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Comment People have been complaining about helldesk (Score 1) 116

for years. Apple, Microsoft, Google, all of them Have Issues. Smaller, more nimble, companies may be more easily contacted, but it often takes knowing someone who can bypass the various gatekeepers.

And not just in software. Several years ago I had a highly repeatable weird glitch while closing the top of my German convertible. Couldn't seem to get it fixed. Complained to Warren Brown (RIP) at the Washington Post during an online chat, and two days later I got a call from a regional engineering guy at the car company, and was in that weekend getting a switch replaced.

Comment Fun With Unicode (Score 1) 76

Windows gets upset if you mix codepages. I suspect Linux and Mac do, too. Sure, mixing US/GB codepages shouldn't cause much trouble. But mixing Hebrew and US causes all sorts of fun, since the text moves in different directions. And Chinese can move vertically in addition to horizontally. If you don't start each snippet of text with the byte order mark things can get weird.

Submission + - It's finally here.

wiredog writes: From PC Magazine: 2021 is the year of Linux on the Desktop.

Mostly Chrome and Android, but they are Linux. Which, considering my first Linux was RedHat 2.0 in the beige box, running the 0.95(?) kernel and FVWM, is pretty cool. It came with 2 books, a CD, and a boot floppy.

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