lproven

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by lproven 9mo ago
> Good times. That, of course, being the other track on some editions of Win95's CD. Edie Brickell and the New Bohemians, "Good Times". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqL1BLzn3qc
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by lproven 9mo ago
I mean, yes, true, but there wasn't much to strip out of Win95! I know. I did it. PC Pro magazine paid me to fit it into a very early SSD, which only held 16MB. There was only 24MB of installation files! https://winworldpc
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by lproven 9mo ago
Good heavens. That I didn't notice.
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by lproven 9mo ago
> Many of the UI paradigms are still used today. True. > Windows 95 introduced the start menu and the task bar, True. > windows 3.11 didn't have them in that form. It didn't have them in _any_ form. It had the Program Man
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by lproven 9mo ago
MacOS 10.15 dropped support for x86-32 binaries. Later it became clear why: the Apple Silicon transition, and Rosetta 2, which is optimised for running x86-64 binaries on Apple's Arm64. But the same change is looming on Linux: Ubuntu t
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by lproven 9mo ago
I did not mean any accusation. :-( I have said this to you before, though. I do generally find your writings hard to follow, and I am not used to that TBH. I would suggest a version simplified for lesser minds such as mine -- but don't
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by lproven 9mo ago
Oh, hey, that's one of mine! Thanks, @rbanffy!
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by lproven 9mo ago
Your developers were so preoccupied with whether or not they could that they didn't stop to think if they should.
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by lproven 9mo ago
But it's got to be specifically Provence, or else it's just sparkling homesickness?
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by lproven 9mo ago
Vi is primitive and clunky not because it's a bad design, but because it's from 1976 and computers have changed a lot since then. It dates from a pivotal point: when glass terminals had replaced teletypes. Glass terminal means wit
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by lproven 9mo ago
Um. Could someone please tell me what these phrases mean in old-people English? > Bethesda was kit bashing the initial titles. And > Griefers don't get mad... And in context... > we all know it is true And this emoji? > =3
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by lproven 9mo ago
I hate to have to agree, but I do. Arcan is profoundly important tech. Bigger than Wayland. The communications around it are really, really hard to follow. I interviewed Mr Ståhl by email. I am not sure why his writing is so hard to read,
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by lproven 9mo ago
I read _Always Coming Home_ about 30 years ago now, and ever since, "heya" has been my default greeting. I could count how many people recognised it on my fingers, but that doesn't matter.
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Containers, cloud, blockchain, AI – it's all the same old BS, says RH veteran(theregister.com)
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by lproven 9mo ago
I wonder how many people would be... Anyway, I will start by seeing if I can contact the author and ask if it's even feasible.
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by lproven 9mo ago
Satnav Nutella is more or less a lesson in how not to do tech leadership.
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by lproven 9mo ago
> "hold my bear" You'll get bitten. I think you mean "hold my beer ." I find this amusing as my Czech girlfriend -- well, now my wife -- used to consistently make the same substitution. :-)
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by lproven 9mo ago
> Really wish that there were drivers available to make that run nicely/natively on a Raspberry Pi rather than in an emulator: So very much this. The Pi range has redefined public expectations of what a small cheap computer is and
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by lproven 9mo ago
> you're taking a piss "You are taking a piss" -- you are currently urinating. "You are taking the piss" -- you are mocking me or this.
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by lproven 9mo ago
So, not a conspicuously wealthy country, then? Whereas I lived (and am back, sadly) in an offshore tax haven. The rich used Macs. Musicians used Macs. They were not some dedicated tool only found in certain places. Entire industries, big im
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by lproven 9mo ago
I did grow up in Africa, but West not South. But yeah, when that nickname was current, it was quite famous -- and nobody else dared use it, even the Aussies! :-D
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by lproven 9mo ago
/. user 6030 checking in. The irony is, I had an account earlier but forgot the credentials. By 1996 or so I'd devised a standardised system for creating different but memorable-to-me passwords. Then again, it blows some folks&#x2
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by lproven 9mo ago
I have used this on half a dozen machines with precisely zero special config. Step by step: 1. Install WINE, all defaults from OS package manager. 2. Open terminal. Change to directory with Office 97 install files. 3. Run `wine setup` 4. Fo
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by lproven 9mo ago
Nope. Wrong. My own extensive personal experience, travelling and working in multiple countries. Not true, never was. Like I said, and you missed: but not only there. People often mistake "Product A dominates in market B" -- mea
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by lproven 9mo ago
> We used to call the 1.44MB (3.5inch) disk stiffies Are you from South Africa? I understand it was the standard slang name there -- and nowhere else, because of the double entendre .
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by lproven 9mo ago
> The Mac didn't exist in Europe That is absolutely not a valid generalisation. I worked on Macs from the start of my career in 1988. They were the standard computer for state schools in education here in the Isle of Man in the la
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by lproven 9mo ago
> I'd happily suffer Clippy It's an optional install. You can just click Custom, untick "Office Assistant" and other horrid bits of bloat like "Find Fast" and "Word Mail in Outlook" and get rid of
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by lproven 9mo ago
> I was playing with it recently in a VM With the small caveat that I only use Word, it runs perfectly in WINE and has done for over a decade. I use it on 64-bit Ubuntu, and it runs very well: it's also possible to install the 3 ser
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by lproven 9mo ago
> You are so eager to reply that you haven't even read the whole comment. Of course I did. I didn't address your objections because I think they don't hold up, that is why. > Which of those online stores have a physical
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by lproven 9mo ago
> I am sure there will be some reason why this isn't good enough, Installing extensions is not customisability. It is code patching on the fly and it breaks when the desktop gets upgraded. Not good enough. > Gnome works fine thro

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