Pine

Huh, back in the 2001/2002 timeframe I worked at an old company that gave everyone a Windows laptop but us engineers also had UNIX accounts on the server cluster, which we logged into for dev work.

Our company was hit with one of the worms (don’t remember which). Thousands of emails constantly coming in and everyone scrambling to delete them - except people like me, who were on vacation. I returned to an inbox that instantly crashed Outlook. IT was trying to find a solution. But I logged into the UNIX cluster, opened Pine, and deleted all the crap, page by page. When I got most of it done, Outlook started working again.

IT was shocked but then told everyone else to go do what I did, eliminating their need to do any work. So I guess you win some and you lose some..

ILOVEYOU was in 2000 and behaved that way. I remember we just shut off our Exchange servers until there was a fix. Email was still new enough that the world didn't implode.

Couldn't you delete or filter /var/spool/mail?

I am still using mutt.

Neither are Norway and Iceland.

The title says: "European countries" not "EU" which both are different.

Surely the climate and the solitude would be too much for someone from the Mediterranean, for example.

In the movie Thirteen Days, JFK mentions a book titled March of Folly by Barbara Tuchmann. I bought the book on that tip and it has an interesting chapter on Vietnam. I don't think adding a chapter on this "special operation" would even be worth it as it would just be repetitive.

How does that book fit in the timeline? It was published in 1984.

I believe they are mixing it up with The Guns of August (published in 1962, also by Tuchman), which JFK was fond of and supposedly drew on during the Cuban missile crisis.

You are absolutely right. My mistake. I read them both and certainly recommend them.

Thank you. I heard about The Guns of August when I was looking for related books after reading A World Undone. Then I forgot about it. I never heard of March of Folly but I'll read them both.

The author must have never spent much time with an accountant.

Banana Pi makes SBCs with lots of networking ports.

They don't. They work as intended and "hallucination" is actually a marketing term to make it seem they are more than what they really are: text prediction software.

One fact that I find very curious is that I see all sorts of animals killed on the road, but never chickens. And I see plenty of them by the road.

Maybe they never try to cross roads?

"Chicken" is also an idiomatic synonym for "frightens easily." They do have some instinct for avoiding danger.

Roosters can be very aggresive.

They definitely cross roads.

In the mountains around Trondheim, Norway, you run into free range chicken farms (and sheep roaming the mountain top). Signs warn you that chickens are about and I think them getting hit is a real concern if you are maximizing chicken freedom.

That said, these aren't busy roads. The more traffic, the more barriers to keep the animals from getting hit.

or perhaps it's an artefact of them having a higher contrast against the asphalt and being somewhat fat and puffy compared to most roadkill animals

I'm getting redirected do example.com.

I don't know what you need, but have you looked at freewrap? It turns a tcl/tk script into a .exe.