Posts by KarMann 702 publicly visible posts • joined 23 Apr 2018
I think I started with FVWM or similar, then went Enlightenment for a while, and then maybe 5 years of Gnome, until something in my user config go so bloated or crufty that it didn't work anymore after an upgrade, and I decided to give the KDE a try, rather than immediately try to isolate the config problem. Still on KDE now, 20-ish years later.
You're so cruel. I accidentally failed to pack my MX Anywhere on my current trip, and have to choose between laptop's trackpad or a wired Dell mouse that just isn't doing it for me, and makes a horribly scrapy noise on the desk when I move it. I miss my mouse. But, we should be reunited in just around 30 hours, at long last!
It's been a while, but my main intro to getting really into the computer tech stuff was back around 1997, when I had added some RHL dual-boot to a Windows 3.11 system (on that great big whopping 540 MB HDD), and then set about upgrading to Windows 95. In a very similar vein to Groo's, that upgrade somehow reset the partition tables. I was stuck running off of floppies until I managed to find enough information about partition tables online to go in and edit the binary data (and dd it back into place, etc.) and actually managed to recover all the partitions (as a first-time Linux installer, I had put in way too many partitions for every purpose, even a separate /lib partition if you can believe that, and I'm still not entirely sure how that worked).
Doubly appropriate icon is appropriate -->
"Would" not "should"."This might seem harsh, but remember this would, amongst everything else, be a GDPR violation.""Could" not "should". There's no mention in the article regarding what data was contained in the database nor what country it occurred in and so may not be covered by GDPR anyway. [emphasis added]
It just came up again for me a day or two ago, and I was referencing the All Your Base XKCD, and I realised that the retro-return-date predicted in the hovertext was 4 years ago, going on 5. Which in turn led me to think of yet another classic, see icon.
Or you should read Jou's comment a bit more closely. Yes, it could be taken as meaning that no one in Europe might be affected, but it can also be read as meaning that one (or you, if you must), in particular, is not affected in Europe. Unless you're just the sort of contrarian who wants to take things the worst way they can be interpreted, which I can appreciate… when there's some comedic value in it.
On a side note, I regret the losses in English of both a meaningful singular/plural second person distinction, and the regular use of 'one' rather than 'you' when one doesn't actually mean the person they're addressing.
"even a broken watch is right twice a day"Technically, no. A watch (or clock, as I've more often heard the phrases) can be broken in many ways, up to and beyond the hands being sheared clean off, where it will never be right. The correct phrase ought to be, 'a stopped {watch,clock} is right twice a day.'
Dammit. Your comment lead me down a rabbit hole (or into a dovecote?) of trying to remember the details of a video I saw a while back, probably on YouTube, possibly just a short, certainly not too long, about how some recent-ish (i.e. past couple of decades, maybe) piece of popular music resembles some bird's song, whether deliberately or not, to the point that people thought the birds had learnt the song from exposure to it, rather than more the other way around. I do remember it ended with a joke about the band owing the birds royalties. If anyone could help further jog my memory, either with the video, the song, or the birds in question, yeah, that'd be great.
"But I also want to be candid and say that birds are an awful vector for data transmission, as is any living thing due to the many unpredictable variables at odds with how we store binary data."It sounds as though Prof. Jordan has never heard of IP over Avian Carriers, somewhat surprising given his apparent background.
ETA: Ninja'ed by KittenHuffer!
Hah! You think you've got problems? I was born on the Unix epoch! All I have to do to find out how many seconds old I am is run date +%s (allowing a bit of rounding, of course). Not that I haven't made the most of it, celebrating back when I both turned a gigasecond and, slightly later, a gibisecond old. But it does lead to the funny experience of often seeing my birth date crop up when things are broken, and default to the epoch in directory listings and such.
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