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I wrote an expert system for test flight analysis (at first, just for fun on my own time in the evenings) which then was picked up officially and used by the main Flight Test department, being added to and expanded in scope. It was being used for all test flights when I left for a higher paid job about four years later. The system was still in use for another ten years after I left, apparently unchanged until they got new (mainframe) computer systems from a different manufacturer and it had to be rewritten to be ported. As far as I know, the ported system was still running twenty years later!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Gives you a good feeling, doesn't it?
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Definitely a warm and fuzzy one. I miss that job, jet fighters taking off on full reheat not far from my office window - spectacular in the evening when the exhaust flames were forty or fifty feet long!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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I grew up next to an air base that scrambled interceptors; I don't miss them flying over the house and not being able to hear the person next to you, even if they're yelling.
But, it conditioned me to be able to ignore a lot of noise when sleeping.
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The judge sent him clinkward for a year [^].Quote: Within weeks of leaving his job, the base stations built by his former employers – who have not been named – began to disconnect from the radio network. Access logs showed that Flanagan had taken to remotely connecting into the towers at night using their root passwords, which still worked for him. He then changed the passwords – in some cases to "f***you" – uploaded Pink Floyd song lyrics in place of key code, changed the radio frequencies used by the towers, and added ASCII art to the masts' firmware. Where are 'Mothers Against Drunk Hacking' when you need them ?
«Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye.» Miss Piggy
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Just wait until he gets his hands on a laptop in jail!
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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BillWoodruff wrote: ... using their root passwords, which still worked for him.
Not revoking an ex-employee's access after firing him? That's a mistake they won't be making again.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Richard Deeming wrote: That's a mistake they won't be making again. Like to bet on that?
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"Gentler shipping saved many lives." (15)
Good luck.
Andy B
Clue: the word you're looking for is not English but is used in English to describe this event.
The answer is Kindertransport from Gentler = Kinder and shipping = transport. It was the program to take in some of the child victims of the Nazi's in the late 30's / early 40's which saved many innocent lives.
Looks like I'm back up tomorrow.
modified 27-Jun-17 8:20am.
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Well if nothing else, I've learned something new today!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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I went absolutely insane trying to make an anagram of "Gentler shipping". Just goes to show that I need to practice KSS
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I actually noticed that they contained 15 characters and thought about using other synonyms but then decided to leave it in there as a red herring.
So glad I did as I get to do tomorrow's too - yay!
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The kiwi's just took the Americas Cup off Team Oracle.
Already unhappy a week ago, today Larry's gonna be totally pissed off.
But just mazing the tech, consider in last 10 years PC's have only gotten smaller/faster.
In less than that in yachting they've learned to literally fly boats around the entire race course.
Sin tack
the any key okay
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That, from a document from a well known "Provider of legal, government, business and high-tech information sources."
All I can say is, well, that's cryptic
Marc
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Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny
Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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Well that's pretty good to know. Har har.
Jeremy Falcon
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Maybe what they were trying to say was that PGP is optional, but that encryption in general is not required.
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Slacker007 wrote: Maybe what they were trying to say was that PGP is optional, but that encryption in general is not required.
Possibly, given that they were describing packets being sent over HTTPS.
Marc
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Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny
Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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Cool! I haven't heard a new one from them since 'Brave New World' which I thought was pretty good. Good to know they are still writing!
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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Dear all,
This morning I was looking for code that might already have been written - I wanted to see if anyone's ever programmatically re-implemented the Windows Display Settings dialog box - I need to render an Image that more or less corresponds to what that window looks like (showing all your monitors with their relative positions).
I knew I would deservedly get berated if I asked this in the lounge. So I asked this in Q&A (here). Well, my question's already gotten downvoted, and the answers I got so far (from long-time CP contributors I know and respect) are essentially accusing me of trying to get others to write code for me. Well, no, I'll be happy to write my own code if I have to (and then share it back), I was just asking whether anyone's already done this, just so I don't have to re-invent the wheel. As developers, we do this all the time. I'm not trying at all to hide the fact this is something I feel I shouldn't need to write from scratch; I'm sure this is a solved problem. This is specific enough however that I couldn't quite figure out the proper Google keywords to come up with relevant results. So I figured I'd ask live human beings from the friendly programming community I know rather than wrestle with Google (well, I have wrestled with Google, I just wasn't successful).
I hardly ever use Q&A and admit spending very little time in there. So please, someone enlighten me, I know the lounge isn't the place for asking for code, so what's the protocol for asking if someone's already solved a specific problem, when my Google-Fu fails me?
Not mad or anything. Just honestly dumbfounded. Perhaps I should've made it crystal clear that I know this must be a solved problem, and I'm not asking others to write new code for me.
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I think my mistake was asking for something very specific--some nice to haves that might not necessarily exist in someone else's solution, so perhaps that made the whole thing come across as asking for it to be written. I'd honestly like to know. I'm calling it a learning experience regardless. I still love you all.
modified 26-Jun-17 11:38am.
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My opinion is that your question is really more of a discussion starter, not a specific question. For me, one of the discussion forums would have been a better place to ask. I can't speak for others but that may be why QA did not work. After all, QA stands for quick answers and your question is only quick if someone has done that exact thing before. I think a discussion would have been better.
There are two kinds of people in the world: those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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I'm in agreement, but once bitten, twice shy. This is what I was trying to avoid by not posting to the lounge. On more than one occasion, I've asked if someone knew of some library (completely unrelated to this), and I must have a real talent for unknowing asking something that comes across as a programming question, as opposed, as you put it, to trying to get a discussion started. Although it is programming-related, and any discussion, I felt, would've quickly devolved into specific details as to what I was looking for.
It's a fine line that I'm still trying to figure out.
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dandy72 wrote: by not posting to the lounge. Ya, the Lounge is definitely the wrong place. That was not what I was suggesting. On the left are categories of Discussion groups. I'd probably have done it in the Windows API discussion group, for example.
There are two kinds of people in the world: those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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Reading the question, I think you went wrong right here:
"All the data's there...I just don't have the patience to sit down with pen and paper and figure out exactly how to render all the elements using GDI, and then turn that into an Image (strictly speaking, I'm not even trying to render it to screen, I want to generate an Image so it can be saved to disk)."
It's not uncommon in Q&A (Questions & Answers) that there are solicitations for homework answers and what I'll call contract work that someone's being paid to do and they want us to do it for them. The latter probably by the people who had there homework done for them.
Neither are looked upon positively.
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W∴ Balboos wrote: I think you went wrong right here:
"All the data's there...I just don't have the patience You are probably right; however, when I read it I understood that he was just looking for some help. I think that one sentence of not having the patience was taken out of context of the rest of the question which showed that he wasn't just asking for someone to do it.
There are two kinds of people in the world: those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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