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by peteri 7y ago
First Direct do this (but they've been that way for ever) for phone calls (better than me reading out my full password over the phone) along with a couple of secret question answers (I'm pretty sure customer support can't see
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by peteri 7y ago
Tests not running might be X86/X64 issue. Certainly nUnit will find the tests but not run them until you change the default architecture (Resharper will run them happily in VS).
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by peteri 7y ago
But then you'll have to spend the rest of your life dodging Ned Pyle of Microsoft.
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by peteri 7y ago
fxtec Pro 1 hits a most of those, exceptions are no IR blaster, battery life (depends on what you call good) and apparently it's a pain to register with Verizon (mentioning since I don't know who your provider is). I have a pre-or
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by peteri 7y ago
Last time I bought any apple stuff I actually went to the Apple store to avoid shady knockoffs.
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by peteri 7y ago
When I looked at this there was a very narrow set of new rules that would need to be introduced into UK law (I found a paper on the EU website, however https://fullfact.org/online/brexit-not-concealing-offshore-a... ma
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by peteri 7y ago
It's stupid mistakes like this that make me doubt the rest of the article. Besides many Apple ][ had an 80 column card already.
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by peteri 7y ago
I still have my 386/486 chip key ring I got from a Journalist friend.
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by peteri 7y ago
VBA macros in Excel is my standard answer.
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by peteri 7y ago
Last small office system I ended up using Draytek Vigor ADSL as it had a sensible max device limit, the ISP one would crap out at around 30 MAC addresses. The device management was pretty good and I wish I had the same kit at home (currentl
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by peteri 7y ago
I assume that it's because the better ones are made of sapphire.
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by peteri 7y ago
Roy contributed the log/exp routines. The code in the Apple II ROM are missing the log/exp routines and it's copyright just credits Woz.
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by peteri 7y ago
pdp-11
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by peteri 7y ago
FACTA might be the answer.
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by peteri 7y ago
Recently due to a firmware upgrade losing the key I had to do the disable/enable dance for Bitlocker and you need to store the key somewhere removeable (usb stick etc) which is enough of pain I just went for a Microsoft account. You ca
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by peteri 7y ago
I've found that often it's pocket fluff at the bottom of the connector on phones. I've used a needle (something made of plastic would be better) to get rid of it and the connector then can hold the cable in place.
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by peteri 7y ago
It still lives on fine, turn on the developer tab in Excel and there is VBA 7.1 (which is basically still VB6 with a different forms engine)
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by peteri 7y ago
I used it in pre-internet days to write BCD multiply & divide routines.
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by peteri 7y ago
While you're here the rename of the URLs has caused me pain. For example (here on Task.Unwrap) https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.threading... The code sample has broken links, the correc
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by peteri 7y ago
He's one of my favourite ex-coworkers. His knowledge of audio electronics is superb and his thoughts on subjectivism are worth a read.
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by peteri 8y ago
Historically Forth was block orientated (1024 bytes) https://www.forth.com/starting-forth/3-forth-editor-blocks-b... When I implemented this in a home rolled Forth on the Apple //e under Prodos (mid eighties)
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by peteri 8y ago
Still an open issue https://github.com/dotnet/coreclr/issues/25 The debugger in VS2017 does give the information, but I suspect thats just by re-evaluating the expression.
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by peteri 8y ago
The PC1512 was very IBM compatible except for stuff that reprogrammed the 6845 into odd modes (IIRC) it had an odd 16 colour CGA mode that was available. The only other issues I can remember I think is the PSU was in the monitor so video co
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by peteri 8y ago
This can be problematic, you waste a lot of time setting up the PC / explaining the problem. Last time I was involved with this interview style it always seemed to take an hour to get setup which meant a long interview of 3-4 hours par
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by peteri 8y ago
True, I do wonder which phone vendor (or forum) lost "nexus@mydomain" from when I was doing android dev and had to register to get to some of the binary blobs. I had the bitcoin porn spammers use that address (with what was probab
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by peteri 8y ago
I've had the same one to nexus@ mydomain which I suspect I used when I was doing phone dev on a forum or manufacturers website. I'd love to know which site it was that leaked.
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by peteri 8y ago
The z80 version only supported recursion if it was specifically enabled so I suspect it tended use fixed locations for variables. Z80 support for a traditional stack frame for recursion isn't very good (although IX,IY with offsets coul
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by peteri 8y ago
Judging by his first message https://groups.google.com/forum/#!original/alt.fan.pratchett... , connectivity was via demon so I'm guessing from the date (Demon launched on the 1st July 92) he was one the first
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by peteri 8y ago
Very true, I remember many years ago when working at Soundcraft, there was a loud bang from next door as a small mixing desk with builtin amp was powered on for the first time[1]. Large electrolytic smoothing caps fitted the wrong way round
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by peteri 8y ago
You are so right, it is Oath

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