WTF happened to Windows 95?
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So fuck you too.
i'll pass. I don't know where you've been.
but thanks for the offer.
(you do know you can stop tracking topics you don't want to hear about anymore, right?
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(you do know you can stop tracking topics you don't want to hear about anymore, right?
First of all:
)Second of all: That suggestion wouldn't have worked in this case. Think about it.
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Second of all: That suggestion wouldn't have worked in this case. Think about it.
well, yes and no. if you have it set to regular and you get a notification you still get the notification but no blue circle.
not sure what happens for muted, do muted topics still generate notifications for things like replies and @mentions?
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do muted topics still generate notifications for things like replies and @mentions?
The text against it suggests not, but I don't think it works properly.
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I've used Ubuntu with Cinnamon, although just use Mint now.
It works well.
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good to know. not sure i'm interested in leaving the super cow powers behind but i'm willing to experiment with virtual machines!
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I sure could do with bash on Windows.
Powershell works just as well, though it's a bit verbose and arcane at times. Still, lots of power to be found there.
That's it, moving across the border! (~$100 here, btw)
Can't you get any DynDNS-like services? NoIP, or something.
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it's a bit verbose and arcane
Your usage here implies that that isn't true of Bash...
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the super cow powers
i'm willing to experiment with virtual machines!
I only use Linux in VMs anyway, makes experimenting and changing around pretty easy.
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accalia@SockBotDev:~/SockBot$ apt-get --help apt 1.0.9.2ubuntu2 for amd64 compiled on Oct 17 2014 09:39:24 Usage: apt-get [options] command apt-get [options] install|remove pkg1 [pkg2 ...] apt-get [options] source pkg1 [pkg2 ...] apt-get is a simple command line interface for downloading and installing packages. The most frequently used commands are update and install. -SNIP: a bunch of options- See the apt-get(8), sources.list(5) and apt.conf(5) manual pages for more information and options. This APT has Super Cow Powers.
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Your usage here implies that that isn't true of Bash...
A matter of taste, I guess. It's pretty straightforward to me, but I've seen people complain about it.
Though I wouldn't call bash verbose - quite the opposite, it's almost too terse.
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Mint uses APT+DEB, though.
There's one version that's basically modified Ubuntu and one that's a rolling thing based on Debian.
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I might be missing something here but apt-get exists on Mint too?
EDIT: Hanzoif.
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Even though Bash was the first scripting language I learned apart from AppleScript, so I should have had no preconceived notions of how it should work, it never made any sense to me.
I haven't used PS enough to really have an opinion on it. It seems powerful, but I'd rather do a C# console app if given the choice
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not sure i'm interested in leaving the super cow powers behind but i'm willing to experiment with virtual machines!
Mint is pretty much Ubuntu with guff removed. So, it's Debian-based by extension. Super cow powers retained. (Hanzo'd!)
Can't you get any DynDNS-like services? NoIP, or something.
That's what I do, yes. Still annoying. Well, AFTER I send in a form requesting a public dynamic IP that is. Since they are running out of addresses they stuck all users behind a NAT by default. Yay.
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Ubuntu with guff removed
Which is largely why I prefer it over Ubuntu as standard or Ubuntu + Cinnamon.
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Mint is pretty much Ubuntu with guff removed. So, it's Debian-based by extension. Super cow powers retained. (Hanzo'd!)
I dislike Mint because of their crappy branding you can't easily remove. It's like they keep shoving their pathetic green dick into your face as you're trying to work.
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No, most of them do not include blakeyrat. Some of them do include boomzilla.
Hey!
Eh, no, I resemble that remark
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I don't give a shit as long as it doesn't give me little blue ones
No one gives a shit that you don't give a shit. Seriously, STFU and ignore the thread if it pains you that much.
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I dislike Mint because of their crappy branding you can't easily remove.
Easier than removing crap from Ubuntu though.
That said, I'm considering moving to Debian but... I'm kinda addicted to my PPAs on my personal machine. Work machine, no question, Debian it is.
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rbemrose@powerlord:~$ apt-get moo
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(oo)
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..."Have you mooed today?"...
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nice easteregg. i forgot that one.
