murphyslaw

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by murphyslaw 3y ago
A lot of homebrew installs (those from code) require Apple's compile time stuff which only xcode has.
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by murphyslaw 3y ago
Why organize the conference in a country like this in the first place? It's just better all round if organizers choose countries with better (easier) Visa systems than US/EU/UK/... I know at least one that moved out the
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by murphyslaw 3y ago
I've also noted that issue. I know of several people at my former job who traveled to the San Jose office and were turned back for some inane reason that had never been an issue before that time. US Border Guards have extreme latitude
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by murphyslaw 3y ago
> I wanted a cloud based desktop, with your personal encrytped access key being your phone Sun used to have a desktop product similar to this, it worked with an authentication token like a company badge or whatever. You could go sit at a
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by murphyslaw 3y ago
As a Belgian I simply use US intl and damn AZERTY to hell and back. The biggest problem is the size of the left shift which is only "right" on the Apple US intl keyboard and just wrong on anything else in Europe. I also hate the e
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by murphyslaw 3y ago
There is a special place in hell for the unknown inventor of the AZERTY layout still in use today in Belgium and France. https://kbdlayout.info/kbdbe Imagine being called to a parents' friend to fix their computer, fak
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by murphyslaw 3y ago
In Belgium the phone company (wholly government owned) charged an arm and a leg for ISDN BRI, so I never got one installed. We lived far from the exchange (5km), which at first was still a rotary when my BBS went up so it wasn't even a
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by murphyslaw 3y ago
This could be quite useful in a CS course on containers.
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by murphyslaw 3y ago
Way back I worked on a project to used virtualized routers inside labs for a bunch of use cases. The idea was to remove the need for building after building filled with equipment that just sat there idling 99% of the time. The biggest heada
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by murphyslaw 3y ago
You can just get the name puns translated, they're not very far fetched (child level). The bard is Assurance-tout-risque = insures all risks, which is funny cause he gets beat up all the time.
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by murphyslaw 3y ago
And you too, fellow Belgian. But.. what are scans? You mean using a scanner instead of buying them?
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by murphyslaw 3y ago
Yes!! Yoko Tsuno is my all time favourite, plus De Minimensjes (Les Petits Hommes)
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by murphyslaw 3y ago
Close, close... It's "Kuifje" and Rooie Oortjes" (Red Ears). I can't figure out the rabbit one you mention?
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by murphyslaw 3y ago
Yh, and even they can't get it right. You lose connectivity once in a while and the only way to recover is to erase the backup and start over. I came here to see if someone had built a macos native time machine, but this looks like jus
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by murphyslaw 3y ago
> On the contrary, I love having these discussions. Same, although my lawyer insists not to have them anymore when drinking.
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by murphyslaw 3y ago
Yh it was fun to use sparc if you had a load (and I mean a load ) of hardware at a time when it was kinda expensive still...
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by murphyslaw 8y ago
> recent years have shown us that we may not always have a great political relationship with the US IBM happily helped Hitler plan the Holocaust during World War II. Not even war could stop them from making a buck, so I doubt Trump'
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by murphyslaw 8y ago
Performance reviews exist only to create a paper trail for HR in case of law suits.