There should be a newsgroup "comp.soft-sys.qt" or
"comp.soft-sys.misc". But since these do not exist...
Usenet is definitly not actively tracking new toys in the computer
graphics world. EfOe
Am 01.06.26 um 07:26 schrieb Mr. Man-wai Chang:
Usenet is definitly not actively tracking new toys in the computer
graphics world. EfOe
You can start an RfD to create such a group if you think there is interest.
On 6/8/2026 1:58 PM, Marco Moock wrote:
Am 01.06.26 um 07:26 schrieb Mr. Man-wai Chang:
Usenet is definitly not actively tracking new toys in the computer
graphics world. ?
You can start an RfD to create such a group if you think there is interest.
How could you talking about graphics and GUI when image attachments are
NOT even allowed in Usenet and external links are suspected? :)
Verily, in article <110658h$356pv$2@toylet.eternal-september.org>, did >toylet.toylet@gmail.com deliver unto us this message:
How could you talking about graphics and GUI when image attachments areExternal links aren't suspicious if they're to some reasonable site. Use >dropbox or imgur or similar, and interested people will follow it.
NOT even allowed in Usenet and external links are suspected? :)
Verily, in article <110658h$356pv$2@toylet.eternal-september.org>, did toylet.toylet@gmail.com deliver unto us this message:
How could you talking about graphics and GUI when image attachments are
NOT even allowed in Usenet and external links are suspected? :)
External links aren't suspicious if they're to some reasonable site. Use dropbox or imgur or similar, and interested people will follow it.
One can just show GUIs directly in posts.
ASCII art? Your example is overly simplified. Maybe you have and had
tools to convert an image into ASCII art.
There are tools like that. I saw some available in the late 20th
century, and surely they're still around somewhere.
They were never great compared to what talented ASCII artists did, but
they worked after a fashion.
On 6/12/2026 6:07 PM, The True Melissa wrote:
There are tools like that. I saw some available in the late 20th
century, and surely they're still around somewhere.
They were never great compared to what talented ASCII artists did, but
they worked after a fashion.
Back then, VT-100 and Unix terminals are simple. It's easy to talk about console text interface problems. Modern day GUI might be a little bit difficult to communicate without image attachment/hosting/HTML. Anyway....
Fwiw, around 25+ years ago in several of my proxy servers, I coded up a little embedded web server. It listened on a special port where I could
go in and alter settings, see status, ect using a browser. I never coded
up a GUI using Windows for it.
On 6/13/2026 3:21 AM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
Fwiw, around 25+ years ago in several of my proxy servers, I coded up a
little embedded web server. It listened on a special port where I could
go in and alter settings, see status, ect using a browser. I never coded
up a GUI using Windows for it.
The interesting part of your little server is security. Was its door key safe? :)
On 6/8/2026 1:58 PM, Marco Moock wrote:
Am 01.06.26 um 07:26 schrieb Mr. Man-wai Chang:
Usenet is definitly not actively tracking new toys in the computer graphics world. EfOe
You can start an RfD to create such a group if you think there is interest.
How could you talking about graphics and GUI when image attachments are
NOT even allowed in Usenet and external links are suspected? :)
Iirc, it was password protected. SHA2-HMAC iirc, hash of the password
with some internal server state. But this was for some of my
experimental work wrt mutating my server settings from a web page.
On 6/14/2026 5:39 AM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
Iirc, it was password protected. SHA2-HMAC iirc, hash of the password
with some internal server state. But this was for some of my
experimental work wrt mutating my server settings from a web page.
Did you re-use your "little embedded web server" in other projects? Did
it become a part of something bigger?
On 6/14/2026 10:50 PM, Mr. Man-wai Chang wrote:
Did you re-use your "little embedded web server" in other projects? Did
it become a part of something bigger?
I used it for many things personally. Actually, on some consulting jobs,
I showed it to some people, some used parts of it. It was more like a
proxy server framework. All in C. But, most of them were way more
interested in me helping them fix some deadlocks and/or potential race conditions in their code. This was way back in very early 2000's.
One of the worst jobs I ever had was for somebody who would lock a mutex
in their io threads loop and call into user code. They said it was fine because of recursive mutex, but they also said it would deadlock from
time to time. It was a fucking nightmare.
On 6/15/2026 3:33 PM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
On 6/14/2026 10:50 PM, Mr. Man-wai Chang wrote:
Did you re-use your "little embedded web server" in other projects? Did
it become a part of something bigger?
I used it for many things personally. Actually, on some consulting jobs,
I showed it to some people, some used parts of it. It was more like a
proxy server framework. All in C. But, most of them were way more
interested in me helping them fix some deadlocks and/or potential race
conditions in their code. This was way back in very early 2000's.
One of the worst jobs I ever had was for somebody who would lock a mutex
in their io threads loop and call into user code. They said it was fine
because of recursive mutex, but they also said it would deadlock from
time to time. It was a fucking nightmare.
I have never ever written a server app before, just business-oriented
MIS stuffs (mostly Foxpro/DOS, Foxpro/Windows and Visual Foxpro). The
last time I wrote things related directly to networked operating system
was Novell Netware.
I think I could call and respect you as a software engineeer? :)
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