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That is what farmers do. They rent everything, write it off as expenses and if it breaks they get a new one to rent.

If you own a Word Perfect license and misplaced the disks or the disks went bad, you'd have to get a copy off the Internet or buy a new one from eBay.

True but they had the schematics of Jay Miner's chips. Apple Mac and Windows PC passed Amiga sound and video standards and a new chipset was needed to compete with them. In fact they were working…

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19488164

https://vetusware.com/manufacturer/WordPerfect%20Corporation... You have to register an account, but they have the files for most Word Perfect software on their website.…

Because law firm templates were written in Word Perfect macros. I still know law firms that use Word Perfect 5.x and Windows 95. If it isn't broken why fix it? I used to have an academic version …

Apple and Microsoft settled their GUI lawsuit of Mac vs. Windows with the investment of non-voting stock from Microsoft and the license of the Mac GUI by Microsoft. The Amiga had bad management that t…

That was the code name for Windows Vista. Now that Vista is history and Windows 10 is being replaced with Windows 11, Microsoft does not care to support Vista anymore. This website is about Longhorn a…

Mike Crawford invested $6000USD in Bitcoin and then died. I assume his wallet was on his Macbook and nobody knew his password. It was supposed to be a life insurance policy like investment because he …

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philadelphia_Experiment

I had two of my friends take a manager role. They went back to development because of the politics having to deal with senior management and partners. There is a reason why Business Administration and…

That is still a lot. If you do a lot of driving.

All the people who worked on Windows 10 are no longer with Microsoft so the promise of Windows 10 being the last Windows is over. I would have thought they'd have 10.1 like Apple does. Windows 10…

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27402455

It could be worse: https://www.oregonlive.com/portland/2012/04/startup_weekend_... …

Skynet?

Why a downvote? I'm the only one who cared to list one.

https://discord.gg/kCS95DPN

Of course it does. Even had an amendment trying to ban alcohol. You ban alcohol and you get people in hospitals with withdrawal symptoms. It is like trying to ban other drugs, withdrawal symptoms. The…

I remember reading something about AT&T consumer DSL and Fiberoptic having ping disabled to prevent ping floods. Maybe Orange does the same thing?

If you got eMacs it can be made to use WordStar commands: http://web.mit.edu/Emacs/source/emacs/lisp/emulation/ws-mode... …

It used to be called Data Processing. I guess that confused people? Information Services was used for people who didn't know what data was. Before the GUI it was a lot harder.

Downloading Ubuntu from BItTorrent is a DMCA crime now? Who filed the DMCA complaint? SCO?

Some exploit Link I guess? I flagged it as fake.

Imposter syndrome, you have to overcome it before it overcomes you.

I was a CO-SYSOP of a WWIV College BBS in 1992. Someone uploaded a fake version of wwiv.exe to get SYSOP privilege's. We never learned how, now I see this 2600 issue shows how using DOS exploits …