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Jan Walzer

@jwalzer@infosec.exchange

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Jan Walzer 1d ago

Drei Tage vor Kita-Schließung spielen wir mal wieder Notbetreuung.
Es sind die letzten drei Tage meiner Tochter im KiGA. Läuft mal wieder. Bin gespannt ob ich die Bildungsdokumentation noch kriege, ein Entwicklungsgespräch hat schonmal nicht mehr stattgefunden.
Frage mich wann frühkindliche Bildung den Stellenwert in der politischen Diskussion einnimmt der ihr zusteht.

#fedikita #fedieltern

Jan Walzer 1d ago

🚀 Das FrOSCon 2025 Programm ist da! Die Free and Open Source Software Conference bringt am 16.–17. August wieder Open‑Source‑Begeisterte aus ganz Europa an der Hochschule Bonn‑Rhein‑Sieg zusammen – und online!

👉 https://froscon.org/programm/

🎤 2 Tage, 7 Vortragsslots + 2 Workshops parallel, Live‑Streams, Social Event & mehr.
... und das Beste: der Eintritt ist frei!

In den nächsten Tagen präsentieren wir euch ein paar der Talks hier.

#floss #opensource #software #community

Jan Walzer 1d ago

50 years in filesystems

16.08.2025 10:00–11:00, HS 1/2

https://programm.froscon.org/froscon2025/talk/42d5d1ea-8ca1-45e6-9545-717d90268f4d/

Writing data to disk, how hard can it be? File systems are a special topic, because when you make a mistake, somebody is losing data and rollback ain't gonna fix it.

We have had innovations in filesystems roughly in intervals of a decade for the last 50 years. What have we learned, what has changed due to changes in technology, and where are we now?

Proposal in EN, Vortrag in DE, ich weiß.

Hier isses, das ganze und hochoffizielle Programm der #froscon25 #froscon #froscon2025

FrOSCon 2025

Schedule, talks and talk submissions for FrOSCon 2025

Jan Walzer 2d ago

has anyone ever come across a video documentary about CorelDraw! and the Corel corporation? it's eluding me on web/yt searches, and *someone* must have done a deep dive on this by now?

#retroComputing #vintageComputing

Jan Walzer 3d ago

Emmanuelle 3d ago

Natürlich ist der Bundestag kein Zirkus.
In einem Zirkus arbeiten Menschen mit unterschiedlichem Background zusammen und müssen sich aufeinander verlassen können.

Jan Walzer 3d ago

Maximilian Wilhelm 3d ago

Ich hätte gerne ein ähnliches ernstzunehmendes Rauchverbot in Deutschland. In Cafés und Restaurants wird man immer noch zugequarzt, wenn man bei schönem Wetter draußen sitzt. Offensichtlich geht es ja auch anders.

https://mastodon.social/@tazgetroete/114804428969318341

Jan Walzer 5d ago

@isotopp @kaffeeringe @wonka @MBrandtner @genofire @phreaknerd @hanghuhn

Ich habe neulich den Begriff "Rasenmäher-Eltern" gehört ...

Das ist das was nach den Hubschraubereltern kommt:

Sie mähen und pflegen den Rasen so sehr, daß alles schön gleichmäßig flach ist, und man keine Angst haben muß daß das kind beim hinfallen sich weh tut. Die ganze Welt für das Kind (der Rasen) ist einfach, flach, grün ... ohne Hindernisse, ohne Besonderheiten, ohne interessante Dinge zu entdecken ... einfach nur ... flach und kurz gemäht.

Jan Walzer Jul 2

OH: Ein […] präziser Indikator ist die Wurfreichweite der […] Geräte.
Größer gleich 10 Meter ist alles IOT, größer gleich 1 Meter aber unter 10 Meter ist alles IT und unter 1 Meter ist es OT.
Der Wurf ist vom jeweiligen Admin ohne Hilfsmittel wie Belagerungswaffen ausführen. Es gilt nur die horizontale Entfernung. Es ist die vollständige produktive Einheit zu werfen.

Jan Walzer Jul 2

@headcr45h @anathem @fluepke

Ich weiß nicht ob die Fräse als Belagerungswaffe zählt, aber richtig justiert kann sowas auch weit werfen, vor allem wenn es teure Geräusche dabei macht

Jan Walzer Jul 2

why-not @Heike Jul 2

Schön war’s!

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has anyone ever come across a video documentary about CorelDraw! and the Corel corporation? it's eluding me on web/yt searches, and *someone* must have done a deep dive on this by now?

#retroComputing #vintageComputing

Ángela Stella Matutina 3d ago

Very interested. It would give me closure or something. I had to teach that thing.

@angelastella wow!

Ángela Stella Matutina 3d ago

I'm older than I look...

AJ Sadauskas 3d ago

@angelastella @vga256 Here's something tangentially related to this. But given the WordPerfect–Correl merger, it might be of interest to folk who want yo know about the history of Correl.

Pete Peterson, who was the CEO of WordPerfect, has published an in-depth firsthand history of the company: http://www.wordplace.com/ap/

Almost Perfect by W. E. Pete Peterson The Rise and Fall of WordPerfect Corporation

Almost Perfect by W. E. Pete Peterson - The Rise and Fall of WordPerfect Corporation. Mr. Peterson gives his account of experiences as WordPerfect's Executive Vice President.

Ángela Stella Matutina 3d ago

Will read, thank you.

Donald Hobern 3d ago

@aj @angelastella

Interesting to see so much about the OS/2-Windows conflict there. I was an OS/2 system UI developer with IBM in Boca Raton back in the late 80s and early 90s. WordPerfect recruited a lot of our team to go to Utah and work on their suite. I got an offer there and seriously considered it, but I didn't feel ready to live in Provo.

