krylon

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1. 211.▲
   by krylon 3y ago

   There is fungal meningitis, too? You really do learn something new every day. That does sound very bad, but meningitis always is.
2. 212.▲
   by krylon 3y ago

   There is a reason it is the standard editor, after all.
3. 213.▲
   by krylon 3y ago

   Slowly. Very slowly.
4. 214.▲
   by krylon 3y ago

   Debian is a boring system in the best sense of the word. I've only become a more prolific Debian user in the last ten years or so, but in that time frame, I've found Debian to Just Work (tm) and to reliably keep on working as lon
5. 215.▲
   by krylon 3y ago

   That was my exact thought as well. They are not real spiders, apparently, but they sure resemble them. It's interesting that I had not heard of these at all until about fifteen minutes ago.
6. 216.▲
   by krylon 3y ago

   > but with no instability ever Uh, I've been using Tumbleweed on two machines for about seven years now, and I've experienced multiple cases of MATE just not working after an upgrade. It's not that big a deal, though, as y
7. 217.▲
   by krylon 3y ago

   Wow, that is a long time.
8. 218.▲
   by krylon 3y ago

   I have a laptop running openSUSE Leap that I've been upgrading every year without problems since 2017. I only use it for listening to podcasts and watching the occasional video, but still. OpenBSD, too, has been a pleasure in this rega
9. 219.▲
   by krylon 3y ago

   I was under the impression RISC architectures usually(?) don't use microcode. Or am I mistaken?
10. 220.▲
    by krylon 3y ago

    Wild guess - out of print, highly sought after, collector's item?
11. 221.▲
    by krylon 3y ago

    I remember seeing pictures of this in a book as a child and thinking how cool that must be. Farewell!
12. 222.▲
    by krylon 3y ago

    So I suppose these all run NetBSD? ><
13. 223.▲
    by krylon 3y ago

    That also meant you had to pay for two connections at once, and it was not universally supported among ISPs (AFAIR, at least).
14. 224.▲
    by krylon 3y ago

    I was about to say the same. ;-) Except I use the Qt UI.
15. 225.▲
    by krylon 3y ago

    That must be in the top five, possibly even top three of the coolest company names of all time.
16. 226.▲
    by krylon 3y ago

    deep sigh That brings back memories... I remember downloading Netscape 4.0 over an ISDN line, took at least an hour. Fun times...
17. 227.▲
    by krylon 3y ago

    a) the key just says "end", not "eol" b) the key itself I use rarely, but as an emacs user I do hit Ctrl-e often, which is the equivalent.
18. 228.▲
    by krylon 3y ago

    I'm not sure I've ever seen it used like that. Either "\n" or LF/CRLF. But I haven't paid very close attention. ;-)
19. 229.▲
    by krylon 3y ago

    Wildly OT, but: The domain name is a bit funny, when I read "eol" my brain jumps to "end of life". ;-)
20. 230.▲
    by krylon 3y ago

    While I do love me some Lisp, I don't think it's a categorical requirement to get an emacs-like experience. Lua is a very nice language, very dynamic, built around a few powerful primitives, that it should be possible to get som
21. 231.▲
    by krylon 3y ago

    I heard some banks "fixed" the Y2K problem by shifting the offset, i.e. defining that year numbers from "00" to, say, "15" were interpreted as "2000" to "2015", giving them some time to fix
22. 232.▲
    by krylon 3y ago

    That kind of story also tickles my nostalgia bone heavily, but I see how up close it's a nightmare. I've seen, less than ten years ago, an industrial plant where the SCADA boxes were running NT 4.0, with plans - plans! - to eventu
23. 233.▲
    by krylon 3y ago

    While my nostalgia bone is tickled fiercely by this picture, I wonder what is the appeal of running SunOS these days. NetBSD shoud work on that machine, too, and that would give you at least some modern features like a current OpenSSH, IPv6
24. 234.▲
    by krylon 3y ago

    I think Linux has adopted 64-bit timestamps on 32-bit systems as well by now. Mainframes don't run Unix in the way we think of it, and the applications they run store timestamps in a different format (hence the panic about Y2K back in
25. 235.▲
    by krylon 3y ago

    Hehe, I was very confused there for a moment.
26. 236.▲
    by krylon 3y ago

    zile is an attempt to create an equivalent to GNU Emacs using Lua instead of Lisp. There was an attempt to merge the GNU Guile engine into emacs to replace the elisp bytecode VM; Guile would have supported, in addition to elisp, Scheme and
27. 237.▲
    by krylon 3y ago

    As much as I love emacs, that is too spartan for me. I would at least run OpenBox, it is lightweight and unobtrusive. That way I could still run emacs in full screen mode, and escape to a web browser gracefully if needed. I am not that mu
28. 238.▲
    by krylon 3y ago

    It does allow people to build useful things, I'll give them that. But our company didn't have any power users, so us admins got handed the task of doing that as well. (manic laughter)
29. 239.▲
    by krylon 3y ago

    I don't mind if you build a lot of stuff on top of it. But if the vendor more or less withholds useful documentation from their customers on purpose to make them buy their training and certifications or hire their consultants, that&#x2
30. 240.▲
    by krylon 3y ago

    > “Yeah you won’t figure those APIs out from the documentation. It was on purpose. You have to go buy the book.” I KNEW it!!! In a prior job, I had the unpleasant task of shepherding a SharePoint installation, and was incredibly frustrat