Jaruzel

It took me ages to finally find an authoritative reference page for what Martian landscape actually looks like to the human eye.

Funny you should say that... as this all started when I was toying with remaking the game for a modern platform but with its original style.

I got as far as manually upscaling the house, and the LCPs:

http://www.jaruzel.com/blog-files/LCP_House_Redux.png

Unless of course, you are left handed, in which case it's mirrored, and hard to follow.

The MPS-801 was a uni-directional printer, with a coil spring to pull the head back to the left hand side. Other than making it slow, it also flew back via the spring and hit the left side with a loud thunk after ever line, which made printing stuff out late at night when everyone else was sleeping, very problematic.

Depending on your OS it should just be a matter of starting a webview with the code as the default page and running it full screen. Then a small loop looking for mouse/keyboard events so it knows when to quit.

Did you and I ever cross paths ? Wondering now if I know you ;)

Have you got a link to the 1000D Magic Lantern firmware? I can't seem to find it on their site. Thanks!

For Chrome:

  chrome.exe --app=https://teams.microsoft.com

you can also add these two for an isolated copy of each Teams instance:

  --profile-directory=
  --user-data-dir=

Inline external teams (from other tenants) has been in beta for a while now - last time I heard, they kept having issues with the security model.

At the very least, MS should let us run multiple copies of Teams, one for each tenant. The only way around it right now, is to have the desktop client open and then the web client for a different tenant.

Yup, MindAlign was born out of an internal product in UBS called 'Interchange'.

Interchange was a java client, that fundamentally spoke standard IRC to IRC servers, but also used extra external databases to auto-connect users to channels and secure sensitive channels. The client also forced real names (via Active Directory), and was hardcoded to only connect to the UBS IRC servers.

The IRC servers themselves were altered to only allow Interchange clients to connect[1] and to only allow approved bots in channels most of which did full chat logging for compliance purposes.

Interchange was so slow it was nicknamed 'Interchug'.

The IRC server network spanned the UBS WAN network globally, and all staff were encouraged to use it. For the era, no other large banking corporate had anything similar running (officially).

Source: I worked in UBS IT during this period.

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[1] Although the more enterprising of us just HEX edited mIRC to report the Interchange client name.

Every "team" you make in Teams is a SharePoint site on the backend. Every "channel' under a "team" is a sub-folder on the SharePoint site. Each time you upload files to a "channel" via the "files" tab, it goes into the Documents area on that SharePoint site[1].

The exception for this, is private channels (the ones with little padlocks next to their names). These are created in their own isolated SharePoint site outside of the parent "teams" SharePoint site. It's done this way because the access security around teams/channels is the SharePoint security system. It's a totally nuts way to do it.

Teams is basically built using existing MS technologies in the same way that incorrect LEGO bricks can be forced together if you try hard enough.

I don't think MS have the ability to build an application from ground up anymore.

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[1] The one upside of this, is that if you only care about the files held in Teams, you can "Sync" the site to your PC, and it appears as a virtual folder in File Explorer.

Out there somewhere are 2 different pilots of an attempt to make a US version of Red Dwarf.

They are much, much, worse.

He was right. Hitchhiker's the movie is a travesty.

Fully funded? I was under the impression that they get a small slice of the licence fee?

In older drives, a lot of failures were down to the heads actually getting stuck on the platters.

By freezing the drive, the metal would shrink just enough to unstick the head. Of course the location where the head crash had happened would be corrupt, but the rest of the data would be fine (mostly).

At which point is it better to just write a new constitution? 100 amendments? 500? Or never?

My take is, that people don't converse properly anymore. We're too afraid of upsetting some hitherto unidentified minority or having an unpopular opinion that may get us cancelled.

Online discourse is certainly not safe anymore, so yes we do self censor, and because of that we get out of the habit of expressing raw thought or trying to challenge the status quo for fear of being reported or banned.

It's a real shame. The internet was supposed to be this great opportunity to unify people and help push through a new way of collaboration and debating, yet it's become an albatross around all our necks.

Without healthy debate with controversial or opposing opinions we are never exposed to any viewpoints that differ from our own, so we all just end up swimming in our own echo chamber fishbowls, and the field of intellectual thinking just dies.

I'd like to wax on further about this, but I'm typing (badly) on my phone which is in itself to blame for the brevity of online conversation.

I have no idea what this means?

It's shame those APIs are now retired and are no longer part of Windows, as having those assistants as front ends to proper ML/AI systems would be a fun coding experiment.

Personally I loved the Wizard avatar.

How complicated is the Minecraft server protocol? Are there docs some where that detail it, so that anyone can have a go writing a server?

Do you have a link to more info on this? Thanks.

Following on from my comment which you replied to, I had over the years at least 50 discs and 2 different players. I loved the format, it was a good middle ground before DVDs finally took over the world. By importing Japanese discs, you could also get Dolby digital 5.1 sound. I even managed to get Phantom Menace on LaserDisc within a couple of weeks of the UK theatre premiere!

Personally, I think the new Tory leader should have been picked directly by the whole party, i.e. with all 8 original hopefuls on the ballot. Party members who vote then put down their preferred 1st, 2nd, and third options, which are then used to prevent a tie breaker or lack of majority vote.

What we had, was still an elite few whittling down the options to a preferred two, with zero input from the party as a whole.

Nitpick: the BBCs Doomsday project used a proprietary data format on standard laserdisc medium, which is why they ended up not being able to access the data decades later as the custom hardware to decode it no longer worked.

The laserDisc format was a standard format, and working players can still be found for sale on eBay etc.

Compared to DVD and VHS, it's true it wasn't a commercial success though.

Agreed. This showed me a nice use case scenario for GPT3 that I wasn't aware of.

FLIC animation, now that is a blast from the past!

I've signed up. It's a bit short notice, and I don't know if I can rejuggle to attend, but I'm definitely interested in future meetups.

There's also a few RunHidden.exe type tools out there, as it's just a ShellExecute WinAPI call.

Back in the DOS days I had (and a still do) a copy of a tool called 'Morph', it took two GIF images, and you placed marker points on the first image and then again on the second, and it generated an MPEG2 file of the morphing.

Very impressive for the time.

A Ghost/Trailing effect is still available on Windows under Accessibility.