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Every few months, my Chrome default search provider resets to the Mint flavoured version. I had Mint installed for a couple of days and installed Chromium on it. The computer it was on hasn't even been booted in probably over a year
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Every few months, my Chrome default search provider resets to the Mint flavoured version.
No repro. Stumped, tbqh.
I should check if there's a sane way to add PPA support to Debian. There wasn't one last I looked, but it was a long time ago.
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Yeah, it's weird. I've found no references to it happening to anyone else
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@blakeyrat said in WTF happened to Windows 95?:
That said, the time you save the first time MySQL shits itself and requires a table rebuild for literally no reason, you've made-back whatever you spend on MS SQL plus change. Linux developers seem to think labor is free for some reason.
my time to restore a backup from mysql certainly is not worth any nonfree license of sql server
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@fbmac do you necro threads for fun?
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@bb36e Instead of deleting all his own posts he's now bringing back everyone else's.
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@LB_ said in WTF happened to Windows 95?:
Instead of deleting all his own posts he's now bringing back everyone else's.
Oh no, a reverse reaper!!! Somepone help us!
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OP is an idiot. Windows 95 never went away. I'm running it right now.
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@Polygeekery said in WTF happened to Windows 95?:
MacOS is eating their lunch in attracting developers by having a *nix environment beneath a nice GUI.
I have the best of both worlds by running Ubuntu Gnome in virtualization to do any development work that deploys to *nix systems (we generally deploy to Ubuntu Server, and I hate straight Ubuntu desktop), and I don't have to deal with a fucking Mac. I know it just takes some getting used to, but even the Command and Control buttons annoy me for some reason. I feel like Apple products condescend to me, and I don't like that.
Man, did you change your views.
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@kt_ said in WTF happened to Windows 95?:
Man, did you change your views.
Yeah...you probably wouldn't even believe how that happened.
I got a MacBook for free. It turned out to be very expensive.
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@Polygeekery said in WTF happened to Windows 95?:
I got a MacBook for free. It turned out to be very expensive.
ooooh! story time!
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@accalia said in WTF happened to Windows 95?:
ooooh! story time!
I will try and keep it brief.
I went to the grocery store one day, and I backed in to my parking spot which was next to one of the concrete pillars that the security lights are on. When I come out and load up groceries in to my vehicle, there was a backpack leaned up against the concrete pillar. Inside it was a brand new MacBook Air, and not really anything else.
Presumably, someone went to load groceries in to their trunk and set the backpack down, forgot about it, and drove off without it. So I took it home to try and find the owner. My thinking was that if I left it there, the next person who saw it would not even make an attempt to find the owner.
They signed in with a local user account (and a password of "1234") that was not anything I could track back to a person and the MacBook was new enough that there was no PII in it. They were not even signed in to any social media accounts and the browser history was bare. There was nothing in the backpack, etc. Soooooo, whomever left it behind was SOL. I did try to find its owner though.
So I wiped the MacBook and reinstalled the OS and was sort of blown away by how easy that was. Seriously, to Apple on that. I used it off and on for a few weeks and really liked the thing as I got used to it. Then one day my wife wanted to try it out. She fell in love with that MacBook Air and then I no longer had a MacBook Air... I made a post in Status about that...but DiscoNode search fails me.
Edit: I found it, eventually
@Polygeekery said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Wife finally saw my new MacBook.
In further news, I may not have a MacBook anymore.
So...I wanted another MacBook and I went and bought a MacBook Pro...which I turned out to not like as much. It was certainly more powerful, etc. But, I realized that what I had loved about the MacBook Air was the light weight and the fact that my laptop bag basically felt empty when it was in there.
So I went and bought another MacBook Air. Somewhere around in there I worked out a deal for a Mac Mini that I also picked up for ~$0. I used that in my office for a short while. Then a client got a new Executive Director and he wanted to dump all of the iMacs that the previous ED had purchased. So we worked out a deal where I picked those up for pennies on the dollar in trade. I posted about that also, once again DiscoNode search fails me. So I used one of those to replace the Mac Mini.
