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Eddy Vluggen wrote: I'm pretty convinced IBM would have done a better job, if only OS/2 warp had a chance.
But there's the thing: IBM did not do a better job. That's why OS/2 didn't get a chance.
They eventually provided Windows compatibility but failed to understand that they also had to offer a compelling extra advantage to get people to move OS from Windows.
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markrlondon wrote: But there's the thing: IBM did not do a better job.
Correct; it failed horrendously and was meant sarcastically. In a similar way, there was no joy in installing Battle.Net 
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If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"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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My first programming was on an IBM 1620 with punch cards. MY surface has at least 10 times the power and I can carry it with me.
The 1620 didn't even have an arithmetic unit, it used BCD table lookup for addition and other operations were built on top of that.
No thanks, I'm take Windows orLinux or anything besides IBM.
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Walt Fair, Jr., P. E.
Comport Computing
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I used to create extensions (some went public), what I have learned is that you have to edit the project file manually a lot to keep it going...
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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I used to just write my own installers for this stuff but since VS2017 with the private registry they've made that impractical.
I wish they documented their VSIX project files better. I wish the error message was better. I don't even know where to begin to edit/fix whatever VS broke.
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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Not that I'd wish to defend Microsoft (may the deity of your choice forbid), but to be fair they do seem interested in bugs like this if you can find the right feedback channel.
MS seems to have so many feedback channels nowadays: Github, Uservoice, MSDN comments (which are somehow linked to Github I think), obscure blog comments, Insider this or that, and who knows what I've missed.
In fact, isn't there is happy face reporting button for VS itself? I seem to remember seeing it but I've never dared click it.
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thanks
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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It used to be that English weather (I'm in NL, so I get English weather either an hour earlier or later) would be a little bit warm, then showers, then a little bit warm, then cloudy, then a bit cold, etc. in spans of as long as a couple of days or as short as 20 minutes.
Now, we're getting blisteringly hot, then freezing cold (the missus is really unhappy about how her Chinese veg keeps getting killed by unexpected sub-zero temperatures), then torrential rain, then too bloody hot again, and now the third thunderstorm in the last five weeks.
If this is global warming, you can f***ing keep it! I want the "cold" world back!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Hear, hear, our expensive new Taxus plants died too !
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Well, we won't have any cucumbers, courgettes, or several other veggies that have names that sound completely silly as part of a sentence in English, this year, because they all froze up, then didn't have a chance to recover because the ground dried up in the heat that followed.
I suppose I'll just have to eat more steaks and chili (adding to the CO2 problem).
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Atkins diet !
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Beats the Bunnikins diet.
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Mark_Wallace wrote: (I'm in NL, so I get English weather either an hour earlier or later)
The English live an hour in the past; so an hour earlier.
Mark_Wallace wrote: (the missus is really unhappy about how her Chinese veg keeps getting killed by unexpected sub-zero temperatures)
Plants that don't like freezing temperatures should stay indoors until the Ice Saints pass - somewhere half may. After that, the rainy season starts 
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If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"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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Eddy Vluggen wrote: Plants that don't like freezing temperatures should stay indoors until the Ice Saints pass - somewhere half may. After that, the rainy season starts
The end of May meets those specifications!
Twice, during May, temperatures went below zero -- but other days were too bloody hot!
It's becoming bloody intolerable. Your body needs a day or two to adapt to big temperature changes, but you barely get half an hour, now!
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Mark_Wallace wrote: Twice, during May, temperatures went below zero -- but other days were too bloody hot!
14th may it was 0.4 °C, where one would expect 7.9 °C. (source[^]). So yes, it may have been freezing even after the ice saints, depending on your exact location. The rule of thumb is no guarantee, but usually a good advice.
Mark_Wallace wrote: It's becoming bloody intolerable. Your body needs a day or two to adapt to big temperature changes, but you barely get half an hour, now!
It is getting a bit weird. A few kilometers down the road a storm passed a few hours ago and was told to pick up everything outside that's not nailed down. Not a drop of rain here though.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"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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That sounds like the weather in Oregon's Willamette valley. I successfully escaped it several years ago.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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Mark_Wallace wrote: If this is global warming, you can f***ing keep it! I want the "cold" world back!
global warming
climate change
climate crisis
Get with the program. This is this week's terminology.
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dandy72 wrote: climate crisis
Get with the program. This is this week's terminology.
I stand correxted.
Or, rather, I lie down corrected, because the thunderstorm is over, and now it's ridiculously hot and humid.
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Funny what you get used to. I just looked at what you call hot - 18 degrees. Here in Brisbane that's cold winter weather.
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yacCarsten wrote: Funny what you get used to. I just looked at what you call hot - 18 degrees. Here in Brisbane that's cold winter weather.
Exactly!
If it's hot all the time: no problem; you get used to it.
If it's cold all the time: no problem; you get used to it.
If it's rainy all the time: no problem; you get used to it.
But if it's tropical rain forest in the morning, then Alaska at lunchtime, then monsoon at tiffin, your hormonal/endocrine system can't keep up, and you feel like sh1t, all the time.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Mark_Wallace wrote: now the third thunderstorm in the last five weeks.
Here in Houston, we get 3 thunderstorms in a day.
And rainy season lasts 12 months every year.
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr., P. E.
Comport Computing
Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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You should come to England, the weather is quite clement here. 
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If that is global warming, then I should say Welcome to the Gulf coast!
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr., P. E.
Comport Computing
Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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Mark_Wallace wrote: her Chinese veg keeps getting killed
Sounds like a good enough reason to eat beef and chicken instead of veggies!
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr., P. E.
Comport Computing
Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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