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Better. I got the Blade of GLoRy.
It's got +N where N is the number of ambiguities you're up against.
It works well on crowds.
Real programmers use butterflies
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The Blade of Glory only works for Angels and Paladins: none of us are pure enough to wield it! 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
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Then I'm not sure what I'm doing with it.
Real programmers use butterflies
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It may be a quest item.
Stick it in your backpack and wait for a cat sitting in a unexpected sunbeam ... 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
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I have that feature on my phone also, it's called the Off button!
Monday starts Diarrhea awareness week, runs until Friday!
JaxCoder.com
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I think you missed the right "reply" button...
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
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Yep I sure did, my brain is not working right today.
Monday starts Diarrhea awareness week, runs until Friday!
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Well, you'll have to go all the way around and try again, or you'll miss the treasure chest.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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The reply button has +50 evasion. Pls nerf, kthnx. 
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In case you missed my edit to an earlier post on this topic:
About a week ago, Macrium brought out an update to Reflect that appears to have had a bug that interfered with the creation of rescue media. Yesterday (Saturday Feb 15) they brought out the latest update that fixed the bug.
If you use Reflect: Make sure you are running the very latest update (Build 7.2.4732) or you may run into issues with the creation of rescue media. This build version applies to the free version. I don't know if the paid version has the same build number.
modified 16-Feb-20 12:11pm.
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Appreciate the followup!
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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Good to know.
Thank you 
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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My trusty - and fully working - old Moto G (series 1) which has done sterling service for around seven years is being replaced because it just doesn't have enough space. It's only got 8GB, no expansion capability, and Google have shoved so much bloat into it's poor frame over the years that it's got less than 1GB left.
And I need just over 1GB to install the Here WeGo England maps so I have satnav on the way to a funeral in two weeks. And since my Nexus 7 can't find enough satellites if there is a cloud around, and my Surface is far, far too big to attach to the car I've got to get a new one.
Nothing too fancy, just a lot of space and expansion capability, and maybe enough screen to replace the phone and Nexus 7 as my book reader and games-while-Herself-does-something-and-I-wait-around machine.
So I picked a Huawei P30 Lite: screen is only about 3/4" (2cm) smaller than the tablet, but the whole thing is around 1" (2.5cm) longer, and 1/4" (.75cm) wider than the phone, so it should fit in my pocket. And that 8GB rises to 128GB, with space for a 512GB SD card!
And OK, I'm not over interested in the cameras, but ... 48mp rear? 24mp for selfies? Holy moly batman! My first digital camera was a large-for-the-time 1.5mp and cost more than this whole phone ... 
I've bought a case to glue a metal strip onto so I can use the mag mounts in the car, and a nano sim is on it's way from my mobile phone signal provider.
All I've got to do now is install the software and ebooks, music, TV, ... I keep on the tablet (groan).
Plus my contacts / calendar, but Google should handle that for me.
Oh, and learn to use it ... bugger. There's always something.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
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I'm on my third or fourth newer model smartphone, (all acquired by way of one or other family member getting a phone on a new/renewed service contract but already bought something much better).
It's true: the newer phones can do all the stuff the older ones did. beyond that I'm not sure.
Does your Welsh provider not free (or really cheap) roam to England? Google maps not part of the old phone?
I've used Here WeGo in the antipodes (offline - coming from Singapore so roaming is ex) - it's really quite good and accurate fully offline (unless worried about speed cameras.).
Remember to update the maps (at home - wifi) before subsequent trips because there's no auto update or nagging just because of an update. (another reason I like it - if not in regular use why update - untill it's needed?)
after many otherwise intelligent sounding suggestions that achieved nothing the nice folks at Technet said the only solution was to low level format my hard disk then reinstall my signature. Sadly, this still didn't fix the issue!
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I don't like Google maps for navigation, Here WeGo works really well offline, but I normally run with just the Wales maps - to add the England map I just need more space than I have available in the old phone. I like the way it says "turn slightly right" and the edge of annoyance in her voice when she tells you to turn round ...
