I've wrote a lot of applications but they're so badly written I wouldn't even show them to my wife. Happily, she's not interested, I'm safe! The only good thing were that they were heavily documented. The guy who took over said it was a breeze to understand. He said nothing about my programming abilities, thankfully, for which I owe him one :0).

In spite of the above being true, some of the applications ran for years in a public environment, quite stable, so those who feel like me about their programming does not necessarily need to worry about their usefulness in the game. Just test thoroughly and document so the guy coming after you understand exactly how your confusing app works!

Long before there was a thing called "source pull", long before Al Gore invented Open Source, I wrote the code interfacing a Heathkit WWV clock with a Unix host, thus allowing an NTP host to be synchronized with the official time keeper at the ISO (?) transmitter site near Denver, Colorado, USA.
In the Linux domain, Some patches to some drivers in version 0.93 or something like that. During that time (bsd 2.9 or so), a lot of people wrote a lot of bits and pieces. We wanted Unix re-written more than the glory and riches of "owning" this package and that. The demarcation of what I read, discussed, received guidance, guided, wrote, mailed what to whom when, this distinction wan unimportant to me at the time and is lost now.

Simon

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I have contributed to a project's documentation before. 'git' has been the biggest hinderance.
I am actually working on writing an Open Source application.
I should be writing it instead of posting, but there is time for everything...

Well. on record it's "Implemented power button based shutdown and tidyup via dbus" for a Kindle housed project on GitHub but my first was probably upstream pushes to buildroot or maybe even something more technically obscure like I provided my own open source things long before that and I contributed to them... Like game timers or any of the many games that started having "shared modding". Good times

Concerning Garuda Linux on https://gitlab.com/garuda-linux/appl...garuda-welcome

January 2003 - I submitted a fix for a lost process status in rsync.

Many years ago when CD-ROMs were the latest new gadget I created a script that would create a rescue CD from the software in your installed Linux system. I distributed it to a few users who helped me get it working on any distribution by taking account of the minor variations in the way that each distribution was configured. Then I tried to get it accepted by a software repository maintained by Richard Stallman. I forget what his repository was called. Whoever was maintaining the repository for Richard Stallman accepted my software but on one condition. In my documentation he wanted me to change all references of Linux to GNU/Linux. I refused because I thought the Linux versus Gnu/Linux controversy was silly. The resulting stand-off was resolved when the various distributions began producing their own rescue CDs thus making my script obsolete and irrelevant.

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Steve Stites

test firefox useragent...

I see in this thread that I am not the only one who's posts report (firefox?) useragant Windows in stad of linux.
Using the following I have now Linux being reported as useragent:
Mozilla suppor article
including privacy.resistFingerprinting set to false now