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Just think of the ones with BoJo — ugh!

[edit – colour pictures show her as a brunette rather than pure Aryan blonde.]

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I was seriously thinking about the PS5 until I saw the horrible chassis it uses. It would never fit in my media centre, and sticking it in full view of anyone is just not an option.  It would only be suitable sitting in a teenager’s bedroom. It looks like it was designed by a tripped-out teenager besotted with Galactic Empire!

The new XBox on the other hand would fit in anywhere, and has been designed with good taste.

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Have a happy (un)birthday choose as appropriate! :yahoo:

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i thought it was Brazil, per the book/film ‘The Boys from Brazil’.

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in what respect?

At the simple level she was typical of the women who are attracted to powerful men, In the end she was probably in love with Hitler and would not leave him to flee to the West.

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In other words MFC is a C++ class library or wrapper for some of the Win API components. The C#  Win API DLL calls are at a slightly lower level and would need some verbose coding to make them functionally equivalent to MFC. Like C++ it is an entry point for writing the ‘unsafe’ code that is often needed when handling graphics.

You are not completely accurate in saying that C# is not compiled. As in an analogous fashion to C++, C# is compiled into MSIL rather than p-code.

Compiled is probably a misnomer in both cases as the end result of the ‘compilation’ is not real CPU level machine code, but an intermediate managed ‘safe’ code that runs on a software machine. Compiled Python is similarly not really compiled.

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Thanks Drezha – probably this explains why I have never seen maildir!

link

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In case others do not know import/export tools for TBird makes it very easy to make MBox archives. The link gives all the details.

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I thought Dan had his own Linux mail server, so maybe he can answer your question when he dips in. If he doesn’t perhaps a PM may get a response.

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You can even use the low level Win32 GDI graphics library in C#, which is otherwise locked down even tighter than C++. link

Not for me I’m afraid, I learned to program in the Wild West days of free access to everything including programming self-modifying Assembler routines. As a result  ‘safe’ programming is boring and anathema to me, and modern C++ is on the very boring list of bloated programming languages.

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If I remember correctly, parameters CAN be changed in a function but arguments cannot. Iirc you use const to stop a parameter being changed.

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Thanks Dave, please pass on my best wishes as well.

If Bob feels up to it, he may be interested in this link to the Doggerland Research group’s publications. Some may be a bit heavy going even for Bob as many are written in Dutch, but there are also a lot of English papers as well which cover the 2019 research expedition to the Brown Banks (probably an old estuary area).

http://www.academia.edu/Documents/in/Doggerland

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Sack Dido Harding – The Queen of Carnage!

Under her ‘leadership’ or lack of it, Boris’s ‘World Beating’ track & Trace system is going backwards and we have almost reached the point where the majority of potential Covid carriers are not being contacted. Despite this the UK tax-payer is forking out £7000/day for ineffective work to improve the system by the Boston Consulting Group – talk about asleep at the wheel. She was a useless leader at Talk-Talk and learned nothing from the experience.

The inept leading the inept.

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This may help explain C++’s very kludgy use of const.

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I think if you know assembler it is a whole lot easier to understand what sits under the ‘simplifying’ assignments of C++ and its p-code engine.

I find C++ too restrictive and klunky to go back to it. Mind you I find Python equally klunky and annoying because of its use of spaces as delimiters and the way it also unnecessarily wraps around constructs with obscurity. I guess though that this is what you get when you swap bare-metal coding for the protected mode of modern bytecode languages that do not directly interface with the hardware but instead run on a virtual protected computer. Python at least makes up for this by a huge repository of code wrappers. In fact if you want to use AI without making your eyes bleed then Python is pretty much de rigeur.

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Spend money on upgrading the gate so someone cannot just vault over it. Put trellises on the fences around her garden for the same reason. Trellis work deters as its flimsy and liable to snap and stab anyone trying to climb over it.

Your local crime prevention officer can advise, but I would bet that most burglaries in the area are done by amateurs and your main objective is to keep them out not take their pictures as they smash a patio door with a brick. For similar reasons lock up anything that could be used to help a break-in e.g. spades, hammers etc.

My own advice is to ‘case’ your Mum’s home and look for the vulnerable areas then secure them, In my view cctv should only be installed once the home is secure. Btw make sure her locks meet the latest standards. All Eurolocks fitted around the turn of the century are insecure as hell. I leave you to Google on anti-snap/bump/drill/extraction and watch the video of a tea-leaf breaking into a house using a sex toy!

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I’d just add one comment to Dave’s post. You are not trying to ‘catch’ anyone*, but to deter them such that they go and choose a less secure neighbour. Big, blatant, and well signed allows you to mix in a couple of cheap dummy cameras in those areas where a real camera may be difficult to install.

*A hoodie and mask makes nearly anyone anonymous on a dark evening, even more so if they have sewn battery powered LED lights around the hood opening as the lights blow-out IR camera contrast, but look very innocent to passing police.

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This AMD presentation on their 5900 series also gives a tiny amount of insight on their custom chip for the new XBox — the answer would seem to be L3 cache integration and single core clock speed.

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I’m out of date on cameras they have become quite inexpensive at £50 for HDTV  PTZ+night vision+auto tracking IP cameras. I’ll therefore leave the recommendations to Dave.

What I would suggest is that you do the following.

a) Consider a Ring-type door camera. If the door bell rings during the dark evenings of winter elderly people tend to feel quite insecure. Adding two way audio and a door chain does wonders for confidence. Best if it has a remote facility for you to monitor if required.

b) PT+autotracking on one very visible camera is a good deterrent as are very visible stickers saying 24 hour remote surveillance etc. The down-side to such cameras is that the PT/PTZ motors are on continual stop/start and two years may be all they will give.

c) Therefore fixed focus/positioning for other cameras.

d) Padlock any side gates and install motion sensitive lights, but make sure you mask the sensor to minimise false alarms from people walking by, foxes etc. (Insulating tape over parts of the sensor field works a treat as does setting the sensor up properly.

e) HF cameras consume quite a lot of PC horse-power which can be a large consideration. Avoid Windows as the incessant updates can screw up monitoring. A Linux based system would be better.

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JayCeeDee wrote:

Dave Rice wrote:

Bob’s about, operation was successful, big one next week.

Fingers crossed for a good result and a better recovery. Cheers Dave.

+1 to that sentiment! :good:

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