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...It was just as worthless as I expected... 
Ba-tish!
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.
Mark Twain
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I wanted a way for my IoT graphics library to import fonts so that one wasn't stuck with a fixed font at a couple of fixed sizes. After trying and failing (worse actually - *nearly* succeeding) to rasterize truetype fonts to a pixel perfect grid I decided after some googling to use the deprecated ".fon" files that used to hold bmp based fonts.
These .fon files are renamed executables with the fonts as an embedded resource. Some of them are in the more modern "Portable Executable" format. Some are in the "New Executable" format, which is naturally, older and is windows 3.1's exe format, i guess - at least if i've interpreted the lay of things accurately.
It's not a big deal parsing them - i ported a script that does it in python to C++ but it's just really bizarre.
With IoT in this case, as it is so many other cases, everything old is new again.
Real programmers use butterflies
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honey the codewitch wrote: With IoT in this case, as it is so many other cases, everything old is new again.
I suppose some deep philosophical meaning can be found in observing that this same can be said of many things if one drinks an excess of alcoholic beverages.
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Somewhere in my stack of disks is a copy of wfw 3.11
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Somewhere in my stack of VMs is a DOS machine with WfW 3.11 and MS Office 6.0 installed.
I've actually used it once or twice to resurrect some ancient documents and convert them into more modern formats.
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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A wise man once said, "nothing new under the sun".
Although, I believe, this saying didn't quite apply to computer tech...
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Next step: extracting the bitmapped fonts from the ZX Spectrum ROM.
"In testa che avete, Signor di Ceprano?"
-- Rigoletto
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That's still too advanced. You have not really seen everything until you have made your own 3x5 pixel font for screen resolutions like 64x64. 
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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Been there, done that!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Ecclesiastes 1:9 What has been, is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun
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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Or - elsewhere therein:Quote: To everything there is a season and a time for every purpose under heaven
"A time to display text; a time to refrain from displaying"
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We Care About Your Privacy. We and our partners store and/or access information on a device... blah blah blah. We and our partners process data to provide:
Use precise geolocation data. Actively scan device characteristics for identification. Store and/or access information on a device. Personalised ads and content, ad and content measurement, audience insights and product development. Accept All Cookies.
Oh boy! Where are the privacy in that load of legalese? 
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It's a matter of not overly reading into "We Care About Your Privacy".
What they mean, in caring, is that they care a lot if you manage to maintain any. Once you understand that it all makes perfect sense.
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steveb wrote: Where are the privacy in that load of legalese
Maybe they just mean they won't share the information with other people.
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This was somewhere in the text and they can be 99% correct until they go out of business, their hardware may end up sold without the data deleted. I've heard someone acquired a workstation that had an old MS Access database with around 5000 SSNs, names and addresses. So I wouldn't bet a buck on this
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This is why I encrypt all my systems.
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The problem is not your systems...
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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steveb wrote: We Care About Your Privacy.
But not nearly as much as we care about money. 
Kelly Herald
Software Developer
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Kelly Herald wrote: But not nearly as much as we care about money
Privacy won't put food on the table but money will. It's what we all care about.
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Please save this [^] for use then next time you think my tone is "excessive" "overly zealous".
Quote: “The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ,
Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit
Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line,
Nor all thy Tears wash out a Word of it.”
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What did you do this time?
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I was wondering the exact same thing ... 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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My message below (reply to '007' notwithstanding), I think I may have mis-spelled "Oi".
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Nothing I'm aware of - I just thought I'd give him something to have a more visual emphasis when our view points don't quite mesh.
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Thing is, it works just as well when replacing email and send with post.
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