cobbaut

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by cobbaut 1y ago
I get strong "Office Open XML" vibes from this one. There will be a day when this passes, and again it will be a loss for humans and a win for (American) tech giants.
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by cobbaut 1y ago
Obligatory xkcd: https://xkcd.com/893/
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by cobbaut 1y ago
I have a tendency to locate annoying beepers and disconnect them...
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by cobbaut 1y ago
Miele from my grandmother still running here, 1988 machine! No defects, still pristine inside. No guarantee though that today's Miele is the same quality.
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by cobbaut 1y ago
> The web page source seems full of Easter eggs Indeed... click the video play button :)
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by cobbaut 1y ago
> like naming your company "The" or "God". or naming a product "Word" or "Office" or "Windows". :)
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by cobbaut 1y ago
But but but the creator himself said it is gif like in gin and giraffe... right? TIL: gimp is gimp and not gimp? I always pronounced this like gin.
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by cobbaut 1y ago
And yet it is gif like in gin and giraffe...
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by cobbaut 1y ago
Creator yes, but is Gridfinity not based on this video from Alexandre Chapel? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHFK5sY8ToE
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by cobbaut 1y ago
1. SSL 2. I'm 56 and was active in computer clubs in the late 80s, no network, no hard drive, thousands of floppy's.
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by cobbaut 1y ago
Linux works. At home I made the switch in 2003, after a couple of years triple booting Win98, OS/2 and Linux. I feel lucky to have never used XP/Vista/7/8/10/11.
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Switch to EU(switch-to.eu)
10 points by cobbaut 1y ago|3 comments
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by cobbaut 1y ago
Back then it was common for Netscape to have features that (years) later became standard HTML.
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by cobbaut 1y ago
There is an 'unhook' add-on for Firefox that blocks all shorts forever. Highly recommended.
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by cobbaut 1y ago
Back then things like postmaster@theirdomain and webmaster@theirdomain were read by actual people. Also the whois command often worked.
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by cobbaut 1y ago
> As a sole maintainer of an open source project, I was enthused when Microsoft reached out to set up a meeting to talk about Spegel. The meeting went well, and I felt there was going to be a path forward ripe with cooperation and hopefu
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by cobbaut 2y ago
I was alive, and it did happen. I never did it myself, but did get copies of the (British I think) broadcasts on cassette for the ZX Spectrum. iirc a program would be about five-six minutes of beeps.
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by cobbaut 2y ago
> HN has been my very favorite website that I consciously open every day since last ~15 years. It is the portal to get the ambient and relevant view of the techland. I bet a lot of people here would say the same thing about Slashdot ten
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by cobbaut 2y ago
Since these systems were from the 90ies they indeed did not get security updates. Most were only locally connected (for example OS/2 had a Token Ring in one building). The WAN connection (for AS/400) was trusted.
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by cobbaut 2y ago
Didn't mean to bash you, sorry. I saw years of uptime on those systems whereas Win2000 iirc needed a reboot for every single update of the OS, and even for applications like IIS or Exchange. Compared to NT4 it was probably very stable,
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by cobbaut 2y ago
> Seriously, Windows 2000 was one of the most stable OS back in the day, rock solid. I used 2000 server as a desktop OS, instead of 98. Really? Oh, compared to other Windows versions... Because it never came close to the stability of OS&
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by cobbaut 2y ago
The Internet worked fine without ads though.
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by cobbaut 2y ago
> = (2 + 0!)^2*5 How? 0! = 1 so how does 3^2*5 become 2025?
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by cobbaut 2y ago
You mean like tmux or screen? EDIT: apparently not, sorry.
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by cobbaut 2y ago
> Reading the whole thing, I think the author would agree Yes, I think so too.
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by cobbaut 2y ago
> Maybe they were there when you weren't there and they're asking the same question about you? No. She complained about not seeing anyone. She had a clear mind and we talked a lot about her friends and family.
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by cobbaut 2y ago
Please visit people when they are still alive. My aunt was alone for the last three years of her live, up to 94 years old. She had almost no visitors, and was not able to go out by herself. I went there about every week, and was always the
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by cobbaut 2y ago
That came later, end of 1996 with OSR2.
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by cobbaut 2y ago
For sure we did. Our backdoor, and that of all the neighbours was unlocked day and night. Same for my grandmothers' house and her neighbours. 1970s.
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by cobbaut 2y ago
In front of the middle finger: http://herrdebby.netsec.be/3d_lego_Screenshot_2024-09-26_14-...

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