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511.
by flomo 5y ago
Apple has made a ton of money from people utterly dissatisfied with the windows ecosystem, so I disagree people have accepted this. (I certainly haven't, and put my parents on an iPad 10 years ago and haven't heard barely a peep o
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by flomo 5y ago
One of the sources of confusion with this was Monty Hall did not always behave the way the problem dictates. He sometimes would open the prize door right away, or he would reveal a goat that was not behind a door or etcetera.
513.
by flomo 5y ago
One of the sources of confusion with this is Monty Hall did not always behave the way the problem dictates. He sometimes would open the prize door right away, or he would reveal a goat that was not behind a door or etcetera.
514.
by flomo 6y ago
The article jossled my memories that NE stood for Novell-Eagle. But given how how common the clones were, "any" was kinda right.
515.
by flomo 6y ago
Internet Explorer v1 was not really a product. I think the only place I saw it was on a documentation CD which contained HTML files. The original internet pack for Windows 95 came with IE2, which had SSL.
516.
by flomo 6y ago
Intel did release a browser plugin/activex which claimed to expose the processor serial number to websites. But this was such a scandal that it almost immediately disappeared, along with the documentation, so I never found out how it a
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by flomo 6y ago
Coreutils is mostly UNIX/POSIX standard utilities which have been implemented under many closed and open source licenses for decades now. This is not where you build the GNU/Moat.
518.
by flomo 6y ago
137-139 was originally about the old lanman broadcast stuff more than "security". They did not want your "network neighborhood" to be populated with your actual neighbors because that's creepy. I assume MS fixed thi
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by flomo 6y ago
OpenBSD's "secure by default" slogan dates back to the days when you could install Windows NT/2000 or RedHat Linux or whatever UNIX from the CD-ROM, and end up with several very optional "exploitable by default&quot
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by flomo 6y ago
Microsoft's OS division has essentially committed to supporting VB6 apps forever. I imagine that RedHat and etc will do that with Python 2, too much of the world is running on it. (VisualBasic, like Python was the most popular programm
521.
by flomo 6y ago
> It is very rare for a PC laptop power cable to break. The failure was usually the plug breaking loose from the board. (Both on PC laptops and old Powerbooks with the barrel plug.)
522.
by flomo 6y ago
I'm all in on USB-C as a personal user, including a docking station and a bunch of dongles. But USB-C's port/cable standards are such a huge mess that there will probably never be a time when you can walk into a random confer
523.
by flomo 6y ago
I'll be that guy and mention that Windows 9x had no local security and this was considered NOTABUG. You could also press F8 to drop to DOS and run something like win.exe /nonetwork.
524.
by flomo 6y ago
Random trivia. Back in the day, Apple was being boycotted by GNU, so the open source situation on A/UX wasn't great even compared to other weird unixes.
525.
by flomo 6y ago
Good to know - thanks.
526.
by flomo 6y ago
Right-click and inspect element.
527.
by flomo 6y ago
Modern x86 PCs still can boot DOS, no? (If not, sounds like a bug.) The bigger issue would be ISA control cards and the like. A HN user recently posted a link of "new" ISA boards for sale, but the latest CPU support was Pentium 4
528.
by flomo 6y ago
Microsoft's old "core fonts for the web" are still widely in use. (including here on HN.)
529.
by flomo 6y ago
Reminded me of the MS "DHTML Dude" blog. (no longer online, it appears.)
530.
by flomo 6y ago
Yeah, this isn't exactly a new problem either - the DTP industry has been coping with this for decades. There's probably still some old G4s stashed around just to open old pagemaker/quark files. OTOH, there's probably pl
531.
by flomo 6y ago
Maybe the first internet viral video? I think I got it on Gopher.
532.
by flomo 6y ago
Years ago back when I had a landline, I was excited when "Gallup" had finally called me to participate in a poll. It turned out to be a "push poll" for a particular issue (which I agree with) where they were trying to id
533.
by flomo 6y ago
Public radio once had a guest describing their online polling methodology - it was running "Win a Prize" type banner ads. So probably not very representative either.
534.
by flomo 6y ago
In addition, the original brandname was PowerBook.
535.
by flomo 6y ago
Looks more similar to Mr. Do! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Do !
536.
by flomo 6y ago
For whatever reason, everywhere I went they were using ACT! (Salesforce killed em all for a reason.)
537.
by flomo 6y ago
Essentially the core issue here.
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by flomo 6y ago
By far the best feature of XP theming was you could turn it off and it looked just Windows 2000 :)
539.
by flomo 6y ago
In the past I would swing by some retro Mac discussion and say "hey! you're trying to network that classic mac? just buy this bridge for $25 on ebay!" But they're not so cheap anymore so I guess make your own if you want
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by flomo 6y ago
Replying to say you are correct and GUI/Windows WordPerfect was completely 100% broken when dealing with 'closing tags'. Some people knew & liked to use the codes, but the basic GUI editing was just defective and caused y

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