* Posts by Yeti

21 publicly visible posts • joined 13 Feb 2008

The sad state of Linux desktop diversity: 21 environments, just 2 designs

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Or Ratpoison. Or twm.

'IwlIj jachjaj! Incoming LibreOffice 7.3 to support Klingon and Interslavic

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Re: Fourth gender

No mistakes up there (well, except "zeptá"), good job!

OK, what about "I will have grilled fish" = "dám si grilovanou rybu"? Ryba is feminine, animate.

As you most likely know, there are "model words" (or how's that in English) for each gender and er... "animateness". Each gender has two animate and two inanimate + masculine has two more specials ("předseda" and "soudce"). So you only have to learn declension of these 14 models and then determine which of them fits the word you're trying to say. Easy peasy! ;)

Have several of these, they help communication -->

Still relatively cheap here, despite the inflation.

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Re: Fourth gender

Finnish is allegedly 100% regular, whereas Czech is a completely different beast. Or so have I heard.

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Re: Fourth gender

All three (four??) genders may be animate or inanimate but I ain't no linguist.

I'm just getting more and more curious.

Yeti

Fourth gender

Which one is the fourth Czech gender? I'm aware of only three.

t. Czech

Waterfox: A Firefox fork that could teach Mozilla a lesson

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Re: Palemoon, check. Seamonkey, check.

You forgot the IRC client, Chatzilla.

I'm using Seamonkey for mail and browsing every working day.

Who knew that hosing a table with copious amounts of cubic metres would trip adult filters?

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Re: monitoring software

A friend of mine while at work can't access websites of any organization representing a foreign state due to apparently every embassy contains "ass".

If you think Mozilla pushed a broken Firefox Android build, good news: It didn't. Bad news: It's working as intended

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Re: Unfortunate ...

Try Bromite instead. It's Chromium fork with adblocker. I'm quite happy with that so far.

Beer gut-ted: As many as '70 million pints' spoiled during coronavirus pandemic must be destroyed in Britain

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Re: Home delivery

That's what the craft breweries here in the Czech Republic do: they usually mashed together a quick-and-dirty e-shop or at least have a Goggle docs form you fill in. They either deliver by PPL or their own van; usually the delivery is free for orders above certain reasonable threshold.

Works great, I've tried beers from places I'd be hardly ever be able to. One brewery even announced they've run dry and have to make much more beer to satisfy the demand.

If you never thought you'd hear a Microsoftie tell you to stop using Internet Explorer, lap it up: 'I beg you, let it retire to great bitbucket in the sky'

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Re: Just as soon as you release a stable alternative...

What about Seamonkey? Its appearance is still very close to the Netscape Navigator of last millenium. Dunno how it fares for blind users, though.

Who do you want to be Who? VOTE for the BBC's next Time Lord

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Missing option

Rowan Atkinson, duh!

Nork server blunder leaks Kim Jong Un's entire DNS – all, er, 28 .kp domains

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Re: I wonder what .-co/.com subdomains...

I wonder if the websites are available for viewing from the outside of DPRK? I sure ain't no commie but would have a peek just for the kicks...

Does anyone here have the list?

Czech Republic to rebrand

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Re: This is not rebranding

Morava (Moravia) is unfortunately part of the Czech Republic, along with Čechy (Bohemia) and part of Slezsko (Silesia).

I, for one, as Moravian, hate the new moniker.

The Register to publish Mindful Sysadmin adult colouring book

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Re: Bastards

I feel your pain. "Not available in your country" or something. Bastards.

Google and pals launch Accelerated Mobile Pages project

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Re: Some Actual Numbers

Thanks for the analysis, I just added the three bastards trackers to my hosts file (twatter & FB are there already). The load time has improved tremendously.

Another chance to win a 6TB Western Digital Black hard drive

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Noo! I've had enough with all these web crawlers!

Post-pub nosh neckfiller: Bryndzové halušky

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Re: Alternate method of 'tossing' the potato mixture.

THIS is how you do it! You pour the rather thin dough on the sieve and push it through with a spoon into boiling water. They're done in about a minute.

That sieve is unfortunately a special single-purpose halušky-making one.

Microsoft Australia slashes price of Surface Pro 128GB by $AUD400

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Where would you put your money?

Apart from Mitoo Bobsworth's option, what about ~10 Android tablets?

New online banking Trojan empties users' wallets, videos privates

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I've seen it

We got it to our "corporate" address. It was quite cleverly made as it was a ZIP file that contained forgotwhatitwas_pdf.exe and the .exe sported a nice Acrobat(?) pdf icon.

It didn't quite blend in here as we use Foxit Reader and it has a different icon.

Autocad attacks return after four years in wilderness

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What about competition?

Does this vulnerability affect competing products too? We're now using AutoCAD (mostly the rusty but trusty v. 2000) but this might steer my boss' view to, say, BricsCAD.

Boozing boffins contribute less to science

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Ale?

I think this research was conducted using Czech Pilsner-type lager, not ale, so the results may be different using that. May I suggest similar research in the UK?

<nitpick> His name is Tomáš, not Thomáš.

My coat please, I'm heading out for a beer.