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lproven
8,777karma·4,928submissions·December 30, 2013
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Tall dark black-clad atheist skeptic biker SF fan; writes, mainly about computers, for a living.
# Work
Currently the FOSS & cloud correspondent for the Register.
https://www.theregister.com/Author/Liam-Proven
Work email: lproven+hn@sitpub.com
# Personal
Comments here (or anywhere else, unless otherwise stated) are personal opinion and not on behalf of any employer.
Based in Douglas, Isle of Man.
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Which is FOSS now! https://github.com/bluewaysw/pcgeos
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ToastyTech is wonderful but don't forget GUIdebook, which also is. https://guidebookgallery.org/
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> There was no proto-writing stage. Sequoyah was a great man, a genius, no doubt... but I think it is important to note that he didn't go straight to an alphabet. It was his third try. The f…
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> also allows a more modern syntax similar to QBasic / FreeBASIC. This is probably a too-wild idea, but what I personally would love to see would be to adopt the extensions of Dr Andy White&#x…
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Glad you are still with us, Mr S! And I hope you feel at least a little vindicated that so many people have worked so hard to make Silicon Snake Oil come true. :-)
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/s notwithstanding... no. I run a bunch of decade-old HP Microservers. All BIOS-only. My personal laptops are old Thinkpads, from before the keyboards went crappy & Lenovo took away the expan…
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Don't worry, you're good. https://github.com/jamesyc/TimeCapsuleSMB
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No, they weren't. They told me an awkward neologism for someone who isn't senior and isn't junior, and that means that neither they nor the original message tell me mid-level what. So…
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I like the concept, I don't like the presentation or the reasoning. But this idea or ones much like it have been presented before... "Hassle-free diskless Virtual Machines with Xen and Alpin…
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> rEFInd is _so_ much simpler TBH I've only used it for Hackintoshes and BSDs. I don't know why you'd want it. But I am finding this hard to post on account of this big hairy grey th…
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A bit more discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47942534 And lots more here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47923010 …
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> I didn't think it was particularly well written, and I found the threaD to be full of people commenting on how well written it was. Here is a thought that seems not to have occurred to you. …
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> Im a medior I do not know that word. I looked it up and found nothing helpful. What does it mean, and what do you mean? Also, may I ask you to use more punctuation and things like currency symbol…
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https://www.spacebar.news/stop-using-brave-browser/ https://thelibre.news/no-really-dont-use-brave/ …
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> That's very cool. Don't knock yourself - congratulations on reaching a good level in such a fiendish language. My own SO hovers between A2 and B1 after many years, so I absolutely appre…
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It's fascinating, and thank you. My Czech was terrible -- maybe just approaching B1 level when I left 3 years ago -- and it was not comprehensible to me. But it wasn't to my friend and to my…
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> Ubuntu is the only one. I have to say that I really do not understand the point of comments like this. The reality of user-facing Linux is this: Most of it is Android. It sells billions of units …
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Watched that just a month or 2 ago with my 6YO. It's great, a very underrated film. But it's not set during the Superb Owl flush isn't because the film is set in London, and most London…
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Also here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47989372
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It's really not. After a lot of searching I found... my own post from Reddit 3Y ago! https://www.reddit.com/r/czech/comments/17stwmi/can_anyone_r... It has a …
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Very interesting. Thanks. Those are good points...
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Oh, fantastic!
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My favourite is perfectly clean and SFW. There was a Bohemian monk Who went to bed in a bunk He dreamt that Venus Was sucking his elbow And woke up all covered in perspiration.
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I preferred Interlingua... But these days, Slovio would help me more. I've tried Slovio on Slavs of about 10 nationalities. None had ever heard of it. All of then, no exceptions, could just under…
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She dty vea. :-) (I do not actually speak Manx, but 2026 is the Year of the Manx Language. I should learn some.)
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If you go back half a millennium, most languages are the same. The sign above the door at the primary school outside Karlstejn Castle is unreadable to a speaker of modern Czech. School website: https…
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And indeed the ancient and mysterious Lancashire martial art, of course. https://www.goodiesruleok.com/articles.php?id=17 …
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> the effect (at least for modern sensibilities) is offputting and goofy. Oh my. I find the reverse. It's spooky and enchanting because once I know all the cognates I feel like I can magicall…
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No, it's documented, as is tempura . It's like pancakes: you make them before the time of fasting. "The Time of X" in Spanish is "tempora X" and I would bet Portuguese i…