Mastodawn

mos_8502

🇨🇦1d ago

This is what we should be building.

http://www.brutman.com/PartUtil/PartUtil.html

mbbrutman 1d ago

As promised: PartUtil a limited partition editor that makes dual booting DOS and Win 9x without a boot manager easier.

Hide, unhide and make partitions active. Save and restore MBRs to files. And a few extra tricks that help with initial setup. Runs on any PC compatible and any version of DOS. Source code included.

(I've been using an earlier version of this for years on a PCjr. This is a complete rewrite that is finally worth sharing.)

#retrocomputing #dos

Roasting House Coffee 1d ago

Just come across this legend (again) saved on a HDD. Gets posted often, but there always someone who hasn't seen it.

#Cycling #Logistics #Fridge #Legend

Thomas 🔭🕹️1d ago

Not to be alarmist but the Power Mac G4 Cube is now a quarter of a century old

https://www.ctvnews.ca/business/article/mondelez-canada-discontinuing-jersey-milk-chocolate-bars-amid-low-consumer-demand/

vga256 1d ago

impeach churchill.

#canada

Mondelez Canada discontinuing Jersey Milk chocolate bars amid low consumer demand

Mondelez Canada Inc. says it’s no longer producing Jersey Milk chocolate bars.

CTVNews

JeffG 2d ago

Ah finally some batteries for my flashlight.

Natasha Jay Jun 1

The cat trees are blooming early this year.

Will (old/moving to beige)Jun 1

@Natasha_Jay Pussywillow, I believe.

chrisp Jun 1

@wilpercy Wait til you see fox glove in bloom

@wilpercy @Natasha_Jay TIL, that in some other languages the willow flowers also have name related to cats. In Polish we call them "kotki" (plural diminutive form of "kot" - cat).

@agturcz

Same here, we call willow blossom 'katjes' which means 'kittens'.

@wilpercy @Natasha_Jay

@pascaline Worth to know. Thank you 😊

@agturcz

You're welcome!
There is also the word 'catkins' which I like, it's cute. It seems kittens are loved all over the world 😊

@pascaline I am generally positively amused by this name being common in many languages, but Dutch is special, as I'm trying to learn it.

@agturcz

Oooh, well; good for you!

Learning Dutch is quite the thing, right?
Many of my expats learned it as they were building their lives here.
The most important is actually using the language with a native, via fun talks, either live or digital, and I remember teaching people Dutch or French. It was always fun 😊 My Dutch father studied French and got his teaching diploma, my mother was a French French teacher, I suppose it's in my genes 😀

@pascaline I'm not yet on the level of having a meaningful conversation yet, unless you ask me what I had for lunch 😅

There are some grammar quirks, like you don't use de and het frequently, but you need to know which kind of word it is, to use proper possessive.

Phonetics is demanding a little bit, although. Not all of it. But still, pronouncing "Groningen" as a native seems impossible to me.

@agturcz
Well, let me know if you need help (for free of course). One of the things I really enjoyed was to get the right sound out of every student 😀 I used to help children too and it was so wonderful to hear them say words their parents said they could never pronounce. So, don't hesitate!

@pascaline Thanks, I will make a note 😊

tuban_muzuru Jun 1

@pascaline @agturcz

I need to learn Dutch. I speak French, German and Spanish but the Dutch and Vlaams are my sort of people.... I love them so.

@tuban_muzuru

Go ahead, try to learn it 😊

... so my first marriage was to a Spanish speaker (Guatemala) - so I'm fishing around for the word for "cloud" (nube). In French, it's nuage of course, and I'm wiggling my lips around.., "noo-ah-je" and she's laughing at me.

@tuban_muzuru

The French / Dutch 'u' is notoriously difficult for the English speakers.

Pour moi, la France, c'est la Normandie. Paris est magnifique, mais j'ai un faible pour le calvados…