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I haven’t tried abiword as I didn’t use it “back in the day”, but I might give it a go. I’m also using AppleWorks on my iMac G3 with an identical setup. The G3 is nice because it’s fanless and therefore almost silent, though it has a bit of CRT whine nowadays.
The Win 95 machine is on a private network for which the Pi is the router, so the SMB share is available without connecting win 95 to the internet.
> A well-appointed kitchen [..] A toolbox [..] A hunting rifle
I pre-ordered the latest Assassin’s Creed directly from Ubisoft thinking it was better than buying it from Amazon. It got delivered to the wrong address, so I opened a ticket. They ignored the ticket for weeks despite me sending follow ups every few days, so I eventually raised a dispute with PayPal to get a refund, which I received.
Ubisoft finally responded to the ticket at that point, saying that I “may have issues making purchases from the store in the future” due to the reversed payment. So basically, they no longer want me as a customer because I tried to get a refund for a game they failed to deliver.
Except the app specifically tells you, after you send it a picture of your driving license to unlock the scooter, that you’re only allowed to ride it on roads <= 30mph and cycle paths.
> Instead of redirecting their efforts to a more general graph model which has actual hype and use by developers
neo4j is basically this. You can also load RDF into neo4j using neosemantics and query it using Cypher instead of using a conventional triplestore with SPARQL, which is nice.
%.pdf: %.*
pygmentize -f html -O full $< | wkhtmltopdf -T 0 -B 0 --page-width 210mm --page-height 5000mm --no-background - - > .tmp.pdf
pdfcrop .tmp.pdf $@
rm -f .tmp.pdfI think it comes down to the age old debate as to whether a degree is supposed to prepare a student to roll into an industry job or whether it is supposed to be an introduction to academia. An academic purist might argue that these should all be separate degrees because they are different intellectual pursuits, while a company would likely much prefer to take on a graduate with some understanding of all of the above.
Very speculative indeed, considering there was plenty of movement of people between the British Isles and the continent before the Anglo-Saxons arrived (who themselves had surprisingly little impact on the genetic makeup of the British people [0]). And if there was significant Neanderthal DNA in the British Isles 1500 years ago, it would still be detectable among living generations (it isn't).
At least the old ideas are resurging in the form of Neo4j (essentially a triplestore) and Cypher (essentially SPARQL).
The SSD upgrade is not for the faint hearted, however. I used the iFixit kit with the provided “tools”, and lifting off 27” of extremely expensive and heavy glass that sounded like it might crack at any moment was not exactly fun. Having said that - I would do it again in a heartbeat to get another computer/display like this for the price I paid.
With regards to scaling: I have had zero problems with either my rMBP (since 2013) or this iMac, when in macOS running at high resolution. Zero. As soon as I boot Windows or Linux, however, it’s basically unusable unless I turn the resolution down.