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They had bet 100% on it killing PA-RISC and DEC Alpha. They ported HP-UX, OpenVMS and NonStop to it. All 3 of them were tangled up in long running enterprise and government contrac…

I just built one of those plant sets. I'm use to that modern instructions just place 1 or two bricks per step. But these plant sets took the cake. You had to build identical submod…

IIRC the Apple website used to use (client side image maps) them. But I suspect that was Mai my so they could do some research where users actually click on their screen.

It's the shell around the core.

German here and me and my wife almost exclusively use Apple Maps, mainly because it looks and feels nicer. The differences in navigation are miniscule, but if we want to really che…

The German ID card (Personalausweis) supports certificates and communication via NFC. I really don’t understand what’s all this about?

Yes, I since embraced pwsh for terminal stuff on Windows. For everything else I switched back to proper VMs or remote hosts.

Nobody that is not already writing (L)GPL licensed software wants to pull LGPL licensed libraries into his software. I'm not a lawyer. If you have it in separate object artefacts t…

> It’s also stupid in terms of screen real estate. You can't really blame MS that around the same time screen manufacturers started to switch to 16:9 for cost reasons and cheap lap…

> people who've already come to grips with the app They would, or should, be using keyboard shortcuts anyway.

> 2010 was my favorite Office UI. Mine too. Office 2010 was what made me switch back to Windows after using Linux and OpenOffice for years. I found the ribbons to be perfect for my…

Try reading Masters of Deception first, to get in the right mood.

One of the worst things about Brexit for me in mainland Europe is that it became very difficult to obtain real, proper Haggis and Stornoway Black Pudding.

It's interesting that this is a serious movie by the director Michael 'Bully' Herbig, who is generally known for bad taste comedies, full of clichees about race and sexuality.

His explanation why he endorsed Hillary Clinton was pretty lunatic though.

How does it compare to the PiKVM?

I have fond memories of Publisher. We used it to layout our school newspaper back in the 90ies. I even considered going into the DTP field as a career and did a small internship. B…