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I heard he deserved that, serves him right!
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I've been noticing that a lot of news websites I frequent have been counting the number of visits, trying to force me to buy a subscription. Of course, all I have to do is delete the cookie(s) associated with the website and the count gets reset to zero. It seems that this would be a great idea to have an add-on such that there is a ToolButton that could be actuated to delete the cookies on the tab that is currently active (or when the tab is closed). Now, this is not the same thing as an add-on that simply deletes the cookies all the time; I'd like to have control of when to delete rather than have the garbage automatically collected.
Of course, if there isn't such an add-on already developed, I guess I could roll my own. I am wondering what languages, IDE, etc., I would need to know/have develop such an add-on. I'm quite green with internet stuff, as the last web page I built was purely in HTML, and before Y2K, LOL.
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Cookie Quick Manager
Caveat Emptor.
"Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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there's another solution to the problem:
use a private session when browsing those news sites. As soon as you close the session, the cookies are automatically removed.
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I just clicked on "My Followers", and discovered a bunch of people I have never heard of. I wonder what they are hoping for?
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We have followers here?
If I were a mail man, I would be some people's follower to find out when they are at home - or not. It would not be them I'm stalking. 
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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These are headhunters. Watch out, or you'll have to go back to work in a few days
It does not solve my Problem, but it answers my question
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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I have one I recognize, but I suspect that was finger trouble on his part.
I also hove one with a spammy name, but no posts yet. Would be nice if they announced themselves in advance, wouldn't it?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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OriginalGriff wrote: Would be nice if they announced themselves in advance, wouldn't it?
Um, like a certain Cambrian gentleman did? (not). 
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Now following {~forename~}!
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Obviously they are hoping for pearls of wisdom...you have quite a reputation!
Funny, I've never noticed the Follow button(s) before...It is kinda creepy isn't it?
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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Aaah thats why Sean Ewington is following me No idea why but my guess is:
a.) I was suspect before/in between some years
b.) Sean Ewington has a very bad Reputation (-129,675 at the moment) and Needs some up votes from my side
It does not solve my Problem, but it answers my question
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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Sean is on my list so a good guess is we've said something naughty and thus warrant supervision wherever our trail leads on CP.
History is the joke the living play on the dead.
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Quote: ...we've said something naughty...
Never! At least I don't like to remember. Most probably you are right
It does not solve my Problem, but it answers my question
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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Maybe he just enjoys the weekend music videos...and you haven't been sharing recently btw!
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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Quote: and you haven't been sharing recently btw
That is, because in the past few weeks I only listened to very old nostalgic things from Deep Purple and Led Zeppelin... and I think most here are not keen on this kind of Music
It does not solve my Problem, but it answers my question
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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0x01AA wrote: Sean Ewington has a very bad Reputation (-129,675 at the moment)
Even in forums that allow for downvoting, you'd have to work pretty hard to get such a negative rep.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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They are hoping that you will give them the codez.
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ProtoZwölf is the minimal configuration of the 8 bit computer I am building. I'm going to use it to develop and debug all further hardware. This minimal computer needs a BIOS to communicate with a PC and test the new hardware expansions. Here is a screenshot of the first running version, in emulation:
ProtoZwölf starting up[^]
Ok, the list of checks and initialization is still a little short, but it will grow longer. For now we only can check the ROM, the RAM and serial I/O. It's ok that the checksum is wrong. I don't update it every five minutes while I still change the code.
BIOS setup does not do very much yet. I don't have any convenient place to store the configuration. If I use EEPROMs or Flash ROMs, I could save them in the ROM, but that would kill the IC if used too much.
BIOS CMD is the part I'm working on right now. I am going to need a protocol to upload test programs and (if I use EEPROMs) BIOS updates. A complete memory check may also be nice.
Really booting will have to wait. I'm going to need a boot device first and then an OS to boot.
The first real obstacle was the stack protocol for calling subroutines. To avoid 'knots' on the stack, the traditional protocol inlined the subroutine's address and the parameters in the code.
Yuk! That's very close to self modifying code which has gone out of fashion for many good reasons. The solution: I need separate call and parameter stacks. Ugly on most processors, but not here. I have 16 general purpose registers at my disposal and can make any one of them the stack pointer at any time. All I have to do is to initialize two registers to suitable addresses and then switch between them using the SET X (SEX) instruction as needed. Program counters work similar, only that it's the P register and the SEP instruction that designates the program counter:
Here is a 'sexy' subroutine. It can call more subroutines until I have a stack overflow and saves and restores all registers that are changed (obviously a big thing on a processor with so many free registers).
; =========================================================================================
; RS232 Out (software protocol)
;
; Parameters:
; 01 Character to be sent (byte)
;
; Return:
; ---
; =========================================================================================
RS232OutSoftware: SEX R2 ; save registers RE and RF on the call stack
GHI RF
STXD
GLO RF
STXD
GHI RE
STXD
GLO RE
STXD
SEX R6 ; load parameter 01 into RE.1
IRX
LDX
PHI RE
REQ ; Q = 0
LDI BIT_COUNT ; load bit counter into RE.0
PLO RE
SEQ ; Q = 1 (start bit)
LDI BIT_DELAY ; delay for one bit phase
PLO RF
SER_Delay1: DEC RF
GLO RF
BNZ SER_Delay1
SER_TransLoop: GHI RE ; shift out highest bit from the character
SHRC
PHI RE
LSDF
SEQ ; Q = 1 if bit = 0
SKP
REQ ; Q = 0 if bit = 1
LDI BIT_DELAY ; delay for one bit phase
PLO RF
SER_Delay2: DEC RF
GLO RF
BNZ SER_Delay2
DEC RE ; decrement bitcount
GLO RE
LBNZ SER_TransLoop ; shift out another bit if not done yet
REQ ; Q = 0 (parity bit, always 0?)
LDI BIT_DELAY ; delay for one bit phase
PLO RF
SER_Delay3: DEC RF
GLO RF
BNZ SER_Delay3
LDI BIT_DELAY ; delay for one bit phase (stop bit)
PLO RF
SER_Delay4: DEC RF
GLO RF
BNZ SER_Delay4
SEX R2 ; restore registers RE and RF from call stack
IRX
LDXA
PLO RE
LDXA
PHI RE
LDXA
PLO RF
LDX
PHI RF
SEP R5
;------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
modified 2-Jun-18 6:51am.
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OriginalGriff wrote:
So how does a single hardware failure disrupt a mission-critical and very, very public system like that? Somebody didn't do their job properly, did they?
Probably one of their legacy back-end services (trying to give them a break here).
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Someone decided they could cut their operating costs by at least half by eliminating all but the active node in their backend clusters. Those other boxes were just sitting there, doing nothing but increasing the electric bill, after all.
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Obligatory CommitStrip: The price of backups[^]
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Engineering World - YouTube[^]
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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Very cool! Thanks for posting!
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