 3 years ago with my development machine, just take the SSD-drive and put it in the new hardware and it just runs. For development I use: - Aqua Data Studio for SQL Server management and development. So much better than SSMS, you have no idea until you try it. - JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA for Java/Quarkus/Camel development - JetBrains Rider for C# - JetBrains PHPStorm for Laravel The JetBrains IDE's are so much better (and faster) than Visual Studio, I never really liked the Microsoft development tools, they always seemed to get in the way. Further I run several Docker containers with MSSql server on Ubuntu (yes, that is the best MS product and because I need it for my customers). But also an NGinx webserver, a Postgresql server and several others. I gave Windows the final kick out of the door couple of years back when I had to demo an application for a customer. The evening before I boot the (hardly ever used) portable (I dislike portables with a passion) and it wanted to update so I let it. The next morning it still wasn't done updating. Needless to say I took an old portable that ran Linux, installed the application and went to the meeting. That evening the new poratable was also running Linux. All this just to make clear that you can perfectly develop on Linux even C#. What you cannot do however is develop Winforms applications and run very specific MS applications (PowerBI for example).

SQL Server runs very fine on Debian 12 and RHEL. I've been using for a couple of years now, never had any problems. The RHEL install has high traffic in production, the Debian install is what I use for development. If it is for personal use just go with the developers license.

I replaced all my keyboards with these CHERRY STREAM KEYBOARD[^]. Very silent, very flat and heavy, they don´t slide around when typing as some of the others do.

Nope, we don't need them. That may seem strange for Americans but in Europe we hardly use credit cards in stores either. We use all kinds of direct debit services in stores, hardly ever cash. If we want to pay online we use either Ideal (in NL) or Bancontact (BE) or Paypal.

You asked for alternatives ;) It depends entirely on what you do with the file explorer. If it is indeed just for browsing files then Windows File Explorer is good enough. If you need to work with files on local and remote systems on different file systems (Windows/Linux) then you need better tools.

Total Commander, XYPlorer, FreeCommander, Double Commander, ... the list goes on. I used Total Commander some 10 years ago before fully switching to Linux and it was like having Norton Commander again.

RIP Chick Corea, one of the greatest.

Andy Brummer wrote:

Cool, hey can you write me a prime number generator in sql?

Here you go (google was my friend) http://www.mail-archive.com/mysql@lists.mysql.com/msg103529.html[^]

And yet another great actor has left us.

Happy birthday to both of us then, it is my 51st today, if that is any consolation.

I can ping to mail.jnrcs.org (resolves to 212.38.147.97 which seems to be correct according Telnet II) with an average of 131ms, tracert also takes about 131ms. I cannot telnet to port 25 but I get a connection to Exchange IMAP4 on port 143 Hope this helps and good luck in getting it to work again

I have the exacte same camera and I can view the .m2ts files very smoothly on my Dell XPS M1710 (Intel T7400 processor (Core2), 4GB RAM, NVidia GO 9750GTX) and on my desktop (Intel Q9550 processor (Core2 Quad), 4GB RAM, NVidia GTX280). Both computers are running WinXP64 and Ubuntu 9.04 64bit and I bought them both so I can do some video editing directly in AVCHD format (and some gaming of course). I can however not view the files on the 2 workstations with an ATI X800 card. In other words, you need performant hardware. You can of course reduce the quality of the movies by converting them to divx or avi but that also requires a decent workhorse if you don't want to spend ages waiting for the result.

Mine is also 31st March

WinXP x64 is based upon the Server 2003 code base which has kernel 5.2 unlike WinXP 32 wich has kernel 5.1 so it isn't just a question of recompiling for 64-bit. That's also the reason why there is no SP3 for WinXP x64. And knowing MS, you better always start with a fresh disk, never try to update one OS with another.