* Posts by s151669

9 publicly visible posts • joined 15 Feb 2019

BASIC co-creator Thomas Kurtz hits END at 96

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Re: Just a collection of sub-programs

MSX Basic had ON A GO(SUB|TO) 100,200,300

Only gotcha of course was that the values of A were always 0,1,2 (could have been 1,2,3 - can't remember) for the example above. To get something like drawing program tool bar to work you needed to divide cursor coordinates so that values would fit. Cascading if to check if coordinates were within first button do this elseif coordinates were within second button etc was too slow.

Of course, it was Microsoft there, what did you expect ? Flood fill was especially slow and entertaining to watch. Especially when you left 1 pixel gap somewhere.

This uni thought it would be a good idea to do a phishing test with a fake Ebola scare

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Mine had 51. Then they saw the light and accept a longer password with no need to change it.

Tesla steering problems attract regulator eyes for second time this year

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Re: Five reports indicate an inability to steer

There are definitely more of these. I've seen it in person. Steering failed on my driveway. Locked up. On a brand new Tesla.

Of course steering did work when tow truck arrived. Apparently they changed steering gear assy or something similar.

Nope, I don't own a Tesla.

File suffixes: Who needs them? Well, this guy did

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Just install Total Commander. No need to mess with the constantly changing and breaking ui provided by MS. Satisfied user since NT3.51 - if / when need to suffer windows.

First they came for Notepad. Now they're coming for Task Manager

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Re: Ms just does not know when to stop fiddling

I suppose the set environment variable box is still size of matchbox with around 40 characters max visible ?

Help! I bought a domain and ended up with a stranger's PayPal! And I can't give it back

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Perhaps original owner has tried to contact Paypal with little success.

Rust in peace: Memory bugs in C and C++ code cause security issues so Microsoft is considering alternatives once again

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Re: Pretty obvious what the code does, surely?

It proves that you can write Perl in any language.

After IBM SoftLayer fails to scrub bare-metal box firmware of any lurking spies, alarm raised over cloud server security

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Re: What the difference with open firmware?

Ever heard of login, c compiler and Ken Thompson? So much for building from source.

Why does that website take forever to load? Clues: Three syllables, starts with a J, rhymes with crock of sh...

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Re: Every web site should...

Surely you mean xmodem or kermit ?