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Apple also put the music video for The Old Apartment by Barenaked Ladies on the Mac OS 8 CD.

Unfortunately, if you use a two-monitor setup, you cannot have the dock on the left of the right-hand-side monitor, or vice versa.

I've never looked into the PDF format, but, does it not allow for annotations that say, "the glyphs in the rectangle ((x0, y0), (x1, y1)) represent the text 'foobar'")? That's been…

After Wise moved away from Evolve to Community Federal Savings Bank, they gave me new account details that included an address in New York. Looking that up on Google Maps and Stree…

That doesn't match my experience. I have some unlisted videos that I or a small handful of friends might go back and watch once a year, and it takes several seconds of loading befo…

Until a few decades ago, the term 'billion' actually meant one million million (1e12) in the UK, rather than the now commonly-accepted meaning of one thousand million (1e9). As a B…

Two problems that have occurred in recent times when Dota tournaments have not used booths: - the crowd whistling to tell their favourite team that the enemy team is making some ki…

> Any open file Any file that was opened without specifying FILE_SHARE_DELETE in the call to CreateFile[1] (the Win32 equivalent of open(2)). Unfortunately, most language runtimes …

The Mac is no better, in my experience. I just timed how long it takes to open the Calculator app – the simplest app I could think of – on my 2019 MacBook Pro, and the window appea…

Yes, and it was actually Microsoft who first brought the iMac stripes to Mac software with Internet Explorer 5, before OS X.

The classic MacOS's Finder was 'spatial'. Since each folder on disk could only be open in a single window, and that window remembered its position and layout, there was a certain p…

Does it really have 2000 employees? I remember when they were owned by Conde Nast and had something like 5-10 people. I know they have a lot more users now, and have added features…

The Platinum theme used by MacOS 8-9 was probably the closest-looking to that Windows 95 look and feel. And since Windows 2000 was a combination of that old look and feel on top of…

Note that one of the .kkreiger devs (ryg aka Fabian Giesen) works at Epic Game Tools on the Oodle compressors mentioned in OP's post.

Is that Apple Garamond?

Importantly, the punt is propelled by having someone stand at the back and push a pole against the river bed. It's popular with students and tourists in both Oxford and Cambridge, …

Musk might care if this move drives all the influential power users away. I'm not influential – I almost never tweet and have almost no followers – but I've read Twitter almost eve…

s/Playstation 1/Playstation 3/

A lot of AAA games presumably got ported to Linux so that they would run on Stadia. Were those efforts funded by Google? I wonder if we saw more proper Linux game client releases a…

Note that they remastered the game in 2012 as "Doom 3: BFG Edition", and that included the ability to use the flashlight while holding weapons. I think Doom (2016) and Doom Eternal…

For comparison, here's the wording on the Brexit ballot papers in 2016: > Should the United Kingdom remain a member of the European Union or leave the European Union? Voters had to…

One of the more memorable and surreal experiences I had on my visit to SF was walking around Golden Gate Park, and suddenly seeing what looked like the mast of an alien sailing shi…

Sorry, I had to reword and shorten the headline from the linked page to fit within HN's title length limit.