I found some 8" install diskettes, for some long retired software package,

>while cleaning out a storage area at work.

I think I might have had one put in a frame to hang on a wall somewhere

>> as a rememberanc of the past.. B)

If it had been something that I had worked with, or especially worked on ,

>I might have thought of that. I had a co-worker back then that used to do
>something similar with old hard drives that had quit working. He was a
>woodworker, I guess, and would build a little case, with one side being
>glass, take the cover of the drive and display it in the cases.

I once had an old Aquarium converted into a glass display case in which
I had a set of custom heads from a 1946 Harley. I guess we all have
those things that interest us at the time.

BTW.. the first Harley I bought (Built) in about 1977 was a 1946,
somewhat suped up as the original was about 40 HP and mine was
about 65 HP. The 1941, 46 and 47 engines were called Knuckleheads
since the odd rocker covers on the heads sort of resembled a clenched
fist and were very popular to restore and as show bike engines.

They were single carb V-Twin engines and the special heads I'd found
and put on display had a carb on each head.

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I'd have never thought of that but, seeing as how a couple of folks in

>recent past have posted things allegedly from AI that seem to know who
>some of us are, it just might be interesting. ;)

I'm not sure AI knowing us is a good thing or not.
It may decide to Nuke us first.. B)

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All of the old modems went into a box, which I

> tossed into a dumpster. I handed out probably a dozen of them to people
> who ended up calling BBSes with them or passed them on to others.

At one of our gettogethers, I heard a new caller talk about someone

> giving him an "anchor modem" and discovering BBSes.

Sort of makes me think of when I first moved up here, I was offered
a 14.4k modem quite cheap since 33k ones had come out, and that was
how I first got into BBSing as well around 1987..

I got my first computer in 1983 but didn't know much about getting
'online' for a while..

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Re: Re: 3.5 Floppies
By: Rob Mccart to MIKE POWELL on Sun Mar 01 2026 08:53 am

I'd have never thought of that but, seeing as how a couple of folks in
>recent past have posted things allegedly from AI that seem to know who RO> >some of us are, it just might be interesting. ;)

I'm not sure AI knowing us is a good thing or not.
It may decide to Nuke us first.. B)

I think these guys are really feeding the bots extra info before
Getting the results they post. i'm trying gemini right now and it says this when it posted a video
"This video provides an interview with the creator of Synchronet, offering deep historical context on how the software and its community of developers Evolved."

It's showing some aviation week video.

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Re: Re: 3.5 Floppies
By: Rob Mccart to POINDEXTER FORTRAN on Sun Mar 01 2026 08:53 am

Sort of makes me think of when I first moved up here, I was offered
a 14.4k modem quite cheap since 33k ones had come out, and that was
how I first got into BBSing as well around 1987..

They had 33k modems in 87?

I was still getting 14.4's at bestbuy in the mid 90s.
I got a 33.6 in 97-98 i think.

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I would likely be thinking that there being malware in the Windows

>>code isn't so much the problem as there being malware written to
>>exploit Windows code.

Yes, the biggest threat is going to be to the OS that is most common

>> and most often used by companies and financial institutions so there
>> would be more people trying to attack Windows than Linux I'd think.

I think that used to be correct. Now with a lot of the public facing

>servers running linux, that is starting to change some. I am seeing more
>articles about fraudsters targeting linux systems.

That sort of goes along with what I said though.. If more and more
companies are using Linux based servers then that would be the popular
one to be going after with attacks..

I was thinking more of home users whan I said the original though.
I'm sure there are still a lot more stand alone computers running
Windows than Linux..

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I'd have never thought of that but, seeing as how a couple of folks in

>recent past have posted things allegedly from AI that seem to know who
>some of us are, it just might be interesting. ;)

I'm not sure AI knowing us is a good thing or not.
It may decide to Nuke us first.. B)

I had not thought of it that way but, upon evaluating our posts, it could decide that it is in humanity's best interest to remove us from the gene
pool.

Guess it is time to retreat to my tin foil lined room. :D

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Re: Re: 3.5 Floppies
By: Rob Mccart to MIKE POWELL on Mon Mar 02 2026 07:57:16

If more and more companies are using Linux based servers then that would be the popular one to be going after with attacks..

