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Agreed what you wrote. It's great and well written book. I did read the book again last fall after couple decades. Then few weeks after finishing book I ran into his LinkedIn post …

Bit late to reply, but seems ^A and ^E (jumping line begin and end) at least do work in Firefox. But for example ^T (letter transpose) do not work on macOS Firefox, which I'm quite…

Well, I've got to admit I've haven't read HN using emacs. Is there such a .el thing avalabnle somewhere? It would be great to read HN as it was with usenet news. Not joking, that w…

Vi is fine. It's superior and to bare ed - The Standard Editor*, when you don't have anything else available. I made much of my living coding vi 7 years in -80's. And I still use v…

I just tried, and my macOS up todateFirefox (still Sonoma few weeks), doesn't work. Nor does Waterfox (Firefox derivativ) that I've been using more lately. Could it be some setting…

Yes, emacs keystrokes became kind of cli lingua franca, which apparently many do not know. I don't remember my self ever read about those supported explicitly anywhere, but acciden…

Sure. Browser autocorrect there just tried to be helpful :/

"Is anyone still using emacs?" Yes, 34 years and no plans to switch. Emacs cursor movement keystrokes are quite widely supported elsewhere too which use GNU readline or implement a…

Oh, and there were more than just UUCP bang paths. IBM Memo, Novel Netware etc. groupware and such X.400 and routing those required also odd email conventions. VAX VMS addresses di…

There is one more 'lie' missing and not included in that writing which only looks email addresses what is are limits of valid destination addresses. But if used as a senders source…

I've last seen those in older Cisco ASA firewall's up to OS version 8.something which had internal or external CompactFlash with VFAT16 filesystems. Usually caused by end of useful…

OK, I found bit more from UNIX System Administration Handbook Third Edition (Evi Nemeth, Garth Snyder, Scott Seebass, Trent R. Hein, with even more authors mentioned) 2001 book fol…

Foxleys book does not actually claim reason why it need to be preallocated. I've got the book also. Index mentions fsck only page 52, where it reads: "52 UNIX FOR SUPER-USERS ... T…

I understand that while small kids or baby then there is lot of laundry. But I've heard some people wash same fav clothes every day just to be able to use them fresh clean every da…

Miele makes darn reliable appliances, I've had two Miele vacuum cleaners from -88 and still both work fine. Used weekly, one at home and when I sold summer cottage to my brother & …

True, that's some things have changed. But it's when you consider taking first full drive backup times. It still takes 'forever' when you'd rather like to get on with fixing single…

I've used Mail.app since 2004 and have not had any of those problems except searching using Spotlight have occasionally been broken over the years, but never searching within the a…

How so, not last a decade? I had AEG Lavamat 1055 about 35 years (from 1982), worked well without hitch. It was quite small, top loading model etc. Fast spin-dry w/ variomatic (sha…

Sure I remember, but since I purchased Spinrite doing lowlevel was needed just once while changing ST-506 controller to a different type or for a new disk, former was quite much ra…

And it's been used by many commercial networking and storage appliances too. Juniper using various devices (routers, firewalls, switches, etc), Citrix Netscreen load balancers, Del…

You should't need mainframe for 100% (or five nines if that's fine) service uptime. You can build that way cheaper with 2-3 proper clustered load balancer units, 2-3 application se…

and Bob with his Billard pipe, now as you brought these up! My father did not smoke, but many of his colleagues did which some did look 60's bit like Bob. For some odd reason I sti…

In Finland and most of Europe have 230V one phase, 400v in three phase. And bare single phase subscription haven't even been available new houses for at least 45 years any more. Bu…

I think I've heard US it's mostly no water at all on stove and Germany I've heard they have had these sauna-masters who come and cast water on stove. Neither of these are practised…

That "electric heater stones on top" is usually called stove, "kiuas" in Finnish :) When needing to define type of stove, it's electric stove, wood heated stove. Latter has two typ…