cobbaut

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Comment · 2 months ago
Comment · 2 months ago
Plus they are building coal plants as backups for when other sources fail.
Comment · 3 months ago
My doctor said "you have to earn your sleep". I had the same problem until:

- two pieces of fruit per day

- two portions of vegetables per day

- half an hour of outside sunshine per day

- twice per week exercise until you sweat

- no sleep during the day

- get out of bed every morning around the same time

- no processed food!

Comment · 4 months ago
I have recovered files several times after fsck on a failed partition. I may have a 75 percent success rate with this... did not keep statistics obviously.

Though it could be less, cause I also remember recovering files with foremost on a dd copy of a disk.

Comment · 4 months ago
It's at the root level, no user came near that back then so it was kinda hidden.
Comment · 4 months ago
> In a couple of decades running Linux installations of all flavours, I have never seen anything in lost+found!

I saw it often. Running fsck on a crashed/failed partition usually does put some files in there. Maybe I kept using old hardware too long...

Comment · 5 months ago
NT 4.0 did not crash that often if you rebooted it weekly (not uncommon at the time). And it had a simpler menu.

But I agree about W2000 being peak Windows.

Comment · 5 months ago
> I'm not in that city.

Same, it claims Brussels, but I'm in Antwerp. It also got my screen resolution wrong.

Comment · 5 months ago
What I remember mostly from working in that era, was that managers let engineers make the technical decisions.
Comment · 6 months ago
Thinking of problems before falling asleep does sometimes help me in finding solutions in a dream. Though I may still be half awake when doing this.
Comment · 6 months ago
>Oh, not OS/2 Warp.

That would be awesome!

Comment · 6 months ago
Comment · 6 months ago
My first thought was "so they go commandline now?". Because X for me is still "the graphical interface".
Comment · 8 months ago
> You may be thinking of Hong Kong

No, I was thinking about this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convention_Between_Great_Brita...

The way I understood this treaty was that the global powers in 1906 (Russia and Great Britain) accepted Tibet as part of China without the need for a war.

In the context of your comment, you say the US and Russia attack sovereign countries and you mention Tibet and Taiwan in the same sentence. Sorry but Taiwan has not been invaded by China, and Tibet was at the time internationally agreed as being part of China (not that I agree with that). Not the same ballpark sorry.

Comment · 8 months ago
> China with Tibet and Taiwan

What do you mean? China has bought Tibet from the British. And what have they done with Taiwan?

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