ZX Spectrum Relaunch!

I belong to the ZX Spectrum generation.
I grew up with a rubber keyboard on the tip of my fingers and I've spent too much hours in a row in front of a black and white small television...

This revolutionary machine is almost 30 years old and to celebrate that there will be a brand new ZX Spectrum 48K, with the same old games and some innovations...

48K rocks! :)

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Fetching Lines From Big Files

Today I had a DB2 bulk loading problem. I got a couple of rejected records on a 2G+ file. These kind of files are too big to be manipulated with conventional text editors, and even text editors that can handle such files are, usually, not very fast.
Since I was in Windows, I've open th MSYS shell, changed into the correct directory and typed
cat -n STPRRIMH.S.ULD.U110115.UN | grep 1943664 > MH.txt
This is an instantiation of a more generic command
cat -n < file > | grep < line >
In a few seconds I had a new file containing exactly the information I needed.

Serious developers can't really live without Unix/Linux tools on their machines...

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Haiku - BeOS Lives

It seems BeOS is still alive and truying to kick.
A new open source project named Haiku is BeOS compatible multimedia oriented as the original project.

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