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by 2b3a51 3y ago
Try https://www.k58.uk/pages/images/blackbox.png [around 11Kb] [Fun fact: about 15 years ago, 30% of the total bandwidth from my vanity home page was produced by a picture that some teenager had linked to from a d
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by 2b3a51 3y ago
I quite like Fluxbox which is based on blackbox. If you use network-manager to manage wifi &c the nm-applet will display in the Fluxbox panel and I use cbaticon to monitor battery. No extra panels or docks. https://www.linuxq
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UK: The employee described himself as 'medically retired' and has been on 75% pay since 2008 under the terms of an IBM health plan. The arrangement will finish when the employee reaches 65. I'm sort of wondering if his pensio
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by 2b3a51 3y ago
And yet the page renders text fine in both lynx and links in the terminal. I've noticed that with a few of these 'no javascript means no content in Firefox' Web sites.
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by 2b3a51 3y ago
Need to check the graphics card. Thinkpad X60 dual core 32bit (dothian?) CPU with Intel i915 graphics runs into problems with Firefox 113 because mesa 23.5 does not support that card. Falls back to llvmpipe (or at least it does on Slackware
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by 2b3a51 3y ago
UK: there were regular demonstrations outside of a clinic in my city some years ago. Not nice. Residential area so local householders not happy either.
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by 2b3a51 3y ago
Just a (very late) contribution to the 'It's Gone' discussion. Anyone with a legacy blog that is causing headaches: perhaps wget to extract the static html pages and pop them somewhere? Archive.org is always available as a la
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by 2b3a51 3y ago
posteo.de is an example of a company offering an email account with some storage for 1 euro a month on Roundcube webmail or IMAP/POP3. Not a customer, nor anything to do with them, but I do keep this in mind in case my current ISP gets
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by 2b3a51 3y ago
My slightly odd preference is... bash-5.2$ cat .nanorc set zero Together with UXTerm.vt100.translations: #override \n\ Ctrl Shift <Key>N: scroll-back(1, halfpage) \n\ Ctrl Shift <Key>T: scroll-
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by 2b3a51 3y ago
Coventry had wonderful maisonette flats above a cloistered shopping street. And two carefully designed squares. Both demolished. Replaced with the usual speculative tat. Many empty properties (high rents from new build).
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by 2b3a51 3y ago
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2021/01/the-unreasonable-effectiven... I always post this when open.gov comes up. Might not be appropriate to other kinds of site.
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by 2b3a51 3y ago
Just wondering aloud: once a region has a number of villages with these services going well, perhaps a low bandwidth mesh network between them would allow a slow messaging service like email to exist?
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"Few works of philosophy have the urgency of Reasons and Persons, which was written with extraordinary speed, driving its author to the brink of collapse and its publisher to despair." Makes me feel slightly less bad about aband
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by 2b3a51 3y ago
The moment I saw foreign language I thought: better off in business sector Management can be abysmal. I've been lucky. Hope Mrs gbuk Senior is doing OK now.
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by 2b3a51 3y ago
The formal lesson planning has been cut back a bit these days (last 3 years or so). One of my employers went over to the 'five minute lesson plan' [1]. With a solid scheme of work (plan of the whole course) that works OK. I taught
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by 2b3a51 3y ago
Some things that occurred to me while reading OA. I thought the page covered most things carefully and I suspect the students had a good experience. In the UK sessionally paid teaching can be just one class a week as an extra thing. There w
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by 2b3a51 3y ago
Just a random idea: given the nature of Cuban society would neighbourhood or house level batteries be viable? Enough to store your electricity needs for (say) two or three days. So you can smooth out the day/night wind/calm cycles
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by 2b3a51 3y ago
UK Midlands city of a million, neighbourhood close to city centre with a majority(?) Muslim population drawn from diverse ethnic traditions. The guys with the buckets have been out on most main roads all through the month - respectfully off
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by 2b3a51 3y ago
Motif Window Manager (mwm) is very like twm but with nice regular sized colour icons and Alt-Tab already defined in the system .mwmrc. Very Windows 3 with iconised windows on the desktop. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M
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by 2b3a51 3y ago
Sigh I watched a colleague once spend half an hour to get a classroom PC booted, mirrored to the projector, calibrated to the interactive whiteboard and a presentation converted to the whiteboard software. Endless reboots, popups about out
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by 2b3a51 3y ago
At work (a college in the UK) decades ago the move from Windows ME/ Office 97 to Windows 2000/Office 2000 on the same hardware was like night and day. Wonderfully solid and I was able to just get stuff done. Of course, we had IT t
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by 2b3a51 4y ago
Which is occurring because of an initiative from around a decade ago. Initiatives and programmes for school improvement &c have a habit of persisting like zombies.
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by 2b3a51 4y ago
Are you prepared to devote the resources necessary to provide class sizes in 'state' schools in the UK that match the class sizes found in private (i.e. 'Public') schools? Might cost a bit.
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"This is an important problem (STEM - Mathematics Education) that he is tackling which no one else before him bothered to." The first part of your sentence above is fine. The second part is not consistent with the record. There
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by 2b3a51 4y ago
Goes back a long way, c.f. C. P. Snow and the Two Cultures book or article in the 50s. Before that Charles Babbage had something to say about the state and teaching of mathematics in British universities . My personal view is that there
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by 2b3a51 4y ago
https://wikiindex.org/MeatballWiki Still going strong.
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by 2b3a51 4y ago
Thanks for this. Is there a demonstration Web browser that can be built with the layout 2020 option enabled? I'm thinking of something like the very basic one that WebKit had when I used to try these things years ago.
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by 2b3a51 4y ago
> I notice that I haven’t noticed the skyscrapers, that they’ve seemed only natural. It’s a question of overall scale. And in any case, you can’t always walk around with your head turned up. A person can keep only so many floors in sigh
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by 2b3a51 4y ago
Equation editor and outlines with 'move family' type functionality as well. Those are not exclusive features but interesting for a terminal application.
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by 2b3a51 4y ago
Posting this off Slackware 14.2/xfce4 on an old Thinkpad X220. All good. (Must get round to upgrading to 15.0 sometime)

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