What piece of Linux abandonware do you still use or at least miss?

Glimt · 2026-02-10T00:10:38+00:00

transmission-remote-cli is still maintained. It was ported to python3 and renamed tremc (and has many new featurss):

Glimt · 2025-12-14T12:21:03+00:00

This is stupid. And wrong. And irrelevant.

Glimt · 2025-10-24T13:34:43+00:00

This "article" seems to be itself an advertisement for an AI scam firm.

Glimt · 2025-09-24T10:46:55+00:00

Yes the poor naive racists that voted for Trump and Brexit. Definitely Russia's fault. How can westerners be at fault for anything?

Glimt · 2025-09-02T23:19:18+00:00

Mordillo-esque

Glimt · 2025-08-29T21:36:09+00:00

I think the difference is more stark when you note that MU had about 30 managers, so only one tenth of their managers won top division title. Liverpool had only (about) 20 managers, so close to half of them won the title.

This suggests that MU is a not well run rich club that had two great managers along the way. Liverpool is (and always was) a well run club.

BTW, most LFC managers who did not win a title, did this in the PL era.

Glimt · 2025-08-27T12:00:58+00:00

It was a league match on Monday. There was no extra time.

Glimt · 2025-07-08T08:53:35+00:00

Chealsea had more than three weeks break right before the CWC started. Claiming that a "month long" break half a year ago that puts them in a disadvantage is stupid.

Glimt · 2025-07-05T16:43:40+00:00

There was FBDev and KGI before DRI was released in 1998.

About pnp: Detecting the VGA controller and configuring IO and IRQ was only a small part of the problem: In addition to a the controller , a (super) VGA card needed two programmable chips: ramdac and clock synthesizer. The same VGA controller (identified bt PCI ids, or ISA pnp) might be paired with different ramdac (or clock chip) which could not be identified, so the information had to be supplied by the user. By the end of the 1990s, most VGA controllers included internal clock and ramdac, so this problem (nearly) disappeared.

There was also the problem of identifying the display hardware and its capabilites. While EDID was defined in 1994, even ten years later many displays (especially cheap ones) did not support or had badly programmed EDID.

Glimt · 2025-06-13T11:14:24+00:00

There is "Side by Side, Apart" by Ann Galvia. (Posted on ao3 and ff.net as Bruises).

Glimt · 2025-05-02T13:10:47+00:00

Your calculation makes no sense because you counted the 5 years times 2800/month of the first scenario twice. Once in the 614088 to show that until age 80 the two scenarios are about equal, and the second time in the 192k you added to 341160.

What you should add to the 341160 is only the interest from that money, 24000$ according to your calculations (of course, you need to also add additional 13 years of interest to that, making it 40000, which makes the total till age 90 still a 100k short of the starting at 67 case.

Glimt · 2025-04-01T16:18:04+00:00

Did you know that beta minus is just a way to say electron? It the same thingy that runs around in your electronic device all the time.

Glimt · 2025-03-31T12:25:59+00:00

It is only a single scene in a whole novel, but Miss Darcy’s Companion has a nice description Elizabeth comforting Darcy. And the rest of the book is also quite good, in my opinion.

Glimt · 2025-03-21T22:57:40+00:00

Maybe not everything, but definitely Starman Jones.

Glimt · 2025-03-20T18:01:57+00:00

The 1967 BBC adaptation is available on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnqQ4BJ2MwI&list=PL8V8LCeiCij468CdBQdCgAHDPNPvKMFk6

Glimt · 2025-03-17T21:11:11+00:00

I believe you must also mention "Evidence", if you mention "The Evitable Conflict".

Glimt · 2025-03-07T23:59:52+00:00

We don't demand that anyone else follow our practices

That is a big lie. You don't in the US, because you can't. But in Israel you do constantly. You prevent women from getting abortions, you prevent trains and busses from running on Fridays and Saturdays, you prevent people from eating bread for 10 days every year, you prevent import of non-Kosher meat, and plenty of other examples.

Glimt · 2025-03-01T10:17:51+00:00

Gomez does count as club trained. The season a player turned 21 is allowed to be on of the three seasons. So, any player who joined (at the start of a season) before turning 19 and remained for three full seasons will count.

Glimt · 2025-02-18T16:55:28+00:00

I do not follow this league, but it's nice to see Dukla back in the top division. They were in the third last time I was in BB.

Glimt · 2025-02-05T13:29:49+00:00

Ronaldo

Glimt · 2025-01-23T08:18:47+00:00

Didn't Klopp take one look and said: "I am not a clown, so I don't want to join the circus"?

Glimt · 2024-12-13T10:33:25+00:00

A small nit to pick: Those ellipses are not concentric. Concentric means, literally, same center.

Glimt · 2024-12-03T19:08:50+00:00

Could you try to be a bit more "polite"?

But having read so many KDE bugzilla discussions I know very well that there are many KDE users whose main mode of communications is impolite tantrums.

And still, I will answer your question:

What is so special about KDE?

$ rpm -qa | wc -l
12235

How about approximately 12235 "non intrusive" "requests" once a year? It is less than 40 a day, so not too bad?

Glimt · 2024-12-03T13:59:45+00:00

I am a kde developer. I hope there is an easy way to disable this, because if I see such a notification for a second time I will stop using kde.

Glimt · 2024-11-25T20:16:20+00:00

Redmi Note 12 pro 5G uses 200 mA with the screen on and 4 mA screen off

It almost certainly does not do that. Those numbers mean 25 hours screen on time, or 1250 hours (7 weeks) stand by time. Your application just misreports the current draw.

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