coribuci

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by coribuci 7y ago
> Often it is crazy well engineered, but decisions set in stone decades ago still linger on. YMMV
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by coribuci 7y ago
> I've just seen the new Microsoft Office. On the desktop. With a big screen. But just pressing the File menu makes the document you work on completely disappear behind something useless. Stupidity is contagious. And Microsoft'
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by coribuci 7y ago
> I don't really understand what's wrong with a full-screen modal menu, or how that means "this is for mobile." It's true that it looks a bit stark on their homepage where there are only 2 links, but it's pr
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by coribuci 7y ago
When Windblows decides to kill itself in various ways is very useful. I used it to run checkdisk when windows crashed and then booted normally without any disk check. It has a lot of utilities that are very helpful when something goes wron
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by coribuci 7y ago
> ...Management didn't want to give us budget to rewrite it in a modern language, sadly. I fully agree with the management. The problem with software developers of today is that instead of being engineers and getting shit done they
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by coribuci 7y ago
> Fun fact: the originator of this software also wrote ping. He was slightly miffed that ping got more attention. ping got more attention because the original brl cad was only available from a .mil domain and you need to ask for a key to
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by coribuci 7y ago
Higher voltage means less current for the same power. Since the power dissipated on the battery is proportional with the current you want to draw less current. What a lot of people do not understand is that the lack of a gearbox in an elect
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by coribuci 7y ago
> In Debian, I can be reasonably confident that no information leaves the system without my authorization. Only if you are not running a webbrowser > Edit: Just out of curiosity, am I wrong in mistrusting Microsoft, or in trusting Deb
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by coribuci 7y ago
The web browser is the new OS. The biggest failure of Google is that they didn't hire Lennart. Imagine your Chrome running instead of SystemD. :)
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by coribuci 7y ago
There is not much of a GUI in XBill- just a bloody program with a menu and a window. The same can be said about Android - Windows 1.0 rereleased. From an engineering point of view XBill is a better achievement than the GUI of Android.
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by coribuci 7y ago
There is also the fact that the "modern browser" is no longer a browser but a program which runs remote code with local privileges and sometimes with elevated privileges. The main reason they want to deprecate ftp is the same reas
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by coribuci 7y ago
For clarity, Bill Gates is also a very prolific guy that people love to hate. I take some time every day to curse both of them for the amount of dispair that they cause with their offsprings.