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by Tor3 5y ago
Yes, exactly that. I wrote another reply about that. Running 386BSD on the PC I had available meant overwriting the disk, and that was not an option (it ran OS/2 and had to continue doing so for a time). So that's why I ended up w
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by Tor3 5y ago
The little interaction I had with Linus was friendly and technical (the only direct contact I had with him was a short email conversation where I provided some details about tape SCSI APIs. If there was more I don't rememember it). An
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by Tor3 5y ago
386BSD vs Linux came down to a single thing for me: Support for MBR partitions. I was aware of both systems from the beginning and started to prepare trying both of them from around January 1992. What I had available was a 486 PC with OS&#x
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by Tor3 5y ago
Not sure about 1993.. I had one at work (486/33) in 1991. 16MB RAM. It wasn't cheap, but it was cheaper than the personal AT 286 I bought in 1987.. relatively speaking the most expensive computer I've ever bought. So in 1993
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by Tor3 5y ago
> I wonder where all those machines ended up. Would love to get one and play with them. A lot of them (probably the vast majority) simply got dumped, alas. I personally decided to dump a Challenge (basically an Onyx without the Reality E
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by Tor3 5y ago
I understand the problem dpkg is facing (can't know the canonical pathname for an object is, in some cases), but I have huge problems understanding why a symlink farm is preferable. The last thing I want to see on my Debian system is d
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by Tor3 5y ago
From the picture it looks like it would be unsteady unless you hold firmly onto the handle bars - is that right? What happens if you let go?
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by Tor3 5y ago
Front wheel drive is nice in the winter - I hadn't thought of that until I watched a friend going up a steep snowy road with no problems, while 2wd cars were stuck. The electric motor on the front wheel, his own pedalling on the back w
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by Tor3 5y ago
The shop guy was right though, even if he expressed it bluntly. How could anyone come up with a useful answer to that question? It's actually worse than the headache question. And yes there's not much of beating around the bush
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by Tor3 5y ago
I replaced my 21 year old Miele washing machine recently. The solenoid-driven water intake valve broke. It wasn't a part of the machine itself, it was on the water intake tube. But the replacement part was nearly half the price of the
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by Tor3 5y ago
7/11 is mostly a franchise setup in Japan, so things aren't completely uniform. The 7/11 combini I've been visiting over the years doesn't suffer from the empty bread syndrome. This isn't a big city, it's
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by Tor3 5y ago
I'm reading a few Japanese newspapers online these days (their English sections, mostly), and it's so much easier to read than nearly all of the online newspapers in my own country. No narrow fixed-size space in the middle of the
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by Tor3 5y ago
> Meanwhile the fax machine anecdote is about ten years old at this point. Most Japanese purely rely on mobile devices these days. My wife's small business included a fax, but it didn't get much use after around 2014-2015 or so
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by Tor3 5y ago
Ah, full width and half width.. I don't mind Japanese web pages in general, in fact I like a lot about them, but when it comes to filling out forms it can be horrible. Just last month my wife tried to book a hotel room in the only hote
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by Tor3 5y ago
The book I learned writing networking code from, Steven's "Unix Network Programming" ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNIX_Network_Programming ) was typeset in troff. The first edition (1990) at least. The
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by Tor3 5y ago
"Europe" is a purely geographical term (to Europeans at least), not a political one.
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by Tor3 5y ago
>Europe is used by most EU people as meaning the European Union. No. Not by this European and it's almost universal to be specific when you talk about these things. That some would say "Europe" but really mean "the se
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by Tor3 5y ago
For some reason I've never really had any issues with any of the many many laptops I've used over the years. Various HP laptops in the past, mostly, and DEC laptops back in the 20th century. Lately a private NEC laptop (all parts
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by Tor3 5y ago
I don't speak that many languages, but everything you say fits with my household even so, with our three languages (and my acquaintance with other additional languages). Every day my wife and I come across concepts we can't easily
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by Tor3 5y ago
My father was on sick leave for six months waiting for surgery. When he finally reached the start of the queue and got the operation he was back at work the week after, again becoming a taxpayer. Of course it pays to have working healthcare
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by Tor3 5y ago
Argh, a typo there.. read " pulled the plug " (too late to edit post)
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by Tor3 5y ago
That may be changing, but when I bought my 49" non-smart TV a few years back it was quite a bit cheaper than the same-size smart TVs. It wasn't that long ago, but a quick check at the same shop shows only "smart" (read
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by Tor3 5y ago
>It's fairly inconvenient to have to use your phone as the remote, especially when you want to do something on your phone (or watch something else) while the kids watch netflix. But when you cast from an application with integrated
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by Tor3 5y ago
> TV: just don't buy an actual TV. Buy a monitor and hook it up to a Linux box with something like Kodi. I simply bought a non-smart TV. I just made sure it had a number of HDMI ports. I plug my various media sources into the HDMI p
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by Tor3 5y ago
At $work we all (or nearly all) get trained in CPR and the use of a defibrillator, and re-trained (and tested and certificated) every second year. We have a defibrillator (and scissors etc) on site where we can easily find it if it's e
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by Tor3 5y ago
> Which developed countries have courses in school to learn touch typing? Mine did (Europe). Junior high. Around the age of 13, I think. It's been a while. But only as part of a particular course, which I didn't take - I had pi
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by Tor3 5y ago
What is it that makes it hard to dial in? Is it the amount of heat? I had very little experience with moka pots until recently, even though I lived in Italy and the apartment I rented included at least five Bialetti pots varying in size fr
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by Tor3 5y ago
Nitpick - some of the variations between Swedish and Norwegian is because Swedish and Norwegian ended up with different words from Middle Low German, i.e. the differences stem back from the Hansa period, and not as late as the French relati
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by Tor3 5y ago
There are several Lisa 1 in the pictures of this guy's Lisa 1 and Lisa 2 collection at the time (2011). https://alker33.wordpress.com/2011/04/05/my-apple-lisa-colle...
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Infected college head develops mask that glows if virus present(asahi.com)
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