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I dunno they were flexible with the Piranha art work displaying it in the guildhall temporarily. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2qz89nk11o

There are additional traffic lights on the blackwall tunnel further in and a slip road out that can be used for overheight vehicles. I do remember having a 10-15 minute wait once w…

Copper was already on the bottom of the ships by then to stop ship worm (terodo Navalis), it also had the advantage of stopping weed growth. A quick browse through Wikipedia sugges…

As far as I'm aware they do need an act of parliment to close it down. The one to create the market on the current site is an Act of Parliament (The Metropolitan Meat and Poultry M…

For the UK the Scottish national library has a similar map finder. https://maps.nls.uk With a bit of a london focus (since that's where I live) https://www.layersoflondon.org/ http…

Wendell over at level one techs seems to think that AMD cards are more popular in pro applications. https://youtu.be/aKV0FiuVJ0E?t=147

DOS 3.3 was mostly Shepardson Microsystems Paul Laughton and Randy Wigginton from Apple. Woz supplied the RWTS routines for reading / writing sectors.

There is a detailed description of the circuit with the PAL colour card (it's on the euro //e motherboard) in Understanding the Apple //e by Sather (see archive.org for a copy) on …

It's a different model. Microsoft did work on green threads a while ago and decided against continuing. Links: https://github.com/dotnet/runtimelab/issues/2398 https://github.com/d…

Doh! missed the date.

The time to send over a 1Gbps network looks very wrong. Each bit takes 1ns (by definition) so sending 1K byte must take at least 8192ns

Also https://www.rmcretro.com which is very hands on.

It is missing commandment 0 - Check the RIFA caps, because they make big stink.. Although arguably commandment 2 is the most important.

Interesting mention of Sidekick Plus, there was a complete SDK for it which I don't think ever got released anywhere (I had a copy as I was working for Borland at the time). It all…

It ran on top of several things. I remember the company I worked for (Alfa Systems) uploading IPX drivers to Novell for testing over a modem using IPX as a protocol. Alfa designed …

Might be worth having a look under Settings / System / Notifications and the check boxes at the bottom of the screen which are: Show me the Windows welcome experience Offer suggest…

As did Microsoft with ASP (your choice was VBScript or JScript for a scripting language)

I thought the PSReadline module had some of that but then it might be a "nearly" compatible experience which can be really jarring when you hit the edge cases.

Hmm as always Raymond Chen explains https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20041110-00/?p=37...

There is some code that controls the speed when there is a single alien left it moves faster right to left see the code at 00C2 in http://computerarcheology.com/Arcade/SpaceInvader…

On my Lexus that doesn't disable keyless entry, just puts the key fob into sleep mode. There is an option somewhere to disable keyless entirely, but when enabled it means you need …

I can say that Toyota Insurance in the UK takes it seriously, they installed an immobilizer (the key fob for which is branded with a Lexus L) for free on my 2020 Lexus RX to combat…

Interesting, any reason for not discussing AAD yet? (oh and great series BTW)