*nix-based servers have been the favorite of business/industry for well over a decade. Even Windows-based setups often use *nix on their servers.

I'm sure there are still a lot more stand alone computers running
Windows than Linux..

By a wide margin, and unless Microsoft goes out of business or does something horrendously bad, it will continue to be that way. Microsoft is like the Deathstar. To paraphrase Governor Tarkin, Fear will keep the Windows users in line, fear of this company. OK, a bit melodramatic perhaps, but not entirely wrong. Fear of change, of the unknown will keep the majority of users siding with Windows, even if they're not particularly happy with it. Why? because it's easier and most people will choose "easy" over "better" any day.

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Re: Re: 3.5 Floppies
By: Mortar to Rob Mccart on Mon Mar 02 2026 12:21 pm

By a wide margin, and unless Microsoft goes out of business or does something horrendously bad, it will continue to be that way. Microsoft is like the Deathstar. To paraphrase Governor Tarkin, Fear will keep the Windows users in line, fear of this company. OK, a bit melodramatic perhaps, but not entirely wrong. Fear of change, of the unknown will keep the majority of users siding with Windows, even if they're not particularly happy with it. Why? because it's easier and most people will choose "easy" over "better" any day.

I think that's basically how Microsoft Windows basically became the default OS for most PCs, despite there being arguably better options (such as OS/2, etc.). Most PC vendors were installing Windows on their PCs by default (and I've heard Microsoft was charging vendors for a Windows license for each of their PCs, even if they didn't install Windows on all their PCs). Most people would just use Windows since it came with the computer, and there were relatively fewer people using alternatives such as OS/2.

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I was thinking more of home users whan I said the original though.
I'm sure there are still a lot more stand alone computers running
Windows than Linux..

I am not a security expert, so take this for what it is worth, but from
things I have read it sounds like most hackers are moving away from
targeting individuals and focusing on corporate and government sites.
There is a *lot* more data all in one place.

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I'm not sure AI knowing us is a good thing or not.

>> It may decide to Nuke us first.. B)

I had not thought of it that way but, upon evaluating our posts, it could

>decide that it is in humanity's best interest to remove us from the gene
>pool.

Didn't The Terminator start out this way ?? B)

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I'm sure there are still a lot more stand alone computers running

> > Windows than Linux..

By a wide margin, and unless Microsoft goes out of business or does something

>rrendously bad, it will continue to be that way. Microsoft is like the Death
>r. To paraphrase Governor Tarkin, Fear will keep the Windows users in line,
>r of this company. OK, a bit melodramatic perhaps, but not entirely wrong.
>r of change, of the unknown will keep the majority of users siding with Windo
> even if they're not particularly happy with it. Why? because it's easier a
>most people will choose "easy" over "better" any day.

I may not be the best to give an opinion on that since, even though I've
used Windows since it started, I hate changing to a newer version of Windows.

My main computer is running Windows 7, which I like well enough, although
my 'late' upgrade to that from Windows 98 took some getting used to, and
a little help from DosBOX.. B)

I do have a Windows 11 ready Laptop currently running Windows 10 but,
until too many sites stop working with Windows 7 since the browsers
can not be updated anymore on it, about all I do with the Windows 10
Laptop is keep it up to date.. as in start it up one day a month to
do the updates..

But, that said, Windows tends to work for a lot of years when
compared to Chrome systems. I'm sure Linux could be made to work
on a lot of systems that are too old for newer Windows versions
but there's a lot more learning involved to run Linux.

I have run it briefly a few times to try it out so I figure I could
manage with it if I had to but.. 'easy' over 'better' ? B)

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the majority of users siding with Windows, even if they're not
particularly happy with it. Why? because it's easier and most people
will choose "easy" over "better" any day.

I think that's basically how Microsoft Windows basically became the default O

>or most PCs, despite there being arguably better options (such as OS/2, etc.)
>ost PC vendors were installing Windows on their PCs by default (and I've hear
>icrosoft was charging vendors for a Windows license for each of their PCs, ev
>if they didn't install Windows on all their PCs). Most people would just use
>ndows since it came with the computer, and there were relatively fewer people
>ing alternatives such as OS/2.

