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Jaruzel
5y ago
It's worth pointing out, that if you use PayPal to buy anything from any site, the site in question gets to see your PayPal email address (whether they need to use it or not). If your main email address is used as your PayPal login, an
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I stumbled over this whilst trying to work out what this tag in my WordPress theme meant: <link rel="profile" href="http://gmpg.org/xfn/11"> Does anyone actually use FOAF or XFN, and
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FOAF Vocabulary Specification
(xmlns.com)
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How are these comments stored? Can it scale up to storing comments for 3 billion pages? q.v. https://www.worldwidewebsize.com/
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Google have the same service[1] if that's your thing. I've been using it on a links heavy dashboard page for a couple of years now, and it always worked. I'll probably switch to DDG now tho. --- [1] https://www.goo
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Some favour of markdown maybe?
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Too late to edit... > Does she have installed locally? Office installed locally.
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Does she have installed locally? Of so she's got VBA, which is very powerful. Alternatively if she has the ability too see file extensions, then create a new text file and rename the extension to .vbs, edit that in notepad, and you can
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I have made many minor edits across many articles over the years, and never had a single one reverted directly. Some have been swallowed up during later re-writes and that's fine too. The thing is with Wikipedia, is a) register for an
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You get an up-vote for that. Well done! I felt the whole article was pointless fluff, and just had to call it out. I feel no guilt.
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To save people a pointless click: In the end, your egg depends on what the chicken eats, and the chicken depends on what the farmer feeds it. So, don’t worry too much about the colour – just enjoy your egg!
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Yeah, I was thinking of a more-ready-to-run distro for non-technical people. When I have some more free-time (haha) I might look to building one.
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Maybe it's because I'm a visual learner that I stored panel 6 and not panel 4.... Even though I clearly stored it incorrectly regardless.
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That's a very good idea, I hadn't thought of that. I bet archive.org will have a copy!
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ok typo on my part... anyhoo - does "correct" go at the front or back?! Because the way I read it, the speech bubble saying 'correct' is after the horse and the other two words.
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> The problem in your case seems to have been more lack of confidence and experience on your part yeah, I was like 23 at the time, and totally inexperienced. Had it happened now, 20+ years later, the conversation would have been totall
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Oh that's nice, cheers.
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A few months ago, I installed Windows 2000 onto an ancient ThinkPad T21. I then put Office 2000 on it. The intent was 'mono-focused' (I like that word) writing. The project stalled, as I was stuck looking for a good offline dictio
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I had exactly this experience many many years ago when I was just starting out. I'd written a small tool that enabled pop-up messages between [Windows] users on a network. It was protocol agnostic - as long as the users had a shared fi
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For ages I remembered this as 'battery-horse-staple-correct' but then I see loads of people saying 'correct-battery-horse-staple' so now I think I'm the one who is wrong. I wonder which way round is actually the rig
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Yup millions. Almost a new one every day.... Most are just one-off utilities to solve a problem. Some people would do them in bash, or python, or PowerShell. I do them in C#, because I know it well, and can code it without thinking... A Few
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TIL, I have a history of 'Flouncing'. :)
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Using an Amiga in 2021: Making an intro
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Hehe... It is my first! It's also the most... interesting, vehicle I've ever owned. I love it though, it's really fun to drive.
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Adding a UK take here: In my area in the South East of England, we have overhead power (and POTS) on poles down the streets. Recently Openreach have been stringing fibre alongside the existing cables. Virgin Media (the other provider) jus
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She was missing a chunk of her brain – it didn’t matter
(wired.co.uk)
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I HAVE a Jeep Cherokee, and now you've got me worried... XD
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That's over two years ago and I don't recall reading it at the time. I think there's some sort of 'soft' rule about dupes though, if its less than a few months.
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However, Heinlein cats also walk through walls - not good when space is on the other side.
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Heh, I basically said exactly the same thing elsewhere in this thread and got voted down. I guess someone out there doesn't like WinSCP! (I'm voting you up, as I can't vote myself up)
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