Laptop Memory....

Just a small update, I was finally able to sort my publishing issue with Pelican on the other blog - so now you all can enjoy sliding skill CSS animation: https://tofguerrier.github.io/pages/resume.html#skills

And I have been trying to improve my wife laptop by boosting up the memory ( from 4GB to 8GB)... much easier than I initially thought.

Random Thoughts redirection

Just posted a new post on my other blog, a warning: it is for geeks, it is about Python and Pycon Dublin:

https://tofguerrier.github.io/articles/random-thoughts-from-pycon-dublin-2014.html

My Computer History .... so far

My very first computer was an Alice, a french made computer ; a very impressive beast (RAM : 8 kb  CPU: Motorola 6803 )

The original box with tapes.... yes tapes

The beast itself

It meant a lot to me ( actually I still have it in a storage room in France ), first because my grandfather bought it to me - for reason I have never explained or understood, may be he had some insight - a good one - that this would be the future, secondly because the manual was illustrated by one of my favorite comic artist Moebius ( but I did not know that at the time ).

Illustrated by Moebius....

I remember soon after, the school started using T07 and MO5 as a part of a sponsored state program to promote informatics.

You can read more about Alice history (in French) on this wiki: http://alice.system-cfg.com/
There you can also find links to some emulators.

----

My second was an Amstrad CPC464 ( 64 kB RAM CPU: Zilog Z80A )

 I started to play games ( a lot more than previously ) with that, I particularly fondly remember: "Infernal runner" by Eric Chahi

Infernal Runner

You can actually find a very good Java emulator online here : http://www.cpcbox.com/ you can even load games - without the dreadful line by line loading time.


Somehow the computer through more powerful, became less exciting and more an utility tool.
My third was a PC intel 486, it was still under MS-DOS, but had the very premise of a GUI (an ultra basic explorer), but it allow me to be a bit more productive with word processing and some early spreadsheet - which if I recall correctly I use to keep track of my game scores.
My fourth was a PC tower, and finally a jump to today familiar Windows ( 95 I think ), it survived for a long time, throughout my college years and even at the beginning of my fully fledge worker years, helped I have to admit by multiple and regular upgrade ( memory / hard drive / OS .... ).  By that time i was mingling with unix at college and later at work.

I then switch to laptop with a sony vaio, before succumbing 5 years ago to an Apple White MacBook....

Switching2 Mac

That's it after years of indecision, i've finally switched to mac...... works perfectly, thought i am a bit lost in some of the function ( where is the cut function ? where is the right button on the mouse ? ), I still got to transfer all my files, install a couple of software ( openoffice ) and i'll be ready.

On other matters:
Belltable, friday seen this fantastic movie by Alejandro Jodorowsy : "Santa Sangre", incredibly rich and symbolic. The first time, i saw this movie ( almost ten years ago ) I've been very impressed, and till today still got some pictures of the movie in my head ... and even thought, i realized i've forgotten so many things ( the death of the elephant and its funeral, the end ...).

This saturday: The Rocky Horror Picture Show will be displayed in the Belltable.