Yes, if it's on almost all systems sold then most people will get it
on their first system and you tend to stick with what you know.

You can buy ChromeBooks quite a bit cheaper that work easily enough
that Windows users can generally switch to them relatively painlessly,
and you save about $75 by avoiding the Windows License..

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Re: Re: 3.5 Floppies
By: Rob Mccart to NIGHTFOX on Wed Mar 04 2026 07:43 am

You can buy ChromeBooks quite a bit cheaper that work easily enough that Windows users can generally switch to them relatively painlessly, and you save about $75 by avoiding the Windows License..

I recently decided to use Linux as my main OS on my main PC at home. I've been using it for a bit over a month now, and I can't say I miss Windows. I've even been able to use some of my favorite Windows software on Linux (until I find Linux-native alternatives that I like); it seems that Windows support with Wine & such keeps getting better. Even one of my favorite PC games, Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024, runs very well in Linux with Proton (and installed from Steam). And similarly to Chromebook, I can avoid paying for a Windows license next time I build a new PC for myself.

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I was thinking more of home users whan I said the original though.

>> I'm sure there are still a lot more stand alone computers running
>> Windows than Linux..

I am not a security expert, so take this for what it is worth, but from

>things I have read it sounds like most hackers are moving away from
>targeting individuals and focusing on corporate and government sites.
>There is a *lot* more data all in one place.

Yes, that does seem to be the trend. They seem to go after individuals
more using eMail and Text scams than attacking their computers.

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I'm not sure AI knowing us is a good thing or not.

>> It may decide to Nuke us first.. B)

I had not thought of it that way but, upon evaluating our posts, it could

>decide that it is in humanity's best interest to remove us from the gene
>pool.

Didn't The Terminator start out this way ?? B)

Now that you mention it.... :O :D

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You can buy ChromeBooks quite a bit cheaper that work easily enough that Windows users can generally switch to them relatively painlessly, and you save about $75 by avoiding the Windows License..

I recently decided to use Linux as my main OS on my main PC at home.

>I've been using it for a bit over a month now, and I can't say I miss
>Windows. I've even been able to use some of my favorite Windows
>software on Linux (until I find Linux-native alternatives that I like);
>it seems that Windows support with Wine & such keeps getting better.

My brief trials with Linux were pretty good as well, although I was
using the simple to install and more Windows-Like versions of it
like Puppy Linux, and not trying to keep it running for very long
or trying to do all of the things I'd like to do if I were using
it full time.

That was a few years ago though so I'm not right up to date on that..

But when you see the notes on what is required, finding and installing Libraries (or?) to fix or upgrade the more serious versions of Linux
it sounds like there's a lot to learn to get the most out of it.

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Yes, that does seem to be the trend. They seem to go after individuals
more using eMail and Text scams than attacking their computers.

Yeah, gone are the days where some kid wrote a program that made your
screen go blank or to change your DOS prompt to include some message about your computer being stoned. ;D

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Re: Re: 3.5 Floppies
By: MIKE POWELL to ROB MCCART on Fri Mar 06 2026 10:35 am

Yes, that does seem to be the trend. They seem to go after individuals
more using eMail and Text scams than attacking their computers.

Yeah, gone are the days where some kid wrote a program that made your
screen go blank or to change your DOS prompt to include some message about your computer being stoned. ;D

Mike

if people used banancom you could force them to download files and you could take out their download directory. you could also bomb their computer with an Ansi music file and they'd basically have to reboot.

i had a bad user who would attack my system and my users and he used banacom because i recommended it. he lost my phone number after i nuked his dialing Dir file.

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Yes, that does seem to be the trend. They seem to go after individuals

>> more using eMail and Text scams than attacking their computers.

Yeah, gone are the days where some kid wrote a program that made your

>screen go blank or to change your DOS prompt to include some message about
>your computer being stoned. ;D

Ha.. I try to be relatively careful but I don't go overboard or get
any sort of protection that costs extra and yet, after over 40 years
using computers, I've only been hit with one virus and that was one
I gave to myself by viewing an eMail attachment with a virus attached
back in 1999 before I knew better. B)

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My brief trials with Linux were pretty good as well, although I was
using the simple to install and more Windows-Like versions of it
like Puppy Linux, and not trying to keep it running for very long
or trying to do all of the things I'd like to do if I were using
it full time.

