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That is so cool. 
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Spectacular, thanks for the link.
If my suspicions are correct, that's both reasonably quick and quite large compared to the usual job of this individual. The tweezers shown in one of the clips (Door Locking System for the Bulk Cargo Door[^]) are gemologist's/jeweller's tweezers. Based on the fact that they're darkened (oxidized?) toward the tips, I reckon he's a jeweller by trade, since tweezers like these are used for soldering claws/settings and become darkened in an identical manner through use. (titanium ones are much nicer to use than these stainless ones)
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Unbelievable! Great link! Thank you!!!
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I just built XMail[^] with MSVC11. If anyone wants the binaries, I will put them somewhere.
Getting information off the Internet is like taking a drink from a fire hydrant.
- Mitchell Kapor
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Well, that is really snazzy. Did you encounter any issues? Have you set up a mail server with your binaries?
Marc
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Marc Clifton wrote: Did you encounter any issues?
None. Built right away. Which is rare in the software realm.
Marc Clifton wrote: Have you set up a mail server with your binaries?
Planning on it (just for learning, really).
Getting information off the Internet is like taking a drink from a fire hydrant.
- Mitchell Kapor
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awesome - never heard of them before - guess it wont be everyone's cup of tea
thanks
'g'
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Garth J Lancaster wrote: never heard of them before
It's a Norwegian group ... glad you like them 
Garth J Lancaster wrote: guess it wont be everyone's cup of tea
Probably not, but it's excellent 'work' music.
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Espen Harlinn wrote: but it's excellent 'work' music
that it is - never thought I'd be listening to Gothic Metal (Wikipedia's classification), but there you go - this just proves the benefits of having an open mind - iirc 'takk' is Norwegian for thanks (its almost the same as Swedish)
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Garth J Lancaster wrote: never thought I'd be listening to Gothic Metal
Nor did I - but these days I've found that I quite enjoy a few artists like Within Tempatation, Sirenia, Epica, Lacuna Coil, Halestorm, Delain and Avantasia while working.
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 Nice find - kind of funny
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Made me think about Sissel Kyrkjebö.
Is that good or bad? 
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Jörgen Andersson wrote: Is that good or bad?
Can't be anything but good - and Sissel would probably be quite amused ...
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I posted a week or so about a fiasco when I tried to buy a BBB and was deferred until mid February at which point I just cancelled the order and thought I'd just wait until later time.
So we went to the mall in Savannah today and instead of going girly shopping with my son and his wife I went visited the Radio Shack. Well they had a BBB kit which is basically a BBB with about $10 worth of other hardware packaged with it at 2ce the price of the bare BBB. Well I picked it up and put it down, walked around the mall a bit found them and they were still girly shopping so went back to RS and picked up the BBB two more time trying to mentally justify buying it but just couldn't. So when I got home just for sh*t's and giggles went online and did a search for BBB and a site I've ordered from before had them in stock so I now have one on the way, AGAIN and hopefully here sometime end of next week.
That means I'll have to get busy and finish what I'm working on now to make time for the new arrival.
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What's a "BBB"? Um, ok, I'll google, as the only things for that acronym end with "bimbo", you can guess the first two.
Marc
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Marc Clifton wrote: you can guess the first two.
Big Butt?
BBB is Beagle Bone Black[^]. Amazing little device that's a marriage of single board Linux and micro controller.
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So I'm riding to Savannah and I'm working on an article on my new/old laptop, I just traded for it recently and forgot to set automatic update to ask me when updates are available instead of just doing it. Well I typing away and all of a sudden the machine says it's shutting down and not to cut the power as it's updating the computer, without any kind of indication.
So at first I thought I had lost an hours worth of work but thanks god for the VS recovery schema.
So needless to say first thing I did when I got home and charged up was to set the auto update to ask me and not auto update.
On top of everything else there's still updates available? WTF?
Sons-a-bitches!
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On my Win7 machines it asks you if you want to shut down now, or you can postpone it up to 4 hours.
The bad part is that when this window pops up it takes focus (doesn't come up in the background), so if you are typing and hit the space bar, it will dismiss the window with the default selection, which is to restart now. Not sure if that's what happened to you. Its annoying.
What is even worse is that I can hibernate my computer and if it has pending updates, it will wake itself up, apply the updates, and restart. Of course when it comes back up it opens everything I had open, but it certainly doesn't save any work. So not only does it forcibly close everything, but it doesn't put itself back to sleep. In the middle of the night I sometimes hear "Your virus definitions have been updated"...
I can't find a way to shut that off while leaving automatic updates on (I like them on so my dev machine is fully updated, and I have a Win7 VM that has a vanilla install with no updates for testing).
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Ron Beyer wrote: so if you are typing and hit the space bar, it will dismiss the window with the default selection, which is to restart now. Not sure if that's what happened to you. Its annoying.
I bet that's what happened but I didn't see the popup and yes if that's what it was it certainly is annoying.
Thanks Ron that explains the mystery!
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Even when you have set the option to never restart automatically, the not so new behavior can still be a pita. Have you ever needed to pack up the laptop at the last minute only to find that updates will be installed when you shut down...no opting out or putting it off for a more convenient time. This has caught me on more than a few occasions where I had to wait up to 10 minutes for it to shut down. I refuse to put it in the case running. I suppose proper planning on my part is the quickest remedy.
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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But they know what's best for us right? After all they have to get that SPYware downloaded into your computer so the NSA can do it's job!
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Quote: I refuse to put it in the case running
I develop automation software for big equipment, which requires outdoor testing. One day I was testing a huge hydraulic system and it was all being controlled with my laptop. It was the middle of August in Houston, outside temp was around 100F. I had set my computer up to not go to sleep when the cover is closed so it wouldn't lose connection.
Well long story short, I had the computer in a shaded place where it was relatively cool, and I left for lunch while it ran some tests. Somebody had picked up my computer, put it in my backpack (black mind you) and set it in the sun. When I got there my computer was so hot I had to find a freezer to put it in just so I could touch it. The mouse/speakers never worked again but didn't completely fry it
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