OS/2 and WordPerfect pretty much died together. IBM didn't seem to know how to market the OS, and I guess their commitment to it was a maladaptation for WP.

Ángela Stella Matutina 3d ago

@dhobern @aj @vga256

Technical people (myself included back then) couldn't understand why a system needed to be "marketed". OS/2 was objectively superior, right?

Mistakes were made and feelings were hurt. No one really learned anything. No one ever does.

AJ Sadauskas 3d ago

@angelastella @dhobern @vga256 It really is amazing how DOS/Windows couldn't lay a glove on many of the alternatives in terms of technical merit.

OS/2, Macintosh, Amiga, Atari ST, Acorn Archimedes, Solaris, NeXTSTEP, and Silicon Graphics were all technically superior platforms in various ways.

Yet Windows ended up coming out on top.

Ángela Stella Matutina 3d ago

@aj @dhobern @vga256

Political systems don't win or lose on the basis of merit either. (Cue Clausewitz...)

Scrutinizer 3d ago

@aj @angelastella @dhobern @vga256 What came on top was Windows NT. A completely different system with an actual technical merit.

Martin Vermeer FCD 3d ago

@scrutinizer @aj @angelastella @dhobern @vga256 Depends on where you locate the top. Arguably Android, also with the actual technical merit of being Linux based. But enshittification spares no one.

Martin Vermeer FCD 3d ago

@aj @angelastella @dhobern @vga256 Don't forget OS-9

https://www.roug.org/retrocomputing/os/os9

Microware OS-9/6809 - Retrocomputing

.ｂｅｅｊａｙ 3d ago

@angelastella @dhobern @aj @vga256 exactly that’s why OSes (and everything else!) „needs“ marketing (from a producers view). To push the inferior product! VHS anyone?
Marketing in general is „don’t watch too closely what the product is. It’s cool!!“

Christopher Potter 3d ago

@beejay @angelastella @dhobern @aj @vga256 and marketing of a software is not easy, marketing of an OS even harder (but I think Zorin OS is doing a good job, appealing web site is not so common).

@dhobern @aj @angelastella Kindly remove me from your CC chain.

@aj wow! interesting book - thank you.

Toni Westbrook 3d ago

@vga256 I would also like to know if anyone finds one. CorelDraw was the first major art package I used on the PC, lots of fond memories!

🦊 🍸Faux around & find out⚠️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿3d ago

@vga256 Boy, and howdy….
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CorelDRAW

CorelDRAW - Wikipedia

🦊 🍸Faux around & find out⚠️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿3d ago

https://youtu.be/0ZiuAc9EgXk?si=voLaNfY79Jbla8H2

History/Versions of Coreldraw

YouTube

@camstonefaux ..........................did you actually watch this?

@vga256 horrific traumatic memories of using it professionally in the DTP department at a large printshop ::shudder::

Evert Pot 3d ago

@vga256 also want this

@vga256 I recently learned that Corel was maintaining their own official Corel LinuxOS distro. I only knew them for Corel Draw...

Philippe 3d ago

@rejzor @vga256 Not only their Linux distro, but also their Linux computer
https://archive.org/details/corel-netwinder-brochure-1998

Corel NetWinder Linux based Internet Computer from 1998 : Corel Computer : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Product brochure for the Corel NetWinder Linux based computer / internet access device.These were introduced in the late 1990s as a way to access the internet...

Internet Archive

.ｂｅｅｊａｙ 3d ago

@vga256 when I was young we had this in our PC and I had no clue how it worked. I was used to „draw“ in MS paint, but could not figure out, how to use Corel draw. „Wtf how am I supposed to draaaaaw something?“

✿.｡.:* η𝒆𝓥𝔽𝔂 *.:｡.✿3d ago

@vga256 no but I need it

Kehzafox 3d ago

@vga256 I've never seen a documentary on them, but I have used it from #Coreldraw v5 to the current version. It's still my daily driver!

FrugalGamer 3d ago

@vga256 I would watch the heck out of a video like that

Jared White (🏳️‍⚧️ ally)3d ago

@vga256 I used CorelDRAW extensively in the late 90s & early 2000s for both web & print graphics. I still have memories of wrangling with local print shops who *hated* the files I brought them and the fact I wasn't using, y'know, Adobe and Quark like everyone else in print. 😅

I'll actually defend Corel Photo-Paint from that era over Photoshop 'till my dying day. A lot of UX improvements which came later on in Photoshop were in Photo-Paint first!

@jaredwhite 😆 love it. i am always fascinated how CorelDraw was *so* polarizing. i was blown away by Pantone support back in 90-91!

Blind Mapmaker 3d ago

@vga256 Ah, that brings back memories. I still keep using the 2021 version, but I never really got into it as a teen. It's a great programme, but like all vector stuff it needs quite some effort to produce something worthwhile.

@blind_mapmaker yes. i can say 100% that as a kid, it was intimidating to build vector art with. i ended up becoming a raster/photoshop user for that reason

Blind Mapmaker 3d ago

@vga256
It totally get that. It was a monster back than and didn't run very smoothly either.

I find that as I'm somebody with very little artistic ability it helps me a lot to make visually pleasing comic-style stuff. Never really managed to draw with mouse or tablet and the real-life pencil and brush stuff I did was strictly grade-school level. Corel draw adds a layer of numbers that I can grasp far better than raster stuff.

@blind_mapmaker totally agree. i returned to vector art later in life, and *really* learned to appreciate how flexible and user-friendly it was to work with shapes

☠ Captain Arcee ☠1d ago

@vga256 I feel a little compelled to make such a video documentary. If only I could find time to do so in my already busy schedule. Perhaps one day. I'm quite passionate about old art programs. Something about them seems charming.