The iMacs all had the shitty Mac aluminum keyboards and Magic Mice. I pulled the iMac apart and maxed out the memory and replaced the 2.5" mechanical drive with a ~500GB SSD. I then picked up two 27" monitors to go with it and a Magic Trackpad and Logitech K750 keyboard.
So...to recap. In the span of ~2 years I went from the guy who posted:
@Polygeekery said in WTF happened to Windows 95?:
I don't have to deal with a fucking Mac. I know it just takes some getting used to, but even the Command and Control buttons annoy me for some reason. I feel like Apple products condescend to me, and I don't like that.
To a guy who genuinely likes Macs by virtue of finding a MacBook Air in a parking lot while grocery shopping. That free MacBook Air ended up with me spending:
- MacBook Pro ~$2,000
- MacBook Air ~$1,300
- Mac Mini ~$0
- 27" iMac ~$500 in trade
- Two 27" Asus monitors ~$800
- Peripherals ~$200
- Memory upgrade ~$200
- SSD for iMac ~$250
So that free MacBook Air ended up costing me over $5K. I probably should have left it sitting by the lightpost.
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@Polygeekery said in WTF happened to Windows 95?:
I made a post in Status about that...
I vaguely remember that one. :) But my memory is more easily searchable than nodeBB's DB…
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@Polygeekery said in WTF happened to Windows 95?:
I will try and keep it brief.
...I failed. Miserably.
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@dkf said in WTF happened to Windows 95?:
I vaguely remember that one. But my memory is more easily searchable than nodeBB's DB…
Yeah, I eventually found it and updated the post. Looks like it was around 9 months ago that I started down this particular rabbit hole.
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@Polygeekery Yeah, Macs are cool.
I bought myself a 12 inch PowerBook in 2002. It weighed 2.2 pounds (almost exactly one kilo). I had a Netbook in 2002 as fast as what later became called Netbooks in 2009.
I bought myself a 24 inch iMac in 2007. It lasted until 2015 (RIP). I seriously loved that machine, too. Core 2 Duo, 4 GB of ram. It doesn't sound impressive, but it had a decent GUI, with Unix tools, including a non-brain-dead SSH, a variety of games to play (including Civilization 3, 4, and 5...) and a remote control I could use to play my movie collection.
Software development on the Mac is just getting easier and easier. (But realistically, I've switched over to Ubuntu. I need affordable Xeons at my age)
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@Captain said in WTF happened to Windows 95?:
I bought myself a 24 inch iMac in 2007. It lasted until 2015 (RIP). I seriously loved that machine, too. Core 2 Duo, 4 GB of ram. It doesn't sound impressive,
Those machines are still perfectly serviceable. Most Mac dev machines are probably being used for web development of some sort. It doesn't take much horsepower to run an interpreter and a text editor, etc. for one user doing dev work. A C2D machine is more than sufficient.
@Captain said in WTF happened to Windows 95?:
and a remote control I could use to play my movie collection.
Oh yeah...tack ~$100 on to the earlier total. The deal I worked out for the Mac Mini included an Apple TV and I have since purchased another one. I remember I was just screwing around one day and pointed the remote at my Mac Mini and sure enough it worked. It would control Kodi plenty well enough for most basic functionality and the Apple TV covers most of our basic media center duties well enough. YouTube, Hulu, Netflix, etc. That is probably 97% of what we need. Then we have PCs to cover the rest when we want to watch a movie or something.
I just wish it would also do Amazon Prime Video, but nooooooo. Vendor lock-in/lock-out, etc.
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@Polygeekery said in WTF happened to Windows 95?:
So that free MacBook Air ended up costing me over $5K. I probably should have left it sitting by the lightpost.
That's why the last guy left it there.
To escape from the curse by passing it on.
:twilight_zone:
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@Lorne-Kates That explains the monkey's paw that was in the backpack...
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@Polygeekery said in WTF happened to Windows 95?:
But, I realized that what I had loved about the MacBook Air was the light weight and the fact that my laptop bag basically felt empty when it was in there.
My Acer Aspire S7 is thinner and lighter.
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@LB_ said in WTF happened to Windows 95?:
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stead ofaddition to deleting all his own posts he's now bringing back everyone else's.