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I don't need transparency, I don't want a shared sense of pride. What I want is for someone to put in a switch to can Mica so that I can have color in the active titlebar again.

> To the nostalgics among us: what made OS/2 special?

I started out with OS/2 v1.1. It had threads, DLLs, multi-tasking, much larger memory space, and from v1.2 a somewhat decent filesystem. Coming from DOS 3.2/Win 2.0 this was an incredible leap, in particular the SDK was amazing compared to the ragtag assembly of info I was used to. The _delta_ between two systems haven't been this large ever since, and I think that is what contributes to the "magic" feeling.

The original Dvorak layout had 0 positioned on the right index finger (where 7 is on Qwerty keyboards). The layout of the numeric keys on what passes as a "Dvorak" layout today was apparently determined by the ANSI committee for... reasons.

In Norway, the companies are required by law to pay the pensions into a special type of investment account where withdrawal are not allowed until you are retired, but you can choose your own investment profile: A mandatory 401k.

The arrangement where the _company_ controls the account seems to me to be more of a allowed delay in salary payout, to the benefit of the company, than a retirement account for the employee.

I second this, and just want to add that strsafe.h contains replacements for the runtime string routines.

> The real problem is acceptance of non-word/latex papers

Some scientific journals, which only provides a Word template, require you to print to PDF to submit, then ships this PDF to India, where a team recreates the look of the submission in LaTeX, which is then used to compose the actual journal. I wish this was hyperbole. For these journals, you can safely create a LaTeX-template looking _almost_ the same, and get away with it.

I have a Brother DCP-9020CDW which I've owned for over a decade and which still keeps humming. A bit expensive with four toners and a drum, but that's color laser for you. I'm very happy with it, and I guess I'd be equally happy with any Brother MFC-LxxxxCDW that's one market now.

If one wants an inkjet, I'd go for an Epson EcoTank.

This makes the Fermi paradox even weirder: If there is a bunch of these asteroids floating around in space, ready to seed life on numerous Earth-like planets, there should be an even bigger chance of seeing someone else, than if life have to originate on the planets themselves.

Firefox can be configured to use Kerberos for authentication (search for "Configuring Firefox to use Kerberos for SSO"); on Windows, Chrome is supposed to do so too by adding the domain as an intranet zone.

Could you not use --first-parent option to test only at the merge-points?

I use git-format-patch to create a list of diffs for the individual commits before the branch gets squashed, and tuck them away in a private directory. Several times have I gone back to peek at those lists to understand my own thoughts later.