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Between Brexit and limited continental travel holiday options, I have advice for some UK members considering visiting Ireland, that's the island just past the Isle of Man which may help with navigations while you are with us.
We have two M1 Motorways!
The one in the north goes west to avoid the south, while it southern counterpart goes north to avoid the price of alcohol in those parts and never the twain shall meet.
Ger
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One is used only by Catholics, and the other is used only by Protestants? 
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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And you should be using Zorin OS[^] as it is: Made with ☘️ in Ireland
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good gravy. makes me smile
To err is human to really elephant it up you need a computer
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Amazing that people spend money to see if goats are affected by smiles. Clearly, I am in the wrong business. 
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Slacker007 wrote: Clearly, I am in the wrong busines
On so so many levels!
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Next: do sheep prefer that you smile at them?
Cows? Sheepdogs? ...
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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Daniel Pfeffer wrote: Next: do sheep prefer that you smile at them?
Ask OG . . . . he may have some unique insights into that.
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Like I could ever see a goat and not smile 
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- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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How about adult male mountain goat bearing down on you at full charge?
I’ve given up trying to be calm. However, I am open to feeling slightly less agitated.
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I'd die with a smile on my face 
The chances of that happening are pretty slim where I live though.
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Like I could ever see a goat on a roasting spit and not smile. Sorry, it's closing in on lunch time.
"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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Sure, if death and decay are your thing.
Don't think I ever ate anything from a goat.
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Eating is my thing, and they are excellent fare.
"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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Llamas are the only true path.
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The Welsh will tell you that it doesn’t work with sheep.😂
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honey the codewitch wrote:
It kind of makes me want a goat though.
Me, too. Happily, once I get done fencing my 20 acre parcel in Golden Valley, AZ, I'll have plenty of room for a goat or six.
Will Rogers never met me.
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Supreme lover lost the right to new technology startup. (9)
Supreme
lover PARAMOUr
lost the right r
to new technology startup. NT
PARAMOUNT
Oxford Languages / Google: adjective
1.
more important than anything else; supreme.
"the interests of the child are of paramount importance"
2.
having supreme power.
"a paramount chief"
Well, I liked it! 
"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 was the second one of my worrying options - good clue - I wouldn't have thought of paramour in a million years.
"I didn't mention the bats - he'd see them soon enough" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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300 bytes/s, what a slowpoke. Even Atari's 1050 disk drive was better. With 19200 kb/s you at least got something between 1024 bytes/s and 2048 bytes/s. In both cases the serial connection was the bottleneck. Cheap, but not very fast. But why should it be? Those computers never had more than 64k memory to fill.
Fast forward to today. While the idea of having something like a single board computer to control the drive, manage the file system and data transfer from and to the main computer is still ok, we might get access to slightly more data and need better transfer rates.
Mechanical drives are out. Why not use a Compact Flash card as a SSD? Accessing it is extremely simple. You just have to map its 8 registers as I/O ports and you get access to gigabytes of storage. An 8 bit mode is also available, so there will be no waste of half of the memory space or awkward 8/16 bit conversion.
How fast will that be? At 6 MHz, my little CDP1802 processor can shovel about 37500 bytes/s and, since it's not a mechanical drive, the CF card can easily keep up with that. If the processor could fill its normal 64k in less than two seconds. Not bad for an 8 bit computer, but still slow if I want to use my unmodest 16 megabyte memory expansion.
Then there is the question, what file system I should use. Do you think that FAT32 is too much for an 8 bit computer?
And there is also still the question, what sort of connection to the main computer to use to get those bytes transferred fast enough. Serial? 200 kb/s with the old UARTs. More than 10 times faster than the old Atari floppies, bur still too slow. Parallel? We would end up at the processor's maximum again. 37500 bytes.
So that's it? Not quite. How about 250000 bytes per second plus freeing up the processor to do something better than just shoveling bytes around? The CDP1802 never stops executing instructions, not even for DMA. It just throws in an extra bus cycle with every instruction when DMA is requested. During that DMA cycle, it plays DMA controller and does the memory addressing itself. The other device just has to read or write the byte on the data bus at the right time. Maybe I can get this to work with the CF card's DMA mode and this also can be used to transfer data between two CDP1802s.
Not that the 1802 would be finished at 6 MHz. It's not even getting warm. 8 - 10 MHz are quite possible without any special effort. With using all tricks in the book (just look up how to overclock a modern processor in Wikipedia) I have heard that they can reach over 20 MHz. At that clock frequency it would reach over 833000 bytes/s in DMA mode and still be executing code. 16 bit computers that are 10 years ahead of the old CDP1802 would have a hard time to keep up.
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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I do remember the ZX Spectrum tapes.
"In testa che avete, Signor di Ceprano?"
-- Rigoletto
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I was once given the task of making a FAT-based backup system using one of those cassette drives and a VAX for the National Institute of Biological Standards and Controls during my second work placement at University.
It was brilliant, except when the tape stretched. Or snapped. Or snarled up. Or ... anything really.
It was useless, yes.
My code worked, but the hardware just wasn't up to it.
"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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OriginalGriff wrote: My code worked, but the hardware just wasn't up to it.
As usual!
"In testa che avete, Signor di Ceprano?"
-- Rigoletto
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