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Perhaps one advantage of the walled-garden of Windows S. No virus checker needed if every piece of software is vetted by an online repository and everything runs in its own sandbox

And MS Office for Android.

Algorithmically is it possible to pass only 'safe' interpreted code to the CPU? The majority of Javacript engines (Chakra, V8, Spidemonkey and JavasciptCore) are under a security-auditable FOSS license. Browsers claiming Spectre/Meltdown immunity would be in the next release notes, surely.

I'm not discounting that CPUs should operate correctly into the future but the current sandboxes would seem to rely on whims of a CPU's microcode. And the question for browser makers is whether to trust them.

I agree on the elevated prices but assumed that it was avoiding the social stigma of turning up to a BBQ empty-handed. Lentil/chickpea burgers are often delicious but those faux sausages tend to be bloody awful! :)

But rather than eat lab meat, maybe people would migrate to plant-based substitutes such as jackfruit, reported yesterday, 'I think there's meat in my burger and I'm vegan':

http://www.abc.net.au/news/rural/2018-01-02/jackfruit-findin...

I noticed hiking yesterday a sign for UHF deep in the forest, presumably for emergency fire response at this time of year (summer). Ironically the mobile reception is sub-par in East Gippsland but I got a, relatively, strong 3G signal from the top of Genoa Peak, where the nearest phone tower is perhaps 10km away on the valley floor.

'marvellous' saw something of an ironic renaissance in Australia as a homage to Richie Benaud.

The Spanish cognate 'maravilloso' survives.

Many phone owners these days put their device in a case.

How then can it then "look like crap" if aesthetically it's hidden under a layer of coloured rubber?

Then you'd love LuneOS. Every release name is a coffee drink.

I bought a replacement battery kit for my non-Apple phone on ebay for about $AU15 - it came with tools to jimmy open the case and unscrew the housing.

Undoubtedly genuine Apple batteries may be better quality but that's still ~$100 for labour.

Yes. The obvious universal API that targets big screens and small, touch or mouse is Qt. It started as a desktop framework, was made touch-aware to be used Nokia and BB10 for phones, powers KDE 5 and I'm hopeful Ollie Paranoid will provide an update in a few weeks re: Plasma on postmarketOS.

Now a company with Apple's resources should surely be able to reintegrate the Cocoa Touch hard-fork back into a common modernised Cocoa, which by now has a 30 year legacy from NeXTSTEP.

Naturally you'll still need to customize a UI for Mac or iPhone but a unified toolkit is entirely possible.

I thought it was more Google providing Android compatibility within Chrome OS driving the push to bring apps to macOS.

> the internet service’s Terms of Service (TOS) didn’t mention the Monero mining code.

There's a business opportunity - free coffee if you agree to mine crypto on our behalf.

Did Starbucks Bs As. refund their customers?

I was at La Trobe 1992-6 and Manfred taught me in 95 or 96.

I remember a mixture of VMS, Ultrix and I think SunOS. A monochrome screen with curses to do your email, browse gopher and text-only web, compile and run programs (in Manfred's case) and log in from any terminal on campus. There were a couple of monochrome Xterms in the computer centre. But desktop computers had obviously taken over by your friend's era.

Every staff member had one of those. They opened new computer labs at La Trobe in about 1995 but before that it was VTxxx terminals accessing a mixture of VMS or *nix, I believe.

I remember using vi in typesetting a paper with LaTeX before print previewing a DVI on one of the PC or Mac machines.

He was a European gentleman in a remote land with a quirky sense of humour and generous spirit; not your typical stuffy academic in tweed. :) And he had an awesome beard, long before hipsters made them fashionable!

The tribute pages below provide more insights from others.

I was studying in the mathematics department at the time, which was on the other side of the campus from the philosophy department. But there was considerable overlap between pure maths and formal logic. Godel's incompleteness theorem was one of the topics we proved and provided a good theoretical foundation for higher order logic.

http://hosted.verticalresponse.com/291390/14a69b5ba4/test/te... https://respectance.com/tribute/manfred-von-thun/

Manfred taught me mathematical logic back in the mid 90s. It was only much later browsing functional programming topics that I discovered his language and that he had passed away.

RIP.

And after 3 years?

(I'm using a Nexus 4)

> we do not have control over our borders.

Arguably, Portugal doesn't have much control either. They can control their ports but there are no checks of anyone entering from Spain by car and airport security isn't as tight in passport-free Europe as would be intercontinental flights.

Bunnings (Wesfarmers) had a well-established lead. There was no compelling reason for Masters to enter the market except that Woolworths thought they needed a piece of the action.

Such is our supermarket duopoly.

Bookshops that are still around have already survived Amazon. Remember Borders Australia? They died spectacularly and it was only the niche players that survived.

ebay from AUS sellers has served me well this year on their site-wide 10-15% off deals. e.g. Merrell, Colorado, Columbia and Timberland, $50 cheaper than at a physical shop. KEEN doesn't seem discounted much though.

"Four and twenty" is idiomatic English in that it survives in the children's nursery rhyme Sing a Song of Sixpence.

It was composed around the same time that William of Orange reigned as king of the UK, so maybe that's a Dutch influence on our language!

I only know this because Four'n Twenty is the unofficial national dish of Melbourne. :)

'Smart' displays?

Where I worked they wall-mounted large screen TVs. Windows 10 casted to them over wifi just fine.

My windows laptop has only VGA out, so I hook up a second monitor via displaylink (usb -> DVI).

I tried plugging the cable into my KVM switch and it worked okay on the Windows 10 side but there was some hot-plugging kernel panic when switching to Linux (must file a bug report!)

So perhaps the future of KVM switches doesn't need video connectors such as VGA/DVI/DP if USB-C -> HDMI (as smartphones are adopting) becomes universal.

Oh boy, the price! The article is lamenting the expense of 'modern' KVM switches.

For reference, a switch with 'legacy' USB 2.0/VGA connectors that powers my ageing home PCs is this model:

https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/All-in-one-Mini-2-Ports-KVM-Manu...

I bought a USB2.0/VGA switch online for < $10. I had a number of vga and USB type B (aka printer) cables lying in boxes that are now put to good use!

A windows laptop and a linux NUC, 5 USB peripherals shared.

4K and all digital HDMI might spell the death of it but I'd be needing new PC(s) to drive such a display in any case.

Australia now too.

100 days or it's free was the deal. The urgency was the arrival of summer and an ongoing spat between state and federal politicians.

The DeX product page explicitly says Built-in cooling fan, so they're definitely aware of overheating.

The obvious use is laptop bans on flights and docking your phone to your hotel room's TV.

Why so hung up about a keyboard and mouse? Even the local supermarkets here sell them dirt cheap these days.