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>> 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. Rig…

Plus they are building coal plants as backups for when other sources fail.

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 pe…

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,…

It's at the root level, no user came near that back then so it was kinda hidden.

> 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 d…

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.

> I'm not in that city. Same, it claims Brussels, but I'm in Antwerp. It also got my screen resolution wrong.

What I remember mostly from working in that era, was that managers let engineers make the technical decisions.

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.

>Oh, not OS/2 Warp. That would be awesome!

>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/Sea…

My first thought was "so they go commandline now?". Because X for me is still "the graphical interface".

> 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 glob…

> China with Tibet and Taiwan What do you mean? China has bought Tibet from the British. And what have they done with Taiwan?

https://cobbaut.be personal homepage since 1997

European from Antwerp here. I only use two of those, and see more and more of my friends migrate away from some, albeit slowly.

MS Outlook was a heaven for viruses. Lotus (even before Notes) had cloud-like features for mail and worked on Windows and OS/2.

> 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…

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 …

> 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 m…

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 mix…

> 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 th…

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 …

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 h…