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by alan stone
2020-05-30 12:55
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: Bill Gates, the father of the PC?
Replies: 30
Views: 20169

Re: Bill Gates, the father of the PC?

cuckooflew wrote:==========Image==============
The subject, named BG, is not dead yet. :wink:

He seems to be on an ego "I am your father" trip. See this new investigative documentary:

Who Is Bill Gates?

A further discussion on the documentary.
by alan stone
2020-02-21 15:49
Forum: General Questions
Topic: Encrypted filesystem on external, USB disk
Replies: 10
Views: 5057

Re: Encrypted filesystem on external, USB disk

You might try one of these: How to encrypt [a USB stick] on Linux, Windows, and Mac OS
AFAIK VeraCrypt has a portable version, though it's Windows only.
by alan stone
2019-09-26 08:24
Forum: Graphical Environments & Desktops
Topic: DWM layout question
Replies: 4
Views: 4204

Re: DWM layout question

Glad to hear you're satisfied.
by alan stone
2019-09-23 06:36
Forum: Graphical Environments & Desktops
Topic: DWM layout question
Replies: 4
Views: 4204

Re: DWM layout question

That's the place indeed. As the provided documentation is rather frugal and not always very clear to me in finding the useful one(s) I thought of asking here in case somebody had the same idea and found out.
by alan stone
2019-09-20 16:15
Forum: Graphical Environments & Desktops
Topic: DWM layout question
Replies: 4
Views: 4204

DWM layout question

I've been playing with i3wm, next in line is dwm. Is a i3wm-like layout like the one below possible with dwm & the available dwm patches? split container 1 split container 2 w/ stacked windows -------------------------------------------------------- | window 1 | window 5 | ----------------------...
by alan stone
2019-07-27 13:19
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: Eben Moglen: Why Freedom of Thought Requires Attention
Replies: 13
Views: 9522

Re: Eben Moglen: Why Freedom of Thought Requires Attention

^ This maybe: part 1 (~15 min. video + transcript), part 2 (q&a excerpt of the "a bit long video").
by alan stone
2019-01-25 16:54
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: Who else loves Google Voice reminders?
Replies: 19
Views: 12625

Re: Who else loves Google Voice reminders?

bester69 wrote:I love google voice reminders/Alarms, so cool and confortable...
Its really great :D , It works!
The Goolag boys probably agree 100%.
by alan stone
2018-12-29 10:28
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: dasein
Replies: 34
Views: 23210

Re: dasein

xepan wrote:On a sidenote: Not everyone thinks good of him.
I'm quite sure he was the least concerned about that. And rightly so.
by alan stone
2018-11-19 13:22
Forum: Beginners Questions
Topic: 32-bit hardware support
Replies: 8
Views: 3401

Re: 32-bit hardware support

...Core 2 Duo is a 64 bit CPU... I recently tried to run debian-live-9.6.0-amd64-xfce (1) and devuan_ascii_2.0.0_amd64_desktop-live (2) (*.iso hash checked) on a pc with: $ lscpu Architecture: i686 CPU op-mode(s): 32-bit, 64-bit Byte Order: Little Endian CPU(s): 2 On-line CPU(s) list: 0,1 Thread(s)...
by alan stone
2018-11-01 09:19
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: What does your desktop look like?
Replies: 5849
Views: 4528577

Re: What does your desktop look like?

debiman wrote:... openbox does manual tiling really well imo... i'd love to try another wm that compares to that.
FYI: Tiling in Fvwm
https://github.com/urob/fvwm-tiling
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdSgf-IykIo
by alan stone
2018-05-06 15:06
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: Spectre, the sequel: Spectre-NG
Replies: 7
Views: 5470

Re: Spectre, the sequel: Spectre-NG

This one, worth a thousand words.
It could last for quite some time:
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by alan stone
2018-05-05 04:35
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: Cambridge Analytica
Replies: 117
Views: 81910

Re: Cambridge Analytica

^ Oh, does FB provide a service? :mrgreen:
by alan stone
2018-05-04 11:51
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: Cambridge Analytica
Replies: 117
Views: 81910

Re: Cambridge Analytica

debiman wrote:nobody seems to give a rat's ass about that.
Z(s)uck to begin with: Facebook moves 1.5bn users out of reach of new European privacy law.

It's for the common good: FB Dating.

Next: FB Mating? :lol:
by alan stone
2018-05-03 15:39
Forum: Programming
Topic: Email client
Replies: 10
Views: 9813

Re: Email client

jalisco wrote:I used Mac, Windows and Linux throughout the household
Comparison of email clients: Operating system support
jalisco wrote:... to fulfill my encryption needs.
Comparison of email clients: General features: PGP support
by alan stone
2018-03-24 06:11
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: Cambridge Analytica
Replies: 117
Views: 81910

Re: Cambridge Analytica

Elon Musk just deleted the Facebook pages for Tesla and SpaceX: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/977209817012977665 One small step for a small man (*): deleting the FB account and app, as well as from similar companies. On big step for man-kind would be to delete the company , as well as similar...
by alan stone
2018-03-23 15:44
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: Cambridge Analytica
Replies: 117
Views: 81910

Re: Cambridge Analytica

I've been working to understand exactly what happened and how to make sure this doesn't happen again. The good news is that the most important actions to prevent this from happening again today we have already taken years ago. idk wtf that's even supposed to mean. according to various articles face...