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  1. Re: Old code never dies. Working code at least on IRC Turns 30 (www.oulu.fi) · · Score: 1

    2001? noob.

  2. I'd been using Firefox since it was called Phoenix (itself a fork of the Mozilla codebase), but now I've moved over to Waterfox, so all my extensions still work and I have a modicum of control over the UI. It imported my old Firefox profile with only a few minor config issues. (I had also looked at moving to Pale Moon, but it has a lot more compatibility issues than I want to deal with.)

  3. Re:Firefox 52 is the last real version of Firefox. on Mozilla Kills Firefox Aurora Channel, Builds Will Move Directly From Nightly To Beta (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    Something other than Pale Moon, you mean?

  4. Mozilla is trying to push Pale Moon adoption on Firefox Goes PulseAudio Only, Leaves ALSA Users With No Sound (omgubuntu.co.uk) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Since all the power users will bail at the 57pocalypse anyway, Mozilla is subtly trying to encourage earlier migration.

  5. Re:Curly braces = good. Indents = bad. on A New Programming Language Expands on Google's Go (infoworld.com) · · Score: 1

    I have dyslexia, and severe issues with telling whether things are vertically or horizontally aligned. Curly braces are much, much more useful than horizontal indentation for me; I imagine people with more severe visual impairment would have even worse issues. (I can configure my editor to do vertical greenbar for the background, but that's a hack that only works in my local environment.)

  6. Re:December 30th on 'Longest Living Human' Says He Is Ready For Death At 145 (telegraph.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    There were a couple of user database crashes around '98-'99 which wiped out everything; the people with the lowest numbers are not necessarily the oldest users of the site.

  7. Just like the original WaveLAN! on 802.11ah Wi-Fi Standard Approved (networkworld.com) · · Score: 1

    which was moved to 2.4GHz precisely because of GSM interference issues.

  8. Re:Thoughtful tweaks on Firefox 40 Arrives With Windows 10 Support, Expanded Malware Protection · · Score: 1

    Not seeing the version number of extensions unless you specifically click "More Info" is the most obvious one thus far.

  9. Re:Beards and suspenders. on Ask Slashdot: "Real" Computer Scientists vs. Modern Curriculum? · · Score: 1

    Koine Greek or Attic Greek? They're not the same, you know.

  10. Re:Hmm on Ask Slashdot: Practical Alternatives To Systemd? · · Score: 1

    Those low IDs are after post-"whoops, we deleted all the accounts, sorry!" in 1998 or thereabouts. Johnny-come-lately types, really.

  11. Re:Just saying... on First New Generic Top Level Domains Opening · · Score: 1

    It was alt.gothic,fashion, actually.

  12. Re:Fire them. on Senators Push To Preserve NSA Phone Surveillance · · Score: 1

    I know nobody in San Francisco who likes Feinstein; everybody here seems to regard her as a creature of SoCal, Hollywood, and/or The Mouse.

  13. Re:Same game engine? on Saints Row IV Announced · · Score: 1

    Well, they were originally going to release "Enter the Dominatrix" as DLC - but then they changed their mind and said they were going to release it as a standalone game; it seems likely that it'll be a lightly modified SR3 engine under the hood.

  14. Re:Pentel Slicci 0.4mm on Ask Slashdot: The Search For the Ultimate Engineer's Pen · · Score: 1

    Tokyo Pen Shop also has the Sliccis.

    I like the Sakura Pigma Micron drawing pens for regular writing; they go down to 0.2mm, too.

  15. Why all the fuss? on CodeWeavers Announces Flock the Vote Software Giveaway · · Score: 1

    The manpage clearly states that flock() is only advisory.

  16. Re:NFC on Google Ready To Rule NFC-Based Mobile Payments? · · Score: 1

    As usual, Japan actually went ahead and adopted NFC, albeit with a couple of competing standards. There's Suica, ICOCA, Edy, Nanaco, etc - and you can use them all from your mobile phone, merely by downloading the appropriate app.

  17. Solved 26 years ago! on Fast-Booting Text-Editor Operating System? · · Score: 1

    Jef Raskin, of Mac fame, developed the SwyftCard - a ROM on a slot that acted as an embedded OS + word processor. You just turned on the machine and in under a second, wallah. Word processor. (It also did neat things like not requiring you to format a floppy in advance, too.)