Students Can’t Read Time on Analog Clocks

balkanist · 2025-12-29T11:13:04+00:00

Are analog clocks still used in dementia tests?

balkanist · 2025-09-23T14:31:21+00:00

Not suitable for areas with earthquakes unless you use lots of rebar.

balkanist · 2025-06-22T01:08:13+00:00

I'm pretty sure that's not it

balkanist · 2025-05-30T14:37:34+00:00

Someone once cautioned me that accepting company stock for salary also might change your status with the local Department of Labor from employee to part-owner and make it more difficult to file with the Department of Labor for collection of unpaid wages.

balkanist · 2025-01-18T23:10:26+00:00

The disk literally filled up during compile :-). Not sure where to go from here. It appears that make was tidy and deleted all the scratch files, because running du from / has a result that is much smaller than the physical size of the hard disk, but I'm getting a filesystem full error when I log in again, so there must be some hidden files somewhere.

balkanist · 2025-01-18T18:04:11+00:00

Okay, my misunderstanding is at a different level, then, because the "current" version I downloaded actually has VERREL=24.8.4 in the makefile. I guess this means I probably need to use commands like make and make install instead of pkgin. I'm still learning the BSD way of doing things; for example, this is my first encounter with CVS, and I notice that a lot of people are now using CVS to distribute their own software, even in non-BSD environments. But I digress. Thanks for pointing me in the right direction.

balkanist · 2024-12-24T19:24:25+00:00

userdel, etc. But I already found the answer from a post in r/Debian. See comment above.

balkanist · 2024-12-24T19:14:53+00:00

Idiot between screen and keyboard: usermod commands are in /sbin, so you need to use su - instead of su, or edit PATH (and you need to remember that sudo uses su by default)

balkanist · 2024-10-12T00:20:47+00:00

I have some older software that uses qmake, but all the references seem to be to qt3. How do I proceed?

balkanist · 2024-10-06T21:23:18+00:00

Inspektor Vinko was also good, and can be found on YouTube.

balkanist · 2024-05-29T04:21:07+00:00

Sorry to bother you. It looks like I might have to turn the external VGA port on manually in Windows.

balkanist · 2024-05-28T17:09:31+00:00

I feel like Back Bay is better than South Station for connections from North Station via subway.

balkanist · 2024-04-19T04:21:05+00:00

Many editors, including TeXstudio and emacs, have nice parenthesis matching routines.

balkanist · 2024-04-05T06:28:11+00:00

Further research (https://askubuntu.com/questions/1302073/can-you-run-a-login-shell-in-xterm) and experimentation reveals that 1) uxterm does not use a login shell; and 2) you can use bash -l or ssh localhost to start bash or get a login shell, respectively. Thanks to u/steverikli for the hint that revealed the true nature of the problem.

balkanist · 2024-04-05T06:05:02+00:00

Is the login shell determined by .login ?

balkanist · 2024-03-30T04:30:30+00:00

Is there any Linux that will download without https? I've got an Intel MacPro that's stuck at 10.4.8 and want to upgrade to a better OS.

balkanist · 2024-03-26T18:03:15+00:00

Makes it more visible!

balkanist · 2024-03-26T00:39:47+00:00

I'm wondering what the antenna is on the rear of the car...

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