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by 2b3a51 3mo ago
Perhaps 'Error' in tasteful smoked glass overlay, but with a QR code that encodes an error number? (Spent some time last year supporting students online - noone was going to take a screen shot of their laptop so we ended up with t
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by 2b3a51 3mo ago
Other posters are providing advice about writing from the shoulder, and writing slower etc which I would agree with. The other thing I would mention is: how tightly do you grasp/hold the pen? Try relaxing the grasp a bit. (I've no
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by 2b3a51 3mo ago
Your comment stopped me in my tracks a little bit. Is a 'bias' in a piece of writing generally a property of word to word choice and sentence to sentence construction or is it something more nebulous? Especially in terms of the ap
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by 2b3a51 3mo ago
Just a call out for sdf.org. Perhaps useful for those training developers mentioned in some posts here who need the TIL experience with unix based systems. Free shell account on a netbsd unix, and I recollect that a small one-off donation p
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by 2b3a51 3mo ago
Have a look at MWM (Motif Window Manager). Colour icons (gasp) and windows that actually maximise. Packaged in Debian so I suppose around in Arch repositories somewhere.
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by 2b3a51 3mo ago
twm still around but might be a separate package these days and not in X11 core. CWM (Calm Window Manager) from OpenBSD is available in portable form and packaged for Debian. Very light and good for tiny screens (little decoration).
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by 2b3a51 3mo ago
No, the project leader (corenomial?) packed it in. BunsenLabs is one follow on project and the other is CrunchBang++. Alas both I think are 64 bit only in recent versions because they are based on Debian, which from Trixie (v13 on) is 64 bi
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by 2b3a51 3mo ago
I'm posting this off a 2009 Samsung NC10 Netbook running antiX linux 26[1] (32 bit, debian Trixie packages but an older 5.10 series kernel) and it has Abiword running, with ROXterm and Firefox with BBC News in the other tab. The netboo
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by 2b3a51 3mo ago
Lab book with numbered pages and dated entries for semi-thought out specifications when it gets serious? But there needs to be a level of scribbling on whiteboards/backs of envelopes/napkins before that stage?
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by 2b3a51 3mo ago
I think that the two examples of messy notebooks that the OA links to are remarkably restrained. My practice is to capture the raw stuff on the right hand page and then keep the left hand page for later clarification or distillation. Thus
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by 2b3a51 3mo ago
Perhaps a minimal profile for 'readers' could include a list of languages that would be welcome? That would help with the selection of the daily post.
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by 2b3a51 3mo ago
Seems like "Oblique Strategies" cards by Eno and Schmidt but also like flash cards for revision. They look nice.
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by 2b3a51 3mo ago
Thanks for posting that link. The graph has a key on the right hand side that clearly labels each colour of line, and the horizontal axis is scaled in months of each year. Scrolling down gets you notes and links to data sources. In answer t
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by 2b3a51 3mo ago
I think 'to draw' is ambiguous here. You took the phrase to mean 'some strategies and techniques for making good drawings' and the author possibly meant 'how to make marks like you would with normal painting softwar
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by 2b3a51 3mo ago
Over here in the UK I've seen some pretty original bicycle adaptation with electric motors and even a 2 stroke engine added to aid propulsion. In India there is a word for this kind of thing Jugaad https://en.wikipedia.org
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by 2b3a51 3mo ago
Just a footnote to parent post: Groff is developed as a complete set of programs and macro files. Debian, hence Ubuntu and other derivative distros, segment groff into a base package with what you need to display man pages (using the man ma
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by 2b3a51 3mo ago
Another possibility is Slackware 15.0 which is the stable release that gets updates. Available in 32 and 64 bit, runs a 5.15 series kernel (antiX 26 32bit uses a 5.10.x kernel). I have an install on an ancient Thinkpad T42 with 1Gb ram, a
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by 2b3a51 3mo ago
Suspect it is the Anthorn station these days.
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by 2b3a51 3mo ago
Reaching back decades, I used to do a first draft longhand on file paper, cross bits out, rewrite bits. Then bang it out on a typewriter. Then once over with a red pen the next day, and a complete re-type. I'm not sure that I could wor
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by 2b3a51 4mo ago
Best of luck. Without revealing any commercially sensitive information it would be fun to know what the age of the oldest VM running is. Windows 2K? RHEL 4? (As an end-user sort of person, I get a strong smell of Bladerunner from this kind
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by 2b3a51 4mo ago
Edit timeout reached so replying to my own post. Installed on the Thinkpad T60 using the 'kitchen-sink' option to the install script following the instructions on the tribblix Web site. Left the USB stick in and rebooted and it di
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by 2b3a51 4mo ago
Would that be a question of using dd to write the iso to a USB stick, or are we talking about burning the iso to a DVD, booting and installing to a USB drive? PS: Thanks to Peter Tribble for providing this system. Edit: I've just downl
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by 2b3a51 4mo ago
In the UK we have a variety of arrangements for schools. Some are local authority managed, some are 'academy status' which means that they are self managed but often with a cluster of schools sharing a management layer to save mon
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by 2b3a51 4mo ago
Well, from version 151 there is now a setting to turn all the built-in AI off. So people in some part of Mozilla disagreed with your position sufficiently to provide a setting. PS: I do actually find Google's ai thing in the search use
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by 2b3a51 4mo ago
But perhaps the existence of the forks tells the Mozilla management something?
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by 2b3a51 4mo ago
Yes, I'd echo thanks to parent, the OA and all still in the trenches. Since 2007 in my case which is when I started using Linux at home. The distributions I use come with Firefox as the Web browser (Ubuntu, Debian and latterly Slackwar
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by 2b3a51 4mo ago
Thanks for posting that, I'd never heard of it. I thought of n(n-1)/2 and coordination issues initially but nah.
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by 2b3a51 4mo ago
antiX linux v26 might be of interest. I have the 32 bit version with the older Linux kernel (5.18.x I recollect) on a live usb. No mysterious graphics freezes. The more straight forward (and 64 bit) candidate would be Slackware 15.0 with a
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by 2b3a51 4mo ago
You could turn that idea over: Newton's alchemical researches may have given him the courage to posit action at a distance. Universal gravitation was very controversial and was not at all accepted initially. Descartes spent pages and p
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by 2b3a51 4mo ago
Oil and gas? Dinosaurs? Can see the connection. Good luck with it next time you are with them.

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