cobbaut

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by cobbaut 1mo ago
>> falsify election results > This is something that is extremely hard to accomplish in the US. Yet I seem to remember Al Gore winning an election, still Bush became president. Right? EDIT: link https://en.wikipedia.org&
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by cobbaut 1mo ago
Plus they are building coal plants as backups for when other sources fail.
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by cobbaut 2mo ago
My doctor said "you have to earn your sleep". I had the same problem until: - two pieces of fruit per day - two portions of vegetables per day - half an hour of outside sunshine per day - twice per week exercise until you sweat -
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by cobbaut 3mo ago
I have recovered files several times after fsck on a failed partition. I may have a 75 percent success rate with this... did not keep statistics obviously. Though it could be less, cause I also remember recovering files with foremost on a d
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by cobbaut 3mo ago
It's at the root level, no user came near that back then so it was kinda hidden.
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by cobbaut 3mo ago
> In a couple of decades running Linux installations of all flavours, I have never seen anything in lost+found! I saw it often. Running fsck on a crashed/failed partition usually does put some files in there. Maybe I kept using old
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by cobbaut 4mo ago
NT 4.0 did not crash that often if you rebooted it weekly (not uncommon at the time). And it had a simpler menu. But I agree about W2000 being peak Windows.
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by cobbaut 4mo ago
> I'm not in that city. Same, it claims Brussels, but I'm in Antwerp. It also got my screen resolution wrong.
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by cobbaut 4mo ago
What I remember mostly from working in that era, was that managers let engineers make the technical decisions.
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by cobbaut 5mo ago
Thinking of problems before falling asleep does sometimes help me in finding solutions in a dream. Though I may still be half awake when doing this.
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by cobbaut 5mo ago
>Oh, not OS/2 Warp. That would be awesome!
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by cobbaut 5mo ago
>The assembly seats in Brussels, so the decision comes from Brussels (geographically). Except that half the time the assembly seats in Strasbourg. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seat_of_the_European_Parliamen...
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by cobbaut 5mo ago
My first thought was "so they go commandline now?". Because X for me is still "the graphical interface".
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by cobbaut 7mo ago
> You may be thinking of Hong Kong No, I was thinking about this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convention_Between_Great_Brita... The way I understood this treaty was that the global powers in 1906 (Russia and Great
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by cobbaut 7mo ago
> China with Tibet and Taiwan What do you mean? China has bought Tibet from the British. And what have they done with Taiwan?
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by cobbaut 8mo ago
https://cobbaut.be personal homepage since 1997
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by cobbaut 10mo ago
European from Antwerp here. I only use two of those, and see more and more of my friends migrate away from some, albeit slowly.
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by cobbaut 10mo ago
MS Outlook was a heaven for viruses. Lotus (even before Notes) had cloud-like features for mail and worked on Windows and OS/2.
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by cobbaut 10mo ago
> Then Thunderbird arrived on the scene Apologies, but in my memory Thunderbird is just the new name for Netscape Mail. And Netscape mail, I believe, is older than Outlook. I still have folders in my current Thunderbird that I created in
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by cobbaut 11mo ago
Back in 1995 it was, to my knowledge, the only OS capable of sharing CD-ROM's on the network. Even MS-DOS and Windows 3.11 machines could access it. It was also capable of sharing Mainframe printers using a real null-printer-driver, wh
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by cobbaut 11mo ago
> I’ve lived in Europe my whole life. I’ve never been robbed or felt unsafe. Really, where? I have been robbed in Belgium and in France, have had a knife on my throat on a Sunday morning, and have had burglars twice (once in Antwerp, onc
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by cobbaut 11mo ago
My experience here in Antwerp is that a lot of places also play French, Italian, German, Swedish (Abba), Greek, Mexican, Brazilian, and many others, and of course Flemish music mixed with British and American. Never only (or mainly) America
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by cobbaut 11mo ago
> When I think back to Windows 7, the good feeling isn't nostalgia. It was the last user-focused Windows. I think Windows 98 was the last user-focused Windows. At least then all the useful settings were a single right-click away, an
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by cobbaut 11mo ago
Congrats. I had the same thought when Windows XP came out in 2001. I triple booted OS/2 Warp with Win98 and Linux for a couple years. Linux only since 2003, I guess I missed a lot of MS fun.
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by cobbaut 1y ago
It would be great if the USA invested half of its military budget in all these technologies instead of claiming that those Chinese investments are 'destroying' the USA economy. I have the impression that the USA is very capable, y
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by cobbaut 1y ago
> That’s let’s than 7€/day There is no daily Spanish football. There are also things like 'interland breaks' or vacation periods when there is no football for two or more consecutive weeks, but the fee still needs to be pa
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by cobbaut 1y ago
I agree with the post, but it is not just operating systems, and it has been going in the 'closed wall' direction since before WinXP. We had programs like 'pidgin' that allowed chatting with different protocols, whereas
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by cobbaut 1y ago
I got to 19, bedtime now!
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by cobbaut 1y ago
I remember typing whitehouse.com (hoping that was safe) in the early days of Internet... nope, it was not the same as whitehouse.gov!
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by cobbaut 1y ago
Nice! Can the generated link please include 'safelinks.protection.outlook' somewhere?

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