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Forum: General 04-01-2024, 12:45 AM
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Posted By hazel
April fool! Mind you, there could be...

April fool!

Mind you, there could be something in it. Never mind "master" and "slave"; have you ever tried grepping the F-word in the kernel source?
Forum: General 03-13-2024, 09:38 AM
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Posted By hazel
I think in this context "Linux" means...

I think in this context "Linux" means "GNU/Linux", i.e. the the operating system which combines the Linux kernel and the GNU utilities. After all, that's the FOSS equivalent to Windows, not the Linux...
Forum: General 03-13-2024, 04:36 AM
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Posted By hazel
Someone (I can't remember who) once said:

Someone (I can't remember who) once said:
Forum: General 03-13-2024, 12:56 AM
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Posted By hazel
Yes, of course it was. That will teach me not to...

Yes, of course it was. That will teach me not to try to be witty on this forum in future.
Forum: General 03-12-2024, 01:08 AM
Replies: 3,733
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Posted By hazel
Correction: Linux is not a variant of UNIX (and...

Correction: Linux is not a variant of UNIX (and it does not want to be one anyway). It is definitely a variant of Unix.
...
Forum: General 03-07-2024, 05:16 AM
Replies: 3,733
Views: 407,658
Posted By hazel
It isn't just a Windows thing. Most people don't...

It isn't just a Windows thing. Most people don't like radical changes in their desktop, whichever one they use. It's like having to learn a whole new language. Linux users didn't like it when gnome2...
Forum: General 03-07-2024, 12:47 AM
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Views: 407,658
Posted By hazel
Maybe you should have asked in English.

Maybe you should have asked in English.
Forum: General 12-23-2023, 12:16 AM
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Posted By hazel
This is a statement that is frequently made and...

This is a statement that is frequently made and it has always puzzled me. Yes, Windows has practically the whole of the desktop market, but who ever made money by hacking a desktop? Apart from...
Forum: General 12-22-2023, 09:01 AM
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Posted By hazel
Exactly. I moved to Linux years ago because I...

Exactly. I moved to Linux years ago because I wanted a system that just worked, that let me write documents, use spreadsheets, receive email, and browse the web, and that otherwise kept out of my...
Forum: General 12-21-2023, 04:28 AM
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Posted By hazel
If you are retired and have plenty of time to...

If you are retired and have plenty of time to "play around", then Linux is the ideal system. It's got a lot of other bonuses of course, but the main drawback – that you have to learn how to use it...
Forum: General 12-01-2023, 10:24 AM
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Posted By hazel
Yes, I've just discovered that. I had conniptions...

Yes, I've just discovered that. I had conniptions at the thought of having to change the drive, but I got a lot of helpful advice from people here and in the end it was easy. Getting my UEFI to boot...
Forum: General 06-26-2023, 03:51 AM
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Posted By hazel
The world goes round in circles. Back in the...

The world goes round in circles. Back in the 1970's a business would hire a mainframe computer from the manufacturers, and they maintained it and updated the OS as required. I can still remember...
Forum: General 02-01-2023, 08:35 AM
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Posted By hazel
Well, Mac OSX is Unix too!

Well, Mac OSX is Unix too!
Forum: General 12-10-2021, 07:02 AM
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Posted By hazel
I found this in the computer help section of a...

I found this in the computer help section of a pensioners' magazine:

So frequent system crashes are something we just have to live with. Nobody, it seems, is going to waste time or energy fixing...
Forum: General 07-23-2021, 03:46 AM
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Views: 407,658
Posted By hazel
Probably the same team who gave us Clippy earlier...

Probably the same team who gave us Clippy earlier on.

@rigor. You're right about DOS and early versions of Windows being standalone. You installed them from floppies and used them for word...
Forum: General 03-16-2021, 01:30 PM
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Posted By hazel
Thanks, Astrogeek. That was very moving.

Thanks, Astrogeek. That was very moving.
Forum: General 02-04-2021, 07:51 AM
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Posted By hazel
I wonder how he explained web addresses. Do you...