I went the other direction and took a Lenovo Chromebook, installed
SeaBIOS on it, and set it up with a Windows install. It was an odd one -
had a 16GB SSD in it and space for a SATA drive. When I loaded Windows
on the SATA drive, the 16GB SSD showed up as an intel cache for the
SATA. I'd played with this technology before, something called "Intel
Smart Response Technology"). Back in the day you could use it to get
faster speeds out of spinning SATA drives. I suppose it predated hybrid
SATA drives, which included the cache on the drive.

I still have a 500gb hybrid SATA drive. I wonder what it would feel like nowadays - I haven't had a system with a spinning drive since I don't
know how long -- 2014?



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Re: Re: 3.5 Floppies
By: poindexter FORTRAN to Rob Mccart on Sun Mar 08 2026 08:56 am

I still have a 500gb hybrid SATA drive. I wonder what it would feel
like nowadays - I haven't had a system with a spinning drive since
I don't know how long -- 2014?

i thought you were the main IT guy at some place. atleast in one of your stories recently. they still use non ssd drives in servers.

i still use sata drives in my drobo clone and everything's fine. i just have ssd for my system drive.


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Re: Re: 3.5 Floppies
By: poindexter FORTRAN to Rob Mccart on Sun Mar 08 2026 08:56 am

I still have a 500gb hybrid SATA drive. I wonder what it would feel like nowadays - I haven't had a system with a spinning drive since
I don't know how long -- 2014?

i thought you were the main IT guy at some place. atleast in one of
your stories recently. they still use non ssd drives in servers.

i still use sata drives in my drobo clone and everything's fine. i just have ssd for my system drive.

yeah you'd have to be insane to have bulk storage on an SSD (heaven forbid an NVMe drive).. 8TB is at least $1400 from a lazy look on amazon..

how do you like the drobo clone? which one? i still just do the "jbod" thing in a pc with a ton of sata ports..

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Re: Re: 3.5 Floppies
By: fusion to MRO on Mon Mar 09 2026 03:49 am

fine. i just have ssd for my system drive.

yeah you'd have to be insane to have bulk storage on an SSD (heaven
forbid an NVMe drive).. 8TB is at least $1400 from a lazy look on
amazon..

how do you like the drobo clone? which one? i still just do the
"jbod" thing in a pc with a ton of sata ports..

They're freaking awesome. I tell everyone to get one.
There's various models but this is the one i have. (i have 2) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09WPPJHSS

Their support is also great.

i think i got my first one 11 years ago.
the old ones still work. time for me to upgrade in a bit. i'll
get new storage drives and get the latest. right now i just have a bunch of
8 tb drives.


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Re: Re: 3.5 Floppies
By: MRO to fusion on Mon Mar 09 2026 04:14 am

Re: Re: 3.5 Floppies
By: fusion to MRO on Mon Mar 09 2026 03:49 am

fine. i just have ssd for my system drive.

yeah you'd have to be insane to have bulk storage on an SSD (heaven forbid an NVMe drive).. 8TB is at least $1400 from a lazy look on amazon..

how do you like the drobo clone? which one? i still just do the
"jbod" thing in a pc with a ton of sata ports..

They're freaking awesome. I tell everyone to get one. There's various
models but this is the one i have. (i have 2) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09WPPJHSS

Their support is also great.

i think i got my first one 11 years ago. the old ones still work.
time for me to upgrade in a bit. i'll get new storage drives

another thing is this drobo company is now defunct.
they say it was supply chain probs during covid. i saw it happening so it's possible.


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Re: Re: 3.5 Floppies
By: poindexter FORTRAN to Rob Mccart on Sun Mar 08 2026 08:56 am

I still have a 500gb hybrid SATA drive. I wonder what it would feel
like nowadays - I haven't had a system with a spinning drive since
I don't know how long -- 2014?

i thought you were the main IT guy at some place. atleast in one of
your stories recently. they still use non ssd drives in servers.

