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cobbaut
·mese scorso·discuss
I have recovered files several times after fsck on a failed partition. I may have a 75 percent success rate with this... did not keep statistics obviously.

Though it could be less, cause I also remember recovering files with foremost on a dd copy of a disk.
cobbaut
·mese scorso·discuss
It's at the root level, no user came near that back then so it was kinda hidden.
cobbaut
·mese scorso·discuss
> In a couple of decades running Linux installations of all flavours, I have never seen anything in lost+found!

I saw it often. Running fsck on a crashed/failed partition usually does put some files in there. Maybe I kept using old hardware too long...
cobbaut
·mese scorso·discuss
NT 4.0 did not crash that often if you rebooted it weekly (not uncommon at the time). And it had a simpler menu.

But I agree about W2000 being peak Windows.
cobbaut
·2 mesi fa·discuss
> I'm not in that city.

Same, it claims Brussels, but I'm in Antwerp. It also got my screen resolution wrong.
cobbaut
·2 mesi fa·discuss
What I remember mostly from working in that era, was that managers let engineers make the technical decisions.
cobbaut
·2 mesi fa·discuss
Thinking of problems before falling asleep does sometimes help me in finding solutions in a dream. Though I may still be half awake when doing this.
cobbaut
·2 mesi fa·discuss
>Oh, not OS/2 Warp.

That would be awesome!
cobbaut
·3 mesi fa·discuss
>The assembly seats in Brussels, so the decision comes from Brussels (geographically).

Except that half the time the assembly seats in Strasbourg. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seat_of_the_European_Parliamen...
cobbaut
·3 mesi fa·discuss
My first thought was "so they go commandline now?". Because X for me is still "the graphical interface".
cobbaut
·4 mesi fa·discuss
> You may be thinking of Hong Kong

No, I was thinking about this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convention_Between_Great_Brita...

The way I understood this treaty was that the global powers in 1906 (Russia and Great Britain) accepted Tibet as part of China without the need for a war.

In the context of your comment, you say the US and Russia attack sovereign countries and you mention Tibet and Taiwan in the same sentence. Sorry but Taiwan has not been invaded by China, and Tibet was at the time internationally agreed as being part of China (not that I agree with that). Not the same ballpark sorry.
cobbaut
·4 mesi fa·discuss
> China with Tibet and Taiwan

What do you mean? China has bought Tibet from the British. And what have they done with Taiwan?
cobbaut
·6 mesi fa·discuss
https://cobbaut.be personal homepage since 1997
cobbaut
·7 mesi fa·discuss
European from Antwerp here. I only use two of those, and see more and more of my friends migrate away from some, albeit slowly.
cobbaut
·8 mesi fa·discuss
MS Outlook was a heaven for viruses.

Lotus (even before Notes) had cloud-like features for mail and worked on Windows and OS/2.
cobbaut
·8 mesi fa·discuss
> Then Thunderbird arrived on the scene

Apologies, but in my memory Thunderbird is just the new name for Netscape Mail. And Netscape mail, I believe, is older than Outlook.

I still have folders in my current Thunderbird that I created in Netscape (for example the 1996 folder that contains all mail from 1996).
cobbaut
·8 mesi fa·discuss
Back in 1995 it was, to my knowledge, the only OS capable of sharing CD-ROM's on the network. Even MS-DOS and Windows 3.11 machines could access it.

It was also capable of sharing Mainframe printers using a real null-printer-driver, which was not possible on Windows NT3.51 or NT4.0. Windows always messed with the Mainframe codes that it could not understand.

It was also easy to set up OS/2 as a gateway between different network hardware and protocols (Token Ring to Ethernet, or NetBios to IPX/SPX, ...)

It had REXX!
cobbaut
·8 mesi fa·discuss
> I’ve lived in Europe my whole life. I’ve never been robbed or felt unsafe.

Really, where?

I have been robbed in Belgium and in France, have had a knife on my throat on a Sunday morning, and have had burglars twice (once in Antwerp, once in Leuven). About five of my bikes were stolen, and I've been conned by construction workers several times.
cobbaut
·9 mesi fa·discuss
My experience here in Antwerp is that a lot of places also play French, Italian, German, Swedish (Abba), Greek, Mexican, Brazilian, and many others, and of course Flemish music mixed with British and American. Never only (or mainly) American for as long as I live (I'm 55).
cobbaut
·9 mesi fa·discuss
> When I think back to Windows 7, the good feeling isn't nostalgia. It was the last user-focused Windows.

I think Windows 98 was the last user-focused Windows. At least then all the useful settings were a single right-click away, and it just worked without invading your privacy.

(WinME never worked and WinXP was the first in a long series of shareholder-focused Windows.)