I wonder how he explained web addresses. Do you think maybe he never looked at the address bar of his browser?
Forum: General 01-06-2021, 10:05 AM
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Posted By hazel
There is a theory around that Microsoft didn't do...

There is a theory around that Microsoft didn't do anything to make their system more secure against malware because it actually played into their hands when it came to selling updates. Once they had...
Forum: General 01-06-2021, 09:20 AM
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Posted By hazel
I never used XP. I liked Windows98, but when I...

I never used XP. I liked Windows98, but when I looked at the XP desktop, I said, "Oh no! That's not for me." So I stuck with W98 for a while and then switched to Linux.
Forum: General 10-12-2020, 06:43 AM
Replies: 3,733
Views: 407,658
Posted By hazel
Even with Linux, you can't run a PC forever. My...

Even with Linux, you can't run a PC forever. My first PC had 32 MB of RAM and a 500 MB hard drive. What kind of Linux could you run on that today?
Forum: General 08-03-2020, 11:25 AM
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Views: 407,658
Posted By hazel
You don't need GRUB. elilo works just as well....

You don't need GRUB. elilo works just as well. And disabling secure boot isn't a complication, it's the avoidance of one.
Forum: General 05-26-2020, 09:03 AM
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Posted By hazel
Funny: they didn't find any malware on this site...

Funny: they didn't find any malware on this site but they still consider it untrustworthy. What happened to "innocent until proven guilty"?
Forum: General 04-13-2020, 03:39 AM
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Views: 407,658
Posted By hazel
Absolute freedom is simply the freedom of the...

Absolute freedom is simply the freedom of the strong to do what they like with the weak. The only freedom that GPL denies is the freedom to restrict the rights of those downstream from you.
Forum: General 12-21-2019, 05:35 AM
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Views: 407,658
Posted By hazel
That's a bit unfair. LibreOffice asks you exactly...

That's a bit unfair. LibreOffice asks you exactly the same question when you ask to save a docx document in its original format. I find that irritating, as the documents I write contain nothing fancy...
Forum: General 12-20-2019, 10:24 AM
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Views: 407,658
Posted By hazel
Why would they have to learn LibreOffice? You can...

Why would they have to learn LibreOffice? You can customise write to look like word. You can probably customise calc to look like excel. Just get someone in the IT department to rearrange the default...
Forum: General 12-20-2019, 10:09 AM
Replies: 3,733
Views: 407,658
Posted By hazel
But that's more or less the point I made. You can...

But that's more or less the point I made. You can get Linux for free or an all-in-1 software+support contract at low cost. Why fork out a fortune for Windows?

As for the receptionists, in my...
Forum: General 12-20-2019, 09:51 AM
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Views: 407,658
Posted By hazel
I don't understand why your employers put up with...

I don't understand why your employers put up with this. I can see how home users would want to go on using the OS that they grew up with, especially if they aren't very tech-savvy; switching to Linux...
Forum: General 11-06-2019, 11:04 AM
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Views: 407,658
Posted By hazel
Because Windows is pretty rocky...

Because Windows is pretty rocky...
Forum: General 10-09-2019, 03:25 PM
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Views: 407,658
Posted By hazel
The Microsoft philosophy has always been that you...

The Microsoft philosophy has always been that you get what they want, not what you want. Remember when they got rid of the start button? And how every version enforces a new desktop that is uglier...
Forum: General 07-25-2019, 06:14 AM
Replies: 3,733
Views: 407,658
Posted By hazel
It's not entirely sarcastic. You used to see a...

It's not entirely sarcastic. You used to see a lot of American literature on how to spot if your child had been radicalised. Apparently using Linux was regarded in those days as a danger sign.
Forum: General 07-25-2019, 04:47 AM
Replies: 3,733
Views: 407,658
Posted By hazel
You could say that FOSS realises the dream of...

You could say that FOSS realises the dream of Adam Smith, a world in which competition for market share drives up quality and keeps prices low for everybody's benefit. Proprietary software allows...
Forum: General 07-11-2019, 02:51 AM
Replies: 3,733
Views: 407,658
Posted By hazel
So if anything bad comes of your post, it's your...

