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by peteri 8y ago
I haven't read techcrunch or any site with that oauth pop-over since GDPR came in. It's super obnoxious.
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by peteri 8y ago
It's not that hard though, in the past when working for folks importing from China it wasn't too hard to do. Most of the work was picking a commodity code for your imports/exports but you would have been doing that anyway for
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by peteri 8y ago
Mine in c# is here https://github.com/peteri/ClassicBasic
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by peteri 8y ago
Definitely tempted to give one a try, screen resolution might drive me a bit nuts though. The Lumia 640 I'm currently using is starting to show it's age these days. To be honest, I'm finding most phones very underwhelming the
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by peteri 8y ago
This page http://www.vintagewatchstraps.com/blogswissmade.php argues that "swiss made" as a brand was a side effect of British hallmarking laws. The pages about the various watch brand histories is quite interesti
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by peteri 8y ago
Armed with that and a copy of Threaded Interpretive Languages by Loeliger (How I found out about the book is beyond me) from the library I managed to put together a complete(ish) Forth for the Apple ][ running ProDOS. I think the magic bit
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by peteri 8y ago
8088 internally with a custom ASIC for the board support (no DMA). I think it launched in 1990. Memory was 128K of Intel flash with 8K fixed boot partition and 64K of RAM. Z8530 for the UART, Rockwell chipset for the fax portion. I seem to
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by peteri 8y ago
Many years ago I was involved in a product called DiskFax which was similar. Used a fax modem which gave 9600bps even over crappy links like satellite. I believe there is one in the NSA museum as we did a version where the serial link betwe
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by peteri 8y ago
This has always been my preferred option for data sharing with government (or even private companies). It should stop people looking up celebrities or ex-lovers details just because they're bored. For practical purposes there should be
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by peteri 8y ago
They do have some cheaper ones ($29 & $99) problem is I can't quite figure out why I need one. https://www.tindie.com/stores/dcwdc/
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by peteri 8y ago
Nope it changed # to £ by switching the character ROM instead. I think it also swapped keyboard layouts (i.e. AZERTY to QWERTY) but that wasn't an issue for UK folks.
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by peteri 8y ago
Sadly a lot of supermarket bread is made using the Chorleywood process https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chorleywood_bread_process Smaller bakeries will have a wider range of bread types and in my area the local shop will
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by peteri 8y ago
Thanks for that its interesting.
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by peteri 8y ago
To be honest the current White Hart is better than the previous façade which had a mix of shops underneath (I used to work nearby). Even then it looked nothing like this view from 1827 https://collage.cityoflondon.gov.uk/vie
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by peteri 8y ago
Also IE could print. Netscape crashed hard talking to a HP laserjet running on a Netware network running on either 95 or NT4.
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by peteri 8y ago
I'm always amazed that the Ffestiniog engines were built just around the corner from where I live at the Hatcham Iron Works on Pomeroy street in New Cross, London. It seems unbelievable that you would setup a locomotive works so near t
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by peteri 8y ago
Although they do sometimes fall down for consumers, I have a 2nd gen kindle bought from the US but running on the UK store which no longer talks to the store (I can download content but not browse). I ended up in a maze of the US folks sayi
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by peteri 8y ago
I have a second gen Oasis which has a bigger screen (7" vs 6") but still with two page turn buttons. I like it but then in my case it's replacing a 2nd gen Kindle with keyboard and no touch screen.
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by peteri 8y ago
Thank you very much for that, I've now swapped my pre-order to paper after reading some of the kindle reviews.
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by peteri 8y ago
Very sad news, one of the companies I worked at (with a few ex-Sinclair folks) used Rick for our case designs in the early 90s. Always seemed like a nice guy to me and I still remember the very nice BMW (early M6 IIRC) he was driving at the
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by peteri 9y ago
See also https://www.arrse.co.uk/wiki/Category:British_Military_Procu... Warning content contains squaddie humour potentially NSFW.
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by peteri 9y ago
Pretty sure 1 is just one pulse in the UK. Zero is at the far end of the dial next to 9.
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by peteri 9y ago
Well they really come from CP/M and PIP which sort of inherited from DEC OS/8 (certainly they're in the 1973 manual)
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by peteri 10y ago
Can I just ask that it is complete including things like issue trackers etc. I've not been to codeplex much recently but I went to get hold of an older AvalonDock version documentation. There have been a couple of repos on codeplex whe
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by peteri 10y ago
Given the macro engine in Excel is VBA (basically VB6) I suspect VB6 support will be around for a VERY long time.
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by peteri 10y ago
bitsavers.org are probably the best bet to have a chat with about this sort of stuff.
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by peteri 10y ago
There's a snopes piece that debunks the popcorn lung worth knowing about if anyone mentions it. http://www.snopes.com/vaping-causes-popcorn-lung/
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by peteri 10y ago
Didn't know that if I'm ever back there again I'll make a point of visiting, Thanks
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by peteri 10y ago
Used to fly to Barbados from Heathrow, which is why I had my honeymoon there. When we booked it's retirement hadn't been announced if I wasn't already travelling by Concorde I would done the LHR-JFK Concorde with QEII back ro
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by peteri 10y ago
<rant> My own personal pet hate on this is the m.countdown.tfl.gov.uk website. This used to be super usable on a phone, pretty plain text, urls where I could use the "text" number on each bus stop to jump straight to where I

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