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LL Bean is in the news because they have stopped the lifetime return policy to due to abuse. It shot up in recent years from people returning well-worn items, 2nd hand purchases or "rentals." They now only accept returns going back one year with a receipt and if it was due to a defect or the incorrect size. http://bangordailynews.com/2018/02/09/business/ll-bean-dropp...

Yes. It's upgrade licenses only. but as with all MS OS media, they can be installed on blank machines.

For my home PCs, I purchased the MS Action Pack subscription so that I could install Windows 10 Enterprise LTSB and not get ads and Cortana. With it and ClassicShell, it serves me nicely.

I prefer my FreeBSD box running Motif as my daily driver though.

The comment was put there by Dennis Ritchie to state that the context switching code was hard to understand. It depended on the hardware of the PDP-11. He wrote that comment to indicate that it was complex, buggy, and that they didn't quite fully understand the code either.

https://thenewstack.io/not-expected-understand-explainer/

The AIX installp format is my favorite package manager. It was fairly easy to debug it until it hit the ODM. The only time when AIX utility debugging got weird was when multibos went off the rails.

I started using ksh on AIX and it has been my favorite shell since then. I've written a few thousand SLOC worth of utilities and customization scripts in KornShell.

A dot-com back in the last 90s that a friend of mine ran with a Sun E10K proposed selling the hot air to a pizza restaurant that was next door.

The restaurant ended up declining because air was too dirty and could not be for cooking.

Mr. Bill has been running the sunhelp.org website and ran the Sun Managers distribution list for years. He's quite into the old Bell System.

Both XM and Sirius before they merged had a big following among truckers. Even after the merger, they still have shows and channels tailored to them. The big reason was that could listen to the same channels across the country.

The Oxford Latin Course is a good standard college-level introduction. There is also Lingua Latina if you want to go full immersion.