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Somehow this thread makes me think of the Chilean song El pueblo unido jamás será vencido ('The people united will never be defeated') :)
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(Quote) Don't spam, don't spew nonsense
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(Quote) It's not about security per se -- Gmail is strong on security (or they're stronger than or as strong on security as any other email provider, as far as one can tell). It's more about "your being the product", i.e., Google's automa…
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(Quote) I no doubt missed the crucial detail, but what was at the origin of the bus photo meme? :) (Something VirMach-related?)
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(Quote) Just to add to what @TheDP said, a few years ago, LET/LEB (but especially LEB) were in a neglected state (neglected by the owner(s)), which was the main motivation behind Ant's starting LES.
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(Quote) Rain is now an admin There are six mods, but Pie seems to be the most active/visible
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(Quote) There may be other factors at play. (I'm speaking in general, not of @Jord in particular.) One factor may simply be a kind of inertia: one you become a moderator, you stay a moderator, unless you have a strong reason for resigning. What co…
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(Quote) It's not so complicated. :) There's educational value in trying to convey some of the complexities of history. :) You're right that a fork of a fork is still a fork, but a fork of a fork of X isn't necessarily a fork of X. :) To use your …
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(Quote) It all looks very questionable to me, but at least they offer StarOffice 6 and 7 for free (even though they very probably don't have the right to do so). I would have thought that Oracle acquired StarOffice with the purchase of Sun. Anyway…
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(Quote) First of all, this thread is a dramatic overreaction by the OP. Second, the low-end provider in question very probably just had an unfortunate incident, so there's no need to name and shame the provider as though the provider systematically…
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(Quote) If you don't mind, a few comments on your blog post: :) (Quote) Strictly speaking, the open source version of StarOffice produced by Sun was called "OpenOffice.org". People often called it "OpenOffice", but its official …
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(Quote) In principle, I can kind of see why a portable LibreOffice -- a portable LibreOffice that runs in a browser -- might be attractive to some people in some circumstances. Nevertheless, given the sheer size and complexity of LibreOffice, I don…
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(Quote) Or perhaps: "too much, too late". This is a gem: (Quote) In general, I'm very skeptical about the "do everything in a browser, assuming a good internet connection" trend, but I find the quoted statement very amusing: so…
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(Quote) Perhaps a little dramatic to start the same thread both here and there about this revelation ... In any case, yes, most low-end providers won't be able to have better uptime than Hetzner Cloud over an extended period of time, but this is as…
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(Quote) ImageMagick is an amazing command-line tool that can do all kinds of conversions, but I understood that you needed a GUI editing tool ("That might require adding additional uniformly colored background top and bottom to get to 400 x 400…
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(Quote) Go GIMP -- don't settle for anything less :)
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(Quote) My question ("No chance ...?") was partly rhetorical, though I imagined that GIMP would require the Linux subsystem to be activated. :) I also suspect that when @Not_Oles said "simple", he wasn't thinking of GIMP. (But &…
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(Quote) No chance of installing GIMP on a Chromebook? :)