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MS Office doesn't need permanent approval. I have Excel, Word, Powerpoint, Autoupdate and Update Assistant blocked from making any outgoing connection (on MacOS). That works for ab…

When I started using it, standard advice was to use Wordstar in text mode.

I last used MASM back in about 1989 (with MS C on OS/2 1.0). Do you have any hints on how it has changed since then? What is nice about it, and why does the debugger not match up t…

Skoda seem to have a small budget, perhaps $5/car, to add features in. Nothing major: an ice scraper / tread depth gauge under the fuel cap; a parking ticket clip on the side of th…

Yes - in Ireland (both the Republic and Northern Ireland, and irrespective of religion), the funeral is usually within three days. I'm based in England, the south-eastern part of t…

15.7.8 is out today as well, with these security fixes: https://support.apple.com/en-us/128071 . For context, there have been issues with MacOS 26 which have led many people to def…

Interesting. This is one of the things that differs hugely between countries. I've taken about 550 funerals in the UK (I have what you might call a "portmanteau career"). I've only…

For England as well, assuming a conservative definition like: Norman or later, mortared stone construction with remaining walls at least 4m high, not something like a fortified far…

Just checked, and it's gone from the list. Did you happen to find out what the problem was?

Firstly, I'm not intending any slight on you personally! In fact this might be more of an issue for you interacting with the site than for people just reading an article. There are…

My system is blocking that site as it is on the HaGeZi blocklist. I don't have any further information, and I'm not expressing an opinion on the site. An alternative might be https…

They have, but antiquity is not necessarily a good argument. I attended a university which required examinees to wear a black suit, white bow tie, bands, and a gown. I don't recomm…

Nothing to do with weight. It's a cramp in the muscles of the hand from holding the pen and making fine movements for hours. I'm guessing you are from a generation after keyboard u…

I'm 60+. I'd be more concerned about the student's physical ability to write for several hours continuously. Writer's cramp used to be a problem, and that was when we were used to …

81k - which is interesting, because last time I did something similar, about 20y back, it was 50k. I'm not sure if I've improved.

Yes - a very marked step rather than a gradual increase, I thought.

It's probably more meaningful to force a guess, since you may guess on the basis of word elements that you do know. At worst, it's possible to compensate for a 25% chance of gettin…

Yup, and I suspect that even if OP is honest in this respect, if proof-of-work gets established as a normal practice for web pages, it's going to be used this way. But just taking …

Different species, similar niche. Highland cows are a breed of small cow bred to thrive in the rough conditions of the Highlands of Scotland, but sometimes kept in England for inte…

And if those requirements include the need to supply passport information, that's a reason not to host in Germany.

Credit card is a largely fixed risk of financial loss, with some legal safeguards for recovery, and the ability to get a replacement card with a different number. Passport carries …

Or English has only two tenses (present and past perfect) and everything else is done with modifiers.

This happened with more than one letter. For instance the Scots language had a letter yogh ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yogh ), which was written somewhat like a rounded "3" but…

I'd say the last versions of CP/M for the Z80 - particularly on the Amstrad CPC128, PCW256 and PCW256. We had a whole lab using PCWs as standard equipment, including one sitting at…

DR-DOS ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DR-DOS ) was reasonably popular, and was a derivative of CP/M-86. I never saw the original OS in the wild, though.