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Kinda, but also that Clippy (real name Clippit, as it happens) was included as a feature that was genuinely intended to be helpful. Like, that's not to say it was successful, or appreciated, but that it came from a time when you could buy a product in the expectation that you'd own it, you could keep it and it'd work for you, not for someone else.

Have you ever seen A Touch Of Cloth? It's a superb send-up of police procedurals. There's a scene where the main character, Cloth, is explaining some not-very-complex idea like you said and one of his lackeys replies, "Can you explain it like I'm some kind of viewer, guv?".

"I'm gonna pop out and get some lunch because this is going to take a while and definitely isn't just an SSH into an Ubuntu box running apt update/upgrade in a loop."

As far as I'm concerned fire and flood are just game over for data. There are resistant enclosures but I wouldn't count in them. For what they cost, I'd rather buy a cheap HP Microserver with a bunch of hard disks and install it at family's house, which is what I do. That way I've got a physical object I can drive over and collect if needed, and it's still remote.

This is good news and from my vague understanding it won't require huge investment in tracks since HS1 is already built to the superior European Loading Gauge; the biggest changes will be building facilities at the German stations and the legalese. But, if anyone involved is reading, please, please, please: sleeper trains from London. I want to fall asleep in Kent and wake up in Berlin, Warsaw, Vienna, Rome, etc. Ideally I'd also like to know which city I'll be waking up in but really I'm not picky.

I think about this kind of thing too often. Take "chlamydia" and "genocide". Two words with horrible meanings, but they're really nice words. Flowery and regal. They sound like Victorian girls's names. "Cousin Peter arrived, with his lovely daughters, Chlamydia and Genocide".

Add the new Pebble watches to that list and, yeah, same. I've preordered the Time 2 and it's the first time I've been excited for a new gadget in years.

I'm gonna have a mailbox per device and the addresses will be deviceip@serverip. 10.254.17.5@145.80.205.19.

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The guy who created the show said he specifically chose jawbreakers because of how awful they were.

Naked Cowboy model for a sexy western themed oak furniture teleshopping service.

I do love me a good bit of Viz.

It's not science, it's Englilsh.

🟥 Discovered Bones ⬜ Undiscovered Bones

You're blaming the current government for a law that was brought in by the previous government.

When I was a kid my primary school did but my secondary schools didn't, though they did have offices with phones in scattered throughout the campus so a phone was never far away.

That said, up until a couple years ago I worked in schools IT and whoever we were doing a network refit schools would always spec a couple of points in each classroom for a VOIP handset. Most could only make internal calls though.

My problem with the whole thing is well expressed by Bojack Horseman.

An IT technician who spends their entire career in air-conditioned offices in their home country but happens to be employed by the army is worthy of adoration, special treatment and prioritisation, but obviously a nurse saving lives on a daily basis and facing routine abuse from violent drunks and psychotic nutcases can fuck right off because they work at a privately-owned hospital.

Drawing a circle around the armed forces saying "these people are deserving of unquestionable praise and arbitrary benefits" is the same as saying "no-one else is" and it's insulting to the intelligence of everyone involved.

It's one of those annoying tropes common to a particular type of American TV show. Another annoying one is when someone says "I can explain" then doesn't.

In Enterprise: manageability. It's hard to overstate how powerful Windows Group Policy is. Being able to configure every single aspect of the OS and virtually all major applications, Microsoft or otherwise, using a single application that can apply rules dynamically based on user, device, user or device groups, time of day, location, battery level, form factor, etc, etc. Nothing on Linux comes close, especially when simplicity is a factor, and until it does most large organisations won't touch it with a barge pole.

People called Caniformia they go the 'ouse!?