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While we were encouraging one of our previous adoptee cats Michael that indoor food was A Good Thing, my wife would place bowls of food under the car, where he felt safe.
One day she was carrying laundry down to the basement, and found a thoroughly disassembled rabbit in the stair well. "Michael! Thank you, but that's a mess!" He was watching from beneath the car.
Next day she found a large field rat, not disassembled, with its tail wrapped tidily around the body. Rather Martha Stewart-esque.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Goedzo knows I'll take the mouse away, so he runs to his favourite safe-place - under my bed. And the mice are usually not dead. He let's them go and hunts again.
Sadistic murderers cats are. They play with prey for hours. And yes, mice scream. I know, since I heard them.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Last winter, the missus was down with some respiratory infection. I was finally dozing off just before dawn, having attended to her a few times through the night. I was awoken by her screams. She had got out of bed to go to the loo, and stepped on Sir Ringo's "get well soon" offering - half a warm dead rat on the carpet. I had a hell of a time cleaning it all up.
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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We live in a rural area and have had many cats over the years.
One used to bring in half rabbits and dismember the rest under the bed.
One used to bring in everything alive... mice, birds and even bats! I recall chasing a live bat round the bedroom at 3am and hoping to get it to fly out of an open window!
One of our current six cats sometimes brings in large rats, some over half her size, and doesn't always kill them first! Now it's a chase of a live rat round the utility room at 3am and hoping to get it out the back door before it find its way behind the washer or the fridge!
Oh, the joy of cat stewardship!
(Note: nobody ever owns a cat; they just let you look after them)
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StarNamer@work wrote: Note: nobody ever owns a cat; they just let you look after them
Agreed. Cats don't have owners, they have clients.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Dogs have owners, cats have staff.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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True story:
Once had a scorpion land on my keyboard from an overhead fluorescent lighting unit. It fell quite a distance so it was stunned when it landed. Picked it up by the tail and threw it outside. The building was relatively new and sometimes they can get into odd locations during construction. The calibration lab next door, had scorpions inside their electronic gear. They froze one (calibration labs use freeze sprayers as part of their tool kit) and put it a glass in the freezer. It stayed there for many days. It did not survive, though when thawed.
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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See title, e.g. get all messages for December 2022 sent from OG to me
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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Was this supposed to be posted to Bugs & Suggestions?
BTW, Happy New Year Pete.
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And you Richard - to be honest I didn't know where to post it 
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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AFAICS, there is a filter by author but not by recipient. Just use the "advanced search" (click on the magnifying glass at the top right of the window), and follow the instructions.
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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You could check your notifications - I believe that's in date order so it should be a fairly simple process since they all start with "<membername> has posted ..."
[edit] Nope. That won't work. [/edit]
Were you looking for something in particular?
"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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modified 2-Jan-23 7:39am.
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When I do that I only see the latest 5 or so messages. And when viewing them all it doesn't show who posted it. Is there some way to get all the messages in the notification popup?
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Ah. You can tell I don't use them ... 104,291 messages waiting ...
I assumed that the layout on page was the same as the popup. Not sure why it isn't, really.
"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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If you click an individual message it shows the detail but that is somewhat tedious. I guess @petepjksolutionscom's suggestion could be quite useful.
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Not really (looking for something particular) but I often read something of interest on here and a few days down the line I can't find it - I can usually remember who posted it though ( hence the question ) it would be good to have the filter from to in date range
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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=> Site Bugs and Suggestions ?
«The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled» Plutarch
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Posting too frequently. Ease up, tiger.
WTF ?
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
modified 2-Jan-23 10:48am.
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Ah, and now I have to search your post history to find the right person to piss on.
Thanks for the extra work.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Eh ?
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 can't find the message either; so I assume it was not directed at you.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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We have been developing an industrial SCADA application for the the last 15 years( more than 200 KLOC ). At the beginning we were sure we can run our software on both Linux and Windows. With the decision of Microsoft to not support dotnet core + Winforms on Linux, we finally came to conclusion that it is time to migrate to a new technology. Now, 2 choices comes to mind: 1-Qt 2-GTK. We have zero knowledge in both of them or any other library. Community seems to prefer GTK. Which technology or another one would you recommend for the GUI part of our program?
Decision will be made based on these criteria in order of importance:
1- Long and active Community support ( At least the next 10 years )
2- Would prefer Open-Source one, so bugs and security holes get patched as soon as possible
2- Fair amount of library and 3rd-party controls
3- Modern Looking Controls
4- Good IDE Support
Happy Christmas to all.
cheers
Behzad
Behzad
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Um.
Quote: 1- Long and active Community support ( At least the next 10 years )
Yeah. OK. Nobody can guarantee that for anything.
Quote: 2- Would prefer Open-Source one, so bugs and security holes get patched as soon as possible
Do you have any idea what "open-source" actually means? 99% of open source software doesn't get bugs fixed, doesn't get security patches unless somebody is interested enough to do that - and most OS developers prefer to do the "interesting bits" like add new features they want instead of "boring stuff" like wade through looking for a bug.
Take Open Office for example: it'll probably still be there in ten years time, but it's still got bugs that were reported by multiple members of the community over ten years ago!
"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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