mercurialuser

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by mercurialuser 5y ago
I run 10 years old HP servers, something like DL580G5, with care-packs (extended, paid warranty). We needed to flash firmware, 2 motherboards broke and they sent spare parts to replace. Probably with less enterprise-y server firms it may b
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by mercurialuser 5y ago
I'm receiving some spam emails in the inbox folder since spring. They are clearly spam. I analized 2 arrived this morning: both have 2 message-id header, one from gmail the other from sendgrid; both have a in-reply-to header (that is u
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by mercurialuser 5y ago
I understand what you say but FPC and Harbour just show that writing portable c code is actually possible... https://github.com/harbour/core#supported-platforms-and-c-co...
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by mercurialuser 5y ago
harbour, a open source clone of xbase/clipper language, targets vanilla C and can run on very different platforms, from msdos to android. on windows, several c compilers are supported, from pelles to bcc to gcc to intel... it works.
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by mercurialuser 5y ago
did you try ls -1? in the far past I had the same problem listing millions of files in a dir edit: if I remember correctly ls bufferizes the results for sorting. with -1 it just dumps the values
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by mercurialuser 8y ago
Edge case, eu based travel agency serving eu citizens. They need to book an hotel in a far away country, in the middle of nowhere, asking for a kosher lunch (religion) or wheelchair (health)... legal basis is contract fullfilment, article 4
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by mercurialuser 10y ago
Trend micro officescan, their enterprise offering, has plugins for Firefox. Well, it had a plugin that got disabled by following Firefox updates.
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by mercurialuser 10y ago
Yes it is still thriving in some countries. Every month someone asks how to run old clipper programs in some more recent os and porting (if you have source code or exes can be decompiled) can be done quite easily. If you still have clipper
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by mercurialuser 10y ago
I will use Clipper open source alternative called Harbour. I started using Clipper in 1986 and some of 1986 code still runs today. Clipper was a compiler for Ashton tate dbase II language. Harbour now allows to run old code on windows, linu
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by mercurialuser 10y ago
Backup 20+ very old hard disks with very old stuff on a new hard disk, trying to de-duplicate files. They are from windows 95/98 era. When copied, smash them with an hammer and dispose of them.
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by mercurialuser 10y ago
I solved a problem I had writing some simple scripts. I think it solves a problem for no less than 5k people in my country. I spoke with a couple of friends with the same problem and they were really interested so I integrated all the scrip
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by mercurialuser 11y ago
Almost 30 years experience with Clipper language and now its open-source implementations. Available to port legacy software (dBase III+/Clipper/FoxPro) to text-mode or GUI mode (using Qt libraries) using Harbour language. Give new