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Giving new meaning to the expression "Soup up your PC"
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My first hack was in my college years, back when a "laptop computer" was the size and weight of a typewriter (and kept your lap PLENTY warm), I bolted a steamer chest handle to the top of my mini-tower, and an eye-bolt to the back. I then fashioned an old strap with clip-hooks (think old-style carabiner clips before carabiners were known to anyone but climbers) on the ends. This was my daily setup for going from home to school to the office and back again. I got lots of interested looks on the bus.
My second hack was back when my kids were starting grade school and learning more about the internet than Dad was showing them, I gathered scrap components from various dead machines, and built my first home firewall on a piece of cardboard that I mounted on the wall behind my desk. Never worried about overheating. My wife even thought it was a fun conversation piece when friends would come over, even though she knew nothing about computers, and could barely use the one I gave her.
I have done several hacks since then, but they have been less and less original.
I did once mod a 5 1/4" floppy case to fit into a drive bay, and used it as a drawer to keep all my license fobs in. Remember those horrific parallel port devices you had to plug in to make commercial software work? <shudders>
Money makes the world go round ... but documentation moves the money.
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Your last one reminds me of the old:
Customer calls computer support:
“My drink holder is broken.”
CD/DVD disc tray is not designed to hold a 1 liter stainless flask.
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authentic, trendy, cool car embraced even stardom (16)
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authentic,
trendy, IN
cool car CON VERTIBLE
embraced
even stardom TRO
INCONTROVERTIBLE
"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
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OK, I have to ask: What is "TRO"? EDIT: Never mind figured it out. I don't think I'll ever come close to OG in solving these!
modified 23-Feb-22 7:59am.
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even sTaRdOm
1234567
T R O
"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
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Same as
odd stardom
0123456
T R O
😊
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CCC's aren't development tools though!
"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
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I'm glad the code contests are for keeps and this is just for fun or I'd be out of luck.
I saw the solution to this. I would have never arrived at it on my own.
I find that's just the case with CCCs.
Real programmers use butterflies
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Gregs clues are formed differently than most of us Ximenean adherents - you often have to solve a mini embedded clue before you can start on the main one
this explains it in quite a nice way
Ximenean clueing
"Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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I'd say most of the clues posted here are libertarian. I've used both styles but find that anagrams, in particular, are rarely challenging if Ximenean.
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I agree , I do try and keep away from anagrams if possible because they are too easy to solve
"Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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My intention
Lookup all 16 character words!
My brain
Duh…
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relatable content
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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@GregUtas
Where's the CCC? 
"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
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I'm up early today! So I'll post it in about half an hour, at 11 UTC.
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OriginalGriff wrote: Where's the CCC?
Next to the Shore Shore Shore?
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Stupid boy Pike
"Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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I'm concurrently learning Python and Tkinter... well, it really 'looks like' Tkinter has been modeled after VB6 and Windows controls.
Reading the Tkinter manual truly brings me back to the earyl 2000s, when I was very young and teaching myself VB6 on a McGrawHill book and experimenting on a VB6 copy I received as a gift from a friend of my dad.
Needless to say, I'm impressed so far on how the mechanics are exceptionally similar and how they managed to blend the whole system with Python's own language features, like dictionaries, named arguments and integrated support for lists everywhere.
EDIT: It even has its own DoEvents! How cute! Next you will tell me that it has its own On Error Resume Next...
GCS d--(d-) s-/++ a C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
modified 23-Feb-22 7:07am.
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It is a long time since I worked on TCL/Tk, but I found tkinter less difficult than I expected. The main problem I find is the quality of the online documentation. The best I could find is at Tkinter 8.5 reference: a GUI for Python[^].
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I'm using TkDocs Tutorial[^] and so far I'm finding it useful and easy, maybe they updated it since you last lokked at it?
GCS d--(d-) s-/++ a C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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Thanks, I need to make better use of the menu. 
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Happy to have been of help 
GCS d--(d-) s-/++ a C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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