I am - our storage is all SAS, and my home NAS is running SATA drives.
I was referring to a desktop/laptop running a user OS that hasn't had a
spinning drive since then.




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Re: Re: 3.5 Floppies
By: poindexter FORTRAN to MRO on Mon Mar 09 2026 08:29 am

I am - our storage is all SAS, and my home NAS is running SATA drives. I was referring to a desktop/laptop running a user OS that hasn't had a spinning drive since then.

I recently ordered a 128gb SSD it was DOA, I contacted the company, they gave me a full refund but told me to toss it.
My new laptop has a 1tb SSD it seems pretty stable.
I prefer the the old HDD's for my servers, they have always seemed to be reliable, although a tad slow.

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Re: Re: 3.5 Floppies
By: poindexter FORTRAN to MRO on Mon Mar 09 2026 08:29 am

I am - our storage is all SAS, and my home NAS is running SATA
drives. I was referring to a desktop/laptop running a user OS that
hasn't had a spinning drive since then.

the 'cybertronpc' i got from amazon in 2017 had a 1tb hd. it wasn't ssd.


if people want storage they need to go with 'spinning' drives because ssd's are expensive and not as big as regular harddrives.


I would use a ssd for the os drive and for drive to store games.


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I went the other direction and took a Lenovo Chromebook, installed

>SeaBIOS on it, and set it up with a Windows install. It was an odd one -
>had a 16GB SSD in it and space for a SATA drive. When I loaded Windows
>on the SATA drive, the 16GB SSD showed up as an intel cache for the
>SATA. I'd played with this technology before, something called "Intel
>Smart Response Technology"). Back in the day you could use it to get
>faster speeds out of spinning SATA drives. I suppose it predated hybrid
>SATA drives, which included the cache on the drive.

I still have a 500gb hybrid SATA drive. I wonder what it would feel like

>nowadays - I haven't had a system with a spinning drive since I don't
>know how long -- 2014?

I don't think any of my spinning drives were SATA. I had the connectors
on the Motherboard but my drives were standard (IDE?).

The exception is my newer Laptop which I'm not really using yet,
it came with a 64 Gig SSD and I added a second 256 Gig SSD to it.

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Re: Re: 3.5 Floppies
By: Nightfox to Rob Mccart on Wed Mar 04 2026 11:03 am

been able to use some of my favorite Windows software on Linux (until I find Linux-native alternatives that I like); it seems that Windows support with W

What Windows software, besides games, are you using in Linux now?

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Re: Re: 3.5 Floppies
By: phigan to Nightfox on Tue Mar 10 2026 01:37 pm

What Windows software, besides games, are you using in Linux now?

Mainly IrfanView and Notepad++. So far I haven't found a lightweight image viewer/editor for Linux that is similar enough to IrfanView to make me want to switch. As far as Notepad++, I've started using Kate, which I think has features similar enough for me, but I still like Notepad++ sometimes. One thing I still haven't quite figured out yet in Kate (editor) is doing a whole-word/exact word search (which Notepad++ can easily do). Also, for Notepad++, I have a JSON plugin that can do easy-read formatting of JSON, and I haven't yet looked into whether Kate can do that.

Also, there are some AI photo & video editing tools I've used for Windows and I'm not sure if they have recent Linux versions - They're from Topaz Labs, such as Video Enhance AI, Gigapixel, etc.. I saw a beta of their Video Enhance AI for Linux some time ago, but I'm not sure about their other products. I actually haven't tried installing or running them in Linux yet.

Nightfox

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Re: Re: 3.5 Floppies
By: Nightfox to phigan on Tue Mar 10 2026 03:48 pm

What Windows software, besides games, are you using in Linux now?

Mainly IrfanView and Notepad++.

On Linux, I use Geany as generic GUI text/script editor. Give it a try.
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Re: Re: 3.5 Floppies
By: Nightfox to phigan on Tue Mar 10 2026 03:48 pm

Also, there are some AI photo & video editing tools I've used for Windows an I'm not sure if they have recent Linux versions - They're from Topaz Labs, such as Video Enhance AI, Gigapixel, etc.. I saw a beta of their Video

I was able to get old versions of Photoshop (v6, v7) working under WINE, and they're sort of a sweet spot - run most actions and have most of the tools people need, while still being relatively small and easy to use.

