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Sorry, I work in GBP (£).
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We had a local band called Zork Aan Mijn Vork (Zork On My Fork).
I've seen them live once or twice I think, but I don't think they exist anymore.
Can't find them on YouTube either.
I never knew if the name was somehow related to the game.
You can also get the Zork games on GOG.com by the way: The Zork Anthology on GOG.com[^]
Never played them myself though.
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Sander Rossel wrote: Never played them myself though.
How dare you!!
Holds hand out waiting for Sander to hand in his Official Geek card.
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I've got enough geek credits to survive this one 
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After lots of struggling and some creative coding I have made my IoT device with no screen and no buttons whatsoever automatically hop on a network and publish itself.
The only thing you need to do when you first power it on is press the WPS button on your router.
I haven't seen other people's code that does this on their Arduinos or ESP32s. I'm kind of hoping this is novel.
I love it though. It's a self contained little black box.
Real programmers use butterflies
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Exploit it fully (possibly on the Dark Web):
Sell the little devices where the purchaser surreptitiously leaves them in the homes of not-really-friends. The little box eventually is connected and can be used for all sorts of lovely mischief now that it's part of their network.
Whoo hoo! You'll be rich! I wouldn't mind adequate (or better still, substantial) remuneration from that vast hoard of cash and bitcoin you'll accumulate.
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Hahaha. Actually that's a really good idea. It could be like, a toaster or something. But it just sits there, maybe for a year, listening.. waiting.. until you hit that WPS button. Then it's on!
Real programmers use butterflies
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I do not know what and how you done, but I had an arduino based project where the device scanned available networks and connected the correct one based on some secret key... So no configuration needed after the device turned on, you saw it connecting to the central server and start sending in data...
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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Every Wifi camera nowadays work like this.
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Good!
Real programmers use butterflies
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I have invented a new cosmetic surgery which involves forehead hair implants. It's raised quite a few eyebrows already!
"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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Eye Don't see what you did there
in the hair that you where.
To err is human to really mess up you need a computer
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I don't intend to brow-beat you but is there any wig-gle room if things go wrong?
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Only if it's a close shave.
"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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I've invented a combination baldness cure and dieting program. The head is detached, turned upside down, and reattached. The beard replaces the bald spot, and you may feast your eyes on your food.
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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For all this follicle you should receive 10 lashes.
"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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You should throw in a free corduroy pillow with every procedure.
That would really make headlines...
If you can't laugh at yourself - ask me and I will do it for you.
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I didn't know about mDNS until my most recent project. I had no idea a device could just publish a domain name on a local network when the device starts up and then anything can get to it.
So my pump monitor for example, will try to sit and listen on http://pump.local regardless of what the IP is. No DNS records to modify, nothing. 
This is fantastic for IoT devices on a DHCP enabled network - just fantastic.
Real programmers use butterflies
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Hi All,
In the UK, I have to deal with BT. The last few weeks the internet connection and voice line have got unreliable so call BT, Open Leech or Random out from the help line, voice line gets fixed, broadband still unreliable so they send a Mini-Hub which won't connect. Complain, another is sent but does not arrive. Call back there Free Phone number get told it will be fixed in six months as a Fibre upgrade is due, oh you can have another mini-hub. Doesn't come. Phone again get put on hold eventually the line goes dead. I have a Teams interview at 14:00 which I will have to try to do on my mobile...
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I'm with Talktalk specifically to get away from BT - for anyone outside the UK who doesn't know what BT is they provide the whole landline infrastructure but have to let other companies lease space on it, which normally means a lower cost to the user and better response because they have a whole load more clout that a single user does!
Despite all I've heard / read about how bad TalkTalk is, I've not had a problem except a couple of times with the BT infrastructure, which have been fixed pretty quickly considering the size of one of the problems!
I get 50Mb/sec out here in Wild Wales via FTC which is fine for what I do.
"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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It could have gone wrong weeks ago why does it have to happen now. 
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glennPattonInThePubAgain! wrote: It could have gone wrong weeks ago why does it have to happen now
Ever heard of that famous feller from Erin's Isle? 
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