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davefischer
davefischer @ davefischer @beehaw.org
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What is your favorite operating system and what do you like about it?

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  • My experience with AIX was very early, on first generation RS/6000s. AIX 3? I had a Powerserver-930 at home. SMIT was weird.

    • What is your favorite operating system and what do you like about it?

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  • CDE had the advantage of being useful with a default config, at a time when most window managers required HUGE amounts of fiddling to get a nice environment.

    • Favorite Terminal Emulator

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  • xterm. It emulates a terminal. What else would I want a terminal emulator to do?

    • Favorite Terminal Emulator

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  • The perfect terminal is the vt320. (I keep one plugged in to my router, since I can reach any machine from there.)

    • What is your favorite operating system and what do you like about it?

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  • I've been using Unix in one form or another since the mid 80s, so that's pretty deeply ingrained by now.

    I was strongly biased towards Solaris & OpenBSD for many years (Solaris on nice Sun hardware, OpenBSD on small machines) but both began to annoy me a little bit recently, so I switched to Void linux. (Also, there was ONE feature of Linux that I REALLY wanted - extended attributes (name=val) in the filesystem. Love those.)

    I'm fascinated by Multics & Control Data's NOS (70s mainframe OS's), but that's for historic study, not actual use.

    • What's your favorite colour of cat? Also, is it morally wrong to choose a cat based on color?

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  • Wasn't really a fan of calico until I got Salome:

    • From an urban planning perspective, what's the worst designed aspect of your city?

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  • The Vietnamese restaurants are too far away. MASSIVE design flaw.

    • What is your favorite image (art, photo, etc.) and what about it makes it your favorite?

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  • I love La femme 100 têtes.

    • What is your favorite image (art, photo, etc.) and what about it makes it your favorite?

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  • This ranks high: Dorothy & The Lion from the 1902 live production of The Wizard of Oz:

    • What food did you not try until you were an adult? Did you have a "where have you been all my life" moment?

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  • Banh mi was definitely a "where have you been all my life" moment.

    • What food did you not try until you were an adult? Did you have a "where have you been all my life" moment?

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  • There's a Salvadoran bakery a block from my home that makes the best empanadas I've ever had. Favorite brunch (with Turkish coffee).

    • What was the most surprising cameo in a movie or TV show?

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  • Cecil B. Demented is a John Waters comedy loosely based on the notorious Patty Hearst kidnapping from the 70s.

    Patty Hearst has a cameo.

    • What book had the greatest impact on your life, and which part of it is the most memorable for you?

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  • The Mind's I lead me to Lem, which lead to Tarkovsky which lead to "serious film" in general...

    • How 2013 film The Congress predicted Hollywood's current AI crisis

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  • The Futurological Congress is the Lem I recommend to people who haven't read anything by him yet. It's a good starting point for him.

    • Do you have any weird song head cannons?

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  • I Think We're Alone Now by Tommy James and the Shondells is about a pair of terrorists on the run after planting a bomb.

    • Songs you later found out were covers.

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    • Share your wacky dreams that you have for your future, or that you had for your future as a kid.

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  • When I was... 10? or so, late 70s, I was obsessed with HAL from 2001, and I wanted to grow up to be a psychologist for insane computers.

    • 'Exotic' pet owners, what are some things about your pets you wish more people knew about?

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  • An ex had ferrets. They were fantastic. I don't think I'll ever have any of my own though.

    • Those with parents who hold opposite political views than you, how do you go about disagreeing?

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  • Political disagreements with my dad would have been along the lines of: who was the best revolutionary, Trotsky or Ho Chi Minh?

    Ha ha.

    • 'Exotic' pet owners, what are some things about your pets you wish more people knew about?

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  • I kept turtles back in the 90s. I had a fantastic setup: a blocked off room, with a kiddie pool in it, with ramps leading in & out of the pool.