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  • Windows 98 is my childhood OS.

    Time flies so fast. I can’t believe it’s been so long since Windows 98 was first released. I still remember how excited I was when we got our first computer sometime around the 00s. It had a Czech-language copy of Windows 98 on it. I still have an old XP-era computer in my room that…

  • TeX/LaTeX rock.

    I mostly use LaTeX (which uses Donald Knuth’s TeX as its typesetting engine) for writing letters to friends, but it has tons of other uses as well. TeX’s typesetting is incomparable to a standard word processor! Its justification/hyphenation algorithm is superior to MS Word in my opinion, especially when paired with the microtype package. Any…

  • No more vanilla VS Code.

    The post’s title says it all. I cooked up a copy of Visual Studio Code from source a few days ago. I added a few lines of code to product.json to enable the extensions gallery so that I wouldn’t have to keep downloading VSIX files manually: I also disabled telemetry in the options. In case…

  • Red Hat Linux 6.2 with KDE under VMware

    A while ago, I managed to install Red Hat Linux 6.2 (and other old late 90s distributions) under VMware: I may write up a post with instructions soon. Stay tuned! In case you have any questions, feel free to comment on the post, I’ll do my best to answer.

  • Fifo’s Repair Adventures

    Howdy, fellow readers! This is a copy of an old post of mine, back from my old Blogspot site. Hope you’ll enjoy the read! I’ve been working on a Sony CDP-C365 5CD player/changer and a Sony TC-K561S cassette deck lately. Both the cassette deck and the CD changer needed repairs. The original owner wanted to…

  • Technology quirks…

    So, there’s been some “strange things” happening lately… I swear whenever I go to a public place, I see technology acting up! Do I happen to have some kind of “negative influence” inside of me?