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Wine is nearly as old as linux. First released in 1993. I had some awkward conversations with my parents as a teenage nerd looking into "winehq". They didn't believe me that it had nothing to do with alcohol.
Your parent being concerned about you browsing something about wine? You're definitely not be French/European. Here our parents give us wine :) American?
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It doesn’t make sense tbh, it just causes confusion when someone is using terminal. Slashes in file names are forbidden everywhere except Mac, it needs to be changed in order to send it anywhere or use in some apps. But I think colon is used much more in names. I don’t get why did they do that.
Based on this logic, do we ban everything that is banned somewhere? Surely we can aim higher than the lowest common denominator.
For users of other platforms (at least 90% of desktop market) it would just display as slashes. Just not implementing this workaround would make it predictable when moving and using files.
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Your parent being concerned about you browsing something about wine? You're definitely not be French/European. Here our parents give us wine :) American?
mormon family.
This is most likely due to those names not being allowed for files or folders in the Windows file system. MS Teams channels create a matching folder in SharePoint where file attachments are stored.
I worked at a bank that had a windows-based trading system and for some reason created folders to hold the details of each book. There were issues when a trader decided to call a book "LPT1".
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Sometimes I wish we had fresh clean slate OS. Not the baggage of DOS or Unix... Something modern and sensible without insanity of either system.
You need to clean slate the entire world because everything is interconnected. If , for example, you want files to be more than streams of bytes then you basically have to re-invent the Internet as well. The older I get, the more I realize that we don't need a clean slate OS. If you pick any modern OS right now, the most annoying parts are never the parts that were from 30 years ago; it's almost always the newest thi…
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I used to love slackware, by far the best linux experience. It just worked well.
Probably. I just remember installing from a dozen+ 3.5" floppies onto my pizzabox '386 and breathing a sigh of relief when it booted.
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I worked at a bank that had a windows-based trading system and for some reason created folders to hold the details of each book. There were issues when a trader decided to call a book "LPT1".
What is a 'book' in the context of trading?
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> Circa 1998 I was a teenage Linux zealot who would attend LAN parties carrying a Linux box. Arch, I suppose.
Arch wasn't around in 1998. I'm going to put my money on Slackware.
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It doesn’t make sense tbh, it just causes confusion when someone is using terminal. Slashes in file names are forbidden everywhere except Mac, it needs to be changed in order to send it anywhere or use in some apps. But I think colon is used much more in names. I don’t get why did they do that.
Based on this logic, do we ban everything that is banned somewhere? Surely we can aim higher than the lowest common denominator.
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I worked at a bank that had a windows-based trading system and for some reason created folders to hold the details of each book. There were issues when a trader decided to call a book "LPT1".
What is a 'book' in the context of trading?