Someone extracts the oldest surviving copy of UNIX from the tapes Warren Toomey had been given by Dennis Ritchie in 1997, after Ritchie had already stored them for 25 years (!), and gets a 53 year old operating system running on a PDP-11/20 emulator.
Mindblowing
https://www.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/2025-February/031420.html
If you are interested in the proper usage and concepts of #subversion (or #svn) I can highly recommend this book. Pragmatic Version Control using Subversion, by Mike Mason.
I was digging into version control history during the holidays, as I started using #jj aka #jujutsuvcs in addition to git and wanted to know more about the concepts it is designed with. I had the luck of being able to start my version control life with git, so I never worked with Subversion a lot (some people might say fortunately). But as many people seem to hold it in high regard, I wanted to understand why.
This books takes you through all you need to know to use it. As an "normal being" just using it. Handling normal things, releases, branches. But also from an administration side, handling and organizing repositories. Backing them up. Splitting and uniting them.
And all of that written in a very enjoyable way.
As one does between the years, I have started digging into #subversion (the version control system) to learn more about its concepts. Because, why not? At least it helps me to be grateful for the ease of use I have with #git (sorry subversion...).
In case you want to have a look, I built a #vagrant setup to easily play around with Subversion:
https://github.com/johanneskastl/subversion_vagrant_libvirt_ansible
As I am on a reading spree, #Mercurial will be next. And no, before you ask, I will not get into CVS after that...
I was actually somewhat aware f the coinciding nature of it that I suspected the old NEWS files would not mention it. So I think we would find this in the very early tarballs of R may before 1.0.0 or even 0.60.0 when it became GNU R. I think the first one I ever laid hands on was 0.64.0 or so and IIRC it had data.frame. Tagging @rsbivand who will likely know...
… I joined Fedi some time autumn 2022. Since then, I probably learned more about myself than at any time before, mainly thanks to wonderful people, my #NewFriends and some, in the meantime, #OldFriends here.
I am a:
- 
#Neurodivergent,
- #OC (OCD) - and probably a lot more,
- #ActuallyAutistic,
- #Trans
- #GenderFluid
- #NonBinary (#Enby), who is
- #Polyam (I can love more than one person at the same time),
- #Trixic (attracted to women - for relationship),
- #Enbian (attracted to non-binary persons - for relationship),
- 
not into cis men (would I ever make an exception for @endali ??
)
- partner of #LoveOfMyLife and
- parent of #MyAdoredDaughter.
I am
- #OmniSexual, i.e. I am sexually attracted to whoever I am attracted to - regardless of gender or genitalia - but extremely choosey.
I am also a
- #Software #Engineer #ByHeart, #BySoul, and #ByFingers. I mostly do
- #SoftwareArcheology & #SoftwareModernization. I love
- #Cooking,
- #Musings,
- #ChitChatting with my #TransSiblings of every gender or non-gender (as they please; the more the better). Most of the time, you can just
- #IgnoreMe,
- #LoveMe,
- #TalkShitWithMe as long as it is full of #Intelligence, #Wit, #Humor and you have a mastery of #Languages. I love
- #Cats
- #Dogs
- #Animals & #Trees & #Nature & #Beauty & #BeautyInPeople (the list is too long…)
In my toots expect:
- #TransRights
- #Politics
- #WorkTopics (Software)
- #CatImages
- #DogImages
- #BeautifulImages
- #CrazyDreams
- #FragMyBrain
- #HeatedDiscussions (but respectful & lovely)
- #CrazyStories,
- #Language|s, languages, languages,
- Stories about my adored daughter,
- Stories about love of my life,
- Stories about love, beauty, magic.
Lastly, I hate self-declared authority - no, any authority that doesn't derive its authority from the people who gave them that authority in the first place!
Hello, again!
#Neurodivergent, #OC (OCD) - and probably a lot more, #ActuallyAutistic, #Trans #GenderFluid #NonBinary (#Enby), who is #Polyam (I can love more than one person at the same time), #Trixic (attracted to women - for relationship), #Enbian (attracted to non-binary persons - for relationship), not into cis men (would I ever make an exception for @endali ?? ) partner of #LoveOfMyLife and parent of #MyAdoredDaughter. #OmniSexual, i.e. I am sexually attracted to whoever I am attracted to - regardless of gender or genitalia - but extremely choosey. #Software #Engineer #ByHeart, #BySoul, and #ByFingers. I mostly do #SoftwareArcheology & #SoftwareModernization. I love #Cooking, #Musings, #ChitChatting with my #TransSiblings of every gender or non-gender (as they please; the more the better). Most of the time, you can just #IgnoreMe, #LoveMe, #TalkShitWithMe as long as it is full of #Intelligence, #Wit, #Humor and you have a mastery of #Languages. I love #Cats #Dogs #Animals & #Trees & #Nature & #Beauty & #BeautyInPeople (the list is too long…) #TransRights #Politics #WorkTopics (Software) #Ginlo, #Ginlo_II, #Cicero #CatImages #DogImages #BeautifulImages #CrazyDreams #FragMyBrain #HeatedDiscussions (but respectful & lovely) #CrazyStories, #Language|s, languages, languages, Stories about my adored daughter, Stories about love of my life, Stories about love, beauty, magic.I got a 15-year-old Blender to run, thanks to @jix! \o/ I'm working on a writeup on how we made this happen! #eh20 #softwarearcheology
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