palordrolap @ palordrolap @kbin.social

Some middle-aged guy on the Internet; Seen a lot of it and occasionally reg

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NT stands for "no toast". The guy who named it forgot his breakfast that morning.

When asked what NT stood for he lied and came up with "new technology" on the spot.

(And if you believe that I have a bridge to sell you.)

Ancient computer and nvidia card here. Not sure what Gnome's nightlight is ultimately based on, but you might try Redshift or f.lux which - I assume - do pretty much the same thing.

I've used both and am currently using Redshift. f.lux stopped working for me a few years ago and I haven't bothered trying to find out if that was a fluke and whether it will work again now. Redshift uses geolocation by default, but that can be turned off.

"Well, getting the brain out out of trouble was the easy part. The hard part was will be getting the brain out out of trouble."

In the same way a person who has broken all their bones has "growing pains", sure.

Ah. My guess is that something somewhere is unfamiliar with the concept of a static GIF. "Oh, GIFs are animated, I'll convert it to my preferred animation format. ... Huh. 0 seconds long. Whatever."

In 1994, CGI back-ends were the closest thing to interactivity in the browser, and that's far back enough that a good deal of it was written in C. Strong typing abounds!

But JavaScript was an absolute joy by comparison. Heck, even Perl CGI was a joy compared to having to write executables for every fricking thing.

Note that by JavaScript, I mean the mostly hand-crafted stuff in earlier sites, not the enormous frameworks that are in use these days.

The common loop variable i looks quite a lot like a candle, wouldn't you say?

If Bats ever gets his hands on a time machine we're all doomed.

Microsoft wants to give Linux a nice warm hug and then squeeze and squeeze and all the warmth disappears this is actually quite a high pressure oh that hurts Microsoft no ow are those needles coming out of your arms I think I hear bones splintering and screaming oh no it's me I'm screaming I'm hearing myself screaming I'm turning into

Relevant comic strip.

MP4 was an interesting choice of format though.

where's 255.0.255.0 i always use that

The last thing I need is another delusional middle-aged man to deal with.

kill takes a process ID (i.e. a number) not a process name. Either find the right PID with ps first or use killall, although be aware that killall does exactly what it says: kills all processes matching the string it is given. If you only want to kill one of several Firefox processes that isn't what you want.

Several Masters each gave lessons invoking the Tao, but each did not see the whole of the Tao. If all the Masters were able to combine their knowledge, would they then see the whole Tao?

I was working on the assumption that if he solicited photos from a minor, that would have been a crime. Since no crime was found, ... etc.

It's not clear from the news articles whether any pictures were even sent, let alone paid for.

The police determining there's no crime doesn't tell us that either.

For all we know, the whole thing is a dead cat to distract from other, more serious (or genuine) scandals that might be going on. Or to keep them out of the news cycle altogether.

Even if the allegations are true, and he's paid a ridiculous sum for some illicit filth, he really only has to explain his behaviour to his wife and family.

As a shell, tcsh was OK if only because it included GNU Readline (or something like it) and, despite being a couple of years younger, kind of beat bash to the punch for that user-friendliness on account of being a largely unchanged drop-in replacement for its predecessor.

Unfortunately, that also means it's as problematic as its predecessor too: Csh programming considered harmful.

Not to be used for anything serious.