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If you open the recycle bin there's a zip file that actually downloads through your real browser to your real computer. I didn't bother opening it. It has a filename not everyone will immediately know how to delete. That's really not a funny thing to put out there.

rm -i *.zip Apparently, in iTerm2, you can actually copy and paste the name, and do ls *.zip rm -i cv.zip

IF you can actually delete it as cv.zip then that's scary because that's not its filename.

Re: Windows 93 (2014)

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post #73

If you open the recycle bin there's a zip file that actually downloads through your real browser to your real computer. I didn't bother opening it. It has a filename not everyone will immediately know how to delete. That's really not a funny thing to put out there.

> It has a filename not everyone will immediately know how to delete. Click on the file, press delete?

I invite you to try with various file managers.

Re: Windows 93 (2014)

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Clever and artful, with a little nostalgia thrown in. 1993 was the year I started my undergrad and would not see a "web browser" until the following year. It's nice to re-capture a little of the spirit of what computing was like back then. Tip: Be sure to click on the virus and after what happens happens, fling the icons around. Moments of mindless fun.

and would not see a "web browser" until the following year

Oh look, gopher with images. I can make that over a weekend!

Re: Windows 93 (2014)

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post #32

Clever and artful, with a little nostalgia thrown in. 1993 was the year I started my undergrad and would not see a "web browser" until the following year. It's nice to re-capture a little of the spirit of what computing was like back then. Tip: Be sure to click on the virus and after what happens happens, fling the icons around. Moments of mindless fun.

Old timer here as well. The 'Virtual Girl' brings back memories of the 'personal assistant' fad from way back when. Funny how we've gone back to that now that the technology is more than a gimmick with Siri, Cortana, Alexa, and GNow. Sometimes I wonder about that peroid where so many things were possible (and tried!) but the technology and infrastructure just wasn't there to make it feasible. For all the lamenting ab…

Ahh the Microsoft Bob failed experiment and comically-annoying Office Assistant "Clippy"... the good ol' days. IIRC you usually had to custom install Office without the Office Assistant, desktop Toolbar and remove some other optional component which always slowed down a computer to a crawl (the early multiuser text input IIRC on Windows NT/2k/95/98).

Interestingly, recently Apple and Google both missed out on acquiring Viv as Microsoft snapped them up... ostensibly, an assistant far more integrated into third-party services with better integration developer tools/support and smarter AI. Apple and Google gotta double down on either lifting up Siri/Google's equiv. to that playing field or acquire other talent/tech to keep up.

As an aside, Microsoft finally has Nadella at the helm, whom built Azure, whom seems a better/different engineer/businessman than perhaps even Gates (much needed after Balmer)... although you can't argue that Gates didn't break ground in lopsided EULA/SLSAs for extreme profiteering (which was "better" for stockholders but "worse" for users, probably unsustainably so).

Re: Windows 93 (2014)

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post #78

Earlier quoted context omitted.

rm -i *.zip Apparently, in iTerm2, you can actually copy and paste the name, and do ls *.zip rm -i cv.zip

IF you can actually delete it as cv.zip then that's scary because that's not its filename.

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