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I wanted a way for my IoT graphics library to import fonts so that one wasn't stuck with a fixed font at a couple of fixed sizes. After trying and failing (worse actually - *nearly* succeeding) to rasterize truetype fonts to a pixel perfect grid I decided after some googling to use the deprecated ".fon" files that used to hold bmp based fonts.
These .fon files are renamed executables with the fonts as an embedded resource. Some of them are in the more modern "Portable Executable" format. Some are in the "New Executable" format, which is naturally, older and is windows 3.1's exe format, i guess - at least if i've interpreted the lay of things accurately.
It's not a big deal parsing them - i ported a script that does it in python to C++ but it's just really bizarre.
With IoT in this case, as it is so many other cases, everything old is new again.
Real programmers use butterflies
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honey the codewitch wrote: With IoT in this case, as it is so many other cases, everything old is new again.
I suppose some deep philosophical meaning can be found in observing that this same can be said of many things if one drinks an excess of alcoholic beverages.
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Somewhere in my stack of disks is a copy of wfw 3.11
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1 We Care About Your Privacy. We and our partners store and/or access information on a device... blah blah blah. We and our partners process data to provide:
2 Use precise geolocation data. Actively scan device characteristics for identification. Store and/or access information on a device. Personalised ads and content, ad and content measurement, audience insights and product development. Accept All Cookies.
Oh boy! Where are the privacy in that load of legalese? 
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It's a matter of not overly reading into "We Care About Your Privacy".
What they mean, in caring, is that they care a lot if you manage to maintain any. Once you understand that it all makes perfect sense.
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steveb wrote: Where are the privacy in that load of legalese
Maybe they just mean they won't share the information with other people.
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This was somewhere in the text and they can be 99% correct until they go out of business, their hardware may end up sold without the data deleted. I've heard someone acquired a workstation that had an old MS Access database with around 5000 SSNs, names and addresses. So I wouldn't bet a buck on this
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steveb wrote: We Care About Your Privacy.
But not nearly as much as we care about money. 
Kelly Herald
Software Developer
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Please save this [^] for use then next time you think my tone is "excessive" "overly zealous".
Quote: “The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ,
Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit
Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line,
Nor all thy Tears wash out a Word of it.”
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What did you do this time?
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I was wondering the exact same thing ... 
"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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My message below (reply to '007' notwithstanding), I think I may have mis-spelled "Oi".
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Nothing I'm aware of - I just thought I'd give him something to have a more visual emphasis when our view points don't quite mesh.
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Thing is, it works just as well when replacing email and send with post.
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Greg Utas wrote: replacing email and send with post.
At his point, I believe I'm obligated to respond with "Duh !"
(Our Brave Captain, Mr Maunder, no doubt has the capability to make that leap in it's implication)
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I've no doubt that Mr Maunder could make that leap.
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Most people like their music bass-boosted, but it just seems like too much treble.
"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'll note that this thought may strike a chord with some key people, others may waltz around believing that it falls flat, and doesn't scale new heights.
"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 people are sick, sick in the head. The tenor of your alto egos is too much. 
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I coda stopped, but that's not my forte.
"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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"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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Give it a rest!
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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Bass boosting? It’s hardly any treble at all!
If you can't laugh at yourself - ask me and I will do it for you.
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