I was seeing a lot of crashes two or three years ago, but none in the past year or so.

Doesn’t it have to be a land border to qualify? I think so. They are two islands in the Gulf of St Lawrence.

My parents were happily using Mint for about 5 years, until my brother took over the it support role, and was uncomfortable trying to troubleshoot issues in Linux.

I also started with Yggdrasil. A CD-ROM in the back of a massive book (printouts of all the man pages, I think).

It’s worth mentioning that in Luke, the earliest Gospel, there was originally no mention of Jesus appearing to anyone after his death.. The women went to the tomb, found it empty, a man dressed in white announced that Jesus had risen, and the women went away, too afraid to tell anyone what they had seen.

I’ve been a Linux user on and off since 1996, and there are still times when I give up trying to install software because of cryptic error messages.

Yes, I had my parents using Linux Mint for about 5 years, but eventually my brother who lived near them switched them to Windows because if there was a problem with Linux he couldn’t help.

Don’t worry, this is definitely the year of the Linux desktop.

They actually still do bloodletting, and even use leeches to do it.

The database app in LibreOffice, based on the Firebird database engine, can do all that.

I started with a book too. But it was 1996, and the distro was Yggdrasil, and the book was a printout of all the man pages. I used it for a Prolog programming course, so that I didn’t have to go to the university and use their computers. Of course, then I discovered the joys of different flavors of Prolog.

I use Brevo as well. Free tier: 300 emails per day.

Very happy with them.

My point is not about how case is meant to be used my point is that it is very easy to make a mistake that is difficult to spot. I think it makes a lot more sense to the case insensitive, and force different names to be used.

I feel the same way about programming languages. There is no way that “User” and “user” should refer to different variables. How many times has that screwed people up, especially in a weekly typed language?

One of the many things that I feel modern versions of Pascal got right.

I bought a book that had Yggdrasil in a CD that I used so I didn’t have to go into the university for the Unix labs.

I think that the entirety of the book, around 1,000 pages, was printed out man pages.

It makes sense. The big heavy cars are the ones with thicker steel, so they don’t rust out as fast.

Did you know that you can edit the title of your post? You should think about it!

Oh, you are right. It’s been a couple of decades since I actually had to write Japanese by hand.

You are wrong. This is the character for “correct”. “Five” is similar. Both have five strokes.

五 = five

正 = correct, positive

Or, as The Onion reports, Boeing intentionally hires employees with suicidal tendencies.

Back in the 1980s, before MS Word was the unquestioned king of the desktop, there was a DOS word processing program called WordPerfect. Everyone used it.

WP had a feature where you could press a special key combination and the screen would split. The top would have your text (not WYSIWYG, that was way in the future, although WP could show an approximation).

In the bottom part you could see your text, along with every control coffee code that turned bolding in or off, marked text for a table of content, etc.

Not only could you see it, you could navigate through it and delete codes, or watch the codes change as you edited text in the to half of the screen.

It gave you a control that I still miss these days. No more wondering why your word processor is doing columns wrong, or why the image you inserted doesn’t line up properly.

Check it out (starting at around 4:20).

Oh, to have “reveal codes” like WordPerfect!