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In omaggio a John Peter Sloan (1969-2020)

May 26, 2020 In omaggio a John Peter Sloan (1969-2020)2020-05-27T01:33:34+01:00 Miscellanea 1 Comment

Sono nato inglese ma morirò italiano, said five years ago the most famous language teacher in Italy. Nobody thought though that this would happen so soon. Here's a…

Béranger on KDE and Debian aren’t exactly my cup of tea; or should they?I’ve got an old subscription to Office 365. Piei, Satană!
Camil on KDE and Debian aren’t exactly my cup of tea; or should they?I'm no gamer but I do like to play Total War, Crusader Kings or Civ from time to time. Nope,
Béranger on KDE and Debian aren’t exactly my cup of tea; or should they?Of course, whoever wants Debian with KDE for home/multimedia usage (well, most people would choose Kubuntu instead) should probably try
Béranger on KDE and Debian aren’t exactly my cup of tea; or should they?You’ve got some serious patience reserves. Quite the contrary. The fonts... are a thing, but some distros get them better.
Camil on KDE and Debian aren’t exactly my cup of tea; or should they?You've got some serious patience reserves. I'd rather deal with Windows 10 occasionally bugs than trouble myself again with Linux
Vit on Nostalgia & Fun With CalculatorsConcerning that integral from the Update 10 which android calculators fail to solve, and "to be able to compute on
Béranger on Linux Intermezzo: Buggy Indeed, But Win10 Is WorseThis comment about Linux Mint 20 made my day: Blank • 5 days ago It's so ugly for a distribution,
Béranger on Nostalgia & Fun With CalculatorsI know that the haptic response is configurable, but I just can't find the right values. I'm very picky, and
Ben on Nostalgia & Fun With CalculatorsThank you so much for your comment! Your professional feedbacks are very important to me, and allow me to create
Béranger on Nostalgia & Fun With CalculatorsThanks for the feedback to the feedback :) Speaking of suggestions, there are two issues with your app, as far
Béranger on Linux Intermezzo: Buggy Indeed, But Win10 Is WorseNot yet, but I suppose I'll boycott Mint 20. One of the reasons I don't comment ANYTHING, ANYWHERE (except on
Béranger on Linux Intermezzo: Buggy Indeed, But Win10 Is WorseNothing is wrong, but it doesn't have anything to entice me to use it. Oh, well, the distro's icon (logo?)
Ben on Nostalgia & Fun With CalculatorsHello, I'm the programmer of ChampCalc scientific calculator. I really liked reading your professional review of my app, and I
John on Linux Intermezzo: Buggy Indeed, But Win10 Is WorseHave you decided on a distro yet? Dedoimedo probably hasn't heard of it if he hasn't tested it.
John on Back to ChinaFor some reason, PC Manager's UI looks both old and new.
John on Linux Intermezzo: Buggy Indeed, But Win10 Is WorseWhat's wrong with it?
Béranger on What divides the Internet is not mathSome calc apps now ask the user about how to treat the implied multiplication:
Béranger on Nostalgia & Fun With CalculatorsRevisiting the Vietnamese calc apps (not to check whether each one is still there), I discovered a new one, by
Béranger on Linux Intermezzo: Buggy Indeed, But Win10 Is WorseCentOS is dead. I already said that Red Hat is dead, right? Not just Fedora. GNOME2 sucks, and they screwed
HAL on Linux Intermezzo: Buggy Indeed, But Win10 Is WorseBut also : "If you want to Red Hat, you could try the rather nifty CentOS 8 instead. If you