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It should still be an option that can be turned on if the user wants it.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
- You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
- When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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I concur. Why couldn't it be an option?
...because people would switch it on and then complain about battery life being reduced? I don't think so.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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All designers at Microsoft seem to have left the company a few years back.
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Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn!
Maybe I'm weird but I don't go the theatre to look at the stage and curtains!
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There's a pirate in the new Star Wars film! They have named him Arrrrr2-D2
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I heard there was going to ba a Pirate without a boat...Darth Wader.
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Life is too shor
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I see we've reached the dock side of the farce.
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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That should be Aarrrrrg2-D2
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Only if he be shot, me space-hearties!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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To the plank with @OriginalGriff (!), as we robotically cast him into the sea of comments wherein he's nar phasered in the least, all the while our fingers get very sword from typing full sail such the dreaded responses.
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If his sabre is too light, it will do him no good.
Life is too shor
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Does he still travel with his smelly companion C-3BO?
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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There's another new droid in the film, whose dialog is all based on quotes from F. Scott Fitzgerald novels: R2-Deco.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Don't forget the treacherous droid Et Tu D2
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Or the naval trio - 3 CPOs.
I'll get my coat
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Daniel Pfeffer wrote: I'll get my pea coat[^] FTFY
Software Zen: delete this;
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... I had a (probably) VT-52 compatible terminal for my old computer. The monitor and the keyboard still exist, but the terminal board itself is long gone.
Now I would like to revive it by programming a small Arduino board for that purpose.
The keyboard has an oldschool parallel interface (8 data bits, one strobe signal), which should not be a real problem to connect to the Arduino. The keyboard is 37 years old and despite it still having real key switches, it might be a little worn out. Therefore plan B is to use a standard USB keyboard.
The old composite black and white monitor still exists and the Arduino must be able to provide composite video with a 64 character x 24 lines display.
Last, the old computer has a really ancient 300 baud RS232 interface which runs at +- 12 volt. I'm going to need a real RS232 port on the Arduino side, not just TTL level, 3.3 volts or similar.
Can someone please tell me which one of the many Arduino boards can provide those things? There are quite a few of them available at very different prices and I don't want to buy any inadequate boards.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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Sounds like an interesting project and a cool article. Looks like you might need one of these[^] to convert TTL to +/- 12V.
Marc
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Thanks, that looks like the RS232 part will not be much of a problem.
I have already found a module that uses two output pins of the microcontroller to generate a composite video signal and the sync signal. Additional hardware would be two resistors to mix the signals and a RCA jack. Stuff I probably have lying around. The resolution is only 128 x 96, which would only be enough for 16 lines with 32 characters each, the functions to draw the characters and a blocky 4 x 6 matrix font are also already provided.
The low resolution and the blocky font fit well to the old computer, so that's no problem. Generating video signals on two output pins must have required careful timing, so at last I get to work with some real code and not dumbed down code monkey stuff.
The keyboard part does not appear to be very hard and it now looks like it comes down to writing the additional code to tie it all together. Sounds like fun.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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I remember programming a VT-52 emulator once, a long time ago.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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I have an old Pentium II generation notebook with Win XP. At the moment I use this old thing to run a terminal emulation, but it does not feel right. Using the original monitor and keyboard with the microcontroller hidden in the keyboard case should be a little more authentic.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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I can't remember if it was on this forum that somebody was complaining about the inactive title bar being left white in the update but here's a useful tip[^] to get colour back in your snoozing windows if it does irk you. Note, however, my comment at the end of the article. It may take more fiddling than it's worth.
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Ugh. I do wish they would bring aero back. I really like it.
There's this[^]
but:
Since the functionality is under testing, Microsoft decided to perform A/B test on it. In other words, 50% of Windows 10 users will get the new Aero glass transparency with blur effect in Start menu and Taskbar but remaining 50% will get standard transparency without glass and blur effects on Start menu and Taskbar.
Another reason I haven't "upgraded" to W10 (I'm still on W7.) I do not want to be a guinea pig for Microsoft! (more than I am already, I imagine.)
Marc
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