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by 2b3a51 3y ago
Not sure there is a lot of subsidy for council/housing association housing. Building costs paid back over 60 years or so generally. Perhaps land may be allocated?
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by 2b3a51 3y ago
From my end user perspective Slackware 15.0 works fine - up to date(ish) packages with what might be described as 'conservative' (old school) administration. For server use it might be best to have a look at the Slackware forum...
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by 2b3a51 3y ago
Perhaps the reaction has something to do with a product for which the USP is reliability and stability changing the terms on which the product is available very suddenly and without warning twice in the last few years? The clones did co
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by 2b3a51 3y ago
Disclaimer: UK based teacher here not an IT specialist About 15 years or so ago there was a slogan in colleges in the UK about 'personalised learning'. People sat in meetings and agreed that learning should indeed be personalised.
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I meant 'remove from cart'. Has happened half a dozen times over the last couple of years. I always check abebooks as well as the actual purchase price for a second hand book can be lower there. Which is funny as they are owned by
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UK: I'm getting good at guessing where the small plain light blue 'order without Prime' link is. My average monthly order is tiny - nowhere near being worth a Prime subscription. I've noticed over the last couple of year
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by 2b3a51 3y ago
Have a look at https://alexander.n.se/ as well. That Web site is for the association who organise transmissions from SAQ a few times a year. This year's summer event is on Sunday is July 2nd. Named after Ernst Alexande
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by 2b3a51 3y ago
I've always liked how the OpenBSD project just makes pragmatic changes and then documents them. The various window manager/DE package maintainers will be modifying the pkg-readmes for 7.4 now I suppose. /usr/local/s
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by 2b3a51 3y ago
I have TDE 14.1 compiled under Slackware 15.0 running on an old Thinkpad X60 core duo. The slackbuild is linked to from the Trinity Desktop Environment build instructions on their Web site. Seems to run fine and fastish with a TDE base bu
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by 2b3a51 3y ago
Half a gig of RAM with a Centrino M processor (one core) was a pretty solid spec for Gnome 2/KDE3 what 10 perhaps 15 years ago? Time passes. My take on the Old Computer Challenge is actually using GUI applications (Seamonkey/OpenO
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by 2b3a51 3y ago
UK is private enterprise rather than Royal Mail https://www.photowire.uk/ One example I just found. £2 to address in UK and £3 international. A thought has crossed my mind: if these kinds of site are quite common across the
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by 2b3a51 3y ago
Thinkpad T42, 1Gb ram, slackware 14.2, seamonkey 2.53 with noscript legacy plugin operating. Loads fast, looks clean, content seems to be available - each of the 'cards' opens a page with a graphic, a table of contents in a contra
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by 2b3a51 3y ago
Full drive encryption on Linux. I close down my laptop when I'm moving around or when I leave it somewhere while I'm in another part of the building.
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Well done you both. Are you documenting/journaling your interactions and experiences in the various cities that you visit with a view to drawing any conclusions? Or just enjoying the ride?
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Try palemoon perhaps. Seamonkey is an old school fork of Netscape before they pulled out Firefox. I suspect the CSS rendering is marginal CSS 2. I use Seamonky on OpenBSD i386 arch as Firefox no longer supported. I am using deliberately low
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Readable (just) in Seamonkey although some of the text is overwriting other text. Fully readable in links on the command line. Well done.
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Seamonkey browser reveals no visible content at all when visiting this site - just a blank window. I can see content in 'view source' but the main window won't resolve anything. Links on the command line can resolve the text
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Yes, the UK needs more surgery capacity.
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by 2b3a51 3y ago
"Yes, the equation editor for Linux is in our wish list but we don't have any specific date to share with you. I have forwarded this request again to our development team." --June 27th 2020[1] I'll allow others to down
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UK: there was a proposal to introduce weekend surgery to make better use of operating theatres. The problem is staffing the facilities. Lead times on training people are long. And in UK the training process is not cheap and has significant
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by 2b3a51 3y ago
I have to admit that I extended the filters to include email sent to selected distribution groups and from one or two specific colleagues. Also any email that was cc'ed to me from certain other colleagues - the ones who cc loads of peo
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So many people without understanding. Perhaps we need a tonne of different approaches?
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Your example includes just about every manager I have ever worked with in a 35 year teaching career. National exam pass rate of 67% does not imply that every class of 20 will have 14 or 15 passes! I really appreciate the author providing ac
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by 2b3a51 3y ago
UK: Try an image search for 'Helix Oxford Maths Set' Compasses, dividers, protractor, setsquares (that we don't use these days) and a 15cm ruler. Pencils, sharpener, rubber. Usually a stencil for lettering and a leaflet with
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by 2b3a51 3y ago
Emacs? Keyboard lag? Is that with some kind of LSP or other itegration? I find that Emacs keyboard responsiveness on text (on a 17 year old core duo laptop) is indistinguishable from vi or nano.
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I'm on 'mobile broadband' in a city of 1 million in the UK midlands. That's where you pay a monthly fee and get a mains powered router pod that connects itself to the vendor's G4 mobile network. Several companies of
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Try groff -ms -Tpdf example.groff > example.pdf The difference is the use of the ms macro package. That package generates page breaks and makes assumptions about the page size. -Tpdf will typeset your text using proportional fon
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A default (i.e. full) Slackware install has blackbox, fluxbox, fvwm, window-maker and icewm available by default along side kde and xfce desktop environments. And twm. And hidden away, not available from `xwmconfig` for some reason, lurks m
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You might be interested in heirloom troff. Supports UTF-8 so French might be fine, but I'm not sure about Chinese characters. https://n-t-roff.github.io/heirloom/doctools.html The page below might be of some use
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Possibly of interest... https://github.com/larrykollar/Unix-Text-Processing A re-compilation of the book by various contributors coordinated by Larry Kollar. The whole thing compiles in a few seconds on an old Thinkp

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