So if anything bad comes of your post, it's your content and you are responsible for it, not Microsoft. But any profit that can be made from it is theirs, not yours. What a con!
Forum: General 05-09-2019, 01:50 PM
Replies: 3,733
Views: 407,658
Posted By hazel
Am I the only one here who feels that this thread...

Am I the only one here who feels that this thread is going round in circles?
Forum: General 05-07-2019, 11:13 AM
Replies: 3,733
Views: 407,658
Posted By hazel
As far as I can remember, that's not true. GPL...

As far as I can remember, that's not true. GPL allows you to do what you like with software including selling it for a profit. What you are not allowed to do is curtail the rights of your customers...
Forum: General 05-01-2019, 10:34 AM
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Posted By hazel
What's the problem? The link shows that this...

What's the problem? The link shows that this means disk space, not memory. Surely any modern computer has 100 GB or so on its hard drive?
Forum: General 04-29-2019, 08:23 AM
Replies: 3,733
Views: 407,658
Posted By hazel
I can't understand why Windows files can have a...

I can't understand why Windows files can have a "hidden" or a "read-only" attribute but not an "executable" attribute. Logically any filesystem that can store attributes for files could store that...
Forum: General 04-27-2019, 02:01 PM
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Views: 407,658
Posted By hazel
The hidden file extensions are an indirect...

The hidden file extensions are an indirect consequence of Windows' stupid way of identifying file types. Instead of using a magic number which is an actual component of files of a certain type, and...
Forum: General 04-23-2019, 11:01 AM
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Views: 407,658
Posted By hazel
Until the links break!

Until the links break!
Forum: General 04-23-2019, 10:00 AM
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Views: 407,658
Posted By hazel
Plus one to Cynwulf. I came across Windows...

Plus one to Cynwulf. I came across Windows "libraries" about a year ago when a friend asked me to find the collection of photographs that had somehow gone missing on his laptop. I thought that would...
Forum: General 04-21-2019, 09:27 AM
Replies: 3,733
Views: 407,658
Posted By hazel
For me, coming from the mainframe world, Linux...

For me, coming from the mainframe world, Linux was a homecoming. Bash was different from the DCL shell that I was used to, but it was easy to learn as it had all the same facilities: variables,...
Forum: General 04-05-2019, 08:02 AM
Replies: 3,733
Views: 407,658
Posted By hazel
That's precisely the point. The Dvorak keyboard...

That's precisely the point. The Dvorak keyboard makes perfect sense. It is designed to make the typing of English as easy as possible with a minimum of unnecessary movement. But because everyone has...
Forum: General 04-04-2019, 06:13 AM
Replies: 3,733
Views: 407,658
Posted By hazel
You also have to allow for the concept of...

You also have to allow for the concept of "legacy". Why do keyboards have such a weird layout? Originally because mechanical typewriters jammed if successive keys were pressed too closely together....
Forum: General 03-24-2019, 10:40 AM
Replies: 3,733
Views: 407,658
Posted By hazel
Love it! My favorite Microsoft joke is this: ...

Love it! My favorite Microsoft joke is this:

A private helicopter got lost somewhere over Seattle. The pilot had no idea where the heliport was, so he buzzed over to a tall skyscraper and called...
Forum: General 02-19-2019, 10:56 AM
Replies: 3,733
Views: 407,658
Posted By hazel
I remember reading a novel in which an...

I remember reading a novel in which an electromagnetic radiation burst caused by a high-level nuclear bomb fried all the electricity infrastructure in America. Among other disasters, all the cars...
Forum: General 11-27-2018, 09:07 AM
Replies: 3,733
Views: 407,658
Posted By hazel
It's called "legacy". Windows (note that I do not...

It's called "legacy". Windows (note that I do not use silly abbreviations) is the software equivalent of the qwerty keyboard. Qwerty isn't a good keymap for English; in fact it's a lousy keymap. Its...
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