I don't recall if I ever got CS2 working under WINE - that was the version that Adobe screwed up with - they'd disconnected the licensing servers without realizing how many people were using it, and had to release versions without the licensing issue (and with license keys!)

I have licenses for 6, 7, CS, CS2 and CS3 - mostly stuck with CS2.

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Re: Re: 3.5 Floppies
By: Nightfox to phigan on Tue Mar 10 2026 03:48 pm

Mainly IrfanView and Notepad++. So far I haven't found a lightweight image

Dang, IrfanView is some SRS BSNS, they've even put it on snapcraft.io/irfanview

Have you seen Nomacs(.org)? There's also XnViewMP and gthumb, that I saw...

For Notepad++ replacement, DM's recommendation of Geany is good. Also, if you have plenty of resources, Sublime Edit can be pretty nice. I know there's a paid version, but I just use the free one and haven't run into any roadblocks. I use Geany on my shitty AMD A6 laptop with 4gb ram :).

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Nightfox wrote to phigan <=-

What Windows software, besides games, are you using in Linux now?

Mainly IrfanView and Notepad++. So far I haven't found a lightweight image viewer/editor for Linux that is similar enough to IrfanView to
make me want to switch. As far as Notepad++, I've started using Kate, which I think has features similar enough for me, but I still like Notepad++ sometimes. One thing I still haven't quite figured out yet
in Kate (editor) is doing a whole-word/exact word search (which
Notepad++ can easily do). Also, for Notepad++, I have a JSON plugin
that can do easy-read formatting of JSON, and I haven't yet looked into whether Kate can do that.

I like Geeqie for image viewing, and haven't seen anything better.

I saw that DM mentioned the Geany editor, which is good. My go-to GUI
editor is MousePad. It has syntax highlighting for MANY
languages/formats, optional line numbering, and color themes. The
built-in "cobalt" theme is awesome.



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Re: Re: 3.5 Floppies
By: Gamgee to Nightfox on Wed Mar 11 2026 08:17 am

I like Geeqie for image viewing, and haven't seen anything better.

I saw that DM mentioned the Geany editor, which is good. My go-to GUI editor is MousePad. It has syntax highlighting for MANY languages/formats, optional line numbering, and color themes. The built-in "cobalt" theme is awesome.

Thanks - I'll give them a try.

Nightfox

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On Linux, I use Geany as generic GUI text/script editor. Give it a try.

Thank you. I had that installed once upon a time. Was trying to
reinstall it just earlier this week but couldn't remember how it is
spelled. Not sure when it got uninstalled but it is reinstalled now. ;)

I think I got as close as 'Jeany' and 'Geanie'... :D

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MIKE POWELL wrote to DIGITAL MAN <=-

On Linux, I use Geany as generic GUI text/script editor. Give it a try.

Thank you. I had that installed once upon a time. Was trying to reinstall it just earlier this week but couldn't remember how it is spelled. Not sure when it got uninstalled but it is reinstalled now.
;)

Give Mousepad a look, too.



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Mainly IrfanView and Notepad++.

Dang, IrfanView is some SRS BSNS, they've even put it on snapcraft.io/irfanvi

I've used IrfanView for decades, was even an occasional beta tester
when it was just a college project for Irfan Skiljan in the 90's.

I have a simple old 1999 version of Neopaint (4b) that I use as
the photo editor when I need to do more modifications than Irfanview
can handle on its own. Irfanview could probably be linked to any
Paint type program but Neopaint is small (2.x meg), no-nag, simple
to use and it does pretty much everything I've needed.

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Denn wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

I prefer the the old HDD's for my servers, they have always seemed to
be reliable, although a tad slow.

I liked those hybrid SATA drives - SSDs were terribly expensive, and
HSATA was the best of both worlds. Booted up like a SATA drive, but once
you started using it and loading apps out of the cache, it felt like a
SSD at a fraction of the price.



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