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Slackware displays the randomart images for some kind of public key when you boot. I always wondered what these were, so thanks for posting.
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I suppose it depends on your 'good enough' threshold. I'm quite happy on a stock Thinkpad X220 (7 row keyboard) but I don't do anything especially demanding. Many here would find that machine limiting.
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As a schoolboy in the UK in the 60s/70s we had to (try) to read Simenon novels as a way of learning French. The experience tainted the stories ever since. Through reading the article I came across David Peace. The Red Riding Quartet
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SS Montgomery has 1400 tons of explosives and is within sight of a small island town. "While the risk of a major explosion is believed to be remote, it is considered prudent to monitor the condition of the wreck." https:/&
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Thanks for reply I will look into that
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Which Xorg would I be using for an X86_64 based core duo thinkpad with i915 graphics? I've had little success with NetBSD 9.3 so far (Firefox needs 3d graphics these days) but I'm assuming I'm missing something.
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I make casual use of OpenBSD as a desktop on a selection of Thinkpads (BIOS era), sometimes with a full desktop (xfce4) and sometimes sort of minimal (default fvwm with a Web browser). I reinstall each version to see what has changed and ho
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"most people in the UK disagree with me on this" Your experience is your experience, all I can say is mine is different and almost certainly less relevant to this thread. https://www.citizensadvice.org.uk/benefit
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For people in my age group (old) Zoomie sounds very close to Zoonie... https://gerryanderson.fandom.com/wiki/Zoonie Good luck for those looking for work now as a consequence of this
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Reduce is another lisp based computer algebra system from the prehistoric times, now open sourced. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reduce_(computer_algebra_syste... https://reduce-algebra.sourceforge.io/
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"each team picks one day for the entire team to be in-office, the employees can choose the other days" If a team were to adopt a common set of three days by consensus things might be better? Perhaps some teams have already done th
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As another poster put it perhaps Dr Wolfram has chosen to work outside the community recently. The early cellular automata papers were published in peer reviewed journals, and the OA contains an anecdote about the external refereeing of o
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Seamonkey is still around and works nicely on low spec machines (not sure about 128Mb though) as a step up from NetSurf. You get a graphical email client and news/gopher built in. Also a rudimentary Web page editor. Printing a Web page
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"These things are insanely noisy to the point of being meaningless." Goldstein and Spiegelhalter did a paper on league tables for organisations (e.g. schools and hospitals) along the lines that noise in the data made the results
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Have you heard of the sound artist/composer Philip Jeck? https://philipjeck.com/ Alas deceased (which was a bit of a shock when it happened). Jeck's thing was a sort of live analogue sampling.
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So you build glibc and GCC with the CentOS supplied gcc in something like ~/opt then used that to build Chrome? I'll bet there was some fiddling and well done. Just wondering what version of CentOS, i.e. how old the Xorg and GTK s
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I'm reading Parfit at the moment and finding it hard going to be honest. That list looks to be a group of senior academics contributing to a series of debates and what I might call research programmes (in the sense of Lakatos). So &#x2
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I set up an account and made a small donation for the 'verified' account thing. I can use my sdf email address for email newsletters and such. I also log in (as another poster mentioned) and use the text mode browser for checking
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UK perspective: can the landlord not instruct bailiffs to take possession of the building? Change the locks &c. This is distinct from any debts owing except that the non-payment of rent provides the grounds for obtaining a possession or
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The OP's two entries for 2022 struck a chord. Well done. "Despite everything, it’s been fun. I’ve been lucky to have been able to take part of this journey." I am in full agreement from the depths of my 7th decade. I can im
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OpenBSD 7.2 has version 2.1.1 available as a package. Slackware has a SlackBuild script for 2.1.2 (slackbuilds.org). The epel 8 repository for RHEL and clones has version 2.1.1. I think that TeXmacs is pretty available generally.
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Compare TeXmacs and LyX as visual scientific writing applications. I have dipped my toe into TeXmacs (and bought a copy of The Jolly Writer to support the project). Basically you can walk up, bang out a couple of pages with text, mathemat
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Debian stable users who did want latest Firefox could download the binaries from Mozilla. Just unpack and run from e.g. home directory or perhaps copy to /opt/ https://www.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/all&
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Here in the UK you tended to see these heaters in rural areas away from the natural gas mains. They were used with special Economy 7/White Meter electricity meters that provided much cheaper electricity over the night hours. The Econom
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Perhaps a quick skim of Anthony Bourdain's Kitchen Confidential might help. His position is that running a restaurant is very different from cooking for yourself and friends. But obviously many people do set up and run restaurants.
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Likewise: full shelves at Morrisons, a large Tesco and a city centre large Marks & Spencers as checked visually in the last few days in a city of 1 million. Prices are rising for some lines though.
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I found the instructions on how to measure the total download associated with a page useful. Agreed: my home page is clocking in at around 2Kb or less but probably not of any interest to anyone outside of my very narrow silo.
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I actually found the contrast between the lower part of the article labelled 'draft' and the upper finished part instructive. I could sort of imagine how the unfinished paragraphs might be completed finally. PS: 1977 Tools for Th
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Big street party here in UK on Dec 31 1999. Myself and a few neighbours who thought about these things relaxed a bit after 9pm (Midnight Moscow time) and started partying seriously.
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Also 'Words' at https://justinjackson.ca/words.html

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