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I completed my Computer Science degree at the University of Manitoba in 1976. I did two and a half years of programming in medical research followed by twenty-nine years at Manitoba Hydro (electric utility). Most of that was spent on doing development…
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When I was working I always made myself available 24x7 whether I was on standby (pager/phone) or not. Because of the nature of the job corporate policy for non-standby people was "If we need you and we can contact you we expect you to come in." Of course, **not** answering …
A major problem was caused by a system operator on our AGC/SCADA system. He decided he wanted to develop apps for the control centre. While he was intelligent and well-intentioned, he did not have the background to make certain decisions. For example, he built an app for managing equipment outages …
Sad to say, a lot of doom-scrolling. I'd like to cut back but I hate not being informed on what is going on in the world.
A thousand very small decisions, just like the rest of my life. Nothing major. All in all I am pleased with how my life in tech worked out. I got the perfect job at the perfect company, except for a couple of bosses along the way. Almost never had to …
The city is making free radon testing kits available starting today so with all this talk I think I'll go pick one up this morning.
I don't often rave about software (ok, other than my own), but I have to give two big thumbs up to the latest release by [Topaz Photo AI](https://www.topazlabs.com/?attribution=true). I have a very large collection of family photos reaching back to the turn of the last century. I long ago converted …
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Been that way for years. When I decided to leave my first programming job I told my boss that I should be present at the interviews. Being an engineer he assumed he knew enough to do it himself. He was wrong. Not only did the replacment not have a programming …
Who is to say what a sentient AI will find worthwhile? I don't believe you can narrow it down to those two things any more than you can narrow down humans to, for example, sex, power and money. If you are an atheist then you defne your own purpose. Some …
I'll answer as concisely as asked, but only after criteria are posted.
>I’ve been using it, but I always ensure it's perfect or not. Well, it's definitely going to be one or the other. When I give an answer I always try to ensure that it is correct or not.
I use a $5 app I bought on the Microsoft Store. It is called Air Receiver (Softmedia). Running this on my laptop I can cast to it wirelessly from my Android phone as well as my Oculus Quest. The cast option on your phone may be in different places depending …
>they are both matter and they always will Would you care to back that up with your reasons why?
>Improve Content Quality @Muhammed_356 - Do you not see the irony in this? You insist on making posts that almost literally duplicate what everyone else has said. This does nothing to improve content quality.
I have an email address that contains my name but I guard that tenaciously, only giving it to a few very trusted organizations (my former employer for pension and info purposes), and also a very few trusted individuals. For everything else like Meta, Kijiji, Google, etc, I have a google …
One person in the group was always on 24x7 standby with a cell phone so no important calls got missed.
We're getting into the "Blipverts" era.
I just had a look at Daniweb from August 2010 when I first joined. Wow! What a difference 15 years makes.
What anti-virus are you running? Are you possibly running more than one?
I hadn't heard of them until just now.
I don't know if this would work for yahoo, but a couple of years ago my older son needed to save a pile of work emails and attachments from his google account that was tied to his old job. I connected it via pop3 using Thunderbird and downloaded everything into …
I would not. My online presence is through usernames not connected to my actual name except (as in the case of Daniweb) through private profile settings. As far as I know only Daniweb moderators (past and present) know my real name. I carefully guard my privacy although there are some …
I've been reading about [Open Claw AI](v) (open source, locally installable) and how easy it is to install and use. I never believe it when something is touted as easy to install and use, and not wanting to potentially brick my laptop, I fired up a clean copy of Windows …
We've been getting down to -39 (colder with wind chill). As a result, more time inside, thus more time online. At least we aren't getting the snow and ice plaguing other parts of the country and down south. Sorry to hear about the brain fog. I hope you are feeling …
I can't recommend **for** anything in that price range, but I **can** strongly recommend against anything by ASUS.
Cop shows that include a 5 minute foot chase. This is usually the result of the cops shouting out a suspect's name from half a block away instead of waiting until they are within arm's reach. Inevitably the suspect runs into the path of a car or truck and the …
>"Oh wait, I should wait for Series 4!" That's what killed Osborne computers. They announced their "next" system long before it was available and everyone stopped buying their current model. With no saole their income stream died and so did the company.
I just got a new laptop (Lenovo Thinkpad). I'd forgotten just how tedious it is to migrate from one computer to another. It's not just a matter of installing all the apps I have accumulated. That's not such a big deal. It's applying all the configuration/settings for each app. What …
I've been using Python for shell scripting for years. Of course, for the longest time, the only alternative was vbscript. PowerShell is now probably better for shell scripting (in Windows) but because I am familiar with Python I prefer not to split my remaining neurons between two languages.
I think hardware has made me an angrier person. Technology was supposed to make our lives better but it seems I am suffering (not to minimize **actual** suffering) death by a thousand cuts. Nothing works well with anything else (in my experience), and many things that **do** work, work poorly.
The only software I have come across that ran on Windows 10 but not Windows 11 is PaintShopPro 9, and it is so old I am not surprised. What specific apps are not running, and what errors are you getting? Have you tried running the apps in compatibility mode?
I'm trying to create a Windows 11 virtual machine using HyperV under Windows 11 Pro and all I keep getting is  I dowloaded the current Windows 11 Pro bootable iso so I'mm assuming something in HyperV is misconfigured but I have no idea what. I've gone through all the …
You are going to get the expected answers from us dinosaurs. The glib answer is that most of my "youth" in computers predates software. At least software that you would recognize by today's standards. I'm talking about anything you would recognize, namewise. Almost all editing was done on mainframes and …
>Write functionality via our API is currently limited to voting up/down on posts I can see that being abused unless safeties are built in.
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**1) If it ain't broke, don't fix it.** The code base we got from Westinghouse back in 1983 was: 1. Horribly written (never refactored) 2. Horribly formatted (no whitespace, incorrect or missing indentation) 3. Poorly named variables and constants I had to make a minor change to the code in …
This is a little project I threw together for exchanging messages between two computers. It started as a way for my wife and me to exchange messages when one of us was inside and the other outside in the hammock. I tried various approaches involving a shared folder (a bit …
I was never one to jump on the band wagon. If a tech was useful or fun then I used it. I use it until it is no longer fun or useful. I still use my Oculus Quest because it is still fun. I use ChatGPT because it is useful. …
You probably have a Quest 2. My younger son and I really enjoyed Red Matter 2. My goto game is In Death Unchained but I still do a little Beat Saber now and then. I used to use BigScreen to watch movies but now I find the Oculus TV app …
A private reply wouldn't be of help to anyone else, and that kind of defeats the whole purpose of a public forum.
@rproffitt - Do you feel that Meta has a responsibility to weed out scam messages when we don't expect the same of Canada Post or the US Postal Service? @dani - In 2004 Bill Gates famously said that they would have the spam problem solved within two years.
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