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Which explains why Spearmint Rhino is listed in Birmingham (hint: you might get a surprise popping in that establishment for a quick pint). So nice interface and all but some data …

All true, but I can't help pointing out that the code name for this new OS came from Plan Nine from Outer Space , a film (which I gather the gang went to watch and found hilarious,…

A bit more niche but Slackware (both the 15.0 released version and 'current' development version) have x86 support (i686). Void Linux and antiX Linux also provide i686 isos. But, y…

Interesting comment, but I'm thinking of the time scales involved. Farming 6 to 8 thousand years ago, simultaneous development in several areas. Before that millennia of hunter-gat…

Not, I trust, in the UK

Yes, I was wondering exactly that. Would the mysterious bankers who tasked 'Ray' with this job even know the physical location of the servers in the data centre? I'd like more info…

I'm just wondering if a reading pipeline could include converting documents being consulted to plain text. Then malicious sections imported to a document being edited would be obvi…

Vibe away. Vibe code like a teenager with leather trousers and a top with zips (punk days). Just don't put it in production or in a work flow where there could be consequences if (…

TIL. /var/lib/dbus/machine-id Exists on Slackware64 15.0 but /etc/machine-id Does not.

Perhaps 'Error' in tasteful smoked glass overlay, but with a QR code that encodes an error number? (Spent some time last year supporting students online - noone was going to take a…

Other posters are providing advice about writing from the shoulder, and writing slower etc which I would agree with. The other thing I would mention is: how tightly do you grasp/ho…

Your comment stopped me in my tracks a little bit. Is a 'bias' in a piece of writing generally a property of word to word choice and sentence to sentence construction or is it some…

Just a call out for sdf.org. Perhaps useful for those training developers mentioned in some posts here who need the TIL experience with unix based systems. Free shell account on a …

Have a look at MWM (Motif Window Manager). Colour icons (gasp) and windows that actually maximise. Packaged in Debian so I suppose around in Arch repositories somewhere.

twm still around but might be a separate package these days and not in X11 core. CWM (Calm Window Manager) from OpenBSD is available in portable form and packaged for Debian. Very …

No, the project leader (corenomial?) packed it in. BunsenLabs is one follow on project and the other is CrunchBang++. Alas both I think are 64 bit only in recent versions because t…

I'm posting this off a 2009 Samsung NC10 Netbook running antiX linux 26[1] (32 bit, debian Trixie packages but an older 5.10 series kernel) and it has Abiword running, with ROXterm…

Lab book with numbered pages and dated entries for semi-thought out specifications when it gets serious? But there needs to be a level of scribbling on whiteboards/backs of envelop…

I think that the two examples of messy notebooks that the OA links to are remarkably restrained. My practice is to capture the raw stuff on the right hand page and then keep the le…

Perhaps a minimal profile for 'readers' could include a list of languages that would be welcome? That would help with the selection of the daily post.

Seems like "Oblique Strategies" cards by Eno and Schmidt but also like flash cards for revision. They look nice.

Thanks for posting that link. The graph has a key on the right hand side that clearly labels each colour of line, and the horizontal axis is scaled in months of each year. Scrollin…

I think 'to draw' is ambiguous here. You took the phrase to mean 'some strategies and techniques for making good drawings' and the author possibly meant 'how to make marks like you…

Over here in the UK I've seen some pretty original bicycle adaptation with electric motors and even a 2 stroke engine added to aid propulsion. In India there is a word for this kin…

Just a footnote to parent post: Groff is developed as a complete set of programs and macro files. Debian, hence Ubuntu and other derivative distros, segment groff into a base packa…