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by hub_ 2y ago
OS/2 comes to mind. Version 1.x was already much more sophisticated than MS-DOS.
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by hub_ 7y ago
TBH I never had that problem on the 9360 (in over 2 years) - YMMV. Knock on wood though as I had to replace the battery and the AC adapter died.
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by hub_ 7y ago
Yep, you need a new battery. Getting one from Dell is harder than actually replacing it. USB-C as a power connector work great when the proprietary power supply die as you are waiting to get a replacement battery. (true story) (I have a 936
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by hub_ 10y ago
Why would that be on the list? Isn't there already a solution? It doesn't need to be GPL licensed for getting FSF recognition - a non copyleft but Libre license is fine.
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by hub_ 10y ago
Does that include open source code for ALL the hardware?
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by hub_ 10y ago
For starter you could restrict the autoplay the next video only if it is the same element.
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by hub_ 10y ago
But then Chrome and Youtube come from the same company. Maybe they should coordinate.
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by hub_ 10y ago
There is a disable autoplay in Firefox as a hidden pref. Enabling it break YouTube (offender number 1) and Vimeo. Vimeo's take is that it is a bug in the browser hence it should be fixed. But then Vimeo are the same that told use to us
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by hub_ 10y ago
This is why Firefox download the CISCO binaries at startup... Can't have nice things.
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by hub_ 10y ago
My approach is not to throw away. The changes are incremental and definitely the spirit of the original code is here.
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by hub_ 10y ago
Nope. ClarisWord never existed — ClarisWorks was the product. Claris had MacWrite II for a time because they were the software spin-off from Apple, and that was their stand alone word processor offering, not much better than Claris Works, w
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by hub_ 10y ago
128KB binary. All written in assembly.
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by hub_ 10y ago
I was in that group. There is so much that can be done just like that. And Abi as a company was long gone by that time.
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by hub_ 10y ago
I think the OP meant "on Windows".
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by hub_ 10y ago
You know it is hard to order people to do something when they aren't paid. Even project like OpenOffice.org that had commercial venture had hardship with funding. Oracle cancelled it, Novell cancelled it, IBM do whatever they want, etc
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by hub_ 10y ago
There is definitely lots of improvement to do in that area for AbiWord. There is a long list of bugs from every side.
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by hub_ 10y ago
Porting to iOS would be easier than to Android. Because on iOS we can simply write the UI code in Objective-C++. On Android, it involve doing JNI + Java and cross compiling the AbiWord engine. Something like what Firefox for Android is doin
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by hub_ 10y ago
I'm not sure this will go the way one would want. There is nobody to do Windows and the Mac port has also fallen behind. I'd rather continue the bootstrapped Qt port in parallel to Gtk and use that.
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by hub_ 10y ago
nope. Never had eye surgery and I have normal vision without glasses. It was just a nod a reading stuff with a second set of eyes (ie code I didn't write).
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by hub_ 10y ago
It can read .doc. Never write. When it writes .doc it is actually writing RTF. A kludge, but this is better than always explaining users that saving as .rtf will be fine. And Word did that for a while part of a feature that was removed in a
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by hub_ 10y ago
It is not "refused". It is just not a trivial undertaking and with even more limited resources now, it is even less easy. Just switching to ODF as a default format wouldn't have been a good idea, the difference in data models
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by hub_ 10y ago
definitely not.
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by hub_ 10y ago
btw, creating the string with capacity was in my mind at one point. Some contributor submitted a PR already https://github.com/hfiguiere/leftpad-rs/pull/2 Sadly it has gathered some rust (pun intended !)
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by hub_ 10y ago
I wrote this as a practical joke, following a friend of mine who did that for Go. (and no I didn't post that to HN either)
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by hub_ 10y ago
there is a big irony in that comment... (very personal to me - that no one can get here)
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by hub_ 10y ago
a PR is more practical if you want me to merge. Thanks !
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by hub_ 11y ago
They are actually working on that. With DRM, DMCA, shitty software, etc. They want you to go back to the vendor to make sure things are fixed. Repairable? Only by authorized service dealers. At a monopolistic cost. And in the US you can tha
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by hub_ 11y ago
Or Google Docs...
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by hub_ 11y ago
But they do have exclusive control of the distribution channels of apps for iOS. That's a monopoly.
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by hub_ 12y ago
And they are rightly so to tell people to upgrade to the latest Firefox.

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