Plus it's free, accurate, easy to use, and includes speed limit warnings that the other free map systems (which use OpenStreetMap data) don't cover too well. That's really handy sometimes! It's estimates of arrival time are pretty much spot on which takes some doing.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
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yes the Here WeGo voice is nice (and amusing on indigenous place names - google is just crass).
the "turn around" definitely 'unique' (thankfully she does calm down and actually help with that - particularly if you've wrong turned on a motorway junction.)
then again when google maps says "slide right" (or left) it does inspire memories of a time long ago (before google and even navman etc) when I might have taken that quite literally.
after many otherwise intelligent sounding suggestions that achieved nothing the nice folks at Technet said the only solution was to low level format my hard disk then reinstall my signature. Sadly, this still didn't fix the issue!
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I have a Moto-G series 5 phone and am always amazed by the quality of the photos, it even can take HDR photos and especially in high contrast scenes it beats my Panasonic Lumix TZ camera. Of course it does not have the 30x zoom of the Lumix 
Strange thing is that in reviews they always state that the camera quality of Moto-G phones is "mediocre" 
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RickZeeland wrote: Strange thing is that in reviews they always state that the camera quality of Moto-G phones is "mediocre"
Probably because the number of pixels is not the only parameter taken into account for quality: contrast, behaviour under low lightness, color balance, autofocus, etc., could drive the result down as well.
"Five fruits and vegetables a day? What a joke!
Personally, after the third watermelon, I'm full."
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It all depends on what you compare with.
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Single board computers can be boring. Without any I/O ports they can't do very much. The traditional way to change that was to add a UART (that's the good old RS232 serial port, more or less) and get yourself a terminal. Quite a sight. Some rigged board or a breadboard with a handful of ICs, hooked up to a one ton terminal.
I do have a CDP1854 UART for the Zwölf, but I don't want to add that to the breadboard yet. It also would need a baud rate generator. Too many more potential errors at this point, but Zwölf does not really need it anyway.
The CDP1802 has one single output pin that can be controlled by instructions. I used it to blink a LED for the first tests. In the old days it was used for many things at once. Sound, even speech synthesis, saving your programs to cassette tape and also emulating serial communication. There are also four separate input bits, so we could also receive bytes from the terminal or the tape recorder.
Now I have added a MAX232 IC to the Zwölf and hooked it up directly to the processor's output bit and one of the four input bits. Now I only need subroutines to send and receive ASCII characters and Zwölf will become interactive.
The following code is my subroutine to send a character to the terminal. It already does a fine job on the emulator. 1200 baud are not very much, but it will be sufficient as long as the Zwölf is clocked with only 1 MHz. It uses separate call and parameter stacks (that's what all the SEX is about). I could even have up to 15 stacks if I needed them. I also don't think that RISC processors need an excessive number of instructions to actually do something.
Now, show me how you do all that with a fancy Z80 by simply adding that MAX232. And of course faster and with even shorter code. 
; =========================================================================================
; RS232 Out (software protocol)
;
; Parameters:
; 01 Character to be sent (byte)
;
; Return:
; ---
; =========================================================================================
RS232OutSoftware: SEX R2 ; save register RE onto the call stack
GHI RE
STXD
GLO RE
STXD
SEX R6 ; load parameter 01 into RE.1
IRX
LDX
PHI RE
SEQ ; Q = 0
LDI BIT_COUNT ; load bit counter into RE.0
PLO RE
REQ ; 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
REQ ; Q = 1 if bit = 0
SKP
SEQ ; 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
SEQ ; Q = 0 (last phase to get back in step)
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 register RE from call stack
IRX
LDXA
PLO RE
LDX
PHI RE
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.
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This sort of information does not deserve to drop off the end of the Lounge. How about an article (or a set thereof)? I would love to say that I understand it all, but most of the electronics are beyond me, although I am trying to learn a bit.
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Well, at least i would have one reader, as it seems, but before I write an article, I first have to get to a point where it has become a complete computer, and not just the bare minimum.
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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Write it, release it, as a serial.
And, two. I will read it and perhaps it gets me to pull a breadboard out of storage.
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Um ... You do realise that "modern" Z80 processors have integrated peripherals, including SIO?
Zilog Z180 - Wikipedia[^]
I hate to rain on your parade, but it's one line of assembler per character ... and it's buffered.
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