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I'm still running multiple CNC/Industrial equipment with win3.1/98/xp. Only just retired one running Dos 6.2

holy crap, thanks for the memories! I remember bamboozle, and also, I think on Channel 4, the "Tea Time Quiz", where you had to answer a question and be the first to phone in the c…

fallacious appeal to authority as your only defence? cool story bro.

standard liberal bullshit. everyone must tolerate your view, but you are free to only tolerate those views that align with your own moral position.

yet you argue against bigotry with our own bigotry? bigotry: intolerance towards those who hold different opinions from oneself. seems you may be a sufferer too.....

but its fine for you to spread your prejudicial views of his religious beliefs? pot, kettle? And just because someone doesn't agree with your view doesn't instantly make then [x]Ph…

Get to know your local saw doctor, most of us are happy to give recommendations, tips and the like. We often have good quality secondhand tools for sale.

This is awesome! But, for me, totally unplayable! Being colourblind I just cannot differentiate the different shades of the lighter greens and the yellows. I so wish I could play t…

Please guys, make it stop. I need to work. I need to sleep. I need to eat!! I have no idea wtf I was doing but this is by far the best! This dam game is worse than heroin....

Im still running 3.1 on 4 machines at work (slightly related to OP, we sharpen the bandsaws!). The thing is that the company that makes the machines is well known for their extorti…

So true, saved so much hunting time by using the satellite maps! Especially the nano's in the middle of cities etc!

What's going on with the blog post? Completely unreadable from my device, every time I zoom in that annoying black bar on the left grows to epic proportions and covers most of the …

most non-casual users (ie geeks like us) would know how to get what we want (vanilla ICS). I don't see a problem, they are keeping the casual users happy with no major changes, but…

I'm assuming you have some sort of evidence to back up this conjecture with?

Already signed up to that! Also saw the link on that page to codecademy.com, so might take a look at that too.

I do believe i may have a copy of that book somewhere in my "to read someday" pile :)

Thanks, gives me some things to think about.

I ant to learn to code. I don't know where to start! I did some Basic, PASCAL, C/C++ at school/college, but never kept going with it. I've read some books on Ruby, Python, Haskell,…

I clicked one, looked at what permissions it wanted, and had an idea! You can set the default sharing settings while giving permission, so I simply set it to only share with myself…

Some of us radio hams still whistle up a repeater station instead of sending the (normally) 1750hz tone to activate it!