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by lproven 4mo ago
> All KDE after 2 and 3 is awful to use. Thank you for saying this! I agree. KDE 1.x was great. KDE 2.x was cluttered but it did the job; with a major rework, such as Corel LinuxOS and Xandros gave it, it was a good desktop. https:&#x
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by lproven 4mo ago
Still brings a lump to my throat.
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by lproven 4mo ago
For those who do not know, this comment is itself a C&H reference. https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1986/09/27 https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2F4...
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by lproven 4mo ago
> Zalgo Garfield Those were a fan parody, and were nothing to do with Jim Davis.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Heinemeier_Hansson
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Heinemeier_Hansson
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by lproven 4mo ago
Rather than potentially 1000 HN readers each spending 15 minutes on Google trying to work out what you are talking about, may I suggest that you expand that with a few plain English sentences that tell us what that means? I have no idea wha
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by lproven 4mo ago
I don't think "ostensibly" means what you think it means. But I can't guess what you meant.
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by lproven 4mo ago
Nobody responsible or competent is scrapping DDR5 computers yet. You can't use other speed standards of RAM in a computer designed for a faster (or slower) standard. If it needs DDR5 it can't use DDR, DDR2, DDR3, or DDR4. I don&#x
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by lproven 4mo ago
OK, I have to admit, that one I didn't know. It's only a matter of time until someone posts "Torpenhow Hill" -- which does not exist. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torpenhow_Hill
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by lproven 4mo ago
> 60 year olds have been using computers most of their working life. Absolutely. I am in full-time work, and expect to be for another decade. I have worked my entire career in IT, doing tech support, training, systems design and implemen
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by lproven 4mo ago
Same here. It was at least marginally more stable on "System Six."
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by lproven 4mo ago
> and mostly added networking Careful. You are confusing Windows 3.11 with Windows for Workgroups 3.11. They were different products, at different times. This is why version 3.11 of the Linux kernel was called Linux For Workgroups: http
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by lproven 4mo ago
> For you to downvote my small comment I didn't. I checked. I have not. > go on to lecture me about things you have barely any grasp or memory of, No, this is not true or accurate. It is a personal attack. I am a tech professiona
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by lproven 5mo ago
Reminds me of my early-1990s home network server: a late-1980s IBM PS/2 Model 80, a 386 tower built with a moulded iron case. Super tough, fancy 32-bit IBM expansion bus. 4MB of RAM on the motherboard, another 4MB in an expansion slot.
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by lproven 5mo ago
> I'd love to see that style of keyboard on new stuff. OMG yes please. :-) Yep, WP for DOS was quick. Rather clunky UI compared to MS Word for DOS, IMHO, but fast. A friend of mine used a simple method to demo its speed: on his chea
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by lproven 5mo ago
More discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48424545
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by lproven 5mo ago
FWIW, still around and now FOSS. https://github.com/bluewaysw/pcgeos
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by lproven 5mo ago
> it's quite a feat to fit this into 4 MB on a 386. I had 2 different Librex 386SX laptops, with 4MB of RAM, on long-term loan from work around 1992. One was quite chunky, the 2nd was a slimline thing with an off-centre hinge. I ran
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by lproven 5mo ago
Later dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48410844
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by lproven 5mo ago
> Nobody wants that except a couple of lonely nerds in the corner who hate JavaScript. Hey, anyone else want to join us in this corner?
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by lproven 5mo ago
Exactly. I started out in my first job in an open-plan office where everyone had Model F and Model M keyboards because we were an IBM dealer and that's what IBM shipped. We made calls, talked to customers, talked to clients in the offi
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The Attack on Competence(deadsimpletech.com)
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by lproven 5mo ago
Blu-Tak FTW.
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by lproven 5mo ago
Oh no it isn't. I started before floppy disks were widespread. Floppies were sooooooo good after tape cassettes. :-)
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by lproven 5mo ago
OK, fair enough. I first learned Vi on SCO Xenix in 1988 and I instantly hated it, and 38 years later, I still do. About 2-3Y into my career, IBM CUA came along and transformed DOS software: everything got a new CUA UI. Word 5, proprietary
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by lproven 5mo ago
> When I saw this post I immediately thought of WordPerfect. The final DOS WordPerfect works wonderfully on even early 21st century kit. But it's not free. WordPerfect still exists and it's on sale. So, in USB-DOS, I included W
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by lproven 5mo ago
> You'd have to find a suitable editor. You didn't follow the link. You should have. I built that USB-DOS tool and it contains a wide choice of word processors, from plain text editors with the WordPerfect command keys, to full
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by lproven 5mo ago
It's quite remarkable, isn't it? It is how Linux used to be in the 1990s: tiny, simple, blindingly fast compared to the big lumbering commercial OSes... ... Which now are also Linux. Which is terribly terribly sad.
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by lproven 5mo ago
> (several hundred years old) Several thousand more like.

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